Twitter fact checked an excellent summary by a Twitter user MelQ of the latest CDC report on what percent of deaths attributed to Covid19 were only Covid without some other serious illness (about 6%).
Tantrums of outrage roared in from the anti-Trumpers, because the president retweeted it. Now it's been removed by Twitter. Of course, anything Trump says about the economy, about Covid, HCQ, about abortion, about foreign relations, etc. has to be fact checked and denied by Big Tech. I don't use Twitter, however, when I read some of the "corrections" I wonder if NYT, WaPo or LATimes could stay in business if every word of their writers were searched for bias and opinion by Big Tech. Forbes has published an extensive denial of the original tweet, but with about mostly anti-Trump opinion and word fill (paid by the word?) of the writer who identifies as a digital health expert and avocado eater. I was not impressed with his or Twitter's assessment, because I read the CDC article, too. I'm not providing a link to the Forbes article--you can find it--because my assessment of its poor quality and misleading information won't be passed along, instead only the article will be seen.
Go to the CDC and look for the 6% article, and draw your own conclusions. I don't think it's much different from what we knew in March, that those who were dying were the elderly with 2-3 other conditions like obesity, lung problems, heart conditions, etc. that weakened them and death was not due only to the Corona virus.
The real story, Mr. Avocado Eater/digital health expert, is how many people are looking for hope and a return to their normal lives before our 50 state governments put us on lockdown and destroyed the economy. Or maybe, you're looking for your 10 seconds of fame?
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