All these big wigs telling us how great the new vaccine is...

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Oh dear, yet another knee-jerk reaction from the 'experts' appears to have been wrong...

People Rarely Transmit COVID-19 Before Experiencing Symptoms: Lancet Study

In a blow to the COVID-19 "silent spreader" narrative that has been used to push for universal masking, including controversially among schoolchildren, a recent study published in The Lancet suggests that people who are non-symptomatic rarely have the ability to infect others.

Silent transmission is the idea that those who are infected with COVID-19 but show no symptoms can still spread the virus to other people.

While all relevant studies show that presymptomatic and asymptomatic "silent spreaders" account for some proportion of infections in other people, the degree of silent transmission is less clear.

A number of early studies—in some cases affected by limitations that may have led to their proportion of presymptomatic transmission to be "artifactually inflated"—suggested that silent transmission accounted for around half of secondary infections, or even more.

The early studies led public health authorities to argue that everyone should wear a mask at all times when out in public or crowded places. This, in turn, helped drive draconian universal masking policies, including in schools, in a bid to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

For instance, Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), initially discouraged universal mask-wearing early in the pandemic but later did a U-turn.

Initially, “we didn’t realize the extent of asymptotic spread," Dr. Fauci said in July 2020, adding that later, "we fully realized that there are a lot of people who are asymptomatic who are spreading infection."

"So it became clear that we absolutely should be wearing masks consistently,” Dr. Fauci said at the time.

But new research calls into question the significance of the threat of silent transmission, which comes as COVID-19 cases are on the rise in America, driving what some are calling a renewed pandemic "hysteria" and calls for a fresh round of restrictions, including mask mandates.

'Very Few Emissions' Before Symptom Onset

The new study, published in the August issue of The Lancet's Microbe journal, shows that people who are sick with COVID-19 but don't show any symptoms have a limited ability to spread the virus to other people.

Participants in the British study, which was carried out by researchers at Imperial College London, were unvaccinated healthy adults aged 18-30 who were intentionally infected with COVID-19.

The subjects were monitored under controlled circumstances while self-reporting symptoms three times per day, and researchers collected nose and throat swabs from them daily, checking for the presence of the virus.

The researchers also tested the inside of masks worn by the participants, checked their hands, and examined the air and surfaces of rooms that the subjects were kept in for a minimum of 14 days.

Ultimately, the researchers found that less than 10 percent of the viral emissions from infected participants took place before the first symptoms emerged.

"Very few emissions occurred before the first reported symptom (7%) and hardly any before the first positive lateral flow antigen test (2%)," the authors of the study wrote.

The new study—which takes the form of a rigorous, controlled "challenge study" rather than the earlier modeling studies that relied on subjective inputs and assumptions of researchers—contradicts earlier research that set the tone for much of the prevailing narrative. That early research appears to have inflated the perceived threat of presymptomatic spread.

The latest study, suggesting that silent transmission is far less significant, comes amid a growing drumbeat of alarm as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are on the rise—along with calls in some circles for renewed restrictions.

By contrast, many are calling for cool heads to prevail—or are urging civil disobedience if lockdowns or other mandates are reimposed.

'Artifactually Inflated'?

Some early studies, such as one published in August 2020 called "Temporal Dynamics In Viral Shedding and Transmissibility of COVID-19," suggested that people who were presymptomatic or asymptomatic accounted for a large proportion of secondary infections.

This particular study estimated that 44 percent of secondary cases were infected during the presymptomatic stage, while concluding that "disease control measures should be adjusted to account for probably substantial presymptomatic transmission."

The authors of the study admitted that it had several limitations, however, including potential "recall bias" that may have tended towards a delay in recognizing first symptoms.

"The incubation period would have been overestimated, and thus the proportion of presymptomatic transmission artifactually inflated," meaning that the study may have exaggerated the proportion of people who spread the virus before showing symptoms, they said.

Another study from July 2020 called "The Implications of Silent Transmission for the Control of COVID-19 Outbreaks" went even further, suggesting that people were most infectious during the presymptomatic phase and concluding that silent transmission was the "primary driver of COVID-19 outbreaks and underscore the need for mitigation strategies, such as contact tracing, that detect and isolate infectious individuals prior to the onset of symptoms."

That study relied on a range of assumptions and models, with different presymptomatic, asymptomatic, and symptomatic transmission rates calculated based on a complex mathematical model from another study.

Findings from earlier studies like the ones cited above led public health officials to argue that silent spreaders were a big factor in COVID-19 transmission and so to recommend that everyone should mask up.

Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/people-rarely-transmit-covid-19-before-experiencing-symptoms-lancet-study-5485459D

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"Project Fear" is back...

Covid testing brought back as people asked not to mix with others



The UK Health Security Agency is to ramp up Covid testing again because of the rise of infections thanks to a new variant. The news comes days after it was announced the Government is bringing forward the booster project for the same reason.

There are fears the return to school and university now underway could further accelerate the spread of two highly infectious new Covid strains - Eris and Pirola.

Dr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at the UKHSA, said people with any symptoms of respiratory illness should avoid mixing with others.

Prof Steven Riley, director general of surveillance at the UKHSA, said: “Planned scaling up of testing and community surveillance for the winter season, when health pressures usually rise, is in progress and UKHSA will make a further announcement regarding community surveillance plans for this winter shortly.

“Protecting the public from Covid-19 remains one of our top priorities. We continue to monitor the threat posed by Covid-19 through our range of surveillance systems and genomics capabilities, which report on infection rates, hospitalisations and the risks posed by new variants.’’

Vaccines which were to start in October will now start this month instead - with the elderly and vulnerable being given a new Covid jab.

Prof John Edmunds of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, told the Guardian it was concerning there have been a number of new variants found in a short space of time - and said Pirola has a high number of mutations.

He said: “Our surveillance has been much reduced so we are slightly blinded compared to where we have been in the past. If you compare it to where we were with Omicron, it’s really very different in terms of just the quality of our surveillance.”

Dr Emma Hodcroft, molecular epidemiologist at the University of Berne and the University of Geneva, said: “We should be realistic that we often see waves and that for many people, immunity has waned as they haven’t been boosted or infected in a while. At the same time, we have the return from holidays, restart of schools, and resumption of a lot of business travel and meetings – all things we know contribute to respiratory viruses being able to get around.”

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I have two words, the second one is OFF!

I don't actually know anyone who will willingly adhere to this stupidity. - And I can't see it being enforced by law.

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And people are still willing to take these 'vaccines'. The final paragraph says it all...

Proof that toxic Covid spike protein persists only in the vaccinated

THE 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer believed that the human being’s capacity for reason is far less than we like to think. Without reason to support us, he argued, our only defence against a sea of indifferent and cruel forces is to minimise our natural desires, and find kindness within an ascetic inner awareness.

I find myself resonating more and more with this message. Reason has certainly long flown out of the window with regard to the Covid mRNA injections. Countless doctors and scientists have reported ill-effects ranging through injury, infertility and deaths associated with the reckless mass rollout of these experimental jabs, yet even today there are calls for more.

It just doesn’t make sense, until you realise that people with power – whether in political, medical, scientific and mainstream media circles, or military and intelligence agencies with biodefence agendas and concerns – find it very hard to say ‘Sorry, we were wrong’.

Meanwhile the story just keeps getting worse. The latest instalment is a finding that biological samples from about 50 per cent of mRNA vaccinees showed persisting presence of the toxic ‘spike’ protein coded by the jab, weeks or months later. The maximum time at which it was detected was 187 days, or about six months.

