TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Sen. Mike Thompson said during a health committee hearing this week that he knows “for a fact” that deaths are being wrongly attributed to COVID-19 when there isn’t an autopsy performed to confirm the finding.
The Republican from Shawnee said he knows this based on data given to him by “the previous director” of the Kansas Department for Health and Environment.
As former KDHE secretary Lee Norman put it: “Sounds like Thompson’s usual horses***.”
Thompson and other senators used acting KDHE secretary Janet Stanek’s inaugural appearance before the Public Health and Welfare Committee this week as a forum to sow doubt about the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 and the safety and efficacy of vaccines for the disease.
Specific statements made by Thompson, Sen. Mark Steffen, R-Hutchinson, and Sen. Beverly Gossage, R-Eudora, are false.
Thompson: “I know for a fact that at least 30% of the deaths listed without an autopsy are probably incorrect. That’s the data that was given to me by the previous director of the KDHE.”
Norman said this is “absolutely untrue.”
“As a matter of fact, I think that if anything the COVID deaths are underreported,” Norman said. “The numbers, whether it’s nationwide statistics or the state of Kansas, are the floor and not the ceiling.”
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