"Why the hell not?
The CDC has tracked the COVID-19 pandemic for two years now, since its breakout from China at the beginning of 2020.
Rochelle Walensky has run the CDC for almost half that time, a period in which the most pressing concerns about vaccines had already been addressed, while the agency followed the previous administration in dropping the ball on mass production of tests.
One of the most basic questions in any pandemic is true mortality rate.
One of the most basic questions in any pandemic is true mortality rate.
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC still hasn’t set up a system to distinguish causation from correlation, Walensky admits:
“Do you know how many of the 836,000 deaths in the U.S. linked to COVID are from COVID or how many are with COVID but they had other comorbidities, do you have that breakdown?” Baier asked.
“Yes of course, with Omicron we’re following that very carefully. Our death registry, of course, takes a few weeks to collect and, of course, Omicron has just been with us for a few weeks, but those data will be forthcoming,” Walensky replied.
Ahem. The CDC’s data reporting website makes no such distinction at all...Read all!
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