Florida Grand Jury Investigating COVID-19 Vaccines Finds No Evidence of Criminal Activity; State Report On COVID-19 Vaccine Issues Released, and other C-Virus related stories
Florida grand jury investigating COVID-19 vaccines finds no evidence of criminal activity:
A statewide grand jury convened at the request of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” concerning COVID-19 vaccines did not find any evidence of criminal activity, according to a report unsealed on Tuesday.
“(N)ot finding any indictable criminal activity does not mean we did not find any problems. On the contrary, there are profound and serious issues involving the process of vaccine development and safety surveillance in the United States,” the grand jury wrote in its final report.
In response to its findings, the grand jury made policy recommendations in its report, including increasing transparency around clinical trials and banning advertisements for pharmaceutical drugs.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains that COVID-19 vaccines underwent intensive safety analyses and that the shots continue to be monitored after FDA approval to ensure they still meet federal safety and efficacy standards.
While the vaccines aren’t perfect, they do a good job of preventing severe disease, hospitalization and death, and have proven very safe, with only rare serious side effects, according to federal officials and public health experts. —>READ MORE HERE
State report on COVID-19 vaccine issues released:
For the first time, we’re hearing what a state grand jury has recommended regarding issues with COVID-19 vaccines.
The grand jury identified several issues but stopped short of finding anything criminal.
They found “serious issues with vaccine development” and monitoring safety.
They said the FDA and CDC often misled the public about safety issues due to comparisons with outdated data.
Their recommendations include new clinical trials to understand the protection these vaccines currently offer, keeping lobbyists out of the process and monitoring our state’s wastewater more carefully to detect COVID and other pathogens. —>READ MORE HERE
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