Monday, February 21, 2022

NYT: CDC Hides Covid-19 Info

In an unexpected outbreak of journalism, the New York Times  busted the CDC for hiding large amounts of Covid-19 data it collects. The newspaper of record reported today: 

For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status. But it has not made most of the information public....

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.

 Much of the withheld information could help state and local health officials better target their efforts to bring the virus under control. Detailed, timely data on hospitalizations by age and race would help health officials identify and help the populations at highest risk. Information on hospitalizations and death by age and vaccination status would have helped inform whether healthy adults needed booster shots. And wastewater surveillance across the nation would spot outbreaks and emerging variants early.*

Have you ever wondered why Covid-19 coverage relies so much on Israeli studies?  Why isn't similar information available in America? Blame the CDC.  

Without the booster data for 18- to 49-year-olds, the outside experts whom federal health agencies look to for advice had to rely on numbers from Israel to make their recommendations on the shots.

Hiding such data meant health care providers were operating in the dark, or worse, relying on misleading data when recommending boosters because a major part of the population  was not included in the data made public.  However, don't worry, hiding the data is for your own good as the wrong people might read it or, gasp, interpret it.  Can't have the rubes getting any wrong ideas.  Heaven forbid they should actually think even if they might be wrong, right? 

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.

 The CDC caught hell last year when it refused to release data on "breakthrough infections" of the vaccinated.  The CDC also hid data on characteristics of individual patients who were hospitalized.  The agency instead merely reported hospitalizations between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. 

The Times reported another problem is of course, layers and layers of bureaucracy.   The suits do what suits do.  Before the CDC can release data, the White House, DHHS,  and maybe the DC dog catcher have to approve it before it can be released.  The result is the release of much-needed Covid-19 information bogs down in the DC swamp while the pandemic marches on.  

Not even medical experts are able to get the information they need from the CDC.  

The pediatrics academy** has repeatedly asked the C.D.C. for an estimate on the contagiousness of a person infected with the coronavirus five days after symptoms begin — but Dr. Maldonado finally got the answer from an article in The New York Times in December.

“They’ve known this for over a year and a half, right, and they haven’t told us,” she said. “I mean, you can’t find out anything from them.”

 A CDC Director blamed "antiquated" technology for not being able to handle massive amounts of raw data.  

Read the rest of the thorough article.  Simply put, the government blamed the people, the suits, and old computer programs for hiding Covid-19 information from the public. 

Kingfish note: One piece of advice for the government.  When you don't trust the people, don't be surprised when they don't trust you, right?   

* The CDC is collecting and publishing wastewater data in relation to Covid-19.  Such data provides a more accurate indicator of whether  incidents of Covid-19 are rising or falling in an area.  Of course, Mississippi is one of 13 states not participating in the CDC-funded program.   

** American Academy of Pediatrics’s Committee

30 comments:

Anonymous said...

I sincerely hate it but I have lost just about any and all trust I ever had in our government.

Bill Dees said...

I guess it's time to move to Canada, where the people are ... um...rational? And the government is totally trustworthy, right? How about Russia, where you can always count on Putin to have your back? Or maybe just get involved in US politics, and elect a government you can trust, or is that just too much effort? If so, then kwitcherbitchin

Anonymous said...

Has always been a political/economic issue. Left alone it has run it's course and will be here like other coronavirus related colds. Will not end mankind as many of you cried from deep in your basements. We all, and I will include myself, were played like fiddles.

Anonymous said...

For any of you phuckers who continue to defend the CDC, an excellent read is The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis.

j'etait Charles Martel said...


9:31 for the prize.

And by a dishonest, crooked, buffoon who makes the clintons appear to have morals!
His pretty boy canadian cohort seems to be following his lead.

Both countries should have citizens who are not so gullible as to lose their freedoms to such con men.
Are we a nation of chicken littles?

Power lost to politicians is difficult to regain.
Perhaps we are learning once again that freedom has its cost.

Anonymous said...

@9:16

I agree our government is not the only one that can't be trusted.

Anonymous said...

Stop acting like the majority of y’all aren’t sheep.
Still gotta be told who to follow.
Still gotta be told what to say.
Still gotta be told how to act.
Still gotta be told how to think.

Anonymous said...

Bill Dees - I am surprised that a man of your apparent intellect is unaware of logical fallacies.

To wit: "Oh, well if you don't like it here, that means you'd be much happier in either Canada or Russia".

No, Einstein...It doesn't mean that at all.

Anonymous said...

Who is the conspiracy theorist now?

Anonymous said...

Just wait till they report on VAIDS. If they ever do.