It was the so-called spike protein which made the genetically engineered SARS-CoV-2 a threat to humans, through ‘gain-of-function’ experiments that converted a bat virus into the pathogen responsible for Covid-19.

The study used a refined technique called mass spectrometry to distinguish fragments of the vaccine-encoded protein from those arising from Covid infections.

Forty subjects took part. Twenty samples were taken from vaccinated subjects, and as a control group, 20 from unvaccinated subjects who tested negative for Covid. Samples were also taken from this latter group after they contracted Covid. All still tested negative for the vaccine-associated spike, proving that the protein found in half the jab recipients was definitely specific to the jab and not Covid itself.

The study authors say there are a number of possible explanations for the persistent presence of the protein after the jab. One is the controversial idea that the genetic sequences that code for it become integrated in body cells, resulting in its continuous production. Another is that the vaccine design, which included measures to keep the sequences working much longer than naturally occurring RNA, proved far more effective than anticipated. A third is that the RNA becomes picked up by bacteria normally present in the blood.

As reported here in June, it is already known that the RNA of the Covid virus itself can make DNA sequences in a process known as reverse transcription, and that this DNA can become integrated into the cell nucleus. Researchers who demonstrated this phenomenon believe it may be responsible for puzzling observations such as positive test results in patients who have cleared all infectious virus, and perhaps also for ‘long Covid’ symptoms.

They said preliminary results suggested RNA from the vaccine does not integrate in this way. However, a study published in April showed that vials of the Pfizer and Moderna RNA jabs also contain DNA sequences, thought to be more likely to be integrated in cells because of not having to go through the reverse transcription step.

A degree of DNA contamination is inevitable due to the RNA vaccine production process, but in all cases the limits set by regulators were greatly exceeded in the samples examined.

According to the immunologist and microbiologist Dr Sucharit Bhakdi, there is no safe lower limit for the DNA. Since the jab contents, contrary to early claims, do not stay at the injection site but circulate throughout the body, there is a risk of alien DNA becoming integrated in a variety of organs and other tissues where it may continue to interfere with cell function. If the cells produce proteins that the immune system sees as foreign, the result may be a perpetual state of activation. This risks inflammatory reactions, including mycocarditis, and autoimmune diseases.

The lack of an ‘off-switch’ for dangerous antigens such as the spike protein has caused the distinguished US cardiologist Dr Peter McCullough to call for a complete moratorium of mRNA vaccine development, and for a detox regimen to break down and enable natural clearance of the spike protein. He says there is no control over where in the body the jab particles will deliver their payload. In addition, all cells that take up mRNA express foreign proteins on the cell surface, inviting an immediate auto-immune attack.

‘We are besieged by reports of cardiac arrests in young persons on a daily basis . . . Covid-19 vaccine myocarditis can be fatal,’ McCullough writes. ‘With each report of a young person who dies with no antecedent illness, unless we can confirm they are unvaccinated, it is a safe and conservative conclusion that one or more injections of the Covid-19 vaccine have caused heart damage and that provided the predisposition to fatal cardiac arrest.’

Commenting on the mass spectrometry study, the mathematician and businessman Igor Chudov writes in a blog post: ‘Remember how we were told that “the vaccine stays in the arm” and that “harmless spike protein is only produced for a couple of days”. They said they were sure of that, despite no data to confirm their statements.

‘Well, sadly, it turns out that they lied to us. The data is now in, and proves such claims wrong . . .

‘I do not appreciate the “Covid science” which lied about Covid vaccines being “safe and effective”. As we enter our ninth wave of Covid, and vaccinated people are infected and reinfected, the vaccines proved ineffective. Worse, they also turned out to be unsafe, as this study and many other studies show.’

Source: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/more-proof-of-the-covid-vaccine-danger/

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When you rush and don't follow accepted and proven processes, the laws of unintended consequences often come into play...

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Reduce Immune Response to Other Infections, Potential Concern of Immune Deficiency

A recent study on the immune effects of Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine has scientists raising concerns over vaccine-acquired immune deficiencies.

Vaccine-acquired immune deficiency syndrome (VAIDS) is a new colloquial term coined by researchers and health practitioners since the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Though not recognized as a medical condition, some experts believe the COVID-19 vaccines may impair or suppress immune responses.

While the new study does not use the term VAIDS, the researchers recognized “a general decrease in cytokine and chemokine responses” to bacteria, fungi, and non-COVID viruses in children after COVID-19 vaccination.

“Our findings suggest SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination could alter the immune response to other pathogens, which cause both vaccine-preventable and non-vaccine-preventable diseases,” the authors of the paper published in Frontiers in Immunology wrote.

“This is particularly relevant in children as they: have extensive exposure to microbes at daycare, school, and social occasions; are often encountering these microbes for the first time; and receive multiple vaccines as part of routine childhood vaccination schedules.”

The researchers from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, took blood samples of 29 children, both before vaccination and after two Pfizer mRNA doses.

They found that blood samples post-vaccination had a lower cytokine response to non-COVID pathogens compared to before vaccination. This reduced immune response was particularly persistent for non-COVID viruses. Blood samples taken at six months showed some children still had low responses for hepatitis B virus proteins and proteins that mimic a viral infection; however, cytokine responses had increased for bacterial exposures.

Immune responses to COVID-19 proteins—including spike proteins and their S1 and S2 subunits—and nucleocapsid proteins remained high after vaccination.

Professor Retsef Levi, specializing in risk management and health systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) that the study “adds to cumulative evidence suggesting adverse immune alteration” by COVID-19 vaccination. Family physician Dr. Syed Haider and immunologist and computational biologist Jessica Rose both connected the study’s findings to VAIDS.

The study findings suggested “that repeat mRNA vaccine injections could predispose children to both viral and bacterial infections,” cardiovascular research expert and retired professor of medicine at Brown University Dr. Andrew Bostom told The Epoch Times over email.

However, the study arrived at this conclusion by measuring cytokine levels which is only a surrogate marker for a person’s immune response.

He explained that logical and critically warranted follow-up studies would include researching to see if children with reduced cytokine levels developed infections.

Rebuttal

Marc Veldhoen, an immunologist specializing in T-cell responses and the head of a laboratory at Instituto de Medicina Molecular in Portugal, challenged the study’s findings.

In an X thread, Mr. Veldhoen highlighted flaws in the study, including the lack of controls, meaning children who were not vaccinated, to compare against the subject group on their innate immune responses to other pathogens.

“Without a non-vaccinated control group, at least another vaccine control group (to claim specificity), much larger numbers of subjects, and cellular composition data, [the study authors’] conclusion is speculation, and unlikely to hold,” Mr. Veldhoen wrote.

Accumulation of Studies Suggesting Decreased Immunity After Vaccination

The study is one of many suggesting declined immune response after COVID-19 vaccination.

A preprint study in 16 adults inoculated with the Pfizer mRNA vaccines had similar findings of a reduced innate immune response in participants exposed to pathogenic fungi. The same paper also found long-term changes in innate immune cells.

The Epoch Times reported on a January study out of Germany that showed multiple mRNA vaccinations induce a “class switch” in the type of antibodies formed against the spike protein and other COVID-19 proteins.

Boosted individuals have increased IgG subclass 4 (IgG4) antibodies, which are less effective than other subtypes of IgG antibodies.

