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Autoimmunity Resulting from Molecular Mimicry between COVID Vaccine and Human Proteins

I’ve been seeing this for two years, elevated d-dimers, blood clots, myocarditis, spontaneous colitis non-responsive to anti-biotics, sudden spontaneous bruising and bleeding after vaccination. Now, it all makes more sense.

In a recent study, researchers discovered molecular mimicry hotspots in the Spike protein and highlight two examples with very high autoimmune potential. This helps us understand the prolonged COVID-19 complications we’ve been seeing for the last two years. The spike protein shares similarities with 34 different human proteins in amino acid sequences in sets of sixes. These similarities stimulate high potential for autoimmune attack – causing the body’s immune system to attack its own organs with similar protein sequences.

These protein sequences are found in the thyroid, brain, nose, ear, skin, muscles, heart, blood, nerves, joints, intestines, and many more. In my office, I’ve seen over 50 patients with bleeding, bruising, rash, heart inflammation, intestinal inflammation, uterine and ovarian inflammation and abnormal menstrual changes spontaneously that I have never seen in 22 years of medical practice. All of these patients have had prolonged d-dimer levels elevated for 12-18 months post vaccination. These symptoms all started with in 4-8 weeks of vaccination as well.

The spike protein may also trigger Guillain-Barre syndrome, viral arthritis, immune thrombocytopenic purpura (bleeding), antiphospholipid syndrome, Kawasaki disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, and many others.

Two other recent studies here and here confirm that autoimmunity is the driver behind these post COVID vaccination symptoms. These two studies demonstrated that people who were vaccinated for COVID-19 had more antibodies against human tissues than people who were not infected and/or had natural infection.

A Message to the Unvaccinated

Relentless mental bombing of the citizens of the world and particularly the United States with thought control in the form of propaganda and censorship has been the drive behind the reason so many of my patients have been unvaccinated.   A significant majority in my practice are unvaccinated because the others were mentally conditioned so avoid “quacks” who use “horse de-wormers” as part of their treatment protocol.

Immensely satisfying as it is to help so many people feel better quickly while avoiding hospitalization and death, it has also been very traumatic.  I have listened to hundreds of stories of patients as they relate the events that occurred to them because of their unvaccinated status.   Story after story of job loss, retracted invitations to weddings, seeing newborn grandchildren, baby showers and family reunions, travel restrictions, restrictions from attending concerts, restaurants, movies and even being banned from Christmas with vaccinated family members.   This is only made worse as they have been estranged from church, friends, family and colleagues who disinvited them to holiday gatherings or other work events.

Another source of trauma is the stories from my vaccinated patients who trusted the authorities when they said they are “safe and effective” who honestly tried to do what they were being told is the “right thing” for their community and nation.  The majority of these people have been now been vaccine injured and/or deeply remorseful after they came to discover that the institutions, they trusted has so egregiously lied to them.  I have over 100 in my practice who have suffered blood clots, myocarditis, colitis, fatigue, and neurological damage from their decisions to be vaccinated.  What is even worse, is that many of them have suffered the same discrimination after refusing to accept a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th shot, in light of the 6-18 months of post-COVID syndrome fatigue and myalgia they suffered preventing them from functioning normally in society, some of which are still not back to normal.

A third source of major trauma is the reprimands and reports to medical boards from medical staff, hospital organizations, employer organizations and insurance plans for my use of “off label” treatments of my patients.  The additional threats to my practice and staff made by these groups to which I used to aspire and admire. Traumatic were the hours I had to spend, and still spend today, defending myself and an advocating for my patient’s rights to be completely informed and chose the medical care they wanted.

To the unvaccinated, those of you who were capable of such personality, courage and critical ability, you are undoubtedly the best of humanity. You are everywhere, in all ages, levels of education, states and ideas. You are of a special kind of soul; you are the soldiers that every army of light wants to have in its ranks. You are the parents that every child wants to have and the children that every parent dreams of having. You are beings above the average of your societies, you are the essence of the people who have built all cultures and conquered horizons. These are those who may look normal, but you are the modern day superheroes.

You did what others could not, you were and are the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination and social exclusion. And you did it because you thought you were alone, and believed you were the only ones.

Banned from your families’ tables at Christmas, you’ve never seen anything so cruel. You lost your jobs, let your careers sink, had no more money … but you didn’t care. You suffered immeasurable discrimination, denunciation, betrayal and humiliation … but you kept going.

Never before in humanity has there been such a “casting.”  Now we know who are the best on planet Earth. Women, men, old, young, rich, poor, of all races or religions, the unvaccinated, the chosen of the invisible ark, the only ones who managed to resist when everything collapsed.

That’s you, you passed an unimaginable test that many of the toughest Marines, Commandos, Green Berets, astronauts and geniuses could not withstand.

You are made of the stuff of the greatest who ever lived, those heroes born among ordinary men who glow in the dark.

You and I cannot simply hope that this will pass or that someone will save the day.  Do NOT comply.

I am honored to have had the opportunity to meet and know so many who have suffered greatly but endured by sticking to truth, principle and mutual support.  You are indeed, the best of humanity.

COVID-19 Vaccine Informed Consent

As of late, Banner Health and Banner Community Integrated Network, in which I participate as a physician, is requiring that I recommend the COVID-19 vaccination to my patients.  In order to be compliant with their requirement and my duty as a physician to “do no harm,” your understanding of the following data is necessary to give you a clear picture of the pros and cons to COVID-19 vaccination.

Please read, contemplate and sign this Informed Consent document before you receive any COVID-19 vaccination or booster.  (A hardcopy of this informed consent is available in our office)

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You have asked for guidance in regards to the health risks and benefits of complying with COVID-19 mRNA experimental vaccination therapy required by your institution or place of employment.  Although this medical intervention and injection does not meet the traditional definition of a vaccine defined by the CDC and published on their website in 2012 (the CDC changed the definition of “vaccine” in 2021 to fit this therapy), the term vaccine will be employed for ease of use in the below.

Note that the long-held (but presently ignored) standard for informed consent requires that I fully disclose the current and accurate data regarding all potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to COVID mRNA vaccination. Note that my interpretation of the below data was done consistent with the long-held (but pandemic-ignored) Federal regulatory standard that considers any adverse event or death reported in temporal association with receipt of a novel and/or experimental therapy to be caused by the intervention until proven otherwise. I recognize this practice departs from the recently adopted, ethically and morally troubling pandemic standard whereby U.S Federal and State Health Agencies’ and hospital systems dismiss adverse event reports as unrelated to the vaccines until proven otherwise.

In the following, I will provide documentation of the informed consent discussion I hold regarding a decision on whether to pursue COVID-19 mRNA vaccination. In the following, I solely rely on the most current, available data regarding:

1) Risks associated with receipt of a COVID mRNA vaccination

2) Efficacy of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine in preventing illness

2) Efficacy of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine in preventing transmission

3) Efficacy of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine in preventing hospitalizations and death

4) Efficacy of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine compared to the protection offered by natural immunity

5) Efficacy of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine in the prevention of “long-haul” COVID

6) Risks of a healthy child suffering hospitalization and/or death from COVID

7) Efficacy and safety of alternatives to vaccination (i.e. reliance on effective early, anti-viral, and anti-inflammatory combination therapy)

As is standard in informed consent discussions, I first begin with a review of the risks of COVID-19 mRNA vaccination.

 

1) RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH RECEIVING THE COVID mRNA VACCINE

Based on the below data compiled from peer-reviewed papers, Life Insurance Industry reports, and analyses of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database, it is my conclusion that a literal humanitarian catastrophe is rolling forward. This resulted from the rapid deployment of barely-tested mRNA vaccines in an illogical attempt to counter a fast-mutating coronavirus. I acknowledge that this assessment contradicts current “medical consensus,” which is that the vaccines are “safe and effective” and that vaccinating against a coronavirus is the dominant public health strategy across much of the world. There are a few reasons which may explain the discord between my personal recommendations and those of health agencies across numerous advanced health economies like the United States.

There is great dissymmetry between the data that I have spent thousands of hours reading over the last two years (many thanks to the painstaking efforts of Dr. Pierre Kori to compile this data here) and analyzed compared to the selective and near uniformly favorable data being disseminated across media, social media, and numerous high-impact scientific journals. One explanation for this discord can be found in recent FOIA-obtained evidence which revealed that $1 billion dollars was paid by the Department of Health and Human Services to U.S media companies to (blindly) support a media campaign to build public confidence in and uptake of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

A second contributing factor to the lack of scientific recognition of this catastrophe is that as of this writing, although over 1,650 case reports and small cases series of adverse events have been published in the medical literature, review papers reporting summary analyses of either the toxicity or poor real-world efficacy of the vaccines have been consistently rejected upon submission to medical journals, particularly high-impact ones. In addition to the rejecting of such studies, a number of journals have also illegitimately retracted papers that reported on the scale of adverse events despite those papers having successfully passed expert peer-review. The few published, peer-reviewed summary analyses that reported on either a lack of efficacy or on the excessive risks of the vaccines have generally appeared in lower impact journals that are systematically ignored by media outlets and academia. These have been included below.

In the setting of such widespread media, social media, and scientific journal propaganda/censorship of adverse vaccine data, the following information is unlikely to be known by the average citizen or physician in the United States. I invite any who want to challenge or validate these interpretations and conclusions to more deeply explore the underlying data sources using the hyperlinked references below.

Peer-Reviewed Literature

In this published paper analyzing data from the pivotal clinical trials used to support the novel mRNA vaccines (i.e. Moderna, Pfizer, and Janssen), Classen compared “all cause severe morbidity,” defined as “severe infections with COVID-19 and all other severe adverse events between the treatment arms and control arms respectively.” His analysis found a statically significant increase in all cause severe morbidity occurred in the vaccinated group compared to the placebo group.

