In 1947 C.S.Lewis said this: “It is in Man’s power to treat himself as a mere ‘natural object’…if man chooses to treat himself as raw material, raw material he will be…Either we are rational spirit, or else we are mere nature, raw material to be kneaded and cut into new shapes for the pleasures of masters who have no motive but their own ‘natural’ impulses…The process, if not checked, will abolish Man…The methods may (at first) differ in brutality. But many a mild-eyed scientist in pince-nez...means in the long run just the same as the Nazi rulers of Germany.” (The Abolition of Man)
On August 23, 2022 The Wall Street Journal said this: “Anthony Fauci…became the main symbol of the rule by experts who imposed lockdowns on America and brooked no scientific debate on Covid…He also lobbied for mask and vaccine mandates that were far less protective than his assertions to the public. Dr. Fauci’s influence was all the greater because he had an echo chamber in the press corps and among public elites who disdained and ostracized dissenters…”they’re really criticizing science because I represent science. That’s dangerous,” Dr. Fauci said last November, in a comment that summarizes the view of the public-health clerisy. The public is supposed to let a few powerful men and women define science and then impose their preferred policies and mandates on the country…The costs of that mindset have been severe, and not merely economic. We know now that states that locked down fared no better, and sometimes worse, than those that didn’t. We also know that the vaccines don’t prevent the spread of Covid—even after multiple boosters. More honest candor would have been better for America’s trust in public-health authorities…But his legacy will be that millions of Americans will never trust government health experts in the same way again.” (WSJ editorial, “Dr. Fauci and the Rule of Experts” )
“COVID 19 VACCINES…ENDING ALL MANDATES GLOBALLY AND ACCESSING THE RAW DATA IS NOW ESSENTIAL TO RESTORE TRUST” (Aseem Malhotra, www.europeanscientist.com , 8 August 2022) “Collectively traditional vaccines are estimated to save approximately 4-5 million lives per year globally. It is therefore not surprising that there was optimism at the announcement of a number of randomized trials suggesting excellent efficacy of various vaccines against covid 19 towards the end of 2020…But since that time there has been considerable evolution in the understanding of the true effectiveness and safety of the covid vaccines that were given emergency use authorization…First, what was reported in the mainstream news as being 95% effective against infection was in fact relative risk reduction, not absolute risk reduction from the double blind randomized controlled trial that took place during the more lethal circulating post-Wuhan ancestral strain of the virus. That specific NEJM paper which underpinned the emergency use authorization of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine actually revealed an absolute risk reduction (ARR) of only 0.84%. In other words, for every 119 individuals vaccinated just one person would be protected from being infected…Furthermore, as newer and less lethal mutated strains became dominant, any protection against infection at the very least became less effective and likely completely ineffective…it’s crucial to acknowledge that the highest quality evidence available at the time of drug regulatory approval did not reveal any statistically significant reduction in either all-cause mortality nor a reduction in covid-19 mortality over a six-month period…The director of the CDC Rochelle Walensky recently admitted that her initial optimism for the vaccine came from a CNN news report. One very senior health policy leader in the UK told me that most of his colleagues in NHS leadership roles were getting most of their information from the BBC, not through their own critical appraisal of the evidence.” Dr.Malhotra then refers to a 2009 World Health Organisation bulletin stating, “It is an ethical imperative that every doctor and patient understand the difference between absolute and relative risk, to protect patients against unnecessary anxiety and manipulation.” (Gigerenzer, Making sense of health statistics, Bull World Health Organ 2009;89:567)…I have referred on several occasions to the importance of the concepts of “absolute risk” and “absolute risk reduction.” In a recent example I concluded that measles vaccine is a true lifesaver and is 85 times more effective than Pfizer’s non-lifesaving Covid-19 vaccine. (https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1507/rr-1)...Dr. Malhotra refers also to a recent pre-print publication, co-authored by some of the most eminent medical scientists in the world. It found that in the Pfizer and Moderna trials combined the absolute risk of a serious adverse event from the mRNA vaccines (a rate of 1 in 800) exceeded the risk reduction in covid-19 hospitalization. (Fraiman et al, Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA vaccination in randomized trials, posted 23 June 2022)
