Convenient Coding Error Is To Blame For The Over-reporting Of COVID-19 Deaths On CDC Website.

Following the agency’s “coding logic error,” reported pediatric deaths had decreased by nearly a quarter. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) COVID Data Tracker has supplied information on the severity of the coronavirus situation in the United States since the commencement of the COVID pandemic two years ago. It was frequently praised by health officials as the go-to source for up-to-date information on the pandemic in the United States. However, it now appears that the agency’s data, notably on the number of child COVID deaths, was erroneous by up to 24%. When the Omicron strain of COVID spread earlier this year, the CDC’s COVID Data Tracker “gave a deceptive image” before it addressed its “coding logic issue,” claiming that infants were “dying at a substantially magnified rate,” according to the Washington Examiner. There were 1,755 all-time deaths among…

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