Facebook removed a post Tuesday from President Trump falsely claiming that the flu is more lethal than COVID-19.
“Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from the Flu,” he wrote in the post. “Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!”
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More than 209,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 this year, more than in the past five flu seasons combined.
The annual flu death total has been between 12,000 and 61,000 since 2010, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
The last time that U.S. flu deaths hit an estimated 100,000 was in 1968.
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The same Trump message was posted on Twitter. The platform placed a label on the tweet warning that it violated rules about spreading coronavirus misinformation. The post is still viewable, but cannot be interacted with.
The Hill
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