F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

Officials at the Food and Drug Administration have blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles in recent months, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed.

The studies, which cost millions of dollars in public funds, were conducted by scientists at the agency, who worked with data firms to analyze millions of patient records. They found serious side effects to be very rare.

In October, the scientists were directed to withdraw two Covid-19 vaccine studies that had been accepted for publication in medical journals. In February, top F.D.A. officials did not sign off on submitting abstracts about studies of Shingrix, a shingles vaccine, to a major drug safety conference.

The withdrawal of the studies is the latest step by the administration to try to limit access to vaccines. It has sharply cut research funding for vaccine development, released unvetted information casting doubt on vaccines, and blocked other information supporting their safety, most recently a paper on Covid vaccine effectiveness by career scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/politics/fda-covid-vaccine-studies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.8TIf.Nf0VZEDJJMok&smid=url-share

[erronis]

1. I hope there are other channels for these studies to be released. Perhaps an "alt.hhs.org"?

I'd like to see side channels for all of the US gov't agencies/departments. There is an Alt National Park Service (https://ourparks.org).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_National_Park_Service

The Alt National Park Service (AltNPS) is a coalition of progressive activists created in 2017 in response to restrictions on United States government agencies' social media activity imposed during the first presidency of Donald Trump.[1][2] AltNPS is active on multiple social media platforms, including Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.[3]

A shadow government should be set up to have a coherent and open alternative to the trumpian closed world that also include many of the M$M.

[pat_k]

2. I would be delighted to see an alt site for every illegitimate trumpublican agency. However, ...

... I fear that publishing studies paid for by public funds under the auspices of a government agency -- however corrupt and illegitimate that agency is -- would put the civil servants and contracted scientists in grave legal jeopardy.

Or perhaps defending themselves would provide a means to expose the corruption??

IDK.

All I know is that we must do a hell of a lot better than run on gas prices and affordability. We must brand the Trumpublican Party as illegitimate and purge them in the same way Magyar is doing.

See Heather Cox Richardson's Magyar's Example of Exposing an Illegitimate Political Party
https://youtube.com/shorts/rF70Wghr46I (3 min)

And related

April 13, 2026 Letters from an America

Magyar and his party reminded Hungarians of the good in their country and reawakened their national pride. They promised voters a democratic state with the rule of law under a government that worked for the people.

Just as there is a blueprint for destroying democracy, there is also one for rebuilding it. “Let us now and here highly resolve to resume the country’s interrupted march along the path of real progress, of real justice, of real equality for all of our citizens, great and small,” New York governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt said to the delegates at the Democratic National Convention in 1932 as American democracy struggled to resist fascism.

“Out of every crisis, every tribulation, every disaster, mankind rises with some share of greater knowledge, of higher decency, of purer purpose,” FDR said. “Today we shall have come through a period of loose thinking, descending morals, an era of selfishness, among individual men and women and among Nations…. Let us be frank in acknowledgment of the truth that many amongst us have made obeisance to Mammon, that the profits of speculation, the easy road without toil, have lured us from the old barricades. To return to higher standards we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.”

“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people,” FDR concluded. “Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.”

[FakeNoose]

13. When Chump is finally gone

... these studies will all be published and the dams of information will finally break.

[Figarosmom]

3. Well yeah, not their narrative. 😊

[Botany]

4. It is a given as a fact in the right wing echo chamber that 20 million people have died because of the C-19 ..

…. vaccine. Most of this misinformation starts out from Russia and its current propaganda network
called Storm 15-16 and it is all meant to weaken America. Some on the right such as Peter Thiel sees
“a thinning of the heard” as a good thing.

They want to kill us or make us sick.

[RainCaster]

6. those selfish pricks won't have anyone to pay their taxes

So shortsighted

[calimary]

5. Why does he want to limit our access to vaccines?

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Anybody know? (At least anybody who’s still connected to reality!)

As far as I know (and admittedly, I’m no expert on this stuff), vaccines are and have been basically beneficial things. But that was long before anybody genuflecting to the donald was able to butt in.

[raccoon]

7. If this administration isn't trying to destroy the US to please Putin, there ain't a cow in Texas.

[Easterncedar]

9. Yes. This.

[Easterncedar]

8. They are determined to prove government can't help us

[erronis]

14. That's been their mantra since the 60s. Gotta kill the gummint to have 'freedom'

Freedom for the rich to control everyone/everything.

[kimbutgar]

10. They really want to kill us Americans

This administration only cares about themselves and doesn't give a shit about our safety nets, health, fortunes and our international reputation.

We have really gone down a rabbit home that we might not be able to return from! I’s so scared of our future and our children. ‘

[IronLionZion]

11. I hope they don't ban the Shingles vaccine

Shingles sounds like hell. People used to deliberately spread Chickenpox infections around like idiots thinking they would have immunity for life.

[Doodley]

12. After Democrats sweep to victory in the midterms, those bastards who want Americans to die will face a reckoning.

[erronis]

15. Hope you're right. And hope the new Democrats have the clarity of vision and backbone to do it.

(Money and other "persuasions" have been known to cloud vision.....)

[Martin68]

16. WTF!? The Trump regime is destroying this country from every direction - undermining science, reversing civil rights,

taking our health protection system apart, breaking our treaties with other nations, dumping our allies, aligning with autocracies in China, Russia, and elsewhere. We have to take control of congress in the midterm elections.

[mdbl]

17. I guess the HHS/FDA are those death panels Sarah Palin was warning us about.

[Grins]

18. That would be the vaccine Trump promoted and bragged about it's "warp speed" development?

The one Fox hosts said should be called “The Trump Vaccine?” That the one?

Someone should ask him about that?

[LudwigPastorius]

19. Insanity.

There's not a hell hot enough for these people.