{"id":69060,"date":"2026-03-16T07:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/officials-missed-99-of-data-on-covid-vaccines-before-making-recommendation-memos-reveal\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:56:31","slug":"officials-missed-99-of-data-on-covid-vaccines-before-making-recommendation-memos-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/officials-missed-99-of-data-on-covid-vaccines-before-making-recommendation-memos-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials \u2018missed 99% of data\u2019 on Covid vaccines before making recommendation, memos reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US based Covid vaccine recommendations for children and pregnant people on ideology instead of evidence, critics say<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was scant data behind ending the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/vaccines\">vaccine<\/a> recommendation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/pregnancy\">pregnant<\/a> people and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/children\">children<\/a>, according to internal memos made public because of a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).<\/p>\n<p>The memos overlooked hundreds of studies on the benefits and safety of Covid vaccination and set the precedent for making changes to vaccine recommendations based on ideology instead of evidence, critics say.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/16\/covid-vaccine-recommendation-kids-pregnant-people-data\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US based Covid vaccine recommendations for children and pregnant people on ideology instead of evidence, critics say Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox There was scant data behind ending the Covid vaccine recommendation for pregnant people and children, according to internal memos made public because of &#8230; <a title=\"Officials \u2018missed 99% of data\u2019 on Covid vaccines before making recommendation, memos reveal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/officials-missed-99-of-data-on-covid-vaccines-before-making-recommendation-memos-reveal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Officials \u2018missed 99% of data\u2019 on Covid vaccines before making recommendation, memos reveal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}