2nd NH Testimony on 2/16/23

Honorable Chairpersons, Members and Senators,

My name is Dr. Meryl Nass.  I am testifying in favor of HB557. 

Earlier today, I showed you that virtually every time a vaccine is given to a population without undergoing the testing required for licensure, unexpected and severe adverse events result, usually ending the vaccine program.

And last May the Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine was, for all intents and purposes, taken off the market due to unexpected blood clots.[1]

Haven't we proven that almost every time we try rushing a vaccine to market, unanticipated and often very severe problems result?

And now a major player in the pandemic vaccine space, CEPI, pledges to roll out vaccines in 100 days for some future pandemic.  This is simply insane.  But at least, we have been warned of the insanity ahead of time, and we can do something about it.

----------

Why should decisions regarding vaccination protocols be reserved for the legislature? It is claimed that the New Hampshire DHHS has the experts, not the legislature.  But the Department is unelected, not answerable to citizens, and might not always act in their best interest.

First, the Health Department takes its cues and significant funding from the federal CDC.  During the last 3 years, the federal CDC has shown itself to be both politicized, and unable to carry out its mission.  Sadly, while it was created for the purpose of dealing with epidemics, it has demonstrated gross incompetence instead.

The headlines tell the story:

1.     NY Times: "Walensky, Citing Botched Pandemic Response, Calls for C.D.C. Reorganization[2]"

2.     CNN: "CDC needs a reset requiring support from the federal level, new think tank report finds[3]"

3.     Daily Mail: "CDC is not fit for purpose, has lost the public's trust and needs a complete overhaul, says report by agency's former director[4]"

4.     NY Times:  "The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects"[5]

Second, the federal agencies have given large grants to the states to promote COVID and other vaccinations.  Such financial incentives could result in rulemaking to mandate vaccinations, even of experimental and inadequately tested vaccines.  In Maine, rulemaking has recently added mandated vaccines for both children and healthcare workers, for example.

Third, with the federal CDC responsible for improving health, life expectancy has dropped 3 years since the start of the pandemic, losing 25 years of gains.[6]

Fourth, the CDC just added COVID mRNA vaccines to the childhood schedule--encouraging states to promote or mandate them.  This is unprecedented--because the original vaccines are not licensed for children under age twelve, and the bivalent boosters are not licensed for anyone. They underwent no human testing before their September rollout.[7]  This is the first time CDC has placed an experimental, unlicensed product on the childhood schedule.  Such irresponsible behavior should not be repeated at the state level, and only the legislature can be relied on to prevent it.

We now know that the risk of COVID vaccine-induced myocarditis is high in teenagers (up to 1 diagnosed case per 5,000 vaccine doses according to the CDC,) or up to 30-90 times the baseline risk in the unvaccinated (see attached CDC and FDA charts), and the benefit of vaccination for healthy American children, almost all of whom have been exposed, is miniscule. 

Yet children are still being given $75 gift cards to get vaccinated and towns are being paid $2,000 by the state of Massachusetts to host vaccine clinics for children[8]--with experimental, unlicensed Emergency Use Authorized vaccines....

vaccines for which the manufacturers have no liability.  Let me repeat that.  Federal, state and local governments are paying children (and adults) to receive vaccines that were only tested in mice. 

Amherst, Massachusetts hosted a school vaccine clinic 4 months after an Amherst high school student died during a track meet--after the autopsy showed her death was due to myocarditis.[9]  In other words, it was a vaccine death.  The lesson is that we cannot rely on officials to do what is right.

Hopefully, New Hampshire will be more careful.  There has never been a more crucial time for you, the legislators, to protect the citizens from possible overreach by federal and state executive offices.  Please reserve the Legislature's right to make the decisions about required vaccines.

_____________

Note on CDC’s VSD program, intended to monitor vaccine safety using active surveillance in real time, from footnote 10:

"The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) is a collaborative project between CDC’s Immunization Safety Office, integrated health care organizations, and networks across the U.S. The VSD started in 1990 and continues today in order to monitor safety of vaccines and conduct studies about rare and serious adverse events following immunization. As of September 28, 2022, there are 13 VSD sites that provide clinical, methodological, and data expertise; 11 are data providing sites.

The VSD uses electronic health data from participating sites to monitor and assess the safety of vaccines. This includes information on vaccines: the kind of vaccine given to each patient, date of vaccination, and other vaccinations given on the same day. The VSD also uses information on medical illnesses that have been diagnosed at doctors’ offices, urgent care visits, emergency department visits, and hospital stays. The VSD conducts vaccine safety studies based on questions or concerns raised from the medical literature and reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). When there are new vaccines that have been recommended for use in the United States or if there are changes in how a vaccine is recommended, the VSD will monitor the safety of these vaccines."[10]

---

[1] https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-limits-use-janssen-covid-19-vaccine-certain-individuals

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/us/politics/cdc-rochelle-walensky-covid.html

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/health/csis-working-group-cdc-reset/index.html

[4] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11649645/CDC-not-fit-purpose-lost-publics-trust-needs-complete-overhaul.html

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/20/health/covid-cdc-data.html

[6] Sept. 2, 2022:  https://www.newsweek.com/americans-can-now-expect-live-three-years-less-cubans-1739507

[7] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-authorize-new-covid-boosters-data-tests-people-rcna45387

[8]

Go to 59 minutes

[9]

Amherst schools collect $2000 to host student COVID vaccine clinic 4 months after one of their students died from myocarditis at a track meet

[10] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vsd/index.html