Fri Aug 12, 2022 – 5:19 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) admitted to making a number of false statements about its monitoring of COVID-19 vaccines for adverse effects, though it denies any of its misstatements had nefarious intent.
The Epoch Times reported that it secured the admissions after filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for data on the agency’s vaccine surveillance, starting with the findings of a CDC team tasked with reviewing the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) for heart inflammation cases after COVID vaccination.
The CDC initially claimed that the team conducted no reports through October 2021 and that “an association between myocarditis and mRNA COVID-19 vaccination was not known at that time,” but the agency now admits that in “reference to myocarditis abstraction from VAERS reports — this process began in May 2021 and continues to this date.”
Epoch’s inquiry also found that the CDC’s prior statement that “no PRRs [Proportional Reporting Ratio, a type of data analysis] were conducted by the CDC,” despite promising to do so in January 2021, was false, as was an assurance by the agency’s Dr. John Su
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