According to a new bombshell report from The Washington Post, which could be fake news since it’s WaPo, the White House Coronavirus Task Force response administrator doubt the CDC’s numbers — vehemently so.
Allegedly, there were roiling disputes over the data used by the government to track the virus as well as over possible therapeutics.
INFLATED BY 25%
Dr. Deborah Birx reportedly said she can’t trust numbers coming from the CDC during a heated dispute at a Wednesday meeting.
“During a task force meeting Wednesday, a heated discussion broke out between Deborah Birx, the physician who oversees the administration’s coronavirus response, and Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Birx and others were frustrated with the CDC’s antiquated system for tracking virus data, which they worried was inflating some statistics — such as mortality rate and case count — by as much as 25 percent, according to four people present for the discussion or later briefed on it. Two senior administration officials said the discussion was not heated,” the newspaper reported.
“There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust,” Birx reportedly said, according to two of the people.
“The flare-up came two days after it was reported that an internal government model, based on data from the CDC and other agencies, projected the daily death count would rise to 3,000 by June 1,” the newspaper noted.
Redfield defended his agency, but there was general agreement that the CDC is in need of a digital upgrade.
Birx said in a statement: “Mortality is slowly declining each day. To keep with this trend, it is essential that seniors and those with comorbidities shelter in place and that we continue to protect vulnerable communities.”
That assertion is contrary to Johns Hopkins data, which shows U.S. daily deaths hovering close to 2,000 most days for several weeks now, and climbing higher some days last week.
We don’t trust Johns Hopkins either but it’s not necessarily their fault. Their numbers are only as good as the numbers they are being fed.
Their numbers and their charts from the IMF and IHME have been a complete joke from the first.
25%? That little? If you’re dying from something anyway and they find you have or have had the virus, it’s counted as a Covid-19 dearh. Re: reopening the nation. Have you noticed the Blue states were all over Trump’s butt because, in their warped minds, he didn’t quaranteen the nation sooner? Now they defy orders of their Govenors and Trump… Read more »
Could it have something to do with CDC’s specific Covid deaths at about 47,000 on their website, but give a total of over 70.000. Updated as of May 8.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
But on another page it is updated May 10 with a figure of 78,000.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
This experience shows the dangers of doing something for the FIRST TIME EVER! You don’t know if whatever data you have is “trustable”, you don’t know if advice you are given is “solid” and you are operating in a high-stress unknown situation, to make decisions that you know when you make them will be criticized no matter what you decide.… Read more »
“…Birx and others were frustrated with the CDC’s antiquated system for tracking virus data, which they worried was inflating some statistics — such as mortality rate and case count — by as much as 25 percent…” Ha ha ha! Birx and Fauci are in it up to their necks! They’re WITH the CDC, not against them. Their the ones using… Read more »
The crying “wolf, wolf, wolf” is no longer working. Folks have been seeing through the kung flu mortality rates for a while now. With the knowledge that the CDC directed all deaths with even the hint of the covid19 virus involved, be reported as caused by the virus. Brix, the scarf lady, is breaking with the pack? Wants to report… Read more »
Brix and Fauci are slow, but at least Brix is trying to be more honest.
That’s a joke, right? Honesty is admitting what you’re doing BEFORE you get caught.
she’s just trying to get out from under her own perfidy in this travesty. She and Faulty were the ones who brought that insane 2.2 million deaths forecast to the President, well knowing that Ferguson was a liar and fabulist who had made many outrageous death predictions in the past.
Shades of Miss Piggy, “Moi??”
The death rates are inflated by 75% or more, she is being rather generous with her “25%”. Italy`s Minister of Health reviewed their deaths and found only 12% actually died from the CCP virus.
What they are trying to hide is the fact that there are way more cases and fewer actual deaths….which means this was all a farce.