Posted on 05/05/2021 7:48:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
April 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Nearly half of the 46 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in a Kentucky nursing facility in March had been fully vaccinated against the virus more than four weeks earlier, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released last week.
Twenty of the 26 COVID-positive residents and four of 18 COVID-positive healthcare personnel had received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech two-shot coronavirus vaccine at on-site clinics January 10 and 31, a full month before the outbreak on March 1, making them “breakthrough” vaccinated cases of COVID.
Two additional COVID-positive residents who had been fully vaccinated eight days before the outbreak were excluded from the CDC’s analysis.
When the outbreak occurred, 79 of 83 nursing home residents had been fully vaccinated, including more than 90 percent who had received both Pfizer doses a month earlier. CDC experts insist the vaccine should be fully effective two weeks after vaccination.
Among staff, 61 of 116 (52.6 percent) received both shots a month before the outbreak and another five had received their second injections at a clinic in February.
No healthcare workers, vaccinated or unvaccinated, were hospitalized or died.
Three residents died. One was fully vaccinated. Two were not, according to the CDC.
These would have been two of only four residents of 83 in the facility who chose not to be vaccinated and there is no indication from the CDC why they declined to be vaccinated.
The CDC report acknowledges that “the health status of residents who declined vaccination might have differed from those who consented to vaccination.” In other words, they may have been extremely ill or frail or in palliative condition near death, although the report does not describe their condition.
Based on the data of four unvaccinated individuals of unknown condition, the researchers led by Alyson Cavanaugh of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service concluded that unvaccinated residents had three times higher rates of infection as those who were vaccinated residents (75 percent vs. 25.4 percent).
The other 22 cases would have been counted among the 5,800 American “breakthrough” cases of coronavirus among fully vaccinated individuals reported to the CDC up until April 13, including 74 deaths.
The CDC report did not identify the nursing home in the state of Kentucky where the outbreak occurred in March. In February, in an apparently separate incident, three nuns at St. Walburg convent in Kentucky died and 28 were infected though they had recently received a first dose of coronavirus vaccine.
“It is a good bet that most, if not all, of the sisters of St. Walburg have been naturally infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus — AND that they were infected at around the time of their first vaccination,” Pennsylvania immunologist Hooman Noorchashm wrote in an open letter to the Sisters of St. Walberg after the incident, imploring them to be tested for infection before taking a second dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
“It is my opinion as a physician and immunologist that persons with recent or occult SARS-CoV-2 infections may be at risk of harm from indiscriminate COVID-19 vaccination — especially the elderly and frail with cardiovascular disease,” he said.
Noorchashm suggested that the sisters first have their blood tested for the presence of IgG antibodies and to perform another PCR assay for the virus immediately before any planned vaccination.
“If you are positive for either of these tests, it is my recommendation that you delay your second shots for a minimum of 6–8 months,” he said, though the sisters were scheduled to have their second shots in May.
If blood tests revealed any nuns to have had a recent natural infection, then they would already “almost certainly” be immune and vaccinating those with recent or current natural infections would risk reactivating, or activating, a “potentially deadly inflammatory response in their bodies,” he said.
The CDC report did not consider the possibility of the vaccination campaigns having activated a dormant infection.
The CDC report blames an unvaccinated, symptomatic healthcare worker at the facility for the outbreak and used the incident to highlight the “imperative” that all healthcare personnel, as well as nursing home residents, receive experimental coronavirus vaccines. The vaccines have only been given Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Some media followed with reports that an unvaccinated worker had set off a coronavirus outbreak, “killing 3 residents.”
The CDC report did not explain how a symptomatic healthcare worker was on duty at the facility where it said personnel were screened daily for the coronavirus beginning a year earlier in March 2020 and have undergone twice-weekly SARS-COV2 testing since November 2020. It also did not explain how that person was identified as the “index case” when other vaccinated and unvaccinated workers were infected.
“Despite the overall numbers that occurred during this outbreak, vaccination was associated with a lower risk of being infected, lower risk of developing symptomatic disease, and lower risk of hospitalization and death,” Melissa Brower, a public affairs specialist at the CDC, said in an e-mailed statement. “In fact, vaccination was 86.5 percent and 87.1 percent effective against symptomatic COVID-19 in residents and healthcare personnel, respectively.”
The report estimated vaccine effectiveness against coronavirus infection among residents was 66 percent and among healthcare workers, who had a larger proportion of unvaccinated individuals, was 75 percent.
The researchers acknowledged that its calculation of “hospitalization and death outcomes might be biased” because of the lack of controlling for underlying health conditions.
“We are the trial participants.”
No, you all are the guinea pigs and so far it’s been a compete and utter failure.
Good grief, those “follow ups”.
Figures
The Drug Compant vax posse will be here soon to tell us we didn’t really see or hear the truth. But they have it. Yes they do.
The vaccines are supposed to (emphasis on the words "supposed to") make the patients immune from getting the covid. But they can test positive for the virus after the fact not matter what.
