{"id":2648417,"date":"2026-08-22T20:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-come-back-to-bite-you-top-official-asked-fauci-for-vaccine-side-effect-study-email\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:57:19","slug":"will-come-back-to-bite-you-top-official-asked-fauci-for-vaccine-side-effect-study-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-come-back-to-bite-you-top-official-asked-fauci-for-vaccine-side-effect-study-email\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Will Come Back to Bite You&#8217;: Top Official Asked Fauci for Vaccine Side Effect Study &#8211; Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwill-come-back-to-bite-you-top-official-asked-fauci-for-vaccine-side-effect-study-email%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2648417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a previously unreported interaction from Janet Woodcock,then head of the FDA,in spring 2021. She urged the NIH to investigate reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination, highlighting that existing safety surveillance systems like VAERS, CDC follow-up, and FDA systems might be insufficient to detect certain side effects. Despite her recommendation to study these issues &#8211; even without industry support &#8211; it\u2019s unclear if such studies were ever conducted, raising questions about the thoroughness of vaccine safety monitoring. The report also notes internal resistance, notably from FDA officials like Peter Marks, who dismissed warnings about the system\u2019s sensitivity to side effects. The article points out that, although billions of dollars were allocated for COVID research, the suggested studies on vaccine side effects may not have been carried out, and critical internal debates about safety oversight appear to have been overlooked or suppressed.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A newly released  suggests that the nation\u2019s top vaccine regulator encouraged Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins to leverage billions in scientific research dollars to study COVID vaccine side effects \u2014 but they never followed through on her request.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">In the spring of 2021, Janet Woodcock, then head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), wrote to the leaders of the National Institutes of Health \u2014 the country\u2019s leading funder of medical science \u2014 to encourage a study into reports she had received of adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination.\u00a0Woodcock had received many of these reports from \u201chealthcare professionals,\u201d she wrote in the <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ronjohnson.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/May-27-2021-Janet-Woodcock-to-Fauci-and-Collins-re-vaccine-adverse-events.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>  released by Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and obtained from Fauci\u2019s government .<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cThe symptoms do not fit together into a distinctive syndrome and most are not easily quantifiable or evaluated with standard laboratory testing,\u201d she wrote in the May 27, 2021 correspondence. \u201cClearly during mass vaccination you will get a lot of psychological reactions and it is hard to sort these things out. But the peoples\u2019 main complaint is that no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them, and there is no effort to study this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Woodcock said that these studies should be undertaken even if the vaccine makers would not support them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cI doubt the industry would support, for obvious reasons,\u201d she wrote in the . \u201cBut my experience is, that if you let a problem fester, then it will come back to bite you later and you are not prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woodcock was an FDA official for 37 years and cultivated a reputation for being <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/11\/fda-woodcock-controversial-drug-approval-493324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">friendly<\/a> to the pharmaceutical industry and <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/friendsofcancerresearch.org\/news\/pink-sheet-woodcock-has-big-quiet-supporter-in-her-bid-for-us-fda-commissioner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">industry-backed patient groups<\/a>. Yet she apparently recognized the importance of studying vaccine side effects outside of the context of the pharmaceutical companies\u2019 clinical trials.<b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Woodcock warned that the existing safety surveillance systems at both the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were not be sophisticated enough to adequately detect and describe some side effects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cThese problems are not the sort that a system like VAERS would be able to detect, or even a more sophisticated population-based active followup [sic] such as CDC has, or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newly-released-covid-email-shows-fda-head-warning-fauci-of-vax-side-effects-then-eerie-4-word-response-from-the-disgraced-covid-chief\/\" title=\"Newly Released COVID Email Shows ... ... Warning Fauci of Vax ..., Then Eerie 4-Word Response from the Disgraced COVID Chief\">medical record based system<\/a> such as BEST [an FDA safety surveillance system],\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Despite the roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/officeofbudget.od.nih.gov\/pdfs\/FY21\/br\/1-OverviewVolumeSingleFile-toPrint.pdf?utm_source=sfmc&#038;utm_medium=&#038;utm_campaign=adhoc&#038;utm_content=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/officeofbudget.od.nih.gov\/pdfs\/FY21\/br\/1-OverviewVolumeSingleFile-toPrint.pdf?utm_source%3Dsfmc%26utm_medium%3D%26utm_campaign%3Dadhoc%26utm_content%3Dnewsletter&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1786976094015000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1cN5u90FV_laNcTmzcI3tp\">$5.5 billion in research dollars<\/a> that Fauci steered as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, it\u2019s not clear the sort of study Woodcock suggested was ever conducted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">An April investigation by Johnson first revealed that another top FDA official, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks, brushed off warnings from a safety data expert that FDA systems could be inadequately sensitive and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >missing statistically significant side effects<\/a>. Marks said the analysis could \u201ccreate erroneous conflicts that feed in to anti-vaccination rhetoric,\u201d <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/Senate-PSI-Majority-Staff-Interim-Report-April-29-2026-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per Johnson\u2019s report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Fauci and Collins did not immediately respond to requests for comment. An  requesting comment from Marks sent through Eli Lilly, where he now serves as senior vice president of molecule discovery, did not receive an immediate response. An  requesting comment from Woodcock sent through Every Cure, a patient advocacy group with Woodcock on the board, did not receive an immediate response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Regarding Woodock\u2019s , Fauci noted to Collins that \u201cwe cannot ignore her\u201d and suggested alerting then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cJanet [Woodcock] asks what we think of this?\u00a0We cannot ignore her.\u00a0We should probably bring in CDC and see what Rochelle [Walensky] thinks,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Johnson\u2019s office noted in a press release that it\u2019s not clear whether she ever was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">When Republicans retook control of the Senate in 2025, Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul gained the chairmanship of the key the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) and began the process of compelling testimony and subpoenaing records. Johnson simultaneously also became chair of the HSGAC\u2019s chief investigative subcommittee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. 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