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out a follow-up email urging recipients
to let providers in their region know of
risk and reminding them once again of
the obligation to report cases. I have
two emails here who that are in the
majority report. They're available to
the public. Uh I ask that they be made a
part of the record. Mr. Chairman,
>> objection. Uh, I'm not going to read
them. They're for everyone to see. Uh,
one begins with, "I would like to flag a
message we sent out late Friday night. I
encourage you to forward this important
message about vaccine safety and
reporting." And it goes on warnings.
Far from a cover up,
these public health officials were
trying to alert
scientists, doctors, the public about
the potential side effects.
Mr. Siri and I are both trial lawyers
and
issuing that kind of warning is far from
evidence of trying to hide or conceal
something. You can say
they were wrong somehow, but intentional
cover up is not within the realm of the
plausible allegations here.
So, u I think we need to be really clear
and careful
when we start uh discrediting scientists
or public health officials. Uh, I'd like
to ask
uh, Governor Green,
uh, can you tell us how, as a physician,
publicly funded research,
which is being cut by this
administration, is important to
establish
not only new vaccines, but also the
safety and efficacy of ongoing use of
vaccines.
Thank you, uh, Senator. So, uh, as
governors, we rely on funding to do so
many things from the federal government
and cuts to research will be
devastating. You can't just simply pause
research and wait until uh different
ideology resumes uh governing or until
we get through these hearings and we
restart uh critical research projects,
we will lose ground on this science and
the science that benefits from it. The
R&D that goes forward, we've all been
very supportive for decades of advanced
scientific research. Sometimes it
happens through the military, sometimes
through our universities. We are in deep
trouble if we stop the research
component of our commitment to our
people. We will also be in grave danger
if we don't do the public health
assessment uh in our states in our rural
areas because we will not even know what
we're being affected by. We will be
blind to the diseases that roll through
our communities whether it's chronic
disease or acute disease uh from an
infection like this. And I just I just
need to um address a couple um
statements that I feel are
misconceptions, you know, and I'm not
judging. I I feel that there is a
misconception that the COVID vaccination
didn't decrease the severity of disease.
That is what it did. It decreased the
severity and I saw this clinically and
we saw this from a public health
standpoint. It decreased the severity of
what people were facing. So they didn't
die or they died at a much lower rate.
And you can see that in the charts that
we've seen, but through looking at them
through a different lens, the exact same
charts when the when the death rates
dropped because people had begun to
develop immunity because their immune
systems were responding to the
vaccination. And in fairness, we could
debate the the language, but even some
of of the individuals that are also
testifying with me here today referred
repeatedly to the mRNA vaccination
because it was putting these particles
into people and then the immune system
was responding to them. And so I do feel
that it's a vaccination. But be that as
it may, we ultimately saw the ability to
stop the severe and deadly cases in our
hospitals. And so there are many ways to
view vaccinations. There's many ways to
view treatments. And they're all
valuable. Uh some for some vaccinations
straight up stop infection from
occurring. That's the case. uh when we
talk about uh measles, you know,
measles, measles, mumps, rebella, when
you get that vaccine, you really prevent
the spread uh to a great degree. And it
was commented earlier that we were
misleading or we were being misled by
others on what uh the vaccinations uh
were doing and what the information was
that was being shared. Well, let me tell
you what it was like during that period.
And we all saw it. There was a great
deal of confusion because the unknown
was so enormous. And to the credit of
scientists and to the credit of those
who uh invested in the research at again
extreme speed and extreme dollars, we
were able as a nation and a global
community to find our way to something
that helped us. Now, of course, there
were some tragic outcomes and again, not
a single case should ever be dismissed,
uh, minimized. No one should be impuged.
But the grander picture of a vaccination
program is to protect all and to find a
way to protect people so that they can
also help protect the people around
them. which is why the research is
important, the spending is important,
why I'm very concerned about the
announcement yesterday that we will only
be recommending vaccinations for people
over 65 or those with chronic disease
because couple points. One, first of
all, and I'm sure many of you had this
experience, uh the chairman mentioned
going to Sworthmore College, which was
my alma mater. The president of our
class named Nick Nick Jazdan, 51 years
old, unvaccinated because the vaccin
vaccinations were not yet available,
healthy, a marathon runner, died of a
COVID infection. He was a prominent uh
writer, an extraordinary human being,
but utterly healthy. And that may have
been of course more rare than an 82y old
or or a 91y old contracting COVID and
dying but it does happen. He is an
individual that would have been
vaccinated immediately when given the
opportunity and also the reasons that we
were able to avoid so many unnecessary
deaths in a very difficult to treat
state where we have one two three
sometimes four generations of people
living under the same roof with one
provider. The challenge there is if we
suddenly can't vaccinate teenagers or
people who are 28 years old and are the
breadwinners for their community and we
have another pandemic or we have this
outbreak worsen again, they will come
home with the disease and very likely
spread it to those who are vulnerable.
And so I'll pause there. I just say that
we should give people choice and we
should honor and respect their stories,
but we have to do the research.
>> But their stories haven't been honored
or respected. Our our next question will
be Senator Kim.
>> Yeah. Thank you,
Governor. I guess I I just would like to
stay with you here for a sec because I
think you have an interesting
perspective as someone who's both um a
doctor as well as a elected public
official in an executive position. And
I'm trying to, you know, digest the
information that I'm hearing here and
thinking about how to talk about it to
my constituents back in New Jersey. And
if they're watching this, you know, I
think that a lot of this is beyond what
the average person understands. It's
beyond what I understand in terms of the
fullness of what happens in terms of our
health system. So from your experience,
Governor, you know, when the when these
cases come forward, you know, the these
cases that Dr. McCullik and and others
have have raised, you know, in terms of
these concerns, what's supposed to kick
in? You how does this system work? you
know, you talked about this saying that,
you know, we have a robust
system for safety. Um, that the system
is designed to monitor, identify, and
transparently report possible side
effects to review. Can you explain to to
me and and my constituents, you know, h
how this unfolds and what to expect?
>> Yes, thank you, Senator. So the way it
should work is that we totally support
science and we support public health so
that we are able in labs and in public
health offices to take in the concerns,
the complaints, the vignettes, the data
and analyze it thoroughly. And uh to the
chairman's uh concern, I'm sure some
people were not listened to or they felt
not listened to and that should never
happen. That is one of the great
challenges of our modern time where
we're talking past one another where
when people are spreading um their
stories anonymously sometimes they're
spread in ways that are not really even
from the individual who's suffering
themselves. There are great challenges
but we have to have this robust system
and how do you talk to people? How did I
talk to people in my state? And many
people feel that we had the u most uh
positive and and um effective strategy
to to deal with COVID was because we did
something very simple. It was partially
uh accidental in the early days of
COVID. I started a whiteboard and
ultimately tens then hundreds of
thousands of people followed this
whiteboard and just so people know that
it wasn't didn't have bias implicit or
otherwise. It didn't have partisanship.
I just put the actual numbers that we
had to the minute of how many cases that
day, how many people were vaccinated,
how many beds we had, how many intensive
care unit beds uh were available, how
many ventilators were available each
facility, how many infectious disease
doctors and so on. So that if someone
truly didn't believe CO was a threat and
some people felt that way, they could
just look at the data and decide for
themselves how they would respond in
their lives. This is how you talk to
your constituents about something that's
this disconcerting, in fact terrifying.
And we just showed day after day after
day in a brief brief uh moment sometimes
90 seconds exactly what we had as the
best data long before we had these very
complex uh reports from John's Hopkins
or USC or other universities. Okay.
Before we had that, we had our capacity
in our state to share with our people
what we were dealing with. And so what
happened? Now, people could argue about
this, but I will tell you that I believe
we had far more people get vaccinated
because I just shared exactly what we
were experiencing. And I'll tell you, I
look back at some of those early reports
and I I sometimes shudder a little bit
because we learned so much, which is
what happens with science during one of
these crisis. You learn as you go. There
were times, as you know, that we didn't
have the right recommendations on masks,
and we of course could debate that in
this room, I'm sure, but we gave our
best scientific data and our best
experiential data. And that's how you
talk to people. And yes, you you never
tell people that they are not valued and
you never just dismiss their stories.
And I'm positive I or others have been
guilty of that in the moment, and we
shouldn't be. But we also should not
demonize one another and when we in my
family ultimately had protesters which
did to a large degree cross some lines
when they some people were um just
communicating with me other people I
have to be honest with you some people
wrote swastikas on the on signs that
were next to my home certainly my
father's Judaism had nothing to do with
my COVID response but I can tell you
that sometimes because people were
traumatized and understood how scared
they were and I understood what they
were hearing out there. But that's how
you talk to people. And if we do that
after not and I'm and I have to be
honest about this, if we don't
systematically dismantle our public
health system, we'll be okay. We will
find common ground. Even though I I
suspect that there are some pretty
significant differences between me and
some of the other testifiers on what we
would do with the next pandemic, we
would actually be able to still move
forward together.
>> Yeah. I mean I think you know something
you said earlier I thought stuck stuck
out to me the sense of that you know no
one should be ignored. I think that's a
principle I hope everyone here can agree
upon that we I think they always have
space for more transparency. Um but also
just keeping in mind that broader
context. I mean as you're saying you
know here are the challenges that that
we're facing when it comes to this
system and how we can work on it. And
certainly I can imagine your experience
whether on addressing COVID or in Samoa
you know certainly that becomes more
difficult to to fully enact this monitor
identify trans and the transparency
report you know when you're in the
middle of a crisis when you're in the
middle of the chaos you know that's
something I think we can try to do to
improve to the point that was raised
earlier I think a lot of this also says
like this this is a reason why we need
to invest in capacity invest in
personnel people working in our
government to do this and and as opposed
to cutting back on staff and and trying
to say that we need simultaneously more
transparency when that becomes all the
more difficult. But I mean, look, I
understand and I've had people in my
life that have been ignored and and not
believed, whether that's, you know, my
time as a diplomat before and people I
know struggling with Havana syndrome and
people telling them I don't believe you
and other issues that are out there. Um,
but we should always have that system in
place and and that's what I just hope we
can come back to. I mean, I get it. I'm
I'm new on this committee and I
understand and I'm seeing, you know, a
year's worth of of back and forth that
are coming here. But someone who's
coming in with some fresh eyes, you
know, I hope that we can try to
cultivate that sense of of trust that I
know has been so deeply wounded. Um,
because I worry about what comes next.
you know, I worry about how we deal with
the next diseases, the next pandemics,
how we try to move forward and
understand how this technology of of
mRNA and others try to move forward on.
So, I just appreciate, you know, being
able to hear this all and and I try to
figure out how best I can be able to
relate to the people in New Jersey
around this country about the safety of
the co vaccines that I have seen be able
to save lives, but also be able to sure
that we won't ignore people if they have
other concerns and we do our best to be
as transparent as possible and to be
careful of of accusations of personal
malfeasants uh especially with some of
our public servants um in terms of
whether or not they were intentionally
withholding information or not. We need
to be very careful about those
accusations on this committee. And with
that, I'll yield back.
>> I will say we are just seeing the tip of
the iceberg here and you will see more
evidence. Trust me. Senator Marino.
>> Well, first of all, thank you uh
chairman for putting on this hearing.
I'm going to focus on let's just stick
to CO 19 and CO 19 policies. Let's not
get to let's not get into this
conversation about uh vaccines at large.
Dr. McCulla, do you feel that you were
listened to in 2021?
Did you feel ignored?
Our November 19th, 2020 hearing done for
Homeland Security, governmental affairs
was very lightly attended by our
senators who are working for us. That's
a disappointment. It's disappointment
there's chairs uh empty here.
our hearing was actively suppressed,
scrubbed off YouTube.
>> So just just so just so just to clarify,
not only were your viewpoints ignored,
you were called a conspiracy theorist, a
spreader of misinformation, somebody who
didn't know what they were doing by
people who didn't even take a science
class in high school, and yet you're a
doctor and you were completely ignored.
Let me ask you, uh, Dr. Vaughn, real
quick question. How many children under
the age of five years old died of COVID?
>> So very very few actually theoretically
a healthy child under five there wasn't
any.
>> So it's basically zero.
>> Yes. It's statistically zero.
>> Age of 10.
>> It's still statistically zero. When you
get when you get up into the when you
get up into the uh uh 15 16 I mean there
there is some
>> so under 15 none. Yeah. Pretty much
none.
>> Statistically. Yes.
>> All right. So, I'm confused because uh
Governor Green said he held the children
who would have died from COVID, but
that's crazy because evidently nobody
died of COVID who was under 15.
>> I we're talking about But see, that's
the confusion. See, when we talk about
COVID vaccines and then we stick in
other vaccines, we get off topic because
co 19 wasn't about measles. Uh now, Dr.
Dr. Thorp, do you think good idea or bad
idea that you should close schools?
>> Bad idea.
>> Bad idea.
>> Now, why? I mean, kids can learn uh at
home, can't they?
>> They can learn very well at home, but at
school, uh they will have the
opportunity to develop natural immunity.
So, and school, well, by the way,
schools is where you socialize, you
learn your behaviors, you learn how to
meet other people because if we don't
believe in schools, the federal
government and state government can save
a lot of money. So, schools are
important. Let's just get that out of
the way. So, why would you close
schools, which you did, Governor,
when no children died of COVID? What
would make you make that decision? You
close schools. And by the way, the
impact on that is generational. You
destroyed the lives. You and the other
governors that closed schools destroyed
the lives of children in doing that.
>> So, okay, I've got to got to tell the
audience, ple please notice, sir, my uh
my respond to the question. Yeah, I
think it was Well, first of all, I think
you misunderstand some of the value to
uh
>> No, no. Why did you close schools?
>> Well, I'm going to I'm just answer that
and not filibuster me, please.
>> I'm not going to filibuster you. Uh
schools I did not want to close and
>> you did. Actually, I was not governor at
the time. And
>> but you were lieutenant governor and you
were the point person. Do you think the
governor made a mistake in closing
schools?
>> We reopened the schools as soon as
>> Did you think he made a mistake? Can I
answer the question or is the senator
going to fill up?
>> No. No. You're going to answer my direct
question or just say I'm not going to
answer you.
>> Do you think it was a good idea? Yes or
no? The two choices in this answer. Do
you think it was a good cho idea to
close schools? Simple answer. Just give
me a yes or a no. As we as we had COVID
surging through our society because
there was massive spread from children
to adults, we were waiting to make sure
the teachers
>> let me get so let me get this straight.
You sacrifice the lives of children
because maybe they would spread
something that you don't know to adults.
You thought that was a good that's
>> No, that's not always actually. It's
your your party that's trying to close
our schools and get rid of the
Department of Education. So, we have we
do have politicizing this hearing. Okay,
we're moving on. You said my governors
and other governors that close schools,
which is a politicization of
>> when I'm in the Hawaii and I'm having a
hearing before you, you can interrupt
me. When you're here before the United
States Senate, you're not going to
interrupt me. Moving on.
>> So, here's here's the next question for
you. Uh, show me the science that said
that when I walked into a uh an airport
in Hawaii and that I wasn't uh uh I I
didn't want to tell you because it's
none of your business whether I had a
COVID vaccine or not or tested positive
or not because that's also none of your
business. Where's the science where I
had to quarantine for 14 days? Tell me
the science behind why you locked your
residents up and did not allow them to
go grocery shopping. Why you closed your
beaches and your parks? I would love you
to put that science into this record
because you can give me the nice happy
talk, but those were terrible decisions.
And what COVID highlighted more than
anything else, by the way, it's why I'm
here. I ran for the United States Senate
not because uh I I I had this deep
desire to uh be a government politician,
but because I was so insensed by the
arrogance, by the ignorance, by the lack
of common sense among our elected
officials that we needed different kinds
of people here in Washington DC and
other places. So,
>> should I answer those questions,
chairman?
>> No, no, there was no question for you.
That was just
>> there were several questions. You asked
about why a 14-day quarantine. You asked
about Sure. What's the science? 14-day
quarantine because
>> not 12, not 16.
>> Actually, I asked for 5 days, just so
you know.
>> What was it? Was there dart board?
>> No, it was 5 days because that was the
amount of time from symptoms to
transmission.
>> So why 14?
>> The 14 day was was before we had the
>> So 14 wasn't scientific, just to be
clear.
>> 14 days was how long it took for people
to get over the disease. And people were
still shedding virus through that
period. And that's why you do use
science and I use science, but you
didn't like science for Hawaii. But but
we did but we did have the test and we
did have the test to enter Hawaii so
people could make a choice an informed
choice and they did and then they didn't
have to quarantine at all just to make
sure you know that because I think you
got your facts wrong and also I didn't
close the beaches that was the mayor of
Honolulu and not me. So just you know it
is important that you get the facts
right if you're going to be a political
official.
>> So it's what you're saying it wasn't me
it was the other guy.
>> No no it was me who ran the who ran the
co response zero accountability Dr. I'll
take more accountability if you give me
more time. I'm done with you governor.
Thank you. Thank you, sir.
>> Uh, so Dr. McCulla, quick question for
you. Quick question for you, just
completely objectively. Look, I went to
business school. I was not a doctor. Uh,
so I'm going to truly objective using
your most subjectiveness here. Did the
vaccine stop the spread of COVID 19?
>> No.
>> So then let me ask you one simple
question. We'll go down the line. You
guys can answer. It would be my last
question.
So if COVID 19 did the the vaccine, the
injection did not stop the spread of
COVID, why is it that Joe Biden,
president of the United States, issued
an executive order, which was ruled
unconstitutional, by the way, that said
that if you worked for a company with
100 employees, because not 99
100, that you would be fired
if you did not prove you didn't have a
COVID vaccine negative test or got
vaccinated.
Why would we have some decision like
that? How depraved do you have to be to
do that? Answer the question the way you
feel down the line. Go ahead. We'll
start with you, Mr. Call. Dr.
>> Briefly,
>> my testimony on this issue went all the
way to the Supreme Court that overturned
four out of the five Biden mandates.
They were scientifically ungrounded.
They were sociologically
deranged and they caused great harm. To
this day, people are in court trying to
get their jobs back and trying to put
their lives together because of these
disastrous policies.
>> And and just to be clear, sorry,
chairman, nurses were included in that.
Correct. Healthcare workers. The ranking
member called them heroes.
It seems to me that when you have a
hero, you don't terminate their ability
to make money and have them fired
because they're making a personal
choice. Because see, ultimately, and
I'll end with this, ultimately, this is
what this is all about. See, I get to
get a choice if I'm going to get
vaccinated. And if it doesn't stop the
spread, it is none of any other human
being in this country's business what I
did or did not do. Would you agree
quickly?
>> 100%. And I think uh uh director Winsky
when she said of the science of hope uh
that is not science. Science is facts.
Hope is not science.
>> Thank thanks Senator Marino. Again
please let's not express any uh emotion
out there in the in the audience. Uh Dr.
Walsco I just have to go to you because
you have direct experience. I almost
feel like bringing up Brienne Dresen to
talk about the concealment that you
witnessed firsthand when it came to your
working with Bree's working with NIH
officials trying to do studies uh being
carried along with some with some
assurance that this was going to be
revealed to the public and it never was.
Just talk about that level of
concealment. Again, there's going to be
so much evidence of this if it hasn't
been destroyed. This this just the tip
of the iceberg what we're seeing here
with myocarditis. But but talk to what
you you and your fellow vaccine injured
who were dismissed, who were gas lit,
who were treated horribly. I mean,
horribly. When you came to the United
States Senate and asked to be
heard by senators and their staff, you
were treated. Describe describe how
you've been treated.
Well, thank you, Senator Johnson. So,
what I'd like to say is um being vaccine
injured in this country is is
unfortunately a huge polarizing event,
which it should never be. If I could
describe one word that I think all if
not most vaccine injured will say is
what's one word that describes your
experience after your injury and it's
abandonment. Okay, we get attacked. We
watch. We walk a tight rope. We get
attacked from the right. The right say
we're stupid. We shouldn't have got a
shot. We should die. Okay, and I could
show you social media stuff. The left
says we're antivaxers. Which to me is
one of the most ignorant thing to say of
myself because all my children have been
vaccinated. I got vaccine injured
because I got vaccinated. But but still,
regardless, we get called antivaxers.
We report these to okay nothing happens.
I had an adverse event which was you
know delayed the Astroenica trial in the
United Kingdom you know two times for
three cases of transverse myitis. I
expected a call the day after
days passed weeks passed by 3 weeks I
called the CDC myself and demanded you
know response. I always thought oh I'd
get this quick response and someone
would would help us. all of us that are
vaccine injured now
there is no there's no phone call coming
there's no help coming we have
repeatedly met and Brienne Dressson
who's my co-chair with reacting have met
with Peter Marks over and over and over
for the last you know for a period of
about two years we have been plated we
have been blown off we bring up adverse
events the neurological adverse events
we bring up the MIS which is the
multi-cm inflammatory syndrome we bring
up the myocarditis us. He thanks us. He
says he'll get back to us. He never
does. That went on to for two years. So,
so for people that think it's this
kumbaya we're all people are listening
to us and people all in these federal
agencies are trying to to help it get to
the bottom of it. It is the farthest
from the truth.
>> So, there have been a number of claims
made and I think there will be continue
to be a number of claims made. I just
ask anybody making a claim um please
provide your citations you know please
provide you again respect the science
let me see the science I mean I'm I'm
being I'm very genuine here let me see
you know the science behind that this
actually reduced the symptoms or this
prevented deaths or this prevented
transmission uh I would like to see the
science um Dr. Von, uh, you were really
specializing in the blood clots. You
know, I've seen video after video,
picture after picture of these long
white blood clots in autopsy. Um, we've
we've also, you know, throughout CO
autopsies were really discouraged. We we
weren't seeking the scientific truth. I
see Dr. McCull have you kind of answer
that, but you know, Dr. Von, first talk
about talk about the clotting we saw and
and what you know in terms of what was
discovered under autopsy.
>> Well, first of all, early in COVID, the
spring of 2020, uh my collaborator Jacob
Lobster in South Africa was the first
one to kind of alert people to say that
this was primary primarily a vascular
disease, not a pulmonary disease. And
it's one of the reasons that ventilators
are probably one of the most ineffective
things you could have done to people
because if you have a vascular disease
of the lungs, increasing the
intrathoracic pressure just closes down
more vessels and ultimately kills them.
And what we also saw was if you went
into the hospital in the spring or
summer of 2020, you were twice as likely
to leave alive if you were already on a
blood thinner. Now, I will tell you most
of your friends that are on blood
thinners probably aren't healthier than
you. So it's kind of interesting to find
out that the people that were on blood
thinners had a protection. So again,
those were signals that were really
downplayed. Unfortunately, after a lot
of the treatment was codified by the
car's act, uh it it resulted in
basically a a protocol-based treatment
for inhos care.
>> As long as you start, can you anybody
describe remdeae? Anybody want to speak
to that?
If if not, I'll I'll do that for another
hearing. I mean just the conflict of
interest of how that was being approved.
uh yeah so can I okay wave off on that
>> but but what we uniquely found and my
collaborators in South Africa Risha
Ptorius and Doug Kell at University of
Liverpool was that the spike protein was
able to induce fibrin from fibbrronogen
which is a fancy word for saying hey
forming the backbone of clotting but it
did it in a way that was different that
we had not seen and it was what we would
similarly think of fibbrin as kind of
like spaghetti coming out of the
colander that you could pull apart part
when you didn't need it. It was easy to
break down. But the actual clot that was
formed in COVID or from the spike
protein from the vaccine was like burnt
spaghetti casserole that you have to get
a brillow pad to get off the dish. And a
lot of people their issue is their
inability to break down that clotting
mechanism. We all need to clot but we
all need to actually get rid of the
clot. And that is the problem.
>> That's pretty obvious. Dr. Thorp, I'll
get to you, but Dr. mccull real quick
>> quickly. In the last five years, I've
never treated as many blood clots in my
entire multiple decades of in clinical
practice as a cardiologist.
The blood clots occur after the
infection with the virus and the vaccine
because the spike protein causes blood
clots. It's without any controversy in
medicine. The spike protein causes blood
clots. So it is reckless and foolhardy
to continue to vaccinate people and load
the body with spike protein and cause
more blood clots.
>> But there were other parts of the corona
virus that they could have used in the
lipid nanoparticle. I mean they could
have injected something else that wasn't
quite so toxic.
>> Yeah. And actually uh a paper in cell
July of 2021 it's called broad and
durable immunity from uh from basically
COVID. And what they found was the
nucleoprotein was actually the thing
that supplied broad and durable immunity
for actually prevention of infection.
Unfortunately, the spike protein did not
elicit that response. And as much as we
love this mRNA, you know, technology, it
seems like they sold it as something
that we could change on the dime as
information actually came to light. And
by July 2021, we knew the wrong pathogen
had the wrong protein had been picked.
Why didn't they change it?
>> That's a good question, Senator
Blumenthal.
>> Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Vaughn,
uh, I noticed that you were careful when
you said that children didn't die of
COVID to say statistically.
>> Yeah.
>> Uh, which I appreciate, uh, 1.2 million
Americans died of COVID 19. Uh,
tragically, more than a thousand of
those deaths were children.
In fact, 700 were four years old or
younger.
And
I'm sure you will agree that those
deaths were
tragic and most especially for the
families who will never be the same. Um,
children were affected by CO.
There's no question that children
died. But equally important, the trauma
of CO affected
children, the fear and anxiety that
spread throughout their families.
You don't have to be a doctor. Yeah.
>> To understand that point. Or a parent.
>> Yeah. I have a seven and nineyear-old
and it was a very interesting time. Uh
but in many ways
>> well interesting is a somewhat
euphemistic way of putting it. I'm sure
you'll agree but let let me just
>> uh point out that our entire society was
traumatized by co people were out of
school. We can argue about the merits of
whether they should have been, but it
has affected our entire society. And
>> just so we're all on the same page here,
I'm in strong agreement that schools are
good. Kids should be in school. Um, let
me point out though because we want to
learn from history here.
That when there are side effects, when
there are threats to public health,
there should be warnings. The public
should know. So should doctors and
researchers
and right now uh I'm looking at a report
from NPR. dated May 21 of this year,
which describes the effects of cutting
back on the CDC's
capacity to warn
and says that many of the platforms,
quote, "Many of the platforms the CDC
used to communicate with the public have
gone silent." End quote. It says, quote,
"Many of the CDC's newsletters have
stopped being distributed. Workers at
the CDC say health alerts about disease
outbreaks previously sent to health
professionals subscribed to the CDC's
health alert network.
Han
haven't been dispatched since March.
I I understand the concerns that have
been expressed here
and let's learn from
scientific practice and
uh make sure that the Department of
Health and Human Services provides the
resources that are necessary to warn the
public. Um I want to ask um
Dr. Brown uh because you've talked about
both your experience in Samoa
in 2019
with a measles outbreak there which
eventually killed 83 people as I
understand it. Again, measles was
thought to be eliminated in the world.
Uh that outbreak was fueled by
misinformation about the measel science
spread by
a number of vaccine
doubters or skeptics including the now
secretary of health and human services
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That campaign
caused the vaccination rate against
measles in Somota drop from over 74% to
just 34% between 2017 and 2018.
Uh, do you see parallels between the
measles outbreak you helped to address
in Samoa and the one that we're now
seeing in Texas
that has reached 31 states in including
Hawaii and the
COVID 19 situation.
>> Thank Thank you, Senator. There are more
than parallels. It's it's just
terrifyingly similar.
So what happened uh I'll give you the
brief version uh in Samoa was uh prior
to the outbreak prior to the outbreak uh
two children had been uh given
vaccinations and tragically uh there was
human error and two nurses who were
later prosecuted u made a mistake a
tragic mistake and they used the wrong
reagent uh the fluid with the vaccine
and they vaccinated uh incorrectly these
two children and the two children
perished which is of course tragic in
every way and we always have to help
hold all healthcare people to account.
Now after that there was panic and what
happened uh in the months and years
thereafter was that human error was not
a vaccine flaw it was a human error and
that information was then spread
incorrectly by um then Mr. Kennedy
before being Secretary Kennedy and the
Children's Health Defense and that
country and and their their leadership
told me this directly. They received
letters. There were stories all across
Samoa that uh this group of people came
and convinced them not to vaccinate. And
they uh had a lot of challenges with
health literacy and they stopped
vaccinating. And then when you get
vaccination rates that are that low, and
mind you, we have this challenge because
we have 14 states, my state is among
them, where the kindergarters in our
states, uh, age five, sometimes age six
are at dangerously low vaccination rates
for measles. When it gets that low,
you're going to see outbreaks. Unlucky.
The the cases could come from anywhere.
They come from overseas. They could come
from within our own country. But if you
get below 95% and certainly below 90%
you see these outbreaks and then you
have you know one in five people end up
in the hospital you have one in 20 with
pneumonas you have encphylopathies you
have all sorts of damage so that's what
happened in Samoa and and and to be very
direct and actually I want to be
generous here there are many things that
um Secretary Kennedy is doing that I
support I support his work on um some of
the questions about processed foods and
dyes and uh and environmental toxins
things that I have believed for decades
and fought for as have many of you
probably. However, however, this is so
central to the public health of our
country that because we have vaccine
hesitancy and because when you fall
below 95% and particularly below 90% you
will see these outbreaks. So we can
anticipate that we're going to have a
lot of outbreaks first of measles and
there's going to be fatalities and lots
of consequences. We're going to see
ptasus. God help us all if we start
seeing menitis or polio break out. These
are diseases that have been eradicated.
And so what I would say is I really
appreciate the chairman's focus on truth
and making sure there's transparency and
going through the record. I appreciate
that. I appreciate individuals who I
disagree with fighting for their voices.
But what I don't appreciate is when
there are individuals with no public
health training, whether it's a senator
or someone it's one of our colleagues,
and they make a assertion to move away
from science and away from prevention
that has been proven that I take
have deep concerns about. And that's
what happened in Samoa, killing 83
people. we had to jump in and then that
is what is happening in Texas and a
bunch of other states and I don't think
there it would be very interesting to
ask all the senators privately and
congress people and all of us if any of
us could accept that kind of spread of
infectious disease amongst the people
that we love even if even if we don't
believe in vaccinations we certainly
don't believe in tragic outcomes things
that we can prevent and that's where I
think we should go as a country to heal
>> okay
>> I'm going to interrupt
just to say um I apologize. I am the
ranking member on the Veterans Affairs
Committee. There's a separate hearing
beginning right now. I'm going to I have
more questions. I'm going to try to come
back, Mr. Chairman. Um and uh I
apologize. I'm going to have to leave.
Thank you.
>> Appreciate you coming. This is the part
I was actually looking forward to. Um
unplugged.
So, Governor,
I'm just going to be honest with what
gets under my skin is how many times
those of us who've had a different
narrative on this or not a narrative,
but just a different viewpoint on this.
We are always accused of ignoring
science.
I I think I've been trying to follow it
quite closely. So again, I I will ask
you and we can go through your
testimony. Every time you've cited
something, we we will ask you to cite
the study that proves what you're
saying. Okay? So again, not really a
challenge, it's a request. I mean, I I
would ask that of all of you. Any of you
who have cited some study or some
opinion, back it up and we'll we'll
include in the hearing record. We'll
have this hearing record will stay open
for 15 days. So, I'm really encouraging
people, send me that science. Again, I I
I entered a piece from Raphael Lataster
that pretty well pretty well debunks the
the Watson I think it's Watson at all.
The claims it's the the CO injection
save millions. This is based on
mathematical models. It really wasn't
scientific studies. So, again, throw it
all in the hopper and and let the public
decide. But I do have some some
questions that Dr. Thorp. Speaking of
corrupted studies, uh you mentioned in
your uh opening statement the Shimmer
Bakura study, which by the way, Tom Shim
Bakura, uh we have sent something like
70 oversight letters, more than that. In
many of them, we've told the CDC, FDA,
NIH, we demanded they preserve their
records
and that should have been widely
distributed through the healthy
agencies. You know, we in our subpoena
specifically asked for the
communications of Tom Shimmer Bakura.
They couldn't find any.
I know I know the current HHS is
investigating that individual. We've
sent a I would call it a referral to the
FBI uh and to attorney general to
determine this. Um but again, what
happened there? Okay. again when people
are supposed to maintain records and
they don't
I get suspicious but again going to Dr.
Thor. Um,
and I'm going to probably interrupt you
because I want everybody to understand
what you're talking about in this study
because it takes we're talking about
numbers here, but describe that study on
would you call it fetal demise,
miscarriage, uh, and how it was
originally presented as evidence to push
this on the most vulnerable, as you're
saying, pregnant women and the unborn.
And how did they distort that study to
make that point? Go ahead.
>> Thank you, Senator Johnson. So, the
study in question is in New England
Journal of Medicine on April 21st, 2021.
And in that same day, the digital
edition, there were two publications
that were extraordinarily concerning.
Both of them interestingly coming at a
time when vaccine hesitancy was being
was increasing.
So the Shimab Bakuro study was a
separate study in addition to an op ed.
The oped was by the New England Journal
of Medicine
uh editor and chief uh who who was Eric
Rubin and the managing editor who was
Stephen Morrisy and then director of the
CDC Relle Winski.
And they made statements that were
false. They made statements that uh was
fear-mongering.
Um insinuating that pregnant women, if
they didn't take the vaccine, would put
their lives in harm, their pre-born
lives in harm, and their newborn lives
in harm when they knew absolutely the
opposite was true. How
>> how do they know that? Well, they know
that for several reasons, Senator. Uh,
number one, the study by Panel's and
colleagues, who is a maternal fetal
medicine specialist from University of
Texas Houston, published a very large
study documenting that pregnancy in of
itself reduced the maternal mortality by
as much as 75%
during pregnancy compared to nonpregant
women. that study was available. Um also
Dr. Dr. um Shima Bakuro, Tom Shima
Bakuro and then director of the CDC.
This was seven weeks after
the Fiser 5.3.6
six post marketing data in 10 weeks that
showed the COVID 19 vaccine was the
deadliest and most injurious vaccine
ever released with 42,086
injuries including 1,223
dead. They had that information. They
still pushed it on pregnant women. So,
so, so let's get to the the number where
there's 700 individuals included in the
statistic that shouldn't have been
included. So, describe that. I mean,
talk about this study,
>> right? Well, well, there's bias. There's
bias in the title. Okay, just look at
the title. There's bias in the 21
authors, all of whom were federal
federal employees and Tom Shimaburo, a
safety officer in the FDA itself. Then
you go to the numbers. We we look at
four we're looking at about numbers of
of over 4,000 in a 10w week period and
then all of a sudden it's just how do we
arbitrarily go to 10 weeks in this vsafe
smartphone collection system and then
what happened to all the other patients?
We go down to 827 patients. uh what
happened?
>> So you got so you got 827 patients that
were that became pregnant or were
pregnant in this in terms of again it's
not really study but I mean they're just
analyzing data. So you got 827 right?
>> Okay. So the these were women who were
pregnant
>> right 827 that completed the pregnancy
completed a pregnancy in 10 weeks.
>> This is not necessarily a born child but
the pregnancy
>> or a miscarriage. Right now they claimed
a 12.6% 6% miscarriage rate,
>> which is pretty kind of a normal
miscarriage.
>> No, it's not.
>> What's a normal miscarriage rate?
>> 3% when you have a normal booking visit.
>> So, so, so there are it's already an
abnormal miscarriage rate in that 827.
>> That's correct.
>> Okay. And
>> so, now describe exactly how they
>> Okay. So, we have 827 patients, right?
And they talk about a 12.6% miscarriage.
But a miscarriage of those 827,
700 of those mothers had their vaccine
in the third trimester. That's way
beyond the window when a woman has a
miscarriage. So they artificially
uh took those 700 patients and put them
in the first trimester. No. The 104
patients that had the miscarriage,
that goes to the 127. 104 over 127,
you're looking at an uh, you know, 82%
miscarriage. So, the key is the
percentage of women that got the vaccine
in the first trimester had an 82%
miscarriage. And by the way, that's the
exact same miscarriage rate that was
seen in the Fiser 5.3.6 postmortem. So I
would I I would argue that proves both
points in the title of this hearing. The
corruption of science, the corruption of
federal health agencies.
Governor, listen, I I I I'm cognizant of
the fact that you're kind of outnumbered
here. So I'm I want to give you an
opportunity to respond to that if you
want to. You don't have to.
>> Sure. No, I'm happy to. Look, the um
appreciate the information. The uh the
tragedy of a miscarriage is always
there. It's not 3%. Um my
>> what what is it? What do you think it
is?
>> Well, in my training as a family
physician, the miscarriage rate for
women is often in the 20s or 30
percentile for for women across their
pregnancies. You know, there are just a
lot of miscarriages that occur amongst
um women. So, those are all tragic and
and I would obviously defer to ACOG, the
American I'm sorry, the uh the American
uh College of OBGYNS who who did and and
they should come and testify too who did
strongly recommend the vaccine. I mean,
I'm not going to speak as a as an OBGYn.
and I'm speaking as an ER physician and
as a governor but um I'm sure that that
would be a vibrant discussion and again
it's a very good point
>> that we have transparency in studies.
>> So let me move on to my next point. In
one of our events some of you were
there's
Dr. Moon opened up the insert
for the co injection big piece of paper
you know fold up and
and it's other than it says
intentionally laid blank intentionally
left blank was blank now this was quite
a few years I think this was probably a
couple years into
the co injection distribution of it and
all these studies all everything on
veyes
Um I would think somewhere, you know,
when you take a look at the the actual
studies and the adverse events that were
documented within those studies, it's
been now been released through the Fiser
papers and and other means, you think
somewhere they ought to put some
information in there. So the point I
want to make is I I think an awful lot
of folks are are saying that there was
not informed consent.
I would argue they violated the
invaluable
principle of informed consent with this
co injection. I I just think that's
indisputable. I'll start with you, Dr.
McCullik. Do you want to weigh in on
that?
>> I've presented at the FDA advisory
meetings. I've advised companies for
decades on this, so I know the
regulatory science very well. When a
product definitely results in death,
and there are thousands of peer-reviewed
papers on this, Governor, the COVID
vaccines in some people sadly result in
death. Some on the very first day they
take the shot. That must be a blackbox
warning on the product immediately. I
just checked the package inserts for the
currently available products, the ones
that uh Senator Blumenthal wants to
pursue. Sounds like governor wants to
still pursue these. Our FDA still wants
them to be administered. They still
don't have the word death in the package
insert. As of today, they don't. And so
Americans are not fairly informed.
>> Do you have any doubt in your mind that
the CO injection caused some deaths? I
mean, do do you what what do you think
of the what is it 37 38,607
right now listed on Vyers? What do you
think the real number is? And do you
have any science to back up your your
opinion?
>> The best data are autopsies. So, in the
largest autopsy series published to
date, I know because I'm the senior
author
of all the death we deaths we examined
and we we re-reviewed them. We had an
adjudication committee. We had ways of
arbitration deciding on did the vaccine
cause death. The answer is of these
cases that came in for autopsy after
who has perished as a result of CO 19.
But when the vaccines became widely
available in 2021, deaths sharply
declined and many lives have been saved
in the years since. Many in this room,
speaking for myself as well as others,
probably have been saved from this
disease because of those vaccines. One
study found that 3 million American
deaths were averted, 18 million
hospitalizations
were avoided and 1 trillion dollar in
healthc care costs were saved in the
United States in just the first two
years after co vaccines were
distributed. I'd like this study entered
into the record, Mr. Chairman, if
there's no objection.
>> Without objection.
Now, vaccines not only saved American
lives, they enabled us to get back on
our feet economically. They enabled the
American economy to recover.
Let's try to think of where we were 5
years ago with a deadly unknown virus
spreading through America and through
the world. We were only able to come so
far because of the vaccines and the
researchers who developed them and the
public health officials who distribute
them. And now those individuals are
again under attack. Our public health
officials.
I've looked at
those documents, maybe not all of them,
that the majority alleges show that the
Biden administration or those public
health officials suppressed evidence of
side effects. Let's be clear, the
allegation is that they purposefully
concealed
evidence.
I am unable to support that conclusion
with this evidence. In fact, the primary
piece of evidence for this claim is that
the CDC did not issue a notice on its
health alert network con
while it was still analyzing the
evidence about myocarditis.
We're talking about myocarditis. The
chairman has referenced other side
effects. I'm not sure what he means, but
what I see as I look at that evidence is
public health officials
wrestling
with what to do and what kind of warning
to issue. And again, side effects must
be studied and communicated. And that's
what I see happening in these documents
that the majority has released.
So we have to distinguish, I think,
between differences of opinion under the
pressure of a pandemic
and
separate
the opinions of scientists who are
working for the greater good and frankly
others who may simply be seeking to sow
distrust
while they profit off misinformation and
fear. And I'm frankly deeply concerned
about some of today's witnesses
because they have a financial interest
in fermenting
distrust about CO 19 vaccines and
pushing untested alternative remedies
over proven treatments. In fact, two of
today's witnesses are executives at
something called the Wellness Company,
which sells the disproven treatment,
Ivormectin,
and a host of untested supplements,
which includes something called quote
unquote ultimate spike detox
costs $18
$89.99 a bottle. Another makes money
from suing vaccine companies and still
others are pushing unsupported research
while rejecting the proven scientists on
CO and other vaccines.
Let's be very clear that fear-mongering
and rushing to conclusions without
examining the evidence can lead to
tremendous harm. And this risk is not
just hypothetical
or rhetorical.
Misinformation about the safety of
vaccines has led to a deadly outbreak of
a preventable
disease.
We all know it. Measles.
Just 25 years ago, measles was declared
eliminated in the United States.
Since then,
conspiracy theories, some financially
motivated, have caused vaccination rates
to plummet.
Last September, the CDC warned that
declining childhood vaccination could
lead to a resurgence of a preventable
disease like measles and roto virus.
Exactly what is happening today. As of
today, more than a thousand Americans
have been diagnosed with measles this
year. In 31 states, many of them
children. So far, three have died. These
deaths were preventable.
They could have been avoided.
but for the efforts of misinformation
proponents that have spread lies and
created fears. There has been so much
misinformation and fear since co 19
emerged that during the height of the
pandemic health care workers and public
health officials were often harassed and
threatened. Some of them continue to
fear for their lives.
During the first frightening year of the
pandemic, the Trump administration
withheld critical information from the
public, made baseless promises that the
virus would magically disappear. I think
I'm almost quoting
the president. Magically disappear,
engaged in unfounded conspiracy theories
and sham science about CO 19 treatments
and sewed the seeds of distrust in
public health institutions.
And then to the tremendous credit of
President Trump, he fasttracked the
vaccine. Let me repeat, to the credit of
the Trump administration, the president
of the United States fasttracked the
vaccine and saved lives.
We need to learn from history.
We're seeing the same pattern now.
Those same seeds of doubt
and distrust
have been nurtured by the president's
choices for key positions in this
administration,
including the decision to install a
well-known vaccine skeptic as the head
of HHS and to fill our public health
agencies with conspiracies.
And let's bring it right to the present
day. Just yesterday,
it was announced that the FDA may start
restricting access to new COVID boosters
to those over 65 or with a narrow set of
pre-existing conditions. Now, we ought
to be very frank here.
Discerning what exactly this new
guidance may be at the moment is
confusing
and the troubling news leaves many
questions unanswered about whether and
how people can actually access vaccines
if they want to do so. Will Americans
who
live with elderly or immunompromised
relatives for example have access to
these vaccines? We don't know
and so far those questions are
unanswered.
The manner and timing of this decision
frankly weak of politics
not science and again science ought to
be the loar.
So
I think we need to be looking at the
present. We need to be looking forward.
In the first four months since the
president took office, he and his health
secretary have fired at least 10,000
employees from public health agencies
and cut more than $2.7 billion in
funding for research, including $4.2
million for vaccine clinical trials. Let
me repeat. Clinical trials, money cut to
do them. How does that make us safer?
More than $3.8 million for safety
monitoring and more than $2 billion for
state immunization programs. A drastic
cut that is already hampering our
measles response.
These reckless cuts are undermining our
ability to respond not just to measles,
but to what may come next.
And we all know
something will come next.
That's the history. We need to learn
from history and science.
Let me just finish by saying the
capacity of our agencies to warn
is compromised by these cuts. The
capacity of our agencies to do science
and rely on science is compromised when
we cut 10,000
people from the ranks of the agencies
responsible for safety.
And so I welcome the interest in this
topic. I'm honored that the governor of
Hawaii, Dr. Josh Green has joined us
today to share his experiences
addressing both measles and CO 19. He's
not only a dedicated public service, but
he's also a physician who led his
experience his state Hawaii during the
pandemic. And I'm thankful to him for
being here today and uh I look forward
to the testimony. Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
>> Thank you, Senator Blumenthal. I think
people understand why he didn't join me
in my oversight request. The the over 70
letters that were not responded to.
Again, I haven't uncovered yet what they
were trying to hide, but our intention
is to do so. Uh you did mention the what
irrefutable fact that these vac these
injections save lives. I I would enter
in the record a recent study by Rafael
Lataster uh who does a pretty effective
job of rebuting one of those studies
from Watson at at all. But we put in the
record and again we'll allow the public
the American people who are watching
this hearing decide uh based on what
testimony is based on what's been
entered in the record based on our
report. Uh it is the custom of this the
full committee and the subcommittee to
swear in witnesses. So, if you all rise
and raise your right hand,
do you swear the testimony you are about
to give before this subcommittee is the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth. So, help God.
Please be seated.
Our first witness is Dr. Peter McCullik.
Dr. McCullik is an internist,
cardiologist, and epidemiologist from
Dallas, Texas. He has broadly published
with over 700 citations in the National
Library of Medicine. He has testified
multiple times in the US Senate, US
House of Representatives, European
Parliament, and many state capitals
concerning public health policy. Dr.
McCullik,
>> Chairman Johnson, ranking member
Blumenthal, subcommittee members, it's
an honor to present my insights, my
analysis, my clinical experience on the
this very important topic. The first
time I testified at Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs, before a word
came out of my mouth,
Minority Senator, Senator Gary Peters
said, "What America was about to hear
was misinformation."
I didn't even know what he was talking
about. I had never heard that term
before in academic medicine or in uh
important deliberations. That's November
19th, 2020.
What was he doing? He was using an old
communist propaganda technique.
He was attempting to gain leverage over
me before a word ever came out of my
mouth. We should never have our public
servants ever try to gain leverage over
anyone who is coming to Washington to
help the nation on an important issue.
As introduced, I'm an internist. I'm a
cardiologist. I believe I'm the most
published individual who's ever
testified on matters regarding CO 19
in any of these hearings.
I've seen and examined more patients.
I've examined more data. And I'm one of
the most published people on the topic
in the world. And as a cardiologist, I
can tell you my role in this was to
fight disease, preserve life, and above
all, do no harm. Do no harm.
Now, the topic today is myocarditis or
heart damage from the CO 19 vaccines.
I'm a cardiologist. I know the topic
well. I've examined thousands of
patients with this problem. Thousands.
Before the pandemic, I had two patients
ever with this problem. There's 1,65
papers in the peer-reviewed literature
on COVID vaccine myocarditis.
So, let me summarize them for you. The
first one that came on my radar screen
that was alarming came from Washington
University in St. Louis, August 18th of
2021. The first author is Verma and
colleagues, New England Journal of
Medicine.
42-y old man comes into Washington
University Hospital with vaccine
myocarditis. The infection is ruled out.
It's the vaccine. He's in the hospital.
This is one of our best hospitals in the
United States. He dies 3 days after
taking Madna. They can't save him in the
hospital.
>> Say Dr. Macau, move the microphone just
a little bit away from you.
>> Then one was reported from Korea by Choy
and colleagues.
This is now a younger man just a few
days after Fizer. He comes in the
hospital, he dies within eight hours of
being in the hospital. I can tell you
I'm a cardiologist. That doesn't even
happen with heart attacks. He dies
within eight hours. I examined all of
the slides and the the images that the
Koreans had showed us. It looked like
somebody took a blowtorrch to that
heart. It was so completely fried with
inflammation. His heart was destroyed.
These cases
which were widely known at the time
should have gotten everyone's attention.
Everyone should have been laser focused
on this. We should never have someone
die
after taking a vaccine. That's directly
caused to the vaccine. Then Gil and
colleagues Connecticut
published an archives of pathology. two
boys aged 16 and 17 who die a few days
after taking Fizer. These are teenagers.
They're found dead at home
by their parents. They're absolutely
horrified.
They request an autopsy. They call in
University of Michigan and University of
Minnesota to look over what are they
finding at autopsy. Conclusion, it's
Fizer COVID 19 vaccine myocarditis.
Unequivocal. These are autopsy confirmed
cases. So for all the mothers in the
room, how would they feel if they found
their children dead after taking a CO 19
vaccine? This is in the peer-reviewed
literature. This is not misinformation.
Everyone should be paying attention to
this. This is not conjecture. This is in
the peer-reviewed literature. So we
started to ask ourselves, what is going
on?
Turns out that fizer and madna in Jansen
are the genetic code for the spike
protein. The spike protein is the
damaging part of the virus. The spike
protein is loaded into the body and it
causes tremendous damage. Tremendous
damage in some acute myocarditis appears
to have some genetic predilction and all
of the vials of the vaccine are not the
same. But I can tell you I'm concerned
that until the vaccines are stopped
there will be cases of acute
myocarditis. And to finish we've had 216
vaccine deaths this year alone. So if
the vaccine campaign continues we have
to look at what are we getting out of it
now four and a half years of the
campaign and how many more people will
die. I'm Dr. Peter McCulla. Thank you
for listening.
>> Thank you Dr. McCulla. Our next witness
is Dr. Jordan Vaughn. Dr. Vaughn is a
physician and clinical researcher in
Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama. As owner
and CEO of Medel Clinics, Dr. Vaughn has
directed his organization to the leading
edge of early outpatient treatment of CO
19 for his patients and greater
Birmingham community. Dr. Vaughn has
treated over 4,000 longcoid and COVID
vaccine injured patients. Dr. Vaughn,
thank you. Uh, Chairman Johnson and uh,
uh, Ranking Member Blumenthal, thank you
for having me. Um, I'm going to dovetail
a little bit off what uh, Dr. Mcola said
and one of the things that uh, as a
clinician who also had about 200 people
working for him and actually seeing
about 170,000 patients a year. When
COVID came along, I had to really figure
out how to not only help my staff and
make sure they're safe, but also help
the patients that uh, my organization
was responsible for. And that really
made me dive into understanding the
pathology. And what I came away with was
understanding that the spike protein,
the S1 subunit specifically, is not a
benign protein. It triggers
inflammation. It disrupts endthelial
barriers. It induces fibbron resistant
to breakdown and it promotes a lot of
amalloid aggregates, which is what I
research. These effects impair oxygen
delivery, damage blood vessels,
contribute to clotting pathologies that
manifest with a lot of the symptoms that
we're seeing in the long COVID and
vaccine injured, which to this day is a
huge amount of people. We're talking
upwards of 10 to 15 million people in
America that are being affected by the
consequences of COVID in the long form
or vaccine injury. And the typical
symptoms are things like heart racing,
brain fog, shortness of breath, and
post-exertional malaise. In my clinic, I
actually use immunofllororescent
microscopy to be able to actually see
what's going on in the blood and look
for these amaloid aggregates. Some as
young as teenagers that are unable to
stand. Others are previously active
adults suffering small strokes without
typical identifiable causes. These are
not abstract theories. They are the
lived realities of my patients in
Alabama and beyond. The mRNA injection
heralded as a solution introduced a
novel mechanism lipid nanoparticles
delivering modified mRNA that instructs
the cells to produce a stabilized spike
protein. Unlike traditional vaccines,
this approach resulted in uncontrolled
production of the spike protein for an
unknown duration and distributes it
widely across organs including the
heart, brain and vascule and ovaries and
testes. The actual EMA their assessment
of kinarity which is Fiser's vaccine
noted biodistribution beyond the
injection site contradicting claims that
the vaccine stays in the arm and a
recent groundbreaking study using single
cell precision nanoarrier identification
revealed L&P accumulation in the heart
tissue of mice with adverse proteomic
changes in immune and vascular proteins
raising concerns about the uh cardiac
complications that dovetail with what we
were seeing when we were looking at card
uh the uh co 19 vaccine myocarditis. I
will tell my first encounter with the
vaccine injury came in winter of 2021.
69year-old man from Alabama presumed
presented with unexplained shortness of
breath. He was a patient of mine. I
really had no other reason that he had
this shortness of breath and after the
second fizer dose he actually uh had
significant shortness of breath. I
couldn't figure it out in a sense
because it would typically be that he
had a pulmonary imism but empirical
anticoagulation and antiplatlet therapy
brought rapid improvement. This case
prompted deeper investigation that the
spike protein's ability to induce fibrin
that's resistant to breakdown, activate
platelets irreversibly, and damage the
inside of our vessels, vessels that run
to every part of our body and every
organ, explained his symptoms, and those
of thousands more. Uh, since I have
treated approximately 4,000 patients
suffering from long co and vaccine
injury, or both, many were young and
previously healthy. For those with
vaccine injury, trust in public
institutions has been shattered. Many
were coerced under the August 2021
federal mandates. Despite legitimate
hesitations due to prior infection or
personal health risk, they knew their
body better than the agencies. Now
disabled, they are dismissed or ignored
by the systems that mandated their
compliance. The myocarditis signal was
also a big thing. This spring of 2021, a
clear safety signal emerged. myocarditis
in young males linked to mRNA vaccines.
The Department of Defense confirmed
cases of rare heart inflammation and
peer-reviewed studies later detected
circulating spike protein and
postvaccine myocarditis cases. Autopsy
findings have confirmed fatal vaccine
induced myocarditis. Yet, federal
authorities accelerated licensing and
mandates sidelining concerns. The CDC's
hesitation to issue a health alert on
myocarditis and the c the FDA's former
SEABR director promoting vaccines on
social media crossed a line from
oversight to advocacy. This was not
regulation. It was endorsement. Informed
consent is the foundation of a patient
physician relationship. Absent the
regulators providing that information,
that relationship is irrepably harmed
and the practice of medicine will
continue to suffer. In closing, I urge
you to stop blindly following the
science. Science does not lead anywhere.
It is an observer, measurer, and
descriptor. It must inform leadership,
not replace it. When leaders hide behind
the science to justify policy, they
abdicate responsibility. We need
leadership that humbly engages with
data, listens to patience, and actually
acts with courage. Thank you. I welcome
your questions.
>> Thank you, Dr. Vaughn. Next witness is
Dr. James Thorp. Dr. Thorp is a B board
certified obstitrician gynecologist and
maternal fetal medicine specialist with
over 44 years of clinical experience as
US veteran and widely published
physician. He has testified
internationally served as a peer a
journal peer reviewer board member of
the society for maternal field medicine
and examiner for the American board of
optrististics and gynecology. Dr. Thorp.
>> Thank you Mr. chairman and members of
the committee.
My patients I focus on the most
vulnerable patients, pregnant women and
pre-born. It is difficult to conceive of
a more egregious breach of medical
ethics by the governmentont controlled
medical industrial complex than the
promotion of CO 19 vaccines to pregnant
women thereby through transplental
transfer effectively vaccinating their
unborn and newborn children. This
campaign was not accidental.
It was calculated. Pregnant women are
were targeted deliberately for two
reasons. First, women are the primary
decision makers of health care across
the human lifespan, a known marketing
principle. Number two, pregnant women
are the most vulnerable patients. If
they could be convinced that the vaccine
was safe and effective, it would imply
that it was safe and effective for
everyone. From the outset of the
pandemic, this vaccine campaign was
never grounded in biological science,
but rather in behavioral science,
specifically the manipulation of public
perception through influence, fear, and
persuasion.
The federal government outsourced much
of this psychological operations to
NOS's which disseminated emotionally
charged and misleading messaging. These
entities falsely assured pregnant women
that the vaccines were proven safe and
essential for maternal and fetal newborn
health despite the fact that early
evidence indicated quite the opposite.
Pregnancy itself was protective against
CO 19 maternal mortality. Dr. Jay
Winston, an initiative director at
Harvard School of Public Health,
described the government's vaccine
marketing approach in a 2020 CBS News
interview. He explained that the
strategy was to quote go for the
lowhanging fruit. Those easiest to pick
and harvest, end quote, and the fruit in
quotes, tragically were pregnant women.
Only
this deception was institutionalized in
the now infamous Shima Bakuro study
published on April 21st, 2021 in the
digital version of the New England
Journal of Medicine. 21 authors claimed
the miscarriage rate was 12.6% but the
raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage
rate in women vaccinated during the
first trimester. This figure mirrors the
effects of chemical abortion drugs such
as RU486.
Also in the same journal edition on the
same day, an op-ed appeared by CDC
director Rashelle Winsky and journal
editor and chief Eric Rubin. These
publications were riddled with conflicts
of interest and deliberate
misrepresentations
intended to coers pregnant women into
taking vaccines. Subsequent studies have
also claimed that CO 19 vaccines are
safe and effective during pregnancy and
have been rebuked by respected
researchers. These publications are
fundamentally compromised by serious
conflicts of interest ranging from
biased funding sources and institutional
mandates and even threats to their
medical licenses and board
certifications. Between 2020 and 2022,
pharmaceutical companies paid 1.06 06
billion dollar to reviewers at leading
medical journals, the New England
Journal of Medicine, JAMAMA, Lancet, and
BMJ, thus corrupting the peerreview
process. At least six existing studies,
three from CDC, FDA, and two from Fizer
revealed major breaches in safety
signals for CO 19 vaccines in pregnancy.
These findings were ignored. Conversely,
countless independent researchers with
no conflicts of interest published
findings that contradicted the false
narratives and the pharmaceutical
industry narratives only to be rewarded
by persecution, censorship, and threats
to their medical licenses and board
certifications.
This is not hypothetical. It happened to
me. On February 8th, 2025, our team of
researchers published a peer-reviewed
study in science, public health policy,
and the law. We identified 37 adverse
pregnancy outcomes significantly
associated with CO 19 vaccine, including
miscarriage, still birth, birth defects,
cervical insufficiency, premature
rupture membranes, preterm birth, and
death of the newborn. Lynn and
colleagues in a major journal
publication documented that the CO 19
vaccine traverses the placenta, enters
the fetal blood, and bioactively
produces spike protein in the placenta
and the lining of the uterus. Recently,
animal studies revealed the mRNA COVID
vaccine causes the destruction of 60%
of the ovarian reserve in pre in rats.
This catastrophic public health failure
was financed with taxpayer dollars and
channeled through federal agencies to
medical gatekeepers such as the American
College of Obstitricians and
Gynecologist, ACOG, the American Board
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ABOG, and
the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine,
SMFM.
These organizations have abandoned their
ethics and responsibilities to
physicians and patients and must be held
accountable. I urge the government to
immediately halt all funding to these
entities and to end every promotional
campaign that coerces or recommends
experimental mRNA therapies to pregnant
women. This must stop now. Thank you.
>> Thank you. Do Dr. Thorp. Our next uh
our next witness is Dr. Joel Walsskcog.
Dr. Walsskcog is an orthopedic surgeon
originally from Wisconsin. He
experienced an adverse event after his
madna co 19 injection that he received
on December 30th, 2020. He has
subsequently been diagnosed with
transverse myelitis and unspecified
autoimmune disorder and autonomic
dysfunction. He is medically retired. He
is now co-chairman of React 19. Dr.
Walskcog.
Thank you, Senator Johnson, Senator
Blumenthal, and the subcommittee for
inviting me to testify on the
development and safety of the CO 19
vaccines. I am Joel Walsskcog, a
board-certified orthopedic surgeon, now
medically disabled after one dose of the
Madna
CO 19 vaccine. Before the pandemic, I
enjoyed a successful practice in
Wisconsin, performing over 800 major
surgeries annually, trusting my health
authorities. My practice followed CDC CO
19 guidelines, delaying surgeries and
even temporarily closing. I proudly
elected to get vaccinated and within a
week I developed leg weakness, numbness,
substantial balance loss
leading to falls including one while
treating a patient. Diagnosed with
transverse myelitis, a spinal cord
lesion at T8 T9. I was stunned that my
providers dismissed any vaccine link
despite news of similar cases halting
the Astroenica trial in the UK. Four
years later, while I can walk, I have
been diagnosed with dysotenomia and an
undefined autoimmune disorder. Both
debilitating conditions affecting
multiple body systems. I remain
medically retired. The career I loved
and worked so hard for is now gone.
In 2021, federal health agencies assured
Americans that the CO9 vaccine trials
were rigorous and closely monitored with
rigorous postmarketing surveillance.
