How many Americans checked the COVID death toll sites in fear during the early days of the pandemic? How many lost their income and dignity? Was it worth it? According to all the reports that show many numbers were severely inflated. Mainly from the CDC but, some state officials have some answering to do.
“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.
The change impacted 26 states and all age groups. The CDC explained in a footnote that the overcount stemmed from a “coding logic error.”
“The 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,” The Daily Wire’s Mairead Elordi explained on Morning Wire. “So they’re pretty cryptic on what exactly these errors were and why they happened, but the end result is that COVID deaths were apparently significantly overcounted.”
A report published o Facebook showed a big change in children’s COVID-related deaths:
“The 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,” Elordi explained, pointing to data from the American Academy of Pediatrics.States like Mass also corrected their numbers to show there was overreporting.
Oh, it wasn’t all inflated. Some states (guess who) underreported ‘certain deaths’ in nursing homes:
“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’s attorney general found that deaths in that state’s nursing homes may have been undercounted by as much as 50%.”
Last time I check the reported number was 17,425 so are they really looking at 40,000 nursing home deaths in New York? Those families will never get answers because the NYC DA refuses to take the case against former Gov Andrew Cuomo who ordered the shuffling of sick patients and fudged numbers- reportedly…