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This was written a few days ago, so it's fairly currrent:
A popular catchphrase this past summer is that COVID is, âa pandemic among the unvaccinated.â President Biden told this to America on August 18. Joe was late to the party as CDC Director Rochelle Walensky warned of this a month earlier. Big media parroted this catchy slogan with little question. Is it true? Is it based on science or simply a push to scare and shame the unvaccinated into taking the vaccine?
By simply perusing the news, one can draw a far different conclusion, that we are instead seeing a âpandemic of the vaccinated.â In Israel, âOne of the most vaccinated countries in the world has this week seen its highest number of coronavirus cases ever.â And these cases are not mild. Instead, a majority of hospitalized patients are in serious condition with close to 15 percent on ventilators. In a country with over 80 percent of adults vaccinated, this is clearly not a âpandemic of the unvaccinated.â Instead, it's the opposite, going from the model of how to manage the coronavirus to the global hot spot.
[WTF?]
It is not just Israel. The Washington Post asks, âIceland has been a vaccination success. Why is it seeing a coronavirus surge?â And this phenomenon has not eluded America.
Cornell University, my alma mater, also has a âpandemic of the vaccinated.â The College Fix reports, âDespite 95% vaccination rate, Cornell today has five times more COVID cases than it did this time last year.â Which leads to obvious questions about vaccine efficacy.
www.thecollegefix.com
This catchphrase may have originated with another statistic making the rounds in America, also with little scrutiny by the media or medical establishment. This is the assertion that, â95% of people currently hospitalized for COVID-19 are unvaccinated.â
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About that 95 percent number, the fact-checkers say yes, it is true. Does anyone fact-check the fact-checkers? Letâs take a closer look at this figure.
Either missed or ignored by the âfact-checkersâ is that this 95 percent number is not based on what is happening now or in the past few months, but includes data going back to January and ending months ago, a biased data set. The Kaiser Family Foundation published a chart, listing each state, reporting vaccination and hospitalization data beginning anywhere from mid-December or mid-January through anywhere from May through July. These are not âcurrentâ real-time numbers.
First vaccinations began in mid- to late-December, and those were few. I, as one of the few, receiving my first dose before Christmas. The CDC definition of fully vaccinated includes those at least two weeks beyond their recommended one or two doses, depending on which vaccine.
By this definition, less than 1 percent of individuals would be âfully vaccinatedâ by the end of January when states began tracking breakthrough infections. But the clock was already ticking and the only people hospitalized had to be unvaccinated, beginning to skew the data.
Why is this important? No one was fully vaccinated when reporting began and every hospitalization in January would be classified as âunvaccinated.â
Then coincidently, or not, the CDC stopped counting breakthrough cases among the vaccinated in mid-May, a time when only a third of Americans were fully vaccinated.
As reported by Politico,
The agency said in May that it would stop routinely tracking so-called breakthrough infections that didn't lead to hospitalization or death. Several states then stopped tracking mild breakthrough cases, and at least two states told POLITICO they are having trouble reliably tracking infections in vaccinated people.
Mild cases can become severe. If not tracking them, such progression will be missed, and not recorded. A medical internship axiom is, âIf you donât check a temperature, you canât find a fever.â The CDC version is if you donât count hospitalizations of the vaccinated, you wonât find any cases.
[So I should trust the CDC and believe what they tell me?]
The 95 percent metric is falsely high because when the data were collected, few were vaccinated and, by necessity, the majority of those hospitalized were unvaccinated. Then breakthrough cases were no longer counted, yet states continued to collect data for another month or two. If breakthrough cases were being ignored, then only unvaccinated cases were counted, falsely creating that 95 percent figure.
A Detroit newspaper headline screamed, â98% of Michigan COVID-19 cases are from unvaccinatedâ yet buried in the article is the measurement period, âbetween Jan 15 and July 21.â There is no discussion of the fact that during the measurement period, most Michiganders had not yet been vaccinated and most of those hospitalized during that time period were by default unvaccinated. Were they even recording breakthrough cases after mid-May when the CDC stopped counting?
www.metrotimes.com
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The problem is when data are cherry-picked to present a pre-determined narrative. That is when science turns into propaganda. As the Seattle Times noted of the 95 percent figure, a âmisguided and dangerous statement.â Going further saying, âBut itâs not that simple and to oversimplify by calling it a âpandemic of the unvaccinatedâ will only make the problem worse.â
www.seattletimes.com
Vaccine hesitancy does not lie along political divisions. Interestingly blacks, Hispanics, and those with Ph.D.s are among the most vaccine-hesitant. When people see the vaccinated getting sick and dying around the world, there is hesitancy. When we were told that vaccination is the path to a return to normalcy, and instead we are going back to last year, there is hesitancy.
www.americanthinker.com
Just about everything is politicized these days. Who the hell can we trust? Certainly not anyone in gov't, including the CDC. They've said one thing, then walked it back and said something else, and then changed back. The Media? Please. They're not paid to tell the truth, they're paid to sell papers and get clicks. You read something and then a day later you find out it's bullshit. However, we certainly do have a pandemic; but it's a pandemic of distrust, where truth and integrity are rare and getting more and more scarce.
A popular catchphrase this past summer is that COVID is, âa pandemic among the unvaccinated.â President Biden told this to America on August 18. Joe was late to the party as CDC Director Rochelle Walensky warned of this a month earlier. Big media parroted this catchy slogan with little question. Is it true? Is it based on science or simply a push to scare and shame the unvaccinated into taking the vaccine?
