Covid Jab Hidden Safety Warnings: A Tale of Two Countries

Executive Summary
 

• “Safe” was never true for everyone: The mRNA jabs caused measurable toxic effects in all recipients – like radiation, harm may take years to appear. Suppressed safety information proves it was dangerous from the start.​​​​​​​

• US FDA blocked a nationwide doctor alert about vaccine myocarditis risks in May 2021

• Six-week delay followed before formal FDA warnings were issued; millions of young Americans received second doses in that window.

• April 2026 Senate investigation found senior FDA officials suppressed 25 other safety signals including sudden cardiac death and blood clots.

• NZ’s Vaccine Ministers ordered myocarditis safety references removed from public communications after an August 13, 2021 meeting; alleged diary alterations may obscure the meeting’s attendees.

• Critical CV TAG advice (December 2021) that two doses were not justified for 12–17 year olds was never sent to ministers.

• 92% of young New Zealanders (350,000–400,000) had already received two doses before the advice emerged

• “Safe and effective” is a marketing slogan. The government proceeded with the campaign knowing it could kill and harm some people. Citizens deserve the truth, not suppressed safety data.

How can a “safe and effective” medication at the same time be officially acknowledged to kill some people? That the covid jab does not drop most recipients immediately cannot be equated to mean it is safe for everyone, but that has been the intent of government messaging which targets a population rather than individuals, and very successful it has been, even influencing the courts. But the mechanisms of action mean it is inherently dangerous such that everyone will get some degree of measurable toxic effects, and we have presented some evidence which suggests exactly that eg Nakahara 2023 from Japan and Chen 2025 from Taiwan.

As with exposure to harmful radiation for example, where the resulting cancer might come years or decades later, vaccinated people should consider that the bullet they dodged may yet ricochet back to them. They should pay attention to the disclosures of suppressed and ignored safety information which prove the injection was clearly dangerous from the start, and then make their elected reps pay attention too. 

As NZ’s ministerial myocarditis machinations gain accelerating public attention, it is revealing to revisit some timelines and international parallels. 

As early as December 2020, as this Canadian independent news piece on rising heart failure in young Canadians illustrates, reports started appearing of the (“vanishingly rare”) heart muscle inflammation called myocarditis – a condition most clinicians would never see in their careers. Now many of us have seen it in our social circles as well as our patients. But we see much else besides, and a brief examination of how the mRNA covid-19 injections cause myocarditis leaves no doubt of the huge variety of other possible adverse events.

Many afflicted vaccinees are only too aware that harms go beyond myocarditis and we have known for a long time that there was early and high-level knowledge suppressed in many countries.  So now we have an April 2026 Senate investigation, summarised by epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher at The Focal Points, which found that senior FDA officials suppressed approximately twenty-five statistically significant safety signals identified by their own data scientists during the same critical months of 2021. Those signals included sudden cardiac death, acute heart attacks, pulmonary infarction, Bell’s palsy, and various blood clots – all linked to the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. When Dr Ana Szarfman repeatedly brought these findings to her superiors, including Dr Peter Marks, she was told to “hold off”, was accused of creating a “major distraction”, and was eventually ordered to “cease and desist” her analysis. The suppression of myocarditis advisories cannot be dismissed as an isolated incident but part of a broader, documented pattern of concealing vaccine safety evidence from the public.​​​​​​​

But if myocarditis gets our attention to the much bigger picture – of increasing levels of ill health, death and immune failure – then so be it. 

During the first half of 2021, both the United States and New Zealand were receiving clear internal expert warnings about this serious safety signal related to the mRNA covid-19 vaccines. It appeared to be occurring in young people at higher than expected rates, particularly after they had received their second dose of the vaccine. Of note though is that NZ vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris has stated repeatedly that she hadn’t done enough work on knowing what the baseline rates for AEFIs were, despite her lecturing the world in 2020 that the warp-speed vaccine would require a close watch, with everyone’s ducks lined up. Perhaps she feels it is better to appear stupid than wilfully blind?

Whatever, it appeared some other countries had done their homework but, in the US and NZ, the expert warnings were deliberately withheld from the public. Vaccination mandates continued to be enforced while young people received doses without being given the full picture of the risks involved. The parallel between what happened in the United States and what happened here in New Zealand demands closer examination, as it moves one possible excuse for public harm – ineptitude – towards co-ordination. The UK and Australia demonstrated similar disrespect for the public’s safety. However we will see that NZ is unique in that it appears government ministers were directly involved in the chain of suppression.

