Step aside Dr. Anthony Fauci, another senior government public health official is in the crosshairs of the most aggressive COVID-19 investigator in Congress.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, is investigating whether the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Tom Shimabukuro scrubbed his own emails that lawmakers believe could reveal why the feds delayed telling doctors for months about heart-inflammation risks from COVID vaccines.
Shimabukuro, the director of the Immunization Safety Office, “probably destroyed documents” subpoenaed by the subcommittee, Johnson told the Just the News, No Noise TV show.
Shimabukuro has served as team lead for the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System and Vaccine Safety Datalink and safety team lead on the COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force.
While cautioning “maybe I’m going too far,” Johnson noted feds denied they had any relevant communications from Shimabukuro, who prominently briefed the CDC and Food and Drug Administration’s outside advisors before votes on key policy decisions.
“He was central to safety surveillance” for COVID vaccines, Johnson said, but the Senate panel “couldn’t even find out whether he was still working.
The CDC and HHS did not respond to requests for comment on the status of Shimabukuro.
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