Author’s note: Last week, Sen. Ron Johnson (R. Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, released a majority staff interim report titled “Failure to Warn: How Federal Health Agencies Downplayed the Risk of Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Following COVID-19 Vaccination.” The report focuses on government records obtained by Sen. Johnson that “contain evidence of the Biden administration’s efforts to downplay and delay warning the public about the risks of myocarditis [a type of heart inflammation] associated with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.”
To those who believe that our government exists to serve and protect our best interests, the report’s cited evidence and conclusions may be shocking. But to those of us who have followed the government’s response to the COVID pandemic, the report contains no surprises.
What follows is the first in a multipart analysis of how the federal government, the legacy media, and the pharmaceutical industry responded to the spread of COVID.