https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/09/8-bombshell-findings-in-floridas-grand-jury-report-on-big-pharmas-covid-shots/
8 Bombshell Findings In Florida's Grand Jury Report On Big Pharma’s Covid Shots
By: Shawn Fleetwood
January 09, 2025
‘Hiding the details, methodology and results of scores of safety investigations from public view does not build public confidence; it undermines it.’
by Shawn Fleetwood
from the link: on Tuesday, a Florida grand jury released its final report on potential “criminal or wrongful activity” regarding the creation and promotion of the Covid jabs.
Here's a summary of the work done by the grand jury on covid and other issues:
DATA RELEASE
Due to the criminal subpoena process, this Grand Jury has been afforded an extraordinary degree of transparency into the clinical trials and pharmacovigilance for MRNA-1273 and BNTI 62b2. We have managed to collect more information regarding the approval and safety monitoring of these vaccines than is currently available from perhaps any other legal mechanism in the federal or state systems, bar the FDA.
Bound as we are by our period of empanelment, this Grand Jury has only been able to scratch the surface of this vast sea of data. Given our limitations, we traded breadth for depth, reviewing largely that information we could corroborate with publicly available data.
This necessarily means that there is a lot that we have not seen. There may be evidence of criminal activity, and there are certainly revelations beyond those we have described in this Final Report.
Much of this evidence is likely of enormous potential scientific value. Based on our review, there appears to be enough data-including individual patient information-to gain invaluable insight into the science reported by the companies, perhaps even recreating the statistical analyses conducted in the flagship trials or confirming the immunogenicity and safety analyses of the surrogate trials.
MRNA-1273 and BNT162b2 are two of the most controversial, consequential and profitable pharmaceutical products of the past 50 years. From everything we have learned, they represent mankind's first foray into the use of mRNA-based lipid nanoparticle delivery systems in-128- human beings, but they will not be the last.
We owe it to future generations to make sure these data are adequately deciphered, parsed and analyzed. In addition, this evidence is of immense historic value. It describes the responses of our public health apparatus and the pharmaceutical industry to a once-in-a-hundred-year phenomenon that killed millions of people worldwide and drew a historic set of responses from those entities.
As we said at the beginning of this Final Report, we believe that our collective response to SARSCoV-2 represents the best humanity has to offer-innovation, cooperation and bravery-and the worst-greed, misfeasance and propaganda. The data we have collected allowed this Grand Jury to step inside the walls of these companies, where the public was previously only allowed to peer through the narrow windows provided by the journal system and federal reporting requirements.
There is more to see within those walls than ten grand juries could absorb, and all this corporate activity was financed in no small part by public funds--our money.
The public deserves to know what they did with it. All the data we have described above resides on a series of hard drives, where they will theoretically remain indefinitely, locked behind the confidentiality of Chapter 905, Florida Statutes (2024).
Given the scientific and historic importance of these data, we believe it would be of enormous public benefit to revisit this law to the specific extent necessary to facilitate the availability of this particular evidence.
There are issues, however, that must be resolved. First of all, these hard drives contain safety and efficacy data for roughly 100,000 clinical trial participants and potentially millions of reported safety events involving the COVID-19 vaccines. All of this is private health information, protected under federal law by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and under state law by Florida Information Protection Act of2014 (FIPA). Second, these drives also contain any number of "trade secrets" involving the design and manufacture of these therapeutics, the disclosure of which is also prohibited under federal law by the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and under state law by Florida Uniform Trade Secrets Act (FUTSA).
We see two potential ways forward: One approach would be to simply redact every stitch of potentially volatile data from the documents before making them publicly available. There are drawbacks to this approach: It would require a massive amount of time and money; we also do not have a perfect picture of what exactly Pfizer, Moderna or the federal courts would consider to be a trade secret; and redacting these data might ultimately limit their scientific and informational value.
The second approach would be to remand these data to the custody of some qualified -129-research institution-perhaps some purpose-built entity within the state university system-with a mandate that allowed qualified researchers to view the data but prevented them from publicly disclosing information in their results that violated these state and federal statutes.
