Liberals pounce on the death of unvaccinated pro-Trump local GOP official from coronavirus complications



A local Massachusetts Republican figure who was reportedly unvaccinated died from severe complications of the coronavirus, and many on the left pounced on the news to mock her and ridicule other Trump supporters.

Linda Zuern, 70, died on Friday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston according to the Cape Cod Times. Zuern was known as a staunch conservative and stalwart supporter of former President Donald Trump. She also appeared to support the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Her family said that Zuern had not been vaccinated when she contracted the coronavirus. She had been in a coma and in a ventilator before she died.

After news of her death reached social media, many on the left pounced to politicize her passing.

"On todays episode of I DONT GIVE A F*** Linda Zuern, an Unvaccinated trump supporter who spread coronavirus conspiracy theories has died from COVID Darwin strikes again Anybody care?" responded an anti-Trump account.

"They are directly to blame for people exposing others and for incalculable covid spread. I'll laugh at every one of them for the tears others have to shed for their lost loved ones," said another.

"Tough break, Linda Zuern. I know she's not the first unvaccinated Trump supporter to die from what she insisted was a hoax, she certainly won't be the last, and I guarantee Trump doesn't give a f*** and won't even send flowers to the funerals," replied another critic.

"Quoting Linda Zuern, Q follower, dead from Covid, 'Where we go one, we go all.' Covid's delta variant responds, 'That works for us.' What a stupid, stupid tragedy," read another tweet.

"Too bad the unvaccinated trump supporter, Linda Zuern, couldn't have just gone quietly. How many people were harmed or killed by her nutty fb posts? Ignorance and idiocy can be deadly. I'm sure MAGAs will sanctify her with Ashley Babbitt," responded one critic on Twitter.

"She died of Science Denying modern day Republican Trumpism. Propaganda killed her. I wonder if she still thought she was right as she sucked in her last breath. Too bad," tweeted another.

Zuern was very active in her local community, her church, and served as a local Republican committee official.

Here's more about coronavirus in Massachusetts:

Massachusetts COVID-19 Dashboard: 4 new deaths, 717 new caseswww.youtube.com

NY attorney general reveals Cuomo administration undercounted COVID-19 nursing home deaths by 50%



New York state Democratic Attorney General Letitia James accused the Cuomo administration of severely undercounting the number of coronavirus-related deaths at nursing homes in the state by as much as 50% in a scathing new report released Thursday.

What are the details?

In the report, James determined much of the misrepresentation was due to the state counting only deaths that occurred at the actual nursing home facilities rather than including deaths that occurred at a hospital after a resident was transferred there to receive more medical care.

During the investigation, which surveyed 62 nursing homes across the state, James' office reportedly found "consistent discrepancies between deaths reported to the attorney general's investigators and those officially released by the Health Department," the New York Times noted in its coverage of the matter.

The newspaper pointed to a specific instance in which an unnamed facility reported 11 confirmed and presumed deaths to the Health Department only for the attorney general's office to later find that 40 deaths had taken place, including 27 at the home and 13 in hospitals.

"Preliminary data obtained by [the Office of Attorney General] suggests that many nursing home residents died from Covid-19 in hospitals after being transferred from their nursing homes, which is not reflected in [Department of Health's] published total nursing home death data," investigators said in the report.

The report also determined that a number of nursing homes "failed to comply with critical infection control policies," such as not isolating residents who had tested positive or preemptively screening employees for infections.

"In conclusion, this preliminary data for the 62 facilities and time periods noted above suggests that COVID-19 resident deaths associated with nursing homes in New York state appear to be undercounted by DOH by approximately 50 percent," the report stated.

Why does it matter?

The news is sure to intensify scrutiny around Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of the pandemic, especially since the governor has been accused specifically of mismanaging the health crisis at nursing home facilities and directly causing thousands of preventable deaths among the state's vulnerable elderly population.

