The CDC's bureaucratic method is nuts
Anyone who's tried to find out information about covid -- or anything else -- from the CDC's web site is in for a torturous and unnecessarily long ride.
The CDC's bureaucratic method is mindbogglingly dense and unhelpful, as anyone who has gone to the CDC site to find out anything about covid and its victims.
During a breakfast conversation with my wife, I sought a simple answer to this question: How many people die each year of peanut allergies?
Google instantly led me to this 2013 study -- which is almost impossible for any normal person (i.e., non-public health bureaucrat or simple-minded but curious journalist) to read much less understand:
Incidence of fatal food anaphylaxis in people with food allergy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
There is a lucid and reassuring answer buried deep in this ‘systematic review and meta-analysis.’ See if you have the stamina to get to it.
And then realize that the covid data and findings and advice and whatever else that the CDC's nearly 30,000 medical/health bureaucrats have been cranking out since March of 2020 is written and presented in this same style.