WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to
President Trump's baseless claims about physicians miscounting
deaths due to COVID-19, the American College of Emergency
Physicians (ACEP) released the following statement:
"On behalf of the nation's emergency physicians, ACEP is
appalled by President Trump's reckless and false assertions that
physicians are overcounting deaths related to COVID-19. Emergency
physicians and other health care workers have risked their lives
day in and day out for almost a year battling the greatest public
health crisis in a generation—all while watching countless patients
die alone, going to work without sufficient protection equipment,
and struggling with crushing anxiety about getting sick or
spreading the virus to their loved ones.
To imply that emergency physicians would inflate the number of
deaths from this pandemic to gain financially is offensive,
especially as many are actually under unprecedented financial
strain as they continue to bear the brunt of COVID-19. These
baseless claims not only do a disservice to our health care heroes
but promulgate the dangerous wave of misinformation which continues
to hinder our nation's efforts to get the pandemic under control
and allow our nation to return to normalcy."
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is
the national medical society representing emergency medicine.
Through continuing education, research, public education, and
advocacy, ACEP advances emergency care on behalf of its 40,000
emergency physician members, and the more than 150 million
Americans they treat on an annual basis. For more information,
visit www.acep.org and www.emergencyphysicians.org.
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SOURCE American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)