“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "just came out & said they made another ‘mistake’" in Florida. "And they’ve also been counting Pneumonia & Flu as Covid– dropping their [number] from approx 90,000 to 11,000.”
Social media posts
Facebook. Claim dated 23 Jul 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
The CDC did not reduce its count of COVID-19 cases in Florida, and it does not count pneumonia and flu deaths as COVID-19 deaths.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 23 July 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 July 2020, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10158474451435420&set=a.10150171372085420&type=3
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