We’ve known for years that the Covid-19 vaccines left many Americans seriously injured. Yet despite this common knowledge, the federal government’s surveillance to ensure vaccine safety has been substandard, to put it charitably. Worse, its performance in compensating those injured by the vaccine has been pathetic.
Now, Congress is finally paying attention to America’s vaccine woes.
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., recently conducted a major hearing on general vaccine injuries, including childhood vaccines, taking sworn testimony on conditions from cardiovascular damage to neurodevelopmental disabilities. House investigators have also demonstrated the inadequacy of existing systems in tracking adverse events from the Covid-19 vaccines.
Such investigations have focused especially on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which is jointly managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Under that system, doctors and patients are supposed to report Covid-19 vaccine injuries.
The sheer number of reported adverse events from the Covid-19 vaccine (over 1.8 million) dwarfs all previously reported vaccine injuries. But because it is a “passive” reporting system, largely based on patient self-reporting, VAERS is unable to show a causal relationship between a specific vaccine injection and a particular adverse reaction.
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