Florida Health Department: CDC Altered State’s COVID-19 Death Data

Health care workers tend to a patient in a January 2021 file photo. Ariana Drehsler/AFP/Getty Images

The Florida Department of Health (DOH) alleged Friday that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) erroneously changed the state’s COVID-19 data without contacting the agency and didn’t respond to calls to correct the problem.

Jeremy Redfern, press secretary for the state health agency, said that the DOH transmits COVID-19 data, including deaths, to the CDC several times per week.