On October 3, 2022, The Highwire announced that their non-profit, the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) court order (by Siri & Glimstad), after (463 days) nearly a 2-year fight for transparency, have finally obtained the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Assessment For Essential workers (V-SAFE) data for approximately 10 million registered smartphone app users who took the COVID-19 vaccines. [4]
On December 29, 2021 ICAN sued the CDC (and FDA), twice, for the, already de-identified, V-SAFE data. The first batch of data released contains “144 million rows of health entries by v-safe users”, where they only had per-determined check boxes they could mark, it “does not include data from the fields that allowed free-text responses” i.e. other negative health consequences not listed! “It nonetheless reveals shocking information that should have caused the CDC to immediately shut down its Covid-19 vaccine program.” [1, 3]
Of the 10 million registered users (of which 13,000 were under 2 years of age), there were 71 million reports of symptoms, working out to an average of over 7 symptoms reported per v-safe registrant. V-SAFE represents less than 4% of COVID-19 vaccine recipients in the US! Consider this, 400,000 reports of severe joint pain, extrapolates to potentially 100 million people across the vaccinated population. [2]
There were so many concerning negative health outcomes reported. You can access the dashboard created with CDC’s raw v-safe data obtained by ICAN – HERE, WATCH
It wasn’t until Jan 5, 2024 that under a FOIA lawsuit that District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ordered the CDC to release ALL 7.8 million “free text” fields entries to be released to the public, begining February 15, 2024. [5, 6]