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May 4, 2021 · CDC and HHS Failed to Track COVID-19 Data. What happened: For several months in 2020, the federal government failed to adequately track vital COVID-19 data – e.g. cases, testing, deaths, and hospitalizations – and instead relied on non-governmental groups to fill in these data gaps.
Feb 22, 2022 · The New York Times revealed over the weekend that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was withholding some COVID vaccine data from its national reports. The raw data was...
Feb 21, 2022 · The subheading is, “The agency has withheld critical data,” the New York Times, everybody, “on boosters, hospitalizations, and — until recently — wastewater analysis.” Now, Clay, we could do the, “We were right” stance here ’cause we’ve been talking about the hiding of data particularly in hospitalizations for a long time.
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Viral social media posts cite a flawed paper in falsely claiming the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed death certificate procedures and violated federal law, resulting in wildly inflated COVID-19 deaths. The CDC hasn’t altered how death certificates for COVID-19 are filled out, and there is no federal law governing the process.
A conservative talk radio host recently told her listeners that because of a change in death certificate procedures specific to COVID-19, “there is a huge chance that COVID death numbers are exaggerated, to the tune of 94%.” That’s false. It’s based on a flawed report whose authors also have penned related claims for an anti-vaccination organizatio...
Now, Bell repeats the distortion about the 6% statistic and cites a paper that erroneously suggests the data is inflated because the CDC changed how such deaths are counted, and falsely claims it violated federal law. Reading from a March 19 story in the conservative outlet the Epoch Times, Bell tells her listeners: “A little-noticed peer-reviewed ...
The paper’s authors say that, “[b]ased upon our investigation of Federal Register Records for 2020, there was no formal, transparent, public review process initiated by the NVSS or CDC prior to or following the issuance of the March 24th NVSS COVID-19 Alert No. 2 that dramatically altered cause of death reporting exclusively for COVID-19.” The Marc...
In addition to the claim about the legality of the CDC’s COVID-19 death reporting guidance, the paper’s main contention is that the guidance was a stark departure from the CDC’s guidelines used since 2003. It baselessly suggests that, using the 2003 guidance, COVID-19 fatalities would “be approximately 16.7 times lower than is currently being repor...
Anderson, Robert. Chief of mortality statistics branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Email to FactCheck.org. 1 Apr 2021. Dooling, Bridget. Research professor, Regulatory Studies Center, George Washington University. Phone interview with FactCheck.org. 31 Mar 2021. Gill, James. President, Nationa...
Sep 1, 2020 · USA TODAY. The claim: Only 6% of reported COVID-19 deaths were the result of the coronavirus. A regular update of data on COVID-19 deaths by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has...
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Jan 30, 2023 · The CDC’s data come from hospitals or state health departments, which are required to report daily admissions of patients who have COVID-19 and deaths of patients with COVID-19.
Mar 15, 2021 · As a gap opened between the data that leaders imagined should exist and the data that actually did exist, it swallowed the country’s pandemic planning and response. The COVID Tracking...