U.S. officials are gaslighting the public about COVID-19 vaccine safety, a top Florida public health official says, as he urged the officials to investigate concerns with the shots.
“Your ongoing decision to ignore many of the risks associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, alongside your efforts to manipulate the public into thinking they are harmless, have resulted in deep distrust in the American health care system,” Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general, wrote in a new letter to Drs. Robert Califf and Rochelle Walensky.
The Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines utilize messenger RNA, or mRNA, technology.
Ladapo raised the alarm in an alert in February, noting that the number of reported adverse events following a COVID-19 vaccination had spiked well above the increase in overall vaccine administration during the pandemic. He told Califf, the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Walensky, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that they should acknowledge serious side effects and stop claiming the vaccines are safe and effective. Among his citations: a study that found the mRNA vaccines were linked to an excess risk of some serious adverse events….