CDC is refusing to publish data it has collected on booster effectiveness for 33 MILLION Americans aged 18-49 over fears it might show the vaccines as ineffective: FDA expert tells CDC to 'tell the truth'
- Two weeks ago the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published data about the effectiveness of boosters against COVID-19
- The CDC failed to publish a tranche of their data, however - omitting the impact on those aged 18-49, who are least likely to benefit from boosters
- The CDC are also being criticized for failing to publish their information about child hospitalization rates and comorbidities
- A spokeswoman for the CDC said they were concerned that the data would be misinterpreted, pointing out that it was incomplete and not verified
- Critics said that it was always better to publish the information rather than withhold, and allow scientists to analyze and explain what they could
Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the C.D.C., 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.”
Another reason is fear that the information might be misinterpreted, Ms. Nordlund said.
But the C.D.C. has been routinely collecting information since the Covid vaccines were first rolled out last year, according to a federal official familiar with the effort. The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public, the official said, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.
Ms. Nordlund confirmed that as one of the reasons. Another reason, she said, is that the data represents only 10 percent of the population of the United States. But the C.D.C. has relied on the same level of sampling to track influenza for years.
Some outside public health experts were stunned to hear that information exists.
“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 Covid Tracking Project, an independent effort that compiled data on the pandemic till March 2021.
A detailed analysis, she said, “builds public trust, and it paints a much clearer picture of what’s actually going on.”
Concern about the misinterpretation of hospitalization data broken down by vaccination status is not unique to the C.D.C. On Thursday, public health officials in Scotland said they would stop releasing data on Covid hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status because of similar fears that the figures would be misrepresented by anti-vaccine groups.
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https://tantotempo.hatenablog.com/entry/2022/02/23/024624
2022-02-23
日本人を含む48人のトップ科学者が機能獲得研究の禁止を要求。
”潜在的絶滅”:48人のトップグローバル科学者が宣言に署名 ── ファウチの「機能の利益」研究の禁止を要求
48人のトップ科学者が、世界人口の大部分の絶滅に通じるアントニー・ファウチ博士の致命的な「機能獲得研究」の世界的禁止を呼びかけている。特にMERSやエボラ出血熱のような致死性の高いウイルスの研究が進行中であるため、科学者たちは心配しており、このようなパンデミックとなる可能性のある研究に「世界中のどのバイオテクノロジー研究所も十分に安全ではない」と述べている。
この「ハンブルグ宣言」に3名の日本人が名を連ねている。
荒川央氏 イタリア分子腫瘍研究所 荒川氏のブログ
掛谷英紀氏 筑波大学理工学研究科教授 掛谷 英紀(カケヤ ヒデキ; Kakeya, Hideki) | TRIOS (tsukuba.ac.jp)
四ノ宮 成祥 防衛医科大学校教授 四ノ宮 成祥 (Nariyoshi Shinomiya) - マイポータル - researchmap
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