Senate Hearing Alleges Government and Industry Corruption Over COVID-19 Vaccines

Corruption of government officials and pharmaceutical companies was revealed during a Senate Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on Wednesday. The hearing was titled “The Corruption of Science and Federal Health Agencies: How Health Officials Downplayed and Hid Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Associated with the COVID-19 Vaccines,” and it was chaired by Senator Ron Johnson.

Several medical professionals testified, including Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Jordan Vaughn, Dr. James Thorp, and Dr. Joel Wallskog. Aaron Siri, attorney for the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), also testified, as did Hawaii Governor Josh Green.

Chairman Johnson and the witnesses claimed that the federal health agencies intentionally hid adverse events from the COVID-19 vaccines in an attempt to maintain public trust. The evidence included delayed warnings about myocarditis risks, flawed surveillance systems (VSAFE and VAERS), and suppressed data.

Chairman Johnson asked Dr. Thorp to describe the misrepresentation of data by Tom Shimabukuro, director of the Immunization Safety Office (ISO) at the CDC, who was the lead author of a study titled “Preliminary Findings of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons.” The study concluded there was a 12.6% spontaneous abortion rate in the V-Safe data, but included mostly pregnant women who were in the third trimester.

“I would argue that proves both points in the title of this hearing,” Dr. Thorp said. “The corruption of science, the corruption of federal health agencies. They had that information. They still pushed it on pregnant women. So, let’s get to the number where there are 700 individuals included in the statistic that shouldn’t have been included. The key is the percentage of women that got the vaccine in the first trimester had an 82% miscarriage. And by the way, that’s the exact same miscarriage rate that was seen in the Pfizer 5.3.6 postmarket.”

Dr. Thorp explained that an op-ed was written at the same time in the New England Journal of Medicine by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin, and Managing Editor Stephen Morrissey. Thorp said the op-ed made false statements and fear-mongered the public about the harm to pregnant women and their unborn babies if they don’t take the vaccine. “This was seven weeks after the Pfizer 5.3.6 post-marketing data that showed the COVID-19 vaccine was the deadliest and most injurious vaccine ever released with 42,086 injuries including 1,223 dead,” Dr. Thorp said. “They had that information. They still pushed it on pregnant women.”

Chairman Johnson said he asked for communications related to Director Shimabukuro and was told there weren’t any, suggesting potential evidence tampering. Johnson added that a current investigation is underway at HHS, and a referral has been sent to FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi. He added that all of the 21 authors of the paper were federal employees at the time.

Dr. Thorp also discussed the $11.8 million The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) received from HHS and CDC, which was used as a tool to promote the vaccine for pregnant women despite the evidence of harm. This was uncovered via FOIA request in 2022.

“HHS appears to have captured the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,” Dr. Thorp said. “And my research team, including Maggie Thorp JD, have proven that with a Freedom of Information Act for a few for many million dollars they captured ACOG in December of 2020. September 27th, 2021. ‘You will push the vaccine. You will push it in pregnant women and follow all the HHS criteria. And if you don’t, we will destroy you, and your professional career will take your license away, and we will decertify you.’ That went out to 60,000 OBGYN doctors.”

The HighWire reported about the new FDA guidelines for COVID-19 vaccine approvals earlier this week and noted that pregnant women are included as a high-risk category. While new COVID-19 vaccines will not be approved routinely for healthy individuals, those with a risk category will have access to new vaccines. This includes pregnant women and recently pregnant women.

“Between 2020 and 2022, pharmaceutical companies paid $1.06 billion dollars to reviewers at leading medical journals, the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet, and BMJ,” Dr. Thorp said. “Thus corrupting the peer review process. At least six existing studies, three from CDC, FDA, and two from Pfizer, revealed major breaches in safety signals for COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy. These findings were ignored.”

The FDA also announced this week that existing COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna will be required to add warning labels for myocarditis, specifically for males aged 16 to 25. They have a higher rate of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination than other age groups and also have a low rate of adverse outcomes from COVID-19 infection. Dr. McCullough, during the hearing, said “There’s 1,605 papers in the peer-reviewed literature on COVID vaccine myocarditis.”

Siri discussed the V-Safe surveillance system’s inefficiency in collecting more common adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccines, like myocarditis and pericarditis. “When you look at how V-Safe was designed, I think you’ll see that..they had a table,” Siri said. “It was called adverse events of special interest prespecified medical conditions. And on that list, it had myocarditis. It had pericarditis. It had all of the issues that we now see and people have reported with regards to COVID-19 vaccine. But not a single one of those conditions ended up as a check the box or at least the symptoms of those conditions. To me, that is the best evidence … that our federal health authorities knowingly, consciously chose to design this system. It was not to determine safety. It was in order to assure their priority assumption of safety.”

The HighWire reported about the V-Safe open text fields that were revealed via FOIA requests and court cases led by Siri on behalf of ICAN. These entries included all of the more serious adverse effects, as the checkbox field only included minor reactions like headaches, irritability, and diarrhea. The CDC did not allow access to these 7.8 million entries until a judge ruled that the data was of great importance to the public.

Those entries were discussed on The HighWire, and included reports of death, miscarriage, blood clots, heart palpitations, and myocarditis.