No, the CDC did NOT Revise Down the Number of COVID-19 Deaths
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 22: Omar Rodriguez moves a body into the Gerard Neufeld funeral home on April 22, 2020 in the Elmhurst neighborhood of the Queens borough in New York City. The decades old funeral home, that now primarily serves an immigrant community in Queens that has been hit hard by coronavirus, has been overwhelmed by the number of deceased needing their funeral services. Before COVID-19, the funeral home handled an average of seven or eight bodies per week and now are seeing over forty. The Queens community has been one of the most devastated communities in America by COVID-19 (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Stop sharing false information people. There were several stories over the weekend being shared on social media that the CDC had changed its fatality numbers from COVID-19 from 60,000 plus to 37,000. A lot of people are saying the death numbers are a media conspiracy theory to ignore the true death count.
However, if people really looked carefully or did any sort of fact checking, the statistics were from Feb. 1 to April 25. They were not the most up to date numbers.
“It is important to note that it can take several weeks for death records to be submitted to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), processed, coded, and tabulated,” reads a prominent disclaimer above the data. “Therefore, the data shown on this page may be incomplete, and will likely not include all deaths that occurred during a given time period, especially for the more recent time periods.”
Bottom line, check your facts before you share.
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