- ‘Not a Real Democracy’: RFK Jr. Blasts Colorado Supreme Court Blocking Trump From Ballot
By Tom Ozimek
Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. has sharply criticized the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to block former President Donald Trump from the ...
- Colorado Supreme Court’s Ruling a ‘Massive Denial of Due Process’ Against Trump: Former DOJ Official
By Ryan Morgan and Steve Lance
The Colorado Supreme Court’s order removing former President Donald Trump from the state’s election ballot appears designed to exhaust ...
- Court to Identify Over 150 People Linked to Jeffrey Epstein
By Zachary Stieber
A federal judge has ruled that many names linked to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be made public in the ...
- Landmark Supreme Court Case Could Upend Jan. 6 Prosecutions
By Joseph M. Hanneman
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take up a Jan. 6 case that challenges the most frequently charged felony from that ...
- President’s Daughter Ashley Biden Owes Thousands in Taxes
By Zachary Stieber
President Joe Biden’s daughter owes thousands in taxes, according to a newly disclosed document.
Ashley Biden, 42, owes $4,985 in person income tax, ...
- Hunter Biden’s First Court Date Set for Tax Evasion Charges
By Caden Pearson
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, is scheduled to make his initial court appearance and arraignment in California next month, ...
- Texas Governor Signs Law Giving Police Power to Arrest Illegal Immigrants
By Savannah Hulsey Pointer
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a border security bill into law that will give state law enforcement broad authority to ...
- Trump Attorney Reveals Why Jack Smith Wants Quick Supreme Court Ruling
By Jack Phillips
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney was critical of special counsel Jack Smith’s urgency to obtain a Supreme Court ruling on whether the ...
- Many Republicans Find Ally in RFK Over Vaccines, but Remain Loyal to Trump
By Jeff Louderback
Many Republicans are still wanting a reckoning over the government-imposed lockdowns, the mask mandates, and particularly the vaccine mandates. While they support ...
- US Space Command Reaches Full Operational Capability
By Frank Fang
The U.S. Space Command, the Pentagon’s newest and 11th combat command, has reached full operating capability, according to its commander Army Gen. ...
- RFK Jr. Says He Will Name a Vice Presidential Candidate ‘Fairly Soon’
By Jeff Louderback
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Minutes after a voter rally where he told a crowd of 800 that “he intends to win” the 2024 presidential ...
- RFK Jr. Chastises American Defense Contractors’ Meeting with Zelensky
By Jeff Louderback
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week reiterated his objection to U.S. involvement in the Russia–Ukraine war, criticizing American defense contractors ...
![The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is refusing to release the results of autopsies conducted on people who died after getting COVID-19 vaccines. The FDA says it is barred from releasing medical files, but a drug safety advocate says that it could release the autopsies with personal information redacted. The refusal was issued to The Epoch Times, which submitted a Freedom of Information Act for all autopsy reported obtained by the FDA concerning any deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System following COVID-19 vaccination. Reports are lodged with the system when a person experiences an adverse event, or a health issue, after receiving a vaccine. The FDA and other agencies are tasked with investigating the reports. Authorities request and review medical records to vet the reports, including autopsies. The FDA declined to release any reports, even redacted copies. The FDA cited federal law, which enables agencies to withhold information if the agency “reasonably foresees that disclosure would harm an interest protected by an exemption,” with the exemption being “personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” Federal regulations also bar the release of “personnel, medical and similar files the disclosure of which constitutes a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” The Epoch Times has appealed the denial, in addition to the recent denial of results of data analysis of VAERS reports. ‘Easily Be Redacted’ Kim Witczak, a drug safety advocate who advises the FDA as part of the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, said that the reports could be released with personal information blacked out. “The personal information could easily be redacted without losing the potential learnings from [the] autopsy,” Witczak told The Epoch Times via email. People make the choice to submit autopsy results to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, Witczak noted. “If someone submits their experience to VAERS they want and expect to have it investigated by the FDA. This includes autopsy reports,” she said. Autopsies are examinations of deceased persons performed to determine the cause of death. “Autopsies can be an important part of postmortem analysis and should be done especially with increased deaths following COVID-19 vaccination,” Witczak said. FDA Responds An FDA spokesperson noted that deaths following COVID-19 vaccination are rare, citing the number of reports made to VAERS. As of Sept. 14, 16,516 reports of death following COVID-19 vaccination have been reported. Approximately 616 million doses have been administered in the United States through September. The spokesperson declined to say whether the FDA would ever release the autopsy results, but pointed to a paper authored by researchers with the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The paper, which has not been peer reviewed, analyzed the approximately 9,800 reports of death to VAERS following COVID-19 vaccination lodged from Dec. 14, 2020, to Nov. 17, 2021. Researchers found that reporting rates were lower than the expected all-cause mortality rates. “Trends in reporting rates reflected known trends in background mortality rates. These findings do not suggest an association between vaccination and overall increased mortality,” the researchers wrote. The researchers noted that prior studies have found that adverse events reported to VAERS are an undercount of the true number of events.](https://www.usnn.news/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/FDA-Withholding-Autopsy-Results-on-People-Who-Died-After-Getting-COVID-19-Vaccines.jpg "FDA Withholding Autopsy Results on People Who Died After Getting COVID-19 Vaccines 10")
