RFK Jr., Hegseth Assign Army Physician to Investigate Adverse Covid Vaccine Effects on Troops
Army Physician Dr. Theresa Long said she’s looking into whether 2,544 unverified deaths among service members.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly examining whether Biden’s COVID vaccine mandates imposed on U.S. troops concealed a more serious toll than the Pentagon has previously acknowledged.
Army physician Dr. Theresa Long testified that she is reviewing thousands of unverified VAERS death reports and military health databases after being assigned to work with Kennedy and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
In an Aug. 14 deposition obtained by POLITICO, Theresa Long said Hegseth detailed her to be Kennedy’s senior medical military adviser. Her role at HHS has not been previously reported. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine safety skeptic, has hired others who share his skepticism to investigate vaccine injuries and to probe any links between vaccines and rising rates of autism. Studies done over decades have not found a link.
…As part of her role, Long said she’s looking into whether 2,544 unverified deaths among service members reported to HHS’ Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System — or VAERS — were caused by Covid vaccines.Long, who is board certified in aerospace medicine and has a master’s in public health, told the court she hoped to be able to finish her research on the potential vaccine complications “within a year.”
RFK Jr. is investigating whether troops died of Covid vaccine, Army doctor says https://t.co/lhLfzAmOQy
— POLITICO (@politico) September 3, 2026
Long indicates she knows of 28 people who died after receiving the COVID vaccine. Meanwhile, media outlets continue to assert the COVID vaccine is safe.
Long reportedly said she is looking at the data after Kennedy and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appointed her to “investigate the health surveillance system during the pandemic” and two military medical databases. She said she knows of 28 people who died from the vaccine but said she was not allowed to share more.
Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic, has called the COVID-19 shots “the deadliest vaccine ever made” and since his appointment has replaced federal health advisers with individuals who have expressed anti-vaccine views. Some of those ousted later blamed disputes about vaccine policy for their removal.
The COVID-19 vaccine has been widely studied, and according to a 2022 study, 38 deaths could have been related to the vaccine. At the time, more than 8 billion doses had been administered.
Furthermore, the press is undermining Long’s credentials and her ability to fairly assess the impact of the COVID vaccine on our military personnel. These bits were published by The New York Times.
The doctor, Lt. Col. Theresa Long, who has no specialized training in vaccines or viruses, said in an Aug. 14 legal deposition obtained by The New York Times that she is a senior medical military adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. but also reports to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
…She testified that she had personal knowledge of the deaths of 28 service members as a result of Covid vaccines. She also said that she knew of several female service members who lost pregnancies after receiving Covid shots, and that the vaccines had caused pregnancy loss at a rate of about 82 percent. Studies in hundreds of thousands of women have shown that Covid vaccination is not linked to an increased risk of miscarriage, stillbirth or preterm birth.
I will simply note that former White House coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci worried about miscarriage risks linked to the COVID vaccine in a text message. Two 2025 studies reported adverse effects on female fertility after COVID vaccinations.
Furthermore, the U.S. Army admitted a link between the COVID vaccination and the heart attack experienced by Army Specialist Karoline Stancik.
Back in 2021, Long testified to Sen. Ron Johnson’s panel on Biden’s vaccine mandates and alleged vaccine injuries. She argued that COVID vaccination policies posed undue risks to service members and harmed military readiness.
I note that her testimony seems to have been borne out by events.
The Biden-era military vaccine mandate arguably also harmed the warfighting force by contributing to involuntary separations, discouraging potential recruits, disrupting careers and service-academy pathways, and generating extensive litigation over religious accommodations and due-process concerns.
Taken in their entirety, the consequences observed raise serious questions about whether the policy’s implementation prioritized institutional compliance over readiness, retention, individualized medical needs and preferences, and the fair treatment of service members.
A comprehensive, evidence-based review of potential policy outcomes (i.e., personnel losses, recruiting effects, exemption decisions, medical issues) is warranted, particularly from a reviewer who is appropriately skeptical of the covid pandemic response and its policy assumptions.
Never forget…the chief architect of this madness spent several days pleading the Fifth Amendment at U.S. Senate hearings.
I wish Dr. Long good luck and good science.
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“media outlets continue to assert the COVID vaccine is safe.”
“the press is undermining Long’s credentials”
The media’s credibility is questionable, at best. There are reasons why readership/viewership is cratering, not the least of which is the media’s documented bias in favor of liberals and leftist causes. Note who were some of the loudest cheerleaders of the tyrannical Fauci takeover of the country.
