Federal public health agencies are reportedly withholding the most accurate and up-to-date reports of vaccine injury from the public, allegedly to protect privacy.
The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, jointly managed by the CDC and FDA, has a secret "Back end" privy only to regulators, an FDA official told advocates of VAERS reform nearly a year ago, according to a British Medical Journal investigation published Friday.
The public can see initial reports but not corrections or updates, such as "a formal diagnosis, recovery, or death," and those who filed reports cannot update them through VAERS, journalist Jennifer Block wrote for BMJ. She also wrote the journal's investigation of cross-ideological concerns about so-called gender affirming care.
Patients would have to file Freedom of Information Act requests to see the "Full record of their report," a Food and Drug Administration spokesperson told BMJ, whose investigation of "Data integrity" issues in Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine trial article was throttled by Facebook.
As a passively monitored system open to public reports, VAERS appears to give regulators an excuse to brush off politically inconvenient "Safety signals" even though vaccine makers and healthcare providers - required by law to report potential injuries - file most of the reports in the system.
The eight plaintiffs and vaccine injury support group React19 want "The right to review evidence, obtain discovery, present expert witnesses and appeal adverse decisions," Reuters reported last month.
Publishing full race data could reveal that black Americans have higher-than-average vaccine injury rates, OpenVAERS speculated, citing similar numbers of VAERS reports by blacks and Asians in the CDC presentation but a much lower vaccination rate among the former.
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