Fox anchor suggests coronavirus death toll is inflated: “How many of those people had other health risks at play”

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Citation From the April 8, 2020, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered Overtime

HARRIS FAULKNER (ANCHOR): The federal government now is classifying all COVID-19 patient deaths as such, regardless of whether any other underlying health issues were a factor. This, as the death toll in the United States just topped 13,000.

How many of those people had other health risks at play, though? And maybe it wasn't, in fact, COVID-19 that caused their death.