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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Sep 12, 2025, 07:48 PM Friday

RFK Jr's deadly COVID coverup [View all]

When Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) recently asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week how many people died in the United States from COVID-19, Kennedy said “nobody knows” because of “data chaos” at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet, there is very good data on how many Americans died from the virus.

CDC estimates indicate 1,231,440 Americans died from COVID-19. Kennedy’s attempt to discredit this data is likely an effort to justify his hostile actions against the health agency or to minimize the danger of the virus, which is still affecting people today.

A few straightforward numbers from the Social Security Administration illustrate the credibility of CDC’s numbers. In the three years before COVID-19 arrived in the United States, the number of Social Security beneficiaries who died during the year had a flat trend: 2,351,959 in 2017, 2,377,978 in 2018, and 2,378,162 in 2019.

What happened in 2020? The number of beneficiaries who died surged to 2,772,037 — about 400,000 more deaths than in any of the prior three years.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/opinion-rfk-jr-deadly-covid-140000647.html

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