Senate Report Alleges that Biden Officials Downplayed Covid Vaccine Myocarditis Risks
Can we ever trust out public health officials again after these revelations?
A new interim Senate report, led by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), alleges that senior Biden administration health officials were aware of potential heart-related risks (specifically myocarditis and pericarditis) associated with mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines as early as February 2021, but deliberately delayed warning the public and healthcare providers for several months.
The report’s title is Failure to Warn: How Federal Health Agencies Downplayed the Risk of Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Following COVID-19 Vaccination. It is truly one of the most disturbing reviews I have read.
In February 2021, Federal health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), were notified by Israeli health authorities about significant cases of myocarditis, particularly in young people who had received the Pfizer vaccine.
“The federal government was very well aware of the myocarditis signal, particularly in young men, as early as February [2021],” Johnson told The Daily Wire, adding that Israeli officials were informing the United States about side effects they were noticing.
In late February, a CDC official named Lauri Markowitz, who co-led the Vaccine Safety Technical Work Group (VaST), sent an email concerning the “draft minutes and summary report from the VaST call this week” and stressed that “all VaST documents and communications are confidential.”
According to that email, the call included an update about nearly 1,000 death reports to VAERS following vaccination. Notably, the email said that in the cases where cause of death was “known,” it was “often cardiovascular”…
Israel rolled out vaccinations quicker than the United States, so Israeli health officials saw adverse effects sooner.
The Israeli officials specifically called out their concerns about the number of cases of myocarditis in young adults.
Over the following months, U.S. officials continued to receive data showing a safety signal for heart inflammation in young adults.
“Even though CDC and FDA officials were well aware of the risk of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination, the Biden administration opted to withhold issuing a formal warning to the public for months about the safety concerns, jeopardizing the health of young Americans,” the 54-page interim report said.
Myocarditis is an inflammatory condition of the heart muscle, while pericarditis entails inflammation of the lining sac around the heart. Myopericarditis is a combination of the two ailments.
Most patients who suffer from those side effects eventually experience “resolution of symptoms,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
During the time it took health officials to adjust the labels, doctors who warned about the potential risks of myocarditis among those who took the vaccine were subject to censorship, suppression or accusations of peddling misinformation.
Internal communications show that the administration characterized myocarditis as a “rare” side effect in talking points circulated among top officials. The Senate report suggests this language was intended to minimize concern and avoid appearing “alarmist”.
The report points to records from May 2021, in which health officials at HHS discussed whether to issue a formal warning about myocarditis.
According to the report, the formal warning about myocarditis was initially going to be distributed nationwide as a Health Alert Network message, which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is CDC’s “primary method of sharing cleared information about urgent public health incidents with public information officers; federal, state, territorial, tribal, and local public health practitioners; clinicians; and public health laboratories.”
However, Johnson’s report said that health officials at CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “ultimately decided against issuing a formal HAN and, instead, posted ‘clinical considerations’ on CDC’s website about myocarditis.”
“Based on the subpoenaed records the Subcommittee has received to date, as well as public FOIA documents, this interim report will highlight records and present a timeline showing U.S. health officials knew about the risk of myocarditis; those officials downplayed the health concern; and U.S. health agencies delayed informing the public about the risk of the adverse event.”
As if all this were not damning enough, the report criticizes the Biden administration for withholding or heavily redacting key records related to vaccine safety and internal deliberations, which were only released after subpoenas and administrative changes.
Legal Insurrection readers will recall my report on the over 100 pages of redacted information obtained after a FOIA request to examine what was discovered during the CDC’s Myocarditis Outcomes after mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination Investigation (MOVING), which began in October 2021.
The CDC “released” a 148 page study on myocarditis after COVID-19 “vaccination” and every single page is completely redacted. This must be a new record. https://t.co/kIE2s7Wl2z pic.twitter.com/M6xDbRYMZx
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 7, 2024
Every American should be angry that the lives and the health of our children were sacrificed in the name of politics and Big Pharma lobbying.
As my son was a young male in the at-risk age category when Biden forced the US service academy cadets to take this shot, I am furious. Luckily, my son is fine…but these pompous bureaucrats placed his life, and the lives of other sons and daughters at needless risk.
The full report is available via the Senator’s X-post and is worth reading to appreciate the staggering amount of real science and correct information that was relabeled “misinformation.”
U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Majority Staff Interim Report
Failure to Warn: How Federal Health Agencies Downplayed the Risk of Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Following COVID-19 Vaccination
📲 https://t.co/TF3uPorWR7 pic.twitter.com/EPCxLjFGSW
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) May 21, 2025
My parting question: Can we ever trust our public health officials again after these revelations?
