OPINION:
Looking ahead with hope is healthier than dwelling on a painful experience. Sometimes, though, it is necessary to face grievous memories head-on to avoid stumbling into the conditions that precipitated the woeful episode in the first place.
Five years on, nightmarish recollections of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency resurface as new revelations pull back the curtain on the hazardous consequences of that dreadful era. Do Americans really want to rehash the tragic years of health fears that accompanied vaccines hastily formulated to save lives? Yes, yes, we do.
The fall edition of the Journal of the American Physicians and Surgeons features a paper titled “COVID-19 Injections: Harms and Damages, a Non-Exhaustive Conclusion.” Among other outcomes, the authors summarize their findings in jarring fashion: “Far from benign, these vaccines have unleashed profound harm, disrupting nearly every system of the human body and contributing to unprecedented levels of morbidity and mortality.”
Such a sweeping accusation of human affliction is based on the analysis by the study’s authors, among them cardiologist Peter McCullough, an outspoken COVID-19 vaccine critic. The paper analyzes the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, which contains the medical records of active-duty U.S. military personnel. Virtually all Americans in uniform were required to take the jab.
Using the pre-pandemic period of 2016-2020 as a baseline, the study details skyrocketing trend lines through April 2025 for various health maladies. Among them: Infective myocarditis (infection-caused inflammation of the heart) jumped 168.5% in 2021, 122% in 2022 and 14% in 2023. During the same three-year period, digestive organ cancer climbed 15.8%, 30.2% and 46.3%, respectively; brain cancer increased 27.2%, 39% and 40.1%.
Other conditions considered potentially vaccine-related that shot up during the same period included overweight/obesity at 27%, 69% and 162%; and suicidal/homicidal ideation at 45.6%, 67% and 80.1%. “From autoimmune diseases and cardiovascular catastrophes to pregnancy complications and aggressive cancers, the pattern of systemic toxicity cannot be dismissed as coincidental,” the paper concludes.
The study also bolsters the reasonable suspicion that both the COVID-19 virus and the subsequent vaccines “are products of gain-of-function research, with genomic features and vaccine outcomes that suggest deliberate engineering rather than natural evolution.”
Gain of function, of course, refers to the sort of scientific — if carelessly performed — manipulation of gene sequences that occurred in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, from which the deadly virus likely escaped before killing more than 7 million people worldwide.
Disturbing as this paper may be, it is President Trump’s choice of vaxx critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services that has dragged a COVID-19 look-back into the foreground. Moreover, it was Mr. Kennedy’s abrupt, recent firing of Susan Monarez, the newly installed director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that has boosted vaccine efficacy to the top of the news.
Coverage of the Kennedy-Monarez confrontation over the CDC’s vaccine recommendation process fueled Capitol Hill’s already-combustible political atmosphere. The issue exploded last week when Democrats siding with Ms. Monarez demanded Mr. Kennedy’s resignation during a Senate Finance Committee hearing. Unbowed, he refused.
Anticipating an expected Kennedy beatdown in the upper chamber of Congress, Mr. Trump had called for a full accounting of the public health effects, both good and bad, of the gene-therapy-type vaccines that his Operation Warp Speed produced.
“It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs,” the president wrote in a recent Truth Social post. “Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree! With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW.”
In pursuit of the facts, it is fair to reference a July article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association claiming the vaccines saved 2.5 million lives globally during the 2020-2024 period. It is also appropriate to point out, though, that deaths associated with the various health side effects likely will not be accurately tallied for decades to come.
A single aggregation of COVID-19 vaccine-associated maladies suffered by the active military subset of the U.S. population mustn’t be construed as the final word on the impact of the virus and the vaccines administered to combat it around the world. Given the comparatively robust health of individuals in uniform, though, the startling exposition of vaccine-era harms detailed in the paper suggests unintended vaxx effects suffered across the full spectrum of the U.S. population could prove even more severe.
If Mr. Trump is forthright enough to question the unvarnished consequences of his vaccine initiative, which was meant to save lives, commonsense Americans have good reason to echo his demand for answers.
• Frank Perley is a former senior editor and editorial writer for Opinion at The Washington Times.
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