U.S. President Donald Trump Saturday accused some physicians of fabricating the COVID-19 death toll for money.

He cited the example of a terminal illness sufferer contracting COVID-19, whose cause of death is certified as due to the virus.

"We report them, and doctors get more money, and hospitals get more money," he said.

"Some countries, they report differently. If somebody is sick with a heart problem, and they die of COVID-19, they say they die of a heart problem."

"This country," he continued, "and their reporting systems are really not doing it right," by naming COVID-19 as the cause of death, and not the terminal illness.

Trump concluded: "We're gonna start looking at things, because they have things a little bit backwards."

Professor of Translational Science, School of Medicine/University College Dublin and Advisory Science Council to Irish Government Professor Dolores Cahill said “politicians and the media” are using COVID-19 “as a fear-mongering propaganda tool to try and take away rights from people and to make them more sick and to force vaccinations on us.”

Her group sent official letters to all the coroners in Ireland reminding them that reporting a false cause of death is a felony and that they could be prosecuted and imprisoned for the crime.

They also contacted all the doctors that had treated the dead people to determine if they had offered them known treatments for the disease and reminded them that is was grounds for being struck off the medical register for not offering a known treatment for a disease.