WASHINGTON, D.C.–Today, U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Lesko (AZ-08) sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock requesting a briefing to clarify the number of deaths due to COVID-19 vaccines.

“Over the last several months, I have received many inquiries from my constituents concerned about the side effects—including a number of deaths—caused by COVID-19 vaccines,” said Congresswoman Lesko. “Their concerns are primarily based on reports on the CDC’s and FDA’s Vaccine Adverse Event Report System (VAERS) database. Since anyone can file a report with VAERS, it is imperative that the CDC and/or the FDA also inform the public about how many of these reports have actually been verified. The American people deserve full accuracy and transparency that can only be provided by verified data. I want to know what the CDC and FDA are doing to verify and not verify the reported deaths, how many vaccine-caused deaths have actually been verified, and how they plan to report verified deaths and side effects to the American public.”

Read the letter here.

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