Report: CDC Withheld Data on COVID Hospitalizations, Breakthrough Infections
- Report: CDC Withheld Data on COVID Hospitalizations, Breakthrough Infections
by The “Trust the Science” official narrative has just taken another blow. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has kept reams of its COVID-related data under wraps for more than a year because it did not trust the public to interpret the information correctly (among other reasons), The New York Times reported Sunday. Per the report,
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Two full years into the pandemic, the agency leading the country’s response to the public health emergency has published only a tiny fraction of the data it has collected, several people familiar with the data said.
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Among the data being withheld from Americans is a breakdown of COVID hospitalizations by age, race, and vaccination status. The agency also did not report on such findings as the efficacy of booster shots in 18- to 49-year-olds, “the group least likely to benefit from extra shots, because the first two doses already left them well-protected,” even though it collected the information, said the article.
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CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund told the newspaper that the agency’s data priority has been to collect “accurate and actionable” information. Some of the data has been made public, she explained, because “it’s not yet ready for prime time,” presumably meaning that some portion of the information has not been properly verified.
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Nordlund added that the “fear that the information might be misinterpreted” also influenced the CDC’s decision not to publicize all the data. An anonymous CDC official reiterated the concern: “The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public, the official said, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.”
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For example, when the delta strain of COVID arrived in the United States, the heavily vaccinated state of Massachusetts saw three-quarters of all fresh COVID infections occurring in fully vaccinated people. That fact could make people “mistakenly” conclude that “vaccines were powerless against the virus — validating the CDC’s concerns.”
In somewhat confusing verbiage, the article states that “that could have been avoided if the agency had educated the public from the start that as more people are vaccinated, the percentage of vaccinated people who are infected or hospitalized would also rise, public health experts said.”
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Huh? What kind of vaccine would see people who take it catching the virus and landing in the hospital? Well, the “leaky” kind that does not prevent transmission, obviously. By September 2021, the CDC had quietly admitted that the COVID shots used in America neither “prevent disease” nor “provide immunity.”
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