Ron Johnson calls on Trump administration to recognize COVID-19 vax injuries as medical condition

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is calling for transparency and accountability on COVID-19 vaccine injuries and says he's asking the Trump administration to implement an International Classification of Diseases code for COVID-19 vaccine injuries.

“Trump's [Department of Health and Human Services] has to acknowledge that these injection injuries are real. They've got to create an ICD code so the doctors can get reimbursed,” Johnson said Monday in an exclusive John Solomon Reports podcast interview. He also said he has met with patients who were at a critical "low point" after fighting the medical establishment for years to be seen and treated. 

ICD codes are required by insurance companies to verify that medical treatments are necessary and to process patient reimbursement payments. 

The codes, published by the World Health Organization, also provide a standardized framework worldwide for recording causes of illness and death and resource allocation.

Johnson's request follows an investigation of 11 million pages of subpoenaed data on COVID-19 vaccine surveillance data, prompting Senate hearings by the chamber's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, including one June 3 titled, “Plausible Mechanisms of COVID-19 Injections Causing Cancer and Attacks on Scientific Publications."

The Wisconsin lawmaker, who is chairman of the subcmoomttee, has also presented evidence that appears to show flawed Food and Drug Administration algorithms under the Biden Administration hid safety signals and led to thousands of adverse events and deaths. 

Such evidence was detailed in his subcommittee's April hearing, “Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals.”

Johnson also argued in the podcast interview that flawed data on COVID vaccine injuries bypassed public scrutiny. He began the timeline in late 2020, when the FDA issued the first Emergency Use Authorizations for Pfizer and Moderna shots.

“These are not vaccines," he said. "These things, mRNA, used to be classified as gene therapy because they are gene therapy,” and that they were reclassified as vaccines to avoid vaccine hesitancy.

Following the authorization, Johnson said the FDA had immediately been “inundated” with reports of sudden death and serious adverse events, which resulted in the contractor submitting reports into the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, and having to hire 290 people just to get through a backlog. 

On March 1, Dr. Ana Szarfman, an FDA biostatistician who helped develop the Oracle data mining tool used to monitor adverse event databases like VAERS, warned Peter Marks, head of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), that the flawed algorithm was masking and hiding safety signals.

Twenty-six days later, senior FDA officials, using a new algorithm that unmasked safety signals, were shown 25 serious adverse events including cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, Bell’s palsy, and various types of strokes. Despite seeing such effects for three months, officials did not change the old algorithm that would mask these signals, Johnson said.

According to Johnson’s opening statement in the April hearing, Dr. Peter Stein, the then-Director of CDER’s Office of New Drugs, had reported to Dr. Marks that his office had “made it clear” to Dr. Szarfman “that she should not be discussing or providing internal analyses externally, and needs to focus on her assigned work.”

“To this day, we believe they're still using that exact same algorithm, because it's hiding all these serious safety signals,” Johnson said. “This is why I say this is the biggest government scandal in my lifetime, because had people known, had doctors been made aware, had the news big media been made aware, members of Congress been made aware, would we push the shot on everybody?” 

He also said 39,000 deaths and 1.7 million adverse events were reported in VAERS worldwide, while 24% occurred on the day of vaccination or within two days, a “correlation that our FDA should have been following." 

Johnson further said that the Biden administration rushed the vaccine's full approval during the pandemic to push through the federal mandate, and that the public faced immense pressure to get vaccinated.

“Boy, you got to get your child vaccinated, otherwise they're going to transmit it to their grandparents, of course," he said about the administration's pitch for a wide-scale vaccination program. "Then we found out later that the vaccine didn't stop transmission.” 

Johnson also harkened back to the hearing in which doctors testified on the links between the COVID vaccine and cancer, and said Julie Gralow, chief medical officer at the American Society of Clinical Oncology, who was brought on by the subcommittee’s top Democrat, "didn't have a clue about the makeup and mechanism of the mRNA vaccines, which she's proclaiming there's no proof that these things cause cancer."

Gralow had said that "RNA breaks down quickly in the body and doesn't enter a person's DNA." 

The American Medical Association continues to affirm that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, and that "physicians should advise their patients about possible side effects including lethargy, mild fever, body aches and pains, but this often means the vaccine is working to establish immunity." 

Still, Johnson has argued that Big Pharma funds medical associations and journals, resulting in a conflict of interest, and said in the podcast interview that legacy media is unwilling to discuss the cover-up because big pharmaceutical firms spend “billions of dollars” funding them. 

Johnson said that in the future, there were more documents that needed to be handed over and made public so that the media could not ignore the “overwhelming evidence” on COVID vaccine injuries. He also said that the people who engaged in the cover-up needed to be held accountable.