Evidence has purportedly been uncovered that the CDC knew during the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out that the vaccines were associated with an increase in potentially deadly heart muscle inflammation called myocarditis. Still, the agency allegedly swept that knowledge under the rug.
The revelation stems from an internal email dated May 21, 2021, between CDC officials obtained by The Epoch Times. In the email titled “Draft alert on myocarditis and mRNA vaccines,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the CDC’s lead on Equity in COVID Data and Engagement, informed two other senior CDC officials that the alert was attached. However, The Epoch Times was unable to obtain the draft alert.
The CDC had been receiving reports of the onset of myocarditis after vaccination starting in January 2021 through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), The Epoch Times reported at the time. In the month following, the public health agency was exposed to other evidence linking the shots to the heart ailment, including a warning from Israel that young people were particularly vulnerable to suffering from this side effect.
Three days after Daskalakis’ email, a CDC workgroup acknowledged that the reports of postvaccination myocarditis on VAERS were higher than expected in teenagers and young adults. A day later, the CDC told a vaccine manufacturer that it did not release the drafted alert in order not to induce panic in the public, according to The Epoch Times.
Yet, just a week after the email from Daskalakis, the CDC reiterated that all Americans 12 years and older should receive a vaccine, reported The Epoch Times.
Some vaccine proponents, including the American Heart Association, have argued that myocarditis is brought on by COVID-19 more than the vaccination.
Yet Dr. Peter McCullough, citing a study of COVID-19-associated heart ailments, posted on X on February 9:
“In unvaccinated, fatal SARS-CoV-2 infection, no myocarditis is found at autopsy. Don’t be fooled by the false narrative. Myocarditis is a mainline complication of COVID-19 vaccination and cannot be attributed to the infection.”