Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Senate panel probes scientist who destroyed COVID records

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, is investigating whether the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Tom Shimabukuro scrubbed his own emails that lawmakers believe could reveal why the feds delayed telling doctors for months about heart-inflammation risks from COVID vaccines.

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Former Office of Vaccines Research and Review deputy director Philip Krause went even further than Marks.

He told Congress last year he didn't even get a booster and said the 1-in-5,000 rate of heart inflammation in young men gave "pause" to him and his boss Marion Gruber, also sidelined. Both objected to full approval on an accelerated timeline and then booster authorization.

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Qanon Ron talks out both sides of his mouth repeatedly in that article.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-28 10:56 AM

Figures the mouth-breathing imbecilic child of a syphilitic gutter ---- would look to QAnon for her headlines

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-28 12:34 PM

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

Go cry in your fake vagina, you putrid bucket of afterbirth.

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-05-28 01:04 PM

#1 QANON Ron should be in jail for his participation in the fake electors scheme.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-28 02:17 PM

How many of your ------- liberals are on your 10th booster already? You can fix stupid but after a few more boosters, you will no longer be dragging down the average IQ.

#5 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-29 09:42 PM

@#6 ... FDA expands COVID vaccine warning about heart side effect risk for young males ...

The article is dated May 2025, so after anti-vax Sec Kennedy has taken control of HHS.

Is that all your current alias has?

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-29 11:45 PM

Myocarditis in males was a known side effect of the Covid vaccine early on.

#8 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-05-30 02:03 AM

you will no longer be dragging down the average IQ.

#5 | Posted by ScottS

Still smarter than you, dumbf*&^.

#9 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 02:30 AM

Myocarditis in males was a known side effect of the Covid vaccine early on.

#8 | Posted by visitor_

Aged 12-21 (IIRC).

A very specific age range.

In any case, yes, that safety signal was known and reported early on. I remember it happening.

Still a lower risk than getting infected, though.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 02:31 AM

@#10 ... Still a lower risk than getting infected, though. ...

Yeah, I remember, back in the day, having quite a similar discussion here on this most august site.

There were some who raised that issue about the vaccine.

But they seemed to neglect to raise the issue regarding not accepting the vaccine.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-30 02:51 AM

They played games with the statistics. They compared the overall risk of myocarditis from COVID of the entire population (including high risk cohorts) with the small but significant risk of myocarditis from the vaccine in males. Instead of only comparing myocarditis risk in young males from COVID. Those numbers are much closer to the point the vaccine has no statistically significant benefit weighed against the risk.

#12 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-05-30 11:24 AM

Visitor_ expects us to believe he is an expert in biostatistics now.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-30 11:27 AM

"Those numbers are much closer to the point the vaccine has no statistically significant benefit weighed against the risk."

Tell us you don't understand math or medicine, without using those specific words.

You're leaving out so many salient aspects, you might as well just admit you don't know WTF you're talking about, and leave it at that.

#14 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-05-30 11:29 AM

"Those numbers are much closer to the point the vaccine has no statistically significant benefit weighed against the risk."

You're only looking at the individual risk.

You're not looking at the reduced risk to the population when more people are vaccinated.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-30 11:32 AM

Senate panel probes scientist who destroyed COVID records MAGA Hero.

You can see all the SockPuppets, and Visitor_, rushing to his defense.

#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-30 11:33 AM

#15 Instead of basing recommendations to healthy young males on what benefits the "greater good", why not make the information available so they can make an informed decision?

#17 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-05-30 11:50 AM

"why not make the information available so they can make an informed decision?"

What information?

You're obviously spewing somebody else's --------. Just give us the link so we can show you specifically what's wrong with it.

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-30 11:57 AM

so they can make an informed decision?

#17 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

"Informed decisions" lol.

Because people like you are thoughtless and selfish and think they are independent of the rest of society and can do whatever they want whenever they want regardless of the consequences to others.

