Sen. Ron Johnson released additional communications from the federal COVID-19 response, including a January 2021 text discussing vaccination and first-trimester miscarriage rates and an email from Dr. Janet Woodcock describing patients with difficult-to-classify adverse events.
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Sen. Ron Johnson has released additional communications obtained through his investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci and the federal government’s handling of COVID-19 vaccine safety concerns, including a text from a senior National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases official and an email from former acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock.
Johnson, R-Wis., discussed the newly obtained materials during an appearance on “Sunday Morning Futures” with guest host Jackie DeAngelis, saying investigators are continuing to examine records recovered from Fauci’s COVID-era cellphone and diary.
The latest disclosure follows the recent release of the first batch of text messages from Fauci’s iPhone by Johnson and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
Johnson has also warned Fauci over his refusal to participate in a private transcribed interview. According to Johnson, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times.
Among the new communications Johnson highlighted Sunday was a Jan. 25, 2021, text sent to Fauci by Dr. John Mascola, who was then director of the Vaccine Research Center at NIAID.
Johnson published the text in an X post:
“I am corrected on pregnancy studies. Initial Studies avoid vaccination in first trimester due to possible fever and higher rates of miscarriage in first trimester[.]”
Johnson said he wants Mascola to explain the context and meaning of the message.
“I am hoping Dr. Mascola will fully cooperate by talking to us and clarifying what this text means,” Johnson said.
The text has become part of Johnson’s broader scrutiny of what federal health officials knew about possible vaccine safety issues and when they knew it. The Gateway Pundit has previously asserted that earlier communications show Fauci privately knew of concerns involving miscarriages among women vaccinated during pregnancy and has cited data it says reflected an 82% miscarriage rate among women vaccinated during the first trimester. The newly released Mascola message itself refers to initial studies avoiding first-trimester vaccination because of possible fever and higher miscarriage rates; it does not, on its own, establish that vaccination caused miscarriages.
Johnson then released a second communication involving Woodcock, who held senior leadership positions at the Food and Drug Administration during the pandemic.
In a follow-up X post, Johnson said Woodcock had emailed Fauci after personally receiving reports from patients experiencing adverse events that were difficult to categorize.
According to Johnson, Woodcock wrote that “no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them, and there is no effort to study this.”
Johnson characterized Fauci’s reaction to the Woodcock communication by saying, “Oddly, Dr. Anthony Fauci seemed reluctant to respond to her but felt he couldn’t ignore her.”
The newly released messages come as Johnson and Paul continue examining materials obtained from Fauci’s government-issued devices and records.
During his television interview, DeAngelis asked Johnson what steps investigators might take next.
“Obviously, Anthony Fauci, you’ve asked him to appear voluntarily,” DeAngelis said.
“I know Todd Blanche is weighing on this, but what happens next?” DeAngelis asked.
Johnson said his team is still reviewing the newly obtained material before deciding how to proceed.
“We are looking at our options as well, but what we are gonna continue to do is go through the documents we just received. Understand, we only got his phone a week ago. We got his diary a couple weeks ago,” Johnson said.
Johnson then accused federal health officials responsible for vaccine safety monitoring of failing to properly identify and communicate potential warning signs.
“They didn’t do their job. They didn’t take their responsibilities seriously, looking for safety signals and then passing those safety signals along to doctors, practitioners, and the public,” Johnson continued.
“We see time and time again these governing officials whose responsibility was to surveille for safety signals, weren’t doing their job. When they saw something, they covered it up. They kept saying, no red flags, no safety signals,” Johnson said.
Johnson went further, alleging that the public was denied information necessary to make individualized decisions about vaccination.
“They lied through their teeth to the American public, and I can’t tell you how many people died or were permanently disabled because they didn’t have that information to make the decision themselves in terms of risk benefit,” Johnson explained.
Those statements represent Johnson’s allegations and conclusions from the records his investigators are reviewing; the communications cited by Johnson do not by themselves establish how many injuries or deaths, if any, resulted from the actions he criticized.
DeAngelis said federal officials had presented their public-health recommendations with extraordinary certainty during the pandemic.
“They were so draconian about it, and so righteous about it that the information they were imparting to the American people was accurate,” DeAngelis commented.
She said the newly disclosed communications would likely prompt questions about why concerns appearing internally were not communicated differently to the public.
“When people see these text messages, when they see these emails and they realize that the red flags were raised, and they were highlighted, they just say to themselves why couldn’t Dr. Fauci communicate this to the American people, so that each individual could make a decision regarding the vaccine for him or herself?” DeAngelis asked.
Johnson responded by criticizing news organizations’ treatment of Fauci.
“The other question they ought to ask is why is the legacy media continuing to cover up and apologize for Anthony Fauci?” Johnson asked.
DeAngelis also referred to Fauci’s reported invocation of his Fifth Amendment rights during questioning and said the records presented another view of how he approached his public role during the pandemic.
“We know that he invoked the 5th Amendment 111 times, but they show a side of Dr. Fauci that was very self-important, that was very focused on his own role within the Covid-19 pandemic and how he appeared to people,” DeAngelis commented.
Johnson responded with a sharply personal criticism of Fauci and accused him of using his position to promote pandemic policies that harmed businesses and individuals.
“He’s a megalomaniacal narcissist and that’s all he was really concerned about. I mean, asking his employees to apply for awards that put over a million dollars in his pocket as he was using that power and control to scaremongering, to shut down our economy, to destroy people’s lives, to destroy people’s businesses,” Johnson said.
The full Sunday interview was also posted on X.
Johnson said investigators are still at an early stage in reviewing the evidence because Fauci’s phone came into their possession only a week earlier and his diary only several weeks ago.
The Mascola text and Woodcock email are now among the communications lawmakers are examining as they seek to reconstruct internal discussions among federal health officials during the COVID-19 response. Johnson has indicated that further disclosures could follow as investigators work through the records and determine whether additional witnesses, including Mascola, will cooperate with the inquiry.
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