We do wish, however, to emphasize that the legal framework must contain a clear set of guidelines that allow researchers-regardless of bias-access to this evidence. It is our intent to facilitate transparency, not just replace a system with a pro-pharma bias for one with an antipharma bias. Ultimately, we believe that conflicts between the results of different researchers using the same data will reveal the whole story involving the COVID-19 vaccines.
CONCLUSION
This Final Report marks the conclusion of the Twenty-Second Statewide Grand Jury.
Though it was not always easy or comfortable, we have endeavored to execute the task assigned to us by the Florida Supreme Court carefully, thoughtfully and, above all, honestly. We are all aware that this Final Report has highlighted some painful truths about the COVID-19 pandemic, the pharmaceutical industry and our system of vaccine approval and licensing. We are hopeful, however, that our work will not be received as another entry in an ideological war, but a real call for systemic change and rebalancing.
As we said in our First Interim Report, this Statewide Grand Jury can only recommend these changes, we cannot enact them.
It will be up to lawmakers and regulators to address the problems we have found with new laws and new rules, and it will be up to the media and the public to hold those regulators accountable. Our work is done.
Back to the original link:
Requested by Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and authorized by the Florida Supreme Court in December 2022, the grand jury was tasked with looking into whether individuals and entities, “including, but not limited to, pharmaceutical manufacturers (and their executive officers) and other medical associations or organizations” possibly violated state law related to the development, clinical testing, and marketing of the mRNA shots. The jury previously released interim reports in February and May 2024, respectively, which undercut much of the pseudo-science pushed by government “experts” on subjects such as masking, lockdowns, and natural immunity.
Following its investigation, the grand jury ultimately declined to charge any individual or entity in the case after the jurors “did not find any statute that [they] believed would be an appropriate vehicle for a criminal indictment based on the facts” in its final report. The grand jury did, however, note that such a conclusion does not absolve entities of engaging in unethical behavior.
“We want to be abundantly clear that this does not mean we believe the actions of these sponsors were always appropriate, or that the statements they made turned out to be factually correct,” the report reads. “It just means that those actions and statements are not sufficient bases to support criminal prosecutions.”
Despite the lack of criminal charges, the jury did unearth numerous major findings in its report that shine a light on deceptive behavior and actions surrounding the development and promotion of the Covid shots. Here are some of the biggest takeaways from the analysis.
Here's the 8 issues they found:
1. Premature Emergency Approval
2. Disservice to Pregnant Women
3. Failure to Complete Safety Studies
4. Lack of Info on Safety Signals
5. Myocarditis Cover-Up
While maintaining that Vaccine-Related Myocarditis and Pericarditis (VRMP) events are “very rare,” the grand jury disclosed significant findings about such incidents, including the apparent withholding of such information from the American public.
While reports of a potential myocarditis signal associated with the Covid shots first began to emerge in Israel in February 2021, the jurors found that “a less-publicized safety signal for myocarditis” regarding the Pfizer and Moderna jabs “appeared after the United States military began vaccinating its servicemembers.” According to the jury, this information “was not made public until after the VRMP safety signal was confirmed on June 23, 2021” — despite “representatives from Pfizer and Moderna [confirming to the] Grand Jury that several government agencies, including the DOD, were investigating it well before then.”
6. Government Censorship
7. Deceptive Advertising
8. Risks vs. Benefits
Grand Jury Recommendations Despite declining to file indictments against any individual or entity, the grand jury did offer several recommendations for state and federal officials to take to ensure greater accountability in the vaccine-approval process.
Among those at the federal level include suggestions that the FDA “reinstate its pre-1997 ban on the direct-to-consumer advertising of therapeutics,” the federal government to institute policies “impeding the ‘revolving door’ of private-sector employees and lobbyists in and out” of health agencies, and the implementation of rules requiring Big Pharma companies to “publish the anonymized individual patient data — with all their attendant safety, efficacy and immunogenicity information — shortly after [the] granting of any FDA license.”
At the state level, the jury recommended Florida lawmakers make it a crime for failure to comply with a statewide grand jury subpoena, allow statewide grand juries to indict and the Office of Statewide Prosecution to prosecute individuals who commit perjury while testifying before the jury, and provide for a “pre-swearing discovery period” for any statewide grand jury.