In this paper by Walach et al, they calculated the Number Needed to Vaccinate (NNTV) to prevent one death from a large Israeli field study. They then accessed the Adverse Drug Reactions database of the Dutch National Register (Lareb) to extract the number of cases reporting severe side-effects and the number of cases reporting fatal side-effects.

  • They found the NNTV to be between 200 and 700to prevent one case of COVID-19 by Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine product.
  • The NNTV to prevent one death was between 9,000 and 100,000 (95% confidence interval), with 16,000 as a point estimate(as you will see below, for younger healthy people, this estimate would tend to the higher end of a NNTV of 90,000-100,000 to prevent a single death).
  • They calculated that for every 6 deaths prevented by vaccination, there were approximately 4 deaths reported associated with vaccination, yielding a potential risk/benefit ratio of 2:3 (note that deaths are consistently under-reported to such databases, thus a more accurate risk/benefit ratio for death would likely be inverted).
  • They concluded that, “although causality between individual reports of adverse events and vaccination has not been established, these data indicate a lack of clear benefit, which should cause governments to rethink their vaccination policy”.

In this published paper by Jessica Rose, a world-expert analyst of the VAERS database, she found that, based on the ratio of expected severe adverse events to observed adverse events in VAERS for a number of conditions, the “underreporting factor (URF)” for COVID vaccine-associated deaths was 31. Using this URF for all VAERS-classified severe adverse events, as of October 2021, vaccines were associated with 205,809 deaths, 818,462 hospitalizations, 1,830,891 ER visits, 230,113 life-threatening events, 212,691 disabled and 7,998 birth defects.”

This paper by Ronald Kostoff et al was retracted despite passing peer-review. However, in a personal review of the correspondence between the author and Journal Editor, neither I nor my colleagues were able to find a valid criticism of the underlying data analysis or conclusions. Therefore, I have incorporated this valuable study whereby they used a novel, best-case scenario, cost-benefit analysis which showed conservatively that there were five times the number of deaths attributable to each inoculation vs. those attributable to COVID-19 in the most vulnerable 65+ demographic. The risk of death from COVID-19 decreased drastically as age decreases, and the longer-term effects of the inoculations on lower age groups “may increase” their risk-benefit ratio (although this has not been demonstrated to date as can be seen below).

VAERS Data

As of April 22, 2022, in the United States alone 5,309 cases of myocarditis, 782,665 adverse events, 151,796 severe adverse events, and 14,613 deaths have been recorded in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System following COVID-19 vaccination in the USA. It should be appreciated that the VAERS database’s main limitation is that of underreporting, by a factor of at least 30-fold. The most concerning implication of under-reporting is in regards to the exponential increases in actual reports of death after vaccination in the past year compared to prior years of all vaccines combined.

Even more damning is the temporal relationship of these reports to the date of the individual’s vaccination, which some authorities have attempted to dismiss as simply representing “background” deaths. The fact that the reporting of deaths decrease over time from date of vaccination (seen below), infers a worrying causal relationship whereas erroneously reported “background deaths” would instead appear in similar numbers each subsequent day after the date of vaccination.

Statisticians and analysts working with the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (VSRF) have estimated the total number of deaths in the U.S caused by the COVID-19 vaccines based on the numbers reported to the U.S Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. In their white paper, they employed 9 different statistical prediction models and found that as of December of 2021, total deaths associated with the vaccines ranged from 148,000 to 216,000. Using the same methodology for the 14,613 COVID-19 vaccine associated deaths in the U.S reported as of May 16, 2022, the updated point estimate is approximately 599,000 deaths. The data and conclusions from these publications above provide support for identifying the vaccination campaign as the primary cause of the massive increases in Life Insurance claims among working-age Americans beginning in the second half of 2021, as will be detailed below.

Life Insurance Industry Data

Most concerning is a recent report of a large, unexplained rise in U.S life insurance claims amongst working age Americans of ages 18-64 beginning in early to mid-2021, timed with the vaccination campaign rollout. In a press conference, the CEO of One America, the $100 billion Life Insurance giant, publicly stated;

  • “what we saw just in third quarter, we’re seeing it continue into fourth quarter, is that death rates are up 40% over what they were pre-pandemic.”
  • “deaths in this age group is 4 times higherthan what would be seen in a “one-in-200-year catastrophe,” and that, “40% is just unheard of.”
  • “every single other insurance company has also reported seeing the same – what’s most worrisome though, is that the biggest increase in excess deaths has come from traditionally healthier working-aged individuals under 65 – and not the elderly, who are the most susceptible to the Covid-19 virus.”
  • “we are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – [and] not just at OneAmerica, the data is consistent across every player in that business.”

Financial analyst and former Blackrock Managing Director, Edward Dowd, reported similar historic increases in death claims over the same time period from discussions with major U.S life insurance industry executives; 57% for Lincoln National, 41% for Prudential, 32% for Hartford, 24% for MetLife and 21% for RGA.

In line with these data, a publicly available quarterly report by the Group Life Insurance Industry, covering roughly 90% of the employer-based policies, reported on Page 23 that younger age groups were suddenly dying at historically unprecedented rates beginning in Q3 of 2021.

The timing and magnitude of the historic rise in death and disability are also seen in German health insurance claims data and Medicare billing data.

Epidemiologic Data

An article published in the journal Nature reported:

  • increases of over 25% in the number of ambulance calls in response to cardiac arrests (CA) and acute coronary syndromes (ACS or “heart attacks”) for young people people in the 16–39 age group during the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Israel (January–May, 2021) compared with the same period of time in prior years (2019 and 2020).
  • a robust and statistically significant association between the weekly CA and ACS call counts and the rates of 1st and 2nd vaccine doses administeredto this age group. Note they found no observed statistically significant association between COVID-19 infection rates and the CA and ACS call counts.
  • findings that aligned with previous studies showing that increases in overall CA incidence were not always associated with higher COVID-19 infections rates at a population level, and that the stability of hospitalization rates related to myocardial infarction throughout the initial COVID-19 wave compared to pre-pandemic baselines in Israel.
  • findings that mirrored reports of increased emergency department visits with cardiovascular complaints during the vaccination rollout in Germany as well as increased EMS calls for cardiac incidents in Scotland.

In line with the above, as a result of a FOIA application in the state of Massachusetts, an analysis of the now publicly available death certificate data found that during 2020, the predominant cause of rises in all cause mortality were due to “respiratory causes,” (i.e. excess mortality from COVID-19) while in 2021, the predominant causes were “cardiovascular.” The analyst concluded, “the official Massachusetts database of death certificates contains proof that C19 vaccines killed thousands of people in Massachusetts in 2021.”

Equally alarming are the massive rise in deaths among healthy, young professional athletes from around the world. Since the vaccination campaign was initiated, and as of June 4, 2022, there were approximately 1,090 athletes that suffered a cardiac arrest, with 715 of them dying as a result. The majority of arrests occurred in competition or training. The frequency of these events in comparison to historical data is highly concerning. In a 2009 review of professional athletes deaths, published in a prominent European Cardiology journal, they found that from 1966 to 2004, there was an average of only 29 sudden athlete deaths per year worldwide. Compare this number to just the month of January 2022 alone where 127 collapses and 87 deaths among professional athletes were reported. Overall, these athlete deaths reflect an approximately 22-fold increase in the year after the introduction of COVID vaccines, to date unexplained by other identifiable causes.

On March 10, attorney Matt Staver of Liberty Counsel presented data in court showing 127 VAERS-reported COVID vaccine-related deaths in the military in 2021. That is more than the 93 reported COVID deaths in the military since the beginning of the pandemic. Note that COVID deaths tend to be overestimated, while VAERS-reported deaths, especially in the military, are severely underreported.

The CDC data provided in this article shows the timing of the start and the steady rise in all-cause mortality of working-age adults in the U.S, both overlapping with the start of the mass vaccination campaign. Although alternate causes of this historic rise in death have been considered, (i.e. COVID deaths, deaths of despair etc), the number of deaths from these causes is insufficient to explain the overall rise.

Rises in Disability

Associated with the massive rises in death claims are disability claims. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) surveys 60k households monthly to estimate the unemployment rate, and in this survey, asks households about disabilities as well. From the BLS data, for Americans over the age of 16:

* After declining in 2020 (and stable for five years prior), in Dec 2020 there were 29.9 million Americans disabled. This is a disability rate of 11.4%.

* At year end 2021, there were 32.4 million Americans disabled. This is an increase of 2.5 million people and a disability rate of 12.4%. This is a record number and record percentage rate.

* As of May 2022 there were 32.7 million Americans disabled. This is an increase of 2.9 million people since Dec 2020, the start of mass vaccinations. This is again a record number and percentage rate.

If you look at the charts below you can see that 1.8 million of the increase came in spring 2021 with another increase in fall 2021.  Given the strong overlap with the broad vaccination campaign in spring of 2021 followed by vaccine mandates in fall of 2021, it is consistent with the vaccine injury hypothesis as detailed in the data above.

 

In particular, the increase of 2.9 million disabled since December of 2020 represents more than 1% of the 263 million Americans over age 16. These Americans were all newly disabled in 2021 from some injurious societal or environmental development or exposure beginning in 2021, and not in 2020. It should be noted that these data reflect only a portion of the extent of injuries occurring given that it is likely that far more Americans suffered less debilitating adverse consequences.

On Feb. 10, the Israeli Health Ministry published the results of a survey of adverse events among roughly 2,000 random Israelis who received booster shots. Although many could be thought of as minor, it is concerning that 51% of the women and 35% of the men who experienced a side effect reported that, as a result, they had difficulty performing daily activities. A total of 4.5% of those who received booster doses reported neurological side effects.

Further, in the documents related to a recent FOIA request, in the Pfizer informed consent document (p. 5) it was revealed that the company recognized the risk of myocarditis to be as high as 1 in 1,000. In 2022, with many fewer vaccines administered compared to 2021, the rate of myocarditis reports to VAERS is averaging 245% higher than last year. The myocarditis is overwhelmingly found in young adults like Grace.

