FDA Knew of Better Method to Detect Sudden Deaths After COVID Injections — But Refused to Use it.

New documents obtained by Sen. Ron Johnson reveal that Biden-era federal health officials refused to use a state-of-the-art statistical tool for detecting COVID-19 vaccination signals in VAERS — even though they knew the tool they were using was broken and failed to pick up on safety signals, including sudden cardiac death.

Biden-era health officials rejected a state-of-the-art statistical tool for detecting COVID-19 vaccine safety signals — and instead deliberately continued using a broken method because they didn’t want to “feed in to [sic] anti-vaccination rhetoric,” according to a report released today by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).

The report — “Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals” — includes emails from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials who told an FDA researcher to “cease and desist” using the updated tool to analyze COVID-19 vaccine injury reports in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

The FDA knew as early as 2020 that the method they were using was inferior and that a better one existed, according to the emails.

Ana Szarfman, M.D., Ph.D., a then-FDA medical officer and safety data mining developer who worked in the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), tried repeatedly to get FDA officials to switch over to the improved tool. [MORE]