Thread by @BadCOVID19Takes

Context: People continue to spread this false claim citing this table—which does not include deaths from most of January—and comparing this figure with past years' complete number. cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr…

From the NCHS Mortality Surveillance Data, you can see all deaths recorded for 2020, which are ALREADY HIGHER than ever recorded with a month to spare and incomplete data for recent weeks. cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…

And the "incomplete" caveat is important. CDC's numbers are based on statistics forwarded from local jurisdictions, which takes time. When the numbers are final, there will be perhaps 400,000 more deaths this calendar year than 2019.

This false tweet was RT'd by @AdamBaldwin (350k followers), @IWV (223k), @kylenabecker (145k), @amritabhinder (142k), @kelliwardaz (116k), @MichaelBerrySho (73k), @talzlami (66k), @rhowardbrowne (54k), @RobManess (50k) & another version posted by @drdavidsamadi (374k) + more RTs.

@AdamBaldwin @IWV @kylenabecker @amritabhinder @kelliwardaz @MichaelBerrySho @talzlami @rhowardbrowne @RobManess @drdavidsamadi And that's before counting favorable QT's by a bunch of people who should know better, like @Rasmussen_Poll (362k), @Harlan (184k) @JLMarchese111 (174k) & @JoeSquawk (148k), weird screenshots, tons more copycats. twitter.com/search?q=%2220…

Point is: Comfortable errors spread well.

@AdamBaldwin @IWV @kylenabecker @amritabhinder @kelliwardaz @MichaelBerrySho @talzlami @rhowardbrowne @RobManess @drdavidsamadi @Rasmussen_Poll @Harlan @JLMarchese111 @JoeSquawk The OG popularizer of misunderstanding the CDC provisional deaths page jumps in (left). You can tell how much he cares about accuracy (right).

@AdamBaldwin @IWV @kylenabecker @amritabhinder @kelliwardaz @MichaelBerrySho @talzlami @rhowardbrowne @RobManess @drdavidsamadi @Rasmussen_Poll @Harlan @JLMarchese111 @JoeSquawk Such lies comfortably reaffirm and support false narratives.

@AdamBaldwin @IWV @kylenabecker @amritabhinder @kelliwardaz @MichaelBerrySho @talzlami @rhowardbrowne @RobManess @drdavidsamadi @Rasmussen_Poll @Harlan @JLMarchese111 @JoeSquawk This thread puts the year-over-year increase into perspective. Spoiler: we haven't seen an uptick like this since 1918.

@AdamBaldwin @IWV @kylenabecker @amritabhinder @kelliwardaz @MichaelBerrySho @talzlami @rhowardbrowne @RobManess @drdavidsamadi @Rasmussen_Poll @Harlan @JLMarchese111 @JoeSquawk This is still circulating, even though deaths are already an all-time record this year (see above).