(The Daily Caller)—Career staff at the Food and Drug Administration spun the autopsy results of dead children to reduce the number of children suspected of dying from the COVID vaccine, according to internal FDA emails released by Sen. Ron Johnson, two former FDA officials, and a forensic pathologist who investigated two of the deaths.
Even after downplaying some of the previously suspected deaths, the FDA’s Division of Pharmacovigilance recommended a change to the label of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines to warn the public about the risk of “myocarditis with fatal outcomes” — heart inflammation and death — but that change never happened.
Johnson released the new FDA emails in a June 16 letter demanding more information about a recent $1.24 billion purchase by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for Pfizer vaccines despite bipartisan concerns about their safety.
The FDA did not respond to a request for comment. Pfizer and Moderna did not respond to requests for comment.
Johnson’s Homeland Security and Government Affairs Select Subcommittee on Investigations has received a trove of millions of emails and other records from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his investigative team has released reports and conducted hearings drawing from the documents.
“The safety issues with the COVID-19 injections that the Subcommittee has uncovered so far should have raised serious concerns at HHS and CDC about the mRNA COVID-19 Injections,” Johnson wrote in the letter. “Instead, CDC’s reported awarding of approximately $1.24 billion in new contracts to Pfizer for a vaccine linked to serious adverse events—including potentially the deaths of children—suggests CDC continues to fail to take its vaccine safety responsibilities seriously.”
The newly released emails show that the FDA identified 10 deaths in children after the COVID vaccine last fall, but within days reduced the tally to 7 deaths and downgraded others to appear less likely.
“Although what drove the decision to change these three cases remains to be seen, what is clear is that these officials appear to have determined that the seven cases warranted warning about the risks,” Johnson wrote.
But the new FDA documents show that two of the cases were downgraded in part because of positive tests for parvovirus, and Yale School of Medicine pathologist James Gill, a forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsies of two teenage boys who died of myocardial injury days after receiving the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, called the mention of parvovirus a “red herring.”
Parvovirus can be found in the tissues of about half of the population, and sensitive PCR tests can pick up the virus years after the infection, Gill told the DCNF.
“Essentially they could exclude about half of the potential complications because of this finding,” Gill said.
But heart issues from parvovirus and the heart issues discovered after the vaccine have different histologies, or microscopic markers, Gill said.
“It’s like saying everyone with blue eyes must be excluded. It’s kind of arbitrary I think,” he said. “It’s a red herring. Whether or not it was intentionally used as one, I don’t know, but certainly that would be a case of looking at the pathology.”
One former FDA official said the emails amount to a coverup by FDA and CDC.
The Timeline
Last fall, “under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, it appeared that federal health officials were taking steps to address the failure of the Biden administration to take COVID-19 vaccine safety issues seriously,” Johnson wrote in his letter.
On Nov. 22, 2025, under new leadership under the Trump administration, the FDA office overseeing COVID vaccine safety identified 10 pediatric deaths as probably or possibly connected to the COVID-19 injections, the emails show.
Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Vinay Prasad had earlier announced the figure in a Nov. 28 memo to staff in which he called for higher standards for vaccines and “humility” from FDA in light of the tragic news. Prasad’s “Black Friday memo” leaked to reporters within hours, and a media firestorm erupted.
By Dec. 5, 2025, CBER officials had changed their findings on three pediatric deaths from “probably” or “possibly” caused by the COVID-19 injections to “un-assessable” or “unlikely.” They also downgraded a death from “probably” vaccine-induced to “possibly” vaccine-induced.
“This was a MONUMENTAL effort from all of us, to do a diligent review while being bombarded with media articles on the subject,” wrote Meghna Alimchandani, deputy director of the FDA Division of Pharmacovigilance in the December 5 email.
“The career FDA scientists identified new safety information not on the label – that COVID-19 shots have caused deaths – that information should be added to the label, but has not been. During the heightened media scrutiny of this topic, scientists downcoded their initial impression of deaths,” a former FDA official granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters told the DCNF. “There is little desire for an accurate appraisal of covid vaccine benefits and harms inside the agency.”
The email “raises questions about the case adjudication process and FDA transparency, for example, why these 10 cases were not brought to public attention earlier than the end of 2025,” a separate former FDA official told the DCNF.
The deaths occurred in 2021 and 2022, but did not come to light until 2025 after the Trump administration came into office.
“One wonders if there was internal pressure at the FDA during that time not to report these pediatric deaths in a timely manner,” the second official said.
The official pointed to how career staff at FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention handled a 2022 study coauthored by Gill on the two teenaged boys with fatal heart issues after the COVID vaccine.
The study provoked and urgent rebuttal from the FDA and CDC — according to internal documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the Epoch Times. The CDC had stored slides containing tissues from the boys sent in by Gill’s team and tested them, finding evidence of the clostridium septicum bacteria, the cause of gas gangrene, and parvovirus. They claimed in their own paper that these tests muddied Gill’s conclusions.
Gill’s team disagreed, pointing out that parvovirus would cause a different pattern in the heart muscle than what his team had observed, and that bacteria is bound to grow on cells that have been sitting around for weeks.
Documents released in Johnson’s investigation show that in its 2025 assessment, FDA classified one of the Gill cases as “probably” vaccine related and another as just “possibly” vaccine related, documents obtained by Johnson show, citing evidence of parvovirus.
FDA’s conclusion on the second case contrasts with that of Gill, the leading pathologist on the case.
Gill said the FDA and CDC did not reach out to discuss the cases with him either in 2022 or during the 2025 review.
“Why would you even not want to discuss it with me professionally and sort it out?” he said.
“I tried to engage them in that dialogue and they shut it down because they had already made up their mind that this was not a death due to the vaccine,” Gill added.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
