How Covid deaths are classified, the dominant variant, the timing of doses are all complicating factors
That cyprus article gives the totals, not the number/100K etc. Never mind age-confounding.
Earlier - German jab-protocol - thanks for the link, but I couldn't get google to translate from German (I did a course on science-paper German in ... 1965-ish!) : I presume it confirmed trialsite's summary/quotes.
The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects
The agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations and, until recently, wastewater analyses.
For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status. But it has not made most of the information public.
When the C.D.C. published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65 two weeks ago, it left out the numbers for a huge portion of that population: 18- to 49-year-olds, the group least likely to benefit from extra shots, because the first two doses already left them well-protected.
The agency recently debuted a dashboard of wastewater data on its website that will be updated daily and might provide early signals of an oncoming surge of Covid cases. Some states and localities had been sharing wastewater information with the agency since the start of the pandemic, but it had never before released those findings.
Two full years into the pandemic, the agency leading the country’s response to the public health emergency has published only a tiny fraction of the data it has collected, several people familiar with the data said.
Much of the withheld information could help state and local health officials better target their efforts to bring the virus under control. Detailed, timely data on hospitalizations by age and race would help health officials identify and help the populations at highest risk. Information on hospitalizations and death by age and vaccination status would have helped inform whether healthy adults needed booster shots. And wastewater surveillance across the nation would spot outbreaks and emerging variants early.
Without the booster data for 18- to 49-year-olds, the outside experts whom federal health agencies look to for advice had to rely on numbers from Israel to make their recommendations on the shots.
Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the C.D.C., 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.”
Another reason is fear that the information might be misinterpreted, Ms. Nordlund said.
Dr. Daniel Jernigan, the agency’s deputy director for public health science and surveillance said the pandemic exposed the fact that data systems at the C.D.C., and at the state levels, are outmoded and not up to handling large volumes of data. C.D.C. scientists are trying to modernize the systems, he said.
“We want better, faster data that can lead to decision making and actions at all levels of public health, that can help us eliminate the lag in data that has held us back,” he added.
The C.D.C. also has multiple bureaucratic divisions that must sign off on important publications, and its officials must alert the Department of Health and Human Services — which oversees the agency — and the White House of their plans. The agency often shares data with states and partners before making data public. Those steps can add delays.
“The C.D.C. is a political organization as much as it is a public health organization,” said Samuel Scarpino, managing director of pathogen surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute. “The steps that it takes to get something like this released are often well outside of the control of many of the scientists that work at the C.D.C.”
The performance of vaccines and boosters, particularly in younger adults, is among the most glaring omissions in data the C.D.C. has made public.
Last year, the agency repeatedly came under fire for not tracking so-called breakthrough infections in vaccinated Americans, and focusing only on individuals who became ill enough to be hospitalized or die. The agency presented that information as risk comparisons with unvaccinated adults, rather than provide timely snapshots of hospitalized patients stratified by age, sex, race and vaccination status.
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President Biden joined a virtual meeting with the White House Covid-19 Response Team in December.
President Biden joined a virtual meeting with the White House Covid-19 Response Team in December. Credit...Cheriss May for The New York Times
But the C.D.C. has been routinely collecting information since the Covid vaccines were first rolled out last year, according to a federal official familiar with the effort. The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public, the official said, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.
Ms. Nordlund confirmed that as one of the reasons. Another reason, she said, is that the data represents only 10 percent of the population of the United States. But the C.D.C. has relied on the same level of sampling to track influenza for years.
Some outside public health experts were stunned to hear that information exists.
“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 Covid Tracking Project, an independent effort that compiled data on the pandemic till March 2021.
A detailed analysis, she said, “builds public trust, and it paints a much clearer picture of what’s actually going on.”
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Concern about the misinterpretation of hospitalization data broken down by vaccination status is not unique to the C.D.C. On Thursday, public health officials in Scotland said they would stop releasing data on Covid hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status because of similar fears that the figures would be misrepresented by anti-vaccine groups.
But the experts dismissed the potential misuse or misinterpretation of data as an acceptable reason for not releasing it.
