The FDA knew the COVID shots would kill and maim countless Americans.
They kept injecting anyway.
One government employee tried to sound the alarm about â49 examplesâ of deadly side effects that conventional safety analyses werenât detecting.
She was shut down.
Her name was Dr. Ana Szarfman.
On March 1, 2021, less than three months after the rollout of the COVID-19 injections, Dr. Ana Szarfman, an employee at CDER and safety data mining developer, warned that the FDAâs existing system could hide vaccine safety signals due to a flaw called âmasking.â
She proposed a newer method developed by statistician Dr. William DuMouchel that corrected for this issue and, when applied, detected â49 examples of extreme maskingâ that the standard system did not.
These â49 examples of extreme maskingâ include not âminorâ but serious adverse events:
⢠Bellâs palsy
⢠Cardiac failure
⢠Acute left ventricular failure
⢠Agonal rhythm (severe end-of-life arrhythmia)
⢠Pulmonary infarction
⢠Cerebral artery occlusion
⢠Aortic stenosis
⢠Sudden cardiac death
⢠Hypertensive emergency
⢠Basal ganglia stroke
When Dr. Szarfman proposed a new method, she was told to âhold off on creating and sending data mining reports and analyses.â
Later, they âmade it clearâ that she âneeds to focus on her assigned workâ and âshould not be discussing or providing internal analyses externally.â
As Dr. Szarfman puts it, her work became a âpestâ for raising concerns about safety signal masking.
In September 2021, Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA's top vaccine official, decided that Dr. Szarfmanâs COVID vaccine data-mining days were over.
He informed Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, the then director of CDER, that Dr. Szarfman âhas been asked to cease and desist conducting her data analysis.â
Dr. Marks complained that Dr. Szarfmanâs work had become âa major distractionâ and that her efforts could âcreate erroneous conflicts that feed into anti-vaccination rhetoric.â
Dr. Szarfman went on to retire from the FDA in 2025 after more than 35 years of service.
She raised concerns about safety signal masking. The FDA essentially told her to shut up.
Because in their eyes, â49 examples of extreme maskingâ could create âerroneous conflictsâ and fuel âvaccine hesitancy.â
Unfortunately, this is not a one-off instance. Itâs part of a much deeper problem: the gap between whatâs known internally and whatâs allowed to reach the public. đ§ľ