Senator Ron Johnson has continued his investigation into the government handling of COVID-19 vaccines.
Sen. Johnson, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has made COVID oversight a main priority on his agenda. Central to his argument is that officials allegedly had reason to believe the government’s own monitoring system was missing warning signs regarding the mRNA vaccine and how the federal government handled COVID.
Sen. Johnson has focused heavily on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, which the CDC describes as the nation’s early-warning system for vaccine safety. VAERS can identify vaccine reporting patterns that warrant investigation, but the CDC also says that a report to VAERS does not prove that a vaccine caused the reported event. (RELATED: Wisconsin DOR Seizes Minocqua Brewing Beer Amid Tax Investigation)
Sen. Johnson claims there is a link between the COVID-19 vaccines and cancer. Sen. Johnson’s office also highlighted a June hearing titled “Plausible Mechanisms of COVID-19 Injections Causing Cancer and Attacks on Scientific Publications and Research”, where witnesses discussed vaccine safety, scientific publication disputes, and whether dissenting research has been suppressed.
“It should come as no surprise, therefore, that during the pandemic, treatment alternatives using cheap and safe generic drugs were not only suppressed but actively sabotaged in favor of a liability-free and highly profitable experimental gene therapy,” said Sen. Johnson to open the hearing.
In June, Sen. Johnson said his subcommittee’s work found that FDA officials were warned an algorithm used to evaluate VAERS data could hide safety signals, and that later findings showed multiple possible signals that deserved attention.
Sen. Johnson said he wrote to HHS, CDC, and FDA after the CDC awarded Pfizer two contracts for mRNA COVID vaccines worth about $1.24 billion. His letter raised concerns about whether federal officials considered internal discussions about adding stronger warnings for myocarditis with fatal outcomes to vaccine labels before approving more contracts. (RELATED: DPI Waterpark Spending Scandal Sparks Lawsuit Over Secret Testing Meeting)
In Congress, Senator Johnson has also shown support for legislation such as the SAVE Act, a resolution on Sarcoma Awareness and the Right to Try for Individualized Treatments Act. The SAVE Act, aims to institute voter ID laws in federal elections, and has major support from President Trump. Sen. Johnson supported a resolution to designate July as Sarcoma Awareness Month and the Right to Try Act, which allows for one-patient, non-FDA regulated therapies for patients with life threatening or severely debilitating conditions.
