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2023-08-29 00:40:38 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

The CDC data has been misrepresented in the Daily Mail article. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12453329/99-PERCENT-Covid-deaths-not-caused-virus-official-data.html "The percentage of all reported deaths that are attributed as COVID-19 is calculated as the number of COVID-19 deaths divided by the number of deaths from all causes x 100." Source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_weeklypctdeaths_00

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• The CDC data has been misrepresented in the Daily Mail article. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12453329/99-PERCENT-Covid-deaths-not-caused-virus-official-data.html "The percentage of all reported deaths that are attributed as COVID-19 is calculated as the number of COVID-19 deaths divided by the number of deaths from all causes x 100." Source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_weeklypctdeaths_00