Claim: "CDC illegally inflated the COVID fatality number by at least 1,600 percent"; "the NVSS COVID-19 Alert No. 2  underlying causes of death  by recording them in Part II rather than Part I of death certificates  This was a major rule change  from the 2003 guidance on certification of death
Fact-check: The CDC didn't introduce a "major rule change" to inflate COVID-19 deaths; there have been more than 490,000 excess deaths in the U.S. to date - Science Feedback
Verdict: inaccurate
Organisation: Science Feedback
Author: Flora Teoh
Date published: 2021-02-14T16:52:46