“The development of more IgG4 than usual is unhealthy and riskier for people if they encounter the real virus later, as COVID-19 can develop into a rather severe disease, especially for people with chronic conditions,” professor Sean Lin from the Biomedical Science Department at Feitian College wrote in the previous Epoch Times article. “If the body begins to treat the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine like a boy crying wolf, then what if the real virus comes knocking at the door?”

Research out of the Cleveland Clinic and the Indiana University School of Medicine has also shown that vaccinated people are at a higher risk of infection than unvaccinated people who survived a prior infection. The preprint paper also showed that each successive dose heightened the incidence of infection.

Stephanie Seneff, a research scientist at MIT with a doctorate in computer science, was lead author of a scientific paper in 2022 discussing the implication of COVID-19 vaccines causing innate immune suppression. This immune suppression may present individuals with a vulnerability to cancer, neurological diseases, and other infectious diseases, she noted.

Since the COVID-19 vaccine rollouts, there has been an increase in cancers in people under 50, with some experts suggesting vaccine triggers. Leprosy cases have also increased, with proposed relations to COVID-19 vaccines.

A peer-reviewed study in mice also showed that mice injected with the same lipid nanoparticles used in mRNA vaccines had a reduced innate and adaptive immune response. Mice given two doses of lipid nanoparticles had a more persistent suppressed immune response. The mice’s offspring also inherited some of the immune suppression.

The innate immune response serves as the first line of defense, while the adaptive—responsible for immunological memory—is the final line of defense.

“We report that pre-exposure to the mRNA-LNP [mRNA lipid nanoparticle] platform has long-term impacts on both innate and adaptive immune responses, with some of these traits even being inherited by the offspring,” the study authors wrote.

“Whether multiple pre-exposures lead to an even more drastic inhibition of the adaptive immune responses and how much overlap there is between mouse and human data remains to be determined.”

The Epoch Times reached out to Pfizer for comments.

Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/covid-19-mrna-vaccines-reduce-immune-response-to-other-infections-potential-concern-of-immune-deficiency-5486433

The Epoch Times reached out to Pfizer for comments

I suspect they'll be waiting rather a long time for an answer!

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Dr. Peter McCullough: "The government shouldn't OWN these vaccines"

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Yet more incompetence coming to light. This is long but worth reading. The cracks are beginning to show...

Myocarditis and COVID-19 Vaccines: How the CDC Missed a Safety Signal and Hid a Warning

COVID-19 vaccines cause heart inflammation, U.S. authorities now acknowledge. But after being warned in early 2021 about a "large number" of cases among healthy, young people in Israel after COVID-19 vaccination, authorities did not immediately alert the public while also failing to detect a safety signal that was present in the United States, an Epoch Times investigation has found.

Even after deaths from myocarditis—inflammation of the heart—were reported and myocarditis was designated as a likely side effect of the shots, U.S. officials kept recommending vaccination for virtually the entire populace.

That led to millions of young people receiving a vaccine.

Many of those people suffered.

Aiden Ekanayake, 14, was one of them. He received a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in May 2021, and a second dose in June 2021.

Two days after the second dose, Aiden was woken in the middle of the night with pain that was comparable to when he tore his anterior cruciate ligament. His mother, Emily, rushed him to the hospital, where he spent days receiving care. Even after he was discharged, his exercise was limited for more than four months.

Ms. Ekanayake trusted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) before the experience. Now, she does not.
"I hate them. I think they're evil," Ms. Ekanayake told The Epoch Times.

No Transparency

The CDC, America's public health agency, was warned by Israel on Feb. 28, 2021, about a "large number" of myocarditis cases after Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination, documents obtained by The Epoch Times show.
Internally, the warning was designated as "high" importance and set off a review of U.S. data. The review found 27 reported cases in the United States, according to a U.S. government memorandum dated March 9, 2021. The incidence rate was low, but "missing and incomplete data make it challenging to assess causation," the memo stated. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it said, "has not made a final determination regarding the causality."

Weeks later, neither the CDC nor the FDA had alerted the public to the issue, even after the death of a previously healthy 22-year-old Israeli woman and briefings from Israeli officials and U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) researchers.

Like Israel, the DOD was recording a higher-than-expected number of myocarditis cases. Patients were mostly young, healthy males.

The CDC met with military officials twice behind closed doors in April 2021. Military officials presented data during at least one of the meetings to the CDC. That presentation, which has never been released to the public, "included our preliminary patient data and analysis that suggested to us that myocarditis was indeed a possible side effect to the messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines (within the US military)," Dr. Jay Montgomery, one of the presenters, told The Epoch Times via email.

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines use messenger RNA (mRNA).
On April 27, 2021, after the meetings, then-CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky finally spoke about the matter in public, during a White House briefing.

Dr. Walensky said "we have not seen any reports" of myocarditis after vaccination. That's false, according to CDC data—the agency received 141 reports of myocarditis in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) by the end of March 2021. Another 24 cases were recorded in the Vaccine Safety Datalink, a second system run by the CDC.

Additionally, before the briefing, Dr. Walensky was copied on multiple threads discussing myocarditis and a related condition, pericarditis, including a thread about doctors in California seeing the cases, internal emails obtained by The Epoch Times show. She responded to one of the threads, saying the information was "super helpful."

"We have not seen a [safety] signal," Dr. Walensky also told reporters during the briefing, "and we’ve actually looked intentionally for the signal in the over 200 million doses we’ve given."

Signal Found

The FDA authorized the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines in late 2020.

The CDC and FDA are supposed to monitor data from VAERS, which officials have described as the country's "early warning system" for possible vaccine problems. But they failed to detect a safety signal for myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination that triggered on Feb. 18, 2021, when using a statistical analysis method called Proportional Reporting Ratio (PRR), according to archived VAERS data from the National Vaccine Information Center, The Epoch Times confirmed.

The CDC initially said it started running PRRs in February 2021, but later acknowledged that was false. The agency now says it did not start PRRs until 2022. The first time the CDC ran complete PRRs, officials detected a signal for myocarditis, according to files obtained by The Epoch Times.

"It's unimaginable that they wouldn't have seen the signal," Brian Hooker, senior director of science and research at Children's Health Defense, who detected an early signal for myocarditis in VAERS using a different method, told The Epoch Times. "They were alerted by the DOD. They were alerted by the Israeli Ministry of Health. And so, if they just didn't know then, they have absolutely no excuse because they were warned."

Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit that says its mission is to end childhood health epidemics, first obtained the emails between Israel and the CDC.

Dr. Walensky, who has since departed the CDC, has not responded to a request for comment about her myocarditis claims.

A CDC spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email: "CDC has been continuously monitoring the safety of COVID-19 vaccines since they began to be administered in the United States. At the time of the director’s press conference, CDC did not have sufficient evidence to conclude there was a safety signal for myocarditis following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination."

The CDC has said it did not run PRRs in 2021 because officials were relying on a different analytic method, called Empirical Bayesian data mining. It's unclear when that method, utilized by the FDA, first detected a signal for myocarditis. The FDA has declined to answer questions on the matter. The CDC has told The Epoch Times that its 2022 detection of a signal for myocarditis using PRRs was "consistent with" the data mining results.

Both the CDC and FDA use contractors to process VAERS data.
"Even FDA doesn't really know the mechanics of how its contractor does the data mining," one CDC official said in an email obtained by The Epoch Times. The official and the FDA did not respond to requests for comment on the email.

A safety signal is a sign that an adverse event may be caused by a vaccine. Authorities say signals can only be substantiated with further research.

"Once the safety signal comes up, why not start warning the public about the fact that' hey, you can take it if you want, but understand that there is this risk that we have discovered and we are looking into it," Dr. Anish Koka, an American cardiologist, told The Epoch Times.

