Originally Posted by Steve Redgwell
Originally Posted by BALLISTIK

Steve,

I'm not 'angry', but I detest your elitist attitude you used with a previous poster. To reiterate...I used CDC's own numbers where they admitted in late August only ~6% of the ~153K total deaths of those who had COVID, ONLY had COVID. They have since hidden/removed that chart, but we can obviously apply that to their 196K number today.... so shutting down the world's largest economy for 12,000 people is reasonable to you..?



It wasn't elitist. I returned fire.

If the CDC said that only 6% of the 153,000 deaths were COVID related, but the 6% figure has been removed, then why would I include it? I didn't see it anywhere. The only thing I see is what they posted. Does anyone have a creditable source that can support the figure?

Edited to add: This is what I found, looking for the 6% figure. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/cdc-did-not-admit-only-6-of-recorded-deaths-from-covid-19/

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t drastically reduced the number of deaths attributable to COVID-19, but posts making that bogus claim have been circulating widely — with the help of President Donald Trump, who retweeted one such claim on Aug. 30.

Twitter has since removed the original tweet, which came from an account dedicated to the pro-Trump conspiracy theory QAnon. But the claim is still readily available on all the major social media platforms. In fact, the same QAnon account that posted the now-deleted tweet includes a screenshot version featuring the president’s retweet.

The post Trump highlighted said: “This week the CDC quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6% of all the 153,504 deaths recorded actually died from Covid. That’s 9,210 deaths. The other 94% had 2 to 3 other serious illnesses and the overwhelming majority were of very advanced age.”

But that’s not what the CDC information says.


I was hoping you would use that link... laugh Now from that link alone, read this...

"For the week referenced in the claim, the CDC explained that the chart “shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.”

That means that 6% of those who died with COVID-19 through Aug. 15 didn’t have any other reported conditions."

So again, that means that only 6% of those who died ONLY HAD COVID. Meaning the other 94% had OTHER HEALTH ISSUES.

Luckily I found the copy of the CDC website to support it. It states, and I quote "For 6% of the deaths, COVID was the ONLY CAUSE mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID, on average, there were 2.6 ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS or CAUSES PER DEATH."

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