They also claimed a robust safety net
that would handle what they said were
rare and mostly mild injuries with
monitoring, followup, and financial aid.
After my own vaccine injury, I learned
the hard way that nothing could be
farther from the truth.
In my own battle to restore my health, I
could not find a single reliable source
of information from the CDC, from the
FDA, or the NIH. Further, answers did
not come from medical teams, the media,
or even medical journals. Rather, the
answers were being pieced together by
tens of thousands of vaccine injured
patients huddled together in social
mediabased support groups who are
constantly fighting for their right to
simply exist.
You will hear today a great deal about
myocarditis, maternal female maternal
fetal complications and blood clotting
disorders after the co 19 shots. I hope
to talk more about the neurological
adverse events to the co vaccines. These
are the most common adverse event to the
co shots. I am now co-chair of React 19
which is a national science-based
non-political
nonprofit that represents over 36,000
Americans seriously injured by the CO 19
shots. Our mission is to provide
financial, physical, and emotional
support. This gives me a unique
perspective to share the collective
experience of those who have been harmed
not just by the co 19 vaccines
themselves but by also by the US
government.
React 19 surveyed our 36,000 members
asking if the FDA takes vaccine injured
injury seriously. 100%
said false. Not even one person voted
favorably. The vaccine injured share a
uniform story.
We did our duty for our country became
injured, disabled or died. We further
reported to VERS and Vsafe repeatedly
contacted our elected elected officials
and applied to the countermeasures
injury compensation program or CICP
only to face silence from the VERS no
response from Vsafe ghosting by our own
representatives and a 98% rejection rate
from the CICP.
The many cries for help were ignored.
Some were studied at the NIH in a
program under Dr. Fouchy where they were
diagnosed with vaccine complications but
never disclosed to the public despite
promises that the NIH would do so.
Privately, the agents said the agencies
said neurological conditions needed
early recognition and treatment, while
publicly they remained silent and often
denying that they were even treating
vaccine injuries. Rather, they promoted
boosters and high safety claims while
the White House directed social media to
censor quote true stories of vaccine
injury end quote. relegating NIH
confirmed injuries into silence. That
silence by health authorities, elected
representatives, and even our White
House has resulted in in even more
severe health outcomes and worse for
many, death. The PREP Act shields drug
companies from injury liability and
strips Americans of their constitutional
right to due process and jury trial.
This liability shield places the
responsibility squarely on the US
government to address this crisis. Our
constitutional rights must be replaced
with effective safety monitoring and
compensation.
Today, these programs are dismal
failures. Congress must urgently reform
these failing systems or remove itself
as a middleman and repeal the PREP act.
An analysis of clinical trial data
showed that for every
shows that for every 800 people
vaccinated, one suffers a serious
adverse event. We are here today to end
the silence for the one in 800.
It is time to stop politicizing vaccine
injuries and start building
meaningful recognition,
research, competent care, and fair and
just compensation.
At React 19, we say we're we've had
negative reactions, but we're about
seeking positive actions. I will not
stop until these humanitarian goals are
met. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Drew Walsscock. Our next
witness is Dr. are Mr. Eron Siri. Miss
Siri is the managing partner of Siri and
Glimstad with over 85 professionals. He
has handled numerous high-profile cases
involving challenges to medical
mandates, restoring exemptions, uh
agency transparency, including forcing
FDA to release the CO 19 vaccine lensure
documents and deposing immunologists,
infectious disease doctors, and
vaccinologists. Mr. Siri,
>> good afternoon.
>> Good afternoon. Thank you. Um yeah, our
vaccine practice I believe which has
over 40 professionals I doesn't
represent pharmaceutical companies I
believe is the largest vaccine practice
in the world. When we litigate vaccine
cases we cannot rely on credentials or
fancy titles.
We have to prove our claims with high
impact data and sources. For example, I
saw a slide put up that showed 3 million
lives were saved from CO 19 vaccines.
The citation to it was to the
Commonwealth Fund. If you follow that,
that's not a peer-reviewed study. That's
a blog. It's a blog that used a
mathematical model to calculate that 3
million lives were saved. So, I agree
with uh uh the senator Blumenthal that
who said, you know, quote, claims
made, I think you meant vaccines, we
need to examine the evidence. And that's
an example of that. We need to look
carefully at the evidence we are relying
upon when we are making claims about
vaccines. I don't think that if I went
into court and I was relying on a blog
that used a mathematical model, I would
be laughed out of court if I was making
those claims about vaccines. But
unfortunately, when it comes to
promoting vaccines, well, that's what we
often see. The underlying data is not
typically really carefully evaluated.
Claims about what vaccines do when
they're positive because our health
agencies are responsible promoting them
easily made. Claims that vaccines cause
any harms or injuries often get ignored
no matter how good the underlying data.
I also heard that deaths sharply
declined
in 2021.
Well, when you look at all cause
mortality in the United States, deaths
in 2021 went up compared to 2020. And
presumably most of the most frail, the
weak among us died in 2020 from COVID.
We should have had a reduction in all
cause mortality in United States. We did
not. And those numbers are you can't
argue with. They're binary. You're
either dead or you're alive. You can
argue whether the vaccine killed you or
didn't kill you. Whether COVID killed
you or didn't kill you, but it's can't
argue with all cause mortality. And we
did not have a reduction in all cause
mortality in 2021. We had an increase.
And we really need to answer that
question. We have sent many letters to
our federal health officials trying to
get an answer to that. With that said,
not only do we need to carefully study
the data and science before we go and
litigate our vaccine cases because
again, I don't have a MD or a PhD or an
M. PH um we also need to understand the
economic and regulatory framework around
vaccines and co 19 vaccines did not just
fall into a vacuum they fell into a very
welldeveloped regulatory and economic
framework for vaccines that has
developed over the last 40 years for
every product on the market you can sue
the manufacturer for harm for design
defect claims meaning the claim that the
product could have made safer I mean
literally look around this room planes
cars pharmaceutical drugs everyone
there's only one product in America you
cannot sue the manufacturer for design
de claim to claim that it could have
been made safer and that are vaccines I
heard uh you know injections vaccines my
definition of vaccine is any product for
which the government needs to give it
immunity from harms to me that's what a
vaccine is cuz some in prevent infection
some don't that's what a vaccine is
meaning it can't survive without that
immunity apparently why did vaccines get
this immunity um which was provided in
1986 under the national childhood
vaccine injury act because leading up to
86 there only three routine childhood
vaccines MMR OPV and DTP and they were
causing so much harm and causing so much
liability that that uh all the
manufacturers were going out of business
to stop making them and Congress instead
of forcing those manufacturers to do
what every other product manufacturer
needs to do in that situation which is
what make a better safer product instead
said you know what we're just going to
give you immunity we're going to make it
so nobody can sue you for those harms
and you can keep selling your product to
the American public no matter how many
children, it kills or injures.
Um, and the the issue is that that
immunity was not just given for those
three products. It was given for any
childhood vaccine, routine childhood
vaccine that was developed thereafter.
Um, and and I I sell you this not to
take issue with childhood vaccines, but
to explain to you the regulatory
framework in which vaccines have
developed over the last 40 years. We
have now gone from three injections in
the first year of life under the CDC
schedule 86 to 29 injections including
in uterero. If a child follows a CDC
schedule today, every one of those
vaccines, save one, was developed by a
pharmaceutical company knowing they
would not be responsible for the
injuries that are caused by those
products. So when you have drug trials
where pharmaceutical companies they care
about losing money, they don't want to
lose money on their drugs. They often do
multi-year placebo control trials before
they get on the market because they
don't want to end upside down. They're
there to make money. But with vaccine
products because they don't have that
financial incentive, they have the
actually the disincentive. Almost every
childhood vaccine in this country is
licensed based on clinical trials with
often with no placebo control say for
COVID 19 vaccine. Often days or weeks up
to maybe six months of safety review
after injection and are often extremely
underpowered. Those trials could never
have really confirmed the safest
product. And my submission to this
committee laid out every single vaccine
and put them in detail. I I will um
since I'm running out of time, I'll just
wrap up by saying this. Um
um uh you might say, well, okay, the
pharmaceutical companies did that, but
why would why would the FDA allow it?
It's because unfortunately our federal
health authorities are hopelessly
conflicted. Congress gave them
conflicting structural duties. They're
responsible for promoting vaccines and
for defending them in the vaccine
compensation program. And you also asked
them to be responsible for safety. those
conflict. One has overtaken the other
and and and for the most part based on
our over 2004 requests to federal health
agencies over the years on behalf of our
client I can I could tell you our
federal health agencies act like
partners with pharma they don't they
they don't they're not only they
encourage their inroads they act
basically in the shoes of pharma because
when the immunity to liability was given
to the pharmaceutical companies Congress
recognized that apparently and
transferred all the safety functions to
HHS and the mandate for safer child
vaccines and by doing so it's made them
hopelessly conflicted. Um that was a
very very quick way to try and convey uh
the regulatory and economic framework
into which co 19 vaccines fell into um
and why you know from the pharmaceutical
and FDA's perspective the co 19 vaccine
clinical trials may have been robust and
they were compared to childhood vaccines
but compared to drugs or anybody that
actually wants to assess safety they
absolutely were not robust. They were
incredibly anemic. And as for postit
ensure regulators didn't do their jobs,
but really they acted like
pharmaceutical companies seeking to
cover up harms and avoid reputational
damage and financial liability. I hope
this hearing can help begin the process
of changing that. Thank you and I
apologize for going over on my time.
>> Y thank you Mr. Siri. Our final witness
is governor and doctor. I've always
found senators like to be called doctor
if they are one. So governor and Dr.
Josh Green. Governor Green is the ninth
governor of Hawaii. He earned his
degrees in biology and anthropology from
Swarm Swathmore College and an MD from
Penn State's College of Medicine. Dr.
Green served two terms in the Hawaii
House of Representatives, three terms in
the Hawaii State Senate, and a term as
Lieutenant Governor during which he was
the state's point person addressing the
COVID pandemic. Dr. Green was the
elected governor in December 2022.
Governor Green,
>> thank you, Chair Johnson. Uh, thank you
so much for welcoming me. Thank you, um,
Ranking Member Blumenthal. Thank you,
senators. Uh, first of all, I'm coming
to you as a physician.
When I speak as a doctor, I'm here to
say that vaccines save lives. Period. I
care about saving lives. You care about
saving lives. Everyone in this room, I
believe, cares about saving lives. But
I've seen firsthand children dying from
the spread of preventable diseases
because of vaccine skepticism,
because people lose faith. Uh I've seen
the lives of some children in one house
who are vaccinated live while children
in the house next door who have not been
vaccinated die. And we saw a lot of this
during co I want to tell you a little
bit about my co experience as the co
liaison in my state state of 1.4 million
people.
And let me uh preface this by saying we
worked very closely with President Trump
and his team and then subsequently as
Lieutenant Governor I was able to work
very closely with President Biden and
his team and I appreciate them both. I
appreciate that President Trump using
Operation Warp Speed got us a
vaccination in extraordinary time. We
were desperate as healthc care
providers. I worked as an emergency room
physician virtually every single weekend
for 20 plus years, including through the
whole pandemic. And this is what I saw.
I saw people dying of terrible disease
when they caught the Delta variant of
COVID especially. I saw people
recover
better when they had been vaccinated. In
Hawaii, we had the lowest mortality rate
in the country. We had the highest
vaccination rate in the country.
People have asked me in the course of
the prep for this uh hearing, well, is
Hawaii safer because it's a tropical
island state? No, actually, it's quite
the contrary. We had CO coming from east
in Asia where it originated and West
travelers from the mainland. But we put
together programs based on science. Day
by day, I counted case after case after
case because there was so much
uncertainty. And I was able to share in
our state where we had infectious
disease doctors, where we had extra need
for ventilators, where we had extra need
for vaccinations where the rates were
lower. And day by day, working with all
the healthcare providers in my state,
and listening to others, not mandating.
I'm not a mandate guy. That may come as
a surprise to some today. We were able
to make sure that we had a science-based
response. We put together a safe travels
program which tested anyone coming into
the islands so they wouldn't travel or
that they would isolate or quarantine if
they were positive so they wouldn't
spread the disease. And over time we had
the experience that no one else had. We
saw death rates constantly lower than
all the other states with the single
exception of Vermont on occasion.
I tell you this because we have to
follow science and I truly believe that
we can't politicize science or
vaccinations or any of these public
health matters and it's very important
going forward. This is where we should
unite with one another. We should heal
our country together in this space. Now,
another experience I had uh measles. I
was the doctor that was asked to go to
Samoa when they had their outbreak of
measles. Why did they have their
outbreak? Because they lost faith in the
vaccination program and it was tragic.
The Children's Health Defense went there
and they scared people. After tragedy,
admittedly, it should have never
happened. I had children die in my arms
who were not vaccinated but died of
measles. This beautiful boy was with me
and a pediatrician. Dr. Nadine Tansala
had a terrible case of the measles and
some of his relatives passed away from
the disease. But we went there and we
vaccinated 37,000 individuals in 48
hours and the measles just stopped. And
I say this because this is what we have
to look forward to in the future. If we
somehow fall into a place where we don't
believe in vaccinations any longer and
we shouldn't do it blindly. We should
study them. We should check for safety.
Absolutely. That is essential in
science.
But these vaccinations save lives. They
saved many lives during co in my state.
They saved over 10,000 lives. We
anticipated mass casualties which we
never saw because we fought this disease
uh with great intelligence and great
acumen.
I will tell you this there are lots of
things to share today. Protests
resonated through the co experience in
my state. People protested at my home
around my family. But the leader of the
protests ultimately after I was worried
that he would catch COVID did exactly
that. Ended up in grave grave peril. His
wife was in the intensive care unit. His
name was Wickoff. He later later
disavowed the protests against the
vaccinations after seeing individual
after individual after individual be
intubated and go into the ICU because he
experienced it. And that's what we as
physicians see too often once a tragedy
occurs. And my heart is with everyone
who had any kind of reaction to the
vaccines that we're talking about or
loses a loved one. Of course, we love
our our fellow mankind, but we cannot
turn away from science. So, these are
some of the things I wanted to share
with you today. Ultimately, we have to
decide whether we're going to be
committed to public health in our
country. And right now, we are in great
peril. It is absolutely my firm belief
that vaccines have saved millions of
lives over the last 50 years, 150
million by many people's accounts. It's
decreased infant mortality by 40%
globally. And we have to continue to
commit ourselves in this way. So I'm
concerned. I'm concerned that as we end
up in a politicized discussion that we
will move away from science. We will not
trust one another experts. We will not
trust one another and we will end up in
conflict. So what I would say is this.
Let's work together. Let's find a way to
actually find the common ground to
protect our children. Let's find a way
to make sure our public health system
remains intact, not taken apart by the
current approach where HHS is
jettisoning many of its people, many of
the billions of dollars, perhaps many of
the vaccinations. This is our
opportunity to come together. And I'm
sure we'll talk more about this as the
hearing goes on, but I'll say one last
time, vaccines save lives. I've given
vaccines. I've taken vaccines. I've
treated people that didn't get vaccines
and it's broken my heart when they've
passed away.
>> Thank you, Governor Green. Um, quick
comment.
I'm not aware anybody on my side of this
issue has politicized it. The accusation
is always that we are. We're not. Um,
you did state, by the way, 10,000 lives
saved in Hawaii. I would love to have
your citation on that. So, if you can
give us a study so we can put that in
the record. and any other citation give
us on the millions of lives saved by
vaccines as well. I mean I'd like again
I want to know the truth. Just real
quick I've got a couple other charts I
want to put up there. Uh this is a chart
a lot of people produced it.
>> Chairman if I could just interrupt for
10 seconds over here. Sure.
>> Uh is today's just a point of order. Are
we talking about vaccines or are we
talking about the COVID vaccine?
>> Well specifically we were talking about
the the hiding of the safety signal on
myocarditis.
>> So we're not talking about all vaccines.
>> We can talk about anything you want to.
Okay. I mean, again, it has obviously
opened up because we're also talking
about the corruption of science and I
think science has been corrupted. Uh, so
fair game. So again, I appreciate you
staying here and stick around and ask a
lot of questions. I think you'll learn
an awful lot. Put my time back on the
clock. No, I'll keep take whatever I
want. This is a chart. This is a chart
again. I I started I was looking at the
veyes. You know, I had been I had been
>> Mr. Chairman, that's not the way I ran
this sub. I had been well this is a
different different again I'll be very
generous okay um I was I was actually
instructed as a non-d doctor what the co
injections were encapsulated in lipid
nanop particle that was designed to
permeate difficult to permeate barriers
so they lied to us when they said they'd
stay in the arm they knew it wouldn't
they had a study uh the Japanese
regulators uncovered that when they did
do a biodistribution study in rats it
distributed all over the body. So that
was the first lie. Didn't really talk
about too much about the toxicity yet of
the of the lipid nanoparco, but it goes
all over the body. So I was I was aware
and again that this was not a standard
vaccine. This isn't a you know
attenuated or dead virus that the body
reacts to. This actually hijacks the
cell tells
has the cell produce the spike protein
which is toxic to the body which means
the body attacks it. Again, I'm a
layman, but it's pretty simple for me to
understand this. So, I was aware of this
like in October. So, I'm watching and so
I'm I'm publishing these charts and I'm
being censored. I see the next chart,
chart number two. This is the full
history of the number of deaths being
reported associated with the vaccine.
You got you got a couple hundred a year
until 2021 and yikes 21,725
deaths worldwide.
Why? And everybody's saying, "Oh, this
is safe and effective. You know, the the
the vaccine injured were being gaslit.
They weren't being treated. They're
still being gaslit there. There is no,
by the way, there is no compassion.
Governor, I could fill this room with
photos of people who are dead because of
the COVID injection. I could fill the
room and that is being deni that is
being denied. It is being denied and
these people haven't been able to get
help. I held an event in Milwaukee in
June 2019 and 2021 and all the vaccine
injured those women all they wanted was
to be seen and heard and believed and
they are not to this day. Okay. So
again, they're not the ones
politicizing. They just want to they
just want to be helped. They want
compassionate doctors to treat them to
recognize what caused their illness, not
gaslight them, not deny that it exists.
But anyway, so you take a look at this
chart and they're they're still denying
that this nothing to see here. This is
safe and this is effective. Okay, next
chart. This this is the current vey
chart. 38,67
deaths reported worldwide associated
with the COVID injection. And we know
veyers dramatically understates
what
by by a factor of 10 h 100red we know it
understates it 9,228 of those deaths
occurring and the day of vaccination the
one or two days okay I know theirs
doesn't prove causation but man that's a
correlation we should have been looking
at but they ignored and they censored um
but enough of that Dr. Dr. McCullik,
please I I in my layman's terms, I just
kind of laid out the the harmful
mechanisms of this injection. Can can
you and Dr. Vaughn because I think
you've both spoken to this. Again, in
layman's terms, talk about why this
caused so much harm in so many different
ways because of the biodistribution. Dr.
McCullik,
80% of Americans took a vaccine. 20%
didn't.
20% did not take a vaccine. The vaccine
was never safe enough for me to take.
Messenger RNA devised by Fiser Madna has
been chemically modified to be
unassailable to enzymes in the body to
be broken down. The messenger RNA is
found in the human heart of people who
die after the vaccine. It's found in the
brain. The spike protein is found
everywhere in the body.
Three studies now show the spike protein
is circulating in the blood for six to
nine months after people take the shot.
This part of the virus, the lethal part
of the virus in the vaccinated, it's
circulating in the blood and then they
take a booster, they get more
circulating in the blood. It is a killer
protein. It cannot be safe. It was not
safe by design.
Safety trumps efficacy. We cannot
tolerate false drug claims. And we saw a
poster behind Senator Blumenthal making
a false drug claim that vaccines saved
millions of lives, specifically the
COVID vaccine. Well, let's take a look
at that. When someone signs consent for
a vaccine, Senator Blumenthal, does the
consent form say it's going to save
their lives? Of course it doesn't. It's
not on the FAQ. There's never been a
prospective randomized double blind
placebo control trial ever showing that
CO 19 vaccines reduce mortality or
hospitalization. There's not even a
valid non-randomized study. Thankfully,
CO mortality went down for three
reasons. Because we all got the
infection, vaccinated and unvaccinated.
So, we developed population natural
immunity. We developed early treatment.
Credit to Operation Warp Speed. We used
all the operation wars speed tools,
additional drugs. We treated patients
with multi-drug protocols at home. So
they don't go to the ER. So Governor
Green never saw the patients we treated
because they were successfully treated
at home. And the third reason is the
virus mutated to a much milder form.
Those things happen concurrently with
roll out of the vaccine. The vaccine
cannot be falsely credited with saving
millions of lives. We can't allow false
drug advertising to be put up on a
poster behind one of our public
servants. We cannot accept that.
>> So, let me quick
and I will have a lot more I will have a
lot more questions. uh put up my last
that optional chart number four here
because I think this uh this is
something I developed uh well September
2021 and this shows the number of daily
cases of COVID and you see it's peaking
in January you know right as we're
rolling out the vaccine but we really
haven't injected with anybody if if
by the time we had any kind of
significant uptake of the vaccines we
were way down in terms of the number of
daily cases. I mean, this this virus was
burning itself out. Okay. Now, we had
different variants. Again, I've read a
lot of information about vaccination
into the midst of a pandemic driving
variance. Is that what happened? I don't
know. But you would think if a vaccine
were that effective, the tale would just
continue and the pandemic would be over.
But that's not what happened. We had a
whole new surge and this was Delta and
doctors I talked to a very deadly,
probably a more deadly. Would you agree
with that, Dr. McCullik? Delta wasn't
more deadly. I know you guys were kind
of freaking out that your early
treatment wasn't working as well.
>> It it was definitely more more difficult
to treat, but fortunately by that time
we had treatments.
>> But I just wanted to put this thing up
here again if again to a layman if the
vaccine really worked was that
efficacious, you know, prevent all that
disease. By the way, they all admitted
that it didn't prevent transmission.
They lied to us about that four four
months if maybe a year. Then they
finally had to admit it didn't prevent
transmission. Um, but again, this this
chart right here just shows you that if
the vaccine really would have worked,
you wouldn't have had this. You wouldn't
have had this. But I'll turn it over to
Senator Blumenthal.
>> Thanks, uh, Mr. Chairman. And, uh, I
think we'll try to certainly stay within
our seven minutes so our colleagues y
>> uh, can have their their day of
questioning.
>> But again, we we'll have second, third,
fourth rounds. I mean, this we we'll use
up the time of this hearing room. Um,
you know, the the debate here seems to
be about the efficacy of CO 19,
but the central issue that brings us
here today is the allegation that there
was purposeful concealment
of knowledge
and evidence. And I just want to make
the point, I may be sounding a little
bit like a lawyer, not a physician, but
purposeful concealment, intentional
hiding
is essentially undocumented by the
evidence released by this report itself.
In fact, the documents released by the
majority today show that public health
officials took multiple steps in the
spring of 2021 to make health care
providers aware
of those rare they were rare reports of
myocarditis among vaccine recipients. on
May 14,
almost two weeks before the CDC decided
to issue clinical considerations
rather than a HAN
on myocarditis,
which is by the way the primary piece of
evidence that the majority
cites in this so-called coverup. The
CDC's National Center of Immunization
and Respiratory Disease sent an email to
state and local health departments
around the country entitled quote
monitoring reports of myocarditis.
End quote. The email noted risks and
contained a reminder that providers were
obligated to report cases.
Five days later, they sent out a
follow-up email urging recipients to let
providers in their region know of risks
and reminding them once again of the
obligation to report cases. I have two
emails here who are in the majority
report. They're available to the public.
Uh I ask that they be made a part of the
record. Mr. chairman.
>> Objection.
>> Uh I'm not going to read them. They're
for everyone to see. Uh one begins with
I would like to flag a message we sent
out late Friday night. I encourage you
to forward this important message about
vaccine safety and reporting. And it
goes on warnings.
Far from a cover up.
These public health officials were
trying to alert
scientists, doctors, the public about
the potential side effects.
Mr. Siri and I are both trial lawyers
and
issuing that kind of warning is far from
evidence of trying to hide or conceal
something. and say
they were wrong somehow but intentional
cover up is not within the realm of the
plausible allegations here.
So um I think we need to be really clear
and careful
when we start uh discrediting scientists
or public health officials. Uh, I'd like
to ask
uh, Governor Green,
uh, can you tell us how as a physician
publicly funded research,
which is being cut by this
administration,
is important to establish
not only new vaccines, but also the
safety and efficacy of ongoing use of
vaccines.
Uh thank you uh Senator. So uh as
governors we rely on funding to do so
many things from the federal government
and cuts to research will be
devastating. You can't just simply pause
research and wait until uh different
ideology resumes uh governing or until
we get through these hearings and we
restart uh critical research projects.
we will lose ground on this science and
the science that benefits from it. The
R&D that goes forward. We've all been
very supportive for decades of advanced
scientific research. Sometimes it
happens through the military, sometimes
through our universities. We are in deep
trouble if we stop the research
component of our commitment to our
people. We will also be in grave danger
if we don't do the public health
assessment uh in our states in our rural
areas because we will not even know what
we're being affected by. We will be
blind to the diseases that roll through
our communities whether it's chronic
disease or acute disease u from an
infection like this. And I just I just
need to um address a couple um
statements that I feel are
misconceptions, you know, and I'm not
judging. I I feel that there is a
misconception that the COVID vaccination
didn't decrease the severity of disease.
That is what it did. It decreased the
severity and I saw this clinically and
we saw this from a public health
standpoint. It decreased the severity of
what people were facing. So, they didn't
die or they died at a much lower rate.
And you can see that in the charts that
we've seen, but through looking at them
through a different lens, the exact same
charts when the when the death rates
dropped because people had begun to
develop immunity because their immune
systems were responding to the
vaccination. And in fairness, we could
debate the the language, but even some
of of the individuals that are also
testifying with me here today referred
repeatedly to the mRNA vaccination
because it was putting these particles
into people and then the immune system
was responding to them. And so I do feel
that it's a vaccination. But be that as
it may, we ultimately saw the ability to
stop the severe and deadly cases in our
hospitals. And so there are many ways to
view vaccinations. There's many ways to
view treatments. And they're all
valuable. Uh some for some vaccinations
straight up stop infection from
occurring. That's the case. uh when we
talk about uh measles you know measles
measles ms rebella when you get that
vaccine you really prevent the spread uh
to a great degree and it was commented
earlier that we were misleading or we
were being misled by others on what uh
the vaccinations uh were doing and what
the information was that was being
shared. Well, let me tell you what it
was like during that period and we all
saw it. There was a great deal of
confusion because the unknown was so
enormous. And to the credit of
scientists and to the credit of those
who uh invested in the research at again
extreme speed and extreme dollars, we
were able as a nation and a global
community to find our way to something
that helped us. Now, of course, there
were some tragic outcomes and again not
a single case should ever be dismissed,
uh, minimized. No one should be impuged.
But the grander picture of a vaccination
program is to protect all and to find a
way to protect people so that they can
also help protect the people around
them. which is why the research is
important, the spending is important,
why I'm very concerned about the
announcement yesterday that we will only
be recommending vaccinations for people
over 65 or those with chronic disease
because couple points. One, first of
all, and I'm sure many of you had this
experience, uh the chairman mentioned
going to Sworthmore College, which was
my alma mater. The president of our
class named Nick Nick Jazdan, 51 years
old, unvaccinated because the vac
vaccinations were not yet available,
healthy, a marathon runner, died of a
COVID infection. He was a prominent uh
writer, an extraordinary human being,
but utterly healthy. And that may have
been of course more rare than an 82 year
old or or a 91y old contracting COVID
and dying, but it does happen. He is an
individual that would have been
vaccinated immediately when given the
opportunity. And also the reasons that
we were able to avoid so many
unnecessary deaths in a very difficult
to treat state where we have one, two,
three, sometimes four generations of
people living under the same roof with
one provider. The challenge there is if
we suddenly can't vaccinate teenagers or
people who are 28 years old and are the
breadwinners for their community and we
have another pandemic or we have this
outbreak worsen again, they will come
home with the disease and very likely
spread it to those who are vulnerable.
And so I'll pause there. I just say that
we should give people choice and we
should honor and respect their stories,
but we have to do the research.
>> But their stories haven't been honored
or respected. Our next question will be
Senator Kim.
>> Yeah. Thank you. Um, Governor, I guess I
just would like to stay with you here
for a sec because I think you have an
interesting perspective, someone who's
both u a doctor as well as a elected
public official in an executive
position. And I'm trying to, you know,
digest the information that I'm hearing
here and thinking about how to talk
about it to my constituents back in New
Jersey. And if they're watching this,
you know, I think that a lot of this is
beyond what the average person
understands. It's beyond what I
understand in terms of the fullness of
what happens in terms of our health
system.
So from your experience, Governor, you
know, when the when these cases come
forward, you know, the these cases that
Dr. McCullik and and others have have
raised, you know, in terms of these
concerns, what's supposed to kick in?
You how does this system work? you know,
you've talked about this saying that,
you know, we have a robust
system for safety. Um, that the system
is designed to monitor, identify, and
transparently report possible side
effects to review. Can you explain to to
me and and my constituents, you know, h
how this unfolds and what to expect?
>> Yes, thank you, Senator. So the way it
should work is that we totally support
science and we support public health so
that we are able in labs and in public
health offices to take in the concerns,
the complaints, the vignettes, the data
and analyze it thoroughly. And uh to the
chairman's uh concern, I'm sure some
people were not listened to or they felt
not listened to and that should never
happen. That is one of the great
challenges of our modern time where
we're talking past one another where
when people are spreading um their
stories anonymously sometimes they're
spread in ways that are not really even
from the individual who's suffering
themselves. There are great challenges
but we have to have this robust system
and how do you talk to people? How did I
talk to people in my state? And many
people feel that we had the u most uh
positive and and um effective strategy
to to deal with COVID was because we did
something very simple was partially uh
accidental in the early days of COVID. I
started a whiteboard and ultimately tens
then hundreds of thousands of people
followed this whiteboard and just so
people know that it wasn't didn't have
bias implicit or otherwise. It didn't
have partisanship. I just put the actual
numbers that we had to the minute of how
many cases that day, how many people
were vaccinated, how many beds we had,
how many intensive care unit beds uh
were available, how many ventilators
were available each facility, how many
infectious disease doctors and so on. So
that if someone truly didn't believe CO
was a threat and some people felt that
way, they could just look at the data
and decide for themselves how they would
respond in their lives. This is how you
talk to your constituents about
something that's this disconcerting, in
fact terrifying.
And we just showed day after day after
day in a brief brief uh moment sometimes
90 seconds exactly what we had as the
best data long before we had these very
complex uh reports from John's Hopkins
or USC or other universities. Okay.
Before we had that, we had our capacity
in our state to share with our people
what we were dealing with. And so what
happened? Now, people could argue about
this, but I will tell you that I believe
we had far more people get vaccinated
because I just shared exactly what we
were experiencing. And I'll tell you, I
look back at some of those early reports
and I I sometimes shudder a little bit
because we learned so much, which is
what happens with science during one of
these crisis. You learn as you go. There
were times, as you know, that we didn't
have the right recommendations on masks,
and we of course could debate that in
this room, I'm sure, but we gave our
best scientific data and our best
experiential data. And that's how you
talk to people. And yes, you you never
tell people that they are not valued and
you never just dismiss their stories.
And I'm positive I or others have been
guilty of that in the moment, and we
shouldn't be. But we also should not
demonize one another and when we in my
family ultimately had protesters which
did to a large degree cross some lines
when they some people were um just
communicating with me other people I
have to be honest with you some people
wrote swastikas on the on signs that
were next to my home certainly my
father's Judaism had nothing to do with
my COVID response but I can tell you
that sometimes because people were
traumatized and I understood how scared
they were and I understood what they
were hearing out there. But that's how
you talk to people. And if we do that
after not, and I'm and I have to be
honest about this, if we don't
systematically dismantle our public
health system, we'll be okay. We will
find common ground. Even though I I
suspect that there are some pretty
significant differences between me and
some of the other testifiers on what we
would do with the next pandemic, we
would actually be able to still move
forward together.
>> Yeah. I mean, I think, you know,
something you said earlier, I thought
stuck stuck out to me, the sense of
that, you know, no one should be
ignored. I think that's a principle I
hope everyone here can agree upon that
we I think they always have space for
more transparency. Um, but also just
keeping in mind that broader context. I
mean, as you're saying, you know, here
are the challenges that that we're
facing when it comes to this system and
how we can work on it. And certainly I
can imagine your experience whether on
addressing COVID or in Samoa you know
certainly that becomes more difficult to
to fully enact this monitor identify
trans and the transparency report you
know when you're in the middle of a
crisis when you're in the middle of the
chaos you know that's something I think
we can try to do to improve to the point
that was raised earlier I think a lot of
this also says like this this is a
reason why we need to invest in capacity
invest in personnel people working in
our government to do this and and as
opposed to cutting back on staff and and
trying to say that we need
simultaneously more transparency when
that becomes all the more difficult. But
I mean, look, I understand and I've had
people in my life that have been ignored
and and not believed, whether that's,
you know, my time as a diplomat before
and people I know come struggling with
Havana syndrome and people telling them,
"I don't believe you and other issues
that are out there." Um, but we should
always have that system in place and and
that's what I just hope we can come back
to. I mean, I I get it. I'm I'm new on
this committee and I understand and I'm
seeing, you know, a year's worth of of
back and forth that are coming here. But
someone who's coming with some fresh
eyes, you know, I hope that we can try
to cultivate that sense of of trust that
I know has been so deeply wounded. Um
because I worry about what comes next,
you know, I worry about how we deal with
the next diseases, the next pandemics,
how we try to move forward and
understand how this technology of of
mRNA and others try to move forward on.
So, I just appreciate, you know, being
able to hear this all and and I try to
figure out how best I can be able to
relate to the people in New Jersey
around this country about the safety of
the co vaccines that I have seen be able
to save lives, but also be able to sure
that we won't ignore people if they have
other concerns and we do our best to be
as transparent as possible and to be
careful of of accusations of personal
malfeasants uh especially with some of
our public servants. um in terms of
whether or not they were intentionally
withholding information or not, we need
to be very careful about those
accusations on this committee. And with
that, I'll yield back.
>> I will say we are just seeing the tip of
the iceberg here and you will see more
evidence. Trust me, Senator Marino.
>> Well, first of all, thank you uh
chairman for putting on this hearing.
I'm going to focus on let's just stick
to CO 19 and CO 19 policies. Let's not
get to let's not get into this
conversation about uh vaccines at large.
Dr. McCulla, do you feel that you were
listened to in 2021?
Did you feel ignored?
Our November 19th, 2020 hearing done for
Homeland Security, governmental affairs
was very lightly attended by our
senators who are working for us. That's
a disappointment. It's disappointment
there's chairs uh empty here.
our hearing was actively suppressed,
scrubbed off YouTube.
>> So just just so just so just to clarify,
not only were your viewpoints ignored,
you were called a conspiracy theorist, a
spreader of misinformation, somebody who
didn't know what they were doing by
people who didn't even take a science
class in high school, and yet you're a
doctor and you're completely ignored.
Let me ask you, uh, Dr. Vaughn, real
quick question. How many children under
the age of five years old died of COVID?
>> So very very few actually. Theoretically
a healthy child under five there wasn't
any.
>> So basically zero.
>> Yes. It's statistically zero.
>> Age of 10.
>> It's still statistically zero. When you
get when you get up into the when you
get up into the uh uh 15 16 I mean there
there is some
>> So under 15 none. Yeah. Pretty much
none.
>> Statistically. Yes.
>> All right. So, I'm confused because uh
Governor Green said he held the children
who would have died from COVID, but
that's crazy because evidently nobody
died of COVID who was under 15.
>> I we're talking about But see, that's
the confusion. See, when we talk about
co vaccines and then we stick in other
vaccines, we get off topic because co 19
wasn't about measles. Uh now, Dr. Thorp,
do you think good idea or bad idea that
you should close schools?
Bad idea.
>> Bad idea.
>> Now why? I mean kids can learn uh at
home, can't they?
>> They can learn very well at home. But at
school uh they will have the opportunity
to develop natural immunity.
>> So and school well by the way schools is
where you socialize, you learn your
behaviors, you learn how to meet other
people. Because if we don't believe in
schools, the federal government and
state government can save a lot of
money. So schools are important. Let's
just get that out of the way. So, why
would you close schools, which you did,
Governor,
when no children died of COVID? What
would make you make that decision? You
closed schools. And by the way, the
impact on that is generational. You
destroyed the lives. You and the other
governors that closed schools destroyed
the lives of children in doing that. So,
okay. I've got to got to tell the
audience please notice my uh my respond
to the question for you. Yeah, I think
it was Well, first of all, I think you
misunderstand some of the value to um
>> No, no, no. Why did you close schools?
>> Well, I'm going to I'm just answer that
and not filibuster me, please.
>> I'm not going to filibuster you. Uh
schools I did not want to close and
>> you did.
>> Actually, I was not governor at the time
and
>> but you were lieutenant governor and you
were the point person. Do you think the
governor made a mistake in closing
schools?
>> We reopened the schools as soon as you
think he made a mistake. I think you
made a mistake. Can I answer the
question or is this senator going to
filibuster?
>> No, no, you're going to answer my direct
question or just say I'm not going to
answer you.
>> Do you think it was a good idea, yes or
no? The two choices in this answer. Do
you think it was a good cho idea to
close schools? Simple answer. Just give
me a yes or a no.
>> As we as we had COVID surging through
our society because there was massive
spread from children to adults, we were
waiting to make sure the teachers
>> Let me get So, let me get this straight.
You sacrifice the lives of children
because maybe they would spread
something that you don't know to adults.
You thought that was a good that's
>> No, that's not always Actually, it's
your your party that's trying to close
our schools and get rid of the
Department of Education. So, we have we
do have politicizing this hearing. Okay,
we're moving on.
>> You said my other governors that close
schools, which is a politicization of
>> when I'm in Hawaii and I'm having a
hearing before you, you can interrupt
me. When you're here before the United
States Senate, you're not going to
interrupt me. Moving on. So, here's
here's the next question for you. Uh,
show me the science that said that when
I walked into a uh an airport in Hawaii
and I wasn't uh uh I I didn't want to
tell you because it's none of your
business whether I had a COVID vaccine
or not or tested positive or not because
that's also none of your business.
Where's the science where I had to
quarantine for 14 days? Tell me the
science behind why you locked your
residents up and did not allow them to
go grocery shopping. why you closed your
beaches and your parks. I would love you
to put that science into this record
because you can give me the nice happy
talk, but those were terrible decisions.
And what co highlighted more than
anything else, by the way, it's why I'm
here. I ran for the United States Senate
not because I I I had this deep desire
to uh be a government politician, but
because I was so insensed by the
arrogance, by the ignorance, by the lack
of common sense among our elected
officials that we needed different kinds
of people here in Washington DC and
other places. So,
>> should I answer those questions,
chairman?
>> No, no, there was no question for you.
That was just
>> There were several questions. You asked
about why a 14-day quarantine. You asked
about Sure. What's the science? 14-day
quarant
>> not 12 not 16
>> actually I asked for 5 days just so you
know it
>> what was it was our dart board
>> no it was 5 days because that was the
amount of time from symptoms to
transmission
>> so why 14
>> the 14 day was was before we had the
>> so 14 wasn't scientific just to be clear
>> 14 days was how long it took for people
to get over the disease and people were
still shedding virus through that period
and that's why you do use science and I
use science but you didn't like science
for Hawaii but but we did but we did
have test and we did have the test to
enter Hawaii so people could make a
choice an informed choice and they did
and then they didn't have to quarantine
at all just to make sure you know that
because I think you got your facts wrong
and also I didn't close the beaches that
was the mayor of Honolulu and not me so
just you know it is important that you
get the facts right if you're going to
be a political official
>> so it's what you're saying it wasn't me
it was the other guy
>> no it was me who ran the who ran the
response zero accountability Dr. McCulla
I'll take accountability if you give me
more time I'm done with you governor
thank you thank you sir
>> uh so Dr. McCulla, quick question for
you. Quick question for you. Just
completely objectively. Look, I went to
business school. I was not a doctor. Uh
so I'm going to truly objective using
your most subjectiveness here. Did the
vaccine stop the spread of COVID 19?
>> No.
>> So then let me ask you one simple
question. We'll go down the line. You
guys can answer. It would be my last
question.
So if COVID 19 did the the vaccine, the
injection did not stop the spread of
COVID, why is it that Joe Biden,
President United States, issued an
executive order, which was ruled
unconstitutional, by the way, that said
that if you worked for a company with
100 employees, because not 99,
100, that you would be fired
if you did not prove you didn't have a
COVID vaccine negative test or got
vaccinated.
Why would we have some decision like
that? How depraved do you have to be to
do that? Answer the question the way you
feel down the line. Go ahead. We'll
start with you, Mr. Circle. Dr.
>> Briefly,
>> my testimony on this issue went all the
way to the Supreme Court that overturned
four out of the five Biden mandates.
They were scientifically ungrounded.
They were sociologically
deranged and they caused great harm. To
this day, people are in court trying to
get their jobs back and trying to put
their lives together because of these
disastrous policies.
>> And and just to be clear, sorry,
chairman, nurses were included in that.
Correct. Healthcare workers. The ranking
member called them heroes.
It seems to me that when you have a
hero, you don't terminate their ability
to make money and have them fired
because they're making a personal
choice. Because see, ultimately, and
I'll end with this, ultimately, this is
what this is all about. See, I get to
get a choice if I'm going to get
vaccinated. And if it doesn't stop the
spread, it is none of any other human
being in this country's business what I
did or did not do. Would you agree
quickly?
>> 100%. And I think uh uh director Winsky
when she said of the science of hope uh
that is not science. Science is facts.
Hope is not science.
>> Thank thanks Senator Marino. Again,
please let's not express any uh emotion
out there in the in the audience. Uh Dr.
Walsk, I just have to go to you because
you have direct experience. I almost
feel like bringing up Brienne Dress to
talk about the concealment that you
witnessed firsthand when it came to your
working with Breeze working with NIH
officials trying to do studies uh being
carried along with some with some
assurance that this was going to be
revealed to the public and it never was.
Just talk about that level of
concealment. Again, there's going to be
so much evidence of this if it hasn't
been destroyed. This this just the tip
of the iceberg what we're seeing here
with myocarditis. But but talk to what
you you and your fellow vaccine injured
who were dismissed, who were gas lit,
who were treated horribly. I mean,
horribly. When you came to the United
States Senate and asked to be
heard by senators and their staff, you
were treated. Describe describe how
you've been treated.
Well, thank you, Senator Johnson. So,
what I'd like to say is um being vaccine
injured in this country is is
unfortunately a huge polarizing event,
which it should never be. If I could
describe one word that I think all if
not most a vaccine injured will say is
what's one word that describes your
experience after your injury and it's
abandonment. Okay, we get attacked. We
watch. We walk a tight rope. We get
attacked from the right. The right say
we're stupid. We shouldn't have got a
shot. We should die. Okay, and I could
show you social media stuff. The left
says we're antivaxers. Which to me is
one of the most ignorant thing to say of
myself because all my children have been
vaccinated. I got vaccine injured
because I got vaccinated. But but still,
regardless, we get called antivaxers.
We report these to veres. Okay. Nothing
happens. I had an adverse event which
was, you know, delayed the Astroenica
trial in United Kingdom, you know, two
times for three cases of transverse
myitis. I expected a call the day after.
Days passed, weeks passed. By 3 weeks, I
called the CDC myself and demanded, you
know, response. I always thought, oh,
I'd get this quick response and someone
would would help us. all of us that are
vaccine injured now
there is no there's no phone call coming
there's no help coming
we have repeatedly met and Brienne
Dressson who's my co-chair with reacting
have met with Peter Marx over and over
and over for the last you know for a
period of about two years we have been
plated we have been blown off we bring
up adverse events the neurological
adverse events we bring up the MIS which
is the multi-cm inflammatory syndrome we
bring up the myocarditis us. He thanks
us. He says he'll get back to us. He
never does. That went on to for two
years. So, so for people that think it's
this kumbaya we're all people are
listening to us and people in these
federal agencies are trying to to help
it get to the bottom of it. It is the
farthest from the truth.
>> So, there have been a number of claims
made and I think there will be continue
to be a number of claims made. I just
ask anybody making a claim um please
provide your citations you know please
provide you again respect the science
let me see the science I mean I'm I'm
being I'm very genuine here let me see
you know the science behind that this
actually reduced the symptoms or this
prevented deaths or this prevented
transmission uh I would like to see the
science um Dr. Von, uh, you were really
specializing in the blood clots. You
know, I've seen video after video,
picture after picture of these long
white blood clots in autopsy. Um, we've
we've also, you know, throughout CO
autopsies were really discouraged. We we
weren't seeking the scientific truth. I
see Dr. McCull have you kind of answer
that, but you know, Dr. Van, first talk
about talk about the clotting we saw and
and what you know in terms of what was
discovered under autopsy.
>> Well, first of all, early in COVID the
spring of 2020, uh my collaborator Jacob
Lobster in South Africa was the first
one to kind of alert people to say that
this was primary primarily a vascular
disease, not a pulmonary disease. And
it's one of the reasons that ventilators
are probably one of the most ineffective
things you could have done to people
because if you have a vascular disease
of the lungs, increasing the
intrathoracic pressure just closes down
more vessels and ultimately kills them.
And what we also saw was if you went
into the hospital in the spring or
summer of 2020, you were twice as likely
to leave alive if you were already on a
blood thinner. Now, I will tell you most
of your friends that are on blood
thinners probably aren't healthier than
you. So it's kind of interesting to find
out that the people that were on blood
thinners had a protection. So again,
those were signals that were really
downplayed. Unfortunately, after a lot
of the treatment was codified by the
car's act, uh it it resulted in
basically a a protocol-based treatment
for inhos care.
>> As long as we start, can you anybody
describe Remesae? Anybody want to speak
to that?
If if not, I'll I'll do that for another
hearing. I mean just the conflict of
interest of how that was being approved.
uh yeah so could okay wave off on that
>> but but what we uniquely found and my
collaborators in South Africa Risha
Ptorius and Doug Kell at University of
Liverpool was that the spike protein was
able to induce fibrin from fibbrinogen
which is a fancy word for saying hey
forming the backbone of clotting but it
did it in a way that was different that
we had not seen and it was what we would
similarly think of fibbrin as kind of
like spaghetti coming out of the
colander that you could pull apart part
when you didn't need it. It was easy to
break down. But the actual clot that was
formed in COVID or from the spike
protein from the vaccine was like burnt
spaghetti casserole that you have to get
a brillow pad to get off the dish. And a
lot of people their issue is their
inability to break down that clotting
mechanism. We all need to clot, but we
all need to actually get rid of the
clot. And that is the problem.
>> That was pretty obvious ignored. Dr.
Thorp, I'll get to you, but Dr. Dr.
McCullik, real quick
>> quickly. In the last five years, I've
never treated as many blood clots in my
entire multiple decades of in clinical
practice as a cardiologist, the blood
clots occur after the infection with the
virus and the vaccine because the spike
protein causes blood clots. It's without
any controversy in medicine. The spike
protein causes blood clots. So it is
reckless and foolhardy to continue to
vaccinate people and load the body with
spike protein and cause more blood
clots.
>> But there were other parts of the corona
virus that they could have used in the
lipid nanop particle. I mean they could
have injected something else that wasn't
quite so toxic.
>> Yeah. And actually uh a paper in cell
July of 2021 it's called broad and
durable immunity from uh from basically
COVID. And what they found was the
nucleoprotein was actually the thing
that supplied broad and durable immunity
for actually prevention of infection.
Unfortunately, the spike protein did not
elicit that response. And as much as we
love this mRNA, you know, technology, it
seems like they sold it as something
that we could change on the dime as
information actually came to light. And
by July 2021, we knew the wrong pathogen
had the wrong protein had been picked.
Why didn't they change it?
>> That's a good question, Senator
Blumenthal.
>> Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Vaughn,
uh, I noticed that you were careful when
you said that children didn't die of
COVID to say statistically.
>> Yeah.
>> Uh, which I appreciate, uh, 1.2 million
Americans died of COVID 19. Uh,
tragically, more than a thousand of
those deaths were children.
In fact, 700 were four years old or
younger.
And
I'm sure you will agree that those
deaths were
tragic and most especially for the
families who will never be the same. Um,
children were affected by CO.
There's no question that children
died. But equally important, the trauma
of CO affected
children, the fear and anxiety that
spread throughout their families.
You don't have to be a doctor
>> to understand that point. Or a parent.
>> Yeah. I have a seven and nineyear-old
and it was a very interesting time. Uh
but in many ways
>> well interesting is a somewhat
euphemistic way of putting it. I'm sure
you'll agree but let let me just
>> uh point out that our entire society was
traumatized by co people were out of
school. We can argue about the merits of
whether they should have been, but it
has affected our entire society. And
>> just so we are all on the same page
here, I'm in strong agreement that
schools are good. Kids should be in
school. Um, let me point out though
because we want to learn from history
here.
That when there are side effects, when
there are threats to public health,
there should be warnings. The public
should know. So should doctors and
researchers.
And right now uh I'm looking at a report
from NPR. It's dated May 21 of this
year, which describes the effects of
cutting back on the CDC's
capacity to warn
and says that many of the platforms,
quote, "Many of the platforms the CDC
used to communicate with the public have
gone silent." End quote. It says, quote,
"Many of the CDC's newsletters have
stopped being distributed. Workers at
the CDC say health alerts about disease
outbreaks previously sent to health
professionals subscribed to the CDC's
health alert network.
Han
haven't been dispatched since March.
I I understand the concerns that have
been expressed here
and let's learn from
scientific practice and
uh make sure that the Department of
Health and Human Services provides the
resources that are necessary to warn the
public. Um I want to ask um
Dr. Brown uh because you've talked about
both your experience in Samoa
in 2019
with a measles outbreak there which
eventually killed 83 people as I
understand it. Again measles was thought
to be eliminated in the world.
Uh that outbreak was fueled by
misinformation about the measel science
spread by
a number of vaccine
doubters or skeptics including the now
secretary of health and human services
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That campaign
caused the vaccination rate against
measles in Somota drop from over 74% to
just 34% between 2017 and 2018.
Uh, do you see parallels between the
measles outbreak you helped to address
in Samoa and the one that we're now
seeing in Texas
that has reached 31 states in including
Hawaii and the
COVID 19 situation.
>> Thank Thank you, Senator. There are more
than parallels. It's it's just
terrifyingly similar. So what happened
uh I'll give you the brief version uh in
Samoa was uh prior to the outbreak prior
to the outbreak uh two children had been
uh given vaccinations and tragically uh
there was human error and two nurses who
were later prosecuted u made a mistake a
tragic mistake and they used the wrong
reagent uh the fluid with the vaccine
and they vaccinated uh incorrectly these
two children and the two children
perished.
which is of course tragic in every way
and we always have to help hold all
healthcare people to account. Now after
that there was panic and what happened
uh in the months and years thereafter
was that human error was not a vaccine
flaw it was a human error and that
information was then spread incorrectly
by um then Mr. Kennedy before being
Secretary Kennedy and the Children's
Health Defense and that country and and
their their leadership told me this
directly. They received letters. There
were stories all across Samoa that uh
this group of people came and convinced
them not to vaccinate. And they uh had a
lot of challenges with health literacy
and they stopped vaccinating. And then
when you get vaccination rates that are
that low, and mind you, we have this
challenge because we have 14 states, my
state is among them, where the
kindergarters in our states, uh, age
five, sometimes age six, are at
dangerously low vaccination rates for
measles. When it gets that low, you're
going to see outbreaks. Unlucky. The the
cases could come from anywhere. They
come from overseas. They could come from
within our own country. But if you get
below 95% and certainly below 90% you
see these outbreaks and then you have
you know one in five people end up in
the hospital you have one in 20 with
pneumonas you have encphylopathies you
have all sorts of damage so that's what
happened in Samoa and and and to be very
direct and actually I want to be
generous here there are many things that
um Secretary Kennedy is doing that I
support I support his work on um some of
the questions about processed foods and
dyes and uh and environmental toxins
things that I have believed for decades
and fought for as have many of you
probably. However, however, this is so
central to the public health of our
country that because we have vaccine
hesitancy and because when you fall
below 95% and particularly below 90% you
will see these outbreaks. So we can
anticipate that we're going to have a
lot of outbreaks first of measles and
there's going to be fatalities and lots
of consequences. We're going to see
ptasus. God help us all if we start
seeing menitis or polio break out. These
are diseases that have been eradicated.
And so what I would say is I really
appreciate the chairman's focus on truth
and making sure there's transparency and
going through the record. I appreciate
that. I appreciate individuals who I
disagree with fighting for their voices,
but what I don't appreciate is when
there are individuals with no public
health training, whether it's a senator
or someone it's one of our colleagues,
and they make a assertion to move away
from science and away from prevention
that has been proven that I take
have deep concerns about. And that's
what happened in Samoa, killing 83
people. we had to jump in and then that
is what is happening in Texas and a
bunch of other states and I don't think
there it would be very interesting to
ask all the senators privately and
congress people and all of us if any of
us could accept that kind of spread of
infectious disease amongst the people
that we love even if even if we don't
believe in vaccinations we certainly
don't believe in tragic outcomes things
that we can prevent and that's where I
think we should go as a country to heal
>> okay
>> I'm going to interrupt
just to say um I apologize. I am the
ranking member on the Veterans Affairs
Committee. There's a separate hearing
beginning right now. I'm going to I have
more questions. I'm going to try to come
back, Mr. Chairman. Um and uh I
apologize. I'm going to have to leave.
Thank you.
>> Appreciate you coming. This is the part
I was actually looking forward to. Um
unplugged.
So, Governor,
>> I'm just going to be honest with what
gets under my skin is how many times
those of us who've had a different
narrative on this or not a narrative,
but just a different viewpoint on this.
We are always accused of ignoring
science.
I I think I've been trying to follow it
quite closely. So again, I I will ask
you and we can go through your
testimony. Every time you've cited
something, we we will ask you to cite
the study that proves what you're
saying. Okay? So again, not really a
challenge, it's a request. I mean, I I
would ask that of all of you. Any of you
who have cited some study or some
opinion, back it up and we'll we'll
include in the hearing record. We'll
have this hearing record will stay open
for 15 days. So, I'm really encouraging
people, send me that science. Again, I I
I entered a piece from Raphael Lataster
that pretty well pretty well debunks the
the Watson I think it's Watson at all.
The claims it's the the CO injections
save millions. This is based on
mathematical models. It really wasn't
scientific studies. So, again, throw it
all in the hopper and and let the public
decide. But I do have some some
questions that Dr. Thorp. Speaking of
corrupted studies, uh you mentioned in
your uh opening statement the Shimmer
Bakura study, which by the way, Tom
Shimbakura,
uh we have sent something like 70
oversight letters, more than that. In
many of them, we've told the CDC, FDA,
NIH, we demanded they preserve their
records
and that should have been widely
distributed through the healthy
agencies. You know, we in our subpoena
specifically asked for the
communications of Tom Shimmer Bakura.
They couldn't find any.
I know I know the current HHS is
investigating that individual. We've
sent a I would call a referral to the
FBI uh and to uh attorney general to
determine this. Um but again, what
happened there? Okay. Again, when people
are supposed to maintain records and
they don't,
I get suspicious, but again, going to
Dr. Thor. Um,
and I'm going to probably interrupt you
because I want everybody to understand
what you're talking about in this study
because it takes we're talking about
numbers here, but describe that study on
would you call it fetal demise,
miscarriage, uh, and how it was
originally presented as evidence to push
this on the most vulnerable, as you're
saying, pregnant women and the unborn.
And how did they distort that study to
make that point? Go ahead. Thank you,
Senator Johnson. So, the study in
question is in New England Journal of
Medicine on April 21st, 2021.
And in that same day, the digital
edition, there were two publications
that were extraordinarily concerning.
Both of them interestingly coming at a
time when vaccine hesitancy was being
was increasing.
So the Shima Bakuro study was a separate
study in addition to an op ed. The oped
was by the New England Journal of
Medicine
uh editor and chief uh who who was Eric
Rubin and the managing editor who was
Stephen Moresy and then director of the
CDC Relle Winski.
and they made statements that were
false. They made statements that uh was
fear-mongering
um insinuating that pregnant women, if
they didn't take the vaccine, would put
their lives in harm, their pre-born
lives in harm, and their newborn lives
in harm when they knew absolutely the
opposite was true.
>> How How did they know that? Well, they
know that for several reasons, Senator.
Uh, number one, the study by Panel's and
colleagues, who is a maternal fetal
medicine specialist from University of
Texas Houston, published a very large
study documenting that pregnancy in of
itself reduced the maternal mortality by
as much as 75%
during pregnancy compared to nonpregant
women. that study was available. Um also
Dr. Dr. um Shima Bakuro, Tom Shimma
Bakuro and then director of the CDC.
This was seven weeks after
the Fizer 5.3.6 six post marketing data
in 10 weeks that showed the COVID 19
vaccine was the deadliest and most
injurious vaccine ever released with
42,086
injuries including 1,223
dead. They had that information. They
still pushed it on pregnant women. So,
so, so let's get to the the number where
there's 700 individuals included in the
statistic that shouldn't have been
included. So, describe that. I mean,
talk about this study,
>> right? Well, well, there's bias. There's
bias in the title. Okay, just look at
the title. There's bias in the 21
authors, all of whom were federal
federal employees and Tom Shimaburo, a
safety officer in the FDA itself. Then
you go to the numbers. We we look at
four we're looking at about numbers of
of over 4,000 in a 10w week period and
then all of a sudden it's just how do we
arbitrarily go to 10 weeks in this vsafe
smartphone collection system and then
what happened to all the other patients?
We go down to 827 patients.
What happened to those? So you got so
you got 827 patients that were that
became pregnant or were pregnant in this
in terms of again it's not really study
but I mean they're just analyzing data.
So you got 827 right?
>> Okay. So the these were women who were
pregnant
>> right 827 that completed the pregnancy
completed a pregnancy in 10 weeks.
>> This is not necessarily a born child but
the pregnancy
>> or a miscarriage right okay now they
claimed a 12.6% 6% miscarriage rate,
>> which is pretty kind of a normal
miscarriage.
>> No, it's not.
>> What's a normal miscarriage rate?
>> 3% when you have a normal booking visit.
>> So, so, so there it's already an
abnormal miscarriage rate in that 827.
>> That's correct.
>> Okay. And
>> so, now describe exactly how they
>> Okay. So, we have 827 patients, right?
And they talk about a 12.6% miscarriage.
But a miscarriage of those 827,
700 of those mothers had their vaccine
in the third trimester. That's way
beyond the window when a woman has a
miscarriage. So they artificially
uh took those 700 patients and put them
in the first trimester. No. The 104
patients that had the miscarriage, that
goes to the 127. 104 over 127, you're
looking at an uh, you know, 82%
miscarriage. So, the key is the
percentage of women that got the vaccine
in the first trimester had an 82%
miscarriage. And by the way, that's the
exact same miscarriage rate that was
seen in the Fiser 5.3.6 postmark. So I
would I I would argue that proves both
points in the title of this hearing. The
corruption of science, the corruption of
federal health agencies.
Governor, listen, I I I I'm cognizant of
the fact that you're kind of outnumbered
here. So I'm I want to give you an
opportunity to respond to that if you
want to. You don't have to.
>> Sure. No, I'm happy to. Look, the um
appreciate the information. The uh the
tragedy of a miscarriage is always
there. It's not 3%. Um my
>> what what is it? What do you think it
is?
>> Well, in my training as a family
physician, the miscarriage rate for
women is often in the 20s or 30
percentile for for women across their
pregnancies. You know, there are just a
lot of miscarriages that occur amongst
um women. So, those are all tragic and
and I would obviously defer to ACOG, the
American I'm sorry, the uh the American
uh College of OBGYNS who who did and and
they should come and testify too who did
strongly recommend the vaccine. I mean,
I'm not going to speak as a as an OBGYn.
I'm speaking as an ER physician and as a
governor but um I'm sure that that would
be a vibrant discussion and again it's a
very good point
>> that we have transparency and studies.
>> So let me move on to my next point. In
one of our events some of you were there
Dr. Moon opened up the insert
for the co injection big piece of paper
you know fold up and
and it's other than it says
intentionally laid blank intentionally
left blank was blank now this was quite
a few years I think this was probably a
couple years into
the co injection distribution of it and
all these studies all everything on
veyes
Um, I would think somewhere, you know,
when you take a look at the the actual
studies and the adverse events that were
documented within those studies, it's
been now been released through the Fiser
papers and and other means, you think
somewhere they ought to put some
information in there. So, the point I
want to make is I I think an awful lot
of folks are are saying that there was
not informed consent.
