Waukesha Times

A U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee, which includes Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI), recently released a report claiming the Biden Administration levied pressure on the Food and Drug Administration to fast-track the approval process for the COVID-19 vaccine and its related booster shots – arguing “politics overruled science at the government institutions entrusted with protecting public health.”

The Subcommittee’s investigation also revealed that the administration disregarded reports of vaccine injury, despite being required to actively gather and report feedback on the safety and efficiency of the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) vaccine.

In a June 26 hearing of the Subcommittee held in Washington, D.C, Fitzgerald also commented on what he felt were the flaws in the efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

“My conclusion here today is that the damage that’s been done to public health is going to take, maybe generations, to be repaired. When we think back, some of this stuff is so serious, but seems almost laughable: With masks; testing two miles long at the fairgrounds in Wisconsin; shutting down the schools, obviously, which was a travesty; Circles on the floor at Walmart for social distancing and the furniture store next door was completely closed, as a result of what became known as the way we’re going to handle this pandemic,” Fitzgerald said.

“I don’t know if the Boomer generation has failed again here for all society, but there certainly is a young group of adults that does not trust the government and certainly doesn’t trust what we had forced upon them. And members of the committee, I remember being in Judiciary one day, when we had members ratting out other members because their mask wasn’t fully over their mouth and nose. It’s stuff like that, that just, we’re going to look back on this and be very embarrassed. And unfortunately, I think public health is not going to come back from that.”

Fitzgerald continued his remarks by saying he felt young adults were “thrown to the wolves” by being exposed to serious, potential side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine, like myocarditis – an inflammation of the heart’s muscular tissue.

The interim staff report, titled, “Politics, Private Interests, and the Biden Administration's Deviation from Agency Regulations in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” explains how the Biden Administration wanted the FDA to exceed its regulatory authority by modifying its own testing procedures to be less stringent, in an effort to get the vaccine approved for public use and mandated.

“In August 2021, when the Pfizer shots received FDA licensure, and just before the booster received EUA, the top two FDA vaccine reviewers with decades of experience announced they were leaving the agency. During the pandemic, politics overruled science at the government institutions entrusted with protecting public health. The FDA abandoned its congressional directive to protect citizens from false claims and undisclosed side effects, and instead ignored its own rules to pursue a policy of promoting the vaccine while downplaying potential harms. Exposing and acknowledging mistakes that were made is a necessary step toward restoring integrity and trust in our regulatory agencies,” Subcommittee Chairman Thomas Massie (R-KY) said.

Two former FDA scientists, Dr. Marion Gruber and Dr. Philip Krause, former Deputy Director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review, testified to the Subcommittee that they felt pressure to cut corners on the vaccine review, due to outside pressure to provide immediate approval so that the government could mandate vaccines.