Tech News - TL;DR US’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) over counted deaths by 72,000 due to a coding error It had two questions “Has the person died from illness”, and “Date of Death”. If the user has provided the date of death but answered No to the first question, the system assumed that it is an error on part of the user, and switched the first answer to “Yes”.
March 27 2022
March 27 2022
March 27 2022
Tech News - TL;DR US’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) over counted deaths by 72,000 due to a coding error It had two questions “Has the person died from illness”, and “Date of Death”. If the user has provided the date of death but answered No to the first question, the system assumed that it is an error on part of the user, and switched the first answer to “Yes”.