{"id":1395393,"date":"2022-03-23T05:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T09:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395393"},"modified":"2022-03-23T05:14:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T09:14:46","slug":"cdc-overreported-covid-19-deaths-by-more-than-70000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-overreported-covid-19-deaths-by-more-than-70000\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Overreported COVID-19 Deaths By More Than 70,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcdc-overreported-covid-19-deaths-by-more-than-70000%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395393&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/CDC.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The Centers for Disease and Control updated its COVID-19 death statistics last week, revealing that the agency had included an additional 72, 277 deaths that should not have been counted as COVID-19 deaths.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The change impacted 26 states and all age groups. The CDC explained in a footnote that the overcount stemmed from a \u201ccoding logic error.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe CDC also noted that some jurisdictions also include probable COVID cases in their death count and that back in August, the data on COVID deaths was changed after they identified a data discrepancy,\u201d The Daily Wire\u2019s Mairead Elordi explained on Morning Wire. \u201cSo they\u2019re pretty cryptic on what exactly these errors were and why they happened, but the end result is that COVID deaths were apparently significantly overcounted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With a total of about 969,000 deaths from COVID-19, the extra deaths compose about 7.5% of that number. 416 extra pediatric COVID-19 deaths also represent a significant revision from the initial data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe huge change in the pediatric death count drops the estimate of COVID deaths in children down to 1,341 nationwide. Children were about 19 percent of all COVID cases but only about a quarter of a percent of those cases were fatal,\u201d Elordi explained, pointing to data from the American Academy of Pediatrics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Massachusetts lowered its death count by 3,700 while New York ended up increasing its share of COVID-19 nursing home deaths. In fact, an investigation from New York\u2019s attorney general found that deaths in that state\u2019s nursing homes may have been undercounted by as much as 50%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, CDC director Rochelle Walensky sent out a letter that referenced the agency\u2019s Data Modernization Initiative, which is supposed to make the data it puts out more reliable and accurate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The question of how to differentiate between many deaths were from COVID-19, and how many deaths were with COVID-19, still remains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe current standards still don\u2019t clearly differentiate between patients who died with COVID verse died from COVID, or the degree to which COVID contributed to any given death. It\u2019s possible we will see another downward revision as that reporting gets more granular,\u201d Elordi explained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is not the first time that the CDC has faced criticism for its handling of the pandemic, and Special Counsel Henry J. Kerner in December <\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/whistleblower-exposed-cdc-covid-19-vulnerabilities-special-counsel-says\">substantiated<\/a> a whistleblower\u2019s claims about the CDC\u2019s mishandling in both New York City and Atlanta in February and March 2020, were \u201creasonable.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For example, the whistleblower alleged that public health workers were not properly trained when they assisted with the COVID-19 response at New York City\u2019s JFK Airport in the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wednesday\u2019s episode of \u201cMorning Wire,\u201d and all episodes of \u201cMorning Wire,\u201d can be listened to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/sc\/podcast\/morning-wire\/id1576594336\"><span>here<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>Become a member now and join our mission.<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease and Control updated its COVID-19 death statistics last week, revealing that the agency had included an additional 72, 277 deaths that should not have been counted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}