The CDC's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee held a 6.5-hour virtual meeting on May 28, and when members asked for actual COVID vaccine safety data, the agency had absolutely nothing to show them. Not a chart. Not a slide. Not even a promising "we'll email it later." Just a bureaucratic shrug while they voted to recommend yet another round of updated jabs.
Imagine if Ford held a 6.5-hour meeting about a new truck and when someone asked "hey, do the brakes work?" the answer was silence. You'd never buy that truck. But sure, roll up your sleeve.
The meeting, reported by Just The News journalist Greg Piper, was convened so VRBPAC could vote on recommending updated COVID vaccines targeting the "JN.1-lineage XFG" variant for fall 2026. They voted to recommend them. Naturally. The CDC's Immunization Safety Office didn't even bother sending a representative to the meeting. Not one person from the office specifically tasked with tracking whether these shots are safe thought it was worth logging on.
Stanford pediatrics professor Hayley Gans, a VRBPAC member herself, had to practically beg for information: "I think that there is some misinformation in the public, and it would be nice actually to see those" data. Nice. She said "nice." Like she was asking someone to pass the salt, not demanding proof that a product injected into millions of Americans isn't hurting them.
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Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chair Ron Johnson, R-Wis., didn't mince words: "The COVID cartel's cover-up continues."
He's not wrong. The pattern is impossible to ignore at this point. FDA whistleblower Ana Szarfman, a data-mining expert, reported safety signal masking all the way back in March 2021. Peter Marks, then-director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, was in charge while this was happening. Former FDA regulatory review officer Jessica Adams has raised alarms. And FDA advisers from both the Biden and Trump administrations have complained about data being withheld when evaluating new COVID vaccines.
Vaccine injury lawyer Aaron Siri laid it out plainly: "Until this immunity is lifted and the harms actually accounted for, this committee should decline to recommend any further Covid-19 vaccines." His law firm has been contacted by tens of thousands of individuals reporting vaccine injuries. The React19 victim group represents 40,000 injured people.
Forty thousand. And the CDC can't produce a single safety report.
David Wiseman, CEO of Synechion, also addressed the committee. CDC representative Natalie Thornburg was present but the Immunization Safety Office — the one group whose entire job is answering the safety question — was a no-show.
The timing makes this even more absurd. Tracy Beth Hoeg, former acting Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Director, was recently fired under murky circumstances after FDA Commissioner Marty Makary resigned. Hoeg herself said she received "Less nice to have just been fired [...] & not know why or who fired me." So the people who actually wanted transparency are getting shown the door while the people who can't produce a single data point keep their seats.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya were supposed to be the guys who fixed this. The entire promise was transparency. And yet here we are — VRBPAC voting to recommend another shot with zero safety data presented, and the one office responsible for that data not even bothering to attend.
Five years. We've been asking the same question for five years. "Is this safe?" And the answer from the CDC remains: we'll get back to you.
Don't hold your breath. They're clearly not holding theirs.
