(The Defender) Medical experts, political figures, journalists and whistleblowers today accused public health agencies and the mainstream media of censoring and covering up information relating to COVID-19 vaccine injuries and adverse events during a U.S. Senate roundtable discussion.
Sen. Ron Johnson hosted the discussion — “Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel: What Are They Hiding?” — which his office said was intended to “expose the truth about how the COVID cartel — federal health agencies, Big Pharma, legacy media, and Big Tech — engaged in censorship and coverups.”
“It was heartening to hear these courageous experts willing to risk careers and reputations in order to tell the truth despite tremendous pressure to look the other way,” said Laura Bono, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) vice president.
Bono, who attended the roundtable, added:
“We can’t ensure that the global devastation caused by the COVID crisis will never occur again unless we are able to analyze what happened and speak about it freely. We are immensely grateful to Senator Johnson for presenting this crucial discussion to the American public.”
The discussion focused on six topics: COVID-19 vaccine issues, the history of vaccine injury cover-ups, the corruption of medical research and federal public health agencies, media censorship and propaganda, the COVID-19 response in other countries and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) proposed “pandemic agreement.”
Brian Hooker, Ph.D., CHD chief scientific officer, told The Defender he was “riveted listening to the panelists during the entire four-hour session.”
“Being here among these heroes was such an encouragement,” he said. “Sen. Johnson was an extremely gracious host and a true hero himself.”
Hooker, co-author with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of “Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak,” participated in the roundtable, highlighting the health risks posed by vaccines and the lack of adequate testing by federal health agencies.
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HHS never submitted required vaccine safety report to Congress
In his testimony, Hooker said, “The CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] has never tested the cumulative effect of the vaccine schedule on childhood health outcomes.”
He referenced several scientific studies to support his testimony.
“Vaccinated children were at least twice as likely to be diagnosed with developmental delays, ear infections and gastrointestinal disorders. The likelihood of an asthma diagnosis among the vaccinated group was four-and-a-half times higher than the unvaccinated group,” he said.
Hooker said unvaccinated children have shown “incidence rates between 4-20 times lower” than vaccinated children for autoimmune, neurodevelopmental and other disorders.
He also referred to the sharp rise in myocarditis diagnoses following COVID-19 vaccination.
“Myocarditis is a serious disorder and 76% of all cases following COVID-19 vaccination, as reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System [VAERS], required emergency care and/or hospitalization,” he said. Yet, the “CDC significantly downplays myocarditis as a side effect of the vaccine.”
Further highlighting government inaction in studying and responding to vaccine injuries, Hooker said:
“The 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act requires that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report to Congress on the state of vaccine safety in the U.S. every two years.”
Yet HHS has “never submitted a vaccine safety report to Congress,” he said.
Big Pharma ‘controls the levers of power,’ suppresses unprofitable treatments
Edward Dowd, a former BlackRock executive who has extensively studied the increase in excess deaths during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, also participated in the roundtable.
Dowd, author of “‘Cause Unknown’: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022,” said that government and WHO statements claiming the COVID-19 vaccines were “safe and effective” have “been proven false.”
“It has become clear that the U.S. government, along with the health regulators, do not desire an honest accounting of … policies that were imposed mostly under federal mandates,” he said, noting that this has resulted in high human costs.
Dowd told the panel:
“The total excess deaths since the rollout of the vaccine in the U.S. is approximately 1.1 million for 2021, 2022 and 2023. We estimate the economic cost of productive working age people dying at $15.6 billion [and] estimate 28.4 million individuals are chronically absent, resulting in an estimated economic cost of $135 billion since 2021.”
Jessica Rose, Ph.D., an immunologist and biochemist, told The Defender in advance that her testimony would focus on an “Analysis of the VAERS pharmacovigilance database in the context of the COVID-19 injectable products,” which “has revealed strong emergent safety signals — from myocarditis to death — that are not being acknowledged by the owners of the data.”
Dr. Jessica Rose Speaks for the Vaccine-Injured Through VAERS Data
“In 2021 … a 1417% INCREASE in [vaccine adverse event] reporting occurred, whereby 93% of these reports were in the context of the Covid-19 products.”@JesslovesMJK
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“This goes against standard operating procedures and begs the question: Why?” she said.
Rose also referred to recent revelations, later confirmed by Canadian public health authorities, about the contamination of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
“Is there a risk associated with DNA insertion in the context of the modified mRNA shots? Yes,” she said.
Dr. Pierre Kory, president and chief medical officer of the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, discussed the suppression of potentially effective treatments by public health agencies.
“We are only now beginning to understand that many long-established drugs may have other uses that we don’t even know about, effectively treating diseases we never imagined using them against,” he said. “So why on earth aren’t we systematically testing them for potential new uses?”
Kory told the panel:
“The ugly truth is it’s not profitable. Big Pharma makes money on complicated new drugs, and it controls the levers of power. Nearly half of FDA’s [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] budget is bankrolled by the drug industry, and its tentacles are deep in academia, medicine and other regulatory agencies like the NIH [National Institutes of Health].”
He cited ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as examples of treatments that were suppressed during the pandemic despite evidence they were effective.
Watch Lara Logan’s segment just this morning in Washington, D.C., at Senator Ron Johnson’s roundtable discussion ‘Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel: What Are They Hiding? pic.twitter.com/v4kzoiG4QP
— Lara Logan (@laralogan) February 26, 2024