Unfortunately, that media has brainwashed many voters. Hopefully, some have become clear headed with some of this exposure.
No such thing as a vaccine for Coronavirus otherwise we’d have one for the common cold…it morphs too quickly to be effective. But ask yourself why the forced injection of an unlabeled concoction or else lose your job? Tyranny, pure and simple, by those We The People are told to trust. Everyone involved were liars…and follow the money, Big Pharma made billions peddling this Snake-Oil, at least in the old days you could hide in the barn until the peddler went away. Not today…’take it or else!’ The Mrs and I never did, even after threats.
This ‘thing’ bandied as a vaccine was a culling shot, as shown by the VAERS data. This was not a vaccine, it harmed and killed people…and if not, then the so-called boosters got people by way of their personal health co-morbidities, hence why VAERS reporting was shut down after a million adverse events.
The real problem is 80% of people will never make the correlation between the shot and their health problems, especially those who don’t want to admit they were taken by a bunch of evil peddlers they implicitly trusted.
Same goes for the flu shot.
“Studies in hundreds of thousands of women have shown that Covid vaccination is not linked to an increased risk of miscarriage, stillbirth or preterm birth.”
(Article says this is from the NYT, but the link is to the earlier article on Yahoo, which does not contain this excerpt.)
Whoever wrote it had better wear a cup (and maybe a vest) if he presents it in the vicinity of Naomi Wolf:
I hadn’t heard much about Naomi Wolf so I looked her up. She’s an apostate leftist. The left and its media hate her with the heat of one thousand suns.
She used to be on Bill Clinton’s speechwriting team. The left cancelled her outright due to the book she wrote on this precise issue,
Well..
A problem I saw that was absolutely glaring was the entire medical community followed orders, rank and file without questioning a thing.
Aside of a precious few, who were immediately ostracized
Doctors without any analytical thought.. following the company line. .
They obviously never read Martin Niemoller.
What she’s looking for may or may not be there to be found, but VAERS is garbage. It’s worse than Wikipedia. At least on WP, while you have people vandalizing articles by inserting garbage, you have other people fixing vandalism. False information on WP sometimes lingers for months or years, but more often it’s gone within minutes or hours. The vandalism you see on WP is a small fraction of the total. (And of course on political articles the misinformation often gets protected, if it suits the cabal that definitely exists although it denies it.) But VAERS is like WP without the ability to fix anything. Anyone can enter an “incident”, and there’s no way for someone else to remove it. Lawyers have been caught entering “incidents” so they can then cite them as evidence in a lawsuit. So the fact that something exists on VAERS tells you nothing useful.
” At least on WP, while you have people vandalizing articles by inserting garbage, you have other people fixing vandalism. False information on WP sometimes lingers for months or years, but more often it’s gone within minutes or hours.”
If it happens more frequently than the official editors like, the information is “locked” against change, And by pure coincidence, it’s always “locked” into the most leftist version offered.
That’s usually only an issue on political articles, which I noted separately. Most vandalism on WP has nothing to do with politics, and is quickly found and reverted. I used to do a fair bit of that, and found some cases on obscure articles where obvious vandalism had gone undetected for months or years, just because some teenager thought it would be funny to change the name of an ancient Chinese queen to that of his teacher.
Meanwhile, Deep State crap outlets continue to assert the COVID vaccine is safe.
There also appears to be a link between the vaccine and autoimmune diseases for men and women. These would not necessarily result in death, so I hope the study is not limited to fatalities. The sample size could be much larger for autoimmune conditions.
Maybe first real attempt to find the adverse effects of a major drug/ vaccine/injection.
Ever hear a list of bad effects from the Fake Vaz? Any other drug on radio or TV has warnings for what is supposed to be good for your condition
I suspect Dr. Long will find that the covid vaccines are perfectly safe for those for whom they are perfectly safe. And perfectly not safe for the rest. This is true for all medications including aspirin, but was ignored in the case of the covid vaccines by pharma, politicians, physicians, and the media.
“has no specialized training in vaccines or viruses”
Are we supposed to use that logic to assume that only an abortionist can determine if a baby dies from an abortion?
If a healthy soldier got a shot and developed complications shortly thereafter, any high school graduate should be able to tell that there probably is a connection.
If you have 2,544 unexplained soldier deaths after people got a specific shot it is likely there was an effort not to find a connection!
How many soldiers had complications not resulting in death?
How many soldiers were given disability discharges/retirement after getting a shot?
My usual response to such a misdirection is, “I’ve never tried to play the violin, but even I can tell you when a violinist sucks this badly.”
I sense a sentence fragment.