Authorities do not know the true number of vaccinated people in the US
What a bummer: the CDC, Centers for Disease Control, and all US states have over-counted the number of fully vaccinated citizens.
Bloomberg explained this troubling phenomenon: "In collecting vaccination data, the United States has counted too many injections as first doses when they are second doses or boosters."
Here's the story: CDC data shows 240 million people with at least one shot injection, about 72.5% of the population, but then there are only 203 million have been fully vaccinated, or 61.3%, a difference. by 11 percentage points which is much larger than in other developed countries. What's the point of not having the second injection for someone who had the first? So either the Americans were lazy or there was something wrong …
State and local officials say 37 million Americans are unlikely to have gotten an injection without completing their vaccinations, simply the data was poorly collected and wrong…
The study of three sample states, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, found an over-count in the count of people vaccinated, exactly as expected.
One of the biggest gaps identified was in Pennsylvania, where CDC estimates of first doses for the elderly surpass the state of Pennsylvania's estimate of about 850,000.
If changes are made to national data on the Pennsylvania revision scale, that would increase the number of unvaccinated Americans by more than 10 million.
In reality, the situation is very simple, as Clay Marsh, West Virginia responsible for Covid vaccinations, says: "The truth is, we have no idea" who is really vaccinated. A hilarious situation.
It might not seem like a big deal (China lies about its numbers almost constantly) but it could create problems when it comes to delivering boosters (and the inevitable next generation of vaccines): If you don't know who is really vaccinated, who can. call back to make the third injection? It is not known …
"We have no faith in the numbers on the CDC website and we never refer to them," said the West Virginia chief.
Obviously, if Omicron came, it would be funny ..
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