60%
of Those Older Than 50 Who Die From COVID Are Double Vaxxed
Analysis by Dr. Joseph
MercolaFact Checked
August 30, 2021
STORY
AT-A-GLANCE
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As of August 15, 2021, 68% of COVID patients
admitted to hospital in the U.K. who were over the age of 50 had received one
or two doses of COVID injections. By mid-August, 59% of serious cases in Israel
were also among those who had received two COVID injections, mirroring U.K.
data
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Only in the 50 and younger category were a
majority, 74%, of British COVID patients unvaccinated. Those claiming we’re in
a pandemic of the unvaccinated fail to differentiate between age groups
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The same applies to COVID deaths in the U.K.
Unvaccinated make up the majority of deaths only in the under-50 age group. In
the over-50 group, the clear majority, 70%, are either partially or fully
“vaccinated”
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We cannot rely on U.S. data to get a clear idea of
how the COVID shots are working, as the CDC has chosen to only track
breakthrough cases that result in hospitalization and/or death
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Reanalysis of Pfizer’s, Moderna’s and Janssen’s
COVID trial data using the proper endpoint show the shots are hurting the
health of the population, and if mass vaccination continues we face “a looming
vaccine-induced public health catastrophe”
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A new study shows that vaccinated individuals are
up to 13 times more likely to get infected with the new Delta variant than
unvaccinated individuals who have had a natural COVID infection
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The
oft-repeated refrain right now is that we're in a "pandemic of the
unvaccinated," meaning those who have not received the COVID jab make up
the bulk of those hospitalized and dying from the Delta variant. For example,
August 20, 2021, England's chief medical officer professor Chris Whitty
tweeted:1,2
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"Four
weeks working on a COVID ward makes stark the reality that the majority of our
hospitalized COVID patients are unvaccinated and regret delaying. Some are very
sick including young adults. Please don't delay your vaccine."
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Curiously, if
you take the time to actually look at the data, you'll find that this blanket
statement is rather deceptive. Here's a graphic published in the Evening
Standard, sourced from Public Health England:3
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As you can
see, as of August 15, 2021, 58% of COVID patients admitted to hospital who were
over the age of 50 had actually received two doses of COVID injections and 10%
had received one dose. So, partially or fully "vaccinated"
individuals made up 68% of hospitalizations.
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Only in the
50 and younger category were a majority, 74%, of hospitalizations among the
unvaccinated. Whitty, however, completely neglected to differentiate between
the age groups. The same applies to deaths. Unvaccinated only make up the
majority of COVID deaths in the under-50 age group. In the over-50 group, the
clear majority, 70%, are either partially or fully "vaccinated."
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It's also
unclear whether hospitals in the U.K. (and elsewhere) are still designating
anyone who is admitted and tests positive with a PCR test as a "COVID
patient." If so, people with broken bones or any number of other health
problems who have no symptoms of COVID-19 at all might be unfairly lumped into
the "unvaccinated COVID patient" total.
Israeli Data Show COVID Jab Is Failing in
Over-50s
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In Israel,
where vaccine uptake has been very high due to restrictions on freedom for
those who don't comply,4 data show those who have received the COVID jab
are 6.72 times more likely to get infected than people with natural immunity.5,6,7
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The fully
"vaccinated" also made up the bulk of serious cases and COVID-related
deaths in July 2021, as illustrated in the graphs below.8 The red
is unvaccinated, yellow refers to partially "vaccinated" and green
fully "vaccinated" with two doses. By mid-August, 59% of serious
cases were among those who had received two COVID injections,9 mirroring
the data coming out of the U.K.
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In an August
16, 2021, Science article,10 Israeli Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz is
quoted saying the nation has entered a "critical time" in the race
against the pandemic. Horowitz allegedly was given a third booster shot August
13, 2021, the day they began offering a third dose to people over the age of
50.
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From Public
Health England's data, it seems clear that the COVID shots are failing to
protect people over the age of 50 in the U.K. as well, so it's probably only a
matter of time before booster shots are rolled out there too. And, provided the
COVID injections are the same irrespective of country, there's every reason to
assume the same trends will emerge in other countries, including the U.S.
