CDC chief's blocked COVID vaccine study published in JAMA Network Open
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Lena H. Sun
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A CDC-halted COVID vaccine study was published in JAMA Network Open after CDC's interim director blocked its publication in the agency's own weekly report over methodological concerns. The study found the vaccine reduced emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half last winter.
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· 3 pulledA covid vaccine study that the CDC's chief halted this spring over methodological concerns was published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open, a leading peer-reviewed medical journal.
The analysis used the same methodology that CDC's interim director had criticized when the paper was not allowed to be published in the weekly scientific report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The study found that the vaccine reduced the risk of emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half last winter.
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