The Claim:
A viral tweet claims that CDC is full of corruption, retweeting a claim that the CDC redacted a 148-page “study” as proof. Is something about myocarditis being hidden behind the redactions?
The Facts:
A lot is made of a redacted study as a response to a FOIA request by the Epoch Times, a far-right media company affiliated with the Falun Gong religious movement, but the Epoch Times has not released the FOIA request, so we have to take their word that this is what they say it is.
One can look at this redacted paper and assume that CDC is “hiding” information from the public regarding myocarditis. This assumption ignores many research articles that acknowledge that mRNA COVID vaccines do carry a small risk of myocarditis but that it often resolves on its own relatively quickly. Some of these studies often explain that the risks of myocarditis from COVID far outweigh the risks of myocarditis from the vaccines. This acknowledgment also appears on the CDC website.
Given the transparency of the research to date and the lack of transparency concerning the original FOIA request itself, it is fair to assume nothing is being hidden concerning the risks of myocarditis after mRNA vaccination.
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