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Ron Johnson: “The head of [CBER at the FDA] was warned that the current…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Ron Johnson talks COVID & more after high stakes-hearing | FULL EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

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… Bobby Kennedy turned over us, that the head of cber, that's the group in FDA who approves vaccines and then is supposed to surveil for safety signals, was warned that The head of [CBER at the FDA] was warned that the current algorithm they were using to analyze [VAERS] was going to hide the signals. And 26 days later, using a new algorithm, their data mining expert showed them that the current System was producing 49 cases of extreme masking, extreme hiding, and showed them 25 safety signals, including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, Bell's palsy, different types of strokes. (00:44–01:01)

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Asserts that the FDA was warned about an algorithm hiding vaccine safety signals.

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