this is, and has always been, a big problem

I think lying or neglecting to tell the public the truth does more damage in the long term. Remember when the CDC lied about masks being ineffective and then had to backtrack? All that did was encourage anti-maskers, who had all the reason to mistrust the CDC. And honestly, while I'm no anti-masker, that did nothing to encourage my faith in the CDC, either.

I feel like I've been spamming this all over the site today, but as a woman who is in the same demographic as everyone who got blood clots (all were women of childbearing age), and who already has a disorder that makes me prone to blood clots, I think it is very important they stop administering the J&J vaccine at least to women of childbearing age and study this more. Likely I am in a much more high risk group than the average person, and if the CDC and FDA had kept this hushed up to discourage antivaxxers, I'd have been denied the right to informed consent and, possibly, unwittingly put myself in danger.

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