Former President Donald Trump has called on pharmaceutical companies to release their safety data for COVID-19 vaccines, stating: “If they have facts… they should be made public immediately. People should understand that and they should know what [the] research is showing, and what fact-finding is.”
In response to President Joe Biden’s push for funding a new COVID-19 vaccine, Trump cautioned, “…I hadn’t heard what he said yet— but anything new has got to be looked at very carefully.”
A study by the renowned Frontiers in Immunology found that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can ‘reprogram’ children’s immune systems for up to six months after vaccination, impacting the body’s ability to counteract other pathogens.
Trump emphasized that pharmaceutical companies have a duty “to be honest with the numbers”, adding, “If they are going to hold back, that means they’re holding back something that’s not good. So it’s good for them to be honest and people are going to understand that they have to be honest, and any information – they have to release it.”
Transparency and the disclosing of truthful information regarding the COVID-19 vaccines has been a problem during Joe Biden’s presidency. Emails obtained by Congress show the Biden White House successfully pressured Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Instagram platforms into censoring and/or removing content related to COVID-19 vaccines, including “humorous or satirical jokes” and even “true information about side effects.”