US Senator Ron Johnson says he has received more than 11 million pages of documents from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. related to COVID-19 vaccines, alleging the material raises serious questions about how safety data was handled.
Johnson says the records show officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were aware as early as March 2021 that their analysis system for the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) was insufficient and could obscure multiple safety signals. He says an alternative system existed that would have highlighted those signals more clearly but was not used.
According to Johnson, internal findings pointed to dozens of instances where safety signals were masked, including reports tied to serious conditions such as cardiac events, Bell’s palsy, and pulmonary complications. Reported deaths following vaccination rose sharply in 2021.
The claims have not been independently verified, and US health authorities have consistently maintained that COVID-19 vaccines underwent rigorous safety monitoring and remain safe and effective for public use.
“They were 49 cases of extreme masking, resulting in 25 safety signals, including sudden cardiac death, bell’s palsy, pulmonary infarction, very serious side effects,” said Johnson on Newsmax.
“And yet the FDA officials hid behind their analytics that they knew would hide these safety signals to continue to claim to this day, we didn’t see any safety signals with the Covid injection.”
This is earth-shattering.
Senator Ron Johnson just revealed that Secretary Kennedy provided him with 11 MILLION pages of HHS documents on the COVID vaccine.
What the documents exposed about the FDA is truly disturbing.
JOHNSON: “We have now uncovered the fact that FDA… pic.twitter.com/ifnpm4tqVu
— Overton (@overton_news) April 23, 2026
