Sen. Ron Johnson: The Covid Reckoning

An FDA scientist warned that the agency's vaccine safety surveillance system would mask Covid injection signals. She was told to cease and desist. The documents proving it are now in @RonJohnson's hands.

Del Bigtree sat down with Senator Johnson the day after one of the most consequential oversight hearings in the Covid reckoning so far.

The centerpiece is an FDA analyst who identified that the mathematical algorithm being used to monitor post-authorization Covid injection safety was structurally incapable of detecting signals when two similar products, Pfizer and Moderna, were being analyzed simultaneously.

She brought a multi-page presentation to Peter Marks, head of CBER at the FDA, who thanked her and ignored it. Twenty-six days later she returned with an updated system that, when applied to the existing data, revealed 49 instances of masked signals and 25 safety events flagged as serious, including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, Bell's palsy, multiple types of stroke, and multiple types of cardiac arrhythmia.

Marks responded by ordering her to stand down. She was treated, in Johnson's words, as persona non grata. The agency continued using the system it had already been told would hide what it was supposed to find, and Peter Marks continued telling the public and vaccine-injured individuals on recorded Zoom calls that no safety signal was being detected.

The second bombshell from the hearing involves 23 vaccine-injured individuals, including Brianne Dressen, who were brought into an NIH treatment program beginning in March 2021.

Researchers were seeing some success. The injured patients were told to stay silent, that the NIH would publish the study and formally acknowledge their injuries so others could access treatment. The study was never published. The acknowledgment never came. The 23 patients were told to keep quiet in exchange for a promise that was broken.

Those patients wanted to be seen, heard, and believed so they could get treatment. The FDA saw them, heard them, believed them, and said nothing to the American public.

The week of the hearing also brought the arrest of Dr. David Morens, a senior Fauci adviser whose emails, discovered by Johnson's staff inside a 115,000-page document dump from a university grantee, showed him explicitly describing how to make emails disappear through FOIA-evasion techniques and directing colleagues to route sensitive correspondence to his personal Gmail account.

Johnson's current interim report, titled "Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward Covid-19 Vaccine Injury Safety Signals," documents the same pattern of deliberate off-channel communication across multiple agencies.

For everything on Peter Marks's public statements versus what the documents now show, visit therealpetermarks.com.

@delbigtree