Their response was in reaction to a recent viral tweet shared by President Trump that the actual death toll of the virus is just 6 percent of those reported by the CDC.
was one of the many people on social media to share the misinformed tweet, which was later deleted by Twitter due to being deemed as “misinformation.” Now, both the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci are addressing the theory head-on, debunking it in its entirety.
Both the federal health agency and Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a top White House coronavirus advisor, say there is no truth to the tweet, which said, per the, that the CDC had “quietly updated the COVID number to admit that only 6 percent [of people] actually died from COVID,” and that the majority of deaths were in people who “had 2-3 other serious illnesses.
CDC’s chief of mortality statistics Bob Anderson has released a statement explaining that while many of the people who died did in fact have preexisting conditions, their primary cause of death was coronavirus. Dr. Fauci debunks theories of low CDC coronavirus death toll: "There are 180,000 plus deaths" in the U.S.
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