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Coronavirus: The US has not reduced its Covid-19 death toll to 6% of total – BBC News
False claims about the Covid-19 death toll in the US have gone viral. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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President Trump retweeted the claim
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says it has been deluged with queries about false rumours the official tally of Covid-19 deaths is drastically lower than the publicised headline figure of about 185,000.
Social-media posts making this bogus claim have been circulating widely on the internet.
And one re-tweeted by President Trump was removed by Twitter for breaching its guidelines.
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