Posted on 03/18/2022 9:17:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID-19, including nearly a quarter of deaths it had listed in those under 18 years old.
The health agency quietly made the change on its data tracker website on March 15.
“Data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error. This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories,” the CDC says on the site.
The CDC relies on states and other jurisdictions to report COVID-19 deaths and acknowledges on its website that the data is not complete.
But the statistics are often cited by doctors and others when pushing for COVID-19 vaccination, including figures who believe virtually all children should be vaccinated. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC’s director, cited the tracker’s death total in November 2021 while pushing for an expert panel to advise her agency to recommend vaccination for all children 5- to 11-years-old.
Before the change, the CDC listed 1,755 children as dying from COVID-19 along with approximately 851,000 others, according to Kelley Krohnert, a Georgia resident who has been tracking the updates.
The update saw the CDC cut 416 deaths among children and over 71,000 elsewhere, arriving at a total of just under 780,000.
The agency declined to provide a comment by deadline.
The CDC previously adjusted its death count in August 2021 “after the identification of a data discrepancy.”
“The update is an improvement, but it’s at least the third correction to this data, and still does not solve the issue. It just highlights that people have been using a flawed source of data when discussing kids and COVID,” Krohnert told The Epoch Times in an email.
Some journalists and doctors have been citing the tracker data while others use a tally that is managed by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has been described by the agency as more reliable.
The NCHS tally, which is compiled from death certificates, currently lists 921 deaths involving COVID-19 among children and some 966,000 deaths involving COVID-19 among other age groups.
The deaths in the tally include people who died with COVID-19 and people who died from COVID-19, a CDC spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email in January. COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause, or the primary death cause, on about 90 percent of death certificates at the time.
Some of the deaths listed by the CDC appear unrelated to COVID-19. For instance, several deaths have drowning as a cause of death; several others were listed as being from a gun discharge, according to an Epoch Times review of the death codes.
For now, the update on the tracker was described as “great news” by Dr. Alasdair Munro, a clinical research fellow for pediatric infectious diseases at University Hospital Southampton, given that nearly a quarter of the pediatric COVID-19 deaths had vanished.
But Munro, writing on social media, called it “slightly worrying that this data was being used widely in the US to guide or advocate for policy.”
Some people called for the CDC to issue a public apology or at least announce such updates, similar to how some lower-level agencies have made clear lowering their death counts.
“It’s outrageous to quietly footnote such a consequential error,” Jessica Adams, a former regulatory review officer at the Food and Drug Administration, said on Twitter.
A former CDC spokesperson, though, noted the CDC website outlines that the data are estimated and subject to change.
“There is much complexity involved in all systems that are trying to track and summarize illness and death data, including differences in how data are collected and reported, completeness and accuracy of data, how timely data is entered into data collection systems and reported to CDC, and in the assumptions made, and procedures used to determine whether COVID-19 was the primary cause of death, a contributing cause of death, or not likely a contributing factor in someone’s death,” Glen Nowak, the former spokesperson, who is now an associate dean for research and graduate studies at the University of Georgia, told The Epoch Times in an email.
“It is thus not surprising that adjustments or revisions happen, including as a result of coding-related issues (e.g., recognizing, as more cases and information are provided, that a better way to enter, analyze, and/or interpret the data existed).”
Nowak said he wasn’t surprised the CDC did not announce the adjustment, given the disclaimers, asserting that announcements by federal agencies “are best reserved for events or developments that have or could have significant impact on government recommendations or policies.”
F*ck the CDC. Another pliticized, corrupt FedGov organization.
I suspect this is related, from last summer...
https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20210629/fema-amends-covid-19-funeral-assistance-policy
“This policy change was made after consulting with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention officials and other health experts. The new policy provides applicants, as well as medical authorities, coroners and jurisdictions, flexibility to attribute a death to COVID-19 without amending the death certificate. The change also provides flexibility with documentation for the period before the CDC-published and implemented COVID-19 death certificate guidance in the spring of 2020.”
It’s always been about the same less than the flu. It’s a bad cold nothing more nothing less.
The numbers have always been lies and manipulated to enhance the fear.
They’ll be more deaths from the jab in the years to come
Essential workers, labor unions respond to rollback of NY Hero Worker Protection
I'll have to show this to my high risk, non-essential hubby who went back to working on site the first day it was allowed by his employer and has worked straight through ever since without any of the above hero worker protections.
He just sucked it up and did it.
My bet: he will not be amused.
--- "All this new info is coming out and all the FReeper DRs and health experts have gone strangely silent...hmmmm, I wonder why?"
As of 19 March 2022, the "official" Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center claims 970,806 Covid deaths since January of 2020, about twenty-seven months.
Source: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/
( 970,806 / 334,294,730 population ) x 100 = 0.29 % mortality rate. The mortality rate for any single twelve month period within this span would be lower by about half.
Complaints about calculating the actual mortality have been that the denominator was wrong, the data incorrect and so on. The dictionary definition of the mortality rate is properly " the incidence of deaths in a given population during a defined time period (such as one year)." The above "twenty-seven month" mortality is higher than a proper calculation would be. The pandemic has been a media-amplified scam, and the Communist Chinese and a few pharmaceutical company allies have benefited hugely from Western nations locking their own economies down.
"Meet The 40 New Billionaires Who Got Rich Fighting Covid-19"
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2021/04/06/meet-the-40-new-billionaires-who-got-rich-fighting-covid-19/?sh=4386acd317e5
And the DoJ and the FBI and the DoD and the FDA and the...
Hmm, just like votes disappearing from Republicans.
I smell a number theif, a progly cartel stench.
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
It seems absurd that the CDC is changing what it’s counting as a cause of death without autopsies confirming the change. In other words, was a co-morbidity responsible, or the action of CoVID? This ‘adjustment’ is being made without the science of pathology being applied via autopsies to confirm.
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