Cdc explained: the release driving the conversation

Covid-19 vaccines roughly halved the chances that a US adult would need to visit the emergency room or be hospitalized with their infections last fall and winter, according to two sources familiar with the findings of a new study. Cdc has emerged this Friday as one of the stories drawing attention in Singapore.

Key facts

• Covid-19 vaccines roughly halved the chances that a US adult would need to visit the emergency room or be hospitalized with their infections last fall and winter, according to two sources familiar with the findings of a new study.
• The rejection is unusual because the study followed the normal methods the agency uses to estimate the effectiveness of vaccines against seasonal respiratory viruses, and it utilized the CDC-led VISION collaboration, which stands for the Virtual SARS-CoV-2, Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses Network.
• In September, the agency’s new vaccine advisers removed the CDC’s blanket recommendation for Covid-19 vaccines for everyone 6 months and older, and instead recommending that the vaccines be given after shared clinical decision-making, meaning with a recommendation or prescription from a doctor or pharmacist.
• “This network has published in New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet and all of these other very high-profile journals in the past,” Havers added. “This seems like pretty aggressive interference by a political appointee into CDC scientific processes.”
• But you won’t hear about it from the agency that led the research: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

What we know

Going deeper, the rejection is unusual because the study followed the normal methods the agency uses to estimate the effectiveness of vaccines against seasonal respiratory viruses, and it utilized the CDC-led VISION collaboration, which stands for the Virtual SARS-CoV-2, Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses Network.

On the substance, In September, the agency’s new vaccine advisers removed the CDC’s blanket recommendation for Covid-19 vaccines for everyone 6 months and older, and instead recommending that the vaccines be given after shared clinical decision-making, meaning with a recommendation or prescription from a doctor or pharmacist.

Beyond the headlines, But you won’t hear about it from the agency that led the research: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

More precisely, Jay Bhattacharya, who’s also director of the US National Institutes of Health, blocked the publication of those findings in the CDC’s flagship journal, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, according to the sources.

It is worth noting that RFK Jr.’s HHS rewrites rules governing key CDC vaccine committee.

By the numbers

At this stage, Covid-19 vaccines have been a particular target of the HHS under Kennedy.

On a related note, In June, he announced that Covid-19 vaccines would no longer be recommended for pregnant women and children, a move that blindsided and alarmed many agency scientists.

Going deeper, a March meeting of the vaccine advisers was due to report on injuries related to Covid-19 vaccines, but the meeting was postponed after a legal ruling that temporarily stopped some of the administration’s vaccine-related policy changes and activities.

What they're saying

“This network has published in New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet and all of these other very high-profile journals in the past,” Havers added. “This seems like pretty aggressive interference by a political appointee into CDC scientific processes.”

“It’s not perfect, but it is a reasonable way of measuring real-time vaccine effectiveness during the season and getting data that can be tracked over time,” she said.

“His request for a change in methodology is really too late after the fact,” said Dr.

The wider context

On a related note, Fiona Havers, who resigned as senior vaccine policy adviser at the CDC in June over changes to the agency’s vaccine policy made by HHS Secretary Robert F.

Going deeper, Ex-CDC director tells senators that RFK Jr. required political sign-off on decisions, called for firings without cause.

On the substance, Deb Houry, who was the CDC’s chief medical officer until she resigned in August in solidarity with Dr.

Beyond the headlines, Susan Monarez, who was ousted by Kennedy just weeks into her tenure as CDC director over her refusal to rubber-stamp vaccine recommendations by his hand-picked agency advisers.

More precisely, the report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed.

The bottom line

• The rejection is unusual because the study followed the normal methods the agency uses to estimate the effectiveness of vaccines against seasonal respiratory viruses, and it utilized the CDC-led VISION collaboration, which stands for the Virtual SARS-CoV-2, Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses Network.
• A March meeting of the vaccine advisers was due to report on injuries related to Covid-19 vaccines, but the meeting was postponed after a legal ruling that temporarily stopped some of the administration’s vaccine-related policy changes and activities.
• The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed.
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