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Did the CDC director 'confess' that 75%+ of COVID deaths were in people with four comorbidities?

By Ed Payne
NO

A study of 1.2 million patients looked at the factors of the 36 people in the group who died of COVID-19. Twenty-eight had four or more comorbidities.

When Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, went on TV to talk about the study her comments were edited. Then someone published an excerpt of her edited comments.

People against vaccines believed these results showed the shots are unnecessary, because only fragile people are dying from COVID-19.

The part left out is that the study looked at only vaccinated people.

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