CHD Sues NIH Over Failure to Comply With FOIA Request for Correspondence With COVID Vaccine Injury Victims

"Children’s Health Defense (CHD) on Wednesday sued the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for failing to respond to CHD’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents related to correspondence between NIH researchers and individuals who contacted the NIH regarding adverse events they experienced after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

According to the complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, CHD submitted the FOIA request Nov. 10, 2022. The NIH has not produced the documents or a final determination and stopped responding to CHD.

CHD alleges the NIH violated the legal time limits for responding to FOIA requests and is withholding crucial information from the public...

Several vaccine injury victims who communicated with the NIH spoke to The Defender about their experiences interacting with the NIH and participating in a study it was conducting on vaccine-injured individuals — although the NIH has since, on several occasions, denied having data on such individuals or even conducting such research.

No NIH response after six months, despite repeated requests

According to the lawsuit, in early 2021, NIH researchers “began to hear from individuals who were experiencing severe, lasting health problems after COVID-19 injection, including neurological, cardiovascular, muscular, and other disorders.”

At that time, the lawsuit states, 'The NIH researchers sought to learn more, even bringing some affected people to NIH headquarters for testing, and sometimes treatment.'

Those efforts resulted in at least one publicly available paper, 'Neuropathic symptoms with SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.'

That study, which examined 23 patients who reported new neuropathic symptoms within a month of their COVID-19 vaccination, 'suggests that a variety of neuropathic symptoms may manifest after SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations and in some patients might be an immune-mediated process.'

CHD sought communications between 10 NIH researchers and the individuals who contacted NIH in connection with health problems experienced after the COVID-19 injection.

CHD asked for all emails sent and received from vaccine-injured individuals, all NIH call logs documenting communications with these individuals and all internal communications between NIH researchers regarding any affected individuals...

NIH claims no knowledge of adverse reactions to COVID vaccines, despite interacting with injured individuals

In at least two instances of correspondence with CHD after the FOIA request was filed, NIH claimed that it had no knowledge of adverse vaccination reaction reports'...

Vaccine-injured ‘not surprised’ at NIH’s lack of response

None of the individuals interviewed for this story were surprised to hear that the NIH did not respond to CHD’s FOIA request and welcomed news of the lawsuit."