🧵 THREAD: This might shake the world.
The #1 chart used to promote the COVID vaccine is this one. It leads you to believe ‘Unvaccinated’ people are more likely to die from COVID-19. This is VERY misleading though, and not for the reasons you might think. Read on…
2. If you drill down into the CDC data from the link under the chart, the CDC defines an ‘Unvaccinated’ person as someone who “has not been verified to have received [a] COVID-19 vaccine.” Essentially if a person’s vaccination status is UNKNOWN they are labeled as ‘Unvaccinated’ in the chart. How could that be? Read on…
ourworldindata.org/grapher/united…
data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-…
3. In March 2021, the world’s largest engineering publication IEEE called out the interoperability problems between electronic health record (EHR) systems. Why does this matter? Read on…
“If you get the shot at a local hospital that is affiliated with your doctor, the vaccination information might show up in your electronic health record (EHR). However, if it doesn’t, or you get the shot through a pharmacy like CVS, your vaccination information may end up stranded on the little paper CDC vaccination card you receive with your shot. The onus will be on you to give your doctor your vaccination information, which will have to be manually (hopefully without error) entered into your EHR.
As a result, the information public officials need to determine who has been vaccinated…is less accurate and timely than it needs to be.”
spectrum.ieee.org/amp/ehr-pandem…
4. In April 2023, a peer-reviewed study was published which looked at this very concern to determine how it impacted the accuracy of reported vaccination statuses. Interestingly the study “discovered that because the interface between the IIS and the EHR required a manual query to pull the information into the EHR, it was difficult to identify unvaccinated patients.” How could that be? Read on…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/arti…
5. The study says that in one of the most widely used EHR systems, Epic, there are four options for healthcare systems to classify someone’s vaccination status. ‘Unvaccinated’ is not one of them and “there is not an option to change the status to unvaccinated.”:
- Fully Vaccinated
- Partially Vaccinated
- Postponed
- UNKNOWN
6. The study confirms IEEE’s concerns around being able to retrieve a vaccination status if a patient was vaccinated in a healthcare system (ex. pharmacy) different from the one they are receiving treatment in (ex. hospital):
7. The study found that nearly half of patients with an ‘UNKNOWN’ vaccination status were in-fact PREVIOUSLY VACCINATED.
8. The CDC knew when the jabs were rolled out in 2021 that these interoperability problems existed, yet they labeled these ‘UNKNOWN’ patients as ‘UNVACCINATED’. Coincidently after this study was published in April 2023, the CDC stopped reporting the data on this widely used chart.
data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-…
9. In her final Congressional testimony in June 2023, outgoing CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted "at a national level we have never been able to get hospitalization, vaccination, and COVID [data]...We did not get data in aggregate on vaccination and hospitalizations. All that data that you are filling out in the EHR does not translate into public health data."
10. Given the above confusion I have updated the original chart with a more appropriate label.
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