CBS News breaks media blackout on COVID vaccine injuries suppressed by Biden FDA: Sen. Johnson

CBS News was the "first major network" to break the mainstream media blackout on the suppression of COVID-19 vaccine injuries by the Biden administration's Food and Drug Administration, as alleged by an agency whistleblower, according to the chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., thanked CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett on his program The Takeout for covering the panel's findings, first previewed to Just the News, weeks after they were publicly released.

After asking Johnson about the war with Iran and the Justice Department's proposed "weaponization fund," Garrett asked Johnson "what are you driving at" by telling Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that President Biden's FDA "deliberately used a system incapable of truly identifying safety signals" for COVID vaccines given to children.

No other major news network has covered the subcommittee report that's "been out now for four weeks," Johnson said on Tuesday's program. (CBS News didn't mention the COVID vaccine discussion in its summary of the interview, however.)

Thanks to Kennedy's "commitment to radical transparency," the panel learned that in March 2021, then-Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks was briefed about the problematic algorithm the agency used to analyze the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, Johnson said.

Less than a month after the "data mining actors" told Marks the algorithm "was going to hide and mask" safety signals for COVID jabs, they showed him a new algorithm that unmasked "49 cases of extreme masking" under the old algorithm and found 25 new signals for "very serious adverse events" including sudden cardiac death.

Over the next three months the data miners found more safety signals and presented their findings to Marks, who nonetheless "decided to stick with the old algorithm [and] lied to the American public" that there were no safety signals, Johnson said, calling it "the biggest government scandal in my lifetime."

He said the panel is "digging into" a "separate little cover-up" of COVID vaccine injuries, the FDA's evaluation of 96 child deaths, "some with autopsies."

When Garrett responded with estimates that the COVID vaccine death rate for children was lower than their rate for ibuprofen, Johnson said the panel's 2023 analysis found 25.5 deaths per million doses given versus 0.46 for the flu vaccine. 

VAERS worldwide reports 39,000 deaths associated with COVID jabs, about a quarter within two days of vaccination, and 1.7 million adverse events in all, the senator said. 

He cited a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-commissioned report by Harvard, analyzing data from 2006-2009, that found "fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported" to VAERS. 

"I didn't need a sophisticated algorithm" to see the problem when under 300 deaths were reported annually to VAERS before 2020 and then 21,000 in 2021, Johnson said. Marks allegedly hid these facts about an "experimental gene therapy" that is "not a true vaccine."

After giving Johnson 4 minutes of his show largely uninterrupted to discuss VAERS and safety signals, Garrett said he wanted to have "a longer conversation" with Johnson about it. "Our investigation has just begun," Johnson answered.