Six percent

Recently the CDC stated that six percent of the COVID-19 deaths in the US are exclusively from the disease only while other factors have contributed to the rest.

Some people have twisted that statistic to claim that far fewer people have died from COVID-19 than reported including those that can't accurately multiply 188,000 (Sep 1) by .06.

Other factors have included heart disease/hypertension which affects 48 percent of those in the US, obesity which affects 40 percent of those in the US, smoking which consist 13 percent of adults in the US, and diabetes which affects 10 percent of those in the US.

People with COVID-19 have also developed pneumonia, blood clots, and heart disease which contributed to their deaths but are not listed as COVID-19 only.

According to the CDC, the most recent report of total deaths in the US from ALL CAUSES in 2018 and 2019 is about 920 per 100,000 people in Q1, 836 in Q2 and 810 in Q3. (Q3 for 2019 is the most recent one where data is available.)

The data for 2020 won't be known until next year. Once those are released, the true toll from COVID-19 won't be realized.