One possible motivation for not fully examining the issue was that it could have led to a halt in vaccination. The CDC and FDA essentially imposed a pause on Johnson & Johnson's shot on April 13, 2021, after a small number of blood clotting cases.
"A pause of the Pfizer/Moderna administration (much like the J&J blood clot pause) will have an adverse impact on US/CA vaccination rates," one military official said in a message obtained by The Epoch Times that was flagged for top CDC officials.

Between February 2021 and May 2021, the percentage of the U.S. population that had received a COVID-19 vaccine soared from 14.2 percent to 50.5 percent.

"It was most likely a strategic move in order to make sure that they didn't curtail vaccination rates," Mr. Hooker said.

Backlog

A day after Dr. Walensky's unambiguous statement, CDC officials privately acknowledged the difficulty in processing VAERS reports because so many had been lodged.

"Due to the large number of reports that we are receiving at this time, processing is taking longer than usual," one official said. The message was sent to a woman who said she'd filed a VAERS report for her son's myocarditis on April 21 but that the report had still not appeared in the system days later.

Elaine Miller, a CDC official, wrote around the same time that there were "processing delays" for VAERS reports.

One of the contractors used by the CDC estimated before the vaccines were rolled out that no more than 1,000 reports would be filed per day. The number soared above that estimate by the end of 2020, internal documents obtained by The Epoch Times show.

Workers for the contractor, General Dynamics Information Technology, increased the speed at which they processed but were "unable to keep up with the increased surge in reports at current staffing levels," the contractor informed the CDC in one message.

The backlog increased to nearly 94,000 reports even after the contractor hired nearly 300 additional staff members.
Dr. Adam Hirschfeld, 36, of Ohio, submitted a report to VAERS soon after suffering myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination in January 2021. It took months for the CDC to respond to him. "I could have been dead by then," Dr. Hirschfeld told The Epoch Times.

Health care providers who administer COVID-19 vaccines are required to report serious adverse events, including all cases of myocarditis, to VAERS.
But not all doctors were following the rules, other emails show.

"Providers aren't reporting these cases to VAERS," Dr. John Su, one of the CDC's top vaccine safety officials, wrote to colleagues on May 17, 2021. He also wrote that the "myocarditis thing" was "exploding."

CDC officials, in correspondence with officials in Washington state, said around the same time that nine post-vaccination myocarditis cases had not been reported to VAERS.

The backlog was eventually cleared. VAERS data show that 146 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis were reported by the end of March 2021. An additional 158 cases were reported in April 2021 and 487 more were entered in May 2021.

Just a third of the cases reported to VAERS through April 26, 2021, were fully processed as of May 3, 2021, according to an internal presentation.

In addition to Dr. Walensky's false claim, the CDC has falsely told other health officials and media outlets that it did not receive any reports until May or June 2021, internal emails show.

Another CDC vaccine safety monitoring system, V-safe, did not include myocarditis despite the CDC and FDA identifying the heart inflammation as an adverse event of special interest, or a possible side effect, for the COVID-19 vaccines before they were authorized. The Vaccine Safety Datalink did include myocarditis but did not detect a signal until 2022, possibly because it was using a too-narrow case definition. A fourth system, run by the FDA and partners like CVS, detected a signal in 2023.

Cases Started in January

Doctors started seeing postvaccination myocarditis cases in January 2021, months before the public was informed about them.

The U.S. military researchers, for instance, detailed in a paper that 22 previously healthy service members suffered from myocarditis after vaccination as early as January 2021.

Seventeen cases happened in January 2021 alone in Israel, Israeli researchers reported in another study.

Dr. Dror Mevorach, a co-author of the paper, said he tried warning Pfizer of the possible link between myocarditis and its shot.

"They refused to believe me for a period of four months," Dr. Mevorach told Haaretz. Pfizer did not respond to a request for comment.

For many cases, doctors ruled out other possible causes, such as COVID-19—strengthening support for the theory that the vaccines were the cause.
Case reports were frequently published months after cases actually happened, despite being submitted to journals as early as Feb. 16, 2021, data from the journals show. Some journals refused to publish other papers. Dr. Dimitri Christakis, editor-in-chief of JAMA Pediatrics, told CDC officials that he had "rejected" a case series while saying he'd "welcome" one from the agency, emails obtained by The Epoch Times show.

JAMA Pediatrics did not publish any studies about myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination until Feb. 25, 2022. A query to Dr. Christakis returned an away message.

The number of cases reported in journals increased as 2021 went on, following the pattern of VAERS reports.

The first cases were reported in the literature in March 2021. Just 16 more were published by the end of June 2021. The number spiked to 290 in July 2021.

The Israeli group's report was not released until October 2021, more than six months after the first case was detected.

"It takes time to process the data and collect it and report on it. Of course, when you write an article, there is also a review and a revision process, and it took several months until we were able to publish it online," Dr. Rabea Asleh, director of the heart failure unit and the cardiovascular research center at the Hadassah University Medical Center and a co-author of the paper, told The Epoch Times.

He added later, "There were early reports after the vaccine of myocarditis, we were just waiting to provide more comprehensive information."



'Seems Reasonable'

A case report from Spanish researchers was the first in the world to be published in the literature. Dr. Javier Bautista Garcia and colleagues reported a 39-year-old doctor who was hospitalized for six days following his first dose of a Pfizer vaccine.

The doctor tested negative for COVID-19, and researchers excluded other possible triggers.

"Given the evident temporal relationship and the serological pattern compatible with immunization after the vaccine, having ruled out an acute infection, it seems reasonable to associate the clinical picture developed by this patient with an adverse reaction to the BNT162b2 vaccine against COVID-19," the researchers wrote. BNT162b2 is the name for Pfizer's shot.

Italian researchers soon after described a previously healthy 56-year-old man who developed myocarditis after a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

"Even if no causal relationship can be demonstrated in this case report between the second dose of BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccination and acute myocarditis, the timing of the onset and the inflammatory nature of the event make the relationship plausible," they said.

Researchers in Israel and the United States also reported cases in the spring.

The explosion of reports in June 2021 included a case series of American children as young as 14 suffering from myocarditis shortly after receiving shots and requiring hospitalization. U.S. researchers also reported four cases in Pennsylvania, one case in New Jersey, six cases in Massachusetts, four cases in Minnesota, seven cases in Texas and Virginia, another case in Texas, one case in California, two cases in Missouri, one case in New York, two cases in Hawaii, and seven cases in North Carolina.
"The striking clinical similarities in the presentations of these patients, their recent vaccination with an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, and the lack of any alternative etiologies for acute myocarditis suggest an association with immunization," CDC officials said in a June 29, 2021, editorial on some of the cases.

French experts said in a separate paper, after analyzing 214 reports of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination, that their data "suggests that, similar to other vaccines, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are associated with myocarditis."

First Acknowledgement

Israeli media reported in April 2021 a second post-vaccination myocarditis death, a 35-year-old previously healthy young man. Officials there, meanwhile, revealed that an investigation determined 55 myocarditis cases were in relation to vaccination and 81 more were probably related.

In the first calculation of the rate of harm, on May 31, 2021, experts assigned by the Israeli Ministry of Health estimated one case of myocarditis per 6,637 second Pfizer doses among males 16–19 and one case per 9,208 second Pfizer doses among males 20 to 24.

