CDC Refusing To Publish Data on Booster Jab Over ‘Fears It Might Show Vaccine Is Ineffective’

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is withholding huge swathes of data it holds about the impact of Covid-19 and vaccinations over fears the publication of the information might convince the public that some vaccines are ineffective, according to members of the scientific community.

Two weeks ago, the CDC finally published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults.

But the CDC did not share the information on those aged 18-49, who are considered to be the least likely to benefit from a booster.

The CDC has also failed to provide information they held on the effect of Covid-19 on children, including data regarding child hospitalizations, scientists complained.

DailyMail report: Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the CDC, said the agency has been slow to release the different streams of data ‘because basically, at the end of the day, it’s not yet ready for prime time.’

She said the agency’s ‘priority when gathering any data is to ensure that it’s accurate and actionable,’ and told The New York Times that they were concerned it might be misinterpreted to show the vaccines were ineffective.

She also said that they were reluctant to publish the data because it represents only 10 percent of the population of the United States – accounting for 33 million people – the same sample size the CDC has used to track influenza for years.

The 18-49 year old age group is considered least likely to benefit from the booster, given that death rates among the age group are already low. It is far more likely for the elderly and immunocompromised to get sick without their booster than healthy young and middle aged people.

Boosters became available for children aged 12 and upwards only last month, and so would not be covered by the dataset. 

As of Monday, 65 percent of Americans are fully vaccinated. 

There were 103,150 new cases reported nationwide, on a seven day rolling average – a dramatic decrease from January, when there were regularly over 700,000 new cases a day.  

Outraged scientists stressed that publishing the data went hand in hand with educating the public about vaccines – explaining that as more people are vaccinated, the percentage of vaccinated people who are infected or hospitalized would also rise. 

They urged the CDC to publish the information.

‘Tell the truth, present the data,’ said Dr Paul Offit, a vaccine expert and adviser to the Food and Drug Administration.

‘I have to believe that there is a way to explain these things so people can understand it.’

He noted that, because the CDC had not published the information, American scientists were forced to rely on Israeli data.

‘There’s no reason that they should be better at collecting and putting forth data than we were,’ he said.

‘The CDC is the principal epidemiological agency in this country, and so you would like to think the data came from them.’

Another expressed shock that the CDC had the data at all.

‘We have been begging for that sort of granularity of data for two years,’ said Jessica Malaty Rivera, an epidemiologist and part of the team that ran the Covid Tracking Project, which brought together data on the pandemic for a website they ran until March 2021.

She denied that there was a risk of the data being misinterpreted, adding that it instead ‘builds public trust, and it paints a much clearer picture of what’s actually going on.’

She added: ‘It gets really exhausting when you see the private sector working faster than the premier public health agency of the world.’

Dr Yvonne Maldonado, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’s Committee on Infectious Diseases, said that she had requested from the CDC data on the proportion of children hospitalized for COVID who have other medical conditions.

She eventually found the information she needed thanks to a New York Times report.

‘They’ve known this for over a year and a half, right, and they haven’t told us,’ she said.

I mean, you can’t find out anything from them.’

Part of the problem is that the CDC computer systems are outdated.

The agency recently received $1 billion which will help it modernize its technology and process the data faster.

Among the first to benefit will be a program that analyzes wastewater, telling scientists when there has been an outbreak of COVID even before tests confirm the news.

Wastewater provided the presence of the Delta variant far before testing of individuals.

At present, 31 states have their data on the dashboard: the CDC hope to have the rest up later on this year.

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry is a writer at The People's Voice. He covers politics, business and entertainment. Speaking truth to power since he learned to talk, Baxter has travelled in over 80 countries and won arguments in every single one. Live without fear.
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3 Comments

  1. obviously the vaccines are ineffective at stopping C19, but they will be effective at reducing your health and causeing early death.

  2. Science is based on observation. Here’s an example Western Australia’s health mo isterz told the gove to lock the state up tight as a drum No one on no one out borders guarded like Fort know and no intra state movement either Everyone locked in their commune cells or regions Basically zero covid and all congratulating themselves on being very clever Then they started the jabbathon marathon Still locked up Now after 22 months of pushing vaccines the states swarming with covid Still locked up. Join the dots.

    • And just now the “government” aka health ministers office, has just released data stating that they expect, now after mass vaccination, to have 464, 000 cases of covid in the next 2 months. The cities only about 1 million. The whole entire States only just over 2.
      They’ve done well haven’t they.

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