A new Congressional report shows the Biden-Harris administration spent almost $1 billion manipulating public opinion on COVID vaccines, at times relying on wrong or speculative information.
A House Energy and Commerce report released Wednesday night details how the National Institutes of Health seeded “erroneous or unproven information” into COVID-era messaging and advertisements.
In other words, when state officials, such as Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, and Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer were jubilantly shuttering schools and businesses, the White House was knowingly manipulating the public on vaccines’ promised efficacy against COVID.
“While the Biden-Harris administration’s public health guidance led to prolonged closures of schools and businesses, the NIH was spending nearly a billion dollars of taxpayer money trying to manipulate Americans with advertisements—sometimes containing erroneous or unproven information,” the report said.
“By overpromising what the COVID-19 vaccines could do—in direct contradiction of the FDA’s authorizations—and over emphasizing the virus’s risk to children and young adults, the Biden-Harris administration caused Americans to lose trust in the public health system,” Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-WA, said.
Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie, R-KY, highlighted in the report the White House’s use of false information “sowed distrust in our public health institutions, kept kids out of the classroom, and crushed local economies.”
Representatives highlighted how the Biden-Harris “Stop the Spread” campaign was built on the premise that getting vaccinated would allow the resumption of normal life — and that the vaccines were safe.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Pfizer over misrepresenting vaccine efficacy and conspiring with social media platforms to censor critics of the vaccine and its rollout.
Countries around the world suspended COVID vaccines over both safety and efficacy. Sweden, Norway, and Finland halted the Moderna’s vaccine in October of 2021 after reports of side-effects in young people. The same month, South Africa suspended an AstraZeneca vaccine when the shot proved ineffective.
Meanwhile, a 2024 study from a University of Michigan researcher found a causal link between the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and myocarditis, a potentially fatal heart condition. The median age of death from the complication was only 44, according to the study’s findings and autopsy reports.
Once again, Americans paid twice: in the loss of freedom and livelihood from officials’ disastrous lockdown policies, and a second time, for the Biden-Harris administration to juice the narrative with taxpayer money.
