The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is creating a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sub-agency to research vaccine-related injuries, long COVID and Lyme disease, as announced by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy emphasized the need for rigorous scientific review and transparency to restore public trust in medical interventions, ensuring “gold-standard” research into treatments.
The agency will work alongside a proposed new vaccine adverse event reporting system, which Kennedy claims will be more accurate than the existing VAERS.
Medical researchers and vaccine policy critics praised the move as overdue, calling it a step toward accountability for vaccine-injured individuals who have faced institutional denial.
Some advocates, like Sayer Ji, view the move as an admission of past failures in federal health agencies, signaling a potential shift toward greater truth and accountability in public health.
Kennedy emphasized the growing need for transparency and rigorous scientific review to ensure public trust in medical interventions.
“These are priorities for the American people. More and more people are suffering from these injuries, and we are committed to having gold-standard science to make sure that we can figure out what the treatments are and that we can deliver the best treatments possible to the American people,” he added.
The new unit will work alongside his proposed vaccine adverse event reporting system, which he claims will be “more accurate” than the existing Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
New HHS vaccine safety sub-agency praised by advocates, scientists
Medical researchers, advocates and critics of federal vaccine policy hail the new HHS vaccine safety sub-agency as a critical, if overdue, step toward accountability.
Among them is Brian Hooker, Ph.D., chief scientific officer for Children’s Health Defense, who called the move “excellent” but lamented systemic failures in data transparency. James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D., a research scientist and author, described the announcement as a “historic and long-overdue shift in public health accountability.”
“For decades, families of the vaccine-injured have been subjected to silence, stonewalling and denial by the very institutions tasked with ensuring safety,” Lyons-Weiler said. “This new development is without question a step in the right direction.”
Christina Parks, Ph.D., a biologist who has studied vaccine injuries, said the sub-agency “will legitimize the suffering of millions of Americans and people around the world who have endured the agonizing effects of vaccine injury.”
Ben Tapper, a Nebraska chiropractor who was labeled part of the “Disinformation Dozen” by the Center for Countering Digital Hate for his criticism of COVID-19 vaccines, called the news “a long-overdue crack in the dam.”
“For decades, we’ve been shouting on the rooftops, parents, researchers and victims alike, about the real harm these shots can cause, only to be dismissed as conspiracy nuts or told the science is ‘settled.’ The data’s been there: VAERS reports, court payouts from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and countless studies buried or ignored by the mainstream. Now, they can’t pretend it’s not happening anymore.”
Meanwhile, Sayer Ji, co-founder of Stand for Health Freedom, framed the move as an implicit admission of failure.
“That HHS departments were selling patient data and operating in silos reveals a cartel, not a public health institution. This is not reform, it’s rupture. And it opens the door to a new era of truth, accountability and bodily sovereignty.”
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