FDA’s Woodcock Warned Fauci of COVID Vaccine Injuries VAERS Couldn’t Detect: “We Can’t Ignore Her”

Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul released an email detailing serious concerns about COVID-19 vaccinations shortly after the rollout in 2021 that they say weren’t disclosed to the public at the time. FDA Director Janet Woodcock emailed NIH Director Francis Collins and Dr. Fauci about a “number of people who have experienced adverse events post COVID-19 vaccination (from all three of the current vaccines).” Woodcock expressed concern about the reactions and VAERS’s inability to detect these particular safety signals.

“Many are healthcare professionals, some of whom I know,” Woodcock wrote in the email on May 27, 2021. “The symptoms do not fit together into a distinctive syndrome, and most are not easily quantifiable or evaluated with standard laboratory testing. Clearly during mass vaccination you will get a lot of psychological reactions, and it is hard to sort these things out. But the people’s main complaint is that no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them, and there is no effort to study this.”

Woodcock explained that these problems would not be detectable by VAERS or “even a more sophisticated population-based active follow-up such as CDC has, or a medical record-based system such as BEST.” Woodcock suggested a study evaluating a cohort of individuals with these adverse side effects. She said this study would require money and an investigator interested in “medical mysteries.” Woodcock expressed doubt that the industry would support such a study “for obvious reasons” and said in her experience “if you let a problem fester, then it will come back to bite you later if you are not prepared.”

Dr. Fauci forwarded the email to Collins and said, “We cannot ignore her. We should probably bring in CDC and see what Rochelle [Walensky] thinks.” No current record shows what happened after that exchange.

React19, a science-based nonprofit that assists individuals injured by the COVID-19 vaccine, emailed Dr. Woodcock just three days before she emailed Dr. Fauci and Collins. “We are a large and ever-growing group of Americans who were previously healthy and have been seriously injured by the COVID vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J as well as AstraZeneca in the clinical trial stage in the United States),” the group wrote in an email. “We are pro-vaccine, pro-science and were excited for the opportunity to be vaccinated and to do our part in helping to end the pandemic.”

React19 explained in the email that their efforts to get help and attention for their injuries have been “largely fruitless” and they have been dismissed by the medical community. They detailed a long list of side effects from COVID-19 vaccinations that they have experienced, including “painful paresthesias throughout the body, severe painful paresthesias focused on the face, tongue and scalp, internal vibrations and tremors, muscle twitching and muscle spasms, brain fog and mental status changes, memory loss, tinnitus, impaired/blurred vision, elevated blood pressure and heart rate, bulging veins, heart issues and weakness. Several in our group have experienced paralysis of the lower extremities and to this day remain paralyzed. Many of us have been ill for beyond 5 months.”

“We have searched far and wide for help from any medical or scientific research entity. We have consistently received the same message back…that this isn’t really happening. We have reported our injuries to VAERS, the FDA, CDC, and the vaccine manufacturers, with very few of us receiving follow-up or even acknowledgment. This lack of acknowledgment has left us as further collateral damage from the pandemic.”

Dr. Woodcock responded to React19 a day before messaging the concerns to Dr. Fauci and Collins. She informed them that the FDA doesn’t do studies, but she would contact “individuals who do research into these types of conditions.” Dr. Woodcock added, “It is not really possible to provide good medical care without understanding what is going on with the patients.”

After sharing their communication with Dr. Woodcock and thanking Senators Johnson and Paul for their ongoing investigation, React19 wrote, “We sent these emails because people were suffering and needed help. Five years later, we still need answers. Now the US Senate are helping us understand what happened after we pressed SEND.”

Another response to Senator Johnson on X is from a user who messaged Woodcock regarding her own adverse side effects from the vaccine, and she shared the response from Woodcock, who said, “I am so sorry to hear of your experiences and hope you improve. We continue to actively investigate this issue. I’m sorry to hear about some of the reactions to your raising it. I can’t give you a timeline, but I will continue to press on the investigation.”

The user explained, “She was very kind and responsive.  She also set up a meeting for me with FDA, CDC, and NIH (a no-show). Of course, they did nothing, but Dr. Woodcock tried.”

NIH did not conduct a study, despite Dr. Woodcock’s suggestion, based on the many messages she received. It is unclear how Dr. Fauci and Collins responded to the concerns. Dr. Woodcock emailed Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins on May 27. The user with adverse vaccine side effects was communicating with Dr. Woodcock four months after this email; she received a response from Woodcock on September 23, 2021.

Last year, The HighWire held a press conference to release secret recordings of Dr. Peter Marks, the Director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, and a detailed timeline of what he knew about serious vaccine side effects alongside the messages he stated publicly. In October 2020, Marks attended a presentation that included a working list of serious potential side effects from the COVID-19 vaccinations that align with the reactions people were explaining to both Dr. Woodcock and Dr. Marks.

In December 2020, Dr. Marks publicly declared that there was no sacrifice to scientific standards or the integrity of the vaccine evaluation process as part of Operation Warp Speed. The FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization to Moderna’s vaccine a week later. In January, Maddie De Garay received her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, which led to a feeling of electrical shocks down her neck and spine with excruciating pain. She couldn’t keep food down and had a feeding tube installed. She became paralyzed from the waist down and experienced incontinence.

The timeline shows Dr. Marks being frequently notified of serious neurological harms from COVID-19 vaccinations while dismissing the concerns and pushing forward with the EUA for Johnson & Johnson. Dr. Marks had information regarding 1,233 deaths from the Pfizer vaccine in February 2021, along with 11,361 who experienced an adverse effect and have not yet recovered. On April 15, Dr. Marks and Dr. Woodcock received notification that at least 100 individuals were experiencing neurological effects from the vaccine.

In June 2021, Dr. Marks encouraged pharmacists to “get people over the hump from being hesitant and maybe not willing to take the injection, to getting over and taking the injection.” He said, “You could drive yourself crazy thinking about [side effects from the vaccine].”

In July 2021, Dr. Marks and Dr. Woodcock took over management of the licensing application review of Comirnaty from Marion Gruber, Director of FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review, and her deputy Philip Krause. Gruber and Krause had already agreed to an unprecedented accelerated target of September 15. Marks and Woodcock called for a faster timeline to implement a vaccine mandate for military personnel, but Krause and Gruber resisted because they didn’t want to cut any corners.

On August 23, 2021, Dr. Marks missed a meeting with vaccine-injured patients, including Brianne Dressen. Instead, Dr. Marks attended a media briefing on Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine with Dr. Woodcock. Dr. Marks pushed for the full licensing of Comirnaty so the Military could implement mandates, but did so against the guidance of Marion Gruber, Director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review, and her deputy Philip Krause. Krause and Gruber resigned on August 31 after Dr. Marks decided to push through full licensure of Comirnaty.