by Alex Gutentag, Leighton Woodhouse, Beige Luciano-Adams, Mia Ashton and Et Al at PUBLIC Substack
Failensky, amirite?
“It appears that maybe the Biden Administration did not want you to speak regarding these topics,” Wenstrup said to Walensky. And indeed, Walensky’s testimony made it clear why that may have been the case.
First, Walensky disclosed that the CDC did not have — and never has had — national data about COVID hospitalizations by vaccination status. “At a national level we have never been able to get hospitalization, vaccination, and COVID [data]” she said. “We did not get data in aggregate on vaccination and hospitalizations.”
This is more than just a simple data collection problem. Recall that the Biden administration justified vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and federal employees through the claim that, across the country, unvaccinated people were at high risk for death and hospitalization. “For [the] unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death… for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm,” Biden warned in December 2021. Now it turns out, as Walensky divulged, there was never national hospitalization data to support this claim. Surprise!
At another point in Walensky’s testimony,…
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