“New Icelandic Study Shows Covid Reinfection Rates Rise With Number of Vaccine Doses” (dailysceptic.org, 15 August 2022) It has been 20 months since the exciting news of “the 95% effectiveness of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine” but the Covid virus still ravages the world. Data on infection, hospitalization and mortality show vaccinations not only failing to prevent those, but in some cases are actually counterproductive. The vaccines have failed to deliver what we were promised, and the skyrocketing rate of side effects may mean that for most people vaccination makes little or no sense. Meanwhile, it is forbidden to publicly discuss these facts and possibilities, or the evidence showing higher infection rates among the vaccinated, as in the Icelandic study. (Eythorsson et al, Rate of SARS-Co-V-2 Reinfection During an Omicron Wave in Iceland, JAMA Network Open 2022;5(8):e2225320, August 3) This population-based cohort study monitored all persons previously infected with Covid-19 during the Omicron wave in Iceland. A total of 11,536 PCR-positive persons were included; 1327 (11.5%) became reinfected during the 74-day Omicron period. Across all age groups the risk of reinfection was 42% higher for people who had received 2 or more vaccine doses compared with those with 0 or 1 dose only (aOR 1.42, CI 1.13 to 1.78). For young adults 18-29 the reinfection risk of vaccination was even higher (OR ~ 1.53 from inspection of the Figure in the article).
The problem with reports of vaccine effectiveness: “Non-randomised studies assessing COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness need to consider multiple factors that may generate spurious estimates due to bias or genuinely modify effectiveness. These include pre-existing immunity, vaccination misclassification, exposure differences, testing, disease risk factor confounding, hospital admission decisions, treatment use differences, and death attribution… Realisation of the complexity of these factors should lead to great caution in interpreting estimates of vaccine effectiveness from non-randomised studies…Randomised trials remain indispensable…Long-term follow-up is essential…For both observational and randomized designs, transparency and wide availability of the relevant data are essential.” (Ioannidis, Factors influencing estimated effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in non-randomised studies. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine online 25 March 2022. doi:10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111901)… John Ioannidis is one of the world’s most distinguished medical scientists, and his statement helps explain the contradictions between glowing CDC reports of vaccine effectiveness and the negative conclusions of other observers:
Andre Redert, Covid-19 vaccinations and all-cause mortality—a long-term differential analysis among municipalities. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361818561, July 7, 2022. “We analyse the relation between covid-19 vaccinations and all-cause mortality in 340 Dutch municipalities during the entire pandemic period. We could not observe a mortality-reducing effect after vaccination and booster campaigns. We did find a 4-sigma-significant mortality-enhancing effect (of vaccination) during the two periods of high unexplained excess mortality (P<0.0001). Our results add to other recent findings of zero mRNA vaccine effectiveness on all-cause mortality…” See also: Art Moore, thejewishvoice.com/2022/07/shocking-study-covid-shots-linked-to-increase-in-overall-deaths/ 30 July 2022.
“Covid Vaccines Are Killing One in Every 800 Over-60s and should Be Withdrawn Immediately, Says Leading Vaccine Scientist” (dailysceptic.org. 4 August 2022) Dr. Theo Schetters has analysed official data from the Dutch government and found a very close correlation between the time fourth vaccine doses were administered and the subsequent increase in excess deaths from all causes in adults over 60. In a registered letter to the Dutch Institute of Health he has documented his estimate of 1 death in every 800 older recipients of the booster….Dr. Schetter’s analysis is in line with official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the UK, where there have been 11,370 excess non-Covid deaths in the 13 weeks since April 23. If these were a result of the 4,182,483 spring boosters, the rate would be 1 excess death for every 368 doses. The deaths appear to be related mainly to cardiovascular disease, and the continued high level of excess deaths is unexpected because, after 142,000 excess deaths in the last two and a half years, we would have expected a period of lower than average deaths…Temporal associations such as these can be misleading because of the ecologic fallacy, but it is hard to dismiss the possibility that these represent causal associations.
