{"id":1633629,"date":"2022-09-06T07:34:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633629"},"modified":"2022-09-06T07:35:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:35:56","slug":"cdc-gave-facebook-misinformation-about-covid-19-vaccines-emails-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-gave-facebook-misinformation-about-covid-19-vaccines-emails-show\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Gave Facebook Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines, Emails Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcdc-gave-facebook-misinformation-about-covid-19-vaccines-emails-show%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633629&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> (CDC) passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-misinformation\">misinformation<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-facebook\">Facebook<\/a> as the partners worked to combat misinformation, according to newly released emails, in the most recent example of CDC officials making false or misleading claims.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22273744-cdc-messages\">a June 3 message<\/a>, a Facebook official said the CDC had helped the company \u201cdebunk claims about COVID vaccines and children,\u201d and asked for assistance addressing claims about the vaccines for babies and toddlers, including the claim that the vaccines were not effective.<\/p>\n<p>Several weeks later, after U.S. regulators authorized the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines for young children and the CDC recommended them, a CDC official responded by offering unsupported information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaims that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective for children ages 6 months to 4 years are false and belief in such claims could lead to back vaccine hesitancy,\u201d the CDC official wrote.\u00a0The names of all of the officials mentioned in this story were redacted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/over-50-biden-administration-employees-12-us-agencies-involved-in-social-media-censorship-push-documents_4704349.html\">the emails<\/a>, which were released as part of ongoing litigation against the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOVID-19 vaccines available in the United States are effective at protecting people, including children ages 6 months to 4 years, from getting seriously ill, being hospitalized, and even dying,\u201d the CDC official added.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no evidence that the vaccines are effective against severe illness and death in young children.<\/p>\n<p> Lack of Information <\/p>\n<p>Zero cases of severe COVID-19 were recorded in Moderna\u2019s trial for children aged 6 months to 5 years, including none in the placebo arm. In Pfizer\u2019s trial for children aged 6 months to 4 years, six out of the seven cases of COVID-19 occurred in children who received a vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clinical trials were not powered to detect efficacy against severe disease in young children,\u201d Dr. Sara Oliver, a CDC official, said during a meeting before the agency recommended the vaccines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) passed misinformation to Facebook as the partners worked to combat misinformation, according to newly released emails, in the most recent example of CDC officials making false or misleading claims. 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