1, the forum had received 7,084 claims alleging injuries or death from the COVID-19 vaccines. Payouts are limited to unreimbursed medical expenses and up to $50,000 a year in lost wages.Īs of Sept. The COVID-19 vaccine makers are indemnified by the government, and all injury claims are adjudicated by an obscure tribunal, the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program. Moreover, for those still struggling to recover and believe the vaccine is to blame, legal recourse is limited. It indicates that, at a minimum, hundreds of thousands of people experienced health events that they considered "severe" following the shot and sought medical care.
Siri said that the v-safe information offers a unique window: millions of people, all “answering identical questions, making the data susceptible to calculating a rate for each harm reported.” He has point. I have no interest in being an anti-vax mouthpiece.īut I also believe in maximum government transparency. I believe vaccines save lives, and I eagerly received COVID-19 shots. Its founder, Del Bigtree, is known for producing the 2016 documentary “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe," which may be why the group's findings have received scant media coverage. It's notable that ICAN has a history of vaccine skepticism. The CDC - which should be the gold standard for accurate information - still hasn’t made the v-safe information publicly available itself, although it seems to have fulfilled a FOIA obligation by giving it to ICAN. Siri filed suit against the CDC on behalf of ICAN last year in Austin, Texas, federal court to get the v-safe data.įor concerned members of the public wondering about vaccine safety, it's hard to know what to think. The agency unsuccessfully argued that it needed up to 76 years to review and release all the information.
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Last year, he sued the Food and Drug Administration to make public the data it relied on to license Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine. Siri, a 2004 University of California Berkeley School of Law grad who got his start at Latham & Watkins, is no stranger to FOIA fights. Reuters did not independently verify ICAN's analysis of the information. In addition to the dashboard summary, ICAN on its website has made the underlying dataset available for public download. The agency queried v-safe users about their health every day for the first week following vaccine, and then at various points afterwards for the next 12 months, gathering a total of 146 million records. The CDC asked v-safe users to self-report a range of post-vaccine symptoms such as headache, joint pain and fatigue, and (irrespective of whether they sought medical attention) to categorize the ailments as mild, moderate or severe. Until ICAN's suit, the v-safe data was not public, though specific findings have been reported by the CDC and medical journals. Representatives from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson did not respond to requests for comment. “This is a large and concerning number of negative health impacts,” Siri said of ICAN's conclusions, adding that he's aware of no comparable public data for other vaccines.Ī Pfizer media representative in an email said that the company’s vaccine has “a favorable safety profile and high level of protection against severe COVID-19 disease and hospitalization.” In addition, another CDC spokesperson said that agency personnel made follow-up calls to any v-safe users who reported seeking medical attention.īut ICAN counsel Aaron Siri of Siri & Glimstad, who led the FOIA litigation against the agency, said that because some vaccine-related adverse effects (chronic arthritis, thrombocytopenia, Guillain-Barré syndrome, myocarditis and more) can appear weeks after vaccination, it's important to broaden the time frame beyond the one-week window in research the CDC cited. She pointed me to a report looking at the first six months of v-safe data to back up the assertion.
In the first week after getting the shot, the spokesperson continued, "reports of seeking any medical care (including telehealth appointments) range from 1-3% (depending on vaccine, age group and dose)." The CDC "cannot comment on analyses conducted outside of the agency that we have not seen," the spokesperson said via email, but added that v-safe data "have shown low rates of medical care after vaccination, particularly hospitalization." I asked a CDC spokesperson what the agency made of ICAN's calculations.
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