“We are at a much greater risk of misinterpreting the data with data vacuums, than sharing the data with proper science, communication and caveats,” Ms. Rivera said.
When the Delta variant caused an outbreak in Massachusetts last summer, the fact that three-quarters of those infected were vaccinated led people to mistakenly conclude that the vaccines were powerless against the virus — validating the C.D.C.’s concerns.
But that could have been avoided if the agency had educated the public from the start that as more people are vaccinated, the percentage of vaccinated people who are infected or hospitalized would also rise, public health experts said.
“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.”
Knowing which groups of people were being hospitalized in the United States, which other conditions those patients may have had and how vaccines changed the picture over time would have been invaluable, Dr. Offit said.
Relying on Israeli data to make booster recommendations for Americans was less than ideal, Dr. Offit noted. Israel defines severe disease differently than the United States, among other factors.
“There’s no reason that they should be better at collecting and putting forth data than we were,” Dr. Offit said of Israeli scientists. “The C.D.C. is the principal epidemiological agency in this country, and so you would like to think the data came from them.”
It has also been difficult to find C.D.C. data on the proportion of children hospitalized for Covid who have other medical conditions, said Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’s Committee on Infectious Diseases.
The academy’s staff asked their partners at the C.D.C. for that information on a call in December, according to a spokeswoman for the A.A.P., and were told it was unavailable.
Ms. Nordlund pointed to data on the agency’s website that includes this information, and to multiple published reports on pediatric hospitalizations with information on children who have other health conditions.
The pediatrics academy has repeatedly asked the C.D.C. for an estimate on the contagiousness of a person infected with the coronavirus five days after symptoms begin — but Dr. Maldonado finally got the answer from an article in The New York Times in December.
“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.”
Experts in wastewater analysis were more understanding of the C.D.C.’s slow pace of making that data public. The C.D.C. has been building the wastewater system since September 2020, and the capacity to present the data over the past few months, Ms. Nordlund said. In the meantime, the C.D.C.’s state partners have had access to the data, she said.
Despite the cautious preparation, the C.D.C. released the wastewater data a week later than planned. The Covid Data Tracker is updated only on Thursdays, and the day before the original release date, the scientists who manage the tracker realized they needed more time to integrate the data.
“It wasn’t because the data wasn’t ready, it was because the systems and how it physically displayed on the page wasn’t working the way that they wanted it to,” Ms. Nordlund said.
The C.D.C. has received more than $1 billion to modernize its systems, which may help pick up the pace, Ms. Nordlund said. “We’re working on that,” she said.
The agency’s public dashboard now has data from 31 states. Eight of those states, including Utah, began sending their figures to the C.D.C. in the fall of 2020. Some relied on scientists volunteering their expertise; others paid private companies. But many others, such as Mississippi, New Mexico and North Dakota, have yet to begin tracking wastewater.
Utah’s fledgling program in April 2020 has now grown to cover 88 percent of the state’s population, with samples being collected twice a week, according to Nathan LaCross, who manages Utah’s wastewater surveillance program.
Wastewater data reflects the presence of the virus in an entire community, so it is not plagued by the privacy concerns attached to medical information that would normally complicate data release, experts said.
“There are a bunch of very important and substantive legal and ethical challenges that don’t exist for wastewater data,” Dr. Scarpino said. “That lowered bar should certainly mean that data could flow faster.”
Tracking wastewater can help identify areas experiencing a high burden of cases early, Dr. LaCross said. That allows officials to better allocate resources like mobile testing teams and testing sites.
Wastewater is also a much faster and more reliable barometer of the spread of the virus than the number of cases or positive tests. Well before the nation became aware of the Delta variant, for example, scientists who track wastewater had seen its rise and alerted the C.D.C., Dr. Scarpino said. They did so in early May, just before the agency famously said vaccinated people could take off their masks.
Even now, the agency is relying on a technique that captures the amount of virus, but not the different variants in the mix, said Mariana Matus, chief executive officer of BioBot Analytics, which specializes in wastewater analysis. That will make it difficult for the agency to spot and respond to outbreaks of new variants in a timely manner, she said.