I would argue they violated the
invaluable
principle of informed consent with this
co injection. I I just think that's
indisputable. I'll start with you, Dr.
McCullik. Do you want to weigh in on
that?
>> I've presented at the FDA advisory
meetings. I've advised companies for
decades on this, so I know the
regulatory science very well. When a
product definitely results in death,
and there are thousands of peer-reviewed
papers on this, Governor, the COVID
vaccines in some people sadly result in
death. Some on the very first day they
take the shot. That must be a blackbox
warning on the product immediately. I
just checked the package inserts for the
currently available products, the ones
that uh Senator Blumenthal wants to
pursue. Sounds like governor wants to
still pursue these. Our FDA still wants
them to be administered. They still
don't have the word death in the package
insert. As of today, they don't. And so
Americans are not fairly informed.
>> Do you have any doubt in your mind that
the CO injection caused some deaths? I
mean, do do you what what do you think
of the what is it 37 38,607 right now
listed on veyores? What do you think the
real number is? And do you have any
science to back up your your opinion?
>> The best data are autopsies. So, in the
largest autopsy series published to
date, I know because I'm the senior
author
of all the death we deaths we examined
and we we re-reviewed them. We had an
adjudication committee. We had ways of
arbitration deciding on did the vaccine
cause death. The answer is of these
cases that came in for autopsy after
who has perished as a result of CO 19.
But when the vaccines became widely
available in 2021, deaths sharply
declined and many lives have been saved
in the years since. Many in this room,
speaking for myself as well as others,
probably have been saved from this
disease because of those vaccines. One
study found that 3 million American
deaths were averted. 18 million
hospitalizations
were avoided and 1 trillion dollar in
healthcare costs were saved in the
United States in just the first two
years after co vaccines were
distributed. I'd like this study entered
into the record, Mr. Chairman, if
there's no objection. Without
>> objection.
Now, vaccines not only saved American
lives, they enabled us to get back on
our feet economically. They enabled the
American economy to recover.
Let's try to think of where we were 5
years ago with a deadly unknown virus
spreading through America and through
the world. We were only able to come so
far because of the vaccines and the
researchers who developed them and the
public health officials who distribute
them. And now those individuals are
again under attack. Our public health
officials.
I've looked at
those documents, maybe not all of them,
that the majority alleges show that the
Biden administration or those public
health officials suppressed evidence of
side effects. Let's be clear, the
allegation is that they purposefully
concealed
evidence.
I am unable to support that conclusion
with this evidence. In fact, the primary
piece of evidence for this claim is that
the CDC did not issue a notice on its
health alert network con
while it was still analyzing the
evidence about myocarditis.
We're talking about myocarditis. The
chairman has referenced other side
effects. I'm not sure what he means, but
what I see as I look at that evidence is
public health officials
wrestling
with what to do and what kind of warning
to issue. And again, side effects must
be studied and communicated. And that's
what I see happening in these documents
that the majority has released.
So we have to distinguish, I think,
between differences of opinion under the
pressure of a pandemic
and
separate
the opinions of scientists who are
working for the greater good and frankly
others who may simply be seeking to sow
distrust
while they profit off misinformation and
fear. And I'm frankly deeply concerned
about some of today's witnesses
because they have a financial interest
in fermenting
distrust about CO 19 vaccines and
pushing untested alternative remedies
over proven treatments. In fact, two of
today's witnesses are executives at
something called the Wellness Company,
which sells the disproven treatment,
Ivormectin,
and a host of untested supplements,
which includes something called quote
unquote ultimate spike detox
costs $189.99
a bottle. Another makes money from suing
vaccine companies and still others are
pushing unsupported research while
rejecting the proven scientists on CO
and other vaccines.
Let's be very clear that fear-mongering
and rushing to conclusions without
examining the evidence can lead to
tremendous harm. And this risk is not
just hypothetical
or rhetorical.
Misinformation about the safety of
vaccines has led to a deadly outbreak of
a preventable
disease.
We all know it. Measles.
Just 25 years ago, measles was declared
eliminated in the United States.
Since then,
conspiracy theories, some financially
motivated, have caused vaccination rates
to plummet.
Last September, the CDC warned that
declining childhood vaccination could
lead to a resurgence of a preventable
disease like measles and roto virus.
Exactly what is happening today. As of
today, more than a thousand Americans
have been diagnosed with measles this
year. In 31 states, many of them
children. So far, three have died. These
deaths were preventable.
They could have been avoided.
but for the efforts of misinformation
proponents that have spread lies and
created fears. There has been so much
misinformation and fear since co 19
emerged that during the height of the
pandemic health care workers and public
health officials were often harassed and
threatened. Some of them continue to
fear for their lives.
During the first frightening year of the
pandemic, the Trump administration
withheld critical information from the
public, made baseless promises that the
virus would magically disappear. I think
I'm almost quoting the president,
magically disappear, engaged in
unfounded conspiracy theories and sham
science about CO 19 treatments and sewed
the seeds of distrust in public health
institutions.
And then to the tremendous credit of
President Trump, he fasttracked the
vaccine. Let me repeat, to the credit of
the Trump administration, the president
of the United States fasttracked the
vaccine and saved lives.
We need to learn from history.
We're seeing the same pattern now.
Those same seeds of doubt
and distrust
have been nurtured by the president's
choices for key positions in this
administration,
including the decision to install a
well-known vaccine skeptic as the head
of HHS and to fill our public health
agencies with conspiracies.
And let's bring it right to the present
day. Just yesterday,
it was announced that the FDA may start
restricting access to new COVID boosters
to those over 65 or with a narrow set of
pre-existing conditions. Now, we ought
to be very frank here.
Discerning what exactly this new
guidance may be at the moment is
confusing
and the troubling news leaves many
questions unanswered about whether and
how people can actually access vaccines
if they want to do so. Will Americans
who
live with elderly or immunompromised
relatives for example have access to
these vaccines? We don't know
and so far those questions are
unanswered.
The manner and timing of this decision
frankly weak of politics
not science and again science ought to
be the loadar.
So
I think we need to be looking at the
present. We need to be looking forward.
In the first four months since the
president took office, he and his health
secretary have fired at least 10,000
employees from public health agencies
and cut more than $2.7 billion in
funding for research, including $4.2
million for vaccine clinical trials. Let
me repeat. Clinical trials, money cut to
do them. How does that make us safer?
More than $3.8 million for safety
monitoring and more than $2 billion for
state immunization programs. A drastic
cut that is already hampering our
measles response.
These reckless cuts are undermining our
ability to respond not just to measles,
but to what may come next.
And we all know
something will come next.
That's the history. We need to learn
from history and science.
Let me just finish by saying the
capacity of our agencies to warn
is compromised by these cuts. The
capacity of our agencies to do science
and rely on science is compromised when
we cut 10,000
people from the ranks of the agencies
responsible for safety.
And so I welcome the interest in this
topic. I'm honored that the governor of
Hawaii, Dr. Josh Green has joined us
today to share his experiences
addressing both measles and CO 19. He's
not only a dedicated public service, but
he's also a physician who led his
experience his state Hawaii during the
pandemic. And I'm thankful to him for
being here today. And uh I look forward
to the testimony. Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
>> Thank you, Senator Blumenthal. I think
people understand why you didn't join me
in my oversight request. The the over 70
letters that were not responded to.
Again, I haven't uncovered yet what they
were trying to hide, but our intention
is to do so. Uh you did mention the
what irrefutable fact that these vac
these injections save lives. I I would
enter in the record a recent study by
Rafael Lataster uh who does a pretty
effective job of rebuting one of those
studies from Watson at at all. and we'll
put in the record and again we'll allow
the public the American people who are
watching this hearing decide uh based on
what testimony is based on what's been
entered in the record based on our
report. Uh it is the custom of this uh
the full committee and the subcommittee
to swear in witnesses. So if you all
rise and raise your right hand.
Do you swear the testimony you are about
to give before this subcommittee is the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth? So help God.
Please be seated.
Our first witness is Dr. Peter McCullik.
Dr. McCullik is an internist,
cardiologist, and epidemiologist from
Dallas, Texas. He has broadly published
with over 700 citations in the National
Library of Medicine. He has testified
multiple times in the US Senate, US
House of Representatives, European
Parliament, and many state capitals
concerning public health policy. Dr.
McCullik,
Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member
Blumenthal, subcommittee members, it's
an honor to present my insights, my
analysis, my clinical experience on the
this very important topic. The first
time I testified at Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs, before a word
came out of my mouth,
Minority Sen, Senator Gary Peters said,
"What America was about to hear was
misinformation."
I didn't even know what he was talking
about. I had never heard that term
before in academic medicine or in uh
important deliberations. That's November
19th, 2020.
What was he doing? He was using an old
communist propaganda technique.
He was attempting to gain leverage over
me before a word ever came out of my
mouth. We should never have our public
servants ever try to gain leverage over
anyone who is coming to Washington to
help the nation on an important issue.
As introduced, I'm an internist. I'm a
cardiologist. I believe I'm the most
published individual who's ever
testified on matters regarding CO 19
in any of these hearings.
I've seen and examined more patients.
I've examined more data. And I'm one of
the most published people on the topic
in the world. And as a cardiologist, I
can tell you my role in this was to
fight disease, preserve life, and above
all, do no harm. Do no harm.
Now, the topic today is myocarditis or
heart damage from the CO 19 vaccines.
I'm a cardiologist. I know the topic
well. I've examined thousands of
patients with this problem. Thousands.
Before the pandemic, I had two patients
ever with this problem. There's 1,65
papers in the peer-reviewed literature
on COVID vaccine myiocarditis.
So, let me summarize them for you. The
first one that came on my radar screen
that was alarming came from Washington
University in St. Louis, August 18th of
2021. The first author is Verma and
colleagues, New England Journal of
Medicine.
42-year-old man comes into Washington
University Hospital with vaccine
myocarditis. The infection is ruled out.
It's the vaccine. He's in the hospital.
This is one of our best hospitals in the
United States. He dies 3 days after
taking Madna. They can't save him in the
hospital.
>> Say, Dr. McCau, move the microphone just
a little bit away from you.
>> Then one was reported from Korea by Choy
and colleagues.
This is now a younger man just a few
days after Fizer. He comes in the
hospital. He dies within eight hours of
being in the hospital. I can tell you
I'm a cardiologist. That doesn't even
happen with heart attacks. He dies
within eight hours. I examined all of
the slides and the the images that the
Koreans had showed us. It looked like
somebody took a blowtorrch to that
heart. It was so completely fried with
inflammation. His heart was destroyed.
These cases which were widely known at
the time should have gotten everyone's
attention. Everyone should have been
laser focused on this. We should never
have someone die
after taking a vaccine. That's directly
caused to the vaccine. Then Gil and
colleagues Connecticut
published in Archives of Pathology. two
boys aged 16 and 17 who die a few days
after taking Fizer. These are teenagers.
They're found dead at home
by their parents. They're absolutely
horrified.
They request an autopsy. They call in
University of Michigan and University of
Minnesota to look over what are they
finding at autopsy. Conclusion, it's
Fizer COVID 19 vaccine myocarditis.
Unequivocal. These are autopsy confirmed
cases. So for all the mothers in the
room, how would they feel if they found
their children dead after taking a CO 19
vaccine? This is in the peer-reviewed
literature. This is not misinformation.
Everyone should be paying attention to
this. This is not conjecture. This is in
the peer-reviewed literature. So we
started to ask ourselves, what is going
on?
Turns out that fizer and madna in Jansen
are the genetic code for the spike
protein. The spike protein is the
damaging part of the virus. The spike
protein is loaded into the body and it
causes tremendous damage. Tremendous
damage in some acute myocarditis appears
to have some genetic predilction and all
of the vials of the vaccine are not the
same. But I can tell you I'm concerned
that until the vaccines are stopped
there will be cases of acute
myocarditis. And to finish we've had 216
vaccine deaths this year alone. So if
the vaccine campaign continues we have
to look at what are we getting out of it
now four and a half years of the
campaign and how many more people will
die. I'm Dr. Peter McCulla. Thank you
for listening.
>> Thank you Dr. McCulla. Our next witness
is Dr. Jordan Vaughn. Dr. Vaughn is a
physician and clinical researcher in
Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama. As owner
and CEO of Medel Clinics, Dr. Vaughn has
directed his organization to the leading
edge of early outpatient treatment of CO
19 for his patients and greater
Birmingham community. Dr. Vaugh has
treated over 4,000 longcoid and COVID
vaccine injured patients. Dr. Vaughn,
>> thank you. Uh, Chairman Johnson and uh,
uh, Ranking Member Blumenthal, thank you
for having me. Um, I'm going to dovetail
a little bit off what uh, Dr. Mcola
said. And one of the things that, uh, as
a clinician who also had about 200
people working for him and actually
seeing about 170,000 patients a year,
when COVID came along, I had to really
figure out how to not only help my staff
and make sure they're safe, but also
help the patients that uh, my
organization was responsible for. And
that really made me dive into
understanding the pathology. And what I
came away with was understanding that
the spike protein, the S1 subunit
specifically, is not a benign protein.
It triggers inflammation. It disrupts
endothelial barriers. It induces fibbrin
resistant to breakdown and it promotes a
lot of amalloid aggregates, which is
what I research. These effects impair
oxygen delivery, damage blood vessels,
contribute to clotting pathologies that
manifest with a lot of the symptoms that
we're seeing in the long COVID and
vaccine injured, which to this day is a
huge amount of people. We're talking
upwards of 10 to 15 million people in
America that are being affected by the
consequences of COVID in the long form
or vaccine injury. And the typical
symptoms are things like heart racing,
brain fog, shortness of breath, and
post-exertional malaise. In my clinic, I
actually use immunofllororescent
microscopy to be able to actually see
what's going on in the blood and look
for these amaloid aggregates. Some as
young as teenagers that are unable to
stand. Others are previously active
adults suffering small strokes without
typical identifiable causes. These are
not abstract theories. They are the
lived realities of my patients in
Alabama and beyond. The mRNA injection
heralded as a solution introduced a
novel mechanism lipid nanoparticles
delivering modified mRNA that instructs
the cells to produce a stabilized spike
protein. Unlike traditional vaccines,
this approach resulted in uncontrolled
production of the spike protein for an
unknown duration and distributes it
widely across organs including the
heart, brain and vascule and ovaries and
testes. The actual EMA their assessment
of kumarity which is Fiser's vaccine
noted biodistribution beyond the
injection site contradicting claims that
the vaccine stays in the arm and a
recent groundbreaking study using single
cell precision nanoarrier identification
revealed L&P accumulation in the heart
tissue of mice with adverse proteomic
changes in immune and vascular proteins
raising concerns about the uh cardiac
complications that dovetail with what we
were seeing when we were looking at car
uh the uh co 19 vaccine myocarditis. I
will tell my first encounter with the
vaccine injury came in winter of 2021.
69year-old man from Alabama presumed
presented with unexplained shortness of
breath. He was a patient of mine. I
really had no other reason that he had
this shortness of breath and after the
second fizer dose he actually uh had
significant shortness of breath. I
couldn't figure it out in a sense
because it would typically be that he
had a pulmonary embolism but empirical
anticoagulation and antiplatlet therapy
brought rapid improvement. This case
prompted deeper investigation that the
spike protein's ability to induce fibrin
that's resistant to breakdown, activate
platelets irreversibly, and damage the
inside of our vessels, vessels that run
to every part of our body and every
organ, explained his symptoms and those
of thousands more. Uh, since I have
treated approximately 4,000 patients
suffering from long co and vaccine
injury, or both, many were young and
previously healthy. For those with
vaccine injury, trust in public
institutions has been shattered. Many
were coerced under the August 2021
federal mandates. Despite legitimate
hesitations due to prior infection or
personal health risk, they knew their
body better than the agencies. Now
disabled, they are dismissed or ignored
by the systems that mandated their
compliance. The myocarditis signal was
also a big thing. This spring of 2021, a
clear safety signal emerged. myocarditis
in young males linked to mRNA vaccines.
The Department of Defense confirmed
cases of rare heart inflammation and
peer-reviewed studies later detected
circulating spike protein and
postvaccine myocarditis cases. Autopsy
findings have confirmed fatal vaccine
induced myocarditis. Yet, federal
authorities accelerated licensing and
mandates sidelining concerns. The CDC's
hesitation to issue a health alert on
myocarditis and the C the FDA's former
SEABR director promoting vaccines on
social media crossed a line from
oversight to advocacy. This was not
regulation. It was endorsement. Informed
consent is the foundation of a patient
physician relationship. Absent the
regulators providing that information,
that relationship is irrepably harmed
and the practice of medicine will
continue to suffer. In closing, I urge
you to stop blindly following the
science. Science does not lead anywhere.
It is an observer, measurer, and
descriptor. It must inform leadership,
not replace it. When leaders hide behind
the science to justify policy, they
abdicate responsibility. We need
leadership that humbly engages with
data, listens to patience, and actually
acts with courage. Thank you. I welcome
your questions.
>> Thank you, Dr. Vaughn. Next witness is
Dr. James Thorp. Dr. Thorp is a B board
certified obstitrician gynecologist and
maternal fetal medicine specialist with
over 44 years of clinical experience as
US veteran and widely published
physician. He has testified
internationally served as a peer a
journal peer reviewer board member of
the society for maternal field medicine
and examiner for the American board of
obstitistics and gynecology. Dr. Thorp.
>> Thank you Mr. chairman and members of
the committee.
My patients I focus on the most
vulnerable patients, pregnant women and
pre-born. It is difficult to conceive of
a more egregious breach of medical
ethics by the governmentont controlled
medical industrial complex than the
promotion of CO 19 vaccines to pregnant
women. thereby through transplental
transfer effectively vaccinating their
unborn and newborn children. This
campaign was not accidental.
It was calculated. Pregnant women are
were targeted deliberately for two
reasons. First, women are the primary
decision makers of health care across
the human lifespan, a known marketing
principle. Number two, pregnant women
are the most vulnerable patients. If
they could be convinced that the vaccine
was safe and effective, it would imply
that it was safe and effective for
everyone. From the outset of the
pandemic, this vaccine campaign was
never grounded in biological science,
but rather in behavioral science,
specifically the manipulation of public
perception through influence, fear, and
persuasion.
The federal government outsourced much
of this psychological operations to
NOS's which disseminated emotionally
charged and misleading messaging. These
entities falsely assured pregnant women
that the vaccines were proven safe and
essential for maternal and fetal newborn
health. Despite the fact that early
evidence indicated quite the opposite,
pregnancy itself was protective against
CO 19 maternal mortality. Dr. Jay
Winston, an initiative director at
Harvard School of Public Health,
described the government's vaccine
marketing approach in a 2020 CBS News
interview. He explained that the
strategy was to quote go for the
lowhanging fruit. Those easiest to pick
and harvest end quote and the fruit in
quotes tragically were pregnant women.
Only
this deception was institutionalized in
the now infamous Shima Bakuro study
published on April 21st, 2021 in the
digital version of the New England
Journal of Medicine. 21 authors claimed
the miscarriage rate was 12.6% 6% but
the raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage
rate in women vaccinated during the
first trimester. This figure mirrors the
effects of chemical abortion drugs such
as RU486.
Also in the same journal edition on the
same day an op-ed appeared by CDC
director Rashelle Winsky and journal
editorinchief Eric Rubin. These
publications were riddled with conflicts
of interest and deliberate
misrepresentations
intended to coers pregnant women into
taking vaccines. Subsequent studies have
also claimed that CO 19 vaccines are
safe and effective during pregnancy and
have been rebuked by respected
researchers. These publications are
fundamentally compromised by serious
conflicts of interest ranging from
biased funding sources and institutional
mandates and even threats to their
medical licenses and board
certifications. Between 2020 and 2022,
pharmaceutical companies paid $1.06
billion dollar to reviewers at leading
medical journals, the New England
Journal of Medicine, JAMAMA, Lancet, and
BMJ. thus corrupting the peerreview
process. At least six existing studies,
three from CDC FDA and two from Fizer
revealed major breaches in safety
signals for COVID 19 vaccines and
pregnancy. These findings were ignored.
Conversely, countless independent
researchers with no conflicts of
interest published findings that
contradicted the false narratives and
the pharmaceutical industry narratives
only to be rewarded by persecution,
censorship, and threats to their medical
licenses and board certifications.
This is not hypothetical. It happened to
me. On February 8th, 2025, our team of
researchers published a peer-reviewed
study in science, public health policy,
and the law. We identified 37 adverse
pregnancy outcomes significantly
associated with CO 19 vaccine, including
miscarriage, still birth, birth defects,
cervical insufficiency, premature
rupture membranes, preterm birth, and
death of the newborn. Lynn and
colleagues in a major journal
publication documented that the CO 19
vaccine traverses the placenta, enters
the fetal blood, and bioactively
produces spike protein in the placenta
and the lining of the uterus. Recently,
animal studies revealed the mRNA COVID
vaccine causes the destruction of 60%
of the ovarian reserve in pre in rats.
This catastrophic public health failure
was financed with taxpayer dollars and
channeled through federal agencies to
medical gatekeepers such as the American
College of Obstitricians and
Gynecologist, ACOG, the American Board
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ABOG, and
the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine,
SMFM.
These organizations have abandoned their
ethics and responsibilities to
physicians and patients and must be held
accountable. I urge the government to
immediately halt all funding to these
entities and to end every promotional
campaign that coerces or recommends
experimental mRNA therapies to pregnant
women. This must stop now. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Dr. Dr. Thorp. Our next uh
our next witness is Dr. Joe Walsskcog.
Dr. Walsskcog is an orthopedic surgeon
originally from Wisconsin. He
experienced an adverse event after his
MADNA COVID 19 injection that he
received on December 30th, 2020. He has
subsequently been diagnosed with
transverse myelitis and unspecified
autoimmune disorder and autonomic
dysfunction. He is medically retired. He
is now co-chairman of React 19. Dr.
Walskcog.
Thank you, Senator Johnson, Senator
Blumenthal, and the subcommittee for
inviting me to testify on the
development and safety of the CO 19
vaccines. I am Joel Walskog, a
board-certified orthopedic surgeon, now
medically disabled after one dose of the
Madna
CO 19 vaccine. Before the pandemic, I
enjoyed a successful practice in
Wisconsin, performing over 800 major
surgeries annually, trusting my health
authorities. My practice followed CDC co
19 guidelines delaying surgeries and
even temporarily closing. I proudly
elected to get vaccinated and within a
week I developed leg weakness, numbness,
substantial balance loss
leading to falls including one while
treating a patient. Diagnosed with
transverse myelitis, a spinal cord
lesion at T8 T9. I was stunned that my
providers dismissed any vaccine link
despite news of similar cases halting
the Astroenica trial in the UK. Four
years later, while I can walk, I have
been diagnosed with dysotenomia and an
undefined autoimmune disorder. Both
debilitating conditions affecting
multiple body systems. I remain
medically retired. The career I loved
and worked so hard for is now gone.
In 2021, federal health agencies assured
Americans that the CO 19 vaccine trials
were rigorous and closely monitored with
rigorous postmarketing surveillance.
They also claimed a robust safety net
that would handle what they said were
rare and mostly mild injuries with
monitoring, followup, and financial aid.
After my own vaccine injury, I learned
the hard way that nothing could be
farther from the truth.
In my own battle to restore my health, I
could not find a single reliable source
of information from the CDC, from the
FDA, or the NIH.
Further, answers did not come from
medical teams, the media, or even
medical journals. Rather, the answers
were being pieced together by tens of
thousands of vaccine injured patients
huddled together in social media based
support groups who are constantly
fighting for their right to simply
exist.
You will hear today a great deal about
myocarditis,
maternal female maternal fetal
complications and blood clotting
disorders after the co 19 shots. I hope
to talk more about the neurological
adverse events to the co vaccines. These
are the most common adverse event to the
co shots. I am now co-chair of React 19
which is a national science-based
non-political
nonprofit that represents over 36,000
Americans seriously injured by the CO 19
shots. Our mission is to provide
financial, physical, and emotional
support. This gives me a unique
perspective to share the collective
experience of those who have been harmed
not just by the co 19 vaccines
themselves but also by the US
government.
React 19 surveyed our 36,000 members
asking if the FDA takes vaccine injured
injuries seriously. 100%
said false. Not even one person voted
favorably. The vaccine injured share a
uniform story.
We did our duty for our country became
injured, disabled or died.
We further reported to VERS and Vsafe
repeatedly contacted our elected elected
officials and applied to the
countermeasures injury compensation
program or CICP
only to face silence from the VES no
response from VFE ghosting by our own
representatives and a 98% rejection rate
from the CICP.
The many cries for help were ignored.
Some were studied at the NIH in a
program under Dr. Fouchy where they were
diagnosed with vaccine complications but
never disclosed to the public despite
promises that the NIH would do so
privately. The agents said, the agencies
said neurological conditions needed
early recognition and treatment while
publicly they remained silent and often
denying that they were even treating
vaccine injuries. Rather, they promoted
boosters and high safety claims while
the White House directed social media to
censor quote true stories of vaccine
injury end quote. Relegating NIH
confirmed injuries into silence. that
silence by health authorities, elected
representatives, and even our White
House has resulted in in even more
severe health outcomes and worse for
many, death. The PREP Act shields drug
companies from injury liability and
strips Americans of their constitutional
right to due process and jury trial.
This liability shield places the
responsibility squarely on the US
government to address this crisis. Our
constitutional rights must be replaced
with effective safety monitoring and
compensation.
Today, these programs are dismal
failures. Congress must urgently reform
these failing systems or remove itself
as a middleman and repeal the PREP act.
An analysis of clinical trial data
showed that for every
shows that for every 800 people
vaccinated, one suffers a serious
adverse event. We are here today to end
the silence for the one in 800.
It is time to stop politicizing vaccine
injuries and start building
meaningful recognition,
research, competent care, and fair and
just compensation.
At React 19, we say we're we've had
negative reactions, but we're about
seeking positive actions. I will not
stop until these humanitarian goals are
met. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Daser Wscock. Our next
witness is Dr. are Mr. Erin Siri. Miss
Siri is the managing partner of Siri and
Glimstad with over 85 professionals. He
has handled numerous high-profile cases
involving challenges to medical
mandates, restoring exemptions, uh
agency transparency, including forcing
FDA to release the CO 19 vaccine lensure
documents and deposing immunologists,
infectious disease doctors, and
vaccinologists. Mr. Siri,
>> good afternoon.
>> Good afternoon. Thank you. Um yeah, our
our vaccine practice I believe which has
over 40 professionals I doesn't
represent pharmaceutical companies I
believe is the largest vaccine practice
in the world. When we litigate vaccine
cases we cannot rely on credentials or
fancy titles.
We have to prove our claims with high
impact data and sources. For example, I
saw a slide put up that showed 3 million
lives were saved from CO 19 vaccines.
The citation to it was to the
Commonwealth Fund. If you follow that,
that's not a peer-reviewed study. That's
a blog. It's a blog that used a
mathematical model to calculate that 3
million lives were saved. So, I agree
with uh uh the senator Blumenthal that
who said, you know, quote, claims
made, I think you meant vaccines, we
need to examine the evidence. And that's
an example of that. We need to look
carefully at the evidence we are relying
upon when we are making claims about
vaccines. I don't think that if I went
into court and I was relying on a blog
that use a mathematical model, I would
be laughed out of court if I was making
those claims about vaccines. But
unfortunately, when it comes to
promoting vaccines, well, that's what we
often see. The underlying data is not
typically really carefully evaluated.
Claims about what vaccines do when
they're positive because our health
agencies are responsible promoting them
easily made. Claims that vaccines cause
any harms or injuries often get ignored
no matter how good the underlying data.
I also heard that deaths sharply
declined
in 2021.
Well, when you look at all cause
mortality in the United States, deaths
in 2021 went up compared to 2020. And
presumably most of the most frail, the
weak among us died in 2020 from COVID.
We should have had a reduction in all
cause mortality in United States. We did
not. And those numbers are you can't
argue with. They're binary. You're
either dead or you're alive. You can
argue whether the vaccine killed you or
didn't kill you. Whether CO killed you
or didn't kill you. But it's can't argue
with all cause mortality. And we did not
have a reduction in all cause mortality
in 2021. We had an increase. And we
really need to answer that question. We
have sent many letters to our federal
health officials trying to get an answer
to that. With that said, not only do we
need to carefully study the data and
science before we go and litigate our
vaccine cases because again, I don't
have a MD or a PhD or an M. PH um we
also need to understand the economic and
regulatory framework around vaccines and
co 19 vaccines did not just fall into a
vacuum they fell into a very
welldeveloped regulatory and economic
framework for vaccines that has
developed over the last 40 years for
every product on the market you can sue
the manufacturer for harm for design
defect claims meaning the claim that the
product could have made safer I mean
literally look around this room planes
cars pharmaceutical drugs everyone
there's only one product in America you
cannot not sue the manufacturer for
design claim to claim that it could have
been made safer and that are vaccines I
heard uh you know injections vaccines my
definition of vaccine is any product for
which the government needs to give it
immunity from harms to me that's what a
vaccine is cuz some in prevent infection
some don't that's what a vaccine is
meaning it can't survive without that
immunity apparently why did vaccines get
this immunity um which was provided in
1986 under the national childhood
vaccine injury act because leading up to
86 there only three routine childhood
vaccines MMR OPV and DTP and they were
causing so much harm and causing so much
liability that that uh all the
manufacturers were going out of business
to stop making them and Congress instead
of forcing those manufacturers to do
what every other product manufacturer
needs to do in that situation which is
what make a better safer product instead
said you know what we're just going to
give you imunity we're going to make it
so nobody can sue you for those harms
and you can keep selling your product to
the American public no matter how many
children, it kills or injures.
Um and the the issue is that that
immunity was not just given for those
three products. It was given for any
childhood vaccine, routine child vaccine
that was developed thereafter. Um and
and I I sell you this not to take issue
with childhood vaccines, but to explain
to you the regulatory framework in which
vaccines have developed over the last 40
years. We have now gone from three
injections in the first year of life
under the CDC schedule in 86 to 29
injections including in uterero. If a
child follows a CDC schedule today,
every one of those vaccines, save one,
was developed by a pharmaceutical
company knowing they would not be
responsible for the injuries that are
caused by those products. So, when you
have drug trials where pharmaceutical
companies they care about losing money,
they don't want to lose money on their
drugs. They often do multi-year placebo
control trials before they get on the
market because they don't want to end up
upside down. They're there to make
money. But with vaccine products because
they don't have that financial
incentive, they have the actually the
disincentive. Almost every childhood
vaccine in this country is licensed
based on clinical trials with often with
no placebo control say for COVID 19
vaccine. Often days or weeks up to maybe
six months of safety review after
injection and are often extremely
underpowered. Those trials could never
have really confirmed the safest
product. And my submission to this
committee laid out every single vaccine
and put them in detail. I I will um
since I'm running out of time, I'll just
wrap up by saying this. Um
um
you might say, well, okay, the
pharmaceutical companies did that, but
why would cong why would the FDA allow
it? It's because unfortunately our
federal health authorities are
hopelessly conflicted. Congress gave
them conflicting structural duties.
They're responsible for promoting
vaccines and for defending them in the
vaccine compensation program. And you
also asked them to be responsible for
safety. those conflict. one has
overtaken the other and and and for the
most part based on our over 2004
requests to federal health agencies over
the years on behalf of our client I can
I could tell you our federal health
agencies act like partners with pharma
they don't they they don't they're not
only they encourage their inroads they
act basically in the shoes of pharma
because when the immunity to liability
was given to the pharmaceutical
companies congress recognized that
apparently and transferred all the
safety functions to HHS and the mandate
for safer child vaccines
and by doing so it's made them
hopelessly conflicted. Um that was very
very quick way to try and convey uh the
regulatory and economic framework into
which co 19 vaccines fell into um and
why you know from the pharmaceutical and
FDA's perspective the co 19 vaccine
clinical trials may have been robust and
they were compared to childhood vaccines
but compared to drugs or anybody that
actually wants to assess safety they
absolutely were not robust. They were
incredibly anemic. And as for posture,
regulators didn't do their jobs, but
really they acted like pharmaceutical
companies seeking to cover up harms and
avoid reputational damage and financial
liability. I hope this hearing can help
begin the process of changing that.
Thank you, and I apologize for going
over on my time.
>> Y thank you, Mr. Siri. Our final witness
is Governor and Doctor. I've always
found senators like to be called doctor
if they are one. So, Governor and Dr.
Josh Green. Governor Green is the ninth
governor of Hawaii. He earned his
degrees in biology and anthropology from
Swarm Swathmore College and an MD from
Penn State's College of Medicine. Dr.
Green served two terms in the Hawaii
House of Representatives, three terms in
the Hawaii State Senate, and a term as
Lieutenant Governor during which he was
the state's point person addressing the
COVID pandemic. Dr. Green was the
elected governor in December 2022.
Governor Green,
>> thank you, Chair Johnson. Uh, thank you
so much for welcoming me. Thank you, um,
Ranking Member Blumenthal. Thank you,
senators. Uh, first of all, I'm coming
to you as a physician.
When I speak as a doctor, I'm here to
say that vaccines save lives. Period. I
care about saving lives. You care about
saving lives. Everyone in this room, I
believe, cares about saving lives. But
I've seen firsthand children dying from
the spread of preventable diseases
because of vaccine skepticism,
because people lose faith. Uh, I've seen
the lives of some children in one house
who are vaccinated live while children
in the house next door who have not been
vaccinated die. And we saw a lot of this
during CO. I want to tell you a little
bit about my co experience as the co
liaison in my state, state of 1.4
million people.
And let me uh preface this by saying we
worked very closely with President Trump
and his team. And then subsequently as
Lieutenant Governor, I was able to work
very closely with President Biden and
his team. And I appreciate them both. I
appreciate that President Trump using
Operation Warp Speed got us a
vaccination in an extraordinary time. We
were desperate as healthcare providers.
I worked as an emergency room physician
virtually every single weekend for 20
plus years, including through the whole
pandemic. And this is what I saw. I saw
people dying of terrible disease when
they caught the delta variant of COVID
especially. I saw people
recover
better when they had been vaccinated. In
Hawaii, we had the lowest mortality rate
in the country. We had the highest
vaccination rate in the country. People
have asked me in the course of the prep
for this uh hearing, well, is Hawaii
safer because it's a tropical island
state? No, actually it's quite the
contrary. We had CO coming from east in
Asia where it originated and west
travelers from the mainland. But we put
together programs based on science. Day
by day I counted case after case after
case because there was so much
uncertainty. And I was able to share in
our state where we had infectious
disease doctors, where we had extra need
for ventilators, where we had extra need
for vaccinations where the rates were
lower. and day by day working with all
the healthc care providers in my state
and listening to others not mandating
I'm not a mandate guy that may come as a
surprise to some today we were able to
make sure that we had a science-based
response we put together a safe travels
program which tested anyone coming into
the islands so they wouldn't travel or
that they would isolate quarantine if
they were positive so they wouldn't
spread the disease and over time we had
the experience that no one else had saw
death rates constantly lower than all
the other states with the single
exception of Vermont on occasion.
I tell you this because we have to
follow science and I truly believe that
we can't politicize science or
vaccinations or any of these public
health matters and it's very important
going forward. This is where we should
unite with one another. We should heal
our country together in this space. Now
another experience I had uh measles
I was the doctor that was asked to go to
Samoa when they had their outbreak of
measles. Why did they have their
outbreak? because they lost faith in the
vaccination program. And it was tragic.
The Children's Health Defense went there
and they scared people after tragedy.
Admittedly, it should have never
happened. I had children die in my arms
who were not vaccinated but died of
measles. This beautiful boy was with me
and a pediatrician. Dr. Nadine Tanala
had a terrible case of the measles and
some of his relatives passed away from
the disease. But we went there and we
vaccinated 37,000 individuals in 48
hours and the measles just stopped. And
I say this because this is what we have
to look forward to in the future if we
somehow fall into a place where we don't
believe in vaccinations any longer and
we shouldn't do it blindly. We should
study them. We should check for safety.
Absolutely that is essential in science.
But these vaccinations save lives. They
saved many lives during co in my state.
They saved over 10,000 lives. We
anticipated mass casualties which we
never saw because we fought this disease
uh with great intelligence and great
acumen.
I will tell you this there are lots of
things to share today. Protests
resonated through the co experience in
my state. People protested at my home
around my family. But the leader of the
protests ultimately after I was worried
that he would catch COVID did exactly
that. Ended up in grave grave peril. His
wife was in the intensive care unit. His
name was Wickoff. He later later
disavowed the protests against the
vaccinations after seeing individual
after individual after individual be
intubated and go into the ICU because he
experienced it. And that's what we as
physicians see too often once a tragedy
occurs. And my heart is with everyone
who had any kind of reaction to the
vaccines that we're talking about or
loses a loved one. Of course, we love
our our fellow mankind, but we cannot
turn away from science. So, these are
some of the things I wanted to share
with you today. Ultimately, we have to
decide whether we're going to be
committed to public health in our
country. And right now, we are in great
peril. It is absolutely my firm belief
that vaccines have saved millions of
lives over the last 50 years, 150
million by many people's accounts. It's
decreased infant mortality by 40%
globally. And we have to continue to
commit ourselves in this way. So I'm
concerned. I'm concerned that as we end
up in a politicized discussion that we
will move away from science. We will not
trust one another experts. We will not
trust one another and we will end up in
conflict. So what I would say is this.
Let's work together. Let's find a way to
actually find the common ground to
protect our children. Let's find a way
to make sure our public health system
remains intact, not taken apart by the
current approach where HHS is
jettisoning many of its people, many of
the billions of dollars, perhaps many of
the vaccinations. This is our
opportunity to come together. And I'm
sure we'll talk more about this as the
hearing goes on, but I'll say one last
time, vaccines save lives. I've given
vaccines. I've taken vaccines. I've
treated people that didn't get vaccines
and it's broken my heart when they've
passed away.
>> Thank you, Governor Green. Um, quick
comment.
I'm not aware anybody on my side of this
issue has politicized it. The accusation
is always that we are. We're not. Um,
you did state, by the way, 10,000 lives
saved in Hawaii. I would love to have
your citation on that. So, if you can
give us a study so we can put that in
the record. and any other citation give
us on the millions of lives saved by
vaccines as well. I mean I'd like again
I want to know the truth. Just real
quick I've got a couple other charts I
want to put up there. Uh this is a chart
a lot of people produced it.
>> Chairman if I could just interrupt for
10 seconds over here. Sure.
>> Uh is today's just a point of order. Are
we talking about vaccines or are we
talking about the COVID vaccine?
>> Well specifically we were talking about
the the hiding of the safety signal on
myocarditis.
>> So we're not talking about all vaccines.
>> We can talk about anything you want to.
Okay. I mean, again, it has obviously
opened up because we're also talking
about the corruption of science and I
think science has been corrupted. Uh, so
fair game. So again, I appreciate you
staying here and stick around and ask a
lot of questions. I think you'll learn
an awful lot. Put my time back on the
clock. No, I'll keep take whatever I
want. This is a chart. This is a chart
again. I I started I was looking at the
veers. You know, I had been I had been
>> Mr. Chairman, that's not the way I ran
this sub. I had been well this is a
different different again I'll be very
generous okay um I was I was actually
instructed as a non-d doctor what the co
injections were encapsulated in lipid
nanop particle that was designed to
permeate difficult to permeate barriers
so they lied to us when they said they'd
stay in the arm they knew it wouldn't
they had a study uh the Japanese
regulators uncovered that when they did
do a biodistribution study in rats it
distributed all over the
So that was the first lie. Didn't really
talk about too much about the toxicity
yet of the of the lipid nanoparco, but
it goes all over the body. So I was I
was aware and again that this was not a
standard vaccine. This isn't a you know
attenuated or dead virus that the body
reacts to. This actually hijacks the
cell tells
has the cell produce the spike protein
which is toxic to the body which means
the body attacks. Again, I'm a layman,
but it's pretty simple for me to
understand this. So, I was aware of this
like in October. So, I'm watching and so
I'm I'm publishing these charts and I'm
being censored. I see the next chart,
chart number two. This is the full
history of Veayers and the number of
deaths being reported associated with
the vaccine. You got you got a couple
hundred a year until 2021 and yikes
21,725
deaths worldwide.
Why? And everybody's saying, "No, this
is safe and effective." You know, the
the the vaccine injured were being
gaslit. They weren't being treated.
They're still being gas lit there. There
is no, by the way, there is no
compassion. Governor, I could fill this
room with photos of people who are dead
because of the COVID injection. I could
fill the room and that is being deni
that is being denied. It is being denied
and these people haven't been able to
get help. I held an event in Milwaukee
in June 2019 and 2021 and all the
vaccine injured those women all they
wanted was to be seen and heard and
believed and they are not to this day.
Okay. So again, they're not the ones
politicizing. They just want to they
just want to be helped. They want
compassionate doctors to treat them to
recognize what caused their illness, not
gaslight them, not deny that it exists.
But anyway, so you take a look at this
chart and they're they're still denying
that this nothing to see here. This is
safe and this is effective. Okay, next
chart. This this is the current vey
chart. 38,67
deaths reported worldwide associated
with the COVID injection. And we know
veyers dramatically understates
what
by by a factor of 10 100. We know it
understates it. 9,228 of those deaths
occurring and the day of vaccination the
one or two days. Okay, I know theirs
doesn't prove causation, but man, that's
a correlation we should have been
looking at, but they ignored and they
censored. Um,
but enough of that. Dr. Dr. McCullik,
please I I in my layman's terms, I just
kind of laid out the the harmful
mechanisms of this injection. Can can
you and Dr. Vaughn because I think
you've both spoken to this. Again, in
layman's terms, talk about why this
caused so much harm in so many different
ways because of the biodistribution. Dr.
McCullik,
80% of Americans took a vaccine. 20%
didn't.
20% did not take a vaccine. The vaccine
was never safe enough for me to take.
Messenger RNA devised by Fiser Madna has
been chemically modified to be
unassalable to enzymes in the body to be
broken down. The messenger RNA is found
in the human heart of people who die
after the vaccine. It's found in the
brain. The spike protein is found
everywhere in the body.
Three studies now show the spike protein
is circulating in the blood for six to
nine months after people take the shot.
This part of the virus, the lethal part
of the virus in the vaccinated, it's
circulating in the blood and then they
take a booster, they get more
circulating in the blood. It is a killer
protein. It cannot be safe. It was not
safe by design.
Safety trumps efficacy. We cannot
tolerate false drug claims. And we saw a
poster behind Senator Blumenthal making
a false drug claim that vaccines saved
millions of lives, specifically the
COVID vaccine. Well, let's take a look
at that. When someone signs consent for
a vaccine, Senator Blumenthal, does the
consent form say it's going to save
their lives? Of course it doesn't. It's
not on the FAQ. There's never been a
prospective randomized double blind
placebo control trial ever showing that
CO 19 vaccines reduce mortality or
hospitalization. There's not even a
valid non-randomized study. Thankfully,
CO mortality went down for three
reasons. Because we all got the
infection vaccinated and unvaccinated.
So, we developed population natural
immunity. We developed early treatment.
Credit to Operation Warp Speed. We used
all the operation wars speed tools,
additional drugs. We treated patients
with multi-drug protocols at home. So
they don't go to the ER. So Governor
Green never saw the patients we treated
because they were successfully treated
at home. And the third reason is the
virus mutated to a much milder form.
Those things happen concurrently with
roll out of the vaccine. The vaccine
cannot be falsely credited with saving
millions of lives. We can't allow false
drug advertising to be put up on a
poster behind one of our public
servants. We cannot accept that.
>> So, let me quick
and I will have a lot more I will have a
lot more questions. uh put up my last
that optional chart number four here
because I think this uh this is
something I developed uh well September
2021 and this shows the number of daily
cases of COVID and you see it's peaking
in January you know right as we're
rolling out the vaccine but we really
haven't injected with anybody if if
by the time we had any kind of
significant uptake of the vaccines we
were way down in terms of the number of
daily cases. I mean, this this virus was
burning itself out. Okay. Now, we had
different variants. Again, I've read a
lot of information about vaccination
into the midst of a pandemic driving
variance. Is that what happened? I don't
know. But you would think if a vaccine
were that effective, the tale would just
continue and the pandemic would be over.
But that's not what happened. We had a
whole new surge and this is Delta and
doctors I talked to a very deadly,
probably a more deadly. Would you agree
with that, Dr. McCullik? Delta wasn't
more deadly. I know you guys were kind
of freaking out that your early
treatment wasn't working as well.
>> It it was definitely more more difficult
to treat, but fortunately by that time
we had treatments.
>> But I just wanted to put this thing up
here again. If again to a layman if the
vaccine really worked, was that
efficacious, you know, prevent all that
disease. By the way, they all admitted
that it didn't prevent transmission.
They lied to us about that four four
months if maybe a year. Then they
finally had it didn't prevent
transmission. Um, but again, this this
chart right here just shows you that if
the vaccine really would have worked,
you wouldn't have had this. You wouldn't
have had this. But I'll turn it over to
Senator Blumenthal.
>> Thanks, uh, Mr. Chairman. And, uh, I
think we'll try to certainly stay within
our seven minutes so our colleagues
>> Yep.
>> uh, can have their their day of
questioning. But
>> again, we we'll have second, third,
fourth rounds. I mean, this we'll we'll
use up the time of this hearing room.
Um,
you know, the the debate here seems to
be about the efficacy of CO 19,
but the central issue that brings us
here today is the allegation that there
was purposeful concealment
of knowledge
and evidence. And I just want to make
the point, I may be sounding a little
bit like a lawyer, not a physician, but
purposeful concealment, intentional
hiding
is essentially undocumented by the
evidence released by this report itself.
In fact, the documents released by the
majority today show that public health
officials took multiple steps in the
spring of 2021 to make health care
providers aware
of those rare they were rare reports of
myocarditis among vaccine recipients. On
May 14th,
almost two weeks before the CDC decided
to issue clinical considerations
rather than a han
on myocarditis,
which is, by the way, the primary piece
of evidence that the majority
sites in this so-called cover up. The
CDC's National Center of Immunization
and Respiratory Disease sent an email to
state and local health departments
around the country entitled, quote,
"Monitoring reports of myocarditis
end quote." The email noted risks and
contained a reminder that providers were
obligated to report cases.
5 days later, they sent out a follow-up
email urging recipients to let providers
in their region know of risks and
reminding them once again of the
obligation to report cases. I have two
emails here who that are in the majority
report. They're available to the public.
Uh I ask that they be made a part of the
record, Mr. Chairman.
>> Objection.
>> Uh I'm not going to read them. They're
for everyone to see. Uh one begins with
I would like to flag a message we sent
out late Friday night. I encourage you
to forward this important message about
vaccine safety and reporting. And it
goes on warnings.
Far from a cover up,
these public health officials were
trying to alert
scientists, doctors, the public about
the potential side effects.
Mr. Siri and I are both travelers
and
issuing that kind of warning is far from
evidence of trying to hide or conceal
something. You can say
they were wrong somehow, but intentional
cover up is not within the realm of the
plausible allegations here.
So, um I think we need to be really
clear and careful
when we start uh discrediting scientists
or public health officials. Uh, I'd like
to ask
uh, Governor Green,
uh, can you tell us how, as a physician,
publicly funded research,
which is being cut by this
administration,
is important to establish
not only new vaccines, but also the
safety and efficacy of ongoing use of
vaccines.
Thank you, uh, Senator. So, uh, as
governors, we rely on funding to do so
many things from the federal government
and cuts to research will be
devastating. You can't just simply pause
research and wait until uh different
ideology resumes uh governing or until
we get through these hearings and we
restart uh critical research projects.
We will lose ground on this science and
the science that benefits from it. The
R&D that goes forward, we've all been
very supportive for decades of advanced
scientific research. Sometimes it
happens through the military, sometimes
through our universities. We are in deep
trouble if we stop the research
component of our commitment to our
people. We will also be in grave danger
if we don't do the public health
assessment uh in our states in our rural
areas because we will not even know what
we're being affected by. We will be
blind to the diseases that roll through
our communities whether it's chronic
disease or acute disease u from an
infection like this. And I just I just
need to um address a couple um
statements that I feel are
misconceptions, you know, and I'm not
judging. I I feel that there is a
misconception that the COVID vaccination
didn't decrease the severity of disease.
That is what it did. It decreased the
severity and I saw this clinically and
we saw this from a public health
standpoint. It decreased the severity of
what people were facing. So they didn't
die or they died at a much lower rate.
And you can see that in the charts that
we've seen, but through looking at them
through a different lens, the exact same
charts when the when the death rates
dropped because people had begun to
develop immunity because their immune
systems were responding to the
vaccination. And in fairness, we could
debate the the language, but even some
of of the individuals that are also
testifying with me here today referred
repeatedly to the mRNA vaccination
because it was putting these particles
into people and then the immune system
was responding to them. And so I do feel
that it's a vaccination. But be that as
it may, we ultimately saw the ability to
stop the severe and deadly cases in our
hospitals. And so there are many ways to
view vaccinations. There's many ways to
view treatments. And they're all
valuable. Uh some for some vaccinations
straight up stop infection from
occurring. That's the case uh when we
talk about measles. You know measles
measles ms rebella. when you get that
vaccine, you really prevent the spread
uh to a great degree. And it was
commented earlier that u we were
misleading or we were being misled by
others on what uh the vaccinations uh
were doing and what the information was
that was being shared. Well, let me tell
you what it was like during that period.
And we all saw it. There was a great
deal of confusion because the unknown
was so enormous. And to the credit of
scientists and to the credit of those
who uh invested in the research at again
extreme speed and extreme dollars, we
were able as a nation and a global
community to find our way to something
that helped us. Now, of course, there
were some tragic outcomes and again, not
a single case should ever be dismissed,
uh, minimized. No one should be impuged.
But the grander picture of a vaccination
program is to protect all and to find a
way to protect people so that they can
also help protect the people around
them. which is why the research is
important, the spending is important,
why I'm very concerned about the
announcement yesterday that we will only
be recommending vaccinations for people
over 65 or those with chronic disease
because couple points. One, first of
all, and I'm sure many of you had this
experience, uh the chairman mentioned
going to Sworthmore College, which was
my alma mater. The president of our
class named Nick Nick Jazdan, 51 years
old, unvaccinated because the vac
vaccinations were not yet available.
Healthy, a marathon runner, died of a
COVID infection. He was a prominent uh
writer, an extraordinary human being,
but utterly healthy. And that may have
been of course more rare than an 82 year
old or or a 91y old contracting COVID
and dying. But it does happen. He is an
individual that would have been
vaccinated immediately when given the
opportunity. And also the reasons that
we were able to avoid so many
unnecessary deaths in a very difficult
to treat state where we have one, two,
three, sometimes four generations of
people living under the same roof with
one provider. The challenge there is if
we suddenly can't vaccinate teenagers or
people who are 28 years old and are the
breadwinners for their community and we
have another pandemic or we have this
outbreak worsen again, they will come
home with the disease and very likely
spread it to those who are vulnerable.
And so I'll pause there. I just say that
we should give people choice and we
should honor and respect their stories,
but we have to do the research.
>> But their stories haven't been honored
or respected. Our our next question will
be Senator Kim.
>> Yeah. Thank you,
Governor. I guess I I just would like to
stay with you here for a sec because I
think you have an interesting
perspective as someone who's both um a
doctor as well as a elected public
official in an executive position. And
I'm trying to, you know, digest the
information that I'm hearing here and
thinking about how to talk about it to
my constituents back in New Jersey. And
if they're watching this, you know, I
think that a lot of this is beyond what
the average person understands. It's
beyond what I understand in terms of the
fullness of what happens in terms of our
health system.
So from your experience, Governor, you
know, when the when these cases come
forward, you know, the these cases that
Dr. McCullik and and others have have
raised, you know, in terms of these
concerns, what's supposed to kick in?
You how does this system work? you know,
you've talked about this saying that,
you know, we have a robust
system for safety. Um, that the system
is designed to monitor, identify, and
transparently report possible side
effects to review. Can you explain to to
me and and my constituents, you know, h
how this unfolds and what to expect?
>> Yes, thank you, Senator. So the way it
it should work is that we totally
support science and we support public
health so that we are able in labs and
in public health offices to take in the
concerns, the complaints, the vignettes,
the data and analyze it thoroughly. And
uh to the chairman's uh concern, I'm
sure some people were not listened to or
they felt not listened to and that
should never happen. That is one of the
great challenges of our modern time
where we're talking past one another
where when people are spreading um their
stories anonymously sometimes they're
spread in ways that are not really even
from the individual who's suffering
themselves. There are great challenges
but we have to have this robust system
and how do you talk to people? How did I
talk to people in my state? And many
people feel that we had the u most uh
positive and and um effective strategy
to to deal with COVID was because we did
something very simple. It was partially
uh accidental in the early days of
COVID. I started a whiteboard and
ultimately tens then hundreds of
thousands of people followed this
whiteboard and just so people know that
it wasn't didn't have bias implicit or
otherwise. It didn't have partisanship.
I just put the actual numbers that we
had to the minute of how many cases that
day, how many people were vaccinated,
how many beds we had, how many intensive
care unit beds uh were available, how
many ventilators were available each
facility, how many infectious disease
doctors, and so on. So that if someone
truly didn't believe CO was a threat and
some people felt that way, they could
just look at the data and decide for
themselves how they would respond in
their lives. This is how you talk to
your constituents about something that's
this disconcerting, in fact terrifying.
And we just showed day after day after
day in a brief brief uh moment sometimes
90 seconds exactly what we had as the
best data long before we had these very
complex uh reports from John's Hopkins
or USC or other universities. Okay.
Before we had that, we had our capacity
in our state to share with our people
what we were dealing with. And so what
happened? Now, people could argue about
this, but I will tell you that I believe
we had far more people get vaccinated
because I just shared exactly what we
were experiencing. And I'll tell you, I
look back at some of those early reports
and I I sometimes shudder a little bit
because we learned so much, which is
what happens with science during one of
these crisis. You learn as you go. There
were times as you know that we didn't
have the right recommendations on masks
and we of course could debate that in
this room I'm sure but we gave our best
scientific data and our best
experiential data and that's how you
talk to people and yes you you never
tell people that they are not valued and
you never just dismiss their stories and
I'm positive I or others have been
guilty of that in the moment and we
shouldn't be but we also should not
demonize one another and when we in my
family ultimately had protesters which
did to a large degree cross some lines
when they some people were um just
communicating with me other people I
have to be honest with you some people
wrote swastikas on the on signs that
were next to my home certainly my
father's Judaism had nothing to do with
my COVID response but I can tell you
that sometimes because people were
traumatized and I understood how scared
they were and I understood what they
were hearing out there. But that's how
you talk to people. And if we do that
after not and I'm and I have to be
honest about this, if we don't
systematically dismantle our public
health system, we'll be okay. We will
find common ground. Even though I I
suspect that there are some pretty
significant differences between me and
some of the other testifiers on what we
would do with the next pandemic, we
would actually be able to still move
forward together.
>> Yeah. I mean, I think, you know,
something you said earlier, I thought
stuck out to me, the sense of that, you
know, no one should be ignored. I think
that's a principle I hope everyone here
can agree upon that we I think they
always have space for more transparency.
Um, but also just keeping in mind that
broader context. I mean, as you're
saying, you know, here are the
challenges that that we're facing when
it comes to this system and how we can
work on it. And certainly I can imagine
your experience whether on addressing
COVID or in Samoa you know certainly
that becomes more difficult to to fully
enact this monitor identify trans and
the transparency report you know when
you're in the middle of a crisis when
you're in the middle of the chaos you
know that's something I think we can try
to do to improve to the point that was
raised earlier I think a lot of this
also says like this this is a reason why
we need to invest in capacity invest in
personnel people working in our
government to do this and and as opposed
to cutting back on staff and and trying
to say that we need simultaneously more
transparency when that becomes all the
more difficult. But I mean, look, I
understand and I've had people in my
life that have been ignored and and not
believed, whether that's, you know, my
time as a diplomat before and people I
know come struggling with Havana
syndrome and people telling them I don't
believe you and other issues that are
out there. Um, but we should always have
that system in place and and that's what
I just hope we can come back to. I mean,
I get it. I'm I'm new on this committee
and I understand and I'm seeing, you
know, a year's worth of of back and
forth that are coming here. But someone
who's coming with some fresh eyes, you
know, I hope that we can try to
cultivate that sense of of trust that I
know has been so deeply wounded. Um,
because I worry about what comes next.
you know, I worry about how we deal with
the next diseases, the next pandemics,
how we try to move forward and
understand how this technology of of
mRNA and others try to move forward on.
So, I just appreciate, you know, being
able to hear this all and and I try to
figure out how best I can be able to
relate to the people in New Jersey
around this country about the safety of
the co vaccines that I have seen be able
to save lives, but also be able to sure
that we won't ignore people if they have
other concerns and we do our best to be
as transparent as possible and to be
careful of of accusations of personal
malfeasants uh especially with some of
our public servants. um in terms of
whether or not they were intentionally
withholding information or not, we need
to be very careful about those
accusations on this committee. And with
that, I'll yield back.
>> I will say we are just seeing the tip of
the iceberg here and you will see more
evidence. Trust me, Senator Marino.
>> Well, first of all, thank you uh
chairman for putting on this hearing.
I'm going to focus on let's just stick
to CO 19 and CO 19 policies. Let's not
get to let's not get into this
conversation about uh vaccines at large.
Dr. McCulla, do you feel that you were
listened to in 2021?
Did you feel ignored?
Our November 19th, 2020 hearing done for
Homeland Security, governmental affairs
was very lightly attended by our
senators who are working for us. That's
a disappointment. It's disappointment.
There's chairs uh empty here.
our hearing was actively suppressed,
scrubbed off YouTube.
>> So just just so just so just to clarify,
not only were your viewpoints ignored,
you were called a conspiracy theorist, a
spreader of misinformation, somebody who
didn't know what they were doing by
people who didn't even take a science
class in high school, and yet you're a
doctor and you were completely ignored.
Let me ask you, uh, Dr. Vaughn, real
quick question. How many children under
the age of five years old died of COVID?
>> So very very few actually. Theoretically
a healthy child under five there wasn't
any.
>> So it's basically zero.
>> Yes. It's statistically zero.
>> Age of 10.
>> It's still statistically zero. When you
get when you get up into the when you
get up into the uh uh 15 16 I mean there
there is some
>> So under 15 none pretty much none.
>> Statistically. Yes.
>> All right. So, I'm confused because uh
Governor Green said he held the children
who would have died from COVID, but
that's crazy because evidently nobody
died of COVID who was under 15.
>> I we're talking about But see, that's
the confusion. See, when we talk about
co vaccines and then we stick in other
vaccines, we get off topic because co 19
wasn't about measles. Uh now, Dr. Thorp,
do you think good idea or bad idea that
you should close schools?
Bad idea.
>> Bad idea.
>> No. Why? I mean, kids can learn uh at
home, can't they?
>> They can learn very well at home. But at
school, uh they will have the
opportunity to develop natural immunity.
>> So, and school, well, by the way,
schools is where you socialize, you
learn your behaviors, you learn how to
meet other people. Because if we don't
believe in schools, the federal
government, state government can save a
lot of money. So, schools are important.
Let's just get that out of the way. So,
why would you close schools, which you
did, Governor,
when no children died of COVID? What
would make you make that decision? You
closed schools. And by the way, the
impact on that is generational. You
destroyed the lives. You and the other
governors that closed schools destroyed
the lives of children in doing that. So,
okay. I've got to got to tell the
audience, please notice my uh my respond
to the question for you. Yeah, I think
it was Well, first of all, I think you
misunderstand some of the value to uh
>> No, no, no. Why did you close schools?
>> Well, I'm going to I'm address that and
not filibuster me, please.
>> I'm not going to filibuster you. Uh
schools I did not want to close and you
did.
>> Actually, I was not governor at the time
and
>> but you were lieutenant governor and you
were the point person. Do you think the
governor made a mistake in closing
schools?
>> We reopened the schools as soon as he
made a mistake. If I made Can I answer
or is this the senator you're going to
filibuster?
>> No, no, you're going to answer my direct
question or just say I'm not going to
answer you.
>> Do you think it was a good idea, yes or
no? The two choices in this answer. Do
you think it was a good cho idea to
close schools? Simple answer. Just give
me a yes or a no.
