Even when the experts could not rule out the vaccines as the cause of the events, a network of experts from both inside and outside the U.S. government repeatedly advised that people who experienced negative side effects after receiving the COVID-19 vaccination receive additional shots, according to documents obtained by The Epoch Times.
According to additional records, the network’s director, the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) Project, has received significant money from pharmaceutical behemoths, including the top two COVID-19 vaccine producers.
One instance had documents demonstrating that a 63-year-old lady developed chronic renal illness, which included symptoms like kidney edema, following a second dosage of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer.
The diagnosis could not be fully validated without a kidney biopsy, according to CISA subject matter experts (SMEs), but they stated they were confident utilizing a causality algorithm for the presumptive diagnosis created in part by Dr. Kathryn Edwards, the project’s primary investigator.
Because there was no proof of any other causes, the algorithm’s application to the case led to a “indeterminate” categorization, or the inability to exclude the vaccine as the source of the issue. But the program continued to suggest extra shots despite its inability.
“Weighing the potential risks of COVID-19 vaccination and the benefits of preventing COVID-19, the SMEs provided their opinion that the patient should receive future COVID-19 vaccinations,” the Feb. 24, 2023, letter to the patient’s doctor stated.
At the time, it had been shown that vaccine protection against symptomatic illness began higher but quickly declined, whereas protection against severe disease started higher but also fast declined.
The CISA experts advised the doctor to follow up with the patient after she had her subsequent shot to determine if she had continued hematuria, or blood in her urine.
“Although the CDC’s subject matter experts claim to have no idea if inflammation of the kidneys in a 63-year-old woman was caused by the mRNA COVID-19 biological, they tell the attending physician to go ahead and give the woman another COVID shot. That amounts to a challenge/re-challenge experiment on a sick woman without informed consent,” Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, told The Epoch Times in an email.
“Government officials admitting ignorance about a biological product’s potential side effects but directing a doctor to risk a patient’s life by continuing to inject the product into a patient, who already has suffered an injury following use of that product, is immoral,” she added. “We expect and deserve government health officials to adhere to a higher professional and ethical standard of care.”
According to case studies and surveillance data, some patients who suffer a difficulty receiving a dosage of a COVID-19 vaccine have also reported the problem returning after another dose.
Requests for response from Dr. Edwards, formerly of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and the CDC went unanswered.
Other Letters
The Epoch Times obtained, through the Freedom of Information Act, letters (below) sent by CISA to physicians.
When clinicians request the program to analyze patient cases and offer recommendations, experts from the CDC and other organizations—including Vanderbilt University, Boston Medical Center, and Johns Hopkins University—work together as part of CISA.
“CISA provides consultations for U.S. healthcare providers with complex vaccine safety questions about their patients and conducts vaccine safety clinical research,” the CDC states on its website
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CISA) provided 48 recommendations to doctors dealing with COVID-19 vaccines from December 2020 to June 2023. In 39.5 percent of cases, CISA recommended another vaccination, while 23% recommended against it. In 14.5% of cases, CISA said there were no reasons patients could not receive more doses. In the remaining cases, CISA advised reassessing the matter down the road or advising a patient who had not yet received a vaccine to receive a vaccine.
The recommendations for future doses came even in cases where CISA was unable to say the vaccine did not cause the adverse event. In May 2021, CISA experts stated that there was “no evidence” to support non-vaccine causes for the patient’s condition but that there was “no definitive known association” between the condition and Pfizer’s vaccine, leading to an indeterminate designation in the causality algorithm. While one of the experts said that in a person “with the right immunologic makeup,” the vaccine “could be an initial inciting injury” causing the condition, many of the experts advised the patient to receive another dose.
In January 2022, CISA experts found no evidence for non-vaccine causes for the patient’s condition, which appeared after Pfizer vaccination. They repeated the claim that there was no definitive association between the vaccine and the condition, leading to an indeterminate designation. However, CISA experts still advised the patient, who suffered an event after a Pfizer dose and had also recovered from COVID-19, to receive another shot.
A small number of cases led to the determination that the vaccination caused an adverse event. In six instances, CISA experts determined that the event was “consistent with causal association,” or caused by the vaccination, because the condition suffered by each patient was “a known possible adverse event following immunization.” In all six cases, experts recommended against additional doses while advising doctors caring for the patients to follow up with the patients to figure out which non-COVID vaccines the patients could safely receive.
The Epoch Times has filed an appeal with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC’s parent agency, regarding the disclosure of specific adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination. The case of a patient with kidney disease was the only one in the CISA records obtained by The Epoch Times that the specific adverse event or events following COVID-19 vaccination was disclosed. The CDC claimed that the diagnosis information was protected under federal law, which provides exemptions that enable government officials to withhold some information. The agency redacted the diagnosis information and some other portions of the letters, such as the names of the CISA experts who penned them.
The Epoch Times has filed an appeal with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the agency’s parent agency. The appeal is pending. Dr. Edwards, a professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, has repeatedly backed COVID-19 vaccination for many Americans, including children. She has received funding from numerous companies, including Pfizer and Moderna. Pfizer has paid Dr. Edwards $83,491 since 2016, while Moderna and Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen have also paid her, including during her time as principal investigator of CISA.
Dr. Edwards disclosed her conflicts of interest in some papers but not at other times, such as when speaking to reporters or in public presentations. She was also part of the board that oversaw Pfizer’s trial. When pressed on whether financial incentives can affect people’s judgement, Dr. Edwards said it does not affect her decisions.
Another set of documents obtained by The Epoch Times shows doctors contacting the CDC for CISA consultations. In some cases, doctors asked the CDC whether patients should receive waivers for COVID-19 vaccination. The CDC informed the doctors that the agency does not issue exemptions from COVID-19 vaccination requirements.
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