CDC accused of misleading about teen virus cases in order to push vaccines

 Daily Mail:

The CDC has been accused of deliberately misleading the public about COVID-19, after claiming that teenagers were being hospitalized in increasing numbers - when preliminary data was already showing the number was actually declining.

The June 4 report showed that, in April, hospitalizations of people aged 12-17 rose to 1.3 per 100,000 people.

Yet Fox News host Steve Hilton pointed out that when the report was published, the data actually showed figures had been falling. The May and June data showed that hospitalizations among the teens were starting to fall but those figures had been kept out of the report.   

Steve Hilton on Sunday night used his Fox News show to accuse the CDC of deliberately scaring parents in a bid to try and get their children vaccinated against COVID-19. The CDC issued a report on June 4, showing hospitalizations rising among teenagers. But it did not include the preliminary data from May and June (in yellow) which showed the rate falling

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Hilton, the CEO of Silicon Valley political crowdfunding and data start-up Crowdpac, accused the CDC of deliberately keeping the provisional data out of their report, to panic people into vaccinating their children.
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The number of actual cases involving teens is about 20 a day out of a population of 25 million.  They do not appear to be at great risk, and as a general rule, they are not particularly vulnerable to death if they contract it.  Some teens have shown a greater reaction to the vaccine than the population as a whole.  That could be another reason why parents are wary about inoculating their teens.


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