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kpete

(71,996 posts) Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:31 PM Sep 2020

Fauci Squashes Trump's Distortion Of CDC's COVID-19 Death Toll Data

“So the numbers you’ve been hearing, the 180,000+ deaths, are real deaths from COVID-19. Let there not be any confusion about that,” he added. “It’s not 9,000 deaths from COVID-19. It’s 180+ thousand deaths.”

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Fauci Squashes Trump's Distortion Of CDC's COVID-19 Death Toll Data (Original Post) kpete Sep 2020 OP

It's 188,900 as of today according to worldometer VMA131Marine Sep 2020 #1

When I used to fill out a death certificate... IggleDuer Sep 2020 #2

If someone with COPD gets COVID and dies from respiratory failure, they would still be alive had brewens Sep 2020 #3

VMA131Marine

(4,140 posts)

1. It's 188,900 as of today according to worldometer

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:33 PM

Sep 2020

IggleDuer

(964 posts)

2. When I used to fill out a death certificate...

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:41 PM

Sep 2020

... I used to say that the primary (or ultimate) cause of death was cardiopulmonary failure, preceded by lack of oxygen to the brain, followed by those factors that the sequence of death events going. So, in reality, no one purely dies from Covid-19. The heart and brain has to stop too. Of course, Joni knows this too, or is just plain stupid.

The states have been loosening up the rules of late, though.

brewens

(13,596 posts)

3. If someone with COPD gets COVID and dies from respiratory failure, they would still be alive had

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:43 PM

Sep 2020

they not gotten COVID. Probably would have survived the flu with proper treatment. It's the Quackpots grasping at straws to try and defend Trump.

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