by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:
The grand jury, convened in December 2022 to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” related to COVID-19 vaccines found no criminal activity, but did find a “pattern of deceptive and obfuscatory behavior on the part of sponsors and regulators that often straddled the line between ethical and unethical conduct.”
A Florida grand jury found “profound and serious issues involving the process of vaccine development and safety surveillance in the United States,” according to a report unsealed on Tuesday.
Gov. Ron DeSantis convened the grand jury in December 2022 to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” concerning COVID-19 vaccines. Jury members reviewed documents and interviewed witnesses involved in the COVID-19 production process.
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“While we did not find criminal activity,” they wrote in their 140-page report, “we did find a pattern of deceptive and obfuscatory behavior on the part of sponsors and regulators that often straddled the line between ethical and unethical conduct.”
They added:
“More importantly, however, not finding any indictable criminal activity does not mean we did not find any problems. On the contrary, there are profound and serious issues involving the process of vaccine development and safety surveillance in the United States.
“Some of those are acute, COVID-19-era problems that are unlikely to occur outside the context of another once-in-a-hundred-year pandemic. Others, however, are systemic; they will occur over and over until someone fixes them.”
Commenting on the jury’s conclusion, Peter Doshi, Ph.D., told The Defender, “It strikes me as a sober and honest appraisal of the situation.”
Doshi is a senior editor at The BMJ and associate professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. In July 2024, he published a BMJ investigation on the “revolving door” between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the pharmaceutical industry.
The investigation revealed that departing FDA staff who take industry jobs are allowed to influence the FDA “behind the scenes.”
An Associated Press (AP) story — picked up by multiple news outlets including CBS News and MedPage Today — ran with a headline focused on “no evidence of criminal activity.”
However, those headlines contrasted with what DeSantis said on X about the jury’s findings.
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