Originally published August 1, 2023 2:00 pm PDT
COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. are rising for the first time since the beginning of 2023, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The CDC’s website says there have been 8,035 COVID hospitalizations this past week, per data through July 22, 2023, representing a 12.1% increase.
However, the health agency admits that 81.4% of the American population has been vaccinated against the disease.
This means that the “new Covid-19 surge” has come after a majority of the U.S. received at least one vaccine, raising questions about the jab’s efficacy.
Meanwhile, a recently published peer-reviewed study in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases has confirmed that the risk of contracting COVID-19 is higher among those who have received more COVID vaccines.
The study evaluated whether bivalent coronavirus vaccines—the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna formulations—could protect against the virus.
The risk of contracting the disease “varied by the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses previously received,” the study authors stated. “The higher the number of vaccines previously received, the higher the risk of contracting COVID-19.”
The study analyzed 51,017 employees at the Cleveland Clinic Health System in Cleveland, Ohio who were working there when the bivalent COVID shot was introduced.
Thirty-year Texas emergency room physician Dr. Richard Bartlett weighed in on the new coronavirus “surge,” revealing that his only COVID patient was both “vaccinated and boosted.”
Dr. Bartlett also revealed he hasn’t treated an unvaccinated patient for COVID in the last 90 days.
“I put in long hours as an ER physician,” he told American Faith. “Over the last 3 months, I have treated only 1 COVID patient in the ER. She was COVID vaccinated and boosted. I have treated no COVID cases of unvaccinated individuals in the ER during the last 3 months.”
Bartlett went on to criticize the mainstream media’s “exaggerated” coverage of the disease.
“Rumors of a recurrent surge in the COVID pandemic are highly exaggerated,” he said, before recounting how a fellow doctor who had received multiple COVID vaccinations “died suddenly” in his hospital’s call room.
“About 1 month ago, I showed up for duty in the ER to find out that the fully COVID-vaccinated and -boosted ER physician on duty had died suddenly in the call room the night before,” he said.
“My colleague had contracted COVID 3 weeks before and was trying to recover at the time of death. It appears that the COVID shots don’t fully protect you from contracting COVID and do not fully protect against serious disease and death. We learned a long time ago that the COVID shots don’t prevent the spread of COVID.”
The CDC claims “COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.”
