CDC is refusing to publish data it has collected on booster effectiveness for those aged 18-49

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has withheld vast swathes of the information it holds about COVID-19, leading to anger from the scientific community and speculation about what the data shows.

Two weeks ago the CDC published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65.

But the agency omitted to share the information on those aged 18-49, who are considered to be the least likely to benefit from a booster.

They have also failed to provide information they held on child hospitalizations, scientists complained.

Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the CDC, said the agency has been slow to release the different streams of data ‘because basically, at the end of the day, it’s not yet ready for prime time.’

She said the agency’s ‘priority…