It’s long past time to deal with the core problem that persists from the Covid era: the remaining EUA and the PREP Act. These must be revoked if we are to finally put an end to our long nightmare.
The mRNA injections that were produced ostensibly to end the Covid crisis were released under Emergency Use Authorization under the PREP Act (Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005), invoked by President Trump on March 17, 2020.
The HHS Secretary at the time was Alex Azar. The EUA was made retroactive to February 4, 2020. After all, the shots were already in progress since at least January 2020. Indeed, as we all now realize, the pathogen and countermeasure were inseparable products.
Fast forward more than five years. The EUA that granted authorization for use and full immunity to those experimental injections is still in effect.
In April 2023, Joe Biden – or whoever was running the country/driving the autopen at the time – officially signed legislation ending the Covid-19 Emergency, which took effect May 11, 2023. However, back on March 15, 2023, then-HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra had already extended the EUAs regarding Covid indefinitely, and those EUAs continue to this day.
This illogical extension was possible because US law allows for a continuation of PREP Act EUAs even after the emergency is officially over, provided there is “significant potential for a public health emergency.”
The EUA extension should have ended on the first day of the new Trump administration. Instead, it has inexplicably been allowed to persist for over four months.
By law, the EUAs will continue until the HHS Secretary ends them at his discretion, or until the threat of an emergency has passed – which any sane person would agree happened long ago.
Why does this matter?
The Becerra extension continues to provide for PREP Act EUAs for literally hundreds of products. EUAs persist for Covid vaccines, medications, tests and diagnostics, personal protective equipment, and other products.
Allowing the now well-documented and massive waste, graft, and fraud that abounded for the last five years surrounding Covid test kits, PPE, and other products to continue is bad enough.
With regard to Covid mRNA vaccines, the situation would be laughable were it not murderous.
Consider: No Covid vaccines have full FDA approval for use in children under age 12. None.
Both the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine (2024-2025 formula) and the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine (2024-2025 formula) – both tailored to the outdated Omicron KP.2 strain – have no full FDA approval for children 6 months to 11 years of age. These shots are only allowed in young children at all due to the Becerra-extended EUA.
Of course, Covid hardly ever kills children, or even makes them seriously ill. Even at the height of the pandemic, an article in the prestigious journal Nature described pediatric Covid deaths as “incredibly rare.” A very large population-based Korean study from 2023 found a death rate in children from Covid of only 0.85 in 100,000 cases. A child is 7 times as likely to be struck by lightning as they are to die of a Covid infection.
Multiple studies have shown an excess incidence of myocarditis after Covid mRNA vaccination, especially in young males, ranging from 6 to 37 extra cases per 100,000 vaccinated individuals.
In a country the size of the United States, this constitutes a completely avoidable vaccine-induced epidemic of serious heart disease numbering in the tens of thousands. Myocarditis kills. And this is only one of the mRNA shots’ established toxicities.
In other words, all mRNA Covid shots in the US permitted to be given to young children use an outdated formula, lack full FDA approval, and are given only because they are allowed under an outdated EUA. Under this utterly bogus framework, they are still being administered to kids, even though the risk-benefit calculus for doing so is astronomically unfavorable.
The Novavax Covid-19 vaccine (while not mRNA) has never received full FDA approval for any age group, and only remains in use due to the Becerra-extended EUA as well. (One may surmise that this is allowed to provide for a non-mRNA option, but the authorization problem remains the same.)
Even the deeply feared Covid-19 inpatient medicine remdesivir (aka “run-death-is-near”) retains EUA status for use in children under 12. Like the mRNA injections, it has never received full FDA approval in this age group.
This is deeply wrong, and the Trump administration, which appears to lack focus on this problem, now bears full responsibility for any and all harms that result.
The Covid emergency is long over. Even Biden’s autopen said so, way back in 2023.
The Covid nightmare cannot go on forever. Therefore, it must stop. But the only way to stop it completely is to shut down the remaining government machinery remaining in effect that allows it to continue.
The longer the Trump administration allows the Becerra EUA extension to persist, the more it takes ownership of it, and the more it assumes responsibility for its expensive, destructive, and deadly consequences.
I say this to the Trump administration as a friend and ally, who is grateful for the positive developments that it has brought both within healthcare and beyond. True friends give honest advice. Here is mine.
To the Trump administration: you now own the Becerra-extended Covid EUAs, and all the fallout that is derived from them moving forward. I assure you, nobody in your base of support wants them to continue. Nobody.
I am certain that Secretary Kennedy would want to end them. Other appointees under him surely agree.
Every child who is harmed by an EUA-allowed Covid mRNA vaccine belongs to your administration now. Every residual penny of fraud, waste, abuse, and petty tyranny facilitated by the Becerra-extended EUAs is now your responsibility.
As you have done many times before, do what is right for the American people. End our long national Covid nightmare. For the love of God, end the Covid EUAs.
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