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.”
So what’s the percentage now? 1.3% knock a few more ten thousand off and we’re under 1% and ... gasp... almost back to a typical flu season
If Trump was President, this “adjustment” would instantly result in hearings in both house and senate.
The CDC and the CIA are criminal operations.
The Confused Death Count agency can’t get its lies straight.
Only slimy political hacks or commies with intent could be so cavalier about death and medical processes. Docs need to shut these people down. Only Docs can do it.
Number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths in the U.S. as of March 2, 2022, by age*
According to a Johns Hopkins research team ...
Johns Hopkins Team: There Are Still ZERO Covid Deaths Among Healthy Kids Jul 21, 2021
I've been thinking that for two years now. I can't help but think of my father, a family doc from '54 to '84, and those colleagues of his that I knew that never would have stood for this.
What a different time though. He was in private practice and so were most other docs back then. They hadn't sold their souls to a corporation.
The Ministry of Truth corrects the past.
The US is 2 thousand-ish shy of a million dead and they recalculate their “coding errors” now? Maybe so Biden and the Dem midtermers don’t look so bad??
Time to claw back that $30K to the hospitals for each fake death, right?
So 416 fewer kids died of Covid than had been thought to. There were only 1700 of those nationwide. Largely inconsequential. The idea of vax for kids was to get them a few weeks or months of protection from infection so they could not pass it to grandparents. But the vax is so short lived that maybe that’s pointless.
As for older age, the number adjustment looks like less than 10%? That backs the total away from 1 million, but the next surge will probably deal with that.
(Each fake *Covid* death, that wasn’t...)
The docs AND hospitals sold their souls to INSURERS.
Everything exploded when health insurance got huge and medicare and medicaid exploded. A huge pool of money to bill against when most folks dont use their services but pay huge premiums that mostly cover those using lots of services...
You pay other peoples medical bills every dam day.
This is very important! Let’s send it around and hope that this is a valid CDC admission.
coding logic error?
the numbers were inflated on purpose to push the pandemic
this is a limited hangout
watch for numbers to come down quietly again in the future
more coding logic errors?
better to confess to incompetence than admit intent
yep too many corporate quacks not enough doctors
Ping
All this new info is coming out and all the FReeper DRs and health experts have gone strangely silent...hmmmm, I wonder why?
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