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Tony Fauci was pardoned for this reason.
What is anyone going to do about it?
Who had control of the auto-pen? If it wasn’t Brandon then the pre-emptive pardon.may be null and void. Let’s hope so. I would like to see that little twerp spend his last days in a federal penitentiary.
These weren’t pardons, they were grants of immunity.
Gee! I hope he doesn’t fall victim to One Of Those Random Acts Of Violence Done By a Lone Wolf The FBI Has Been Observing ™.
Or something.
Perhaps 86 Fauci?
I suppose it could be wildly circulated that Fauci is Jewish and then let nature takes its course.
Add in that he drives a Tesla….
At this point are we sure that Fauxi didn’t just autopen pardon himself?
Simple, indict him anyway for Crimes Against Humanity, then let the Courts weigh in on the constitutionality of President Autopen.
To answer the question on the subhead: trust, like respect, must be earned. Earning is difficult but losing both is all too easy. Regaining trust and respect is harder than initially gaining them. The CDC and FDA need to get started now. It’s an uphill climb for them.
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I disagree. There is no possibility that the CDC and FDA can regain credibility among thinking adults (this leaves out a wide swath of emotion-driven leftists, nearly half of women and almost all adolescents).
The parasite class, aided by the 3-letters, is busily and blindly creating a low-trust and dangerous society in order to line their own pockets and that of their offspring.
The friction that a low-trust society generates in an economy makes general prosperity impossible, which is why 3rd world shitholes are what they are.
This will not end they way they think it will.
they pardoned their “dr” goebbles
and proved how political this was (as one example) when lefty allowed only certain sectoins/jobs in the city to remain open while trump supporters were shut down
the tv cameras were rolling in the nyc /long island area proving how political this all was
More like Dr. Mengele, but the facts must be faced. A whole lot of doctors are Mengeles. See: those doing sex change operations and hormone therapy on youngsters.
Why should anyone be surprised?
Remember, this is same government that intentionally refused to treat black syphilis victims. The government wanted to study long term syphilis victims, who were denied treatment.
It’s not the same government. That study ended in 1972 and considerable efforts were made to reform human research. Let’s not get too hyperbolic here.
https://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/tuskegee-syphilis-study.htm
Beg to differ – the leopard cannot change its spots, and the government cannot/will not change.
The 2021 version of the FDA enters the chat.
And what difference does it make at this point that we’re finding out that the Biden regime lied to the public about the serious side effects of the Pfizer covid mRNA serum. It’s not like the FDA is going to rescind the approval they gave to the Pfizer product. It’s not like anyone is going to do a complete, open, and transparent review of the science and data on the use of mRNA serums as vaccines to determine their safety and efficacy. That boat has sailed a long time ago and we know the answer to that one. Millions of unsuspecting people, young and old, have been used as guinea pigs in the great mRNA experiment. The damage has already been done to several generations of young people and they are no healthier for it. This report is too little, too late and will just disappear as the next Big Thing® hits the news by next week.
I believe everyone knew of these dangerous side effects when research was being done to use MRNA vaccines to combat SARS in early 2000’s. Fauci wanted to use the U.S. as a large lab experiment.
It was certainly well known that nobody had ever created a successful mRNA “vaccine.”
Further, because of its action in the body, mRNA products, even if successful as vaccines, should have been considered “gene therapies” for testing a regulatory purposes. They weren’t because gene therapies are subject to more stringent testing and regulation. Government and Big Pharma didn’t want these mRNA products to be subject to even more scrutiny (knowing the products’ already bad reputation and previous complete failures), so they considered them as ordinary vaccines knowing it was a regime within which it would be easier to cut corners.
To your question: “Can we ever trust them again????”
I never trusted them in the first place. Not only did I not get the jab, I forged a card in case I was going to be forced to.
-Adolf Kominski student.
Of course the downplayed the risk. The government is good at three things. Lying, cheating and stealing.
You forgot extortion and coercion.
“Biden Officials Downplayed COVID Risks”
Yes, but not nearly as much as they downplayed Biden’s mental health.
Without being given all available info re risks no one made an informed decision agreeing to the jab. Many of us refused based on those grounds b/c there were too many low threshold questions that the Public health system refused to answer.
Millions sickened or died from Covid, but the most potentially devastating consequence of the epidemic is the destruction of public confidence in our medical leadership. Future outbreaks of communicable diseases are inevitable, but these idiots have poisoned the well of trust so thoroughly that any public health response will be doomed from the start.