Sen. Ron Johnson: Here’s What We Found in 11 Million Pages of COVID Records
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Subpoenaed documents released by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) reveal that American public health officials were well aware of COVID-19 vaccine safety signals for myocarditis and ischemic stroke in people over 65—well before they alerted the American public.
Last year, as chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Johnson issued a subpoena to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeking six categories of COVID-related data, including vaccine safety surveillance data and myocarditis records.
From the subpoenaed data—enormous dumps of what has ultimately become about 11 million pages—Johnson’s team found that the CDC was well aware of the myocarditis risk even in early 2021. Yet they downplayed it instead of alerting the public, Johnson said.
Johnson’s team also found that the White House modified wording about a safety signal for ischemic stroke with the bivalent booster for people over 65, changing “moderately elevated” to “slightly elevated,” according to records.
In our wide-ranging interview, we dive into what Johnson and his team discovered after sifting through millions of documents. What did America’s public health agencies really know about the COVID-19 vaccines back in 2021 and 2022? What was hidden from the American public? And what has compelled Johnson to make this issue his number one priority?
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| 0:00.0 | Early on, there are 46% of those deaths occurring on the day of vaccination or within one or two days. |
| 0:05.0 | In this episode, I sit down with Senator Ron Johnson to discuss the release of 11 million pages of COVID-related documents, |
| 0:13.0 | which reveals safety signals for myocarditis and ischemic stroke that were downplayed by the CDC. |
| 0:19.0 | One of the first things we put in the search engine was myrochioditis. |
| 0:22.6 | We saw that they absolutely had and admitted that they had a safety signal on myrocytitis, and they hit it. |
| 0:29.6 | Johnson argues the CDC obscured clear warning signs. |
| 0:33.6 | I didn't need a proportional reporting ratio analysis. |
| 0:36.6 | I didn't need empirical basing analysis to tell me there was something seriously wrong here. |
| 0:42.3 | He points to a lack of transparency and a suppression of concerning findings. |
| 0:46.3 | The main point I wanted to make in the letter that we wrote to HHS about this ischemic stroke |
| 0:53.3 | is we also found out the fact that they were well aware |
| 0:57.0 | of the inadequacy of their safety surveillance analysis systems. |
| 1:01.0 | You have to restore integrity to science. |
| 1:04.0 | Science has been corrupted. |
| 1:06.0 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick. |
| 1:09.0 | Senator Ron Johnson, such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders and I'm Yanya Kelek. Senator Ron Johnson, such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders. |
| 1:14.6 | Thanks for me on. |
| 1:16.6 | You just recently had a large document dump related to, let's just call it, COVID data. |
| 1:23.6 | So tell me about why you chose to publish what you did recently. |
| 1:30.3 | Well, we got the document dump probably about a year ago now. I mean, this is with, you know, |
| 1:34.3 | RFK Jr. coming in as Secretary of HHS, promising radical transparency. I provided him a friendly |
| 1:42.3 | subpoena to just help prompt the people underneath him to, you know, |
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