Conclusion 2: “that the federal entity responsible for reporting health statistics should be firewalled from the entity setting policy due to concerns of real or perceived systematic bias in errors.”

While the US has theoretically good separation of powers between branches, something it is not good at is separation of concerns within the executive.

This is similar to how the FAA both regulates air travel and also runs ATC — a conflict of interest. Ideally the regulatory body would be separate from the ATC to remove this issue.

Edit: missing word.

If they were "errors" the balance of the errors should be evenly distributed between overstating and understating the severity.

When more than 80% of the "errors" favor an agenda, they aren't mistakes. They are propaganda.

Mask up, citizens. Comply.

Did the CDC audit their own performance? If so I'd like to see that report. If not, that's their biggest error.