From [HERE] Children’s Health Defense (CHD) on Wednesday sued the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for failing to respond to CHD’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents related to correspondence between NIH researchers and individuals who contacted the NIH regarding adverse events they experienced after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

According to the complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, CHD submitted the FOIA request Nov. 10, 2022. The NIH has not produced the documents or a final determination and stopped responding to CHD.

CHD alleges the NIH violated the legal time limits for responding to FOIA requests and is withholding crucial information from the public.

“Lawsuits like this are critically important,” said Kim Mack Rosenberg, CHD acting general counsel. “Government transparency concerning its research on injuries following COVID-19 injections is of paramount importance.”

Rosenberg added:

“The U.S. government has encouraged, and in some cases, mandated, these injections. How can it now turn a blind eye to requests for information concerning injuries?

“Individuals have a right to this information to promote informed decision-making. By ignoring CHD’s FOIA request, NIH only further undermines the public’s trust in NIH and other government agencies.”

Several vaccine injury victims who communicated with the NIH spoke to The Defender about their experiences interacting with the NIH and participating in a study it was conducting on vaccine-injured individuals — although the NIH has since, on several occasions, denied having data on such individuals or even conducting such research. [MORE]