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News & Current Events Apr 22, 2026 at 10:49 PM

HHS rejects publication of study showing Covid-19 vaccines prevent hospitalizations, ER visits

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HHS rejects publication of study showing Covid-19 vaccines prevent hospitalizations, ER visits | CNN
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HHS rejects publication of study showing Covid-19 vaccines prevent hospitalizations, ER visits | CNN
Covid-19 vaccines roughly halved the chances that a US adult would need to visit the emergency room or be hospitalized with their infections last fall and winter, according to two sources familiar with the findings of a new study. But you won’t hear about it from the agency that led the research: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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justbunnies 2 days ago +132
It hurts the feelings and reality of those that follow them.
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Additional_Quiet2600 2 days ago +162
These people are ghouls. Make America Dumb and Sick is their whole ballgame. I have no certain idea why but I have plenty of possible reasons.
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Reasonable_Ticket_84 2 days ago +27
Nah their ballgame is they are all wealthy individuals that have crazy beliefs that they desperately want to validate because their life has been empty and meaningless this entire time sitting in their mansions.
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532ndsof 2 days ago +18
That and they're rich enough to be sufficiently removed from any consequences for their actions that they've actually forgotten that they *can* be wrong. So they believe any opinion they have is objective reality.
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Visual_Fly_9638 2 days ago +15
You are 100% correct. Many, many years ago, I think it was during the Clinton era, Rush Limbaugh did an interview and said that he felt that getting medical care \*should\* be a status symbol for the wealthy and that they deserved it. I've never forgotten that interview and it's been like 30 years. The wealthy are so wealthy that more wealth doesn't actually tangibly change their life compared to the rest of us, so they have to look for things to try to take away in order to feel like their wealth elevates them more. Past a certain point wealth is a disease to society and should not be allowed to accumulate freely to that point.
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Additional_Quiet2600 2 days ago +3
This is an underserved and relatively unknown position that these people hold. Especially the rich ones, which makes zero sense because a ton of MAGA are not rich. Edit: I remember when he said it too.
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sirbassist83 1 day ago +3
It's the intersection of those two ideas. The best way for the rich and powerful to stay rich and powerful is if everyone else is dumb and poor
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nativeyeast 2 days ago +17
They are doing a speedrun of Idiocracy
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Additional_Quiet2600 2 days ago +1
While I mostly agree, the assholes at the top are not like Idiocracy. More like Idiocracy aside from the fascist controllers.
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redyellowblue5031 2 days ago +3
At a certain point they do start believing the alternate reality they live in. Rejecting things like this is a natural reaction when your entire worldview would be thrown into question.
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Additional_Quiet2600 2 days ago +1
I would argue that it isn't a natural reaction, but a manufactured dilemma that causes extreme cognitive dissonance by design. It's too uncomfortable to accept reality, on that you're right on the money. Psychology backs this up. It's only the uninformed and emotionally based people that have this reaction though, the others, well they are the fascists among us.
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redyellowblue5031 2 days ago +1
Having watched someone fall into and out of this cesspool, I’m wholly convinced anyone is vulnerable to similar dis/misinformation bubbles. Certain habits and personality traits make you more resilient but no one is immune.
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Additional_Quiet2600 2 days ago +1
Knowledge does make you highly resistant if not completely immune. Education helps a lot and knowing how a mechanism works against you makes you able to see it.
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redyellowblue5031 2 days ago +2
I would strongly caution against thinking knowledge of a scam makes you impervious to it. It is one of (if not the best) defenses available but any number of confounding variables can make you fall for something you otherwise think you wouldn’t. A big part of this is because seeing through a scam typically means engaging executive thinking. It is impractical and impossible to critically evaluate *every single piece* of information you come across. That is a vulnerability you can never overcome, on account of being a human. Even if you could evaluate everything you see, you can still make mistakes or assumptions. None of this is to say being educated about scams isn’t a good defense—it emphatically is—just don’t think you can sit back and think you’re not vulnerable. That hubris is its own vulnerability.
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Additional_Quiet2600 2 days ago +1
I'm a psych major. I'm very well versed in what you're talking about. I'm only disagreeing with your certainty that it is always possible. Knowing your vulnerability to scams and how they work is the fix, even though you're mostly correct I still disagree fundamentally.
