Category: CDC

Facts Matter (March 22): 4,081 Deaths Removed From COVID State Registry Due to ‘Significant Overcount’ by Officials

In the previous episode, we discussed how the CDC very quietly removed about 72,000 deaths from their official COVID-19 death tracking website—supposedly due to a programming error. However, it’s worth noting that this type of COVID death number reduction is not limited to only the CDC. Case in point, Massachusetts’s Public Health Department recently announced that they…


Real Scientific Inquiry Requires Dissent, but That’s Not What the CDC and JAMA Want

Commentary  Mendacity is worse than dishonesty. According to one essay on mendacity, “Mendacity connotes a mixture of dishonesty, hypocrisy and audacity.” Mendacity is an important theme of the play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” by Tennessee Williams: “What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of…


Facts Matter (March 21): CDC Says It Accidentally Inflated Children’s Virus Death Numbers Due to ‘Coding Logic Error’

On their official website, the CDC last week very quietly removed tens of thousands of deaths that were officially linked to COVID-19, including nearly a quarter of the COVID deaths that were listed for children under the age of 18.  Meanwhile, while I was in Florida, I took the unique opportunity to sit down and…


CDC Responds After Reporting Fewer COVID-19 Pediatric Deaths

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says its removal tens of thousands of deaths it had attributed to COVID-19 happened because the agency was mistakenly counting deaths not related to COVID-19. The CDC removed 72,277 deaths, including 416 among children, that were said to have been from COVID-19 from its data tracker…


CDC Removes 24 Percent of Child COVID-19 Deaths, Thousands of Others

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID-19, including nearly a quarter of deaths it had listed in those under 18 years old. The health agency quietly made the change on its data tracker website on March 15. “Data on deaths were adjusted after resolving…


New Study Says Phthalates May Increase Cancer Risk in Children

High concentrations of phthalates like that found in some medications may be linked to an increase in childhood cancer risk, a first-of-its-kind study from the University of Vermont Cancer Center suggests. Phthalates, also known as the “everywhere chemical,” are used as inactive ingredients in some medications, but are more commonly found in several types of chemical…


Get Politics Out of Health Care

The COVID-19 pandemic has been heavily politicized, such that Americans’ health and medical freedom are at risk. From data suppression to scientific fraud, two experts speak out on the problems that occur when government controls health care. Medical freedom is a right that must be protected for all; it transcends politics and applies to people…


CDC Warns Agency Would Lose Access to Key Data If Emergency Declaration Ends

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning that the end of the public health emergency for COVID-19 would cut the agency off from critical data for tracking the disease. “CDC has no general statutory authority to direct what and how public health data are reported. Data authorities related to COVID-19 test results…


CDC Updates Guidance for Cruise Ships, Lowers COVID-19 Warning From ‘High’ to ‘Moderate’

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on March 14 lowered its COVID-19 warning for cruise ships from “high” to “moderate” amid a decline in the number of cases across the United States. The agency lowered the Travel Health Notices (THN) from Level 3 to Level 2, or from high to moderate, but noted that…


Facts Matter (March 14): Deaths Represent 1.3% of Reported Side Effects: Peer-Reviewed CDC Study; CDC Changes Risk Formula

According to a new study that was just published by the CDC, researchers found—after analyzing the reported side-effects that came from mRNA vaccines—that “death” as a side-effect accounted for 1.3 percent of all the reported side-effect cases. Meanwhile, about three weeks ago, the CDC very quietly and without much fanfare adjusted their metrics for measuring…