COVID Vaccine Hearing Exposes Deliberate Blind Eye to “Overwhelming Evidence of Harm,” By Chris Knight (Florida)

The April 29, 2026, Substack post by The Vigilant Fox (a former healthcare professional turned independent journalist) summarises a new US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) hearing and Majority Staff Interim Report led by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI). It details how senior FDA officials knew about major safety signals for COVID-19 vaccines in early 2021 but actively suppressed better detection methods and internal warnings to avoid fuelling "vaccine hesitancy."

This is not new "conspiracy theory" territory — it draws directly from declassified internal FDA documents, emails, and the official Senate report.

Core Revelations from the Hearing and Report

Dr. Ana Szarfman, a senior FDA medical officer and key developer of the agency's own data-mining system (in CDER), collaborated with statistician Dr. William DuMouchel (inventor of the FDA's standard EB/MGPS method).

In March 2021 (just months into rollout), they applied an improved Regression-Adjusted Gamma Poisson Shrinker (RGPS) method that corrected for a known flaw called "masking" — where high-volume reports from one vaccine drown out signals from others (especially problematic with multiple COVID shots dominating VAERS).

Results: 49 examples of extreme masking, revealing ~25 new statistically significant safety signals missed by the standard system, including:

oSudden cardiac death

oBell's palsy

oCardiac failure / acute left ventricular failure

oPulmonary infarction

oCerebral artery occlusion / basal ganglia stroke

oAcute myocardial infarction (heart attacks)

oEmbolism and thrombosis

oIncreased mortality signals

Szarfman repeatedly shared these findings with senior FDA officials in March, April, May, and July 2021. Instead of investigating or warning the public, officials:

oTold her to "hold off on creating and sending data mining reports."

oDirected her to focus only on "assigned work" and stop external/internal discussions.

oDr. Peter Marks (then head of CBER, the key vaccine regulator) called her work a "major distraction" that could "create erroneous conflicts that feed into anti-vaccination rhetoric." He ordered her to cease and desist.

VAERS data context: COVID vaccines generated more adverse event and death reports than all other vaccines combined over 30+ years. The report highlights the ratio of deaths per million doses being dramatically higher than the flu vaccine.

How This Strongly Supports Scepticism Toward the Medical Establishment

1.Institutional Priority Was Narrative Protection, Not Safety. Officials explicitly prioritised "vaccine confidence" over transparent risk assessment. This aligns with broader patterns: early myocarditis signals downplayed, label updates delayed, and public messaging that remained "safe and effective" even as red flags mounted.

2.Suppression of Internal Dissent. A long-serving FDA expert (35+ years) who helped build the surveillance system was sidelined for doing her job better. This erodes trust in claims that "the science was followed" or that dissent was welcomed.

3.VAERS and Pharmacovigilance Failures. The hearing reinforces longstanding critiques: passive systems like VAERS are known to under-report, yet even the flawed data showed massive signals that were masked or ignored. Better tools existed — they were rejected.

4.Pattern, Not One-Off. This fits a documented timeline of regulatory capture concerns, conflicts of interest, rushed EUA processes, mandates despite emerging risks, and dismissal of injured patients as "rare" or coincidental. It validates why many reasonable people lost faith in public health authorities during and after the pandemic.

Important Context and Caveats

VAERS limitations are real (it's passive, unverified reports, can't prove causation alone). The Senate report focuses on the failure to properly investigate signals, not claiming every report is causal.

Correlation ≠ causation for every listed event, but the deliberate avoidance of stronger detection methods during a mass rollout is the scandal.

The establishment response will likely be: "This is political theatre / old news / VAERS is unreliable." But internal documents showing active suppression make that defence increasingly hollow.

The Vigilant Fox piece (and the underlying Senate report/hearing) provides concrete, sourced evidence that key parts of the medical-regulatory complex chose public compliance over rigorous safety science. For sceptics, this is fresh confirmation that blind trust in institutions was — and remains — unwarranted on COVID vaccines. It strengthens the case for independent oversight, better pharmacovigilance reform, and humility from those who insisted "safe and effective" was beyond debate.

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/covid-vaccine-hearing-exposes-deliberate