CNN: Higher Death Rate Among American Youth Must Be Due to Covid, Not Lockdowns

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BERMAN: “So Dr. Del Rio, there was an email that came to light overnight from a doctor who worked inside the Trump administration, who was rooting for people to get infected to build herd immunity. And I’m not overstating that, he literally was. This is what Paul Alexander, again, who was an HHS senior adviser said, infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle aged with no conditions have zero to little risk, so we use them to develop herd, we want them to get infected, he said. Now the reason, in addition to just being startling that someone would ever say that, that I'm reading to you now, is because there’s an article in JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association overnight, and one of the authors of it is Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who will run the CDC starting in a few weeks, which found that young people are dying at higher rates over the last year than they were before. It found that July appears to have been the deadliest among this group in modern American history. Over the past 20 years, an average of 11,000 young Americans died each July. This number swelled to more than 16,000. We are talking about people ages 25 to 44, 5,000 more deaths in the month of July than the previous average. And the implication is is that it’s largely because of Coronavirus.”