As far as lies on this topic go, I think “2 weeks to flatten the curve”, “racist to think this came from Wuhan”, “there are no other treatments besides the jab”, “pandemic of the un-vaxxinated”, and ... the concluding statement of this report, are all more serious lies.
This is a source of fun making it look like a “self-own” on the part of the CDC nerds. I don’t think there is a “Well, aktually...” that gets them out of the deceptiveness of this. If they had explained the report clearly, it would have watered down whatever deceptive point they were trying to make.
They did explain it clearly. Not only that, they explained it clearly in the _very first_ paragraph of the discussion:
"The lower mortality risk after COVID-19 vaccination suggests substantial healthy vaccinee effects (i.e., vaccinated persons tend to be healthier than unvaccinated persons)"
And they discussed the effect again in the the second paragraph.