Commentary
The CDC withheld an “alert on myocarditis and mRNA vaccines” warning of the connection between heart inflammation and COVID-19 shots in May 2021,
The Epoch Times has revealed.
The agency never published the alert; instead, its authors pushed vaccines on all age groups across the country.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis was the author of the draft. He gained minor celebrity status during the response to COVID and Monkeypox, appearing on magazine covers
dressed in bondage and posting
shirtless photos demanding Americans wear masks.
The proposed alert came in response to two fatal post-Pfizer vaccination myocarditis deaths in Israel and repeated warnings from the Department of Defense.
Despite voicing private concern, Daskalakis publicly promoted the products. In the same month he sent the warning, he
wrote, “Data over dogma. Vaccines Work,” in response to a CDC tweet allowing “fully vaccinated” Americans to “resume activities without wearing a mask or staying 6 feet apart.” He then
posted, “Highly effective prevention means fewer barriers, physical or social. #Covidvaccine.”
At the time, the overwhelming majority of American teenagers had not received COVID shots. No state had a vaccination rate above 20 percent for 12- to 17-year-olds. In California, 90 percent of that age cohort remained unvaccinated. Indeed, the age gradient of risk was so steep—medically significant outcomes from the virus centered on the age and infirm—there was never a reason to push them on the general population.
Over the following two years, Dr. Daskalakis and his colleagues pushed the shots on every age group and deliberately withheld publishing its alert on myocarditis. Instead, the CDC sent repeated alerts encouraging COVID-19 vaccination for everyone.
Two months after the unpublished warning, the CDC sent an
alert to doctors to “remind patients that vaccination is recommended for all persons aged 12 years of age and older, even for those with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection.”
The propaganda efforts, in conjunction with President Biden’s mandates, succeeded. By May 2023, a large majority of American teenagers had received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine. The vaccination rate for 12 to 17-year-olds in California skyrocketed from 10 percent to 84 percent, with one in five receiving an additional booster, according to
CDC data.
The rate of vaccination for 12 to 17-year-olds went from 3 percent to 47 percent in Mississippi, 15 percent to 87 percent in Virginia, and 19 percent to 94 percent in Vermont from May 2021 to May 2023.
During that time period, Dr. Daskalakis repeatedly avoided voicing concerns over the risk of myocarditis. “I am so excited for my #Covid19 booster on Monday! I love vaccines!” he
posted on Twitter in September 2022. In
October 2023, he posted a photo of him receiving another COVID shot.
Daskalakis sent the draft alert to Henry Walke and John Brooks, both senior officials at the CDC. Their social media accounts do not share the same penchant for nudity and mRNA shots as
Dr. Demetre’s, but, like Daskalakis, they continued to promote the shots without mentioning the discarded myocarditis alert.
In January 2022, Walke joined Dr. Rochelle Walensky in a
CDC telebriefing that recommended a “safe and effective vaccine” for “all children five and older.” Brooks
blamed “people who are not vaccinated” as “the source of new emerging [Covid] variants” in March 2022.
To this day, the CDC
recommends children begin receiving COVID vaccines once they are six months old. It is not possible for immigrants to obtain legal permission to work in the United States without one.
Fifty years ago, the most incisive questions from the Watergate hearings came from Senator Howard Baker: “What did the President know, and when did he know it?” The inquiry, ostensibly simple, encompassed the entire scandal.
The corruption of our public health apparati demands a similar probe. What did they know, and when did they know it? As the COVID regime demands “
a pandemic amnesty,” the report from The Epoch Times adds to the
plethora of evidence that their misdeeds were not mere mistakes; they were deliberate acts of fraud and deceit.
They knew of the risks, and they withheld the information from the American people. Stripped of informed consent, millions of citizens took the shots while doctors like Demetre Daskalakis denied them the right to know the risks of the product.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
