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CHD Sues CDC to Obtain Documents on COVID Vaccine Injuries and Deaths Reported in VAERS By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
'Children’s Health Defense today filed a federal lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to obtain documents related to the agency’s safety monitoring of COVID-19 vaccines through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System database.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) today filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to obtain documents related to the agency’s safety monitoring of the COVID-19 vaccines through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database.

The lawsuit alleges the CDC violated provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by failing to respond to CHD’s FOIA requests to provide key analysis of reports in the vaccine safety database and intra- and inter-agency communications about those reports.

CHD submitted the FOIA requests in the summer of 2022.

The agency said the requested information would be forthcoming by December of last year, but the documents were never delivered.
CHD is asking the court to compel the release of the requested documents in compliance with the FOIA.

Mary Holland, CHD president and general counsel, explained the significance of the lawsuit to The Defender:

“The CDC continues to ask the American public to believe that COVID shots are safe, without providing the evidence. Our lawsuit demands that the CDC give us hard data to back up its claim. No one should take vaccine safety on faith.”
CDC analysis of VAERS data

The CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) jointly administer VAERS, a database that allows healthcare professionals and others to file reports about vaccine-related injuries.

While VAERS reports of adverse events don’t prove causality, the CDC considers VAERS to be a key “early warning system” for detecting unusual or unexpected patterns of adverse event reporting that can signal safety problems with a vaccine.

According to the co-sponsored VAERS “Standard Operating Procedures” (SOP) for COVID-19, dated Jan. 29, 2021, the CDC and the FDA would coordinate monitoring for “potential new safety concerns for COVID-19 vaccines” by performing routine VAERS surveillance.
Each agency would use a different standard approach to data mining to screen for potential safety signals.

The CDC would run proportional reporting ratio (PRR) data mining on a weekly basis, or as needed. PRR would compare the reports of specific adverse events suffered after receiving a Moderna or Pfizer mRNA vaccine to reports made after receiving any other vaccine to see if there is an indication that the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines cause more adverse events than vaccines generally considered by the CDC to be safe.
The SOP stipulated that the FDA would conduct a bi-weekly thorough manual review of serious adverse events and through empirical Bayesian (EB) data mining, which uses a different statistical method to compare adverse events related to the COVID-19 vaccine with those related to non-COVID-19 vaccines in order to identify safety signals.

According to the CDC, if these forms of data mining raise a safety signal, then the agencies would do further analysis to confirm whether the adverse event was caused by the vaccine and that data would be shared with the public.

Both agencies failed to make data public.
Last month CHD filed a federal lawsuit against the FDA to obtain documents related to its empirical Bayesian data mining, The Defender Reported.

In today’s case, CHD made two requests.

The first request sought the records of all PRR conducted by the CDC related to COVID-19 from Oct. 1, 2021, to the present, along with all communications within the CDC and with the FDA about the PRR results and follow-up investigations required by the SOP done in connection with those results.

The second request sought the daily email alerts from VAERS contractors hired by the CDC listing identification numbers for all adverse events of special interest, which are events requiring further investigation.

CDC’s conflicting statements about its VAERS monitoring
Since last year, the CDC has issued a series of conflicting statements to The Epoch Times and CHD regarding their ongoing monitoring of the VAERS database.

In June 2022, the CDC told CHD that “no PRRs were conducted by the CDC” and that data mining was outside of the agency’s purview.

This was despite the fact that the SOP document dated Jan. 29, 2021, stipulated the CDC and FDA would begin ongoing data mining analysis then.

Next, in July 2021, the CDC told The Epoch Times that it had in fact been performing PRRs since January 2021 and was continuing to do so.

Two months later, the CDC changed its story again. This time it told The Epoch Times that it performed PRR analysis for a four-month period, from March 25, 2022, to July 31, 2022.
March 25, 2022, was three days after CHD emailed the CDC reminding them of their pending FOIA requesting the PRR analysis.

At that time, the CDC also said that its PRR results were “generally consistent” with the empirical Bayesian mining the SOP indicated would be done by the FDA and that it had not revealed any unexpected safety signals.

“Given it is a more robust data mining technique, CDC will continue relying upon EB data mining at this time,” the CDC spokesperson told The Epoch Times.
In January 2023, The Epoch Times reported that the CDC provided it with some of the PRR analysis it conducted between March and July 2022. The CDC shared an overall PRR analysis of all events reported from Dec. 14, 2020, to July 29, 2022.

But, it only shared its weekly analysis from three weeks — the weeks of July 15, 22, and 29, 2022. It is unclear whether the CDC did analysis during other weeks, or whether it never did the ongoing analysis mandated by the SOP.

That analysis revealed hundreds of safety signals, including signals for serious conditions such as blood clotting in the lungs, intermenstrual bleeding, lack of oxygen to the heart and even death.

The CDC admitted it gave false information about COVID-19 vaccine surveillance, including inaccurately saying it had conducted a certain type of analysis more than a year before it actually did.
Yet, given its conflicting statements, what surveillance analysis the CDC actually did, and when it did it, remains unclear. Access to this information would reveal when the CDC knew about safety signals related to the COVID-19 vaccine.

