The novel coronavirus continues to remain in the spotlight these days. Now, it seems that the CDC is also making headlines in relation to covid data that they have recently revealed.
A recent headline from New Yor Times reveals the fact that CDC allegedly hid covid 19-related data for political reasons, Here’s what EPPC notes:
According to a recent headline from The New York Times, “the CDC isn’t publishing large portions of the COVID data it collects.” That headline downplays what the article in fact reveals:
“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.”
The article says when the Centers for Disease Control “published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65…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.”
Hiding covid related data
“The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public,” according to the Times. The publication continued and said: “because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.”
It seems that the CDC unexpectedly decided to publish data on the risks of hospitalizations and death from unvaccinated and vaccinated Americans with and without boosters. But they did this in a manner that obscured younger individuals’ overall covid risks which are really low. They did not force a comparison between the vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals’ hospitalization.
It’s been also revealed that the exact data about Covid risks by specific age has not been released in any graphical or easily viewable from anywhere.
“This rationale for deliberately hiding government-collected effectiveness data was even confirmed by the CDC’s spokeswoman, Kristen Nordlund,” EPPC notes. They did not want to offer the full picture of vaccine effectiveness—for their own good, EPPC noted.