Judge orders CDC to quickly turn over millions of COVID vaccine-injury reports by early patients

The last time a federal judge ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to turn over data from its COVID-19 vaccine active surveillance program – which enrolled 8.5 million participants from December 2020 to April 2021 – the public learned the earliest recipients reported a surprisingly high rate of listed moderate-to-severe adverse events following the jabs, about one-in-three.

The V-safe mobile app surveys didn’t provide checkboxes for chest pain and other cardiac symptoms, requiring users to enter them as “free-text entries” up to 250 characters, despite the CDC including myocarditis and pericarditis as “adverse events of special interest” in the initial V-safe protocol.

Now those 7.8 million entries are coming to the public over the next year under a different Freedom of Information Act lawsuit than the Informed Consent Action Network litigation that prompted the release of checkbox data more than a year ago.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk scolded the agency throughout his memorandum and order granting the motion for summary judgment by Freedom Coalition of Doctors for Choice, saying the CDC made weak excuses for withholding the free-text entries.

The agency grossly overstated how laborious the redaction-review process would be for a system that assigns a “registrant code” in lieu of identifying information, with one FOIA officer’s declaration claiming it would take 59 years for a single analyst to conduct the review, the judge wrote.

It also ignored the availability of “automated assistance” and made impermissible “blanket exemption claims covering a mass of records,” he said. The feds are already “in the process of converting” the free-text entries to the standardized code known as Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities and have so far released about 5 million records.

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