“If Covid isn’t causing soaring deaths, is the jab to blame?” (www.conservativewoman.co.uk, Guy Hatchard, 11 August 2022) Excess all-cause mortality in New Zealand is running at record levels. About 100 people are dying each day in a country with a population of 5 million. Just 3% of deaths are because of Covid, and it has been a mild flu season. Hospital emergency department data and all-cause mortality data reveal acute illness and sudden death are at an all-time high, but we aren’t being told what patients are ill with…Having heavily promoted mRNA vaccination for 18 months, our newspapers may be too embarrassed to ask questions about the vaccines.
“Why Are All-Cause Excess Deaths in the Under-45s So Much Higher This Year Than at the Height of the Pandemic?” (dailysceptic.org, 15 August) By week 31 of 2022 there have been 3360 excess all-cause deaths of people under 45 across the EUROMOMO countries. This is more than twice the 1640 excess all-cause deaths by week 31 in 2020 in the under 45s. Comparable figures in children 0-14 are 770 in 2022 and 29 in 2020. Covid accounts for very few of these deaths in children and younger adults. On the other hand, cumulative Covid deaths in all age groups for all European countries are about 60% higher at this point in 2022 compared with 2020. (Our World in Data numbers portrayed in Figure 6) Why are Covid and non-Covid deaths higher? The Omicron strain now circulating is more benign than the 2020 Wuhan strain, and 90% of the population have been vaccinated. What is going on?
Excerpts from an open letter from Professor Christopher Neil, president of the Australian Medical Professionals Society/AMPS. (npaq-8630368.hs-sites.com/ 15 August) “Contingent to a joint statement received from AHPRA and the National Boards on 9 March 2021, Australian Health Professionals numbering over 825,000 were essentially forbidden from publicly questioning the science underlying the emerging COVID-19 injectables, because these products were deemed ‘safe and effective’…17 months later and after numerous forms of pressure to take up the COVID-19 injectables in various age categories, a tremendous amount of data is available to more fully and accurately inform clinicians about these products. This literature includes over one thousand peer-reviewed studies reporting the harms being seen around the world, up to December 2021…The outcome of the gagging was to see Doctors and Health Professionals effectively mandated to support the government campaign to have the Australian population injected with drugs for which there was no adequate short-, medium-, or long-term safety or efficacy data…To date (28 June 2022) Adverse Events flowing from these products are at historically unprecedented levels globally and they continue to rise. Adverse Event Reports/Deaths are as follows: European Medicines Agency: 1,845,179/45,982; US VAERS: 835,062/13,338; Australia TGA: 132,155/889; UK Yellow Card: 458,463/2,191. Total: 3,270,859 Adverse Event Reports/62,450 Deaths.” (NOTE: these are passive reporting systems, conservatively estimated to record 10% or less of adverse events following vaccinations. Even so, the numbers are vastly higher than the number of adverse events reported for all other vaccines. For example, the number of Covid vaccine-associated deaths reported to VAERS is 30 to 40 times higher than the number of deaths reported for all other vaccines during this period).....Professor Neil concludes: “AMPS is of the opinion that Australia is experiencing a highly significant iatrogenic event.”
THE TIME OF COVID. A Report by Phillip M. Altman, 9 August 2022…. Conclusion: “The introduction and worldwide use of COVID-19 gene-based ‘vaccines’ has been associated, in the short term, with far more deaths, illnesses, injuries, and disabilities than any other therapeutic agent in the history of medicine. Due to the total lack of any long-term safety data, the potential future iatrogenic effects (including neurological, immunological and carcinogenic effects) may be even more devastating.” 42 pages of carefully documented statements about the harms being done by mRNA vaccines, and their disappointing clinical efficacy.
