Did the CDC just admit wrong doing? You decide.

There are 4 key pieces of information to help Americans understand the significance of what the CDC admitted on August 26, 2020.

“For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”

1. For 17 Years, Medical Examiners, Coroners, and Physicians have been using nationwide guidelines for reporting fatalities with comorbidities. The guidelines were published by the CDC in 2003 and have been so effective that they haven’t needed to update them. These guidelines are known as

Medical Examiners’ and Coroners’ Handbook on Death Registration and Fetal Death Reporting & the Physicians’ Handbook on Medical Certification of Death.

1. On March 9th, the CDC admittedly knew that the highest risk and greatest number of fatalities would come from Americans over 60 WITH comorbidities, yet inexplicably did not make the data collection on this a point of emphasis nationwide. As a result, and as we have been reporting on weekly since April 5th, 2020, only 7 states are currently publishing data on comorbidities in a way that can be analyzed statistically. These states are NY, MA, PA, OK, IA, UT, GA.

If the CDC knew, then why wouldn’t they make the collection of this data a point of emphasis nationwide?

1. Instead on March 24th, the CDC decided to discard the use of the medical examiner’s, coroner’s, and physician’s handbooks that have been proven and in use for 17 years in favor of an unproven new method exclusively for COVID-19 ,that both emphasized COVID-19 reporting at the top of part 1 of death certificate reporting, while also de-emphasizing comorbidity reporting by relegating it shockingly to part 2 of the death certificate.

For context, the CDC’s 2003 Handbooks are very clear that comorbidities should be listed in part 1 of the death certificate for accurate statistical counting and any initiating/contributing factors such as an infection like the H1N1 Flu virus or the SARS-CoV-2 virus would be listed at the bottom of part 1 or more correctly in part 2.

Why such an abrupt reversal exclusively for COVID-19? And why move to a new reporting system that is unproven and was never peer-reviewed? Why do this during a crisis?

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1. On August 26th the CDC confirmed that what the COVID Research Team had estimated to be 90.2% on July 24th was actually much higher. Incredibly, 94% of all COVID-19 Fatalities have on average 2.6 comorbidities. AND IN EACH CASE THE COMORBIDITIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN LISTED IN PART 1 OF THE DEATH CERTIFICATE AS THE CAUSE OF DEATH…and COVID-19 should have been listed correctly as the initiating/contributing factor NOT THE CAUSE OF DEATH. :)

This is a crucial distinction and explains exactly why our fatality counts are so dramatically higher than all other countries in the world. As Dr. Birx said, “Unlike Some Countries, "If Someone Dies With COVID-19 We Are Counting That As A COVID-19 Death."

That means is doesn't matter if the American was over 80, had 2.6 comorbidities on average, or even died due to injuries or poisoning, as 5,133 Americans did according to the CDC. They are still going to get counted as caused by COVID-19.

And even with such unproven methods of reporting, we know that Americans under 70 have a collective 99.05% recovery rate and 5,382,345 Americans have recovered as of August 30th.

All other countries used their standard method of cause of death reporting similar to what the CDC published in their 2003 Handbooks…while the CDC dramatically changed how cause of death is reported exclusively for COVID-19.

Here’s a key excerpt from the CDC’s 2003 Medical Examiners’ and Coroners’ Handbook on Death Registration and Fetal Death Reporting.

“Because statistical data derived from death certificates can be no more accurate than the information provided on the certificate, it is very important that all persons concerned with the registration of deaths strive not only for complete registration, but also for accuracy and promptness in reporting these events.”

“The principal responsibility of the medical examiner or coroner in death registration is to complete the medical part of the death certificate.”

“The cause-of-death section consists of two parts. Part I is for reporting a chain of events leading directly to death, with the immediate cause of death (the final disease, injury, or complication directly causing death) online (a) and the underlying cause of death (the disease or injury that initiated the chain of events [SARS-CoV-2 in this case] that led directly and inevitably to death) on the lowest used line. Part II is for reporting all other significant diseases, conditions, or injuries that contributed to death but which did not result in the underlying cause of death given in Part I.”

In the presence of comorbidity, Part 2 is where H1N1 or any infective disease would likely be listed and therefore the initiating factor would not be statistically counted as a CAUSE of death, but rather something that CONTRIBUTED to death.

Compare this with key excerpts from the CDC published March 24th, 2020 COVID-19 Alert No.2 that had many medical examiners, coroner, and physicians like Senator Scott Jensen so upset in March and April.

“Will COVID-19 be the underlying cause? The underlying cause depends upon what and where conditions are reported on the death certificate. However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID19 being the underlying cause more often than not.”

“Should “COVID-19” be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test? COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. Certifiers should include as much detail as possible based on their knowledge of the case, medical records, laboratory testing, etc. If the decedent had other chronic conditions such as COPD or asthma that may have also contributed, these conditions can be reported in Part II.

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Compare this with key excerpts from the CDC published March 24th, 2020 COVID-19 Alert No.2 that had many medical examiners, coroner, and physicians like Senator Scott Jensen so upset in March and April.

“Will COVID-19 be the underlying cause? The underlying cause depends upon what and where conditions are reported on the death certificate. However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID19 being the underlying cause more often than not.”

“Should “COVID-19” be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test? COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. Certifiers should include as much detail as possible based on their knowledge of the case, medical records, laboratory testing, etc. If the decedent had other chronic conditions such as COPD or asthma that may have also contributed, these conditions can be reported in Part II. (See attached Guidance for Certifying COVID-19 Deaths)”

www.cdc.gov/…/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-…

How unscientific and illogical can the CDC be during a crisis? Telling medical examiners, coroners, and physicians that ‘COVID-19 will be the underlying cause more often than not’ AND ‘If the decedent had other chronic conditions such as COPD or asthma that may have also contributed, these conditions can be reported in Part II.’

The CDC is directly saying COVID-19 will be the CAUSE of death even if it is only presumed to be present and that comorbidities will be the CONTRIBUTING FACTOR of death even though this is in DIRECT CONFLICT with their 2003 published handbooks.

This is exhibit A for how to inflate data, control the data, and in doing so control the narrative that has created so much collateral damage in our country…I wonder how we would all feel about this if the CDC had simply used the proven system for reporting cause of death…I wonder how many jobs, small businesses, and most importantly LIVES could have been saved had they not inflated the data using unproven guidelines exclusively for COVID-19.