CDC accused of failing to do required data analysis on Covid vaccine

 Washington Examiner:

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is demanding answers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the agency told a nonprofit group that it never conducted a mandated data mining analysis on reported adverse effects that followed the administration of COVID-19 vaccine doses.

The CDC is tasked with performing a proportional reporting ratio, or PRR, data mining analysis on a weekly basis to determine whether the amount of reported "adverse events" following the administration of COVID-19 vaccine doses in the public Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, database is proportional to reported adverse events linked to the administration of other vaccines.

But the CDC said in a June 16 letter to Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit group led by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., that "no PRRs were conducted by the CDC." The CDC's letter, which was in response to an FOIA request submitted by the group, added that "data mining is outside of th[e] agency's purview."

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VAERS standard operating procedures state clearly that the CDC "will perform PRR data mining on a weekly basis or as needed."

CDC physician Dr. John Su later contradicted his agency's statement, telling the Epoch Times on Saturday: "CDC has been performing PRRs since Feb 2021, and continues to do so to date."

Su manages the VAERS database at the CDC's Immunization Safety Office.

Johnson said in a letter to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky that the CDC's assertion to Children's Health Defense in June and Su's statement to the Epoch Times on Saturday could not be true at the same time.

"The American people deserve the truth and you have not been providing it. That is why I, together with millions of Americans, have completely lost faith in the CDC and other federal health agencies," Johnson wrote in the letter. "It is time to start regaining their confidence and your agency's integrity by coming clean, being transparent, and telling the truth."

Johnson demanded Walensky clarify whether or not the CDC has performed PRRs on the reported adverse events linked to the administration of COVID-19 vaccine doses and to provide all of the records surrounding those data analyses to his office by July 29.

The senator's demand for answers surrounding the CDC's COVID-19 vaccine monitoring procedures comes about a week after the journal Science Advances published an analysis showing that more than half of women who received the COVID-19 vaccine reported temporary changes to their menstrual cycle.

Forty-two percent of women bled more than usual after vaccination, and 14% reported bleeding less, according to the analysis. Forty-four percent of women reported no changes to their menstrual cycle following vaccination.
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My own experience was troubling.  Shortly after taking the vaccine, I had to go to the emergency room when my blood pressure spiked to 199 and I was having chest pains.  After taking the second dose it spiked to 180 and I was again taken to the emergency room.  After the booster, it only went up to 160.  The medical professionals did deal with the blood pressure problem but did not associate it with the vaccine at the time.  I do not know if others had this experience.