In addition, military whistleblowers leaked data from a Department of Defense database, showing major increases in a large number of diagnoses in 2021 compared to the stable average over the years 2016-2020. They found that in 2021, among military service members, there was a 988% increase in all diseases and injuries, a 218% increase in cancer diagnoses, a 374% increase in female infertility, 221% increase in dysmenorrhea, and a 183% increase in spontaneous abortions, with these latter findings of great concern to the future reproductive health of a young woman like Grace. Later claims by the Department of Defense that the prior year illness frequencies were erroneous and caused by “data corruption during a server migration” is simply not credible given this supposed error was “corrected” only after the whistleblowers reported. Further, these morbidity increases are consistent with all the other data sources presented above.

 

2) EFFICACY IN PREVENTION OF COVID-19

Using up-to-date data (i.e. last 3-6 months to today) from a wide selection of public health sources including the U.S, Denmark, Israel, Australia, and the UK, the current estimate of the protective efficacy from contracting COVID is one of either “negative efficacy” or rapidly waning efficacy such that potential benefits, if any, are demonstrably short-lived. Further, given the above alarming estimates of the real-world risks of the vaccines, the information below is focused on the most conservative data estimates of efficacy to determine “the minimum of what COVID-19 vaccinations can achieve.”  This is base on the fact that you have both natural immunity and a good health status.

It must be acknowledged that accurately interpreting epidiomiologic data to determine the relationship between vaccination status and the risk of contracting COVID is both challenging and complicated given:

1) the unmeasured confounding variables associated with an individual’s vaccination status (i.e. age, co-morbidities, behaviors)

2) the rapidly changing and often inconsistent definitions of what it means to be vaccinated (dependent upon varying numbers of vaccinations during different periods, varied vaccine types and schedules, and varied time windows from last vaccination).

3) the definition of a COVID case (tested, untested, false positive, false negative), the definition of a COVID death (“with COVID” vs. “from COVID,” with the latter likely overestimated due to hospital financial incentives created during the Pandemic).

4) the exclusion from efficacy calculations of the surprisingly large numbers of COVID infections and deaths suffered by the recently vaccinated (i.e. within 14 days of vaccination).

With the above caveats in mind, the best assessment of the below data indicate that vaccinated individuals are more likely to fall ill with the variants now in circulation. This may not have been the case earlier in the global vaccination campaign but is unfortunately the case now. There are several possible explanations for this finding. Chief among them is that the current mRNA vaccines were formulated using the genetic sequences of the original “Wuhan” strain of SARS-CoV2 from over 2 years ago. Given SARS-CoV2 is a highly mutagenic virus, many dozens of variants have since emerged, with several strains exhibiting sudden, multiple, and major pathogenically important mutations, particularly within the original spike protein to which the mRNA sequences are directed.

The major mutations have been “named” and each have many subvariants. The Delta variant phase in the U.S ran from approximately June of 2021 to January 2022, after which the Omicron variant has predominated, and we are currently seeing rising cases from sub-variants of this strain. Omicron deserves mention as it is phylogenetically different from both Delta and the original Wuhan strain. This is likely the most accurate explanation as to why, in the setting of what are now “non-neutralizing” antibodies, this paradoxically makes “Wuhan strain” vaccinated individuals more susceptible as follows;

Stanford researchers found that “prior vaccination with Wuhan-Hu-1-like antigens followed by infection with Alpha or Delta variants gives rise to plasma antibody responses with apparent Wuhan-Hu-1-specific imprinting manifesting as relatively decreased responses to the variant virus epitopes compared with unvaccinated patients infected with those variant viruses.”

From a Public Health England vaccine surveillance report in the U.K., government researchers asserted (p. 23) that their serology tests were underestimating the number of people with prior infection due to recent observations from UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) surveillance data that “N antibody levels appear to be lower in individuals who acquire infection following 2 doses of vaccination.”

Dr. Paul Offit, Chair of the FDA Vaccine Advisory Board conceded in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine that there is a real concern of the shots inducing a form of immune suppression known as original antigenic sin.

In this peer-reviewed paper, “Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States,” they found that at the country-level (and U.S county level), there appears to be no discernable relationship between the percentage of the population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases as seen below. In fact, the rising slope of the relationship in both graphs below suggest that mass vaccination policies may paradoxically lead to more cases, with Israel serving as a worrying outlier.

A study prepared by Humetrix for the Department of Defense called “Project Salus,” monitored 20 million Medicare beneficiaries from January to August of 2021 and found that the vaccinated share of the COVID hospitalizations rose steadily with both vaccines after three to four months and sharply after six months (as the Israelis found). By late July, 71% of all cases and 61% of all hospitalizations were among vaccinated individuals.

More current data from the Walgreens chain of pharmacies finds that in the U.S, over the last several months, fully or partially vaccinated individuals are testing positive at higher relative rates than the unvaccinated.

According to Cornell University’s faculty, an outbreak in December of 2021 which forced the school to switch to online learning was driven exclusively by the vaccinated. “Virtually every case of the Omicron variant to date has been found in fully vaccinated students, a portion of whom had also received a booster shot,” said Vice President for University Relations Joel Malina in a statement.

On December 31, 2021, the UK’s Office of National Statistics released an “Infection Survey” of 1,701 individuals who tested positive for COVID between Nov. 29 and Dec. 12, of whom 115 tested positive for the Omicron variant. The agency found a clear correlation between the number of vaccinations and the likelihood of an Omicron-positive result. The odds ratio of testing positive for Omicron with two vaccinations was 2.26; for the triple-vaccinated, it was 4.45.

According to the latest U.K. health surveillance report, roughly 95% of those over 70 are double-vaccinated and about 90%-93% of the age cohorts over 70 are boosted. Just 1.6% of the senior cases between weeks 7 and 10 of this year were among the unvaccinated, which is below the 5% share of the population they compose. The triple-boosted actually made up 90% of the cases.

The respected Robert Koch Institute reported that among the 4,206 Germans infected with Omicron for whom their vaccination status was known, 95.58% were fully vaccinated. More than a quarter of them had booster shots. Given that the overall background rate for vaccination in Germany is 70%, this suggests an -87% effectiveness rate against Omicron.

As of Dec. 31, 2021, in Denmark, 89.7% of all Omicron cases were among the fully vaccinated with just 8.5% of all cases in Denmark among the unvaccinated, according to the Statens Serum Institut. Overall, 77.9% of Denmark was fully vaccinated at the time, and Omicron is more prevalent among younger people for whom there is a greater unvaccinated pool, which again support a negative efficacy. Even for non-Omicron variants, the unvaccinated composed only 23.7% of the cases.

As mentioned above, assessing the true relationship between vaccinations and the risk of infection must also consider the shocking numbers of COVID infections and deaths occurring during the first 14 days after vaccination. The argument to include these data is supported by the biological plausibility based on the studies presented above finding that the outdated vaccines are inducing an immune suppression favoring infection with newer variants. It is my opinion that these cases and deaths should not be excluded given the below examples (there are many more) of record rises in cases (and deaths) proximate to the start dates of various country-wide vaccination rollouts.

 

The examples below include countries that initiated the most aggressive mass vaccination campaigns in the period from late December, 2020 to January, 2021. Note these countries are from different regions of the globe, however the rollouts were all followed by large increases in cases and deaths.

 

3) EFFICACY IN PROTECTION FROM SEVERE DISEASE

In Ireland, in March of 2022, during the milder Omicron variant wave, there were more people in Irish hospitals than at any point in the previous 12 months. This occurred despite the fact that nearly 95% of all adults in Ireland are fully vaccinated, and nearly 100% of seniors are vaccinated and boosted.

In Scotland, on page 29 of their recent national COVID-19 report, the data revealed that the vaccinated were dying and being hospitalized at higher rates than the unvaccinated. Note that Scotland has since made the decision to no longer publish these comparative data for “concerns that they are being misinterpreted”. Although it is true, as was noted above, that numerous variables beyond vaccination status may contribute to explaining these differences, it is troubling (similar to the Department of Defense actions mentioned above) that the decision to stop publishing these data occurred only after a negative efficacy against severe disease and death was found.

In Israel, the Director of a major hospital recently declared that the fully vaccinated are not protected against severe illness.

NSW Health in New South Wales, the most populated of Australian states at 8.1 million inhabitants, reported that 97 out of 98 COVID-19 deaths occurring over the previous two weeks involved fully vaccinated persons. Moreover, those that had three doses appeared most at risk for hospitalization admission, ICU transfer, and death.

These data are consistent with the recent report published in the New York Times which stated “despite strong levels of vaccination among older people, COVID killed them at vastly higher rates during this winter’s Omicron wave than did last year, preying on long delays since their last shots and the variant’s ability to skirt immune defenses.”  These higher rates of death in the elderly are also seen in the boosted.

The conclusion of a recent Danish study in the prestigious Lancet found that in long-term follow-up of over 74,000 adult participants in the Moderna and Pfizer trials there was no all-cause mortality benefit from the two mRNA shots.

In a recent, large Veterans Administration study, investigators discovered disturbing evidence: by month six after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, beyond the first 30 days of illness, vaccinated persons with breakthrough infections were at higher risk of death (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.75, 95% confidence interval: 1.59,1.93).

The implications of the vaccine’s diminished ability to protect against severe disease among more recent variants is now playing out in real-time. On June 5th, 2022, analyst Igor Chudov posted a 2 country comparison of the current cases and deaths being reported from Portugal and S. Africa, two countries undergoing similar waves of infection from the emerging B4/5 sister variants. South Africa is only 35% vaccinated and 5% boosted whereas Portugal is 95% vaccinated and 70% boosted. These variants are now driving a deadly wave of Covid in highly-vaccinated Portugal, with deaths among the Portuguese nearing their January peak and still rising as seen below.

