Vaccine safety advocates hailed HHS Secretary Kennedy\u2019s plan to create an agency within the CDC focused on vaccine injuries and also long COVID and Lyme disease. In an interview with Chris Cuomo, Kennedy also revealed that when he asked an HHS agency for patient data, he was told he\u2019d have to purchase it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is creating a new sub-agency under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that will focus on vaccine injuries.<\/p>\n During an interview Thursday night with Chris Cuomo on \u201cNewsNation,\u201d\u00a0HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>\u00a0said:<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re incorporating an agency within CDC that is going to specialize in\u00a0vaccine injuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThese are priorities for the American people. More and more people are suffering from these injuries, and we are committed to having gold-standard science to make sure that we can figure out what the treatments are and that we can deliver the best treatments possible to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n Kennedy said the sub-agency is part of a broader focus on conditions that include\u00a0long COVID<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Lyme disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n He said the pathway to creating the sub-agency wasn\u2019t easy, elaborating on what he said Thursday, when he announced a major restructuring of HHS and the\u00a0agencies<\/a>\u00a0it oversees, that when he requested data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS<\/a>), an HHS agency, he was told HHS would have to purchase it.<\/p>\n We are streamlining HHS to make our agency more efficient and more effective. We will eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments, while preserving their core functions by merging them into a new organization called the Administration for a Healthy America or AHA. This\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/BlQWUpK3u7<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) March 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Kennedy told Cuomo:<\/p>\n \u201cI tried to get the CMS patient information, which belongs to the American people and belongs to HHS, and the sub-agencies said we have to buy it from them, and it doesn\u2019t make any sense. This is depersonalized data, and we need it to\u00a0Make America Healthy Again<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n In February, shortly after being confirmed to run HHS, Kennedy promised that under his watch, HHS and CDC would establish a better system for\u00a0tracking vaccine injuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n On March 10, Reuters reported that unnamed sources within the CDC leaked that the agency was planning to do a study on the possible\u00a0link between vaccines and autism<\/a>. The story triggered an avalanche of\u00a0negative mainstream news<\/a>\u00a0reports claiming the\u00a0study isn\u2019t needed<\/a>.<\/p>\n On March 13, President Donald Trump\u00a0pulled the nomination of Dr. David Weldon<\/a>, an outspoken advocate for studying the link between autism and\u00a0vaccines<\/a>, after it became clear Weldon couldn\u2019t snag the necessary number of votes.<\/p>\n Just this week, The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, reported that\u00a0HHS had tapped researcher David Geier<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a researcher and expert on the connections between\u00a0toxic exposures<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0autism<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 to lead a study of possible links between vaccines and autism. The Post, followed by other media outlets, used the opportunity to\u00a0attack Geier<\/a>\u00a0and the need for such a study.<\/p>\n \u2018Critical safety signals may have been buried\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Brian Hooker, Ph.D., chief scientific officer for\u00a0Children\u2019s Health Defense<\/a>, welcomed Kennedy\u2019s announcement, describing it as an \u201cexcellent\u201d development.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is also very sad that agencies within the HHS are \u2018selling\u2019 data to other agencies rather than having broad data-sharing both within the HHS, as well as with independent scientists,\u201d Hooker said. \u201cIf we are ever going to get to the bottom of the causes of the\u00a0chronic disease epidemic<\/a>, independent researchers will need all of the relevant information that our tax dollars have paid for over so many years.\u201d<\/p>\n Research scientist and author\u00a0James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D.<\/a>, called the announcement \u201ca historic and long-overdue shift in public health accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n He added:<\/p>\n \u201cFor decades, families of the vaccine-injured have been subjected to silence, stonewalling and denial by the very institutions tasked with ensuring safety. This new development is without question a step in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n Biologist Christina Parks, Ph.D., who has studied vaccine injuries, said the new sub-agency \u201cwill legitimize the suffering of millions of Americans and people around the world who have suffered the agonizing effects of vaccine injury on their health or the health of a child or loved one.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOnce the reality of vaccine injury is accepted, it will open the door to working with doctors to set a standard of care for acute vaccine injuries that has the potential to mitigate the damage caused by these events and speed recovery,\u201d Parks said.