According to a bombshell Senate report from Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) office, top health officials in the Biden Administration knew about the risks associated with the COVID-19 vaccine — but withheld the information for many months.
According to the report, federal health agencies were informed as early as February 2021 about numerous myocarditis cases in young recipients of the Pfizer vaccine, but the information wasn’t disclosed until June.
“Even though CDC and FDA officials were well aware of the risk of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination, the Biden administration opted to withhold issuing a formal warning to the public for months about the safety concerns, jeopardizing the health of young Americans,” the 54-page interim report said.
From The New York Post:
On Feb. 28, 2021, an Israeli Ministry of Health official attempted to contact the CDC and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about 40 cases of myocarditis and other heart-related ailments in young people from the Pfizer vaccine.
At the time, Israel had a much higher vaccination rate than the US, the report noted.
About 10 days later, an FDA official drafted a response noting that “limitations of passive surveillance … [and] incomplete data make it challenging to assess causation.”
US health officials requested more data from the Israelis.
By mid-April, a Defense Department contractor involved with the Pentagon’s work on immunization delivered a presentation to the COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Technical (VaST) working group that concluded “there is a high likelihood that cardiac symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination represent a hypersensitivity eosinophilic myocarditis.”
