A December 11, 2022 Instagram post (direct link, link archived) features a headline purporting to inform admission to CDC.
“CDC quietly confirms that at least 118,000 youth and young adults have ‘died suddenly’ in the U. S. “The U. S. has been in the U. S. since the launch of COVID vaccines,” reads the headline of The Expose, an online page that in the past posted misinformation.
The Instagram post is a screenshot of a Dec. 10, 2022 tweet that was retweeted more than 1000 times in a month. The Instagram edition generated more than 4000 likes in less than a month.
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The CDC hasn’t proven that at least 118,000 other people have died suddenly since 2020, and officials say that’s not an accurate description of what happened. those deaths are similar to COVID-19. No infections there is evidence that those deaths were “sudden” or similar to COVID-19 vaccines.
Expose’s article bases its statement on knowledge gathered through the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development from CDC public reports. The reports calculate the estimated excess of deaths potentially similar to the COVID-19 virus by comparing knowledge about deaths in pre-pandemic years to those of the pandemic.
The November 30, 2022, Expose article states that the data shows six-figure counts of sudden deaths, but that they are not the same as exaggerated deaths.
The CDC defines excess deaths as “the difference between the observed number of deaths over time periods and the expected number of deaths over the same periods. “Sudden deaths are unexpected, fatal, and sudden events that occur in others whose symptoms were not predictable.
There’s no way to know whether or not the excess deaths died suddenly, CDC spokesman Bert Kelly told USA TODAY in an email.
The article states that there were 118,000 more deaths in the 0-44 age organization from December 2020 to October 2022 than on average between 2015 and 2019. He then claims without evidence that those deaths were “likely due to COVID-19. “injections. “
It’s unclear if the 118,000 figure is accurate because CDC knowledge is up to date, Miguel Gorman, a spokesman for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, told USA TODAY. -44 age diversity between December 2020 and October 2022, he said.
However, research in the article linking deaths to the vaccine is flawed, Kelly said.
“The excess deaths are largely explained by increased mortality from COVID-19 and other major causes of death directly or related to the pandemic,” Kelly said. “Other major reasons for death why we see excess deaths are influenza and pneumonia. , circulatory diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and diabetes. “
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Nicholas Jewell, a professor of biostatistics at the University of California, agreed.
“Even if the 118,000 figure is well estimated, chances are that a significant fraction of those deaths can be directly attributed to COVID-19 infections,” Jewell said. “In addition, 2022, for example, will be a bad year for other respiratory infections among young people, such as influenza and RSV. Perhaps some other deaths are due to the strain on health systems caused by the burden of COVID-19 infections. “
Numerous clinical studies and CDC reports have demonstrated the vaccine’s protection and effectiveness in adults and children.
“Death as an adverse event attributed to the vaccine is not unusual or even occurs so frequently” that it would be discussed with patients as a possible outcome, Dr. Richard Martinello, an infectious disease specialist at Yale University, told USA TODAY in an email.
USA TODAY in the past refuted a similar claim that COVID-19 vaccines were to blame for another 1. 1 million deaths in the United States.
USA TODAY reached out to The Expose and social media users who shared the comment.
The Associated Press and Reuters denied the claim.
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