LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has admitted that, in
direct violation of Federal law, it failed to provide a single
vaccine safety report to Congress for thirty years, according to
Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN).
This acknowledgement comes after eight months of stonewalling
from HHS following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from
the nonprofit ICAN, and its founder Del
Bigtree. ICAN sought copies of the reports HHS was required
to submit to Congress every two years, starting in 1988, detailing
improvements it made to vaccine safety. ICAN was represented by
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
ICAN sued HHS in the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of New York, demanding
that the reports be shared with the public. HHS eventually conceded
that those reports do not exist and the Court entered an order
confirming this concession.
"The 1986 National Childhood Vaccination Injury Act granted
economic immunity to pharmaceutical companies for vaccine injuries
and hence eviscerated their economic incentive for them to take
responsibility for vaccine safety," says Bigtree. "Market forces
driving vaccine safety were simply eliminated."
Congress therefore charged the Secretary of HHS with the
explicit responsibility to assure vaccine safety. Biannual reports
of HHS's progress in improving vaccine safety were to be submitted
to Congress. Yet, as ICAN has now proven, these reports were never
created.
"It is apparent that HHS doesn't have a clue as to the actual
safety profile of the now 39 doses, and growing, of vaccines given
by one year of age, including in utero," said Bigtree. "In 1986, a
one-year old child received eleven doses.
"HHS spends billions annually promoting vaccines and generates a
steady stream of reports promoting vaccines," Bigtree says. "Yet,
when, despite Federal law, HHS cannot bother to complete the simple
task of preparing a biennial report on vaccine safety, there is
little hope HHS is tackling the much harder job of improving
vaccine safety."
The 1986 Act shifted financial liability for vaccine injuries to
the U.S. Government which has since 1986 paid over $3.9 billion for serious vaccine injuries.
Bigtree hosts the weekly live online news program "The
HighWire," and is an Emmy-award winning producer of the CBS medical
talk show "The Doctors." He is producer of the groundbreaking
documentary "Vaxxed: From Coverup to Catastrophe."
For more information, contact tom@icandecide.com.
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SOURCE Informed Consent Action Network