April 28, 2022
Article content quoted/excerpted from March 26, 2022 in the EPOCH Times…
As a registered nurse in the United States of America, it’s hard to imagine:
- finding an employer that does not require you to participate in the Covid vaccination clinical trial as a condition of employment with no possible liability for death or disability
- a government mandating an entire industry participate in an experimental vaccination trial and the reporting of all rates of vaccination and/or exemptions to federal health agencies.
- “CDC recommends COVID-19 vaccination for virtually all Americans 5 and older. Its guidance has been used to justify mandates across the country, including on the federal level”.
While it may be hard to imagine this outside the European Union, it is a harsh reality for US healthcare workers and the US Military while “the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and three other top federal health agencies are refusing to provide employee COVID-19 vaccination data for 2022″.
“The Epoch Times asked the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), through media requests and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, to provide vaccination data current through March 2022, including the number of unvaccinated workers and the number of workers who received an exemption to President Joe Biden’s federal worker mandate, which is blocked by courts as of January”.
The CDC reported in December 2021 “12,045 employees, pointed to the December 2021 figures. At that time, 96.4 percent of the CDC’s employees had gotten vaccinated and another 3.2 percent were in compliance with the mandate, or had pending or approved exemption requests”.
Epoch Times has filed an “appeal questioning whether the CDC properly responded to the FOIA request was lodged and is pending”.
They go on to report, “Several senators tried getting vaccination figures in November 2021 when CDC Director Rochelle Walensky testified on Capitol Hill before the Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor & Pensions. Walensky twice dodged questions about the matter. It’s been two years, and federal agencies and employees are still not back to work. The CDC refuses to be transparent. It is past time for the government to reopen and start serving Americans again,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a member of the panel and a doctor, told The Epoch Times via email after reviewing the FOIA response”.
The FDA reported they “stopped collecting the information after the latest update but declined to say why, directing queries to the FDA’s media office. That office, in turn, referred queries to the White House Office of Budget and Management, which did not respond to a request for comment”.
CMS spokesperson, reported on Dec. 9, 2021, “approximately 97.1 percent of HHS employees had gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine while another 2.5 percent had a pending or approved exemption but didn’t provide updated data for offices within HHS”.
The NIH reported the same percentages in December 2021, 96% “are fully vaccinated, 1 percent are partially vaccinated, and 3 percent have either filed a medical or religious exception, are not vaccinated, or have not reported their vaccination status, an NIH spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email”.
