{"id":10204,"date":"2025-09-03T13:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10204"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:32:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:32:59","slug":"trump-wants-proof-that-covid-vaccines-work-its-easy-to-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/03\/trump-wants-proof-that-covid-vaccines-work-its-easy-to-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Wants Proof That Covid Vaccines Work. It\u2019s Easy to Find."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/02\/health\/trump-covid-vaccines.html\">NYT<\/a> In a post on Truth Social, the president suggested that the C.D.C. was being \u201cripped apart\u201d over a question that was answered long ago. In a message on social media that baffled many scientists, President Trump questioned the effectiveness of the Covid vaccines and demanded that the makers prove that they work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives,\u201d Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cOthers disagree!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want the answer, and I want it NOW,\u201d he wrote. The president went on to complain that while one manufacturer, Pfizer, had shown impressive figures to him, \u201cthey never seem to show those results to the public. Why not???\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is unclear what data Mr. Trump was referring to. Hundreds of reports have tracked the efficacy of the vaccines since they first debuted in 2021. The shots have saved millions of lives in the United States and elsewhere, dozens of studies have estimated. Still, in some ways, Mr. Trump\u2019s demand for data is a welcome change from what administration officials have been saying recently about vaccines, said John Wherry, director of the Institute for Immunology and Immune Health at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been \u201cblatantly misrepresenting the data,\u201d Dr. Wherry said. As for other administration officials, \u201cthey\u2019ve been sort of ignoring data, or claiming the data is false, or talking about anecdotes.\u201d<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"wu K IoM  hV  DdBWT mYOxfZkB\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT In a post on Truth Social, the president suggested that the C.D.C. was being \u201cripped apart\u201d over a question that was answered long ago. In a message on social media that baffled many scientists, President Trump questioned the effectiveness of the Covid vaccines and demanded that the makers prove that they work. \u201cMany people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10205,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10204\/revisions\/10205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}