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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMostly concerned about his re-election image, Trump demands the CDC dial down its death counts
https://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trump-pushes-cdc-to-dial-down-covid-death-countsThough he has previously publicly attested to the accuracy of the COVID-19 death count, the president in recent weeks has privately raised suspicion about the number of fatalities in the United States, which recently eclipsed 80,000 recorded deaths. In talks with top officials, Trump has suggested that those numbers could have been incorrectly tallied or even inflated by current methodology, two individuals with knowledge of those private comments said.
The White House has pressed the CDC, in particular, to work with states to change how they count coronavirus deaths and report them back to the federal government, according to two officials with knowledge of those conversations. And Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the administrations coronavirus task force, has urged CDC officials to exclude from coronavirus death-count reporting some of those individuals who either do not have confirmed lab results and are presumed positive or who have the virus and may not have died as a direct result of it, according to three senior administration officials.
Officials inside the CDC, five of whom spoke to The Daily Beast, said they are pushing back against that request, claiming it could falsely skew the mortality rate at a time when state and local governments are already struggling to ensure that every person who dies as a result of the coronavirus is counted. Scientists and doctors working with the task force, including Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have said the U.S. death-toll count is likely higher than is being reflected in government data sets. And several local officials in hot spot areas said theyve seen hundreds if not thousands more deaths over the last two months than in the same time period over the last several years. They presume many of those individuals contracted the coronavirus.
I dont worry about this overreporting issue, Bob Anderson, the chief of the Mortality Statistics Branch in CDCs National Center for Health Statistics, told The Daily Beast. Andersons team is in charge of aggregating, calculating, and reporting coronavirus deaths for the agency. Were almost certainly underestimating the number of deaths (in the country)
shockey80
(4,379 posts)Trump mental illness may be reaching a breaking point.
LuckyCharms
(17,463 posts)as "Unstable Covfefe" until further notice,
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)If you don't like the facts, just change them.
malaise
(269,219 posts)is still only thinking about himself.
I didn't know I could feel this intense hatred for anyone or anything.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)A real conundrum for the media: Do you listen to Trump and support his self-serving lies, or do you listen to the professionals who operate in an environment of facts and reality? On the one hand, fewer people will get infected and die, but on the other hand, you won't be on the receiving end of a mean tweet from Trump. Think, think.
live love laugh
(13,161 posts)Per the CDC web page are tens of thousands lower than the daily tally Americans hear.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)live love laugh
(13,161 posts)Mariana
(14,861 posts)If one actually reads the notes on this page, one would find that it says:
*Data during this period are incomplete because of the lag in time between when the death occurred and when the death certificate is completed, submitted to NCHS and processed for reporting purposes. This delay can range from 1 week to 8 weeks or more, depending on the jurisdiction, age, and cause of death.
and so on.
The definition of the word provisional is: arranged or existing for the present, possibly to be changed later.
Kid Berwyn
(14,992 posts)Progressive dog
(6,921 posts)lie about the deaths is that no one reported on it sooner. It probably began when Dr. Birx became a supporting actor at the fantasy show that Trump was running.