This article refers to this 300-page PDF consisting of communications acquired from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/NIH-FOIA-59265-04.21.2024-Production.pdf
For further details, see the Background provided below.
"Several adverse event reports from people injured by the COVID-19 vaccines reached National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers in 2021 and 2022 — including a report of a child injured by the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine during a clinical trial, according to documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense (CHD).
The documents also include reports of vaccine-injured people who were suicidal and emails sent to government officials — including Dr. Anthony Fauci — by a COVID-19 vaccine injury victim frustrated with the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Board’s (CICP) slow pace of responding to their vaccine injury claims.
As reports of vaccine injuries came in, the agency advised one injured person that it was 'not prudent' to get a second dose.
Some researchers cited a lack of knowledge about vaccine injuries due to the rapid speed at which they were developed...
‘No doubt in my mind that the vaccine caused’ girl’s injuries
In emails sent to NIH researchers Farinaz Safavi, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. Avindra Nath and Amanda Wiebold starting May 24, 2021 (pages 237-243), the parents of a girl injured during the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine trial detailed their daughter’s condition.
Symptoms initially included 'severe muscle/nerve pain, painful electric shocks down her neck and spine which caused her to walk hunched over, severe chest pain that felt like her heart was being pulled out,” pain in her toes, a fever and “severe abdominal pain.'
According to the email, the symptoms 'persisted' and new symptoms developed, including 'the inability to swallow food or liquids,' 'unexplained painful cysts on her vagina and then her head,' 'erratic blood pressure, and heart rate, memory loss, brain fog, verbal and motor tics, fainting/seizures (10+ a day), loss of feeling from the waist down then paralysis of her legs, inability to walk,' tinnitus, vision problems and others.
These injuries led to nine ER visits and three hospital admissions...
In a May 25, 2021, response, Nath said, 'It is hard to make a diagnosis over emails' but “We have certainly heard of a lot of cases of neurological complications form [sic] the vaccine,” offering to speak to the girl’s neurologist...
In a May 27, 2021 email, the girl’s parents added that inpatient rehabilitation doctors 'were not willing' to speak with Nath. 'They are unwilling to look any further into this because then they would have to admit the vaccine caused her reaction.' But no further reply from Nath or other NIH officials appears in the documents...
‘It would not be prudent to receive the second dose’
In a Jan. 22, 2021, email (pages 162-163), a vaccine-injured person contacted Dr. Alkis Togias, branch chief of Allergy, Asthma, and Airway Biology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, after having 'ended up in the ER' following an anaphylactic reaction after the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine...
In his Jan. 23, 2021, reply, Togias said, 'It would be very hard … to offer an opinion as to whether you experienced a true allergic reaction.' 'If what you experienced was a true allergic reaction, it would not be prudent to receive the second dose'...
'If you fulfill the criteria for a severe allergic reaction as defined in the CDC guideline … you should not be receiving the second dose,' Togias added. He also noted that 'the lack of clear answers to your questions reflects our lack of knowledge,' which he said 'is not surprising given the speed at which these vaccines came out.'
In another instance, someone contacted Togias on Feb. 24, 2021 (pages 289-290), informing him of 'a pretty scary reaction' to the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine 'within one hour of getting it'...
In his Feb. 24, 2021, reply, Togias said it was hard to say 'whether it was an allergic reaction or not' but noted that 'Both the Moderna and the Pfizer vaccines have induced allergic reactions' and suggested it might not be a good idea to get a second dose...
NIH officials gave mixed messages about VAERS in other emails. Notably, in a March 24, 2021, email (page 175), Togias said 'VAERS is based on self-reporting and it misses a tremendous amount of information that would have been so helpful to everybody'...
‘My life as I knew it was gone’
The documents also show that vaccine-injured individuals contacted NIH researchers before January 2021.
In a Dec. 25, 2020, email (page 167), a person injured after getting the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine said that, within 30 minutes, they felt 'burning and tingling of my face, tightness at the base of my tongue, shortness of breath, heart racing, chest tightness and had a near syncopal event.' Symptoms, including facial swelling and hives, recurred the next day...
In his Dec. 27, 2020, reply (page 166), Togias said he 'can understand [the person’s] hesitancy for receiving the second dose” and that he was aware of such reactions to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines...
In Togias’ Feb. 11, 2021, reply (page 164), he said that similar injuries 'have been reported by other people; so the various agencies and the companies know about them' but that he was 'not aware whether any research is being conducted to understand their nature.' No other responses appear in the documents that have been released."
Background:
On November 10, 2022, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents related to correspondence between National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers and individuals who contacted the NIH regarding adverse events they experienced after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
On April 12, 2023, CHD sued the NIH for non-compliance by filing a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief with the US District Court in Washington, DC. In this complaint, CHD's legal team asserts that the "NIH violated the FOIA through its failure to process this request expeditiously, failure to provide a final determination, and failure to provide any of the records to which CHD is entitled."
On June 16, 2023, the NIH filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. CHD responded by filing an objection on June 30th, and the NIH withdrew its motion in July.
In October 2023, the NIH agreed to produce up to 7,500 pages of documents at a rate of 300 pages per month.
As of June 18, 2025, the NIH has released more than 3,000 redacted pages in response to the original FOIA request.
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