Dr. Ana Szarfman, an FDA drug evaluation employee, identified safety signals in the COVID-19 vaccine data. Her reward was a cease-and-desist order from her own agency telling her to stop looking.
That's not a rogue bureaucrat. That's a policy.
Senator Ron Johnson, the Wisconsin Republican who chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, released a report in April titled "Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals." The investigation pulled from 11 million pages of documents — pages the Biden administration fought to keep buried. What those documents reveal isn't complicated. The people in charge of vaccine safety knew there were problems and chose not to tell you.
The numbers from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System — VAERS — are specific enough to make the silence indefensible. The report documents 1,676,100 cumulative worldwide adverse events associated with the COVID-19 injection. Of those, 39,099 were deaths. And 9,332 of those deaths — 24 percent — occurred within two days of receiving the shot.
Researchers flagged 25 separate safety signals. Twenty-five. Dr. William DuMouchel, the chief statistician for Oracle, was among those whose work identified the problems. Peter Marks, the FDA's own vaccine safety leader, had access to the data. The subcommittee found that the agency's algorithm effectively masked the signals rather than surfacing them.
Johnson said his investigators "faced impenetrable stonewalling" from Biden-era health officials throughout the process. Not confusion. Not bureaucratic slowness. Stonewalling. The kind that requires intent.
"They were far more concerned about not causing vaccine hesitancy than they were about informing the public," Johnson said.
That quote deserves to sit for a moment, because it contains the entire philosophy of the last administration's public health apparatus in one sentence. The priority was not safety. The priority was compliance. And when the data threatened compliance, the data got buried.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made reopening the vaccine safety files a centerpiece of his tenure. The 11 million pages are now public. The Senate report is public. The names of the officials who suppressed the findings are public. And yet, as AMAC Newsline reported this week, the mainstream media has treated the story like background noise — a few paragraph-deep mentions in outlets that covered every COVID press conference like it was the moon landing.
The defense from the institutional side has followed a predictable pattern. The vaccines saved millions of lives. The benefits outweighed the risks. Adverse event reports don't prove causation. All of which may contain elements of truth. None of which explains why an FDA employee was ordered to stop analyzing the data. None of which explains why 25 safety signals were masked instead of investigated. None of which explains the stonewalling.
You can argue about risk-benefit ratios. You can't argue that hiding the data was necessary for an informed public to make informed decisions. Those two things are mutually exclusive.
Forty thousand deaths in a reporting system that health officials themselves built, 24 percent of them within 48 hours of injection, and the agency response was to tell its own scientist to stand down. The report is 11 million pages long. The summary is one sentence: they knew and they hid it.
