J&J scientist says Covid vaccine was rushed, not ‘safe and effective’: OMG

In a video released by James O'Keefe's O'Keefe Media Group (OMG), J&J scientist Joshua Rys was seen in undercover footage discussing the rushed development process of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine. "Do you have any idea the lack of research that was done on those products?" Rys says in the video. “People wanted it. We gave it to them.”

Rys went on to explain, "None of that stuff was safe and effective. So we didn’t do typical tests. The typical process takes so long to get a product on the market. The typical process is all this clinical trial testing and stuff in a small population. This was just, 'let’s test it on some lab-rat models, analyze, see if it works, and just throw it to the wind and see what happens.'"

The undercover footage concludes with Rys stating, "I'm sure somebody's going to get sued for that stuff eventually."

After the covert portion of the video, O'Keefe confronted Rys directly, questioning him about his comments.

The Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 vaccine has not been available in the United States since their first vaccine was released and subsequently pulled in 2021. In May 2023, all remaining doses expired, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) instructed healthcare providers to dispose of them.

The J&J vaccine was promoted as a one-dose alternative to the two-dose regimens of Pfizer and Moderna. However, its use sharply declined after a number of recipients developed a serious clotting disorder known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS).

By late 2021, the CDC began favoring the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. In May 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) restricted access to the J&J vaccine, limiting it to adults who could not receive other vaccines for medical reasons or who specifically requested it.