FDA Blocks Studies Showing Safety of COVID, Shingles Vaccines |
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has blocked the release of multiple studies demonstrating the safety of vaccinations for coronavirus and shingles, a move that some health experts are saying amounts to censorship.
Officials within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have confirmed that the studies were blocked from publication.
The three studies in question — which cost millions of dollars and were conducted by agency-based scientists — found that serious side effects from the vaccines for COVID and shingles were very rare.
In one study, reviewing the records of 7.5 million Medicare recipients who received COVID vaccines, researchers sought to examine 14 potential health outcomes to determine if the shots could lead to them. Only one health concern was observed — the possibility of anaphylaxis, an allergic reaction that only affects 1 in 1 million people.
“No other statistically significant elevations in risk were observed,” the study concluded.
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The second COVID-based study examined 4.2 million records of vaccine recipients, searching for concerns with 17 potential conditions. Researchers found that “the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks,” according to their study’s conclusion.
The scientists were ordered to withdraw two COVID vaccine studies in October. Agency officials refused to sign off on the shingles study for publication in February.
HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon claimed the studies were nixed from publication due to errors by researchers in determining their findings.
“The studies were withdrawn because the authors drew broad conclusions that were not supported by the........