A Dec. 11, 2022, Instagram post (direct link, archived link) shows a headline purporting to report on a CDC admission.
"CDC quietly confirms at least 118k Children & Young Adults have ‘Died Suddenly’ in the USA since the roll-out of the COVID Vaccines," reads the headline from the The Expose, a website that has previously published misinformation.
The Instagram post is a screenshot of a Dec. 10, 2022, tweet that was retweeted more than 1,000 times in a month. The Instagram version generated over 4,000 likes in less than a month.
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The CDC has not confirmed at least 118,000 people have died suddenly since 2020, and officials say that's not an accurate description of what happened. While there have been over 100,000 excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts say a majority of these deaths are related to COVID-19 infections. There is no evidence these deaths were "sudden" or linked to the COVID-19 vaccines.
The Expose article bases its claim on data collected by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development from publicly available CDC reports. The reports calculate estimated excess deaths potentially related to the COVID-19 virus by comparing death data in pre-pandemic years to during the pandemic.
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