FOX News Rick Leventhal Confirms Our Prior Reporting – 94% of COVID-19 Deaths Had “On Average 2-3 Other Potential Causes of Death”

Gateway Pundit ^ | 09/24/2020 | Joe Hoft

[SeekAndFind]

Rick Leventhal was on FOX News Tuesday night and he discussed COVID related deaths and the percent of those with serious co-morbidies. This was first reported by The Gateway Pundit in late August.

We dropped a direct hit on the Democrat Party, their mainstream media and their coronavirus narrative and all hell broke loose.

We’ve never seen anything quite like this. Democrats, their fake news media and their ‘fact checker’ allies were completely outraged over our post reporting that only 9,210 Americans died from the coronavirus alone. The rest of the coronavirus victims in the US according to the CDC had different serious illnesses and co-morbidities.

The other tens of thousands of COVID-19 deaths reported by the CDC in the US had on average 2.6 additional health issues.

Twitter took down a tweet on these statistics. CNN slandered President Trump and the Gateway Pundit and encouraged Twitter to take down a tweet based on our post that the President retweeted.

It is very clear that Democrats and their media still don’t want Americans to know the full truth about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our post was labeled – SHOCK REPORT: This Week CDC Quietly Updated COVID-19 Numbers – Only 9,210 Americans Died From COVID-19 Alone – Rest Had Different Other Serious Illnesses

The gist of the article was that COVID-19 is not nearly as deadly as first projected by the WHO in January and then by Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx in March. Based on CDC numbers this past week only 6% of all deaths attributed to COVID-19 were deaths where the only factor in the individual’s death was COVID-19.

From the CDC website.

For all the other deaths reported by the CDC linked to COVID-19, the individuals who passed away had 2-3 other serious illnesses or co-morbidities. This comes from actual data from the CDC (as posted above).

Then CNN wrote an hit piece this report, the President’s retweet and our article entitled – Twitter removes QAnon supporter’s false claim about coronavirus death statistics that Trump had retweeted

They also tweeted out their work:

Twitter has taken down a tweet containing a false claim about coronavirus death statistics that was made by a supporter of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory — a post that President Trump retweeted earlier in the day https://t.co/QL65Bjw0Fe

— CNN (@CNN) August 30, 2020

The rest of the media and social media went into a frenzy as well. Others shared tweets related to our post:

6%

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 30, 2020

Candice Owens tweeted:

The CDC now claims that 94% of all coronavirus deaths were supplementary, meaning, the person had co-morbidities. Less than 10,000 Americans have died from Covid-19 alone. #Coronavirus is and always has been a hoax. Democrats masked & impoverished America to rig an election.

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 1, 2020

Donald Trump Jr responded to a tweet attacking our post:

The data came from the CDC!!!
Are you fricken kidding me with this spin??? https://t.co/kZx6WXt7Jo

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 1, 2020

But other media outlets published reports on the following Sunday and Monday rehashing our report with numbers from the CDC. ABC, CBS and FOX all posted articles that supported the position in our post – yep, we were right.

But Democrats and the media could not have it. So the fact checker allies at Facebook came after us as well – not one, not two… but six of them!

Judge Jeanine Pirro invited Dr. Robert Hariri on to discuss these same numbers released by the CDC a week after our post was published.

Dr. Robert Hariri agreed entirely with our assessment.

Dr. Hariri: What we know is that the vast majority of people that die from this disease are from a very advanced age or they have more than one serious life threatening condition. These co-morbid conditions can be be characterized as bad health. They include things like diabetes, high blood pressure, pre-existing cardiac disease, immunology disease, and it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that these people are at risk of dying regardless of the precipitating factor.

These are the people who unfortunately pass away during a heat wave or just when they’re exposed to things like seasonal flu. So what’s striking though is that the CDC data really suggests that had we paid more attention to the pre-existing diseases and had we used that as a factor in who we should protect, in other words, we know who’s got diabetes and hypertension and heart disease. And if we knew that and focused our isolation measures and protective measures on them and allowed the rest of the population to go about their business we might be in a very different position today.

Now last night, Rick Leventhal on FOX News brought up these numbers again:

The vast majority of people who were listed as dying from COVID-19, 94% of them had other morbidity conditions. On average 2-3 other potential causes of death. Now we have numbers from Milwaukee County that may be even more startling. As of this past Sunday, 410 out of 422 deaths there attributed to COVID-19 occurred in patients with other underlying potential deadly health conditions.