Thus, in terms of benefits, based on the most up-to-date data, the current crop of mRNA vaccines against Omicron confer either rapidly waning efficacy or negative efficacy, and not only do they no longer protect against severe disease, they appear to be raising the risk of severe disease and death.

I, therefore, would advise extreme caution given that, currently, in the U.S, the prevalence of the B4/5 variant appears to be doubling every week in the past month, now comprising approximately 8% of cases.

 

4) BENEFITS IN REDUCING TRANSMISSION TO OTHERS

Current data do not support this claim. The CDC Director herself has reported that vaccinated individuals are now well known to carry equal or greater viral loads than the unvaccinated, and thus transmit at equal or higher rates, for physiologic reasons detailed above, most concerning being the negative efficacy of the vaccines against Omicron. This has also been reported by seminal nosocomial outbreak papers by Chau et al. (Health care workers (HCW) in Vietnam), the Finland hospital outbreak (spread among HCWs and patients), and the Israel hospital outbreak (spread among HCWs and patients).

A new large study from Quatar in the New England Journal of Medicine by Weil Cornell Medicine found that the Pfizer vaccine protection waned after four months. By seven months, when adjusted for those who already had prior infection, the Pfizer shot was -4% effective against transmission. Also, effectiveness against asymptomatic infection was -33% after seven months, which suggests that the vaccinated become more likely to spread COVID-19 over time.

 

5) BENEFITS IN REDUCING THE RISK OF LONG-HAUL COVID SYNDROME

Again, from the large Veterans Administration study, investigators discovered disturbing evidence: by month six after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, vaccinated persons with breakthrough infections were at higher risk of long COVID (HR = 1.50, 95% CI: 1.46, 1.54). When including the earlier time periods, the COVID-19 vaccines only reduced the risk of long COVID by approximately 15% compared to the unvaccinated, a level of estimated protection far less than the increased risk of death found in the same study as mentioned above.

 

6) BENEFITS OF NATURAL IMMUNITY

Natural immunity provides robust protection, not only from contracting the COVID-19 a second time, but also against hospitalization and death.

The most recent review of data supporting the protection of natural immunity, compiled from over 150 research studies, found that natural immunity provided equal or superior protection against not only contracting the disease, but also against hospitalization and death.

Further, vaccinated individuals are far more likely to get re-infected with COVID compared to those with natural immunity. A new preprint study from Bangladesh found that among 404 people re-infected with COVID, having been vaccinated made someone 2.45 times more likely to get re-infected with a mild infection, 16.1 times more likely to get a moderate infection, and 3.9 times more likely to be re-infected severely, relative to someone with prior infection who was not vaccinated. Although overall re-infections were rare, vaccination was a greater risk factor of re-infection than co-morbidities.

A new study from Harvard, Continued Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination among Urban Healthcare Workers during Delta Variant Predominance, tracked vaccinated and unvaccinated Massachusetts healthcare workers and showed 0 infections in 74,557 person-days for previously infected patients compared to 49 infections out of 830,084 person-days for fully vaccinated patients.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine assessed a cohort of 1,304 patients meeting a very strict definition of “re-infection.” In this cohort, there were no deaths and no ICU admissions during reinfections while 7 deaths and 28 ICU admissions occurred during the primary infections. Overall, there was a statistically significant 90% reduction in the composite outcome of severe, critical, or fatal disease during reinfections

 

7) BENEFITS OF CURRENT HEALTH STATUS

Those persons of normal body weight and under age 21 youth with an absence of co-morbidities have essentially a near-nil risk of a severe outcome.

This data is based this on data compiled during a prior, more deadly variant where the CDC published a report on the incidence of death from COVID-19 prior to September of 2021 in people less than 21 years of age. At the time of that report, 190,000 deaths from SARS-CoV-2 had been recorded in the general population. Although people less than 21 years of age represent 26% of the population, only 0.08% (121) of all COVID-19 deaths were reported in this age group. In other words, more children died from influenza during the previous epidemic season than from SARS-CoV-2.

Several other observations were of interest:

  • 75% of those under 21 who died had at least one underlying medical condition; 45% had two or more conditions.
  • Minority groups were disproportionately represented among the deaths in young people. Among those who died, 45% were Hispanic, 29% were black, and 4% were American Indian or Alaskan Native persons. Although Hispanic, Black and Native populations represent 41% of the U.S. population less than 21 years of age, these groups accounted for 75% of the deaths.

In July of 2021, Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins University and Editor in Chief of MedPage today, reported that over the course of the pandemic, 49,000 Americans under the age of 18 had died of all causes, according to the CDC. Only 331 of those deaths were from COVID — less than half as many as that died of pneumonia. The risk of children was dramatically smaller still than that CDC baseline; according to one, much-cited paper, the infection fatality rate for those aged 5 to 9 is less than 0.001 percent. A large new study from the U.K. examining the fatality rate among all those under 18 found it only fractionally higher there — 0.005 percent. Overall, 126,000 Brits have died of COVID since the onset of the pandemic; just 26 of those were under the age of 18.

These data presented above must be further interpreted in the context of the current Omicron variant, a variant with markedly lower risk of leading to hospitalization and and/or death among the unvaccinated.

 

8) ALTERNATIVES TO VACCINATION: EARLY TREATMENT OF COVID-19

The alternative to vaccination would be to ensure provision of early treatment with a select combination from what are now dozens of medicines, nutraceuticals, and therapies with proven efficacy in COVID-19. I am willing to prescribe the medicines that cannot be obtained over-the-counter, however, I must emphasize the need to have this treatment upon first symptoms of any viral syndrome like illness. The importance of early treatment can be seen in the graph below, showing diminishing efficacy of treatment with each day of delay. Note the near 100% efficacy if treatment is started within 24 hours of symptoms.

As of May 2022, massive evidence bases support numerous generic, repurposed drugs with excellent safety profiles that act with either anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, or immunomodulatory properties have been compiled. The medicines shown effective can be seen below. I have circled only those medicines that have received Emergency Use Authorization status by the FDA or recommended by the NIH. Note that these “officially approved” medicines consist solely of novel pharmaceutical industry products that can generate massive profits, an obvious feature of our health care system in the United States. Off-patent, generic or over the counter therapies are not recommended, despite often higher amounts of trials evidence for their use. Note that the grey font indicates medicines with less than 5 trials to support.

Ivermectin has the highest potency amongst the medicines sufficiently studied. Ivermectin’s evidence base now consists of 84 controlled trials, 34 of them randomized, and include a total of 129,000 patients. Summary analyses of the data from these trials find large, statistically significant reductions in time to clinical recovery, time to viral clearance, hospitalizations, and death as seen on the right of the below graphic.

Similarly, hydroxychloroquine has 347 controlled trials which involve almost a half-million patients. The studies show consistent, reproducible reductions in the incidence of all outcomes, particularly when given early, similar to ivermectin.

Nigella Sativa, a widely available “nutraceutical” used in many countries around the world, has also shown repeated, high efficacy as below.

Numerous other medications and compounds have demonstrated efficacy, such as the use of povidone-iodine nasal drops and mouthwashes, as well as medications like fluvoxamine.

The protocol I use can be obtained by calling my office and scheduling an appointment with me or my Nurse Practitioner.

Summary and Recommendations. 

In summary, those patients with a good health status, normal body habitus, and natural immunity to COVID, have a near-nil risk of the most severe outcomes from COVID.

Risks of Long haul or prolonged illness would be further reduced with adoption of almost any early treatment strategy. Further, the totality of current evidence finds either a rapidly waning efficacy in protection against COVID-19 or a rising negative efficacy in protection from both COVID and its more severe outcomes.

Finally, given the highly concerning, excessive rates of adverse events, disabilities, and deaths found in the vaccine trials data and in association with the mass vaccination campaign, it is my professional opinion that the risks of COVID-19 mRNA vaccination for most people, except those over 80 years old with comorbidities, far outweigh the negligible or “adverse” efficacy currently being measured.

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Every American Parent Needs To Hear This

Today during the Senate Health Committee Hearing, Senator Rand Paul noted that the current administration and CDC recommends that everyone over age five get vaccinated against the coronavirus, including taking a booster shot. “Are you aware of any studies that show reduction in hospitalization or death for children who take a booster?” Paul asked.

“Right now, there’s not enough data that has been accumulated, Senator Paul, to indicate that that’s the case,” Fauci answered.

To be fair, the CDC, the FDA, medical societies (including AAFP and ACP) and many health systems around the country recommend COVID-19 vaccination to those 6 months and older. These recommendation are all based upon the CDC and FDA data. These recommendation come in light of the fact that “there is not enough data to indicate children should be taking a booster.”

If you are a patient, parent or grandparent, please take seven minutes and watch this set of questions closely. Your health and the health of your children depends on it.

I have been criticized by my medical colleagues and specialists, about holding these concerns regarding the risks of COVID-19 vaccination. Yet, I’ve had over twenty patients with significant adverse and life threatening reactions in my office due to the vaccine. As a physician, my first duty is to do no harm. Yet, I am being threatened on all sides because I don’t just roll over and lend my support to this vaccine. I am told that my concern about the CDC vaccination recommendations for children are unfounded.

My concern about these vaccines is identical to that of Senator Rand Paul’s. Namely, there are no actual medical studies that COVID vaccination for children and those under age 24 years old are at risk of death or hospitalization warranting a booster vaccine, especially a vaccine that comes with significant health risks.

When 75% of the U.S. population has already had COVID and has antibodies from the exposure and/or infection, there is NO legitimate medical reason to vaccinate this age group. As of today, the Director of the NIH, Dr. Anthony Fauci himself, cannot give legitimate reason for vaccinating this age group. Yet he and the CDC have approved these vaccines and recommend that children be fully vaccinated.

The COVID Vaccine Horror Story

A very troubling trend has occurred in the last six months.  I’m now seeing those who were vaccinated and boosted testing positive for COVID-19 more often than the unvaccinated.  Is it a coincidence, or is there a connection between the number of shots you receive and your risk for COVID and other severe diseases?  The numbers say it’s more than a coincidence.

