HHS won’t share study: Covid-19 vaccines prevent hospitalizations and ER visits. Hear no facts. Speak no facts. Share no facts.

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Robert Kramer, Guest Blogger discusses the positive benefits to the Covid-19 vaccine and advocates for that information to be freely disseminated.

Afterall, the U.S. and state governments spent an estimated $31.6 billion during the pandemic on vaccine research, clinical trials, production, and purchasing. This was augmented by an additional $16.25 billion allocated to the CDC, plus billions from FEMA and localized state funds to manage the on-the-ground administration.

FEMA alone awarded $3.26 billion to more than 506,000 applications in COVID-19 Funeral Assistance for help covering expenses incurred between January 20, 2020, and September 30, 2025, due to deaht or murder depending on how you look at the facts involving the mishandling of the pandemic as a whole. Contrast this to the increase in the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few during the same time frame.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the global top 1% captured nearly two-thirds of all new wealth created, which equates to approximately \(\$26\) trillion to \(\$28\) trillion of the \(\$42\) trillion in global new wealth generated in the first two years of the crisis! The real cost of the pandemic was in the loss of life around the globe. Where did that new wealth come from? A lot of that "new" wealth came from governments spending because of the pandemic or its consequences.

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1. In the winter of 2025/2026 Covid-19

   vaccines reduced US adult

   emergency room visits or hospital

   admissions by half.

2. But you and I will never see the

   actual study from the US Centers

   for Disease Control and

   Prevention.

   
   

3. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, head of the

   CDC and National Institutes of

   Health, blocked the publication of

   those findings in the CDC’s Weekly

   Morbidity and Mortality Report.

4. Study authors received an official

   rejection letter from the journal after

   the study cleared internal reviews

   and was already scheduled.

Andrew Nixon, deputy assistant secretary for media relations at the US

Department of Health and Human Services, said. “Scientific reports are routinely

reviewed at multiple levels to ensure they meet the highest standards before

publication.

The MMWR’s editorial assessment identified concerns regarding the approach to

estimating vaccine effectiveness, and the manuscript was not accepted for

publication,” Nixon told CNN.

The study followed the normal methods to estimate the effectiveness of vaccines

against seasonal respiratory viruses, and it utilized the CDC-led VISION

collaboration, which stands for the Virtual SARS-CoV-2, Influenza and Other

Respiratory Viruses Network, however Bhattacharya took issue with the study’s

so-called test-negative design. HHS did not disclose the specific concerns of the report's authors.

The “test-negative” method is standard to determine vaccine effectiveness. It looks at everyone who goes to a doctor for a specific symptom (cold or allergy) then compares vaccination results: people who test positive (and have been vaccinated) versus people who test negative (and weren't). It’s the standard way of measuring vaccine effectiveness for Covid and viruses like influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. (In other words, comparing outcomes for those who took the vaccine to those who did not)

Dr. Fiona Havers, who resigned as senior vaccine policy adviser at the CDC in

June over changes to the agency’s vaccine policy made by HHS Secretary

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, “it’s not perfect, but it is a reasonable way of

measuring real-time vaccine effectiveness during the season and getting data

that can be tracked over time,” Havers added. “This seems like pretty aggressive

interference by a political appointee into CDC scientific processes.” The rejection

of the study was first reported by the Washington Post.

Bhattacharya met with the study authors, who refused to adjust

the methodology. As noted in the CNN article by Brenda Goodman, published on April 22, 2026, the otherwise acceptable test to determine vaccine efficacy was used by the authors of the study. It is a method routinely accepted by the CDC in the past. For whatever reason, Covid-19 vaccines are a particular target of the HHS under Kennedy. In June 2025, he announced that Covid-19 vaccines would no longer be recommended for pregnant women and children, blindsiding and alarming many agency scientists.

The agency’s other recent actions under RFK, Jr., include:

Removing blanket recommendation for Covid-19 vaccines for everyone 6 months

and older and recommending that the vaccines be given with a recommendation

or prescription from a doctor or pharmacist.

Cancelling a meeting of the vaccine advisers to report on injuries related to

Covid-19 vaccines after a legal ruling that temporarily stopped some of the

administration’s vaccine-related policy changes and activities.

In congressional hearings Kennedy once again denied that his vaccine views

played a role in declining vaccination rates and disputed that he has been anti-

vaccine. Kennedy said, “the problem is not me.”

To put it another way, Hear No Facts, See No Facts, Speak No Facts.

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