Found this article on Children's Health Defense written late last year. I think it's timely given a certain discussion I'm having with colfax.
**
12/18/20
With Pfizerās vaccine already approved for emergency use, and Modernaās authorization imminent, we urgently need a comprehensive, high-integrity system to monitor adverse outcomes to these vaccines, RFK, Jr. wrote in a letter to Dr. David Kessler, newly named co-chair of Bidenās COVID-19 Advisory Committee.
By Children's Health Defense Team
[snip]
1. Regulatory officials cannot count on post-marketing surveillance to reveal COVID-19 vaccine injuries because VAERS is broken.
Since vaccine companies are immune from liability for injuries caused by their products, and therefore have no incentive to make them safe, our public health regulators have an amplified responsibility to monitor adverse events. There is widespread agreement, even among physicians, that vaccine adverse eventsāespecially those that are relatively rareācan be difficult to detect pre-licensure. COVID vaccine advocates argue that post-licensing surveillance will remedy the deficiencies in the pre-licensing clinical trial data collection system. As you know, this is not true. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a voluntary reporting system co-administered by FDA and CDC since 1990, is a well-documented public failure.
You have said yourself that the vaccine injury reports received by FDA ārepresent only a fraction of the serious adverse eventsā that occur. For twenty years, thoughtful public health advocatesāincluding the United States Congressāhave reiterated your concerns. A 2010 federal study commissioned by HHS and performed by Harvard consultants on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) found that āfewer than 1% of vaccine adverse eventsā are ever reported to VAERS.
**
Full article here:
childrenshealthdefense.org
**
12/18/20
With Pfizerās vaccine already approved for emergency use, and Modernaās authorization imminent, we urgently need a comprehensive, high-integrity system to monitor adverse outcomes to these vaccines, RFK, Jr. wrote in a letter to Dr. David Kessler, newly named co-chair of Bidenās COVID-19 Advisory Committee.
By Children's Health Defense Team
[snip]
1. Regulatory officials cannot count on post-marketing surveillance to reveal COVID-19 vaccine injuries because VAERS is broken.
Since vaccine companies are immune from liability for injuries caused by their products, and therefore have no incentive to make them safe, our public health regulators have an amplified responsibility to monitor adverse events. There is widespread agreement, even among physicians, that vaccine adverse eventsāespecially those that are relatively rareācan be difficult to detect pre-licensure. COVID vaccine advocates argue that post-licensing surveillance will remedy the deficiencies in the pre-licensing clinical trial data collection system. As you know, this is not true. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a voluntary reporting system co-administered by FDA and CDC since 1990, is a well-documented public failure.
You have said yourself that the vaccine injury reports received by FDA ārepresent only a fraction of the serious adverse eventsā that occur. For twenty years, thoughtful public health advocatesāincluding the United States Congressāhave reiterated your concerns. A 2010 federal study commissioned by HHS and performed by Harvard consultants on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) found that āfewer than 1% of vaccine adverse eventsā are ever reported to VAERS.
**
Full article here:
RFK Jr. Tells Co-Chair of New COVID Advisory Board: VAERS Is Broken, You Can Fix It
With Pfizerās vaccine already approved for emergency use, and Modernaās authorization imminent, we urgently need a comprehensive, high-integrity system to monitor adverse outcomes to these vaccines, RFK, Jr. wrote in a letter to Dr. David Kessler, newly named co-chair of Bidenās COVID-19...
childrenshealthdefense.org
.
