Last Updated on February 19, 2025
NATIONAL FILE is calling upon newly confirmed Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to abolish the Biden administration’s surveillance program that tracks Americans who did not take the Coronavirus vaccine. NATIONAL FILE exclusively revealed a hidden government video (featured below) in which a federal government employee admits that unvaccinated Americans are getting tracked when they go to the doctor’s office or the hospital. The surveillance program was proposed and implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the Biden years. Thankfully, the CDC is now under vaccine skeptic Kennedy’s jurisdiction.
Our initial report received over 300,000 views on our website and was showcased on the program Redacted. Despite this, the Biden administration continued to operate the surveillance program. The latest 2025 edition of “ICD-10-CM Codes,” overseen by the CDC, reveals that the federal government is still monitoring unvaccinated individuals using intrusive mandatory insurance codes that label patients as either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.
Under the leadership of Kennedy at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Trump administration now has the opportunity to terminate this surveillance initiative and prevent potential human rights violations orchestrated by the federal government.
In an exclusive report for NATIONAL FILE released in February 2023, it was disclosed that the U.S. government is monitoring individuals who have opted not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. This revelation was based on confidential federal documents and video material obtained solely by NATIONAL FILE. The uncovered video indicates that unvaccinated individuals are discreetly tracked during visits to healthcare facilities as part of a covert initiative introduced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Official government documents state that the program is specifically created to monitor individuals who have not been vaccinated or have only received partial vaccination.
A bombshell piece of information was revealed at the September 14-15, 2021 virtual Zoom meeting of the federal government’s ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (which includes representatives from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, known as CMS, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics). At the meeting, the Committee discussed new categories of “ICD-10” codes that the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) wanted to create to mark people as “Unvaccinated for COVID-19,” “Partially Vaccinated for COVID-19” and “Other underimmunization status.”
The ICD-10 coding system was created by the World Health Organization (WHO) and doctors are required to use it to categorize different kinds of patients. The ICD-10 codes are preserved in a patient’s electronic health record and used by insurance companies for billing purposes. The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics maintains the ICD-10 codes. Within ICD-10 codes, there is a category known as “ICD-10-CM” codes (which are reportedly used by the CDC for tracking purposes), and this “CM” category includes the new “Unvaccinated for COVID-19” category and also the “Partially Vaccinated For COVID-19” category and the “other underimmunization status” category.
The Committee made it clear that the new codes would be used to “track” unvaccinated people. At the time of the meeting, people who had adverse reactions to a past vaccine would still be categorized as unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, even if they are physically unable to get more vaccines or boosters.
The CDC implemented the new codes to track unvaccinated people in April 2022, according to a document published on a CMS federal government website.
ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Commitee staffer David Berglund, M.D. read from page 194 of a CDC Topic Packet that was prepared for the meeting (READ THE CDC TOPIC PACKET HERE).
The Topic Packet states (emphasis added): “During the current time of the COVID-19 pandemic, immunizations have provided protection for many people, but there is interest in being able to track people who are not immunized or only partially immunized. At the current time, this is a significant modifiable risk factor for morbidity and mortality, and of interest for clinical reasons, as well as of value for public health. NCHS is proposing creation of codes for unvaccinated for COVID-19, and for partially vaccinated for COVID-19.”
“NCHS” stands for the National Center for Health Statistics, which is a U.S. federal government division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Here is footage from the meeting in which David Berglund discusses the new codes. NATIONAL FILE obtained this video from a password-protected government website.
CDC Plot To Track The Unvaccinated Revealed At September 2021 ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting pic.twitter.com/0E5AaCmDAm
— National File (@NationalFile) February 1, 2023
Berglund stated, “Those are their proposed changes,” referring to the CDC’s NCHS division.
Here is page 194 of the Topic Packet for the meeting, which refers to “interest in being able to track people who are not immunized or only partially immunized.”
screenshot from the virtual meeting showing the meeting packet
A commenter from Premier asked about patients who “may have had their first shot, had a really bad adverse reaction, and can’t get the second shot. Should there maybe be a code that indicates incomplete vaccination or unvaccinated due to contraindication?”
David Berglund replied, “Hmm. So that would essentially be, that could be “partially vaccinated,” or, well, in some cases people might be completely unvaccinated if they’ve had some history of a reaction to some types of vaccines. But essentially the thought would be that there would be a history of other reaction type code that would explain it. I’d have to look at how that might be done. We have not, at this point, proposed to have a separate way of coding that type of situation here. But there certainly could be interest in that. We can certainly look at that further.”
An NIH government website states: “ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes will tell the story of each patient encounter, describe etiologies of the disease process, explain the complications of care, provide a basis for medical necessity, support coverage for payment purposes, identify incidence of disease, and support statistical tracking for healthcare practices, as well as provide disease state information on medical practices across the continuum of care.”
I appeared on Redacted with Clayton Morris to discuss my investigative reporting, but my segment was censored off Youtube. Here is the Rumble version of my 2023 Redacted interview:
