Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Rand Paul (R-KY) said a new email obtained from Anthony Fauci’s government email shows that Dr. Janet Woodcock, the then-Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), “wrote to Drs. Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins regarding reports she had received directly from individuals, including ‘healthcare professionals,’ of adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination.”
According to a press release from Johnson’s office, Dr. Woodcock wrote:
“The symptoms do not fit together into a distinctive syndrome and most are not easily quantifiable or evaluated with standard laboratory testing.”
“These problems are not the sort that a system like VAERS would be able to detect, or even a more sophisticated population-based active followup [sic] such as CDC has, or a medical record based system such as BEST [an FDA safety surveillance system],” she added.
“As our investigation continues, we have mounting evidence that, time and time again, those responsible for watching for safety signals failed to warn the public when they saw them,” Johnson said.
“They let people die and become permanently disabled because they didn’t want to cause ‘vaccine hesitancy,'” he added.
Watch below:
As our investigation continues, we have mounting evidence that, time and time again, those responsible for watching for safety signals failed to warn the public when they saw them.
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— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) August 16, 2026
More from the press release:
Dr. Woodcock wrote that she thought health officials should conduct a study, adding, “I doubt the industry would support, for obvious reasons. But my experience is, that if you let a problem fester, then it will come back to bite you later and you are not prepared.”
The day after receiving Dr. Woodcock’s email, Dr. Fauci forwarded it to Dr. Collins, writing: “Janet [Woodcock] asks what we think of this? We cannot ignore her. We should probably bring in CDC and see what Rochelle [Walensky] thinks.”
Based on information reviewed to date, it is unclear if Walensky was ever consulted.
Dr. Woodcock’s May 27, 2021 email below:
By the end of May 2021, when Acting Commissioner Woodcock wrote this email, there were already 440,025 worldwide adverse events and 8,650 deaths associated with the COVID injection reported to VAERS, with 3,350 (39%) of those deaths occurring within 2 days of injection. CDC used a contractor, General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), to input reports into VAERS. The 440,025 adverse events exceeded GDIT’s December 2020 worst-case scenario of 1,000 reports per day by a factor of approximately 2.6.
As Chairman Johnson’s April 29, 2026 report details, three months before Woodcock’s May 27, 2021 email, on March 1, 2021, Dr. Peter Marks, Director of FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), was warned by Dr. Ana Szarfman that the algorithm FDA was using to evaluate VAERS was masking/hiding safety signals. The email we are releasing coincides with monthly data runs by Dr. Szarfman using a new algorithm showing dozens of safety signals including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction (which Dr. Fauci suffered in June 2021), cerebral artery occlusion, basal ganglia stroke, agonal rhythm, and Bell’s palsy.
Unfortunately, FDA officials ignored Dr. Szarfman and the safety signals, told her to cease and desist, and continued to use the algorithm they knew was masking safety signals.
ADVERTISEMENTAlso, beginning in March 2021, National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Dr. Avindra Nath was leading a team of doctors and researchers who were diagnosing and treating individuals severely injured by the COVID injections. The injuries and symptoms being treated were similar to those being described and reported directly to then-Acting Commissioner Woodcock.
Was Acting Commissioner Woodcock aware of Dr. Nath’s diagnosing and treatment of COVID injection injuries at NIH and/or what senior FDA officials had been told and shown about safety signals when she wrote her May 27, 2021 email? If so, why did she hide that knowledge from the public? If not, why was she kept in the dark?
“Today, @SenRandPaul and I released additional context to Dr. Fauci’s message to Drs. Vivek Murthy and Rochelle Walensky expressing concerns about mRNA COVID shots ‘theoretically’ resulting in ‘miscarriage in the 1st trimester.’ On January 25, 2021, Dr. John Mascola, the then-Director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, texted Dr. Fauci: ‘I am corrected on pregnancy studies. Initial Studies avoid vaccination in first trimester due to possible fever and higher rates of miscarriage in first trimester[.]’ I am hoping Dr. Mascola will fully cooperate by talking to us and clarifying what this text means,” Johnson said on Sunday.
“In addition to the texts, @SenRandPaul and I released an email from Dr. Janet Woodcock from May 2021. Dr. Woodcock emailed Dr. Fauci about personally receiving reports of patients experiencing hard to classify adverse events: ‘no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them, and there is no effort to study this.’ Oddly, Dr. Anthony Fauci seemed reluctant to respond to her but felt he couldn’t ignore her,” Johnson continued.
“Why wasn’t the public alerted to their concerns? Why did they continue to push and mandate the COVID shot? Why weren’t Americans allowed fully informed consent?” he questioned.
THERE’S MORE: In addition to the texts, @SenRandPaul and I released an email from Dr. Janet Woodcock from May 2021.
Dr. Woodcock emailed Dr. Fauci about personally receiving reports of patients experiencing hard to classify adverse events: “no one takes them seriously, no one… pic.twitter.com/sVG4zrNWtB
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) August 16, 2026
Johnson previously said that text messages from Fauci’s government-issued cellphone revealed he privately raised concerns that the COVID-19 jab could “theoretically” be linked to miscarriages in pregnant women.
