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." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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