>> As we as we had COVID surging through
our society because there was massive
spread from children to adults, we were
waiting to make sure the teachers
>> So, let me get So, let me get this
straight. You sacrifice the lives of
children because maybe they would spread
something that you don't know to adults.
You thought that was a good that's
>> No, that's not always Actually, it's
your your party that's trying to close
our schools and get rid of the
Department of Education. So, we have we
do have politicizing this hearing. Okay,
we're moving on.
>> You said my other governors that close
schools, which is a politicization of
>> when I'm in Hawaii and I'm having a
hearing before you, you can interrupt
me. When you're here before the United
States Senate, you're not going to
interrupt me. Moving on. So, here's
here's the next question for you. Uh,
show me the science that said that when
I walked into a uh an airport in Hawaii
and I wasn't uh uh I I didn't want to
tell you because it's none of your
business whether I had a COVID vaccine
or not or tested positive or not because
that's also none of your business.
Where's the science where I had to
quarantine for 14 days? Tell me the
science behind why you locked your
residents up and did not allow them to
go grocery shopping, why you closed your
beaches and your parks. I would love you
to put that science into this record
because you can give me the nice happy
talk, but those were terrible decisions.
And what co highlighted more than
anything else, by the way, it's why I'm
here. I ran for the United States Senate
not because I I I had this deep desire
to uh be a government politician, but
because I was so insensed by the
arrogance, by the ignorance, by the lack
of common sense among our elected
officials that we needed different kinds
of people here in Washington DC and
other places. So,
>> should I answer those questions,
chairman?
>> No, there was no question for you. That
was just
>> There were several questions. You asked
about why a 14-day quarantine. You asked
about Sure. What's the science? 14-day
quarant.
>> Not 12, not 16.
>> Actually, I asked for 5 days, just so
you know.
>> What was it? Was there dart board?
>> No, it was 5 days because that was the
amount of time from symptoms to
transmission.
>> So why 14?
>> The 14 day was was before we had the
>> So 14 wasn't scientific, just to be
clear.
>> 14 days was how long it took for people
to get over the disease. And people were
still shedding virus through that
period. And that's why you do use
science and I use science, but you
didn't like science for Hawaii. But but
we did but we did have the test and we
did have the test to enter Hawaii so
people could make a choice an informed
choice and they did and then they didn't
have to quarantine at all just to make
sure you know that because I think you
got your facts wrong and also I didn't
close the beaches that was the mayor of
Honolulu and not me. So just you know it
is important that you get the facts
right if you're going to be a political
official.
>> So it's what you're saying it wasn't me
it was the other guy.
>> No it was me who ran the co who ran the
co response.
>> Zero accountability. Dr.
>> I'll take more accountability if you
give me more time.
>> I'm done with you governor. Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
>> Uh, so Dr. McCulla, quick question for
you. Quick question for you. Just
completely objectively. Look, I went to
business school. I was not a doctor. Uh,
so I'm going to truly objective using
your most subjective here. Did the
vaccine stop the spread of COVID 19?
>> No.
>> So then let me ask you one simple
question. We'll go down the line. You
guys can answer. It would be my last
question.
So if COVID 19 did the the vaccine, the
injection did not stop the spread of
COVID, why is it that Joe Biden,
president of the United States, issued
an executive order, which was ruled
unconstitutional, by the way, that said
that if you worked for a company with
100 employees, because not 99,
100, that you would be fired
if you did not prove you didn't have a
COVID vaccine negative test or got
vaccinated.
Why would we have some decision like
that? How depraved do you have to be to
do that? Answer the question the way you
feel down the line. Go ahead. We'll
start with you, Mr. Stall. Dr.
>> Briefly,
>> my testimony on this issue went all the
way to the Supreme Court that overturned
four out of the five Biden mandates.
They were scientifically unggrounded.
They were sociologically
deranged and they caused great harm. To
this day, people are in court trying to
get their jobs back and trying to put
their lives together because of these
disastrous policies.
>> And and just to be clear, sorry,
chairman, nurses were included in that.
Correct. Healthcare workers. The ranking
member called them heroes.
It seems to me that when you have a
hero, you don't terminate their ability
to make money and have them fired
because they're making a personal
choice. Because see, ultimately, and
I'll end with this, ultimately, this is
what this is all about. See, I get to
get a choice if I'm going to get
vaccinated. And if it doesn't stop the
spread, it is none of any other human
being in this country's business what I
did or did not do. Would you agree
quickly?
>> 100%. And I think uh uh director Winsky
when she said of the science of hope uh
that is not science. Science is facts.
Hope is not science.
>> Thank thanks Senator Marino. Again,
please let's not express any uh emotion
out there in the in the audience. Uh Dr.
Walskco, I just have to go to you
because you have direct experience. I
almost feel like bringing up Brienne
Dress to talk about the concealment that
you
witnessed firsthand when it came to your
working with Bree's working with NIH
officials trying to do studies uh being
carried along with some with some
assurance that this was going to be
revealed to the public and it never was.
Just talk about that level of
concealment. Again, there's going to be
so much evidence of this if it hasn't
been destroyed. This this just the tip
of the iceberg what we're seeing here
with myocarditis. But but talk to what
you you and your fellow vaccine injured
who were dismissed, who were gas lit,
who were treated horribly. I mean,
horribly. When you came to the United
States Senate and asked to be
heard by senators and their staff, you
were treated. Describe describe how
you've been treated.
Well, thank you, Senator Johnson. So,
what I'd like to say is um being vaccine
injured in this country is is
unfortunately a huge polarizing event,
which it should never be. If I could
describe one word that I think all if
not most vaccine injured will say is
what's one word that describes your
experience after your injury and it's
abandonment. Okay, we get attacked. We
watch We walk a tight rope. We get
attacked from the right. The right say
we're stupid. We shouldn't have got a
shot. We should die. Okay, and I could
show you social media stuff. The left
says we're antivaxers. Which to me is
one of the most ignorant thing to say of
myself because all my children have been
vaccinated. I got vaccine injured
because I got vaccinated. But but still,
regardless, we get called antivaxers.
We report these to veres. Okay. Nothing
happens. I had an adverse event which
was, you know, delayed the Astroenica
trial in the United Kingdom, you know,
two times for three cases of transverse
myitis. I expected a call the day after.
Days passed, weeks passed. By 3 weeks, I
called the CDC myself and demanded, you
know, response. I always thought, oh,
I'd get this quick response and someone
would would help us. all of us that are
vaccine injured now
there is no there's no phone call coming
there's no help coming
we have repeatedly met and Brienne
Dressson who's my co-chair with reacting
have met with Peter Marx over and over
and over for the last you know for a
period of about two years we have been
plated we have been blown off we bring
up adverse events the neurological
adverse events we bring up the MIS which
is the multi-systemm inflammatory
syndrome we bring up the myocarditis is
he thanks us. He says he'll get back to
us. He never does. That went on to for
two years. So, so for people that think
it's this kumbaya where all people are
listening to us and people in these
federal agencies are trying to to help
it get to the bottom of it, it is the
farthest from the truth.
>> So, there have been a number of claims
made and I think there'll be continue to
be a number of claims made. I just ask
anybody making a claim um please provide
your citations you know please provide
you again respect the science let me see
the science I mean I'm being I'm very
genuine here let me see you know the
science behind that this actually
reduced the symptoms or this prevented
deaths or this prevented transmission uh
I would like to see the science um Dr.
Von, uh, you were really specializing in
the blood clots. You know, I've seen
video after video, picture after picture
of these long white blood clots in
autopsy. Um, we've we've also, you know,
throughout CO autopsies were really
discouraged. We we weren't seeking the
scientific truth. I see Dr. McCull have
you kind of answer that, but you know,
Dr. Dr. Von, first talk about talk about
the clotting we saw and and what you
know in terms of what was discovered
under autopsy.
>> Well, first of all, early in COVID the
spring of 2020, uh my collaborator Jacob
Lobster in South Africa was the first
one to kind of alert people to say that
this was primary primarily a vascular
disease, not a pulmonary disease. And
it's one of the reasons that ventilators
are probably one of the most ineffective
things you could have done to people
because if you have a vascular disease
of the lungs, increasing the
intrathoracic pressure just closes down
more vessels and ultimately kills them.
And what we also saw was if you went
into the hospital in the spring or
summer of 2020, you were twice as likely
to leave alive if you were already on a
blood thinner. Now, I will tell you most
of your friends that are on blood
thinners probably aren't healthier than
you. So it's kind of interesting to find
out that the people that were on blood
thinners had a protection. So again,
those were signals that were really
downplayed. Unfortunately, after a lot
of the treatment was codified by the
car's act, uh it it resulted in
basically a a protocol-based treatment
for inhos care.
>> As long as you start, can you anybody
describe remmes?
Anybody want to speak to that?
If if not, I'll I'll do that for another
hearing. I mean just the conflict of
interest of how that was being approved.
Uh yeah. So could okay wave off on that.
>> But but what we uniquely found and my
collaborators in South Africa Risha
Ptorius and Doug Kell at University of
Liverpool was that the spike protein was
able to induce fibrin from fibbrinogen
which is a fancy word for saying hey
forming the backbone of clotting but it
did it in a way that was different that
we had not seen. And it was what we
would similarly think of fibbrin as kind
of like spaghetti coming out of the
colander that you could pull apart when
you didn't need it. It was easy to break
down. But the actual clot that was
formed in COVID or from the spike
protein from the vaccine was like burnt
spaghetti casserole that you have to get
a brillow pad to get off the dish. And a
lot of people their issue is their
inability to break down that clotting
mechanism. We all need to clot, but we
all need to actually get rid of the
clot. And that is the problem.
>> That's pretty obvious. It was ignored.
Dr. Thorp, I'll get to you, but Dr.
McCullik, real quick,
>> quickly. In the last five years, I've
never treated as many blood clots in my
entire multiple decades of in clinical
practice as a cardiologist. The blood
clots occur after the infection with the
virus and the vaccine because the spike
protein causes blood clots. It's without
any controversy in medicine. The spike
protein causes blood clots. So it is
reckless and foolhardy to continue to
vaccinate people and load the body with
spike protein and cause more blood
clots.
>> Well, there were other parts of the
corona virus that they could have used
in the lipid nanop particle. I mean they
could have injected something else that
wasn't quite so toxic.
>> Yeah. And actually uh a paper in cell
July of 2021. It's called broad and
durable immunity from uh from basically
COVID. And what they found was the
nucleoprotein was actually the thing
that supplied broad and durable immunity
for actually prevention of infection.
Unfortunately, the spike protein did not
elicit that response. And as much as we
love this mRNA, you know, technology, it
seems like they sold it as something
that we could change on the dime as
information actually came to light. And
by July 2021, we knew the wrong pathogen
had the wrong protein had been picked.
Why didn't they change it?
>> That's a good question, Senator
Blumthal.
>> Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Vaughn,
uh, I noticed that you were careful when
you said that children didn't die of
COVID to say statistically.
>> Yeah.
>> Uh, which I appreciate. Uh, 1.2 2
million Americans died of COVID 19. Uh,
tragically, more than a thousand of
those deaths were children.
In fact, 700 were four years old or
younger.
And
I'm sure you will agree that those
deaths were
tragic. And most especially for the
families who will never be the same. Uh,
children were affected by CO.
There's no question that children
died. But equally important, the trauma
of CO affected
children, the fear and anxiety that
spread throughout their families.
You don't have to be a doctor.
>> Yeah.
>> To understand that point or a parent.
>> Yeah. I have a seven and nineyear-old
and it was a very interesting time. Uh
but in many ways
>> well interesting is a somewhat
euphemistic way of putting it. I'm sure
you'll agree but let let me just
>> uh point out that our entire society was
traumatized by co people were out of
school. We can argue about the merits of
whether they should have been, but it
has affected our entire society. And%
>> just so we are all on the same page
here, I'm in strong agreement that
schools are good. Kids should be in
school. Um, let me point out though
because we want to learn from history
here.
That when there are side effects, when
there are threats to public health,
there should be warnings. The public
should know. So should doctors and
researchers. And right now uh I'm
looking at a report from NPR. dated May
21 of this year, which describes the
effects of cutting back on the CDC's
capacity to warn
and says that many of the platforms,
quote, "Many of the platforms the CDC
used to communicate with the public have
gone silent." End quote. It says, quote,
"Many of the CDC's newsletters have
stopped being distributed. Workers at
the CDC say health alerts about disease
outbreaks previously sent to health
professionals subscribed to the CDC's
health alert network.
Han
haven't been dispatched since March.
I I understand the concerns that have
been expressed here
and let's learn from
scientific practice and
uh make sure that the Department of
Health and Human Services provides the
resources that are necessary to warn the
public. Um I want to ask um
Dr. Brown uh because you've talked about
both your experience in Samoa
in 2019
with a measles outbreak there which
eventually killed 83 people as I
understand it. Again, measles was
thought to be eliminated in the world.
Uh that outbreak was fueled by
misinformation about the measel science
spread by
a number of vaccine
doubters or skeptics including the now
secretary of health and human services
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That campaign
caused the vaccination rate against
measles in Somota drop from over 74% to
just 34% between 2017 and 2018.
Uh, do you see parallels between the
measles outbreak you helped to address
in Samoa and the one that we're now
seeing in Texas
that has reached 31 states in including
Hawaii and the
COVID 19 situation.
>> Thank Thank you, Senator. There are more
than parallels. It's just terrifyingly
similar. So what happened uh I'll give
you the brief version uh in Samoa was uh
prior to the outbreak. Prior to the
outbreak, uh, two children had been, uh,
given vaccinations and tragically uh,
there was human error and two nurses who
were later prosecuted uh, made a
mistake, a tragic mistake and they used
the wrong reagent uh, the fluid with the
vaccine and they vaccinated uh,
incorrectly. These two children and the
two children perished which is of course
tragic in every way and we always have
to help hold all healthcare people to
account. Now after that there was panic
and what happened uh in the months and
years thereafter was that human error
was not a vaccine flaw. It was a human
error and that information was then
spread incorrectly by um then Mr.
Kennedy before being Secretary Kennedy
and the Children's Health Defense and
that country and and their their
leadership told me this directly. They
received letters. There were stories all
across Samoa that uh this group of
people came and convinced them not to
vaccinate and they uh had a lot of
challenges with health literacy and they
stopped vaccinating. And then when you
get vaccination rates that are that low
and mind you we have this challenge
because we have 14 states, my state is
among them where the kindergarteners in
our states uh age five, sometimes age
six are at dangerously low vaccination
rates for measles.
When it gets that low, you're going to
see outbreaks. Unlucky. The the cases
could come from anywhere. They come from
overseas. They could come from within
our own country. But if you get below
95% and certainly below 90%, you see
these outbreaks. And then you have, you
know, one in five people end up in the
hospital. You have one in 20 with
pneumonas. You have encphylopathies. You
have all sorts of damage. So that's what
happened in Samoa. and and and to be
very direct and actually I want to be
generous here. There are many things
that um Secretary Kennedy is doing that
I support. I support his work on um some
of the questions about processed foods
and dyes and uh and environmental
toxins, things that I have believed for
decades and fought for as have many of
you probably. However, however, this is
so central to the public health of our
country that because we have vaccine
hesitancy and because when you fall
below 95% and particularly below 90% you
will see these outbreaks. So, we can
anticipate that we're going to have a
lot of outbreaks first of measles and
there's going to be fatalities and lots
of consequences. We're going to see
ptasus. God help us all if we start
seeing menitis or polio break out. These
are diseases that have been eradicated.
And so what I would say is I really
appreciate the chairman's focus on truth
and making sure there's transparency and
going through the record. I appreciate
that. I appreciate individuals who I
disagree with fighting for their voices.
But what I don't appreciate is when
there are individuals with no public
health training, whether it's a senator
or someone, it's one of our colleagues,
and they make a assertion to move away
from science and away from prevention
that has been proven that I take
deep concerns about. And that's what
happened in Samoa, killing 83 people. We
had to jump in and then that is what is
happening in Texas and a bunch of other
states. And I don't think there it would
be very interesting to ask all the
senators privately and congress people
and all of us if any of us could accept
that kind of spread of infectious
disease amongst the people that we love.
Even if even if we don't believe in
vaccinations, we certainly don't believe
in tragic outcomes, things that we can
prevent. And that's where I think we
should go as a country to heal.
>> Okay.
>> I'm going to interrupt just to say um I
apologize. I am the ranking member on
the Veterans Affairs Committee. There's
a separate hearing
beginning right now. I'm going to I have
more questions. I'm going to try to come
back, Mr. Chairman. Um and uh I
apologize. I'm going to have to leave.
Thank you.
>> Appreciate you coming. This is the part
I was actually looking forward to. Um
unplugged.
So, Governor
I'm just going to be honest with what
gets under my skin is how many times
those of us who've had a different
narrative on this or not a narrative but
just a different viewpoint on this. We
are always accused of ignoring science.
I I think I've been trying to follow it
quite closely. So again, I I will ask
you and we can go through your
testimony. Every time you've cited
something, we we will ask you to cite
the study that proves what you're
saying. Okay? So again, not really a
challenge, it's a request. I mean, I I
would ask that of all of you. Any of you
who have cited some study or some
opinion, back it up and we'll we'll
include in the hearing record. We'll
have this hearing record will stay open
for 15 days. So, I'm really encouraging
people send me that science. Again, I I
I entered a piece from Raphael Lataster
that pretty well pretty well debunks the
the Watson I think it's Watson at all
the claims it's the the CO injections
save millions. This is based on
mathematical models. It really wasn't
scientific studies. So again, throw it
all in the hopper and and let the public
decide. But I do have some some
questions. Dr. Thorp. Speaking of
corrupted studies, uh you mentioned in
your uh opening statement the Shimmer
Bakura study, which by the way, Tom
Shimmer Bakura, uh we have sent
something like 70 oversight letters,
more than that. In many of them, we've
told the CDC, FDA, NIH, we demanded they
preserve their records
and that should have been widely
distributed through the healthy
agencies. You know, we in our subpoena
specifically asked for the
communications of Tom Shimmer Bakura.
They couldn't find any.
I know I know the current HHS is
investigating that individual. We've
sent a I would call it a referral to the
FBI uh and to attorney general to
determine this. Um but again, what
happened there? Okay. again when people
are supposed to maintain records and
they don't
I get suspicious but again going to Dr.
Thor. Um,
and I'm going to probably interrupt you
because I want everybody to understand
what you're talking about in this study
because it takes we're talking about
numbers here, but describe that study on
would you call it fetal demise,
miscarriage, uh, and how it was
originally presented as evidence to push
this on the most vulnerable as you're
saying pregnant women and the unborn.
And how did they distort that study to
make that point? Go ahead.
>> Thank you, Senator Johnson. So, the
study in question is a New England
Journal of Medicine on April 21st, 2021.
And in that same day, the digital
edition, there were two publications
that were extraordinarily concerning.
Both of them interestingly coming at a
time when vaccine hesitancy was being
was increasing.
So the Shima Bakuro study was a separate
study in addition to an op ed. The oped
was by the New England Journal of
Medicine
uh editor and chief uh who who was Eric
Rubin and the managing editor who was
Stephen Moresy and then director of the
CDC Relle Winsky.
and they made statements that were
false. They made statements that uh was
fear-mongering
um insinuating that pregnant women if
they didn't take the vaccine would put
their lives in harm, their pre-born
lives in harm, and their newborn lives
in harm when they knew absolutely the
opposite was true.
>> How how do they know that? Well, they
know that for several reasons, Senator.
Uh, number one, the study by Panel's and
colleagues, who is a maternal fetal
medicine specialist from University of
Texas Houston, published a very large
study documenting that pregnancy in of
itself reduced the maternal mortality by
as much as 75%
during pregnancy compared to nonpregant
women. that study was available. Um also
Dr. Dr. um Shima Bakuro, Tom Shimma
Bakuro and then director of the CDC.
This was seven weeks after
the Fiser 5.3.6 six post marketing data
in 10 weeks that showed the COVID 19
vaccine was the deadliest and most
injurious vaccine ever released with
42,86
injuries, including 1,223
dead. They had that information. They
still pushed it on pregnant women. So,
so, so let's get to the the number where
there's 700 individuals included in the
statistic that shouldn't have been
included. So, describe that. I mean,
talk about this study,
>> right? Well, well, there's bias. There's
bias in the title. Okay, just look at
the title. There's bias in the 21
authors, all of whom were federal
federal employees and Tom Shimaburo, a
safety officer in the FDA itself. Then
you go to the numbers. We we look at
four we're looking at about numbers of
of over 4,000 in a 10w week period and
then all of a sudden it's just how do we
arbitrarily go to 10 weeks in this vsafe
smartphone collection system and then
what happened to all the other patients?
We go down to 827 patients.
What happened?
>> So you got so you got 827 patients that
were that became pregnant or were
pregnant in this in terms of again it's
not really study but I mean they're just
analyzing data. So you had 827 right?
>> Okay. So the these were women who were
pregnant
>> right 827 that completed the pregnancy
completed a pregnancy in 10 weeks.
>> This is not necessarily a born child but
the pregnancy
>> or a miscarriage. Right. Okay now they
claimed a 12.6% 6% miscarriage rate,
>> which is pretty kind of a normal
miscarriage.
>> No, it's not.
>> What's a normal miscarriage rate?
>> 3% when you have a normal booking visit.
>> So, so, so there are it's already an
abnormal miscarriage rate in that 827.
>> That's correct.
>> Okay. And
>> so, now describe exactly how they
>> Okay. So, we have 827 patients, right?
And they talk about a 12.6% miscarriage.
But a miscarriage of those 827,
700 of those mothers had their vaccine
in the third trimester. That's way
beyond the window when a woman has a
miscarriage. So they artificially
uh took those 700 patients and put them
in the first trimester. No. The 104
patients that had the miscarriage,
that goes to the 127. 104 over 127,
you're looking at an uh, you know, 82%
miscarriage. So, the key is the
percentage of women that got the vaccine
in the first trimester had an 82%
miscarriage. And by the way, that's the
exact same miscarriage rate that was
seen in the Fiser 5.3.6 postmarket. So I
would I I would argue that proves both
points in the title of this hearing. The
corruption of science, the corruption of
federal health agencies.
Governor, listen, I I I I'm cognizant of
the fact that you're kind of outnumbered
here. So I'm I want to give you an
opportunity to respond to that if you
want to. You don't have to.
>> Sure. No, I'm happy to. Look, the um
appreciate the information. The uh the
tragedy of a miscarriage is always
there. It's not 3%. Um my
>> what what is it? What do you think it
is?
>> Well, in my training as a family
physician, the miscarriage rate for
women is often in the 20s or 30
percentile for for women across their
pregnancies. You know, there are just a
lot of miscarriages that occur amongst
um women. So, those are all tragic and
and I would obviously defer to ACOG, the
American I'm sorry, the uh the American
uh College of OBGYNS who who did and and
they should come and testify too who did
strongly recommend the vaccine. I mean,
I'm not going to speak as a as an OBGYn.
I'm speaking as an ER physician and as a
governor but um I'm sure that that would
be a vibrant discussion and again it's a
very good point
>> that we have transparency and studies.
>> So let me move on to my next point. In
one of our events some of you were there
Dr. Moon opened up the insert
for the code injection big piece of
paper you know fold up and
and it's other than it says
intentionally laid blank intentionally
left blank was blank. Now this was quite
a few years. I think this was probably a
couple years into
the co injection distribution of it and
all these studies all everything on
veyores
um I would think somewhere you know when
you take a look at the the actual
studies and the adverse events that were
documented within those studies it's
been now been released through the Fiser
papers and and other means you think
somewhere they ought to put some
information in there so the point I want
to make is I I think an awful lot of
folks are are saying that there was not
informed consent.
I would argue they violated the
invaluable
principle of informed consent with this
co injection. I I just think that's
indisputable. I'll start with you Dr.
McCullik. Do you want to weigh in on
that?
>> I've presented at the FDA advisory
meetings. I've advised companies for
decades on this. So, I know the
regulatory science very well. When a
product definitely results in death,
and there are thousands of peer-reviewed
papers on this, Governor, the COVID
vaccines in some people sadly result in
death. Some on the very first day they
take the shot. That must be a blackbox
warning on the product immediately. I
just checked the package inserts for the
currently available products, the ones
that uh Senator Blumenthal wants to
pursue. Sounds like governor wants to
still pursue these. Our FDA still wants
them to be administered. They still
don't have the word death in the package
insert. As of today, they don't. And so,
Americans are not fairly informed.
>> Do you have any doubt in your mind that
the CO injection caused some deaths? I
mean, do do you what what what do you
think of the what is it 37 38,607 right
now listed on veyores? What do you think
the real number is? And do you have any
science to back up your your opinion?
>> The best data are autopsies. So, in the
largest autopsy series published to
date, I know because I'm the senior
author
of all the death we deaths we examined
and we we re-reviewed them. We had an
adjudication committee. We had ways of
arbitration deciding on did the vaccine
cause death. The answer is of these
cases that came in for autopsy after
who has perished as a result of CO 19.
But when the vaccines became widely
available in 2021, deaths sharply
declined and many lives have been saved
in the years since. Many in this room,
speaking for myself as well as others,
probably have been saved from this
disease because of those vaccines. One
study found that 3 million American
deaths were averted. 18 million
hospitalizations
were avoided and 1 trillion dollar in
healthcare costs were saved in the
United States in just the first two
years after co vaccines were
distributed. I'd like this study entered
into the record, Mr. Chairman, if
there's no objection.
>> Objection.
Now, vaccines not only saved American
lives, they enabled us to get back on
our feet economically. They enabled the
American economy to recover.
Let's try to think of where we were 5
years ago with a deadly unknown virus
spreading through America and through
the world. We were only able to come so
far because of the vaccines and the
researchers who developed them and the
public health officials who distribute
them. And now those individuals are
again under attack. Our public health
officials.
I've looked at
those documents, maybe not all of them,
that the majority alleges show that the
Biden administration or those public
health officials suppressed evidence of
side effects. Let's be clear, the
allegation is that they purposefully
concealed
evidence.
I am unable to support that conclusion
with this evidence. In fact, the primary
piece of evidence for this claim is that
the CDC did not issue a notice on its
health alert network Han in May 2021
while it was still analyzing the
evidence about myocarditis.
We're talking about myocarditis. The
chairman has referenced other side
effects. I'm not sure what he means, but
what I see as I look at that evidence is
public health officials
wrestling
with what to do and what kind of warning
to issue. And again, side effects must
be studied and communicated. And that's
what I see happening in these documents
that the majority has released.
So we have to distinguish I think
between differences of opinion under the
pressure of a pandemic
and
separate
the opinions of scientists who are
working for the greater good and frankly
others who may simply be seeking to sow
distrust
while they profit off misinformation and
fear. And I'm frankly deeply concerned
about some of today's witnesses
because they have a financial interest
in fermenting
distrust about CO 19 vaccines and
pushing untested alternative remedies
over proven treatments. In fact, two of
today's witnesses are executives at
something called the Wellness Company,
which sells the disproven treatment,
Ivormectin,
and a host of untested supplements,
which includes something called quote
unquote ultimate spike detox
costs $189.99
a bottle.
Another makes money from suing vaccine
companies and still others are pushing
unsupported research while rejecting the
proven scientists on CO and other
vaccines.
Let's be very clear that fear-mongering
and rushing to conclusions without
examining the evidence can lead to
tremendous harm. And this risk is not
just hypothetical
or rhetorical.
Misinformation about the safety of
vaccines has led to a deadly outbreak of
a preventable
disease.
We all know it, measles.
Just 25 years ago, measles was declared
eliminated in the United States.
Since then,
conspiracy theories, some financially
motivated, have caused vaccination rates
to plummet.
Last September, the CDC warned that
declining childhood vaccination could
lead to a resurgence of a preventable
disease like measles and roto virus.
Exactly what is happening today. As of
today, more than a thousand Americans
have been diagnosed with measles this
year in 31 states, many of them
children. So far, three have died. These
deaths were preventable.
They could have been avoided
but for the efforts of misinformation
proponents that have spread lies and
created fears. There has been so much
misinformation and fear since co 19
emerged that during the height of the
pandemic health care workers and public
health officials were often harassed and
threatened. Some of them continue to
fear for their lives.
During the first frightening year of the
pandemic, the Trump administration
withheld critical information from the
public, made baseless promises that the
virus would magically disappear. I think
I'm almost quoting the president,
magically disappear, engaged in
unfounded conspiracy theories and sham
science about CO 19 treatments and sewed
the seeds of distrust in public health
institutions.
And then to the tremendous credit of
President Trump, he fasttracked the
vaccine. Let me repeat, to the credit of
the Trump administration, the president
of the United States fasttracked the
vaccine and saved lives.
We need to learn from history.
We're seeing the same pattern now.
Those same seeds of doubt and distrust
have been nurtured by the president's
choices for key positions in this
administration,
including the decision to install a
well-known vaccine skeptic as the head
of HHS and to fill our public health
agencies with conspiracies.
And let's bring it right to the present
day. Just yesterday,
it was announced that the FDA may start
restricting access to new COVID boosters
to those over 65 or with a narrow set of
pre-existing conditions. Now, we ought
to be very frank here.
Discerning what exactly this new
guidance may be at the moment is
confusing
and the troubling news leaves many
questions unanswered about whether and
how people can actually access vaccines
if they want to do so. Will Americans
who
live with elderly or immunompromised
relatives for example have access to
these vaccines? We don't know
and so far those questions are
unanswered.
The manner and timing of this decision
frankly weak of politics
not science and again science ought to
be the loadar.
So
I think we need to be looking at the
present. We need to be looking forward.
In the first four months since the
president took office, he and his health
secretary have fired at least 10,000
employees from public health agencies
and cut more than $2.7 billion in
funding for research, including $4.2
million for vaccine clinical trials. Let
me repeat. Clinical trials, money cut to
do them. How does that make us safer?
More than $3.8 million for safety
monitoring and more than $2 billion for
state immunization programs. A drastic
cut that is already hampering our
measles response.
These reckless cuts are undermining our
ability to respond not just to measles,
but to what may come next.
And we all know
something will come next.
That's the history. We need to learn
from history and science.
Let me just finish by saying the
capacity of our agencies to warn
is compromised by these cuts.
The capacity of our agencies to do
science and rely on science is
compromised when we cut 10,000
people from the ranks of the agencies
responsible for safety.
And so I welcome the interest in this
topic. I'm honored that the governor of
Hawaii, Dr. Josh Green has joined us
today to share his experiences
addressing both measles and COVID 19.
He's not only a dedicated public
service, but he's also a physician who
led his experience his state Hawaii
during the pandemic. And I'm thankful to
him for being here today and uh I look
forward to the testimony. Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
>> Thank you, Senator Blumenthal. I think
people understand why you didn't join me
in my oversight request. The the over 70
letters that were not responded to.
Again, I haven't uncovered yet what they
were trying to hide, but our intention
is to do so. Uh you did mention the
what irrefutable fact that these vac
these injections save lives. I would
enter in the record a recent study by
Rafael Lataster uh who does a pretty
effective job of rebuting one of those
studies from Watson at at all. But we
put in the record and again we'll allow
the public the American people who are
watching this hearing decide uh based on
what testimony is based on what's been
entered in the record based on our
report. Uh it is the custom of this the
full committee and the subcommittee to
swear in witnesses. So, if you all rise
and raise your right hand,
do you swear the testimony you are about
to give before the subcommittee is the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth? So, help you God.
Please be seated.
Our first witness is Dr. Peter McCullik.
Dr. McCullik is an internist,
cardiologist, and epidemiologist from
Dallas, Texas. He has broadly published
with over 700 citations in the National
Library of Medicine. He has testified
multiple times in the US Senate, US
House of Representatives, European
Parliament, and many state capitals
concerning public health policy. Dr.
McCullik,
>> Chairman Johnson, ranking member
Blumenthal, subcommittee members, it's
an honor to present my insights, my
analysis, my clinical experience on the
this very important topic. The first
time I testified at Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs, before a word
came out of my mouth,
minority center, Senator Gary Peters
said what America was about to hear was
misinformation.
I didn't even know what he was talking
about. I had never heard that term
before in academic medicine or in uh
important deliberations. That's November
19th, 2020.
What was he doing? He was using an old
communist propaganda technique.
He was attempting to gain leverage over
me before a word ever came out of my
mouth. We should never have our public
servants ever try to gain leverage over
anyone who is coming to Washington to
help the nation on an important issue.
As introduced, I'm an internist. I'm a
cardiologist. I believe I'm the most
published individual who's ever
testified on matters regarding CO 19
in any of these hearings.
I've seen and examined more patients.
I've examined more data and I'm one of
the most published people on the topic
in the world. And as a cardiologist, I
can tell you my role in this was to
fight disease, preserve life, and above
all, do no harm. Do no harm.
Now, the topic today is myocarditis or
heart damage from the CO 19 vaccines.
I'm a cardiologist. I know the topic
well. I've examined thousands of
patients with this problem. Thousands.
Before the pandemic, I had two patients
ever with this problem. There's 1,65
papers in the peer-reviewed literature
on COVID vaccine myiocarditis.
So, let me summarize them for you. The
first one that came on my radar screen
that was alarming came from Washington
University in St. Louis, August 18th of
2021. The first author is Verma and
colleagues. New England Journal of
Medicine. 42-year-old man comes into
Washington University Hospital with
vaccine myocarditis. The infection is
ruled out. It's the vaccine. He's in the
hospital. This is one of our best
hospitals in the United States. He dies
3 days after taking Madna. They can't
save him in the hospital.
>> Say Dr. McColl, move the microphone just
a little bit away from you. Then one was
reported from Korea by Choy and
colleagues.
This is now a younger man just a few
days after Fizer. He comes in the
hospital. He dies within 8 hours of
being in the hospital. I can tell you
I'm a cardiologist. That doesn't even
happen with heart attacks. He dies
within eight hours. I examined all of
the slides and the the images that the
Koreans had showed us. It looked like
somebody took a blowtorrch to that
heart. It was so completely fried with
inflammation. His heart was destroyed.
These cases which were widely known at
the time should have gotten everyone's
attention. Everyone should have been
laser focused on this. We should never
have someone die
after taking a vaccine. That's directly
caused to the vaccine. Then Gil and
colleagues Connecticut
published in Archives of Pathology. two
boys aged 16 and 17 who die a few days
after taking Fizer. These are teenagers.
They're found dead at home
by their parents. They're absolutely
horrified.
They request an autopsy. They call in
University of Michigan and University of
Minnesota to look over what are they
finding at autopsy. Conclusion, it's
Fizer COVID 19 vaccine myocarditis.
Unequivocal. These are autopsy confirmed
cases. So for all the mothers in the
room, how would they feel if they found
their children dead after taking a CO 19
vaccine? This is in the peer-reviewed
literature. This is not misinformation.
Everyone should be paying attention to
this. This is not conjecture. This is in
the peer-reviewed literature. So we
started to ask ourselves, what is going
on?
Turns out that fizer and madna in Jansen
are the genetic code for the spike
protein. The spike protein is the
damaging part of the virus. The spike
protein is loaded into the body and it
causes tremendous damage. Tremendous
damage in some acute myocarditis appears
to have some genetic predilction and all
of the vials of the vaccine are not the
same. But I can tell you I'm concerned
that until the vaccines are stopped
there will be cases of acute
myocarditis. And to finish we've had 216
vaccine deaths this year alone. So if
the vaccine campaign continues we have
to look at what are we getting out of it
now four and a half years of the
campaign and how many more people will
die. I'm Dr. Peter McCulla. Thank you
for listening.
>> Thank you Dr. McCulla. Our next witness
is Dr. Jordan Vaughn. Dr. Vaughn is a
physician and clinical researcher in
Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama. As owner
and CEO of Medel Clinics, Dr. Vaughn has
directed his organization to the leading
edge of early outpatient treatment of CO
19 for his patients and greater
Birmingham community. Dr. Vaughn has
treated over 4,000 longcoid and COVID
vaccine injured patients. Dr. Vaughn,
thank you. Uh, Chairman Johnson and uh,
uh, Ranking Member Blumenthal, thank you
for having me. Um, I'm going to dovetail
a little bit off what uh, Dr. Mcola
said. And one of the things that uh, as
a clinician who also had about 200
people working for him and actually
seeing about 170,000 patients a year
when COVID came along, I had to really
figure out how to not only help my staff
and make sure they're safe, but also
help the patients that uh, my
organization was responsible for. And
that really made me dive into
understanding the pathology. And what I
came away with was understanding that
the spike protein, the S1 subunit
specifically is not a benign protein. It
triggers inflammation. It disrupts
endothelial barriers. It induces fibbron
resistant to breakdown and it promotes a
lot of amaloid aggregates which is what
I research. These effects impair oxygen
delivery, damage blood vessels,
contribute to clotting pathologies that
manifest with a lot of the symptoms that
we're seeing in the long COVID and
vaccine injured, which to this day is a
huge amount of people. We're talking
upwards of 10 to 15 million people in
America that are being affected by the
consequences of COVID in the long form
or vaccine injury. And the typical
symptoms are things like heart racing,
brain fog, shortness of breath, and
post-exertional malaise. In my clinic, I
actually use immunofllororescent
microscopy to be able to actually see
what's going on in the blood and look
for these amaloid aggregates. Some as
young as teenagers that are unable to
stand. Others are previously active
adults suffering small strokes without
typical identifiable causes. These are
not abstract theories. They are the
lived realities of my patients in
Alabama and beyond. The mRNA injection
heralded as a solution introduced a
novel mechanism lipid nanoparticles
delivering modified mRNA that instructs
the cells to produce a stabilized spike
protein. Unlike traditional vaccines,
this approach resulted in uncontrolled
production of the spike protein for an
unknown duration and distributes it
widely across organs including the
heart, brain and vascule and ovaries and
testes. The actual EMA their assessment
of kumarity which is Fiser's vaccine
noted biodistribution beyond the
injection site contradicting claims that
the vaccine stays in the arm and a
recent groundbreaking study using single
cell precision nanoarrier identification
revealed L&P accumulation in the heart
tissue of mice with adverse proteomic
changes in immune and vascular proteins
raising concerns about the uh cardiac
complications that dovetail with what we
were seeing when we were looking at car
uh the uh co 19 vaccine myocarditis. I
will tell my first encounter with the
vaccine injury came in winter of 2021.
69year-old man from Alabama presumed
presented with unexplained shortness of
breath. He was a patient of mine. I
really had no other reason that he had
this shortness of breath and after the
second Fiser dose he actually uh had
significant shortness of breath. I
couldn't figure it out in a sense
because it would typically be that he
had a pulmonary embolism but empirical
anticoagulation and antiplatlet therapy
brought rapid improvement. This case
prompted deeper investigation that the
spike protein's ability to induce fibrin
that's resistant to breakdown, activate
platelets irreversibly, and damage the
inside of our vessels, vessels that run
to every part of our body and every
organ, explained his symptoms, and those
of thousands more. Uh, since I have
treated approximately 4,000 patients
suffering from long co and vaccine
injury, or both, many were young and
previously healthy. For those with
vaccine injury, trust in public
institutions has been shattered. Many
were coerced under the August 2021
federal mandates. Despite legitimate
hesitations due to prior infection or
personal health risk, they knew their
body better than the agencies. Now
disabled, they are dismissed or ignored
by the systems that mandated their
compliance. The myocarditis signal was
also a big thing. This spring of 2021, a
clear safety signal emerged. myocarditis
in young males linked to mRNA vaccines.
The Department of Defense confirmed
cases of rare heart inflammation and
peer-reviewed studies later detected
circulating spike protein and
postvaccine myocarditis cases. Autopsy
findings have confirmed fatal vaccine
induced myocarditis. Yet, federal
authorities accelerated licensing and
mandates sidelining concerns. The CDC's
hesitation to issue a health alert on
myocarditis and the C the FDA's former
SEABR director promoting vaccines on
social media crossed a line from
oversight to advocacy. This was not
regulation. It was endorsement. Informed
consent is the foundation of a patient
physician relationship. Absent the
regulators providing that information,
that relationship is irreparably harmed
and the practice of medicine will
continue to suffer. In closing, I urge
you to stop blindly following the
science. Science does not lead anywhere.
It is an observer, measurer, and
descriptor. It must inform leadership,
not replace it. When leaders hide behind
the science to justify policy, they
abdicate responsibility. We need
leadership that humbly engages with
data, listens to patience, and actually
acts with courage. Thank you. I welcome
your questions.
>> Thank you, Dr. Vaughn. Next witness is
Dr. James Thorp. Dr. Thorp is a B board
certified obstitrician gynecologist and
maternal fetal medicine specialist with
over 44 years of clinical experience as
US veteran and widely published
physician. He has testified
internationally served as a peer a
journal peer reviewer board member of
the society for maternal field medicine
examiner for the American board of
obstitistics and gynecology. Dr. Thorp.
>> Thank you Mr. chairman and members of
the committee.
My patients I focus on the most
vulnerable patients, pregnant women and
pre-born. It is difficult to conceive of
a more egregious breach of medical
ethics by the governmentont controlled
medical industrial complex than the
promotion of CO 19 vaccines to pregnant
women thereby through transplental
transfer effectively vaccinating their
unborn and newborn children. This
campaign was not accidental.
It was calculated. Pregnant women are
were targeted deliberately for two
reasons. First, women are the primary
decision makers of health care across
the human lifespan, a known marketing
principle. Number two, pregnant women
are the most vulnerable patients. If
they could be convinced that the vaccine
was safe and effective, it would imply
that it was safe and effective for
everyone. From the outset of the
pandemic, this vaccine campaign was
never grounded in biological science,
but rather in behavioral science,
specifically the manipulation of public
perception through influence, fear, and
persuasion.
The federal government outsourced much
of this psychological operations to
NOS's which disseminated emotionally
charged and misleading messaging. These
entities falsely assured pregnant women
that the vaccines were proven safe and
essential for maternal and fetal newborn
health despite the fact that early
evidence indicated quite the opposite.
Pregnancy itself was protective against
CO 19 maternal mortality. Dr. Jay
Winston, an initiative director at
Harvard School of Public Health,
described the government's vaccine
marketing approach in a 2020 CBS News
interview. He explained that the
strategy was to quote go for the
lowhanging fruit. Those easiest to pick
and harvest, end quote, and the fruit in
quotes, tragically were pregnant women.
Only
this deception was institutionalized in
the now infamous Shima Bakuro study
published on April 21st, 2021 in the
digital version of the New England
Journal of Medicine. 21 authors claimed
the miscarriage rate was 12.6% but the
raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage
rate in women vaccinated during the
first trimester. This figure mirrors the
effects of chemical abortion drugs such
as RU486.
Also, in the same journal edition, on
the same day, an op-ed appeared by CDC
director Rashelle Winsky and journal
editor and chief Eric Rubin. These
publications were riddled with conflicts
of interest and deliberate
misrepresentations
intended to coers pregnant women into
taking vaccines. Subsequent studies have
also claimed that CO 19 vaccines are
safe and effective during pregnancy and
have been rebuked by respected
researchers. These publications are
fundamentally compromised by serious
conflicts of interest ranging from
biased funding sources and institutional
mandates and even threats to their
medical licenses and board
certifications. Between 2020 and 2022,
pharmaceutical companies paid 1.06 owe
$6 billion
to reviewers at leading medical
journals, the New England Journal of
Medicine, JAMAMA, Lancet, and BMJ, thus
corrupting the peerreview process. At
least six existing studies, three from
CDC, FDA, and two from Fizer revealed
major breaches in safety signals for CO
19 vaccines in pregnancy. These findings
were ignored. Conversely, countless
independent researchers with no
conflicts of interest published findings
that contradicted the false narratives
and the pharmaceutical industry
narratives only to be rewarded by
persecution, censorship, and threats to
their medical licenses and board
certifications.
This is not hypothetical. It happened to
me. On February 8th, 2025, our team of
researchers published a peer-reviewed
study in science, public health policy,
and the law. We identified 37 adverse
pregnancy outcomes significantly
associated with CO 19 vaccine, including
miscarriage, still birth, birth defects,
cervical insufficiency, premature
ruptured membranes, preterm birth, and
death of the newborn. Lynn and
colleagues in a major journal
publication documented that the CO 19
vaccine traverses the placenta, enters
the fetal blood, and bioactively
produces spike protein in the placenta
and the lining of the uterus. Recently,
animal studies revealed the mRNA COVID
vaccine causes the destruction of 60%
of the ovarian reserve in pre in rats.
This catastrophic public health failure
was financed with taxpayer dollars and
channeled through federal agencies to
medical gatekeepers such as the American
College of Obstitricians and
Gynecologist, ACOG, the American Board
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ABOG, and
the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine,
SMFM.
These organizations have abandoned their
ethics and responsibilities to
physicians and patients and must be held
accountable. I urge the government to
immediately halt all funding to these
entities and to end every promotional
campaign that coerces or recommends
experimental mRNA therapies to pregnant
women. This must stop now. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Dr. Dr. Thorp. Our next uh
Our next witness is Dr. Joe Walsskcog.
Dr. Walsskcog is an orthopedic surgeon
originally from Wisconsin. He
experienced an adverse event after his
madna co 19 injection that he received
on December 30th, 2020. He has
subsequently been diagnosed with
transverse myelitis and unspecified
autoimmune disorder and autonomic
dysfunction. He is medically retired. He
is now co-chairman of react 19. Dr.
Walskcog.
>> Thank you, Senator Johnson. Senator
Blumenthal and the subcommittee for
inviting me to testify in the
development and safety of the CO 19
vaccines. I am Joel Walskog, a
board-certified orthopedic surgeon, now
medically disabled after one dose of the
Madna
CO 19 vaccine. Before the pandemic, I
enjoyed a successful practice in
Wisconsin, performing over 800 major
surgeries annually, trusting my health
authorities. My practice followed CDC co
19 guidelines delaying surgeries and
even temporarily closing. I proudly
elected to get vaccinated and within a
week I developed leg weakness, numbness,
substantial balance loss
leading to falls including one while
treating a patient. Diagnosed with
transverse myelitis, a spinal cord
lesion at T8 T9. I was stunned that my
providers dismissed any vaccine link
despite news of similar cases halting
the Astroenica trial in the UK. Four
years later, while I can walk, I have
been diagnosed with dautonomia and an
undefined autoimmune disorder.
Both debilitating conditions affecting
multiple body systems. I remain
medically retired. The career I loved
and worked so hard for is now gone.
In 2021, federal health agencies assured
Americans that the CO9 vaccine trials
were rigorous and closely monitored with
rigorous postmarketing surveillance.
They also claimed a robust safety net
that would handle what they said were
rare and mostly mild injuries with
monitoring, followup, and financial aid.
After my own vaccine injury, I learned
the hard way that nothing could be
farther from the truth.
In my own battle to restore my health, I
could not find a single reliable source
of information from the CDC, from the
FDA, or the NIH.
Further, answers did not come from
medical teams, the media, or even
medical journals. Rather, the answers
were being pieced together by tens of
thousands of vaccine injured patients
huddled together in social media based
support groups who are constantly
fighting for their right to simply
exist.
You will hear today a great deal about
myocarditis, maternal female maternal
fetal complications and blood clotting
disorders after the co 19 shots. I hope
to talk more about the neurological
adverse events to the co vaccines. These
are the most common adverse event to the
co shots. I am now co-chair of react 19
which is a national science-based
non-political
nonprofit that represents over 36,000
Americans seriously injured by the CO 19
shots. Our mission is to provide
financial, physical, and emotional
support. This gives me a unique
perspective to share the collective
experience of those who have been harmed
not just by the co 19 vaccines
themselves but also by the US
government.
React 19 surveyed our 36,000 members
asking if the FDA takes vaccine injured
injuries seriously. 100%
said false. Not even one person voted
favorably. The vaccine injured share a
uniform story.
We did our duty for our country became
injured, disabled or died.
We further reported to VERS and Vsafe
repeatedly contacted our elected elected
officials and applied to the
countermeasures injury compensation
program or CICP
only to face silence from the VES no
response from Vsafe ghosting by our own
representatives and a 98% rejection rate
from the CICP.
The many cries for help were ignored.
Some were studied at the NIH in a
program under Dr. Fouchy where they were
diagnosed with vaccine complications but
never disclosed to the public despite
promises that the NIH would do so.
Privately, the agents said the agencies
said neurological conditions needed
early recognition and treatment while
publicly they remained silent and often
denying that they were even treating
vaccine injuries. Rather, they promoted
boosters and high safety claims while
the White House directed social media to
censor quote true stories of vaccine
injury end quote. relegating NIH
confirmed injuries into silence. That
silence by health authorities, elected
representatives, and even our White
House has resulted in in even more
severe health outcomes and worse for
many, death. The PREP Act shields drug
companies from injury liability and
strips Americans of their constitutional
right to due process and jury trial.
This liability shield places the
responsibility squarely on the US
government to address this crisis. Our
constitutional rights must be replaced
with effective safety monitoring and
compensation.
Today, these programs are dismal
failures. Congress must urgently reform
these failing systems or remove itself
as a middleman and repeal the PREP act.
An analysis of clinical trial data
showed that for every
shows that for every 800 people
vaccinated, one suffers a serious
adverse event. We are here today to end
the silence for the one in 800.
It is time to stop politicizing vaccine
injuries and start building
meaningful recognition,
research, competent care, and fair and
just compensation.
At React 19, we say we're we've had
negative reactions, but we're about
seeking positive actions. I will not
stop until these humanitarian goals are
met. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Drew Walsscock. Our next
witness is Dr. are Mr. Erin Siri. Miss
Siri is the managing partner of Siri and
Glimstad with over 85 professionals. He
has handled numerous high-profile cases
involving challenges to medical
mandates, restoring exemptions, uh
agency transparency, including forcing
FDA to release the CO 19 vaccine lensure
documents and deposing immunologists,
infectious disease doctors, and
vaccinologists. Mr. Siri,
>> good afternoon.
>> Good afternoon. Thank you. Um yeah, our
our vaccine practice I believe which has
over 40 professionals I doesn't
represent pharmaceutical companies I
believe is the largest vaccine practice
in the world. When we litigate vaccine
cases we cannot rely on credentials or
fancy titles.
We have to prove our claims with high
impact data and sources. For example, I
saw a slide put up that showed 3 million
lives were saved from CO 19 vaccines.
The citation to it was to the
Commonwealth Fund. If you follow that,
that's not a peer-reviewed study. That's
a blog. It's a blog that used a
mathematical model to calculate that 3
million lives were saved. So, I agree
with uh uh the senator Blumenthal that
who said, you know, quote, claims
made I think you meant broad vaccines.
We need to examine the evidence. And
that's an example of that. We need to
look carefully at the evidence we are
relying upon when we are making claims
about vaccines. I don't think that if I
went into court and I was relying on a
blog that use a mathematical model, I
would be laughed out of court if I was
making those claims about vaccines. But
unfortunately, when it comes to
promoting vaccines, well, that's what we
often see. The underlying data is not
typically really carefully evaluated.
Claims about what vaccines do when
they're positive because our health
agencies are responsible promoting them
easily made. Claims that vaccines cause
any harms or injuries often get ignored
no matter how good the underlying data.
I also heard that deaths sharply
declined
in 2021.
Well, when you look at all cause
mortality in the United States, deaths
in 2021 went up compared to 2020. And
presumably most of the most frail, the
weak among us died in 2020 from COVID.
We should have had a reduction in all
cause mortality in United States. We did
not. And those numbers are you can't
argue with. They're binary. You're
either dead or you're alive. You can
argue whether the vaccine killed you or
didn't kill you. Whether COVID killed
you or didn't kill you, but it's can't
argue with all cause mortality. And we
did not have a reduction in all cause
mortality in 2021. We had an increase.
And we really need to answer that
question. We have sent many letters to
our federal health officials trying to
get an answer to that. With that said,
not only do we need to carefully study
the data and science before we go and
litigate our vaccine cases, because
again, I don't have a MD or a PhD or an
M. PH um we also need to understand the
economic and regulatory framework around
vaccines and co 19 vaccines did not just
fall into a vacuum they fell into a very
welldeveloped regulatory and economic
framework for vaccines that has
developed over the last 40 years for
every product on the market you can sue
the manufacturer for harm for design
defect claims meaning the claim that the
product could have made safer I mean
literally look around this room planes
cars pharmaceutical drugs everyone
there's only one product in America you
cannot not sue the manufacturer for
design that claim to claim that it could
have been made safer and that are
vaccines. I heard uh you know injections
vaccines my definition of vaccine is any
product for which the government needs
to give it immunity from harms to me
that's what a vaccine is because some in
prevent infection some don't that's what
a vaccine is meaning it can't survive
without that immunity apparently why did
vaccines get this immunity um which was
provided in 1986 under the national
childhood vaccine injury act because
leading up to 86 only three routine
childhood vaccines MMR OPV and DTP and
they were causing so much harm and
causing so much liability that that uh
all the manufacturers were going out of
business to stop making them and
Congress instead of forcing those
manufacturers to do what every other
product manufacturer needs to do in that
situation which is what make a better
safer product. Instead said you know
what we're just going to give you
immunity. We're going to make it so
nobody can sue you for those harms
and you can keep selling your product to
the American public no matter how many
children it kills or injures.
Um and the the issue is that that
immunity was not just given for those
three products. It was given for any
childhood vaccine routine child vaccine
that was developed thereafter. Um and
and I I sell you this not to take issue
with childhood vaccines but to explain
to you the regulatory framework in which
vaccines have developed over the last 40
years. We have now gone from three
injections in the first year of life
under the CDC schedule in ' 86 to 29
injections including in uterero if a
child follows the CDC schedule today.
Every one of those vaccines, save one,
was developed by a pharmaceutical
company knowing they would not be
responsible for the injuries that are
caused by those products. So when you
have drug trials where pharmaceutical
companies they care about losing money,
they don't want to lose money on their
drugs, they often do multi-year placebo
control trials before they get on the
market because they don't want to end up
upside down. They're there to make
money. But with vaccine products,
because they don't have that financial
incentive, they have the actually the
disincentive. Almost every childhood
vaccine in this country is licensed
based on clinical trials with often with
no placebo control say for CO 19 vaccine
often days or weeks up to maybe six
months of safety review after injection
and are often extremely underpowered.
Those trials could never have really
confirmed the safest product. And my
submission to this committee laid out
every single vaccine and put them in
detail. I will um since I'm running out
of time, I'll just wrap up by saying
this. Um
um uh you might say, "Well, okay, the
pharmaceutical companies did that, but
why would cong why would the FDA allow
it?" It's because unfortunately our
federal health authorities are
hopelessly conflicted. Congress gave
them conflicting structural duties.
They're responsible for promoting
vaccines and for defending them in the
vaccine compensation program. And you
also ask them to be responsible for
safety. Those conflict, one has
overtaken the other. and and and for the
most part based on our over 2004
requests to federal health agencies over
the years on behalf of our client I can
I could tell you our federal health
agencies act like partners with pharma
they don't they they don't they're not
only they encourage their inroads they
act basically in the shoes of pharma
because when the immunity to liability
was given to the pharmaceutical
companies Congress recognized that
apparently and transferred all the
safety functions to HHS and the mandate
for safer child vaccines and by doing so
it's made them hopelessly conflicted. Um
that was very very quick way to try and
convey uh the regulatory and economic
framework into which co 19 vaccines fell
into um and why you know from the
pharmaceutical and FDA's perspective the
co 19 vaccine clinical trials may have
been robust and they were compared to
childhood vaccines but compared to drugs
or anybody that actually wants to assess
safety they absolutely were not robust
they were incredibly anemic and as for
posture regulators didn't do their jobs,
but really they acted like
pharmaceutical companies seeking to
cover up harms and avoid reputational
damage and financial liability. I hope
this hearing can help begin the process
of changing that. Thank you and I
apologize for going over on my time.
>> Yep. Thank you, Mr. Siri. Our final
witness is Governor and Doctor. I've
always found senators like to be called
doctor if they are one. So, Governor and
Dr. Josh Green. Governor Green is the
ninth governor of Hawaii. He earned his
degrees in biology and anthropology from
Swarm Swathmore College and an MD from
Penn State's College of Medicine. Dr.
Green served two terms in the Hawaii
House of Representatives, three terms in
the Hawaii State Senate, and a term as
Lieutenant Governor during which he was
the state's point person addressing the
COVID pandemic. Dr. Green was elected
governor in December 2022. Governor
Green,
>> thank you, Chair Johnson. Uh, thank you
so much for welcoming me. Thank you, um,
Ranking Member Blumenthal. Thank you,
senators.
First of all, I'm coming to you as a
physician.
When I speak as a doctor, I'm here to
say that vaccines save lives. Period. I
care about saving lives. You care about
saving lives. Everyone in this room, I
believe, cares about saving lives. But
I've seen firsthand children dying from
the spread of preventable diseases
because of vaccine skepticism
because people lose faith. Uh, I've seen
the lives of some children in one house
who are vaccinated live while children
in the house next door who have not been
vaccinated die. And we saw a lot of this
during CO. I want to tell you a little
bit about my co experience as the co
liaison in my state, state of 1.4
million people.
And let me uh preface this by saying we
worked very closely with President Trump
and his team. And then subsequently as
Lieutenant Governor, I was able to work
very closely with President Biden and
his team. And I appreciate them both. I
appreciate that President Trump using
Operation Warp Speed got us a
vaccination in an extraordinary time. We
were desperate as healthcare providers.
I worked as an emergency room physician
virtually every single weekend for 20
plus years, including through the whole
pandemic. And this is what I saw. I saw
people dying of terrible disease when
they caught the delta variant of COVID
especially. I saw people
recover
better when they had been vaccinated. In
Hawaii, we had the lowest mortality rate
in the country. We had the highest
vaccination rate in the country. People
have asked me in the course of the prep
for this uh hearing, well, is Hawaii
safer because it's a tropical island
state? No, actually it's quite the
contrary. We had CO coming from east in
Asia where it originated and west
travelers from the mainland. But we put
together programs based on science. Day
by day I counted case after case after
case because there was so much
uncertainty. And I was able to share in
our state where we had infectious
disease doctors, where we had extra need
for ventilators, where we had extra need
for vaccinations where the rates were
lower. and day by day working with all
the healthc care providers in my state
and listening to others not mandating
I'm not a mandate guy that may come as a
surprise to some today we were able to
make sure that we had a science-based
response we put together a safe travels
program which tested anyone coming into
the islands so they wouldn't travel or
that they would isolate quarantine if
they were positive so they wouldn't
spread the disease and over time we had
the experience that no one else had saw
death rates constantly lower than all
the other states with the single
exception of Vermont on occasion.
I tell you this because we have to
follow science and I truly believe that
we can't politicize science or
vaccinations or any of these public
health matters and it's very important
going forward. This is where we should
unite with one another. We should heal
our country together in this space. Now
another experience I had uh measles
I was the doctor that was asked to go to
Samoa when they had their outbreak of
measles. Why did they have their
outbreak? because they lost faith in the
vaccination program. And it was tragic.
The Children's Health Defense went there
and they scared people. After tragedy,
admittedly, it should have never
happened. I had children die in my arms
who were not vaccinated but died of
measles. This beautiful boy was with me
and a pediatrician. Dr. Nadine Tanala
had a terrible case of the measles and
some of his relatives passed away from
the disease. But we went there and we
vaccinated 37,000 individuals in 48
hours and the measles just stopped. And
I say this because this is what we have
to look forward to in the future. If we
somehow fall into a place where we don't
believe in vaccinations any longer and
we shouldn't do it blindly. We should
study them. We should check for safety.
Absolutely. That is essential in
science.
But these vaccinations save lives. They
saved many lives during co in my state.
They saved over 10,000 lives. We
anticipated mass casualties which we
never saw because we fought this disease
uh with great intelligence and great
acumen.
I will tell you this there are lots of
things to share today. Protests
resonated through the co experience in
my state. People protested at my home
around my family. But the leader of the
protests ultimately after I was worried
that he would catch COVID did exactly
that. Ended up in grave grave peril. His
wife was in the intensive care unit. His
name was Wickoff. He later later
disavowed the protests against the
vaccinations after seeing individual
after individual after individual be
intubated and go into the ICU because he
experienced it. And that's what we as
physicians see too often once a tragedy
occurs. And my heart is with everyone
who had any kind of reaction to the
vaccines that we're talking about or
loses a loved one. Of course, we love
our our fellow mankind, but we cannot
turn away from science. So, these are
some of the things I wanted to share
with you today. Ultimately, we have to
decide whether we're going to be
committed to public health in our
country. And right now, we are in great
peril. It is absolutely my firm belief
that vaccines have saved millions of
lives over the last 50 years, 150
million by many people's accounts. It's
decreased infant mortality by 40%
globally. And we have to continue to
commit ourselves in this way. So I'm
concerned. I'm concerned that as we end
up in a politicized discussion that we
will move away from science. We will not
trust one another experts. We will not
trust one another and we will end up in
conflict. So what I would say is this.