"We found a high and statistically significant risk of myocarditis ... and in our opinion the relationship found can fulfill the criteria for a causal relationship," the experts said. The ministry said: "The conclusion is that there is a high probability of a connection between the administration of the second Pfizer vaccine and the increased risk of myocarditis, especially in young boys."

The CDC also formed a new team, drawing from across the agency, in May 2021. It focused on digging into reports of myocarditis in the United States. And the agency held calls for health care providers, including doctors from pediatric hospitals, to craft guidance and give advice. But it shielded much of the work from public view, including not discussing myocarditis at all during open meetings with vaccine advisers on May 5, 2021, and May 14, 2021.

Between those meetings, the FDA expanded access to Pfizer's vaccine to those aged 12 to 15 based on data from a trial in which 1,131 adolescents received the vaccine and none died or experienced myocarditis. Dr. Walensky recommended the age group receive the vaccine. Neither the FDA nor Dr. Walensky mentioned myocarditis.

Ms. Ekanayake, Aiden's mother, had read the Israeli research. But she and her son decided he should get vaccinated because they believed the benefits outweighed the risks, in part because of Dr. Walensky's public statement.

"She said at some point that there wasn't a link, so we proceeded," Ms. Ekanayake told The Epoch Times. "So when my son was vaccinated, there was absolutely no informed consent."

Aiden received his first shot on May 10, 2021.

Kyle Warner, a professional mountain bike racer who lives in the Western U.S. and suffered myocarditis after being vaccinated in May and June 2021, said the lack of warning from U.S. officials about the possible adverse event also led to him receiving a vaccine.

"A lot of us were under the false assumption that 'well, it sounds like no one's been hurt so far, there hasn't really been any issues going on that I've heard of, so it seems to be safe and effective, like they're saying,'" Mr. Warner said. "It kind of perpetuated this myth of 'safe and effective, period.'"

If a warning was issued, "it would have saved me," he added.

On May 24, 2021, a CDC work group acknowledged for the first time that reported post-vaccination myocarditis cases were higher than expected in people aged 16 to 24. But the group did not warn young people not to get vaccinated. Instead, it said doctors should be prepared to recognize the heart inflammation and manage the cases appropriately.

The CDC, after the acknowledgment, kept recommending vaccination while alleging COVID-19 posed more of a risk than myocarditis. Dr. Walensky said that most cases had "fully resolved" with rest and treatment and that "getting vaccinated is our way out of this pandemic."

With that message, the "tone [was] set," Jason McDonald, Dr. Walensky's press secretary, said in an email to her obtained by The Epoch Times. "Yes, I was pleased," Dr. Walensky responded.

Risk-Benefit Analyses

COVID-19 poses little risk to young, healthy people. That means there's a higher bar of effectiveness and safety vaccines must pass for vaccination to make sense, experts say.

"You’ve really got to show the benefits markedly outweigh any risks," Dr. Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases physician at Canberra Hospital in Australia, told The Epoch Times previously.

U.S. officials and other vaccine proponents initially referred to myocarditis after vaccination as rare and mostly or even completely mild, citing early literature. “The facts are clear: this is an extremely rare side effect, and only an exceedingly small number of people will experience it after vaccination," the American Academy of Pediatrics, the CDC, and other entities said in a joint statement on June 23, 2021. "Importantly, for the young people who do, most cases are mild, and individuals recover often on their own or with minimal treatment."

The original clinical trials included a scant number (Pfizer) or no (Moderna) children. One person died in Pfizer's trial from cardiac arrest, but their age was not made public, while another, 36, suffered pericarditis. Some FDA advisers initially recommended waiting to vaccinate 16- and 17-year-olds, but were shot down by U.S. officials.

The CDC's first formal comparison of the benefits and risks of the COVID-19 vaccines was presented during a meeting on June 23, 2021. It estimated that one million second Pfizer doses would cause 56 to 69 cases of myocarditis in males aged 12 to 17, and 45 to 56 cases of myocarditis in males aged 18 to 24.

No other suspected or confirmed side effects, such as severe allergic shock, were included as a risk.

The same number of doses would prevent thousands of COVID-19 cases, hundreds of hospitalizations, and a handful of deaths over 120 days, the agency estimated.

"The direct benefit-risk assessment shows positive balance for all age and sex groups," Megan Wallace, a CDC official, told the meeting.

The model assumed sky-high effectiveness, based largely on trial data. The calculations were based largely on a study summarizing Pfizer's trial results, a CDC spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email.

The foundations of the assessment were questioned by some researchers, who said that if just one assumption in the model were changed, the calculus shifted to risks outweighing benefits.

The "second dose vaccination is unfavorable at young ages," the researchers said, when incorporating how VAERS underestimates risk.

Another group of researchers soon published a paper that found healthy males aged 12 to 17 faced a higher risk of hospitalization from myocarditis and other cardiac issues after vaccination than after COVID-19. The paper was released as a preprint but later published in a journal.

The researchers improved on the CDC's model by subtracting incidental hospitalizations and stratifying by underlying conditions, making it possible to make one set of calculations for healthy young people and another for those with poor health.

The researchers said officials should study the issue more closely and consider following the example of other countries such as Sweden that were holding off on recommending the vaccination of healthy children.

Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, one of the researchers, told The Epoch Times that she thought U.S. authorities would make changes due to the research. The main options: pause the vaccinations in children, lower the recommended number of doses from two to one, or rescind the recommendations for healthy kids.

"That was what I was hoping was going to happen, but that didn't happen at all," she said. "Why would they keep pushing it and not investigate it? It just seemed so irresponsible and dangerous to me."

Calls for Pause

While the CDC maintained that all people aged 12 and older, regardless of health and other factors, should get vaccinated, a growing number of doctors and other experts voiced opposition to the one-size-fits-all approach.

That included Margery Smelkinson, an infectious disease expert with the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

"Why not pause Pfizer for kids like we did JnJ for adults? Or consider one dose? Why the rush for such a low risk population?" Ms. Smelkinson wrote on Twitter on June 2, 2021.

Dr. Vinay Prasad, a California epidemiologist, was another, calling myocarditis "a clear and large safety signal in young men."

Some other doctors and health authorities, though, sided with the CDC.

"The fact that you have a case where there may be a link to the vaccine, and at the same time there are tens of thousands of other vaccinees that ended up being safe, this does not justify a pause," Dr. Ofer Habakkuk, director of the cardiology hospitalization department at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Israel, told The Epoch Times.

While Israel and the United States did not waver from their aggressive vaccination campaigns, some countries pushed off clearing the shots for young people or restricted their usage after the emergence of myocarditis cases. In Hong Kong, for example, authorities scaled back recommendations from two doses to one. They saw the number of myocarditis cases plunge.

Dr. Andrew Bostom, a U.S. heart expert, also in 2021 called for officials to pause vaccination for young people until the myocarditis matter was examined more closely. Dr. Clare Craig, a British pathologist, co-authored the call.

"We were calling for a moratorium until a study was done," Dr. Bostom told The Epoch Times.

A prospective study that would measure markers of heart health prior to vaccination and again after vaccination, as has been done for the smallpox vaccine, would be important to shed insight on the problem, Dr. Bostom said.

"I think right then we should have done trials with young healthy folks," Dr. Koka. "There would have been equipoise, meaning there were enough parents that would have said 'okay, go ahead, we don't know, so we will allow our kids to be randomized to see what the side effect profile is.'"

No U.S. researchers appeared to finish prospective studies before 2023. The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which would be the most likely institution to fund prospective studies and was led until late 2022 by Dr. Anthony Fauci, did not respond to a request for comment.

