Looking past the Epoch times poor journalism, here is what was actually said:
“New CDC study: Among adults hospitalized with symptoms similar to COVID-19, unvaccinated people who had COVID-19 recently were 5 times more likely to test positive for COVID-19 than people who were recently fully vaccinated.” That’s the Oct 29 tween. That’s the quote. Not imagined words created or interpreted.
This is adults hospitalized with Covid-like symptoms, and unvaxed people are known to be unvaxed via the database. Those claiming to have had Covid may or may not have had it. This does NOT say those who were tested previously to have had Covid were 5X more likely to test positive — IF THEY WERE IN THE HOSPITAL WITH COVID SYMPTOMS. It does not say that.
There is no there, there. This article is poorly researched and written.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled CDC Claims On Covid Vaccination And Natural Immunity Made Without Seeing Underlying Data: FOIA Document, Owen wrote: Looking past the Epoch times poor journalism, here is what was actually said:
“New CDC study: Among adults hospitalized with symptoms similar to COVID-19, unvaccinated people who had COVID-19 recently were 5 times more likely to test positive for COVID-19 than people who were recently fully vaccinated.” That’s the Oct 29 tween. That’s the quote. Not imagined words created or interpreted.
This is adults hospitalized with Covid-like symptoms, and unvaxed people are known to be unvaxed via the database. Those claiming to have had Covid may or may not have had it. This does NOT say those who were tested previously to have had Covid were 5X more likely to test positive — IF THEY WERE IN THE HOSPITAL WITH COVID SYMPTOMS. It does not say that.
There is no there, there. This article is poorly researched and written.
The Epoch Times is just using the CDC's own criteria. The CDC didn't require a Covid test when people died, they allowed the doctors to just speculate or put died 'with' cases as the primary cause of death. A person who died within 60 days of a positive Covid test could be deemed to have died of Covid, even though they had no symptoms. A reporter asked a CDC spokesperson, what about motorcycle accident within 60 days of a postive Covid test - would that be a Covid death, and the spokesperson said it would count as Covid death, but reminded the crowd that those instances would not be numerous.
ALl through the Covid scamdemic, the CDC labeled everything/everyone it could as a 'Covid death' even when the attending physician insisted the person died of Cancer. Sadly the CDC denied medical treatment to anyone deemed to have Covid, test or not. People calling in to hospitals without a postive Covid test, were told to stay home until their lips turned blue and they needed oxygen.
So the Epoch Times is using CDC criteria - those people were counted as pandemic 'case counts' even though they didn't have a (worthless) positive PCR 'test'.
The CDC is so much worse than the Epoch Times describes in this article. The CDC knowingly created a Covid 'test' out of a laboratory assay which, according to inventor Kary Mullis, was incapable of diagnosing anything. THEN the CDC gave the test a reference sequence of nucleotides (telling the test what to look for) which was NOT the Covid virus, but a 'related Corona Virus'. So none of the stats for 'Covid' during the Covid pandemic are valid as their fake 'test' wasn't trying to identify the Covid virus. And WHY did the CDC do this? Because the CDC claimed, after telling us Covid was a world threatening virus, that the Covid virus was 'unavailable.' Throughout the pandemic, the CDC continued to use a 'non-test' which identifies the presence of a 'related corona virus' to make policy and vaccination decisions for Covid. The CDC never addressed that urgent need. It's worse though because the CDC told us that Covid was a 'novel' (classification) virus. This meant that we would have zero immunity to it because there was nothing like it. And yet, the CDC based the PCR on a 'related corona virus'.
Oh but it's worse! The CDC participated in the development of 'vaccines' which according to the FTC were legitimately known as 'gene therapy' knowing that the pharma companies were using the PCR to 'prove' whether vaccines work to reduce illness. Get that? The non-test PCR test, which identifies the presence of a 'related Corona Virus' which the CDC already told us didn't exist because Covid was supposedly a 'novel' virus, was used to 'validate' Covid 'vaccines'. Which means there is no valid data proving the vaccines work, or even that anyone throughout the pandemic had the actual covid virus.The CDC knew this.
Oh but it's worse. The CDC knew about adverse events and hid them from the public. It created back channels to hide adverse events. Oh and the CDC used 'relative risk redution' stats to falsely inflate efficacy rates of the 'vaccines'. There's so much more the CDC did that was devious and wrong.
The Epoch Times article *is* filled with a lot of innuendo, suggesting that the CDC hid data or something. Epoch Times is good at that kind of “reporting.”
Innuendo is not the same as presenting solid facts.
Of course, the Epoch Times authors do not expect or want anyone to actually go back and read the article.
The study was a collaboration between CDC researchers and university, hospital, and other researchers.
Another study published in MMWR showed that among people who had previously had Covid, those who did not subsequently get vaccinated were 2.34 times more likely to get reinfected with Covid than those who got vaccinated. This shows that, even for people who have had Covid, it is beneficial to get vaccinated.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm#contribAff