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Whistleblower Disputes Data Glitch Explanation Behind Drastic Increase in
Non-Infectious Diseases in Military

https://www.theepochtimes.com/drastic-increase-in-non-infectious-diseases-in-military-explained-as-data-glitch-whistleblower_4681292.html

Whistleblower faces involuntary separation from Army

A medical Army officer who discovered a sudden increase in disease
coinciding with reports of side effects alongside COVID-19
vaccines—which the Army has dismissed as a data glitch—said he faces
involuntary separation after being convicted but not punished for
disobeying COVID-19 protocol.

In January 2022, First Lt. Mark Bashaw, a preventive medicine officer at
the Army, started noticing some “alarming signals” within the defense
epidemiological database.

The Defense Medical Epidemiology Database ([144]DMED), which tracks
disease and injuries of 1.3 million active component service members,
showed during the pandemic a significant increase in reports of cancers,
myocarditis, and pericarditis; as well as some other diseases like male
infertility, tumors, a lung disease caused by blood clots, and HIV, Bashaw
said.

Several of these illnesses are listed in FDA documentation as potential
adverse reactions associated with COVID-19 vaccines, Bashaw told
EpochTV’s “[145]Crossroads” program in an interview on Aug. 1.

Seeing increases in cases of these illnesses as high as 50 percent or 100
percent in some situations, Bashaw stepped forward as a whistleblower to
raise concerns about his findings.

Bashaw’s [146]whistleblower declaration, submitted to Sen. Ron Johnson
(R-Wis.) who is facilitating the sharing of information from early
investigations of COVID-19 products with Congress, said he saw the
increasing incidence of these disorders observed in DMED as “very
troubling.”

Specifically, the number of cancer cases among active service members in
2021 nearly tripled in comparison with the average number of cancer
instances per year from 2016 to 2020, Bashaw said in his declaration.

Bashaw’s responsibilities as a preventive medicine officer, with a
specialty in entomology, include “participating in fact-finding
inquiries and investigations to determine potential public health risk to
DoD [Department of Defense] personnel from diseases caused by insects and
other non-battle related injuries.”

Glitch in DMED

[147]Epoch Times Photo[148]Epoch Times Photo Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
speaks during a hearing in Washington on Jan. 24, 2022. (Drew
Angerer/Getty Images)

A week after this information was brought out in January in a “COVID-19:
Second Opinion” roundtable [149]organized by Johnson, the data in DMED
changed, Bashaw said, and all of these troubling spikes in diseases and
injuries “seemed to have disappeared and been realigned with previous
years.”

Curiously, the glitch didn't affect the data from 2021, which remained the
same. Instead, the corrected data saw the data for prior years increased,
which made the 2021 data look normal and in line with the running average,
Bashaw explained.

In response to the whistleblower claims, spokesperson for the health
agency of the Department of Defense Peter Graves [150]told The Epoch
Times that the data in DMED “was incorrect for the years 2016-2020,”
so the system was taken offline to correct the root cause of the data
corruption, which didn't impact data from 2021.

After the roundtable, Johnson sent [151]three letters to the Department of
Defense (DoD) requesting an explanation of the sudden increase in medical
diagnosis and the changes in the DMED data.

“The concern is that these increases may be related to the COVID-19
vaccines that our servicemen and women have been mandated to take,”
Johnson said in [152]one of his letters.

The senator also sent a [153]letter to the technology company that manages
DMED asking for clarification of all data integrity issues uncovered in
the database.

Although Johnson received some [154]responses from the tech company, there
has not been still a “solid, rational explanation” as to why a glitch
occurred in the database and what it was, Bashaw said.

After the glitch, Bashaw pulled out data from the Vaccine Adverse Event
Reporting System ([155]VAERS) for injuries related to viral vaccines to
compare to his findings on DMED. He compared the average of the last 24
years to data for 2021 and found an eleven-fold increase in the number of
suspected adverse incidents reported in 2021.

"I compared it to the average of the last 24 years, it's a 1,100 percent
increase in 2021. And the only difference we had in 2021 was the rollout
of these experimental emergency use authorized COVID-19 vaccines,”
Bashaw said.

[156]VAERS is managed by agencies of the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) and serves as “a national early warning system to detect
possible safety problems in U.S.-licensed vaccines,” according to
HHS’s website.

