Supreme Court revises transcript of Gorsuch’s comment on flu death count

Published January 10, 2022 7:33pm ET



The Supreme Court issued a revision on Monday of oral arguments over President Joe Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate after the previously uncorrected transcript quoted Justice Neil Gorsuch claiming the flu kills “hundreds of thousands of people every year.”

Online political commentators and news outlets were quick to call out Gorsuch on Friday after the transcript appeared to suggest the justice nominated by then-President Donald Trump did not know the average number of flu fatalities per year. Critics suggested Gorsuch lacked understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic’s magnitude, which has killed nearly 800,000 people from 2020 through 2021.

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