{"id":14567,"date":"2026-04-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=14567"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:59:11","slug":"the-biden-administration-pushed-covid-19-boosters-for-elderly-people-even-harder-after-its-vaccine-safety-surveillance-systems-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=14567","title":{"rendered":"The Biden administration pushed COVID-19 boosters for elderly people even harder after its vaccine safety surveillance systems discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\">&#8220;statistically significant safety signals for ischemic stroke&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations chair released nearly 2,000 pages of &#8220;relevant HHS records&#8221; in conjunction with the letter, in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ronjohnson.senate.gov\/2026\/3\/psi-chairman-johnson-reveals-further-evidence-of-biden-administration-downplaying-covid-19-vaccine-safety-risk\">10 batches<\/a>, documenting the stroke signal and internal communications between officials &#8220;acknowledging significant statistical limitations in their ability to detect safety signals through their data analyses.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Biden White House next made edits to a draft&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/health\/cdc-identifies-potential-side-effects-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>&nbsp;and Food and Drug Administration &#8220;communications plan&#8221; to increase booster uptake, in January 2023, that &#8220;downplayed the significance of the safety signal, changing a sentence that stated that the &#8216;signal is moderately elevated&#8217; to the &#8216;signal is slightly elevated,'&#8221; Johnson told Kennedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Biden health officials posted on FDA\u2019s website that &#8216;no change is recommended in COVID-19 vaccination practice,'&#8221; the same month, even as they &#8220;initiated multiple studies and statistical analyses \u2014 including a so-called &#8216;Stroke Project\u201d \u2014 to investigate the validity of their assertion&#8221; through at least September 2025, Johnson&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He asked Kennedy for more information about detection of ischemic stroke following the booster because &#8220;the full extent of HHS\u2019s awareness of the ischemic stroke safety signal remains incomplete and key records are still missing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden officials&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/federal-agencies\/feds-downplay-stroke-risk-covid-flu-vaccine-combo-discovered-their-own\">downplayed the risk of ischemic stroke<\/a>&nbsp;they found in coadministered COVID and flu vaccines in fall 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several months earlier they&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/federal-agencies\/feds-swing-between-boosting-bivalents-promoting-vax-hesitancy-pfizer\">approved &#8220;additional investigation&#8221; 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