Part One: The United States – The HAN Advisory That Was Blocked

What Was Known

By February 2021, American health agencies had been alerted by the Israeli Ministry of Health to 62 cases of myocarditis occurring in young people shortly after they received the Pfizer vaccine. By mid-April of the same year, a Department of Defense contractor presented evidence to the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Technical (VaST) workgroup suggesting there was a high likelihood that the vaccine was causing a specific type of myocarditis. On May 17, 2021, the VaST workgroup reached a consensus that healthcare providers in the United States needed urgent warnings about this emerging safety signal.

What Was Planned

In response to this consensus, the CDC drafted a Health Alert Network advisory, which is commonly referred to as a HAN. The HAN system represents the CDC’s highest level of alert, designed for immediate and widespread dissemination to every clinician and health department across the country when urgent public health action is required.

What Happened Instead

On May 26, 2021, the then-FDA Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock sent an email to the then-CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky stating that the FDA did not concur with issuing the HAN warning. The HAN advisory was scrapped on the same day. Two days later, on May 28, 2021, instead of issuing a nationwide alert to doctors, the CDC published a quiet notice on its public website acknowledging the cases of myocarditis but maintaining its recommendation that everyone aged twelve and older should get vaccinated. Several key safety precautions that had been discussed internally, including a recommendation to restrict athletes with myocarditis from participating in sports for three months, were omitted from the public guidance.

Finally, Some Action

Internal minutes from early June 2021 show that scientists had upgraded the language describing the myocarditis risk from “potential” to “likely association” with mRNA vaccines for young people. It was not until June 23 to 25, 2021, after an emergency meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and following growing public pressure, that the FDA formally revised the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine fact sheets to include the myocarditis and pericarditis warning. The gap between the internal consensus on May 17 and the formal public warning in late June was approximately six weeks. During those six weeks, millions of young Americans received second doses without the safety context that their doctors should have been provided with.  What happened next is best described as a mass casualty event, some of it documented by Edward Dowd in Cause Unknown. It is full of tragic stories of suddenly dead children and young people and is well referenced.

Part Two: New Zealand – The Vaccine Ministers and the Redacted Advice

For the sake of balance we should note that drug regulator Medsafe published three 2021 advisories on its website: a monitoring communication in June, an alert in July and a reminder alert in December. However they were heavily laced with what we knew to be incorrect even then – the benefits outweigh the risks for everyone, and myocarditis was worse after the infection than the vaccination. 

The “Vaccine Ministers” Group

Internal documents obtained through Official Information Act requests by Aly Cook of the NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party reveal that an informal group of senior Cabinet members, referred to internally as the “Vaccine Ministers”, were central to decisions about vaccine safety communications during this period. As of August 2021, this group consisted of Jacinda Ardern as Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins as Minister for Covid-19 Response, Andrew Little as Minister of Health, Grant Robertson as Finance Minister, Dr Ayesha Verrall as Associate Minister of Health, and Peeni Henare as Associate Minister of Health.

The August 13th Directive

Following a Vaccine Ministers Zoom meeting that took place on August 13, 2021, a directive was given to remove or re-word safety justifications concerning myocarditis risks as they related to the vaccine rollout plan. 

The TAG Meeting of August 17, 2021

The record of the Technical Advisory Group meeting held on August 17, 2021 contains a particularly revealing entry. Section 6.0 of the meeting notes, which was titled “Myocarditis after Pfizer Vaccination,” includes the following directive: “It was requested that references to increasing dosing intervals potentially providing some protection against myocarditis be removed from communications. This has been actioned.” This means that a potential safety measure, namely that longer dosing intervals might reduce the risk of heart inflammation in young people, was intentionally removed from public messaging at the request of ministers or their senior officials.  In addition, in other OIA-released versions of these minutes, the whole of Section 6.0 is redacted.

Of note, at exactly this period, Malaysia paused its rollout to its teenagers due to concerns raised by US authorities. Despite being a much bigger vaccine market than NZ (around 32 million citizens) it took a precautionary approach rather than ploughing on in the face of risks. A little later the UK and Scandinavia removed or scaled-back approvals for children and young adults too, leaving the Antipodes to plough on.

The CV TAG December 2021 Advice That Never Reached Ministers

As the media is now reporting, the COVID-19 Vaccine Technical Advisory Group, known as CV TAG, provided explicit written advice in December 2021 stating that requiring two doses for vaccine mandates was not justified for twelve to seventeen year olds. The advice went further by noting that a second dose “may add unnecessary risk to increasing the likelihood of myocarditis” in this age group. This advice was sent on December 9, 2021 to the Director-General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield. The CV TAG recommended considering a single dose for under-eighteens for all vaccine mandate purposes. However, when Dr Bloomfield sent a paper to Minister Chris Hipkins on December 22, 2021, he included the November advice from CV TAG but notably did not include the December advice. The Royal Commission later described the failure to deliver the December advice to ministers as “significant”. It is alleged that CV-TAG lead Dr Ian Town experienced pressure from non-clinician Dr Bloomfield to downgrade his committee’s safety concerns.

