On Thursday, in light of the interim report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealing the Biden-era Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) concealment and downplaying of COVID-19 vaccine myocarditis risks, Rep. Mark Green, MD, re-introduced the Vaccines in Trial and Liability (VITAL) Act. The legislation aims to protect Americans from fraudulent vaccine trial data.
Rep. Green said:
“The Biden CDC actively deceived the American people—simultaneously pushing a vaccine mandate it knew put young men in danger and ruining those same young men’s military careers. I’m re-introducing the VITAL Act to bring accountability and oversight to the vaccine approval process. As a physician, I understand that when trust is abused to deceive patients, the entire system breaks down. We cannot allow institutions, public or private, to take advantage of the sacred trust between doctors and patients.
Doctors rely on accurate vaccine trial data to treat patients. Without it, their patients’ health could be at risk. According to the Senate report, ‘As early as February 2021, officials at the CDC appear to have begun to receive reports regarding myocarditis in young adults following COVID-19 vaccination. By May 2021, health officials at HHS discussed whether to issue a formal warning regarding the risk of myocarditis…’ On May 17, 2021, the CDC’s COVID-19 VaST Work Group noted in their public meeting summary that members ‘felt that information about reports of myocarditis should be communicated to providers.’
On May 24th NBC reported that there were “at least 16 cases of apparent heart problems in young people in Connecticut after they received the COVID vaccine. NPR reported that as of June 23, 2021 an estimated 7 million Americans ages 12-17 had received the COVID-19 vaccine and more than 300 Americans ages 12-39 had reported myocarditis. By May 2021, at least one source reported 487 cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis.
Despite the warnings and the science, the Biden-Harris administration continued to advise young people to get vaccinated. A misleading CNN report from May 25, 2021 admits why the Biden administration dragged its feet, stating, ‘Pediatricians worry parents will misinterpret a finding by advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and become scared—for no reason—to vaccinate their children against COVID-19.’ It also makes clear that even at this late stage, the CDC was trying to downplay the risks of myocarditis, stating that the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices investigated reports of heart ailments among people and concluded that the rates of myocarditis ‘were not higher among people who had been vaccinated.’ The Biden-Harris CDC failed to provide a formal, urgent warning to Americans who may be most at risk of myocarditis, provide guidelines for evaluating vaccine health risks, and dismissed the concerns of ordinary citizens.
The CDC did not change the label to reflect the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis until June 25, 2021. It’s clear that Biden officials delayed for over a month in hopes that more younger Americans would get vaccinated—and that’s exactly what happened. Between April 19, 2021 and June 21, 2021—the CDC reported that 34% of adults aged 18-39 years had received the COVID vaccine. That is millions of young people in the U.S. who put themselves at risk without knowing all the facts. This is unacceptable and there must be much greater transparency in future.
I am confident that many physicians would have given much different medical advice during that month had they been told the truth about the health risks associated with these vaccines and that parents and patients alike may have made different decisions.
I agree with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to remove the CDC’s COVID vaccine recommended for children without respiratory issues. This is a move in the right direction, but it does not solve the underlying problems about transparency and the Biden administration’s coverup.
As I stated at the time, taking a vaccine is a decision for each American to make—with their doctor—not under coercion from the government. Yet the Biden administration and countless other local and state governments did just that, even knowing the risks to young people. In fact, the Biden administration mandated the vaccine for all federal workers. At the time I sent a letter to the former president calling on him to rescind his “unconstitutional federal mandate.” It stated,
‘By unilaterally dictating that every business with over 100 employees impose a vaccine-or-test mandate, your Administration is punishing millions who have decided not to get vaccinated, many of whom have acquired natural immunity. Yet your Administration continues to ignore the scientific consensus that recognizes the long-lasting protection natural immunity provides.’
Rep. Green continued, “Knowing what we now do, the fact that servicemembers, most of whom were under the age of 30, were dishonorably discharged for refusing the vaccine is egregious. That’s why I fought to protect servicemembers with my congressional resolution and FY2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) amendment.
I’m grateful President Trump reinstated previously-discharged servicemembers. Conversely, the Biden-Harris administration issued pardons for those responsible for years of lies and coverups about the health risks to young men. There must be accountability for all involved in the decision-making process to withhold critical information related to these vaccines from the American people.”
Read the bill text here.
