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US President Donald Trump attempted to misinterpret the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) data on the coronavirus death toll that has been dismissed by diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director described the American death toll, which surpassed 180,000 last week, as Real. The dismissal comes after the US President Trump shared a tweet on Sunday which claimed (without basis) that the CDC had admitted to documenting only 9,000 deaths during the pandemic. The post was first reported by CNN and it was made by a QAnon conspiracy theory supporter, who suggested the CDC had quietly updated its numbers to admit that only six percent of coronavirus deaths “actually died from COVID”.

Point to be noted that it comes after the CDC last week attributed 6 percent (approximately 9,000) of the 183,500 COVID-19 deaths to the coronavirus alone. As Dr. Fauci argued on Tuesday, that estimation does not mean that the other 94 percent of US coronavirus deaths were incorrectly documented. “If you look at the people who’ve died of COVID disease, the point that the CDC was trying to make was that a certain percentage of them had nothing else but just COVID,” the diseases expert said on Good Morning America.

Dr. Fauci also said, “That does not mean that someone who has hypertension or diabetes who dies of COVID didn’t die of Covid-19. They did. Let there not be any confusion about that”. He added, “The numbers you’ve been hearing, the 180,000+ deaths, are real deaths from Covid-19.” The tweet shared by President Trump, which carried the death toll misinterpretation, was later deleted from the site. It is noteworthy that we have experienced there were a number of clashes between the US President and the Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Fauci. Americans are still worried about finding the exact situation of Covid-19 in the country.