“Last week, after reporting from the Guardian on mortality rates among children, the CDC corrected a 'coding logic error' that had inadvertently added more than 72,000 Covid deaths of all ages to the data tracker, one of the most publicly accessible sources for Covid data.
The agency briefly noted the change in a footnote, although the note did not explain how the error occurred or how long it was in effect.
A total of 72,277 deaths in all age groups reported across 26 states were removed from the tracker ‘because CDC’s algorithm was accidentally counting deaths that were not Covid-19-related’, Jasmine Reed, a spokesperson for the agency, told the Guardian.”
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