More on adverse vaccine effects, including negative vaccine effectiveness: 1) From April 10 through May 7, 2022 there were 255 Covid deaths reported in British Columbia. 75% occurred in individuals with 3 vaccine doses, 15% with 2 doses, 2% with one dose, and 9% in unvaccinated individuals. (Data from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control reported on July 31 by Alex Berenson)…2) From March 15 through June 28, 2022 in the Netherlands Covid-19 overall effectiveness of two vaccine doses against hospitalization was 0% (CI –9% to 7%); effectiveness against the need for intensive care was –20% (CI –54% to7%) In the 50-69 age group VE against hospitalization was –68% (CI –97% to –44%); VE against the need for intensive care was –41% (CI –104% to 3%). (“Effectiviteit van COVID-19 vaccinatie tegen ziekenhuis en intensive-care-opname in Nederland” Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, 5 Juli 2022…Initially reported in alexberenson.substack.com on July 21) Boosters transiently improved effectiveness…3) “Covid Vaccination Offers No Protection Against Hospitalisation, Official UK Data Suggest” by Amanuensis, dailysceptic.org, August 7…4) “German insurer sees Covid jab injuries soar by almost 3000 per cent” (www.conservativewoman.co.uk, August 16. Based on “From Symptoms to Causes” by Thorstein Siglausson) The number of payouts by Techniker Krankenhasse for vaccine-related adverse effects needing medical treatment rose from 13,777 in 2019 and 15,044 in 2020, to 437,593 in 2021. About 11 million people are insured by TK, so 1 of every 23 insured individuals was compensated for a vaccine injury in 2021…5) AstraZeneca’s adenovirus vaccine was associated with a 29% increase in the risk of myocardial infarction and a 41% increase in the risk of pulmonary embolus the second week after the first vaccine dose in this self-controlled case series study. (Botton et al, Ann Int Med. doi:10.7326/M22-0988, August 23).
Covid vaccines for children and adolescents: the evidence for safety and effectiveness is still flimsy, and the professional and parental responses have been lukewarm. 1) VE against symptomatic infection in adolescents peaked at 4 weeks after the 2nd Pfizer dose and by 3 months had dropped to 50% in Scotland and 6% in Brazil. (Florentino et al, Lancet Infect Dis online 8 August 2022)…2) Real doubts about vaccinating the under-5s in the UK: “You end up having to vaccinate a lot of children to have a little bit of improvement… they’ll probably be deemed non-essential…vaccinating all of the under-5s against covid-19 would drive down inoculation rates for other diseases…only 10% of 5-11 year olds in England have received a single dose.” (Cox, BMJ 2022;378:o1892, August 23)…”In high income settings such as the UK the benefit for healthy children under 5 is likely to be even more marginal than it is for older children… The US vaccination policy for under-5s may be driven by a desire to protect wider society…covid-19 vaccination programmes for children could (negatively) affect routine childhood vaccination programmes…Reports from Australia of diphtheria cases highlight that maintaining routine vaccine uptake has never been more important.” (Saxena et al, BMJ 2022;378:1863, July 28)…”Although mass COVID-19 vaccination of all ages, including children under 12 years of age, may become the general approach globally in the future, it seems wise at present to weigh up the risks and benefits with caution and to proceed with care” (Zimmerman et al, Should children be vaccinated against COVID-19? Arch Dis Child online November 3, 2021)…3) Denmark: children and young people rarely become ill from covid-19 with the omicron variant. Therefore, from 1 July 2022 it will no longer be possible for healthy under-18s to get the 1st jab, and from 1 September it will no longer be possible to get the 2nd jab. Exceptions can be made for high-risk children. (Reported by Alex Berenson on August 9)…4) Interim statement on COVID-19 vaccination for children. WHO, 17 August 2022. “Before considering primary vaccination series in adolescents and children, attaining coverage in high priority groups, such as older adults, must be pursued. Furthermore, it is of utmost importance for children to continue to receive the recommended vaccines for other infectious diseases.”…5) “Toddlers’ Vaccine Rates Remain Low” WSJ, 9 August. Only 4% to 5% of children 6 months through 4 years have received a shot so far. Relatively few US pediatricians have signed up to give the vaccine…6) Mansanguan et al, “Cardiovascular Effects of the BNT192b2 mRNA Vaccine in Adolescents” doi:10.20944/preprints202208.0151.v1, posted August 8, 2022. This prospective cohort study in 301 Thai adolescents found cardiovascular effects (tachycardia, shortness of breath, palpitation, chest pain, hypertension) in 29% during the week following the 2nd dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Altogether, there were 7 suspected or confirmed cases of myocarditis or pericarditis (2.3%).
