Aaron Siri just revealed the staggering numbers behind the CDC’s spending on vaccines.
CDC spends $6 billion a year on “buying, promoting, and other vaccine advocacy.”
Meanwhile, the “vaccine safety” office gets only $20 million.
But it’s not even spent on vaccine safety.
“They seek to affirm that the prior practices are safe.”
“It does those ridiculous vaccine safety data link studies… that don’t seek to actually look for safety issues.”
“The individual who ran that [office] for forever… Dr. DeStefano, did he ever have any email communications with me?”
“With ICAN?”
“With CHD?”
“With any of the groups around this country actually concerned about vaccine safety?”
“No.”
“Who did he communicate with regularly though?”
“Pharma.”
“When we sent the Freedom of Information Act request to the CDC for his communications with Pharma, you know what we got back?”
“We got back massive redactions under a category that you redact when the government is creating policy.”
“So we sued in federal court.”
“I said, okay, I want to make sure I understand this.”
“The head of the Immunization Safety Office is making policy with the pharma companies they’re supposed to be regulating?”
“They lifted the redactions.”
“It shows an incredible cozy relationship that he had with the pharma companies.”
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