Senator Johnson: Did a Top CDC Official Destroy Covid Vaccine Files?
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Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is asking federal police agencies to investigate whether a top CDC official destroyed records containing data about the safety of Covid-19 “vaccines.”

Johnson, who is chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter on April 9 to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG), about Dr. Tom Shimabukuro. Johnson wrote:

I recently learned that a top official at the [CDC] who led the effort to identify COVID-19 vaccine adverse events, may have deleted or destroyed agency records and communications. If true, these actions would be a clear obstruction of my oversight efforts and a violation of federal record-keeping requirements.… HHS officials recently informed me that Dr. Shimabukuro’s records remain lost and, potentially, removed from HHS’s email system altogether.

Investigation Needed

The Wisconsin senator calls Shimabukuro’s potential misdeeds “highly concerning,” especially since his job includes monitoring harmful side effects of the Covid-19 injection. He is now asking the DOJ and FBI to investigate “the extent to which officials with HHS and its sub-agencies, including Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, deleted or destroyed official agency records,” and if they did this to avoid compliance with the investigation.  

On November 19, Johnson told officials at the CDC, HHS, and Food and Drug Administration to preserve all records “referring or relating to the development, safety, and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines.” He has long been on the hunt for accurate information regarding the controversial injections. He believes the world has yet to learn the true destruction they have, and continue, to bring about.

Part of a Pattern

This isn’t the first piece of evidence suggesting that CDC employees destroyed vital public records regarding the Covid injection. In November 2023, Congress learned that National Institutes of Health (NIH) senior adviser Dr. David Morens kept very few emails or documents that detailed the government’s response to the COVID-19. Morens told his colleagues to send communications about sensitive issues directly to his Gmail address. Johnson mentioned this in his letter to FBI and DOJ officials:

I had always suspected that Dr. Morens was not the sole evader of federal record-keeping requirements at HHS. The extent to which HHS officials systemically mishandled, deleted, or destroyed their communications, data, and other information relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccines must be thoroughly investigated.

Covid Vax History

The U.S. government began its coercive Covid-19 injection campaign in early 2021. The stated goal was to inject as many people as possible. Some experts warned right away that the shots weren’t all they were cracked up to be. In April 2021, internationally renowned doctor Peter McCullough told The New American that early data were already indicating the shot was causing thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of hospitalizations. That same month, microbiologist Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi warned that the injection would lead to clotting as well as immune system problems.

In November 2021, Dr. Robert Malone, an inventor of mRNA technology, called the shot “the largest experiment performed on human beings in the history of the world.” By then, Malone had become one of the most respected figures to protest the irrational approaches of the vaccination campaign. He especially had a problem with the “experts” not taking natural immunity into account and that they were pushing the injection on low-risk populations comprising young, healthy people.

It just so happens that Shimabukuro has downplayed the consequences of the jab. As noted by The Defender, in an April 2023 presentation to the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Shimabukuro said international regulatory and public-health partners did not detect concerns “for ischemic stroke following bivalent COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccination.” But a peer-reviewed study published in November 2024 found that mRNA Covid-19 vaccines pose a 112,000-percent greater risk of brain clots and strokes than flu vaccines, and a 20,700-percent greater risk of those symptoms than all other vaccines combined. The study called for a worldwide moratorium on mRNA vaccines.

Ongoing Effort

Ever since authorities used Covid-19 as an excuse to implement tyrannical measures and prod an unproven medical technology onto the public, Senator Johnson has served as one of the few brave opposition voices. He has held multiple roundtable hearings on Capitol Hill in past years. He has heard from many constituents who were harmed by the injections. And he has developed a close relationship with some of the top figures in the “medical freedom” movement, including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is now head of HHS.

Four years have passed since the rollout of the injection. And figures like Johnson have not given up on their quest to unearth what those in the highest levels of the U.S. public health system knew, how early they knew it, and, assuming it’s as bad as evidence suggests so far, why they didn’t notify the public.

Given what’s at stake with this information, some speculate that destroying public records is a better option than the alternative. As internal medicine physician Dr. Clayton Baker told The Defender:

Such records would likely be very damning to all CDC officials who perpetuated the false ‘safe and effective’ narrative about the COVID-19 vaccines from 2021 until the present.

Given how damning any evidence of ignored or falsified safety signals would be, I think it is highly likely that Biden-era officials might try to destroy such records if they could. Better to be accused of destruction of federal records than to be charged as an accessory to mass negligent homicide.