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Vaccines & Safety


EXCLUSIVE: CDC ADMITS IT GAVE FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT COVID-19 VACCINE
SURVEILLANCE

By Zachary Stieber
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is admitting it gave
false information about COVID-19 vaccine surveillance, including inaccurately
saying it conducted a certain type of analysis over one year before it actually
did.

The false information was conveyed in responses to Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) requests for the results of surveillance, and after the CDC claimed
COVID-19 vaccines are being monitored “by the most intense safety monitoring
efforts in U.S. history.”

“CDC has revisited several FOIA requests and as a result of its review CDC is
issuing corrections for the following information,” a CDC spokeswoman told The
Epoch Times in an email.

No CDC employees intentionally provided false information and none of the false
responses were given to avoid FOIA reporting requirements, the spokeswoman said.


HEART INFLAMMATION

The Epoch Times in July submitted a FOIA, or a request for non-public
information, to the CDC for all reports from a team that was formed to study
post-vaccination heart inflammation by analyzing reports submitted to
the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a system run by the CDC and
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The CDC not only said that the team did not conduct any abstractions or reports
through October 2021, but that “an association between myocarditis and mRNA
COVID-19 vaccination was not known at that time.”

That statement was false.

Clinical trials of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines detected neither
myocarditis nor pericarditis, two types of heart inflammation. But by April
2021, the U.S. military was raising the alarm about post-vaccination heart
inflammation, and by June 2021, the CDC was publicly acknowledging a link.

The CDC previously corrected the false statement but did not say whether its
teams had ever analyzed VAERS reports.

“In reference to myocarditis abstraction from VAERS reports—this process began
in May 2021 and continues to this date,” the CDC spokeswoman said in an email.

The CDC has still not released the results of analyses.


DATA MINING

The CDC promised in January 2021 that it would perform a specific type of data
mining analysis on VAERS reports called Proportional Reporting Ratio (PRR). But
when Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit, asked for the results, the CDC said
that “no PRRs were conducted by the CDC” and that data mining “is outside of
th[e] agency’s purview.”

Asked for clarification, Dr. John Su, who heads the CDC’s VAERS team, told The
Epoch Times in an email that the CDC started performing PRRs in February 2021,
“and continues to do so to date.”

The CDC is now saying that both the original response and Su’s statement were
false.

The agency didn’t start performing PRRs until March 25, 2022, the CDC
spokeswoman said. The agency stopped performing them on July 31, 2022.

The spokeswoman said it “misinterpreted” both Children’s Health Defense and The
Epoch Times.

Children’s Health Defense had asked for the PRRs the CDC had performed from Feb.
1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2021. The Epoch Times asked if the response to the
request was correct.

The spokeswoman said the CDC thought “data mining” referred only to Empirical
Bayesian (EB) data mining, a different type of analysis that the Food and Drug
Administration has promised to perform on VAERS data.

“The notion that the CDC did not realize we were asking about PRRs but only data
mining in general is simply not credible, since our FOIA request specifically
mentioned PRRs and their response also mentioned that they did not do PRRs. They
did not say ‘data mining in general,'” Josh Guetzkow, a senior lecturer at The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem who has been working with Children’s Health
Defense, told The Epoch Times via email.

“There is also no credible reason why they waited until March 25, 2022, to
calculate PRRs, unless it was in response to our initial FOIA filed in December
2021, which was rejected on March 25, 2022—shortly after they say they began
their calculations. It means the CDC was not analyzing VAERS for early warning
safety signals for well over a year after the vaccination campaign began—which
still counts as a significant failure,” he added.

The CDC has also not released the results of the PRRs. “PRR results were
generally consistent with EB data mining, revealing no additional unexpected
safety signals. Given it is a more robust data mining technique, CDC will
continue relying upon EB data mining at this time,” the agency spokeswoman said.

The FDA has told The Epoch Times it conducted EB data mining but the agency has
declined to share the results.

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