<\/p>\n Nebraska chiropractor Ben Tapper<\/a>, whose public questioning of the COVID-19 vaccines led the\u00a0Center for Countering Digital Hate<\/a>\u00a0to add him \u2014 as well as figures like Kennedy \u2014 to its \u201cDisinformation Dozen<\/a>\u201d list of the 12 \u201cleading online anti-vaxxers\u201d in 2021, also welcomed the announcement.<\/p>\n \u201cThis news feels like a long-overdue crack in the dam,\u201d Tapper said. \u201cFor decades, we\u2019ve been shouting on the rooftops \u2014 parents, researchers and victims alike \u2014 about the real harm these shots can cause, only to be dismissed as conspiracy nuts or told the science is \u2018settled.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Tapper said that data on vaccine injuries has long been available \u2014 but ignored.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you know where to look, the data\u2019s been there: VAERS reports, court payouts from the\u00a0Vaccine Injury Compensation Program<\/a>\u00a0and countless studies\u00a0buried<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0ignored by the mainstream<\/a>. Now, they can\u2019t pretend it\u2019s not happening anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n VAERS<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System \u2014 is a government-run database of vaccine injury reports. Since the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccines, reports of\u00a0vaccine-related injuries<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0deaths<\/a>\u00a0submitted to VAERS have significantly increased, while some have accused the government of\u00a0undercounting reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cVaccine injuries are real,\u201d said Dr. Joel Wallskog, co-chair of\u00a0React19<\/a>, an advocacy group for vaccine injury victims. \u201cCOVID-19 vaccine injuries are real. There have been more adverse events in VAERS with the\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0vaccines than all other vaccines combined.\u201d<\/p>\n Wallskog added:<\/p>\n \u201cThe time has come for our country to stop the polarizing rhetoric about vaccine injuries. Creating a sub-agency to evaluate these injuries in a scientific manner \u2014 and not political \u2014 has the potential to help thousands, perhaps millions of people.\u201d<\/p>\n Health freedom advocate\u00a0Sayer Ji<\/a>, co-founder of\u00a0Stand for Health Freedom<\/a>, called Kennedy\u2019s announcement \u201can admission that the system has failed \u2014 and gravely.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat HHS departments were selling patient data and operating in silos reveals a cartel, not a public health institution. This is not reform \u2014 it\u2019s rupture. And it opens the door to a new era of truth, accountability, and bodily sovereignty,\u201d Ji said.<\/p>\n Lyons-Weiler suggested that critical data about vaccine injuries may have been overlooked as a result of the lack of communication within HHS.<\/p>\n \u201cCritical safety signals may have been buried \u2014 not necessarily through conspiracy, but through a disjointed, profit-driven and overly bureaucratic system that prioritized internal control and proprietary access over transparency, accountability, and science,\u201d Lyons-Weiler said.<\/p>\n Kennedy inherited an \u2018incomprehensible\u2019 organizational structure at HHS<\/strong><\/p>\n During Thursday\u2019s\u00a0interview with Cuomo<\/a>, Kennedy also addressed criticism over\u00a0staff reductions at HHS<\/a>. Kennedy said HHS \u201cis the biggest agency in government, twice the size of the Pentagon\u201d and that the cuts will not affect the agency\u2019s focus on\u00a0public health<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not going to cut services. We\u2019re not going to cut Medicaid, we\u2019re not going to cut Medicare. We\u2019re going to continue. We\u2019re going to provide services, but more efficiently,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n When he\u00a0took over as HHS secretary<\/a>, Kennedy said he inherited a department with an \u201cincomprehensible\u201d organizational structure and with \u201cno chain of command, where people [were] operating in all these different silos and fiefdoms.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do now is to streamline the agency, to eliminate the redundancies and to focus the mission so that everybody who is at HHS is going to wake up every morning and say, \u2018What am I going to do today to Make America Healthy Again?\u201d<\/p>\n Kennedy also discussed the recently launched \u201cOperation Stork Speed<\/a>,\u201d which will \u201cimprove our capacity to have good, nutritious baby formula for the American public that doesn\u2019t have heavy metals or other poisons in it,\u201d and HHS efforts to\u00a0eliminate toxic dyes<\/a>\u00a0from the food supply.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve met with the major food processors and told them we want chemical dyes out of all of our foods,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n Kennedy added that HHS is reforming the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to\u00a0stop subsidizing the purchase of unhealthy products<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re reforming every part of the agency to make sure that our food supply is good and that we have the healthiest kids in the world, which we had when I was a kid,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n Watch the interview here:<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/naturalblaze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cdc-sub-agency-vaccine-injuries-feature-1024x534-1.jpg\")
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