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Originally Posted by Swoop
So the CDC, the organization that is supposed to keep us updated on the virus and it’s trends are months behind? The number of breakthrough cases is climbing and yet it is going unreported by the CDC. The fact is, they made the decision to stop reporting the number of breakthrough cases…
One former medical professional on TOTV constantly refers to the CDC’s .007% number when defending the vaccine’s effectiveness. I have never seen you respond to his posts regarding the use of that figure…
We were told since the onset of the virus that you could still spread Covid even if you were asymptotic. That’s why it was so important to wear masks. Because you could have the virus and not know it, and still pass it on to others. So why wouldn’t that hold true for breakthrough cases??…
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I have not yet found a page where the CDC calculates the 0.007% number. The data they provide as of 4/30 is 10,000 cases out of 101M vaccinations or 1:10,000. Their is a difference between reporting an observation at a particular time and demanding that future observations match the first.
The CDC says they have moved on. They stopped reporting positive test results due to the likelihood that the data they were receiving represented an undercount. Their page says they shifted focus to hospitalized and fatal cases to improve accuracy.
"why wouldn't that hold true for breakthrough cases" I am not an epidemiologist or medical professional, I do not play one on tv or in TV, and I did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. I can read and understand the English language, I can run a calculator, and I can usually make some sort of sense out of multiple sets of data. I don't have an authoritative answer to that question, only my guess.
My guess is that far fewer detectable "infections" are able to take hold and grow in a vaccinated person (detectable in a vaccinated person does not necessarily lead to contagious or symptomatic) though in a small number of cases (6,000 in 160M) they do. If my guess is correct then it makes sense to look for detectable "infections" in unvaccinated people since there is a good chance the infection will continue to grow but not in vaccinated people since there is reason to believe the infection will be stopped. That's my guess, my theory, but we'll have to wait for the right studies to come out to learn whether it happens to be correct.