The COVID Response: What We got Wrong.

The CDC on Mortality Counts: “Okay, You Caught Us!” 

The CDC is finally adjusting its mortality count to correct for its absurdly disingenuous and misleading decision, at the beginning of the pandemic, to instruct hospitals and coroners to report any deaths that occur WITH COVID as deaths FROM COVID.

I’ve told you about a study that looked at past CDC mortality rates and recalibrated them, adjusting for this absurdity. That study estimated that the CDC exaggerated deaths from COVID by 70% to 90%!

Perhaps because they know “the truth will out,” the CDC has come out with new mortality rates of their own. The new numbers are about 40% less than they reported, or about half of what the study suggested. I wouldn’t be surprised to see another retroactive “adjustment” in a year or two, bringing the numbers down to what they should have been all along. We’ll see about that.

But even at the 40% adjustment, the COVID mortality rate comes to roughly 64,000 deaths per year. That’s not nothing. It’s like a very severe flu. But it pales in comparison to the top four ways to die in America:

* Heart Disease – about 700,000 per year

* Cancer – about 600,000

* Accidents – about 225,000

* Stroke (cardiovascular diseases) – about 160,000