CDC 'misled the public' with study implying COVID vaccines save healthy kids, UCLA expert warns

Phrasing is "anything but objective," former Journal of the American Medical Association deputy editor says. Harvard-led research finds no unvaccinated kids died from COVID in Spain for at least 19 months at height of global spread.

January 8, 2026 10:54pm

he Trump administration is still promoting the purported benefits of COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children even as it reduces the childhood vaccine schedule, despite research suggesting no unvaccinated young person died of COVID in a major European country at the peak of its spread and that post-vaccination heart inflammation is a real risk.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's in-house publication gave mainstream media ammunition to attack Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's scrutiny on vaccine safety and efficacy, running a study that implies COVID vaccines saved healthy kids from serious outcomes last season.

The research appeared in the CDC's Dec. 11 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which is not peer-reviewed and was accused of publishing methodologically weak research upholding COVID dogma between President Trump's terms. One of the loudest critics became the Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad.

The CDC's analysis of last season's COVID vaccine effectiveness in "immunocompetent children" surfaced again in media coverage of the vaccine schedule changes this week but also faced scrutiny from a top doctor and former deputy editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association in the Sensible Medicine newsletter Dec. 30.

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