Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield said during an interview with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation it’s time to admit the experimental COVID-19 shots had “significant side effects.” “Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Thursday that many officials who tried to warn the public about potential problems with COVID-19 vaccines were pressured into silence and that it’s high time to admit that there were ‘significant’ side effects that made people sick,” Chief Nerd said, citing The Epoch Times. “‘Those of us that tried to suggest there may be significant side effects from vaccines … we kind of got canceled because no one wanted to talk about the potential that there was a problem from the vaccines, because they were afraid that that would cause people not to want to get vaccinated,’ Dr. Redfield said,” Chief Nerd added. “Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Thursday that many officials who tried to warn the public about potential problems with COVID-19 vaccines were pressured into silence and that it’s high time to admit that there… pic.twitter.com/voivufj6VC — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) May 18, 2024 “We have to be honest. Some people got significant side effects from the vaccine. I have a number of people that are quite ill and they never had COVID, but they are ill from the vaccine,” Redfield told Cuomo. “We just have to acknowledge that,” he added. WATCH: BREAKING – Former @CDCgov Director Dr. Robert Redfield admits COVID-19 vaccines cause "significant side effects" "I have a number of people that are quite ill from the vaccine … we just have to acknowledge that."#MFScholar@P_McCulloughMD @ChrisCuomo @NewsNation pic.twitter.com/iDqcsOxJoP — McCullough Foundation (@McCulloughFund) May 17, 2024 From The Epoch Times: In September 2020, a few months before the first COVID-19 vaccines were given in the United States, Dr. Redfield testified before the Senate that COVID-19 represented the “most significant public health challenge to face our nation in more than a century,” and that the prevailing view among scientists at the time was that the overall case fatality rate of the disease was somewhere between 0.4 and 0.6 percent in the United States. “If you were to look right now, individuals under the age of 18, it’s about 0.01 percent, 19 to say 69, it’s more like 0.3 percent. And if you’re over the age of 70, it’s about 5 percent now,” he testified at the time. While there’s lingering controversy about the severity of COVID-19, a recent study estimates that the global case fatality rate was 8.5 percent in February 2020 but had plunged to 0.27 percent in August 2022, meaning that the estimated relative risk reduction over that time was a whopping 96.8 percent. Ex-CDC Director Says It’s High Time to Admit ‘Significant Side Effects’ of COVID-19 Vaccines ‘We kind of got cancelled because no one wanted to talk about the potential that there was a problem from the vaccines,’ Dr. Robert Redfield said.https://t.co/kdt6wM1yCp — The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) May 18, 2024 Redfield repeated the often-told false rhetoric that the experimental shots also had benefits and saved “a lot of lives,” The Epoch Times noted. “There’s been so much credibility lost in the public science groups, NIH, FDA, CDC, because I think there was lack of really just transparency,” Redfield said. “One of the things I used to tell my colleagues, don’t be afraid to say you don’t know the answer, and all too often, people would make up the answer. And as you know, those of us who tried to suggest there may be significant side effects from vaccines, we kinda like what the rest of us show that you had early on, we kinda got cancelled,” he added. WATCH: Former ⁦@CDCgov⁩ director Dr. Redfield: “We have to be honest, some people got significant side effects from the vaccine. I have a number of people that are quite ill & they never had Covid, but they are ill from the vaccine. And we just have to acknowledge that.” pic.twitter.com/LhwJubRHD2 — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 17, 2024 Daily Caller reports: A Canadian study found that Moderna’s vaccine may cause two to three times as many heart-related side effects as Pfizer, particularly among young men. The rates of myocarditis and pericarditis in individuals within 21 days of getting their second shot were 35.6 and 22.9 per million doses for Moderna compared to 12.6 and 9.4 per million for Pfizer. The Department of Defense (DOD) allegedly ignored concerns about recorded health complications after mandating the vaccine. One Air Force reservist suffered from at least one stroke that caused severe, career-ending eyesight dysfunction after she received her second dose of the Pfizer-BioTech vaccine. An Air Force fighter pilot instructor was diagnosed with pericarditis (heart inflammation) and anaphylaxis (a severe allergic reaction) on Dec. 21, 2021, just one day after receiving the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Blood clotting, medically known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, occurs in 3.8 per million who receive the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, mainly in females between the ages 18 to 49, according to Nebraska Medicine. For women, blood clotting from Johnson & Johnson happens in 5.8 per million patients. Anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction, has occurred at a rate of approximately 5 cases per one million vaccines administered, according to the CDC. The CDC found “higher than expected rates” of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS, a rare disorder causing the immune system to cause muscle weakness and paralysis through the damage of nerve cells, in patients 50 years and older after receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the CDC reported. Within 21 days of getting the jab, GBS is 21 times higher in patients receiving the Johnson and Johnson vaccine than those receiving the Pfizer or Moderna. It is 11 times higher in Johnson & Johnson after 42 days.