Peter McCullough on health: what the evidence says · JRE #1747
SUBJECT: HEALTH
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
We had 23% of Americans in the hospital who were vaccinated, but they had COVID-19. Remember in June, remember that talking point that was issued? 99% of people in the hospital were unvaccinated.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Public health messaging in mid-2021 that COVID-19 hospitalizations were overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated was accurate for that period: a CDC study of 13 US jurisdictions found that from April 4 to July 17, 2021, roughly 92% of COVID-19 hospitalizations were among people who were not fully vaccinated, and hospital-level data (e.g., Ruby Memorial Hospital, WV) similarly reported 90-95% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients were unvaccinated through September 2021. The share of hospitalized patients who were vaccinated rose over the following months as vaccine coverage expanded, the Delta variant spread, and vaccine-induced immunity waned, a shift that is expected and does not mean the earlier "99% unvaccinated" figures were false when issued. By late November 2021 the CDC continued to report unvaccinated adults were hospitalized at roughly 17 times the rate of fully vaccinated adults, indicating vaccinated people remained substantially underrepresented in hospitalizations relative to their share of the population even as raw percentages shifted with rising vaccination coverage. No CDC or peer-reviewed source was found specifically confirming a precise "23% vaccinated" hospitalization figure for June 2021; while the trend direction McCullough describes (rising vaccinated share over time) is real, framing the original 99% figure as a debunked "talking point" rather than an accurate snapshot of an earlier period is misleading.