“It gets really exhausting when you see the private sector working faster than the premier public health agency of the world,” Ms. Rivera said.
Much of the withheld information could help state and local health officials better target their efforts to bring the virus under control.
NO: It would immediately end gene tech immune stimulation chemo = vaccination for age <50 as it is of no use - produces more harm than benefit.
“It gets really exhausting when you see the private sector working faster than the premier public health agency of the world,” Ms. Rivera said.
This guy does not understand. CDC is now private!! FDA too. FM/R/B -mafia.
Anglos are bricklayers
The important paragraph on Pg 14 in blue is something like
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Akzidentielle intravasale Injektionen bei einer i.m.-Impfstoffapplikation nur selten auftreten, ist bei COVID-19-Impfungen eine Aspiration bei i.m.-Applikation zur weiteren
Erhöhung der Impfstoffsicherheit sinnvoll.
Accidental intravascular injections rarely occur with an IM vaccine
application,
With COVID-19 vaccinations aspiration with i.m. application for further
increasing vaccine safety makes sense.
Alhough both my sisters are not bricklayers and they DO aspirate it is not official New Zealand policy yet... so there are quite a few receiving nonaspirated vaccine,,.it appears to be a hugely complcated procedure?????
2 thousand + words
On a cold fusion website in 6 hours.
Levi's UNIBO paper retraction?
I must have missed that. Do we have prove of it having been retracted?
Immunocompromised children and young people are at no increased risk of severe COVID-19
Highlights
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UK immunocompromised paediatric patients were at no increased risk of severe COVID-19.
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Only 4/38 PCR detected infections were admitted to hospital. None had acute severe COVID-19 or died.
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Increasing age and immunodeficiency increased reporting of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Worsening of fever, cough and sore throat were associated with reporting SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Serology results suggest there was a proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections undetected by PCR.
Abstract
Objectives
We aimed to prospectively describe the incidence and clinical spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 infection in immunocompromised paediatric patients in the UK.
Methods
From March 2020 to 2021 weekly questionnaires were sent to immunocompromised paediatric patients or their parents. Information, including symptom presentation and SARS-CoV-2 PCR test results, was collected from 1527 participants from 46 hospitals. Cross-sectional serology was investigated in February and March 2021.
Results
Until the end of September 2020, no cases were reported. From September 28th 2020 to March 2021 a total of 38 PCR-detected SARS-CoV-2 infections were reported. Of these, four children were admitted to hospital but none had acute severe COVID-19. Increasing age in association with immunodeficiency increased reporting of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Worsening of fever, cough, and sore throat were associated with participants reporting SARS-CoV-2 infection. Serology data included 452 unvaccinated participants. In those reporting prior positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR, there were detectable antibodies in 9 of 18 (50%). In those with no prior report of infection, antibodies were detected in 32 of 434 (7•4%).
Conclusions
This study shows SARS-CoV-2 infections have occurred in immunocompromised children and young people with no increased risk of severe disease. No children died.
Triple-jabbed face triple risk of Covid infection
AN important article published by the Daily Sceptic on Saturday deserves our attention. It provides the evidence for what so many have been observing around us, and suspecting is the general case, which is that vaccine effectiveness is continuing to fall. In fact it shows that the triple-vaccinated are now up to three times more likely to be infected with Covid. This is based on evidence drawn from no less a source than the Government’s own UK Health Security Authority (UKHSA) data. The analysis is carried out by a senior government scientist writing under the pseudonym of Amanuensis. He observes:
‘We’re clearly in a situation where the Covid vaccinations haven’t solved the Covid epidemic, and might even have made things worse (deaths). It certainly isn’t the case that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, when 72 per cent of hospitalisations and 87 per cent of deaths are in the vaccinated. Of course, the devil is in the detail, and in this specific case the variation between different age groups (older people are more likely to be vaccinated but also more likely to die). This week’s data indicate that infections continue to tumble for all age groups and vaccination status – the December and January Omicron wave appears to be receding fast. The data continue to show that for nearly all age groups the more vaccine doses you have the higher your risk of infection with Covid.
