On December 10, 2020 the CDC launched their new COVID-19 vaccine smartphone App called V-safe After Vaccination Health Checker. Volunteers could download the app and then be prompted to report any “side effects” they experience following their COVID-19 vaccinations. “Depending on your answers, someone from CDC may call to check on you and get more information. And v-safe will remind you to get your second COVID-19 vaccine dose if you need one.” [1] The app prompts feedback on days 21 and 42 after each vaccine dose and at 3, 6, and 12 months after the last vaccine dose. [5]
Initially, on Jan 28, 2021, the CDC planned to call anyone who reported an adverse health impact to v-safe (v-safe protocol v.2 at p.5) but by May 20, 2021 they “had to abandon that plan early on after rolling out v-safe due to the volume of people reporting impacts (v-safe protocol v.3 at pp.7-8)” [6] They also didn’t include their proposed Adverse Events of Special Interest (AESI) as check boxes.
On December 29, 2020 the CDC decided to set up the V-Safe Pregnancy surveillance protocol which would look for pregnant women and ask them to join the v-safe pregnancy registry. It was based on data from this registry that the CDC first recommended the CV19 jabs to “pregnant persons” on April 23, 2021. [2, 3]
As this is public information, and the CDC promised transparency, ICAN through it’s lawyer Aaron Siri, FOIA’d the CDC for all the v-safe data. Following 464 Days of trying and ultimate having to sue the CDC in court, the check box info [7] from over 10 million users was released under court order on September 30, 2022 and then not until February 15, 2024 also under court order , the 7.8 million “free text” field data will be released. [4]
- ICAN V-Safe FOIA data – HERE
V-safe has now been expanded to include other vaccines.