Bill Text: AZ SCR1047 | 2022 | Fifty-fifth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: COVID-19 vaccinations; transparency
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-09 - Senate HHS Committee action: Held, voting: (0-0-0-0) [SCR1047 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2022-SCR1047-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: COVID-19 vaccinations; transparency |
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State of Arizona Senate Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session 2022
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SCR 1047 |
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Introduced by Senator Barto
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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Supporting transparency in covid-19 vaccination information.
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Whereas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average combined survival rate across all age groups from COVID-19 is 99.9%; and
Whereas, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is the voluntary reporting system built in 1990 by the United States Department of Health and Human Services and cosponsored by the CDC and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA); and
Whereas, the FDA, as part of a pending court action, released the first round of documents it reviewed before President Joseph Biden's announcement that the FDA had reportedly approved and licensed the Pfizer vaccine in its August 23, 2021 letter. One of the documents produced is a "Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports of [the Vaccine] Received through 28-Feb-2021," which is a mere two and a half months after the vaccine received its Emergency Use Authorization. This document reflects 158,893 adverse events and 1,223 deaths following vaccination that have completed Pfizer's "workflow cycle," both in and outside the United States, up to February 28, 2021; and
Whereas, the United States annual influenza vaccination program, which in 2021 vaccinated 195 million people, has only had between twenty and thirty deaths reported to VAERS; and
Whereas, the average reported deaths from all vaccines in the United States from 2011 to 2020 was 409.0 according to VAERS; and
Whereas, according to VAERS, the COVID-19 mass vaccination program has fully vaccinated 210,000,000 people in the United States thus far, with 22,000 plus reported deaths; and
Whereas, in 1976, the swine flu mass vaccination program that vaccinated 55 million people led to 500 cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome, which can cause paralysis, and 25 deaths before the program stopped due to safety concerns; and
Whereas, in Arizona, the total number of all deaths from all causes in 2020 was 75,700, of which 25.2% was reported as due to major cardiovascular disease, 16.7% was reported as due to cancer and 11.1% was reported as due to COVID-19; and
Whereas, the CDC, responding to the erosion of the public's trust, plans to update its data collection for analysis. The American public confidence that the CDC is providing the public with trustworthy information on preventing and treating COVID-19 fell to 72% in January 2022, down from 77% in November 2021, according to the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania; and
Whereas, health care professionals have testified and attested to successfully treating COVID-19 using legacy off-label drugs despite Remdesivir being the only FDA-approved treatment of COVID-19; and
Whereas, according to the CDC, natural immunity was six times stronger during the Delta wave than vaccination.
Therefore
Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives concurring:
1. That the Members of the Legislature support transparency in COVID-19 vaccination information.
2. That the Members of the Legislature consider every Arizonan who has died from and with COVID-19, including all life-threatening diseases, a tragedy to be taken seriously and a reason for mourning.
3. That the Members of the Legislature agree with President Joseph Biden when he stated that "there is no federal solution. This gets solved at a state level" when referring to COVID-19, and that health policy belongs to the states.
4. That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit a copy of this Resolution to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona and each President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the other state legislatures.
