New Hampshire Avenue and Clifton Road
An Intersection of Public Health and the Pharmaceutical Industry
While the headquarters for the FDA is located in Silver Spring, MD in the new White Oak Campus on New Hampshire Avenue, CDC is located on Clifton Road in Atlanta GA.
The FDA and CDC have several things in common. Both are charged with protecting the health of the Nation’s 335 million Americans. Both participate in the research, development, and distribution of vaccines. Both participate in the building and operation of VAERS. And both are conveniently located for access by representatives of the nation’s pharmaceutical industry.
In a two part series I explained the relationship between the FDA, CDC, and pharmaceutical industry money. Today I want to spend just a wee tad bit of time talking about VAERS yet again.
Why?
Because VAERS is like the Broad Street pump of John Snow, its where all the icky stuff can be found — if you look for it.
Under reporting of adverse events related to vaccinations to VAERS is well established and now we know that the under reporting is not unique to the United States.
The reasons offered for the under reporting of vaccine related adverse events and the analysis of those reports reminds me of how my mother would occasionally (insert eye roll) chide me: “Lawrence Francis” you have more excuses than Heinz has pickles.”
While there may be reasons that adverse events are not reported there are no excuses for a failure to analyze the data that is available and communicating the results of that analysis to EVERYONE.
Reporting Requirements
”The reporting requirements for COVID-19 vaccines are the same for those authorized under emergency use or fully approved. Healthcare providers who administer COVID-19 vaccines are required by law to report to VAERS the following after vaccination:
Vaccine administration errors, whether or not associated with an adverse event (AE):
If the incorrect mRNA COVID-19 vaccine product was inadvertently administered for a second dose in a 2-dose series, VAERS reporting is required.
If a different product from the primary series is inadvertently administered for the additional or booster (third dose), VAERS reporting is required.
VAERS reporting is not required for the following situations:
If a mixed series is given intentionally (e.g., due to hypersensitivity to a vaccine ingredient)
Mixing and matching of booster doses (as of October 21, 2021, mixing and matching of booster doses is allowed)
Serious AEs regardless of causality. Serious AEs per FDA are defined as:
Death
A life-threatening AE
Inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization
A persistent or significant incapacity or substantial disruption of the ability to conduct normal life functions
A congenital anomaly/birth defect
An important medical event that based on appropriate medical judgement may jeopardize the individual and may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the outcomes listed above
Cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome
Cases of COVID-19 that result in hospitalization or death
Healthcare providers are encouraged to report to VAERS any additional clinically significant AEs following vaccination, even if they are not sure whether vaccination caused the event.”
Unfortunately, the law that requires this reporting has no enforcement component. Imagine committing bank robbery knowing that it can’t be enforced.
This is compounded by the fact that filling out the completing the VAERS checklist is estimated to take about 40 minutes — an onerous amount of time in a busy clinical practice or hospital emergency room.
Never the less, if a patient dies within 72 hours of receiving a vaccine and there is no clinical reason for that sudden death one would think that the person who administered that vaccine would want to tell someone and THAT person would ask the John Snow question: Have I seen this before?
The same can be said for myo/pericarditis, Bell’s Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome or any of the myriad of adverse health effects given as requirements for reporting the adverse event to the Department of Health and Human Services, parent agency of both the FDA and CDC.
So maybe CDC and FDA are just understaffed and underfunded. It is their job, their responsibility to collect the reported adverse events data, analyze it, and report it. But maybe they’re telling the truth; Congress just simply intentionally underfunded and understaffed both agencies. After all, a combined budget of more that $13 B and and almost 21,000 employees just may not be sufficient to the task of figuring out whether the vaccines are killing people or permanently disabling them. So here’s another thought.
Since they’re already taking money from the pharmaceutical industry — make them pay for a program dedicated to collecting and analyzing VAERS reports. In fact, let the pharmaceutical companies provide the staff to fill out the paper work as well. With 2020 revenue of more than $45 B — $12 B more than in 2020 Pfizer alone should have a few bucks to spare to sort out the nightmare they created.
Pfizer and the others along with their FDA and CDC “partners” created the cesspool that is contaminating the drinking water of our public health; let them pay for removing the handle on the pump and remediating the well.
One last word to Congress — it is time to hold Pfizer, its pals and our public health officials responsible. You can start by removing the pharmaceutical industries liability protection.
Union, Ky
Feb. 21, 2022