Judicial Watch: Obama Administration Detail Mandate of Covid-19 Vaccinations for 17 Million Health Care Workers

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it received 91 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that reveal its plans to mandate Covid-19 vaccinations for 17 million health care employees and that only one of 4,682 claims for injuries and deaths due to Covid-19 “countermeasures” at the time was compensated.

Judicial Watch filed the September 2024 lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after Health and Human Services failed to respond to a July 2024 FOIA request for the records of Levine and other officials regarding the removal of the minimum age for the treatment of children in the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s (WPATH) 2022 standards of care (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 1:24-cv-02588)).

They include a November 4, 2021, “Memorandum for the Cabinet Secretary” prepared for Biden administration Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra that reveals a “CLOSE HOLD” (emphasis in original) disclosure that Health and Human Services planned to mandate that 17 million health care employees receive the Covid-19 vaccine:

On November 4^th, CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] will release an emergency regulation requiring staff vaccinations for 15 specific health care provider and supplier types participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs to address the urgent need to protect patients against COVID-19. These requirements will apply to approximately 50,000 providers and cover more than 17 million health care workers…. Sixty days after the publication of the regulation, staff for all health care provider and supplier types included in the regulation must be fully vaccinated.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services mandated the Covid vaccine for all its facilities in November 2021.

The memo additionally describes “Covid-19 Compensation Claims:”

As of November 1st, 4,682 claims alleging injuries/deaths from COVID-19 countermeasures have been filed with the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, including 2,229 claims alleging injuries from COVID-19 vaccines; an increase of 133 in total claims over the prior week. About 90 percent of claims are awaiting medical records for review. To date, 91 claims are in medical review, 3 claims have been denied compensation, 1 claim has been determined medically eligible for compensation; however, the program is still working with the claimant to obtain the necessary information to determine the compensation amount.

The memo discusses an “Office of Population Affairs” (OPA) that is involved in “family planning.” The office was to receive $35 million “to support telehealth enhancement and expansion in the Title X program to mitigate access barriers to quality family planning services for clients, especially for vulnerable and hard to reach populations.”

The memo describes a special Covid vaccine testing program in “Indian Country” within the United States:

Vaccines and Testing in Indian Country: IHS [Indian Health Service], tribal, and urban Indian program sites receiving the vaccine through the IHS have reported administering 1,722,756 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine as of October 31^st

The memo makes multiple references to the Biden administration’s “Build Back Better” initiative. In discussing “underserved communities,” the memo references “ACF ECD [Administration for Children and Families / Early Childhood Development] Discusses Build Back Better Agenda at Tribal Consultation.”

“These new documents are an astonishing example of Biden regime maliciousness on Covid vaccine mandates. The same ‘close hold’ plan to mandate Covid vaccines also details thousands of vaccine injury claims,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

Judicial Watch is the national leader in exposing key information about fraud, abuse, and government secrets about Covid-19:

• Records uncovered in 2024 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) through a FOIA request showed an April 2020 email exchange with several officials in the bureau’s Newark Field Office referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China as including “gain-of-function research” which “would leave no signature of purposeful human manipulation.”

• Records from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) showed that a Pfizer study surveyed 23 people in 2021 to gauge reactions to its Covid vaccine booster before asking the FDA to approve it.
• Records from the Health and Human Services included the initial grant application and annual reports to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from EcoHealth Alliance, describing the aim of its work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to create mutant viruses “to better predict the capacity of our CoVs [coronaviruses] to infect people.”
• Health and Human Services records included emails of then-Director of the National Institutes of Health Francis Collins showing a British physicians’ group recommended the use of Ivermectin to prevent and treat Covid-19.

• Records from Health and Human Services regarding data Moderna submitted to the Food and Drug Administration on its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine indicated a “statistically significant” number of rats were born with skeletal deformations after their mothers were injected with the vaccine. The documents also revealed Moderna elected not to conduct a number of standard pharmacological studies on the laboratory test animals.

• Food and Drug Administration records detailed pressure for Covid-19 vaccine booster approval and use.
• NIH records revealed an FBI “inquiry” into the NIH’s controversial bat coronavirus grant tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The records also show National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) officials were concerned about “gain-of-function” research in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2016. The Fauci agency was also concerned about EcoHealth Alliance’s lack of compliance with reporting rules and use of gain-of-function research in the NIH-funded research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China.
• HHS records revealed that from 2014 to 2019, $826,277 was given to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research by the NIAID.
• NIAID records showed that it gave nine China-related grants to EcoHealth Alliance to research coronavirus emergence in bats and was the NIH’s top issuer of grants to the Wuhan lab itself. The records also included an email from the vice director of the Wuhan Lab asking an NIH official for help finding disinfectants for decontamination of airtight suits and indoor surfaces.
• HHS records included an “urgent for Dr. Fauci ” email chain, citing ties between the Wuhan lab and the taxpayer-funded EcoHealth Alliance. The government emails also reported that the foundation of U.S. billionaire Bill Gates worked closely with the Chinese government to pave the way for Chinese-produced medications to be sold outside China and help “raise China’s voice of governance by placing representatives from China on important international counsels as high level commitment from China.”
• HHS records included a grant application for research involving the coronavirus that appeared to describe “gain-of-function” research involving RNA extractions from bats, experiments on viruses, attempts to develop a chimeric virus and efforts to genetically manipulate the full-length bat SARSr-CoV WIV1 strain molecular clone.
• HHS records showed the State Department and NIAID knew immediately in January 2020 that China was withholding COVID data, which was hindering risk assessment and response by public health officials.
• University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) records showed the former director of the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Dr. James W. Le Duc warned Chinese researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology of potential investigations into the Covid issue by Congress.
• HHS records regarding biodistribution studies and related data for the Covid-19 vaccines showed a key component of the vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech, lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), were found outside the injection site, mainly the liver, adrenal glands, spleen and ovaries of test animals, eight to 48 hours after injection.
• Records from the Federal Select Agent Program (FSAP) revealed safety lapses and violations at U.S. biosafety laboratories that conduct research on dangerous agents and toxins.
• HHS records included emails between National Institutes of Health (NIH) then-Director Francis Collins and Fauci, the director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), about hydroxychloroquine and Covid-19.
• HHS records showed that NIH officials tailored confidentiality forms to China’s terms and that the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted an unreleased, “strictly confidential” Covid-19 epidemiological analysis in January 2020.
• Fauci emails included his approval of a press release supportive of China’s response to the 2019 novel coronavirus.
• Judicial Watch’s four-part documentary regarding the coordinated effort by the government and Big Tech to censor and suppress information on topics such as Hunter Biden’s laptop, Covid-19, and election debates is available here.

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