National Center for Health Statistics
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National Center for Health Statistics is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 10, 2024 and May 22, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “data-processing protocols used by the National Center for Health Statistics for pregnancy-related checkbox deaths”; “from the National Center For Health Statistics”; “Is it possible that the CDC and National Center For Health Statistics are lying about all-cause mortality patterns?“. It most often appears alongside CDC, “Most Drugs Are Bad For You”, 1123581321.
Metadata
- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 10, 2024
- Last seen: May 22, 2025
Appears In
- Highlights From The Comments On Hanson And Health Care
- The Evidence That A Million Americans Died Of COVID
Related Pages
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- CDC (2 shared issues)
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- “Most Drugs Are Bad For You” (1 shared issues)
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- 1123581321 (1 shared issues)
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- 2022 ACX survey (1 shared issues)
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- California (1 shared issues)
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- Canada (1 shared issues)
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- CATO Unbound (1 shared issues)
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- census.gov (1 shared issues)
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- Centers for Disease Control (1 shared issues)
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- childhood Medicaid coverage (1 shared issues)
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- Cochrane Review (1 shared issues)
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- COVID (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
» "However, these figures are completely wrong, and they have been known to be wrong for many years now. The U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, the branch of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) charged with collating health and vital statistics, has published three separate reports elaborating in excruciating detail on one crucial fact about U.S. maternal mortality: It is measured in a vastly more expansive way than anywhere else in the world.
» In 2018, further modifications were made to the data-processing protocols used by the National Center for Health Statistics for pregnancy-related checkbox deaths, leading to more thorough inclusion of them. The result was a massive but gradual artificial inflation of maternal mortality.
It was higher. This is via census.gov, from the National Center For Health Statistics:
Inline links: via census.gov
Is it possible that the CDC and National Center For Health Statistics are lying about all-cause mortality patterns? Seems unlikely, because individual states reporting separately found similar patterns, and so did the other countries that reported data. This would take a truly global conspiracy.
Inline links: individual states, the other countries
From the CDC, via the White House, correlation between reported COVID-19 deaths and excess deaths throughout the pandemic:
Inline links: via the White House