Speaking about this publicly and sharing my experiences on this subject has cause me to be ostracized from many of my peer groups, be reported to the medical board, receive condemnation from religious leaders, condemnation from many “so called” friends and even members of my own family.  Yet, I cannot deny what I am seeing with my own eyes.  In my office alone, we had multiple cases of myocarditis, colitis, blood clots, chronic fatigue due to vaccination with a recent uptick in COVID positive cases in those who have been vaccinated.  More and more data appears, demonstrating that I’m not alone in this finding.

According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention data, more than 1 million excess deaths – that is deaths in excess of the historical averages – have been recorded since the COVID-19 pandemic began two years ago. These are excess deaths from heart disease, high blood pressure, dementia, worsening obesity and many other illnesses [1, 2].

“We’ve never seen anything like it,” Robert Anderson, CDC’s head of mortality statistics, told The Washington Post in mid-February 2022 [3].  University of Warwick researchers stated, “the scale of excess non-COVID deaths is large enough to be seen as its own pandemic” [4].  A number of explanations including lockdowns and other COVID restrictions have been proposed, but another looming factor no one is talking about appears to be at play.

As I have been watching the trends across the world, death rates have risen in tandem with COVID vaccine administration.  The most-jabbed areas have surpassed the least-jabbed areas in terms of excess mortality and COVID-related deaths.   This doesn’t correlate at all with the official claims touted across the media and social media sites that the vaccination prevents severe COVID infection and lowers your risk of death from COVID or all other causes [5].

If You Were Boosted, You’re Now At the Highest Risk of COVID

Many of my, and the experts I closely follow, worst fears are coming to fruition.  Fully vaccinated individuals are now more likely to be infected with COVID variants and are more likely to die, whether from COVID or from some other cause.  This is what we feared and now it’s happening.

Jeffery Jaxen, an investigative journalist, reported Walgreens’ COVID-19 tracker data that COVID vaccinated people are testing positive for COVID at higher rates than the unvaccinated [6].

During the week of April 19-25th, 2022, 13% of unvaccinated tested positive for COVID (Omicron being the primary variant).  Of those receiving two does over five months ago, 23.1% were positive.  And, those who have had a third dose, over five months prior were 26.3% positive.   Data demonstrates that those who have been boosted are at the greatest risk of reinfection with COVID and its variants.

According to Jaxen, two doses was protective for a short while, but after five months, it becomes more harmful.  The group faring the worse is the 12 to 17 age group cohort where after the second and third doses positive cases shoot up after the fifth month [7].

Death by Vaccination in the UK

An even greater trend is being seen in the U.K.  Data from the Office for National Statistics illustrates increased all-cause mortality based on vaccination status.  In Jaxen’s compilation of the data below, bars going up are good, bars going down are indicative of increased death by all causes based on vaccination status [8].

As you can see, the trend is just getting worse.  Mortality is between 100-300% greater in those who had their first dose of the vaccine more than 21 days ago.  Risk for death from all causes is significantly elevated in those that were vaccinated with their second dose more than six months ago.

More Jabbed, More COVID Deaths

Don’t believe me, look that the two videos below demonstrating the rate of excess death from all causes and how it suddenly trends with the rate of COVID vaccination.  I wish I was wrong, but the data tells a gruesome story that no one is talking about.

The first video below is an animated illustration[9] from Our World In Data, first showing the vaccination rates of South America, North America, Europe and Africa, from mid-December 2020 through the third week of April 2022, followed by the cumulative confirmed COVID deaths per million in those countries during that same timeframe.

Africa has had a consistently low vaccination rate throughout, while North America, Europe and South America all have had rapidly rising vaccination rates. Africa has also had a consistently low COVID mortality rate, although a slight rise began around September 2021. Still, it’s nowhere near the COVID death rates of North America, South America and Europe, all of which saw dramatic increases.

 

The second video below is from Our World In Data [10], first showing the excess death rate in the U.S. (the cumulative number of deaths from all causes compared to projections based on previous years), between January 26, 2020, and January 30, 2022, followed by an illustration of the tandem rise of vaccine doses administered and the excess mortality rate. It clearly shows that as vaccination rates rose, so did the excess mortality rate.

Risk-Benefit Analysis Says the COVID Jab Shouldn’t Happen

Risk-benefit analysis demonstrates that with very few exceptions, COVID vaccinations do more harm than good.   For example, a risk-benefit analysis by Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., and independent researcher Kathy Dopp, published in mid-February 2022, concluded that the COVID jab is deadlier than COVID-19 itself for anyone under the age of 80 [11].

Even this data is conservative as it ignores the fact that adverse events from the vaccine like blood clots, myocarditis (inflammation of the heart), Bell’s Palsy, and other vaccine-induced injury can lead to shortened life spans.

When you take into consideration that there is a 90% decrease in the risk of COVID-19 death with early treatment given to high risk persons, one can only conclude that mandates of COVID-19 inoculations are ill-advised.  For most age groups with the emergence of anitibody-resistant variants like Delta and Omicron, COVID-19 vaccine inoculations result in higher death rates than COVID-19 does for the unvaccinated [11].

Even more concerning is that the U.K. data above demonstrates the increased risk of death by all causes is 300% greater for those who got a second dose more than six months ago.

Teens Are at Dramatic Risk of Death from the Vaccine

Analysis of the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) by researchers Spiro Pantazantos and Herve Seligmann point out that shots ONLY increase the risk of death from COVID-19 if you are under age 18 years old. There is no point at which a single COVID vaccine dose prevented a single COVID death in this age group no matter how many children under 18 we vaccinated [12].

If you’re under 18 years old, you’re 51 times more likely to die from the COVID vaccination than you are to die from an infection with COVID if not vaccinated.

Stop for just a second and re-read that statement above.

In the 18 to 29 age range, the shot will kill 16 for every person it saves from dying from COVID, and in the 30 to 39 age range, the expected number of vaccine fatalities to prevent a single COVID death is 15.  That is, 15 people will die from the vaccine for every one death it prevents.   If that doesn’t scare the $#!$ out of you, I don’t know what will.  Because, as physician in the trenches dealing with these reactions for the last 2 years, this is what keeps me awake at night.

Only when you get to the 60 year old and older categories does the risk between vaccination and COVID infection even come close to leveling out.   In the 60-69 age group the shot will kill one person for every person it saves from a COVID death.  So, it’s really a game of Russian Roulette as to whether is might be worth it for a given person to get vaccinated.

Now, patients are showing up in my office asking if they should get a fourth dose.   My answer is a resounding “Hell NO!”

How Many Body’s Are You Willing To Sacrifice?

We have access to the risk-benefit analysis by researchers in Germany and The Netherlands. This analysis was initially published June 24, 2021, in the Journal Vaccines [13]. The paper caused an uproar among the editorial board, with some of them resigning in protest [14].

In the end, the journal simply retracted it — a strategy that appears to have become the norm among the medical literature community.

After a thorough re-review, the paper was republished in the August 2021 issue of Science, Public Health Policy and the Law [15].  The analysis found that, “very likely for three deaths prevented by vaccination we will have to accept that about two people die as a consequence of these vaccinations,” the authors wrote in a Letter to the Editor of Clinical and Translational Discovery [16].

While a much better system for monitoring vaccine safety is essential, there is no doubt that the COVID vaccines are ill-advised for most people.  I surmise to say that in years to come, our children and grandchildren will look back at this period in time in horror, vowing never to repeat it.

References:

  1. S. CDC, Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19
  2. MarketWatch February 16, 2022
  3. The Washington Post February 15, 2022
  4. Studies in Microeconomics October 19, 2021
  5. CDC MMWR October 29, 2021; 70(43): 1520-1524
  6. Walgreens COVID-19 Index Data
  7. Bad Cattitude Substack – April 15, 2022
  8. gov.uk Deaths by Vaccination Status
  9. Twitter TexasLindsay April 23, 2022
  10. Twitter TexasLindsay April 25, 2022
  11. COVID-19 and All-Cause Mortality Data Analysis by Kathy Dopp and Stephanie Seneff
  12. COVID Vaccination and Age-Stratified All-Cause Mortality Risk
  13. Vaccines 2021; 9(7):693
  14. Science, Public Health Policy and the Law – August 2021; 3:81-86.
  15. Science, Public Health Policy and the Law – August 2021; 3:87-89.
  16. Clinical and Translational Discovery, February 25, 2022; 2(1); e35

Are More Children Dying From the COVID Vaccine than the Virus Itself?

In the last 12 months I have seen sixteen significant and severe reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine. I cannot be alone in seeing this trend. However, physicians and providers around the world seem fearful in even talking about it with their colleagues. And, as of this week, there is VAERS data implying that more children have died from the vaccine than from the virus itself.

I have always been a big proponent of vaccines. But, that advocacy for vaccination has been based on good research and data demonstrating that both the short and long-term risk is greatly outweighed by the benefit of vaccination. I have been in practice long enough to have seen multiple vaccinations and therapeutics pulled off the market 1-5 years after they were released because of severe adverse events relating to the drug or vaccine (ie – thalidamide, DES, Baycol, Accutane, Redux, Seldane, Zelnorm and Vioxx just to name a few.)

In my family practice clinic over the last 22 years, I’ve rarely seen acute cases of myocarditis show up on my doorstep. However, in the last 12 months I’ve had eight cases of myocarditis (inflammation of the wall of the heart) and eight cases of prolonged colitis (inflammation of the colon that did not respond to antibiotics) directly related to COVID-19 vaccination. Because I practice in the midst of a retirement community on one side of the street and a city of young families on the opposite side of the street, my practice is predominantly newly marrieds and people over 60 years old. I don’t see nearly as many children as other family practitioners or pediatricians. But, the numbers don’t lie.

