The subcommittee leading the probe into how federal health agencies managed the COVID-19 vaccines concluded in an interim report, based on newly unredacted documents, that health officials were aware of heart inflammation risks associated with mRNA vaccines but delayed notifying the public while downplaying the risks.
The conclusions, released on Wednesday by GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, will be followed by a hearing on the panel's findings this afternoon.
The documents were obtained by the subcommittee in response to the Wisconsin senator's Jan. 28 subpoena to the Department of Health and Human Services requesting a slew of records, including un-redacted records about the government’s “awareness” of myocarditis and pericarditis cases—cardiac conditions—in vaccine recipients. Many of these memos were previously released through Freedom of Information Act requests, but were heavily redacted by the Biden administration.
