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Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, ICAN has obtained CDC emails from February 2021 showing that a CDC contractor was completely overwhelmed by Covid-19 vaccine injury reports, leading to a backlog of over 70,000 reports.
CDC claimed that the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) was a critical component of safety surveillance during the Covid-19 vaccine rollout. Reports submitted by individuals, healthcare providers, and vaccine manufacturers were supposed to be processed “within days” and used to quickly identify potential safety signals.
But by February 10, 2021—less than two months after the first vaccine’s rollout—GDIT, the contractor responsible for VAERS report intake, had a backlog of over 70,000 reports! An email from GDIT explains the magnitude of the issue:
- GDIT is unable to process all of the incoming reports in a timely manner. This scenario is unprecedented and incoming reports are significantly above the government’s “worst case scenario” estimate of 1,000 covid-19 reports per day.
- GDIT is unable to process the “worst case scenario” of 1,000 reports per day.
- There is an ever growing backlog of expired unprocessed reports, currently over 70,000.
The government’s original worst case scenario estimate was 1,000 reports per day, but emails reveal that CDC had to quickly adjust that estimate to 4,000 to 5,000 reports per day. As a result, CDC had to up their report processing to 25,000 reports per week, at a cost of $21 million—and even then, they estimated it would take many months to process the backlog.
The fact that the backlog was allowed to grow to 70,000 reports before any action was taken is business as usual at the FDA and CDC when it comes to vaccine safety. What makes this even worse is that the supposed safety monitoring that FDA and CDC conducted using the VAERS database was missing 70,000 reports. The analyses of VAERS data—that was supposed to provide critical early warnings on risks like myocarditis—were therefore fundamentally compromised. Yet health authorities continually assured everyone the vaccines were “safe” and effective, because the reality is it didn’t matter what the data might show–FDA and CDC already decided these vaccines were safe, no data needed.
ICAN will continue our search for evidence to expose the profound incompetence of our “public health” authorities. The only way we can stop this type of conduct is to continue to expose and shine a bright light on it.
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