CDC - Complacent Data Censorship

 The Vaccine news war wages on.  One side accuses the other of data manipulation, social media lies, and fear mongering. Yet amid all of that misinformation on both sides there is little attempt to link to the actual data or report used for numbers and/or percentages.  PHE (Public Health England), once again, shows how more sophisticated their data collection and analysis is over the CDC (United States Center for Disease Control).   A recent report - SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation in England  Technical briefing 16 (June 18, 2021)  provides the very data that health care providers and individuals could use to evaluate their risk and decisions concerning COVID-19 and the various variants.

Here is a table that I've been searching for, requesting from the CDC, and can never find.

Math does not have to be your strong suit to perform you own calculations - percentages.  One thing I can criticize is not seeing the demographic data (age, sex, race etc.) although the data set is fairly small.  I suspect this is available on the website and would answer the question younger people are struggling with regarding vaccination.

Now .... .here is my personal spin (and opinion).   I believe (and yes I don't have data to support it) that the treatment for COVID and it's variants has been steadily improving.  I also believe that the natural immunity (herd immunity) is much greater in the USA than estimated (even before the mass EUA vaccination program).  

This fall/winter we will spike again but the rate of hospitalization and deaths will begin to look more and more like the common flu.  

A real bonus for the "data diggers" is to download the report link above and read the section on "Survelliance of Reinfections"  (AND WHY DOESN'T THE CDC MONITOR THAT!!)

Maybe we should rename the CDC -  Complacent Data Censorship