The Highwire with Del Bigtree - CDC IN HOT SEAT OVER SKEWED COVID DATA

Episode Date: February 16, 2024

During COVID, the public was fed fearful numbers showing exaggerated death rates in unvaccinated populations. Where did they get this data and how accurate was it?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

People want transparency. We lost the narrative because people want facts. They want to know where we got our facts from. Well, we saw what that happened. We saw what that look like during COVID when they didn't have to show people where they got their facts from. They just threw a bunch of scary percentages and numbers at people in order to get them to take that COVID shot. And we're dealing with the aftermath of that. But that's what this is what that look like. Take a look. All right. This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. By and large, this is an epidemic that's occurring in the unvaccinated. We have a pandemic among a non-fast vaccine. The real problem I think right now in this country is that we need to vaccinate the unvaccinated. People who are not fully vaccinated are eight times more likely to test positive, 41 times more likely to be hospitalized, and 57 times more likely to die compared to people who are vaccinated. Over 97% of people who are entering the hospital right now are unvaccinated.

99.5% of COVID-19 deaths and 97% of hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated. Nearly every death from COVID-19 is a preventable tragedy. You are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if you're not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die. And those are significant serious statistics. 89% of people hospitalized here are unvaccinated. 91% of COVID patients who've died in Mississippi are unvaccinated. If you look at the deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States, 99.5% of them are among unvaccinated people,

and 0.5% are among vaccinated people. Put it bluntly in very stark terms, essentially anyone who is hospitalized for COVID right now, or is in an ICU from COVID right now, is there by choice? Is there because they didn't make the effort to get vaccinated? Wow, they were really sure about themselves and had some very specific numbers. I mean, that one was kind of mind blowing.

99.5% of the people that are dying from COVID are unvaccinated. So I'm assuming we are going to take a deeper look at those numbers. Yeah, you've got to wonder, where'd they get those? Because, I mean, those are scary numbers. that was used to get those vaccination rates up. And remember, just before we get into this investigation, because we're going to show you, the CDC, remember, only counted you as vaccinated

two weeks after your second dose. So if anything happened in that window, that two weeks, death, by the way, the whole month after your first shot, you're unvaccinated. Two weeks after your second shot, you're unvaccinated. So basically any side effect happened to the unvaccinated, which was crazy, and we've reported on that. And that's, yeah, that's already been established.

That's old news. but we're going to go into a little deeper investigation here and want to thank chief nerd at Twitter on X for really doing some great investigation work on this piece. So we go to our world data and we look at the death rate. This is in the United States, COVID-19, weekly death rate by vaccination status, all ages. And if you just watch the media try to scare you there with those scary, scary percentages, you can look at this chart and go, wow, looks like they're right. You can see in the orange there, the vaccinated spikes up right around November 2021. And these are unvaccinated people

that were dying according to this chart. And this is from the Centers for Disease Control. This is their source data. So this is something that should be, this is a big deal. And so let's go to the CDC actually and see how they source this data for this chart. So we go to the actual website, CDC, and it says in this web page how they source it.

It says an unvaccinated person had SARS-CoV-2 RNA or antigen detected on a respiratory specimen and has not been verified to have received COVID-19 vaccine. So seems pretty cut and dry. We can't verify you, therefore you're unvaccinated. Well, we go to this article here talking about electronic health records, because this really gets to the root of it, why electronic health records haven't helped US with vaccination. So this was during the pandemic. And it says in here, if you get the show, 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. Goes on to say, as a result, the information public officials need to determine who has been vaccinated and where scarce vaccine supplies need to be allocated next is less accurate in timing than it needs to be. So right there, you have an article.

Just cursory, you know, hey, there's a problem here. It looks like, you know, there's kind of a big problem with translating this information. It's amazing, too, because people assume that all we have medical health records. They assume that whether you're at CVS or remember when those giant parking lots for people just lined up like all these giant events to get people vaccinated. So in all of those situation, all the millions of people that did it that way. And by the way, who wanted to go in a hospital during COVID? In fact, you were told don't come to the hospital. We're too busy. We're overwhelmed. Do this somewhere else. So we're finding out now that if you weren't in that

hospital that you ended up with when you were sick, then your records aren't there. And so what you're saying is this is what they were saying is you're being put into a lot of, you're being put into a category of basically like an unknown vaccine status. Right, right. And so you have these electronic health records just to break this down simply. That's what happens at your doctor. So you have this trusted doctor, you go to get COVID shot. That's in your electronic health records, your EHR at that doctor's office.

And then with a little luck, that will go into an immunization information system that's higher up the food chain at the state level. And then that's where public health officials can really pick this data, use it for studies, really see what's going on there. Problem is, they weren't talking to each other. So we now have a study that confirms that. So we have this study titled Assessing the Immunization Information System.

Remember, that's the big umbrella at the top of the food chain, and electronic health record interface accuracy for COVID-19 vaccinations. So it says in this study, this project started with what seemed like a simple goal. Identify patients not vaccinated against COVID-19, then provide targeted outreach to those patients. However, it was much harder than anticipated to obtain an accurate list of unvaccinated patients.

