CDC Refuses To Release Updated Information On Post-COVID Vaccination Heart Inflammation
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is refusing to release updated information on reported cases of myocarditis and pericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination.
COVID-19 vaccines can cause the inflammatory conditions, the CDC has confirmed previously.
The agency has regularly conveyed the number of post-vaccination myocarditis and pericarditis cases to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which it helps manage, as it has consulted with its advisers on updates to the vaccines.
But during a meeting on Sept. 12, the CDC did not mention VAERS data.
Asked for the information, a CDC spokesman pointed to a CDC study that covers data only through Oct. 23, 2022.
That study identified nine reports of myocarditis or pericarditis following vaccination with one of the bivalent COVID-19 vaccines, which were introduced in September 2022. Seven of the reports were verified by medical review.
Asked for more current data, the spokesman acknowledged the agency has it but is not making it public.
"When appropriate, the updated safety data will be published," the spokesman told The Epoch Times in an email.
He did not answer when asked why the meeting was not an appropriate time.
"The CDC has acknowledged that heart inflammation is a complication of mRNA COVID-19 shots and, yet, the only published data released by CDC officials about that complication is a seven week study that ended on Oct. 23, 2022. Where is more specific myocarditis/pericarditis data related to bivalent COVID shots for the past 10 months?" Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, told The Epoch Times via email.
The mRNA shots are made by Pfizer and Moderna. Novavax's updated shot, which uses different technology, has not yet been authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
"I am tired of the CDC and FDA deciding what information the public needs and doesn’t need. This is precisely the information that parents need to have especially when there are still schools and activities mandating these shots. This is evil playing out right before our eyes," Kim Witczak, a drug safety advocate who runs the nonprofit Woodymatters, told The Epoch Times in an email.
She added, "The CDC’s response of 'when appropriate, the updated safety data will be published' is unacceptable and they wonder why there is vaccine hesitancy and lack of trust in public health officials."
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