Posted on 03/23/2021 9:49:15 AM PDT by John Semmens
A study published in the Journal of Science, Public Health Policy and Law found that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) violated the Information Quality Act (IQA) and the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) by prescribing different and invalid standards for handling COVID-related fatalities. This resulted in massively inflating the fatality figures. Taking the data from the start of the pandemic to August 23, 2020, the new invalid standards reported 161,392 COVID deaths. If the prior valid standards had been adhered to the COVID fatalities would have been reported as 9,684.
Dr. Anthony Fauci defended the new standards, saying that "the corona virus is a novel virus. The CDC felt that it would be appropriate to adopt novel new standards. The CDC wasn't the only government authority to adopt novel standards. Many state election officials and judges saw a need for new standards for voting because of the pandemic. There simply wasn't enough time to follow already approved procedures for either voting or counting the death toll occurring in the very unusual year of 2020."
The authors of the study, in contrast, blamed the CDC's new standards for "causing a capricious alteration to data collection that has compromised the accuracy, quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of their published data, rendering it essentially useless for reaching legitimate conclusions about COVID and the methods for combating the disease."
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