Though reporting to VAERS is voluntary for individuals, “healthcare
professionals are required to report certain adverse events, and vaccine
manufacturers are required to report all adverse events that come to their
attention,” the website says. However, non-professionals are also able
to make entries.

Emergency Use Authorized Products

[157]army vaccine[158]army vaccine A soldier watches another soldier
receive his COVID-19 vaccination from Army Preventive Medical Services in
Fort Knox, Ky., on Sept. 9, 2021. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Bashaw tried to raise his concerns regarding COVID-19 vaccines to his
leadership at the army through the proper channels, recommending that it
change its risk communication strategy for the vaccine from ”safe and
effective “ to “there might be some problems.”

However, his concerns were not addressed, Bashaw said. "And then, later, I
was targeted due to my own [COVID-19] vaccination status."

Bashaw said he was "forced into an experimental emergency use authorized
testing protocol, which was only for the unvaccinated."

He questioned the policy, saying that forcing unvaccinated individuals
into such a testing regimen seems “coercive” and “kind of
punitive.”

Bashaw invoked the provisions of the United States [159]Code, which gives
liability protection for epidemic products authorized for emergency use to
manufacturers and distributors of the product, the government, and medical
personnel who administer the product.

However, the perspective of the individual who chooses to use these
products or to whom the product is administered is not considered by this
law despite their taking on all the burden of risk. “For this reason,
[they should have] the ability to accept or refuse these products,”
Bashaw said.

“It's my job as a medical officer in general, to warn individuals, or at
least try to communicate [to them] what they might be getting themselves
into with these products.”

Bashaw pointed out that the individual’s right to accept or refuse
administration of these products and to informed consent has also been
written down in the United States [160]Code, specifically 21 U.S.
Code § 360bbb–3.

Individuals to whom the product is authorized for emergency use should be
informed “of the significant known and potential benefits and risks of
such use, and of the extent to which such benefits and risks are
unknown,” the said law stipulates.

This applies not only to the experimental vaccines but also to COVID-19
testing procedures and the wearing of masks, Bashaw said.

Targeted for Disobeying COVID-19 Rules

Bashaw has been court-martialed for disobeying the mandated COVID-19
protocol. He challenged the accusation saying that the order to follow the
protocol disregarded the individual’s right to informed consent
guaranteed by U.S. law.

The court convicted Bashaw, but the judge did not hand down any punishment
and recommended to the commanding general to drop the conviction, Bashaw
said, but the general upheld the conviction.

After the conviction, the Army initiated Bashaw’s involuntary separation
from service after 17 years of honorable service. His expected promotion
to captain was also withheld, the officer said.

The justification for his discharge was that the army lost trust in his
“capabilities as an officer over the past seven months,” Bashaw
explained.

Bashaw filed a rebuttal, hoping to reverse its course.

In addition, Bashaw filed a whistleblower complaint at DoD, but the
decision was made that there was no retaliation against him, and the case
was closed out. He said that he then filed another complaint which
exercises his right guaranteed by the [161]code of military justice to
challenge such decisions.

The Epoch Times reached out to the Army Public Health Center and the
Department of Defense for comment.

Recently, Bashaw has petitioned the [162]Judge Advocate General of the
Army, asking the general to review what he has brought forth in official
documentation.

This is concrete evidence, and it is well founded on the law to protect
service members and individuals in general, Bashaw said. “I wouldn't be
risking 17 years of my service [and] the health and welfare of my family
on some flimsy argument.”

Bashaw said that he is concerned with the integrity of the data that the
leadership is basing their strategic decisions upon. If data is being
manipulated in some way, or if there is a data glitch, then these
senior-level leaders make decisions “based on something that might not
be the case,” he explained. It is especially “a serious sign of
concern” if a private contractor manages the medical information of
service members and has glitches with it.

“And so it's super important to have solid data and trustworthy
sources.”

Bashaw said he decided to bring his concerns to his leaders’ awareness
to honor the oath he took to uphold the Constitution of the United States
and to glorify God.

“I will absolutely do everything in my power to warn my brothers and
sisters in uniform. And that's my job as a medical officer, to communicate
risks and potential harms,” Bashaw said. “That's my duty.”

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