‘Cause for Real Concern’: MAHA Activists Criticize Trump’s Pick to Lead CDC
Dr. Erica Schwartz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the CDC, is a physician and former Coast Guard officer and public health official. In a video posted on Instagram, Schwartz said, “When I was a military physician, my job was all about readiness. It was all about public health prevention, vaccines, early detection.”
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Alongside Schwartz’s nomination, Trump announced three new appointments to key CDC leadership posts:
- Dr. Sara Brenner, currently the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) principal deputy commissioner, was named public health adviser to Kennedy.
- Dr. Jennifer Shuford, currently commissioner of the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, was named CDC deputy director and chief operating officer.
- Sean Slovenski, former president of Walmart Health & Wellness, was named deputy director and chief operating officer of the CDC.
According to the Times, the White House is “veering away” from Kennedy’s “vaccine skepticism” in the lead-up to this year’s midterm elections. The Washington Post reported that polls have shown “vaccines could be a GOP liability” in this year’s elections.
Other polls, however, have shown broad — and growing — support for stricter safety reviews of vaccines and rising opposition to mandates.
In a post on X, attorney Aaron Siri — who represents several vaccine injury victims and delivered a “scathing” presentation on the childhood immunization schedule to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices last year — criticized Schwartz for her “long track record” of supporting vaccines and vaccine mandates.
“This agency does not need another cheerleader for industry; it needs a regulator over industry. Her prior promotion, let alone mandates, of nearly a dozen different vaccines leave little hope she will objectively oversee CDC’s vaccine program,” Siri wrote. His post included links with “examples of Schwartz mandating vaccines.”
Political economist Toby Rogers, Ph.D., a fellow with the Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research, wrote on X that Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, who made waves last year for announcing the end of vaccine mandates in the state, would have been a better choice.
“Instead the White House is leaning toward Erica Schwartz who ordered the fraudulent PCR tests that were part of the Covid psyop,” Rogers wrote.
According to the Times, Schwartz, who ran the government’s COVID-19 testing program during the pandemic, has “publicly supported vaccines and preventive medicine.” (See link for article)
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**Please remember that the COVID gene therapy shots are NOT true vaccines and the CDC had to change the definition for them to even be considered vaccines.
And, never forget the PCR scam that was used to inflate cases so they could push an ineffective, dangerous gene therapy shot that they still haven’t come clean on. It’s been determined that 86% of PCR-positive cases were not real infections.**
https://thevaccinereaction.org/2026/04/cdc-considers-new-medical-code-to-classify-vaccine-injuries/
CDC Considers New Medical Code to Classify Vaccine Injuries
by Natasha Hobley
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is considering a proposal to formally recognize injuries associated with COVID-19 vaccinations as a diagnosable condition that can be recorded in medical records.1
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), a standardized system used to classify diagnoses, symptoms, and procedures, could be updated under the proposal. Introduced by the nonprofit organization React19, which represents individuals who report reactions, injuries and deaths after receiving COVID-19 shots, the measure would add a specific diagnostic code to the existing framework.1
New Code Classifying COVID Shot Injuries Would Help to Track, Treat Adverse Reactions
Mary Stanfill, a CDC health information specialist, said the code would allow for providers to “identify, track, and study patients who experience adverse effects specifically related to COVID vaccines.” The codes are also used for insurance payouts, as well as research and statistical analysis.1
Andrew Nixon, spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) stated that public comments will influence whether the plan for the code is finalized. Comments from the public must be submitted by mid-May.
“It’s hard to treat what you can’t define,” said Joel Wallskog, a doctor who developed health issues following vaccination. Wallskog is also co-chairman of React19, and he stated that establishing a code would make it easier to spot vaccine injuries in medical records and could also lead to better research into vaccine adverse events.1
More Descriptive Language for Reaction Symptoms Following COVID Shots
In March 2026, The New York Times obtained a leaked federal work group report that introduced a new medical condition it calls “post-acute COVID-19 vaccination syndrome” or PACVS. This clinical entity is defined as a “heterogeneous, prolonged symptoms involving multiple organ systems persisting at least 12 weeks after vaccination and unexplained by another condition.”2
The report estimated that COVID shot injuries affect anywhere between one in 33,000 people to one in 111 young and middle-aged individuals.2
Post-Vaccination Exercise Intolerance, Extreme Fatigue, Insomnia
In March of 2025, Yale News reported on a “little understood, persistent condition referred to as post-vaccination syndrome (PVS)” which is characterized by chronic symptoms that developed soon after receiving a COVID shot. The symptoms include exercise intolerance, excessive fatigue, brain fog, insomnia, and dizziness. These symptoms develop within a day or two after the vaccination and become increasingly severe.
Yale researchers are taking steps to characterize the condition and pinpoint potential immunological patterns that contribute to these reactions.
“It’s clear that some individuals are experiencing significant challenges after vaccination. Our responsibility as scientists and clinicians is to listen to their experiences, rigorously investigate the underlying causes, and seek ways to help,” said Harlan Krumholz, MD, co-senior author of the study and Professor of Medicine at Yale.3
Yale Researchers Find Spike Protein in Blood 700 Days After Last COVID Shot
The research team found that some study participants with PVS had detectable levels of spike protein more than 700 days after their last shot. This pattern has also been associated with long COVID. One researcher noted that it was “surprising” to find the spike protein circulation at such a late point in time.
Admission That Every Medical Intervention Carries Risks, Including Vaccines
“We’re only just starting to make headway in understanding PVS,” said Dr. Krumholz. “Every medical intervention carries some risk, and it’s important to acknowledge that adverse events can occur with vaccines.3
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