Prominent right-wing figures have been falsely describing a comment the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made last week about Covid-19 deaths
On Monday, radio and television host Clay Travis, an outspoken commentator about sports, politics and the pandemic, tweeted an 11-second snippet of Walensky speaking on ABC's"Good Morning America" last Friday. Travis wrote:"The CDC director just said over 75% of 'covid deaths' occurred in people with at least four comorbidities. Since Biden can't shut down covid, suddenly all this data is getting shared publicly.
More about the studyThe study Walensky was talking about -- which was authored by researchers at the CDC and the National Institutes of Health and was released last week in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report -- used data from 465 health care facilities.The study looked at 1,228,664 people who were fully vaccinated between December 2020 and October 2021. Of these roughly 1.
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