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6000 or six thousand for ap headline1/12/2024 “An unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding under our eyes,” said Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the U.N. “All these patients are in danger of death if the electricity is cut off.” If fuel runs out, “it means the whole health system will be shut down,” he said, as children moaned in pain in the background. There were 35 patients in the ICU who require ventilators and another 60 on dialysis. Mohammed Qandeel, a consultant at the critical care complex. Hundreds of people with severe blast injuries have come to the hospital, where fuel is expected to run out by Monday, said Dr. In Nasser Hospital, in the southern town of Khan Younis, intensive care rooms were packed with wounded patients, most of them children under the age of 3. Gaza’s sole power plant shut down for lack of fuel after Israel completely sealed off the 40-kilometer (25-mile) long territory following the Hamas attack. Hospitals in Gaza are expected to run out of generator fuel within two days, endangering the lives of thousands of patients, according to the U.N. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement Sunday that Satterfield will focus on getting humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza. ambassador to Turkey with years of experience in Mideast diplomacy, to be special envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues. With the situation in Gaza growing increasingly desperate, the U.S. Other base less claims that people “died suddenly” from COVID-19 vaccines have circulated on social media following the release of an online film that made false claims about vaccine deaths and included footage that predated the pandemic.Palestinians stand by the building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah, south of the Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. Tsai also refuted the headline’s claim that the CDC has “quietly” confirmed data about children and young adults dying “suddenly.” The CDC’s excess death data has long been public, he said, and “there is no way to really determine from the data whether people died suddenly or not.” OECD did not respond to a request for comment. Experts have said drug overdoses also contributed to higher-than-expected death rates in 2021, the AP reported. Instead, Tsai wrote in an email to the AP, likely reasons for excess deaths in this age group since 2020 include “increases in accidental deaths (mainly drug overdoses), suicides, homicides, heart diseases, liver disease, and diabetes.” He said a substantial number of the excess deaths are the result of COVID-19 itself.Ī surge in excess deaths among children and young adults in the summer of 2021, for example, corresponded with the delta variant of the coronavirus hitting the U.S., which affected younger people more than previous variants of the virus, Tsai explained.ĬDC data from December 2021 indicated that COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the U.S., behind heart disease and cancer. Scott Pauley, a spokesperson for the CDC, told the AP that outside of nine deaths confirmed to be associated with rare blood clots following the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the agency has “not detected any unusual or unexpected patterns for deaths following immunization that would indicate that COVID vaccines are causing or contributing to deaths.” Tsai also noted that excess deaths for 2022 are similar to those in 2020, when there were about 46,000.Ĭonfirmed reports of deaths caused by vaccination are extremely rare, even with millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses having been administered in the U.S. The 124,000 excess deaths break down to about 80,000 excess deaths in 2021 and about 44,000 excess deaths in 2022. This number is higher than the numbers published by OECD because the CDC’s data is now more complete, according to Tsai. The article originally appeared in November on The Exposé, a website that has repeatedly spread COVID-19 misinformation. “CDC quietly confirms at least 118k Children & Young Adults have ‘Died Suddenly’ in the USA since the roll-out of the COVID Vaccines,” reads its headline. THE FACTS: A misleading article spreading widely online this week attempts to link recent child and young adult deaths in the U.S. Confirmed reports of deaths caused by vaccination are extremely rare, even with millions of people vaccinated against COVID-19. However, the CDC has not attributed this increase to COVID-19 vaccines and experts told The Associated Press that it can likely be attributed to other causes, including more severe variants of the coronavirus. Excess deaths - the difference between the observed number of deaths and the expected number in a specific period - were higher for those 0 to 44 years old in the U.S. since the COVID-19 vaccines rolled out.ĪP’S ASSESSMENT: False. CLAIM: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly confirmed that at least 118,000 children and young adults have “died suddenly” in the U.S.
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