Are You Up to Date?

I thought this was an interesting headline this week.

Credit: https://archive.is/n07iB

It seems that at least 35 attendees at a recent CDC conference (the first CDC in-person meeting in four years) have reported testing positive shortly after attending the meeting near the CDC headquarters in Atlanta.

The article listed the likely cause to be that many attendees did not mask or socially distance as the CDC recommended earlier in the pandemic.

Attendees said that many people did not mask, socially distance or take other precautions that CDC recommended earlier in the pandemic.

Of course, that earlier advice was before the "safe and effective" vaccines were rolled out which the CDC Director and others said would prevent you from getting or transmitting the virus. 

Source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/cdc-data-suggests-vaccinated-dont-carry-cant-spread-virus.html

Is it possible that the CDC attendees who attended were not up to date on their vaccinations to prevent an outbreak like this?

For those who have not kept up, the CDC recently changed the recommendations regarding Covid vaccines.

The CDC is now saying that you are not protected if you had the two original doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or the boosters from the original vaccines.

To be protected and up to date now, you need to have had at least one dose of the updated Pfizer or Moderna bivalent shots.

These shots were first introduced last September. Therefore, if you have not had a booster since then you are not considered up-to-date no matter how many original shots and previous boosters you might have had.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html#All

In other words, the CDC has effectively admitted that all of those mandated shots that were required for many to keep their jobs are now considered useless in protecting against Covid.

If someone was not vaccinated previously and wants to be current, they can skip all the previous doses and boosters and take just one dose of the updated bivalent Pfizer and Moderna vaccine and be considered "protected".

I also wonder how someone who rolled up their sleeves took the vaccines and a couple of boosters and ended up with Covid once or twice is supposed to feel about this?

What is also interesting is that they have determined that only half the dose they originally recommended is "effective". 

That suggests that the original two doses were overkill and not necessary to elicit the necessary immune response based on revised research and testing results.

I am wondering how many who were previously not vaccinated against Covid are actually going to now decide to get vaccinated for the the first time? One dose is now all you need.

Could there be one or two in the entire country?

In fact, it does not look like many who previously took the original vaccines are choosing to be vaccinated again with the bivalent vaccines based on the most recent CDC data.

This graph shows the total vaccine doses administered since they were first introduced in December, 2020.

Source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends

In effect, the CDC is now stating that all of the vaccine doses administered to the left of the arrow should not be considered as protective at this point.

As a general rule, less than 20% of Americans have been persuaded to take the bivalent vaccine over the last eight months.

However, about 40% of those over age 65 have done so.

Source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-booster-percent-total

It is interesting to see how far the vaccine uptake has fallen as more people decided for themselves how "safe and effective" the vaccines were and they were not mandated to do so as a condition of employment.

The data I would be most interested in seeing is how many of those CDC meeting attendees who have tested positive were "fully vaccinated" or had taken the bivalent vaccine?

Of course, this is the type of data that we never see.

This blog post gets you up to date with the latest information of the Covid vaccines.

This may also mean that you have now found out that you are not up to date with your vaccines according to the CDC.

Of course, when all is said and done that might actually prove to be a good thing.

The problem is that no one seems to want to find out whether that is true or not.

You can bet the CDC and NIH are not putting the resources together to find out.

They made up their minds a long time ago and they seem intent on never admitting that they might have been wrong about anything they told us.

That leaves the rest of us scratching our heads and wondering who to believe?

Right now it does not appear that many are turning to the CDC and NIH for expert advice.

They seem to be relying on what some would call their "lying eyes".