Medical experts shred latest CDC COVID-19 study, even as agency director echoes lockdown skeptics.....
COVID-diabetes study would "never pass peer review in this form," said former Harvard Med School dean. "CDC must do better."
Even as CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has started sounding more like COVID-19 policy skeptics, the agency continues promoting research that fits its agenda but quickly provokes professional challenge.
For the second time in less than a month, medical experts pounced on the methodology of a study published in the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which is not peer-reviewed.
The CDC's COVID and diabetes researchers found that children and teens who recovered from infections are "up to" 2.5 times likelier to develop diabetes, which was uncritically reported across mainstream media Friday.
The increased risk to this age group shows the importance of COVID prevention, "including vaccination for all eligible persons," researchers wrote. "Prevent COVID-19 by using tools like masks and #vaccines for those eligible," the agency tweeted.
Medical professors at the University of Pittsburgh, University of California San Francisco and Harvard's medical and public health schools quickly provided informal — and highly critical — peer review.
"The CDC is back with a new piece of propagan— I mean, a new publication," UCSF's Vinay Prasad wrote in a lengthy analysis, calling the study "embarrassing." ......snip~
Medical experts shred latest CDC COVID-19 study, even as agency director echoes lockdown skeptics | Just The News
Yes just what the Doctors ordered.....more embarrassment for the CDC.