The landmark lawsuit was brought by the Freedom Coalition of Doctors for Choice against the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The case focused on the ‘V-safe program’, a smartphone app launched by the CDC in December 2020 for monitoring COVID-19 vaccine safety. Unlike the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), V-safe collects detailed health information from vaccine recipients through surveys, including free-text fields for additional symptoms or health conditions.
The lawsuit claims that there were approximately 7.8 million entries of vaccine side effects in the V-safe program. Doctors for Choice, the group behind the lawsuit, argued the CDC’s method of data collection was designed in a way that potentially understated the number of adverse events related to the COVID-19 vaccine. They asserted significant adverse events were restricted to free-text entries, making the data difficult to standardise and analyse independently. Evidence presented in the lawsuit indicates that a substantial percentage of V-safe users reported needing medical care or were unable to engage in normal activities post-vaccination.
The core of the dispute lies in the allegation that the CDC’s data collection and presentation methods led to a misleading portrayal of the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness. U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk acknowledged the substantial public interest in the data, especially considering the widespread vaccination rates in the U.S.
The CDC was ordered to release all free-text responses from the V-safe program, with personal identifying information redacted. These disclosures are to be made in 12 separate batches, starting from February 15, 2024, and continuing monthly until the complete set of data is released by January 15, 2025.
This decision is seen as a significant step in ensuring transparency and public understanding of the vaccine’s safety profile.
Attorney Aaron Siri told Del Bigtree of the Highwire the judgment provided an incredible opportunity to see what large numbers of the public were telling the CDC about their experiences with the mRNA gene therapy.
‘I think this is going to be the death blow to this cover-up. It is clear that they have been hiding something and the world is about to see what people wrote in after getting the vaccine.’
🔥 BREAKING: Federal Judge Orders CDC to Release All V-safe Free-Text Entries to the Public
“A federal judge in an incredible 29-page decision has now issued an order requiring the CDC to make every single one of those 7.8 million free text entries available to the public over… pic.twitter.com/uiRtOU9YT5
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 12, 2024
Good job
Why are health authorities allowed to keep this information secret from the public? And whyndo they fight tooth and nail to keep it secret? All public health data should be made free and available every day as a matter of routine as long as anonymised. This is the only way to promote transparency and trust.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/why-did-hhs-partner-with-dod?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-restack-comment&r=
In his memorandum order and opinion Judge Kacsmaryk says the development and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine was one of the greatest endeavours in recent history and predictably, the American public now seeks access to COVID-related papers to ensure that relevant government policies were – and still are – supported and justified by the available data.
He also reports that CDC expected and envisioned for V-safe – at least initially – that the final data set with de-identified data would be made available for external data requests or through FOIA requests.
The subject of this case is the optional free-text field (apart from the check list) of the V-Safe app, limited to 250 characters, for other symptoms or health conditions or healthcare treatment or hospital visits.
On page 24 of Judge Kacsmaryk’s 29-page judgement he says rapid vaccination of a huge percentage of the American population is nothing short of astounding, and the endeavour continues, but understandably there is substantial public interest in the data that supported, and continues to support, the government’s promotion of the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.
The full judgement is at:
040-Memorandum-Order-and-Opinion-2024-01-08-1.pdf (drsforchoice.org)
Thats the whole point, to see if it really is the ‘greatest endeavor’, but the judge outlined how the CDC were still not releasing this data after nearly 3 years and not even responding to requests for it. He said there was a ‘compelling need’ for it to be released. This data should always be public and updated every single day. It should be open source and transparent
With all due respect Douglas you’re a tragically gullible indoctrinated cretin.
Resorting to such argumentum ad hominem i.e. crudely reacting directly against a person rather than the position they put forward, is hardly conducive to a civil exchange of ideas or beliefs.
Included at the head of all comment columns in this publication is the request, “Please keep comments respectful, civil and constructive.”
Blatantly calling a contributor a liar (the mRNA case) and a cretin (as above) does not accede to this request.
Your comments denigrate people as antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists but dont like it when you get a taste of your own medicine?
Oh dear, yet another bad day for the crooked CDC.
Spoiler alert: The data will be very very very bad.
I’m assuming that V-safe is primarily in the US, with a population of 330 million people. 7.8 million people is a large number, and it can be reasonably assumed that many have taken the vaccine and have NOT filled out V-safe, or any other database such as VAERS (which most doctors do not know about, or if they do will not take 20 minutes of their busy day to fill out).
The true number of vaccine-injured is probably higher, a lot higher.
The VAERS database also is under-represented: Statisticians have said that only between 1 percent and 15 percent of vaccine injuries are entered into VAERS. A study performed in 2009 (from memory) gave a more representative figure of about 2.5 percent. Therefore, to get a more representative number, multiply the VAERS numbers by 40.
The real numbers are V-safe plus VAERS times 40 plus any others added together and then multiply the result by a scale factor to account for the fact that some people will think “what difference does it make” and not fill in any vaccine harm type database.