(LifeSite) Newly-revealed internal emails from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) reveal that the federal government was aware of a potential link between myocarditis and COVID-19 vaccination long before the publicly-available evidence became overwhelming.
On February 15, Epoch Times reporter Zachary Stieber published over 1,000 pages of emails on myocarditis reports related to the then-new COVID shots, obtained via a federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and all spanning the week of May 10-17, 2021.
Reports include two separate emails that each report a trio of cases relatively close together (“within several days” and “recent”) among “adolescents” and “teen/young adult males,” and another reporting “5 (maybe 6) US cases of post-Pfizer vaccine myocarditis in healthy males,” and Boston pediatrician Dr. Jane Newburger relaying that she had been “hearing of more and more cases of youth who are developing myocarditis and MIS-C-like syndromes within a short time (2-4 days) after the second COVID-19 vaccine.”
Another reporter alerting CDC to three “probable vaccine related case[s] of myopericarditis” in young males pic.twitter.com/xSNAp0FnWK
— Zachary Stieber (@ZackStieber) February 15, 2023
Pediatrician reports one case at hospital, says aware of at least four others. “Post-Pfizer vaccine myocarditis in healthy teens.” pic.twitter.com/pfTPoFkMLp
— Zachary Stieber (@ZackStieber) February 15, 2023
Arguably more alarming than the cases themselves, however, are the reactions of public health officials. In one, the CDC’s John Su reveals that “when we look for these patients in VAERS” [the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] in response to myocarditis reports from Israel and the U.S. Department of Defense, “we’re not finding them. Seemingly, providers aren’t reporting these cases to VAERS.”
CDC official says providers weren’t reporting post-vaccination cases of myocarditis to VAERS despite requirement to do so under EUA. pic.twitter.com/TCO3N6niSL
— Zachary Stieber (@ZackStieber) February 15, 2023
In another, Dr. Angela J.P. Campbell asks to set up a meeting with CDC officials to clarify their response to these cases, because “we are hearing quite a lot about this now, and I don’t have a clear understanding of what is and has been being done.”
Confusion inside CDC on “what is and has been being done” on myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination in adolescents. pic.twitter.com/aoaapFtHr4
— Zachary Stieber (@ZackStieber) February 15, 2023
Stieber notes that these private discussions coincide with the CDC publicly insisting that vaccine-related myocarditis cases were rare, apparently mild, and inline with “expected baseline rates” from before vaccination or COVID itself.
Additionally, rates of post-vaccination myocarditis reports in CDC safety monitoring systems “have not differed from expected baseline rates,” or pre-pandemic rates in the population, the panel said. https://t.co/UKbeNfsqV3
— Zachary Stieber (@ZackStieber) February 16, 2023
Other discussions about the link between the heart condition and the COVID shots being pushed on the public are largely redacted, meaning the full extent of what officials really said and believed at the time is still being hidden from the public:
Most of the discussions are redacted. pic.twitter.com/jHk1DEPRF9
— Zachary Stieber (@ZackStieber) February 16, 2023
“An association between myocarditis and mRNA COVID-19 vaccination was not known in April 2021,” a CDC spokesperson responded to Epoch. “By June 2021, data began to indicate a potential association between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis.”
