Exclusive: The White House during the Biden administration edited federal health officials' messaging on stroke after COVID-19 vaccination, newly released records show
@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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Several emails indicate CDC and FDA employees were aware of Freedom of Information Act requests and sought to evade them, in part by discussing sensitive matters during in-person meetings rather than via email, according to newly released documents.
In one missive, an FDA official said that "we should meet internally - many considerations not suited to email..."
The documents serve as "additional evidence of how federal officials avoided creating a paper trail to prevent transparency and public disclosure," @SenRonJohnson, who obtained the emails, said. theepochtimes.com/us/senator-fin…
NEW: The NIH's principal deputy director feared losing his job after declining to take a COVID-19 vaccine, according to emails obtained by The Epoch Times.
Dr. Matthew Memoli, at the time a unit leader at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that he "spent months worrying and thinking about where I was going to go."
Memoli in 2024 had agreed to an interview with The Epoch Times. HHS leaders blocked the interview, and later also decided against sending answers Memoli provided to emailed questions. We obtained them through a Freedom of Information Act request. theepochtimes.com/article/fauci-…
After a 37-year-old man died shortly after receiving a shot, his autopsy said he died of “post vaccination systemic inflammation response." A CDC employee said the death was “evident of a sudden death post second dose of Moderna vaccine.”
In another case, a 24-year-old man died two months after receiving a Pfizer vaccine. An autopsy described the death as resulting from “complications of COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis."
CDC didn't send alert on COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis because officials were worried about causing panic, email obtained by The Epoch Times shows.
Read the full story, including a new batch of 1,433 emails between the CDC and Pfizer/Moderna, here: theepochtimes.com/article/exclus…
Also in the story: Emails showing Pfizer and Moderna were tipped off ahead of time as CDC was deciding how to tell the public about post-vaccination myocarditis.