Health officials downplayed data on natural immunity, misrepresented study, never updated findings
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in August 2021 that vaccines offered greater protection than a previous COVID-19 infection, officials cited a study that never included any such conclusion.
In fact, the study that CDC guidance was based upon only focused on the effects of vaccination following a COVID-19 infection, meaning in those that had already developed antibodies to the virus. Instead, the CDC touted it as data supporting vaccination without mentioning prior infections, a serious flaw in medical "science."
Nonetheless, the message that vaccines provided superior protection became a common refrain regarding all protection from COVID. Newly released documents from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit show that documents reveal that senior health officials received new information shortly after their August 2021 declaration about an early pandemic study from Israel that came to an entirely different conclusion.
Senior health officials responsible for the pandemic response mischaracterized an early study on COVID immunity, downplayed natural immunity data and never updated messaging about natural immunity vs. vaccination because it would be “too costly” not to.
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