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2023-07-13 15:18:31 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

CDC was not marketing death from any cause as COVID-19 deaths. The CDC audited over 375K death certificates & found 97% had a plausible causal chain of events consistent with a COVID-19 death. 87% of COVID-19 deaths COVID-19 was underlying cause, the rest contributing cause https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e2.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm

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• CDC was not marketing death from any cause as COVID-19 deaths. The CDC audited over 375K death certificates & found 97% had a plausible causal chain of events consistent with a COVID-19 death. 87% of COVID-19 deaths COVID-19 was underlying cause, the rest contributing cause https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e2.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm