Over the weekend, a “fact” about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention downgrading the number of dead to 37,000 went viral.
For many conservatives, the story was too good to resist, since it combined their belief that the government had overreacted to the threat posed by the coronavirus with their distaste for and distrust of the media.
The only problem? The story wasn’t true.
Because the link Young sent around takes you to this page — headlined “Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease.”
And, yes, on that page, you will see that the total number of deaths from Covid-19 is listed as 38,576.