You are not independent of society. Even if you were to be living "off the grid". You are interdependent whether you realize it or not.

Because everything is interdependent your poor health decisions will eventually and inevitably negatively affect those around you.

A primary reason for universal health care.

UHC may not be able to make your individual health care perfect but it would increase the overall health of the nation.

This has been explained over and over so you could be "informed".


Unfortunately for the welfare of the country even after being "informed" selfish A ---- such as Trumpy and yourself who cannot abide the concept of "interdependence " or even understand it and still make poor health decisions that negatively affects others.

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-30 12:14 PM

I can distill your argument down to "sacrifice the future of young healthy males so 80 year old grandmas can live a few more month".

#20 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-05-30 12:53 PM

They played games with the statistics

No, they didn't dips%^# sea lion.

They looked at overall risks and also risk stratified judge and sex.

Infection always presented higher risk for myocarditis in all analyses.

You don't know s^%# because you haven't read s%^* but open your dunbs%^# mouth anyway with canned non answers.

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 01:02 PM

A new Covid variant could drive up summer cases:

www.nbcnews.com

What are the odds that the bloated------------- will have to be airlifted to Walter Reed again?

#22 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-30 01:03 PM

why not make the information available so they can make an informed decision?

#17 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

It was available. I knew about the myocarditis signal after there had been a couple dozen reported cases.

Just STFU idiot. You've brought a knife to a nuke war.

#23 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 01:05 PM

#20 because you're arguing from selfish ignorance, not informed knowledge.

#24 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 01:14 PM

"sacrifice the future of young healthy males so 80 year old grandmas can live a few more month".

^
Congratulations on finding a way to think of yourself as a Victim today!

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-30 01:32 PM

Would you play Russian Roulette for the good of society? That's what we asked healthy young males to do.

#26 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-05-30 01:37 PM

#25 I'm not that young, these kids were taking a bullet for me and they didn't even know it until now.

#27 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-05-30 01:38 PM

Hey idiot, read this as many times as needed-

The risk from myocarditis was higher for infection that vaccination.

Have someone explain it to you if needed.

#28 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 03:16 PM

The difference was shown to be negligible in a meta study that took into account the vaccine's effectiveness at preventing COVID.

#29 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-05-30 03:38 PM

"took into account the vaccine's effectiveness at preventing COVID"

Effectiveness in the individual, or at a population level?

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-30 03:44 PM

At an individual level the vaccine is either 100% effective or 0%. What muddies the results is that some of vaccinated get COVID and myocarditis.

#31 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-05-30 03:50 PM

People who are still talking about Covid and Biden are doing so because their Cult Leader is an abject FAIL!

Don't think you are fooling anyone with your faux concern.

#32 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-30 03:56 PM

At an individual level the vaccine is either 100% effective or 0%.

Oh just STFU already you ignorant pile of s^%*.

#33 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 04:16 PM

What muddies the results is that some of vaccinated get COVID and myocarditis.

#31 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

A LIE is when you reveal a partial truth to make a point but leave out the most important and salient facts. It's a classic disinformation technique used by Russian propagandists.

Are you a Russian propagandist?

First, Not all cases that happen after vaccination are because of the vaccine.

Second, The risk of myocarditis from COVID-19 infection itself is much higher than the risk from vaccination.
www.nature.com
www.bhf.org.uk

#34 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-30 04:29 PM

"What muddies the results ... "

What muddies the waters are the firehouse of maga lies flooding the Internets and that you constantly swallow and regurgitate.

As per the Plan.

#35 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-30 04:45 PM

JPW how is that magic stone you bought to keep tigers away working out for you?

#36 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-05-30 05:34 PM

What's funny is that that nonsense is just as idiotic as your take on Covid stuff.

#37 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 06:09 PM

why would a republican care after all according to the GOP scientists all make up lies out of thin air.

#38 | Posted by Tor at 2025-05-30 06:55 PM

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