After years of anecdotal reports about perilous side effects from the vaccine, the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, headed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), finally conducted a hearing on the matter on May 21, 2025, and the revelations should have made headline news.
What happened thereafter is truly chilling. As revealed in a thorough summary of the three-hour-long hearing by The Vigilant Fox, Sen. Johnson offered up a detailed timeline proving that the Biden administration deliberately withheld information from the public about risks associated with the vaccine, most especially for young people and pregnant women. By September of 2021, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) had received reports of 384,270 “adverse events” following vaccinations and 4,812 deaths, including 1,736 within two days of injection.
When he was questioned about the startling data by Sen. Johnson, then-CDC Director Francis Collins responded by arguing that official government information at the time claimed just six vaccine-related deaths, and then said, “Senator, people die.”
The CDC had claimed that instances of myocarditis were “rare.” But that is patently false, according to Dr. Peter McCullough, a longtime cardiologist whose outlying views on COVID led to the revocation of his medical certifications. When he was called to testify, Dr. McCullough reported that he had seen just two cases of myocarditis in his pre-COVID career but that he has now “examined thousands of patients with the problem,” adding that “there’s 1,065 papers in the peer-reviewed literature on COVID vaccine myocarditis.” He pointed to one particular case from Korea in which a young man died within eight hours of being jabbed, saying his heart was “fried with inflammation.”
Dr. McCullough shot down mainstream claims that the vaccine saved millions of lives, offering three alternative reasons for the ultimate drop in COVID-related deaths: natural immunity, early treatment keeping people out of hospitals, and the virus mutating into a milder form. He also provided irrefutable data proving that COVID-related deaths actually spiked after the vaccines were released, forcing health officials to admit one year later that, unlike what they had told us previously, the vaccine did not prevent transmission of the virus. He referenced three papers by Nathaniel Mead, a former writer for the National Institutes of Health, that contain nearly 1,000 references, all reaching the same conclusion: “The risks of COVID-19 vaccination far outweigh any theoretical benefits.”
Nationwide Vaccine Fallout
Dr. Jordan Vaughn, head of the Alabama-based Long COVID Clinic, testified that up to 15 million Americans may be suffering from Long COVID (a persistent form of the virus) or COVID vaccine injuries. He warned that the mRNA injections led to uncontrolled production of spike protein, allowing the viruses to penetrate cells and cause infections that spread throughout the body, reaching the heart, brain, ovaries, and testes. A Yale study now shows some people are still producing spike protein more than 700 days after their last injection.
Next came the receipts on the effect of the vaccine on pregnant women. OB-GYN Dr. James Thorp testified that the vaccine “mirrored” the effects of chemical abortion drugs and referred to a study published by the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine indicating that almost 13% of expectant mothers who got the jab had miscarriages. He further went on to repeat the heavily debated claim that 82% of those women who got the vaccine in their first trimester miscarried.
Attorney Aaron Siri testified about the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA), which immunizes pharmaceutical companies from vaccine-related lawsuits. Following the passage of NCVIA, the schedule of vaccinations for newborns under one year old increased by almost 1,000%, from 3 to 29, a direct result, according to Siri, of the fact that “[pharmaceutical companies] don’t have the financial incentive to make them safer … In fact, they have the disincentive.”
Sen. Johnson went on to summarize data from VAERS reporting 38,607 vaccine-related deaths to date, with 9,228 of them occurring within two days of vaccination. Considering that many such deaths undoubtedly were not reported directly to VAERS, these numbers are thought to be conservative estimates.
The damage from vaccines could be felt far and wide. This author’s son, diagnosed with epilepsy 25 years ago, had controlled the condition with medication and not experienced a seizure for 13 years – until six days after he was given a COVID-19 booster shot. We now live with the anxiety of not knowing whether that shot will cause more seizures or even permanent damage. Our story is far from unique.
President Trump has now replaced health establishment insiders like Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci with a team of what we might call vaccine realists. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya, both of whom were demonized for their outlier views on the COVID vaccine, have now forged a new path, as evidenced by the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement. It comes as a welcome relief for millions of vaccine skeptics who were the victims of textbook gaslighting because they dared to speak truth to power.
Crickets From Big Media
One would have thought that responsible media would have reported on this long-awaited hearing, if only in an attempt to refute the testimony and defend their own role in toeing the government line. But there was precious little coverage, in fact almost none, from legacy media unashamedly aligned with the Washington establishment.
The New York Times, famously the “newspaper of record,” did not even cover the hearing, limiting its transparently biased coverage to a preemptive strike in an article before the hearing headlined “The FDA May Restrict COVID Vaccines. Who Will Be Able to Get Them?” Washington’s most famous newspaper weighed in with a similar angle: “FDA to limit COVID shot approval to 65+, those with medical conditions,” with one author writing, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has falsely called the mRNA shots against COVID ‘the deadliest vaccine ever made’ … the lingering politicization of COVID is fueling the new attacks on science.” And here was the message in Google AI, which routinely offers responses to queries of all kinds, on the term “Biden vaccine scandal”: “An AI Overview is not available for this search.” In searches with similar descriptions, Google’s AI would not activate.
If it is possible for big government and big media credibility to descend even further into the gutter than it has in recent years, this scandal should do the trick. The government withheld devastating information about COVID vaccines, and the media refused to even report on hearings designed for the purpose of getting to the truth. We might have thought that things would change by at least a slight degree after the 2024 election. No such luck.
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