With little fanfare, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) removed tens of thousands of COVID-19 deaths from its online tracker this week, in the latest apparent instance of the “science” being massaged in accordance with the political needs of Democrat leadership.

The Epoch Times reports that prior to March 15, the CDC’s data tracker website “listed 1,755 children as dying from COVID-19 along with approximately 851,000 others,” but on that date “cut 416 deaths among children and over 71,000 elsewhere, arriving at a total of just under 780,000.”

“Data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error. This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories,” claimed the agency, which cautions on its website that its data is not comprehensive. Still, the timing of the revision comes as some Democrats have been retreating from politically-unpopular COVID restrictions, and fits a broader trend of downward data revisions getting less attention than more dramatic findings.

“The update is an improvement, but it’s at least the third correction to this data, and still does not solve the issue,” Kelley Krohnert, the Georgia resident who identified the latest discrepancy, told Epoch via email. “It just highlights that people have been using a flawed source of data when discussing kids and COVID.”

The downgrade follows several public statements from top government health officials this year that marked a dramatic reversal from their prior COVID warnings. In January, CDC director Rochelle Walensky explained the agency’s decision to halve the recommended isolation time for the COVID-afflicted based in part on “what we thought people would be able to tolerate.” That month, White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted that hospitals were over-counting child COVID hospitalizations, because “if a child goes to the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID, and they get counted as a COVID hospitalized individual. When in fact, they may go in for a broken leg, or appendicitis, or something like that.”

In fact, evidence has always suggested that children’s risk from COVID was exaggerated. Last summer, a team of researchers with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine “analyze[d] approximately 48,000 children under 18 diagnosed with Covid in health-insurance data from April to August 2020,” and found a “mortality rate of zero among children without a pre-existing medical condition such as leukemia.” The lead researcher, Dr. Marty Makary, accused the CDC of basing its advocacy of school COVID vaccination on “flimsy data.”

By contrast, the toll of governments acting on pre-revision COVID data has been high, with evidence suggesting that lockdowns were either ineffective at saving lives, or what benefit they offered was outweighed by associated harms.

Last March, the left-wing Associated Press admitted that in America, “California and Florida have experienced almost identical outcomes in COVID-19 case rates,” despite the former imposing some of the most draconian lockdown measures in the country and the latter remaining mostly open, and that the mortality gulf between Connecticut and South Dakota was similarly small despite the wide gulf in their approach to lockdowns.

In April 2021, Simon Fraser University economics professor Douglas Allen published a study that concluded that while lockdowns saved 22,333 years’ worth of lost life they also caused 6.3 million years of lost life, making the policy’s net long-term harm 282 times worse than its benefits, thanks to the combined toll of canceled or delayed care for other medical issues, and the psychological harm of lost jobs and social isolation, among other factors.

In October, another study by Marine Baudin, Jérémie Mercier, and Denis Rancourt attributed much of the U.S. COVID death toll to “persistent chronic psychological stress induced by the long-lasting government-imposed societal and economic transformations during the COVID-era [which] converted the existing societal (poverty), public-health (obesity) and hot-climate risk factors into deadly agents.”

Most recently, a meta-analysis published in Johns Hopkins University’s Studies in Applied Economics found that “lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality” but have “imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted.”

HD Editor’s Note: Why Is This News Biblically Relevant?

Sugeon and New Mexico Senator, Gregg Schmedes, an article published to the Federalist, “The Centers For Disease Control’s Lies Have Destroyed Its Legitimacy,” explained:

By refusing to acknowledge the harms of lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccination, the CDC has brought everlasting shame to itself. There is clear evidence these types of interventions carry measurable risk.

A better approach would have been to honestly discuss the risks and benefits with the public, much like I discuss surgical risks and benefits with my patients. This is the very tenet of informed consent, and better communication always results in a better relationship.

Americans need an unbiased, incorruptible, and credible CDC that provides reliable and scientifically sound public health guidance. These lies have de-legitimized and undermined public confidence in the institution of the CDC itself.

…The CDC must return to the basics of evidence-based medicine to overcome its crisis of legitimacy.

In 2021, Judicial watch revealed that the CDC had “coordinated closely” with Facebook and other big tech platforms to suppress information they dubbed “misinformation.”

Judicial Watch explained that the extent of the new information proves these two organizations were “colluding to control the flow of news and opinion about Covid-19.” Adding, “Is it any wonder that Americans don’t trust the CDC or Facebook to deliver accurate information?”

In a weekly Judicial Watch update, Tom Fitton, President of the watchdog organization, address this information regarding the CDC and Facebook, stating: 

“The rules are arbitrarily enforced, they’re capricious, they changed based on politics not based on ‘science’,” Fitton stated. “These are dangerous times for our civil liberties and the first amendment. The concern is that these private entities really are acting as if they’re government entities. Not just effectively but literally in the sense that they’re coordinating with the government to suppress information they don’t like.”

“You may recall the Biden administration fully endorsed that censorship and is now pushing for specific censorship by Facebook of what they consider to be misinformation or disinformation,” he explained.

“We’re not allowed to criticize anything related to covid unless ‘it’s blessed’,” Fitton concluded.

Would you be surprised to know that the Bible speaks about such corruption?

In 2 Timothy 3:1, we are told that in the last days, perilous times would come. During this time, the apostle Paul explains that people of “corrupt minds” would “despise” and “resist the truth” (2 Timothy 3:8-9).

The Bible also outlines future events, during the Tribulation period (from which the church is absent), where the “antichrist” will establish a global government, demand participation, and halt the non-compliant from being able to have the same freedoms of buying, selling, etc. as the rest of the population (Revelation 13).