(WND)—A U.S. senator is demanding that the COVID-19 shot injuries suffered by so many people during and after the pandemic involving the China virus be given a disease classification.

That’s so that insurance companies and doctors have the proper process for patient harms to be reimbursed.

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In a report at Just the News, said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., “Trump’s [Department of Health and Human Services] has to acknowledge that these injection injuries are real. They’ve got to create an ICD code so the doctors can get reimbursed.”

Such systems are required by insurance companies to verify the necessity and appropriateness of medical treatments and to provide for reimbursement.

They also, the report said, provide for a standardized framework worldwide for recording causes of medical issues.

The shots, actually DNA treatments and not vaccines at all, were linked almost immediately to a wide range of side effects, including heart problems, that resulted in many deaths.

His call for action follows an investigation of 11 million pages of COVID-19 vaccine surveillance data, which prompted Senate hearings by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Johnson also has presented evidence suggesting that the administration of Joe Biden “hid safety signals and led to thousands of adverse events and death,” the report said.

Those injections did not go through the ordinary testing that new medications have, being authoritized for use by the Food and Drug Administration under the Emergency Use Authorizations.

Ron Johnson: "The injection-injured — they need to be recognized, they need to be treated. I've talked to those groups, the injection-injured. Psychologically, they are at a low point. Suicides are up." pic.twitter.com/NmMGAuyWvq

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 10, 2026

Johnson explained, “These are not vaccines. These things, mRNA, used to be classified as gene therapy because they are gene therapy.”

Johnson explained as soon as those injections were being delivered, often forced under government and corporation requirements, the FDA immediate was “inundated” with reports of suidden death.

In fact, the report said, Dr. Ana Szarfman, an FDA biostatistician who worked on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System’s interaction with COVID, had warned FDA official Peter Marks its flawed algorithm was masking safety signals.

Among the side effects found, actually, were “cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, Bell’s palsy, and various types of strokes,” the report said.

Johnson said that failed algorithm, which hides problems, remains in use.

“This is why I say this is the biggest government scandal in my lifetime, because had people known, had doctors been made aware, had the news big media been made aware, members of Congress been made aware, would we push the shot on everybody?”

Some 1.7 million adverse events, including 39,000 deaths, were reported to VAERS, one quarter happening within a day or two of the shots.

And, Johnson, said, “we found out later that the vaccine didn’t stop transmission.”

The American Medical Association continues to claim the COVID-19 shots are safe and effective.

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