The things you wouldn’t know unless you read publications like  Becker’s Hospital Review, US hospitals received as much as $306,000 per declared COVID case in the first round of the CARES Act funds disbursements as of April 10th.

Michigan Public Radio reports an average of $160,000 per declared case, as it complains MI go the short end of the windfalls.

“While the national average in federal assistance per patient was $160,286, Michigan’s allotment was just $31,045 per patient.”  (Report: Michigan hospitals shorted $130K per COVID-19 patient in federal aid)”

So we know  the rules for counting deaths as COVID are flexible, with no less than Dr. Deborah Birx of the US Coronavirus Task Force saying : “If someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.”  We know 94% of the supposed 200-plus thousand COVID deaths had one, two, or three other serious…