Anonymous said...

as decent as our department of health is, they did the same thing at the end of delta and beginning of omicron. And none of the media (you too KF) could give a flip because all of y’all have been vaccine crazy.

UMMC is not as decent as department of health and they stopped publishing useful information about status of those hospitalized.

For one reason: the results don’t support the narrative of DOH and UMMC.

Anonymous said...

Wow Kingfish, Jackson Jambalaya is headed for the same esteemed reputation for journalistic integrity as Info Wars and Before It’s News.

When are you going to start selling water purification and vitamin supplements? Perhaps gold coins and heirloom seeds?

Anonymous said...

Being able to more clearly identify the people in my life that are incapable of critical thinking is probably the only useful thing to come from this manufactured pandemic.

Anonymous said...

Damn, Bill Maher is the man. Have to admit that I now look forward to Friday nights at 9:00.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or4vncEcuBo

Anonymous said...

7:22 : Explain decent for us who ummmm disagree. Dr. Thomas Dobbs and his gang of admin heads in dang near every hospital and family practice in this state KNEW all along how this virus worked and who the "vaccine" was actually for. None of them are stupid enough to flaunt their rewards they have received from the trillions made. I get you are awake now but decent should not be used here. UMMC was once a beacon for all to follow. No more.

Anonymous said...

Who is the conspiracy theorist now?
You all are.
The virus 🦠 is the enemy!
Not the public servants and healthcare heroes working tirelessly to save you from yourself!

Anonymous said...

If they wanted to do wastewater surveillance in Jackson, all they'd have to do is go to the Pearl River.

Anonymous said...

I have not been vaccinated. Never had Covid. I said from day one this was a scam. People said I was crazy. They still run around with their do-nothing masks on. They still advertise shots and booster shots non-stop on the radio at tax payer expense. How stupid are these people? The shots do nothing, the masks do nothing and the virus is a cold. It will take something much stronger than that to wipe out mankind. Bunch of chicken shits.

Anonymous said...

8:34 : Then by all means explain CDC's deliberate actions on hiding this data. WE THE PEOPLE will wait.

Anonymous said...

@9:47
It is not my place to explain their actions because the explanation is in the original post. Perhaps you people should reflect on your personal issues which cause you to lash out and attack our hardworking public servants and healthcare heroes.

Anonymous said...

11:00 : No one is attacking front line workers. What ? You actually think Dobbs, Fauci , Womack have been in a lab recently ? Or worked with dying cash cows ? Look, I get that you are dug in and embarrassed but the truth will set you free.

Anonymous said...

To 11:00am - you are directed to 9:37pm's post from yesterday. Someone recommended this book in a previous post. I took the bait, purchased the book from Lemuria and can't thank the poster enough. Lewis has actually researched this matter - it is obvious from your comment that you have not.

Anonymous said...

1:07 : I will just add that some of us didn't need a book to know smoke was being blown up our ass. But i'm gonna check it out regardless.

Anonymous said...

Netflix "Don't look up" is our Government to a "T".

Anonymous said...

2:21 : Take your word for it. Sure as hell won't be watching it.

Anonymous said...

Not unexpectedly, this is the rug-pull laid out in the SPARS exercise


@7:47, Posting a major new networks words and CDC data is a conspiracy theory

Anonymous said...

Show us the money. That should be EVERY persons mission to your elected ..as well as those in the health care business that call themselves Doctors. SHOW US THE MONEY.

Anonymous said...

As the Jabtard reads the headline, the heart rate increases, the face becomes flush, the breathing rate increases, sweat appears on the brow, he begins to pace...he becomes very angry at the wise individuals who refused to accept the "no liability" investigational "vaccines" instead of directing his anger at his eugenic billionaire overlords developed and financed by intergenerational eugenicists, brought to market by serial convicted and sanctioned pharma corps, promoted by a cadre of degenerate non-binary pharma ad funded media freaks, pushed by easily "system" controlled physicians, many guilty of accepting illegal kickbacks and payments from the convicted pharma corporations in prior cases. Mention a Klaus Schwab book, think tank or NGO white paper or plandemic "planning scenario" and be met with the eye-rolling convenient response which hides his abject ignorance and was developed as a neurolinguistic tool of thought and inquiry suppression.. "conspiracy theory"! Leave them be. They'll all be dead in short order.

Calm Down said...

The truth can't be hidden forever. Moderna stock is dropping like a rock. Pfizer is being forced to release safety data. We'll get to the end, hopefully before everyone is dead.

Anonymous said...

10:02 : Ahhhh Moderna. Seems they have found the smoking gun in the Covid tampering lab leak deal. And the culprit is .......wait wait ..MODERNA.


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