Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked January 23, 2023
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
In September 2022, The Epoch Times asked the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention to release its Proportional Reporting Ratio (PRR) data mining results. The
CDC refused. A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has now forced the release of
these data, and they are stunning
The CDC’s PRR monitoring has identified several hundred safety signals, including for
Bell’s palsy, blood clots, pulmonary embolism and death. In individuals aged 18 and older,
there are 770 safety signals for different adverse events, and more than 500 of them
have a stronger safety signal than myocarditis and pericarditis
In the 12- to 17-year-old age group there are 96 safety signals, and in the 5- to 11-year-
old group there are 66, including myocarditis, pericarditis, ventricular dysfunction,
cardiac valve incompetency, pericardial and pleural effusion, chest pain, appendicitis and
appendectomies, Kawasaki’s disease and vitiligo
The proportions of deaths, which were only provided for the 18-plus age group, was 14%
for the COVID jabs compared to 4.7% for all other vaccines
The FDA is also required to perform safety monitoring, using empirical Bayesian data
mining. The Epoch Times asked the FDA to release its monitoring results in July 2022
but, like the CDC, the FDA refused, only to admit in December 2022 they’d confirmed the
Pfizer shot was linked to pulmonary embolism