The FDA did require Pfizer and Moderna to launch studies of post-vaccination myocarditis when approving the vaccines. The results of those studies have not been made public as of yet. Pfizer's end date was pushed back while it's unclear whether Moderna met its deadline. The FDA referred a request for comment to Moderna, which did not return a query.

Undercutting the Narrative

Only a small number of prospective studies have been completed to date.

Students in Thailand were measured before and after receiving a second dose of Pfizer's vaccine. Researchers found that 29 percent of the youth experienced cardiovascular effects, and detected seven myocarditis or pericarditis cases among the 301-person cohort.

One percent of students in Taiwan measured before and after a second shot had abnormal echocardiogram results and 17 percent reported at least one cardiac symptom.

Other researchers performed prospective studies among vaccinated people before and after a booster.

In Israel, researchers found evidence of heart injury in two of 324 participants. In Germany, researchers detected a person with pericarditis in a cohort of 41 volunteers. In Japan, two people in a cohort of about 3,800 people had myocarditis. And in Switzerland, one in 35 health care workers had signs of heart injury.

The only U.S. prospective study to date focused on the vaccine's impact on vascular function in adults. It found that a second dose increased the number of symptoms.

Additional papers have outlined deaths from post-vaccination myocarditis, including sudden deaths, as early as 2021.
Estimated rates of post-vaccination myocarditis, meanwhile, increasingly grew.

The CDC initially said 62.8 cases per million second doses were reported among male adolescents. Later in 2021, two sets of Israeli researchers reported 107 to 136 cases per million second doses among young males.

The FDA said in late 2021 that the excess risk of myocarditis among males aged 16 or 17 approached 200 cases per million shots. A group of U.S. researchers soon after pegged the incidence as 195.4 cases per million second doses among males aged 12 to 39. They found patients that were "overlooked" by CDC researchers.

The CDC in early 2022 reported that the rate of reported cases had climbed to 105.8 per million second doses among males aged 16 or 17 while Israeli officials reported rates as high as 153 cases per million second doses among males aged 16 to 19.

Nordic researchers soon after reported excess rates as high as 274 per million among young males who received two shots.

Some researchers grouped cases by vaccine type and discovered Moderna recipients were more likely to experience myocarditis.

Canadian researchers, for instance, found that excess cases after a second dose were 162 per million for young, male Moderna recipients, compared to 31 per million for Pfizer recipients in the same population. Cases were also higher among women who received Moderna's shot.

Researchers in England found 14 excess cases per million second Pfizer doses among males under 40, and 97 excess cases after second Moderna doses among the same population.

Moderna's primary series was larger. It was composed of two doses containing 100 micrograms each. Each dose of Pfizer's series contained 30 micrograms.

As Risk Grows, Benefits Shrink

The observational data, case reports, and prospective studies added more clarity to the myocarditis risk. It was more common than originally thought and a problem that didn't always resolve quickly. The vaccines, meanwhile, have performed worse against newer variants.

After Dr. Hoeg's paper, the FDA found that in one of six modeled scenarios, the projected number of myocarditis and pericarditis cases caused by Pfizer's vaccine would exceed COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths among 5- to 11-year-olds. The outlier scenario projected 156 excess myocarditis hospitalizations, compared to just 21 prevented COVID hospitalizations, among males aged 5 to 11, and 28 excess myocarditis hospitalizations compared to 21 prevented COVID hospitalizations among females of the same age group.

The presentation resulted in the agency authorizing, and the CDC recommending, Pfizer's shot for the age group.

Many researchers were saying the benefits of the vaccines outweighed the risks for all age groups, but not all. As early as the summer of 2021, German researchers said that the risk-benefit calculus for children "need[s] to be considered carefully, since young people are at a very low risk for severe COVID-19 infection even without vaccination."

Another FDA analysis in the spring of 2022, projecting at least 80 percent effectiveness against hospitalization—an outdated figure—estimated COVID-19 vaccines would cause more myocarditis cases than prevented hospitalizations in males aged 16 or 17 in two of three scenarios. The agency, as usual, did not stratify by underlying health or prior infection, and did not include any risks outside of myocarditis.

That same month, the CDC published a non-peer-reviewed paper alleging cardiac complications were higher after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination. "These findings support continued use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines among all eligible persons aged ≥5 years," CDC researchers said.

The methods they used drew widespread scrutiny, including how they only studied people with an official COVID-19 diagnosis. That left out children who were tested at home or not tested due to mild symptoms.

Later in 2022, U.S. researchers, including Dr. Hoeg, estimated that for every hospitalization prevented by boosters among young, healthy people, 1.5 to 4.6 myocarditis cases were caused. Their analysis incorporated the waning effectiveness of vaccines amid the Omicron variant.

"A lot of parents were reaching out to us as a group, saying, 'hey, I've looked through the scientific literature ... I'm worried about my young, healthy, athletic son, getting myocarditis or suffering some other adverse event,'" Kevin Bardosh, one of the researchers, told The Epoch Times.

The most recent FDA risk-benefit comparison for Moderna's shot among people aged 18 to 25 estimated the vaccines would cause 58 to 207 hospitalizations for myocarditis and prevent 635 to 5,957 hospitalizations. It was published in June but used no data from 2023.

The models often rely on data from months prior, helping to overestimate benefits. Data have shown the vaccines have performed much worse against newer variants, with signs that effectiveness turns negative.

"You always find out more risks down the road," Dr. Hoeg said. "And then of course we learned that the benefits didn't last as long as anyone seemed to think they would."

The CDC has defended its risk-benefit estimates.

They "provided a rapid, flexible alternative to more traditional modeling methods, supplying crucial estimates of the benefit-risk balance of vaccination in an emergency setting," officials wrote in a paper published in July 2023.

The researchers did acknowledge the lack of stratification by prior infection and other limitations.

Boosters Rolled Out

Authorities initially promoted a primary series, or two shots of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, as protective, with no indication of future doses.

Data emerged in mid-2021 that the vaccine-bestowed protection was eroding over time.

The FDA on Sept. 22, 2021, authorized a Pfizer booster for many Americans 18 and older to try to restore some of the lost protection. It relied on data from a trial of just 306 people, among whom no cases of myocarditis were reported. No efficacy data was provided.

The FDA said that the risk of myocarditis after booster shots was not known while Israeli authorities said they already had a case of myocarditis after starting the booster earlier that fall. One person in Pfizer's booster trial suffered a heart attack, one symptom of myocarditis.

CDC officials recommended the booster for certain populations. They projected one million boosters would cause up to 26 myocarditis cases in the 18- to 29-year-old population while preventing up to 114 hospitalizations and as few as zero hospitalizations. They estimated that 8,738 people in the population would need a booster to prevent a single hospitalization.

Booster availability was later expanded to all populations aged 5 and older, including 16- and 17-year-olds, by inferring effectiveness and safety from an adult population. There was no mention of myocarditis. Moderna's booster was also authorized and recommended based on a trial that included a case of pericarditis. Dr. Walensky said the COVID-19 vaccines "are safe and effective."

Ben Cutler, a Boston resident, was among those who received a booster after the clearance and recommendation. He received a Moderna booster on Dec. 14, 2021. He was 26.

Mr. Cutler suffered the worst pain of his life and required hospital care. He was diagnosed with myopericarditis from the shot.

While other countries took a cautious approach with the booster, "for some reason in the U.S. they just want to give it to everyone without any real data to show that it has any benefit," Mr. Cutler told The Epoch Times.

