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Report Exposes How Biden Federal Health Agencies Hid The Risk Of Myocarditis

18 June 2025

Comments by STARRS: “Although we only took issue with the illegal aspects of the mandate, thanks to Dr Sturman’s great research, we all know this would be the case. Telling the Biden administration ignored 70 inquiries from Congress. That is a lot of deaths for a vaccine that neither prevented someone from getting the disease or keep them from spreading it–and many of them occurring in an age group which had less than a .1% chance of dying from the disease.” — LTGen Rod Bishop, USAF ret

“The number of witnessed deaths due to cardiac arrest of young men involved in vigorous athletic events was unprecedented. Only negligence and overt dishonesty can account for excusing these medical catastrophes as normal or due emotional stress. Even a casual observer understood in 2021 that the vaccine caused grievous injuries in young patients who were at an exceedingly low health risk from naturally acquired Covid 19.”–Scott Sturman, MD

By CHQ Staff | ConservativeHQ.com

On January 28, 2025, Senator Ron Johnson, chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, subpoenaed the Department of Health and Human Services for records relating to COVID-19 vaccine safety data and communications about the COVID-19 pandemic. Chairman Johnson’s subpoena to HHS was a culmination of a multi-year fight to overcome the obstruction of the Biden administration to get unredacted records and data about the COVID-19 pandemic and the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines.

For years, Biden officials at HHS and its subcomponent agencies withheld crucial health information from the Subcommittee and the public. Many of Chairman Johnson’s more than 70 oversight letters to the Biden administration were either completely ignored or inadequately addressed.

To download the report in PDF format click here.

Now, under a new administration and a new HHS secretary, HHS is beginning to produce records, pursuant to the chairman’s subpoena, that should have been provided years ago, without redactions, to Congress and the public. This interim report highlights records the Subcommittee has reviewed regarding HHS’s awareness of and response to cases of myocarditis—a type of heart inflammation—following COVID-19 vaccination.

Portions of these documents have already been made public over the years with various redactions through the tireless efforts of individuals who filed Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests and published the records they obtained.3 Other documents, some of which will be discussed below, have remained hidden from the public and Congress for years despite Chairman Johnson’s efforts to obtain the information.

The Biden administration’s decision to downplay the COVID-19 vaccine health risks and delay warning the public about cardiac-related adverse events associated with the mRNA vaccines jeopardized the public’s health.

Further, based on the records discussed above, it is clear that CDC and FDA officials only relied on the vaccine safety surveillance systems as a means to an end. While some CDC officials recognized that cases of myocarditis may not be captured in VAERS due to underreporting, other U.S. public health officials used the lack of a safety signal in VAERS as justification to forego the issuance of a public health warning.193

In addition, in April 2021, a DHA consultant warned top U.S. public health officials at HHS, CDC, FDA, and NIH, that another safety surveillance system, V-safe, could miss “possible cases of cardiac adverse events” because it lacked any mention of cardiac symptoms in its preprogrammed list of vaccine side effects for individuals to check off.

Regarding V-safe’s omission of inquiries related to cardiac-related symptoms, the DHA consultant questioned her colleagues: “If you do not ask, you will not see it, but does that mean it does not exist?” Rather than updating the V-safe program to include cardiac-related symptoms, or take further steps to account for cases of underreporting in VAERS, CDC and FDA officials appeared to believe—either intentionally or not—that the lack of reports of myocarditis, or other cardiac related symptoms, in its vaccine safety surveillance systems meant that the health risk was not significant and the need to issue a formal HAN message or the less formal “clinical considerations” was not necessary.

However, when VAERS did apparently signal for a cardiac-related adverse event, U.S. public health officials did not issue the formal HAN message. As discussed in the report, the “confidential” draft notes based on a May 24, 2021 VaST meeting did acknowledge a safety signal for myopericarditis for age groups 16-17 years and 18-24 years.197 Yet, publicly, health officials continued to downplay the risk of cardiac-related adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccine.

Indeed, the May 25, 2021 talking points from the Biden White House, underscored the misleading belief that because reports of myocarditis were rare, “CDC does not have cause for concern.”

As evidenced by the records presented in the report, including the May 25, 2021 Biden White House “Tough QA” document, federal health officials’ primary concern was not cardiac related adverse events associated with the mRNA vaccines, but instead appears to have been vaccine hesitancy and mandating the injection for virtually every American.

It is not surprising then, that they weren’t finding what they weren’t looking for. The lack of response to Senator Johnson’s multiple oversight letters which repeatedly highlighted the safety signals that were obvious to him, confirm the extent to which the agencies turned a blind eye to the COVID 19 vaccine adverse events.

In chronological order, here are excerpts from Senator Johnson’s oversight letters from 2021 raising the alarm over COVID-19 vaccine adverse events and injuries:

In a July 13, 2021 letter to NIH, CDC, and FDA, Senator Johnson wrote, “[w]hen I did specifically raise the alarming safety signals emanating from VAERS . . . with Director Collins in a meeting with other Senate Republicans on April 27, 2021, his dismissive reaction to my concerns was more than troubling. By that date, the number of deaths following COVID-19 vaccination reported to VAERS had already reached 3,411, with 1,349 or 39.5 percent of those deaths occurring on Day 0, 1, or 2 following vaccination.”