Last March, during the initial stages of the outbreak, Cuomo issued a directive forcing nursing home facilities to accept patients who had tested positive for the virus and been discharged from the hospital. As death tolls rose in such facilities, the deadly policy became the subject of harsh criticism, yet the Cuomo administration attempted to hide that it ever existed and waited until May to officially rescind it.

In the aftermath, Cuomo has repeatedly dodged responsibility for endangering elderly New Yorkers, instead attempting to shift blame to then-President Donald Trump and Republicans.

Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies from coronavirus complications days before being sworn in



A Congressman-elect from Louisiana died from coronavirus complications just days before the swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Capitol.

The family of Republican Luke Letlow confirmed that the 41-year-old died on Tuesday.

"The family appreciates the numerous prayers and support over the past days but asks for privacy during this difficult and unexpected time," said Andrew Bautsch, a spokesman for Letlow. "A statement from the family along with funeral arrangements will be announced at a later time."

Letlow announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus on Dec. 18 and said that he quarantining at home. A day later, he was admitted to a hospital in Monroe, and four days after that he was moved into the Intensive Care Unit at a hospital in Shreveport.

He had won the congressional seat representing a district including the cities of Monroe and Alexandria after working as the chief of staff for Republican Ralph Abraham who held the seat before him. Letlow had also worked for the administration of former Gov. Bobby Jindal. Letlow was from the small town of Start in Richland Parish.

He is survived by his wife, Julia Barnhill Letlow, and two young children.

Dr. G.E. Ghali of Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport told The Advocate that Letlow suffered a cardiac event that led to his death. He added that Letlow had no underlying conditions that made his death more likely.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards offered his condolences in a tweet from his account.

It is with heavy hearts that @FirstLadyOfLA and I offer our condolences to Congressman-elect Luke Letlow’s family o… https://t.co/kO51X0Lruc
— John Bel Edwards (@John Bel Edwards)1609296829.0

"It is with heavy hearts that @FirstLadyOfLA and I offer our condolences to Congressman-elect Luke Letlow's family on his passing after a battle with COVID-19," he tweeted.

"Louisiana has lost more than 7,300 people to COVID-19 since March, and each one of them leaves a tremendous hole in our state," he added.

Edwards said that he had ordered the flag to be flown at half-staff on the day of Letlow's funeral.

Here's a local news report about Letlow's death:

Congressman elect Letlow dies of COVID-19www.youtube.com

EMT soaked in 'sweat and urine' on flight from performing CPR on possible COVID passenger who died after emergency landing



An emergency medical technician did everything he could to try to save a fellow passenger on a recent United Airlines flight. The EMT is being lauded as a hero after he performed CPR on a man who allegedly had coronavirus symptoms and later died of cardiac arrest.

During a United Airlines flight with nearly 200 people onboard from Orlando to Los Angeles on Monday, a passenger suffered a medical emergency. The man was shaking and sweating mid-flight, and then he lost consciousness.

Tony Aldapa, an EMT, jumped into action and started performing CPR on the man in distress. Aldapa and two others performed CPR on the man for nearly an hour.

"It was all kinda just second nature to see someone in a bad place, you try to bring them out of the bad place," Aldapa told KCAL-TV. "There were three of us that were essentially tag-teaming doing chest compressions, probably about 45 minutes."

Instead of doing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, they used a compressible oxygen bag to help the dying man breathe, Aldapa told TMZ.

"I spent the remainder of the flight covered in my own sweat and in that man's urine," Aldapa allegedly wrote on Twitter, according to the Daily Mail.

The Los Angeles-bound United Flight 591 was diverted to New Orleans, where the plane made an emergency landing. The man was taken to a local hospital, but he died of cardiac arrest, according to United Airlines.

Aldapa said that the man's wife informed him that he was experiencing coronavirus symptoms before the flight.

"She told me he had symptoms, he was short of breath and she just wanted to get him home and they plan on getting tested this week," Aldapa told the television station.

Megan Hubbard, a passenger on the flight, claimed that the man's wife said that her husband had COVID-19 symptoms.

