By now, Americans—and much of the world—know that the CDC lies about a lot of things. One of the agency’s long-standing deceptions, which only grew worse in the years leading up to 2020, is the exaggerated “estimated” number of deaths caused by or “related to” influenza. Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan have addressed these exaggerations in the past and …
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