More evidence of the rapid waning of Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness in adults, resulting in negative vaccine effectiveness (i.e. increased risk of infection). Across all adult age groups in the UK there was a progressive decrease in VE beginning 3-6 weeks after the 2nd dose. In healthy adults 40-64 given the AstraZeneca vaccine, for example, the risk of a positive Covid-19 test increased progressively in successive 4-week periods from 0.78 at 3-6 weeks (22% risk reduction compared to the unvaccinated) to 0.93 (7-10 weeks), 1.25 (11-14 weeks), 1.54 (15-18 weeks), 1.75 (19-22 weeks), to 1.86 at 23-26 weeks (an 86% increase in risk of infection). Rates of Covid-associated hospitalizations and deaths were consistently lower among the vaccinated up to 6 months, but this was a test-negative case-control study and does not prove that vaccinations actually prevented deaths. The association may be non-causal, resulting instead from the “healthy-user effect.” If we assume that vaccinations really prevented deaths, calculations from Supplementary Table 5 indicate that to prevent a single death during this limited time period 5000 adults had to be vaccinated. (Horne et al, BMJ 2022;377:e071249, July 20)
BCG tuberculosis vaccine does a far better job against Covid-19 than Covid vaccines: 1) A randomized trial in 301 high-risk Greek adults found that a single intradermal dose of BCG vaccine (Moscow strain) reduced the risk of a Covid-19 infection by 68% over a 6-month period (aOR 0.32, CI 0.13-0.79, P= 0.014). (Tsilika et al, Front Immunol online July 5, 2022, doi:10.3389/fimmu.2022.873067)…2) An ongoing randomized trial in US adults with Type 1 diabetes compared 96 patients who had received 3 doses of BCG (Tokyo strain) in the two years before January 2020 with 48 patients given placebo. Over 15 months there has been just one confirmed Covid-19 case in the BCG group (1%) and 6 cases in the placebo group (12.5%), P=0.009; vaccine efficacy was 92%. Overall, the BCG group also had about half as many infections of all other types and their infections were less severe. (Faustman et al, “Multiple BCG vaccinations for prevention of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases in Type 1 diabetes” Cell Reports Medicine, 8 August 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100728) …3) The foregoing studies are discussed in “Why a Century-Old Vaccine Offers New Hope Against Pathogens” by Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, August 16…4) “The TB Vaccine Mysteriously Protects Against Lots of Things. Now We Know Why” by Felicity Nelson, www.sciencealert.com, August 5). Australian researchers found epigenetic changes in monocytes from infants given BCG; these are changes in the way genes are expressed or controlled, which genes are active and which ones are switched off. The changes effectively activated the innate immune system and lasted an average of 14 months after vaccination. See: Bannister et al, “Neonatal BCG vaccination is associated with a long-term DNA methylation signature in circulating monocytes” Sci. Adv. 8, eabn4022 (2022), 5 August. This complex laboratory study shows that BCG trains innate immune cells to respond non-specifically and protectively against viral infections.