I’ve been patiently waiting to seen the journal articles about this topic. Yet, it has not been written. Why must a family practitioner be writing about this, when this should be front page news on every website? Of course, I have my biases, to which I will openly admit. Yet, I seriously don’t know the answer to that question.

We live in a time when medicine has become a politicized weapon. The medical and political leadership on both sides of the isle keep moving the goal posts. Both sides appeal to false authorities. Those who are supposed to be authorities flip flop their position on the clear evidences. And, medical journals have become less and less trustworthy for a number of reasons. It leaves the physician in the trenches scratching his or her head.

Elevated D-Dimers, Fatigue, Colitis & Palpitations

All sixteen of these cases above had elevated D-dimer tests (the protein marker in the blood for significant inflammation and clotting risk) lasting 6-8 months. Four of these sixteen patients had blood clots in the lungs. Most of these cases occurred after the second vaccine dose, but a few occurred after the first dose. Six of these patients have been so fatigued, they could not work and could barely function for over four to six months.

I provide below two of the actual ultrasound images I completed while examining these sixteen patients:

41 year old male with 2 months of fatigue and palpitations starting 30 days after his first dose of COVID vaccine.

Why is this significant? Because in 22 years of medical practice, I can count on one hand the number of severe vaccine reactions I’ve personally seen in my office in all vaccines combined. Then, suddenly in the last 12 months I have 16 severe reactions to the COVID-19 jab?! It makes a person think . . .

Let’s Stop Pretending that COVID-19 Vaccines are Perfect

To date, Dr Anthony Fauci, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy remind us that 97% of new covid-19 hospitalizations or 99% of covid-19 deaths are among the unvaccinated. I’m sure the message is well-intentioned: “Vaccines will protect you from severe disease, so go get vaccinated!”

The problem is that the message is not true. Initially, there was an 81-89% reduction in severe hospitalization in the first 2-3 months of vaccination according to the studies we had. However, this protection has dramatically decreased. Hence the introduction of boosters. Yet, the studies on boosters have only looked a antibody levels, not at hospitalization risk reduction or reduction of death from COVID-19.

We saw this in the UK, where deaths among the vaccinated went from “rare” to two-thirds of all delta variant deaths by July. We saw this in Israel, where literally no fully vaccinated people died of covid-19 for 3-4 weeks in June, but by August over 60% of the severely ill were fully vaccinated.

As of today, Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine is just 39% effective in Israel where the delta variant is the dominant strain according to the recent report from the country’s Health Ministry.

Is there some effectiveness to the vaccine? According to the studies we have to date – yes. However, does that benefit outweigh the long-term risk? That is the $1 million dollar question.

How Do We Know What the Risk of Vaccination Actually Is?

Other than the very short term vaccine trials conducted by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson lasting 6 months, we really don’t know what the long-term real world risks are. The only data we have is the CDC’s ongoing VAERS data reporting system.

Established in 1990, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national early warning system to detect possible safety problems in U.S.-licensed vaccines. VAERS is co-managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). VAERS accepts and analyzes reports of adverse events (possible side effects) after a person has received a vaccination. Anyone can report an adverse event to VAERS. Healthcare professionals are required to report certain adverse events and vaccine manufacturers are required to report all adverse events that come to their attention.

VAERS is a passive reporting system, meaning it relies on individuals to send in reports of their experiences to CDC and FDA. VAERS is not designed to determine if a vaccine caused a health problem, but is especially useful for detecting unusual or unexpected patterns of adverse event reporting that might indicate a possible safety problem with a vaccine. This way, VAERS can provide CDC and FDA with valuable information that additional work and evaluation is necessary to further assess a possible safety concern.

Jessica Rose, Ph.D., a research fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge in Israel, was interviewed about what the VAERS data tell us about the COVID vaccine risk. Rose stated that the average number of adverse event reports following vaccination for the past 10 years has been about 39,000 annually, with an average of 155 deaths. That’s for all available vaccines combined.

The COVID vaccines now account for 983,756 adverse event reports as of December 17, 2021, including 20,622 deaths—and this doesn’t include the underreporting factor, which we know is significant and likely ranges from five to 40 times higher than reported. Most doctors and nurses don’t even know what VAERS is and even if they do, they chose not to report the incidents.

Data as of January 14, 2022, reports 9,936 deaths in the U.S. due to COVID-19 vaccination.

In the case of the COVID vaccinations, data demonstrates that 50% of the deaths occur within 48 hours of injection. It’s simply not conceivable that 10,000 people died two days after their shot from something other than the shot. Though fact checkers around the world discount this site as not official “because anyone can report” and claim it is coincidental. It cannot all be coincidence. Especially since so many of them are younger, with no underlying lethal conditions that threaten their lives. 80% have died within one week of their injection, which is still incredibly close in terms of cause and effect.

Children Are At 80% Greater Risk

Aside from the immediate risk of death, children are also at risk for potentially lifelong health problems from this vaccination. Myocarditis (heart inflammation seen in the two adult ultrasound images above) has emerged as one of the most common problems, especially among boys and young men.

In early September 2021, Tracy Beth Hoeg and colleagues posted an analysis of VAERS data on the preprint server medRxiv, showing that more than 86% of the children aged 12 to 17 who report symptoms of myocarditis were severe enough to require hospitalization.

Cases of myocarditis exploded after the second shot, Hoeg found, and disproportionally affecting boys. A full 90% of post-injection myocarditis reports are males, and 85% of reports occurred after the second dose. 

Said Hoeg, “The estimated incidence of CAEs [cardiac adverse events] among boys aged 12-15 years following the second dose was 162 per million; the incidence among boys aged 16-17 years was 94 per million. The estimated incidence of CAEs among girls was 13 per million in both age groups.”

According to Steve Kirsch, doctors are seeing an increase in myocarditis, but few are willing to talk about it. 

In October 2021, Jessica Rose and Dr. Peter McCullough submitted a paper on myocarditis cases in VAERS following the COVID vaccination to the journal Current Problems in Cardiology. Everything was set for publication when, suddenly, the journal changed its mind and took it down.

You can still find the pre-printed article on Rose’s website. The data clearly show that myocarditis is inversely related to age. The younger you are the higher the risk of myocarditis. The risk is also dose-dependent, with boys having a six-fold greater risk of myocarditis following the second dose.

While our health authorities and the CDC are shrugging off this risk saying cases are “mild,” that’s a blatant and frightening lie. The damage to the heart is typically permanent.

https://vaersanalysis.info/2022/01/14/vaers-summary-for-covid-19-vaccines-through-01-07-2022/

In the most recent VAERS report, you and I can see that in just six months, deaths in children and young adults from the COVID vaccine under the age of 29 years old has now surpassed the total number of deaths in this age group from COVID-19 in the last two years.

Why is this not being shouted from the rooftops? I still don’t have the answer.

COVID-19 Vaccines Double Your Risk for Acute Coronary Syndrome

Researchers have also found that Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines dramatically increase biomarkers associated with thrombosis, cardiomyopathy and other vascular events following injection.

People who have received two doses of the mRNA injection more than doubled their five-year risk of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), the researchers found, driving it from an average of 11% to 25%. ACS is an umbrella term that includes not only heart attacks, but also a range of other conditions involving abruptly reduced blood flow to your heart.

In a Twitter post November 21, 2021, cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra wrote: “Extraordinary, disturbing, upsetting. We now have evidence of a plausible biological mechanism of how mRNA vaccine may be contributing to increased cardiac events. The abstract is published in the highest impact cardiology journal so we must take these findings very seriously.”

Yet, all you and I’ve heard from the “experts” is . . . crickets . . .

What Does the VAERS Data Actually Say?

As of December 17, 2021, looking only at U.S. reports, excluding the international reporting, VAERS had received:

  • 308 cases of myocarditis among 18-year-olds
  • 252 cases among 17-year-olds
  • 226 cases in 16-year-olds
  • 256 cases in 15-year-olds
  • 193 in 14-year-olds
  • 132 in 13-year-olds
  • 108 in 12-year-olds

In total, that’s 1,475 cases of myocarditis in U.S. teens aged 18 and younger—five times the background rate in just six months! And again, this does not take into account the underreporting rate, which has been calculated to be anywhere from five to 40.

The CDC claimed that myocarditis was a possible rare side effect of the COVID infection itself.

Now, assuming the COVID hospitalization rate for adolescents is 21 per million, and we have 73.1 million adolescents, we could expect there to be 1,535 hospitalizations for COVID in this age group in a year. If 0.146 percent of those 1,535 teens develop myocarditis (the CDC’s quoted percentage of myocarditis found in adolescents), we could expect 2.2 cases of myocarditis to occur in this age group each year, among those who come down with COVID.

In summary, based on CDC statistics, we could expect just over two teens to contract myocarditis from COVID-19 infection. Meanwhile, we have 1,475 cases reported following the COVID vaccination in just six months (shots for 12- to 17-year-olds were authorized July 30, 2021). That’s a pretty big difference.

Based on the data we have in the last 12 months, there is absolutely no medical rationale or justification for children and teens to get a COVID shot. It’s all risk and no gain. 

And, as an adult, unless you are very high risk with diabetes, asthma, heart disease, morbid obesity, I’d think twice about getting a booster.

If your child experiences any symptoms of a cardiac or cardiovascular problem, seek immediate medical attention.

In my clinic, we use the following protocols to treat the elevated D-Dimer and lessen the adverse effect on the heart.

  1. Colchicine 0.6 mg daily
  2. Resveratrol 250-500 mg daily
  3. Vitamin D 2000-5000 IU daily

I’ve written about the potential risks of vaccination here and here. Want additional information? Listen to Collette Martin’s testimony before the Louisiana State Senate about this issue last month:

Sources:

  1. OpenVAERS Myocarditis cases by age as of Dec. 17, 2021
  2. Louisiana Government Archived Videos 2021 (see Health and Welfare)
  3. Louisiana Health and Welfare Committee Meeting, Dec. 6, 2021
  4. Dare to Seek the Truth Dr. Peter McCullough
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Is Mandatory Vaccination Worth The Risks?