The China coronavirus really affects a small part of our population, sick and old Americans. This has always been the case.

[taxcontrol]

Ok, so I am assuming that the 200K is a bogus number. The difference of “with Covid” which I believe the 200K represents and “from Covid” which I believe is a much smaller number.

Given this report, is there a way to estimate the “from Covid”?

[HotHunt]

Try posting this on Facebook.

They will either pull it down or call it a lie.

Facebook fact checkers are 96% former CNN employees.

[millerph]

Although I agree that most have a comorbidity, it says 2-3. If the average is 2-3 then for each with only one (hypertension) you have someone with at least 3, maybe 4. IOW it hits the very unhealthy much harder than the slightly unhealthy.

[Owen]

Excess Deaths are the one item of information we have that can resist agenda. Are more people dying this year than other years — that is the decisive question.

Your point about pulling deaths forward by X months has been asked before. It faces high challenge to play out as compelling — mostly because as old people die, new people become old. The virus prime target total is replenished.

We’re coming up on the time of the year when more people die in normal years, but the excess deaths curves are not flattening . . . at least not yet. Certainly not in Texas and the Southeast.

Of significant issue is the reality that Excess Death totals exceed the official Covid death totals. It’s popular and fun to talk about the heart attack who had a positive test and died and was called Covid. But the reality is far, far more old people get sick, try to tough it out at home, and are killed — and never tested. The official Covid counts are likely undercounts, not overcounts.

[Owen]

Yes, I understand your point. The problem is other stuff follows hypertension rather quickly in older people. Renal impairment is pretty quick. The patient won’t really feel it but the kidney blood work will show it.

It’s pretty normal for old people to have co-morbidities.

[Pollard]

An average of 2.6 comorbidities meaning more than half had three.
Obesity + Diabetes + Heart/circulatory problems
Have you seen people these days?
Bunch of Nadlers.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

The 200k number is probably a bit low. It's likely closer to 240,000 based on the excess mortality numbers.

[taxcontrol]

Thanks for the education. I will have to review this later tonight.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

Sure thing. The CDC’s weekly stats for excess deaths are here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

Keep in mind that about half of the reporting jurisdictions (mostly state and local health departments) take more than 10 days to report stats to the CDC, so the numbers for recent weeks are low and get filled in later as the data arrives.

Also, the numbers being what they are doesn’t change anything about the questions around responses. Such as:

Why did Governor Cuomo and others (PA, CA, etc.) force nursing homes to accept known-infected persons? How many deaths resulted from these policies?

Why did Governor Newsom and others award BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to fake companies that were supposed to supply protective gear like masks, but apparently never did?

Why did the CDC botch the initial batch of test kits, delaying testing in the US at a critical time early in the pandemic, especially when the WHO already had a working test kit developed and easily deployed?

Why, when every other business was shuttered, were Costco and others allow to pack 1,000+ people into the stores, spiking transmission rates during the supposed “lockdowns”?

Why was bad guidance given to the American public early in the pandemic telling everyone not to wear face masks and why did it take so long to acknowledge what the rest of the world already knew?

Why were states so short on PPE for hospital staff? Where were the strategic stockpiles of these critical items?

Why do COVID related restrictions in multiple states CONTINUE to ignore all the research and recommendations from the CDC and the WHO stating that outdoor activities (like going to the beach) are low risk for transmission and promote good physical and mental health?

Why hasn’t any state put together any sort of comprehensive approach to help protect the most vulnerable people (the elderly, those with high risk conditions, etc.) from transmission? Many have no support system to handle things like grocery shopping or other critical personal tasks and have to go out into public and into crowds.

There are hundreds of questions that really need to be asked about the RESPONSES, and some of those answers (if given honestly) should probably elicit criminal charges.

[Verginius Rufus]

But according to Joe Biden, all 200,000 would be still alive if Donald Trump were not the US President.

The remarkable thing about the pandemic is how few young people have died from it. It was very different during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-1920.

[ridesthemiles]

9200 out of 200,000 would be about 4.6 %.

Why cannot we open up all the businesses?

[ridesthemiles]

I am sorry for your loss-——

I just realized something in your post-

Politicians are putting an additional demand on first res[ponders when THOSE people have to be the substitute family in a dying person’s last hours.

That is a heavy toll, IMO