{"id":1530144,"date":"2025-04-13T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1530144"},"modified":"2025-04-13T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:10:00","slug":"top-cdc-vaccine-safety-officers-records-missing-hhs-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/top-cdc-vaccine-safety-officers-records-missing-hhs-says\/1530144\/","title":{"rendered":"Top CDC Vaccine Safety Officer’s Records Missing, HHS Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top CDC Vaccine Safety Officer’s Records Missing, HHS Says<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Records from a top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are missing, the CDC\u2019s parent agency has informed a U.S. senator.<\/p>\n

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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials told Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in March that \u201cthey are having difficulty locating records,\u201d<\/strong> Johnson said on April 9.<\/p>\n

More recently, HHS officials said that Dr. Tom Shimabukuro\u2019s records \u201cremain lost and, potentially, removed from HHS\u2019s email system altogether,\u201d <\/strong>Johnson added.<\/p>\n

Shimabukuro, the CDC, and HHS did not respond to requests for comment by publication time.<\/p>\n

Shimabukuro is director of the CDC\u2019s Immunization Safety Office, which researches the safety of vaccines, according to the CDC\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/strong> He frequently spoke<\/a> at vaccine meetings, at times offering false information, The Epoch Times previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was also involved in vaccine research, including monitoring<\/a> vaccine safety in pregnant women.<\/p>\n

Johnson, the chairman of the Senate\u2019s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, disclosed the situation with Shimabukuro\u2019s records in a letter<\/a> to Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Juliet Hodgkins, the acting inspector general of HHS.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Shimabukuro\u2019s potential mishandling of his official records is highly concerning. His actions, if true, would have directly obstructed my multi-year oversight efforts of the COVID-19 vaccines and would be in clear violation of my November 19, 2024 demand to HHS, CDC, and the Food and Drug Administration to \u2018preserve all records referring or relating to the development, safety, and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines,\u2019\u201d Johnson wrote<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, given Dr. Shimabukuro\u2019s role at CDC, which includes monitoring adverse events relating to the COVID-19 vaccines, his communications are directly responsive to my January 28, 2025, subpoena to HHS for records relating to the development and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines. Any attempt to obstruct or interfere with my investigatory efforts would be grounds for contempt of Congress.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The senator also said that if Shimabukuro mishandled records, he may have violated laws such as the Federal Records Act.<\/p>\n

Johnson asked Bondi, Patel, and Hodgkins to investigate whether Shimabukuro and other officials within HHS deleted or destroyed agency records, including any attempts to avoid congressional oversight or Freedom of Information Act requests.<\/p>\n

Spokespersons for the Department of Justice and HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) confirmed in emails to The Epoch Times that the agencies received the letter, and declined to comment further. The FBI declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Another HHS official, National Institutes of Health scientist Dr. David Morens, was previously revealed<\/a>\u2014through emails obtained via the Freedom of Information Act\u2014to have talked about how he learned to make messages disappear after requests under the act were lodged.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think we are all safe,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> he wrote in one of the emails in 2021.<\/p>\n

Johnson also requested an HHS inspector general investigation of Morens. The HHS hasn\u2019t confirmed whether any probes were initiated, according to Johnson.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo date, the HHS OIG refuses to confirm that it has initiated any of these investigations.<\/strong> The HHS OIG\u2019s lack of transparency with Congress is unacceptable,\u201d Johnson wrote. \u201cIf the allegations regarding Dr. Shimabukuro\u2019s mishandling of agency records are true, then it will certainly raise questions about the effectiveness of the HHS OIG\u2019s oversight and cast doubt on whether the HHS OIG actually did what I asked it to do nineteen months ago.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 04\/13\/2025 – 16:10<\/span><\/p>\n

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