Republican Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana demanded the Pentagon give updated data on diseases rates that could show whether COVID-19 or the vaccine caused the illnesses to spike as side effects, according to a Thursday letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Internal Department of Defense (DOD) medical data showed a spike in eight medical issues linked to the COVID-19 disease in 2021, but the same information for previous and subsequent years is not publicly available, Banks noted when he first requested the data at a March hearing. The updated data requested could clarify whether the …