The data came from v-safe, a voluntary smartphone-based program created by the CDC specifically to monitor the effects of the COVID-19 vaccines. To sign up, people simply have to download the app onto their smartphones, register and provide periodic health check-ins after receiving COVID-19 vaccines.
In June 2021, the Informed Consent Action Network filed two lawsuits for the v-safe data to be made public, led by Siri & Glimstad LLP lawyers Aaron Siri and Elizabeth A. Brehm. Following months of legal wrangling, the CDC finally capitulated when a court ordered the agency to produce the data.
According to ICAN and Siri and Brem, the data produced thus far by the CDC is limited because v-safe only provides users with a limited number of fields to choose from when reporting health concerns.
V-safe also provides users with free-text fields where they can write down more detailed descriptions of their health concerns. The data contained in these free-text fields have not been made public. Siri and Brehm have stated that they will continue to litigate to obtain this data and more....<<<Read More>>>