E&C Republicans Open Investigation into CDC Database Overcounting Child COVID Deaths

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"The CDC's responses are consistent with concerns reported in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and raised by other analysts. On March 15, 2022, the CDC removed 72,277 deaths, including those of 416 children, from its COVID-19 Data Tracker after the overestimates were attributed to "coding logic errors' The inaccuracies were detected by Kelly Krohnert, a former IT programmer from Atlanta, Georgia, on February 23, 2022. She tweeted: "It appears [CDC's COVID] Data Tracker has major issues when it comes to pediatric death reporting. We deserve accurate data when so much is on the line for our kids!' Krohnert and another mother had been writing to the CDC since May 2020 about these concerns. The overcounting also raises questions about whether CDC used inaccurate data that led to decisions harmful to children."

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