SENATE COVID REPORT: Biden Admin Knew About Potential COVID-19 Vaccine Risks, Downplayed Them

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According to a report from Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) office, top Biden Administration health officials took steps to “delay warning the public” for months in 2021 about the potential risks of heart-related complications from receiving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

Federal health agencies were informed as early as February 2021 about numerous myocarditis cases in young recipients of the Pfizer vaccine, yet they didn’t update vaccine labels to disclose this risk until late June of that year.

“Even though CDC and FDA officials were well aware of the risk of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination, the Biden administration opted to withhold issuing a formal warning to the public for months about the safety concerns, jeopardizing the health of young Americans,” the 54-page interim report said.

Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle, pericarditis is inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart, and myopericarditis is a combination of both conditions.

From The New York Post:

On Feb. 28, 2021, an Israeli Ministry of Health official attempted to contact the CDC and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about 40 cases of myocarditis and other heart-related ailments in young people from the Pfizer vaccine.

At the time, Israel had a much higher vaccination rate than the US, the report noted.

About 10 days later, an FDA official drafted a response noting that “limitations of passive surveillance … [and] incomplete data make it challenging to assess causation.”

US health officials requested more data from the Israelis.

By mid-April, a Defense Department contractor involved with the Pentagon’s work on immunization delivered a presentation to the COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Technical (VaST) working group that concluded “there is a high likelihood that cardiac symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination represent a hypersensitivity eosinophilic myocarditis.”

Senator Johnson shared information from his bombshell report on X, saying, “The federal government was well aware of the myocarditis signal following COVID-19 vaccines, particularly in young men, as early as February 2021. Despite months of discussion and apparent acknowledgment of the safety concern, U.S. health officials decided not to issue a warning on the Health Alert Network.”

Watch the clip below:

The federal government was well aware of the myocarditis signal following COVID-19 vaccines, particularly in young men, as early as February 2021.

Despite months of discussion and apparent acknowledgment of the safety concern, U.S. health officials decided not to issue a warning… https://t.co/YZ0gzojxip pic.twitter.com/ZQM3ms0iRe

— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) May 21, 2025

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