Update on that un-published CDC report on covid vaccines

The other day I criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for canceling the publication of a report on vaccine effectiveness. Apparently this move to unpublish was unusual; from a news report, “‘I’ve never seen a case where an article in the [Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report] that got to that stage was not published,’ said Dr. Michael Iademarco, who led the center that included the publication’s operations from 2014 to 2022.” But then today I was at a conference where Jay Bhattacharya, the acting director of the CDC, was asked about this unpublished report, and he said it was because it was using a really bad statistical method. It was only a brief exchange and there was no time for him to give a reference or to explain why he thinks the method is bad. I still haven’t myself seen a copy of the report so it’s hard for me to judge. I think the best next step would be for the CDC to release the report in question, along with a critical response from a statistician…