Name: CDC Admits It Gave False Information About COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance
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Description: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is admitting it gave false information about COVID-19 vaccine surveillance, including inaccurately saying it conducted a certain type of analysis over one year before it actually did.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is admitting it gave false information about COVID-19 vaccine surveillance, including inaccurately saying it conducted a certain type of analysis over one year before it actually did.

The false information was conveyed in responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for the results of surveillance, and after the CDC claimed COVID-19 vaccines are being monitored "by the most intense safety monitoring efforts in U.S. history."

"CDC has revisited several FOIA requests and as a result of its review CDC is issuing corrections for the following information," a CDC spokeswoman told The Epoch Times in an email.

No CDC employees intentionally provided false information and none of the false responses were given to avoid FOIA reporting requirements, the spokeswoman said.
<h2>Heart Inflammation</h2>
The Epoch Times in July submitted a FOIA, or a request for non-public information, to the CDC for all reports from <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-cdc-shielding-names-of-employees-working-on-vaccine-safety_4607006.html">a team</a> that was formed to study post-vaccination heart inflammation by analyzing reports submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a system run by the CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The CDC not only said that the team did not conduct any abstractions or reports through October 2021, but that “an association between myocarditis and mRNA COVID-19 vaccination was not known at that time."

Clinical trials of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines detected neither myocarditis nor pericarditis, two types of heart inflammation. But by April 2021, the U.S. military was raising the alarm about post-vaccination heart inflammation, and by June 2021, the CDC was publicly acknowledging a link.

The CDC <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-cdc-claims-link-between-heart-inflammation-and-covid-19-vaccines-wasnt-known-for-most-of-2021_4638716.html">previously corrected the false statement</a> but did not say whether its teams had ever analyzed VAERS reports.

"In reference to myocarditis abstraction from VAERS reports—this process began in May 2021 and continues to this date," the CDC spokeswoman said in an email.

The CDC has still not released the results of analyses.
<h2>Data Mining</h2>
The CDC <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22119655-cdc-vaers-sop-2021">promised</a> in January 2021 that it would perform a specific type of data mining analysis on VAERS reports called Proportional Reporting Ratio (PRR). But when Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit, asked for the results, the CDC <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22088020-chd-request">said</a> that "no PRRs were conducted by the CDC" and that data mining "is outside of th[e] agency's purview."

Asked for clarification, Dr. John Su, who heads the CDC’s VAERS team, <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-cdc-says-it-performed-vaccine-safety-data-mining-after-saying-it-didnt_4617563.html">told The Epoch Times</a> in an email that the CDC started performing PRRs in February 2021, "and continues to do so to date."

The CDC is now saying that both the original response and Su's statement were false.

The agency didn't start performing PRRs until March 25, 2022, the CDC spokeswoman said. The agency stopped performing them on July 31, 2022.

The spokeswoman said it "misinterpreted" both Children's Health Defense and The Epoch Times.

Children's Health Defense had asked for the PRRs the CDC had performed from Feb. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2021. The Epoch Times asked if the response to the request was correct.

The spokeswoman said the CDC thought "data mining" referred only to Empirical Bayesian (EB) data mining, a different type of analysis that the Food and Drug Administration has promised to perform on VAERS data.

"The notion that the CDC did not realize we were asking about PRRs but only data mining in general is simply not credible, since our FOIA request specifically mentioned PRRs and their response also mentioned that they did not do PRRs. They did not say 'data mining in general,'" Josh Guetzkow, a senior lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem who has been working with Children's Health Defense, told The Epoch Times via email.

"There is also no credible reason why they waited until March 25, 2022, to calculate PRRs, unless it was in response to our initial FOIA filed in December 2021, which was rejected on March 25, 2022—shortly after they say they began their calculations. It means the CDC was not analyzing VAERS for early warning safety signals for well over a year after the vaccination campaign began—which still counts as a significant failure," he added.

The CDC has also not released the results of the PRRs. "PRR results were generally consistent with EB data mining, revealing no additional unexpected safety signals. Given it is a more robust data mining technique, CDC will continue relying upon EB data mining at this time," the agency spokeswoman said.

The FDA has told The Epoch Times it conducted EB data mining but the agency has declined to share the results.

<em>From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-cdc-admits-it-gave-false-information-about-covid-19-vaccine-surveillance_4657836.html">The Epoch Times</a></em>

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