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It is the largest decline in decades and the coronavirus pandemic is a major factor, experts say.
VERIFY: Claim that 2018 death total is more than 2020 gets the math wrong A Facebook post falsely claims that total deaths in 2020 will be less than in 2018. But they get the math all wrong. Author: Mia Salenetri (WUSA9) Updated: 7:48 PM EST December 15, 2020 WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control provides troves of data to the public every day on everything from populations, to diseases, to mortality. The numbers they report require context, which is why all their data reports have some kind of documentation explaining what that data does and does not ...
PolitiFact's ruling: Half True Here's why: There’s no question the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the deadliest events modern Americans have ever grappled with. But how its death toll compares with other tragedies and natural disasters is being misconstrued in a social media post that purports to list and rank the "deadliest days in American history." The graphic shows that four of the eight deadliest days since the country’s founding took place between Dec. 2 and Dec. 7, 2020. The image places daily COVID-19 deaths from those days alongside death tolls from the Galveston Hurricane, the...
Official death toll is at 64. now, cnn sued the government in order to get access to mortality statistics. we actually had to sue in order to get access because they didn't want reporters, researchers to have access. the governor of puerto rico said that he was willing to give researchers access to mortality statistics. the harvard researchers who did a survey with universities in puerto rico, they said the government of puerto rico actually didn't give them access and made it hard yes, ma'am for them to get access to correct mortality statistics. and it wasn't until a george washington univer...