Judge orders CDC to release 7.8 million V-SAFE “free text” COVID-19 vaccine adverse event entries

On January 5, 2024, following the legal effort of ICAN and Aaron Siri‘s lawfirm, the District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ordered the CDC to release all 7.8 million V-SAFE “free text” entries to the public under Freedom of Information, the release to begin February 15, 2024 and occur over a year.  [1, 2, 3]

V-safe, is the the vaccine safety monitoring system App rolled out by the CDC for COVID-19 vaccines to capture any adverse events (AE).  Common and expected AE were listed with check boxes, this data was released October 2, 2022, but the serious and cencerning AE were not, the 10 million App users, who rolled up their sleeves first in early 2021, had to type in their AE in words i.e. as “free text”.

It is expected that thousands of volunteers will wade throught the data, as was done following the release of the Pfizer FOIA documents.