Let's work together. Let's find a way to
actually find the common ground to
protect our children. Let's find a way
to make sure our public health system
remains intact, not taken apart by the
current approach where HHS is
jettisoning many of its people, many of
the billions of dollars, perhaps many of
the vaccinations. This is our
opportunity to come together. And I'm
sure we'll talk more about this as the
hearing goes on, but I'll say one last
time, vaccines save lives. I've given
vaccines. I've taken vaccines. I've
treated people that didn't get vaccines
and it's broken my heart when they've
passed away.
>> Thank you, Governor Green. Um, quick
comment.
I'm not aware anybody on my side of this
issue has politicized it. The the
accusation is always that we are. We're
not. Um, you did state, by the way,
10,000 lives saved in Hawaii. I would
love to have your citation on that. So,
if you can give us a study so we can put
that in the record. And any other
citation give us on the millions of
lives saved by vaccines as well. I mean
I'd like again I want to know the truth.
Just real quick I've got a couple other
charts I want to put up there. Uh this
is a chart a lot of people produced it.
>> Chairman if I could just interrupt for
10 seconds over here. Sure.
>> Uh is today's just a point of order. Are
we talking about vaccines or are we
talking about the COVID vaccine?
>> Well specifically we were talking about
the the hiding of the safety signal on
myocarditis.
>> So we're not talking about all vaccines.
>> We can talk about anything you want to.
>> Okay. I mean, again, it has obviously
opened up because we're also talking
about the corruption of science and I
think science has been corrupted. Uh, so
fair game. So again, I appreciate you
staying here and stick around and ask a
lot of questions. I think you'll learn
an awful lot. Put my time back on the
clock. No, I'll keep take whatever I
want. This is a chart. This is a chart
again. I I started I was looking at the
veyes. You know, I had been I had been
>> Mr. Chairman, that's not the way I ran
this sub. I had been well this is a
different diff different again I'll be
very generous okay um I was I was
actually instructed as a non-d doctor
what the co injections were
encapsulating lipid nano particle that
was designed to permeate difficult to
permeate barriers so they lied to us
when they said they'd stay in the arm
they knew it wouldn't they had a study
uh the Japanese regulators uncovered
that when they did do a biodistribution
study in rats it distributed all over
the body. So that was the first lie.
Didn't really talk about too much about
the toxicity yet of the of the lipid
nanoparco, but it goes all over the
body. So I was I was aware and again
that this was not a standard vaccine.
This isn't a you know attenuated or dead
virus that the body reacts to. This
actually hijacks the cell tells
has the cell produce the spike protein
which is toxic to the body which means
the body attacks it. Again, I'm a
layman, but it's pretty simple for me to
understand this. So, I was aware of this
like in October. So, I'm watching. And
so, I'm I'm publishing these charts and
I'm being censored. I see the next
chart, chart number two. This is the
full history of veyers and the number of
deaths being reported associated with
the vaccine. You got you got a couple
hundred a year until 2021. And yikes,
21,725
deaths worldwide.
Why? And everybody's saying, "No, this
is safe and effective." You know, the
the the vaccine injured were being
gaslit. They weren't being treated.
They're still being gas lit. There there
is no, by the way, there is no
compassion. Governor, I could fill this
room with photos of people who are dead
because of the COVID injection. I could
fill the room and that is being deni
that is being denied. It is being denied
and these people haven't been able to
get help. I held an event in Milwaukee
in June 2019 and 2021 and all the
vaccine injured those women all they
wanted was to be seen and heard and
believed and they are not to this day.
Okay. So again, they're not the ones
politicizing. They just want to they
just want to be helped. They want
compassionate doctors to treat them to
recognize what caused their illness, not
gaslight and not deny that it exists.
But anyway, so you take a look at this
chart and they're they're still denying
that this nothing to see here. This is
safe and this is effective. Okay, next
chart. This this is the current vey
chart. 38,67
deaths reported worldwide associated
with the COVID injection. And we know
veyers dramatically understates
what
by by a factor of 10 100. We know it
understates it. 9,228 of those deaths
occurring and the day of vaccination in
the one or two days. Okay, I know theirs
doesn't prove causation, but man, that's
a correlation we should have been
looking at, but they ignored and they
censored. Um,
but enough of that. Dr. McCulla, please
I I in my layman's terms, I just kind of
laid out the the harmful mechanisms of
this injection. Can can you and Dr.
Vaughn because I think you've both
spoken to this. Again, in layman's
terms, talk about why this caused so
much harm in so many different ways
because of the biodistribution. Dr.
McCullik,
>> 80% of Americans took a vaccine. 20%
didn't.
20% did not take a vaccine. The vaccine
was never safe enough for me to take.
Messenger RNA devised by Fiser Madna has
been chemically modified to be
unassalable to enzymes in the body to be
broken down. The messenger RNA is found
in the human heart of people who die
after the vaccine. It's found in the
brain. The spike protein is found
everywhere in the body.
Three studies now show the spike protein
is circulating in the blood for six to
nine months after people take the shot.
This part of the virus, the lethal part
of the virus in the vaccinated, it's
circulating in the blood and then they
take a booster, they get more
circulating in the blood. It is a killer
protein. It cannot be safe. It was not
safe by design.
Safety trumps efficacy. We cannot
tolerate false drug claims. And we saw a
poster behind Senator Blumenthal making
a false drug claim that vaccines saved
millions of lives, specifically the
COVID vaccine. Well, let's take a look
at that. When someone signs consent for
a vaccine, Senator Blumenthal, does the
consent form say it's going to save
their lives? Of course it doesn't. It's
not on the FAQ. There's never been a
prospective randomized double blind
placebo control trial ever showing that
CO 19 vaccines reduce mortality or
hospitalization. There's not even a
valid non-randomized study. Thankfully,
CO mortality went down for three
reasons. Because we all got the
infection, vaccinated and unvaccinated.
So, we developed population natural
immunity. We developed early treatment.
Credit to Operation Warp Speed. We used
all the operation warp speed tools,
additional drugs. We treated patients
with multi-drug protocols at home. So
they don't go to the ER. So Governor
Green never saw the patients we treated
because they were successfully treated
at home. And the third reason is the
virus mutated to a much milder form.
Those things happen concurrently with
roll out of the vaccine. The vaccine
cannot be falsely credited with saving
millions of lives. We can't allow false
drug advertising to be put up on a
poster behind one of our public
servants. We cannot accept that.
>> So, let me quick
and I will have a lot more I will have a
lot more questions. uh put up my last
that optional chart number four here
because I think this uh this is
something I developed uh well September
2021 and this shows the number of daily
cases of COVID and you see it's peaking
in January you know right as we're
rolling out the vaccine but we really
haven't injected with anybody if if
by the time we had any kind of
significant uptake of the vaccines we
were way down in terms of the number of
daily cases. I mean, this this virus was
burning itself out. Okay. Now, we had
different variants. Again, I've read a
lot of information about vaccination
into the midst of a pandemic driving
variance. Is that what happened? I don't
know. But you would think if a vaccine
were that effective, the tale would just
continue and the pandemic would be over.
But that's not what happened. We had a
whole new surge and this is Delta and
doctors I talked to a very deadly,
probably a more deadly. Would you agree
with that, Dr. McCullik? Delta wasn't
more deadly. I know you guys were kind
of freaking out that your early
treatment wasn't working as well.
>> It it was definitely more more difficult
to treat, but fortunately by that time
we had treatments.
>> But I just wanted to put this thing up
here again. If again to a layman if the
vaccine really worked, was that
efficacious, you know, prevent all that
disease. By the way, they all admitted
that it didn't prevent transmission.
They lied to us about that four four
months if maybe a year. Then they
finally had it didn't prevent
transmission. Um, but again, this this
chart right here just shows you that if
the vaccine really would have worked,
you wouldn't have had this. You wouldn't
have had this. But I'll turn it over to
Senator Blumenthal.
>> Thanks, uh, Mr. Chairman. And, uh, I
think we'll try to certainly stay within
our seven minutes so our colleagues
>> Yep.
>> uh, can have their their day of
questioning.
>> But again, we we'll have second, third,
fourth rounds. I mean, this we'll we'll
use up the time of this hearing room.
Um,
you know, the the debate here seems to
be about the efficacy of CO 19,
but the central issue that brings us
here today is the allegation that there
was purposeful concealment
of knowledge
and evidence. And I just want to make
the point, I may be sounding a little
bit like a lawyer, not a physician, but
purposeful concealment, intentional
hiding
is essentially undocumented by the
evidence released by this report itself.
In fact, the documents released by the
majority today show that public health
officials took multiple steps in the
spring of 2021 to make health care
providers aware
of those rare they were rare reports of
myocarditis among vaccine recipients. on
May 14th,
almost 2 weeks before the CDC decided to
issue clinical considerations
rather than a Han
on myocarditis,
which is by the way the primary piece of
evidence that the majority
cites in this so-called coverup. The
CDC's National Center of Immunization
and Respiratory Disease sent an email to
state and local health departments
around the country entitled quote
monitoring reports of myocarditis.
End quote. The email noted risks and
contained a reminder that providers were
obligated to report cases.
5 days later, they sent out a follow-up
email urging recipients to let providers
in their region know of risks and
reminding them once again of the
obligation to report cases. I have two
emails here who are in the majority
report. They're available to the public.
Uh I ask that they be made a part of the
record. Mr. Chairman,
>> objection.
>> Uh, I'm not going to read them. They're
for everyone to see. Uh, one begins
with, "I would like to flag a message we
sent out late Friday night. I encourage
you to forward this important message
about vaccine safety and reporting." And
it goes on, "Warnings."
Far from a cover up,
these public health officials were
trying to alert
scientists, doctors, the public about
the potential side effects.
Mr. Siri and I are both travel lawyers
and
issuing that kind of warning is far from
evidence of trying to hide or conceal
something. You can say
they were wrong somehow but intentional
cover up is not within the realm of the
plausible allegations here.
So, um I think we need to be really
clear and careful
when we start uh discrediting scientists
or public health officials. Uh I'd like
to ask
uh Governor Green
uh can you tell us how as a physician
publicly funded research
which is being cut by this
administration
is important to establish
not only new vaccines but also the
safety and efficacy of ongoing use of
vaccines.
Thank you, Senator. So, uh, as
governors, we rely on funding to do so
many things from the federal government
and cuts to research will be
devastating. You can't just simply pause
research and wait until uh different
ideology resumes uh governing or until
we get through these hearings and we
restart uh critical research projects,
we will lose ground on this science and
the science that benefits from it. The
R&D that goes forward, we've all been
very supportive for decades of advanced
scientific research. Sometimes it
happens through the military, sometimes
through our universities. We are in deep
trouble if we stop the research
component of our commitment to our
people. We will also be in grave danger
if we don't do the public health
assessment uh in our states in our rural
areas because we will not even know what
we're being affected by. We will be
blind to the diseases that roll through
our communities whether it's chronic
disease or acute disease u from an
infection like this. And I just I just
need to um address a couple um
statements that I feel are
misconceptions, you know, and I'm not
judging. I I feel that there is a
misconception that the COVID vaccination
didn't decrease the severity of disease.
That is what it did. It decreased the
severity and I saw this clinically and
we saw this from a public health
standpoint. It decreased the severity of
what people were facing. So they didn't
die or they died at a much lower rate.
And you can see that in the charts that
we've seen, but through looking at them
through a different lens, the exact same
charts when the when the death rates
dropped because people had begun to
develop immunity because their immune
systems were responding to the
vaccination. And in fairness, we could
debate the the language, but even some
of of the individuals that are also
testifying with me here today referred
repeatedly to the mRNA vaccination
because it was putting these particles
into people and then the immune system
was responding to them. And so I do feel
that it's a vaccination. But be that as
it may, we ultimately saw the ability to
stop the severe and deadly cases in our
hospitals. And so there are many ways to
view vaccinations. There's many ways to
view treatments. And they're all
valuable. Uh some for some vaccinations
straight up stop infection from
occurring. That's the case. Uh when we
talk about uh measles, you know,
measles, measles, ms rebella, when you
get that vaccine, you really prevent the
spread uh to a great degree. And it was
commented earlier that we were
misleading or we were being misled by
others on what uh the vaccinations uh
were doing and what the information was
that was being shared. Well, let me tell
you what it was like during that period.
And we all saw it. There was a great
deal of confusion because the unknown
was so enormous. And to the credit of
scientists and to the credit of those
who uh invested in the research at again
extreme speed and extreme dollars, we
were able as a nation and a global
community to find our way to something
that helped us. Now, of course, there
were some tragic outcomes and again, not
a single case should ever be dismissed,
uh, minimized. No one should be impuged.
But the grander picture of a vaccination
program is to protect all and to find a
way to protect people so that they can
also help protect the people around
them. which is why the research is
important, the spending is important,
why I'm very concerned about the
announcement yesterday that we will only
be recommending vaccinations for people
over 65 or those with chronic disease
because couple points. One, first of
all, and I'm sure many of you had this
experience, uh the chairman mentioned
going to Sworthmore College, which was
my alma mater. The president of our
class named Nick Nick Jazdan, 51 years
old, unvaccinated because the vac
vaccinations were not yet available,
healthy, a marathon runner, died of a
COVID infection. He was a prominent uh
writer, an extraordinary human being,
but utterly healthy. And that may have
been of course more rare than an
82year-old or or a 91year-old
contracting COVID and dying, but it does
happen. He is an individual that would
have been vaccinated immediately when
given the opportunity. And also the
reasons that we were able to avoid so
many unnecessary deaths in a very
difficult to treat state where we have
one, two, three, sometimes four
generations of people living under the
same roof with one provider. The
challenge there is if we suddenly can't
vaccinate teenagers or people who are 28
years old and are the breadwinners for
their community and we have another
pandemic or we have this outbreak worsen
again, they will come home with the
disease and very likely spread it to
those who are vulnerable. And so I'll
pause there. I just say that we should
give people choice and we should honor
and respect their stories, but we have
to do the research.
>> But their stories haven't been honored
or respected. Our our next question will
be Senator Kim.
>> Yeah. Thank you. Um, Governor, I guess I
I just would like to stay with you here
for a sec because I think you have an
interesting perspective, someone who's
both um a doctor as well as a elected
public official in an executive
position. And I'm trying to, you know,
digest the information that I'm hearing
here and thinking about how to talk
about it to my constituents back in New
Jersey. And if they're watching this,
you know, I think that a lot of this is
beyond what the average person
understands. It's beyond what I
understand in terms of the fullness of
what happens in terms of our health
system. So from your experience,
Governor, you know, when the when these
cases come forward, you know, the these
cases that Dr. McCullik and and others
have have raised, you know, in terms of
these concerns, what's supposed to kick
in? You how does this system work? You
know, you talked about this saying that,
you know, we have a robust
system for safety. Um, that the system
is designed to monitor, identify, and
transparently report possible side
effects to review. Can you explain to to
me and and my constituents, you know, h
how this unfolds and what to expect?
>> Yes, thank you, Senator. So the way it
it should work is that we totally
support science and we support public
health so that we are able in labs and
in public health offices to take in the
concerns, the complaints, the vignettes,
the data and analyze it thoroughly. And
uh to the chairman's uh concern, I'm
sure some people were not listened to or
they felt not listened to and that
should never happen. That is one of the
great challenges of our modern time
where we're talking past one another
where when people are spreading um their
stories anonymously sometimes they're
spread in ways that are not really even
from the individual who's suffering
themselves. There are great challenges
but we have to have this robust system
and how do you talk to people? How did I
talk to people in my state? And many
people feel that we had the u most uh
positive and and um effective strategy
to to deal with COVID was because we did
something very simple. It was partially
uh accidental in the early days of
COVID. I started a whiteboard and
ultimately tens then hundreds of
thousands of people followed this
whiteboard and just so people know that
it wasn't didn't have bias implicit or
otherwise. It didn't have partisanship.
I just put the actual numbers that we
had to the minute of how many cases that
day, how many people were vaccinated,
how many beds we had, how many intensive
care unit beds uh were available, how
many ventilators were available each
facility, how many infectious disease
doctors, and so on. So that if someone
truly didn't believe CO was a threat and
some people felt that way, they could
just look at the data and decide for
themselves how they would respond in
their lives. This is how you talk to
your constituents about something that's
this disconcerting, in fact terrifying.
And we just showed day after day after
day in a brief brief uh moment sometimes
90 seconds exactly what we had as the
best data long before we had these very
complex uh reports from John's Hopkins
or USC or other universities. Okay.
Before we had that, we had our capacity
in our state to share with our people
what we were dealing with. And so what
happened? Now, people could argue about
this, but I will tell you that I believe
we had far more people get vaccinated
because I just shared exactly what we
were experiencing. And I'll tell you, I
look back at some of those early reports
and I I sometimes shudder a little bit
because we learned so much, which is
what happens with science during one of
these crisis. You learn as you go. There
were times as you know that we didn't
have the right recommendations on masks
and we of course could debate that in
this room I'm sure but we gave our best
scientific data and our best
experiential data and that's how you
talk to people and yes you you never
tell people that they are not valued and
you never just dismiss their stories and
I'm positive I or others have been
guilty of that in the moment and we
shouldn't be but we also should not
demonize one another and when we in my
family ultimately had protesters which
did to a large degree cross some lines
when they some people were um just
communicating with me other people I
have to be honest with you some people
wrote swastikas on the on signs that
were next to my home certainly my
father's Judaism had nothing to do with
my COVID response but I can tell you
that sometimes because people were
traumatized and I understood how scared
they were and I understood what they
were hearing out there. But that's how
you talk to people. And if we do that
after not and I'm and I have to be
honest about this, if we don't
systematically dismantle our public
health system, we'll be okay. We will
find common ground. Even though I I
suspect that there are some pretty
significant differences between me and
some of the other testifiers on what we
would do with the next pandemic, we
would actually be able to still move
forward together.
>> Yeah. I mean I think you know something
you said earlier I thought stuck out to
me the sense of that you know no one
should be ignored. I think that's a
principle I hope everyone here can agree
upon that we I think they always have
space for more transparency. Um but also
just keeping in mind that broader
context. I mean as you're saying you
know here are the challenges that that
we're facing when it comes to this
system and how we can work on it. And
certainly I can imagine your experience
whether on addressing COVID or in Samoa
you know certainly that becomes more
difficult to to fully enact this monitor
identify trans and the transparency
report you know when you're in the
middle of a crisis when you're in the
middle of the chaos you know that's
something I think we can try to do to
improve to the point that was raised
earlier I think a lot of this also says
like this this is a reason why we need
to invest in capacity invest in
personnel people working in our
government to do this and and as opposed
to cutting back on staff and and trying
to say that we need simultaneously more
transparency when that becomes all the
more difficult. But I mean, look, I
understand and I've had people in my
life that have been ignored and and not
believed, whether that's, you know, my
time as a diplomat before and people I
know come struggling with Havana
syndrome and people telling them, "I
don't believe you and other issues that
are out there." Um, but we should always
have that system in place and and that's
what I just hope we can come back to. I
mean, I I get it. I'm I'm new on this
committee and I understand and I'm
seeing, you know, a year's worth of of
back and forth that are coming here. But
someone who's coming in with some fresh
eyes, you know, I hope that we can try
to cultivate that sense of of trust that
I know has been so deeply wounded. Um
because I worry about what comes next,
you know, I worry about how we deal with
the next diseases, the next pandemics,
how we try to move forward and
understand how this technology of of
mRNA and others try to move forward on.
So, I just appreciate, you know, being
able to hear this all and and I try to
figure out how best I can be able to
relate to the people in New Jersey
around this country about the safety of
the co vaccines that I have seen be able
to save lives, but also be able to sure
that we won't ignore people if they have
other concerns and we do our best to be
as transparent as possible and to be
careful of of accusations of personal
malfeasants uh especially with some of
our public servants. um in terms of
whether or not they were intentionally
withholding information or not. We need
to be very careful about those
accusations on this committee. And with
that, I'll yield back.
>> I will say we are just seeing the tip of
the iceberg here and you will see more
evidence. Trust me. Senator Marino.
>> Well, first of all, thank you uh
chairman for putting on this hearing.
I'm going to focus on let's just stick
to CO 19 and CO 19 policies. Let's not
get to let's not get into this
conversation about uh vaccines at large.
Dr. McCulla, do you feel that you were
listened to in 2021?
Did you feel ignored?
Our November 19th, 2020 hearing done for
Homeland Security, governmental affairs
was very lightly attended by our
senators who are working for us. That's
a disappointment. It's disappointment
there's chairs uh empty here.
our hearing was actively suppressed,
scrubbed off YouTube.
>> So just just so just so just to clarify,
not only were your viewpoints ignored,
you were called a conspiracy theorist, a
spreader of misinformation, somebody who
didn't know what they were doing by
people who didn't even take a science
class in high school. And yet you're a
doctor and you were completely ignored.
Let me ask you, uh, Dr. Vaughn, real
quick question. How many children under
the age of five years old died of COVID?
>> So very very few. Actually theoretically
a healthy child under five there wasn't
any.
>> So basically zero.
>> Yes. It's statistically zero.
>> Age of 10.
>> It's still statistically zero. When you
get when you get up into the when you
get up into the uh uh 15 16 I mean there
there is some
>> So under 15 none. Yeah. Pretty much
none.
>> Statistically. Yes.
>> All right. So, I'm confused because uh
Governor Green said he held the children
who would have died from COVID, but
that's crazy because evidently nobody
died of COVID who was under 15.
>> I we're talking about But see, that's
the confusion. See, when we talk about
COVID vaccines and then we stick in
other vaccines, we get off topic because
co 19 wasn't about measles. Uh now, Dr.
Thorp, do you think good idea or bad
idea that you should close schools?
Bad idea.
>> Bad idea.
>> Now why? I mean kids can learn uh at
home, can't they?
>> They can learn very well at home. But at
school uh they will have the opportunity
to develop natural immunity.
>> So and school, well by the way, schools
is where you socialize, you learn your
behaviors, you learn how to meet other
people. Because if we don't believe in
schools, the federal government, state
government can save a lot of money. So
schools are important. Let's just get
that out of the way. So, why would you
close schools, which you did, Governor,
when no children died of COVID? What
would make you make that decision? You
closed schools. And by the way, the
impact on that is generational. You
destroyed the lives. You and the other
governors that closed schools destroyed
the lives of children in doing that. So,
okay. I've got to got to tell the
audience, please notice your mistakes.
May I uh my respond to this? That was a
question for you. Yeah, I think it was.
Well, first of all, I think you
misunderstand some of the value to uh
>> No, no, no. Why did you close schools?
>> Well, I'm going to I'm going to address
you.
>> Just answer that and not filibuster me,
please.
>> I'm not going to filibuster you. Uh
schools I did not want to close and
>> you did.
>> Actually, I was not governor at the time
and
>> but you were lieutenant governor and you
were the point person. Do you think the
governor made a mistake in closing
schools?
>> We reopened the schools as soon as he
made a mistake. If I can I answer the
question or is this the senator going to
filibuster?
>> No, no, you're going to answer my direct
question or just say I'm not going to
answer you.
>> Do you think it was a good idea, yes or
no? The two choices in this answer. Do
you think it was a good cho idea to
close schools? Simple answer. Just give
me a yes or a no.
>> As we as we had COVID surging through
our society because there was massive
spread from children to adults, we were
waiting to make sure the teachers
>> So, let me get So, let me get this
straight. You sacrifice the lives of
children because maybe they would spread
something that you don't know to adults.
You thought that was a great That's
>> No, that's not always Actually, it's
your your party that's trying to close
our schools and get rid of the
Department of Education. So, we have we
do have
>> So, we're not politicizing this hearing.
Okay, we're moving on.
>> You said my other governors that close
schools, which is a politicization of
>> when I'm in Hawaii and I'm having a
hearing before you, you can interrupt
me. When you're here before the United
States Senate, you're not going to
interrupt me. Moving on. So, here's
here's the next question for you. Uh,
show me the science that said that when
I walked into a uh an airport in Hawaii
and I wasn't uh uh I I didn't want to
tell you because it's none of your
business whether I had a COVID vaccine
or not or tested positive or not because
that's also none of your business.
Where's the science where I had to
quarantine for 14 days? Tell me the
science behind why you locked your
residents up and did not allow them to
go grocery shopping. why you closed your
beaches and your parks. I would love you
to put that science into this record
because you can give me the nice happy
talk, but those were terrible decisions.
And what co highlighted more than
anything else, by the way, it's why I'm
here. I ran for the United States Senate
not because I I I had this deep desire
to uh be a government politician, but
because I was so insensed by the
arrogance, by the ignorance, by the lack
of common sense among our elected
officials that we needed different kinds
of people here in Washington DC and
other places. So,
>> should I answer those questions,
chairman?
>> No, there was no question for you. That
was just
>> There were several questions. You asked
about why a 14-day quarantine. You asked
about Sure. What's the science? 14-day
quarant.
>> Not 12, not 16.
>> Actually, I asked for 5 days, just so
you know.
>> So, what was it? Was there a dart board?
>> No, it was 5 days because that was the
amount of time from symptoms to
transmission.
>> So, why 14?
>> The 14 days was was before we had the
>> So, 14 wasn't scientific, just to be
clear.
>> 14 days was how long it took for people
to get over the disease. And people were
still shedding virus through that
period. And that's why you do use
science and I use science, but you
didn't like science for Hawaii. But but
we did but we did have the test and we
did have the test to enter Hawaii so
people could make a choice an informed
choice and they did and then they didn't
have to quarantine at all just to make
sure you know that because I think you
got your facts wrong and also I didn't
close the beaches that was the mayor of
Honolulu and not me. So just you know it
is important that you get the facts
right if you're going to be a political
official.
>> So it's what you're saying it wasn't me
it was the other guy.
>> No it was me who ran the co who ran the
co response.
>> Zero accountability. Dr.
>> I'll take more accountability if you
give me more time.
>> I'm done with you governor. Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
>> Uh, so Dr. McCulla, quick question for
you. Quick question for you. Just
completely objectively. Look, I went to
business school. I was not a doctor. Uh,
so I'm going truly objective, using your
most subjectiveness here. Did the
vaccine stop the spread of COVID 19?
>> No.
>> So then let me ask you one simple
question. We'll go down the line. You
guys can answer. It would be my last
question.
So if COVID 19 did the the vaccine, the
injection did not stop the spread of
COVID, why is it that Joe Biden,
president of the United States, issued
an executive order, which was ruled
unconstitutional, by the way, that said
that if you worked for a company with
100 employees, because not 99, 100, that
you would be fired
if you did not prove you didn't have a
COVID vaccine negative test or got
vaccinated.
Why would we have some decision like
that? How depraved do you have to be to
do that? Answer the question the way you
feel down the line. Go ahead. We'll
start with you, Mr. Stall. Dr.
>> Briefly,
>> my testimony on this issue went all the
way to the Supreme Court that overturned
four out of the five Biden mandates.
They were scientifically unggrounded.
They were sociologically
deranged and they caused great harm. To
this day, people are in court trying to
get their jobs back and trying to put
their lives together because of these
disastrous policies.
>> And and just to be clear, sorry,
chairman, nurses were included in that.
Correct. Healthcare workers. The ranking
member called them heroes.
It seems to me that when you have a
hero, you don't terminate their ability
to make money and have them fired
because they're making a personal
choice. Because see, ultimately, and
I'll end with this, ultimately, this is
what this is all about. See, I get to
get a choice if I'm going to get
vaccinated. And if it doesn't stop the
spread, it is none of any other human
being in this country's business what I
did or did not do. Would you agree
quickly?
>> 100%. And I think uh uh director Winsky
when she said of the science of hope uh
that is not science. Science is facts.
Hope is not science.
>> Thank thanks Senator Marino. Again
please let's not express any uh emotion
out there in the in the audience. Uh Dr.
Walskco I just have to go to you because
you have direct experience. I almost
feel like bringing up Brienne Dresen to
talk about the concealment that you
witnessed firsthand when it came to your
working with Bree's working with NIH
officials trying to do studies uh being
carried along with some with some
assurance that this was going to be
revealed to the public and it never was.
Just talk about that level of
concealment. Again, there's going to be
so much evidence of this if it hasn't
been destroyed. This this just the tip
of the iceberg what we're seeing here
with myocarditis. But but talk to what
you you and your fellow vaccine injured
who were dismissed, who were gas lit,
who were treated horribly. I mean,
horribly. When you came to the United
States Senate and asked to be
heard by senators and their staff, you
were treated. Describe describe how
you've been treated.
Well, thank you, Senator Johnson. So,
what I'd like to say is um being vaccine
injured in this country is is
unfortunately a huge polarizing event,
which it should never be. If I could
describe one word that I think all if
not most vaccine injured will say is
what's one word that describes your
experience after your injury and it's
abandonment. Okay, we get attacked. We
watch We walk a tight rope. We get
attacked from the right. The right say
we're stupid. We shouldn't have got a
shot. We should die. Okay, and I could
show you social media stuff. The left
says we're antivaxers. Which to me is
one of the most ignorant thing to say of
myself because all my children have been
vaccinated. I got vaccine injured
because I got vaccinated. But but still,
regardless, we get called antivaxers.
We report these to veres. Okay. Nothing
happens. I had an adverse event which
was, you know, delayed the Astroenica
trial in the United Kingdom, you know,
two times for three cases of transverse
myitis. I expected a call the day after.
Days passed, weeks passed. By 3 weeks, I
called the CDC myself and demanded, you
know, response. I always thought, oh,
I'd get this quick response and someone
would would help us. all of us that are
vaccine injured now there is no there's
no phone call coming there's no help
coming we have repeatedly met and
Brienne dressing who's my co-chair with
reacting have met with Peter Marx over
and over and over for the last you know
for a period of about two years we have
been plated we have been blown off we
bring up adverse events the neurological
adverse events we bring up the MIS which
is the multi-cystemm inflammatory
syndrome we bring up the myioarditis us.
He thanks us. He says he'll get back to
us. He never does. That went on to for 2
years. So, so for people that think it's
this kumbaya where all people are
listening to us and people in these
federal agencies are trying to to help
it get to the bottom of it, it is the
farthest from the truth.
>> So, there have been a number of claims
made and I think there'll be continue to
be a number of claims made. I just ask
anybody making the claim um please
provide your citations you know please
provide you again respect the science
let me see the science I mean I'm I'm
very genuine here let me see you know
the science behind that this actually
reduced the symptoms or this prevented
deaths or this prevented transmission uh
I would like to see the science um Dr.
Von, uh, you were really specializing in
the blood clots. You know, I've seen
video after video, picture after picture
of these long white blood clots in
autopsy. Um, we've we've also, you know,
throughout CO autopsies were really
discouraged. We we weren't seeking the
scientific truth. I see Dr. McCullik
have you kind of answer that, but you
know, Dr. Dr. Von, first talk about talk
about the clotting we saw and and what
you know in terms of what was discovered
under autopsy.
>> Well, first of all, early in COVID the
spring of 2020, uh my collaborator Jaca
Lobster in South Africa was the first
one to kind of alert people to say that
this was primary primarily a vascular
disease, not a pulmonary disease. And
it's one of the reasons that ventilators
are probably one of the most ineffective
things you could have done to people
because if you have a vascular disease
of the lungs, increasing the
intrathoracic pressure just closes down
more vessels and ultimately kills them.
And what we also saw was if you went
into the hospital in the spring or
summer of 2020, you were twice as likely
to leave alive if you were already on a
blood thinner. Now, I will tell you most
of your friends that are on blood
thinners probably aren't healthier than
you. So it's kind of interesting to find
out that the people that were on blood
thinners had a protection. So again,
those were signals that were really
downplayed. Unfortunately, after a lot
of the treatment was codified by the
CARES Act, uh it it resulted in
basically a a protocol-based treatment
for inhos care.
>> As long as you start, can you anybody
describe Remesae?
Anybody want to speak to that?
>> If if not, I'll I'll do that for another
hearing. I mean just the conflict of
interest of how that was being approved.
Uh yeah. So could I okay wave off on
that?
>> But but what we uniquely found and my
collaborators in South Africa Risha
Ptorius and Doug Kell at University of
Liverpool was that the spike protein was
able to induce fibrin from fibbrinogen
which is a fancy word for saying hey
forming the backbone of clotting but it
did it in a way that was different that
we had not seen. And it was what we
would similarly think of fibbrin as kind
of like spaghetti coming out of the
colander that you could pull apart when
you didn't need it. It was easy to break
down. But the actual clot that was
formed in COVID or from the spike
protein from the vaccine was like burnt
spaghetti casserole that you have to get
a brillow pad to get off the dish. And a
lot of people their issue is their
inability to break down that clotting
mechanism. We all need to clot, but we
all need to actually get rid of the
clot. And that is the problem.
>> That's pretty obvious. Ignore. Dr.
Thorp, I'll get to you, but Dr.
McCullik, real quick,
>> quickly. In the last five years, I've
never treated as many blood clots in my
entire multiple decades of in clinical
practice as a cardiologist. The blood
clots occur after the infection with the
virus and the vaccine because the spike
protein causes blood clots. It's without
any controversy in medicine. The spike
protein causes blood clots. So it is
reckless and foolhardy to continue to
vaccinate people and load the body with
spike protein and caused more blood
clots.
>> But there were other parts of the corona
virus that they could have used in the
lipid nanoparticle. I mean they could
have injected something else that wasn't
quite so toxic.
>> Yeah. And actually uh a paper in cell
July of 2021. It's called broad and
durable immunity from uh from basically
COVID. And what they found was the
nucleoprotein was actually the thing
that supplied broad and durable immunity
for actually prevention of infection.
Unfortunately, the spike protein did not
elicit that response. And as much as we
love this mRNA, you know, technology, it
seems like they sold it as something
that we could change on the dime as
information actually came to light. And
by July 2021, we knew the wrong pathogen
had the wrong protein had been picked.
Why didn't they change it?
>> That's a good question, Senator
Blumthal.
>> Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Vaughn,
uh, I noticed that you were careful when
you said that children didn't die of
COVID to say statistically.
>> Yeah.
>> Uh, which I appreciate. Uh, 1.2 2
million Americans died of COVID 19. Uh,
tragically, more than a thousand of
those deaths were children.
In fact, 700 were four years old or
younger.
And
I'm sure you will agree that those
deaths were
tragic. And most especially for the
families who will never be the same. Um,
children were affected by CO.
There's no question that children
died. But equally important, the trauma
of CO affected
children, the fear and anxiety that
spread throughout their families.
You don't have to be a doctor. Yeah.
>> To understand that point. Or a parent.
>> Yeah. I have a seven and nineyear-old
and it was a very interesting time. Uh
but in many ways
>> well interesting is a somewhat
euphemistic way of putting it. I'm sure
you'll agree but let let me just
>> uh point out that our entire society was
traumatized by co people were out of
school. We can argue about the merits of
whether they should have been, but it
has affected our entire society. And
>> just so we are all on the same page
here, I'm in strong agreement that
schools are good. Kids should be in
school. Um, let me point out though
because we want to learn from history
here.
That when there are side effects, when
there are threats to public health,
there should be warnings. The public
should know. So should doctors and
researchers. And right now uh I'm
looking at a report from NPR. dated May
21 of this year, which describes the
effects of cutting back on the CDC's
capacity to warn
and says that many of the platforms,
quote, "Many of the platforms the CDC
used to communicate with the public have
gone silent." End quote. It says, quote,
"Many of the CDC's newsletters have
stopped being distributed. Workers at
the CDC say health alerts about disease
outbreaks previously sent to health
professionals subscribed to the CDC's
health alert network.
Han
haven't been dispatched since March.
I I understand the concerns that have
been expressed here
and let's learn from
scientific practice and
uh make sure that the Department of
Health and Human Services provides the
resources that are necessary to warn the
public. Um I want to ask um
Dr. Brown uh because you've talked about
both your experience in Samoa
in 2019
with a measles outbreak there which
eventually killed 83 people as I
understand it. Again, measles was
thought to be eliminated in the world.
Uh that outbreak was fueled by
misinformation about the measel science
spread by
a number of vaccine
doubters or skeptics including the now
secretary of health and human services
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That campaign
caused the vaccination rate against
measles in Somota drop from over 74% to
just 34% between 2017 and 2018.
Uh, do you see parallels between the
measles outbreak you helped to address
in Samoa and the one that we're now
seeing in Texas
that has reached 31 states in including
Hawaii and the
COVID 19 situation.
>> Thank Thank you, Senator. There are more
than parallels. It's just terrifyingly
similar. So what happened uh I'll give
you the brief version uh in Samoa was uh
prior to the outbreak. Prior to the
outbreak, uh, two children had been, uh,
given vaccinations and tragically uh,
there was human error and two nurses who
were later prosecuted uh, made a
mistake, a tragic mistake and they used
the wrong reagent uh, the fluid with the
vaccine and they vaccinated uh,
incorrectly. These two children and the
two children perished which is of course
tragic in every way and we always have
to help hold all healthcare people to
account. Now after that there was panic
and what happened uh in the months and
years thereafter was that human error
was not a vaccine flaw. It was a human
error and that information was then
spread incorrectly by um then Mr.
Kennedy before being Secretary Kennedy
and the Children's Health Defense and
that country and and their their
leadership told me this directly. They
received letters. There were stories all
across Samoa that uh this group of
people came and convinced them not to
vaccinate and they uh had a lot of
challenges with health literacy and they
stopped vaccinating. And then when you
get vaccination rates that are that low,
and mind you, we have this challenge
because we have 14 states, my state is
among them, where the kindergarters in
our states, uh, age five, sometimes age
six, are at dangerously low vaccination
rates for measles. When it gets that
low, you're going to see outbreaks.
Unlucky. The the cases could come from
anywhere. They come from overseas. They
could come from within our own country.
But if you get below 95% and certainly
below 90% you see these outbreaks and
then you have you know one in five
people end up in the hospital you have
one in 20 with pneumonas you have
encphylopathies you have all sorts of
damage so that's what happened in Samoa
and and and to be very direct and
actually I want to be generous here
there are many things that um Secretary
Kennedy is doing that I support I
support his work on um some of the
questions about processed foods and dyes
and uh and environmental toxins things
that I have believed for decades and
fought for as have many of you probably.
However, however, this is so central to
the public health of our country that
because we have vaccine hesitancy and
because when you fall below 95% and
particularly below 90% you will see
these outbreaks. So we can anticipate
that we're going to have a lot of
outbreaks first of measles and there's
going to be fatalities and lots of
consequences. We're going to see ptasus.
God help us all if we start seeing
menitis or polio break out. These are
diseases that have been eradicated. And
so what I would say is I really
appreciate the chairman's focus on truth
and making sure there's transparency and
going through the record. I appreciate
that. I appreciate individuals who I
disagree with fighting for their voices,
but what I don't appreciate is when
there are individuals with no public
health training, whether it's a senator
or someone it's one of our colleagues,
and they make a assertion to move away
from science and away from prevention
that has been proven that I take uh I
have deep concerns about. And that's
what happened in Samoa, killing 83
people. we had to jump in and then that
is what is happening in Texas and a
bunch of other states and I don't think
there it would be very interesting to
ask all the senators privately and
congress people and all of us if any of
us could accept that kind of spread of
infectious disease amongst the people
that we love even if even if we don't
believe in vaccinations we certainly
don't believe in tragic outcomes things
that we can prevent and that's where I
think we should go as a country to heal
>> okay
>> I'm going to interrupt
just to say um I apologize. I am the
ranking member on the Veterans Affairs
Committee. There's a separate hearing
beginning right now. I'm going to I have
more questions. I'm going to try to come
back, Mr. Chairman. Um and uh I
apologize. I'm going to have to leave.
Thank you.
>> Appreciate you coming. This is the part
I was actually looking forward to. Um
unplugged.
So, Governor,
>> I'm just going to be honest with what
gets under my skin is how many times
those of us who've had a different
narrative on this or not a narrative,
but just a different viewpoint on this.
We are always accused of ignoring
science.
I I think I've been trying to follow it
quite closely. So again, I I will ask
you and we can go through your
testimony. Every time you've cited
something, we we will ask you to cite
the study that proves what you're
saying. Okay? So again, not really a
challenge. It's a request. I mean, I I
would ask that of all of you. Any of you
who have cited some study or some
opinion, back it up and we'll we'll
include in the hearing record. We'll
have this hearing record will stay open
for 15 days. So, I'm really encouraging
people, send me that science. Again, I I
I entered a piece from Raphael Lataster
that pretty well pretty well debunks the
the Watson I think it's Watson at all.
The claims it's the the CO injection
save millions. This is based on
mathematical models. It really wasn't
scientific studies. So, again, throw it
all in the hopper and and let the public
decide. But I do have some some
questions that Dr. Thorp. Speaking of
corrupted studies, uh you mentioned in
your uh opening statement the Shimmer
Bakura study, which by the way, Tom
Shimmer Bakura, uh we have sent
something like 70 oversight letters,
more than that. In many of them, we've
told the CDC, FDA, NIH, we demanded they
preserve their records
and that should have been widely
distributed through the healthy
agencies. You know, we in our subpoena
specifically asked for the
communications of Tom Shimmer Bakura.
They couldn't find any.
I know I know the current HHS is
investigating that individual. We've
sent a I would call it a referral to the
FBI uh and to attorney general to
determine this. Um but again, what
happened there? Okay. again when people
are supposed to maintain records and
they don't
I get suspicious but again going to Dr.
Thor. Um,
and I'm going to probably interrupt you
because I want everybody to understand
what you're talking about in this study
because it takes we're talking about
numbers here, but describe that study on
would you call it fetal demise,
miscarriage, uh, and how it was
originally presented as evidence to push
this on the most vulnerable, as you're
saying, pregnant women and the unborn.
And how did they distort that study to
make that point? Go ahead.
>> Thank you, Senator Johnson. So, the
study in question is a New England
Journal of Medicine on April 21st, 2021.
And in that same day, the digital
edition, there were two publications
that were extraordinarily concerning.
Both of them interestingly coming at a
time when vaccine hesitancy was being
was increasing.
So the Shima Bakuro study was a separate
study in addition to an oped. The oped
was by the New England Journal of
Medicine
uh editor and chief uh who who was Eric
Rubin and the managing editor who was
Stephen Moresy and then director of the
CDC Relle Winsky.
and they made statements that were
false. They made statements that uh was
fear-mongering
um insinuating that pregnant women if
they didn't take the vaccine would put
their lives in harm, their pre-born
lives in harm, and their newborn lives
in harm when they knew absolutely the
opposite was true.
>> How how do they know that? Well, they
know that for several reasons, Senator.
Uh, number one, the study by Panel's and
colleagues, who is a maternal fetal
medicine specialist from University of
Texas Houston, published a very large
study documenting that pregnancy in of
itself reduced the maternal mortality by
as much as 75%
during pregnancy compared to nonpregant
women. that study was available. Um also
Dr. Dr. um Shima Bakuro, Tom Shimab
Bakuro and then director of the CDC.
This was seven weeks after
the Fiser 5.3.6 six post marketing data
in 10 weeks that showed the COVID 19
vaccine was the deadliest and most
injurious vaccine ever released with
42,86
injuries, including 1,223
dead. They had that information. They
still pushed it on pregnant women. So,
so, so let's get to the the number where
there's 700 individuals included in the
statistic that shouldn't have been
included. So, describe that. I mean,
talk about this study,
>> right? Well, well, there's bias. There's
bias in the title. Okay, just look at
the title. There's bias in the 21
authors, all of whom were federal
federal employees and Tom Shimakuro, a
safety officer in the FDA itself. Then
you go to the numbers. We we look at
four we're looking at about numbers of
of over 4,000 in a 10w week period and
then all of a sudden it's just how do we
arbitrarily go to 10 weeks in this vsafe
smartphone collection system and then
what happened to all the other patients?
We go down to 827 patients.
What happened?
>> So you got so you got 827 patients that
were that became pregnant or were
pregnant in this in terms of again it's
not really study but I mean they're just
analyzing data. So you had 827 right?
>> Okay. So the these were women who were
pregnant
>> right 827 that completed the pregnancy
completed a pregnancy in 10 weeks.
>> This is not necessarily a born child but
the pregnancy
>> or a miscarriage. Right. Okay now they
claimed a 12.6% 6% miscarriage rate,
>> which is pretty kind of a normal
miscarriage.
>> No, it's not.
>> What's a normal miscarriage rate?
>> 3% when you have a normal booking visit.
And
>> so, so, so there it's already an
abnormal miscarriage rate in that 827.
>> That's correct.
>> Okay. And
>> so, now describe exactly how they
>> Okay. So, we have 827 patients, right?
And they talk about a 12.6% miscarriage.
But a miscarriage of those 827,
700 of those mothers had their vaccine
in the third trimester. That's way
beyond the window when a woman has a
miscarriage. So they artificially
uh took those 700 patients and put them
in the first trimester. No. The 104
patients that had the miscarriage,
that goes to the 127. 104 over 127,
you're looking at an uh, you know, 82%
miscarriage. So, the key is the
percentage of women that got the vaccine
in the first trimester had an 82%
miscarriage. And by the way, that's the
exact same miscarriage rate that was
seen in the Fiser 5.3.6 postmarket. So I
would I I would argue that proves both
points in the title of this hearing. The
corruption of science, the corruption of
federal health agencies.
Governor, listen, I I I I'm cognizant of
the fact that you're kind of outnumbered
here. So I'm I want to give you an
opportunity to respond to that if you
want to. You don't have to.
>> Sure. No, I'm happy to. Look, the um
appreciate the information. The uh the
tragedy of a miscarriage is always
there. It's not 3%. Um my
>> what what is it? What do you think it
is?
>> Well, in my training as a family
physician, the miscarriage rate for
women is often in the 20s or 30
percentile for for women across their
pregnancies. You know, there are just a
lot of miscarriages that occur amongst
um women. So, those are all tragic and
and I would obviously defer to ACOG, the
American I'm sorry, the uh the American
uh College of OBGYNS who who did and and
they should come and testify too who did
strongly recommend the vaccine. I mean,
I'm not going to speak as a as an OBGYn.
I'm speaking as an ER physician and as a
governor, but um I'm sure that that
would be a vibrant discussion and again,
it's a very good point. that we have
transparency in studies.
>> So, let me move on to my next point. In
one of our events, some of you were
there. There's Dr. Moon opened up the
insert
for the CO injection. Big piece of
paper, you know, fold up and
and it's other than it says
intentionally blank, intentionally left
blank, was blank. Now, this was quite a
few years. I think this was probably a
couple years into
the co injection distribution of it and
all these studies all everything on
veyores
um I would think somewhere you know when
you take a look at the the actual
studies and the adverse events that were
documented within those studies it's
been now been released through the fiser
papers and and other means you think
somewhere they ought to put some
information in there so the point I want
to make is I I think an awful lot of
folks are are saying that there was not
informed consent.
I would argue they violated the
invaluable
principle of informed consent with this
co injection. I I just think that's
indisputable. I'll start with you, Dr.
McCullik. Do you want to weigh in on
that?
>> I've presented at the FDA advisory
meetings. I've advised companies for
decades on this. So I know the
regulatory science very well. When a
product definitely results in death,
and there are thousands of peer-reviewed
papers on this, Governor, the COVID
vaccines in some people sadly result in
death. Some on the very first day they
take the shot. That must be a blackbox
warning on the product immediately. I
just checked the package inserts for the
currently available products, the ones
that uh Senator Blumenthal wants to
pursue. Sounds like governor wants to
still pursue these. Our FDA still wants
them to be administered. They still
don't have the word death in the package
insert. As of today, they don't. And so,
Americans are not fairly informed.
>> Do you have any doubt in your mind that
the CO injection caused some deaths? I
mean, do do you what what what do you
think of the what is it 37 38,607 right
now listed on veyory? What do you think
the real number is? And do you have any
science to back up your your opinion?
>> The best data are autopsies. So, in the
largest autopsy series published to
date, I know because I'm the senior
author
of all the death we deaths we examined
and we we re-reviewed them. We had an
adjudication committee. We had ways of
arbitration deciding on did the vaccine
cause death. The answer is of these
cases that came in for autopsy after
who has perished as a result of CO 19.
But when the vaccines became widely
available in 2021, deaths sharply
declined and many lives have been saved
in the years since. Many in this room,
speaking for myself as well as others,
probably have been saved from this
disease because of those vaccines. One
study found that 3 million American
deaths were averted. 18 million
hospitalizations
were avoided and 1 trillion dollar in
healthcare costs were saved in the
United States in just the first two
years after co vaccines were
distributed. I'd like this study entered
into the record, Mr. Chairman, if
there's no objection.
>> Objection.
Now, vaccines not only saved American
lives, they enabled us to get back on
our feet economically. They enabled the
American economy to recover.
Let's try to think of where we were 5
years ago with a deadly unknown virus
spreading through America and through
the world. We were only able to come so
far because of the vaccines and the
researchers who developed them and the
public health officials who distribute
them. And now those individuals are
again under attack. Our public health
officials.
I've
looked at
those documents, maybe not all of them,
that the majority alleges show that the
Biden administration or those public
health officials suppressed evidence of
side effects. Let's be clear, the
allegation is that they purposefully
concealed
evidence.
I am unable to support that conclusion
with this evidence. In fact, the primary
piece of evidence for this claim is that
the CDC did not issue a notice on its
health alert network con
while it was still analyzing the
evidence about myocarditis.
We're talking about myocarditis. The
chairman has referenced other side
effects. I'm not sure what he means, but
what I see as I look at that evidence is
public health officials
wrestling
with what to do and what kind of warning
to issue. And again, side effects must
be studied and communicated. And that's
what I see happening in these documents
that the majority has released.
So we have to distinguish, I think,
between differences of opinion under the
pressure of a pandemic
and
separate
the opinions of scientists who are
working for the greater good and frankly
others who may simply be seeking to sow
distrust
while they profit off misinformation and
fear. And I'm frankly deeply concerned
about some of today's witnesses
because they have a financial interest
in fermenting
distrust about CO 19 vaccines and
pushing untested alternative remedies
over proven treatments. In fact, two of
today's witnesses are executives at
something called the Wellness Company,
which sells the disproven treatment,
Ivormectin,
and a host of untested supplements,
which includes something called quote
unquote ultimate spike detox
costs $18,
$89.99 a bottle. Another makes money
from suing vaccine companies and still
others are pushing unsupported research
while rejecting the proven scientists on
CO and other vaccines.
Let's be very clear that fear-mongering
and rushing to conclusions without
examining the evidence can lead to
tremendous harm. And this risk is not
just hypothetical
or rhetorical.
Misinformation about the safety of
vaccines has led to a deadly outbreak of
a preventable
disease.
We all know it. Measles.
Just 25 years ago, measles was declared
eliminated in the United States.
Since then,
conspiracy theories, some financially
motivated, have caused vaccination rates
to plummet.
Last September, the CDC warned that
declining childhood vaccination could
lead to a resurgence of a preventable
disease like measles and roto virus.
Exactly what is happening today. As of
today, more than a thousand Americans
have been diagnosed with measles this
year. In 31 states, many of them
children. So far, three have died. These
deaths were preventable.
They could have been avoided.
but for the efforts of misinformation
proponents that have spread lies and
created fears. There has been so much
misinformation and fear since co 19
emerged that during the height of the
pandemic health care workers and public
health officials were often harassed and
threatened. Some of them continue to
fear for their lives.
During the first frightening year of the
pandemic, the Trump administration
withheld critical information from the
public, made baseless promises that the
virus would magically disappear. I think
I'm almost quoting
the president. Magically disappear,
engaged in unfounded conspiracy theories
and sham science about CO 19 treatments
and sewed the seeds of distrust in
public health institutions.
And then to the tremendous credit of
President Trump, he fasttracked the
vaccine. Let me repeat, to the credit of
the Trump administration, the president
of the United States fasttrack the
vaccine and save lives.
We need to learn from history.
We're seeing the same pattern now.
Those same seeds of doubt and distrust
have been nurtured by the president's
choices for key positions in this
administration,
including the decision to install a
well-known vaccine skeptic as the head
of HHS and to fill our public health
agencies with conspiracies.
And let's bring it right to the present
day. Just yesterday,
it was announced that the FDA may start
restricting access to new COVID boosters
to those over 65 or with a narrow set of
pre-existing conditions. Now, we ought
to be very frank here.
Discerning what exactly this new
guidance may be at the moment is
confusing
and the troubling news leaves many
questions unanswered about whether and
how people can actually access vaccines
if they want to do so. Will Americans
who
live with elderly or immunompromised
relatives for example have access to
these vaccines? We don't know
and so far those questions are
unanswered.
The manner and timing of this decision
frankly weak of politics
not science and again science ought to
be the loadar.
So,
I think we need to be looking at the
present. We need to be looking forward.
In the first four months since the
president took office, he and his health
secretary have fired at least 10,000
employees from public health agencies
and cut more than $2.7 billion in
funding for research, including $4.2
million for vaccine clinical trials. Let
me repeat. Clinical trials, money cut to
do them. How does that make us safer?
More than $3.8 million for safety
monitoring and more than $2 billion for
state immunization programs. A drastic
cut that is already hampering our
measles response.
These reckless cuts are undermining our
ability to respond not just to measles,
but to what may come next.
And we all know
something will come next.
That's the history. We need to learn
from history and science.
Let me just finish by saying the
capacity of our agencies to warn
is compromised by these cuts. The
capacity of our agencies to do science
and rely on science is compromised when
we cut 10,000
people from the ranks of the agencies
responsible for safety.
And so I welcome the interest in this
topic. I'm honored that the governor of
Hawaii, Dr. Dr. Josh Green has joined us
today to share his experiences
addressing both measles and CO 19. He's
not only a dedicated public service, but
he's also a physician who led his
experience his state Hawaii during the
pandemic. And I'm thankful to him for
being here today. And uh I look forward
to the testimony. Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
>> Thank you, Senator Blumenthal. I think
people understand why you didn't join me
in my oversight request. The the over 70
letters that were not responded to.
Again, I haven't uncovered yet what they
were trying to hide, but our intention
is to do so. Uh you did mention the
what irrefutable fact that these vac
these injections save lives. I I would
enter in the record a recent study by
Rafael Lataster uh who does a pretty
effective job of rebutting one of those
studies from Watson at at all. But we
put in the record and again we'll allow
the public the American people who are
watching this hearing decide uh based on
what testimony is based on what's been
entered in the record based on our
report. Uh it is the custom of this the
full committee and the subcommittee to
swear in witnesses. So, if you all rise
and raise your right hand,
do you swear the testimony you are about
to give before this subcommittee is the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth? So, help you God.
Please be seated.
Our first witness is Dr. Peter McCullik.
Dr. McCullik is an internist,
cardiologist, and epidemiologist from
Dallas, Texas. He has broadly published
with over 700 citations in the National
Library of Medicine. He has testified
multiple times in the US Senate, US
House of Representatives, European
Parliament, and many state capitals
concerning public health policy. Dr.
McCullik,
>> Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member
Blumenthal, subcommittee members, it's
an honor to present my insights, my
analysis, my clinical experience on the
this very important topic. The first
time I testified at Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs, before a word
came out of my mouth,
Minority Center, Senator Gary Peters
said, "What America was about to hear
was misinformation."
I didn't even know what he was talking
about. I had never heard that term
before in academic medicine or in uh
important deliberations. That's November
19th, 2020.
What was he doing? He was using an old
communist propaganda technique.
He was attempting to gain leverage over
me before a word ever came out of my
mouth. We should never have our public
servants ever try to gain leverage over
anyone who is coming to Washington to
help the nation on an important issue.
As introduced, I'm an internist. I'm a
cardiologist. I believe I'm the most
published individual who's ever
testified on matters regarding CO 19
in any of these hearings.
I've seen and examined more patients.
I've examined more data and I'm one of
the most published people on the topic
in the world. And as a cardiologist, I
can tell you my role in this was to
fight disease, preserve life, and above
all do no harm. Do no harm.
Now, the topic today is myocarditis or
heart damage from the co 19 vaccines.
I'm a cardiologist. I know the topic
well. I've examined thousands of
patients with this problem. Thousands.
Before the pandemic, I had two patients
ever with this problem. There's 1,65
papers in the peer-reviewed literature
on COVID vaccine myocarditis.
So, let me summarize them for you. The
first one that came on my radar screen
that was alarming came from Washington
University in St. Louis, August 18th of
2021. The first author is Verma and
colleagues. New England Journal of
Medicine. 42-y old man comes into
Washington University Hospital with
vaccine myocarditis. The infection is
ruled out. It's the vaccine. He's in the
hospital. This is one of our best
hospitals in the United States. He dies
3 days after taking Madna. They can't
save him in the hospital.
>> Say Dr. McColl, move the microphone just
a little bit away from you. Then one was
reported from Korea by Choy and
colleagues.
This is now a younger man just a few
days after Fizer. He comes in the
hospital. He dies within 8 hours of
being in the hospital. I can tell you
I'm a cardiologist. That doesn't even
happen with heart attacks. He dies
within eight hours. I examined all of
the slides and the the images that the
Koreans had showed us. It looked like
somebody took a blowtorrch to that
heart. It was so completely fried with
inflammation. His heart was destroyed.
These cases
which were widely known at the time
should have gotten everyone's attention.
Everyone should have been laser focused
on this. We should never have someone
die
after taking a vaccine. That's directly
caused to the vaccine. Then Gil and
colleagues Connecticut
published in Archives of Pathology. two
boys aged 16 and 17 who die a few days
after taking Fizer. These are teenagers.
They're found dead at home
by their parents. They're absolutely
horrified.
They request an autopsy. They call in
University of Michigan and University of
Minnesota to look over what are they
finding at autopsy. Conclusion, it's
Fizer COVID 19 vaccine myocarditis.
Unequivocal. These are autopsy confirmed
cases. So for all the mothers in the
room, how would they feel if they found
their children dead after taking a CO 19
vaccine? This is in the peer-reviewed
literature. This is not misinformation.
Everyone should be paying attention to
this. This is not conjecture. This is in
the peer-reviewed literature. So we
started to ask ourselves, what is going
on?
Turns out that fizer and madna in Jansen
are the genetic code for the spike
protein. The spike protein is the
damaging part of the virus. The spike
protein is loaded into the body and it
causes tremendous damage. Tremendous
damage in some acute myocarditis appears
to have some genetic pred predilction
and all of the vials of the vaccine are
not the same. But I can tell you I'm
concerned that until the vaccines are
stopped there will be cases of acute
myocarditis. And to finish we've had 216
vaccine deaths this year alone. So if
the vaccine campaign continues we have
to look at what are we getting out of it
now four and a half years of the
campaign and how many more people will
die. I'm Dr. Peter McCulla. Thank you
for listening.
>> Thank you Dr. McCulla. Our next witness
is Dr. Jordan Vaughn. Dr. Vaughn is a
physician and clinical researcher in
Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama. As owner
and CEO of Medel Clinics, Dr. Vaughn has
directed his organization to the leading
edge of early outpatient treatment of CO
19 for his patients and greater
Birmingham community. Dr. Vaughn has
treated over 4,000 longcoid and COVID
vaccine injured patients. Dr. Vaughn,
thank you. Uh, Chairman Johnson and uh,
uh, Ranking Member Blumenthal, thank you
for having me. Um, I'm going to dovetail
a little bit off what uh, Dr. Mcola said
and one of the things that uh, as a
clinician who also had about 200 people
working for him and actually seeing
about 170,000 patients a year. When
COVID came along, I had to really figure
out how to not only help my staff and
make sure they're safe, but also help
the patients that uh, my organization
was responsible for. And that really
made me dive into understanding the
pathology. And what I came away with was
understanding that the spike protein the
S1 subunit specifically is not a benign
protein. It triggers inflammation. It
disrupts endothelial barriers. It
induces fibbrin resistant to breakdown
and it promotes a lot of amaloid
aggregates which is what I research.
These effects impair oxygen delivery,
damage blood vessels, contribute to
clotting pathologies that manifest with
a lot of the symptoms that we're seeing
in the long COVID and vaccine injured,
which to this day is a huge amount of
people. We're talking upwards of 10 to
15 million people in America that are
being affected by the consequences of
COVID in the long form or vaccine
injury. And the typical symptoms are
things like heart racing, brain fog,
shortness of breath, and post-exertional
malaise. In my clinic, I actually use
immunofllororescent microscopy to be
able to actually see what's going on in
the blood and look for these amaloid
aggregates. Some as young as teenagers
that are unable to stand. Others are
previously active adults suffering small
strokes without typical identifiable
causes. These are not abstract theories.