Data from VAERS later showed the rate of reported myocarditis cases among males aged 16 or 17 was 188 per million Pfizer boosters—higher than the rate after a second dose. The reported rates among 18- to 29-year-old males after a booster dose were also higher than projected, with 36.4 cases per million Pfizer boosters and 64 per million Moderna boosters.

South Korean researchers later calculated a rate of 82 cases per million Pfizer boosters and 31 per million Moderna boosters among people 18 and younger.

Because the protection from boosters ended up fading over time, and the vaccines have performed worse against Omicron and its subvariants, authorities later took a series of steps, including authorizing second boosters for some, clearing third boosters for others, and recommending newly formulated vaccines. They just cleared and recommended yet another round of shots.

Long-Term Problems and Deaths

Vaccine-induced myocarditis has caused both long-term problems and deaths, researchers have confirmed.

Canadian researchers on March 9, 2023, for example, reported that in a group evaluated two months after myocarditis following vaccination, some patients had persistent inflammation and edema.

Symptoms persisted in eight of 44 patients studied in Italy, researchers there reported soon after. Researchers also detected heart edema, or excess fluid, in eight of 29 patients on whom followup imaging was conducted.

A number of other papers have identified persistence of symptoms, inflammation, edema, and/or LGE.
Followup scans have also revealed scarring on the heart months after vaccination.

Deaths, meanwhile, began being reported in early 2021.

At least some have since been confirmed as being caused by vaccine-induced myocarditis.

The certifier who examined 24-year-old George Watts Jr., a college student in New York, wrote on Mr. Watts' death certificate that the death was due to "COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis."

Joseph Keating, 26, of South Dakota, died from myocarditis, according to his death certificate, with his recent Pfizer booster shot listed as contributing.

Mr. Keating’s sister Kaylee Koch, told The Epoch Times that the family tried contacting the CDC but have never received a response. The CDC did not respond to a request for comment.

Other young people have died shortly after COVID-19 vaccination with causes similar to or related to myocarditis. Ernest Ramirez Jr., a 16-year-old in Texas who was pronounced dead after collapsing five days following a Pfizer jab, died from an enlarged heart, according to his autopsy. Myocarditis can cause an enlarged heart.

Researchers in other countries have also confirmed deaths caused by myocarditis following vaccination.

Japanese researchers, for instance, analyzed autopsies from 54 deaths potentially caused by vaccine-related adverse effects and determined three were caused by the vaccine-induced myocarditis.

U.S. researchers who recently reviewed 325 autopsies found in a preprint paper that COVID-19 vaccination caused or contributed to about three-quarters of those deaths, including nine involving myocarditis.

The CDC has declined to provide autopsy reports obtained by the agency while probing deaths reported to VAERS following COVID-19 vaccination. It has also claimed it does not have any records of deaths caused by vaccine-induced myocarditis, and does not have any data on deaths after COVID-19 vaccination from the Vaccine Safety Datalink.

The FDA rejected a request for the results of autopsies conducted on people who died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, and turned down an appeal in the matter.

Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/myocarditis-and-covid-19-vaccines-how-the-cdc-missed-a-safety-signal-and-hid-a-warning-5300341

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I wonder where else this happened? - And not just involving doctors...

The writer is in New Zealand.

This article describes events in New Zealand – has the same thing happened here, and will someone submit a Freedom of Information request worded in such a way that the government cannot evade a straight answer?

THE New Zealand Ministry of Health granted vaccine exemptions to hundreds among its key staff whilst hypocritically insisting that the public be vaccinated.

An Official Information Act (OIA) request to the ministry dated August 2, 2023 asked the following question:

‘According to the legislation at the time in 2021, there were operational exemptions available for those who were not getting vaccinated against Covid-19. How many requests were received? How many were approved by the ministry?’

Matt Hannant, Interim Director, Prevention, National Public Health Service, replied:

‘From 13 November 2021 to 26 September 2022, a total of 478 applications for Significant Service Disruption exemption (SSD) were received. 103 applications were granted, covering approximately 11,005 workers. Please note that it is not possible to provide the exact number of workers that were covered by SSDs. This is because it was possible for an organisation to submit an application to cover more than one worker.’

So exactly how many Ministry of Health staff and associated contractors benefited from the vaccine exemptions? I have made inquiries and found some staff prepared to leak information. One source has told me that 95 consultants in the Dunedin region alone benefited from vaccine exemptions. Another source has pointed to a group of doctors working in Northland who arranged among themselves to remain unvaccinated. The total appears to run to hundreds and possibly more.

It seems that those granted exemptions were restrained by gagging orders so that they could not tell anyone that they had been granted exemptions: it was a secretive process that the Ministry of Health was anxious to hide from the public.

In any case, any doctor advising a patient that mRNA Covid vaccination might be risky faced disciplinary action, and many were suspended.

So medical staff allowed themselves to be manipulated into a position whereby, if they were unvaccinated themselves, they were still required to advise their patients to vaccinate, a recipe for widespread hypocrisy in the health service.

This process was certainly approved by Dr Ashley Bloomfield (then chief executive of the Ministry of Health) who gained considerable notoriety by refusing vaccine exemptions to those among the public severely injured by their first jab, insisting that they continue with a vaccination schedule. Given Dr Bloomfield’s close working relationship with Jacinda Ardern and Chris Hipkins (then Health Minister, now Prime Minister) it is quite likely that they approved it. The opposition leaders were also likely kept in the loop.

The criteria for granting exemptions apparently entailed an assessment concerning how vital staff were to the working of the health service. In other words, senior figures and those holding key surgical positions could insist that they remain unvaccinated and continue to be allowed to work. Meanwhile unvaccinated nurses, for example, could not gain exemptions and lost their positions.

If senior staff who wished to remain unvaccinated had spoken out publicly, the issue of Covid vaccine safety might have been given a public airing. Instead the Ministry of Health and the government kept a lid on all and any discussion. It did so through liaison with mainstream and social media outlets to censor content and through tight control of staff.

Senior medical staff who chose to remain unvaccinated may have been aware of a 2019 paper in Frontiers in Oncology journal entitled Gene Therapy Leaves a Vicious Cycle which reported: ‘Gene therapy has been caught in a vicious cycle for nearly two decades owing to immune response, insertional mutagenesis, viral tropism, off-target activity, unwanted clinical outcomes (ranging from illness to death of participants in clinical trials), and patchy regulations.’

As someone who has analysed social data over the last fifty years, I do sympathise with the doctors who opted for caution. That would be a normal reaction to new medications. It takes years to assess safety. So how unsafe is the mRNA Covid vaccine? Extremely unsafe, as shown by the 2023 excess death data across OECD nations.

The most highly Covid vaccinated nations in the OECD are in order Portugal, Chile, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, Spain and Australia. Their average percentage of the population vaccinated is 91 per cent. Their average rate of excess deaths so far in 2023 is 12 per cent above the five-year historical average.

The least Covid vaccinated nations in the OECD are Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Estonia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Switzerland. Their average percentage of the population vaccinated is just 63 per cent. Their average rate of excess deaths so far in 2023 is 0 per cent compared to the five-year historical average. In other words, they have averaged a normal death rate.

Anyone who suggests that the death rate among the unvaccinated is higher than the vaccinated is running against the tide of evidence. This view doesn’t fit with the international data.

The standard way to resolve this inconsistency would be to refer to prospective studies which assemble two matched groups, vaccinate one group and leave the other unvaccinated and measure what happens over a significantly long period. In the normal course of vaccine approval this would have been done for around ten years prior to approval. No one has done this.