As of today, there are 6,183 COVID-19 vaccine related deaths in the United States according to the CDC’s VAERs website. We as health care providers are required to report vaccine related injury to the VAERs site.

And, yet, when we site this data (being the ONLY DATA available to us as clinicians required to make judgement calls in real time on the use of these vaccines) we are labeled “conspiracy theorists.”

Many of you have been very vocal, threatening me and stopped following my social media channels recently,: “Dr. Nally, why do you keep harping on this vaccine risk issue? I used to trust you . . .”

In fact, Facebook has consistently blocked me from doing any “live-streaming” for the last six months. They keep finding posts from 1-2 years ago that “violate community standards” and extend my ban on live-stream posting privilege’s.”

The Answer: Because, two more of my patients have been hospitalized with life-threatening blood clots in the lungs after vaccination, both of which have never had any history of clotting problems. “Houston, THIS IS A PROBLEM! Are you listening?!”

https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D8;jsessionid=6D180E77E02D9533F8867A5708ED

Are there errors in public reporting? Of course. That is to be expected. However, some researchers that use these data sets state that VAERs reporting may be under-reported generally by up to a factor of 5. That means that the number of vaccine related deaths could between 6,000 – 39,900 as of today.

Of course, Reuters.com, FactCheck.org and Snopes.com have no medical malpractice risk looming over their heads when they make their “fact checking” statements, nor do they have the life and health of a family member depending on their recommendations sitting in front of them in the exam room.

So, you be the judge. Just remember, the Swine Flu vaccine got pulled off the market after 450 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) appeared and 3 deaths in elderly patients were reported within days of vaccination (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history.html).

Influenza and Menactra vaccines increase the risk of GBS by 2 per 1,000,000 doses (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/guillain-barre-syndrome.html).

Currently the CDC admits that COVID-19 vaccines have been directly implicated in:

Blood Clots (life-threatening thrombosis and thrombocytosis syndrome) like blood clots in the lungs occur in 7 per 1,000,000 vaccinations.

Anaphylaxis occurs in 5 per 1,000,000 vaccinations.

Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) has occurred in 137 patients vaccinated.

Myocarditis/Pericarditis has been confirmed in over 700 cases of those vaccinated. (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html)

It is hard to imagine a more dangerous and asinine way of making decisions than by abdicating those health decisions into the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

So, for a virus that has a 99.98% unvaccinated survival rate across the US population, is the risk of giving up your freedom of choice worth taking?

Well, that’s really your choice. My job as your physician is to give you the pros and the cons. That’s what I’ve done. You’ve probably already commented to me about how you either agree or disagree with me. That’s OK. Because, unlike many other medical professionals, I’ve done my job.

Now, you need to decide, is the risk of a mandated vaccine worth defending your freedom over, or do you give up this hill, tuck your tail between your legs, roll up your sleeve and then retreat?

As for me, I may be alone, but I’m standing on this hill. You’re going to have to bury me to take it.

Urgent Open Letter from Doctors Around the World

Over the last 14 months, I’ve been face-to-face (mask-to-mask when required by the government) with over 350 positive COVID-19 patients.  Thankfully, the majority of these patients only had mild to moderate symptoms of illness. Those with severe or prolonged symptoms were aggressively treated with combinations of antibiotics, steroids, ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine.  Our office has seen the whole gambit of symptoms with this virus, but fascinatingly, control of blood sugar and insulin levels has been the key to our patient’s staying healthy and/or recovering quickly.  I’m really not worried about this virus any longer.  I’m worried about the intentional confusion of my patients, of the populous of the country and of the people around the world.

A patient showed up in my office this week with thrombocytopenia (low platelets) and profound fatigue 5 days after receiving COVID vaccination that he felt pressured to get in order to keep his job.   He is not the first to show up with these concerns.

A second patient showed up with identical low platelets and bruising over her body after a positive COVID infection lasting three weeks. Her concern was that everyone around her, including her employer, was telling her she should now be vaccinated for COVID-19.

These are two of many people presenting to medical offices like mine, after being given “medical direction” by their employers and governments without the patient or their doctors fully understanding the potential risks of these therapeutics.  And, we can’t and won’t really know what the risks are until these vaccines have been under clinical trial for at least two years.

I have some serious concerns regarding these COVID-19 vaccines.  I have been openly vocal about COVID-19, masks and vaccine use and many of these concerns in various posts on Youtube, Facebook and Instagram.  Because of this, I have been ridiculed by other physicians, “experts” and people who I thought were trustworthy friends in the field of science, now towing the vaccine line.  But, towing the line or remaining silent would to me be death by 1000 cuts.

As I have stated before, I am NOT an anti-vaxxer. I support new medical interventions which are appropriately developed and deployed, after which safety, efficacy and informed consent can be appropriately given to the patient receiving these treatment.  This support includes vaccines.

My biggest concern with the COVID-19 vaccine is that it has the largest propaganda push I’ve ever seen in the 51 years of my life, being stoked by politicians and pharmaceutical companies around the globe.  This push comes AFTER the U.S. and most countries were no longer under severe threat of being medically overwhelmed, as a majority of the population of the world had been exposed and the worse of the pandemic had abated.

Second, in light of research to the contrary, this push is now being levied upon young children, teenagers and young adults, all of whom have little to no risk of severe illness if they contract COVID-19, assuming they haven’t already been exposed to this virus in the last 14 months.  Most individuals with asymptomatic or mild symptoms generate a highly functional T-cell response.  In fact, 50% of  those who have been exposed to coronavirus formed a T cell (cellular immunity) response without activation of B cell response (humoral immunity) and had no antibody formation  (Li X, Geng M, Peng Y, Meng L, Lu S. J Pharm Anal. Apr 2020; 10(2): 102-108).  We know that those who have had or been exposed to the virus have 2-4 years of T-cell immunity.  You can learn more about effectiveness of recent vaccines, T-cell and B-cell immunity in my coronavirus posts here.

To date, other than the continuously running “ticker tape of death” on CNN and multiple other news stations around the world, no conclusive evidence was presented to any of us in the medical community that an actual emergency still existed requiring emergent authorization of three vaccines – all three vaccines have yet to complete Phase IV clinical trials.

After 14 months, COVID-19 has a 99.7% survival rate.  95% of all COVID-19 deaths have comorbid conditions associated with the severity of the infection.  And, the average age of those dying with COVID-19 is 78 years old.  This data all comes from the CDC.  Oh, by the way in case you were wondering as you read that information, the global life expectancy for the average women is 75 years old, and for men it is 70 years old.   That doesn’t leave you with any questions, does it?!

I, and many collegues in the medical community, have serious concerns that premature and reckless approval of these COVID-19 vaccines occurred AFTER the severe threat had abated.  We know that the vaccines only decrease the severity of infection, they don’t actually prevent the infection in a statistically large enough group to be curative.   The push and marketing of vaccination with three products that do not actually prevent COVID-19 infection, are not actually curative,  and to date pose greater risks of side effects than any other vaccine on the market constitute “human experimentation” on a world stage.  Additionally, pushing these products from a governmental bully pulpit is propaganda of a dispicable nature.  This push has created situations between employers and employees that violate individual liberties and are violations of the Nuremberg Code.

In February, 2021, an open letter was written to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) by many concerned physicians and scientists from around the world with these an other concerns that have yet to be answered.  Neither the EMA or the CDC has addressed any of these issues for the medical community.  You can find the letter at Doctors For COVID Ethics.

I post a copy of that letter below:

Emer Cooke, Executive Director, European Medicines Agency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 28 February 2021

Dear Sirs/Mesdames,

FOR THE URGENT PERSONAL ATTENTION OF: EMER COOKE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE EUROPEAN MEDICINES AGENCY

As physicians and scientists, we are supportive in principle of the use of new medical interventions which are appropriately developed and deployed, having obtained informed consent from the patient. This stance encompasses vaccines in the same way as therapeutics. We note that a wide range of side effects is being reported following vaccination of previously healthy younger individuals with the gene-based COVID-19 vaccines. Moreover, there have been numerous media reports from around the world of care homes being struck by COVID-19 within days of vaccination of residents. While we recognize that these occurrences might, every one of them, have been unfortunate coincidences, we are concerned that there has been and there continues to be inadequate scrutiny of the possible causes of illness or death under these circumstances, and especially so in the absence of post-mortems examinations. In particular, we question whether cardinal issues regarding the safety of the vaccines were adequately addressed prior to their approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). As a matter of great urgency, we herewith request that the EMA provide us with responses to the following issues:

      1. Following intramuscular injection, it must be expected that the gene-based vaccines will reach the bloodstream and disseminate throughout the body [1]. We request evidence that this possibility was excluded in pre-clinical animal models with all three vaccines prior to their approval for use in humans by the EMA.
      2. If such evidence is not available, it must be expected that the vaccines will remain entrapped in the circulation and be taken up by endothelial cells. There is reason to assume that this will happen particularly at sites of slow blood flow, i.e. in small vessels and capillaries [2]. We request evidence that this probability was excluded in pre-clinical animal models with all three vaccines prior to their approval for use in humans by the EMA.
      3. If such evidence is not available, it must be expected that during expression of the vaccines’ nucleic acids, peptides derived from the spike protein will be presented via the MHC I — pathway at the luminal surface of the cells. Many healthy individuals have CD8-lymphocytes that recognize such peptides, which may be due to prior COVID infection, but also to cross-reactions with other types of Coronavirus [3; 4] [5]. We must assume that these lymphocytes will mount an attack on the respective cells. We request evidence that this probability was excluded in pre-clinical animal models with all three vaccines prior to their approval for use in humans by the EMA.
      4. If such evidence is not available, it must be expected that endothelial damage with subsequent triggering of blood coagulation via platelet activation will ensue at countless sites throughout the body. We request evidence that this probability was excluded in pre-clinical animal models with all three vaccines prior to their approval for use in humans by the EMA.
      5. If such evidence is not available, it must be expected that this will lead to a drop in platelet counts, appearance of D-dimers in the blood, and to myriad ischemic lesions throughout the body including in the brain, spinal cord and heart. Bleeding disorders might occur in the wake of this novel type of DIC-syndrome including, amongst other possibilities, profuse bleedings and hemorrhagic stroke. We request evidence that all these possibilities were excluded in pre-clinical animal models with all three vaccines prior to their approval for use in humans by the EMA.
      6. The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein binds to the ACE2 receptor on platelets, which results in their activation [6]. Thrombocytopenia has been reported in severe cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection [7]. Thrombocytopenia has also been reported in vaccinated individuals [8]. We request evidence that the potential danger of platelet activation that would also lead to disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) was excluded with all three vaccines prior to their approval for use in humans by the EMA.
      7. The sweeping across the globe of SARS-CoV-2 created a pandemic of illness associated with many deaths. However, by the time of consideration for approval of the vaccines, the health systems of most countries were no longer under imminent threat of being overwhelmed because a growing proportion of the world had already been infected and the worst of the pandemic had already abated. Consequently, we demand conclusive evidence that an actual emergency existed at the time of the EMA granting Conditional Marketing Authorization to the manufacturers of all three vaccines, to justify their approval for use in humans by the EMA, purportedly because of such an emergency.

