As we’ve noted in these pages before, the CDC is totally fine to use the vaunted and massive VAERS database when they want to prove something in a ridiculous MMWR paper - but they failed to live up to their OWN requirements to run data analysis on VAERS - by their own admission!
We’ll be talking with Josh Guetzkow today on the podcast about this shocking revelation.
Recently the Children’s Health Defense Fund receive a trove of emails via FOIA request. The CDC provided some heavily redacted nonsense but in their final statement regarding the request… some interesting things were uncovered:
Note the third paragraph: “no PRRs were conducted by CDC.”
PRRs are one of the oldest, most basic and most well-established tools of pharmacovigilance. The calculations are so straightforward that the CDC automated it several years ago, so it could have been done at the press of a button.
It simply beggars belief that the CDC failed to do this simple calculation. Even now, a paper published by CDC staff in March on the safety of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines remains purely descriptive with no PRR calculation.
More details soon!
this is either egregious dereliction of duty or and outright lie in FOIA response.
they either did not do the analysis because they knew what they’d find if they did
or
they did do the analysis and are hiding it because of what it showed and the fact that they could never justify inaction in the face of it.
these agencies are long past their sell by dates.
a false sense of security is worse than no security at all.
it's time this was all made open source, accessible and auditable.
That's not negligence. Negligence implies a lack of intent and they certainly intended to not perform that analysis.