{"id":13099,"date":"2022-06-29T06:25:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T11:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=13099"},"modified":"2022-06-29T06:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T11:25:28","slug":"cdc-caught-using-false-data-to-recommend-kids-covid-vaccine-the-daily-caller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/cdc-caught-using-false-data-to-recommend-kids-covid-vaccine-the-daily-caller\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Caught Using False Data To Recommend Kids\u2019 COVID Vaccine | The Daily Caller"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: CDC Caught Using False Data To Recommend Kids\u2019 COVID Vaccine | The Daily Caller<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showcased highly misleading data about the risk of COVID-19 to kids when its expert vaccine advisers voted to recommend vaccines for children under five years old.<\/p>\n

The agency featured a\u00a0pre-print study<\/a>\u00a0ranking causes of death in children when it presented data to its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) earlier this month, after which the committee\u00a0voted to recommend<\/a>\u00a0kids aged six months through four years get vaccinated for COVID-19. The study claimed to show that COVID-19 was a leading cause of death for children in the United States during the coronavirus pandemic, but observers quickly pointed out major flaws in the data which rendered it misleading.<\/p>\n

The paper ranks COVID-19 as a top six cause of death for age brackets from 0-19, including under one year old, 1-4 years old, 5-9 years old, 10-14 years old and 15-19 years old. It\u2019s unclear why the authors include 18- and 19-year-olds in pediatric data. A majority of the researchers involved in the paper are from the United Kingdom, where the age of majority is 18 in most jurisdictions.<\/p>\n

However, one misleading aspect of the paper, as first pointed out by\u00a0covid-georgia.com<\/a>, is that it ranks cumulative COVID-19 deaths alongside annual rates for other causes for death. For instance, in the 1-4 age group, the paper ranks cumulative COVID-19 deaths as the 5th leading cause of death, ahead of heart disease and influenza. But further down the list, it ranks annual COVID-19 deaths in eighth. For every single age group, the cumulative COVID-19 death rate is more than double the annualized death rate.<\/p>\n

Another big issue with the CDC data presentation is the conflation of deaths caused directly by COVID-19 versus those for which COVID-19 was just a \u201ccontributing\u201d factor. The authors state \u201cwe only consider Covid-19 as an underlying (and not contributing) cause of death,\u201d but that is false.<\/p>\n

The paper cites data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), which tabulates COVID-19 deaths by including any death certificate on which COVID-19 is mentioned, not just cases where it was the primary reason for death. The NCHS data cited by the researchers claims there have been 1,433 pediatric COVID-19 deaths through April 30, 2022. However, the\u00a0CDC\u2019s own data<\/a>, which counts only deaths where the virus was the underlying cause, reported 1,088 pediatric deaths during that time period. That\u2019s nearly 25% lower.<\/p>\n

When the data is annualized and only includes deaths where the virus was the underlying cause, COVID-19 does not rank as a leading cause of death for young children. For kids under one year old, it ranks 9th, behind influenza and pneumonia, heart disease and homicide. Accidents are about 25 times as likely to kill an infant than\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>, according to the CDC data.<\/p>\n

Among kids aged 1-4 and 5-9, COVID-19 ranked in a four-way tie for the 8th leading cause of death. For ages 10-14 it ranked in a two-way tie for 8th. For teenagers between 15 and 19 years old, it dropped in the cause of death ranking from 4th to 6th.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0CDC<\/a>\u00a0did not respond to multiple requests for comment when asked why it presented this misleading data and how that study made it though the agency\u2019s rigorous review process. The FDA did respond after multiple attempts at contact, stating that \u201cFDA speakers in the June 14-15th meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) did not cite the study in question in their presentations. FDA\u2019s press release announcing the authorizations explains the basis for our determinations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: CDC Caught Using False Data To Recommend Kids\u2019 COVID Vaccine | The Daily Caller The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showcased highly misleading data about the risk of COVID-19 to kids when its expert vaccine advisers voted to recommend vaccines for children under five years old. The agency featured a\u00a0pre-print study\u00a0ranking causes … Continue reading CDC Caught Using False Data To Recommend Kids\u2019 COVID Vaccine | The Daily Caller<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,4,29,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13101,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions\/13101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}