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This is
precisely what Ran Balicer, chief innovation officer at Clalit Health Services,
Israel's largest health maintenance organization (HMO), told Science: "If
it can happen here, it can probably happen everywhere."11
Israeli Data Considered the Best Around
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The data
coming out of Israel is considered by many to be the best we have, and can give
us a glimpse of what to expect elsewhere. As explained by Science magazine:12
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"Israel
is being closely watched now because it was one of the first countries out of
the gate with vaccinations in December 2020 and quickly achieved a degree of
population coverage that was the envy of other nations — for a time.
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The nation of
9.3 million also has a robust public health infrastructure and a population
wholly enrolled in HMOs that track them closely, allowing it to produce
high-quality, real-world data on how well vaccines are working.
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'I watch
[Israeli data] very, very closely because it is some of the absolutely best
data coming out anywhere in the world,' says David O'Connor, a viral sequencing
expert at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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'Israel is
the model,' agrees Eric Topol, a physician-scientist at Scripps Research. 'It's
pure mRNA vaccines. It's out there early. It's got a very high level population
[uptake]. It's a working experimental lab for us to learn from.'
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Israel's HMOs
… track demographics, comorbidities, and a trove of coronavirus metrics on
infections, illnesses, and deaths. 'We have rich individual-level data that
allows us to provide real-world evidence in near–real time,' Balicer says …
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Now, the
effects of waning immunity may be beginning to show in Israelis vaccinated in
early winter; a preprint13 published last month … found that protection
from COVID-19 infection during June and July dropped in proportion to the
length of time since an individual was vaccinated.People vaccinated in January
had a 2.26 times greater risk for a breakthrough infection than those
vaccinated in April."
Where Will It End?
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According to
Science magazine, breakthrough cases are now multiplying at breakneck speed.
"There are so many breakthrough infections that they dominate and most of
the hospitalized patients are actually vaccinated," Uri Shalit, a
bioinformatician at the Israel Institute of Technology told Science.14
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Nearly 1
million Israelis over the age of 50 have now received a third booster of
Pfizer's mRNA shot. Time will tell whether this will worsen the rate of
breakthrough cases or tame it.
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Dvir Aran, a
biomedical data scientist at the Israel Institute of Technology doesn't seem
very hopeful, telling Science the surge is already so steep, "even if you
get two-thirds of those 60-plus [boosted], it's just gonna give us another
week, maybe two weeks until our hospitals are flooded" again.15
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The obvious
question is, what then?! Will the answer be a fourth injection before the year
is over? Will we be looking at quarterly injections? Monthly injections?
Biweekly? Weekly? Where and when does it end? It is fairly easy to predict that
this can only end very badly.
US Tracks Only Fraction of Breakthrough
Infections
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Unfortunately,
we cannot rely on U.S. data to get a clear idea of how the COVID shots are
working, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has chosen not
to track all breakthrough cases. As reported by ProPublica,16 May 1,
2021, the CDC stopped tracking and reporting all breakthrough cases, opting to
log only those that result in hospitalization and/or death.
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As noted in
the article, this irrational decision has "left the nation with a muddled
understanding of COVID-19's impact on the vaccinated." It also prevents us
from understanding how variants are spreading and whether those who have
received the jab can still develop so-called "long-haul syndrome."
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Individual
states are also setting their own criteria for how they collect data on
breakthrough cases, and this patchwork muddies the waters even further. Despite
these limitations, what little data we do have is starting to mirror that of
Israel and the U.K.
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August 18,
2021, the CDC released three reports,17,18,19 which
show the protection you get from the COVID shot is rapidly waning.
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"Among
nursing home residents, one of the studies showed vaccine effectiveness dropped
from 74.7% in the spring to just 53.1% by midsummer,"ProPublica writes.20 "Similarly,
another report found that the overall effectiveness among vaccinated New York
adults dropped from 91.7% to just under 80% between May and July.
