Power, Actions of CDC Challenged July 15, 2022 AFP Editor
By Mark Anderson
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) has been demanding answers from federal health wonks whose silence is approaching pandemic proportions. The two- term senior senator from the Badger State recently sent separate letters to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky “requesting information about whether the agency performed sufficient surveillance of Covid-19 vaccine adverse events” and inquiring why the CDC spent almost half a million tax dollars to track millions of Americans.
“A recent article noted that [the] CDC did not compile all of the data on vaccine adverse events it initially claimed it would,” Johnson wrote in a June 27, 2022, letter to Walensky.
According to the CDC’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) document, dated Jan. 29, 2021, the agency claimed it would “perform routine [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)] surveillance to identify potential new safety concerns for Covid-19 vaccines.” Specifically, the surveillance would include, “generating tables summarizing automated data from fields on the VAERS form for persons who received Covid-19 vaccines (e.g., age of vaccinee, Covid-19 vaccine type, adverse event).”
VAERS refers to the federal program where healthcare workers can report suspected adverse events from vaccinations, though these are rarely followed-up on and confirmed by health authorities.
According to Johnson, the CDC “reportedly failed to provide these tables and other surveillance data in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request,” even while the CDC oddly claimed, “no information was withheld from [the FOIA] release.”
Johnson shot back: “This raises questions about whether [the] CDC ever collected the information on vaccine safety it originally claimed it would in the Jan. 2021 SOP.”
Furthermore, the senator called on the agency to “explain why, and detail who, made the decision to not follow the SOP and when that decision was made,” according to Johnson’s office.
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