President Trump demands drugmakers 'justify their success' with COVID vaccines [View all]

Source: USA Today

Updated Sept. 1, 2025, 12:38 a.m. ET


WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump called on drug companies to "justify their success" in combatting the COVID-19 virus, demanding the immediate release of data on the matter while the CDC is "being ripped apart over this question."

Trump's remarks in a Sept. 1 post on Truth Social follow his firing last week of CDC director Susan Monarez just one month into her tenure after a disagreement she had over vaccine policy with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic. Jim O'Neill, a top deputy of Kennedy, was later named acting CDC director.

"Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree!" Trump said of COVID drugs including vaccines made by Pfizer, Moderna and other drug companies. "With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW."

The Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 27 set tighter guidelines on who can receive the latest COVID vaccination shots, recommending the vaccines to only people over 65 or individuals with existing health problems. In addition to the ouster of Monarez, three other top CDC officials resigned in protest of Kennedy's leadership including his direction on vaccines. Trump said he's been shown "extraordinary" information from Pfizer that detail the positive effects vaccines had in stopping the spread of the coronavirus but questioned why the same data hasn't been showed to the public.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/01/trump-drugmakers-covid-vaccines-cdc-kennedy/85927699007/

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These people were in fucking loon bubble world. CDC was posting the graphs weekly (including national data), while state/county/municipal health departments were having daily updates. And many of the graphs were posted here, showing all kinds of data for different age groups of "vaccinated" vs "unvaccinated", "cases" vs "hospitalizations" vs "deaths", and even deaths due to ""pneumonia" (in general) vs "COVID" vs "flu".

They disbanded the CDC group (ACIP) that has this data and all of their meetings were live-streamed, with copies of the actual stream, along with meeting agenda/presentation slide-decks made available for download (and archived). I guess brainworm probably wiped it all.