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mystery-ak:
Congressman: Biden’s New Coronavirus Guidelines Based on Research Using Vaccine Not Approved in U.S.

Hannah Bleau 28 Jul 2021

President Joe Biden’s surrender to the coronavirus, reversing course and ushering in peak pandemic-era restrictions including masking vaccinated individuals, appears to be partially based on research from India, which included a vaccine not approved in the United States.

“The CDC’s reversal on viral load among breakthrough vaccinated cases is based on an Indian study involving those w/ a non-U.S. approved vaccine,” Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) said on Wednesday, the day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CD) released its updated guidance.

“Mask mandates coming back based on research that’s inapplicable from the get-go. This is J&J-pause-level incompetence,” he said, criticizing the federal health agency for failing to “grasp complex play btwn risk balancing + human behavior.”

“Instead of communicating risks & allowing us to exercise judgment CDC issues sweeping proclamations that cast doubt + undermine trust. This category mistake is no different,” he added:


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https://twitter.com/RepMeijer/status/1420422730080477197

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/28/congressman-bidens-new-coronavirus-guidelines-based-on-research-using-vaccine-not-approved-in-u-s/

PeteS in CA:
The Indian study supposedly used data from recipients of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines. However the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is not authorized for use in India. The vaccines the are authorized there are AstraZeneca's (manufactured locally, "Covishield"), Covaxin (developed in India), and Sputnik 5 (Russian, little used in India). So I doubt much of the data in that study is from recipients of the Pfizer vaccine.

As Rep. Peter Meijer stated, the AstraZeneca vaccine is not authorized for use in the US by the FDA (only Johnson & Johnson's, Moderna's, and Pfizer's vaccines are authorized by the FDA for use in the US). So the basis for the CDC's claims and decisions regarding vaccinated people in the US are based on a vaccine not used in the US that uses a technology used in less than 4% of the vaccine doses administered in the US ( https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations#which-vaccines-have-been-administered-in-each-country ).

PeteS in CA:
"Never mind ..."

Oh well: Indian study relied on by CDC for new mask guidance has been revised, no longer shows higher viral loads in vaxxed

https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2021/08/12/oh-well-indian-study-relied-on-by-cdc-for-new-mask-guidance-has-been-revised-no-longer-shows-higher-viral-loads-in-vaxxed-n408446


--- Quote ---As we now know, the Indian study wasn’t the sole basis for the CDC’s conclusion that the vaccinated should start wearing masks again. The Provincetown study plus other research from Wisconsin and Singapore showed that some vaccinated people who ended up with breakthrough infections may have viral loads as high as infected unvaccinated people do, at least for a few days. (The Singapore study found that viral load drops in the vaxxed much more quickly than it does in the unvaxxed, though.)

That suggested that the vaccinated could transmit Delta as easily as the unvaccinated could. But the only study that purported to confirm that transmission was happening among the vaccinated was the study from India.

Which turns out to have been … problematic:


--- Quote ---But Ravindra Gupta, the director of the team at the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases that conducted the study, confirmed to The Fact Checker that the article had been initially rejected during peer review because a reviewer “was not happy with certain aspects.” The paper is now on its fourth revision — Research Square only shows the first version — and Gupta said that the “high viral loads” cited by the CDC essentially disappeared in the current version as more information was obtained from a third hospital. He said that revised paper is still under review for publication.
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The "Provincetown study" is also "problematic", now known to have a significant cultural context issue, https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,444538.msg2469885.html#msg2469885 .

Kamaji:
In other words, the CDC is full of shit, knew or should have known that they were wrong, and went ahead and made the face-diaper mandate anyways.

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