"And this isn’t a consequence of Omicron, but the inability of hospitals and the CDC to report accurate information, as many healthcare facilities may have been temporally incentivized to overcount numbers if these numbers are associated with funding in some way"
As you know they need the EUAs for the boosters, which require keeping the "emergency" going. It keeps the vaccine manufacturers well protected from liability. Also, Paxlovid and Mulnopiravir are under EUA's and there is no need to disturb the money train that is greasing the right palms.
Defining and counting cases can be complicated and does add cost to healthcare systems. CDC can provide leadership by providing guidance and standards but I don’t think it carries the full blame for the patchwork system of case counting.
It’s all about the Benjamin’s and politics. Thee powers that be and the media over counted so they could overhype the situation to make money, influence the 2020 elections, and damage the economy.
"And this isn’t a consequence of Omicron, but the inability of hospitals and the CDC to report accurate information, as many healthcare facilities may have been temporally incentivized to overcount numbers if these numbers are associated with funding in some way"
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I.e. Deliberately lie
As you know they need the EUAs for the boosters, which require keeping the "emergency" going. It keeps the vaccine manufacturers well protected from liability. Also, Paxlovid and Mulnopiravir are under EUA's and there is no need to disturb the money train that is greasing the right palms.
...”if these numbers are associated with funding in some way"
IF?!?!! You’re being much too kind. Our government extends the “emergency” again and again and again, so they can keep paying these hospitals to lie.
...”inadvertent”
Yeah..
...right
Defining and counting cases can be complicated and does add cost to healthcare systems. CDC can provide leadership by providing guidance and standards but I don’t think it carries the full blame for the patchwork system of case counting.
It’s all about the Benjamin’s and politics. Thee powers that be and the media over counted so they could overhype the situation to make money, influence the 2020 elections, and damage the economy.