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Republicans have claimed that the Biden administration’s decision to recommend indoor masking even for the vaccinated was predicated on a single rejected study from India pertaining to a particular vaccine that isn’t even in use in the U.S.
The legitimacy of the claim is unknown at this time.
On Wednesday, multiple congressional Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw, shared the claim to Twitter.
Look:
Here’s the truth America:
The “game changer” data the CDC used for the mask mandate is from a single study from India.
The study was rejected in peer review. But CDC used it anyway. Remember what I said about public health officials losing our trust?
It gets worse.
— Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) July 28, 2021
The study that influenced this decision? It followed healthcare workers who were vaccinated with a vaccine NOT EVEN APPROVED IN THE U.S.
That’s right. So they’re not even using a comparable case study that can be applied to vaccinated Americans.
— Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) July 28, 2021
And just before the new decision was made, the study’s status was mysteriously changed – it no longer listed the study as “rejected after peer review.”
The site said it was a “glitch.” Pretty convenient glitch to happen just before the study was used to justify a mask mandate. pic.twitter.com/ybZ6UG5jOQ
— Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) July 28, 2021
And here is the real kicker: the Administration has NO EVIDENCE proving vaccinated people transmit the virus. Zero. None.
They even admit it! Read their pathetic justification: pic.twitter.com/JzxeaN6EWn
— Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) July 28, 2021
The “party of science” isn’t listening to science. They never have. This latest mask guidance is proof.
But Democrats don’t care. Because this isn’t about public health. It’s about public control.
— Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) July 28, 2021
President Biden’s CDC can’t make up its mind. One mask. Two masks. No masks. Back to one mask.
Their new guidance for vaccinated individuals to wear a mask is based exclusively on a study FROM INDIA—which has NOT passed peer review—using vaccines that are NOT APPROVED in the US.
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) July 29, 2021
Here’s what’s known …
One, earlier in the week, an anonymous administration official told Stat News that its so-called health “experts” don’t have studies/proof that fully vaccinated Americans are spreading the coronavirus and thus responsible for the current uptick.
“Rather, the official said, the updated guidance is based on studies showing that vaccinated people who contract the Delta variant have similarly high levels of virus in their airways, which suggested that they may be infectious to others. With other variants, vaccinated people had substantially lower levels of virus in their noses and throats compared to unvaccinated people,” according to Stat.
Second, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky admitted as much when announcing the policy change Tuesday.
“Walensky said recent studies had shown that those vaccinated individuals who do become infected with Covid have just as much viral load as the unvaccinated, making it possible for them to spread the virus to others,” according to NBC News.
“We’re seeing now that it’s actually possible if you’re a rare breakthrough infection that you can transmit further, which is the reason for the change,” she herself said.
Third, the CDC’s latest guidelines reference studies from India.
“Studies from India with vaccines not authorized for use in the United States have noted relatively high viral loads and larger cluster sizes associated with infections with Delta, regardless of vaccination status,” the guidelines state.
“These early data suggest that breakthrough Delta infections are transmissible. Unpublished data are consistent with this, and additional data collection and studies are underway to understand the level and duration of transmissibility from Delta vaccine breakthrough infections in the United States and other settings,” they add.
The first paragraph links to a footnote that links to a study at Research Square. However, the study appears to be “Under Review,” not rejected:
But according to Crenshaw, this wasn’t originally the case. In one of his tweets, he claimed that right before the CDC issued its latest guidance, “the study’s status was mysteriously changed — it no longer listed the study as ‘rejected after peer review.'”
“The site said it was a ‘glitch.’ Pretty convenient glitch to happen just before the study was used to justify a mask mandate,” he added.
Even if this is the case, there’s still a problem.
Then Research Square changed the status to “revise” and said it was a glitch. pic.twitter.com/y9NwTFg0LA
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) July 28, 2021
As noted by critics, it doesn’t make sense to issue a policy recommendation based on a study that’s still being “revised.”
Also worth noting: The study cited did not even pass peer review, and is under revision..
Could be the case that the cited “unpublished data” and “ongoing experiments” reach a similar conclusion, but would have prefer that to be made available/completed before guidance change…
— Alicia Smith (@Alicia_Smith19) July 28, 2021
Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, has dismissed the information pointed out by the likes of McCarthy and Crenshaw.
In fact, on Wednesday she called McCarthy a “moron” for the supposed crime of blindly believing the government’s narratives instead of thinking critically.
Nancy Pelosi calls Kevin McCarthy ‘such a moron,’ GOP leader claps back, ‘If she’s so brilliant …’ https://t.co/vRTodu58XX pic.twitter.com/mC70hbtGRT
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) July 29, 2021
Apparently, she’s not into critical thinking. Who knew?
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