Lots of tweets going viral on this but I’m pretty sure this is an inaccurate conclusion drawn from the CDC site. COVID-19 causes organ failure and other conditions and from what I see CDC is just saying that 6% of people SOLELY died from the virus. https://twitter.com/aslavitt/status/1300098832605286401

For instance, my mentor’s Kidneys failed as a result of being on a ventilator with COVID-19 for two weeks. When dialysis failed, he passed away shortly after. From what I’m seeing, CDC would say this death wasn’t SOLELY from COVID-19?

To be clear, he had zero underlying issues. He would be alive and healthy today if it wasn’t for COVID-19, but CDC would say he didn’t solely die from COVID-19. Its very confusing and a dumb way of thinking about it.