CDC is refusing to publish data it has collected on booster effectiveness for 33 MILLION Americans aged 18-49 over fears it might show the vaccines as ineffective: FDA expert tells CDC to ‘tell the truth’

• Two weeks ago the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published data about the effectiveness of boosters against COVID-19
• The CDC failed to publish a tranche of their data, however – omitting the impact on those aged 18-49, who are least likely to benefit from boosters
• The CDC are also being criticized for failing to publish their information about child hospitalization rates and comorbidities
• A spokeswoman for the CDC said they were concerned that the data would be misinterpreted, pointing out that it was incomplete and not verified
• Critics said that it was always better to publish the information rather than withhold, and allow scientists to analyze and explain what they could 

By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM – for Daily Mail UK

PUBLISHED: 21:29 EST, 21 February 2022 | UPDATED: 02:06 EST, 22 February 2022

My cmnt: The CDC has been in bed with Dr Fraud Fauci since the beginning of this pandemic. Hiding data or out right altering data is the hallmark of Leftist regimes. Children 18 and under have and have had nearly zero chance of becoming seriously ill or dying from Covid-19. Masking children because of bogus CDC recommendations shows just how gullible Libs are and how corrupt the CDC is. Recommending a risky Covid vaccine for people 18 and under is quite simply governmental child abuse on an astronomical of scale. Liberals are monsters.

My cmnt: The CDC has been misrepresenting data on Covid for two years now. If a person is admitted into a hospital for any reason (i.e., broken arm, ulcer, etc.) and tests positive for Covid, even if completely asymptomatic, that person is counted as a hospitalization FOR Covid-19. Ditto for deaths FROM Covid rather than with Covid. The democrats needed a crisis to remove President Trump and so they took an entirely manageable disease which mostly affected 80+ year olds and closed down the entire nation and proceeded to scare the wits out of all democrats and even some Republicans – and all of this for the wicked purpose of gaining power.

My cmnt: And most wicked of all the democrat politicians banned two very effective and inexpensive and readily available remedials (HCQ and ivermectin) causing tens of thousands of Covid victims to needlessly suffer and hundreds of thousands to die. Murderers!

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has withheld vast swaths of the information it holds about the impact of COVID-19, leading to anger from the scientific community and speculation the agency is not releasing the data because it weakens the case for booster shots in certain demographics.

Two weeks ago, the CDC published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65.

But the agency, led by Dr Rochelle Walensky, did not share the information on those aged 18-49, who are considered to be the least likely to benefit from a booster.

It has also failed to provide information they held on child hospitalizations, scientists complained.

Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the CDC, 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,’ and told The New York Times that they were concerned it might be misinterpreted to show the vaccines were ineffective.

She also said that they were reluctant to publish the data because it represents only 10 percent of the population of the United States – accounting for 33 million people – the same sample size the CDC has used to track influenza for years.

The 18-49 year old age group is considered least likely to benefit from the booster, given that death rates among the age group are already low. It is far more likely for the elderly and immunocompromised to get sick without their booster than healthy young and middle aged people.

Boosters became available for children aged 12 and upwards only last month, and so would not be covered by the dataset. 

As of Monday, 65 percent of Americans are fully vaccinated. 

There were 103,150 new cases reported nationwide, on a seven day rolling average – a dramatic decrease from January, when there were regularly over 700,000 new cases a day.  

Outraged scientists stressed that publishing the data went hand in hand with educating the public about vaccines – explaining that as more people are vaccinated, the percentage of vaccinated people who are infected or hospitalized would also rise. 

They urged the CDC to publish the information.

‘Tell the truth, present the data,’ said Dr Paul Offit, a vaccine expert and adviser to the Food and Drug Administration.

‘I have to believe that there is a way to explain these things so people can understand it.’

He noted that, because the CDC had not published the information, American scientists were forced to rely on Israeli data.

‘There’s no reason that they should be better at collecting and putting forth data than we were,’ he said.

‘The CDC is the principal epidemiological agency in this country, and so you would like to think the data came from them.’

Another expressed shock that the CDC had the data at all.

‘We have been begging for that sort of granularity of data for two years,’ said Jessica Malaty Rivera, an epidemiologist and part of the team that ran the Covid Tracking Project, which brought together data on the pandemic for a website they ran until March 2021.

She denied that there was a risk of the data being misinterpreted, adding that it instead ‘builds public trust, and it paints a much clearer picture of what’s actually going on.’

She added: ‘It gets really exhausting when you see the private sector working faster than the premier public health agency of the world.’

Dr Yvonne Maldonado, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’s Committee on Infectious Diseases, said that she had requested from the CDC data on the proportion of children hospitalized for COVID who have other medical conditions.

She eventually found the information she needed thanks to a New York Times report.

‘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.’

Part of the problem is that the CDC computer systems are outdated.

The agency recently received $1 billion which will help it modernize its technology and process the data faster.

Among the first to benefit will be a program that analyzes wastewater, telling scientists when there has been an outbreak of COVID even before tests confirm the news.

Wastewater provided the presence of the Delta variant far before testing of individuals.

At present, 31 states have their data on the dashboard: the CDC hope to have the rest up later on this year.