Liberals Fear Fading COVID-19 Threat

RUSH: Here’s the headline in Politico: “Falling COVID-19 Cases Create Opportunity and Peril for Trump — Virus cases are dropping everywhere, but the rush to reopen could backfire.” Hard to see how. Anyway, they’re getting nervous, folks.

This story is just dripping with fear that the COVID-19 story is reaching a point where it’s going to be beneficial to the president for the next couple or three months. Number of cases down; number of deaths down. There are new CDC numbers on the actual number of literal COVID-19 deaths. It could be just a little over 6,000, not 180,000.

I’ve been reluctant to share this next bit of news with you, folks, only because I’m worried it could be a trap. But the numbers involved here come from the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control. You want to talk about science, you want to talk about there might be some fake scientists. By fake scientists I mean politicians who are pretending to be scientists. And don’t doubt me, ladies and gentlemen, they’re all over the place. Anybody can put on a white lab coat and tell you they’re a scientist.

The Centers for Disease Control this weekend lowered the number of China virus deaths by 94%. From the Centers for Disease Control website itself, quote, “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause” — wait. This may be a tweet. No, it’s the CDC. “For 6% of the deaths COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19 on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes.” These are called morbidities.

In other words, folks, for 94% of deaths, the virus was there but didn’t cause the deaths. The CDC is admitting this now. Let me give the data to you in another fashion. The Centers for Disease Control — and they very quietly did this. This has not been trumpeted with fanfare. This was very quietly posted on the CDC website. They updated COVID death numbers to admit that only 6% of all of the 153,000 deaths recorded actually died from COVID. That’s a total of 9,210 deaths. That’s a big difference from 153,000 deaths.

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