Not as a practitioner it isn't. The money and the job security go to top management in hospitals and insurance companies. The actual health-care workforce is told by the management workfarce, implicitly of course, to cooperate with existing rules and practice patterns or get fired. Dissent is, figuratively speaking, a capital offense. Been there, done that, and survived a medical-board complaint and previously a big hassle with a medical board in another state.

Of course they will. He could spearhead an effort that cured cancer, and instead of giving him credit for that, the MSM would give him crap for not curing the common cold.

It was telling. He made the comparison that he's taking as much flak as Lincoln did. (I think there's some merit to that statement. Lincoln never faced a call for impeachment or a media as rampaging and dishonest as this one.) For that, the media took him to task again - only proving the point! (If you're Dan Rather, it also made you look like an utter moron.)

What's funny about that is that any good doctor will tell you that COVID-19 is like other respiratory viruses: it won't kill you by itself. It requires another serious underlying condition such as pneumonia, heart disease, etc. The more serious condition is the actual cause of death and the respiratory ailment (flu, etc.) is what is known as a co-morbidity factor.

The reprehensible thing is that doctors are being told by the CDC to report any death they even suspect as being COVID-19 related as a death due to COVID-19 - rather than listing it properly as a comorbidity factor. Then also the hospitals get $13,000 per COVID-19 patient they see and $39,000 per patient for those going on ventilators from Medicare - so the financial incentive is there...