America’s top public health agency, the CDC, did not send an alert on COVID-19 vaccines and heart inflammation because officials were concerned it would cause panic, according to an email obtained by the Epoch Times.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2021 drafted an alert for heart inflammation, or myocarditis, and the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. Officials prepared to release it to the public, taking steps including having the agency’s Director review the language, internal documents show.
The alert would have been sent through the CDC’s Health Alert System (HAN) network, which goes to state and local officials, as well as doctors, across the country.
The alert was never sent.
In the May 25th 2021 email, exclusively obtained by the Epoch Times, a CDC official revealed why some officials were against sending the alert.
“The pros and cons of an official HAN are what the main discussion are right now,” Dr. Sara Oliver, the official, wrote in the missive. “I think it’s likely to be a HAN since that is CDC’s primary method of communications to clinicians and public health departments, but people don’t want to appear alarmist either.”
Dr. Oliver was corresponding with an employee of either Pfizer or Moderna. The employee’s name and email were redacted in the copy obtained by the Epoch Times.
Dr. Oliver did not respond to a request for comment. Asked about the email, the CDC did not address Dr. Oliver’s statement.
The “CDC’s apparent decision to not immediately issue a formal alert to clinicians warning them about the increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis in vaccinated individuals is not only inexcusable, it’s malpractice,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, told the Epoch Times in an email.
“CDC should never prioritise its own public perception over the public’s health, and those who made the decision to do so must be held fully accountable,” he added.
It remains unclear which official or officials decided not to send the alert at a time when doctors across the country were seeing patients with myocarditis report to emergency rooms with chest pain and other symptoms.
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It’s undoubtedly hard to challenge authority as it promotes pernicious lies and demands obeisance. Challenge will invite retribution, perhaps severe, but if the tide of this culture war is to be turned brave men and women need to speak the truth loudly and clearly to tyrants.
What makes you think this isn’t exactly what the Government wants? I see little evidence to the contrary.
The fear is justified for young people.
I lost half my university friends last year for the sins of posting a comment on social media where I politely criticised my old school’s statement kowtowing to BLM and critical race theory, sharing a Douglas Murray article from the Spectator, and posting a Thomas Sowell quote criticising the idea of collective guilt. This combined with my lockdown scepticism, despite being a practising doctor who was as much on the ‘frontline’ as was possible, and my refusal to (and I quote) “seek forgiveness” for having the temerity to question the original accusation that I was racist led to a chain of former friends abandoning me.
Sad, I’ve had a couple of ‘friends’ quietly disconnect without any confrontation. Didn’t feel great but in my view fair-weather friends aren’t worth having.
“led to a chain of former friends abandoning me.”
My view on this is F. ’em. I too have lost former friends. As far as I’m concerned the loss is theirs.
I have adopted a very simple attitude to life in general these days – no compromise. In the past I have been criticised for my lack of compromise. It has hardened significantly these days.
Sadly we have a funeral to attend next week and an instructions has been issued:
“wear what you want but no black.”
Bloody insulting. The correct pronouncement would be “wear what you want.” Do NOT seek to impose.
Funeral or not I resent ANYBODY telling me what to wear. I can go along with this because my black suit has lost its shape but I follow hux’s rules nowadays and nobody else’s.
They weren’t friends, just acquaintances. Friends might disagree with you but they respect your right to hold different opinions to them.
You’re better off without such shallow individuals cluttering up your life.
If they’re that shallow they were never your friends in the first place. You’ll find much better friends among the sane.
If they abandoned you out of fear or because they have a different opinion, then they weren’t real friends.
That is what is most painful; the revelation that people you thought were friends were no such thing.
Be true to yourself
I always found it amusing when Dawn Butler or Diane Abbott, as Members of Parliament, bleating on about systemic racism. If the country is systemically racist how are you sitting on those benches.?
Those two never leave home without their cards.
Race cards that is.
Win the minds of the young so they do your bidding ! Obvious tyrannical manoeuvre !
But many Asian people have a better record in education and career achievements than white people. So this idea that white people keep black people down is FALSE. This is all part of the War on the West. It is the destruction of western values, mainly from within. When you hear stuff like “being on time”, or “giving correct answers to maths questions” is actually racism then you realise there is something sinister going on. When people say that classical music is racist because it was mostly composed by “dead white people” then you are not dealing with rational people. If we attacked everyone in Africa for being black or everyone in India for being brown then the absurdity would be obvious. But apparently it is acceptable to always attack whiteness, Diversity only ever means one thing————Less white people.