Data collected from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) V-safe app reveal that women and also recipients of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccines were disproportionately affected by adverse events following their vaccination.
The data were publicized Oct. 3 by the Austin-based nonprofit Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) following its successful lawsuit against the CDC and a court order demanding the CDC release the data. ICAN published the data using a graphical online dashboard and also made the raw data — containing more than 144 million lines of health data — available to the public.
The V-safe smartphone app collected post-vaccination health assessments from approximately 10 million people between Dec. 14, 2020, and July 31, 2022. Del Bigtree, CEO of ICAN, described the data file as “huge, gigantic” and remarked on the CDC’s failure to make this information available. “The CDC had billions of dollars to build something like this,” he said. “They didn’t do it, so we did it for them.”