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-59265-08.21.2024-Production.pdf
For further details, see the Background provided below.
"Despite public statements by government officials affirming the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in early 2022, documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) reveal that, at that time, public health officials were increasingly concerned about vaccine-related adverse events.
The 300 pages of documents released on Aug. 22 contain private correspondence from 2021 and early 2022 between U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials, and emails from vaccine-injured individuals to NIH scientists...
A Jan. 24, 2022, email (pages 239-240) to Dr. Janet Woodcock, the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner of food and drugs, and Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, alerted them to the existence of 'scientific data' regarding adverse events...
In a reply later that day, Woodcock said, 'We are evaluating the data and analyses that have been done on adverse events after vaccination, particularly neurologic AE’s' (adverse events)...
On the same day, Marks also responded to the email, stating that the FDA has 'connected with' NIH researcher Dr. Avindra Nath — who was studying vaccine-related adverse events — and was 'also working through contacting other physicians as well'...
The emails followed just months after another NIH scientist, Farinaz Safavi, M.D., Ph.D., of the NIH Division of Neuroimmunology and Neurovirology, appeared to acknowledge the potential dangers of COVID-19 boosters.
In a Sept. 30, 2021, email (page 129), Safavi told a vaccine-injured individual, 'We do not have any data to suggest for or against booster shot [sic] but the consensus among our team is not to take if patient develop [sic] significant neurological complications post vaccine'...
Vaccine injury victims felt ‘very betrayed’
But while some people injured by the vaccines received replies and advice from NIH scientists, the latest documents showed that many others received no such replies. Some sent desperate emails to NIH scientists asking for help or an update...
For instance, in a Jan. 14, 2022, email (pages 234-235) to Nath, a vaccine-injured person praised Nath for his previous work helping the vaccine-injured, but then noted that he and other NIH scientists subsequently abandoned them. The email stated, in part: ...
'I am sure you would understand now why the hundreds+ who were turned down for any assistance are now extremely upset after waiting for so long … many feel very betrayed. They have been waiting and waiting, all while suffering every single day... The conversation isn’t happening. They are dying.'
Some victims said Marks blew off scheduled meetings with them.
Dr. Danice Hertz, a retired gastroenterologist from California injured by the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 shot she received in December 2020, previously told The Defender that she and a group of vaccine-injured individuals secured a Zoom meeting with Marks in early 2021 — which he then skipped...
Marks, FDA still publicly claim COVID shots are safe and effective
Marks continues to promote the COVID-19 vaccines as safe and effective and downplay the extent and severity of vaccine-related adverse events.
Last month, he advised the public to get newly updated formulations of the COVID-19 shots, stating the new vaccines 'meet the agency’s rigorous, scientific standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality.' He said vaccination 'continues to be the cornerstone of COVID-19 prevention.'"
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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