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FDA Pulls Covid, Shingles Vaccine Studies Over Data Gaps

5/6/2026

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FDA officials halted the release of agency-funded vaccine safety studies.
The agency withdrew two Covid-19 vaccine studies and blocked shingles vaccine abstracts.
The withdrawn research was funded with millions of dollars of public money and analyzed millions of patient records.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesman Andrew Nixon said the studies were pulled because their conclusions were not supported by the underlying data.

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FDA officials halted the release of agency-funded vaccine safety studies.
The agency withdrew two Covid-19 vaccine studies and blocked shingles vaccine abstracts.
The withdrawn research was funded with millions of dollars of public money and analyzed millions of patient records.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesman Andrew Nixon said the studies were pulled because their conclusions were not supported by the underlying data.