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The new findings
prompted the Biden administration to announce on Wednesday that people who got
a Moderna or Pfizer vaccine will be offered a booster shot eight months after
their second dose. The program is scheduled to begin the week of Sept. 20 but
needs approval from the Food and Drug Administration and a CDC advisory
committee.
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This latest
development is seen by some as another example of shifting public health
messaging and backpedaling that has accompanied every phase of the pandemic for
19 months through two administrations. A little more than a month ago, the CDC
and the FDA released a joint statement saying that those who have been fully
vaccinated 'do not need a booster shot at this time' …
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The CDC
tracked all breakthrough cases until the end of April, then abruptly stopped
without making a formal announcement. A reference to the policy switch appeared
on the agency's website in May about halfway down the homepage.
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'I was
shocked,' said Dr. Leana Wen, a physician and visiting professor of health
policy and management at George Washington University. 'I have yet to hear a
coherent explanation of why they stopped tracking this information' …
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Sen. Edward
Markey, D-Mass., became alarmed after the Provincetown outbreak and wrote to
CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky on July 22, questioning the decision to
limit investigation of breakthrough cases. He asked what type of data was being
compiled and how it would be shared publicly21 ... Markey asked the agency to respond by Aug. 12. So far the
senator has received no reply …"
Vaxxed Are Up to 13 Times More Likely to
Get Delta Variant
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While the
U.S. is lax about recording breakthrough infections, researchers in Israel have
some breaking news: They have been keeping track, and their studies22 show
that vaccinated individuals are up to 13 times more likely to get the Delta
variant of COVID-19 than those who were not vaccinated, but had recovered from
a COVID infection.
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As explained
by ScienceMag:23 The study "found in two analyses that
people who were vaccinated in January and February were, in June, July and the
first half of August, six to 13 times more likely to get infected than
unvaccinated people who were previously infected with the coronavirus. In one
analysis, comparing more than 32,000 people in the health system, the risk of
developing symptomatic COVID-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated, and
the risk of hospitalization eight times higher."
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The study
also said that, while vaccinated persons who also had natural infection did
appear to have additional protection against the Delta variant, the vaccinated
were still at a greater risk for COVID-19-related-hospitalizations compared to
those without the vaccine, but who were previously infected. Vaccinees who
hadn't had a natural infection also had a 5.96-fold increased risk for
breakthrough infection and a 7.13-fold increased risk for symptomatic disease.
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One thing to
note here is that the wording of this is important: The study does not say that
getting a vaccine helps protect you if you've had a natural infection; rather,
it says that natural protection helps boost the vaccine. Either way, even if
you do have natural infection in combination with the vaccination, vaccinees
are still at an increased risk for a breakthrough infection.
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"This
study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger
protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by
the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose
vaccine-induced immunity," the study authors concluded.
Fully Vaxxed Speak Out
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Back America,
in an August 24, 2021, article,24 The Defender cites data from seven states
(California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Virginia) that
keep more detailed records than most. In six of these states, breakthrough
infections accounted for 18% to 28% of all new COVID diagnoses in the past
several weeks, as well as 12% to 24% of all COVID-related hospitalizations.
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In Los
Angeles, breakthrough cases have risen from 5% in April and 13% in July to a
current of 30%. Fully vaxxed celebrities and elected officials have now started
speaking out after getting COVID. As reported by The Defender: 25
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"Melissa
Joan Hart, the former 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' star is 'really mad' she has
a breakthrough case. Hart shared on Instagram Aug. 19 … 'I got COVID. I am
vaccinated. And I got COVID. And it's bad. It's weighing on my chest, it's hard
to breathe' …
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Celebrity
Hilary Duff, revealed she had COVID on Instagram Aug. 20. Duff said
she was experiencing a bad headache, brain fog, sinus pressure and a loss of
taste and smell despite being vaccinated …
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Slipknot
singer Corey Taylor, 47, was devastated after testing positive for COVID and
was forced to call off his upcoming appearance at a Michigan pop culture
convention this weekend, Rolling Stone reported. 'I wish I had better news,'
said Taylor in a recorded video message last week on Facebook. 'I woke up today
and tested positive and I'm very, very sick' …
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Rev. Jesse
Jackson, and his wife, Jacqueline, remained under doctors' observation Monday[August 23, 2021] at
a Chicago hospital after getting COVID … Jackson, a Chicago civil rights
leader, was fully vaccinated and received his first dose in January during a
publicized event where he urged others to receive the vaccine as soon as
possible …
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Three U.S.