"She had stated to everyone that was around us, we all heard, that he tested for COVID last week and that he had symptoms like he had trouble breathing, loss of taste and loss of smell," Hubbard told KCAL. "He was like having a hard time breathing. He didn't look well at all."

CDC Investigating Possible COVID Exposure On LAX-Bound Flight After Passenger Dies www.youtube.com


Now, Aldapa is concerned that he may have coronavirus because he is experiencing symptoms of the respiratory disease.

"Essentially, I just feel like I got hit by a train," he told KCAL. "I had a cough, my whole body still hurt, I had a headache."

Despite the sickness, Aldapa said he does not regret anything.

"Knowing I had the knowledge, training and experience to help out, I could not have sat idly by and watched someone die," he reportedly wrote on Twitter. "I knew the risks involved in performing CPR on someone that potentially has COVID, but I made the choice to do so anyways."

United Airlines released a statement that reads, "We are sharing requested information with the (CDC) so they can work with local health officials to conduct outreach to any customer the CDC believes may be at risk for possible exposure or infection."

Mika Brzezinski says she's 'done being polite' to Republicans about masks; Trump is 'killing tens of thousands'



MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski blasted Republicans and President Donald Trump on the topic of face masks, and became so enraged that she declared she is "done being polite."

A very aggrieved Brzezinski attacked Republicans about coronavirus measures, as it pertains to mask mandates, as her co-host husband Joe Scarborough cracked jokes and laughed at her hostile temperament towards "his friends."

During a discussion about Joe Biden's call for Americans to wear face masks for 100 days, Brzezinski remarked on how "quickly the numbers would change" with a mask mandate and compliance.

Brzezinski then addressed Scarborough's "friends" and "some of the Republicans," who have not pushed face masks as fervently and forcibly as Democrats.

She denounced Republican politicians "who've been standing by as stooges to President Trump, not stepping up for the American people and their safety and, quite frankly, stepping up against the president's stupidity and cruelty, not being a leader on this coronavirus."

"Honestly, honestly, how stupid can you be at this point?" an annoyed Brzezinski questioned rhetorically, as reported by Mediaite. "If you just actually read about it, learn about it, how stupid can you be to be so arrogant and to be so flip about this when we have numbers like this? How crazy are you?"

Brzezinski asked, "And I wonder if your friends and those Republicans will actually admit that actually doing basic things to mitigate this virus would have changed the course of this pandemic?"

Scarborough joked with his wife, "Should I ask them that way?"

"Yeah, ask them," Brzezinski snapped back, as Scarborough began giggling. "Because you know what the numbers will change. And at this point, I don't even … I'd be careful."

"Well, we've been asking that question for quite some time. Again, I think I'll be a little polite first and I'll pick up the phone…" Scarborough replied.

"I'm done with being polite," Brzezinski barked. "I actually would like people in this country to stay alive. unlike some of your friends and Republicans in the Senate and in the House."

Brzezinski then snarled, "And President Trump, whose presidency is killing people by the tens of thousands."

"We agree with all that, we just don't agree about how I approach my friends," Scarborough responded.

Brzezinski sarcastically replied, "Friends? Those are great friends." She then added, "This president wanted you arrested, Joe. And they still stood by him. I'm just saying could you require that he doesn't kill people?"

South Dakota nurse tells CNN she had patients who claimed coronavirus was a hoax even as they were dying from it



CNN interviewed a nurse from South Dakota who went viral on Twitter after she claimed that patients were dying from the coronavirus even as they called it a hoax and excoriated former Vice President Joe Biden.

Jodi Doering's four-tweet story went viral with nearly 70K retweets on Saturday.

"I have a night off from the hospital. As I'm on my couch with my dog I can't help but think of the Covid patients the last few days. The ones that stick out are those who still don't believe the virus is real," tweeted Doering.

