by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2026 Non-AI Real World News

In May 2021, then-acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock warned Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins that systems tracking side effects from the Covid shots were not working and warned that a failure to thoroughly research those side effects “will come back to bite your,” newly released emails show.

Woodcock wrote to Fauci and Collins to encourage a study into reports she had received of adverse events after the Covid injection. Woodcock had received many of these reports from “healthcare professionals,” she wrote in the email released by Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson that were obtained from Fauci’s government email.

“The symptoms do not fit together into a distinctive syndrome and most are not easily quantifiable or evaluated with standard laboratory testing,” she wrote in the May 27, 2021 correspondence. “Clearly during mass vaccination you will get a lot of psychological reactions and it is hard to sort these things out. But the peoples’ main complaint is that no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them, and there is no effort to study this.”

Woodcock advised that research should be conducted even if the companies producing the shots did not support it.

“I doubt the industry would support, for obvious reasons,” she wrote in the email. “But my experience is, that if you let a problem fester, then it will come back to bite you later and you are not prepared.”

Woodcock warned that the existing safety surveillance systems at the FDA and CDC were not sophisticated enough to adequately detect and describe some side effects from the jab.

“These problems are not the sort that a system like VAERS would be able to detect, or even a more sophisticated population-based active followup such as CDC has, or a medical record based system such as BEST [an FDA safety surveillance system],” Woodcock wrote.

Regarding Woodock’s email, Fauci noted to Collins that “we cannot ignore her” and suggested alerting then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.

“Janet [Woodcock] asks what we think of this? We cannot ignore her. We should probably bring in CDC and see what Rochelle [Walensky] thinks,” he wrote.

Johnson’s office noted in a press release that it’s not clear whether Fauci or Collins ever brought in Walensky on the matter.

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