Trump Administration Blocks More Studies Showing Vaccines Healthy, Safe
The Food and Drug Administration blocked three taxpayer-funded studies on Covid-19 and shingles vaccines that found health benefits outweighed risks, the second such suppression in as many months
One in a million: the rate of allergic reactions found in one blocked study of Covid vaccine recipients over 65, which found no correlation with heart attacks, strokes, or autoimmune conditions out of 14 potential health outcomes
The suppressions are part of a broader pattern of the Trump regime casting doubt on vaccines, including cutting vaccine research, replacing vaccination advisory council members with skeptics, and removing vaccines from recommended schedules
For the second time in as many months, federal officials blocked the release of studies finding vaccinations are healthy and safe, with health benefits outweighing potential serious side effects, in review of millions of people, according to the New York Times.
The Food and Drug Administration blocked three studies, two on Covid-19 vaccines and one on the shingles vaccine, the New York Times reported on May 5. Those studies cost millions of dollars of taxpayer funds and reviewed the information of millions of patients.
The Times noted these are the latest steps by the Trump regime casting doubt on vaccines. In addition to the canceled release of a study earlier this year showing Covid vaccines reduced emergency visits and hospitalizations by 50-55%, it cut vaccine development research, removed vaccinations from recommended schedules against common medical consensus (blocked by a federal judge) and replaced the membership of a key vaccination recommendation council with vaccine skeptics.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also wrote an editorial in August 2025 calling for the retraction of a study from Denmark finding aluminum salts, an additive in vaccines, were safe. The Times reported Kennedy never contacted the journal publishing the study itself and it was never retracted.
Two of the three blocked studies examined widespread use of Covid vaccines in 2023 and 2024. One, studying their use in people over the age of 65, found that out of 14 potential health outcomes including heart attacks, strokes and autoimmune conditions, Covid vaccines were only correlated with allergic reaction rates of about one in a million.
The other reviewed the records of 4.2 million Covid vaccine recipients from the ages of 6 months to 64 years. Out of 17 serious health conditions, it only found rare cases of seizures caused by fever and rare cases of myocarditis tied to the vaccines, with the conclusion that “benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks.”
A third study reviewed the Shingrix vaccine against shingles, which found the vaccine’s efficacy aligned with effective results from clinical trials and only a low risk of autoimmune issues, already advertised as a potential side effect of the vaccines.
While several medical experts interviewed by the Times found no faults with the studies, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesman claimed the studies “drew broad conclusions that were not supported by the underlying data.”