CHD’s FOIA request seeks all of these documents in order to clarify this timeline.

CDC anticipated spike in VAERS reports with COVID vaccine

Despite the fact that health officials and scientific journals have downplayed or dismissed the importance of VAERS during the pandemic, the CDC states in the SOP that it is a key “front-line system to monitor the safety of vaccines licensed for use in the United States.”
Information revealed through FOIA requests demonstrates that the CDC was anticipating a spike in VAERS reporting when the new vaccines were released and spent millions of dollars hiring contractors to process the data. Communication with these contractors is part of CHD’s FOIA lawsuit.

A FOIA request revealed, in late August 2020, that the CDC contracted with General Dynamics to handle VAERS reports for COVID-19 vaccines. The contract anticipated up to 1,000 reports per day, with up to 40% of them serious in nature, Josh Guetzkow reported. The value of the year-long contract was $9.45 million.

“This means that months before the EUA [emergency use authorization] of any COVID vaccines, the CDC anticipated up to a 600% increase over the average annual number of VAERS reports in recent years with 8 times the rate of serious reports,” Guetzkow said in his report.
In March 2021 the contract was amended to process backlogged reports filed through Feb. 28 for an additional $21.5 million. The CDC also contracted Eagle Health Analytics to assist with the processing for an additional $6 million.

Although other financial information about the dollar amounts associated with the contracts was redacted, Guetzkow estimated that the CDC paid contractors at least $40 million over two years to process VAERS data.

Every Friday, VAERS publishes vaccine injury reports received as of a specified date. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before a causal relationship can be confirmed. Historically, VAERS has been shown to report only 1% of actual vaccine adverse events.
As of Feb. 3, 2023, a total of 1,517,779 reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines were submitted between Dec. 14, 2020, and Feb. 3, 2023, to VAERS.

The data included a total of 34,270 reports of deaths and 279,669 serious injuries, including deaths, during the same time period.

There were a total of 21,954 reports of adverse events following the new COVID-19 bivalent booster as of Oct. 21, 2022. The data included a total of 173 deaths and 1,458 serious injuries. As of Feb. 8, 52.5 million people have received the updated bivalent booster dose.

Of the 31,696 reported deaths, 21,479 cases are attributed to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, 9,638 cases to Moderna’s, 2,944 cases to Johnson & Johnson’s (Janssen) and no cases yet reported for Novavax.'

[childrenshealthdefense.org]

BDair 8 Feb 20
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I’ll wade back into the fray here. So one side of the “discussion” is that Covid vaccines are very good and the other side is that these vaccines are very bad.

I see the value of both sides of the argument. It’s a good thing to question how we are handling Covid. Isn’t asking questions what scientists do?

It always bothers me when public entities don’t freely disclose information. If we are a taxpayers and our money is used to pay for the building, the equipment and the personnel why wouldn’t they be obligated to share how they are using them?

Maybe disclosure would more fully answer the questions. Maybe the information will help further prove that the vaccines are highly effective and very beneficial and very safe.

On the other hand, the information may serve to prove that they are not effective, beneficial or safe.

Either way, if I were in doubt I’d like to review the information and decide for myself. Wouldn’t you? Of course, if you’ve already made up your mind then it’s not necessary to ask questions.

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@BDair Your figures are pure bullshit. Who profits from this disinformation campaign that attempts to undermine democratic governments everywhere? Vladimir Putin, that's who. So the question is, why are you so keen to work for Vlad? Did you always hate you country, or is being a traitor something you just fell into? Ya see, every one of your ridiculous anti-vax posts has been thoroughly debunked, so you must know that you're spewing lies. Your'e either a traitor, or a very deluded moron, or both. Congratulations.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just wrote.

@BDair Excuse me, let's make that "racist, moronic traitor." That may explain everything.

You should contact the CDC and let them know
that they are publishing erroneous information.

@BDair You should pull your head out of your ass.

Since your argument has devolved into
nothing but ad hominems, I will presume that
you have nothing further to add to the discussion.

@BDair Just calling a spade a spade.

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"Never under estimate the power of human stupidity..."
Robert Heinlein

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OMG, I think they are hiding studies about polio and have been for years. Maybe we are all doomed. How do we make them immediately share all of the study info with the public? Old Charlie wants to know.

Not that polio has anything to do with today's discussion.

@BDair Maybe not but recently released info on Covid is that it can drain the body of needed potassium and cause the thing you claim the vaccines are doing. Newly found and newly released this flies in the face of many antivaxxer claims.

What symptoms of potassium deficiency present as myocarditis, pericarditis, thrombosis,
Bell Palsey, and 700 other ailments?

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So what? Any fool can launch a frivolous lawsuit. 🥱

Do you think the CDC should hide the data they collect on behalf of us taxpayers?
Or, should not they make it readily available to medical researchers?

@BDair They're not hiding anything. When a study is complete, it's published. No scientist is required to publish incomplete work.

The CDC and FDA are collecting data from VAERS and v-safe on behalf of the public.
It is not a study. It is public data that should be shared with the public so they can
have informed consent. That organizations are having to sue to have obligations from
FOIA requests met is uncovering criminal malfeasance.

