The story
After negative side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine were widely dismissed by government leaders, pharmaceutical companies, public health authorities, and media personalities, the experiences of thousands — if not millions — of Americans have forced the vaccine safety conversation back into the spotlight.
Recently, South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace (R), former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, and liberal comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore all shared their experiences with negative side effects from the vaccine.
High-profile voices aren’t alone. COVID-19 vaccine-injured Americans are seeking compensation and an overhaul of how the federal government tackles immunization injuries.
As of April 2024, over 13,000 people filed claims with the federal Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP). Almost nothing has been done for these individuals; only 19 percent of claims have been reviewed, and only 12 people have been compensated.
Hiding the risk
As early as 2021, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who once labeled unvaccinated people “the real danger,” allegedly received reports of severe adverse vaccine-related events, including myocarditis and neurological injuries. Despite this knowledge, he and other National Institute of Health (NIH) officials did not adequately address these concerns or communicate them to the public.
Other elements of pandemic policies and mandates followed a similar pattern. Dr. Fauci and public health officials admitted that the six-foot distancing rule “sort of just appeared” out of nowhere. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) influenced teachers’ unions to close schools and downplayed mental health issues that closures would cause for children, despite knowing that schools were not hot spots for spreading the virus.
Talking heads like Chris Cuomo spent the crisis demonizing Americans who refused mandates and lockdowns — and figures like Joe Rogan, who questioned the medical establishment’s orders — while their own close families were skeptical, even preferring homeopathic treatments. Cuomo notably avoided covering his brother, Governor Cuomo’s mass slaughter of the elderly in New York’s nursing home scandal.
Cuomo’s recent acknowledgment of struggling with possible side effects from the COVID vaccine caused him to walk back his pandemic-era positions, even admitting to taking doses of the once-mocked ivermectin.
Beyond the headlines
The biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca developed its own vaccine which was distributed throughout the developing world. It recently withdrew the vaccine from global markets, citing low demand, but new court documents reveal that dozens of recipients died after developing severe blood clots, forcing the company to compensate over $100 million to victims.
Further, the state of Texas filed a lawsuit against Pfizer last year for “unlawfully misrepresenting the effectiveness of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine and attempting to censor public discussion of the product.”
Also in Texas, bioscientist David Wiseman, PhD testified before a state Senate committee on the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which signaled a relationship between cancer and the vaccine. Wiseman claimed, “There are a number of case reports, growing, of associating cancers and COVID vaccination… The number of reports per year for COVID vaccines is between 18 and 33 times more than the number of cancer reports for all other vaccines, for all other years, combined."
Because vaccines were rushed to the public, they were not tested for cancerous effects.
VAERS data and recent large-scale studies confirm that statistically significant links exist between the COVID-19 vaccine, cancer, and heart and neurological disorders. Instead of taking the concerns seriously, medical health professionals cited statistics suggesting that the virus was more deadly than the vaccine’s risks, failing to clarify that the virus was severe for only a small, predictable portion of the population.
Big picture
While the virus claimed considerable lives, unsuspecting healthy Americans — possibly millions —who trusted the medical establishment suffered severe side effects or even death when they likely had no need for the vaccine.
To date, repercussions have been negligible for America’s public health officials, despite their untruthful, misleading statements. Falsehoods fed to the American public are often attributed to the prevailing atmosphere of anxiety and uncertainty during the pandemic's rise, but overwhelming evidence indicates now that the lies were intentional.
