Results from National Survey Show that CDC ' s Communication about Respiratory Disease Outbreak Has Been a Public Health Disaster

A newly released, national public opinionsurvey conducted byMorning Consult reveals that twice as many U.S. adults believe that JUULs, as opposed to marijuana vape carts, are associated with the outbreak of deaths from respiratory disease. The survey also reveals that U.S. adults are no more likely to believe that marijuana vape carts are associated with the deaths as to think that marijuana vape carts arenot associated with the deaths.Specifically, 58% of the adults surveyed attribute the outbreak deaths to the use of " e-cigarettes such as JUUL, " while only 34% attribute these deaths to " marijuana or THC " vaping. And an almost equal proportion of adults believe that the deaths arenot associated with marijuana or THC vaping (32%) as believe that the deathsare associated with marijuana or THC vaping.The truth is that of the five reported deaths in which the product being used has been revealed, all five (5/5, or 100%) are associated with the use of marijuana or THC vape carts while none are associated with the use of JUUL.It isn ' t even plausible that these deaths could be associated with JUUL because there are millions of JUUL users who have been using the products for several years without any reported problems. Moreover, we would be seeing a lot more cases among adults if JUUL was the culprit.In contrast, there are very strong reasons to believe that marijuana vape carts are the primary culprits. More than 80%, and probably closer to 90% of the cases involve patients w...
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