As the feds abandon a one-size-fits-all COVID-19 vaccine strategy in the face of plunging booster uptake, growing research on serious adverse events and the first government payments to victims of the novel therapeutics, the CDC's director is trying to rewrite history.
In a hearing Wednesday, Rochelle Walensky told the House Appropriations subcommittee that funds her agency that COVID vaccines only stopped preventing transmission of the virus due to "An evolution of science," contradicting her own agency's uncertainty about the products during the early mass vaccination campaign and its contemporaneous data.
Not only did Walensky falsely invoke the vaccine trials, which didn't test for transmission, but the CDC may have been aware of breakthrough infections when its director denied they were possible.
Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, cited the high rate of natural and vaccine immunity in the general public in explaining the revision, while still recommending everyone "Consider staying current" with bivalent doses.
The two-dose framework formed the basis of COVID vaccine mandates across America, especially in higher education, where young people face low risk from COVID but disproportionate risk of heart inflammation from vaccination.
The Health Resources and Services Administration's April update lists three approved claims for COVID vaccine injuries out of more than 11,000 filed, together totalling less than $5,000, a far cry from the 5-7 figure payments approved for Guillain-Barre Syndrome victims of the H1N1 vaccine.
COVID vaccine injury activists met with dozens of lawmakers and their staff last year to discuss making the system friendlier to their claims.
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