CDC’s Covid vaccination rates appear inflated, experts worry

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Covid vaccine boosters in the U.S.: For nearly a month, the CDC's vaccine tracker has shown that virtually everyone 65 and older in the U.S. is vaccinated.

Accuracy issues raise red flags because the data help plan and direct resources in the country’s response to the pandemic.

Knowing with accuracy what proportion of the population has rolled up sleeves for Covid shots is vital to public health efforts, said Dr. Howard Forman, a professor of public health at Yale University School of Medicine. Getting an accurate figure on the proportion of residents who have been vaccinated is difficult for several reasons. The CDC and states may be using different population estimates. State data may not account for residents who get vaccinated in states other than where they live or in clinics in federal facilities, such as prisons, or those managed by the Veterans Health Administration or the Indian Health Service.

Liz Hamel, the vice president and director of public opinion and survey research at KFF, agrees that it’s highly unlikely that 99.9 percent of seniors have been vaccinated. She said the differences between CDC vaccination rates and those found in KFF and other polls are significant. “The truth may be somewhere in between,” she said.

 

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I think my state is unreporting numbers of covid infections and over reporting vaccinations. They reported almost 3000 new infections with no deaths.

It could be a typo. Did you ask them about it or just reporting what is seen on the dashboard?

investigate why red state health departments have been lying about Covid infections since the beginning of the Pandemic!!! They have been much higher than us being reported.

I thought we were suppose to trust the CDC and Dr. Fauci. You can’t question it now just because you don’t like the data. If you question this why not question it all? What if they have been inflating COVID numbers this whole time?

it’s a pandemic of failed leadership

good luck

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