Two age groups stand out as different from the others – those aged under 18 and over 80. For those aged under 18 it is likely that the higher infection rate in the unvaccinated at least partially reflects their more recent vaccination (for all doses). It isn’t clear what is going on for those aged over 80 (and, to a certain extent, those aged 70-80). It is always worth remembering that the immune system of those under the age of about 12 and over the age of about 65 isn’t the same as for the majority of adults and you might expect to see different disease patterns and characteristics in these groups.
‘From the infection rate data we can again estimate the vaccine effectiveness against infection – negative for all age groups other than those aged under 18, and significantly so for those having taken a booster dose.’
The writer says there is enough data to present graphs of vaccine effectiveness against time (this year) for all age ranges – and this he presents in graphs for those aged under 50 and those over 50.
His conclusion is that ‘one dose of vaccine appears now to offer a relatively low but stable increase in the risk of infection, two doses offer a stable but higher risk of infection, while the risk of infection appears still to be increasing for those that have had a booster dose – those in their 40s being up to three times more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated. The silver lining in these data is that the impact of the vaccines in terms of increasing infection on those aged under 18 appears to be low; I hope that this reflects their robust innate immune system and isn’t simply because their recent vaccination means that there hasn’t been time for the increased risks to emerge.’
Government report: Almost 70 percent of recent COVID deaths, hospitalizations in Canada were among VAXXED people
Data from the Canadian government revealed that deaths caused by the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) mostly occurred among fully vaccinated people. With seven out of 10 fatalities happening among the fully vaccinated, Canada appears to be experiencing a “pandemic of the fully vaccinated.”
A report by LifeSiteNews looked at the numbers published in the government’s COVID-19 Daily Epidemiology Update. It scrutinized data between Jan. 16 and Jan. 22, where the surprising findings emerged.
During that time frame, 4,231 individuals were hospitalized across Canada. Hospitalized individuals who received two COVID-19 vaccine doses comprised 63 percent of the cases (2,656 people), while those injected with only one dose comprised nearly five percent (208 people).
Unvaccinated individuals who were hospitalized only numbered at 1,367, which was 32 percent of all hospitalizations. Those injected with the COVID-19 vaccine constituted a bigger portion of hospitalizations at 68 percent in all.
Canada also recorded 692 deaths due to COVID-19 during the same period. Just like hospitalizations, majority of COVID-19 fatalities between Jan. 16 and Jan. 22 were from those injected with at least one vaccine dose.
Of these 692 fatalities, 66 percent or 458 people were fully vaccinated, while three percent or 20 people received one vaccine dose. All in all, the vaccinated accounted for 69 percent of COVID-19 deaths. Unvaccinated Canadians only made up 31 percent of fatalities with 214.
The LifeSiteNews article pointed out that based on these numbers, the claim that COVID-19 injections can prevent 95 percent of hospitalizations and deaths appears to be false. “This does not make sense if the COVID-19 vaccines allegedly reduce the risk of death by 95 percent. But as seven in every 10 hospitalizations and deaths are among the vaccinated population in Canada, it’s becoming quite clear that the injections do not reduce the risk of death as alleged
Same pattern seen in Australia’s New South Wales
A similar observation was made in the eastern state of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia. Based on a report from its state government, about four of five COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths occurred mostly among those who were vaccinated. (Related: Report: 4 of every 5 COVID deaths in Australia are among VACCINATED people.)
An article by the Daily Expose shed light on this observation, using data from the Feb. 8 edition of the NSW Weekly COVID-19 Surveillance Report. The outlet looked at cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state between Nov. 26, 2021 and Jan. 22.
In that span, NSW recorded a total of 540,330 COVID-19 cases. Vaccinated people amounted to 467,558 cases while the unvaccinated only comprised 72,772 cases. This equated to almost 87 percent of fully vaccinated residents contracting COVID-19, a stark contrast to only 13 percent of unvaccinated people who got infected.
Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in NSW amounted to 6,475 – with 5,653 of those individuals sent to hospital being fully vaccinated. They comprised 87 percent of all hospitalizations, compared to only 13 percent or 822 unvaccinated individuals being hospitalized. Of the 421 deaths due to COVID-19 in the eastern Australian state, 323 people or 77 percent were vaccinated. Only 98 people or 23 percent of COVID deaths were unvaccinated.
Incidentally, both Canada and Australia are experiencing a surge in COVID-19 deaths – which appear to be driven by the vaccines themselves. COVID-19 deaths in Canada are at the same levels as the pandemic’s early days, when the vaccines had not been developed yet. Meanwhile, Australia’s COVID-19 fatalities peaked around the end of January and only started to drop recently.
When will our health professionals begin to have some common sense? Not until the WHO tells them to! 
Study claiming ivermectin 'fails' actually shows a much lower death rate in those who received it
Indeed. Which is interesting in that they were not published in the usual sense.
Which bodes well for a retraction of the Multi-Professor Lugano paper, which they would not defend from critics because (they claimed) it was not published (yet is available on the Unibo server).
I must have missed that. Do we have prove of it having been retracted?
No proof yet of retraction that I have seen but Paradigmnoia has beed claiming this from his UNIBO connections. I suppose I should have said "allegedly retracted". Para, is their any evidence to post?
Government report: Almost 70 percent of recent COVID deaths, hospitalizations in Canada were among VAXXED people
Do you not understand the base rate fallacy?
Do you not understand the base rate fallacy?
It seems tha FM1 simply copied a a strange report from a strange website...with strange tags...
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Do you not understand the base rate fallacy?
You don't get it. There is no based rate fallacy in basic data. This only happens in grouped data.
But as you can see above the vaccine epicure take the new victim role with humor.
Study claiming ivermectin 'fails'
Dr Been.s Malaysian IVM "noevidence" analysis is being reviewed by youtube..
Too many 'concerns' from viewers?
"I was attracted to this discussion partly becoz I am from the country(Maiaysia) where it was conducted.
The study was started after much pressure from a group of medical professionals and the public against the public health provider, pro IVM vs against IVM (you may check the mainstream news).
The result of the study was delayed a few months and when it was announced, IVM was banned from sales and premises were raided.
Everyone were silenced. Thank you very much for the analysis.
As a Malaysian, I would like to thank you for your unbiased opinion regarding this.
Our health system gave excellent services during the first stage of covid that we managed to supress cases to single number, but then when downhill from there since vaccine rollout.
Seems agenda to push vaccine as fast and as many doses as possible without taking note health history of people here is main priority.
After booster, there are many cases of Malaysian experience AEFIs, but the number of AEFis being announced in official Health Ministry is low.
The Ministry even said that many reported case of AEFIs as not vaccine related
when all these people are perfectly healthy before.
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Rossi Sez (I hope it wasn't already posted)
Andre,
I understand that most of your order volume to date has come from larger quantity orders. Assuming these orders come from larger and more sophisticated firms, I have some questions:
1) Have some of these firms been able to conduct tests of the SKLep at your facility prior to placing their orders?
2) If answer #1 is yes, how large an order need be placed for such testing to be allowed?
3) What other qualifications (firm size, technical expertise, etc.) are required to conduct such tests?
Thanks so much for your answer and God’s speed on your work.
Bill
Bill Conley:
Yes, most of the Ecat SKLed have been bought in bulk quantities from few Companies.
1- yes, after the signature of specific agreements
2- depends on the specific situations, anyway over 10000 units
3- depends on many factors that are confidential
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Israel:: https://datadashboard.health.gov.il/COVID-19/general:: 22.02.2022 01:25 MEZ
Boosters still give zero = 0 infection protection for Omicron compared to unvaxx. Infection rate is the same for all numbers of vaccines...
Compare this with Pfizer propaganda spread in all newspapers.
Same for 72.7% death reduction in Ivermectin group - communicated as no success...
Same for Putin (some hours ago) the Ukraine did threaten Donbass. We had to send several thousand tanks ASAP.
Basically the world/ health systems etc.. is ruled by people that 50 years ago only could be found in a mental hospital or as KZ leaders in Germany. Greeting from Dr. Mabuse...
