{"id":345898,"date":"2022-02-21T18:28:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T23:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=345898"},"modified":"2022-03-06T14:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T19:09:45","slug":"cdc-withholds-covid-19-data-that-could-be-misinterpreted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/cdc-withholds-covid-19-data-that-could-be-misinterpreted\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC withholds Covid-19 data that could be \u2018misinterpreted\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL’S COMMENT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
“It\u2019s political manipulation of scientific data like this that makes people not \u2018trust the science,\u2019 It is unscientific to withhold data because people might disagree with your policies.\u201d said J. Michael Waller, a senior analyst at the Center for Security Strategy, in a tweet.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n

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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has kept reams of its Covid-19 data under wraps for more than a year, the New York Times reports, holding back figures at least partly because it doesn\u2019t trust the public to interpret the information correctly.<\/p>\n

The agency\u2019s seemingly selective disclosure came to light in an article by the Times on Sunday. Among the data being withheld is a breakdown of Covid-19 hospitalizations by age, race, and vaccination status. The CDC also chose not to report on such findings as the efficacy of booster shots in 18- to 49-year-olds, even though it collected the information, the article added.<\/p>\n

Although it\u2019s the agency leading America\u2019s Covid-19 response, the CDC has published only a \u201ctiny fraction\u201d of the data that it has collected, the Times said. In lieu of US data being made more widely available, experts were forced to look elsewhere for information \u2013 such as Israeli figures on booster shots \u2013 that would help them make informed recommendations.<\/p>\n

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RAEL’S COMMENT:\u00a0 “It\u2019s political manipulation of scientific data like this that makes people not \u2018trust the science,\u2019 It is unscientific to withhold data because people might disagree with your policies.\u201d said J. Michael Waller, a senior analyst at the Center for Security Strategy, in a tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":345900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}