First you need to establish the reliability of CDC numbers.
Would you stake your credibility on a belief that the CDC is trustworthy?
Would you stake your intelligence on it?
It was Trump’s CDC at the time and the the numbers are compiled from all the statistics obtained from every state government. I find it pretty difficult to believe that every state government conspired to pr0ovide fraudulent numbers. That’s just crazy. Plus, I have to refer to what I have seen with my own eyes while working as an ER nurse in a hospital that has treated upwards of a thousand covid patients since the beginning. I never needed the CDC to tell me that this virus kills old people quite handily. I’ve seen it.