A Northeastern professor says the Centers for Disease Control has vastly overestimated the number of people who have received at least one vaccine for COVID-19, leading the federal agency to paint a rosier picture of vaccine compliance than exists in fact.
One of its authors Project for COVID Statesit is recent report on national vaccination rates, David Lazer, says his report shows 75% of adults in the United States have received at least one coronavirus vaccination, compared to 92.1% reported by the CDC.
“That's a very, very big difference,” says Lazer, a distinguished professor of political science and computer science at Northeastern.
The CDC “says 8% of the population has not had any vaccine, and we say 25%,” he says. “So we're saying that three times as many people have had zero vaccinations.”
