| ICAN's Letter Exchange With the CDC |
ICAN, through its attorneys, sent a letter
to the Secretary of Health & Human Services requesting that he use
his authority under the 1986 Act to require health care providers to
report all adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination, except for
mild ones, to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System
(VAERS). ICAN’s attorneys received a direct response
from the Director of the CDC. The CDC Director’s lengthy letter goes
into great detail about VAERS but fails to answer the one question posed
by ICAN. It also makes the incredible claim that COVID-19 vaccines
“have been shown to be safe and effective as determined from data by the
manufacturers and findings from large clinical trials”! ICAN’s
attorneys therefore sent another letter to the CDC again asking the Director to answer its simple question. As addressed in prior ICAN updates, the issue of underreporting to VAERS has been highlighted for over 30 years and is still an
ongoing problem. Until these very serious issues are corrected, it is
necessary that both manufacturers and health care providers be mandated
to report any and all adverse events, aside from mild ones, to VAERS.
This is precisely what ICAN, through its attorneys, demanded of
Secretary Azar in its December 29, 2020 letter to him. Despite
the fact that it is the Secretary of Health and Human Services who has
the authority to require health care providers and vaccine manufacturers
to report adverse reactions, events, and contraindications following
the receipt of a vaccine to VAERS, the CDC director, Robert Redfield responded to ICAN’s letter on January 19, 2021. ICAN had requested that Azar immediately make it mandatory that all adverse events
following a COVID-19 vaccination, with the exception of mild events, be
reported by vaccine manufacturers and all health care providers to
VAERS. Dr.
Redfield (recently replaced by Rochelle Walensky as CDC Director)
failed to address ICAN’s specific demands and, instead, concluded just
weeks after their introduction that the COVID-19 vaccines “have been shown to be safe and effective as determined from data by the manufacturers and findings from large clinical trials.”
Nothing to worry about, according to Redfield: the manufacturers who
are liability-free and stand to profit from worldwide sales of these
products have submitted only a few weeks of their own data to show that
these vaccines, like every other vaccine, are “safe and effective.” Dr.
Redfield goes on to explain the new surveillance program, V-Safe, and
confirms that only those events classified as “serious” will be
submitted to VAERS. This was the precise problem that ICAN had pointed
out and demanded action in response to! Not
surprisingly, ICAN is not reassured by Dr. Redfield’s promise that “CDC
will continue to be vigilant in monitoring the safety of COVID-19
vaccines and will be transparent in its communications with the
public.” This has not been the case in the past. Therefore, ICAN’s attorneys wrote
to the new CDC Director, Rochelle Walensky, demanding the same actions
it originally demanded of Secretary Azar. The letter enclosed the
original letter to Secretary Azar, Dr. Redfield’s non-response, and a
copy of ICAN’s letter exchange with HHS regarding overall vaccine safety. Will
the new Director take this issue seriously enough to review this
information? Will she address ICAN’s justified and serious concerns?
Time will tell. ICAN
will continue to hold HHS, FDA, and CDC accountable for vaccine
safety. ICAN will never stop fighting for true informed consent and
continues to build its case that the federal government is withholding
or obstructing the information needed to give such consent. |
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