Things That Make You Go…Hmmm
On May 1st, the CDC stopped reporting mild and asymptomatic COVID-19 “breakthrough” cases. Supposedly this was “to focus on identifying and investigating only hospitalized or fatal cases due to any cause. This shift will help maximize the quality of the data collected on cases of greatest clinical and public health importance.”
Isn’t the overall effectiveness of the so-called vaccines of great clinical importance? It is curious to note that the Delta variant was just beginning to cause a surge in infections then. Wouldn’t it have been of great clinical importance to know how the vaccinated were faring against Delta?