COVID vaccines – Florida official wants answers

Florida stays in the news, as Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) continues to pursue his Presidential primary campaign. But the governor seems to have appointed some conscientious officials. Case in point: Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida Surgeon General. Throughout the year Dr. Ladapo has resisted calls to reimpose COVID mask and vaccine mandates as COVID Scare 2.0 rolled out this year. But he turns out to be doing more than resist. He is actively investigating – and now seems to have found solid evidence that COVID mRNA vaccines can cause great harm. Accordingly he has demanded answers from relevant federal officials.

The COVID vaccine question

Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit shared a review of Dr. Ladapo’s investigation this morning. On May 10, 2023, Dr. Ladapo wrote a scathing letter to Dr. Robert M. Califf, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, then-current Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

He opened his three-page letter by accusing them flatly of:

1. Ignoring the risks of adverse events from COVID mRNA vaccines (from Pfizer and Moderna), and
2. Trying to fool the public into accepting them as harmless.

But their worst failing, according to his letter, was failing to require vaccine makers to run and report clinical trials. All COVID vaccines have existed under emergency use authorizations (except one that, so far, authorities have not made widely available). Thus, neither Pfizer nor Moderna has run any clinical trials.

Dr. Ladapo cited the CDC’s own data, and those from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Those data show the worst reports of adverse events in the history of the database, to wit:

1. A seventeen-fold increase in overall reporting of adverse events, and
2. A forty-four-fold increase in reporting of life-threatening events.

Dr. Ladapo also cited studies in the journals Lancet and Vaccine giving further evidence of adverse events. Specifically:

1. One-third of patients taking mRNA vaccines find themselves too sick to work or to perform “activities of daily living, and
2. An overall risk of “serious adverse events of special interest” of one in 550.

Who is guilty of disinformation?

Dr. Ladapo roundly criticized Drs. Califf and Walensky for saying such events are “rare.” In fact he used the word disinformation to characterize their behavior. The federal government loves to throw that word around – but Dr. Ladapo threw it right back at them. He continued by asking twelve specific questions regarding COVID vaccine casualties and the FDA and CDC’s handling of the statistics. Then he said their respective organizations (and not any conspiracy theorists, though Dr. Ladapo didn’t mention any) “are the main entities promoting vaccine hesitancy.”

That letter still has not gotten a response. One can readily see now why, three months ago, Dr. Ladapo said COVID Scare 2.0 didn’t impress him. (Back in January, the governor announced plans to forbid any mask or vaccine mandates in Florida. The ban would even extend to forbidding private employers to use vaccination as a condition of employment.)

Dr. Walensky resigned from the CDC effective June 30. On November 14, Florida’s Public Health Integrity Committee met to discuss the matter, and the broader concern about regulators being too quick to approve new drugs. Then last Wednesday (December 6), Dr. Ladapo wrote again to Dr. Califf and Dr. Mandy Cohen, Walensky’s successor as Director of the CDC. Now he had a more dire concern.

DNA fragments in the mRNA vaccines

On October 27, a team under Dr. David J. Speicher of the University of Guelph in Ontario, reported finding DNA fragments in several Pfizer and Moderna vaccine batches. Those fragments are left over from the manufacturing process, which uses a type of DNA loop called a plasmid, part of the genome of the common coliform bacterium Escherichia coli.

This presents a serious problem, because – as Dr. Ladapo pointed out – the “integration” of DNA into a patient’s cells risks:

• Induction and/or promotion of cancer,
• Chromosomal instability, and
• Bad effects in many vital organs, including the reproductive organs.

Plasmids, furthermore, figure prominently in mutation of E. coli and other germs to make them resistant to antibiotics. They therefore have properties making them uniquely capable of inserting themselves into another organism’s genome.The FDA knows this – and in 2007 issued a Guidance for Industry addressing that very subject.

Dr. Ladapo raised three additional questions about whether the FDA, CDC, and manufacturers have considered these risks. Then he demanded, by December 13, an answer to his May letter and to this last letter.

Throughout his communications, he has mentioned the dismissal of concerns about COVID vaccines – and insults to those who raise them. In fact the CDC continue to present assurances that the vaccine cannot change a patient’s genome. Dr. Speicher and his colleagues would appear to have exposed them, if indirectly, as frauds – and Dr. Ladapo knows it.

COVID vaccine legal news

In other news, the American Freedom Law Center announced last Thursday (December 7) their filing of a petition for Supreme Court review of lower-court decisions dismissing a complaint by four Pennsylvania residents against that State’s then-current policy of COVID restrictions and contact tracing. (One can read their petition here.)

Gov. Tom Wolf (D-Pa.) started the mask-mandate and contact-tracing program in 2020. Four Pennsylvania residents (Chad and Rebecca Parker and Mark and Donna Redman) sued the Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of the Health Department of Pennsylvania. They sued on First Amendment grounds, specifically peaceable assembly. In June 2021, the State rescinded the mask mandate. Whereupon the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed the case:

1. As moot (as to the mask mandate, now rescinded), and
2. For lack of standing by the plaintiffs to challenge the contact-tracing program the federal courts.

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court. So now the Parkers and the Redmans want the Supreme Court to address:

1. Whether a State government can simply evade review by ceasing – however temporarily – the unlawful behavior subject to that review, and
2. Whether those asked to report their contacts have standing to challenge the program requiring this.

Interestingly, the petitioners never seem to have raised the issue of whether masks prevent or slow the spread of disease – or not. Technically they should have thought to argue that at District Court level. (Appellate courts do not permit appellants to introduce new arguments.)

Summary

Federal and some State health authorities did not evaluate the COVID vaccines or the real COVID threat (or lack of it) adequately. Apart from whether they were part of any nefarious conspiracy, they weren’t doing their jobs. Some of them still aren’t. Surgeons General like Dr. Ladapo truly are the exception that proves the rule. The proof comes in his doing his job by questioning whether federal officials are doing theirs.

But Dr. Ladapo proves something else: those mRNA COVID vaccines are a positive menace to everyone who takes them. Only now we’re finding out just how much of a menace they truly are.

Scott Atlas, formerly of the Trump administration and now of Stanford’s Hoover Institution, last month outlined seven steps the next President ought to take to get people to trust health authorities again. The point here is to make those authorities trustworthy again. That might never happen – but if it does, it will happen only because men like Joseph Ladapo keep them honest. Inquiries like his are a good step – if he continues to follow up on it.