"It is Challenging to Determine the Relationship Between a SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Reason Someone was Hospitalized or Passed Away"

A look back at my emails with a CDC MD/PhD about an early surveillance report on "vaccine breakthrough infections"

On May 25, 2021, the CDC released COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections Reported to CDC — United States, January 1–April 30 2021.

At the time, I characterized the data as “ridiculous” for reporting asymptomatic COVID hospitalizations and deaths.

By this point, I’d known for over a year that whst the CDC & other public health entities said were “cases”…