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The claim

"2.2 million people, modelled out, were expected to die"

Rating

This is misleading. The study describes 2.2 million deaths from Covid-19 in the US not as the "expected" number, but instead what would occur "in the (unlikely) absence of any control measures or spontaneous changes in individual behaviour".

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