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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Oliver O'Connell

Official US Covid death tracker added hundreds of child fatalities due to ‘coding error’

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed 72,277 deaths, including those of 416 children, from its official US Covid-19 Data Tracker.

The tracker has been posting real-time data collected from more than two dozen state health departments since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic in April 2020.

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