CDC Changes Data
While Trump was in office there was evidence that in some areas health officials were inflating the number of COVID deaths.
For example, a Florida man who died in a motorcycle accident was classified as COVID death because he had antibodies in his bloodstream. Matter of fact, Colorado was one of the few states that recorded if a person who died had COVID at the time of death or died as a result of COVID-19.
But, by the time Joe Biden took office, there was a vaccine and therapeutics to help mitigate COVID deaths thanks to former President Trump ripping away the red tape. Despite this, more Americans died under Biden’s watch than when Trump was in office.
That is not a good statistic headed into the midterms which is why people sounded the alarm when the CDC removed 30,000 pediatric deaths for the USA’s COVID death count.
Removal of the data reduced pediatric deaths by 24% and the CDC claimed it was all due to a “coding error.”
Those statistics reducing pediatric deaths by 24% means the narrative they were using about COVID killing children was false.
This week @CDCgov removed a total of 30,000 Covid deaths from the dashboard, reducing pediatric deaths by 24%. In small print at the bottom they cited a “coding error” as the reason for the incorrectly inflated numbers. pic.twitter.com/bme4eZ9UuG
— Nicole Saphier, MD (@NBSaphierMD) March 17, 2022
Additionally, the CDC still has not released the data on the effectiveness of the mRNA booster shots for the 18-49 years of age population. The CDC said that the data is ready for “primetime” yet and the results could “be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.”
From the New York Times:
When the C.D.C. published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65 two weeks ago, it left out the numbers for a huge portion of that population: 18- to 49-year-olds, the group least likely to benefit from extra shots, because the first two doses already left them well-protected.
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But the C.D.C. has been routinely collecting information since the Covid vaccines were first rolled out last year, according to a federal official familiar with the effort. The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public, the official said, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.
In other words, they don’t like the results and they were so concrete they couldn’t spin the data the way they wanted to.
Just a few months ago the Biden Administration was beating people over the head with scary claims that pediatric deaths were on the rise. Fast forward a few months later and they lower the same statistics by 24% claiming it was an “error.”