A top Food and Drug Administration official told counterparts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that they should study health issues that arose in some people after receiving COVID-19 vaccines, according to newly released emails.
Dr. Janet Woodcock, at the time the acting commissioner of the FDA, wrote to Dr. Francis Collins, then-head of the NIH, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in one of the emails, on May 27, 2021, about five months after COVID-19 vaccination started.
“I have been contacted by a number of people who have experienced adverse events post COVID-19 vaccination (from all three of the current vaccines),” Woodcock wrote. …