CDC Admits: Vast Majority of those hospitalized for COVID are jabbed

Alex Berensen | Substack: An advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control is meeting now to discuss recommendations for the updated Covid jabs that the Food & Drug Administration approved yesterday.

Spoiler alert: the committee is likely to press the jabs on most adults, and possibly even children. The group is nominally independent, but Dr. Nirav Shah, the CDC deputy director, telegraphed this plan to The New York Times two weeks ago:

Covid can still be nasty even if it doesn’t put you in the hospital. A booster shot will reduce its potency. Shah argues that children (over 6 months old) should also get a Covid shot this fall, even though their own Covid risk is very low.

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Which makes this chart, which the CDC buried on page 17 of an 18-page presentation to the committee this morning, even more stunning.

About nine out of 10 Americans over 75 hospitalized this year for Covid have received the mRNA shots. (Not with Covid, for Covid.) Similarly, five out of six Americans aged 65-74 hospitalized for Covid had been jabbed, according to the CDC. And even among adults under 50, two out of three had been vaccinated.

(Orange you glad you didn’t get jabbed? Orange means unvaccinated. Blue means at least two shots, possibly with one booster. The bottom chart is just a more focused view of the top.)

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The few mRNA fanatics still around will claim that these numbers are evidence that the bivalent booster last fall worked, because about 45 percent of people over 65 received the bivalent and they made up only about 20 percent of hospitalizations.

But healthy vaccinee bias (the fact that Covid boosters, especially the more recent ones, are taken by a self-selected group of people who are afraid of Covid and generally neurotic about their health) likely accounts for that gap.

The key finding here is that on a population basis two or even three mRNA shots apparently do nothing to help people avoid not just Covid infections but hospitalizations.

The proportions of hospitalized people are virtually identical to overall jab rates - despite healthy vaccinee bias, which should make them look better. (The CDC claims that about 93 percent of adults have received at least one mRNA jab, but that estimate appears badly overstated because states and the agency misclassify a large number of boosters as new shots. Self-reported data show that about 25 percent of adults have not received any jabs.)

Meanwhile, studies of booster doses show their impact on Omicron variants is minor and transient, lasting a couple of months at most. On the other hand, the long-term impact of repeated doses of modified mRNA is unknown.

So why on earth - aside from buffering the profits of Pfizer and Moderna or a simple unwillingness to admit defeat - would anyone recommend more shots?

C diff in Older women had high correlation with COVID 19 and Death. C diff infection is due to too much anti-biotics.
C diff in long hospital stays is a common cause of illness and death...and expense apart from COVID.

see Contagion Live /Infectious Disease Today.

In previous posts I have pointed out that COVID is not a pandemic with everyone. But it was a pandemic with the elderly, especially those with the co-morbidity of obesity.

Now studies are coming in that look at other co-morbidities.
It turns out, just as with other diseases, Hospitals have
C DIFF, Sepsis and other disease that spreads inside the hospital.

The solution is simple: Medicare, Medicaid pay big bucks for HAI/C Hospital Acquired Infections/Conditions. If we cut off that money, you would be surprised how quickly the problem no longer exists. It is a money bonanza for Hospitals.

Some observations from my journey into the CDC data from the links in Berenson’s piece that lead to where he got the data:

4% and 6%, respectively, of those 5 to 11 and 12-17 who were hospitalized for Covid had the bivalent booster. According to the Ohio (my state) Dept. of Health website, 5.29% of those 0 to 19 got the bivalent booster.

So this booster doesn’t appear to have done much.

Well, maybe it messed up the hearts of a few hundred Ohio kids. Okay, I’ll give it that.

Per the CDC data, 26% of those 50-64 who are unvaxxed (which I interpret as no Covid jab ever) were hospitalized.

Per Ohio, 29% of Ohians 50-59 did not get a jab, or at least get #2 of the original series. 20% of those 60-64 did not.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2023-09-12/03-COVID-Havers-508.pdf

https://data.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/data/view/covid-19-reporting

For those 40-49, the same number of unvaccinated, 35%, were hospitalized, according to the CDC, as the number of Ohioans not vaccinated.

Seems to me as if these so-called vaccines are really not of much use to younger people. And given the number of reports about people dropping dead from “Suddenly,” seems it would be better to be hospitalized for Covid for a few days than to risk a myriad of things that mRNA and LNP can do.

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