Senate Report Just Proved Biden FDA Silenced the Scientist Who Found 25 Hidden Death Jab Signals

Biden's FDA told you the medical interventions were safe and effective.

They knew their own safety system was broken – and silenced the scientist who proved it.

Now 600 pages of internal emails show exactly what they hid and who gave the order.

The FDA Scientist Who Wouldn't Stay Quiet

Dr. Ana Szarfman had spent more than 35 years at the FDA.

She helped build the agency's own data-mining system – the one designed to catch dangerous drug reactions before they kill people.

So when the COVID vaccines rolled out in early 2021, she ran the numbers using a newer, more accurate method.

What she found should have triggered immediate action.

The FDA's standard tool had a known flaw called "masking" – where the sheer volume of reports from one vaccine drowns out the danger signals from another.

Szarfman teamed up with Dr. William DuMouchel, the statistician who invented the FDA's original data-mining algorithm and later developed the superior replacement, to run an upgraded analysis on VAERS data.

Their method found approximately 25 statistically significant safety signals the FDA's standard system had completely missed.

The list included sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, Bell's palsy, blood clots, dementia – and a category the data labeled simply "death and sudden death" – tied to the shots.

Szarfman brought these findings to senior officials at FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research beginning in March 2021.

She came back in April.

She came back in May.

She came back in July.

Each time, she was either ignored or told to stop.

Two Orders to Stand Down

In May 2021 – just weeks after millions of Americans had their second dose – officials in FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research told Szarfman to "hold off on creating and sending data mining reports and analyses."

Four months later, the order escalated.

On September 15, 2021, Dr. Peter Marks – then-director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research – wrote to the head of Szarfman's division to complain that her safety work had become "a major distraction."

Szarfman "has been asked to cease and desist," Marks wrote, because her methodology "could create erroneous conflicts that feed in to anti-vaccination rhetoric."

Her boss thanked Marks for flagging it and confirmed they had made clear to Szarfman that she "should not be discussing or providing internal analyses externally, and needs to focus on her assigned work."

He signed off: "Hopefully, you won't have further surprises."

That's what Biden's FDA called hidden signals for cardiac death and blood clots in tens of millions of Americans.

Surprises.

Szarfman agreed to stop distributing analyses unless specifically requested.

She was never specifically asked.

How They Killed the Paper Trail

When FOIA requests started arriving – from Senator Ron Johnson and outside watchdog groups – Biden officials made one more move.

The FDA halted its weekly COVID vaccine data-mining reports to the CDC in September 2022, officially citing a need to reduce "email traffic."

A CDC official's internal message revealed the real reason: "I think that because of the FOIAs we may have asked FDA to stop sending these weekly data mining outputs."

They didn't just ignore the safety signals.

They shut down the reporting system designed to catch them – right as Congress started asking questions.

Szarfman and DuMouchel refused to quit.

In 2022, they published a peer-reviewed paper in Drug Safety proving the masking problem was real.

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf received the paper directly from Szarfman and emailed back: "Thanks. These are good."

Nothing changed.

In fact, FDA colleagues moved to undermine the paper entirely.

Within weeks of its publication, the deputy director of CBER's Office of Biostatistics wrote to Marks warning that Szarfman had co-authored the study and that they were "discussing how to best respond."

Ron Johnson Just Forced This Into the Open

Johnson subpoenaed the Department of Health and Human Services in January 2025 and obtained 600 pages of these internal emails.

His Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released the full 39-page report this week, titled Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals.

At the hearing, Dr. Karl Jablonowski testified: "Pharmacovigilance behind closed doors should give everyone pause. Lapses can be, and were, catastrophic."

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Heritage Foundation senior fellow and former FDA official Dr. David Gortler went further, saying the testimony detailed "remarkable evidence that a multitude of taxpayer-funded FDA officials used their positions of public trust to silence career FDA scientists by obscuring very serious drug safety findings."

"If not for Ron Johnson's relentless pursuit of the truth," Gortler added, "there would still be zero accountability at the FDA."

The officials' own internal records confirm they knew the older method had "blind spots" – and in some communications described it as "mostly useless" for detecting COVID vaccine signals – yet kept using it anyway.

Peter Marks ordered the scientist silenced in September 2021.

He left the FDA earlier this year.

He has never been charged with anything.

The methodology Dr. Szarfman proved was superior – the one that flagged sudden cardiac death and dementia signals the public never heard about – is still not the standard tool FDA uses today.

Sources:

• Ron Johnson, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, "Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals," April 29, 2026.
• Fred Lucas, "Senate Report: Biden FDA 'Ignored' Early COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Warnings," The Daily Signal, April 29, 2026.
• Thomas Catenacci, "GOP Senator Questions Biden Officials' Handling of COVID Vaccine Safety Tracking," The Daily Caller, April 29, 2026.
• Suzanne Burdick, "FDA Knew of Better Method to Detect COVID Vaccine Safety Signals – But Refused to Use It," Children's Health Defense, April 29, 2026.