From The Epoch Times: A top U.S. agency is under fire for withholding some of the COVID-19 data it collects.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed to The Epoch Times that it has not published some of the data it collected on COVID-19 reinfections.

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The spokesperson said it dropped plans for publishing a paper based on the data “given other response priorities” because a part of the same data was already presented in a published manuscript.

An agency representative told the New York Times that it has also withheld other information, including details on how booster doses have affected young people.

The data has not been released or has been released slowly because it takes time to make sure “it’s accurate and actionable,” the representative said, adding that there are fears the information might be misinterpreted.

Multiple experts say the CDC should make all the data available.

Dr. Robert Malone, who helped create the messenger RNA technology some of the vaccines are built on, says the CDC’s actions are a type of fraud.

“Withholding data, key data, is scientific fraud,” Malone told The Epoch Times.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, said that the CDC shouldn’t “withhold information in order to manipulate behavior…”

CDC spokesperson told The Epoch Times that it is holding unpublished data on reinfections it received from the Emerging Infections Network, a group comprised of some 3,000 medical professionals.

The agency dropped plans for publishing a paper based on the data “given other response priorities” and because a part of the same data was already presented in a manuscript published in late 2021, the spokesperson said…

Estimates of risks and benefits from COVID-19 and vaccines, meanwhile, are misleading in part because of how the CDC has told medical examiners to list COVID-19 on death certificates even if it’s not a confirmed cause of death, and even if patients aren’t confirmed to have had the disease, Malone asserted. That led to some deaths by car accident and poisoning being classified as COVID-19 deaths.

A CDC spokesperson said in an email that certifiers “should not list COVID-19 unless it was the cause of or contributed significantly to death” and that an analysis of certificates found COVID-19 was the underlying cause, meaning the disease initiated the causal pathway leading to death, in 91 percent of cases where certificates mention COVID-19.

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(Excerpt from The Epoch Times. Photo Credit: Getty Images)