In the Pfizer trial the unvaccinated control group were all vaccinated after a few months, ensuring that long-term comparative outcomes are unavailable. In any case, during those few months more people died in the vaccine group than the unvaccinated control group. There are also many studies differentiating the outcomes of the vaccinated and unvaccinated that we have reported including journal citations.

How concerning is the excess death problem? According to the OECD there were 1.2million excess deaths in 2022 among their member countries, with a combined population of 1.2billion: one excess death in every 1,000 people.

Now it is becoming accepted that both Covid and Covid vaccination began their lives in a biotech lab, it doesn’t seem to much matter what proportion of excess deaths are due to Covid and what to Covid vaccination, but for the record in 2022 there were approximately 200,000 deaths ‘with Covid’ in the OECD. In summary, OECD excess deaths not attributable to Covid were one million in 2022 alone. This probably extends to a few millions worldwide, about the same as the annual deaths during World War one.

You can see why it is so important for those involved in creating Covid policy and enforcing mandates to make sure that everyone continues to believe that more unvaccinated die than vaccinated because otherwise their narrative that Covid policy is saving millions of lives completely falls apart.

In this light we can now assess the motivations of those still poking fun at the vaccine injured or accusing the ‘vaccine hesitant’ of seeking to undermine the government. For example the New Zealand Disinformation Project, funded by the Prime Minister’s Office, in common with many politicians, have described vaccine injury as a conspiracy theory. They are trying to hide their own mistakes which have undermined the health of the nation.

For the last couple of years the Hatchard Report has had a simple lament: ‘No one in authority seems prepared to ask why excess deaths are occurring at an unprecedented rate’. Deaths are in fact a very stable part of life. In a normal year there are no excess deaths. Insurance actuaries calculate how many of us will die and when with great accuracy, and set life insurance premiums accordingly. Right now, actuaries must be having sleepless nights because something has gone terribly wrong that has not happened at any other time during the last 100 years outside war and conflict zones: agreat many people are falling ill and dying when they should be alive and well.

The Ministry of Health has been hiding these disturbing facts while quietly and hypocritically acknowledging their staff have a right to avoid these risks. They have not just gaslighted the public, they have recklessly put the public’s lives at great risk. This has broken families and communities, pitting one against another. It has caused tragedies affecting families across the nation, while the Ministry of Health and the government are going through tortuous and secret processes in order to conceal what is happening. Moreover they have plans to continue to roll out more experimental vaccines.

Footnote: Guy Hatchard has updated the figures for health staff avoiding vaccination in light of information received. You can read the report here.

Source: (There are live links on the page) https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/nz-doctors-avoided-covid-jabs-while-insisting-the-public-had-them/

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FDA Should Recall 'Adulterated' Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine: Robert Malone

Pfizer's vaccine contains a DNA sequence that could cause problems.

Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine is adulterated due to the undisclosed presence of a DNA sequence, experts say.

That should prompt a recall by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), according to Dr. Robert Malone, a vaccine expert whose work has been cited by Pfizer.

"It absolutely should be recalled," Dr. Malone told The Epoch Times.

"Will the FDA do its job?" he added later.

Pfizer's vaccine contains a Simian Virus 40 (SV40) DNA sequence, authorities in Canada confirmed to The Epoch Times.

Authorities found the sequence after outside researchers, including Kevin McKernan, discovered the sequence in the shot.
The whole SV40 virus can cause cancer, prompting its removal from polio vaccines in the past. While the primary genetic sequence of the virus associated with cancer is not in Pfizer's vaccine, there is a portion of the sequence called a promoter-enhancer, which "can get things into the nucleus, so that is a concern," David Wiseman, a former Johnson & Johnson scientist, told The Epoch Times.

Due to the presence of the sequence, some experts say, the FDA should find the product adulterated, which is defined under federal law as having a "strength, quality, or purity differing from the official compendium."

Congress directed the FDA that if tests are run on a drug suspected of being adulterated and the drug fails to meet the standards in the compendium, and there is a health hazard, to direct the manufacturer to issue a recall, Dr. Malone noted in an essay.

If the manufacturer then fails to issue a recall, "seizure should be considered," the law states.

"The general policy is that if there's adulteration and reasonable risk of toxicity, there must be immediate action," Dr. Malone told The Epoch Times. "This is a core mandate to the FDA from Congress to prevent adulteration of drugs, medical devices, and food. And then the next question is, is that adulteration? Is it associated with a reasonable risk of toxicity in humans? And my opinion is, absolutely."

Other experts, such as Dr. Janci Lindsay, also say the sequence presence means the vaccine is adulterated.

The FDA declined to comment.

Pfizer has not responded to inquiries.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs' Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said that regulators must provide answers.

"I have been researching and consulting experts on the issue of DNA contamination in COVID-19 vaccines since it was exposed," Mr. Johnson told The Epoch Times via email. "The FDA must provide answers to the legitimate questions being raised."

If the FDA does not take action, state attorneys general could move to seize the vaccine due to the adulteration, Dr. Malone said.

The Epoch Times asked several attorneys general if they are considering or would consider such a move, but they did not respond.

Health Canada said sponsors such as Pfizer are expected to identify biologically functional DNA sequences within a plasmid, such as the SV40 sequence, when submitting applications for clearance.

Pfizer did provide the full DNA sequence of the plasmid but "did not specifically identify the SV40 sequence," the health agency said.

After Mr. McKernan and other scientists uncovered the sequence, Health Canada did "confirm the presence of the enhancer," it added.

It's not clear whether the sequence was also not identified for the FDA by Pfizer.

"We don't know what was disclosed to the FDA prior to authorization. If it was disclosed, then its presence is not unexpected. If it was not disclosed, I think there is a case that this is adulteration," Mr. Wiseman said.

The rules under which the vaccine was initially given emergency use authorization (EUA) may provide a defense for the agency, though.

"Could FDA argue that because of the EUA, or because they knew about it, or some other reason, no action is required on their part, and there is nothing to see here? They may try to argue that. But the totality is that this is completely wrong," Mr. Wiseman said.

Mr. McKernan in June, during an FDA meeting's public comment, presented his findings and showed that Pfizer did not disclose the sequence to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The FDA does not typically respond during the public comment portion of its meetings, or afterwards to what was presented.

"The really crushing thing here is Pfizer never disclosed the SV40 information to the EMA. They gave them a plasmid map of what the plasmid consisted of, with all of the features labeled, with the exception of the SV40 site," Mr. McKernan told EpochTV's "American Thought Leaders." "They did that because they know the SV40 region is a very controversial base in its history in the vaccine field."

New Paper

In a preprint paper published this month, Mr. Wiseman, Mr. McKernan, and other researchers tested 27 vials of the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines and found the presence of the SV40 sequence in the Pfizer vials, not the Moderna ones.

The testing, along with Health Canada's statement, helps confirm the results of Mr. McKernan's earlier testing, which identified the presence of the sequence.

Dr. Phillip Buckhaults, a cancer genomics expert and a professor at the University of South Carolina, also found pieces of plasmid DNA in the vaccine. He told The Epoch Times that "no one knows if this DNA does anything clinically significant, but it is prudent to check vaccinated people for any evidence of genome modification."

Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, another cancer expert who serves as director of the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University, has said that the findings should spur more research into the impact of the vaccines on different parts of the body, including in the heart and brain.

Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/fda-should-recall-adulterated-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-robert-malone-5515981

The FDA declined to comment.

Pfizer has not responded to inquiries.

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