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Abc news cut out 22 seconds of comments, cut them out of the comments made by cdc chief doctor rochelle walensky about the role of comorbidities in covid-19 deaths. those context. lets listen to the walensky e edited version. >> this new study just how well vaccines are working to prevent severe illness, given that, is it time to start rethinking how were living with this virus, that its potentially here to stay. >> the overwhelming number of deaths, 75%, occurred in people who had at least four...

Hasnt been hidden until now. walensky was not saying that 75% of all u.s. covid deaths were among people with four or more comorbidities. after this controversy erupted on monday, abc released walenskys full comments online, adding back the key sentences they left out of the tv segment on "good morning america" on friday. listen to her comment. >> an important study, if i may summarize it, a study of 1.2 million people who were vaccinated between september and october, demonstrated that severe d...

At least four comorbidities, but this is not what walensky said which well hear in a moment. when she talked about 75% of people having four comorbidities, she was not discussing all 800,000 covid deaths, she was talking about a particular small group of deaths that were described in a new study. that study looked at 1.2 million fully vaccinated people. of those 1.2 million fully vaccinated people, 36 of them had a death associated with covid-19, and of those 36 people who died, 28 of them, abou...