CDC "Experts'" Debunked By Homeschooler
John Anthony
In December of 2021 I exposed serious misrepresentations by the CDC, FDA, and Pfizer including a study presented the CDC’s MMWR. (The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report “is the agency’s primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations.”
The study claimed to show the recovered unvaccinated are 5.4X more likely to catch COVID than those who were never infected and got vaccinated. The study showing the superiority of the mRNA vaccines over natural immunity flies in the face of nearly every other major study of natural immunity out there.
An Israeli Study, released at about the same time found that the vaccinated have a 27 times higher risk of symptomatic infection than the Covid recovered and the vaccinated were nine times more likely to be hospitalized for Covid.
As Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist and biostatistician specializing in infectious disease outbreaks wrote, “both studies cannot be right.”
And they are not. When you see how the CDC arrived at these conclusions, it raises suspicions if the vaccine works at all.
The CDC’s study was convoluted and deceptive. Instead of comparing one vaccinated to one unvaccinated group, it compared two dissimilar hospitalized groups to see which of the two showing COVID-like symptoms had the greater percentage of true COVID cases. The study never fully adjusted for the differences. (Are you confused yet!)
Let me break it down.
The Israeli Study was straight forward. It compared 16,215 unvaccinated people who had recovered from COVID to 16,215 who were vaccinated. They found the COVID vaccinated were 27 times more likely to contract COVID than those with natural immunity.
The CDC study did something much different. They studied patients who were admitted to the hospital with “COVID-like” symptoms, not necessarily COVID. (They may have had the flu, pneumonia, or other upper respiratory illness.) Then researchers noted 1. how many tested positive for COVID among those who were vaccinated, and 2. how many tested positive who were unvaccinated. The study concluded 5.4X as many unvaccinated caught COVID as unvaccinated.
The CDC widely broadcast that the vaccines were superior to natural immunity while supporting Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates.
But here’s the rub:
The CDC’s study didn’t compare vaccine immunity to natural immunity. They compared the presence of COVID-like symptoms in 2 dissimilar groups.
Since older patients were more likely to be vaccinated, and younger more active patients less likely to have received the jab, the study in effect created 2 groups…
Since older more highly vaccinated patients were also more likely than the younger cohort to have respiratory illnesses that were COVID-like, but not COVID…
Therefore, the study’s design virtually guaranteed that the older, more vaccinated patients with numerous other COVID-like respiratory illnesses, would show a lower percent of actual COVID cases than the generally younger, healthier group.
Now we find the most stunning news of all. The CDC never saw the report’s data!
That’s right. In a FOIA request, the CDC admitted the raw data for the study belongs to an outside contractor. You likely know more relevant information about the CDC’s own vaccine effectiveness study than the agency did when using it to promote the questionable inoculations and mandates.
According the The Epoch Times:
"Get vaccinated as soon as possible," the CDC stated.
A slew of other papers, including several from the CDC, have found that people with natural immunity are better off, or as protected, than the vaccinated.
"The CDC repeatedly downplayed the role of natural immunity and used this salami slice of data to suggest that vaccinated immunity was more durable than natural immunity. Subsequent studies revealed they got it backwards," Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who was not involved with the study, told The Epoch Times via email. "Public health officials grabbed any study conclusions that fit their narrative, regardless of the quality of the data source."
But what did the CDC’s study actually prove? Dr. Kulldorff answers:
“There is both a relationship between being vaccinated/recovered and Covid hospitalization and a relationship between being vaccinated/recovered and non-Covid hospitalization. Rather than evaluate the first one, which is of intense interest for health policy, the CDC study evaluates the contrast between the two, which is not particularly interesting.”
Why indeed would the CDC answer a question no-one asked and ignore the ones they did? Perhaps my friend’s homeschooled daughter said it best. “Well,” said the 7th grader, “maybe they don’t know the answer or don’t want you to know they do.”