I have a night off from the hospital. As I’m on my couch with my dog I can’t help but think of the Covid patients t… https://t.co/63YpJaqymw
— Jodi Doering (@Jodi Doering)1605400328.0

"The ones who scream at you for a magic medicine and that Joe Biden is [g]oing to ruin the USA. All while gasping for breath on 100% Vapotherm. They tell you there must be another reason they are sick. They call you names and ask why you have to wear all that 'stuff' because they don't have COViD because it's not real. Yes. This really happens," she added.

"And can't stop thinking about it. These people really think this isn't going to happen to them. And then they stop yelling at you when they get intubated," Doering said.

"It's like a f***ing horror movie that never ends," she added. "There's no credits that roll. You just go back and do it all over again."

'It just made me very sad

The registered emergency room nurse appeared Monday on CNN to explain the context behind her viral tweets.

"I think the hardest thing to watch is that people are still looking for something else, and they want a magic answer, and they don't want to believe that COVID is real," Doering said to CNN host Alisyn Camerota.

"And the reason I tweeted what I did is that it wasn't one particular patient, it's just a culmination of so many people," she explained. "Their last dying words are, 'This can't be happening. It's not real.' And when they should be pending time FaceTiming their families, they're filled with anger and hatred, and it just made me very sad the other night, and I just can't believe that those are going to be their last thoughts and words."

Doering went on to exhort Americans to continue wearing face masks and following social distancing guidelines in order to help stop the spread of the coronavirus and ease the burden on medical service providers.

'So morally wrong and unacceptable'

Some were angered by Doering's comments and took to social media to excoriate the nurse for criticizing her patients.

"Badmouthing your own dying patients in exchange for some clout on CNN and on social media is really the last straw for me," said Dr. Eugene Gu, a vehement opponent of Republican policies. "This is so morally wrong and unacceptable and also there is no evidence for any of this. What a rotten culture you are promoting that perverts medicine."

Others questioned the veracity of her account given how few coronavirus deaths there are in the state of South Dakota and the likelihood that she would have seen those deaths in her small town.

Doering also noted that there were more deaths in the state of South Dakota than the entire population of her town of Woonsocket.

Here's the full CNN video of Doering's interview:

What dying Covid-19 patients told nurse stuns Camerotawww.youtube.com

Marshall University takes action against prof caught on video saying she hopes Trump supporters die of coronavirus



Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, took action against an assistant professor caught on video saying she wished supporters of the president would die before the election.

The short video shows College of Science assistant professor Jennifer Mosher talking about her frustrations about people who don't wear masks. She was teaching students about the biology of the coronavirus in a virtual classroom when she made the comments.

"I think yesterday he held one inside, no one wore a mask. And I've become the type of person where I hope they all get it and die," she said on the video.

"I'm sorry but I am so frustrated and I don't know what else to do. I, you can't argue with and you can't talk sense into them. I said to somebody yesterday, I hope they all die before the election. That's the only, that's the only saving hope I have right now," Mosher continued.

"Definitely bootlickers," she added.

"Anyhow, OK, I'm gonna stop talking politics," Mosher said, "because I really should not be talking politics in here."

WOWK-TV reported that Mosher was referring to supporters of President Donald Trump and his recent rallies. The video quickly went viral after being circulated on social media, and many called for Mosher's dismissal over the divisive comments.

The university said in a statement released on Friday that they had removed Mosher from her classroom duties while they investigate the matter.

"Marshall University this morning announced it is aware of an overtly political statement made by a faculty member in a recent virtual classroom session and widely circulated on social media," read the statement.

"The university does not support or condone the use of any of its educational platforms to belittle people or wish harm on those who hold differing political views," the statement continued. "The professor was removed from the classroom yesterday and is on administrative leave, pending an investigation."

Here's a local news report about the incident:

Marshall University suspends Professor after anti-Trump comments go viralwww.youtube.com

CDC: 6% of coronavirus deaths were solely from COVID-19



The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published a report stating that just 6% of COVID-19 deaths listed the only cause of death as coronavirus and no other comorbidities.

"For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death," the CDC website reads.

Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, noticed the important information on the CDC's website on Aug. 6.

CDC: "For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition… https://t.co/webkpgY9s0
— Phil Kerpen (@Phil Kerpen)1596739458.0

Based on the CDC's data, 94% of people have died with coronavirus, along with one or more other underlying health issues. The CDC's Aug. 28 update stated that there were 167,558 COVID-19 total deaths, which means 10,053 died solely of coronavirus alone with no other health conditions.

The CDC's figures are derived from provisional death counts, which are based on death certificate data received and coded by the National Center for Health Statistics.

"Provisional death counts deliver the most complete and accurate picture of lives lost to COVID-19," the CDC states. "They are based on death certificates, which are the most reliable source of data and contain information not available anywhere else, including comorbid conditions, race and ethnicity, and place of death."

The CDC listed the following as the top underlying medical conditions linked to coronavirus deaths:

  • Influenza and pneumonia
  • Respiratory failure
  • Hypertensive disease
  • Diabetes
  • Vascular and unspecified dementia
  • Cardiac Arrest
  • Heart failure
  • Renal failure
  • Intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events
  • Other medical conditions

Dr. David B Samadi MD, urologic oncology expert and robotic surgeon, commented on the CDC news.

"As a men's health expert, many men have been affected by COVID-19," he wrote on Twitter. "The CDC today revealed that only 6% of COVID deaths were in patients without existing comorbidities. 94% of the deaths were in cases with pre-existing conditions. This affects the entire public."

Former New York Times investigative reporter Alex Berenson wrote on Twitter:

A lot of people are jumping on the @cdcgov statement just 6% of US #Covid deaths list #Covid alone as the cause. But to use that figure to claim 'COVID ONLY KILLED 9,000 AMERICANS' is wrong. Other causes include conditions like pneumonia, which can clearly be Covid-related. A better way to use the data may be to TAKE OUT causes clearly unrelated to #sarscov2. I'd include Alzheimer's, sepsis, dementia, cancer, and unintentional injury (Let's be conservative and leave off kidney failure, diabetes, obesity, and strokes). The other advantage of leaving off those conditions is that there is significant overlap in, say, diabetes and obesity (and the CDC reports the average COVID death certificate included 2.6 other conditions). That's less likely for the conditions I included. So, okay, the five conditions on my list were on about 50,000 certificates (assuming no double counting). The accidental deaths and poisonings alone were 5,000. Those deaths - at a minimum - are much more likely to fall in the WITH rather than FROM #Covid category. It would also be nice if @cdcgov offered more specific information about the 77,000 deaths that had other 'unspecified' conditions listed. But this is a start, at least - and it's in keeping with the other steps the CDC has taken recently.

CDC director expects US coronavirus deaths to start falling by next week



Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield indicated Thursday that coronavirus deaths in the United States should begin falling by next week as case numbers have continued to decline since late July.

So far since the start of the outbreak, the U.S. has reported more than 5.5 million cases and 170,000 deaths as a result of the virus, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. And over the last 24 days, the nation's seven-day average for daily deaths has consistently topped 1,000.

But that number is primed to fall, noted Redfield in an interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association.

"You and I are going to see the cases continue to drop. And then hopefully this week and next week, you're going to start seeing the death rate really start to drop again," he predicted.

When states experience steady declines in case numbers — as several states across the Southern and Western regions of the country have recently — it typically means that death rates will follow.

"It is important to understand these interventions are going to have a lag, that lag is going to be three to four weeks," Redfield continued. "Hopefully this week and next week you're going to start seeing the death rate really start to drop."

Coronavirus Update From the CDC With Robert R. Redfield, MD youtu.be

Redfield said he would like to see the number of daily new deaths fall below 250, which has not happened since the start of the outbreak earlier this year.

In early July, before the start of what Redfield calls the "southern outbreak," the number of daily new deaths fell to roughly 500.