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redyellowblue5031 1 day ago +2
To clarify my position a bit, I’m not saying 100% of people will fall for a given scam or that a given scam is guaranteed to work on even a single person. I’m trying to saying we all have inherent weaknesses as a function of being human and scammers (or social engineers as my field calls them) regularly exploit those is new and creative ways. Knowledge and skills to mitigate those risks lower your residual risk, but it never fully erases it. I think we agree more than not, for what it’s worth.
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arcticblue 2 days ago +40
The amount of damage this administration has caused is going to take a whole generation to undo, if it even can be undone. Antivaccine nutjobs are going to point to this this rejection as justification for their baseless conspiracies and sow distrust in future administrations who will return to basing policy on factual scientific data.
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colemon1991 2 days ago +12
Any confirmation of their beliefs will be clung to like lint in the dryer filter. Doesn't matter if it's 0.00000000001% of all \_\_\_\_\_ research. Won't matter if the last confirmation of their beliefs was 20 years ago. Even the most obvious of facts won't deter them. Population growth spiked with each new vaccine administered to the populace. Major outbreaks like the Black Death don't happen anymore, not with that death toll. I've only ever seen iron lungs in photos, never in person, because we did something that made them unnecessary. I mean, hell, we used to have rivers catch fire so often that you could probably predict when the next one would catch fire. Lots of people in car accidents used to be permanently wheelchair bound, then we learned if we let the swelling go down we could maybe not weld spines to metal rods anymore. But none of that matters because it doesn't fit their beliefs. They have to physically witness the consequences of their beliefs to admit any flaw in their logic. I doubt a single generation will undo that. We're already witnessing a lot of precursors to Nazi Germany not even 100 years later, and there's people who think the Holocaust wasn't real. How insane is it that a fact everyone knows, an event that's heavily documented, survivors traumatically recounted in detail could not be real? It's not a he-said-she-said thing with a lot of complicated words; there's photos and eyewitness accounts and trials and everything.
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Additional_Quiet2600 2 days ago +4
When disinformation is spread by powerful people it trickles down (unlike money) to the general public. God I hate Rogan for this c***.
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Worldly_Anybody_9219 2 days ago +34
RFK Jr. probably thinks a witch doctor with a raccoon p**** charm would ward off hospitalization better than a vaccine.
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imperfcet 2 days ago +11
Ok but he's not even helping us get access to witch doctors! They don't work for free, there is always a price!
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Additional_Quiet2600 2 days ago +1
If they get in someone's skull they can actually be more expensive than doctors!
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no_infringe_me 2 days ago +2
He’s a believer of terrain theory* so he’s more likely to think diet and exercise cures infection.
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PigFarmer1 2 days ago +15
My mother-in-law nearly died from her first bout with COVID. Her idiot husband didn't survive. She remains a virulent anti-vaxxer...
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yamirzmmdx 2 days ago +41
TLDR version is that Kennedy and Bhattacharya are full of shit and water is still wet for now. Too bad you can't retroactively remove the vaccines from them. Gotta wait for Super Duper Covid.
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-You-know-it- 2 days ago +9
Of course they would. That would be expected from a health organization let by an anti-vax, brain wormed heroin addict lawyer.
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versus_gravity 2 days ago +6
RFK's take on bioscience appears to be informed by the irrational whimsy that made sense to his undisciplined mind while he was high as a freaking kite on recreational drugs for so many years of his life.
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catbaloney 1 day ago +4
The vaccines saved our asses. You have to have cement for brains to not understand that.
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Visual_Fly_9638 2 days ago +4
Papa Nurgle once again shows his love through spreading of disease and pestilence.
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mokivj 1 day ago +5
If this HHS rejects this study, that tells me this study is valid.
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DoubleThinkCO 2 days ago +3
Yeah…but what about the vibes? Didn’t account for that in the control group.
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SleepingToDreaming 2 days ago +2
"This goes against Insane Jr.; this will not stand!"
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tabrizzi 2 days ago +1
I personally am not shocked by this.
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