New Report Proves “Conspiracy Theorists” Right Again on COVID-19 Vaccine

A new U.S. Senate report confirms the Biden White House covered up potential harms from the COVID-19 vaccine – and is further evidence of how fundamentally dishonest the administration was about pandemic policy more generally.

The 54-page interim report from Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), the chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, specifically found that top Biden officials, including in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), knew the COVID vaccine could cause significant heart problems like myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly in young men. However, public health officials failed to disclose this information and pushed vaccine mandates anyway.

Records reveal that “in the first half of 2021, federal health officials had ample evidence of myocarditis and related heart inflammation conditions occurring in young adults who received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,” Johnson’s office said in a press release accompanying the report. However, some public records were heavily redacted which “prevented a full understanding of what federal health officials knew and what actions they took.”

As the report alleges, soon after the full public rollout of the vaccine in February 2021, health officials were warned by Israeli doctors about potential negative health effects, particularly inflammation of the heart. Data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in the United States added to these concerns.

In spite of these alarm bells, “U.S. health officials delayed for months alerting the public, and ultimately rejected a formal notification to health care providers about the risks to young people of myocarditis and associated heart inflammation conditions following receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.”

The revelations were brought further into the open during a hearing held by Johnson ahead of the report’s release. Many leading medical experts who were shunned by their peers and ridiculed in the media were finally vindicated and given a full hearing.

That list included Dr. Peter McCullough, a heavily published cardiologist who testified that he is “deeply concerned about a much larger subclinical myopericarditis problem manifested by chest pain, palpitations, blood pressure instability, and heart rhythm problems which persist for months to years after the shots.”

McCullough criticized medical groups for their complicity and said they “should have held emergency meetings and called for a halt in mass vaccination.”

Johnson’s report also suggests that government officials knew the vaccine was far riskier for pregnant women than drug companies were letting on – something that Dr. Sara Brenner, the FDA principal deputy commissioner who worked on COVID policy, appeared to confirm earlier this month.

During a MAHA Institute roundtable on May 15, Brenner stated that even as the government was selling the vaccine as “safe and effective” for pregnant women, she herself chose to not take it while pregnant. “Knowing what I knew – not only about nanotechnology, about medicine, about the medical countermeasures – but also having a very strong and firm grounding in bioethics… there were many things that were not right,” she said.

Once again, it appears the “conspiracy theorists” were right when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine. Even as the Biden administration discharged military personnel for refusing the vaccine and lectured Americans about a “winter of severe illness and death,” government scientists had every reason to believe the vaccine carried serious health risks.

Now that President Donald Trump is in office, however, the truth is beginning to come out, and public health policy is changing accordingly.

Recently, the FDA announced that it had ordered Pfizer and Moderna to warn about the dangers of their shots for young men ages 16 to 25. “While the earlier labels specified ages 18 to 24 years old for Moderna’s vaccine and 12 to 17 years old for Pfizer’s, the new warning will apply to males ages 16 to 25 for both vaccines,” CBS News reported.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also recently announced that his agency is no longer recommending that healthy pregnant women or children take the COVID shot, calling it “common sense” and “good science.”

“There’s no evidence healthy kids need it today,” FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said in the announcement. Parents largely realized this, as just 15 percent had taken their kids to get the latest COVID booster shot. Of course, anyone who wants the vaccine is still free to get it.

But the Trump administration has made clear its commitment to health freedom. Employers and schools will no longer be able to justify vaccine mandates on the grounds that the federal government recommends the shots.

Maximizing transparency and taking the first steps toward accountability are long overdue but welcome developments for a public health establishment that squandered its credibility during one of the greatest crises of our time. COVID-19 should have been a moment for public health leaders to unite the country around science and truth. Instead, they chose to prioritize personal partisan interests and corporate profits.

The American people deserve a public health system they can trust – not one that hides risks, silences dissent, and punishes skepticism. Rebuilding that trust will take time, but it starts with honesty. Trump has made clear that the days of branding legitimate questions as “misinformation” are over.

The public is not a problem to be managed, it is a partner to be informed. If public health is to be preserved, it must first be redeemed. And that redemption begins with truth, transparency, and the courage to admit what went wrong.

Matt Lamb is an AMAC Newsline contributor and an associate editor for The College Fix. He previously worked for Students for Life of America, Students for Life Action, and Turning Point USA. He previously interned for Open the Books. His writing has also appeared in the Washington Examiner, The Federalist, LifeSiteNews, Human Life Review, Headline USA, and other outlets. The opinions expressed are his own. Follow him @mattlamb22 on X.