The director added that even as Southern and Western states such as Florida, Texas, and Arizona are improving, there are worrying figures coming out of "Middle America," in states such as Nebraska and Oklahoma.

"We're starting to see some of the cases now in the red zone areas are falling, but if you look at those states that are in what we call the yellow zone, between 5% and 10%, they're not falling, so middle America right now is getting stuck," he said. "This is why it's so important for middle America to recognize the mitigation steps that we talked about, about masks, about social distancing, hand washing, closing bars, being smart about crowds."

Horowitz: Maricopa County health official ‘reassures’ public that county is overcounting COVID deaths!



If we can't get prudence and scientific research out of our public health officials, the next best thing is honesty. It's better that they be up front with us about their insidious methods of measuring the severity of this virus than resort to obfuscation or outright lies. In that vein, Dr. Rebecca Sunenshine, medical director of disease control for the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, Arizona, should be commended for her candor.

During an exchange with ABC15 reporter Nicole Grigg about unaccounted deaths in the county, Dr. Sunenshine offered the most vivid admission to date that anyone who dies with any positive test for COVID-19 is counted as a COVID death regardless of the evidence of symptoms. And she is proud of it!

What is striking is how blissfully ignorant she is of the absurdity and irony of her candor. She makes two disparate but related points: 1) Anyone with a COVID-19 positive test who dies within a certain time frame from the test is counted as a COVID death; 2) Anyone with COVID "anywhere" on the death certificate is counted as a COVID death.

There are some estimates that up to 80 percent of those infected with SARS-CoV-2 are asymptomatic. With a virus that is this widespread but only deadly in a small number of people, how can any individual who tests positive be counted as a COVID death, even if it's not mentioned on the death certificate? As we know, anyone who is in the hospital for a large range of life-threatening ailments – from heart failure and cancer to car accident trauma or drug overdoses – is tested for the virus. A certain percentage, especially when the virus is spreading rapidly in that area, will always test positive, but most will not present meaningful symptoms.

This problem of inflated death counts is getting worse as the virus appears to become even more widespread but less deadly over time. The distortion of the death count will diverge even more from reality as this trend continues.

Next, Dr. Sunenshine says that among those who do have the virus listed as one of the causes of death on their death certificates, their deaths go into the count so long as COVID-19 is listed "anywhere" on that document. But if someone really came in with trouble breathing from COVID-19 and died of it, that should be quite apparent. Especially given the financial incentives encouraging hospitals to list COVID as the primary cause of death, no doctor is going to list it on line B or C simply because the decedent had an underlying diabetes condition when COVID clearly killed them at that moment. The fact that a doctor would list it on line B or C, unless line A was related to COVID (like pneumonia or respiratory distress), clearly indicates in this context that the person likely died of other causes. Yet the Maricopa health official is admitting all of those cases are included in the death count without any investigation.

In June, I reported that fewer than half of coronavirus deaths counted in Minnesota had the virus listed as the primary cause of death. Many of them had stroke or dementia listed as the top cause of death. Some cases listed "lung cancer," "terminal cerebral degeneration," "stroke," "acute renal failure," or "abdominal catastrophe" as the primary cause of death.

Let's face it: At this pace, even if the death rate of the virus drops to zero, we will continue to have "COVID-19 deaths," given the widespread testing mixed with deceptive coding of death. Imagine if we took the time to identify any individual who happened to have a cold while he died and then listed the cold as the cause of death.

The analogy to a cold is not far-fetched, given that the virus might very well be attenuating or transforming into a fifth coronavirus cold. According to Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Hospital in Genoa, over 90% of cases tested in his region are asymptomatic, and the virus is weakening. "In the months of March, April, May at San Martino in Genoa we had a mortality of 11% in hospitalized patients. Now it is zero," said Bassetti in an interview with Milan daily newspaper Corriere della Sera. (Translation via Google Translate.)

Hence, endless cases of a cold mixed with universal testing and absurd coding of deaths could perpetuate a pseudo-epidemic for months to come, turning good news into phantom doom and destruction.