Dr. Marty Makary on Tuesday accused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of “collecting the cherries” of data and manipulating public health guidelines around vaccines and natural immunity to support a political narrative.
Makary, a professor of surgery and health policy at Johns Hopkins University and a medical contributor to Fox News, joined the “Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show” to discuss the clinical impact of natural immunity compared to the vaccine. .
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Travis noted that the CDC guidelines on COVID-19 are inconsistent with vaccine recommendations for other contagious viruses. Current guidelines for chickenpox, for example, do not encourage those who have contracted chickenpox to get vaccinated against the virus.
“CDC recommends two doses of chickenpox vaccine for children, teens and adults who have never had chickenpox,” the official website says.
“So why doesn’t CDC say the same about those of us who already had COVID?” Travis asked.
Makary called the conflicting guide “absolutely illogical” and accused the agency of “ignoring natural immunity.
“It doesn’t make sense with what they’re putting on chickenpox,” he said. “It’s like they adopted the immune system in the Democratic Party for one virus, but not for another virus.”
“They are collecting data to support what they have already decided,” he continued. “They cut salami, which we call fishing in statistical techniques. That’s when you look for a small piece of data that supports what you already believe.”
U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy was asked during a Fox News question-and-answer session earlier this month whether parents should deliberately expose their children to COVID-19 “to give them natural immunity. , as we do with chickenpox in our house “.
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Murthy said that while it is a “reasonable question to ask,” he encourages parents to vaccinate their children, as there may be “other complications” that result from contracting the virus.
“The important thing is that we weigh the risks and the benefits here,” he said. “When we do this, we see that getting vaccinated is actually a much lower risk and a higher benefit proposition than allowing our children to get COVID and run the risk of having complications.”