From June 6, 2022 the CDC’s The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) cause of death coding system began a system-wide upgrade, which required a temporary suspension of routine NVSS surveillance reporting. The upgrade required all 2022 death records to be reprocessed into the new system. [1] The timing is interesting!
The updated cause of death coding system, known as MedCoder, can handle a greater proportion of these records: It currently codes 85 percent of records automatically, and with continued improvements [through machine learning], “has the potential to code better than 90 percent of records,” [2, 4, 5]
The upgrade were expected to resume week 24 (i.e. last for 2 weeks) but it lasted 8 weeks until August 3, 2022 – having reorganised and lowers death codes – to artificially make the vaccines look better and COVID-19 look worse?! [6]
The CDC states: CDC’s Data Modernization Initiative supports artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and other powerful solutions for large or complex data. These solutions can help us maximize insights from our data and systems and use those insights to drive public health action.” [3] The modernization initiative can be tracked back to a September 2019 white paper.