Officials ‘missed 99% of data’ on Covid vaccines before making recommendation, memos reveal
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Health officials missed 99% of vaccine data before making Covid recommendations for children and pregnant women.
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If you or your family received Covid vaccines based on these recommendations, the safety and efficacy data may have been incomplete.
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Internal memos reveal that officials missed 99% of available data on Covid vaccines before making their recommendations, according to documents made public through a lawsuit. Critics argue that US Covid vaccine recommendations for children and pregnant people were based on ideology rather than evidence.
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Internal memos were made public through a lawsuit revealing the data gaps.
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