Posted on 03/19/2021 2:15:34 PM PDT by lightman
A little-noticed peer-reviewed study published last October by a science and public health journal claims the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ignored federal laws and regulations when it changed how the government counts deaths from COVID-19, caused by the CCP virus, also known as the novel coronavirus.
“All federal agencies are required to submit notification for data collection, publication, or analysis to the Federal Register BEFORE gaining approval from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OMB/OIRA) to ensure they are in compliance with the Information Quality Act (IQA) and the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) and therefore, approved to implement the proposed changes,” the authors said in the study published by the Journal of Science, Public Health Policy and Law.
“Based upon the complete absence of Federal Register records for ‘Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment,’ at no point, did the CDC inform the OMB/OIRA or allow for 60 days of public comment in the following unilateral decisions that attempted to bypass Federal oversight,” the study claimed.
“We allege that the complete absence of the appropriate Federal Register records is evidence that the CDC knowingly and willingly violated the IQA & PRA. As a direct consequence of implementing the two documents below without OMB approval, there was significant inflation of COVID-19 case and fatality data,” the study said.
A spokesman for the CDC did not respond by deadline to The Epoch Times’ request for comment.
The 10 authors of the study compared fatality counts compiled using the new system propounded by the CDC in an alert issued on March 24, 2020, early in the initial national lockdown and the procedures used by the CDC and all state and local public health officials since 2003. The latter procedures are described in two handbooks, one for physicians and a second for medical examiners and cornoners.
“These handbooks have been used successfully for 17 years without need of update. They remain in use today for all causes of death except where involvement of COVID-19 is suspected or confirmed. When involvement of COVID-19 is suspected or confirmed, the March 24th, 2020 COVID19 Alert No. 2 guidelines are used instead,” according to the study.
Based on data for all recorded U.S. deaths through August 23, 2020, the new CDC system counted 161,392 that were attributed to the virus. Using the older system, the death total was only 9,684.
The essential difference between the old and new systems was the latter’s inclusion of multiple co-morbidities along with the virus and listing the virus as the cause of death and the co-morbidities as “contributing conditions.”
The study pointed to a CDC weekly alert on Aug. 23, 2020, that explained “For 6 percent of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”
The same weekly alert updated as of March 14, 2021, stated, “for 6 percent of these deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 3.8 additional conditions or causes per death.”
The revised fatality counting system, with changes that were not announced or made subject to public comment, as required by federal laws, raise concerns, according to the study’s authors.
“Why would the CDC decide against using a system of data collection and reporting they authored, and which has been in use nationwide for 17 years without incident, in favor of an untested and unproven system exclusively for COVID-19 without discussion and peer-review,” the study asked.
“Did the CDC’s decision to abandon a known and proven effective system also breach several federal laws that ensure data accuracy and integrity? Did the CDC knowingly alter rules for reporting cause of death in the presence of comorbidity exclusively for COVID-19? If so, why,” the study further asked.
The study has received little media attention despite the potential significance of such a huge over-count for federal policy makers and medical professionals.
Searches on the study’s title produced no results on the web sites of the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The Epoch Times has not previously reported on the study.
Politifact, a journalism fact-checking web site, addressed the study indirectly in rating a National File post about it as “False,” and saying, “the study does not definitively say that the CDC inflated COVID-19 deaths. Rather, it calls into question guidelines the CDC issued in March 2020 that were designed to more accurately capture mortality data related to the coronavirus.
“The study’s authors called the guidance ‘a capricious alteration to data collection has compromised the accuracy, quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of their published data.’”
In fact, while the study does not say the CDC “inflated COVID-19 deaths,” it does claim the change in data counting procedures produced the wide divergence in total fatalities as of Aug. 23, 2020, 161,392 versus 9,684, as explained above.
Congressional correspondent Mark Tapscott can be reached at mark.tapscott@epochtimes.nyc.
It was only Covid, Covid, Covid.
/s
The CDC and FauXi had a dual use patent
on their ATROCITY-VIRUS to profit from.
Release their virus, and charge royalties
for testing, for even LOOKING at their virus.
We knew this. The numbers of “covid deaths” were artificially inflated so as to get rid of Trump. The truth can be told now that Trump is out of office.
Something similar to this was on a thread on free republic, or maybe conservative treehouse in the last few months. The left would stop at nothing to get Trump out of office. It is not just Trump that the left hates. It is everything that freedom-loving Americans care about.
Heck. Even homicides and motorcycle accidents vanished.
Indeed it was a miracle!!
A miracle that somehow combined all deaths caused by accidents, homicide, heart/lung/kidney/liver disease, cancers, natural deaths, suicides, drug abuse, alcohol, obesity, diabetes, septic, influenza and all other virus mortality...
a miracle that death took a holiday from all causes but COVID-19.
COVID was the Grim Reapers only means to impart death upon humanity. Praise God!
I was at Johns Hopkins hospital this week for a routine outpatient procedure and the nurses said that COVID cases had been high but on the bright side thanks to masks and hand washing there were basically ZERO cases of flu this year. I bit my tongue.
The question is: How many federal dollars were paid by the US taxpayer for each covid death?? There was, and is, a lot of money to be made off of a covid death. How many covid patients were fast tracked to death to make room for the next victim?
The question is: How many federal dollars were paid by the US taxpayer for each covid death?? There was, and is, a lot of money to be made off of a covid death. How many covid patients were fast tracked to death to make room for the next victim?
IDK about motorcycle accidents, but homicides were way up.
The CDC lied? I am looking for my best shocked face. 😁
Shocked, I tell you.
NOT.
Let’s see which FR Pharma promoter shows up to tell us we are all antivax conspiracy theorists for thinking this is true. IIRC they (and every liberal I know) think that scamdemic deaths are higher than reported!
Hallelujah and pass the plate!
And they are fed that and they buy it. No critical thinking skills.
Women easily deceived since the Garden of Eden.
If only there had been some warning, like perhaps a religious prophecy, that deception would be practiced to achieve a demonic goal. If we had just had that, we might have known this was coming.
(oh yeah)
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