AMERICANS FOR HEALTH FREEDOM | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 21, 2026 Media Contact: Trevor Fitzgibbon 704-775-0487, TrevorFG@protonmail.com Americans for Health Freedom Tucker Carlson, Massie and Greene Join Doctors Warning Trump: Ban mRNA Shots or Lose the MAHA Vote Coalition of physicians, scientists and vaccine-injured families — with more than 63 million combined social-media followers — tells the White House and HHS Secretary Kennedy the health-freedom bloc will back challengers unless mRNA products are pulled from the market WASHINGTON — Tucker Carlson, Rep. Thomas Massie, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and more than 100 physicians, scientists and parents of vaccine-injured children have delivered a formal warning to President Donald J. Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: remove mRNA COVID-19 shots and related gene-therapy products from the U.S. market or lose the Make America Healthy Again vote. The letter, organized by Americans for Health Freedom and a network of community physicians, says continued inaction on what signatories call the centerpiece of the health-freedom agenda will drive that bloc toward electoral challengers in the midterms and in 2028. The organizers put the coalition’s combined social-media reach at more than 63 million followers. “The removal of mRNA shots has been the central goal of the MAHA and health-freedom agenda, yet you have not taken decisive action despite credible evidence of harm,” the signatories wrote. “If you continue to ignore the centerpiece of our policy agenda — removing all mRNA products covered by PREP Act emergency declarations entirely from the market — you will pay a political price.” What the Letter Says Is Incomplete The coalition argues that current HHS, CDC and FDA policy undercuts the health-freedom platform the administration campaigned on. The letter cites, among other objections: • Continued administration of COVID mRNA shots to more than 50 million Americans this year, including an estimated 7 million children, which the authors say proceeds without studies showing prevention of hospitalization or death and amid data they say document severe harms, including pediatric deaths acknowledged by the FDA; • The appointment of Erica Schwartz to lead the CDC after she told the Senate that mRNA technology is safe and effective; • Approval of a new mRNA influenza shot that, the letter says, was not tested against a true placebo, lacks long-term safety data and did not measure hospitalization or death; • A $1.24 billion HHS contract award to Pfizer for future mRNA products, including products for children; • No meaningful federal assistance for people the coalition says were injured by mRNA shots; • The CDC’s failure to publish current cancer statistics amid claims of rising incidence the signatories link to the shots; and • Failure to enforce manufacturers’ contractual duty to report adverse events to VAERS. The letter also criticizes an Aug. 10, 2026, executive order that reduced the childhood schedule from 17 to 11 vaccine types while elevating pneumococcal and HPV shots into a “universal core recommendation” and adopting “shared decision-making” language the authors call constitutionally corrosive. Signatories cite Merck’s reported $50 million Gardasil settlement with plaintiffs who alleged autoimmunity. Evidence Cited and Six Demands The authors write that more than 4,550 peer-reviewed publications, Pfizer documents obtained in litigation by attorney Aaron Siri, VAERS and V-safe data, and foreign-government datasets already document “catastrophic levels of deaths and serious injuries,” including reproductive harm they describe as an approximately 400 percent increase in miscarriage rates. They say pregnancy remains listed as a high-risk category in revised FDA policy even after CDC recommendation language changed, and that the American Academy of Pediatrics continues to recommend mRNA shots for infants. A Children’s Health Defense citizen petition seeking to relabel Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 products as EUA countermeasures rather than fully approved vaccines has been pending at HHS since Dec. 8, 2025, and has drawn more than 104,000 public comments, the letter says. The PREP Act emergency declaration remains in force through Dec. 31, 2029. The coalition asks the president and the secretary to take six near-term steps: 1. Ban mRNA and gene therapy–derived technologies for all vaccines, citing what signatories call demonstrated failure on safety, efficacy and disease prevention after more than four years and billions of doses; 2. Terminate the PREP Act declaration for COVID injections on the grounds that no emergency exists; 3. Recommend that Congress repeal the PREP Act entirely because of constitutional conflicts; 4. Ban pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising, as every country except the United States and New Zealand already does; 5. Review and revise HHS policies the letter says create perverse incentives for medical coercion, including vaccination; and 6. End conflicts of interest at the CDC, FDA, NIH and NIAID. Political Warning Signatories say they will recruit candidates at the state level and support challengers and sponsors of related federal legislation. They describe the MAHA and health-freedom vote as a historic swing bloc without which neither major party could have prevailed. Lead signatory Mary Talley Bowden, M.D., of Americans for Health Freedom, the Independent Medical Alliance and the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, is joined by Independent Medical Alliance President and CMO Joseph Varon, M.D.; McCullough Foundation President Peter A. McCullough, M.D.; cardiologist Aseem Malhotra, M.D.; Robert W. Malone, M.D., M.S.; Jill Glasspool Malone, Ph.D.; Ryan Cole, M.D.; Sean Troxclair, M.D., Louisiana’s deputy surgeon general; Vaccine Safety Research Foundation founder Steven Kirsch; evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein, Ph.D.; investigator Sasha Latypova; comedian Jimmy Dore; Tucker Carlson; former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene; Minnesota State Rep. Shane Mekeland; parents of vaccine-injured children including Allen and Taylor Martin and Dan Hartman; React19 Co-Chair Joel Wallskog, M.D.; and more than 100 additional physicians, nurses and advocates listed on the published letter. The letter was inspired by medical-freedom leaders including former pharmaceutical executive Sasha Latypova and Jack Jasper and Andy Schmitt of Paradox Press. The full letter and growing list of signatories are posted at americansforhealthfreedom.org/letter-to-kennedy. ### About Americans for Health Freedom Americans for Health Freedom is a national advocacy organization working with physicians, scientists and grassroots medical-freedom groups to restore informed consent, end liability shields for emergency medical products, and remove what it regards as unsafe genetic-vaccine platforms from the U.S. market. Media note: Interview requests for Dr. Mary Talley Bowden and other signatories may be directed through Americans for Health Freedom. The letter is available for reprint with attribution. Get full access to Dangerous Misinformation at drbowden.substack.com/subscribe