Outrageous and Appalling: Censorship of FDA and CDC Vaccine Studies
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against COVID-19 and shingles. Two COVID-19 studies had already been accepted for publication in medical journals, and abstracts of the shingles studies were to be submitted to a drug safety conference. In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) blocked a COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness study from being published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the agency’s leading scientific journal.
Dr. Robert Steinbrook, Health Research Group Director at Public Citizen, issued the following statement:
“The censorship of FDA and CDC scientific studies because their findings undermine Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda is outrageous and appalling. Suppressing scientific research exposes the absurdity of Kennedy’s frequently repeated claim that he would bring ‘gold standard’ science and ‘radical transparency’ to the nation’s public health agencies.
“FDA Commissioner Dr. Martin Makary and Dr. Erica Schwartz, the nominee for CDC Director, must publicly commit to reversing these decisions and allowing the vaccine studies to be promptly published. Bona fide public health agencies do not censor bona fide vaccine research.”