March 31, 2023

In an administration plagued with incompetence, the Centers for Disease Control stands out.

According to JustTheNews:

The CDC found itself hoist with its own petard by making 25 basic statistical and numerical errors related to COVID-19, particularly with regard to children, while purporting to expose COVID vaccine misinformation, according to an analysis led by University of California San Francisco epidemiologists.

The preprint, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, documented 20 errors that “exaggerated the severity of the COVID-19 situation” and three that “simultaneously exaggerated and downplayed” severity, while one each was neutral or exaggerated vaccine risks. 

More than half were from 2022, but nearly as many were made in the first two months of 2023 as in all of 2021, they found.

These errors were hideous, suggesting an agency filled with ignoramii who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near medical data, let alone taking a government salary for it, nor advising the public, but they weren’t ordinary errors.

They involved inflated figures on child deaths from COVID, falsely claiming that COVID was a “Top Five” cause of all deaths in children while conflating actual child deaths from COVID with deaths from other causes that were with COVID, skewing the COVID death totals sharply higher. It claimed that pediatric deaths from COVID amounted to 4% of all child deaths — failing to do the math properly, as the figure was 0.04%. They urged the use of PAVLOXID on children infected with COVID, despite studies showing that there was no benefit at all to them.

The errors were heavily weighted toward exaggerating COVID’s risk to children. Fifteen of the 16 pertaining to children’s data “enhanced the perceived risk” of the virus and more than half the total errors involved mortality statistics, with the CDC data tracker “consistently” reporting higher deaths for children and adolescents than did NCHS.

The errors all skewed one way — towards lockdowns and closed schools — which suggested that someone was massaging the data for political ends, and to heck with the science or the public’s well being.

That’s dereliction of duty of the highest order and with that many errors, most of which took months to correct, if they were corrected at all, it presents a credibility problem for the CDC. Who in their right mind would believe these incompetents, who can’t even do basic statistical math, or even long division correctly, on public health pronouncements with wide-ranging consequences across society? Someone needs to be fired for having that many incompetents on staff.

But it may not have even been incompetence — it may have been corruption, calling for the resignation of the director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, no matter what it was, and Congress needs to rat this out.