EXCLUSIVE:
Veterans Affairs Found Safety Signal for Pfizer COVID Vaccine, Never Disclosed
It (Connecting the Dots: The U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), Pfizer, FDA, Sidley Austin LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking)
Government
officials found a signal for heart inflammation.
The
Epoch Times
By
Zachary Stieber
1/12/2024
Updated:1/12/2024
A
federal agency detected early in the COVID-19 vaccination campaign a safety
signal for a serious problem for Pfizer’s shot, a document obtained by The
Epoch Times shows.
The
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) detected a signal
for myocarditis and pericarditis for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to
the document, an email from May 13, 2021.
Myocarditis
is heart inflammation while pericarditis is inflammation of tissue around the
heart.
Data
from the VA Center For Medication Safety showed “a signal for
myocarditis/pericarditis ... with Pfizer vaccine following the 1st
dose,” Fran Cunningham, a VA official, wrote in the email.
She
was communicating with Dr. Tom Shimabukuro and Dr. Lauri Markowitz, two top
vaccine safety employees with the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Ms.
Cunningham and the VA did not respond to requests for comment.
The
discovery of the signal was never shared with the public by the VA or the CDC.
Inquiries
sent to Drs. Shimabukuro and Markowitz were funneled to a CDC spokesperson, who
said that the VA later determined the signal “was not a true signal.”
VA
officials, according to a presentation obtained by The Epoch Times, told
a private meeting that included CDC officials in June 2021 that no signal had
been found in a surveillance system. No audio or transcript of the meeting has
been made public.
The
CDC also failed for months to convey a separate signal detected in its Vaccine
Adverse Event Reporting System, according to previous
reporting by The Epoch Times.
“This
is yet another agency that warned the CDC regarding the myocarditis signal and
affirmed that it was a ’real' signal using epidemiologic data,” Brian Hooker,
chief scientific officer with the nonprofit Children’s Health Defense, told The
Epoch Times via email.
“The
CDC and VA had a strong responsibility to let the public know about the signal
but chose to bury it in order to avoid causing ‘vaccine hesitancy’ by showing
the actual risks of the COVID-19 vaccine,” he added.
The
CDC throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has aggressively promoted COVID-19
vaccination. The VA was the first federal agency to
require workers to receive the COVID-19 shots, and kept
its vaccine mandate in place after many other agencies rescinded theirs.
The
Epoch Times obtained the email through the Freedom of Information Act.
A
safety signal is a sign a vaccine might cause a health problem.
The
CDC and other agencies have since acknowledged that all four COVID-19 vaccines
that have been or are available in the United States can cause myocarditis and
pericarditis, particularly in young males. The Pfizer and Moderna shots, which
both utilize modified messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, were the first to be
linked to the inflammation.
The
U.S. military, which is comprised of mostly young men, was among the first
entities to start
recording cases of the post-vaccination inflammation. The CDC
started receiving reports shortly after the vaccines were rolled out in
December 2020.
Dr.
Shimabukuro, in an email to CDC colleagues after receiving word from the VA,
said that there was an “increasing urgency” to deal with the post-vaccination
myocarditis. He suggested having VA officials join a private call to “exchange
information” and discuss the matter.
Two
additional emails, sent by CDC officials, were fully redacted.
Barbara
Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information
Center, said the new emails show “both the VA and CDC knew there was an
alarming signal for heart inflammation.”
“Yet
the public was not informed that this signal had been detected, an early
warning sign that turned out to be a very real causal association between
myocarditis/pericarditis and mRNA COVID shots,” Ms. Fisher told The Epoch Times
via email.
Mr.
Hooker, who has been researching vaccine safety for years, found by analyzing
reported cases that a signal for myocarditis emerged from CDC data in February
2021. Emails obtained by The Epoch Times showed
Israel warned the CDC of cases by the end of that month. But the agency did not
raise the alarm publicly until May 2021—by
which time millions of Americans had received COVID-19 vaccine doses—did not
say there was a likely association until later in 2021, and did not
definitively say the vaccines caused the condition until
2022.
Long-Term
Studies
Early
on, officials repeatedly described most cases of the heart inflammation as mild
and said the patients healed quickly. As time has gone on, though, a number of
studies have undercut that position.
A
CDC study found
that, based on survey data, 54 percent of post-vaccination myocarditis patients
had an abnormal finding like swelling or scarring on followup cardiac MRIs.
Many of the patients had residual late gadolinium enhancement, which indicates
scarring.
Abnormal
findings such as late gadolinium enhancement were also detected in imaging of
26 of 39 people who suffered heart inflammation at least five months after
diagnoses of heart inflammation following a Pfizer or Moderna shot, another
study, from Hong Kong, showed.
And Australian
researchers reported
recently that more than half of people who suffered myocarditis were
still suffering from symptoms after six months.
Multiple
patients told The
Epoch Times that years after they suffered heart inflammation, they
were still experiencing symptoms such as chest pain.
“I
have continued chest pain on the right side, and then I have neuropathic type
pains in my neck and shoulder areas,” said one of them, Dr. Adam Hirschfeld. “I
have it when I wake up, and it’s there when I go to sleep.”
In
an update in early 2023, the CDC said
that, according to surveys, a third of patients still suffered from at least
one symptom at least one year after diagnosis. The surveys are collected as
part of the agency’s MOVING project.
Since
that update, the CDC has collected additional information, an agency
spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email. The CDC is in the process of
analyzing the data and plans to submit an article summarizing the findings for
peer review and publication.
Connecting
the Dots:
Eric K. Shinseki is
the secretary at the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA) for the Barack Obama administration
and was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank).
Togo D. West Jr. was
the secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Robert Jeffrey is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and was a board member for the CDC Foundation.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for
the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
George Soros is the founder &
chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
CDC Foundation is
a foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Amy Robbins
Towers is a board member for the CDC Foundation, a
director at the Human Rights Watch and was a director at the Millennium
Promise.
Open Society Foundations was a funder
for the Human Rights Watch.
George Soros is the founder
& chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was a benefactor
for the Human Rights Watch and the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch,
the Millennium Promise and the Brookings Institution (think
tank).
Constance J.
Horner was a guest scholar at the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and is a director at Pfizer Inc. (COVID Vaccine Manufacturer).
Suzanne Nora
Johnson is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank)
and a director at Pfizer Inc. (COVID
Vaccine Manufacturer).
Amy W. Schulman is
a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the EVP
& general counsel for Pfizer Inc. (COVID
Vaccine Manufacturer).
Sidley Austin
LLP was a lobby firm for Pfizer Inc. (COVID Vaccine Manufacturer).
Michelle Obama was
a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was
an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Cameron F. Kerry is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, John F. Kerry’s brother
and a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the
Brookings Institution (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman
for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Mark B. McClellan was
a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and
a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Resources:
Past Research
EXCLUSIVE--Liberty
Institute: Veterans Affairs Bans Christmas Cards to Troops over Religious
Content (Past Research on the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA))
WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 25, 2013
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/12/exclusive-liberty-institute-veterans.html
The
CDC: A Truly Corrupt and Dangerous Organization (Past
Research on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))
TUESDAY,
JANUARY 5, 2016
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-cdc-truly-corrupt-and-dangerous.html
IG
Farben / Bayer / Pfizer / Israel (Past Research on
the FDA & Pfizer)
SUNDAY,
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/09/ig-farben-bayer-pfizer-israel.html
Hours
After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet
Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz
Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the
Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next
(Covid Project)) (Past Research on Cameron Kerry)
THURSDAY,
JULY 21, 2022
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html
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