{"id":121788,"date":"2022-06-16T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2022\/06\/16\/why-america-doesnt-trust-the-cdc\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T17:49:11","slug":"why-america-doesnt-trust-the-cdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/why-america-doesnt-trust-the-cdc\/","title":{"rendered":"Why America Doesn\u2019t Trust the CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People don&#8217;t trust the <a data-sys=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/cdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC<\/a>. Here&#8217;s one example illustrating why. Two weeks ago, with no outcomes data on COVID-19 booster shots for 5-to-11-year-olds, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) vigorously recommended the booster for all 24 million American children in that age group. The CDC cited a small <a data-sys=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/pfizer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pfizer<\/a> study of 140 children that showed boosters elevated their antibody levels\u2014an outcome known to be transitory.<\/p>\n<p>When that study concluded, a Pfizer spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pfizer-says-covid-19-booster-sparked-immune-response-against-omicron-in-children-ages-5-to-11-11649933284\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> it <em>did not<\/em> determine the efficacy of the booster in the 5-to-11-year-olds. But that didn&#8217;t matter to the CDC. Seemingly hoping for a different answer, the agency put the matter before its own kangaroo court of curated experts, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).<\/p>\n<p>I listened to the meeting, and couldn&#8217;t believe what I heard. At times, the committee members sounded like a group of marketing executives. Dr. Beth Bell of the University of Washington said &#8220;what we really need to do is to be as consistent and clear and simple as possible,&#8221; pointing out that the committee needed &#8220;a consistent recommendation which is simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the CDC is curious as to why people aren&#8217;t listening to its recommendations, it should consider how it bypassed experts to put the matter before a Kangaroo court of like-minded loyalists. 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