A policewoman wears a mask in New York City on May 25. – Anthony Behar / Sipa USA / SIPA
- The authority responsible for listing deaths linked to Covid-19 in the United States publishes a weekly count.
- A misreading of the bulletin published on August 26 has spread on social networks.
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Authorities American responsible for registering deaths related to
Covid-19 have not “quietly” recognized a drop in the death toll from this disease. This is however what a tweet published on August 29 and retweeted by
Donald Trump. This message has since been removed from the social network,
selon CNN.
“This week, the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] has quietly updated Covid-related figures to recognize that only 6% of all 153,504 recorded deaths are in fact Covid-related, writes this surfer on Twitter. That makes 9,210 dead. The remaining 94% had two or three other serious illnesses and the vast majority were very old. “
FAKE OFF
In its weekly bulletin on the novel coronavirus published on August 26, the CDC dedicate a table comorbidities. This table “shows the types of health problems and the contributing causes mentioned in relation to deaths linked to Covid-19”. The CDC specifies that “for 6% of deaths, Covid-19 is the only cause mentioned”.
This does not mean that only 6% of the deaths recorded by the CDC are due to Covid. These 6% actually represent patients who died from Covid-19 and for whom no other disease had been recorded. As spotted it the American site Factcheck.org, this distinction between patients without comorbidities and with comorbidities
is present in the bulletins from the CDC since May.
The other deaths recorded are those with co-morbidities: this meant that the patient was also suffering from another disease. Obesity, cancer, type 2 diabetes or certain heart diseases increase the risk of developing a severe form of Covid, according to the CDC.
The claim was also denied by Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in an interview with Good Morning America on Monday. “What the CDC meant was that a certain percentage of those [qui sont morts du Covid-19] only had the Covid, he specified. This does not mean that people with hypertension or diabetes did not die from Covid-19. “
169,044 people have died from Covid-19 in the United States on September 2, according to the CDC.
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