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With little fanfare the CDC posted a clarification of its pandemic-related deaths, explaining that only 6% of the deaths were due to COVID-19 alone. Using a graphic showing comorbidities and other conditions that led to them being listed as COVID-19, the CDC offers a variety of reasons why the numbers were not accurately reflected previously.
But even with the excuses, when all is said and done, it looks like only 9,684 deaths were due to COVID. However, before running with that number, there is more to the story to understand.
In a Twitter post, former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson explains that some of the comorbidities, such as pneumonia, could partly be due to COVID. So, he suggests that the numbers can be better understood by taking out any deaths that are clearly unrelated to the patient having a COVID infection, and listing them as dying WITH coronavirus as opposed to FROM it.
Deaths to take out would be those with Alzheimer’s, sepsis, dementia, cancer and unrelated injury, he says. Then take off accidental deaths and poisonings. Bottom line, defining death WITH the virus and death FROM it is important to knowing the true COVID-19 deaths — which add up to more than the 9,684 you’re seeing on social media, but still are much, much lower than the 164,280 being reported in mainstream media.
SOURCES:
CDC August 26, 2020
Twitter Alex Berenson August 29, 2020
Ron Paul Liberty Report
August 31, 2020