At the time of the initial assessment in December of 2021, the interface between the clinic, EHR and the IIS was only activated for adult patients by manual query of the ISS on an individual patient-by-patient basis. So these researchers are saying, it's supposed to be simple, but we have to manually do it on a patient-by-patient basis to really understand who has receive this shot and who was unvaccinated. This is going to be a big deal. Well, it's amazing about this just really quick to point out to people. And this is what your research is so amazing, Jeffrey, is this is not an article being written by anti-vaxxers or someone trying to prove that the unvaccinated did something different. This was a group saying,

we want to get to those unvaccinated people so that we can warn them and promote to them that you need to get vaccinated. But when we went into the system, we couldn't figure out who was who. We honestly could not figure out who the unvaccinated were because we couldn't tell if you've been vaccinated or unvaccinated because those records were not available. And that's what's amazing, right? It's from their own side saying this was a mind-boggling problem. And why couldn't they do that? That's the key.

And this is what they described. They said the EHR, electronic health records system used is Epic. So Epic's that company, a private company that handles all this. It says the COVID-19 vaccination status is defined within. the EHR in four different ways. Fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated, postponed or unknown. So that's what your doctor gets to choose from. It says the status is unknown if there is no record of COVID-19 vaccine. When the ISS is queried, if there is no record of COVID-19 vaccine administered, the vaccine status remains unknown within the EHR. There is not an option to change

the status to unvaccinated. That is incredible. I mean, people think about the video, we played at the top of this. 99.8% of the people in the hospital that are dying are unvaccinated. Now we know the computer system being used to calculate that doesn't even have a category for unvaccinated. Where were they getting this information? They're making this giant assumption that everybody in this unknown category is unvaccinated. That is crazy.

So, Dell, let's report on some of our own percentages here. So this is what the research has found after doing all of this research, finding that they don't have an unvaccinated category, they write this. When a manual query for all 4,114 patients with unknown vaccination status was done, we found 44% of our patients with unknown vaccination status were previously vaccinated. They concluded when the interface between the patient chart and the local immunization information system depends on manual query for the transfer of data, of the COVID-19 vaccination status for a panel of patients is often inaccurate. Now, let's go back to that chart from our world data, and let's look at it again.

Remember that unvaccinated spike? That actually should be unknown. And we know by this study now that that unknown spike, 44% of those people were vaccinated. So when we talk about excess deaths and your government is sitting there going, we don't really know where to look, this is where you start looking. You have a spike in deaths in your weekly rate, and you have basically, 44% by this study showing that these were vaccinated people. And if you go back to that chart, you can actually see underneath that tracking at the same spike is vaccinated without bivalent booster.

So even the vaccinated show a spike in death. And above that, the unknown do as well. So there's two data points to look at. And, you know, people may look at this and say, well, that was in 2021. So they've obviously, they've fixed that by now. They must have fixed it right away because that would have been a problem trying to count that the whole pandemic. having it not be efficient. Well, here's Rochelle Wollinsky, kind of the disgraced CDC director that

had to step down. Here's her final congressional testimony at a hearing before she left the CDC. Listen to what she has to say about data. You mentioned during the opening statements, you said, or actually during the open question, you said that we didn't get information on vaccinated hospitalizations, which surprised me. I thought we did have some of that. I imagine I also carried over to ICU visits and probably deaths too because we don't have that? Just to be clear, we don't have that at a national level. We at CDC collect data and cohorts so that we can follow that for vaccine effectiveness studies.

But at a national level, we get hospitalization data. We get hospitalization for COVID data. But on a national level, we have never been able to get hospitalization, vaccination, and COVID. Yeah, so that worries me because it seems to skew the data. And I see you nod your head. Yes, I agree. Well, I think it's – it just speaks.

to the real challenges in our data flows and our ability to give data back to the American people when we don't have full line of sight of all the data that people are interested. I do want to emphasize that we did not get data in aggregate. We are again, just to be clear, we're not looking for PII here. We did we did not get data in aggregate on vaccination and hospitalizations. All that data that you're falling filling out in the EHR does not translate into public health data. Wow. Okay. So hold on a second. I want to do something, Jeff, but we don't use. usually do. Folks, we now know that 44 percent, so roughly 50 percent of the people. We were told 99.5 percent were unvaccinated, cut that in half. That means there was an equal share at best

of people that were vaccinated, unvaccinated, dying and in the hospital. The numbers are totally off. This thing was a total scam. And now the head of the CDC's admitting to the Congress, we didn't have any of that data. I know you think because even you were filling out that data that somehow we got it, that was a part of the health records. Then what were you saying on television? Jeffrey, I want to take that moment. Just remember folks what she just said, and let's play the video we played at the top of this and watch a sack of liars that are now running our country. This is what happened.

This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. By and large, this is an epidemic that's occurring in the unvaccinated. We have a pandemic among a non-vaccinated. The real problem I think right now in this country is that we need to vaccinate the unvaccinated. People who are not fully vaccinated are eight times more likely to test positive, 41 times more likely to be hospitalized, and 57 times more likely to die compared to people who are vaccinated. Over 97% of people who are entering the hospital right now are unvaccinated. 99.5% of COVID-19 deaths and 97% of hospital hospitalizations are among the audits. vaccinated. Nearly every death from COVID-19 is a preventable tragedy. You are 17 times more likely

to go to the hospital if you're not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die. And those are significant, serious statistics. Eighty-nine percent of people hospitalized here are unvaccinated. 91 percent of COVID patients who've died in Mississippi are unvaccinated. If you look at the deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States, 99.5% of them are among unvaccinated people, and 0.5% are among vaccinated people. Put it bluntly in very stark terms, essentially anyone who is hospitalized for COVID right now

or is in an ICU from COVID right now, is there by choice, is there because they didn't make the effort to get vaccinated. And now we know they had none of that information.