Tue Oct 4, 2022 – 5:12 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is refusing to release to the press autopsies of COVID-19 vaccine recipients citing privacy concerns despite having the option to release copies with personal identifying information redacted.
The Epoch Times reported that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FDA for all autopsy reports relating to deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) after the deceased received a COVID shot.
The agency refused, citing federal law against releasing “personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy,” and regulations against releasing “personnel, medical and similar files the disclosure of which constitutes a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
But Kim Witczak, a drug safety advocate with the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, told Epoch that the personal details on the autopsies “could easily be redacted without losing the potential learnings from” their medical findings. “If someone submits their experience to VAERS they want and expect to have it investigated by the FDA,” she added. “This includes autopsy reports.”
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