<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><post link="https://sph.umich.edu/news/2026posts/to-trial-or-not-to-trial-vaccine-clinical-trials.html" display="true" featured="true"><title>To trial or not to trial: Veteran vaccine advisers say vaccine clinical trials alone don't tell whole story</title><subject/><subtitle/><description>Two nationally recognized scientists with decades of experience advising U.S. vaccine policy argue that it is a mistake to exclude well-designed observational studies in determining how well vaccines work on a year-to-year basis.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:12:44 -0800</pubDate><tags><talking-about>Infectious Disease</talking-about><talking-about>Epidemiology</talking-about><category>Epidemiology</category><talking-about>Vaccines</talking-about><faculty>Arnold Monto</faculty></tags><image><img src="/podcast/images/vaccines_web_670x350px.jpg" alt="Illustration of a vaccine or shot."/></image><imagelarge><img/></imagelarge></post>