CDC Director Can’t Answer How Many Deaths Are ‘From COVID’ vs. ‘With COVID’

When CDC Director Rochelle Walensky was confronted by Fox News anchor Bret Baier, she couldn’t explain how many COVID deaths in the US were “from COVID” versus “with COVID.”

QUICK FACTS:
  • During an interview Sunday over many topics related to COVID, Walensky failed to have an answer to Baier’s question of how many of the 860,000 deaths in the United States linked to COVID are actually a direct result of the virus rather than from other co-morbidities, The Blaze reported.
  • Instead of giving a distinct answer, Walensky mentioned that death registries take a few weeks to collect and that data would be “forthcoming.”
WHAT WALENSKY SAID:

“We have ever-evolving science with an ever-evolving variant and my job is to provide updated guidance in the context of rapidly rising cases,” said Walensky. “And that is what we’ve done and I’m here to explain it to the American people and I’m committed to do so and to continuing to improve.”

BACKGROUND:
  • With more than 836,000 deaths from COVID in the U.S., the government has not yet released whether the deaths were the result of COVID infection specifically, or if the deceased simply tested positive for COVID but died of other causes.
  • The CDC has said that up to 95% of all COVID deaths have happened to Americans with co-morbidities and other ailments.
  • The other 5% were most likely “related to a lack of detail listed about other conditions present at the time of death,” the CDC reported.

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