The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects
The agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations and, until recently, wastewater analyses.
“For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status. But it has not made most of the information public.”
“When the C.D.C. published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65 two weeks ago, it left out the numbers for a huge portion of that population: 18- to 49-year-olds, the group least likely to benefit from extra shots, because the first two doses already left them well-protected.”
“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.
Much of the withheld information could help state and local health officials better target their efforts to bring the virus under control. Detailed, timely data on hospitalizations by age and race would help health officials identify and help the populations at highest risk. Information on hospitalizations and death by age and vaccination status would have helped inform whether healthy adults needed booster shots. And wastewater surveillance across the nation would spot outbreaks and emerging variants early.
Without the booster data for 18- to 49-year-olds, the outside experts whom federal health agencies look to for advice had to rely on numbers from Israel to make their recommendations on the shots. (After several inquiries from The New York Times about the booster data for that age group, the agency posted it on its website Thursday night.)”
Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/health/pfizer-vaccine-kids.html
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Have I not been saying, over and over, to anyone who would listen and no few who won't, that the first and foremost casualty of this embarrassing 'covid' scare, from its emergence over two years ago, has been the credibility of humanity's three most relied-upon sources of information: governments, media and the sciences?
Haven't I????!!!!
Why should we have taken our president's warnings of a troop buildup seriously? What credibility did he, his party, or the entire federal establishment, have remaining by then which would have anyone believe these remarks were anything other than more hollow posturing and advantage-seeking over domestic politics, such as has been the consistent approach and motivation for pretty much ALL output of information from governments, media and the sciences for long enough now that it is a fool's errand to take anything any of them says at face value?
The silly thing is now, a few days into this new era, following twenty-two years of appalling flippancy in the entire conduct of human affairs which I have long called the Century of Stupid, the cure for this 'covid' mania all along was simply a better news story coming along to consume us anew. I have been saying that too, all along. So has our host here.
The difference being, this one is real.
Recess done ended, humanity. At long last. Big-kid pants time now.