They are the lived realities of my
patients in Alabama and beyond. The mRNA
injection heralded as a solution
introduced a novel mechanism lipid
nanoparticles delivering modified mRNA
that instructs the cells to produce a
stabilized spike protein. Unlike
traditional vaccines, this approach
resulted in uncontrolled production of
the spike protein for an unknown
duration and distributes it widely
across organs including the heart, brain
and vasculature and ovaries and testes.
The actual EMA their assessment of
kumarity which is Fiser's vaccine noted
biodistribution beyond the injection
site contradicting claims that the
vaccine stays in the arm and a recent
groundbreaking study using single cell
precision nanoarrier identification
revealed L&P accumulation in the heart
tissue of mice with adverse proteomic
changes in immune and vascular proteins
raising concerns about the uh cardiac
complications that dovetail with what we
were seeing when we were looking at card
uh the the uh co 19 vaccine myocarditis.
I will tell my first encounter with the
vaccine injury came in winter of 2021.
69year-old man from Alabama presumed
presented with unexplained shortness of
breath. He was a patient of mine. I
really had no other reason that he had
this shortness of breath. And after the
second Fiser dose, he actually uh had
significant shortness of breath. I
couldn't figure it out in a sense
because it would typically be that he
had a pulmonary embolism. But empirical
anticoagulation and antiplatlet therapy
brought rapid improvement. This case
prompted deeper investigation that the
spike protein's ability to induce fibrin
that's resistant to breakdown, activate
platelets irreversibly, and damage the
inside of our vessels, vessels that run
to every part of our body and every
organ, explained his symptoms, and those
of thousands more. Uh, since I have
treated approximately 4,000 patients
suffering from long co and vaccine
injury, or both, many were young and
previously healthy. For those with
vaccine injury, trust in public
institutions has been shattered. Many
were coerced under the August 2021
federal mandates. Despite legitimate
hesitations due to prior infection or
personal health risk, they knew their
body better than the agencies. Now
disabled, they are dismissed or ignored
by the systems that mandated their
compliance. The myocarditis signal was
also a big thing. This spring of 2021, a
clear safety signal emerged. myocarditis
in young males linked to mRNA vaccines.
The Department of Defense confirmed
cases of rare heart inflammation and
peer-reviewed studies later detected
circulating spike protein and
postvaccine myocarditis cases. Autopsy
findings have confirmed fatal vaccine
induced myocarditis. Yet, federal
authorities accelerated licensing and
mandates sidelining concerns. The CDC's
hesitation to issue a health alert on
myocarditis and the C the FDA's former
SEAB director promoting vaccines on
social media crossed a line from
oversight to advocacy. This was not
regulation. It was endorsement. Informed
consent is the foundation of a patient
physician relationship. Absent the
regulators providing that information,
that relationship is irreparably harmed
and the practice of medicine will
continue to suffer. In closing, I urge
you to stop blindly following the
science. Science does not lead anywhere.
It is an observer, measurer, and
descriptor. It must inform leadership,
not replace it. When leaders hide behind
the science to justify policy, they
abdicate responsibility. We need
leadership that humbly engages with
data, listens to patience, and actually
acts with courage. Thank you. I welcome
your questions.
>> Thank you, Dr. Vaughn. Next witness is
Dr. James Thorp. Dr. Thorp is a B board
certified obstitrician gynecologist and
maternal fetal medicine specialist with
over 44 years of clinical experience. As
US veteran and widely published
physician, he has testified
internationally served as a peer a
journal peer reviewer, board member of
the society for maternal field medicine,
an examiner for the American board of
obstitistics and gynecology. Dr. Thorp.
>> Thank you, Mr. chairman and members of
the committee.
My patients I focus on the most
vulnerable patients, pregnant women and
pre-born. It is difficult to conceive of
a more egregious breach of medical
ethics by the governmentontcontrolled
medical industrial complex than the
promotion of CO 19 vaccines to pregnant
women thereby through transplental
transfer effectively vaccinating their
unborn and newborn children. This
campaign was not accidental.
It was calculated. Pregnant women are
were targeted deliberately for two
reasons. First, women are the primary
decision makers of health care across
the human lifespan, a known marketing
principle. Number two, pregnant women
are the most vulnerable patients. If
they could be convinced that the vaccine
was safe and effective, it would imply
that it was safe and effective for
everyone. From the outset of the
pandemic, this vaccine campaign was
never grounded in biological science,
but rather in behavioral science,
specifically the manipulation of public
perception through influence, fear, and
persuasion.
The federal government outsourced much
of this psychological operations to
NOS's which disseminated emotionally
charged and misleading messaging. These
entities falsely assured pregnant women
that the vaccines were proven safe and
essential for maternal and fetal newborn
health despite the fact that early
evidence indicated quite the opposite.
Pregnancy itself was protective against
CO 19 maternal mortality. Dr. Jay
Winston, an initiative director at
Harvard School of Public Health,
described the government's vaccine
marketing approach in a 2020 CBS News
interview. He explained that the
strategy was to quote go for the
lowhanging fruit. Those easiest to pick
and harvest, end quote, and the fruit in
quotes, tragically were pregnant women.
Only
this deception was institutionalized in
the now infamous Shima Bakuro study
published on April 21st, 2021 in the
digital version of the New England
Journal of Medicine. 21 authors claimed
the miscarriage rate was 12.6% but the
raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage
rate in women vaccinated during the
first trimester. This figure mirrors the
effects of chemical abortion drugs such
as RU486.
Also, in the same journal edition, on
the same day, an op-ed appeared by CDC
director Rashelle Winsky and journal
editor and chief Eric Rubin. These
publications were riddled with conflicts
of interest and deliberate
misrepresentations
intended to coers pregnant women into
taking vaccines. Subsequent studies have
also claimed that CO 19 vaccines are
safe and effective during pregnancy and
have been rebuked by respected
researchers. These publications are
fundamentally compromised by serious
conflicts of interest ranging from
biased funding sources and institutional
mandates and even threats to their
medical licenses and board
certifications. Between 2020 and 2022,
pharmaceutical companies paid 1.06 owe 6
billion dollar to reviewers at leading
medical journals, the New England
Journal of Medicine, JAMAMA, Lancet and
BMJ, thus corrupting the peerreview
process. At least six existing studies,
three from CDC, FDA, and two from Fizer
revealed major breaches in safety
signals for CO 19 vaccines in pregnancy.
These findings were ignored. Conversely,
countless independent researchers with
no conflicts of interest published
findings that contradicted the false
narratives and the pharmaceutical
industry narratives only to be rewarded
by persecution, censorship, and threats
to their medical licenses and board
certifications.
This is not hypothetical. It happened to
me. On February 8th, 2025, our team of
researchers published a peer-reviewed
study in science, public health policy,
and the law. We identified 37 adverse
pregnancy outcomes significantly
associated with CO 19 vaccine, including
miscarriage, still birth, birth defects,
cervical insufficiency, premature
ruptured membranes, pre-term birth, and
death of the newborn. Lynn and
colleagues in a major journal
publication documented that the CO 19
vaccine traverses the placenta, enters
the fetal blood, and bioactively
produces spike protein in the placenta
and the lining of the uterus. Recently,
animal studies revealed the mRNA COVID
vaccine causes the destruction of 60%
of the ovarian reserve in pre in rats.
This catastrophic public health failure
was financed with taxpayer dollars and
channeled through federal agencies to
medical gatekeepers such as the American
College of Obstitricians and
Gynecologist, ACOG, the American Board
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ABOG, and
the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine,
SMFM.
These organizations have abandoned their
ethics and responsibilities to
physicians and patients and must be held
accountable. I urge the government to
immediately halt all funding to these
entities and to end every promotional
campaign that coerces or recommends
experimental mRNA therapies to pregnant
women. This must stop now. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Dr. Dr. Thorp. Our next uh
our next witness is Dr. Joel Walsskcog.
Dr. Walsskcog is an orthopedic surgeon
originally from Wisconsin. He
experienced an adverse event after his
Madna COVID 19 injection that he
received on December 30th, 2020. He has
subsequently been diagnosed with
transverse myelitis and unspecified
autoimmune disorder and autonomic
dysfunction. He is medically retired. He
is now co-chairman of React 19. Dr.
Walskcog.
Thank you, Senator Johnson, Senator
Blumenthal, and the subcommittee for
inviting me to testify on the
development and safety of the CO 19
vaccines. I am Joel Walskog, a
board-certified orthopedic surgeon, now
medically disabled after one dose of the
Madna
CO 19 vaccine. Before the pandemic, I
enjoyed a successful practice in
Wisconsin, performing over 800 major
surgeries annually, trusting my health
authorities. My practice followed CDC co
19 guidelines delaying surgeries and
even temporarily closing. I proudly
elected to get vaccinated and within a
week I developed leg weakness, numbness,
substantial balance loss
leading to falls including one while
treating a patient. Diagnosed with
transverse myelitis, a spinal cord
lesion at T8 T9. I was stunned that my
providers dismissed any vaccine link
despite news of similar cases halting
the Astroenica trial in the UK. Four
years later, while I can walk, I have
been diagnosed with dautonomia and an
undefined autoimmune disorder.
Both debilitating conditions affecting
multiple body systems. I remain
medically retired. The career I loved
and worked so hard for is now gone.
In 2021, federal health agencies assured
Americans that the CO 19 vaccine trials
were rigorous and closely monitored with
rigorous postmarketing surveillance.
They also claimed a robust safety net
that would handle what they said were
rare and mostly mild injuries with
monitoring, followup, and financial aid.
After my own vaccine injury, I learned
the hard way that nothing could be
farther from the truth.
In my own battle to restore my health, I
could not find a single reliable source
of information from the CDC, from the
FDA, or the NIH.
Further, answers did not come from
medical teams, the media, or even
medical journals. Rather, the answers
were being pieced together by tens of
thousands of vaccine injured patients
huddled together in social media based
support groups who are constantly
fighting for their right to simply
exist.
You will hear today a great deal about
myocarditis, maternal female maternal
fetal complications and blood clotting
disorders after the co 19 shots. I hope
to talk more about the neurological
adverse events to the co vaccines. These
are the most common adverse event to the
co shots. I am now co-chair of react 19
which is a national science-based
non-political
nonprofit that represents over 36,000
Americans seriously injured by the CO 19
shots. Our mission is to provide
financial, physical, and emotional
support. This gives me a unique
perspective to share the collective
experience of those who have been harmed
not just by the co 19 vaccines
themselves but by also by the US
government.
React 19 surveyed our 36,000 members
asking if the FDA takes vaccine injured
injuries seriously. 100%
said false. Not even one person voted
favorably. The vaccine injured share a
uniform story.
We did our duty for our country became
injured, disabled or died. We further
reported to VERS and Vsafe repeatedly
contacted our elected elected officials
and applied to the countermeasures
injury compensation program or CICP
only to face silence from the VES, no
response from Vsafe, ghosting by our own
representatives and a 98% rejection rate
from the CICP.
The many cries for help were ignored.
Some were studied at the NIH in a
program under Dr. Fouchi where they were
diagnosed with vaccine complications but
never disclosed to the public despite
promises that the NIH would do so
privately. The agents said, the agencies
said neurological conditions needed
early recognition and treatment while
publicly they remained silent and often
denying that they were even treating
vaccine injuries. Rather, they promoted
boosters and high safety claims while
the White House directed social media to
censor quote true stories of vaccine
injury end quote. relegating NIH
confirmed injuries into silence. That
silence by health authorities, elected
representatives, and even our White
House has resulted in in even more
severe health outcomes and worse for
many, death. The PREP Act shields drug
companies from injury liability and
strips Americans of their constitutional
right to due process and jury trial.
This liability shield places the
responsibility squarely on the US
government to address this crisis. Our
constitutional rights must be replaced
with effective safety monitoring and
compensation.
Today, these programs are dismal
failures. Congress must urgently reform
these failing systems or remove itself
as a middleman and repeal the PREP act.
An analysis of clinical trial data
showed that for every
shows that for every 800 people
vaccinated, one suffers a serious
adverse event. We are here today to end
the silence for the one in 800.
It is time to stop politicizing vaccine
injuries and start building
meaningful recognition,
research, competent care, and fair and
just compensation.
At React 19, we say we're we've had
negative reactions, but we're about
seeking positive actions. I will not
stop until these humanitarian goals are
met. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Das Walls. Our next witness
is Dr. are Mr. Aaron Siri. Miss Siri is
the managing partner of Siri and
Glimstad with over 85 professionals. He
has handled numerous high-profile cases
involving challenges to medical
mandates, restoring exemptions, uh
agency transparency, including forcing
FDA to release the CO 19 vaccine lensure
documents and deposing immunologists,
infectious disease doctors, and
vaccinologists. Mr. Siri,
>> good afternoon.
>> Good afternoon. Thank you. Um yeah, our
our vaccine practice I believe which has
over 40 professionals I doesn't
represent pharmaceutical companies I
believe is the largest vaccine practice
in the world. When we litigate vaccine
cases we cannot rely on credentials or
fancy titles.
We have to prove our claims with high
impact data and sources. For example, I
saw a slide put up that showed 3 million
lives were saved from CO 19 vaccines.
The citation to it was to the
Commonwealth Fund. If you follow that,
that's not a peer-reviewed study. That's
a blog. It's a blog that used a
mathematical model to calculate that 3
million lives were saved. So, I agree
with uh uh the senator Blumenthal that
who said, you know, quote, claims
made, I think you meant vaccines, we
need to examine the evidence. And that's
an example of that. We need to look
carefully at the evidence we are relying
upon when we are making claims about
vaccines. I don't think that if I went
into court and I was relying on a blog
that use a mathematical model, I would
be laughed out of court if I was making
those claims about vaccines. But
unfortunately, when it comes to
promoting vaccines, well, that's what we
often see. The underlying data is not
typically really carefully evaluated.
Claims about what vaccines do when
they're positive because our health
agencies are responsible promoting them
easily made. Claims that vaccines cause
any harms or injuries often get ignored
no matter how good the underlying data.
I also heard that deaths sharply
declined
in 2021.
Well, when you look at all cause
mortality in the United States, deaths
in 2021 went up compared to 2020. And
presumably most of the most frail, the
weak among us died in 2020 from COVID.
We should have had a reduction in all
cause mortality in the United States. We
did not. And those numbers are you can't
argue with they're binary. You're either
dead or you're alive. You can argue
whether the vaccine killed you or didn't
kill you. Whether COVID killed you or
didn't kill you, but it's can't argue
with all cause mortality. And we did not
have a reduction in all cause mortality
in 2021. We had an increase. And we
really need to answer that question. We
have sent many letters to our federal
health officials trying to get an answer
to that. With that said, not only do we
need to carefully study the data and
science before we go and litigate our
vaccine cases because again I don't have
a MD or a PhD or an MPH um we also need
to understand the economic and
regulatory framework around vaccines and
co 19 vaccines did not just fall into a
vacuum. They fell into a very
welldeveloped regulatory and economic
framework for vaccines that has
developed over the last 40 years. For
every product on the market, you can sue
the manufacturer for harm for design
defect claims. Meaning the claim that
the product could have made safer. I
mean literally look around this room.
Planes, cars, pharmaceutical drugs,
everyone. There's only one product in
America. You cannot sue the manufacturer
for design claim to claim that it could
have been made safer and that are
vaccines. I heard uh you know
injections, vaccines. My definition of
vaccine is any product for which the
government needs to give it immunity
from harms. To me, that's what a vaccine
is because some in prevent infection,
some don't. That's what a vaccine is.
Meaning, it can't survive without that
immunity apparently. Why did vaccines
get this immunity? Um, which was
provided in 1986 under the National
Childhood Vaccine Injury Act? Because
leading up to '86, there were only three
routine childhood vaccines, MMR, OPV,
and DTP. And they were causing so much
harm and causing so much liability that
that uh all the manufacturers were going
out of business to stop making them.
Congress instead of forcing those
manufacturers to do what every other
product manufacturer needs to do in that
situation, which is what? Make a better,
safer product, instead said, "You know
what? We're just going to give you
immunity. We're going to make it so
nobody can sue you for those harms,
and you can keep selling your product to
the American public no matter how many
children it kills or injures."
Um, and the the issue is that that
immunity was not just given for those
three products. it was given for any
childhood vaccine, routine childhood
vaccine that was developed thereafter.
Um and and I I sell you this not to take
issue with childhood vaccines but to
explain to you the regulatory framework
in which vaccines have developed over
the last 40 years. We have now gone from
three injections in the first year of
life under the CDC schedule in ' 86 to
29 injections including in utero if a
child follows the CDC schedule today.
Every one of those vaccines, save one,
was developed by a pharmaceutical
company knowing they would not be
responsible for the injuries that are
caused by those products. So, when you
have drug trials where pharmaceutical
companies they care about losing money,
they don't want to lose money on their
drugs, they often do multi-year placebo
control trials before they get on the
market because they don't want to end up
upside down. They're there to make
money. But with vaccine products,
because they don't have that financial
incentive, they have the actually the
disincentive. Almost every childhood
vaccine in this country is licensed
based on clinical trials with often with
no placebo control say for co 19 vaccine
often days or weeks up to maybe six
months of safety review after injection
and are often extremely underpowered.
Those trials could never have really
confirmed the safest product and my
submission to this committee laid out
every single vaccine and put them in
detail. I will um since I'm running out
of time I'll just wrap up by saying
this. Um
um uh you might say, "Well, okay, the
pharmaceutical companies did that, but
why would why would the FDA allow it?"
It's because unfortunately our federal
health authorities are hopelessly
conflicted. Congress gave them
conflicting structural duties. They're
responsible for promoting vaccines and
for defending them in the vaccine
compensation program. And you also ask
them to be responsible for safety. Those
conflict, one has to overtaken the
other. and and and for the most part
based on our over 2,000 for requests to
federal health agencies over the years
on behalf of our client I can I could
tell you our federal health agencies act
like partners with pharma they don't
they they don't they're not only they
encourage their inroads they act
basically in the shoes of pharma because
when the immunity to liability was given
to the pharmaceutical companies Congress
recognized that apparently and
transferred all the safety functions to
HHS and the mandate for safer child
vaccines and by doing so it's made them
hopelessly conflict Ed um that was very
very quick way to try and convey uh the
regulatory and economic framework into
which co 19 vaccines fell into um and
why you know from the pharmaceutical and
FDA's perspective the co 19 vaccine
clinical trials may have been robust and
they were compared to childhood vaccines
but compared to drugs or anybody that
actually wants to assess safety they
absolutely were not robust they were
incredibly anemic and as for posture
regulators didn't do their jobs, but
really they acted like pharmaceutical
companies seeking to cover up harms and
avoid reputational damage and financial
liability. I hope this hearing can help
begin the process of changing that.
Thank you, and I apologize for going
over on my time.
>> Yep.
>> Thank you, Mr. Siri. Our final witness
is Governor and Doctor. I've always
found senators like to be called doctor
if they are one. So, Governor and Dr.
Josh Green. Governor Green is the ninth
governor of Hawaii. He earned his
degrees in biology and anthropology from
Swarm Swathmore College and an MD from
Penn State's College of Medicine. Dr.
Green served two terms in the Hawaii
House of Representatives, three terms in
the Hawaii State Senate, and a term as
Lieutenant Governor during which he was
the state's point person addressing the
COVID pandemic. Dr. Green was elected
governor in December 2022. Governor
Green.
>> Thank you, Chair Johnson. Uh, thank you
so much for welcoming me. Thank you, um,
Ranking Member Blumenthal. Thank you,
senators. Uh, first of all, I'm coming
to you as a physician.
When I speak as a doctor, I'm here to
say that vaccines save lives. Period. I
care about saving lives. You care about
saving lives. Everyone in this room, I
believe, cares about saving lives. But
I've seen firsthand children dying from
the spread of preventable diseases
because of vaccine skepticism,
because people lose faith. Uh, I've seen
the lives of some children in one house
who are vaccinated live while children
in the house next door who have not been
vaccinated die. And we saw a lot of this
during CO. I want to tell you a little
bit about my co experience as the co
liaison in my state, state of 1.4
million people.
And let me uh preface this by saying we
worked very closely with President Trump
and his team. And then subsequently as
Lieutenant Governor, I was able to work
very closely with President Biden and
his team. And I appreciate them both. I
appreciate that President Trump using
Operation Warp Speed got us a
vaccination in an extraordinary time. We
were desperate as healthcare providers.
I worked as an emergency room physician
virtually every single weekend for 20
plus years, including through the whole
pandemic. And this is what I saw. I saw
people dying of terrible disease when
they caught the delta variant of COVID.
Especially I saw people
recover
better when they had been vaccinated. In
Hawaii, we had the lowest mortality rate
in the country. We had the highest
vaccination rate in the country. People
have asked me in the course of the prep
for this uh hearing, well, is Hawaii
safer because it's a tropical island
state? No, actually it's quite the
contrary. We had CO coming from east in
Asia where it originated and west
travelers from the mainland. But we put
together programs based on science. Day
by day I counted case after case after
case because there was so much
uncertainty. And I was able to share in
our state where we had infectious
disease doctors, where we had extra need
for ventilators, where we had extra need
for vaccinations where the rates were
lower. and day by day working with all
the health care providers in my state
and listening to others, not mandating.
I'm not a mandate guy. That may come as
a surprise to some today. We were able
to make sure that we had a science-based
response. We put together a safe travels
program which tested anyone coming into
the islands so they wouldn't travel or
that they would isolate, quarantine if
they were positive so they wouldn't
spread the disease. And over time, we
had the experience that no one else had.
We saw death rates constantly lower than
all the other states with the single
exception of Vermont on occasion.
I tell you this because we have to
follow science and I truly believe that
we can't politicize science or
vaccinations or any of these public
health matters and it's very important
going forward. This is where we should
unite with one another. We should heal
our country together in this space. Now
another experience I had uh measles.
I was the doctor that was asked to go to
Samoa when they had their outbreak of
measles. Why did they have their
outbreak? Because they lost faith in the
vaccination program and it was tragic.
The Children's Health Defense went there
and they scared people. After tragedy,
admittedly, it should have never
happened. I had children die in my arms
who were not vaccinated but died of
measles. This beautiful boy was with me
and a pediatrician, Dr. Adin Tansala had
a terrible case of the measles and some
of his relatives ba passed away from the
disease. But we went there and we
vaccinated 37,000 individuals in 48
hours and the measles just stopped. And
I say this because this is what we have
to look forward to in the future if we
somehow fall into a place where we don't
believe in vaccinations any longer. And
we shouldn't do it blindly. We should
study them. We should check for safety.
Absolutely. That is essential in
science.
But these vaccinations saved lives. They
saved many lives during co in my state.
They saved over 10,000 lives. We
anticipated mass casualties which we
never saw because we fought this disease
uh with great intelligence and great
acumen.
I will tell you this, there are lots of
things to share today. Protests
resonated through the co experience in
my state. People protested at my home
around my family. But the leader of the
protests ultimately after I was worried
that he would catch COVID did exactly
that. Ended up in grave grave peril. His
wife was in the intensive care unit. His
name was Wickoff. He later later
disavowed the protests against the
vaccinations after seeing individual
after individual after individual be
intubated and go into the ICU because he
experienced it. And that's what we as
physicians see too often once a tragedy
occurs. And my heart is with everyone
who had any kind of reaction to the
vaccines that we're talking about or
loses a loved one. Of course, we love
our our fellow mankind, but we cannot
turn away from science. So, these are
some of the things I wanted to share
with you today. Ultimately, we have to
decide whether we're going to be
committed to public health in our
country. And right now, we are in great
peril. It is absolutely my firm belief
that vaccines have saved millions of
lives over the last 50 years, 150
million by many people's accounts. It's
decreased infant mortality by 40%
globally. And we have to continue to
commit ourselves in this way. So I'm
concerned I'm concerned that as we end
up in a politicized discussion that we
will move away from science. We will not
trust one another experts. We will not
trust one another and we will end up in
conflict. So what I would say is this.
Let's work together. Let's find a way to
actually find the common ground to
protect our children. Let's find a way
to make sure our public health system
remains intact, not taken apart by the
current approach where HHS is
jettisoning many of its people, many of
the billions of dollars, perhaps many of
the vaccinations. This is our
opportunity to come together and I'm
sure we'll talk more about this as the
hearing goes on, but I'll say one last
time, vaccines save lives. I've given
vaccines. I've taken vaccines. I've
treated people that didn't get vaccines
and it's broken my heart when they've
passed away.
>> Thank you, Governor Green. Um, quick
comment.
I'm not aware anybody on my side of this
issue's politicized it. The accusation
is always that we are. We're not. Um,
you did state, by the way, 10,000 lives
saved in Hawaii. I would love to have
your citation on that. So, if you can
give us a study so we can put that in
the record and any other citation give
us on the millions of lives saved by
vaccines as well. I mean, I'd like again
I want to know the truth. Just real
quick, I've got a couple other charts I
want to put up there. Uh, this is a
chart a lot of people produced it.
>> Chairman, if I could just interrupt for
10 seconds over here. Sure.
>> Uh, is today's just a point of order.
Are we talking about vaccines or are we
talking about the COVID vaccine?
>> Well, specifically, we were talking
about the the hiding of the safety
signal on myocarditis. So, we're not
talking about all vaccines.
>> We can talk about anything you want to.
Okay.
>> I mean, again, it has obviously opened
up because we're also talking about the
corruption of science and I think
science has been corrupted. Uh, so fair
game. So, again, I appreciate you
staying here and stick around and ask a
lot of questions. I think you'll learn
an awful lot. Put my time back on the
clock. No, I'll keep take whatever I
want. This is a chart. This is a chart.
Again, I I started I was looking at the
veyes, you know, I had been I had been
>> Mr. Chairman, that's not the way I ran
this sub.
>> I had been Well, this is a different
different again, I'll be very generous.
Okay. Um I was I was actually instructed
as a non-D doctor what the CO injections
were encapsulated in lipid nano particle
that was designed to permeate difficult
permeate barriers. So, they lied to us
when they said they'd stay in the arm.
They knew it wouldn't. They had a study
uh the Japanese regulators uncovered
that when they did do a biodistribution
study in rats, it distributed all over
the body. So that was the first lie.
Didn't really talk about too much about
the toxicity yet of the of the lipid
nanoparco, but it goes all over the
body. So I was I was aware and again
that this was not a standard vaccine.
This isn't a you know attenuated or dead
virus that the body reacts to. actually
hijacks the cell tells
has the cell produce the spike protein
which is toxic to the body which means
the body attacks again I'm a layman but
it's pretty simple for me to understand
this so I was aware of this like in
October so I'm watching and so I'm I'm
publishing these charts and I'm being
censored I see the next chart chart
number two this is the full history of
veyores and the number of deaths being
reported associated with the vaccine
You got you got a couple hundred a year
until 2021 and yikes 21,725
deaths worldwide.
Why? And everybody's saying, "No, this
is safe and effective." You know, the
the the vaccine injured were being
gaslit. They weren't being treated.
They're still being gas lit. There there
is no, by the way, there is no
compassion. Governor, I could fill this
room with photos of people who are dead
because of the COVID injection. I could
fill the room and that is being deni
that is being denied. It is being denied
and these people haven't been able to
get help. I held an event in Milwaukee
in June 2019 and 2021 and all the
vaccine injured those women all they
wanted was to be seen and heard and
believed and they are not to this day.
Okay. So again, they're not the ones
politicizing. They just want to they
just want to be helped. They want
compassionate doctors to treat them to
recognize what caused their illness, not
gaslight, not deny that it exists. But
anyway, so you take a look at this chart
and there's they're still denying that
this nothing to see here. This is safe
and this is effective. Okay, next chart.
This this is the current vey chart.
38,67
deaths reported worldwide associated
with the COVID injection. And we know
veyers dramatically understates
what
by by a factor of 10 100. We know it
understates it. 9,228 of those deaths
occurring on the day of vaccination the
one or two days. Okay. I know theirs
doesn't prove causation, but man, that's
a correlation we should have been
looking at, but they ignored and they
censored. Um,
but enough of that. Dr. mccull please I
I in my layman's terms I just kind of
laid out the the harmful mechanisms of
this injection can can you and Dr.
Vaughn because I think you've both
spoken to this again in layman's terms
talk about why this caused so much harm
in so many different ways because of the
biodistribution Dr. McCullik
80% of Americans took a vaccine 20%
didn't
20% did not take a vaccine the vaccine
was never safe enough for me to take
messenger RNA devised by Fiser Madna has
been chemically modified to be
unassailable to enzymes in the body to
be broken down the messenger RNA is
found in the human heart of people who
die after the vaccine it's found in the
brain. The spike protein is found
everywhere in the body. Three studies
now show the spike protein is
circulating in the blood for 6 to n
months after people take the shot. This
part of the virus, the lethal part of
the virus in the vaccinated, it's
circulating in the blood and then they
take a booster, they get more
circulating in the blood. It is a killer
protein. It cannot be safe. It was not
safe by design.
Safety trumps efficacy. We cannot
tolerate false drug claims. And we saw a
poster behind Senator Blumenthal making
a false drug claim that vaccines saved
millions of lives, specifically the
COVID vaccine. Well, let's take a look
at that. When someone signs consent for
a vaccine, Senator Blumenthal, does the
consent form say it's going to save
their lives? Of course it doesn't. It's
not on the FAQ. There's never been a
prospective randomized double blind
placebo control trial ever showing that
CO 19 vaccines reduce mortality or
hospitalization. There's not even a
valid non-randomized study. Thankfully,
CO mortality went down for three
reasons. Because we all got the
infection, vaccinated and unvaccinated.
So, we developed population natural
immunity. We developed early treatment.
Credit to Operation Warp Speed. We used
all the operation warp speed tools,
additional drugs. We treated patients
with multi-drug protocols at home. So
they don't go to the ER. So Governor
Green never saw the patients we treated
because they were successfully treated
at home. And the third reason is the
virus mutated to a much milder form.
Those things happen concurrently with
roll out of the vaccine. The vaccine
cannot be falsely credited with saving
millions of lives. We can't allow false
drug advertising to be put up on a
poster behind one of our public
servants. We cannot accept that.
>> So, let me quick
and I will have a lot more I will have a
lot more questions. uh put up my last
that optional chart number four here
because I think this uh this is
something I developed uh well September
2021 and this shows the number of daily
cases of COVID and you see it's peaking
in January you know right as we're
rolling out the vaccine but we really
haven't injected with anybody if if by
the time we had any kind of significant
uptake of the vaccines we were way down
in terms of the number of daily cases. I
mean, this this virus was burning itself
out. Okay. Now, we had different
variants. Again, I've read a lot of
information about vaccination into the
midst of a pandemic driving variance. Is
that what happened? I don't know. But
you would think if a vaccine were that
effective, the tale would just continue
and the pandemic would be over. But
that's not what happened. We had a whole
new surge and this is Delta and doctors
I talked to a very deadly, probably a
more deadly. Would you agree with that,
Dr. McCullik? Delta was more deadly. I
know you guys were kind of freaking out
that your early treatment wasn't working
as well.
>> It it was definitely more more difficult
to treat, but fortunately by that time
we had treatments.
>> But I just wanted to put this thing up
here again. If again to a layman if the
vaccine really worked, was that
efficacious, you know, prevent all that
disease. By the way, they all admitted
that it didn't prevent transmission.
They lied to us about that four four
months if maybe a year. Then they
finally had to admit it didn't prevent
transmission. Um, but again, this this
chart right here just shows you that if
the vaccine really would have worked,
you wouldn't have had this. You wouldn't
have had this. But I'll turn it over to
Senator Blumenthal.
>> Thanks, uh, Mr. Chairman. And, uh, I
think we'll try to certainly stay within
our seven minutes so our colleagues
>> Yep.
>> uh, can have their their day of
questioning.
>> But again, we'll have second, third,
fourth rounds. I mean, this we'll we'll
use the time of this hearing room. Um,
you know, the the debate here seems to
be about the efficacy of CO 19,
but the central issue that brings us
here today is the allegation that there
was purposeful concealment
of knowledge
and evidence. And I just want to make
the point, I may be sounding a little
bit like a lawyer, not a physician, but
purposeful concealment, intentional
hiding
is essentially undocumented by the
evidence released by this report itself.
In fact, the documents released by the
majority today show that public health
officials took multiple steps in the
spring of 2021 to make health care
providers aware
of those rare they were rare reports of
myocarditis among vaccine recipients. on
May 14,
almost two weeks before the CDC decided
to issue clinical considerations
rather than a HANA
on myocarditis,
which is by the way the primary piece of
evidence that the majority
cites in this so-called coverup. The
CDC's National Center of Immunization
and Respiratory Disease sent an email to
state and local health departments
around the country entitled quote
monitoring reports of myocarditis.
End quote. The email noted risks and
contained a reminder that providers were
obligated to report cases.
5 days later, they sent out a follow-up
email urging recipients to let providers
in their region know of risks and
reminding them once again of the
obligation to report cases. I have two
emails here who are in the majority
report. They're available to the public.
Uh I ask that they be made a part of the
record. Mr. Chairman,
>> objection.
>> Uh, I'm not going to read them. They're
for everyone to see. Uh, one begins
with, "I would like to flag a message we
sent out late Friday night. I encourage
you to forward this important message
about vaccine safety and reporting." And
it goes on warnings.
Far from a cover up,
these public health officials were
trying to alert
scientists, doctors, the public about
the potential side effects.
Mr. Siri and I are both travelers.
And
issuing that kind of warning is far from
evidence of trying to hide or conceal
something. You can say
they were wrong somehow, but intentional
cover up is not within the realm of the
plausible allegations here.
So, u I think we need to be really clear
and careful
when we start uh discrediting scientists
or public health officials. Uh I'd like
to ask
uh Governor Green
uh can you tell us how as a physician
publicly funded research
which is being cut by this
administration
is important to establish
not only new vaccines but also the
safety and efficacy of ongoing use of
vaccines.
Thank you, Senator. So, uh, as
governors, we rely on funding to do so
many things from the federal government
and cuts to research will be
devastating. You can't just simply pause
research and wait until uh different
ideology resumes uh governing or until
we get through these hearings and we
restart uh critical research projects.
We will lose ground on this science and
the science that benefits from it. The
R&D that goes forward. We've all been
very supportive for decades of advanced
scientific research. Sometimes it
happens through the military, sometimes
through our universities. We are in deep
trouble if we stop the research
component of our commitment to our
people. We will also be in grave danger
if we don't do the public health
assessment uh in our states in our rural
areas because we will not even know what
we're being affected by. We will be
blind to the diseases that roll through
our communities whether it's chronic
disease or acute disease u from an
infection like this. And I just I just
need to um address a couple um
statements that I feel are
misconceptions, you know, and I'm not
judging. I I feel that there is a
misconception that the COVID vaccination
didn't decrease the severity of disease.
That is what it did. It decreased the
severity and I saw this clinically and
we saw this from a public health
standpoint. It decreased the severity of
what people were facing. So they didn't
die or they died at a much lower rate.
And you can see that in the charts that
we've seen, but through looking at them
through a different lens, the exact same
charts when the when the death rates
dropped because people had begun to
develop immunity because their immune
systems were responding to the
vaccination. And in fairness, we could
debate the the language, but even some
of of the individuals that are also
testifying with me here today referred
repeatedly to the mRNA vaccination
because it was putting these particles
into people and then the immune system
was responding to them. And so I do feel
that it's a vaccination. But be that as
it may, we ultimately saw the ability to
stop the severe and deadly cases in our
hospitals. And so there are many ways to
view vaccinations. There's many ways to
view treatments. And they're all
valuable. Uh some for some vaccinations
straight up stop infection from
occurring. That's the case. uh when we
talk about uh measles, you know,
measles, measles, ms rebella, when you
get that vaccine, you really prevent the
spread uh to a great degree. And it was
commented earlier that we were
misleading or we were being misled by
others on what uh the vaccinations uh
were doing and what the information was
that was being shared. Well, let me tell
you what it was like during that period.
And we all saw it. There was a great
deal of confusion because the unknown
was so enormous. And to the credit of
scientists and to the credit of those
who uh invested in the research at again
extreme speed and extreme dollars, we
were able as a nation and a global
community to find our way to something
that helped us. Now, of course, there
were some tragic outcomes and again, not
a single case should ever be dismissed,
uh, minimized. No one should be impuged.
But the grander picture of a vaccination
program is to protect all and to find a
way to protect people so that they can
also help protect the people around
them. which is why the research is
important, the spending is important,
why I'm very concerned about the
announcement yesterday that we will only
be recommending vaccinations for people
over 65 or those with chronic disease
because couple points. One, first of
all, and I'm sure many of you had this
experience, uh the chairman mentioned
going to Sworthmore College, which was
my alma mater. The president of our
class named Nick, Nick Jazdan, 51 years
old, unvaccinated because the vac
vaccinations were not yet available,
healthy, a marathon runner, died of a
COVID infection. He was a prominent uh
writer, an extraordinary human being,
but utterly healthy. And that may have
been of course more rare than an
82year-old or or a 91year-old
contracting COVID and dying, but it does
happen. He is an individual that would
have been vaccinated immediately when
given the opportunity. And also the
reasons that we were able to avoid so
many unnecessary deaths in a very
difficult to treat state where we have
one, two, three, sometimes four
generations of people living under the
same roof with one provider. The
challenge there is if we suddenly can't
vaccinate teenagers or people who are 28
years old and are the breadwinners for
their community and we have another
pandemic or we have this outbreak worsen
again, they will come home with the
disease and very likely spread it to
those who are vulnerable. And so I'll
pause there. I just say that we should
give people choice and we should honor
and respect their stories, but we have
to do the research.
>> But their stories haven't been honored
or respected. Our our next question will
be Senator Kim.
>> Yeah. Thank you. Um, Governor, I guess I
I just would like to stay with you here
for a sec because I think you have an
interesting perspective as someone who's
both um a doctor as well as a elected
public official in an executive
position. And I'm trying to, you know,
digest the information that I'm hearing
here and thinking about how to talk
about it to my constituents back in New
Jersey. And if they're watching this,
you know, I think that a lot of this is
beyond what the average person
understands. It's beyond what I
understand in terms of the fullness of
what happens in terms of our health
system. So from your experience,
Governor, you know, when the when these
cases come forward, you know, the these
cases that Dr. McCullik and and others
have have raised, you know, in terms of
these concerns, what's supposed to kick
in? You how does this system work? You
know, you've talked about this saying
that, you know, we have a robust
system for safety. Um, that the system
is designed to monitor, identify, and
transparently report possible side
effects to review. Can you explain to to
me and and my constituents, you know, h
how this unfolds and what to expect?
>> Yes. Thank you, Senator. So the way it
it should work is that we totally
support science and we support public
health so that we are able in labs and
in public health offices to take in the
concerns, the complaints, the vignettes,
the data and analyze it thoroughly. And
uh to the chairman's uh concern, I'm
sure some people were not listened to or
they felt not listened to and that
should never happen. That is one of the
great challenges of our modern time
where we're talking past one another
where when people are spreading um their
stories anonymously sometimes they're
spread in ways that are not really even
from the individual who's suffering
themselves. There are great challenges
but we have to have this robust system
and how do you talk to people? How did I
talk to people in my state? And many
people feel that we had the u most uh
positive and and um effective strategy
to to deal with COVID was because we did
something very simple. It was partially
uh accidental in the early days of
COVID. I started a whiteboard and
ultimately tens then hundreds of
thousands of people followed this
whiteboard. And just so people know that
it wasn't didn't have bias implicit or
otherwise. It didn't have partisanship.
I just put the actual numbers that we
had to the minute of how many cases that
day, how many people were vaccinated,
how many beds we had, how many intensive
care unit beds uh were available, how
many ventilators were available each
facility, how many infectious disease
doctors, and so on. So that if someone
truly didn't believe CO was a threat and
some people felt that way, they could
just look at the data and decide for
themselves how they would respond in
their lives. This is how you talk to
your constituents about something that's
this disconcerting, in fact terrifying.
And we just showed day after day after
day in a brief brief uh moment sometimes
90 seconds exactly what we had as the
best data long before we had these very
complex uh reports from John's Hopkins
or USC or other universities. Okay.
Before we had that, we had our capacity
in our state to share with our people
what we were dealing with. And so what
happened? Now, people could argue about
this, but I will tell you that I believe
we had far more people get vaccinated
because I just shared exactly what we
were experiencing. And I'll tell you, I
look back at some of those early reports
and I I sometimes shudder a little bit
because we learned so much, which is
what happens with science during one of
these crises. You learn as you go. There
were times, as you know, that we didn't
have the right recommendations on masks,
and we of course could debate that in
this room, I'm sure, but we gave our
best scientific data and our best
experiential data. And that's how you
talk to people. And yes, you you never
tell people that they are not valued and
you never just dismiss their stories.
And I'm positive I or others have been
guilty of that in the moment, and we
shouldn't be. But we also should not
demonize one another and when we in my
family ultimately had protesters which
did to a large degree cross some lines
when they some people were um just
communicating with me other people I
have to be honest with you some people
wrote swastikas on the on signs that
were next to my home certainly my
father's Judaism had nothing to do with
my COVID response but I can tell you
that sometimes because people were
traumatized and understood how scared
they were and I understood what they
were hearing out there. But that's how
you talk to people. And if we do that
after not and I'm and I have to be
honest about this, if we don't
systematically dismantle our public
health system, we'll be okay. We will
find common ground. Even though I I
suspect that there are some pretty
significant differences between me and
some of the other testifiers on what we
would do with the next pandemic, we
would actually be able to still move
forward together.
>> Yeah. I mean I think you know something
you said earlier I thought stuck out to
me the sense of that you know no one
should be ignored. I think that's a
principle I hope everyone here can agree
upon that we I think they always have
space for more transparency. Um but also
just keeping in mind that broader
context. I mean as you're saying you
know here are the challenges that that
we're facing when it comes to this
system and how we can work on it. And
certainly I can imagine your experience
whether on addressing COVID or in Samoa
you know certainly that becomes more
difficult to to fully enact this monitor
identify trans and the transparency
report you know when you're in the
middle of a crisis when you're in the
middle of the chaos you know that's
something I think we can try to do to
improve to the point that was raised
earlier I think a lot of this also says
like this this is a reason why we need
to invest in capacity invest in
personnel people working in our
government to do this and and as opposed
to cutting back on staff and and trying
to say that we need simultaneously more
transparency when that becomes all the
more difficult. But I mean, look, I
understand and I've had people in my
life that have been ignored and and not
believed, whether that's, you know, my
time as a diplomat before and people I
know struggling with Havana syndrome and
people telling them, "I don't believe
you and other issues that are out
there." Um, but we should always have
that system in place and and that's what
I just hope we can come back to. I mean,
I I get it. I'm I'm new on this
committee and I understand and I'm
seeing, you know, a year's worth of of
back and forth that are coming here. But
someone who's coming with some fresh
eyes, you know, I hope that we can try
to cultivate that sense of of trust that
I know has been so deeply wounded. Um
because I worry about what comes next,
you know, I worry about how we deal with
the next diseases, the next pandemics,
how we try to move forward and
understand how this technology of of
mRNA and others try to move forward on.
So, I just appreciate, you know, being
able to hear this all and and I try to
figure out how best I can be able to
relate to the people in New Jersey
around this country about the safety of
the co vaccines that I have seen be able
to save lives, but also be able to sure
that we won't ignore people if they have
other concerns and we do our best to be
as transparent as possible and to be
careful of of accusations of personal
malfeasants uh especially with some of
our public servants. um in terms of
whether or not they were intentionally
withholding information or not. We need
to be very careful about those
accusations on this committee. And with
that, I'll yield back.
>> I will say we are just seeing the tip of
the iceberg here and you will see more
evidence. Trust me. Senator Marino.
>> Well, first of all, thank you uh
chairman for putting on this hearing.
I'm going to focus on let's just stick
to CO 19 and CO 19 policies. Let's not
get to let's not get into this
conversation about uh vaccines at large.
Dr. McCulla, do you feel that you were
listened to in 2021?
Did you feel ignored?
Our November 19th, 2020 hearing done for
Homeland Security, governmental affairs
was very lightly attended by our
senators who are working for us. That's
a disappointment. It's disappointment
there's chairs uh empty here.
our hearing was actively suppressed,
scrubbed off YouTube.
>> So just just so just so just to clarify,
not only were your viewpoints ignored,
you were called a conspiracy theorist, a
spreader of misinformation, somebody who
didn't know what they were doing by
people who didn't even take a science
class in high school. And yet you're a
doctor and you were completely ignored.
Let me ask you uh Dr. Vaughn, real quick
question. How many children under the
age of five years old died of COVID?
>> So very very few actually. Theoretically
a healthy child under five there wasn't
any.
>> So basically zero.
>> Yes. It's statistically zero.
>> Age of 10.
>> It's still statistically zero. When you
get when you get up into the when you
get up into the uh uh 15 16 I mean there
there is some
>> So under 15 none. Yeah. Pretty much
none.
>> Statistically. Yes.
>> All right. So, I'm confused because uh
Governor Green said he held the children
who would have died from COVID, but
that's crazy because evidently nobody
died of COVID who was under 15.
>> I we're talking about But see, that's
the confusion. See, when we talk about
COVID vaccines and then we stick in
other vaccines, we get off topic because
co 19 wasn't about measles. Uh now, Dr.
Thorp, do you think good idea or bad
idea that you should close schools?
Bad idea.
>> Bad idea.
>> Now why? I mean kids can learn uh at
home, can't they?
>> They can learn very well at home. But at
school uh they will have the opportunity
to develop natural immunity.
>> So and school well by the way schools is
where you socialize, you learn your
behaviors, you learn how to meet other
people. Because if we don't believe in
schools, the federal government and
state government can save a lot of
money. So schools are important. Let's
just get that out of the way. So, why
would you close schools, which you did,
Governor,
when no children died of COVID? What
would make you make that decision? You
closed schools. And by the way, the
impact on that is generational. You
destroyed the lives. You and the other
governors that closed schools destroyed
the lives of children in doing that. So,
okay. I've got to got to tell the
audience. Please notice. May I uh my
respond to the question? Yeah, I think
it was. Well, first of all, I think you
misunderstand some of the value to um
>> No, no, no. Why did you close schools?
>> Well, I'm going to I'm addressing each
>> answer that not filibuster me, please.
>> I'm not going to filibuster you. Uh
schools I did not want to close and
>> you did.
>> Actually, I was not governor at the
time. And
>> but you were lieutenant governor and you
were the point person. Do you think the
governor made a mistake in closing
schools?
>> We reopened the schools as soon as he
made a mistake. Well, if I made Can I
answer the question or is this senator
going to fill a bus?
>> No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
No. You're going to answer my direct
question or just say I'm not going to
answer you. I'm going to answer.
>> Do you think it was a good idea? Yes or
no? The two choices in this answer. Do
you think it was a good cho idea to
close schools? Simple answer. Just give
me a yes or a no.
>> As we as we had COVID surging through
our society because there was massive
spread from children to adults, we were
waiting to make sure the teachers
>> So, let me get So, let me get this
straight. You sacrifice the lives of
children because maybe they would spread
something that you don't know to adults.
You thought that was a great That's No,
that's not always actually. It's your
your party that's trying to close our
schools and get rid of the Department of
Education. So, we have we do have we're
not politicizing this hearing. Okay,
we're moving on.
>> You said my governors and other
governors that close schools, which is a
politicization.
>> When I'm in Hawaii and I'm having a
hearing before you, you can interrupt
me. When you're here before the United
States Senate, you're not going to
interrupt me. Moving on. So, here's
here's the next question for you. Uh,
show me the science that said that when
I walked into a uh an airport in Hawaii
and I wasn't uh uh I I didn't want to
tell you because it's none of your
business whether I had a COVID vaccine
or not or tested positive or not because
that's also none of your business.
Where's the science where I had to
quarantine for 14 days? Tell me the
science behind why you locked your
residents up and did not allow them to
go grocery shopping, why you closed your
beaches and your parks. I would love you
to put that science into this record
because you can give me the nice happy
talk, but those were terrible decisions.
And what co highlighted more than
anything else, by the way, it's why I'm
here. I ran for the United States Senate
not because I I I had this deep desire
to uh be a government politician, but
because I was so insensed by the
arrogance, by the ignorance, by the lack
of common sense among our elected
officials that we needed different kinds
of people here in Washington DC and
other places. So,
>> should I answer those questions,
chairman?
>> No, no, there was no question for you.
That was just
>> There were several questions. You asked
about why a 14-day quarantine. You asked
about Sure. What's the science? 14-day
quarant.
>> Not 12, not 16.
>> Actually, I asked for 5 days, just so
you know.
>> So, what was it? Was there a dart board?
>> No, it was 5 days because that was the
amount of time from symptoms to
transmission.
>> So, why 14?
>> The 14 days was was before we had the we
had
>> So, 14 wasn't scientific, just to be
clear.
>> 14 days was how long it took for people
to get over the disease. And people were
still shedding virus through that
period. And that's why you do use
science and I use science, but you
didn't like science for Hawaii. But but
we did but we did have the test and we
did have the test to enter Hawaii so
people could make a choice an informed
choice and they did and then they didn't
have to quarantine at all just to make
sure you know that because I think you
got your facts wrong and also I didn't
close the beaches that was the mayor of
Honolulu and not me. So just you know it
is important that you get the facts
right if you're going to be a political
official.
>> So it's what you're saying it wasn't me
it was the other guy.
>> No it was me who ran the co who ran the
co response.
>> Zero accountability. Dr.
>> I'll take more accountability if you
give me more time.
>> I'm done with you governor. Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
>> Uh, so Dr. McCulla, quick question for
you. Quick question for you. Just
completely objectively. Look, I went to
business school. I was not a doctor. Uh,
so I'm going to truly objective using
your most subjectiveness here. Did the
vaccine stop the spread of COVID 19?
>> No.
>> So then let me ask you one simple
question. We'll go down the line. You
guys can answer. It would be my last
question.
So if COVID 19 did the the vaccine, the
injection did not stop the spread of
COVID, why is it that Joe Biden,
president of United States, issued an
executive order, which was ruled
unconstitutional, by the way, that said
that if you worked for a company with
100 employees, because not 99, 100, that
you would be fired
if you did not prove you didn't have a
COVID vaccine negative test or got
vaccinated.
Why would we have some decision like
that? How depraved do you have to be to
do that? Answer the question the way you
feel down the line. Go ahead. We'll
start with you, Mr. Dr.
>> Briefly.
>> My testimony on this issue went all the
way to the Supreme Court that overturned
four out of the five Biden mandates.
They were scientifically ungrounded.
They were sociologically
deranged and they caused great harm. To
this day, people are in court trying to
get their jobs back and trying to put
their lives together because of these
disastrous
>> policies. And and just to be clear,
sorry, chairman, nurses were included in
that. Correct. Healthcare workers. The
ranking member called them heroes.
It seems to me that when you have a
hero, you don't terminate their ability
to make money and have them fired
because they're making a personal
choice. Because see, ultimately, and
I'll end with this, ultimately, this is
what this is all about. See, I get to
get a choice if I'm going to get
vaccinated. And if it doesn't stop the
spread, it is none of any other human
being in this country's business what I
did or did not do. Would you agree
quickly?
>> 100%. And I think uh uh director Winsky
when she said of the science of hope uh
that is not science. Science is facts.
Hope is not science.
>> Thank thanks Senator Marino. Again
please let's not express any uh emotion
out there in the in the audience. Uh Dr.
Walsskco I just have to go to you
because you have direct experience. I
almost feel like bringing up Brienne
Dress to talk about the concealment that
you
witnessed firsthand when it came to your
working with Bree's working with NIH
officials trying to do studies uh being
carried along with some with some
assurance that this was going to be
revealed to the public and it never was.
Just talk about that level of
concealment. Again, there's going to be
so much evidence of this if it hasn't
been destroyed. This this just the tip
of the iceberg what we're seeing here
with myocarditis. But but talk to what
you you and your fellow vaccine injured
who were dismissed, who were gas lit,
who were treated horribly. I mean,
horribly. When you came to the United
States Senate and asked to be
heard by senators and their staff, you
were treated. Describe describe how
you've been treated.
Well, thank you, Senator Johnson. So,
what I'd like to say is um being vaccine
injured in this country is is
unfortunately a huge polarizing event,
which it should never be. If I could
describe one word that I think all if
not most vaccine injured will say is
what's one word that describes your
experience after your injury and it's
abandonment. Okay, we get attacked. We
watch We walk a tight rope. We get
attacked from the right. The right say
we're stupid. We shouldn't have got a
shot. We should die. Okay, and I could
show you social media stuff. The left
says we're antivaxers. Which to me is
one of the most ignorant thing to say of
myself because all my children have been
vaccinated. I got vaccine injured
because I got vaccinated. But but still,
regardless, we get called antivaxers.
We report these to veres. Okay. Nothing
happens. I had an adverse event which
was you know delayed the Astroenica
trial in United Kingdom you know two
times for three cases of transverse
myitis. I expected a call the day after
days passed weeks passed. By 3 weeks I
called the CDC myself and demanded you
know response. I always thought oh I'd
get this quick response and someone
would would help us. all of us that are
vaccine injured now there is no there's
no phone call coming there's no help
coming we have repeatedly met and
Brienne dressing who's my co-chair with
reacting have met with Peter Marx over
and over and over for the last you know
for a period of about two years we have
been placated we have been blown off we
bring up adverse events the neurological
adverse events we bring up the MIS which
is the multi-cystemm inflammatory
syndrome we bring up the myocarditis us.
He thanks us. He says he'll get back to
us. He never does. That went on to for 2
years. So, so for people that think it's
this kumbaya where all people are
listening to us and people in these
federal agencies are trying to to help
it get to the bottom of it, it is the
farthest from the truth.
>> So, there have been a number of claims
made and I think there'll be continue to
be a number of claims made. And I just
ask anybody making the claim um please
provide your citations you know please
provide you again respect the science
let me see the science I mean I'm I'm
very genuine here let me see you know
the science behind that this actually
reduced the symptoms or this prevented
death or this prevented transmission uh
I would like to see the science um Dr.
Von, uh, you were really specializing in
the blood clots. You know, I've seen
video after video, picture after picture
of these long white blood clots in
autopsy. Um, we've we've also, you know,
throughout CO autopsies were really
discouraged. We we weren't seeking the
scientific truth. I see Dr. McCull have
you kind of answer that, but you know,
Dr. Von, first talk about talk about the
clotting we saw and and what you know in
terms of what was discovered under
autopsy.
>> Well, first of all, early in COVID the
spring of 2020, uh my collaborator Jaca
Lobster in South Africa was the first
one to kind of alert people to say that
this was primary primarily a vascular
disease, not a pulmonary disease. And
it's one of the reasons that ventilators
are probably one of the most ineffective
things you could have done to people
because if you have a vascular disease
of the lungs, increasing the
intrathoracic pressure just closes down
more vessels and ultimately kills them.
And what we also saw was if you went
into the hospital in the spring or
summer of 2020, you were twice as likely
to leave alive if you were already on a
blood thinner. Now, I will tell you most
of your friends that are on blood
thinners probably aren't healthier than
you. So, it's kind of interesting to
find out that the people that were on
blood thinners had a protection. So,
again, those were signals that were
really downplayed. Unfortunately, after
a lot of the treatment was codified by
the car's act, uh it it resulted in
basically a a protocol-based treatment
for inhos care.
>> As long as you start, can you anybody
describe remesae? Anybody want to speak
to that?
If if not, I'll I'll do that for another
hearing. I mean just the conflict of
interest of how that was being approved.
Uh yeah. So could I okay wave off on
that?
>> But but what we uniquely found and my
collaborators in South Africa Risha
Ptorius and Doug Kell at University of
Liverpool was that the spike protein was
able to induce fibbrin from fibbrronogen
which is a fancy word for saying hey
forming the backbone of clotting but it
did it in a way that was different that
we had not seen. And it was what we
would similarly think of fibrin as kind
of like spaghetti coming out of the
colander that you could pull apart when
you didn't need it. It was easy to break
down. But the actual clot that was
formed in COVID or from the spike
protein from the vaccine was like burnt
spaghetti casserole that you have to get
a brillow pad to get off the dish. And a
lot of people their issue is their
inability to break down that clotting
mechanism. We all need to clot, but we
all need to actually get rid of the
clot. And that is the problem.
>> That's pretty obvious. Ignore. Dr.
Thorp, I'll get to you, but Dr.
McCullik, real quick,
>> quickly. In the last five years, I've
never treated as many blood clots in my
entire multiple decades of in clinical
practice as a cardiologist. The blood
clots occur after the infection with the
virus and the vaccine because the spike
protein causes blood clots. It's without
any controversy in medicine. The spike
protein causes blood clots. So, it is
reckless and foolhardy to continue to
vaccinate people and load the body with
spike protein and caused more blood
clots.
>> Well, there were other parts of the
corona virus that they could have used
in the lipid nanop particle. I mean,
they could have injected something else
that wasn't quite so toxic.
>> Yeah. actually uh a paper in cell July
of 2021. It's called broad and durable
immunity from uh from basically COVID.
And what they found was the
nucleoprotein was actually the thing
that supplied broad and durable immunity
for actually prevention of infection.
Unfortunately, the spike protein did not
elicit that response. And as much as we
love this mRNA, you know, technology, it
seems like they sold it as something
that we could change on the dime as
information actually came to light. And
by July 2021, we knew the wrong pathogen
had the wrong protein had been picked.
Why didn't they change it?
>> That's a good question, Senator
Blumenthal.
>> Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Von,
uh, I noticed that you were careful when
you said that children didn't die of
COVID to say statistically.
>> Yeah.
>> Uh, which I appreciate. Uh, 1.2 million
Americans died of COVID 19. Uh,
tragically, more than a thousand of
those deaths were children.
In fact, 700 were four years old or
younger.
And
I'm sure you will agree that those
deaths were
tragic and most especially for the
families who will never be the same. Um
children were affected by CO.
There's no question that children
died, but equally important, the trauma
of CO
affected
children. The fear and anxiety that
spread throughout their families.
You don't have to be a doctor. Yeah.
>> To understand that point or a parent.
>> Yeah. I have a seven and nineyear-old
and it was a very interesting time. uh
but in many ways
>> well interesting is a somewhat
euphemistic way of putting it. I'm sure
you'll agree but let let me just uh
point out that our entire society was
traumatized by co people were out of
school. We can argue about the merits of
whether they should have been but it has
affected our entire society. And
>> just so we are all on the same page
here, I'm in strong agreement that
schools are good. Kids should be in
school. Um, let me point out though
because we want to learn from history
here.
That when there are side effects, when
there are threats to public health,
there should be warnings. The public
should know. So should doctors and
researchers. And right now, uh, I'm
looking at a report from NPR. It's dated
May 21 of this year, which describes the
effects of cutting back on the CDC's
capacity to warn
and says that many of the platforms,
quote, many of the platforms the CDC
used to communicate with the public have
gone silent. End quote. It says, quote,
"Many of the CDC's newsletters have
stopped being distributed. Workers at
the CDC say health alerts about disease
outbreaks previously sent to health
professionals subscribed to the CDC's
health alert network.
Han
haven't been dispatched since March.
I I understand the concerns that have
been expressed here
and let's learn from
scientific practice and
uh make sure that the Department of
Health and Human Services provides the
resources that are necessary to warn the
public. Um I want to ask um
Dr. Brown uh because you've talked about
both your experience in Samoa
in 2019
with a measles outbreak there which
eventually killed 83 people as I
understand it. Again, measles was
thought to be eliminated in the world.
Uh that outbreak was fueled by
misinformation about the measel science
spread by
a number of vaccine
doubters or skeptics including the now
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That campaign
caused the vaccination rate against
measles in Somota drop from over 74%
to just 34% between 2017 and 2018.
Uh, do you see parallels between the
measles outbreak you helped to address
in Samoa and the one that we're now
seeing in Texas
that has reached 31 states in including
Hawaii and the
COVID 19 situation.
>> Thank you. Thank you, Senator. There are
more than parallels. It's it's just
terrifyingly similar. So what happened
uh I'll give you the brief version uh in
Samoa was uh prior to the outbreak prior
to the outbreak uh two children had been
uh given vaccinations and tragically uh
there was human error and two nurses who
were later prosecuted uh made a mistake
a tragic mistake and they used the wrong
reagent uh the fluid with the vaccine
and they vaccinated uh incorrectly these
two children and the two children
perished. perished which is of course
tragic in every way and we always have
to help hold all healthcare people to
account. Now after that there was panic
and what happened uh in the months and
years thereafter was that human error
was not a vaccine flaw it was a human
error and that information was then
spread incorrectly by um then Mr.
