This month, nine officers from five branches of the military signed and submitted to Congress a whistleblower report claiming the Department of Defense’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate is unlawful.
In the report, the officers said they were compelled to submit the report “under the Military Whistleblower Protection Act (10USC § 1034) as duty requires us to advocate for the rights of all American citizens and for the rights of service members across all branches of the Armed Forces.” They continued:
Since 24 August 2021, the Department of Defense (DoD) has unlawfully administered Emergency Use Authorized (EUA) products (i.e., products authorized but not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)) as if they were fully licensed FDA approved products. Military members have not been allowed to exercise their legal right to refuse EUA products, despite the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) assertion that “Comirnaty-labeled” vaccines only became available for the DoD to order on 20 May 2022. Evidence also exists that the new “Comirnaty-labeled” products are not FDA approved in accordance with applicable laws.”
The report disclosed that at least one vaccine lot number — FW1331 — was manufactured at a location that was not FDA approved. The whistleblowers also alleged that this lot number, which was printed on a vaccine vial labeled “Comirnaty,” appeared on a CDC database that lists Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) vaccine lot numbers.
The whistleblowers got the attention of U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who sent a letter to Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Lloyd Austin, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky regarding concerns about mislabeling and unauthorized manufacturing connected to Covid-19 vaccines at military bases.
Sen. Johnson wrote, the “DoD, FDA, and CDC must provide a thorough explanation for why a vaccine lot with the ‘Comirnaty’ label would be listed on a database that is meant to display vaccine lots associated with the EUA.”
As reported by The Center Square:
Although the FDA issued approval for Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine in August 2021, none of the FDA-approved vaccines were available. FDA documents dated November 2021 stated: “In the U.S., there are no licensed vaccines or antiviral drugs for the prevention of COVID-19.”
Furthermore, the FDA said the EUA-authorized Pfizer vaccines were “legally distinct” from the FDA-approved Comirnaty vaccines that were unavailable for service members in the U.S.
“The licensed vaccine has the same formulation as the EUA-authorized vaccine and the products can be used interchangeably to provide the vaccination series without presenting any safety or effectiveness concerns. The products are legally distinct with certain differences that do not impact safety or effectiveness,” the FDA said.
Even with only having the EUA products available, service members who refused to receive a Covid-19 vaccine said the DOD still illegally mandated them to be vaccinated.
One of the whistleblowers wrote, “The DoD cannot claim ignorance with regard to the legal differences between an EUA product and a licensed product that purports to be medically interchangeable but has not become statutorily interchangeable.”
It’s been a rough ride recently for the military, as their personnel have been pushing back on the Covid-19 vaccine mandate. Just last week we reported that Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit on behalf of Marines who were being kicked out of the Corps for not complying with the Covid-19 vaccine mandate. Within hours of the filing, U.S. District Court Judge Steven Merryday issued a 48-page ruling that granted class-action status for all active and reserve U.S. Marine Corps servicemen and women.
To add to the military’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate woes, the Coast Guard Academy and West Point cadets who are unvaccinated are now battling their service academies’ threats to disenroll them. Cadets seeking religious exemption from the military’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate have been ordered to vacate the campus within 24 hours of receiving notification of final military adjudication of their cases and given no further details regarding their future in the service.
The vaccine mandate instituted by the DOD and led by the commander-in-chief, Biden, is continuing to wreak havoc across all branches of the military and service academies. As shared in the report:
The military is hemorrhaging outstanding military men and women of conscience, who are attempting to defend the rule of law at great personal cost. The DoD has unlawfully discharged thousands of service members for exercising their legal right to decline emergency use products. Ensuring timely DoD adherence to U.S. law requires Congressional action. As the oversight authority, you have the ability to investigate the HHS Secretary’s recurring declarations of emergency, as well as potential crimes associated with unlawful administration of EUA products and biologic product labeling fraud. Failure to take swift action will cause continued, irreversible harm to the basic human rights of American citizens while further damaging our national security.
What happens next will change the future of our military personnel forever — and potentially weaken their ability to defend our nation.