Should all such evidence not be available, we demand that approval for use of the gene-based vaccines be withdrawn until all the above issues have been properly addressed by the exercise of due diligence by the EMA. There are serious concerns, including but not confined to those outlined above, that the approval of the COVID-19 vaccines by the EMA was premature and reckless, and that the administration of the vaccines constituted and still does constitute “human experimentation”, which was and still is in violation of the Nuremberg Code. In view of the urgency of the situation, we request that you reply to this email within seven days and address all our concerns substantively. Should you choose not to comply with this reasonable request, we will make this letter public.

This email is copied to: Charles Michel, President of the Council of Europe Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Doctors and scientists can sign the open letter by emailing their name, qualifications, areas of expertise, country and any affiliations they would like to cite, to Doctors4CovidEthics@protonmail.com

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Yours faithfully, Professsor Sucharit Bhakdi MD, Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Former Chair, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Medical Doctor and Scientist) (Germany and Thailand) Dr Marco Chiesa MD FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist and Visiting Professor, University College London (Medical Doctor) (United Kingdom and Italy) Dr C Stephen Frost BSc MBChB Specialist in Diagnostic Radiology, Stockholm, Sweden (Medical Doctor) (United Kingdom and Sweden) Dr Margareta Griesz-Brisson MD PhD, Consultant Neurologist and Neurophysiologist (studied Medicine in Freiburg, Germany, speciality training for Neurology at New York University, Fellowship in Neurophysiology at Mount Sinai Medical Centre, New York City; PhD in Pharmacology with special interest in chronic low level neurotoxicology and effects of environmental factors on brain health), Medical Director, The London Neurology and Pain Clinic (Medical Doctor and Scientist) (Germany and United Kingdom) Professor Martin Haditsch MD PhD, Specialist (Austria) in Hygiene and Microbiology, Specialist (Germany) in Microbiology, Virology, Epidemiology/Infectious Diseases, Specialist (Austria) in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Director, TravelMedCenter, Leonding, Austria, Medical Director, Labor Hannover MVZ GmbH (Medical Doctor and Scientist) (Austria and Germany) Professor Stefan Hockertz, Professor of Toxicology and Pharmacologym, European registered Toxicologist, Specialist in Immunology and Immunotoxicology, CEO tpi consult GmbH. 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Sudden Hearing Loss After COVID Vaccination?

There is a great deal of interest in the otolaryngology (ENT) community and the general medical community at large with the perception that hearing loss rates have increased after COVID vaccinations. The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery estimates that sudden sensorineural hearing loss affects 5 to 27 per 100,000 people annually, with about 66,000 new cases a year in the U.S.

Estimates of sudden sensorineural hearing loss after COVID-19 vaccination ranged from 0.3 to 4.1 per 100,000 per year based on the recent Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) data according to Eric Formeister, MD, MS, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and co-authors in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

“Among the otolaryngology community and larger medical community, there is a lot of interest surrounding a perception of an increased rate of sudden hearing loss that has been observed in some patients after COVID vaccination,” Formeister told MedPage Today.

“However, sudden hearing loss can also occur naturally, so it is not known whether sudden hearing loss occurring after COVID vaccination is coincidental or may be related to the vaccine,” he added. “Further, some patients who have suffered sudden hearing loss after the first dose have been hesitant to receive the second dose due to safety concerns.”

Formeister and his colleagues found 147 reports of sudden hearing loss, deafness, deafness unilateral, deafness neurosensory, and hypoacusis associated with COVID vaccinations from December 14, 2020 to March 2, 2021 in the VAERS system.

However, Formeister and MedPage Today downplayed these 147 reports, stating that of these reports, only 40 had a temporal association (hearing loss onset occurred within 3 weeks of vaccination).   Because of how they were reported only these 40 were considered high credibility (they had been reported by a healthcare clinician with documented audiologic findings or steroid treatment).  Formeister states that these 40 reports were classified as “most likely.”  However, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was not included in this report.

The mean age in the most likely group was 56 years old, and most cases (63%) involved women. Twelve people received Moderna vaccines and 28 received Pfizer. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss occurred an average of 4 days after vaccination. Thirty of the 40 cases were treated with steroids.

Based on about 86 million SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses that had been administered in the U.S. during the study period and using only the 40 most likely reports, the researchers estimated a minimum incidence of 0.3 per 100,000 per year, assuming a single vaccine dose per person.

Maximum incidence using all 147 accounts in the VAERS database, based on two vaccine doses per person in the time period, was estimated to be 4.1 per 100,000 per year.  This took into account the fact that the exact number of unique individuals receiving a vaccine was unknown.

Formeister states that “These results so far provide evidence that COVID vaccination is not associated with sudden hearing loss” because it is statistically identical to the rate of hearing loss seen in the general public each year.

“One of the pushes behind this publication is to urge clinicians and patients alike to report adverse events to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, so we may accrue more data to allow a more accurate prediction of the rate of sudden hearing loss after COVID-19 vaccination,” he noted.

If you experience hearing loss symptoms after vaccination should contact their healthcare provider immediately.  Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is potentially treatable, but treatment efficacy is time-sensitive.

The reporting period did not include vaccines other than Pfizer and Moderna, the researchers acknowledged. VAERS reports are unverified and subject to underreporting bias. Because people may experience multiple adverse effects after vaccination and these may not be fully captured in VAERS and the reports of hearing loss may be more that we are aware.

 

Vaccine Propaganda

Let’s call it what it is – propaganda.  Over the last few months, as I drive down the freeway, I continue to see Arizona Department of Transportation signs and other media advertising the number of people vaccinated, and how we are supposedly “saving our country by getting a shot.”  This morning at 7 am the message board on the 303 freeway loop stated:
“5.4 MILLION DOSES AND COUNTING. GET VACCINATED”
Now colleges & universities are considering mandating vaccination before allowing students to return to class.  Travel companies and international airlines have actually already mandated vaccination. I am actually horrified that our state officials pay for and  support this type of propaganda. The scientific evidence to support this type of health propaganda does not exist.  I’ve scoured the medical literature for it and it just doesn’t exist.
In fact, my patients are showing up in my office after being told by their cardiologists and gastroenterologists that they need their COVID vaccine.  I can guarantee that many of these specialists have never read the vaccine literature and have no idea of the side effect profile and/or risks of this or any other vaccine.
Let me start by stating up front that I am a strong proponent of vaccines.  We have many tried and true, fully vetted vaccines to prevent many diseases.  The science states that if you’ve already had the virus, you have two to four years of immunity. We know the vaccine doesn’t prevent the virus, it just decreases likelihood of severity for 4-6 months.  In fact, I’ve already had four patients in my office get a full blown COVID-19 infection post vaccination.  However, this and seven other essential points are being blatantly ignored by governments, churches, college campuses and other organizations encouraging, propagandizing and even “requiring” vaccination.
  1. Young adults are a healthy and immunologically competent and vibrant group that is at “extraordinary low risk for COVID-19 morbidity and mortality.”
  2. Even though the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for three COVID-19 vaccines, they are not FDA approved to treat, cure or prevent any disease at this time.
  3. The COVID-19 vaccines on the market in the U.S., produced by Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson, have been associated with serious side effects. These adverse reactions result in absence from school and work, hospital visits, and even loss of life. More than 2,300 deaths have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) as of April 20, 2021.
  4. Students who have recovered from COVID-19 already likely have protective immunity, and vaccination of these groups significantly increases risk of autoimmune reactions.
  5. Protections expressed by the Nuremberg Code require individuals “to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force.”
  6. Informed consent is the standard for all medical interventions. The FDA fact sheet for the healthcare provider reads: “The recipient or their caregiver has the option to accept or refuse [the] vaccine.”
  7. College-age women may be at unique risk for adverse events following administration of the experimental COVID vaccinations currently available. According to the CDC, all cases of life-threatening blood clots subsequent to receiving the J&J vaccine have so far occurred in younger women. In addition, “women are reporting having irregular menstrual cycles after getting the coronavirus vaccine,” and 95 miscarriages have been reported to VAERS following COVID vaccination as of April 24, 2021.

This is the position of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and it is my position.  This push for vaccination when these questions still remain may appear prudent in an emergency situation to those who have been selected and elected to lead us, however, after five months of availability to evaluate this approach it is actually coercive and blatantly ignores the science that supports these points.  This course of action is, in my opinion, an egregious lack of insight, or if done knowingly is actually malevolent.

As a family physician, whose job revolves around vaccination of children and adults, and one who is given the mission of providing appropriate preventative medical care to his community, I cannot in good conscience support the propaganda behind this vaccine.