Sen Johnson says staff untangling Biden 'coverup' of COVID vax injuries across millions of files

"We're just scratching the surface in terms of what they covered up," Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations chair says.

Published: April 7, 2026 10:53pm

More than a year into the second Trump administration, the Republican chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations says his staff is combing through nearly 11 million pages of documents to unmask the full extent of the Biden administration's "cover-up" of COVID-19 vaccine side effects to maximize shots in arms.

"We're going to continue to dig, but I think [...] we're just scratching the surface in terms of what they covered up," Chairman Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin, told Just the News, No Noise this week.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is "trying to get the agencies to respond" to the committee's targeted document requests, but thus far he has only been able to give Johnson's staff a "huge data dump," which even with AI requires them to "know the exact search terms" to find nuggets, Johnson said.

That's how congressional investigators discovered the prior administration's vaccine safety surveillance system had picked up "statistically significant safety signals for ischemic stroke" in elderly people as early as November 2022, he also said.

White House officials responded to the signal by "wordsmith[ing]" the draft warning by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration, Johnson said. The original language described a "moderately elevated" stroke risk following COVID vaccination, but the White House changed it to a "slightly elevated" risk.

FDA and CDC researchers also found an elevated stroke risk following co-administered COVID and flu vaccines, but their leaders disavowed it.

The exact nature of mRNA vaccines is "only one of the things they lied to us about," Johnson said. "I can't bring myself to call them vaccines anymore" because mRNA technology actually "turned your cell into a manufacturing site for the most toxic part of the coronavirus" and sent those spike proteins throughout the body, "literally [...] creating havoc."

Regarding Pfizer's cancellation of its clinical trial for the latest COVID vaccine for lack of interest, Johnson said it's a "good, good thing that people are wising up to the fact that, yeah, I don't think I'm going to be a guinea pig on this thing."

He referred to a Rasmussen Reports survey three years ago that found more than a quarter of Americans believe they know someone who died of COVID vaccine side effects.

Johnson doesn't think the platform was "ever intended for mass use in a vaccination program," as opposed to targeted treatments "toward cancers, toward other things," Johnson said, noting the feds granted emergency use authorization based on "process one," which tested a "very small" and "highly controlled" batch of unrepresentative vaccines.

He acknowledged mRNA "still could be a phenomenal technology" if scientists can keep the spike in one place and stop DNA contamination. A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit revealed government scientists undermining senior officials' disavowal of DNA contamination and confidence in the "very low" risk of post-vaccination heart inflammation.

The senator warned that "we really need to be on our guard" for mRNA's reappearance in other fields of medicine, such as veterinary. 

Drugmakers "love this platform because it's highly profitable" and "you can dial in on any kind of pathogen [...] but it's simply not been adequately tested," he said.

History shows how hard the technology's advocates in government will fight to hide side effects, Johnson said, noting vaccine accountability lawyer Aaron Siri's dogged FOIA litigation to reveal the CDC's v-safe surveys to track self-reported side effects in the earliest recipients of COVID vaccines.

"This is, from my standpoint, a very, very inadequately tested platform, I think, in many respects, a dangerous platform," Johnson said.

Because "the American public does not want to believe that they could have been hoodwinked like this," Johnson and his allies must show "these people hid things," downplaying safety signals, so that more people "awaken" to the truth, he said. "And once they do open their eyes, I think they will start demanding the truth."

He praised HHS's Kennedy for "properly questioning the childhood vaccine schedule" and National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya for his "far more rational approach to dealing with [a] pandemic" as coauthor of the anti-lockdown Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated "focused protection" for high-risk groups and normal life for others.

Contrary to the old guard, which actively discouraged cheap COVID treatments such as ivermectin, the current agency leadership will focus more on treating diseases and especially childhood illnesses, Johnson predicted.

He praised Siri's "seminal" new book Vaccines, Amen for documenting deaths from childhood diseases the year before vaccines for them were made available, showing a stark disconnect between the few thousand deaths they caused each year versus the World Health Organization's claim that vaccines have saved 154 million lives.

Johnson contrasted today's media portrayal of measles as a "death sentence" versus its portrayal as a mild inconvenience in a 1969 Brady Bunch episode, the subject of a scolding NPR segment in 2019.

Siri's book documents that "if you get the measles, you have a lower rate of cardiovascular disease as you grow up" because of natural immunity, which has "spillover effects into other diseases as well," Johnson said. 

"We don't even begin to understand, nope, the wonder of our natural immune system and what we might be doing to it" through the bloated childhood vaccination schedule, which coincides with a spike in chronic illnesses related to "autoimmune disease or immune dysregulation," Johnson said.

"But the medical establishment looks at that" and responds, "We know vaccines are only positive," he said. "I mean, what folly. I mean, just put your head in the sand."

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