CDC Sued for Withholding Post-Licensure ‘V-safe’ Data on COVID-19 Vaccines

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters is seen in Atlanta on April 23, 2020. Tami Chappell/Getty Images

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been sued by the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), which claims that the agency is improperly withholding COVID-19 vaccine safety data from the American public.

In a Dec. 29 statement, the nonprofit announced that it filed a lawsuit (pdf) against the CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to force it to provide de-identified post-licensure safety data for the COVID-19 vaccines in the CDC’s v-safe system.