Posted on 03/24/2023 12:46:41 PM PDT by lightman
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made at least 25 statistical or numerical errors during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the overwhelming majority exaggerated the severity of the pandemic, according to a new study.
Researchers who have been tracking CDC errors compiled 25 instances where the agency offered demonstrably false information. For each instance, they analyzed whether the error exaggerated or downplayed the severity of COVID-19.
Of the 25 instances, 20 exaggerated the severity, the researchers reported in the study, which was published ahead of peer review on March 23.
“The CDC has expressed significant concern about COVID-19 misinformation. In order for the CDC to be a credible source of information, they must improve the accuracy of the data they provide,” the authors wrote.
The CDC did not respond to a request for comment.
Most Errors Involved Children
Most of the errors were about COVID-19’s impact on children.
In mid-2021, for instance, the CDC claimed that 4 percent of the deaths attributed to COVID-19 were kids. The actual percentage was 0.04 percent. The CDC eventually corrected the misinformation, months after being alerted to the issue.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky falsely told a White House press briefing in October 2021 that there had been 745 COVID-19 deaths in children, but the actual number, based on CDC death certificate analysis, was 558.
Walensky and other CDC officials also falsely said in 2022 that COVID-19 was a top five cause of death for children, citing a study that gathered CDC data instead of looking at the data directly. The officials have not corrected the false claims.
Other errors include the CDC claiming in 2022 that pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations were “increasing again” when they’d actually peaked two weeks earlier; CDC officials in 2023 including deaths among infants younger than 6 months old when reporting COVID-19 deaths among children; and Walensky on Feb. 9, 2023, exaggerating the pediatric death toll before Congress.
“These errors suggest the CDC consistently exaggerates the impact of COVID-19 on children,” the authors of the study said.
‘Horrific’
Dr. Vinay Prasad, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco and the paper’s corresponding author, said that the errors identified “are not errors of interpretation or preference but demonstrably false numbers.”
“Horrific that the CDC has made these errors and in some cases still not issued correction, and even repeated the errors,” he wrote on Twitter.
Limitations of the paper include it not being an exhaustive review of CDC studies and statements.
“While this is not an exhaustive list, it is concerning that the organization tasked with analyzing Covid data and setting policy recommendations has made such simple errors throughout the pandemic,” Kelley Krohnert, a Georgia researcher and a co-author of the paper, who has caught multiple CDC lies, wrote on Twitter.
The authors are trying to get the study published in a journal, Krohnert told The Epoch Times. They reported no funding sources.
Event 201 proves it was a plan, not a “blunder.”
Gee.... no kidding?
Now, do CDC EXAGGERATED BLUNDERS ON THE SEVERITY OF THE DANGEROUS $HOTS, CDC researchers.
We won’t hold our collective breaths. We’ll trust the REAL docs/scientists and REAL science....NOT FRAUD¢i $cience.
Yup. Lies are not blunders.
all errors going one way are not errors
they are fraud
when do you we get to know the actual number of deaths FROM covid?
If they were “errors” then they would be as likely to understate COVID’s risk as to overstate it. If they were predominantly or all on one side of that ledger, then they weren’t errors, they were deliberate deceptions.
Political pandemic designed with Bidens business partners the CCP to destroy the Republic. A quick removal of this administration is absolutely necessary for the restoration of our Republic.
They weren’t blunders. They were very planned and purposeful.
“Blunders”? “Errors”?
Beat me to it. "Blunder" implies good intentions. And accidental results. BS on both.
Yeah.
“Blunders.”
Riiiiiiight.
They weren’t blunders. Blunders implies mistakes and poor judgment.
This is downright malfeasance.
”Blunders”?! No, crimes. Crimes that cost people their lives and livelihoods. Crimes that should be punished.
I first read about SARS NOVEL in the health industry press, which I read as I am responsible for Healthcare databases.
The first article I read was between Christmas an New Years 2019. It was all about the Wuhan lab in China. It clearly stated that SARS NOVEL targeted the elderly. The second article in early Jan 2020 continued to say that it targeted the elderly. It also said that Chinese officials denied any involvement of the lab and it started in the market with bats for sale.
In Jan and Feb it became clear that co-morbidities were also a factor. It was not til March that it was recognized that Obesity was the most common co-morbidity ...after elderly age of course... Diabetes and Obesity... Lung disease with obesity, liver, heart with obesity all had much higher statistical rates than the same co-morbidities with no obesity. Many medical articles were written March to Dec 2020 explaining this in medical terms I cannot repeat.
Here in GA, in the SW GA Black belt, the funeral director invited hundreds of elderly to the first death. Then to a second funeral. Then there was a birthday party. The elderly died...in droves. So it became a racial issue.
The only thing it proved is that excessive regulation does not work. Funeral directors are regulated precisely to prevent this type of incident. SARS NOVEL did not know this.
Neither Fauci nor the anti-Fauci voices in the popoular media focused on the 2 dominant co-morbidities. To get published, the health/medical industry media wandered away from publishing knowledgable articles and towards the politics of it... towards the sloganeering by all involved.
In evolutionary terms, COVID-19 was nature thinning the weakest members from the heard. Most of them were already living on borrowed time. COVID just cut their time a little earlier.
It was not 'til March that it was decided to fatten up the population by browbeating them to "stay at home" and, especially, to force the closing of gyms.
The very worst things to do if it had truly been about "public health".
But it was about population control and REDUCTION.
One thing many people forget is congress and the administration allocated 2 trillion dollars in spending for covid relief before anybody really knew what was going on. The bill was signed by Trump on Mar 27, 2020. There was no public debate over spending and lockdowns.
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