The Cabinet Paper Revelation

A Cabinet paper written in Chris Hipkins’ name from March 2022 finally referenced the CV TAG December advice. By the time this paper was written, approximately ninety-two percent of the twelve to seventeen year old age group in New Zealand, which amounted to between 350,000 and 400,000 young people, had already received two doses of the vaccine. Around 30,000 young people were yet to have a second dose at that point. Chris Hipkins has since acknowledged publicly that the CV TAG December 2021 advice should have gone to ministers at the time. He described the failure to pass on this advice as “a source of considerable frustration” for him and a massive failing on the part of the system. The problem is, some people died. 

Grant Robertson’s Hot Diary 

The NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party is now demanding the full Zoom recording and transcript of the August 13, 2021 Vaccine Ministers meeting. There is credible concern that the records of Grant Robertson’s ministerial diary may have been altered, with one entry changed seemingly from August 13 to August 3. Was this in order to obscure the timing of these meetings, and the directive to redact safety information, from subsequent Official Information Act requests? If confirmed, this would represent a deliberate effort to conceal the sequence of events from public scrutiny. This would be an obviously unlawful act in itself, even before considering health damage to the vaccinating public by withholding safety information.

The Human Cost

NZDSOS is consistent that the toll is way beyond scientifically and morally acceptable from any pharmaceutical, whatever the supposed justifications. Tens of thousands are on the official record as badly harmed. NZOFP’s Aly Cook has stated publicly that her son Bailey suffered from vaccine-induced pericarditis, a condition that has since been accepted by ACC. She has said that knowing politicians were meeting to redact safety information that could have protected her son is devastating for her and her family. Many other families have similar stories, and how many young New Zealanders suffered myocarditis or pericarditis after receiving second doses that they might not have been mandated to receive if the full safety advice had been disclosed to the public at the time? The full toll may never be known, but what is already clear is that the expert warnings existed and the ministers chose not to pass them on. Ex-minister and party leader Rodney Hide was unequivocal in our Substantial Minority series of presentations for the Royal Commission: the buck stops with the elected representative ministers, no matter who has the real power behind the scenes. 

What Should Happen Now

There are several steps that could be taken to get some accountability and transparency. First, we agree that the full recording and transcript of the August 13, 2021 Vaccine Ministers Zoom meeting should be released without any censorship or redaction. Second, an independent investigation should be conducted into the alleged alterations in Grant Robertson’s diary. Third, an independent commission should scrutinise, along with much more besides, all OIA redactions related to vaccine safety communications to ensure that no further information has been improperly withheld. (Rodney Hide suggests a parliamentary committee has the teeth, but many of the potential member MPs will themselves have acted improperly, to put it mildly). Finally, every minister who was part of the Vaccine Ministers group should provide a public acknowledgment of what they knew, when they knew it, and what decisions they made regarding concealing and redacting safety information.

Final Thoughts

We have presented various lists of suspicious sudden deaths and evidence that the extent of heart damage from the mRNA jabs is many times worse than admitted – certainly worse than after covid19 infection alone – and that it can be silent and undiagnosed until a “sudden medical event” or heart failure develops. Some research hints that cardio-vascular damage may be almost universal. Even if there was any proof that the vaccines save lives it would still be a criminal act to proceed in the (suppressed) knowledge they were killing and injuring people.

The United States suppressed a HAN advisory for approximately six weeks before eventually issuing formal warnings through the FDA. New Zealand suppressed critical CV TAG advice for more than three months, and during that time tens of thousands of young people received unnecessary second doses before the truth about the December 2021 advice began to emerge – after the death of 26 year-old New Zealander Rory Nairn from fulminant myocarditis – through OIA requests and media reporting. Both countries have serious questions to answer about their handling of vaccine safety communications, and neither wants to provide satisfactory answers to those questions. But here in New Zealand we have the Official Information Act, we have advocates like NZDSOS, Sue Grey and Aly Cook, and many others, all fighting for disclosure and accountability. The question that remains is how many more will die before – and after – we get the full truth.

So to have proceeded with a vaccine campaign – still going – knowing it can kill and seriously harm some people means it is certain that more people will die in the future. Why should the individual have to work out the mystery of their own risk profile, if indeed they are ever given the chance? Is that risk even knowable? It is time for the government to tell the truth of the knowns and unknowns to the citizens, not cover up damning information, and be honest that ‘safe and effective’ was only ever a marketing slogan to back an arbitrary public health directive, and a damnably deceitful one at that. 

This article is based on OIA-released documents, the Royal Commission’s findings, parliamentary records, and contemporaneous international reporting. All quoted material comes from public records.