A sworn declaration enters a federal case
Retired Army flight surgeon Lt. Col. Theresa Long has filed a sworn declaration that is drawing renewed attention to the Biden-era COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the military. The source article, citing TrialSite News, identifies the case as Adirim v. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency et al., in the Eastern District of Virginia. Long is described as serving as senior medical military adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and reporting to War Secretary Pete Hegseth. She told the court she has firsthand knowledge of more than 29 service-member deaths after COVID-19 vaccination and is tasked with reviewing military-linked adverse-event reports. The declaration presents claims and investigative work, not a final finding that vaccination caused every death or report.
The numbers now under review
Long says she is examining roughly 55,000 vaccine adverse-event reports involving people identified as members of the U.S. Armed Forces. The total includes 2,544 death reports in the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. The declaration reportedly also cites Defense Medical Epidemiology Database figures showing a 151 percent increase in myocarditis and pericarditis, a 43.6 percent increase in pulmonary embolisms, a 34.9 percent increase in ovarian dysfunction, a 22.9 percent increase in hypertension, and an 18.3 percent increase in cancers of the digestive organs. Those figures are being examined as part of a broader inquiry into whether military health officials properly tracked vaccine injuries and deaths, or ignored possible evidence to protect the Biden administration’s vaccine narrative.
Two cases described by Long
Long’s declaration describes two cases from her military medical experience. She says one service member died after the rapid onset and progression of esophageal cancer following COVID-19 vaccination. She also describes a student pilot who had never been COVID-19 positive and suffered sudden cardiac death while at the controls of a helicopter during a training flight. According to the declaration, an independent cardiologist reviewed the pilot’s imaging, laboratory results, and medical history, then determined that myocardial injury secondary to the COVID-19 vaccines was the most likely cause. Those accounts help explain the attention surrounding the filing while leaving the underlying records and conclusions subject to review.
The dispute behind the filing
The declaration was filed in a lawsuit brought by Dr. Terry Adirim, the former acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs under Lloyd Austin. Adirim signed a September 14, 2021, Pentagon memo addressing the interchangeability of FDA-licensed Comirnaty and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doses administered under emergency use authorization. She is now suing Ivan Raiklin over statements concerning her role in implementing the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. That places Long’s medical claims inside an existing legal dispute involving policy decisions, public statements, and responsibility for the mandate. The declaration is a document being examined in the case, not a court ruling.
Earlier proceedings involving Adirim
The article also recounts earlier developments in Adirim’s legal fight. It says she was moved to the CIA’s Center for Global Health Services and later fired after President Trump returned to office. The article says Adirim sued the CIA, Director John Ratcliffe, and retired Green Beret Ivan Raiklin in an effort to challenge the firing and characterize Raiklin’s accusations as defamation. It also reports that a federal judge allowed the CIA firing to proceed and cites a February 25, 2026, memorandum opinion by U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff. Long’s declaration now adds a new set of medical records and claims to a case already shaped by the military mandate and its aftermath.
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