2025 COVID Wave

[Uncle Rico]

Huh.

CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits
The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/09/covid-vaccine-report-delayed/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzc1NzA3MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzc3MDg5NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzU3MDcyMDAsImp0aSI6IjU0YTI5Zjg0LTY2MDYtNDE3Yy04ZjBmLThjZmU5YTNhMGNjYSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9oZWFsdGgvMjAyNi8wNC8wOS9jb3ZpZC12YWNjaW5lLXJlcG9ydC1kZWxheWVkLyJ9.l7aBv9H71fj4afW7MfFaQZI3gnvFTlalhUg8Ucg4tro

"Between September and December last year, healthy adults who received the vaccine reduced their likelihood of emergency department and urgent care visits by 50 percent and cut the likelihood of covid-associated hospitalizations by 55 percent, compared with those not receiving a 2025-2026 vaccine dose, according to a summary of the report obtained by The Washington Post.

The report had cleared the agency's scientific-review process, the scientists said, but now it has been delayed by acting CDC director Jay Bhattacharya over concerns about the methodology, the scientists said. The same methodology has long been used by the CDC to evaluate vaccine effectiveness for respiratory viruses, including influenza. A report about flu vaccine effectiveness this past winter — using the same methodology — was published in the MMWR a week earlier."

Ignorance is a choice.

[MU82]

The latest:

A report �showing the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines that ‌was previously delayed by the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has now �been blocked from being published in �the agency's flagship scientific journal, the Washington ⁠Post reported on Wednesday.

The vaccines reduced emergency �department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by �about half this past winter, the report said, citing three people familiar with the decision.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-will-not-publish-report-showing-covid-vaccine-benefits-washington-post-2026-04-22/