EXCLUSIVE: Some Scientists, Journals Pose ‘Potential Threats to Vaccine Confidence’: CDC

CDC official who decried Epoch Times article on peer-reviewed paper admitted he did not know if research was ‘legitimate.’

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., on Aug. 25, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Scientists and journals that conduct and publish certain research pose a problem for the federal government’s vaccination campaigns that should be addressed, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials wrote in newly reviewed emails.

Colin Bernatzky, a public health analyst with the CDC’s Immunization Services Division, in one of the missives flagged a paper from scientists in the United States and several other countries that analyzed the effects of repeated COVID-19 vaccination.