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News & Current Events Apr 11, 2026 at 12:18 AM

Acting CDC director delayed release of study showing benefit of Covid vaccines

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Acting CDC director delayed release of study showing benefit of Covid vaccines
NBC News
Acting CDC director delayed release of study showing benefit of Covid vaccines
An HHS spokesperson said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya had concerns about the paper’s methodology. Some current or former CDC employees worry about political interference.

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dontrike Apr 11, 2026 +1029
This is like those times flat earthers paid for a study to see if the world was flat, and then they were proven wrong two or three times in a row by the very study that they paid for.
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 11, 2026 +250
I love how it's like Two or three times "No no no first time they just went all the way around the disk Okay so maybe the second time they did an arc on a different part of the disc Okay okay so maybe the third time .. ah shit, let's just cancel the study. Clearly we're messing up somewhere."
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OverSoft Apr 11, 2026 +92
“Those “so-called-independent” researchers must be in the pocket of Big Globe!”
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 11, 2026 +39
It's true If our planet isn't flat, why do we only see one side of the moon? Which would also be flat, it stands to reason  *Science* Personally I want to look over the side of the disc to see the majestic turtle upon which the Earth rides through the cosmos
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Rhissanna Apr 11, 2026 +11
On her way to her mating grounds, the Big Bang.
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regnak1 Apr 11, 2026 +9
No no, that's where our turtle is coming *from* - it's the universal walk of shame
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KaJaHa Apr 12, 2026 +6
Hard to see the turtle past the four elephants
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 12, 2026 +6
Which would be five, but of course one slipped and came crashing back to Earth in what we now know to be one of the great extinction events Fortunately, it is the source of oil, ore, and burnt crunchy bits 
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zxc123zxc123 Apr 11, 2026 +4
Independent researchers just believe what they like to believe just like the GOP/conservatives. The vaccines are one of the few things that Trump played a part in that wasn't horrible. He didn't create the Covid-19 pandemic and his response to it was catastrophic, but the vaccines we got were still in part because of congress passing the required funding and Trump's Operation Warp Speed. They are LITERALLY the Trump VAXX™ but conservatives and these "independents" will claim it's Bill Gates, the Illuminati, or Joe Biden trying to plant trackers, kill them, or turn them into lizards (like bruh why would they even create a global pandemic just to implant a tracker into your ass when they can track you, with video, plus sound, and better with your smart phone?).
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Visual_Collapse Apr 12, 2026 +2
>I love how it's like Two or three times Ironically - that's how you do good science. Checking research results is not appreciated enough.
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Indercarnive Apr 11, 2026 +88
More like the time Raegan buried a study his admin commissioned because it found pregnancy to be more dangerous to the mother than abortion. The GOP has always been the party against science
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t53ix35 Apr 11, 2026 +38
This isn’t against science, it’s deeper than that. It is an assault on and an insult to intelligence. My theory: most of these people are innumerate beyond simple money math. I mean like they got lost at division. Literally can’t do it without a calculator, certainly couldn’t with pen and paper because they do not know the function. Fractions? Forget it. Layer this over widespread, essentially functional illiteracy and there you go. Information is passed as a form of gossip with little regard to continuity or accuracy.
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judgejuddhirsch Apr 11, 2026 +9
Freshman year of college was full of folks who couldn't understand percentages. 8th grade math creeping into secondary education.
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CT_Phipps-Author Apr 11, 2026 +6
Never attribute to stupid what you should attribute instead to malice. - The GOP reverses the maxim
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Charlie_Mouse Apr 12, 2026 +3
To be fair it can be hard to tell with conservatives as they appear to possess both malice and stupidity in dismal abundance. This seems to hold true on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Flimsy-Fortune-6437 Apr 12, 2026 +3
These are people who resent the fact that people better educated than they are make more money and have less demanding jobs (for the most part). Should they get paid more? Sure, but that’s the fault of corporate America not the fault of vaccine researchers
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n3rdfighte7 Apr 11, 2026 +9
And when they were proven wrong every time did they changed their stance , did they learn anything?
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EmergencyCucumber905 Apr 11, 2026 +6
Not many former flat Earthers out there.
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PrincessNakeyDance Apr 11, 2026 +6
I remember watching in some video or documentary a while ago about flat earthers. They were so enthusiastic going out and using surveying equipment, thinking they were gonna get to the bottom of it. And then they got the reading and you could watch them die inside. Just a totally drop in energy and went silent. The tone of the video was very different after that 😂
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Finn-reddit Apr 12, 2026 +3
I can prove the earth is flat. Just give me 20 million dollars.
