In 2017, the Henry Ford Health System made what it, in retrospect, apparently regards as a mistake in commissioning a study to examine the chronic disease rates of unvaccinated children compared to vaccinated children.
The exhaustive work — examining the records of tens of thousands of kids spanning several years — was completed and the results tallied in 2020.
Yet, curiously, the study never saw the light of day, despite, as noted in the text of the study, that it was “reviewed and approved by HFHS’s Institutional Review Board and conducted in accordance with the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology’s Guidelines for Good Pharmacoepidemiology Practices.”
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Furthermore, the researchers had an excellent data set to work with, as the Henry Ford Health System is fully vertically integrated — meaning they already have virtually all the data that could possibly be relevant to their inquiry in-house.
So what whatever could the reason have been for shelving it?
It turns out that the findings run counter to prevailing conventional wisdom that underpins the $29.12 billion vaccine industry.
Via Detroit Free Press (emphasis added):
Henry Ford's research was completed in 2020 and found vaccinated children suffered from such chronic diseases as asthma and eczema, autoimmune diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders at a rate more than twice as high as those who had never been vaccinated, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, said during the Sept. 9 hearing.
Yet, he said, the study was tabled for five years and "suspiciously withheld by the authors," Johnson said, suggesting it was part of a conspiracy to mislead the American people…
The retrospective epidemiological study was led by Dr. Marcus Zervos, head of Henry Ford's division of infectious diseases and medical director of infection control. It included more than 18,000 children born between 2000 and 2016 who had insurance coverage through Henry Ford's Health Alliance Plan (HAP)…
Aaron Siri, the managing partner of the New York-based law firm of Siri & Glimstad LLP, which represents ICAN, alleged the findings detailed in the draft of the study were "shoved in a drawer" for years because "its findings did not fit the belief and the policy that vaccines are safe."
He alleged Zervos was hiding the outcome of the research and refused to allow it to be peer reviewed or submitted to journals because he was afraid of being fired.
A spokesperson for Henry Ford Health declined to allow the Free Press to interview Zervos.
Here is the study itself, which the Henry Ford Health System sat on for five years and which we only have now because Sen. Ron Johnson finagled it into the Congressional record, titled the Impact of Childhood Vaccination on Short and Long-Term Chronic Health Outcomes in Children: A Birth Cohort Study (emphasis added):
Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) is a large, vertically integrated healthcare system, offering primary, pediatric, acute, and specialty services in Metropolitan Detroit, with 4.2 million ambulatory care visits annually. The Health Alliance Plan (HAP), a non-profit health maintenance organization (HMO) and subsidiary of HFHS, has approximately 570,000 enrolled members…
This retrospective study evaluated health outcomes of a consecutive cohort of children born between 2000 and 2016 and enrolled in HAP…
Data sources for this study included medical, clinical and payer records from HFHS and HAP, supplemented with data from the State of Michigan immunization registry. Data tables included encounters (outpatient and emergency), hospitalizations, diagnoses, procedures and billing data on all services. Vaccinations evaluated included all vaccines on the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule (Vaccine Schedule)…
In contrast to our expectations, we found that exposure to vaccination was independently associated with an overall 2.5-fold increase in the likelihood of developing a chronic health condition, when compared to children unexposed to vaccination. This association was primarily driven by increased risk for asthma, atopy, eczema, autoimmune disease and neurodevelopmental disorders. Overall, our findings suggest that in certain children exposure to vaccination may increase the likelihood of developing a chronic health condition, particularly for one of these disorders.
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The Henry Ford Health System’s excuses about methodological errors — even though, again, it had pre-approved the methodology — are predictable. But the lead author, Dr. Marcus Zervos — who, as the Detroit Free Press reporting notes, the Henry Ford Health System has refused access to by the press — offers a bit more of a candid and self-serving rationale caught on hidden camera: “Publishing something like that, I might as well retire. I’d be finished.”
Dr. Marcus Zervos admits he'd "be finished" if he ever published the data from HIS OWN study showing 2.5x increased risk of chronic illness in vaxxed kids vs. unvaxxed kids pic.twitter.com/vlsqUURiKm
— Armageddon Prose (@ArmageddonProse) October 27, 2025
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Why would the author of a study, who no one has ever claimed made any factual errors, be so sure his career would be “finished” if he merely published his findings?
We all know why: the grotesque stranglehold the pharmaceutical industry maintains on The Science™.
