Posted on 09/06/2020 8:11:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report is being twisted by conspiracy theorists to imply the COVID-19 death toll is not as serious as it sounds, health experts say. In response, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other medical authorities say unequivocally that at least 180,000 Americans have died because of this virus.
And if anything, the figure is likely an undercount, say health experts.
"Let there not be any confusion," Fauci said after President Donald Trump retweeted an article that inaccurately suggested the real number of COVID-19 deaths is 9,000. "It's not 9,000 deaths from COVID-19. It's 180,000-plus deaths," Fauci told Good Morning America. "The point that the CDC was trying to make was that a certain percentage of [deaths] had nothing else but COVID," Fauci said.
"That does not mean that someone who has hypertension, or diabetes who dies of COVID didn't die of COVID-19. They did."
The report, which was published Aug. 26 and is part of the CDC's standard weekly data update to the public, looks at death certificates and noted that COVID-19 was the only cause of death listed in 6% of deaths involving the coronavirus.
But some have misinterpreted this figure in two ways, by suggesting that only 6% of COVID-19 deaths are from COVID-19, and that only people with preexisting conditions are at risk of serious illness. Neither of these interpretations is correct, say experts.
A spokesperson for the mortality branch of the National Center for Health Statistics, which is part of the CDC, told ABC News that death certificates typically list any causes or conditions that contributed to mortality.
"These causes are entered into the death certificate by a physician, medical examiner, or coroner," the NCHS spokesperson said. "Death certificates may have one or more causes or conditions listed, "
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I’m sick and tired of hearing Falsie’s endless c19 ramblings...
Fake news BS!
No matter who wins the died of COVID-19/didn’t die of COVID-19 debate, imagine how many more people would be alive right now if American ingenuity (in the form of drug companies) had set about developing some sort of tasty, no-sugar, nutrient, herb, vitamin, etc., infused, low cost waters that people would crave instead of soda and other things? —Especially if such waters also reduced cravings for donuts.
I know people could exercise willpower instead, but that seems to be in short supply these days.
Partially, possible...but not definitively.
Dr. Fauxi, enjoy your last 2 months of service.
180,000 people have died. That is a fact.
Until you compare the total, excess deaths, you cannot start to categorize how deeply the pandemic has impacted our nation.
Arguments on both sides of this are idiotic. There are methods for measuring this stuff that have been developed over centuries. How about we use those.
PS: They won’t be available for at least another year.
“The case definition is very simplistic,” Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, explains. “It means, at the time of death, it was a COVID positive diagnosis. That means, that if you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means, technically even if you died of clear alternative cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it’s still listed as a COVID death.”
Lying scum Democrats.
Died with COVID... there fixed it
There are reasons MSM loves Dr. Doom. It’s not just COVID. He was given hero status when he broke the narrative that AIDS was a gay disease when it actually was a gay disease.
There are reasons MSM loves Dr. Doom. It’s not just COVID. He was given hero status when he broke the narrative that AIDS was a gay disease when it actually was a gay disease.
IF you are stone drunk & you wander into the street & you get hit & killed-—
What killed you??? Being incoherent drunk or the vehicle??
I am NOT convinced that Covid is the main cause of over 180,000 deaths.
How this guy kept his job after the AIDS disaster is beyond me.
Sorry, ABC, but we have folks out here that can actually both read and comprehend.
As for Fauci - oh well, another “Fauci falsie”.
Is anyone sure Fauci is not a cousin of Sloe Joe?
Covic causes the pneumonia that kills you.
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