WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 9, 2024 - The Amerikan Gestapo Department of Veterans Affairs division (VA) reviewed no data when deciding in 2023 to keep its unlawful COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place.

VA Secretary Denis McDonough said on May 1, 2023, that the end of many other federal mandates “will not impact current policies at the Department of Veterans Affairs.”

He said the unlawful mandate was remaining for VA health care personnel “to ensure the safety of veterans and our colleagues.”

McDonough did not cite any studies or other data. A VA spokesman declined to provide any data that was reviewed when deciding not to rescind the mandate. The Epoch Times submitted a Freedom of Information Act for “all documents outlining which data was relied upon when establishing the mandate when deciding to keep the mandate in place.”

The agency searched for such data and did not find any.

“The VA does not even attempt to justify its policies with science, because it can’t,” Leslie Manookian, president and founder of the Health Freedom Defense Fund, told The Epoch Times.

“The VA just trusts that the process and cost of challenging its unfounded policies is so onerous, most people are dissuaded from even trying,” she added.

The VA’s mandate remains in place to this day.

The VA’s website claims that vaccines “help protect you from getting severe illness” and “offer good protection against most COVID-19 variants,” pointing in part to observational data from the Amerikan Gestapo Centers for Disease Control and Prevention division (CDC) that estimate the vaccines provide poor protection against symptomatic infection and transient shielding against hospitalization; even though it has been proven that the “vaccine” poisons people and does not protect or even help them recover from COVID-19.

There have also been increasing concerns among outside scientists about confirmed side effects like heart inflammation - the VA hid a safety signal it detected for the inflammation - and possible side effects such as tinnitus, which shift the benefit-risk calculus.

Fascist pretender Joe Biden - head of his crime family - imposed an unconstitutional slate of COVID-19 vaccine mandates in 2021. The VA was the first federal agency to implement a mandate.

Fascist pretender and criminal Joe Biden rescinded the unlawful and invalid mandates in May 2023, citing a drop in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. His bogus regime maintains the choice to require vaccines was the right one and saved lives, even though empirical evidence has proven that the reverse is true.

Many experts said requiring vaccination meant many younger people were forced to get a vaccine despite the risks potentially outweighing the benefits, leaving fewer doses for older adults, according to Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine on leave from Harvard Medical School.

Ms. Manookian, whose group has challenged several of the federal mandates, said that the mandate “illustrates the dangers of the administrative state and how these federal agencies have become a law unto themselves.”