{"id":17091,"date":"2026-04-23T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/?p=17091"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:01:14","slug":"cdc-leadership-blocked-the-publication-of-a-study-on-the-effectiveness-of-covid-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/cdc-leadership-blocked-the-publication-of-a-study-on-the-effectiveness-of-covid-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC leadership blocked the publication of a study on the effectiveness of COVID vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"3\"><span class=\"\">There is yet another scandal surrounding the U.<\/span><span class=\"\">S.<\/span><span class=\"\"> Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/span><span class=\"\"> According to reports,<\/span><span class=\"\"> the agency&#8217;s head,<\/span> <b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"141\">Dr. Jay Bhattacharya<\/b><span class=\"\">,<\/span><span class=\"\"> blocked the publication of a study confirming the high efficacy of <\/span><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"230\">COVID-19 vaccines<\/b><span class=\"\">.<\/span><span class=\"\"> The study found that vaccination during the past fall and winter roughly halved (<\/span><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"330\">reduced by 50%<\/b><span class=\"\">) the need for hospitalization and emergency care among infected adults.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\"><span class=\"\">Despite the paper passing all internal peer reviews and being scheduled for publication in the agency\u2019s flagship journal,<\/span><span class=\"\"> the <\/span><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"126\">MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)<\/b><span class=\"\">,<\/span><span class=\"\"> the authors received an official rejection on Tuesday.<\/span><span class=\"\"> A spokesperson for the U.<\/span><span class=\"\">S.<\/span><span class=\"\"> Department of Health and Human Services (<\/span><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"296\">HHS<\/b><span class=\"\">) stated that the reason was &#8220;methodological flaws,<\/span><span class=\"\">&#8221; though independent experts and former high-ranking officials have called this argument absurd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\"><span class=\"\">The study relied on the so-called <\/span><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"34\">&#8220;test-negative&#8221; design<\/b><span class=\"\">,<\/span><span class=\"\"> a methodology considered the gold standard for decades in studying the effectiveness of vaccines against seasonal respiratory viruses,<\/span><span class=\"\"> including influenza and RSV.<\/span><span class=\"\"> Experts characterize this as &#8220;aggressive political interference in science,<\/span><span class=\"\">&#8221; linking it to the new policies implemented by <\/span><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"345\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\"><span class=\"\">Recently,<\/span><span class=\"\"> the CDC,<\/span><span class=\"\"> acting on directives from the HHS,<\/span><span class=\"\"> has already altered several recommendations.<\/span><span class=\"\"> COVID vaccination is no longer recommended for pregnant women and children,<\/span><span class=\"\"> while the universal recommendation for individuals aged 6 months and older has been replaced by <\/span><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"6\" data-index-in-node=\"271\">&#8220;individual clinical decision-making.&#8221;<\/b><span class=\"\"> Former leading CDC specialists,<\/span><span class=\"\"> who resigned in protest,<\/span><span class=\"\"> state that such decisions contradict scientific evidence and jeopardize public trust in healthcare institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/22\/health\/hhs-cdc-study-covid-19-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is yet another scandal surrounding the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to reports, the agency&#8217;s head, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, blocked the publication of a study confirming the high efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. The study found that vaccination during the past fall and winter roughly halved (reduced by 50%) the need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1594,1665,1587],"tags":[1860,5246],"class_list":["post-17091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-public-health","category-research","tag-cdc","tag-covid-vaccines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17094,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091\/revisions\/17094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}