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brooklynlad Apr 12, 2026 +3
Bhattacharya earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in **economics** from Stanford University. **He does not practice medicine but specializes in health economics.** Basically his knowledge of public health is nil.
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Flash_ina_pan Apr 11, 2026 +373
He's butthurt about being continuously wrong, so he's going to delay it until he finds a methodology that gets the results he wants.
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dave_campbell Apr 11, 2026 +56
Get him a sharpie.
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allanon1105 Apr 11, 2026 +18
Which is wild because it happened under Trump’s administration, you’d think they’d be crowing about how great it is. But because the MAGA cult is so anti science they do stuff like this.
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williamtheblock Apr 12, 2026 +8
I’m still convinced that if Trump had just leaned into the pandemic, selling expensive MAGA masks, hand sanitizer, and shilling other related merch, then personally taking credit for the “Trump vaccine that saved the world” (ie, operation warp speed that accelerated getting the mRNA vaccines to market), he would have easily won in 2020. It seems like such an obvious opportunity for grifting **and** political gold that I’m shocked he didn’t do it.
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Tacitus111 Apr 12, 2026 +5
It’s old Soviet style political correctness. Science isn’t politically correct, so it must be “fixed”.
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gummilingus Apr 11, 2026 +182
Seems like there should be some kind of consequences for something like this. Maybe next administration.
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Animallover4321 Apr 11, 2026 +70
If democrats ever get control again they won’t do anything to address the multiple crimes this administration has committed. They’re as incompetent as the good place committee.
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korinth86 Apr 11, 2026 +40
Democrats would need 2/3 to actually do something because our system was created with the assumption people would actually work together to improve the union. We have one party that is blatantly corrupt and enabling corruption at the cost of the nation. Our system isnt made for a slim majority to have control. Democrats are obviously bought by corporate interests but the level of corruption is not even close to what current Republicans are doing.
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Charlie_Mouse Apr 12, 2026 +5
The counter to this in any democracy is really meant to be the electorate. They’re meant to refuse to vote in someone who is so *very obviously* blatantly corrupt, or incompetent or lacking in decency (in this case all three at once along with several other character flaws.) It’s not just the Supreme Court and other institutions that have been subverted by those behind the likes of Trump. It’s a large chunk of the population too.
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Visual_Collapse Apr 12, 2026 -2
>We have **one** party that is blatantly corrupt and enabling corruption at the cost of the nation. You're probably from Russia/China. Because USA have two.
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BitchinAssBrains Apr 12, 2026 -4
Thats true for both parties my man. One is just worse.
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Politicsboringagain Apr 11, 2026 +29
Yeah, it's not like the Democrats never tried to impeachment Trump or anything. Not did multiple indictments against him. 
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sulris Apr 11, 2026 +23
I know right. It’s crazy that no matter what republicans do the main takeaway always seems to be “why would democrats allow this to happen!”
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Dragrunarm Apr 11, 2026 +4
He's a symptom, not the cause. I expect the Dem's to try to hold him and his ilk to account. I dont expect them to address any of the underlaying problems that led to this. Certainly not while they do everything i nthier power to rip down any progressive who is calling out those systemic problems. I'll still vote for them come November because im not a moron, but I'm not pretending anything less than a progressive surge is just delaying us coming right back to *this* for a term or two.
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doormatt314 Apr 11, 2026 -8
They're not incompetent, not most of them anyway. They're wilfully complicit.
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BatsuGame13 Apr 11, 2026 +6
Democrats have made mistakes that have contributed to this mess, but we gotta stop putting the onus on them instead of the party directly responsible.
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bros402 Apr 11, 2026 -9
they'll just say we need to heal as a nation and "move on"
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endlesscartwheels Apr 11, 2026 +13
You're quoting a **Republican**! Gerald Ford said that when he pardoned Nixon.
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judgejuddhirsch Apr 11, 2026 +1
And Grant
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Flimsy-Fortune-6437 Apr 12, 2026 -1
It’s also what happened when there was no follow up on Iran-Contra when Democrats took control in 1993 or fake WMDs etc. when Democrats again took control in 2009. The effort was a little better in 2021 but Garland’s DOJ was way too slow
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UbiSububi8 Apr 11, 2026 +47
Part of the problem is having an “acting” director. There are dozens of em, maybe hundreds right now including US Attorneys. Because they don’t want the senate to confirm anyone, and the GOP in the house and senate refuse to do fulfill their *constitutional obligation* as a check on the executive.
