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Mar 25, 8 tweets

Exclusive: The White House during the Biden administration edited federal health officials' messaging on stroke after COVID-19 vaccination, newly released records show

The records were obtained and released by @SenRonJohnson
theepochtimes.com/us/exclusive-w…

@SenRonJohnson One of the changes was switching the finding of a post-vaccination ischemic safety signal from being "moderately elevated" to "slightly elevated," the documents show.

@SenRonJohnson Another was removing the words "potential risk."

@SenRonJohnson The thousands of pages of documents also contained other new items.

Among them: A CDC contractor ran several operations, including a "Death Project" and a "Stroke Project."

@SenRonJohnson A confidential document showed that officials planned private briefings on post-vaccination strokes with "trusted reporters" and "key vaccine experts," including several who have received money from vaccine manufacturers

@SenRonJohnson Regarding the stroke signal, identified after Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent vaccination, officials later said that it appeared to stem from same day influenza vaccination. theepochtimes.com/health/influen…

Johnson told The Epoch Times that "as safety signals for ischemic stroke appeared, Biden HHS officials continued to urge people to get vaccinated, jeopardizing the health of millions of Americans." He wrote to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asking for additional documents, and interviews with health officials such as Dr. Tom Shimabukuro. documentcloud.org/documents/2790…

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