Trying to force these vaccines on the public with fear and misinformation is a big mistake. Not only are large numbers of people deciding not to get the vaccine now, but the coercion and over-promising the benefits of the vaccine will create a "boy cries wolf" only so many times before nobody believes the authorities at all.
Please stay away from me in stores, restaurants and cruise ships.
I’m not a guinea pig, nor do I intend to be one. I don’t even get flu shots. Tried it once and it made me sicker and for longer than the flu. My left sinus has never been quite the same. It ain’t for me evidently.
It’s not a vaccine. It’s something else. And why are the elites so insistent we have to take it when they know it’s useless against Wuhan Flu?
Please stay away from me in stores, restaurants and cruise ships.
Please stay away from US, entropy!
Well, no need to worry about doing so on that filthy cruise ship. You can have that floating Petri dish, all to yourself. Just ask the Diamond Princess ‘extended vacay’ travelers all about that. :- /
Haha I will be enjoying company of all vaxxed passengers, eating all the great food, watching live entertainment, while you will be cooking and cleaning at home. Have fun!
Diamond Princess had zero vaxxed passengers, or have you forgotten that already? Try memory pills if you forgot that easy to remember fact.
Where did you read in my post I am for lockdowns?
Why do you think I live in Florida and proudly voted for DeSantis? I love living here in Florida, all my favorite seafood restaurants on highway A1A NEVER CLOSED, and life has been great.
Haha I will be enjoying company of all vaxxed passengers, eating all the great food, watching live entertainment, while you will be cooking and cleaning at home. Have fun!
Diamond Princess had zero vaxxed passengers, or have you forgotten that already? Try memory pills if you forgot that easy to remember fact.
Sure, you will. If you call that ‘great food’ and consider that good entertainment, have at.
And, no....we’ll be sitting on a white, sandy beach....sipping a cool drink and having lunches and dinners at DIFFERENT, highly rated restaurants, each day/night.....at a time and place of OUR own choosing.
No cooking, cleaning....or sea sickness/food boredom/clausterphobia, for us! Not only that....we won’t be stuck at sea, should someone in our hotel/area come down with the china virus, or.....worse.
Speaking of Diamond Princess pax having no vax.....there are NUMEROUS cases of BREAKTHROUGH infections happening to your fellow marked, er, ‘vaxxed’ friends.
Maybe you need memory pills AND reading comprehension drills.
Ta ta!
But are they sick? I read the Vac disclaimer and it say’s nothing about gettin you immune to the FungYouFlu. Only that it may keep you from getting bad symptoms.
Oh and there is a Gov Fund you can apply to if you die from a Vac:-)
“You are obviously smarter than the 150 Million Americans who chose to get the jab, and 95% of American doctors who strongly advise getting the jab.
“But what exactly is your medical qualifications? Just wondering since you know more than 95% of doctors.”
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Looks like Common Logical Fallacy #13.
Keep trying, E12.
You’re welcome, BTW.
1. Ad Hominem: see Attack the person
2. Ad Antiquitatem: see Appeal to Tradition
3. Ad Baculum: see Appeal to Fear
4. Ad Hominem Tu Quoque: See Personal Inconsistency
5. Ad Ignorantium: see Argument from Ignorance
6. Ad Metum: see Appeal to Fear
7. Ad Misericordiam: see Appeal to Pity
8. Ad Nauseum: see Repetition
9. Ad Novitam: see Appeal to Novelty
10. Ad Numeram: see Appeal to Common Practice
11. Ad Populum: see Appeal to Common Belief or Bandwagon
12. Ad Ridiculum: see Appeal to Ridicule
13. Ad Verecundiam: see Appeal to Authority
14. Cum Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc: see False Cause
15. Dicto Simpliciter: see Accident
16. Ignoratio Elenchi: see Missing the Point
17. In Terrorem: see Appeal to Fear
18. Non Causa Pro Causa: see False Effect
19. Non Sequitur: See Affirming the Consequent, Denying the Antecedent or Missing the Point.
20. Petitio Principii: see Begging the Question
21. Plurium Interrogationum: see Many Questions
22. Post Hoc: X follows Y. Therefore X is caused by Y.
23. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc: see Post Hoc
24. Reductio ad Absurdum: A false X is silly, so X is true.
25. Secundum quid et simpliciter: see In a Certain Respect and Simply
“Please stay away from me in stores, restaurants and cruise ships.”
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Why request this of your fellow man?
This the not way of Floridians. Or is it?
Are you a Floridikaren?
But we need to be vaccinated?
LOL!
I am against lockdowns. But the anti-vaxxers are simply going to prolong the pandemic. If all healthy people are vaxxed, the pandemic dies quickly.
Some healthy people have already naturally contracted COVID-19 and naturally recovered from COVID-19, and thus are already equipped with natural imminity from further infection by COVID-19. Surely they need not subject themselves to any vaccine and the potential health risks associated therewiyh. Why inflict it on them nonetheless (presuming doing so is legal)? What justifies yhat?
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