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drevolut1on Apr 11, 2026 +92
Deliberate political delays to life-saving information or policies should be treated as attempted manslaughter.
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TrulyKnown Apr 11, 2026 +37
Nah, you see, killing one person with a knife, that's murder. Killing hundreds, or even thousands, with the stroke of a pen... That's just politics, and you need to stop getting so angry about it!
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xporkchopxx Apr 12, 2026 +1
best they can do is a promotion
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PhilosopherDon0001 Apr 11, 2026 +22
jfc. Is there *any* aspect of the U.S. Government that still helps its citizens? Or are we just a complete Authoritarian Oligarchy now?
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Count_Backwards Apr 11, 2026 +12
If there is, don't name it or Trump will destroy it
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tom90640 Apr 11, 2026 +10
FFS these people just HATE facts!
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BalanceOrganic7735 Apr 11, 2026 +5
See: Lysenkoism. Hint: It’s a bad thing.
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Aware_Produce_1218 Apr 12, 2026 +5
Gee what happened to facts don’t care about feelings?
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TableAvailable Apr 11, 2026 +12
Color me unsurprised that they don't want to show all the MAGAs that they've been lied to.
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xporkchopxx Apr 12, 2026 +3
id bet 100$ that A. they wouldnt read the study B. they wouldnt let some stupid “scientific study” change their beliefs if they did read it
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Leaislala Apr 11, 2026 +5
B****** coated b****** with b****** filling
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Angry_Foamy Apr 11, 2026 +3
Because they are only an “acting” Director.
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Flimsy-Fortune-6437 Apr 12, 2026 +2
Of CDC. IIRC he’s the actual director of NIH
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CanadianDiver Apr 11, 2026 +3
It Trumps new health care plan. If you don't know you are sick, it doesn't cost you any money.
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Michael_Gibb Apr 12, 2026 +3
If your response to research that you commissioned is to hide it, then you're a deceitful prick.
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Barflyerdammit Apr 12, 2026 +3
"Acting" Director. Never has that title been more fitting
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markth_wi Apr 11, 2026 +4
[Well, it's all about methodology](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSSoYmQS6Ng)
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Upstairs_One_4935 Apr 11, 2026 +2
I guess it was beneficial then otherwise they'd be shouting about it from the roof tops
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Fit-Significance-436 Apr 12, 2026 +1
ICYMI, cdc is not there to help Americans anymore, find new source.
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freako345 Apr 12, 2026 +1
It’s Trump’s new healthcare plan: if you’re not aware that you’re sick, you don’t have to pay anything.
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PrestigiousSeat76 Apr 12, 2026 +1
Republicans are goddamned terrorists. They prove it at every opportunity. They actively hurt Americans for no f****** reason.
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emc_lmt Apr 12, 2026 +1
Has this husk of a human being explained why he would do such a thing?
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KnifeyMcStab Apr 11, 2026 +47
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence?wprov=sfla1
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o_MrBombastic_o Apr 11, 2026 +60
You heard bullshit from idiots and were dumb enough to believe them
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posting_drunk_naked Apr 11, 2026 +25
Do you get all of your medical information from social media and memes, or just COVID?
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OverSoft Apr 11, 2026 +35
Do you perhaps have any peer-reviewed studies on this? Or is it just social media spouted bullshit?
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Gluske Apr 11, 2026 +28
People who have received the vaccines actually have better prognoses during cancer treatment for some reason. Hopefully that helps
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Kendall_Raine Apr 11, 2026 +16
Colon cancer isn't a possible side effect of the COVID vaccine. Stop listening to your uncle on facebook.
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GirlNumber20 Apr 11, 2026 +14
Well, I got the vaccines and I DON'T have colon cancer, so my anecdote cancels out your anecdote.
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Dry-Amphibian1 Apr 11, 2026 +9
You mean the vaccine that Trump championed and rushed through the approval process is hurting people? Do you blame Trump for this?
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doneandtired2014 Apr 11, 2026 +2
>I've heard they've found all kinds of long-term Covid vaccine side effects. And I've heard Florida has a population of fresh water mermaids. No reputable, peer reviewed study supports this abjectly idiotic position. >My husband had all of them and has colon cancer — Correlation is not causation. Even in grief, you surely understand.
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