Restoring Trust in Public Health: Transparency Urgently Needed in Reporting Adverse Vaccine Effects, by Robert Moffit

This is the final piece in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans rightly skeptical of public health institutions. This series highlights key findings from several congressional oversight reports, including the final report of the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, and offers lessons for Congress and the new administration on ways to restore trust in public health.

In its final, comprehensive report, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic concluded that with regard to the COVID-19 vaccines, the federal government’s reporting on adverse events has been neither transparent nor sufficient to protect the American people.

As reports of adverse events mounted, federal officials were slow to respond. In fact, the safety problem worsened in 2021 when President Joe Biden attempted to impose his vaccine mandate: a policy that disregarded the reality of the natural immunity of previously infected people, the personal decision-making at the heart of the doctor-patient relationship, and the unknown short-term and long-term side effects of the vaccines themselves.

During the pandemic, it was soon apparent that America’s capacity for quickly reporting and responding to safety issues with the COVID-19 vaccines was defective. While, for example, Israel and France were quick to identify the risk of myocarditis (heart inflammation) among young, vaccinated males, neither the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nor the Food and Drug Administration were able to respond nearly as fast. …

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