Many CDC Blunders Exaggerated Severity of COVID-19: Study

According to a recent study, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) overestimated the intensity of the COVID-19 crisis by at least 25 statistical or mathematical errors.

Experts who have been monitoring CDC mistakes have compiled 25 conditions of the organization providing blatantly false information. They examined whether the failure overstated or downplayed the frequency of COVID-19 in each case.

Twenty of the 25 cases overstated the magnitude, according to the study’s findings, which were released on March 23 ahead of peer review.

” The CDC has expressed serious issue regarding the false information about COVID-19. The scholars wrote that in order for the CDC to be a reliable source of information, they may increase the accuracy of the data they provide.

A request for comment was never answered by the CDC.

Most Mistake Applied to Kids

The majority of the misconceptions concerned COVID – 19’s effects on kids.

For instance, the CDC asserted in the middle of 2021 that 4 % of deaths attributed to COVID – 19 were children. The real proportion was 0.04 cents. Decades after being made aware of the problem, the CDC later corrected the false information.

At a press conference held in the White House in October 2021, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky misrepresented that there had been 745 COVID – 19 fatalities in adolescents, when in fact there were 558, according to an exploration of the death certificates.

In 2022, Walensky and other CDC representatives falsely claimed that COVID-19 was one of the top five causes of pediatric death, citing a study that gathered data from the organization rather than straight examining it. The erroneous statements have not been corrected by the authorities.

Other mistakes include the CDC’s 2023 claim that pediatric COVID-19 illnesses were” increasing again” when they had actually reached their peak two weeks earlier, the agency officials’ exaggeration of the neonatal death toll in front of Congress’ February 9 report by Walensky, who also included deaths among infants under the age of six months.

The study’s authors claimed that these failures” suggest the CDC generally exaggerates the impact of COVID-19 on children.”

‘Horrific’

The report corresponding writer, Dr. Vinay Prasad, an entomologist at the University of California, San Francisco, stated that the errors found” are not errors of understanding or preference but manifestly false numbers.”

He wrote on Twitter,” Tragic that the CDC has made these mistakes and in some cases still hardly issued discipline, and sometimes repeated the mistake.”

The paper’s limitations include the fact that it doesn’t thoroughly review all CDC research and assertions.

Although this is not a comprehensive number, it is concerning that the company responsible for analyzing Covid information and formulating policy recommendations has made quite straightforward mistakes throughout the pandemic, according to Twitter post by Georgia family Kelley Krohnert.

According to Krohnert, the authors are attempting to have the study published in a blog. No financing places were disclosed.