Kennedy before being Secretary Kennedy
and the Children's Health Defense and
that country and and their their
leadership told me this directly. They
received letters. There were stories all
across Samoa that uh this group of
people came and convinced them not to
vaccinate. And they uh had a lot of
challenges with health literacy and they
stopped vaccinating. And then when you
get vaccination rates that are that low,
and mind you, we have this challenge
because we have 14 states, my state is
among them, where the kindergarters in
our states, uh, age five, sometimes age
six, are at dangerously low vaccination
rates for measles. When it gets that
low, you're going to see outbreaks.
Unlucky. The the cases could come from
anywhere. They come from overseas. They
could come from within our own country.
But if you get below 95% and certainly
below 90% you see these outbreaks and
then you have you know one in five
people end up in the hospital you have
one in 20 with pneumonia you have
encphylopathies you have all sorts of
damage so that's what happened in Samoa
and and and to be very direct and
actually I want to be generous here
there are many things that um Secretary
Kennedy is doing that I support I
support his work on um some of the
questions about processed foods and dyes
and uh and environmental toxins, things
that I have believed for decades and
fought for as have many of you probably.
However, however, this is so central to
the public health of our country that
because we have vaccine hesitancy and
because when you fall below 95% and
particularly below 90% you will see
these outbreaks. So we can anticipate
that we're going to have a lot of
outbreaks first of measles and there's
going to be fatalities and lots of
consequences. We're going to see ptasus.
God help us all if we start seeing
menitis or polio break out. These are
diseases that have been eradicated. And
so what I would say is I really
appreciate the chairman's focus on truth
and making sure there's transparency and
going through the record. I appreciate
that. I appreciate individuals who I
disagree with fighting for their voices.
But what I don't appreciate is when
there are individuals with no public
health training, whether it's a senator
or someone that's one of our colleagues,
and they make a assertion to move away
from science and away from prevention
that has been proven that I take uh I
have deep concerns about. And that's
what happened in Samoa, killing 83
people. we had to jump in and then that
is what is happening in Texas and a
bunch of other states and I don't think
there it would be very interesting to
ask all the senators privately and
congress people and all of us if any of
us could accept that kind of spread of
infectious disease amongst the people
that we love even if even if we don't
believe in vaccinations we certainly
don't believe in tragic outcomes things
that we can prevent and that's where I
think we should go as a country to heal
>> okay
>> I'm going to interrupt
just to say um I apologize. I am the
ranking member on the Veterans Affairs
Committee. There's a separate hearing
beginning right now. I'm going to I have
more questions. I'm going to try to come
back, Mr. Chairman. Um and uh I
apologize. I'm going to have to leave.
Thank you.
>> Appreciate you coming. This is the part
I was actually looking forward to. Um
unplugged.
So, Governor,
>> I'm just going to be honest with what
gets under my skin is how many times
those of us who've had a different
narrative on this or not a narrative,
but just a different viewpoint on this.
We are always accused of ignoring
science.
I I think I've been trying to follow it
quite closely. So again, I I will ask
you and we can go through your
testimony. Every time you've cited
something, we we will ask you to cite
the study that proves what you're
saying. Okay? So again, not really a
challenge, it's a request. I mean, I I
would ask that of all of you. Any of you
who have cited some study or some
opinion, back it up and we'll we'll
include in the hearing record. We'll
have this hearing record will stay open
for 15 days. So, I'm really encouraging
people, send me that science. Again, I I
I entered a piece from Raphael Lataster
that pretty well pretty well debunks the
the Watson I think it's Watson at all.
The claims it's the the CO injection
save millions. This is based on
mathematical models. It really wasn't
scientific studies. So, again, throw it
all in the hopper and and let the public
decide. But I do have some some
questions. Dr. Thor, speaking of
corrupted studies, uh you mentioned in
your uh opening statement the Sch
Shimmer Bakura study, which by the way,
Tom Shimmer Bakura, uh we have sent
something like 70 oversight letters,
more than that. In many of them, we've
told the CDC, FDA, NIH, we demanded they
preserve their records
and that should have been widely
distributed through the healthy
agencies. You know, we in our subpoena
specifically asked for the
communications of Tom Shimmer Bakura.
They couldn't find any.
I know I know the current HHS is
investigating that individual. We've
sent a I would call a referral to the
FBI uh and to attorney general to
determine this. Um but again, what
happened there? Okay. again when people
are supposed to maintain records and
they don't
I get suspicious but again going to Dr.
Thor. Um, and I'm going to probably
interrupt you because I want everybody
to understand what you're talking about
in this study because it takes we're
talking about numbers here, but describe
that study on would you call it fetal
demise, miscarriage, uh, and how it was
originally presented as evidence to push
this on the most vulnerable, as you're
saying, pregnant women and the unborn.
And how did they distort that study to
make that point? Go ahead.
>> Thank you, Senator Johnson. So, the
study in question is a New England
Journal of Medicine on April 21st, 2021.
And in that same day, the digital
edition, there were two publications
that were extraordinarily concerning.
Both of them interestingly coming at a
time when vaccine hesitancy was being
was increasing.
So the Shima Bakuro study was a separate
study in addition to an op ed. The op ed
was by the New England Journal of
Medicine
uh editor and chief uh who who was Eric
Rubin and the managing editor who was
Stephen Morrisy and then director of the
CDC Relle Winsky.
and they made statements that were
false. They made statements that uh was
fear-mongering
um insinuating that pregnant women if
they didn't take the vaccine would put
their lives in harm, their pre-born
lives in harm, and their newborn lives
in harm when they knew absolutely the
opposite was true.
>> How how do they know that? Well, they
know that for several reasons, Senator.
Uh, number one, the study by Panel's and
colleagues, who is a maternal fetal
medicine specialist from University of
Texas Houston, published a very large
study documenting that pregnancy in of
itself reduced the maternal mortality by
as much as 75%
during pregnancy compared to nonpregant
women. that study was available. Um also
Dr. Dr. um Shimab Bakuro, Tom Shima
Bakuro and then director of the CDC.
This was seven weeks after
the Fiser 5.3.6 six post marketing data
in 10 weeks that showed the COVID 19
vaccine was the deadliest and most
injurious vaccine ever released with
42,086
injuries including 1,223
dead. They had that information. They
still pushed it on pregnant women. So,
so, so let's get to the the number where
there's 700 individuals included in the
statistic that shouldn't have been
included. So, describe that. I mean, te
talk about this study,
>> right? Well, well, there's bias. There's
bias in the title. Okay. Just look at
the title. There's bias in the 21
authors, all of whom were federal
federal employees and Tom Shimakuro, a
safety officer in the FDA itself. Then
you go to the numbers. We we look at
four we're looking at about numbers of
of over 4,000 in a 10w week period and
then all of a sudden it's just how do we
arbitrarily go to 10 weeks in this vsafe
smartphone collection system and then
what happened to all the other patients?
We go down to 827 patients.
What happened? So you got so you got 827
patients that were that became pregnant
or were pregnant in this in terms of
again it's not really study but I mean
they're just analyzing data. So you had
827 right?
>> Okay. So the these were women who were
pregnant
>> right 827 that completed the pregnancy
completed a pregnancy in 10 weeks.
>> This is not necessarily a born child but
the pregnancy
>> or a miscarriage. Right. Okay now they
claimed a 12.6% 6% miscarriage rate,
>> which is pretty kind of a normal
miscarriage.
>> No, it's not.
>> What's a normal miscarriage rate?
>> 3% when you have a normal booking visit.
>> So, so, so there are it's already an
abnormal miscarriage rate in that 827.
>> That's correct.
>> Okay. And
>> so, now describe exactly how they
>> Okay. So, we have 827 patients, right?
And they talk about a 12.6% miscarriage.
But a miscarriage of those 827,
700 of those mothers had their vaccine
in the third trimester. That's way
beyond the window when a woman has a
miscarriage. So they artificially
uh took those 700 patients and put them
in the first trimester. No. The 104
patients that had the miscarriage,
that goes to the 127. 104 over 127,
you're looking at an uh, you know, 82%
miscarriage. So, the key is the
percentage of women that got the vaccine
in the first trimester had an 82%
miscarriage. And by the way, that's the
exact same miscarriage rate that was
seen in the Fiser 5.3.6 postmarket. So I
would I I would argue that proves both
points in the title of this hearing. The
corruption of science, the corruption of
federal health agencies.
Governor, listen, I I I I'm cognizant of
the fact that you're kind of outnumbered
here. So I'm I want to give you an
opportunity to respond to that if you
want to. You don't have to.
>> Sure. No, I'm happy to. Look, the um
appreciate the information. The uh the
tragedy of a miscarriage is always
there. It's not 3%. Um my
>> what what is it? What do you think it
is?
>> Well, in my training as a family
physician, the miscarriage rate for
women is often in the 20s or 30
percentile for for women across their
pregnancies. You know, there are just a
lot of miscarriages that occur amongst
um women. So, those are all tragic and
and I would obviously defer to ACOG, the
American I'm sorry, the uh the American
uh College of OBGYNS who who did and and
they should come and testify too who did
strongly recommend the vaccine. I mean,
I'm not going to speak as a as an OBGYn.
I'm speaking as an ER physician and as a
governor but um I'm sure that that would
be a vibrant discussion and again it's a
very good point
>> that we have transparency and studies.
>> So let me move on to my next point. In
one of our events some of you were there
Dr. Moon opened up the insert
for the co injection big piece of paper
you know fold up and
and it's other than it says
intentionally laid blank intentionally
left blank was blank now this was quite
a few years I think this was probably a
couple years into
the co injection distribution of it and
all these studies all everything on
veyores
Um I would think somewhere, you know,
when you take a look at the the actual
studies and the adverse events that were
documented within those studies, it's
been now been released through the Fiser
papers and and other means, you think
somewhere they ought to put some
information in there. So the point I
want to make is I I think an awful lot
of folks are are saying that there was
not informed consent.
I would argue they violated the
invaluable
principle of informed consent with this
co injection. I I just think that's
indisputable. I'll start with you, Dr.
McCullik. Do you want to weigh in on
that?
>> I've presented at the FDA advisory
meetings. I've advised companies for
decades on this, so I know the
regulatory science very well. When a
product definitely results in death,
and there are thousands of peer-reviewed
papers on this, Governor, the COVID
vaccines in some people sadly result in
death. Some on the very first day they
take the shot. That must be a blackbox
warning on the product immediately. I
just checked the package inserts for the
currently available products, the ones
that uh Senator Blumenthal wants to
pursue. Sounds like governor wants to
still pursue these. Our FDA still wants
them to be administered. They still
don't have the word death in the package
insert. As of today, they don't. And so,
Americans are not fairly informed.
>> Do you have any doubt in your mind that
the CO injection caused some deaths? I
mean, do do you what what what do you
think of the what is it 37 38,607 right
now listed on veyory? What what do you
think the real number is? And do you
have any science to back up your your
opinion?
>> The best data are autopsies. So, in the
largest autopsy series published to
date, I know because I'm the senior
author
of all the death we deaths we examined
and we we re-reviewed them. We had an
adjudication committee. We had ways of
arbitration deciding on did the vaccine
cause death. The answer is of these
cases that came in for autopsy after
who has perished as a result of CO 19.
But when the vaccines became widely
available in 2021, deaths sharply
declined and many lives have been saved
in the years since. Many in this room,
speaking for myself as well as others,
probably have been saved from this
disease because of those vaccines. One
study found that 3 million American
deaths were averted. 18 million
hospitalizations
were avoided and 1 trillion dollar in
healthcare costs were saved in the
United States in just the first two
years after co vaccines were
distributed. I'd like this study entered
into the record, Mr. Chairman, if
there's no objection. Without
>> objection.
Now, vaccines not only saved American
lives, they enabled us to get back on
our feet economically. They enabled the
American economy to recover.
Let's try to think of where we were 5
years ago with a deadly unknown virus
spreading through America and through
the world. We were only able to come so
far because of the vaccines and the
researchers who developed them and the
public health officials who distribute
them. And now those individuals are
again under attack. Our public health
officials.
I've
looked at
those documents, maybe not all of them,
that the majority alleges show that the
Biden administration or those public
health officials suppressed evidence of
side effects. Let's be clear, the
allegation is that they purposefully
concealed
evidence.
I am unable to support that conclusion
with this evidence. In fact, the primary
piece of evidence for this claim is that
the CDC did not issue a notice on its
health alert network con
while it was still analyzing the
evidence about myocarditis.
We're talking about myocarditis. The
chairman has referenced other side
effects. I'm not sure what he means, but
what I see as I look at that evidence is
public health officials
wrestling
with what to do and what kind of warning
to issue. And again, side effects must
be studied and communicated. And that's
what I see happening in these documents
that the majority has released.
So we have to distinguish, I think,
between differences of opinion under the
pressure of a pandemic
and
separate
the opinions of scientists who are
working for the greater good and frankly
others who may simply be seeking to sow
distrust
while they profit off misinformation and
fear. And I'm frankly deeply concerned
about some of today's witnesses
because they have a financial interest
in fermenting
distrust about CO 19 vaccines and
pushing untested alternative remedies
over proven treatments. In fact, two of
today's witnesses are executives at
something called the Wellness Company,
which sells the disproven treatment,
Ivormectin,
and a host of untested supplements,
which includes something called quote
unquote ultimate spike detox
costs $18,
$89.99
a bottle. Another makes money from suing
vaccine companies and still others are
pushing unsupported research while
rejecting the proven scientists on CO
and other vaccines.
Let's be very clear that fear-mongering
and rushing to conclusions without
examining the evidence can lead to
tremendous harm. And this risk is not
just hypothetical
or rhetorical.
Misinformation about the safety of
vaccines has led to a deadly outbreak of
a preventable
disease.
We all know it, measles.
Just 25 years ago, measles was declared
eliminated in the United States.
Since then,
conspiracy theories, some financially
motivated, have caused vaccination rates
to plummet.
Last September, the CDC warned that
declining childhood vaccination could
lead to a resurgence of a preventable
disease like measles and roto virus.
Exactly what is happening today. As of
today, more than a thousand Americans
have been diagnosed with measles this
year. In 31 states, many of them
children. So far, three have died. These
deaths were preventable.
They could have been avoided.
but for the efforts of misinformation
proponents that have spread lies and
created fears. There has been so much
misinformation and fear since co 19
emerged that during the height of the
pandemic health care workers and public
health officials were often harassed and
threatened. Some of them continue to
fear for their lives.
During the first frightening year of the
pandemic, the Trump administration
withheld critical information from the
public, made baseless promises that the
virus would magically disappear. I think
I'm almost quoting
the president. Magically disappear,
engaged in unfounded conspiracy theories
and sham science about CO 19 treatments
and sewed the seeds of distrust in
public health institutions.
And then to the tremendous credit of
President Trump, he fasttracked the
vaccine. Let me repeat, to the credit of
the Trump administration, the president
of the United States fasttrack the
vaccine and save lives.
We need to learn from history.
We're seeing the same pattern now. Those
same seeds of doubt and distrust
have been nurtured by the president's
choices for key positions in this
administration,
including the decision to install a
well-known vaccine skeptic as the head
of HHS and to fill our public health
agencies with conspiracies.
And let's bring it right to the present
day. Just yesterday,
it was announced that the FDA may start
restricting access to new COVID boosters
to those over 65 or with a narrow set of
pre-existing conditions. Now, we ought
to be very frank here.
Discerning what exactly this new
guidance may be at the moment is
confusing
and the troubling news leaves many
questions unanswered about whether and
how people can actually access vaccines
if they want to do so. Will Americans
who
live with elderly
or immunompromised relatives for example
have access to these vaccines? We don't
know
and so far those questions are
unanswered.
The manner and timing of this decision
frankly weak of politics
not science and again science ought to
be the loadar.
So,
I think we need to be looking at the
present. We need to be looking forward.
In the first four months since the
president took office, he and his health
secretary have fired at least 10,000
employees from public health agencies
and cut more than $2.7 billion in
funding for research, including $4.2
million for vaccine clinical trials. Let
me repeat. Clinical trials, money cut to
do them. How does that make us safer?
More than $3.8 million for safety
monitoring and more than $2 billion for
state immunization programs. A drastic
cut that is already hampering our
measles response.
These reckless cuts are undermining our
ability to respond not just to measles,
but to what may come next.
And we all know
something will come next.
That's the history. We need to learn
from history and science.
Let me just finish by saying the
capacity of our agencies to warn
is compromised by these cuts. The
capacity of our agencies to do science
and rely on science is compromised when
we cut 10,000
people from the ranks of the agencies
responsible for safety.
And so I welcome the interest in this
topic. I'm honored that the governor of
Hawaii, Dr. Josh Green has joined us
today to share his experiences
addressing both measles and CO 19. He's
not only a dedicated public service, but
he's also a physician who led his
experience his state Hawaii during the
pandemic. And I'm thankful to him for
being here today. And uh I look forward
to the testimony. Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
>> Thank you, Senator Blumenthal. I think
people understand why he didn't join me
in my oversight request. The the over 70
letters that were not responded to.
Again, I haven't uncovered yet what they
were trying to hide, but our intention
is to do so. Uh you did mention the
what irrefutable fact that these vac
these injections save lives. I I would
enter in the record a recent study by
Rafael Lataster uh who does a pretty
effective job of rebuting one of those
studies from Watson at at all. But we'll
put in the record and again we'll allow
the public the American people who are
watching this hearing decide uh based on
what testimony is based on what's been
entered in the record based on our
report. Uh it is the custom of this the
full committee and the subcommittee to
swear in witnesses. So, if you all rise
and raise your right hand,
do you swear the testimony you are about
to give before this subcommittee is the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth? So, help you God.
Please be seated.
Our first witness is Dr. Peter McCullik.
Dr. McCullik is an internist,
cardiologist, and epidemiologist from
Dallas, Texas. He has broadly published
with over 700 citations in the National
Library of Medicine. He has testified
multiple times in the US Senate, US
House of Representatives, European
Parliament, and many state capitals
concerning public health policy. Dr.
McCullik,
>> Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member
Blumenthal, subcommittee members, it's
an honor to present my insights, my
analysis, my clinical experience on the
this very important topic. The first
time I testified at Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs, before a word
came out of my mouth,
minority center, Senator Gary Peters
said, "What America was about to hear
was misinformation."
I didn't even know what he was talking
about. I had never heard that term
before in academic medicine or in uh
important deliberations. That's November
19th, 2020.
What was he doing? He was using an old
communist propaganda technique.
He was attempting to gain leverage over
me before a word ever came out of my
mouth. We should never have our public
servants ever try to gain leverage over
anyone who is coming to Washington to
help the nation on an important issue.
As introduced, I'm an internist. I'm a
cardiologist. I believe I'm the most
published individual who's ever
testified on matters regarding CO 19
in any of these hearings.
I've seen and examined more patients.
I've examined more data and I'm one of
the most published people on the topic
in the world. And as a cardiologist, I
can tell you my role in this was to
fight disease, preserve life, and above
all, do no harm. Do no harm.
Now, the topic today is myocarditis or
heart damage from the co 19 vaccines.
I'm a cardiologist. I know the topic
well. I've examined thousands of
patients with this problem. Thousands.
Before the pandemic, I had two patients
ever with this problem. There's 1,65
papers in the peer-reviewed literature
on COVID vaccine myocarditis.
So, let me summarize them for you. The
first one that came on my radar screen
that was alarming came from Washington
University in St. Louis, August 18th of
2021. The first author is Verma and
colleagues. New England Journal of
Medicine. 42-y old man comes into
Washington University Hospital with
vaccine myocarditis. The infection is
ruled out. It's the vaccine. He's in the
hospital. This is one of our best
hospitals in the United States. He dies
3 days after taking Madna. They can't
save him in the hospital.
>> Say Dr. McColl, move the microphone just
a little bit away from you. Then one was
reported from Korea by Choy and
colleagues.
This is now a younger man just a few
days after Fizer. He comes in the
hospital. He dies within 8 hours of
being in the hospital. I can tell you
I'm a cardiologist. That doesn't even
happen with heart attacks. He dies
within eight hours. I examined all of
the slides and the the images that the
Koreans had showed us. It looked like
somebody took a blowtorrch to that
heart. It was so completely fried with
inflammation. His heart was destroyed.
These cases
which were widely known at the time
should have gotten everyone's attention.
Everyone should have been laser focused
on this. We should never have someone
die
after taking a vaccine. That's directly
caused to the vaccine. Then Gil and
colleagues Connecticut
published in Archives of Pathology. two
boys aged 16 and 17 who die a few days
after taking Fizer. These are teenagers.
They're found dead at home
by their parents. They're absolutely
horrified.
They request an autopsy. They call in
University of Michigan and University of
Minnesota to look over what are they
finding at autopsy. Conclusion, it's
Fizer COVID 19 vaccine myocarditis.
Unequivocal. These are autopsy confirmed
cases. So for all the mothers in the
room, how would they feel if they found
their children dead after taking a CO 19
vaccine? This is in the peer-reviewed
literature. This is not misinformation.
Everyone should be paying attention to
this. This is not conjecture. This is in
the peer-reviewed literature. So we
started to ask ourselves, what is going
on?
Turns out that Fizer and Madna in Jansen
are the genetic code for the spike
protein. The spike protein is the
damaging part of the virus. The spike
protein is loaded into the body and it
causes tremendous damage. Tremendous
damage in some acute myocarditis appears
to have some genetic pred predilction
and all of the vials of the vaccine are
not the same. But I can tell you I'm
concerned that until the vaccines are
stopped there will be cases of acute
mocarditis. And to finish we've had 216
vaccine deaths this year alone. So if
the vaccine campaign continues we have
to look at what are we getting out of it
now four and a half years of the
campaign and how many more people will
die. I'm Dr. Peter McCulla. Thank you
for listening.
>> Thank you Dr. McCulla. Our next witness
is Dr. Jordan Vaughn. Dr. Vaughn is a
physician and clinical researcher in
Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama. As owner
and CEO of Medel Clinics, Dr. Vaughn has
directed his organization to the leading
edge of early outpatient treatment of CO
19 for his patients and greater
Birmingham community. Dr. Vaughn has
treated over 4,000 longcoid and COVID
vaccine injured patients. Dr. Vaughn,
thank you. Uh, Chairman Johnson and uh,
uh, Ranking Member Blumenthal, thank you
for having me. Um, I'm going to dovetail
a little bit off what uh, Dr. Mcola said
and one of the things that uh, as a
clinician who also had about 200 people
working for him and actually seeing
about 170,000 patients a year. When
COVID came along, I had to really figure
out how to not only help my staff and
make sure they're safe, but also help
the patients that uh, my organization
was responsible for. And that really
made me dive into understanding the
pathology. And what I came away with was
understanding that the spike protein the
S1 subunit specifically is not a benign
protein. It triggers inflammation. It
disrupts endothelial barriers. It
induces fibbrin resistant to breakdown
and it promotes a lot of amaloid
aggregates which is what I research.
These effects impair oxygen delivery,
damage blood vessels, contribute to
clotting pathologies that manifest with
a lot of the symptoms that we're seeing
in the long COVID and vaccine injured,
which to this day is a huge amount of
people. We're talking upwards of 10 to
15 million people in America that are
being affected by the consequences of
COVID in the long form or vaccine
injury. And the typical symptoms are
things like heart racing, brain fog,
shortness of breath, and post-exertional
malaise. In my clinic, I actually use
immunofllororescent microscopy to be
able to actually see what's going on in
the blood and look for these amaloid
aggregates. Uh some as young as
teenagers that are unable to stand.
Others are previously active adults
suffering small strokes without typical
identifiable causes. These are not
abstract theories. They are the lived
realities of my patients in Alabama and
beyond. The mRNA injection heralded as a
solution introduced a novel mechanism
lipid nanoparticles delivering modified
mRNA that instructs the cells to produce
a stabilized spike protein. Unlike
traditional vaccines, this approach
resulted in uncontrolled production of
the spike protein for an unknown
duration and distributes it widely
across organs including the heart, brain
and vasculature and ovaries and testes.
The actual EMA their assessment of
kumarity which is Fiser's vaccine noted
biodistribution beyond the injection
site contradicting claims that the
vaccine stays in the arm and a recent
groundbreaking study using single cell
precision nanoarrier identification
revealed L&P accumulation in the heart
tissue of mice with adverse proteomic
changes in immune and vascular proteins
raising concerns about the uh cardiac
complications that dovetail with what we
were seeing when we were looking at card
uh the the uh co 19 vaccine myocarditis.
I will tell my first encounter with the
vaccine injury came in winter of 2021.
69year-old man from Alabama presumed
presented with unexplained shortness of
breath. He was a patient of mine. He
really had no other reason that he had
this shortness of breath and after the
second Fiser dose he actually uh had
significant shortness of breath. I
couldn't figure it out in a sense
because it would typically be that he
had a pulmonary embolism but empirical
anticoagulation and antiplatlet therapy
brought rapid improvement. This case
prompted deeper investigation that the
spike protein's ability to induce fibrin
that's resistant to breakdown, activate
platelets irreversibly, and damage the
inside of our vessels, vessels that run
to every part of our body and every
organ, explained his symptoms, and those
of thousands more. Uh, since I have
treated approximately 4,000 patients
suffering from long co and vaccine
injury, or both, many were young and
previously healthy. For those with
vaccine injury, trust in public
institutions has been shattered. Many
were coerced under the August 2021
federal mandates. Despite legitimate
hesitations due to prior infection or
personal health risk, they knew their
body better than the agencies. Now
disabled, they are dismissed or ignored
by the systems that mandated their
compliance. The myocarditis signal was
also a big thing. This spring of 2021, a
clear safety signal emerged. myocarditis
in young males linked to mRNA vaccines.
The Department of Defense confirmed
cases of rare heart inflammation and
peer-reviewed studies later detected
circulating spike protein and
postvaccine myocarditis cases. Autopsy
findings have confirmed fatal vaccine
induced myocarditis. Yet, federal
authorities accelerated licensing and
mandates sidelining concerns. The CDC's
hesitation to issue a health alert on
myocarditis and the c the FDA's former
SEAB director promoting vaccines on
social media crossed a line from
oversight to advocacy. This was not
regulation. It was endorsement. Informed
consent is the foundation of a patient
physician relationship. Absent the
regulators providing that information,
that relationship is irreparably harmed
and the practice of medicine will
continue to suffer. In closing, I urge
you to stop blindly following the
science. Science does not lead anywhere.
It is an observer, measurer, and
descriptor. It must inform leadership,
not replace it. When leaders hide behind
the science to justify policy, they
abdicate responsibility. We need
leadership that humbly engages with
data, listens to patience, and actually
acts with courage. Thank you. I welcome
your questions.
>> Thank you, Dr. Vaughn. Next witness is
Dr. James Thorp. Dr. Thorp is a B board
certified obstatrician gynecologist and
maternal fetal medicine specialist with
over 44 years of clinical experience. As
US veteran and widely published
physician, he has testified
internationally served as a peer a
journal peer reviewer board member of
the society for maternal field medicine
examiner for the American board of
obstitistics and gynecology. Dr. Thorp.
>> Thank you Mr. chairman and members of
the committee.
My patients I focus on the most
vulnerable patients, pregnant women and
pre-born. It is difficult to conceive of
a more egregious breach of medical
ethics by the governmentontcontrolled
medical industrial complex than the
promotion of CO 19 vaccines to pregnant
women thereby through transplental
transfer effectively vaccinating their
unborn and newborn children. This
campaign was not accidental.
It was calculated. Pregnant women are
were targeted deliberately for two
reasons. First, women are the primary
decision makers of health care across
the human lifespan, a known marketing
principle. Number two, pregnant women
are the most vulnerable patients. If
they could be convinced that the vaccine
was safe and effective, it would imply
that it was safe and effective for
everyone. From the outset of the
pandemic, this vaccine campaign was
never grounded in biological science,
but rather in behavioral science,
specifically the manipulation of public
perception through influence, fear, and
persuasion. The federal government
outsourced much of this psychological
operations to NOS's which disseminated
emotionally charged and misleading
messaging. These entities falsely
assured pregnant women that the vaccines
were proven safe and essential for
maternal and fetal newborn health
despite the fact that early evidence
indicated quite the opposite. Pregnancy
itself was protective against CO 19
maternal mortality. Dr. Jay Winston, an
initiative director at Harvard School of
Public Health, described the
government's vaccine marketing approach
in a 2020 CBS News interview. He
explained that the strategy was to quote
go for the lowhanging fruit. Those
easiest to pick and harvest, end quote,
and the fruit in quotes tragically were
pregnant women. Only
this deception was institutionalized in
the now infamous Shima Bakuro study
published on April 21st, 2021 in the
digital version of the New England
Journal of Medicine. 21 authors claimed
the miscarriage rate was 12.6% but the
raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage
rate in women vaccinated during the
first trimester. This figure mirrors the
effects of chemical abortion drugs such
as RU486.
Also, in the same journal edition, on
the same day, an op-ed appeared by CDC
director Rashelle Winsky and journal
editor and chief Eric Rubin. These
publications were riddled with conflicts
of interest and deliberate
misrepresentations
intended to coers pregnant women into
taking vaccines. Subsequent studies have
also claimed that CO 19 vaccines are
safe and effective during pregnancy and
have been rebuked by respected
researchers. These publications are
fundamentally compromised by serious
conflicts of interest ranging from
biased funding sources and institutional
mandates and even threats to their
medical licenses and board
certifications. Between 2020 and 2022,
pharmaceutical companies paid 1.06 06
billion dollar to reviewers at leading
medical journals, the New England
Journal of Medicine, JAMAMA, Lancet, and
BMJ, thus corrupting the peerreview
process. At least six existing studies,
three from CDC, FDA, and two from Fizer
revealed major breaches in safety
signals for CO 19 vaccines in pregnancy.
These findings were ignored. Conversely,
countless independent researchers with
no conflicts of interest published
findings that contradicted the false
narratives and the pharmaceutical
industry narratives only to be rewarded
by persecution, censorship, and threats
to their medical licenses and board
certifications.
This is not hypothetical. It happened to
me. On February 8th, 2025, our team of
researchers published a peer-reviewed
study in science, public health policy,
and the law. We identified 37 adverse
pregnancy outcomes significantly
associated with CO 19 vaccine, including
miscarriage, still birth, birth defects,
cervical insufficiency, premature
rupture membranes, preterm birth, and
death of the newborn. Lynn and
colleagues in a major journal
publication documented that the CO 19
vaccine traverses the placenta, enters
the fetal blood, and bioactively
produces spike protein in the placenta
and the lining of the uterus. Recently,
animal studies revealed the mRNA COVID
vaccine causes the destruction of 60%
of the ovarian reserve in pre in rats.
This catastrophic public health failure
was financed with taxpayer dollars and
channeled through federal agencies to
medical gatekeepers such as the American
College of Obstitricians and
Gynecologist, ACOG, the American Board
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ABOG, and
the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine,
SMFM.
These organizations have abandoned their
ethics and responsibilities to
physicians and patients and must be held
accountable. I urge the government to
immediately halt all funding to these
entities and to end every promotional
campaign that coerces or recommends
experimental mRNA therapies to pregnant
women. This must stop now. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Dr. Dr. Thorp. Our next uh
our next witness is Dr. Joel Walsskcog.
Dr. Walsskcog is an orthopedic surgeon
originally from Wisconsin. He
experienced an adverse event after his
madna covid-19 injection that he
received on December 30th, 2020. He has
subsequently been diagnosed with
transverse myelitis and unspecified
autoimmune disorder and autonomic
dysfunction. He is medically retired. He
is now co-chairman of React 19. Dr.
Walskcog.
Thank you, Senator Johnson, Senator
Blumenthal, and the subcommittee for
inviting me to testify on the
development and safety of the CO 19
vaccines. I am Joel Walsskcog, a
board-certified orthopedic surgeon, now
medically disabled after one dose of the
Madna CO 19 vaccine. Before the
pandemic, I enjoyed a successful
practice in Wisconsin, performing over
800 major surgeries annually, trusting
my health authorities. My practice
followed CDC CO 19 guidelines, delaying
surgeries and even temporarily closing.
I proudly elected to get vaccinated and
within a week I developed leg weakness,
numbness, substantial balance loss
leading to falls including one while
treating a patient. Diagnosed with
transverse myelitis, a spinal cord
lesion at T8 T9. I was stunned that my
providers dismissed any vaccine link
despite news of similar cases halting
the Astroenica trial in the UK. Four
years later, while I can walk, I have
been diagnosed with dautonomia and an
undefined autoimmune disorder. Both
debilitating conditions affecting
multiple body systems. I remain
medically retired. The career I loved
and worked so hard for is now gone.
In 2021, federal health agencies assured
Americans that the CO 19 vaccine trials
were rigorous and closely monitored with
rigorous postmarketing surveillance.
They also claimed a robust safety net
that would handle what they said were
rare and mostly mild injuries with
monitoring, followup, and financial aid.
After my own vaccine injury, I learned
the hard way that nothing could be
farther from the truth.
In my own battle to restore my health, I
could not find a single reliable source
of information from the CDC, from the
FDA, or the NIH.
Further, answers did not come from
medical teams, the media, or even
medical journals. Rather, the answers
were being pieced together by tens of
thousands of vaccine injured patients
huddled together in social media based
support groups who are constantly
fighting for their right to simply
exist.
You will hear today a great deal about
myocarditis, maternal female, maternal
fetal complications and blood clotting
disorders after the co 19 shots. I hope
to talk more about the neurological
adverse events to the co vaccines. These
are the most common adverse event to the
co shots. I am now co-chair of React 19
which is a national science-based
non-political
nonprofit that represents over 36,000
Americans seriously injured by the CO 19
shots. Our mission is to provide
financial, physical, and emotional
support. This gives me a unique
perspective to share the collective
experience of those who have been harmed
not just by the co 19 vaccines
themselves but by also by the US
government.
React 19 surveyed our 36,000 members
asking if the FDA takes vaccine injured
injuries seriously. 100%
said false. Not even one person voted
favorably. The vaccine injured share a
uniform story.
We did our duty for our country became
injured, disabled or died. We further
reported to VERS and Vsafe repeatedly
contacted our elected elected officials
and applied to the countermeasures
injury compensation program or CICP
only to face silence from the VERS, no
response from Vsafe, ghosting by our own
representatives and a 98% rejection rate
from the CICP.
The many cries for help were ignored.
Some were studied at the NIH in a
program under Dr. Fouchi where they were
diagnosed with vaccine complications but
never disclosed to the public despite
promises that the NIH would do so
privately. The agents said, the agencies
said neurological conditions needed
early recognition and treatment while
publicly they remained silent and often
denying that they were even treating
vaccine injuries. Rather, they promoted
boosters and high safety claims while
the White House directed social media to
censor quote true stories of vaccine
injury end quote. relegating NIH
confirmed injuries into silence. That
silence by health authorities, elected
representatives, and even our White
House has resulted in in even more
severe health outcomes and worse for
many, death. The PREP Act shields drug
companies from injury liability and
strips Americans of their constitutional
right to due process and jury trial.
This liability shield places the
responsibility squarely on the US
government to address this crisis. Our
constitutional rights must be replaced
with effective safety monitoring and
compensation.
Today, these programs are dismal
failures. Congress must urgently reform
these failing systems or remove itself
as a middleman and repeal the PREP act.
An analysis of clinical trial data
showed that for every
shows that for every 800 people
vaccinated, one suffers a serious
adverse event. We are here today to end
the silence for the one in 800.
It is time to stop politicizing vaccine
injuries and start building
meaningful recognition,
research, competent care, and fair and
just compensation.
At React 19, we say we're we've had
negative reactions, but we're about
seeking positive actions. I will not
stop until these humanitarian goals are
met. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Daser Walls. Our next witness
is Dr. are Mr. Aaron Siri. Miss Siri is
the managing partner of Siri and
Glimstad with over 85 professionals. He
has handled numerous high-profile cases
involving challenges to medical
mandates, restoring exemptions, uh
agency transparency, including forcing
FDA to release the CO 19 vaccine lensure
documents and opposing immunologists,
infectious disease doctors, and
vaccinologists. Mr. Siri,
>> good afternoon.
>> Good afternoon. Thank you. Um yeah, our
our vaccine practice I believe which has
over 40 professionals I doesn't
represent pharmaceutical companies I
believe is the largest vaccine practice
in the world. When we litigate vaccine
cases we cannot rely on credentials or
fancy titles.
We have to prove our claims with high
impact data and sources. For example, I
saw a slide put up that showed 3 million
lives were saved from CO 19 vaccines.
The citation to it was to the
Commonwealth Fund. If you follow that,
that's not a peer-reviewed study. That's
a blog. It's a blog that used a
mathematical model to calculate that 3
million lives were saved. So, I agree
with uh uh the senator Blumenthal that
who said, you know, quote, claims
made, I think you meant brought
vaccines, we need to examine the
evidence and that's an example of that.
We need to look carefully at the
evidence we are relying upon when we are
making claims about vaccines. I don't
think that if I went into court and I
was relying on a blog that use a
mathematical model, I would be laughed
out of court if I was making those
claims about vaccines. But
unfortunately, when it comes to
promoting vaccines, well, that's what we
often see. The underlying data is not
typically really carefully evaluated.
Claims about what vaccines do when
they're positive because our health
agencies are responsible for promoting
them easily made. claims that vaccines
cause any harms or injuries often get
ignored no matter how good the
underlying data. I also heard that
deaths sharply declined
in 2021.
Well, when you look at all cause
mortality in the United States, deaths
in 2021 went up compared to 2020 and
presumably most of the most frail weak
among us died in 2020 from COVID. We
should have had a reduction in all cause
mortality in the United States. We did
not. And those numbers are you can't
argue with. They're binary. You're
either dead or you're alive. You can
argue whether the vaccine killed you or
didn't kill you. Whether COVID killed
you or didn't kill you, but it's can't
argue with all cause mortality. And we
did not have a reduction in all cause
mortality in 2021. We had an increase.
And we really need to answer that
question. We have sent many letters to
our federal health officials trying to
get an answer to that. With that said,
not only do we need to carefully study
the data and science before we go and
litigate our vaccine cases, because
again, I don't have a MD or a PhD or an
M. PH. Um, we also need to understand
the economic and regulatory framework
around vaccines and co 19 vaccines did
not just fall into a vacuum. They fell
into a very welldeveloped regulatory and
economic framework for vaccines that has
developed over the last 40 years. For
every product on the market, you can sue
the manufacturer for harm for design
defect claims. Meaning the claim that
the product could have made safer. I
mean literally look around this room.
Planes, cars, pharmaceutical drugs,
everyone. There's only one product in
America. You cannot sue the manufacturer
for design effect claim to claim that it
could have been made safer and that are
vaccines. I heard uh you know injections
vaccines. My definition of vaccine is
any product for which the government
needs to give it immunity from harms. To
me that's what a vaccine is cuz some in
prevent infection some don't. That's
what a vaccine is. Meaning it can't
survive without that immunity
apparently. Why did vaccines get this
immunity? Um which was provided in 1986
under the National Childhood Vaccine
Injury Act? because leading up to '86
there were only three routine childhood
vaccines MMR OPV and DTP and they were
causing so much harm and causing so much
liability that that uh all the
manufacturers were going out of business
to stop making them and Congress instead
of forcing those manufacturers to do
what every other product manufacturer
needs to do in that situation which is
what make a better safer product instead
you know what we're just going to give
you immunity we're going to make it so
nobody can sue you for those harms
and you can keep selling your product to
the American public no matter how many
children it kills or injures.
Um and the the issue is that that
immunity was not just given for those
three products. It was given for any
childhood vaccine routine childhood
vaccine that was developed thereafter.
Um and and I tell you this not to take
issue with childhood vaccines but to
explain to you the regulatory framework
in which vaccines have developed over
the last 40 years. We have now gone from
three injections in the first year of
life under the CDC schedule 86 to 29
injections including in uterero. If a
child follows a CDC schedule today,
every one of those vaccines, save one,
was developed by a pharmaceutical
company knowing they would not be
responsible for the injuries that are
caused by those products. So, when you
have drug trials or pharmaceutical
companies, they care about losing money.
They don't want to lose money on their
drugs. They often do multi-year placebo
control trials before they get on the
market because they don't want to end up
upside down. They're there to make
money. But with vaccine products because
they don't have that financial
incentive, they have the actually the
disincentive. Almost every childhood
vaccine in this country is licensed
based on clinical trials with often with
no placebo control, say for COVID 19
vaccine, often days or weeks up to maybe
six months of safety review after
injection and are often extremely
underpowered. Those trials could never
have really confirmed the safest
product. And my submission to this
committee laid out every single vaccine
and put them in detail. I I will um
since I'm running out of time, I'll just
wrap up by saying this. Um
um
you might say, well, okay, the
pharmaceutical companies did that, but
why would why would the FDA allow it?
It's because unfortunately our federal
health authorities are hopelessly
conflicted. Congress gave them
conflicting structural duties. They're
responsible for promoting vaccines and
for defending them in the vaccine
compensation program. And you also asked
them to be responsible for safety. those
conflict. One has overtaken the other
and and and for the most part based on
our over 2004 requests to federal health
agencies over the years on behalf of our
client I can I could tell you our
federal health agencies act like
partners with pharma they don't they
they don't they're not only they
encourage their inroads they act
basically in the shoes of pharma because
when the immunity to liability was given
to the pharmaceutical companies Congress
recognized that apparently and
transferred all the safety functions to
HHS and the mandate for safer child
vaccines and by doing so it's made them
hopelessly conflicted. Um that was very
very quick way to try and convey uh the
regulatory and economic framework into
which co 19 vaccines fell into um and
why you know from the pharmaceutical and
FDA's perspective the co 19 vaccine
clinical trials may have been robust and
they were compared to childhood vaccines
but compared to drugs or anybody that
actually wants to assess safety they
absolutely were not robust. They were
incredibly anemic. And as for postit
ensure regulators didn't do their jobs,
but really they acted like
pharmaceutical companies seeking to
cover up harms and avoid reputational
damage and financial liability. I hope
this hearing can help begin the process
of changing that. Thank you, and I
apologize for going over on my time.
>> Y Thank you, Mr. Siri. Our final witness
is Governor and Doctor. I've always
found senators like to be called doctor
if they are one. So, Governor and Dr.
Josh Green. Governor Green is the ninth
governor of Hawaii. He earned his
degrees in biology and anthropology from
Swarm Swathmore College and an MD from
Penn State's College of Medicine. Dr.
Green served two terms in the Hawaii
House of Representatives, three terms in
the Hawaii State Senate and a term as
Lieutenant Governor during which he was
the state's point person addressing the
COVID pandemic. Dr. Green was elected
governor in December 2022. Governor
Green.
>> Thank you, Chair Johnson. Uh, thank you
so much for welcoming me. Thank you, um,
Ranking Member Blumenthal. Thank you,
senators. Uh, first of all, I'm coming
to you as a physician.
When I speak as a doctor, I'm here to
say that vaccines save lives. Period. I
care about saving lives. You care about
saving lives. Everyone in this room, I
believe, cares about saving lives. But
I've seen firsthand children dying from
the spread of preventable diseases
because of vaccine skepticism,
because people lose faith. Uh, I've seen
the lives of some children in one house
who are vaccinated live while children
in the house next door who have not been
vaccinated die. And we saw a lot of this
during CO. I want to tell you a little
bit about my co experience as the co
liaison in my state, state of 1.4
million people.
And let me uh preface this by saying we
worked very closely with President Trump
and his team. And then subsequently as
Lieutenant Governor, I was able to work
very closely with President Biden and
his team. And I appreciate them both. I
appreciate that President Trump using
Operation Warp Speed got us a
vaccination in extraordinary time. We
were desperate as healthcare providers.
I worked as an emergency room physician
virtually every single weekend for 20
plus years, including through the whole
pandemic. And this is what I saw. I saw
people dying of terrible disease when
they caught the delta variant of COVID.
Especially I saw people
recover
better when they had been vaccinated. In
Hawaii, we had the lowest mortality rate
in the country. We had the highest
vaccination rate in the country. People
have asked me in the course of the prep
for this uh hearing, well, is Hawaii
safer because it's a tropical island
state? No, actually it's quite the
contrary. We had CO coming from east in
Asia where it originated and west
travelers from the mainland. But we put
together programs based on science. Day
by day I counted case after case after
case because there was so much
uncertainty. And I was able to share in
our state where we had infectious
disease doctors, where we had extra need
for ventilators, where we had extra need
for vaccinations where the rates were
lower. and day by day working with all
the health care providers in my state
and listening to others, not mandating.
I'm not a mandate guy. That may come as
a surprise to some today. We were able
to make sure that we had a science-based
response. We put together a safe travels
program which tested anyone coming into
the islands so they wouldn't travel or
that they would isolate, quarantine if
they were positive so they wouldn't
spread the disease. And over time, we
had the experience that no one else had.
We saw death rates constantly lower than
all the other states with the single
exception of Vermont on occasion.
I tell you this because we have to
follow science and I truly believe that
we can't politicize science or
vaccinations or any of these public
health matters and it's very important
going forward. This is where we should
unite with one another. We should heal
our country together in this space. Now
another experience I had uh measles.
I was the doctor that was asked to go to
Samoa when they had their outbreak of
measles. Why did they have their
outbreak? Because they lost faith in the
vaccination program and it was tragic.
The Children's Health Defense went there
and they scared people. After tragedy,
admittedly, it should have never
happened. I had children die in my arms
who were not vaccinated but died of
measles. This beautiful boy was with me
and a pediatrician, Dr. Dr. Nadin
Tansala had a terrible case of the
measles and some of his relatives passed
away from the disease. But we went there
and we vaccinated 37,000 individuals in
48 hours and the measles just stopped.
And I say this because this is what we
have to look forward to in the future if
we somehow fall into a place where we
don't believe in vaccinations any
longer. And we shouldn't do it blindly.
We should study them. We should check
for safety. Absolutely. That is
essential in science.
But these vaccinations save lives. They
saved many lives during CO. In my state,
they saved over 10,000 lives. We
anticipated mass casualties which we
never saw because we fought this disease
uh with great intelligence and great
acumen.
I will tell you this, there are lots of
things to share today. Protests
resonated through the co experience in
my state. People protested at my home
around my family. But the leader of the
protests ultimately after I was worried
that he would catch COVID did exactly
that. Ended up in grave grave peril. His
wife was in the intensive care unit. His
name was Wickoff. He later later
disavowed the protests against the
vaccinations after seeing individual
after individual after individual be
intubated and go into the ICU because he
experienced it. And that's what we as
physicians see too often once a tragedy
occurs. And my heart is with everyone
who had any kind of reaction to the
vaccines that we're talking about or
loses a loved one. Of course, we love
our our fellow mankind,
but we cannot turn away from science.
So, these are some of the things I
wanted to share with you today.
Ultimately, we have to decide whether
we're going to be committed to public
health in our country. And right now, we
are in great peril. It is absolutely my
firm belief that vaccines have saved
millions of lives over the last 50
years, 150 million by many people's
accounts. It's decreased infant
mortality by 40% globally. And we have
to continue to commit ourselves in this
way. So I'm concerned I'm concerned that
as we end up in a politicized discussion
that we will move away from science. We
will not trust one another experts. We
will not trust one another and we will
end up in conflict. So what I would say
is this. Let's work together. Let's find
a way to actually find the common ground
to protect our children. Let's find a
way to make sure our public health
system remains intact, not taken apart
by the current approach where HHS is
jettisoning many of its people, many of
the billions of dollars, perhaps many of
the vaccinations. This is our
opportunity to come together. And I'm
sure we'll talk more about this as the
hearing goes on, but I'll say one last
time, vaccines save lives. I've given
vaccines. I've taken vaccines. I've
treated people that didn't get vaccines
and it's broken my heart when they've
passed away.
>> Thank you, Governor Green. Um, quick
comment.
I'm not aware anybody on my side of this
issue politicized it. The accusation is
always that we are. We're not. Um, you
did state, by the way, 10,000 lives
saved in Hawaii. I would love to have
your citation on that. So, if you can
give us a study so we can put that in
the record and any other citation give
us on the millions of lives saved by
vaccines as well. I mean, I'd like again
I want to know the truth. Just real
quick, I've got a couple other charts I
want to put up there. Uh, this is a
chart a lot of people produced it.
>> Chairman, if I could just interrupt for
10 seconds over here. Sure.
>> Uh, is today's just a point of order.
Are we talking about vaccines or are we
talking about the COVID vaccine?
>> Well, specifically, we were talking
about the the hiding of the safety
signal on myocarditis. So, we're not
talking about all vaccines.
>> We can talk about anything you want to.
Okay. I mean, again, it has obviously
opened up because we're also talking
about the corruption of science and I
think science has been corrupted. Uh, so
fair game. So, again, I appreciate you
staying here and stick around and ask a
lot of questions. I think you'll learn
an awful lot. Put my time back on the
clock. No, I'll keep take whatever I
want. This is a chart. This is a chart
again. I I started I was looking at the
veyes you know I had been I had been
>> Mr. Chairman, that's not the way I ran
this sub.
>> I had been Well, this is a different
different again, I'll be very generous.
Okay. Um, I was I was actually
instructed as a non-D doctor what the CO
injections were encapsulated in lipid
nano particle that was designed to
permeate difficult to permeate barriers.
So, they lied to us when they said
they'd stay in the arm. They knew it
wouldn't. They had a study uh the
Japanese regulators uncovered that when
they did do a biodistribution study in
rats, it distributed all over the body.
So that was the first lie. Didn't really
talk about too much about the toxicity
yet of the of the lipid nanoparco, but
it goes all over the body. So I was I
was aware and again that this was not a
standard vaccine. This isn't a you know
attenuated or dead virus that the body
reacts to. This actually hijacks the
cell tells
has the cell produce the spike protein
which is toxic to the body which means
the body attacks. Again I'm a layman but
it's pretty simple for me to understand
this. So I was aware of this like in
October. So I'm watching and so I'm I'm
publishing these charts and I'm being
censored. I see the next chart chart
number two. This is the full history of
veyers and the number of deaths being
reported associated with the vaccine.
Hey, you got you got a couple hundred a
year until 2021 and yikes 21,725
deaths worldwide.
Why? And everybody's saying, "No, this
is safe and effective." You know, the
the the vaccine injured were being
gaslit. They weren't being treated.
They're still being gas lit. There there
is no, by the way, there is no
compassion. Governor, I could fill this
room with photos of people who are dead
because of the COVID injection. I could
fill the room and that is being deni
that is being denied. It is being denied
and these people haven't been able to
get help. I held an event in Milwaukee
in June 2019 and 2021 and all the
vaccine injured those women all they
wanted was to be seen and heard and
believed and they are not to this day.
Okay. So again they're not the ones
politicizing. They just want to they
just want to be helped. They want
compassionate doctors to treat them to
recognize what caused their illness, not
gaslight, not deny that it exists. But
anyway, so you take a look at this chart
and there they're still denying that
this nothing to see here. This is safe
and this is effective. Okay, next chart.
This this is the current vey chart.
38,67
deaths reported worldwide associated
with the COVID injection. And we know
veyers dramatically understates
what
by by a factor of 10 h 100red. We know
it understates it. 9,228 of those deaths
occurring on the day of vaccination the
one or two days. Okay, I know theirs
doesn't prove causation, but man, that's
a correlation we should have been
looking at, but they ignored and they
censored. Um,
but enough of that. Dr. Dr. McCullik,
please I I in my layman's terms, I just
kind of laid out the the harmful
mechanisms of this injection. Can can
you and Dr. Vaughn, because I think
you've both spoken to this again, in
layman's terms, talk about why this
caused so much harm in so many different
ways because of the biodistribution. Dr.
McCullik,
>> 80% of Americans took a vaccine. 20%
didn't.
20% did not take a vaccine. The vaccine
was never safe enough for me to take.
Messenger RNA devised by Fiser Madna has
been chemically modified to be
unassalable to enzymes in the body to be
broken down. The messenger RNA is found
in the human heart of people who die
after the vaccine. It's found in the
brain. The spike protein is found
everywhere in the body.
Three studies now show the spike protein
is circulating in the blood for six to
nine months after people take the shot.
This part of the virus, the lethal part
of the virus in the vaccinated, it's
circulating in the blood and then they
take a booster, they get more
circulating in the blood. It is a killer
protein. It cannot be safe. It was not
safe by design.
Safety trumps efficacy. We cannot
tolerate false drug claims. And we saw a
poster behind Senator Blumenthal making
a false drug claim that vaccines saved
millions of lives, specifically the
COVID vaccine. Well, let's take a look
at that. When someone signs consent for
a vaccine, Senator Blumenthal, does the
consent form say it's going to save
their lives? Of course it doesn't. It's
not on the FAQ. There's never been a
prospective randomized double blind
placebo control trial ever showing that
CO 19 vaccines reduce mortality or
hospitalization. There's not even a
valid non-randomized study. Thankfully,
CO mortality went down for three
reasons. Because we all got the
infection, vaccinated and unvaccinated.
So, we developed population natural
immunity. We developed early treatment.
Credit to Operation Warp Speed. We used
all the operation warp speed tools,
additional drugs. We treated patients
with multi-drug protocols at home. So
they don't go to the ER. So Governor
Green never saw the patients we treated
because they were successfully treated
at home. And the third reason is the
virus mutated to a much milder form.
Those things happen concurrently with
roll out of the vaccine. The vaccine
cannot be falsely credited with saving
millions of lives. We can't allow false
drug advertising to be put up on a
poster behind one of our public
servants. We cannot accept that.
>> So, let me quick
and I will have a lot more I will have a
lot more questions. uh put up my last
that optional chart number four here
because I think this uh this is
something I developed uh well September
2021 and this shows the number of daily
cases of COVID and you see it's peaking
in January you know right as we're
rolling out the vaccine but we really
haven't injected with anybody if if by
the time we had any kind of significant
uptake of the vaccines we were way down
in terms of the number of daily cases. I
mean, this this virus was burning itself
out. Okay. Now, we had different
variants. Again, I've read a lot of
information about vaccination into the
midst of a pandemic driving variance. Is
that what happened? I don't know. But
you would think if a vaccine were that
effective, the tale would just continue
and the pandemic would be over. But
that's not what happened. We had a whole
new surge and this was Delta and doctors
I talked to very deadly. Probably more
deadly. Would you agree with that, Dr.
McCullik? Delta was more deadly. I know
you guys were kind of freaking out that
your early treatment wasn't working as
well.
>> It it was definitely more more difficult
to treat, but fortunately by that time
we had treatments.
>> But I just wanted to put this thing up
here again. If again to a layman if the
vaccine really worked, was that
efficacious, you know, prevent all that
disease. By the way, they all admitted
that it didn't prevent transmission.
They lied to us about that four four
months if maybe a year. Then they
finally had to prevent transmission. Um,
but again, this this chart right here
just shows you that the vaccine really
would have worked. You wouldn't have had
this. You wouldn't have had this. But
I'll turn it over to Senator Blumenthal.
>> Thanks, uh, Mr. Chairman. And, uh, I
think we'll try to certainly stay within
our seven minutes so our colleagues
>> Yep.
>> uh, can have their their day of
questioning.
>> But again, we we'll have second, third,
fourth rounds. I mean, this we'll we'll
use up the time of this hearing room.
Um,
you know, the the debate here seems to
be about the efficacy of CO 19,
but the central issue that brings us
here today is the allegation that there
was purposeful concealment
of knowledge
and evidence. And I just want to make
the point, I may be sounding a little
bit like a lawyer, not a physician, but
purposeful concealment, intentional
hiding
is essentially undocumented by the
evidence released by this report itself.
In fact, the documents released by the
majority today show that public health
officials took multiple steps in the
spring of 2021 to make health care
providers aware
of those rare they were rare reports of
myocarditis among vaccine recipients. on
May 14th,
almost two weeks before the CDC decided
to issue clinical considerations
rather than a HANA
on myocarditis,
which is by the way the primary piece of
evidence that the majority
cites in this so-called coverup. The
CDC's National Center of Immunization
and Respiratory Disease sent an email to
state and local health departments
around the country entitled quote
monitoring reports of myocarditis.
End quote. The email noted risks and
contained a reminder that providers were
obligated to report cases.
5 days later, they sent out a follow-up
email urging recipients to let providers
in their region know of risks and
reminding them once again of the
obligation to report cases. I have two
emails here who are in the majority
report. They're available to the public.
Uh I ask that they be made a part of the
record, Mr. Chairman,
>> objection.
>> Uh, I'm not going to read them. They're
for everyone to see. Uh, one begins
with, "I would like to flag a message we
sent out late Friday night. I encourage
you to forward this important message
about vaccine safety and reporting." And
it goes on warnings.
Far from a cover up,
these public health officials were
trying to alert
scientists, doctors, the public about
the potential side effects.
Mr. Siri and I are both trial lawyers
and
issuing that kind of warning is far from
evidence of trying to hide or conceal
something. You can say
they were wrong somehow but intentional
cover up is not within the realm of the
plausible allegations here.
So, u I think we need to be really clear
and careful
when we start uh discrediting scientists
or public health officials. Uh, I'd like
to ask
uh, Governor Green,
uh, can you tell us how, as a physician,
publicly funded research,
which is being cut by this
administration, is important to
establish
not only new vaccines, but also the
safety and efficacy of ongoing use of
vaccines.
Thank you, Senator. So, uh, as
governors, we rely on funding to do so
many things from the federal government
and cuts to research will be
devastating. You can't just simply pause
research and wait until uh different
ideology resumes uh governing or until
we get through these hearings and we
restart uh critical research projects,
we will lose ground on this science and
the science that benefits from it. The
R&D that goes forward, we've all been
very supportive for decades of advanced
scientific research. Sometimes it
happens through the military, sometimes
through our universities. We are in deep
trouble if we stop the research
component of our commitment to our
people. We will also be in grave danger
if we don't do the public health
assessment uh in our states in our rural
areas because we will not even know what
we're being affected by. We will be
blind to the diseases that roll through
our communities whether it's chronic
disease or acute disease uh from an
infection like this. And I just I just
need to um address a couple um
statements that I feel are
misconceptions, you know, and I'm not
judging. I I feel that there is a
misconception that the COVID vaccination
didn't decrease the severity of disease.
That is what it did. It decreased the
severity and I saw this clinically and
we saw this from a public health
standpoint. It decreased the severity of
what people were facing. So they didn't
die or they died at a much lower rate.
And you can see that in the charts that
we've seen, but through looking at them
through a different lens, the exact same
charts when the when the death rates
dropped because people had begun to
develop immunity because their immune
systems were responding to the
vaccination. And in fairness, we could
debate the the language, but even some
of of the individuals that are also
testifying with me here today referred
repeatedly to the mRNA vaccination
because it was putting these particles
into people and then the immune system
was responding to them. And so I do feel
that it's a vaccination. But be that as
it may, we ultimately saw the ability to
stop the severe and deadly cases in our
hospitals. And so there are many ways to
view vaccinations. There's many ways to
view treatments. And they're all
valuable. Uh some for some vaccinations
straight up stop infection from
occurring. That's the case. uh when we
talk about uh measles, you know,
measles, measles, mumps, rebella, when
you get that vaccine, you really prevent
the spread uh to a great degree. And it
was commented earlier that we were
misleading or we were being misled by
others on what uh the vaccinations uh
were doing and what the information was
that was being shared. Well, let me tell
you what it was like during that period.
And we all saw it. There was a great
deal of confusion because the unknown
was so enormous and to the credit of
scientists and to the credit of those
who uh invested in the research at again
extreme speed and extreme dollars we
were able as a nation and a global
community to find our way to something
that helped us. Now, of course, there
were some tragic outcomes and again, not
a single case should ever be dismissed,
uh, minimized. No one should be impuged.
