The family of a college student who died from heart inflammation caused by Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has sued President Joe Biden’s administration, alleging that officials engaged in “willful misconduct.”

U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) officials wrongly promoted COVID-19 vaccination by repeatedly claiming that the available vaccines were “safe and effective,” relatives of George Watts Jr. said in the new lawsuit seeking damages.

That promotion “duped millions of Americans, including Mr. Watts, into being DOD’s human subjects in its medical experiment, the largest in modern history,” the suit states.

The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act allows lawsuits against certain people if they have engaged in “willful misconduct” and if that misconduct caused death or serious injury.

COVID-19 vaccines are covered by the act because of a declaration entered during the Trump administration in 2020.

“DOD’s conduct and the harm caused as alleged within the four corners of the lawsuit speaks for itself,” Ray Flores, a lawyer representing the Watts family, told The Epoch Times via email. “I have no further comment other than to say: My only duty is to advocate for my client. If the DOD conveys a settlement offer, I will see that it’s considered.”

The suit was filed in U.S. court in Washington.

As proof that military officials engaged in misconduct, the suit notes that they made statements that run counter to the law. As early as February 2021, for instance, Austin said the vaccines were “safe and effective” despite that they had not been approved.

“Rather than candidly telling the American public that the vaccines were merely ‘authorized’ ... DOD officials intentionally blurred the line between EUA status and licensure as a means to deceive the public into accepting the vaccines as if they had been FDA approved,” the suit states. “The ’safe and effective' mantra was DOD’s ruse to ensure accelerated distribution of their experimental vaccines.”

The U.S. military was deeply involved in efforts to get people vaccinated. Military officials signed the 2020 agreement with Pfizer for hundreds of millions of doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, and military officials helped lead Operation Warp Speed, an $18 billion effort that funded vaccine development and distribution. And the same day Pfizer’s vaccine was approved, Austin announced military members would be required to get vaccinated. The mandate remained in effect until January 2023.

Watts received the vaccine only “because the school otherwise barred him from attending in-person classes,” according to the suit. But he waited until Comirnaty was licensed before going to an appointment on Aug. 27, 2021. When he arrived, though, he received the doses that were issued under emergency authorization, since the newly approved formulation wasn’t yet available.

Officials should have immediately moved to replace the old vaccine doses in light of the approval, the suit claims, noting court rulings that found that the military illegally required an experimental anthrax vaccine.

“DOD continually and knowingly engaged in massive, deliberate deception and exaggeration to create demand in order to push the vaccines into the arms of as many Americans as possible, making the majority of the country (including Mr. Watts) unknowing participants in its mass human experiment,” the suit states.

Epoch Times — 2 June 2023

5. DOD caused accelerated production and then pushed out hundreds of millions of vaccines for hundreds of millions of Americans while engaging in a deliberate and calculated mass-deception campaign specifically designed to obfuscate the fact that OWS’ vaccines weren’t licensed “safe and effective,” were merely experimental, and legally could only be characterized as “may be effective” but could not be pronounced safe.

6. By intentionally blurring the line of the critical distinction between “licensed” and “experimental,” DOD duped millions of Americans, including Mr. Watts, into being DOD’s human subjects in its medical experiment, the largest in modern history. While Mr. Watts cared about the safety of OWS’ vaccines, DOD sadly did not.

7. DOD’s stated goal was to maximize vaccine uptake across all population groups. At all times relevant to the complaint, DOD accomplished its task through ongoing deception that caused the death of Mr. Watts.

32. OWS’ Chief Operating Officer, Army General Gustave Perna urged the healthcare community “to convey a message that these vaccines are safe and efficacious, and that vaccination is important” as a counterpoint to “widespread misinformation” in the general public about vaccines and the lack of need for vaccination against the disease. In fact, DOD intentionally led the spread of misinformation and actively encouraged healthcare providers to join in its deception.

33. General Perna intentionally misled the public about COVID-19 vaccines, claiming they were “safe and effective” despite the lack of any formal FDA licensure (“approval”) to support these claims, yet he continued to “push” the vaccines on the public.

39. Rather than candidly telling the American public that the vaccines were merely “authorized” under the FDA’s EUA criteria—that they were not fully licensed (“approved”) and had not been found to be “safe and effective”—DOD officials intentionally blurred the line between EUA status and licensure as a means to deceive the public into accepting the vaccines as if they had been FDA approved. The “safe and effective” mantra was DOD’s ruse to ensure accelerated distribution of their experimental vaccines.

40. The DOD by then was well aware that their vaccines were the cause of thousands of serious adverse events experienced by people who had been injected with their experimental vaccines. In fact from December 2020 through February 2021, 1,266 Deaths and 3,247 hospitalizations had been reported to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). (See Exh. 5.) The DOD lied when it announced safety and efficacy in light of this damning information.

B. DOD Intentionally Left Only Unlicensed Product in Distribution in the United States at the Time of Mr. Watts’ Death

73. As described below, DOD capitalized on a quintessential “bait and switch” fraud with respect to Pfizer’s legally distinct EUA and FDA licensed COVID-19 vaccines.

C. DOD Intentionally Blurred the Line Between Licensed and Experimental

81. The EUA vaccine that killed Mr. Watts was never FDA licensed, and never proven safe and effective—rather it had already been proven deadly. DOD knew full well that an EUA vaccine can only lawfully be characterized as “may be effective,”30 as was the investigational anthrax vaccine the DOD illegally pushed on its service members in the 1990’s.

D. DOD’s Actions Constitute Human Experimentation Without Consent

85. DOD’s concealed, vast scope of the COVID-19 vaccine experiment it foisted on the public free of charge with detailed records kept, and DOD’s repeated, illegal false assurances of safety and effectiveness furthered its nefarious aim of widespread public acceptance. DOD’s intended wrongful purpose was non-consensual American human experimentation.

86. DOD continually and knowingly engaged in massive, deliberate deception and exaggeration to create demand in order to push the vaccines into the arms of as many Americans as possible, making the majority of the country (including Mr. Watts) unknowing participants in its mass human experiment.