senators — John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Angus King (I-Maine) and Roger Wicker
(R-Miss.) — announced Aug. 19 they tested positive for COVID despite being
fully vaccinated, CBS News reported …
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The news came
days after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who also was fully vaccinated, tested positive for
COVID. Illinois state Sen. Dan McConchie announced Aug. 21 he had a
'breakthrough' case of COVID."
CDC Has Also Hidden Breakthrough Cases in
Other Ways
The CDC also cooked the
books on COVID breakthrough cases in other ways. Originally, the CDC
recommended labs use a CT of 4026 when testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection. This,
despite using a CT above 35 was known to create a false positive rate of 97%.27 By using
an exaggerated CT, healthy people were deemed stricken with COVID-19.
In May 2021, the CDC
lowered the CT from 40 to 28 or lower — but only when doing PCR testing on
individuals who have received the COVID jab.28 Unvaccinated were
still tested using a CT of 40. The end result is obvious:
"Vaccinated" individuals became far less likely to test positive for
SARS-CoV-2 infection while unvaccinated were still exceedingly getting false
positives. As noted by Off-Guardian:29
"This is a policy designed to continuously inflate one
number, and systematically minimize the other. What is that if not an
obvious and deliberate act of deception?"
How the CDC Invented the 'Pandemic of
Unvaxxed' Narrative
The CDC also played fast
and loose with the data when it invented the "pandemic of the
unvaccinated" narrative30 that we're now being indoctrinated with. In a
July 16, 2021, White House press briefing,31 CDC director Dr.
Rochelle Walensky claimed "over 97% of people who are entering the
hospital right now are unvaccinated."
Based on this data it is
all but a certainty that mass COVID-19 immunization is hurting the health of
the population in general. Scientific principles dictate that the mass
immunization with COVID-19 vaccines must be halted immediately because we face
a looming vaccine induced public health catastrophe. ~ Dr. Bart Classen, Trends
in Internal Medicine
As it turns out, that
statistic is based on hospitalization data from January through June 2021, when
the majority of Americans had not yet gotten the COVID jab. January 1, 2021,
only 0.5% of the U.S. population had received a COVID shot. By mid-April, an
estimated 31% had received one or more shots,32 and as of June 30,
just 46.9% were "fully vaccinated."33
COVID Shots 'Proven to Cause More Harm
Than Good'
While the official
narrative is that the COVID shots may be "less than perfect" but are
still better than the alternative (i.e., getting the infection when you're
unvaccinated), Dr. Bart Classen published a study34 in the August 2021
issue of Trends in Internal Medicine, disputing this claim.
The study,35 "U.S.
COVID-19 Vaccines Proven to Cause More Harm than Good Based on Pivotal Clinical
Trial Data Analyzed Using the Proper Scientific Endpoint, 'All Cause Severe
Morbidity,'" details a core problem with Pfizer's, Moderna's and Janssen's
(Johnson & Johnson) trials.
All three employ a
surrogate primary endpoint for health, namely "severe infections with
COVID-19." This, Classen says, "has been proven dangerously
misleading," and many fields of medicine have stopped using
disease-specific endpoints in clinical trials and have adopted "all-cause
mortality and morbidity" instead.
The reason for this is
because if a person dies from the treatment or is severely injured by it, even
if the treatment helped block the progression of the disease they're being
treated for, the end result is still a negative one.
To offer an extreme
example of what you can do with a disease-specific endpoint, you could make the
claim that shooting people in the head is a cure for cancer, because no one who
got the treatment — who got shot in the head — died from cancer.