But the grander picture of a vaccination
program is to protect all and to find a
way to protect people so that they can
also help protect the people around
them. which is why the research is
important, the spending is important,
why I'm very concerned about the
announcement yesterday that we will only
be recommending vaccinations for people
over 65 or those with chronic disease
because couple points. One, first of
all, and I'm sure many of you had this
experience, uh the chairman mentioned
going to Sworthmore College, which was
my alma mater. The president of our
class named Nick, Nick Jazdanin, 51
years old, unvaccinated because the vac
vaccinations were not yet available,
healthy, a marathon runner, died of a
COVID infection. He was a prominent uh
writer, an extraordinary human being,
but utterly healthy. And that may have
been of course more rare than an
82year-old or or a 91year-old
contracting COVID and dying, but it does
happen. He is an individual that would
have been vaccinated immediately when
given the opportunity. And also the
reasons that we were able to avoid so
many unnecessary deaths in a very
difficult to treat state where we have
one, two, three, sometimes four
generations of people living under the
same roof with one provider. The
challenge there is if we suddenly can't
vaccinate teenagers or people who are 28
years old and are the breadwinners for
their community and we have another
pandemic or we have this outbreak worsen
again, they will come home with the
disease and very likely spread it to
those who are vulnerable. And so I'll
pause there. I just say that we should
give people choice and we should honor
and respect their stories, but we have
to do the research.
>> But their stories haven't been honored
or respected. Our our next uh question
will be Senator Kim.
>> Yeah. Thank you,
Governor. I guess I I just would like to
stay with you here for a sec because I
think you have an interesting
perspective as someone who's both um a
doctor as well as a elected public
official in an executive position. And
I'm trying to, you know, digest the
information that I'm hearing here and
thinking about how to talk about it to
my constituents back in New Jersey. And
if they're watching this, you know, I
think that a lot of this is beyond what
the average person understands. It's
beyond what I understand in terms of the
fullness of what happens in terms of our
health system. So from your experience,
Governor, you know, when the when these
cases come forward, you know, the these
cases that Dr. McCullik and and others
have have raised, you know, in terms of
these concerns, what's supposed to kick
in? You how does this system work? You
know, you've talked about this saying
that, you know, we have a robust
system for safety. Um, that the system
is designed to monitor, identify, and
transparently report possible side
effects to review. Can you explain to to
me and and my constituents, you know, h
how this unfolds and what to expect?
>> Yes, thank you, Senator. So the way it
should work is that we totally support
science and we support public health so
that we are able in labs and in public
health offices to take in the concerns,
the complaints, the vignettes, the data
and analyze it thoroughly. And uh to the
chairman's uh concern, I'm sure some
people were not listened to or they felt
not listened to and that should never
happen. That is one of the great
challenges of our modern time where
we're talking past one another where
when people are spreading um their
stories anonymously sometimes they're
spread in ways that are not really even
from the individual who's suffering
themselves. There are great challenges
but we have to have this robust system
and how do you talk to people? How did I
talk to people in my state? And many
people feel that we had the u most uh
positive and and um effective strategy
to to deal with COVID was because we did
something very simple was partially uh
accidental in the early days of COVID. I
started a whiteboard and ultimately tens
then hundreds of thousands of people
followed this whiteboard and just so
people know that it wasn't didn't have
bias implicit or otherwise. It didn't
have partisanship. I just put the actual
numbers that we had to the minute of how
many cases that day, how many people
were vaccinated, how many beds we had,
how many intensive care unit beds uh
were available, how many ventilators
were available each facility, how many
infectious disease doctors and so on. So
that if someone truly didn't believe CO
was a threat and some people felt that
way, they could just look at the data
and decide for themselves how they would
respond in their lives. This is how you
talk to your constituents about
something that's this disconcerting, in
fact terrifying.
And we just showed day after day after
day in a brief brief uh moment sometimes
90 seconds exactly what we had as the
best data long before we had these very
complex uh reports from John's Hopkins
or USC or other universities. Okay.
Before we had that, we had our capacity
in our state to share with our people
what we were dealing with. And so what
happened? Now, people could argue about
this, but I will tell you that I believe
we had far more people get vaccinated
because I just shared exactly what we
were experiencing. And I'll tell you, I
look back at some of those early reports
and I I sometimes shudder a little bit
because we learned so much, which is
what happens with science during one of
these crisis. You learn as you go. There
were times, as you know, that we didn't
have the right recommendations on masks,
and we of course could debate that in
this room, I'm sure, but we gave our
best scientific data and our best
experiential data. And that's how you
talk to people. And yes, you you never
tell people that they are not valued and
you never just dismiss their stories.
And I'm positive I or others have been
guilty of that in the moment, and we
shouldn't be. But we also should not
demonize one another and when we in my
family ultimately had protesters which
did to a large degree cross some lines
when they some people were um just
communicating with me other people I
have to be honest with you some people
wrote swastikas on the on signs that
were next to my home certainly my
father's Judaism had nothing to do with
my COVID response but I can tell you
that sometimes because people were
traumatized and
understood how scared they were and I
understood what they were hearing out
there. But that's how you talk to
people. And if we do that after not and
I'm and I have to be honest about this,
if we don't systematically dismantle our
public health system, we'll be okay. We
will find common ground. Even though I I
suspect that there are some pretty
significant differences between me and
some of the other testifiers on what we
would do with the next pandemic, we
would actually be able to still move
forward together.
>> Yeah. Yeah, I mean I think you know
something you said earlier I thought
stuck out to me the sense of that you
know no one should be ignored. I think
that's a principle I hope everyone here
can agree upon that we I think they
always have space for more transparency.
Um but also just keeping in mind that
broader context. I mean as you're saying
you know here are the challenges that
that we're facing when it comes to this
system and how we can work on it. And
certainly I can imagine your experience
whether on addressing COVID or in Samoa
you know certainly that becomes more
difficult to to fully enact this monitor
identify trans and the transparency
report you know when you're in the
middle of a crisis when you're in the
middle of the chaos you know that's
something I think we can try to do to
improve to the point that was raised
earlier I think a lot of this also says
like this this is a reason why we need
to invest in capacity invest in
personnel people working in our
government to do this and and as opposed
to cutting back on staff and and trying
to say that we need simultaneously more
transparency when that becomes all the
more difficult. But I mean, look, I
understand and I've had people in my
life that have been ignored and and not
believed, whether that's, you know, my
time as a diplomat before and people I
know struggling with Havana syndrome and
people telling them, "I don't believe
you and other issues that are out
there." Um, but we should always have
that system in place and and that's what
I just hope we can come back to. I mean,
I I get it. I'm I'm new on this
committee and I understand and I'm
seeing, you know, a year's worth of of
back and forth that are coming here. But
someone who's coming with some fresh
eyes, you know, I hope that we can try
to cultivate that sense of of trust that
I know has been so deeply wounded. Um
because I worry about what comes next,
you know, I worry about how we deal with
the next diseases, the next pandemics,
how we try to move forward and
understand how this technology of of
mRNA and others try to move forward on.
So, I just appreciate, you know, being
able to hear this all and and I try to
figure out how best I can be able to
relate to the people in New Jersey
around this country about the safety of
the co vaccines that I have seen be able
to save lives, but also be able to sure
that we won't ignore people if they have
other concerns and we do our best to be
as transparent as possible and to be
careful of of accusations of personal
malfeasants uh especially with some of
our public servants um in terms of
whether or not they were intentionally
withholding information or not. We need
to be very careful about those
accusations on this committee. And with
that, I'll yield back.
>> I will say we are just seeing the tip of
the iceberg here and you will see more
evidence. Trust me. Senator Marino.
>> Well, first of all, thank you uh
chairman for putting on this hearing.
I'm going to focus on let's just stick
to CO 19 and CO 19 policies. Let's not
get to let's not get into this
conversation about uh vaccines at large.
Dr. McCulla, do you feel that you were
listened to in 2021?
Did you feel ignored?
>> Our November 19th, 2020 hearing done for
Homeland Security, governmental affairs
was very lightly attended by our
senators who are working for us. That's
a disappointment. It's disappointment.
There's chairs uh empty here. our
hearing was actively suppressed,
scrubbed off YouTube.
>> So just just so just so just to clarify,
not only were your viewpoints ignored,
you were called a conspiracy theorist, a
spreader of misinformation, somebody who
didn't know what they were doing by
people who didn't even take a science
class in high school, and yet you're a
doctor and you were completely ignored.
Let me ask you, uh, Dr. Vaughn, real
quick question. How many children under
the age of five years old died of COVID?
>> So very very few. Actually,
theoretically, a healthy child under
five, there wasn't any.
>> So basically zero.
>> Yes, it's statistically zero.
>> Age of 10,
>> it's still statistically zero. When you
get when you get up into the when you
get up into the uh uh 15 16, I mean,
there there is some
>> So under 15, none. Yeah, pretty much
none.
>> Statistically, yes.
>> All right. So, I'm confused because uh
Governor Green said he held the children
who would have died from COVID, but
that's crazy because evidently nobody
died of COVID who was under 15.
>> Excuse me.
>> I we're talking about But see, that's
the confusion. See, when we talk about
COVID vaccines and then we stick in
other vaccines, we get off topic because
co 19 wasn't about measles. Uh now, Dr.
Thorp, do you think good idea or bad
idea that you should close schools?
Bad idea.
>> Bad idea.
>> Now why? I mean kids can learn uh at
home, can't they?
>> They can learn very well at home. But at
school uh they will have the opportunity
to develop natural immunity.
>> So and school, well by the way, schools
is where you socialize, you learn your
behaviors, you learn how to meet other
people. Because if we don't believe in
schools, the federal government and
state government can save a lot of
money. So schools are important. Let's
just get that out of the way. So, why
would you close schools, which you did,
Governor,
when no children died of COVID? What
would make you make that decision? You
closed schools. And by the way, the
impact on that is generational. You
destroyed the lives. You and the other
governors that closed schools destroyed
the lives of children in doing that. So,
okay, I've got to got to tell the
audience, please notice, Mr. May, my uh
my respond to the question. Yeah, I
think it was Well, first of all, I think
you misunderstand some of the value to
>> No, no, no. Why did you close schools?
>> Well, I'm going to I'm going to address
each answer that not filibuster me,
please.
>> I'm not going to filibuster you. Uh,
schools I did not want to close and
>> you did.
>> Actually, I was not governor at the
time. And
>> but you were lieutenant governor and you
were the point person. Do you think the
governor made a mistake in closing
schools?
>> We reopened the schools as soon as he
made a mistake. If I think Can I answer
the question or is this the senator
going to filibuster?
>> No. No. You're going to answer my direct
question or just say I'm not going to
answer you.
>> Do you think it was a good idea? Yes or
no? The two choices in this answer. Do
you think it was a good cho idea to
close schools? Simple answer. Just give
me a yes or a no.
>> As we as we had COVID surging through
our society because there was massive
spread from children to adults, we were
waiting to make sure the teachers
>> So, let me get So, let me get this
straight. you sacrifice the lives of
children because maybe they would spread
something that you don't know to adults.
You thought that was a great that's not
always actually it's your your party
that's trying to close our schools and
get rid of the Department of Education.
So we have we do have we're not
politicizing this hearing. Okay, we're
moving on. You said my governor and
other governors that close schools which
is a politicization of when I'm in
Hawaii and I'm having a hearing before
you. You can interrupt me. When you're
here before the United States Senate,
you're not going to interrupt me. Moving
on. So, here's here's the next question
for you. Uh, show me the science that
said that when I walked into a uh an
airport in Hawaii and that I wasn't uh
uh I I didn't want to tell you because
it's none of your business whether I had
a COVID vaccine or not or tested
positive or not because that's also none
of your business. Where's the science
where I had to quarantine for 14 days?
Tell me the science behind why you
locked your residents up and did not
allow them to go grocery shopping. why
you closed your beaches and your parks.
I would love you to put that science
into this record because you can give me
the nice happy talk, but those were
terrible decisions. And what co
highlighted more than anything else, by
the way, it's why I'm here. I ran for
the United States Senate not because I I
I had this deep desire to uh be a
government politician, but because I was
so incensed by the arrogance, by the
ignorance, by the lack of common sense
among our elected officials that we
needed different kinds of people here in
Washington DC and other places. So,
>> shall I answer those questions,
chairman?
>> No, no, there was no question for you.
That was just
>> There were several questions. You asked
about why a 14-day quarantine. You asked
about Sure. What's the science? 14-day
quarant,
>> not 12, not 16.
>> Actually, I asked for 5 days, just so
you know.
>> What was it? Was there a dart board?
>> No, it was 5 days because that was the
amount of time from symptoms to
transmission.
>> So, why 14?
>> The 14 days was was before we had the we
had
>> So 14 wasn't scientific, just to be
clear.
>> 14 days was how long it took for people
to get over the disease. And people were
still shedding virus through that
period. And that's why you do use
science and I use science, but you
didn't like science for Hawaii. But we
did but we did have the test and we did
have the test to enter Hawaii so people
could make a choice an informed choice
and they did and then they didn't have
to quarantine at all just to make sure
you know that because I think you got
your facts wrong and also I didn't close
the beaches that was the mayor of
Honolulu and not me. So just you know it
is important that you get the facts
right if you're going to be a political
official.
>> So it's what you're saying it wasn't me
it was the other guy.
>> No it was me who ran the who ran the co
response zero accountability Dr. I'll
take more accountability if you give me
more time. I'm done with you governor.
Thank you. Thank you, sir.
>> Uh, so Dr. McCulla, quick question for
you. Quick question for you. Just
completely objectively. Look, I went to
business school. I was not a doctor. Uh,
so I'm going truly objective using your
most subjectiveness here. Did the
vaccine stop the spread of COVID 19?
>> No.
>> So then let me ask you one simple
question. We'll go down the line. You
guys can answer. It would be my last
question.
So if COVID 19 did the the vaccine, the
injection did not stop the spread of
COVID, why is it that Joe Biden,
president of United States, issued an
executive order, which was ruled
unconstitutional, by the way, that said
that if you worked for a company with
100 employees, because not 99, 100, that
you would be fired
if you did not prove you didn't have a
COVID vaccine negative test or got
vaccinated.
Why would we have some decision like
that? How depraved do you have to be to
do that? Answer the question the way you
feel down the line. Go ahead. We'll
start with you, Mr. Dr.
>> Briefly.
>> My testimony on this issue went all the
way to the Supreme Court that overturned
four out of the five Biden mandates.
They were scientifically ungrounded.
They were sociologically
deranged and they caused great harm. To
this day, people are in court trying to
get their jobs back and trying to put
their lives together because of these
disastrous policies.
>> And and just to be clear, sorry,
chairman, nurses were included in that.
Correct. Healthcare workers. The ranking
member called them heroes.
It seems to me that when you have a
hero, you don't terminate their ability
to make money and have them fired
because they're making a personal
choice. Because see, ultimately, and
I'll end with this, ultimately, this is
what this is all about. See, I get to
get a choice if I'm going to get
vaccinated. And if it doesn't stop the
spread, it is none of any other human
being in this country's business what I
did or did not do. Would you agree
quickly?
>> 100%. And I think uh uh director Winsky
when she said of the science of hope uh
that is not science. Science is facts.
Hope is not science.
>> Thank thanks Senator Marino. Again
please let's not express any uh emotion
out there in the in the audience. Uh Dr.
Walsco I just have to go to you because
you have direct experience. I almost
feel like bringing up Brienne Dresen to
talk about the concealment that you
witnessed firsthand when it came to your
working with Bree's working with NIH
officials trying to do studies uh being
carried along with some with some
assurance that this was going to be
revealed to the public and it never was.
Just talk about that level of
concealment. Again, there's going to be
so much evidence of this if it hasn't
been destroyed. This this just the tip
of the iceberg what we're seeing here
with myocarditis. But but talk to what
you you and your fellow vaccine injured
who were dismissed, who were gas lit,
who were treated horribly. I mean,
horribly. When you came to the United
States Senate and asked to be
heard by senators and their staff, you
were treated. Describe describe how
you've been treated.
Well, thank you, Senator Johnson. So,
what I'd like to say is um being vaccine
injured in this country is is
unfortunately a huge polarizing event,
which it should never be. If I could
describe one word that I think all if
not most vaccine injured will say is
what's one word that describes your
experience after your injury and it's
abandonment. Okay, we get attacked. We
watch We walk a tight rope. We get
attacked from the right. The right say
we're stupid. We shouldn't have got a
shot. We should die. Okay, and I could
show you social media stuff. The left
says we're antivaxers, which to me is
one of the most ignorant thing to say of
myself because all my children have been
vaccinated. I got vaccine injured
because I got vaccinated. But but still,
regardless, we get called antivaxers.
We report these to veres. Okay. Nothing
happens. I had an adverse event which
was, you know, delayed the Astroenica
trial in the United Kingdom, you know,
two times for three cases of transverse
myitis. I expected a call the day after,
days passed, weeks passed. By 3 weeks, I
called the CDC myself and demanded, you
know, response. I always thought, oh,
I'd get this quick response and someone
would would help us. all of us that are
vaccine injured now
there is no there's no phone call coming
there's no help coming we have
repeatedly met and Brienne Dresen who's
my co-chair with reacting have met with
Peter Marx over and over and over for
the last you know for a period of about
two years we have been plated we have
been blown off we bring up adverse
events the neurological adverse events
we bring up the MIS which is the
multi-cm inflammatory syndrome we bring
up the myocarditis us. He thanks us. He
says he'll get back to us. He never
does. That went on to for 2 years. So,
so for people that think it's this
kumbaya where all people are listening
to us and people and these federal
agencies are trying to to help it get to
the bottom of it, it is the farthest
from the truth.
>> So, there have been a number of claims
made and I think there will be continue
to be a number of claims made. And I
just ask anybody making a claim um
please provide your citations you know
please provide you again respect the
science let me see the science I mean
I'm being I'm very genuine here let me
see you know the science behind that
this actually reduced the symptoms or
this prevented deaths or this prevented
transmission uh I would like to see the
science um Dr. Von, uh, you were really
specializing in the blood clots. You
know, I've seen video after video,
picture after picture of these long
white blood clots in autopsy. Um, we've
we've also, you know, throughout CO
autopsies were really discouraged. We we
weren't seeking the scientific truth. I
see Dr. McCull have you kind of answer
that, but you know, Dr. Von, first talk
about talk about the clotting we saw and
and what you know in terms of what was
discovered under autopsy.
>> Well, first of all, early in COVID the
spring of 2020, uh my collaborator Jaca
Lobster in South Africa was the first
one to kind of alert people to say that
this was primary primarily a vascular
disease, not a pulmonary disease. And
it's one of the reasons that ventilators
are probably one of the most ineffective
things you could have done to people
because if you have a vascular disease
of the lungs, increasing the
intrathoracic pressure just closes down
more vessels and ultimately kills them.
And what we also saw was if you went
into the hospital in the spring or
summer of 2020, you were twice as likely
to leave alive if you were already on a
blood thinner. Now, I will tell you most
of your friends that are on blood
thinners probably aren't healthier than
you. So it's kind of interesting to find
out that the people that were on blood
thinners had a protection. So again,
those were signals that were really
downplayed. Unfortunately, after a lot
of the treatment was codified by the
car's act, uh it it resulted in
basically a a protocol-based treatment
for inhos care.
>> As long as you start, can you anybody
describe remesae? Anybody want to speak
to that?
If if not, I'll I'll do that for another
hearing. I mean just the conflict of
interest of how that was being approved.
Uh yeah. So can I okay wave off on that?
>> But but what we uniquely found and my
collaborators in South Africa Risha
Ptorius and Doug Kell at University of
Liverpool was that the spike protein was
able to induce fibbrin from fibbrronogen
which is a fancy word for saying hey
forming the backbone of clotting but it
did it in a way that was different that
we had not seen. And it was what we
would similarly think of fibrin as kind
of like spaghetti coming out of the
colander that you could pull apart when
you didn't need it. It was easy to break
down. But the actual clot that was
formed in COVID or from the spike
protein from the vaccine was like burnt
spaghetti casserole that you have to get
a brillow pad to get off the dish. And a
lot of people their issue is their
inability to break down that clotting
mechanism. We all need to clot, but we
all need to actually get rid of the
clot. And that is the problem.
>> That was pretty obvious. Ignore. Dr.
Thorp, I'll get to you, but Dr.
McCullik, real quick
>> quickly. In the last 5 years, I've never
treated as many blood clots in my entire
multiple decades of in clinical practice
as a cardiologist. The blood clots occur
after the infection with the virus and
the vaccine because the spike protein
causes blood clots. It's without any
controversy in medicine. The spike
protein causes blood clots. So, it is
reckless and foolhardy to continue to
vaccinate people and load the body with
spike protein and cause more blood
clots.
>> Well, there were other parts of the
corona virus that they could have used
in the lip and nanoparticle. I mean,
they could have injected something else
that wasn't quite so toxic.
>> Yeah. actually uh a paper in cell July
of 2021. It's called broad and durable
immunity from uh from basically COVID.
And what they found was the
nucleoprotein was actually the thing
that supplied broad and durable immunity
for actually prevention of infection.
Unfortunately, the spike protein did not
elicit that response. And as much as we
love this mRNA, you know, technology, it
seems like they sold it as something
that we could change on the dime as
information actually came to light. And
by July 2021, we knew the wrong pathogen
had the wrong protein had been picked.
Why didn't they change it?
>> That's a good question, Senator
Blumenthal.
>> Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Von, u
I noticed that you were careful when you
said that children didn't die of COVID
to say statistically.
>> Yeah.
>> Uh which I appreciate. Uh 1.2 million
Americans died of COVID 19. Uh
tragically, more than a thousand of
those deaths were children.
In fact, 700 were four years old or
younger.
And
I'm sure you will agree that those
deaths were
tragic and most especially for the
families who will never be the same. Um,
children were affected by CO.
There's no question that children
died, but equally important, the trauma
of CO
affected
children. The fear and anxiety that
spread throughout their families.
You don't have to be a doctor.
>> Yeah.
>> To understand that point or a parent.
>> Yeah. I have a seven and nineyear-old
and it was a very interesting time. uh
but in many ways
>> well interesting is a somewhat
euphemistic way of putting it. I'm sure
you'll agree but let let me just uh
point out that our entire society was
traumatized by co people were out of
school. We can argue about the merits of
whether they should have been, but it
has affected our entire society. And
>> just so we're all on the same page here,
I'm in strong agreement that schools are
good. Kids should be in school. Um, let
me point out though because we want to
learn from history here.
That when there are side effects, when
there are threats to public health,
there should be warnings. The public
should know. So should doctors and
researchers.
And right now uh I'm looking at a report
from NPR. dated May 21 of this year,
which describes the effects of cutting
back on the CDC's
capacity to warn
and says that many of the platforms,
quote, "Many of the platforms the CDC
used to communicate with the public have
gone silent." End quote. It says, quote,
"Many of the CDC's newsletters have
stopped being distributed. Workers at
the CDC say health alerts about disease
outbreaks previously sent to health
professionals subscribed to the CDC's
health alert network.
Han
haven't been dispatched since March.
I I understand the concerns that have
been expressed here
and let's learn from
scientific practice and
uh make sure that the Department of
Health and Human Services provides the
resources that are necessary to warn the
public. Um I want to ask um
Dr. Brown uh because you've talked about
both your experience in Samoa
in 2019
with a measles outbreak there which
eventually killed 83 people as I
understand it. Again measles was thought
to be eliminated in the world.
Uh that outbreak was fueled by
misinformation about the measel science
spread by
a number of vaccine
doubters or skeptics including the now
secretary of health and human services
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That campaign
caused the vaccination rate against
measles in Samoa drop from over 74% to
just 34% between 2017 and 2018.
Uh, do you see parallels between the
measles outbreak you helped to address
in Samoa and the one that we're now
seeing in Texas
that has reached 31 states in including
Hawaii and the
COVID 19 situation.
>> Thank Thank you, Senator. There are more
than parallels. It's just terrifyingly
similar. So what happened uh I'll give
you the brief version uh in Samoa was uh
prior to the outbreak prior to the
outbreak uh two children had been uh
given vaccinations and tragically uh
there was human error and two nurses who
were later prosecuted u made a mistake a
tragic mistake and they used the wrong
reagent uh the fluid with the vaccine
and they vaccinated uh incorrectly these
two children and the two children
perished.
which is of course tragic in every way
and we always have to help hold all
healthcare people to account. Now after
that there was panic and what happened
uh in the months and years thereafter
was that human error was not a vaccine
flaw it was a human error and that
information was then spread incorrectly
by um then Mr. Kennedy before being
Secretary Kennedy and the Children's
Health Defense and that country and and
their their leadership told me this
directly. They received letters. There
were stories all across Samoa that uh
this group of people came and convinced
them not to vaccinate. And they uh had a
lot of challenges with health literacy
and they stopped vaccinating. And then
when you get vaccination rates that are
that low, and mind you, we have this
challenge because we have 14 states, my
state is among them, where the
kindergarters in our states, uh, age
five, sometimes age six, are at
dangerously low vaccination rates for
measles. When it gets that low, you're
going to see outbreaks. Unlucky. The the
cases could come from anywhere. They
come from overseas. They could come from
within our own country. But if you get
below 95% and certainly below 90% you
see these outbreaks and then you have
you know one in five people end up in
the hospital you have one in 20 with
pneumonas you have encphylopathies you
have all sorts of damage so that's what
happened in Samoa and and and to be very
direct and actually I want to be
generous here there are many things that
um Secretary Kennedy is doing that I
support I support his work on um some of
the questions about processed foods and
dyes and uh and environmental toxins
things that I have believed for decades
and fought for as have many of you
probably. However, however, this is so
central to the public health of our
country that because we have vaccine
hesitancy and because when you fall
below 95% and particularly below 90% you
will see these outbreaks. So we can
anticipate that we're going to have a
lot of outbreaks first of measles and
there's going to be fatalities and lots
of consequences. We're going to see
ptasus. God help us all if we start
seeing menitis or polio break out. These
are diseases that have been eradicated.
And so what I would say is I really
appreciate the chairman's focus on truth
and making sure there's transparency and
going through the record. I appreciate
that. I appreciate individuals who I
disagree with fighting for their voices.
But what I don't appreciate is when
there are individuals with no public
health training, whether it's a senator
or someone it's one of our colleagues,
and they make a assertion to move away
from science and away from prevention
that has been proven that I take uh I
have deep concerns about. And that's
what happened in Samoa killing 83
people. we had to jump in and then that
is what is happening in Texas and a
bunch of other states and I don't think
there it would be very interesting to
ask all the senators privately and
congress people and all of us if any of
us could accept that kind of spread of
infectious disease amongst the people
that we love even if even if we don't
believe in vaccinations we certainly
don't believe in tragic outcomes things
that we can prevent and that's where I
think we should go as a country to heal
>> okay
>> I'm going to interrupt
just to say um I apologize. I am the
ranking member on the Veterans Affairs
Committee. There's a separate hearing
beginning right now. I'm going to I have
more questions. I'm going to try to come
back, Mr. Chairman. Um and uh I
apologize. I'm going to have to leave.
Thank you.
>> Appreciate you coming. This is the part
I was actually looking forward to. Um
unplugged.
So, Governor,
>> I'm just going to be honest with what
gets under my skin is how many times
those of us who've had a different
narrative on this or not a narrative,
but just a different viewpoint on this.
We are always accused of ignoring
science.
I I think I've been trying to follow it
quite closely. So again, I I will ask
you and we can go through your
testimony. Every time you've cited
something, we we will ask you to cite
the study that proves what you're
saying. Okay? So again, not really a
challenge. It's a request. I mean, I I
would ask that of all of you. Any of you
who have cited some study or some
opinion, back it up and we'll we'll
include in the hearing record. We'll
have this hearing record will stay open
for 15 days. So, I'm really encouraging
people, send me that science. Again, I I
I entered a piece from Raphael Lataster
that pretty well pretty well debunks the
the Watson I think it's Watson at all.
The claims it's the the CO injection
save millions. This is based on
mathematical models. It really wasn't
scientific studies. So, again, throw it
all in the hopper and and let the public
decide. But I do have some some
questions that Dr. Thorp. Speaking of
corrupted studies, uh you mentioned in
your uh opening statement the Shimmer
Bakura study, which by the way, Tom
Shimmer Bakura, uh we have sent
something like 70 oversight letters,
more than that. In many of them, we've
told the CDC, FDA, NIH, we demanded they
preserve their records
and that should have been widely
distributed through the healthy
agencies. You know, we in our subpoena
specifically asked for the
communications of Tom Shimmer Bakura.
They couldn't find any.
I know I know the current HHS is
investigating that individual. We've
sent a I would call it a referral to the
FBI uh and to attorney general to
determine this. Um but again, what
happened there? Okay. again when people
are supposed to maintain records and
they don't
I get suspicious but again going to Dr.
Thor. Um,
and I'm going to probably interrupt you
because I want everybody to understand
what you're talking about in this study
because it takes we're talking about
numbers here, but describe that study on
would you call it fetal demise,
miscarriage, uh, and how it was
originally presented as evidence to push
this on the most vulnerable, as you're
saying, pregnant women and the unborn.
And how did they distort that study to
make that point? Go ahead.
>> Thank you, Senator Johnson. So, the
study in question is a New England
Journal of Medicine on April 21st, 2021.
And in that same day, the digital
edition, there were two publications
that were extraordinarily concerning.
Both of them interestingly coming at a
time when vaccine hesitancy was being
was increasing.
So the Shima Bakuro study was a separate
study in addition to an op ed. The oped
was by the New England Journal of
Medicine
uh editor and chief uh who who was Eric
Rubin and the managing editor who was
Stephen Moresy and then director of the
CDC Relle Winsky.
and they made statements that were
false. They made statements that uh was
fear-mongering
um insinuating that pregnant women if
they didn't take the vaccine would put
their lives in harm, their pre-born
lives in harm, and their newborn lives
in harm when they knew absolutely the
opposite was true.
>> How how do they know that? Well, they
know that for several reasons, Senator.
Uh, number one, the study by Panel's and
colleagues, who is a maternal fetal
medicine specialist from University of
Texas Houston, published a very large
study documenting that pregnancy in of
itself reduced the maternal mortality by
as much as 75%
during pregnancy compared to nonpregant
women. that study was available. Um also
Dr. Dr. um Shima Bakuro, Tom Shimab
Bakuro and then director of the CDC.
This was seven weeks after
the Fiser 5.3.6 six post marketing data
in 10 weeks that showed the COVID 19
vaccine was the deadliest and most
injurious vaccine ever released with
42,086
injuries, including 1,223
dead. They had that information. They
still pushed it on pregnant women. So,
so, so let's get to the the number where
there's 700 individuals included in the
statistic that shouldn't have been
included. So, describe that. I mean,
talk about this study,
>> right? Well, well, there's bias. There's
bias in the title. Okay, just look at
the title. There's bias in the 21
authors, all of whom were federal
federal employees and Tom Shimakuro, a
safety officer in the FDA itself. Then
you go to the numbers. We we look at
four we're looking at about numbers of
of over 4,000 in a 10w week period and
then all of a sudden it's just how do we
arbitrarily go to 10 weeks in this vsafe
smartphone collection system and then
what happened to all the other patients?
We go down to 827 patients.
What happened?
>> So you got so you got 827 patients that
were that became pregnant or were
pregnant in this in terms of again it's
not really study but I mean they're just
analyzing data. So you had 827 right?
>> Okay. So the these were women who were
pregnant
>> right 827 that completed the pregnancy
completed a pregnancy in 10 weeks.
>> This is not necessarily a born child but
the pregnancy
>> or a miscarriage. Right. Okay now they
claimed a 12.6% 6% miscarriage rate,
>> which is pretty kind of a normal
miscarriage.
>> No, it's not.
>> What's a normal miscarriage rate?
>> 3% when you have a normal booking visit.
>> So, so, so there are it's already an
abnormal miscarriage rate in that 827.
>> That's correct.
>> Okay. And
>> so, now describe exactly how they
>> Okay. So, we have 827 patients, right?
And they talk about a 12.6% miscarriage.
But a miscarriage of those 827,
700 of those mothers had their vaccine
in the third trimester. That's way
beyond the window when a woman has a
miscarriage. So they artificially
uh took those 700 patients and put them
in the first trimester. No. The 104
patients that had the miscarriage,
that goes to the 127. 104 over 127,
you're looking at an uh, you know, 82%
miscarriage. So, the key is the
percentage of women that got the vaccine
in the first trimester had an 82%
miscarriage. And by the way, that's the
exact same miscarriage rate that was
seen in the Fiser 5.3.6 postmarket. So I
would I I would argue that proves both
points in the title of this hearing. The
corruption of science, the corruption of
federal health agencies. Now, Governor,
listen, I I I I'm cognizant of the fact
that you're kind of outnumbered here.
So, I'm I want to give you an
opportunity to respond to that if you
want to. You don't have to.
>> Sure. No, I'm happy to. Look, the um
appreciate the information. The uh the
tragedy of a miscarriage is always
there. It's not 3%. Um my
>> what what is it? What do you think it
is?
>> Well, in my training as a family
physician, the miscarriage rate for
women is often in the 20s or 30
percentile for for women across their
pregnancies. You know, there are just a
lot of miscarriages that occur amongst
um women. So, those are all tragic and
and I would obviously defer to ACOG, the
American I'm sorry, the uh the American
uh College of OBGYNS who who did and and
they should come and testify too who did
strongly recommend the vaccine. I mean,
I'm not going to speak as a as an OBGYn.
I'm speaking as an ER physician and as a
governor, but um I'm sure that that
would be a vibrant discussion and again,
it's a very good point. that we have
transparency in studies.
>> So, let me move on to my next point. In
one of our events, some of you were
there. There's Dr. Moon opened up the
insert
for the CO injection. Big piece of
paper, you know, fold up and
and it's other than it says
intentionally blank, intentionally left
blank, it's blank. Now, this was quite a
few years. I think this was probably a
couple years into
the co injection distribution of it and
all these studies all everything on
veyores
um I would think somewhere you know when
you take a look at the the actual
studies and the adverse events that were
documented within those studies it's
been now been released through the fiser
papers and and other means you think
somewhere they ought to put some
information in there so the point I want
to make is I I think an awful lot of
folks are are saying that there was not
informed consent.
I would argue they violated the
invaluable
principle of informed consent with this
co injection. I I just think that's
indisputable. I'll start with you, Dr.
McCullik. Do you want to weigh in on
that?
>> I've presented at the FDA advisory
meetings. I've advised companies for
decades on this. So, I know the
regulatory science very well. When a
product definitely results in death,
and there are thousands of peer-reviewed
papers on this, Governor, the co
vaccines in some people sadly result in
death. Some on the very first day they
take the shot. That must be a blackbox
warning on the product immediately. I
just checked the package inserts for the
currently available products, the ones
that uh Senator Blumenthal wants to
pursue. Sounds like governor wants to
still pursue these. Our FDA still wants
them to be administered. They still
don't have the word death in the package
insert. As of today, they don't. And so
Americans are not fairly informed. Do
you have any doubt in your mind that the
CO injection caused some deaths? I mean,
do do you what what what do you think of
the what is it 37 38,607 right now
listed on veers? What do you think the
real number is? And do you have any
science to back up your your opinion?
>> The best data are autopsies. So, in the
largest autopsy series published to
date, I know because I'm the senior
author
of all the death we deaths we examined
and we we re-reviewed them. We had an
adjudication committee. We had ways of
arbitration deciding on did the vaccine
cause death. The answer is of these
cases that came in for autopsy after
who has perished as a result of COVID
19.
But when the vaccines became widely
available in 2021, deaths sharply
declined and many lives have been saved,
in the years since, many in this room,
speaking for myself as well as others,
probably have been saved from this
disease because of those vaccines. One
study found that 3 million American
deaths were averted. 18 million
hospitalizations
were avoided and 1 trillion dollar in
healthcare costs were saved in the
United States in just the first two
years after co vaccines were
distributed. I'd like this study entered
into the record, Mr. Chairman, if
there's no objection.
>> Objection.
Now, vaccines not only saved American
lives, they enabled us to get back on
our feet economically. They enabled the
American economy to recover.
Let's try to think of where we were 5
years ago with a deadly unknown virus
spreading through America and through
the world. We were only able to come so
far because of the vaccines and the
researchers who developed them and the
public health officials who distribute
them. And now those individuals are
again under attack. Our public health
officials.
I've
looked at
those documents, maybe not all of them,
that the majority alleges show that the
Biden administration or those public
health officials suppressed evidence of
side effects. Let's be clear, the
allegation is that they purposefully
concealed
evidence.
I am unable to support that conclusion
with this evidence. In fact, the primary
piece of evidence for this claim is that
the CDC did not issue a notice on its
health alert network HAN in May 2021
while it was still analyzing the
evidence about myocarditis.
We're talking about myocarditis. The
chairman has referenced other side
effects. I'm not sure what he means, but
what I see as I look at that evidence is
public health officials
wrestling
with what to do and what kind of warning
to issue. And again, side effects must
be studied and communicated. And that's
what I see happening in these documents
that the majority has released.
So we have to distinguish, I think,
between differences of opinion under the
pressure of a pandemic
and
separate
the opinions of scientists who are
working for the greater good and frankly
others who may simply be seeking to sow
distrust
while they profit off misinformation and
fear. And I'm frankly deeply concerned
about some of today's witnesses
because they have a financial interest
in fermenting
distrust about CO 19 vaccines and
pushing untested alternative remedies
over proven treatments. In fact, two of
today's witnesses are executives at
something called the Wellness Company,
which sells the disproven treatment,
Ivormectin,
and a host of untested supplements,
which includes something called quote
unquote ultimate spike detox
costs $18,
$89.99
a bottle. Another makes money from suing
vaccine companies and still others are
pushing unsupported research while
rejecting the proven scientists on CO
and other vaccines.
Let's be very clear that fear-mongering
and rushing to conclusions without
examining the evidence can lead to
tremendous harm. And this risk is not
just hypothetical
or rhetorical.
Misinformation about the safety of
vaccines has led to a deadly outbreak of
a preventable
disease.
We all know it. Measles.
Just 25 years ago, measles was declared
eliminated in the United States.
Since then,
conspiracy theories, some financially
motivated, have caused vaccination rates
to plummet.
Last September, the CDC warned that
declining childhood vaccination could
lead to a resurgence of a preventable
disease like measles and roto virus.
Exactly what is happening today. As of
today, more than a thousand Americans
have been diagnosed with measles this
year. In 31 states, many of them
children. So far, three have died. These
deaths were preventable.
They could have been avoided.
but for the efforts of misinformation
proponents that have spread lies and
created fears. There has been so much
misinformation and fear since co 19
emerged that during the height of the
pandemic health care workers and public
health officials were often harassed and
threatened. Some of them continue to
fear for their lives.
During the first frightening year of the
pandemic, the Trump administration
withheld critical information from the
public, made baseless promises that the
virus would magically disappear. I think
I'm almost quoting
the president. Magically disappear,
engaged in unfounded conspiracy theories
and sham science about CO 19 treatments
and sewed the seeds of distrust in
public health institutions.
And then to the tremendous credit of
President Trump, he fasttracked the
vaccine. Let me repeat, to the credit of
the Trump administration, the president
of the United States fasttrack the
vaccine and save lives.
We need to learn from history.
We're seeing the same pattern now.
Those same seeds of doubt and distrust
have been nurtured by the president's
choices for key positions in this
administration,
including the decision to install a
well-known vaccine skeptic as the head
of HHS and to fill our public health
agencies with conspiracies.
And let's bring it right to the present
day. Just yesterday,
it was announced that the FDA may start
restricting access to new COVID boosters
to those over 65 or with a narrow set of
pre-existing conditions. Now, we ought
to be very frank here.
Discerning what exactly this new
guidance may be at the moment is
confusing
and the troubling news leaves many
questions unanswered about whether and
how people can actually access vaccines
if they want to do so. Will Americans
who
live with elderly or immunompromised
relatives for example have access to
these vaccines? We don't know
and so far those questions are
unanswered.
The manner and timing of this decision
frankly weak of politics
not science and again science ought to
be the loadar.
So
I think we need to be looking at the
present. We need to be looking forward.
In the first four months since the
president took office, he and his health
secretary have fired at least 10,000
employees from public health agencies
and cut more than $2.7 billion in
funding for research, including $4.2
million for vaccine clinical trials. Let
me repeat. Clinical trials, money cut to
do them. How does that make us safer?
More than $3.8 million for safety
monitoring and more than $2 billion for
state immunization programs. A drastic
cut that is already hampering our
measles response.
These reckless cuts are undermining our
ability to respond not just to measles,
but to what may come next.
And we all know
something will come next.
That's the history. We need to learn
from history and science.
Let me just finish by saying the
capacity of our agencies to warn
is compromised by these cuts. The
capacity of our agencies to do science
and rely on science is compromised when
we cut 10,000
people from the ranks of the agencies
responsible for safety.
And so I welcome the interest in this
topic. I'm honored that the governor of
Hawaii, Dr. Dr. Josh Green has joined us
today to share his experiences
addressing both measles and CO 19. He's
not only a dedicated public service, but
he's also a physician who led his
experience his state Hawaii during the
pandemic. And I'm thankful to him for
being here today and uh I look forward
to the testimony. Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
>> Thank you, Senator Blumenthal. I think
people understand why you didn't join me
in my oversight request. The the over 70
letters that were not responded to. And
again, I haven't uncovered yet what they
were trying to hide, but our intention
is to do so. Uh you did mention the
what irrefutable fact that these vac
these injections save lives. I I would
enter in the record a recent study by
Rafael Lataster uh who does a pretty
effective job of rebutting one of those
studies from Watson at at all. But we
put in the record and again we'll allow
the public the American people who are
watching this hearing decide uh based on
what testimony is based on what's been
entered in the record based on our
report. Uh it is the custom of this the
full committee and the subcommittee to
swear in witnesses. So, if you all rise
and raise your right hand,
do you swear the testimony you are about
to give before the subcommittee is the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth? So, help you God.
Please be seated.
Our first witness is Dr. Peter McCullik.
Dr. McCullik is an internist
cardiologist and epidemiologist from
Dallas, Texas. He has broadly published
with over 700 citations in the National
Library of Medicine. He has testified
multiple times in the US Senate, US
House of Representatives, European
Parliament, and many state capitals
concerning public health policy. Dr.
McCullik,
>> Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member
Blumenthal, subcommittee members, it's
an honor to present my insights, my
analysis, my clinical experience on the
this very important topic. The first
time I testified at Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs, before a word
came out of my mouth,
Minority Sen, Senator Gary Peters said,
"What America was about to hear was
misinformation."
I didn't even know what he was talking
about. I had never heard that term
before in academic medicine or in uh
important deliberations. That's November
19th, 2020.
What was he doing? He was using an old
communist propaganda technique.
He was attempting to gain leverage over
me before a word ever came out of my
mouth. We should never have our public
servants ever try to gain leverage over
anyone who is coming to Washington to
help the nation on an important issue.
As introduced, I'm an internist. I'm a
cardiologist. I believe I'm the most
published individual who's ever
testified on matters regarding CO 19
in any of these hearings.
I've seen and examined more patients.
I've examined more data and I'm one of
the most published people on the topic
in the world. And as a cardiologist, I
can tell you my role in this was to
fight disease, preserve life, and above
all, do no harm. Do no harm.
Now, the topic today is myocarditis or
heart damage from the CO 19 vaccines.
I'm a cardiologist. I know the topic
well. I've examined thousands of
patients with this problem. Thousands.
Before the pandemic, I had two patients
ever with this problem. There's 1,65
papers in the peer-reviewed literature
on COVID vaccine myocarditis.
So, let me summarize them for you. The
first one that came on my radar screen
that was alarming came from Washington
University in St. Louis, August 18th of
2021. The first author is Verma and
colleagues. New England Journal of
Medicine. 42-y old man comes into
Washington University Hospital with
vaccine myocarditis. The infection is
ruled out. It's the vaccine. He's in the
hospital. This is one of our best
hospitals in the United States. He dies
3 days after taking Madna. They can't
save him in the hospital.
>> Say Dr. McColl, move the microphone just
a little bit away from you. Then one was
reported from Korea by Choy and
colleagues.
This is now a younger man just a few
days after Fizer. He comes in the
hospital. He dies within eight hours of
being in the hospital. I can tell you
I'm a cardiologist. That doesn't even
happen with heart attacks. He dies
within eight hours. I examined all of
the slides and the the images that the
Koreans had showed us. It looked like
somebody took a blowtorrch to that
heart. It was so completely fried with
inflammation. His heart was destroyed.
These cases
which were widely known at the time
should have gotten everyone's attention.
Everyone should have been laser focused
on this. We should never have someone
die
after taking a vaccine. That's directly
caused to the vaccine. Then Gil and
colleagues Connecticut
published in Archives of Pathology. two
boys aged 16 and 17 who die a few days
after taking Fizer. These are teenagers.
They're found dead at home
by their parents. They're absolutely
horrified.
They request an autopsy. They call in
University of Michigan and University of
Minnesota to look over what are they
finding at autopsy. Conclusion, it's
Fizer COVID 19 vaccine myocarditis.
Unequivocal. These are autopsy confirmed
cases. So for all the mothers in the
room, how would they feel if they found
their children dead after taking a CO 19
vaccine? This is in the peer-reviewed
literature. This is not misinformation.
Everyone should be paying attention to
this. This is not conjecture. This is in
the peer-reviewed literature. So we
started to ask ourselves, what is going
on?
Turns out that fizer and madna in Jansen
are the genetic code for the spike
protein. The spike protein is the
damaging part of the virus. The spike
protein is loaded into the body and it
causes tremendous damage. Tremendous
damage in some acute myocarditis appears
to have some genetic pred predilction
and all of the vials of the vaccine are
not the same. But I can tell you I'm
concerned that until the vaccines are
stopped there will be cases of acute
myocarditis. And to finish we've had 216
vaccine deaths this year alone. So if
the vaccine campaign continues we have
to look at what are we getting out of it
now four and a half years of the
campaign and how many more people will
die. I'm Dr. Peter McCulla. Thank you
for listening.
>> Thank you Dr. McCulla. Our next witness
is Dr. Jordan Vaughn. Dr. Vaughn is a
physician and clinical researcher in
Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama. As owner
and CEO of Medel Clinics, Dr. Vaughn has
directed his organization to the leading
edge of early outpatient treatment of CO
19 for his patients and greater
Birmingham community. Dr. Vaughn has
treated over 4,000 longcoid and COVID
vaccine injured patients. Dr. Vaughn,
thank you. Uh, Chairman Johnson and uh,
uh, Ranking Member Blumenthal, thank you
for having me. Um, I'm going to dovetail
a little bit off what uh, Dr. Mcola said
and one of the things that uh, as a
clinician who also had about 200 people
working for him and actually seeing
about 170,000 patients a year. When
COVID came along, I had to really figure
out how to not only help my staff and
make sure they're safe, but also help
the patients that uh, my organization
was responsible for. And that really
made me dive into understanding the
pathology. And what I came away with was
understanding that the spike protein the
S1 subunit specifically is not a benign
protein. It triggers inflammation. It
disrupts endothelial barriers. It
induces fibbron resistant to breakdown
and it promotes a lot of amaloid
aggregates which is what I research.
These effects impair oxygen delivery,
damage blood vessels, contribute to
clotting pathologies that manifest with
a lot of the symptoms that we're seeing
in the long COVID and vaccine injured,
which to this day is a huge amount of
people. We're talking upwards of 10 to
15 million people in America that are
being affected by the consequences of
COVID in the long form or vaccine
injury. And the typical symptoms are
things like heart racing, brain fog,
shortness of breath, and post-exertional
malaise. In my clinic, I actually use
immunofllororescent microscopy to be
able to actually see what's going on in
the blood and look for these amaloid
aggregates. Some as young as teenagers
that are unable to stand. Others are
previously active adults suffering small
strokes without typical identifiable
causes. These are not abstract theories.
They are the lived realities of my
patients in Alabama and beyond. The mRNA
injection heralded as a solution
introduced a novel mechanism lipid
nanoparticles delivering modified mRNA
that instructs the cells to produce a
stabilized spike protein. Unlike
traditional vaccines, this approach
resulted in uncontrolled production of
the spike protein for an unknown
duration and distributes it widely
across organs including the heart, brain
and vasculature and ovaries and testes.
The actual EMA their assessment of
kumarity which is Fiser's vaccine noted
biodistribution beyond the injection
site contradicting claims that the
vaccine stays in the arm and a recent
groundbreaking study using single cell
precision nanoarrier identification
revealed L&P accumulation in the heart
tissue of mice with adverse proteomic
changes in immune and vascular proteins
raising concerns about the uh cardiac
complications that dovetail with what we
were seeing when we were looking at card
uh the the uh co 19 vaccine myocarditis.
I will tell my first encounter with the
vaccine injury came in winter of 2021.
69year-old man from Alabama presumed
presented with unexplained shortness of
breath. He was a patient of mine. I
really had no other reason that he had
this shortness of breath. And after the
second Fiser dose, he actually uh had
significant shortness of breath. I
couldn't figure it out in a sense
because it would typically be that he
had a pulmonary embolism. But empirical
anticoagulation and antiplatlet therapy
brought rapid improvement. This case
prompted deeper investigation that the
spike protein's ability to induce fibrin
that's resistant to breakdown, activate
platelets irreversibly, and damage the
inside of our vessels, vessels that run
to every part of our body and every
organ, explained his symptoms, and those
of thousands more. Uh, since I have
treated approximately 4,000 patients
suffering from long co and vaccine
injury, or both, many were young and
previously healthy. For those with
vaccine injury, trust in public
institutions has been shattered. Many
were coerced under the August 2021
federal mandates. Despite legitimate
hesitations due to prior infection or
personal health risk, they knew their
body better than the agencies. Now
disabled, they are dismissed or ignored
by the systems that mandated their
compliance. The myocarditis signal was
also a big thing. This spring of 2021, a
clear safety signal emerged. myocarditis
in young males linked to mRNA vaccines.
The Department of Defense confirmed
cases of rare heart inflammation and
peer-reviewed studies later detected
circulating spike protein and
postvaccine myocarditis cases. Autopsy
findings have confirmed fatal vaccine
induced myocarditis. Yet, federal
authorities accelerated licensing and
mandates sidelining concerns. The CDC's
hesitation to issue a health alert on
myocarditis and the C the FDA's former
SEAB director promoting vaccines on
social media crossed a line from
oversight to advocacy. This was not
regulation. It was endorsement. Informed
consent is the foundation of a patient
physician relationship. Absent the
regulators providing that information,
that relationship is irreparably harmed
and the practice of medicine will
continue to suffer. In closing, I urge
you to stop blindly following the
science. Science does not lead anywhere.
It is an observer, measurer, and
descriptor. It must inform leadership,
not replace it. When leaders hide behind
the science to justify policy, they
abdicate responsibility. We need
leadership that humbly engages with
data, listens to patience, and actually
acts with courage. Thank you. I welcome
your questions.
>> Thank you, Dr. Vaughn. Next witness is
Dr. James Thorp. Dr. Thorp is a B board
certified obstatrician gynecologist and
maternal fetal medicine specialist with
over 44 years of clinical experience. As
US veteran and widely published
physician, he has testified
internationally served as a peer a
journal peer reviewer board member of
the society for maternal field medicine
and examiner for the American board of
obstitistics and gynecology. Dr. Thorp.
>> Thank you Mr. chairman and members of
the committee.
My patients I focus on the most
vulnerable patients, pregnant women and
pre-born. It is difficult to conceive of
a more egregious breach of medical
ethics by the governmentontcontrolled
medical industrial complex than the
promotion of CO 19 vaccines to pregnant
women thereby through transplental
transfer effectively vaccinating their
unborn and newborn children. This
campaign was not accidental.
It was calculated. Pregnant women are
were targeted deliberately for two
reasons. First, women are the primary
decision makers of health care across
the human lifespan, a known marketing
principle. Number two, pregnant women
are the most vulnerable patients. If
they could be convinced that the vaccine
was safe and effective, it would imply
that it was safe and effective for
everyone. From the outset of the
pandemic, this vaccine campaign was
never grounded in biological science,
but rather in behavioral science,
specifically the manipulation of public
perception through influence, fear, and
persuasion.
The federal government outsourced much
of this psychological operations to
NOS's which disseminated emotionally
charged and misleading messaging. These
entities falsely assured pregnant women
that the vaccines were proven safe and
essential for maternal and fetal newborn
health despite the fact that early
evidence indicated quite the opposite.
Pregnancy itself was protective against
CO 19 maternal mortality. Dr. Jay
Winston, an initiative director at
Harvard School of Public Health,
described the government's vaccine
marketing approach in a 2020 CBS News
interview. He explained that the
strategy was to quote go for the
lowhanging fruit. Those easiest to pick
and harvest, end quote, and the fruit in
quotes, tragically were pregnant women.
Only
this deception was institutionalized in
the now infamous Shima Bakuro study
published on April 21st, 2021 in the
digital version of the New England
Journal of Medicine. 21 authors claimed
the miscarriage rate was 12.6% but the
raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage
rate in women vaccinated during the
first trimester. This figure mirrors the
effects of chemical abortion drugs such
as RU486.
Also, in the same journal edition, on
the same day, an op-ed appeared by CDC
director Rashelle Winsky and journal
editor and chief Eric Rubin. These
publications were riddled with conflicts
of interest and deliberate
misrepresentations
intended to coers pregnant women into
taking vaccines. Subsequent studies have
also claimed that CO 19 vaccines are
safe and effective during pregnancy and
have been rebuked by respected
researchers. These publications are
fundamentally compromised by serious
conflicts of interest ranging from
biased funding sources and institutional
mandates and even threats to their
medical licenses and board
certifications. Between 2020 and 2022,
pharmaceutical companies paid 1.06 06
billion dollar to reviewers at leading
medical journals, the New England
Journal of Medicine, JAMAMA, Lancet and
BMJ, thus corrupting the peerreview
process. At least six existing studies,
three from CDC, FDA, and two from Fizer
revealed major breaches in safety
signals for CO 19 vaccines in pregnancy.
These findings were ignored. Conversely,
countless independent researchers with
no conflicts of interest published
findings that contradicted the false
narratives and the pharmaceutical
industry narratives only to be rewarded
by persecution, censorship, and threats
to their medical licenses and board
certifications.
This is not hypothetical. It happened to
me. On February 8th, 2025, our team of
researchers published a peer-reviewed
study in science, public health policy,
and the law. We identified 37 adverse
pregnancy outcomes significantly
associated with CO 19 vaccine, including
miscarriage, still birth, birth defects,
cervical insufficiency, premature
ruptured membranes, pre-term birth, and
death of the newborn. Lynn and
colleagues in a major journal
publication documented that the CO 19
vaccine traverses the placenta, enters
the fetal blood, and bioactively
produces spike protein in the placenta
and the lining of the uterus. Recently,
animal studies revealed the mRNA COVID
vaccine causes the destruction of 60%
of the ovarian reserve in pre in rats.
This catastrophic public health failure
was financed with taxpayer dollars and
channeled through federal agencies to
medical gatekeepers such as the American
College of Obstitricians and
Gynecologist, ACOG, the American Board
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ABOG, and
the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine,
SMFM.
These organizations have abandoned their
ethics and responsibilities to
physicians and patients and must be held
accountable. I urge the government to
immediately halt all funding to these
entities and to end every promotional
campaign that coerces or recommends
experimental mRNA therapies to pregnant
women. This must stop now. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Dr. Dr. Thorp. Our next uh
our next witness is Dr. Joel Walsskcog.
Dr. Walsskcog is an orthopedic surgeon
originally from Wisconsin. He
experienced an adverse event after his
madna covid-19 injection that he
received on December 30th, 2020. He has
subsequently been diagnosed with
transverse myelitis and unspecified
autoimmune disorder and autonomic
dysfunction. He is medically retired. He
is now co-chairman of React 19. Dr.
Walskcog.
Thank you, Senator Johnson, Senator
Blumenthal, and the subcommittee for
inviting me to testify in the
development and safety of the CO 19
vaccines. I am Joel Walskog, a
board-certified orthopedic surgeon, now
medically disabled after one dose of the
Madna
CO 19 vaccine. Before the pandemic, I
enjoyed a successful practice in
Wisconsin, performing over 800 major
surgeries annually, trusting my health
authorities. My practice followed CDC co
19 guidelines delaying surgeries and
even temporarily closing. I proudly
elected to get vaccinated and within a
week I developed leg weakness, numbness,
substantial balance loss
leading to falls including one while
treating a patient. Diagnosed with
transverse myelitis, a spinal cord
lesion at T8 T9. I was stunned that my
providers dismissed any vaccine link
despite news of similar cases halting
the Astroenica trial in the UK. Four
years later, while I can walk, I have
been diagnosed with dautonomia and an
undefined autoimmune disorder.
Both debilitating conditions affecting
multiple body systems. I remain
medically retired. The career I loved
and worked so hard for is now gone.
In 2021, federal health agencies assured
Americans that the CO9 vaccine trials
were rigorous and closely monitored with
rigorous postmarketing surveillance.
They also claimed a robust safety net
that would handle what they said were
rare and mostly mild injuries with
monitoring, followup, and financial aid.
After my own vaccine injury, I learned
the hard way that nothing could be
farther from the truth.
In my own battle to restore my health, I
could not find a single reliable source
of information from the CDC, from the
FDA, or the NIH.
Further, answers did not come from
medical teams, the media, or even
medical journals. Rather, the answers
were being pieced together by tens of
thousands of vaccine injured patients
huddled together in social media based
support groups who are constantly
fighting for their right to simply
exist.
You will hear today a great deal about
myocarditis, maternal female maternal
fetal complications and blood clotting
disorders after the co 19 shots. I hope
to talk more about the neurological
adverse events to the co vaccines. These
are the most common adverse event to the
co shots. I am now co-chair of react 19
which is a national science-based
non-political
nonprofit that represents over 36,000
Americans seriously injured by the CO 19
shots. Our mission is to provide
financial, physical, and emotional
support. This gives me a unique
perspective to share the collective
experience of those who have been harmed
not just by the co 19 vaccines
themselves but by also by the US
government.
React 19 surveyed our 36,000 members
asking if the FDA takes vaccine injured
injuries seriously. 100%
said false. Not even one person voted
favorably. The vaccine injured share a
uniform story.
We did our duty for our country became
injured, disabled or died. We further
reported to VERS and Vsafe repeatedly
contacted our elected elected officials
and applied to the countermeasures
injury compensation program or CICP
only to face silence from the VES no
response from Vsafe ghosting by our own
representatives and a 98% rejection rate
from the CICP.
The many cries for help were ignored.
Some were studied at the NIH in a
program under Dr. Fouchi where they were
diagnosed with vaccine complications but
never disclosed to the public despite
promises that the NIH would do so.
Privately, the agents said the agencies
said neurological conditions needed
early recognition and treatment, while
publicly they remained silent and often
denying that they were even treating
vaccine injuries. Rather, they promoted
boosters and high safety claims while
the White House directed social media to
censor quote true stories of vaccine
injury. End quote. Relegating NIH
confirmed injuries into silence. That
silence by health authorities, elected
representatives, and even our White
House has resulted in in even more
severe health outcomes and worse for
many, deaths. The PREP Act shields drug
companies from injury liability and
strips Americans of their constitutional
right to due process and jury trial.
This liability shield places the
responsibility squarely on the US
government to address this crisis. Our
constitutional rights must be replaced
with effective safety monitoring and
compensation.
Today, these programs are dismal
failures. Congress must urgently reform
these failing systems or remove itself
as the middleman and repeal the PREP
act.
An analysis of clinical trial data
showed that for every
shows that for every 800 people
vaccinated, one suffers a serious
adverse event. We are here today to end
the silence for the one in 800.
It is time to stop politicizing vaccine
injuries and start building
meaningful recognition,
research, competent care, and fair and
just compensation.
At React 19, we say we're we've had
negative reactions, but we're about
seeking positive actions. I will not
stop until these humanitarian goals are
met. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Das Walls. Our next witness
is Dr. are Mr. Aaron Siri. Miss Siri is
the managing partner of Siri and
Glimstad with over 85 professionals. He
has handled numerous high-profile cases
involving challenges to medical
mandates, restoring exemptions, uh
agency transparency, including forcing
FDA to release the CO 19 vaccine lensure
documents and deposing immunologists,
infectious disease doctors, and
vaccinologists. Mr. Siri,
>> good afternoon.
>> Good afternoon. Thank you. Um yeah, our
our vaccine practice I believe which has
over 40 professionals I doesn't
represent pharmaceutical companies I
believe is the largest vaccine practice
in the world. When we litigate vaccine
cases we cannot rely on credentials or
fancy titles.
We have to prove our claims with high
impact data and sources. For example, I
saw a slide put up that showed 3 million
lives were saved from CO 19 vaccines.
The citation to it was to the
Commonwealth Fund. If you follow that,
that's not a peer-reviewed study. That's
a blog. It's a blog that used a
mathematical model to calculate that 3
million lives were saved. So, I agree
with uh uh the senator Blumenthal that
who said, you know, quote, claims
made I think he meant baring vaccines.
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