NIH in Early 2022 Abruptly Stopped Responding to People Injured by COVID Shots

By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) corresponded with people injured by the COVID-19 vaccines throughout 2021 and initially acknowledged their injuries — before abruptly ceasing communication with them in early 2022, according to documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense (CHD).

The documents released Dec. 21, 2023, and Jan. 21, 2024, relate to correspondence between NIH researchers and people who contacted the agency regarding adverse events related to the COVID-19 vaccine.

CHD requested the documents via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in November 2022, and sued the NIH on April 12, 2023, to obtain them after the NIH failed to respond to the FOIA request.

The NIH filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, but in July 2023, withdrew its motion and agreed to release the documents — but only after NIH officials on two occasions claimed the agency had no knowledge of “adverse vaccination reaction reports.”

Those claims are contradicted by documents included in the initial releases, which show that NIH received vaccine injury reports and, in some instances, offered medical advice or even recommended specialists to those individuals.

In October 2023, the NIH agreed to produce up to 7,500 pages of documents at a rate of 300 pages per month. The agency said it could not make the documents available at a faster rate.

The first two sets of documents are heavily redacted. However, they reveal that the NIH Institutional Review Board had approval to formally launch a study on COVID-19 vaccine injuries, but the agency slow-walked the investigation throughout 2021.

By early 2022, the NIH ceased communicating with the vaccine-injured individuals it had been in contact with.

Reacting to the documents, Kim Mack Rosenberg, CHD’s general counsel, told The Defender, “We are carefully analyzing the documents to learn more about NIH’s study.”

Rosenberg said CHD “has been working hard to push for government transparency, which is the underpinning of our FOIA requests and litigation.”

She added:

“Even when receiving documents, slow response times and heavy redactions remain an issue. We understand that protected health information relating to individuals should not be shared and are subject to redaction, but other redactions may be subject to challenge.”

Brianne Dressen, who was injured by the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and later founded React19, a nonprofit that advocates for vaccine-injured individuals, contacted the NIH in 2021 about her injuries and the NIH study.

Dressen told The Defender, “The slow release of documents is what we are also seeing with other FOIA releases. They were far quicker at the start of the pandemic, but as things are now unraveling, these releases are taking longer and longer for the agencies to process,” she said.

Dressen, who sued the Biden administration over her vaccine injuries, said the new documents disprove NIH claims that it was unaware of a connection between the COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine injuries.

“The NIH’s comments about this study in mainstream media have all danced around the ‘causal link.’ They won’t publicly say there is a connection, but these FOIA documents say something very different,” she said…

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