Posted on 03/07/2022 12:08:12 PM PST by george76
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) has taken a lead throughout the Covid-19 pandemic to hold public health officials and agencies accountable if they’ve failed to provide accurate and timely information to the public for whom they work.
From masks, vaccines, and school shutdowns, to the origination of Covid-19, Johnson has been asking critical questions. However, he says he has received very few answers.
According to Johnson, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky is one of the public health officials who has been non-compliant with his requests.
To date, Johnson says he has made eight specific requests, directly of Walensky, that have gone unanswered.
In his most recent attempt to get data, he writes:
“In the midst of a pandemic, it is unacceptable that CDC would withhold relevant data on Covid-19 that could inform the public and potentially save lives. Moreover, it is grossly arrogant that your agency has repeatedly ignored Congressional requests.”
Read Senator Johnson’s latest letter to Director Walensky below:
March 1, 2022.
Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., MPH Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dear Director Walensky:
Over the last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has failed to be transparent to the American people and their elected representatives. Specifically, CDC has not responded to my multiple requests for information about COVID-19. In addition, CDC has reportedly “withheld information” about COVID-19 from the public that “could help state and local health officials better target their efforts to bring the virus under control.”1 In the midst of a pandemic, it is unacceptable that CDC would withhold relevant data on COVID-19 that could inform the public and potentially save lives. Moreover, it is grossly arrogant that your agency has repeatedly ignored Congressional requests.
To date, I have sent you numerous letters requesting information about COVID-19 including records and data on the virus, school guidance, and the vaccines. For the letters listed below, you have either failed to respond or your response was significantly incomplete:
May 19, 2021 – Requesting records relating to teachers’ unions and CDC guidance.
June 28, 2021 – Requesting information about COVID-19 vaccine adverse events.
July 13, 2021 – Requesting information on vaccine safety monitoring.
July 30, 2021 – Requesting data CDC used to create a slide deck on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness.
August 22, 2021 – Regarding the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting.
September 15, 2021 – Requesting information on the effectiveness of natural immunity as protection from COVID-19.
October 5, 2021 – Requesting information on early treatments for COVID-19.
December 29, 2021 – Requesting information about vaccine lot variation data.1 Apoorva Mandavilli, The C.D.C. isn’t publishing large portions of the Covid data it collects, NY Times, Feb. 21, 2022.
CDC’s failure to respond to Congress appears to be one piece of the agency’s larger problem with public transparency. According to the New York Times, during the “[t]wo full years into the pandemic, the [CDC] has published only a tiny fraction of the data it has collected.”2 The CDC’s apparent indifference toward transparency during a pandemic is disturbing and shameful.
Throughout the pandemic, CDC and other health agencies have promoted inconsistent policies and recommendations regarding COVID-19. Many Americans who voiced concerns about these shifting policies have been subjected to ridicule, vilification, and censorship from the press. Rather than provide the public with complete access to relevant data to justify its COVID- 19 policies, the Biden Administration has apparently favored censorship over transparency.
In my continued effort to ensure that the American people have access to complete and accurate data about COVID-19, I renew my previous requests and call on you to immediately respond to all of my outstanding letters. Additionally, I would like you to brief my staff on whether CDC is withholding data from the public as reported by the New York Times and provide the names and titles of CDC officials who may have withheld the relevant information. I ask that this briefing occur no later than March 15, 2022. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
cc: The Honorable Xavier Becerra Secretary.
Department of Health and Human Services.
The Honorable Christi Grimm Inspector General Department of Health and Human Services
Sincerely,
Ron Johnson United States Senator
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Because she’s a member of the club, and doesn’t need to concern herself with the likes of a Republican Senator.
Wally is an out-and-out criminal and is now trying to talk her way into innocents—din no nuthin, dindo nuthin, but she really, really wishes she’d done more testing on the clot shots.
Having said this, I have watched Republicans FAIL to defund PBS. There is little doubt that if in control the assistant Democrats would do anything to reign in the CDC, Fauci, or any other corrupt alphabet agency. They just will not do it. After all, Hillary is still walking free, Comey is still at large. Heck, even Lois Lerner is living fat on her pension.
In a just country, failed of an agency to respond to valid requests like this would result in that agency’s budget being zero’d out.
Hello, remember no law to do anything, unless you’re an elite.
Defund their agency. Someone will answer your questions. Stop writing strongly worded letters asking questions. If you don’t appropriate their funding they will come ask you what they need to do?
Because they need to haul her ars in and demand answers or she can’t leave. Better yet, throw her in jail with the 1/6 trespassers.
Defund all agencies, start with 10% a year so they can get used to cutting each nd every year..
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Our world seems to be wrapped up in a giant conspiracy. Somebody somewhere knows something and will eventually talk.
The problem seems to be in letter writing. It doesn’t work. Come up with a better strategy
If this were a better world, there would be federal penal laws that discourage non-elected bureaucrats of constitutionally undefined, so-called "federal regulatory agencies" like CDC from obstructing the official work of elected lawmakers.
Insights welcome.
Patriots are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Again, insights welcome.
the RNC should pay for a full page ad in the slimes and see if that gets a response
Bttt.
5.56mm
“failed to provide accurate and timely information to the public for whom they work”
I think Walensky is a good person that took a political job. She can’t be candid and survive politically. In addition, maybe she simply doesn’t want to admit there were wrong conclusions reached by her agency.
She, like all politicians, needs to be held accountable.
She said she or her agency was misinterpreted. Whose fault is that? She and other high-level spokesmen are expected to be skilled communicators.
She chose to operate in the field of smoke and mirrors, cloaks and daggers.
That’s my guy! :)
He’s so persistent.
I just hope the stupid party treats them the same way when they want questions answered.
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