Our ruling: False.
The claim: CDC admitted to adding flu and pneumonia deaths to COVID-19 death count, dropping the death count from 54,000 to 43,000claims the Centers for Disease Control admitted to adding flu and pneumonia deaths to the COVID-19 death count, dropping the number from 54,000 to 43,000.
USA TODAY reached out to the user who made the Facebook post and to D’Souza but did not receive a response. The number of provisional deaths is based on data from the National Vital Statistics System, the data system the National Center for Health Statistics uses, which records information from death certificates. This number lags behind the number of confirmed and probable cases because,, “it can take several weeks for death records to be submitted to , processed, coded, and tabulated.
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