Covid vaccine study the acting CDC director blocked is published in an outside journal
Source: NBC News
June 23, 2026, 11:10 AM EDT
A study on Covid vaccines that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s acting director blocked from publication came out Tuesday in a different journal.
The findings show that Covid vaccines reduced the likelihood of severe illness by about half among adults last fall and winter. The study was originally scheduled to be released in March in the CDC’s flagship scientific publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Instead, it was published in JAMA Network Open, a highly regarded, peer-reviewed journal from the American Medical Association.
Acting Director Jay Bhattacharya raised concerns about the paper’s methodology after it had already undergone scientific review and MMWR editors had approved it, current and former CDC employees told NBC News in April.
At issue for Bhattacharya was the
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Link to JAMA PUBLICATION - Interim Estimated Effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults Using a Test-Negative Design
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