{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2026/03/25/psi-chairman-johnson-reveals-further-evidence-of-biden-administration-downplaying-covid-19-vaccine-safety-risk/", "PSI Chairman Johnson Reveals Further Evidence of Biden Administration Downplaying COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Risk", "2026-03-25", "2026", "2026-03", "Republican", "Senate", "WI", "Ron Johnson", "J000293", "www.ronjohnson.senate.gov", "ronjohnson", "https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "Releases nearly 2,000 pages of Biden HHS records, including communications about COVID-19 vaccine adverse events\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 On Monday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), revealing yet another instance of the Biden administration\u2019s failure to take immediate action to warn the public about a serious COVID-19 vaccine adverse event.\n\nIn the letter, Chairman Johnson described how as early as Nov. 2022, vaccine safety surveillance systems, run by Biden health officials, began detecting statistically significant safety signals for ischemic stroke among individuals age 65 and older following receipt of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent booster.\n\nRather than immediately issue a formal warning to the public, documents show that in Dec. 2022, the Biden White House and HHS pushed to \u201cincrease uptake of the booster\u201d for people 65 years and older.\n\nThe following month, in Jan. 2023, a draft Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) \u201ccommunications plan,\u201d which included edits from the Biden White House, appeared to underscore the Biden administration\u2019s continued desire to \u201cincrease uptake of the booster.\u201d Specifically, edits made to the plan downplayed the significance of the safety signal, changing a sentence that stated that the \u201csignal is moderately elevated\u201d to the \u201csignal is slightly elevated.\u201d\n\nThat same month, even as a safety surveillance system continued to detect a statistically significant safety signal for ischemic stroke, Biden health officials posted on FDA\u2019s website that \u201cno change is recommended in COVID-19 vaccination practice.\u201d\n\nHowever, even though Biden health officials continued to tell the public the vaccine was safe, behind closed doors, they initiated multiple studies and statistical analyses \u2014 including a so-called \u201cStroke Project\u201d \u2014 to investigate the validity of their assertion. These investigations continued through at least Sept. 2025.\n\n\u201cI am sharing my preliminary findings to provide HHS and the public with even more evidence of the Biden administration\u2019s unsupported and unyielding devotion to a harmful vaccine at the expense of the public\u2019s health,\u201d Chairman Johnson wrote.\n\nThe letter is part of Chairman Johnson\u2019s ongoing investigative efforts to expose the Biden administration\u2019s failure to warn the public about the adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines.\n\nThe chairman included in the letter several requests for additional information about the detection of ischemic stroke following the booster noting, \u201cthe full extent of HHS\u2019s awareness of the ischemic stroke safety signal remains incomplete and key records are still missing.\u201d\n\nIn conjunction with the letter to HHS, which includes preliminary findings, Chairman Johnson released nearly 2,000 pages of relevant HHS records available below. In addition to documents showing the detection of ischemic stroke following receipt of the Pfizer bivalent booster, the records released also contain internal communications between Biden health officials acknowledging significant statistical limitations in their ability to detect safety signals through their data analyses \u2013 called empirical Bayesian data mining.\n\nFull text of the letter can be found here.\n\nRead more about the chairman\u2019s letter in The Epoch Times.\n\nThe relevant HHS records released by Chairman Johnson, which at the request of HHS contain minimal redactions for personally identifiable information, are linked below:\n\nPart 1\n\nPart 2\n\nPart 3\n\nPart 4\n\nPart 5\n\nPart 6\n\nPart 7\n\nPart 8\n\nPart 9\n\nPart 10\n\n###", 1, "2026-06-18T06:41:00Z", "2026-06-18T06:43:25Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2026/03/25/psi-chairman-johnson-reveals-further-evidence-of-biden-administration-downplaying-covid-19-vaccine-safety-risk/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1234839912503958, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}