Brett Kokinadis, a former 1st Congressional District candidate for the U.S. House, is mounting an anti-COVID vaccine campaign on social media directed at New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and President Joe Biden in the wake of the death of a 13-year-old Michigan boy and news reports of a new warning label from Johnson & Johnson.
"Keep pushing it, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, it's killing kids," Kokinadis, who lost New Mexico's 2020 congressional Republican primary, posted on Facebook on July 5 after news reports of Jacob Clynick's death in Michigan. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has launched an investigation into the death of Clynick, who passed away two days after receiving his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
"Each day more reports of complications with the vaccine surface in minors, yet, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham will continue to force vaccinations," Kokinadis posted the following day, also on Facebook, linking to a KRQE13 news story about vaccination clinics in New Mexico for students returning to classrooms in the fall. "This vaccination should be up to the parents, not the state."
Following the Washington Post's coverage about J & J's new warning label on its vaccine about a rare autoimmune disorder, Kokinadis took to Facebook again on July 12.
"They said it was fine, pulled it, labeled it again and said it was fine a second time," he wrote. "Now it's coming with a new warning. No thanks, Joe Biden & Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham."
Newsweek reports that the CDC is investigating how and why Clynick died to find if there is a correlation between his death and the vaccine.