Florida Grand Jury Releases Final Report, Slams Big Pharma’s ‘Deceptive Behavior’

A Florida grand jury impaneled to investigate potential crimes and criminal wrongdoing related to the COVID-19 pandemic has released its final report.

On December 13, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis asked the Florida Supreme Court to establish a statewide grand jury to “investigate crimes and wrongdoing committed against Floridians related to the COVID-19 vaccine.”

The court agreed and impaneled the 22nd Statewide Grand Jury to investigate whether “pharmaceutical manufacturers (and their executive officers) and other medical associations or organizations” engaged in “criminal activity or wrongdoing” related to the “development, approval or marketing of COVID-19 vaccines.”

In its 144-page final report, the grand jury lays out the how large pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna “took advantage of the scientific journal infrastructure” to hide adverse reactions to their COVID-19 shots from the public.

“While we did not find criminal activity, 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,” the grand jury said, adding,

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.

The grand jury also went after the liability protections afforded to pharmaceutical companies who manufactured the COVID-19 shots:

It is frustrating to this Grand Jury, as it should be frustrating to everyone who reads this report, to know that these sponsors have taken in billions of taxpayer dollars for creating and selling their vaccines; they cannot be sued if something goes wrong with them; they have access to critical information about deaths related to a side effect of their products; and the public does not have access to that information.

Additionally, the grand jury examined whether the potential side effects of Pfizer and Modern’s COVID-19 shots outweighed their potential benefits. The jury found:

For a sizable group of healthy young men, there is credible evidence that the risk of side effects from second doses ofBNT162b2 or MRNA-1273 (Pfizer and Moderna’s shots) always outweighed their benefits, even at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As time went on, however, the infection, disease, hospitalization and death risks associated with SARS-CoV-2 have become significantly smaller, meaning that these vaccines were no longer able to confer the same level of protective benefits. This is true for everyone, not just healthy young men. Vaccine side effects, even minor adverse events, that may have been tolerable consequences in 2021 must be reconsidered in the context of this reduced protectiveness.

In particular, the grand jury offered several recommendations to improve the vaccine regulatory approval process.

“This Grand Jury finds itself in the awkward position of advocating for a series of changes to a group of private and public entities who did not ask for them and are unlikely to be particularly interested in adopting them,” the report states.

“Still, we feel compelled to point to what we have seen, if only to make the general public aware of the extent to which the massive systems upon which we depend for our health and welfare has failed to serve their interests.”

Several of the grand jury’s recommendations are as follows:

We need new clinical trials of BNT162b2 & MRNA-1273 (Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines) to update the relationship between clinical results and surrogate endpoints.

The FDA should reinstate its pre-1997 ban on the direct-to-consumer advertising of therapeutics.

The federal government should adopt some framework impeding the “revolving door” of private-sector employees and lobbyists in and out of the FDA, CDC and NIH.

The VRBPAC (Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee) should be restructured to determine the scope of approvals and authorizations it votes on for itself, and those votes should be binding.

Sponsors of pharmaceutical products should be required to publish the anonymized individual patient data-with all their attendant safety, efficacy and immunogenicity information-shortly after granting of any FDA license.

Sponsors should be required to publicly disclose safety signals upon verification – not just confirmation.

Sponsors who do not comply with data transparency requirements should not be allowed to retain federal legal immunity.

In a post on X, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the jury’s final report.

“While we are still reading through the report and its recommendations, it details that, through deception and taking ‘advantage of scientific journal infrastructure’ to hide adverse events from the public, Big Pharma engaged in a ‘pattern of deceptive and obfuscatory behavior,’” the governor said, adding,

The Grand Jury has made a number of recommendations that should be followed. The status quo cannot continue. The American people deserve transparency on how Big Pharma is using their federal tax dollars, and they deserve regulating entities that operate as watchdogs, not cheerleaders.

You can read the rest of his post below:

This morning, the Twenty-Second Statewide Grand Jury released its final report. This Grand Jury was tasked with investigating vaccine manufacturers and their production process for vaccines following the COVID-19 pandemic.

While we are still reading through the report and its…

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) January 7, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic led to one of the largest intrusions and violations on personal autonomy and liberty in history:

Americans who weren’t “essential” couldn’t go to work.

Citizens were forced to wear masks in public indoor and outdoor spaces.

Churches were forcibly shuttered while liquor stores remained open.

Pastors were arrested were holding church services

Mothers were arrested for taking their children to the park.

Paddle boarders were arrested for being out on the water – alone.

Children were not allowed to go to school, leading to inevitable loss in learning.

Over 110,000 businesses were permanently closed.

NIH personally targeted leading medical scholars who publicly disagreed with their protocol.

The federal government attempted to force 84 million Americans to get a COVID-19 shot – or lose their job.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito aptly summarized the government’s actions in 2020:

The pandemic has resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty. We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020.

We thank the grand jury for its important work examining potential criminal activity related to the COVID-19 shots. We hope their report contributes to further discussion and action ensuring vaccines developed in the future are safe and effective.

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