Senator Dr. Rand Paul (KY) testifies on Retailers & Entertainers Lacey Implementation & Enforcement Fairness Act & Freedom from Over-Criminalization & Unjust Seizures Act, at the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May 8, 2012. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
During Senate testimony by Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, Sen. Rand Paul grilled the executive over the company’s COVID-19 vaccine and its side effects, including myocarditis. When Bancel denied that the vaccine leads to higher rates of myocarditis, Paul surprised him with inside information. Chris Enloe reports for The Blaze:
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) confronted Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel on Wednesday over the occurrences of myocarditis in young men who take the COVID-19 vaccine.
While public health officials downplay the risk of young men ages 16-24 developing myocarditis, or inflation of the heart muscle, after receiving the COVID vaccine, the potential vaccine side effect has received a lot of attention in scientific studies.
At a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, Paul wasted no time when it was his turn to question Bancel.
“Is there a higher interest or a higher incidence of myocarditis among adolescent males 16 to 24 after taking your vaccine?” the Kentucky Republican asked Bancel.
When Bancel tried not to answer the question, Paul reminded him the answer should be “a yes or no,” and he asked the question again. This time Bancel addressed it and pushed the dominant narrative about myocarditis and the COVID-19 vaccine.
“The data from the CDC actually have shown that there’s less myocarditis for people who get the vaccine versus who get COVID infection,” Bancel said.
When Paul followed up to clarify Bancel’s answer, the Moderna CEO reiterated his answer. Paul responded by entering into the congressional record six peer-reviewed studies showing that Bancel’s answer is not correct.
“That is not true,” Paul told Bancel. “And I’d like to enter into the record six peer-reviewed papers from the Journal of Vaccine, the Annals of Medicine that say the complete opposite of what you say.”
Sen. @RandPaul & Moderna CEO exchange on COVID vaccine and myocarditis.
Paul: “I spoke with your president just last week and he readily acknowledged, in private, that yes there is an increased risk of myocarditis. The fact that you can’t say it in public is quite disturbing.” pic.twitter.com/z856U9BasV
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 22, 2023
That’s when Paul revealed he recently spoke with the president of Moderna, who allegedly acknowledged the myocarditis risk that Bancel said does not exist.
“I spoke with your president just last week, and he readily acknowledged, in private, that, yes, there is an increased risk of myocarditis,” Paul said. “The fact that you can’t say it in public is quite disturbing.”
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