Are the CDC and the U.S. government truly interested in how effective the COVID vaccines are, or in determining real numbers of breakthrough cases from them? That’s the question Joel S. Hirschhorn, former senior official at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the National Governors Association, asks in an analysis for TrialSite News.
And, he asks, “Can we trust the federal government to collect comprehensive data on them?” The answer, he says, is a resounding no. His proof is that the CDC stopped tracking all breakthrough infections in early June 2021, choosing instead to count only vaccinated persons who became seriously ill and were hospitalized or died.
The inadequacy of that is that the overwhelming number of American who have been infected have not gotten very sick or died,” Hirschhorn says. “This means, therefore, that experimental COVID vaccines that are now seen only as having to be effective in preventing people from getting very sick or dying are not really necessary at all for all people.”
Ironically, before the CDC decided not to count all the breakthrough cases, “there was a lot of data showing large numbers of vaccinated people coming down with COVID infection,” Hirschorn says.
Clearly, the CDC wanted to keep public data about breakthrough infections as low as possible. It does not want Americans to believe they have options besides experimental vaccines. But they do,” he says.
SOURCE: TrialSite News June 24, 2021