President Donald Trump floated a baseless conspiracy theory that doctors and hospitals are making money off of the COVID-19 pandemic, so they are misreporting numbers to public health officials.
It’s a strange conspiracy theory because hospitals and doctors don’t get paid if the patients don’t exist because there’s no one to send a bill to or file a claim. At the same time, COVID-19 doesn’t stop people from needing surgery, transplants, or accidents from happening.