“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.”
Antonio Valdes
Claim dated 31 Aug 2020.
Vera Files rated thisFalse
What Vera Files found
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 comorbidities.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Antonio Valdes made this claim around 31 August 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 16 September 2020, 16 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
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