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Context: No, in the first place, that's been on the CDC website forever. Here it is in May. But dishonest folks get more likes by saying it's new. web.archive.org/web/2020053001…
More important, people with comorbidities are dying because of COVID and not diabetes or obesity (the most common comorbitdies). We know this because a lot more people have died this year.
And the excess deaths are indeed cause by the virus. We know because states with very few COVID deaths don't really have excess deaths.

Bottom line: ~200,000+ people now dead would be alive but for this virus.
More than fringe QAnon accounts are spreading this nonsense too.
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