releases: https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2026/05/26/video-release-sen-johnson-holds-hearing-on-biden-health-officials-failure-to-detect-covid-19-vaccine-safety-signals/
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| https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2026/05/26/video-release-sen-johnson-holds-hearing-on-biden-health-officials-failure-to-detect-covid-19-vaccine-safety-signals/ | ***VIDEO RELEASE*** Sen. Johnson Holds Hearing on Biden Health Officials’ Failure to Detect COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals | 2026-05-26 | 2026 | 2026-05 | Republican | Senate | WI | Ron Johnson | J000293 | www.ronjohnson.senate.gov | ronjohnson | https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/category/press-releases/ | scraper | WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, held a hearing titled, “Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals.” In conjunction with the hearing, the chairman released an interim Majority Staff Report, along with approximately 600 pages of records detailing how beginning in early 2021, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials became aware of a new, “state of the art” data mining method that could better detect statistically significant safety signals for adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines. Rather than adopt the “state of the art” method, Biden health officials continued to employ their older data mining method with known limitations that prevented FDA from detecting adverse events. “Peter Marks, with the knowledge that he was treating vaccine injuries, and they weren’t mild injuries. These were life-threatening injuries. These are total disability–type of injuries. So, he knew it. He was treating them. He knew that his safety surveillance system was masking these signals …. They were pleading with the officials at FDA, NIH, that knew they were severely injured by the vaccine, counting on them to make that public, to study their results so that others could get treated. To this day, they have not done that,” Sen. Johnson said. “We’ve got a real big problem in this country about vaccine-injury deniers. Again, these vaccine injuries are real, but it’s being denied. And you know, Mr. Science himself, accused a lot of people of being science deniers. I’ll accuse people of being vaccine-injury deniers,” Sen. Johnson continued. “Nobody that pushed these things wants to admit they’re wrong. The advice they gave might have resulted in somebody’s death or permanent disability. That’s what we’re faced with. That’s why we have this massive vaccine- and injection-injury denying going on in this country. And I can tell you, from my standpoint, I’m not giving up … I’m not caving to the ridicule and vilification,” Sen. Johnson concluded. Watch the full video of the hearing here. The interim PSI Majority Staff Report can be found here. The records the senator released contain minimal redactions for personally identifiable information which was one of the categories of redactions requested by HHS. The records are linked below: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Excel Documents ### | 1 | 2026-06-18T06:41:00Z | 2026-06-18T06:43:25Z |