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Checked by Vera Files16 Sep 2020Philippines Health

Antonio Valdes

“The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organization cut the number of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. from 160,000 to just 9,000.”

Vera Files rated this: False

Vera Files says: Neither CDC nor WHO has made such a revision in the COVID-19 death tally in the U.S. The claim that there are only 9,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. and not 160,000 is a wrong interpretation of CDC’s COVID-19 data on co…