Herman Cain's Twitter account, still active after his death from coronavirus complications, deletes post questioning COVID-19 mortality rate.
That story was in reference to a statistic from a weekly update by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listing 94% of COVID deaths as having co-morbidities.
The statistic is based on death certificates, which routinely include contributing factors, and experts say it is being misrepresented on social media. National and international public health agencies have long maintained that people with underlying health issues are more vulnerable to the virus. More than 180,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.Cain's Twitter account went quiet in the wake of the one-time presidential candidate's passing at the end of July, except for a few posts about memorial services, then reemerged in mid-August with aannouncing that Cain had wanted his account to continue in his absence. Several writers said they were carrying on the account, claiming Cain's blessing.
The account continued to tweet right-wing content at a quick clip, even after the revelation in early July that Cain had been hospitalized. Just days before Cain's announcement that he had been hospitalized for the coronavirus, his Twitter account, @TheHermanCain,
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