CDC Hasn’t ‘Reduced’ COVID-19 Death Toll
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Claims on social media have been spreading the falsehood that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention significantly lowered the COVID-19 death toll. There has been no such reduction. These claims confuse two different measures of the number of deaths.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regularly updates two different lists that track deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. referred to as “provisional deaths,” counts death certificates. The counts confirmed and
