Earlier this week, Johnson published an op-ed challenging the transparency the government showed during the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. He cited data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, showing 1,676,100 cumulative worldwide adverse events and 39,099 deaths associated with COVID-19 vaccinations. Of those deaths, 9,332, or 24%, reportedly occurred within two days of vaccination.
Johnson said safety signals, including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, cerebral artery occlusion, basal ganglia stroke, agonal rhythm and Bell’s palsy, were ignored. He also said that after reviewing 11 million pages of documents, he believes Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials “did not use an ‘err on the side of caution’ standard to alert the public.”
During his telephone town hall meeting last week, Johnson said the full extent of the harms and benefits of COVID-19 vaccinations may never be known. However, he said he believes government officials harmed the American public by failing to share the full story.
You can read Johnson’s op-ed by clicking this link.
According to Bloomberg, more than 12.7 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered worldwide as of Oct. 6, 2022, including 613 million doses in the United States.