CDC's Covid-19 Vaccine v-safe Data Released Pursuant to Court Order
[prnewswire.com]

@BDair Anyone can report an adverse event to VAERS. And there are many unscrupulous actors who profit from fake news about vaccine harm. They have a strong profit incentive to submit fake reports of adverse events. It takes time to verify or debunk these reports. Meanwhile, 250 million people have received the vaccine without experiencing serious side effects.

Demonstrate that any of the reports on VAERS are inaccurate.
Who is profiting from reporting vaccine harms?
1.5 million people have suffered vaccine injuries.
Thousands have died.
Big Pharma profits from Covid jabs are in the billions of dollars,
giving them a huge incentive to hide adverse events.
Please provide one piece of documentation for anything you wrote above.

@Flyingsaucesir

Do you get paid to be so blind?

[jamescintolo.substack.com]

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"Children's Health Defense is an American 501 nonprofit activist group mainly known for anti-vaccine propaganda and has been identified as one of the main sources of misinformation on vaccines. Founded under the name World Mercury Project in 2011, it is chaired by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wikipedia"

Spreading fear thru propaganda or truth? Who knows.

Read the piece,
and tell me which portion is propaganda.

@BDair I read the long boring diatribe but one must search for truth. Only way to do that is find opposite views or reasons for the post. If everyone just believed whatever they read on the internet they're one of those blind, deaf and dumb monkeys. I always find an opposing point of view. Not fair only presenting one side of anything. It makes one a sheeple.

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Children’s Health Defense? I’ve wondered from the beginning, if children have a 99.6% survival rate, why the big push for vaccines for children? Children have a high survival rate for pre-pandemic flu. There are some honest questions that need to be asked and answered openly without hostility.

I can’t wait to see what the future will reveal about COVID and the related vaccines. More than likely it will take a long time to sort it out and I‘ll be dead before the answers are made available.

Children had no need to be vaccinated against Covid.
The case can be made that no one needed to be.

In order to slow and eliminate the spread of a disease through the general population all must be vaccinated or immune. Clarification...almost all must have immunity to a disease as there are always a very small number (far less than 1 %) that have conditions that prevent safe vaccination. This is known as herd immunity. COVID affects older people more severely including death but plenty of children have been hospitalized and some have died. The Covid vaccine does not stop all transmission but it does an excellent job of preventing those that are infected from becoming ill enough to require hospitalization and/or death.

@MizJ The COVID-19 pandemic is in its second year and the Omicron BA.5 subvariant continues to drive cases in the United States, including among vaccinated people. (AMA)

“There are some viruses—like hepatitis B, for example—that if we get the virus once in our life, we’re protected for the rest of our lives,” she said. “But other viruses, particularly the respiratory viruses like influenza and now SARS-CoV-2, they continue to mutate in a way that we can get those types of viruses over and over again because the strain changes and we aren’t necessarily protected against that new strain.” (AMA)

My myopic and by no means scientific observation is that with COVID we are conducting a massive public experiment with mRNA vaccines. The approach seems to be, It is better to do something than nothing at all. But all of the statements include legal exception language with words like “can” or “may.”

“After you are fully vaccinated, you can more safely return to doing activities that you might not have been able to do because of the pandemic. However, if you’re in an area with a high number of people with COVID-19 in the hospital and new COVID-19 cases, the CDC recommends wearing a well-fitted mask indoors in public, whether or not you’re vaccinated.” (Mayo Clinic)

How do I interpret this? Fully “vaccinated” does not mean immune.

@TXLerins In re to getting Covid multiple times the human immune system retains immunity to different pathogens for differing lengths of times. Immunity to Covid is on the short end of the spectrum even without the issue of variants, others are once with lifetime immunity. This is problematic for several reasons, one of them is that each infection greatly increases the odds of long Covid.

In re to your last paragraph it's about the odds. Some examples are being up to date on boosters losers your odds. Low case numbers in your area lower odds, wearing a mask lowers odds, being outdoors a minimum of 6 feet (2 meters) from others, etc.

The government did a lousy job explaining things including when more information came out and contradicted earlier info. This caused confusion and sowed mistrust allowing misinformation to gain traction. The media didn't do us many favors either. Sadly people have died unnecessarily because of that.

The Covid vaccines are 'non sterilizing',
they do not prevent infection, they do not
prevent transmission. They can not do
anything to contribute to herd immunity
in the population.
Natural immunity is broad and long lasting.

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Without any doubt we have overtly on purpose been lied too!!!

It was a world wide event to see if they could produce enough fear too make us conform into making us compliant to their whims and overt control!!!

muahahaha (Insert favorite supervillain photo)

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They wanted to keep it hidden for 75 years. CDC is the main source for the US government and Pharma to not let the cat out of the bag. It doesn't totally shock me , that the narrative mass hypnotized by ridiculous rituals and nonsense. Has been building for 30 years.

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The CDC is doing everything possible to keep the data,
which they collect on our behalf,
hidden as long as they can.

BDair Level 8 Feb 20, 2023
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