{"id":1351760,"date":"2022-03-01T09:52:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T14:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1351760"},"modified":"2022-03-01T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:05:10","slug":"marty-makary-the-cdc-which-is-withholding-information-has-a-hidden-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marty-makary-the-cdc-which-is-withholding-information-has-a-hidden-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Marty Makary: The CDC \u2014 Which Is Withholding Information \u2014 Has a Hidden Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarty-makary-the-cdc-which-is-withholding-information-has-a-hidden-agenda%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1351760&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\"><\/aside>\n<p>People say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a messaging problem. But the CDC\u2019s problem is not messaging \u2014 it\u2019s issuing flawed guidance while covering up the data.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/22\/cdc-withholding-covid-data-over-fears-of-misinterpretation\/\">pushing boosters for young people.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the Food and Drug Administration inexplicably bypassed its expert advisory committee to authorize boosters for all young people, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/24\/cdc-chief-says-at-risk-workers-need-booster-shots\/\">the CDC director overruled her own experts\u2019 down vote<\/a> of the boosters-for-all proposal. That\u2019s the magic of a call from the White House. Two top FDA officials, including the agency\u2019s vaccine center head,<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/01\/two-senior-fda-officials-resign-over-biden-administration-booster-shot-plan\/\"> quit over White House pressure<\/a> to authorize boosters for the young.<\/p>\n<p>But after the FDA and CDC rammed through the recommendation, they made sure the public wouldn\u2019t see the real-world data. Despite repeated pleas to release all its data, the CDC only posted stats on boosters in people over age 50.<\/p>\n<p>What have they been hiding? As a proxy, let\u2019s take a look at what the CDC just published on people 50 to 65: For the fully vaccinated, the booster reduces the risk of COVID death from 4 per million to 1 per million. Who are those three helped by a booster? They\u2019re not healthy people. One study of breakthrough hospitalizations found 75% had at least four comorbidities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/kid-booster.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21354024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/kid-booster.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/kid-booster.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/kid-booster.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/kid-booster.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" alt=\"Kid screams as she gets her booster shot.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The CDC has admitted it is withholding large portions of COVID-19 data \u2014 including on vaccine boosters \u2014 from the public because it fears the information could be misinterpreted.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Sebastian Barros\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So the three people age 50 to 65 per million saved by a booster are almost certainly immunosuppressed individuals, a subgroup for whom boosters have long been recommended. Of course, the CDC doesn\u2019t disclose what medical conditions those few who died had \u2014 it only has 21,000 employees to collect that information.<\/p>\n<p>We once again have to look overseas for reliable data. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2115926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Israeli population study in the New England Journal of Medicine<\/a> compared boosted vs. nonboosted people with the primary vaccine series. The risk of COVID death among nonboosted people under age 30 was zero \u2014 the same as it was among boosted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_USA-MASKS.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21354064\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_USA-MASKS.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_USA-MASKS.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_USA-MASKS.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_USA-MASKS.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_USA-MASKS.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" alt=\"A general view of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The CDC said the reason for the slow release of data is because there is always a chance it is not completely accurate.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A note for college administrators enforcing booster mandates: You can\u2019t reduce a mortality risk of zero any lower with a booster.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC claims it didn\u2019t release booster data because it feared the information would be misinterpreted. No, it\u2019s because the stats don\u2019t support its agenda. Yet public health officials continue to beclown themselves by demanding all Americans over age 12 get boosted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/022622vaccinerequired4CS.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/022622vaccinerequired4CS.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"A general view of people dining in a restaurant with a window sign that reads \" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A study found that boosters for young people did not do much to prevent COVID-19.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>On the bandwagon<\/h2>\n<p>Most of the media have fallen for it. Throughout the pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/21\/health\/covid-boosters-cdc-omicron.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the New York Times<\/a> and other outlets have only sourced doctors on the establishment groupthink bandwagon, dangled fear to young people and blindly amplified every edict government doctors fed without asking questions, just as the press did with weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\"><\/aside>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen medical bandwagon thinking hurt us before. The dogma that COVID spreads by surface transmission, children must be shut out of school and the barbaric separation of Americans from their dying loved ones. Our public health leaders continue to make critical mistakes and affirm each other with groupthink while journalists give them a megaphone to broadcast their agenda, unchecked, failing to ask basic questions, like: Where\u2019s the supporting data? What\u2019s the incidence of myocarditis after a booster in young people?<\/p>\n<p>This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/04\/health\/covid-boosters-older-younger.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one Times reporter finally picked up<\/a> on what many of us have been saying about the CDC\u2019s deception.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the CDC put out two highly flawed studies to promote mask mandates. Now the last people in America required to cover their faces are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/community\/schools-childcare\/k-12-guidance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">children, waiters, waitresses, servers, and staff<\/a> \u2014 people who are powerless.<\/p>\n<p>The American people are hungry for honesty. They see the inequity of COVID policies and want the data straight, not politically curated by a small group of like-minded scientists.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/021622studentmasks12CS-1.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21354054\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/021622studentmasks12CS-1.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/021622studentmasks12CS-1.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/021622studentmasks12CS-1.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/021622studentmasks12CS-1.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/021622studentmasks12CS-1.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" alt=\"Two kids wear a mask on their way to school.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Though not required everywhere, the CDC recommends that children wear masks in school.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If I were advising President Biden, I would tell him the CDC needs to restore public trust by making all its data available to researchers in real time. It\u2019s time we end secret data laboratories in government.<\/p>\n<p>The American people realize public health officials have been lying to them. A response to a national health emergency should warrant more data transparency, not less.<\/p>\n<p><em>Marty Makary, MD, MPH, is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and author of \u201cThe Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care \u2014 And How to Fix It.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a messaging problem. But the CDC\u2019s problem is not messaging \u2014 it\u2019s issuing flawed guidance while covering up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}