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Scientists Reveal How the CDC Repeatedly Spread COVID-19 Misinformation in New Report

@COVID19Up: In a recent preprint report from the University of California, San Francisco, epidemiologist Vinay Prasad and three colleagues reveal the CDC repeatedly trafficked in the kinds of specious, disproven, and demonstrably wrong falsehoods that these agencies purportedly sought to stomp out.

According to Prasad and his co-authors, this spread of misinformation by the CDC is especially problematic given the number of people and institutions that “rely on the CDC for trusted information.”

“Many universities, healthcare facilities, day cares, churches, businesses, schools, sports programs, and camps defer to CDC guidance for COVID-19 precautions,” they noted.

However, in their report, Prasad and his colleagues documented 25 instances of the CDC disseminating demonstrably incorrect information. Twenty of these instances, they claimed, “exaggerated the severity of the COVID-19 situation.”

“The errors we identified include basic facts like the number of children who have died, and the ranking of COVID-19 among causes of pediatric death,” they wrote. “These errors have been made repeatedly and were likely to have affected discussion of pandemic policies.”

Source:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/cdc-repeatedly-spread-covid-misinformation-researchers-say