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Just the News
Navy lieutenant investigated after questioning accuracy of DOD medical database on social media
Lt. Ted Macie is seeking answers regarding the significant increases in potential vaccine injuries and other reported incidents in the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database.
Published: December 18, 2023 11:38pm
Updated: December 19, 2023 2:03pm
A Navy whistleblower is being investigated after posting a video on social media about irregularities in the Defense Department’s medical database.
Lieutenant Edward “Ted” Macie, who serves in the Navy Medical Service Corps, is under investigation after he posted a video of himself in uniform on the social media platform “X” a couple of weeks ago discussing irregularities in DOD medical billing data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), according to his lawyer, R. Davis Younts.
DMED is the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch’s (AFHSB) “web-based tool to remotely query de-identified active component personnel and medical event data contained within the Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS),” according to the Defense Health Agency.
The database contains every International Classification of Diseases (ICD) medical billing code for all medical diagnoses submitted by the military for medical insurance billing.
Macie was eventually told to take the video down, which he did, Younts told Just the News last week.
However, on Wednesday, Macie was informed that he is suspected of violating Uniform Code of Military Justice Articles 92, Failure to Obey an Order, and 133, Conduct Unbecoming an Officer, according to his wife, Mara Macie.
She told Just the News that his Miranda rights were listed on the form titled, “Department of The Navy Military Suspect’s Acknowledgement and Waiver of Rights,” which stated the basis of the investigation.
According to Younts, however Macie has not been informed as to specifically what actions he allegedly committed that are being investigated.
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https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/navy-whistleblower-investigated-after-sharing-video-dod-medical
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By Jeff Cercone January 31, 2022
U.S. military members experienced concerning spikes in miscarriages, cancer and other serious health issues in 2021, according to an Instagram post that grabbed attention with a big red “SOS” image attached.
The Jan. 28 post referenced the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, or DMED, saying, “there has been a 300% increase in DMED codes registered for miscarriages in the military in 2021 over the five-year average.” The five-year average was 1,499 codes for miscarriages per year, the post said, and there were 4,182 such codes for the first 10 months of 2021. There was an almost 300% increase in cancer diagnoses and a 1,000% increase in neurological issues, the post says.
But these figures are wrong. They resulted from a glitch in the database, a military spokesperson said.
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But Peter Graves, spokesperson for the Defense Health Agency’s Armed Forces Surveillance Division, told PolitiFact by email that “in response to concerns mentioned in news reports” the division reviewed data in the DMED “and found that the data was incorrect for the years 2016-2020.”
Officials compared numbers in the DMED with source data in the DMSS and found that the total number of medical diagnoses from those years “represented only a small fraction of actual medical diagnoses.” The 2021 numbers, however, were up-to-date, giving the “appearance of significant increased occurrence of all medical diagnoses in 2021 because of the underreported data for 2016-2020,” Graves said.
The DMED system has been taken offline to “identify and correct the root-cause of the data corruption,” Graves said.
Our ruling
An Instagram post said that miscarriages among military members were up 300% in 2021 over a five-year average, and that cancer diagnoses were up 300% and neurological disorders were up 1000%.
However, the numbers used to compute the five-year average were greatly underreported, giving the false impression of a significant increase in 2021, a spokesperson for the Armed Forces Surveillance Division said.
The database has been taken down to identify and correct the problem.
We rate this claim False.
Our Sources
Email interview with Peter Graves, spokesperson for the Defense Health Agency’s Armed Forces Surveillance Division, Jan. 31, 2022
Military Health System, “Defense Medical Epidemiology Database“
Sen. Ron Johnson, “COVID-19: A Second Opinion,” Jan. 24, 2022
Blaze Media, “Horowitz: Whistleblowers share DOD medical data that blows vaccine safety debate wide open,” Jan. 26, 2022
Just the News, “Whistleblower bombshell: DOD medical data reveals surges in oft-cited vax ‘adverse events’ in 2021,” Jan. 26, 2022
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