They quietly released info that approximately 6% of all deaths counted as COVID were truly just COVID and not individuals with - an average of - 2.6 co-morbidities per patient and "extreme old age". And this is what the fear mongers have been pushing. What a colossal joke.
This is all complete nonsense and a deliberate misinterpretation of what the CDC stated...
UNC cardiologist refutes social media claim that virus death toll is inflated
https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/un...m-that-virus-death-toll-is-inflated/19263628/
A UNC Health physician wants to set the record straight about posts on social media claiming only 6 percent of COVID-19 deaths are legitimately from the coronavirus.
Twitter removed a post with that false claim over the weekend, but not before it was retweeted by President Donald Trump.
About 183,000 people have died in the United States after testing positive for the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said “for 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned” on the death certificates. That led people on social media to claim the other 94 percent died from underlying conditions, not the virus.
"It doesn’t mean that those were people who are going to get sick and die anyway," said Dr. Christopher Kelly, a cardiologist at UNC Rex Hospital in Raleigh. "Probably, in most of those cases, they would have been fine and alive right now if they had not contracted COVID-19."
Kelly said the 6 percent of death certificates that list only COVID-19 were likely filled out incorrectly.
"You don’t catch the virus and then just fall over dead," he said. "You get the virus and then develop respiratory failure or pneumonia or multi-organ failure, and then you die. That’s just how death works, and you are supposed to list those things on the death certificate."
"That is because of COVID. Nothing else has substantially changed in the past six months in this country," he said.
Although the number of deaths has declined from highs in April and May, he said COVID-19 continues to pose a serious threat.
"Social distancing and mask wearing work, and we should continue those until we have compelling evidence they are no longer needed, and we do not have that evidence right now," he said.