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. Last week, the CDC removed 72,277 COVID-19 deaths from its nationwide tracker after discovering a so-called “coding logic error” that counted deaths from 26 states that weren’t linked to COVID-19, the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. As a result, the CDC tracker’s all-time tally reported childhood deaths from COVID-19 dropped 24 percent after the switch. However, Redfern told the National Review that the CDC made a mistake when it removed those death figures. Of the 72,277 COVID-19 deaths that were removed by the agency, about 20,000 were Florida deaths that the …