Officials at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scrambled to cover up a study that revealed two teenagers died suddenly shortly after receiving Covid mRNA injections.
In a study published on February 14, 2022, experts revealed that the two teenagers suffered unexpected fatal heart failure after being injected with the experimental mRNA injections.
The to study was the first to detail examinations of US children who died of heart failure after being vaccinated against COVID-19.
However, the study paper set off a firestorm at the CDC, prompting agency officials to try to overrule the medical examiners who examined the boys, internal emails have revealed.
Within hours of the study's release, federal officials scrambled to respond.
Internal CDC emails show officials were concerned the newspaper would hurt their efforts to promote Covid shots to the public.
“This is important because this report has important implications for safety and policy discussions at CDC and FDA,” Dr. Sarah Reagan-Steiner, CDC medical officer, wrote on February 17, 2022.
The CDC and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have repeatedly promoted widespread vaccination against COVID-19.
In addition, federal agencies have downplayed the confirmed and possible side effects of vaccines, despite the threat to public safety.
Another CDC official claimed that not including CDC scientists as co-authors of the paper called into question the ethics of the experts who wrote it.
The agency quickly issued a rebuttal to the journal that published the study.
Internal emails were obtained for The era through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
Combined with comments from two of the study's authors, the emails shed new light the paper and its consequences.
The study concluded that both teenagers died of myocarditis caused by their Covid vaccinations.
Myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, is a known side effect of Covid mRNA injections.
It restricts the heart's ability to pump blood, leading to blood clots, cardiac arrest, stroke, and sudden death.
Dr. James Gill, Connecticut's chief medical examiner, and two other experts wrote in the study that the myocarditis manifested itself in an unusual way in the two teenagers.
They said the lesions were similar to cardiomyopathy, which is often caused by extreme stressors.
“This post-vaccine reaction may represent an overexuberant immune response, with myocardial injury mediated by immune mechanisms similar to those described with SARS-CoV-2 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome cytokine storms,” the experts said.
The children were found dead in their beds, one in Michigan and one in Connecticut.
They died within days of receiving Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA shots.
Each tested negative for COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that the shots were supposed to protect against.
In one case, the heart injury may have started with an initial dose of vaccine before healing and restarted with a second dose.
However, the boy's cause of death was listed in his autopsy as “myocarditis of uncertain etiology,” according to records reviewed by The Epoch Times.
It was said that the other boy may have suffered from inflammation after the heart muscle became enlarged.
His cause of death was also determined to be myocarditis.
In addition to myocarditis, the Covid vaccine was listed as the cause of death on his death certificate, according to Dr Gill.
The boys' medical histories suggested that acute heart injuries were the main factor in the deaths, the authors said.
The CDC became involved in the investigations into the boys' deaths at the request of medical examiners.
“I wanted to make sure we weren't dealing with some kind of infectious disease causing inflammation in the heart,” Dr. Randy Tashjian, co-author of the paper, said in a statement.
The CDC's Infectious Disease Pathology Branch (IDPB) had techniques that would allow them to rule out any potential infectious cause, added Dr. Tashjian.
Tashjian examined the child in Michigan and has never spoken about it publicly.
Dr. Gill, who also asked for the CDC's help, said the agency is meant to help pathologists and not make cause-of-death determinations.
“Their role was to test the tissues that were sent to them for various pathogens,” Gill said.
“It is up to the forensic pathologist presenting the case to interpret these findings in the context of the clinical history, etc.
“Laboratories give us information but not conclusions.”
“The analogous example is a toxicology laboratory,” the doctor added.
“The toxicology lab can find cocaine and fentanyl, but that doesn't mean the person died of intoxication and a toxicologist would never make that determination.
“It's up to forensic pathologists to put all the pieces together.”
CDC officials detected the presence of Clostridium bacteria in multiple organs of the Michigan boy.
They concluded that sepsis from the bacteria likely caused the boy's death, arguing that the Covid shot was not to blame.
They also found parvovirus B19 in the other boy's heart and concluded that it was an alternative explanation for his myocarditis.
However, these claims were not mentioned in the study.
The document was quickly circulated throughout the CDC and FDA, including two of the CDC's top vaccine safety officials, the email threads show.
Fifty-five government employees received copies of the document or links to it within three days of its publication, according to internal emails.
Officials held meetings and discussed the document in long email chains.
They drafted a formal response and figured out how to respond to media inquiries.
Officials said they did not know about the paper before it was published and expressed concern that the study did not mention most of the CDC's test results.
Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, the head of the CDC's Office of Immunization Safety at the time, said in a missive to colleagues that the study was “an ethics problem.”
“There is a scientific integrity problem (it omits relevant information) and an ethics problem (not including the CDC scientists who participated in the assessments as authors),” he stated.
“I did not notify the CDC that we were publishing the cases,” Dr. Gill, the paper's lead author, responded after the emails were released.
“There is no obligation to do so.
“They did lab tests on us and that doesn't deserve to be reported or included as authors.”
Dr. Shimabukuro said in another message to the editor of Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, the journal that published the article, that “the authors chose to selectively present CDC laboratory results that supported the his position and deliberately omit the contrary results.”
“In the process, they have misrepresented CDC's role and overall CDC findings, potentially damaging CDC's reputation for openness and transparency,” he added.
“All I can say is that they were not 'open' to discussing anything with me when I contacted them,” Gill said.
“His published letter was more damaging to his lab's reputation than anything written in the case report.”
Dr. Shimabukuro, who has been captured previously to promote The false information about the side effects of the covid vaccine and the safety signals that have yet to be corrected, have yet to respond to the internal emails that are published.
In a separate internal email, Shimabukuro wrote that he believed the cases involved Takotsubo syndrome, also known as “broken heart” syndrome.
He said the syndrome “occurs almost exclusively in postmenopausal women.”
After IDPB officials reached the Michigan child's sepsis determination and reported the findings to Dr. Tashjian, he said he would keep them updated on his final findings in the case.
However, Tashjian did not provide an update, although the official determination of the cause of death differed from the agency's.
Tashjian said he now regrets not informing them.
“If I had warned them that this was what was going to happen, I think maybe it wouldn't have been such a bitter back and forth between the two sides,” Tashjian told The Epoch Times.
Dr. Tashjian told the CDC's Dr. Reagan-Steiner after the paper was released that he determined the cause of one child's death to be “myocarditis of unknown etiology.”
He said he avoided attributing it to sepsis because there was “no obvious GI [gastrointestinal] source of infection”.
Tashjian said he had been planning to tell the CDC about the diary.
He thanked the CDC for helping test the boys' tissue and hoped reactions to the paper would not be “blown out of proportion.”
In an email to CDC officials, Dr. Gill noted that although parvovirus was detected in the other child, the histopathology did not support a viral source for the myocarditis.
He also pointed out to Reagan-Steiner that Shimabukuro had shared confidential information with the editor of Archives magazine.
Reagan-Steiner forwarded the message to Shimabukuro, saying she would need advice on how and whether to respond.
Shimabukuro told him to “get that off your plate.”
“Any questions you have on this topic should be directed to the editorial office of the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,” Shimabukuro told Gill.
Shimabukuro, who is not a pathologist, “smothered an academic discussion between two pathologists,” Gill told The Epoch Times.
The emails show CDC officials scrambling to cover up the study's findings and deny links between vaccines and fatal heart failure.
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