"The CDC was expected last month to publish a study showing that Covid vaccines reduced the likelihood of severe illness, but the agency’s acting director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, delayed its release due to concerns about the methodology."
#PublicHealth #CDC #HHS #MMWR #covid #vaccinations #immunizations
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"The new charter places a heavy emphasis on vaccine safety and includes 'recovery from serious vaccine injuries' as among the types of expertise that would qualify someone to be a committee member. The document appears to draw from a petition to the health secretary by Aaron Siri, a lawyer who for years joined with Mr. Kennedy in court battles over vaccine safety."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/health/cdc-rfk-jr-vaccine-committee-ruling.html
"The CDC is currently without a permanent director. And a study showing that vaccines work would be rather inconvenient for an administration that has spent the past year telling pregnant women to 'fight like hell' not to take Tylenol.
There’s no need to speculate. A government health agency had a study showing its vaccine works, and a political appointee decided this was not yet the right moment for the public to know that."
"The study found updated COVID vaccines reduced covid-linked hospitalizations by 55% in healthy adults. Acting CDC director Jay Bhattacharya delayed publication over concerns about the study’s methodology. Two scientists familiar with the decision spoke about it on condition of anonymity, for fear of retaliation.
The timing is notable. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called covid vaccines 'the deadliest vaccine ever made.'”
"The government has data proving COVID vaccine saves lives, which is apparently classified information.
The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed publication of a report showing the COVID-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half."
~ Ryan Rose
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Minnesota’s largest pediatric system restarts gender-affirming care for trans minors
"Put this alongside the admin's🚨other doc actions on #PublicHealth data this session.
The NSF's soc science funding:🚨0'ed out in the budget -same #NSF: funded FND res on auth backsliding & dem erosion.🚨Mult IGs who provided indep oversight of agency ops: fired. #EPA: now run by a man who helped write: oil IND's ARGs agst methane regs *appt➡️to weaken them. #CDC🚨delays pub of a rpt: shows #COVID vaccines reduce ER visits & hosps by ~1/2."
-M Young
#HHS #GOPDeathCult #USPol
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