When reanalyzing the
clinical trial data from these COVID shots using "all-cause severe
morbidity" as the primary endpoint, the data reveal they actually cause
far more harm than good.
The proper endpoint was
calculated by adding together all severe events reported in the trials, not
just COVID-19 but also all other serious adverse events. By doing this, severe
COVID-19 infection gets the same weight as other adverse events of equivalent
severity. According to Classen:36
"Results prove that none of the
vaccines provide a health benefit and all pivotal trials show a statistically
significant increase in 'all cause severe morbidity' in the vaccinated group
compared to the placebo group.
The Moderna immunized group suffered 3,042
more severe events than the control group. The Pfizer data was grossly
incomplete but data provided showed the vaccination group suffered 90 more
severe events than the control group, when only including 'unsolicited' adverse
events.
The Janssen immunized group suffered 264
more severe events than the control group. These findings contrast the
manufacturers' inappropriate surrogate endpoints:
Janssen claims that their vaccine prevents
6 cases of severe COVID-19 requiring medical attention out of 19,630 immunized;
Pfizer claims their vaccine prevents 8 cases of severe COVID-19 out of 21,720
immunized; Moderna claims its vaccine prevents 30 cases of severe COVID-19 out
of 15,210 immunized.
Based on this data it is all but a certainty
that mass COVID-19 immunization is hurting the health of the population in
general. Scientific principles dictate that the mass immunization with COVID-19
vaccines must be halted immediately because we face a looming vaccine induced
public health catastrophe."
To make the above numbers
more clear and obvious, here are the prevention stats in percentages:
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Pfizer 0.00036%
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Moderna 0.00125%
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Janssen 0.00030%
Where Do We Go From Here?
If you've already gotten
one or two shots, there's nothing you can do about that. It seems pretty
obvious, though, if you objectively analyze the data, that your best bet is to
say no to any and all future boosters, as each additional shot can magnify the
damage and increase your risk of serious side effects.
If you develop symptoms
of SARS-CoV-2 infection, there are several treatment protocols available that
have been shown to be effective. Options include the Zelenko protocol,37 the
MATH+ protocols38 and nebulized hydrogen peroxide, as detailed in
Dr. David Brownstein's case paper39 and Dr. Thomas Levy's free e-book, "Rapid
Virus Recovery."
Whichever treatment protocol you use, make sure you begin treatment as soon as possible, ideally at first onset of symptoms. Also, realize that if you've gotten one or more COVID shots, your risk of severe infection may actually be greater, not lesser, than had you not gotten the injections. This appears particularly true if you're over the age of 50. So, do not delay treatment if you develop symptoms.
Sources and References
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2, 3 Evening Standard August 20, 2021
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4 Our World in Data, Data for Israel
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5 David Rosenberg 7 July 13, 2021
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6 Sharylattkisson.com August 8, 2021
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7 Sharylattkisson.com August 6, 2021
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8 Twitter Alex Berenson July 18, 2021
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9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 Science August 16, 2021
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13 medRxiv July 31, 2021 DOI:
10.1101/2021.07.29.21261317 (PDF)
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16, 20 ProPublica August 20, 2021
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17 CDC MMWR
August 18, 2021; 70 New COVID Cases and Hospitalizations Among Adults by
Vaccination Status
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21 Ed Markey
Press Release July 22, 2021
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23 ScienceMag August 26, 2021
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24, 25 The Defender August 24, 2021
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26 FDA.gov CDC 2019-nCoV Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic
Panel Instructions, July 13, 2020 (PDF) Page 35
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27 Clinical Infectious Diseases
September 28, 2020; ciaa1491
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28, 29 Off-Guardian May 18, 2021
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30 The New
York Times July 16, 2021
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31 WH.gov
Press Briefing July 16, 2021
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32 Bloomberg COVID Vaccine Tracker
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33 Mayo Clinic COVID Vaccine Tracker
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34, 35, 36 Trends in Internal Medicine August
2021; 1(1): 1-6
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37 Zelenko protocol
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39 Science,
Public Health Policy and The Law July 2020; 1: 4-22 (PDF)