New FOIA Release Shows CDC Lied About Its VAERS Safety Monitoring Effortsin late January of 2021, the CDC released a briefing document outlining the agency’s standard operating procedures (SOP) for ongoing monitoring of VAERS for safety signals from COVID-19 vaccines. The document describes the analyses that the VAERS team at the CDC’s own Immunization Safety Office was going to conduct in their “unprecedented” effort to monitor the safety of the new COVID-19 vaccines. This included a plan to produce weekly tables of the incidence of about forty different adverse events. They would also engage in data mining using PRRs and create tables with the results
So, now the CDC must have a mountain of safety data, right?
At my request, the amazing legal team at CHD submitted a FOIA request to CDC asking for:
1. Copies of the weekly tables they said they would produce from Feb 1-Sept. 30, 2021.
2. Copies of all tables, analyses and reports generated in connection with ‘Signal Detection Analyses’ as described in sections 2.3 and 2.5 of the SOP document, also from Feb 1-Sept. 30.
Well guess what? In their response letter they state that “no PRRs were conducted by CDC” and that “data mining is outside of the agency’s purview” even though their own SOP document from January stated they would do data mining.
