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The Biden administration delayed warning the public about heart-related risks from COVID vaccines. In response, a Trump-era MAHA health commission is advocating for more transparent vaccine policy and long-term safety studies using placebo-controlled trials.

In the wake of an explosive Senate investigative report revealing that the Biden administration intentionally hid data from the public showing that the COVID vaccine was associated with serious health risks that resulted in hundreds of deaths, a new report from the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again Commission is calling for more robust safety tests to be conducted on vaccines.

As reported by The Daily Wire on Wednesday, a report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found that health officials within the Biden administration knew as early as February 2021 — within months of the release of the first COVID vaccine — that the shot was associated with myocarditis and pericarditis (inflammation of the heart) and that almost 1,000 deaths had been reported following vaccination, which were “often cardiovascular” in nature.

However, the report noted that instead of informing the public about the deaths and the known health risks associated with the vaccine, US health officials “downplayed the health concern” and intentionally “delayed informing the public about the risk” until June 2021 out of concern that the information would cause “vaccine hesitancy” in the public.

‘They Downplayed the Signals’

The Senate report detailed how the Israeli Ministry of Health discovered the link between the vaccine and myocarditis sooner than US officials because the shot had been rolled out in Israel earlier than in the US. Israeli officials notified Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials in February of “large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people, following the administration of the Pfizer vaccine.”

The Senate Subcommittee on Investigations was able to obtain 2,400 pages of documents through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in order to compile the report. “For a number of months, they were talking about these things. At some point in time, they actually internally said, ‘Is there a signal of myocarditis, a safety signal?’ And the answer was ‘Yes,’” Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who chairs the committee, told The Daily Wire. “And yet, a couple of days later, they decided not to issue a warning on the Health Alert Network (HAN).”

“Rather than provide informed consent, the federal health agencies, the Biden administration, covered it up,” Johnson remarked. “They downplayed the signals. … [T]hey violated the inviolable principle of informed consent.” The documents were obtained through FOIA requests to the Trump administration, with the executive summary of the report noting that the Biden administration stonewalled Johnson’s committee when they requested the documents.

The MAHA Commission Report

Going forward, the Trump administration appears to be seeking far more transparency regarding vaccines than the Biden administration. On Thursday, the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released a wide-ranging 73-page report on the underlying causes driving “the stark reality of American children’s declining health.” Under a section titled “The Overmedicalisation of Our Kids,” the report highlights how, since 1986, “the number of recommended vaccines on the CDC childhood schedule has increased from 3 injections to 29 injections.” As the report goes on to note, this astronomical increase far outpaces the number of vaccines on the schedules of comparably developed European countries such as Denmark, which has about half as many.

The MAHA report observes that “as with any medicine, vaccines can have side effects that must be balanced against their benefits.” However, the report continues, “Despite the growth of the childhood vaccine schedule, there has been limited scientific inquiry into the links between vaccines and chronic disease [and] the impacts of vaccine injury…”

The report therefore calls for increasing the rigor of safety tests for vaccines, including the use of placebo-controlled trials, a “gold standard” method of safety testing that was not used to test the safety of the COVID vaccines. “Our understanding of vaccine safety and any links to chronic disease would benefit from more rigorous clinical trial designs, including the use of true placebos, larger sample sizes, and longer follow-up periods,” the MAHA Commission wrote. “Many vaccines on the CDC’s childhood schedule involved small participant groups, had no inert placebo-controlled trials, and had limited safety monitoring, some lasting six months or less — raising concerns about the ability to detect rare or long-term adverse effects.”

Dr. Robert Malone, a physician and biochemist who conducted groundbreaking research on mRNA and DNA vaccines and became a prominent critic of the safety protocol shortfalls of the COVID vaccine, expressed cautious optimism about the MAHA report.

“The report’s emphasis on transparency and prevention aligns with public health goals, but its cautious approach to pesticides and vaccines may reflect political compromises,” he wrote in a post on his Substack page Thursday. “… What happened today is critical. It is essential to Trump’s legacy. This means that MAHA will survive and truly make a difference in American health policy.”

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Republished with thanks to The Washington Stand. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.