Sen. Ron Johnson said in a letter Monday that he will continue to push for documents about deaths following the COVID-19 vaccine after the “blockbuster” revelation in November that the Trump administration had verified deaths in children.
The letter, exclusively shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation, seeks more details about those deaths and the passive U.S. vaccine safety surveillance system and complacent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bureaucracy under the Biden administration that delayed their reporting for years.
“Nobody wanted to admit that these things were causing death. This is absolutely a case of willful ignorance,” Johnson said in an interview with the DCNF.
The senator’s inquiry builds on a Nov. 28 memo by top vaccine regulator FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Vinay Prasad announcing the topline results of an investigation that he tasked career staff with completing on pediatric deaths following the COVID vaccine. Prasad called for stiffer vaccine approval standards, including a requirement that most new approvals require a randomized clinical trial.