Fact check: new WHO ICD10 data codes include new category: 'underimmunization'.
Astonishingly, this unsettling story is true, however the codes are not new this year or last year. The truth is actually slightly more nuanced - these codes go back to 2016/17. Covid-19 has clearly been added to the codes last year, however.
Unacceptable Jessica’s substack alerted me to this story, and there is this article by Harvey Risch on the Brownstone Institute website.
ICD10 is the 10th iteration of the WHO international data codes for health.
https://web.archive.org/web/20121104064222/http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/factsheet/en/
Key Facts (from the WHO fact fact sheet on ICD).
The ICD is the global health information standard for mortality and morbidity statistics.
ICD is increasingly used in clinical care and research to define diseases and study disease patterns, as well as manage health care, monitor outcomes and allocate resources.
More than 100 countries use the system to report mortality data, a primary indicator of health status. This system helps to monitor death and disease rates worldwide and measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
About 70% of the world’s health expenditures (USD $ 3.5 billion) are allocated using ICD for reimbursement and resource allocation
ICD has been translated into 43 languages.
Underimmunization Status.
Here is the current page, with the links below. Underimmunization status????
https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/Z00-Z99/Z20-Z29/Z28-
Here it is on the CDC website apparently in April 2022 - and does mention Covid:
However the November 2022 version doesn’t mention Covid, and looking at the versions, the codes apparently go back to 2016/17. What was weird was that I couldn’t do the click back on the dates at the top, I had to click in the capture chart to get these ones - very strange.
I don’t know what’s going on here, but the codes go back to 2016.
Thank you very much. I thought I might note here that Z28.1 Immunization not carried out because...of..group pressure.
As opposed to "Immunization carried out because...of...group pressure." I remove the word 'not'.
Here are some people volunteering to be vaccinated because of group pressure.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/02/01/covid-19-memes/