I’d also like to know this and have yet to see any sort of reputable cite.
India is a major case where the opposite is virtually certain - there are just over 400k COVID deaths by the official statistics but it’s suspected there are actually several million. If anything, countries are under-reporting numbers to paint a rosier picture.
I would guess it comes from folks who are lying for political reasons, and he’s simply a useful idiot who is repeating the lies.
To elaborate on my previous post, Washington State at first reported all deaths where Covid was present as Covid-caused deaths, because there were so many deaths so fast that there wasn’t time to investigate. Remember that every place was understaffed and people were dying every day. And many of the deceased had incomplete death certificates. Then, when the state had the manpower (with the help of the WA National Guard), they went through and made corrections.
I would guess that the same thing occurred in other states, as well. Not for nefarious political reasons, simply to try to keep track of things.
From July 14, 2020, probably paywalled:
What is a counter rebuttal to this, if one believes the original argument?
“That’s just one website. This is something we’ve been hearing over and over again from many different sources.”
When my stepmother died of COVID in NYC in April 2020, I was terrified that my then 79-year-old, unvaccinated, asthmatic father would get it, and that it would be a death sentence. He had no symptoms, and very few tests were available, so he went home and quarantined on medical advice. It never even occurred to me that he had an asymptomatic case, but months later he went for some completely unrelated bloodwork, and his doctor did an antibody test and discovered that indeed, he’d had an asymptomatic COVID infection. If he could, anyone can.
People, lots of people, are saying that The Economist is fake news. Believe you me. It’s sad. Do hospitals get paid more if Covid is involved? No, they do not.
Is it that simple, though – at least in the US ? It doesn’t seem that way:
The salient issue, though, is the costs associated with treating COVID patients, and how much each of these healthcare institutions (assuming, here) is losing on every COVID patient that ends up in the ICU/on a ventilator, both before and after the incremental COVID reimbursement.
I’d like our major health care institutions to stay viable.
Of course, I’d also like Universal Health Care, and may be willing to revisit the whole thing in that scenario 
That won’t help, we get the same stupid stories up here in Canada. Once people start making up their own facts, there’s really no reason not to just keep making them more and more outrageous.
I think Universal Health Care would help by allowing people to have a relationship with their medical practitioner. There are a lot of people who don’t have a primary care practitioner per se, but utilize urgent care centers, emergency rooms and “doc in the box” medical practices because the cost of regular medical care is prohibitive. These people don’t trust their physicians because they don’t know their physicians, so when some doctor they never saw before advises them to get vaccinated it’s pretty easy to ignore them.
Not conflating this…