Reported Pediatric COVID-19 Deaths Plummet After CDC Fixes ‘Coding Logic Error’

After CDC resolved the error, the pediatric death figure reported on its COVID Data Tracker dropped to 1,339 all-time deaths, a reduction of 23.7% from the figure reported the day prior.

“On March 15, 2022, data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error. This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories,” the data tracker said.

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CDC spokeswoman Jasmine Reed told the Washington Examiner the agency’s algorithm was accidentally counting non-COVID-related deaths in the data tracker.

“An adjustment was made to COVID Data Tracker’s mortality data on March 14 involving the removal of 72,277 – including 416 pediatric deaths – deaths previously reported across 26 states because CDC’s algorithm was accidentally counting deaths that were not COVID-19-related,” Reed said. “Working with near real-time data in an emergency is critical to guide decision-making, but may also mean we often have incomplete information when data are first reported.”

Prior to the fix, the CDC’s data had been used as the basis for articles published late last week by the Guardian and the New York Post that reported as many as a third of all child deaths from COVID-19 had occurred since the beginning of 2022 amid the omicron surge. (Read more from “Reported Pediatric COVID-19 Deaths Plummet After CDC Fixes ‘Coding Logic Error'” HERE)

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