He continued, “[a]s of July 2, 2021, VAERS reported 5,247 domestic deaths with 1,814 or 34.6 percent of those deaths occurring on Day 0, 1, or 2 following receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine.” In an August 22, 2021 letter to NIH, CDC, and FDA, Senator Johnson wrote, “[a]s of August 20, 2021, VAERS is reporting 12,791 worldwide deaths associated with the three Covid 19 vaccines available under an FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Of those deaths, 4,632 occurred on Day 0, 1, or 2 following vaccination. As the CDC and the FDA are quick to point out, VAERS reports do not prove causation. But this number of deaths, particularly with 36.2% occurring within 2 days of vaccination, should raise serious concerns.”

He continued, “[i]t should also be noted that the 12,791 deaths related to Covid-19 vaccines reported on VAERS over the period of 8 months, compares to 8,966 deaths related to all other vaccines reported on VAERS since the inception of VAERS – a period of 31 years. And this does not raise alarm bells within your agencies, or cause you to reconsider assembling an independent safety panel of outside experts?”

And further, “[i]n addition to deaths, VAERS is also reporting 16,044 permanent disabilities, 51,242 hospitalizations, and 571,831 total adverse events related to the Covid-19 vaccines. I am receiving a growing number of letters from doctors and nurses detailing the vaccine injuries they are witnessing and treating, together with the suppression and censoring of this information they are experiencing.”

In a September 7, 2021 letter to the FDA, Senator Johnson wrote, “[a]s of August 27, 2021, VAERS is reporting 13,911 deaths and 650,077 total adverse events worldwide following receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine. Of the 13,911 deaths, 4,909 (35.3%) have occurred on Day 0, 1, or 2 following vaccination. I fully understand that VAERS does not prove causation, but 35.3% of deaths occurring so soon after vaccination should cause serious concern. Furthermore, VAERS is known to significantly underreport adverse events, raising concerns that the 13,911 deaths and 650,077 adverse events does not provide the full picture.

To give perspective, since VAERS’s inception, there have been a total of 1,838 deaths reports for flu vaccines over a period of 31 years, or an average of 59 vaccine death reports per year.” I

n an October 5, 2021 letter to HHS, NIAID, CDC, and FDA Senator Johnson wrote, “[i]t is beyond puzzling that the federal government continues to ignore foundational medical principles like early treatment or natural immunity, that federal agencies lack basic data regarding vaccine immunity and durability, and that agencies will highlight the relatively few adverse events for one treatment—ivermectin—but largely ignore hundreds of thousands of adverse events and over 15,000 deaths reported on VAERS for COVID-19 vaccines.”

He continued, “[s]ince 1996, the combined number of reported deaths associated with ivermectin on both VAERS and FAERS totals 379, with 3,680 adverse events. In contrast, since December, 2020, the worldwide total number of deaths associated with COVID-19 vaccines reported on VAERS is 15,386 and the worldwide total number of adverse events exceed 725,000.”

In an October 14, 2021 letter to NIH, CDC, and FDA, Senator Johnson wrote, “[y]ou have failed to take your own safety surveillance systems seriously, even though the latest figures for COVID-19 vaccines from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System includes 16,310 deaths (with 5,326 of those deaths occurring on Day 0, 1 or 2 following vaccination) and 778,685 total adverse events.”

And finally, in a December 29, 2021 letter to CDC, Senator Johnson wrote, “[t]hrough December 17, 2021, there have been 983,758 total adverse events and 20,622 deaths reported worldwide associated with the COVID-19 vaccines. Of the 20,622 deaths, 6,232 (30%) have occurred on day 0,1, or 2 following vaccination. In contrast, over 30 years of reporting on seasonal flu vaccines, there have been a total of 200,264 adverse events and 2,078 deaths.”

As evidenced above, despite instances of underreporting, the data contained in VAERS throughout 2021 was highly concerning. In October 2020, Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, one of CDC’s top vaccine safety surveillance officials, touted that “VAERS can rapidly detect safety signals and can detect rare adverse events.”

Although Senator Johnson repeatedly sounded the alarm to federal health agencies and continuously presented troubling data from their own safety surveillance system, his warnings were unheeded. As of April 25, 2025, VAERS reported 38,607 deaths and 1,663,348 total adverse events worldwide associated with the administration of COVID-19 injections.

Of the 38,607 deaths, 9,228 (25%) have occurred on Day 0, 1, or 2 following injection. This compares to 2,663 deaths reported to VAERS associated with the flu vaccine over a period of 35 years.

No other reports of adverse events associated with any other drug or vaccine even come close to these statistics.

And yet, those who oversaw the development and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines continue to insist it is safe and effective, without providing the data to prove their claims.

The full extent of the Biden administration’s failure to immediately warn the public about all COVID-19 vaccine adverse events must be completely exposed. While the Trump administration has promised “radical transparency,” achieving that goal will be challenging. The institutional roadblocks that have been constructed over decades will take time to dismantle, and the Subcommittee is aware of allegations suggesting document destruction and purposeful evasion of FOIA.

The American people fund the federal health departments and agencies with their hard earned tax dollars. The information developed by these departments and agencies belong to the American people, and should be made fully and transparently available. As the roadblocks are removed and more documents that have been hidden and withheld for years become available, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will provide transparency and let the American public see what is their right to see.

First published on Conservative HQ

 

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