CDC's chief blocked a covid vaccine study. Now it's in a top medical journal.
A 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, which had been slated for publication in March in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, found that the covid-19 vaccine reduced the risk of emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half last winter. The findings were consistent with what researchers have found in past years, that the vaccine can help reduce the risk of severe illness in adults even after accounting for immunity from prior vaccination or infection.
"Science was never the issue," said Michelle Barron, one of the study's authors and senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth, a nonprofit health system in Colorado. "Certainly it was within [the CDC's] purview to keep it out, for whatever reason, but it was clearly not for scientific reasons that the study was withheld from publication in the MMWR."
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