Shock: CDC Slashes COVID-19 U.S. Death Rate – From 60,000 to 37,000
The CDC just readjusted the COVID-19 death numbers. They’ve dropped significantly, causing many people to wonder what the heck is going on.
The number of Coronavirus dead went DOWN from 60,000 U.S. deaths to 37,000.
The more inflated number is being called a “gaffe” apparently, although there’s still some confusion as to what exactly this adjustment means.
Just like that, CDC reduces its #Coronavirus death count to 37,000. That’s nearly HALF the total they were peddling. Did 30,000 people spring back to life like Lazarus? No, this seems a “gaffe”—defined as a case of the CDC accidentally telling the truth https://t.co/fkrbxDbPem
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) May 2, 2020
Regardless, this confusion is sure to further erode public trust in the “experts.”
The public was already leery after the projected 5 million deaths were whittled down to 200k and then whittle down to 60k.
That’s not to say we’re not terribly sad to lose even one American life to this wretched virus. It’s awful and sad and shouldn’t have happened this way. Thanks, China.
But how did the experts get this entire thing so wrong? Will there be an investigation into this so we can understand why the numbers were so wildly off and our media touted them without even a second glance to make sure everything was on the up and up?
And those people suggesting that “social distancing” brought the numbers down are feeding you a line of BS. Every single model – even the ones predicting 5.2 million Americans dead – factored in “100{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} social distancing” in the model and quarantine levels that we did not even come remotely close to in this country.
Some folks are speculating that perhaps pneumonia deaths were lumped in with the COVID deaths?
.@CDCgov chart says that as of May 1, 2020, total #COVID19 deaths are 37,308 (delayed due to reporting issues). Why is @JohnsHopkinsSPH number 65,068 today? Truly, I don’t know. Note, too, that CDC says total deaths is 97{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of expected, i.e. less than expected. Death rate of 0.3{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}? pic.twitter.com/36G2j9J9jA
— Martin Cowen (@mlcowen) May 2, 2020
Others, like conservative pundit and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, are suggesting that perhaps the “error” was more about funding than anything else.
CDC continues to peddle 60,000 plus deaths from #Coronavirus but this seems to be the padded number or “funding-oriented” statistic. Here’s the CDC’s real number, screen shot from its own site pic.twitter.com/wBWawQfLSL
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) May 2, 2020
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Richard Wakefield
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No it did not. Stop with the fake news.
Johns Hopkins website has US deaths at 68,934.
This is also from the CDC.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
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bmatkin
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Richard. I followed the link in the article to the CDC site and it said plainly 39,910 deaths. You obviously didn’t.
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Richard Wakefield
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Johns Hopkins keeps increasing, 71,000. Clearly the CDC site is wrong.
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Richard Wakefield
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“Some folks are speculating that perhaps pneumonia deaths were lumped in with the COVID deaths?”
Pneumonia is NOT a pathogen, it is CAUSED by a number of pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2.
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William Kay
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Richard is correct. This article is referencing an event (reduction in death toll) that never happened. This article should be pulled. Snopes has a piece on it:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cdc-death-figures/
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Carbon Bigfoot
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Since when has Snopes or any other liberal fact-checker have anything but propaganda.
https://dailycaller.com/2016/06/17/fact-checking-snopes-websites-political-fact-checker-is-just-a-failed-liberal-blogger/
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Alan
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Worldometer has US deaths at over 72,000.
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bmatkin
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Who are you people? Didn’t you follow the link in the article to the CDC website? Good grief, who made John Hopkins god? Snopes sure isn’t.
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Richard Wakefield
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Look where they get the numbers from… CDC.
Data sources: WHO, CDC, ECDC, NHC, DXY, 1point3acres, Worldometers.info, BNO, the COVID Tracking Project (testing and hospitalizations), state and national government health departments, and local media reports.
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Richard Wakefield
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” It is important to note that it can take several weeks for death records to be submitted to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), processed, coded, and tabulated. Therefore, the data shown on this page may be incomplete, and will likely not include all deaths that occurred during a given time period, especially for the more recent time periods. ”
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
This is why the number is low. It’s weeks behind.
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William Kay
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Here is the CDC’s current US Covid-19 death toll. They are currently putting the US deaths at 68,279.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
John Hopkins is putting it at 71,064
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
Worldometer currently have US C-19 deaths at 72,285
The author is confusing “provisional” CDC Covid-19 deaths from the total CDC C-19 death count which includes C-19/Pneumonia combinations and C-19/Influenza deaths. (The CDC website is deliberately muddling C-19 with other diseases.)
Bmatkin – I never said Snopes was “God.” In fact, I don’t recall saying God existed.
Carbon Bigfoot – I have no idea what the word “liberal” means. I don’t believe everything on Snopes, of course, but I have found it useful to take a peak at their take on issues from time to time. They are right on this point.
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