Posted on 05/02/2021 6:46:14 PM PDT by Cathi
Before the pandemic began, the Food and Drug Administration had scaled back a program it used successfully to track adverse events during and after the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, and the agency is still ramping up its replacement, said Dr. Robert Chen, scientific director of the Brighton Collaboration, a nonprofit global vaccine safety network.
“It’s purely bad luck they were in between systems when Covid hit,” said Chen, who helped create the existing U.S. vaccine safety systems during nearly 30 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
FDA officials acknowledged that some data analysis won’t start for weeks or months, but said the government is watching for vaccine reactions with “state-of-the-art” systems.
But other potentially dangerous, unanticipated reactions to vaccines may not be so obvious in VAERS, a system that is believed to miss many potential side effects — or in the nation’s additional monitoring systems, including the Vaccine Safety Datalink and the CDC’s new phone-based tracking program, v-safe.
“I think we should be seeing that reporting on all of these vaccines. It was promised four months ago that it was happening.”
Vaccine safety experts said they were concerned that the FDA scaled back a system known as the Post-Licensure Rapid Immunization Safety Monitoring network, or PRISM, long regarded as a workhorse of surveillance.
“Prior to PRISM, I felt like we were sort of in the dark ages,” Steve Anderson, director of the FDA’s Office of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, said at a 2016 workshop. “When PRISM came along, for us it was really a game changer.” it has not been used to track vaccine reactions during the Covid-19 pandemic, said Salmon, who oversaw safety monitoring for the H1N1 vaccine.
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As I have been saying for months now, HISTORIC and UNPRECEDENTED—————-
Yes, the whole Covid flu, jabs, shut downs, statistics, all corrupted. Imagine the huge backlash ( especially those suckered into the jabs) when the neurological side effects start to show......the unexplained illnesses will be covered up until they simply can’t. What did anyone expect from such historic corruption being found in every single sector of society and government?
Surprised to see a balanced report from NBC!
Cathi, you should use ellipses to shoe your editing.
LOL. Can’t top that. Perfect.
The vaccine industry is pure fraud and evil
Has been. For 80 plus years.
Come on! These fears are overblown the pro-vaxers say. There are always a number of deaths with a new vaccine roll-out. It’s just a one time aberration.
Except when it’s not. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the problems starting to emerge.
The ONLY argument they have, are the statistics! It is an analog of the only argument the RATS have, is racism.
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