Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Not what Dr. Birx stated Date:   4/8/2020 2:35:58 PM

Here's the quote.

“I think in this country, we’ve taken a very liberal approach to mortality,” said Dr. Birx, who along with Dr. Anthony Fauci has become the face of this push for a national lockdown.

“There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition, and let’s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU [intensive care unit] and then have a heart or kidney problem. Some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death.”

“The intent is if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that as a COVID-19 death,” concluded Birx.

So regardless of whether they die from the virus, if they have it and they die of something else it is counted as virus death.