By simply perusing the news, one can draw a far different conclusion, that we are instead seeing a âpandemic of the vaccinated.â In Israel, âOne of the most vaccinated countries in the world has this week seen its highest number of coronavirus cases ever.â And these cases are not mild. Instead, a majority of hospitalized patients are in serious condition with close to 15 percent on ventilators. In a country with over 80 percent of adults vaccinated, this is clearly not a âpandemic of the unvaccinated.â Instead, it's the opposite, going from the model of how to manage the coronavirus to the global hot spot.
[WTF?]
It is not just Israel. The Washington Post asks, âIceland has been a vaccination success. Why is it seeing a coronavirus surge?â And this phenomenon has not eluded America.
Cornell University, my alma mater, also has a âpandemic of the vaccinated.â The College Fix reports, âDespite 95% vaccination rate, Cornell today has five times more COVID cases than it did this time last year.â Which leads to obvious questions about vaccine efficacy.
Despite 95% vaccination rate, Cornell today has five times more COVID cases than it did this time last year | The College Fix
ANALYSIS: If the goal is to prevent infection, the 95 percent vaccination rate on Cornellâs campus has not accomplished that.
www.thecollegefix.com
This catchphrase may have originated with another statistic making the rounds in America, also with little scrutiny by the media or medical establishment. This is the assertion that, â95% of people currently hospitalized for COVID-19 are unvaccinated.â
.
.
About that 95 percent number, the fact-checkers say yes, it is true. Does anyone fact-check the fact-checkers? Letâs take a closer look at this figure.
Either missed or ignored by the âfact-checkersâ is that this 95 percent number is not based on what is happening now or in the past few months, but includes data going back to January and ending months ago, a biased data set. The Kaiser Family Foundation published a chart, listing each state, reporting vaccination and hospitalization data beginning anywhere from mid-December or mid-January through anywhere from May through July. These are not âcurrentâ real-time numbers.
First vaccinations began in mid- to late-December, and those were few. I, as one of the few, receiving my first dose before Christmas. The CDC definition of fully vaccinated includes those at least two weeks beyond their recommended one or two doses, depending on which vaccine.
By this definition, less than 1 percent of individuals would be âfully vaccinatedâ by the end of January when states began tracking breakthrough infections. But the clock was already ticking and the only people hospitalized had to be unvaccinated, beginning to skew the data.
Why is this important? No one was fully vaccinated when reporting began and every hospitalization in January would be classified as âunvaccinated.â
Then coincidently, or not, the CDC stopped counting breakthrough cases among the vaccinated in mid-May, a time when only a third of Americans were fully vaccinated.
As reported by Politico,
The agency said in May that it would stop routinely tracking so-called breakthrough infections that didn't lead to hospitalization or death. Several states then stopped tracking mild breakthrough cases, and at least two states told POLITICO they are having trouble reliably tracking infections in vaccinated people.
Mild cases can become severe. If not tracking them, such progression will be missed, and not recorded. A medical internship axiom is, âIf you donât check a temperature, you canât find a fever.â The CDC version is if you donât count hospitalizations of the vaccinated, you wonât find any cases.
[So I should trust the CDC and believe what they tell me?]
The 95 percent metric is falsely high because when the data were collected, few were vaccinated and, by necessity, the majority of those hospitalized were unvaccinated. Then breakthrough cases were no longer counted, yet states continued to collect data for another month or two. If breakthrough cases were being ignored, then only unvaccinated cases were counted, falsely creating that 95 percent figure.
A Detroit newspaper headline screamed, â98% of Michigan COVID-19 cases are from unvaccinatedâ yet buried in the article is the measurement period, âbetween Jan 15 and July 21.â There is no discussion of the fact that during the measurement period, most Michiganders had not yet been vaccinated and most of those hospitalized during that time period were by default unvaccinated. Were they even recording breakthrough cases after mid-May when the CDC stopped counting?
DHHS: 98% of Michigan COVID-19 cases are from unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated people
The COVID-19 patients filling Michiganâs hospitals are mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters. They hail from throughout the state, from the tip of the Upper Peninsula...
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The problem is when data are cherry-picked to present a pre-determined narrative. That is when science turns into propaganda. As the Seattle Times noted of the 95 percent figure, a âmisguided and dangerous statement.â Going further saying, âBut itâs not that simple and to oversimplify by calling it a âpandemic of the unvaccinatedâ will only make the problem worse.â
COVID-19 now a âpandemic of the unvaccinatedâ? Not so fast
When President Joe Biden and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky say we are in a "pandemic of the unvaccinated," they ignore the real barriers to vaccine access that still plague communities, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.
www.seattletimes.com
Vaccine hesitancy does not lie along political divisions. Interestingly blacks, Hispanics, and those with Ph.D.s are among the most vaccine-hesitant. When people see the vaccinated getting sick and dying around the world, there is hesitancy. When we were told that vaccination is the path to a return to normalcy, and instead we are going back to last year, there is hesitancy.
Is COVID a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated? Not Quite.
Physicians spreading medical misinformation, particularly about COVID, âare risking disciplinary action by state medical boardsâ due to their âhigh degree of public trustâ and their âpowerful platform in society.â ...
Just about everything is politicized these days. Who the hell can we trust? Certainly not anyone in gov't, including the CDC. They've said one thing, then walked it back and said something else, and then changed back. The Media? Please. They're not paid to tell the truth, they're paid to sell papers and get clicks. You read something and then a day later you find out it's bullshit. However, we certainly do have a pandemic; but it's a pandemic of distrust, where truth and integrity are rare and getting more and more scarce.
