(Chris Parker, Headline USA) As social media giants continue to battle alleged “misinformation” on their platforms, a recent email confirmed one of the most pervasive and powerful sources of COVID gaslighting: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That email, sent on June 3, included claims by the CDC that still have not been verified, reported the Epoch Times.
“Claims that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective for children ages 6 months to 4 years are false and belief in such claims could lead to back vaccine hesitancy,” the CDC official wrote.
“COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States are effective at protecting people, including children ages 6 months to 4 years, from getting seriously ill, being hospitalized, and even dying,” the CDC official added.
“The clinical trials were not powered to detect efficacy against severe disease in young children,” Dr. Sara Oliver, a CDC official, said during a meeting before the agency recommended the vaccines for young children.
The trial for the vaccines used an endpoint for antibodies that have not been confirmed to protect the recipient from COVID-19. Those metrics were also based on studies using adults in 2020.
According to trials, Moderna’s vaccine has a ‘low efficacy.’ Pfizer’s vaccine received a higher score, but was still labeled ‘unreliable.’
“The trials do nothing to inform us about symptomatic infection risk after Pfizer and show us efficacy is poor after Moderna and we don’t know how long any protection might last,” Dr. Tracy Hoeg, an epidemiologist in California, told the Epoch Times via email, adding that the trials “gave us no information about reduction of severe disease.”
Despite this, Facebook still collaborated with the CDC in censoring social media posts regarding the truth about COVID-19 vaccines.
“Thank you so much again for gathering the team to meet with us earlier this week, it was incredibly helpful,” a Facebook official wrote to the CDC in February. “Your partnership is critical to us in making sure we can remove false and harmful claims about COVID-19 and vaccines on our platform.
“In follow up to our meeting, I am sharing below the long list of claims that we currently remove related to the COVID vaccine because public health authorities such as the CDC have confirmed they are false and could contribute to imminent physical harm if believed.”
The revelation came less than two weeks after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed how the federal government pressured the social platform to censor Hunter Biden’s laptop revelations and other fact-based posts during the 2020 elections.
Zuckerberg said he couldn’t recall how extensive the distribution was cut and censored, but admitted “it’s meaningful.”
