I did a piece earlier this month that questioned the CDC vaccination numbers based on a Newsday (paywall) piece that first asked this question out loud….
Now Axios is also out with another piece….
The major media outfits are not gonna probably do this story since their editors are pushing a different narrative BASED on CDC figures that support health and political agenda’s….
The listed number of Americans vaccinated could be millions less than the CDC reports it would appear based on several states reports…
And that would mean that CDC figures that 60% of the American population are fully vaccinated is overly optimistic and incorrect….
The U.S. government has overcounted the number of Americans who are at least partly vaccinated against the coronavirus, Bloomberg reports.
Why it matters: Millions more people than initially thought are unprotected as coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths are rising across the country.
The big picture: Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was revised last weekend for the number of people 65 and older who have received at least one shot, according to Bloomberg.
- The CDC lowered the percentage vaccinated from 99.9%, where it had been for weeks, to 95%, without changing the raw shot totals.
- The agency has not returned Axios’ request for comment.
What it means: The change in data indicates that the U.S. has counted too many shots as first doses when they are instead second doses or booster shots.
By the numbers: CDC data indicated that 240 million people — or about 72.5% of the population — had at least one shot and that 203 million — 61.3% — were fully vaccinated.
- But state and local officials reported that it was improbable for there to be such a huge disparity in vaccination numbers, Bloomberg reports.
The state of play: Three states — Illinois, Pennsylvania and West Virginia — found enough over-counting of first shots to indicate millions of unvaccinated people had mistakenly been counted as having received a dose….
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Other states, including Minnesota, Colorado, New Jersey, North Carolina and Maine, have already submitted requests for revisions to the CDC for different reasons….
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I have indicated that I no longer post the NY Times and Wash Post virus data numbers since they are based in part on CDC figures and they show vastly different numbers for cases, hospital stays, deaths and vaccinations….
Meanwhile in the Pro Virus Party, former Pres. Trump was booed at his own rally for saying he got a booster shot, Former GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin encouraged people not to get vaccinated, and a Republican anti vaxx mandate anti mask state rep in Washington dropped dead.
Meanwhile RFK Jr can’t even get his own household behind his anti vaxx stupidity (Props to Cheryl Hines for curbing his anti vaxx enthusiasm). But maybe we will be regaled here about how “both sides” are anti vaccine.
Sarah Palin’s husband left her. Maybe Cheryl Hines should follow suit.
I also do not think it is accurate to say that Sarah Palin, unlike RFK Jr, encouraged people to not get vaccinated. She just said that she would not and they better not touch her kids.. all but I are adults at this point I believe.
While RFK Jr is raking in tons of dollars to fight against the vaccine, it actually appears that Palin said that those who have not contacted Covid previously should get the vaccine.
She is under the impression though that those like herself who have had it previously now have natural immunity and do not need it, which is not medically sound.
She said people should “stiffen their spines”–implying that those who get vaccinated are weak.
But
You are wish-casting her remarks to some extent.
She did not say people should not get vaccines, though she believes that those who have had Covid do not need to get it. She is otherwise speaking about mandates.
I have said I disagreed with her views on who should get vaccinated. That does not give license to distort what she actually said.
So what does “stiffen your spines” mean in that context?
In regards to opposing government mandates or the ridiculous notion that somehow the government is going to “touch you” against your will and give you a shot.
It should also be noted that Palin is very pro-mask, which puts her at odds with many on the right. She seems to be under the scientifically inaccurate impression that masks are as important as vaccines in stopping the virus.
Uh huh
Glad it’s clarified.
As “clarified” as anything can be in regards to that grifter. She still draws crowds in the Pro Virus Party though.
I just know that I watched her rap “Baby Got Back” on The MASKED Singer, knew it was her right away, and then as soon as she was unmasked at the end of the episode, Tom Hanks got Covid and the world has not been the same since.
Question: how do dead people stiffen their spines?
If Republicans don’t want to get vaccinated through a convoluted pathway of prejudice and stupidity then that’s their business, but it doesn’t seem very pro-life to me. And, when the morons die at a higher, three to one, rate than Democrats it proves exactly how stupid they are. Right?
Stupid as in attempting to somehow imply that Democrats had something to do with the January 6th attempt to overthrow our government.
Trump and his Republican enablers sure did leave a mess for Biden to clean up. But isn’t that always the way?
Also Cheryl Hines allowed those invited to the party to present a negative Covid test in lieu of vaccination, so that would seem to be a key point.
Those who oppose general vaccine mandates have seemed to have no problem with testing requirements as a substitute
My parents had a friend who I am told was an anti-vaxx chiropractor who believed in natural medicine who apparently just died of Covid.
The first known American who died from omicron wasn’t vaccinated but he had previously recovered from a different Covid-19 strain.
But, he wasn’t vaccinated, even after he had the virus. How very stupid is that, and Republican.
We leave today for our trip and had to get a rapid covid test before we can board the plane, and another within 24 hours of our arrival in London. I should have bought stock in the testing company. But the “care” facility that administered the test was also busy giving booster shots, and it was jammed.
We struggled with this trip, but there are things we must do before the end of the year.
I will swing by Parliament to see how the protesters are doing in their daily demonstrations against Boris and report on the struggles with virus in the UK and Spain.
My prediction for the New Year. Build Back Better will pass, the economy will take off, and, in spite of the best obstructionist efforts of the Republicans, the pandemic will fade in the Spring. Oh, and inflation will drop, natural gas prices already are.
Enjoy ur trip Keith ….
May ur predictions come true!….
Keep and eye on us here….
Fox Won’t Let Employees Test Out of Vaccine Mandate
“Fox Corporation, the owner of Fox News, told employees on Friday that those working in New York City would have to show proof they’d had at least one dose of the Covid vaccine by Dec. 27, removing the option to get tested weekly instead,” the New York Times reports.