Biden-Harris administration officials seriously misled the American people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a detailed and devastating report, the Republican majority of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations exposes “We Can Do This,” the administration’s two-year, $900 million public relations campaign during the pandemic. (The subcommittee is part of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.)

The U.S. government’s massive PR effort focused on convincing the public that COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine mandates, masking (including the masking of children), and school closures were effective public policy interventions.

To conduct its PR offensive, the Biden-Harris administration contracted with the Virginia-based Fors Marsh Group for its multimillion-dollar media campaign. That company, the subcommittee notes, describes itself as a “full-service behavior change research and strategy firm.”

Launched as a means to combat COVID-19 “misinformation” and “boost vaccine confidence and suppress public skepticism,” the administration’s campaign effort itself became a vehicle for imposing or recommending scientifically invalid public policies.

Instead of “following the science,” the Biden-Harris administration’s agenda seemed to focus on shaping a dominant political narrative, echoed routinely in major media outlets. Ironically, the effort ultimately undermined confidence in the COVID-19 vaccines and helped to damage public trust in public health agencies.

The new House subcommittee report, chapter and verse, in charts and graphs, describes how and why this happened and how the federal government itself became a troubling source of “misinformation” amid one of the worst public health crises of modern times.

In 2021, the Biden-Harris administration declared a level of effectiveness for the COVID-19 vaccines that was not scientifically supported.

In fact, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s vaccine on Dec. 11, 2020, the agency was explicit:

“At this time, data are not available to make a determination about how long the vaccine will provide protection, nor is there evidence that........

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