CDC knowingly labeled accurate news stories about the dangers of COVID-19 vaccines “misinformation,” internal messages show

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) routinely labeled accurate news articles as “misinformation” because they went against the government’s pro-vaccine narrative, a review of internal messages that were circulated widely within the CDC shows.

One of them referred to a peer-reviewed study that concluded that myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation, was more common among patients following COVID-19 vaccination than an infection with the virus itself.

In the study, Nordic researchers assessed electronic health records and found 530 cases of myocarditis following the vaccine versus just 109 after infection. It was printed by the highly respected British Medical Journal.

However, the CDC noted in an internal e-mail that it had been “picked up by anti-vax proponents as evidence that vax was more likely to cause myocarditis than COVID-19 infection.”

That email, which was dated February 7, 2023, listed an article from the Epoch Times about the peer-reviewed study in a list of “points of confusion/potential rumors/misinformation” without providing any additional information to support this classification.

A physician and scientist for the University of California San Francisco, Dr. Tracy Hoeg, told the Epoch Times that its article on the study “should not be labeled as misinformation," adding that the study’s findings aligned with those of previous research, such as a paper printed in the journal JAMA Cardiology concluding that some populations had higher rates of myocarditis after receiving the vaccines than they did after being infected with the virus.

There were numerous other instances of similar studies being falsely labeled as misinformation by the CDC. For example, their emails show that a video in which a doctor explains data showing the COVID-19 vaccines have an adverse effect on gut health was labeled misinformation by the agency despite being based on published research.

In another case, the CDC labeled a story about the government being paid royalties from Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine as being misleading or inaccurate despite officials from the company disclosing in an earnings call that they had formed a patent agreement with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and had sent a $400 million payment, which would be followed by further royalties in the future...<<<Read More>>>...