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According to the CDC, the total number of deaths caused by Covid is about 6% of the people who died with a positive test result.
by Capira 6y ago
According to the CDC, the total number of deaths caused by Covid is about 6% of the people who died with a positive test result.
- ceejayoz 6y agoThat’s long debunked misinformation. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/cdc-did-not-admit-only-6-of-recorded-deaths-from-covid-19/ https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/cdc-did-not-admit-only-6-o...
- Capira 6y agoCDC states officially: "For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned." And the median age was above 80. A German professor performed about 100 autopsies and came to the same conclusion. BTW: Who pays this self-proclaimed "fact checker"?
- ceejayoz 6y agoYes. 6% have COVID as the only cause. That doesn't mean the other 94% weren't COVID deaths, just that their medical histories involved other conditions as well. > He noted that the 6% figure includes cases where COVID-19 was listed as the only cause of death. “That does not mean that someone who has hypertension or diabetes who dies of Covid didn’t die of Covid-19. They did,” Fauci said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Half the country has hypertension. Half the country has obesity. These fall in the 94% category, but chances are they weren't imminently dying of these things before getting COVID. As for funding: https://www.factcheck.org/our-funding/ https://www.factcheck.org/our-funding/
- Capira 6y agoFauci is a highly controversial source. And I doubt you can make such absolute statements given that the data quality is so poor. Even the WHO stated that PCR tests cannot detect an infection. It is only an indicator for doctors to make a diagnosis. So, how can you be so sure? BTW: Seems like those self-proclaimed "fact checkers" are funded by the Annenberg Foundation which has close ties to big pharma...
- Galaxity 6y agoFauci isn't "highly controversial".
- Capira 6y agoFauci's opinions are one of the most right-wing/authoritative in the field. Also he's inconsistent because within a few months Fauci went from “there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask” to double masking “makes common sense“...