MISCELLANY: 1) In July 2022 The BMJ exposed significant financial conflicts of interest of drug approval regulators in the US, Australia, Europe, Japan, Canada and the UK. (Aseem Malhotra, 16 August. Demasi BMJ 2022;377:o1538. Thacker, BMJ 2020;371:m4716)…2) “Do the COVID-19 injections contain epigenetic factors inducing cancer, autoimmunity, neurological disorders, diabetes, and more?” Jessica Rose, Unacceptable Jessica Substack, 16 August…3) Yamamoto, “Adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines and measures to prevent them” Virology Journal online 5 June 2022…4) Bardosh et al, “The unintended consequences of COVID-19 vaccine policy: why mandates, passports and restrictions may cause more harm than good” BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e008684, 5 May 2022…5) “The Lessons of New Zealand’s Failed Zero Covid Strategy Must Be Learned” dailysceptic.org, 8 August. Dr. Jay Bhattaacharya: “New Zealand bet wrongly on the vaccine-induced herd-immunity approach..ultimately, New Zealand’s Zero Covid strategy was immoral, incoherent and a grand failure.”…6) Rubin, “COVID-19 Boosters This Fall to Include the Omicron Antigen, but Questions Remain About Its Value” JAMA, 2 August…7) “Pfizer files for emergency use of its BA.4/BA.5 Omicron booster” CIDRAP News, 22 August. For use in people 12 and older…8) Wetsman, “Moderna is suing Pfizer over its coronavirus vaccine” www.theverge.com, 26 August. They allege infringement of their mRNA patents…8) Almadhoon et al, “The effect of influenza vaccine in reducing severity of clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis” Nature Scientific Reports online 22 August 2022. There was actually a weak trend associating flu shots with increased Covid-19 mortality (RR 1.20, CI 0.71 to 2.04)…9) On August 24 the CDC reported that there were an average of 389 Covid deaths daily in the US.
“The Centers for Disease Politics” (WSJ editorial, August 19) “The CDC once had a reputation for excellence. Covid blew that up. Its bureaucracy, with 11,000 employees and some two dozen divisions, impeded a rapid and effective response to the virus…It has sought to address social and environmental issues that are better left to the states or other agencies. Meantime it has failed in its core responsibility, which is to track diseases, collect data to inform decision-making, and deploy resources to support local public health responses…At the start of the pandemic CDC employees failed to follow standard lab operating procedures and contaminated Covid tests; the agency refused to share virus samples with private commercial labs to help develop and deploy tests…Agency scientists took a proprietary interest in their intellectual property, prolonging negotiations for weeks to make sure that contracts protected their inventions…The CDC now posts more Covid data, but often late and it omits critical information. Instead of publishing raw data for outside scientists to analyze, the CDC often only releases studies that support its policies, such as mask mandates. Politics drives many CDC decisions, including one last spring not to collect information on breakthrough Covid cases lest this show declining vaccine efficacy…” NOTE: the CDC has a proprietary interest in vaccines which conflicts with its humanitarian and scientific missions. Seasonal flu shots have been promoted by the CDC for the last 18 years by exaggerating the risks of influenza, in the absence of high quality evidence that the vaccines save lives—and some evidence that they increase all-cause mortality in the elderly.
“Fauci and Walensky Double Down on Failure” (John Tierney, WSJ, August 19) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention belatedly admitted failure this week, after a fashion. Rochelle Walensky apologized for CDC failures, but nowhere did she express regret for lockdowns, the most radical and destructive experiment in the history of public health. She and Anthony Fauci think lockdowns failed because they didn’t go far enough. Now WHO is calling for stricter lockdowns in the next pandemic and is seeking a new treaty that would compel nations to adopt them. The World Economic Forum hails the lockdowns as the model for a “Great Reset” empowering technocrats to dictate policies world-wide. ”Yet these oppressive measures were taken against the longstanding advice of public-health experts, who warned they would lead to catastrophe and were proved right…In 2020 the death rate surged among younger adults in the US, and a majority of them died from causes other than Covid. No one knows how many deaths were caused by lockdowns, but the social disruptions, isolation, inactivity and economic havoc clearly exacted a toll. Medical treatments and screenings were delayed, and there were sharp increases in the rates of depression, anxiety, obesity, diabetes, fatal strokes and heart disease, and fatal abuse of alcohol and drugs. These were the sorts of calamities foreseen long before 2020 by eminent epidemiologists such as Donald Henderson, who directed the successful international effort to eradicate smallpox.** In 2006 he and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh concluded that communities faced with epidemics respond best when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted. They specifically advised leaders not to be guided by computer models. If leaders overreacted and panicked the public, a manageable epidemic could move toward catastrophe…It was bad enough that Dr. Fauci, the CDC and the WHO ignored the best scientific advice at the start of this pandemic. It’s sociopathic for them to promote a worse catastrophe for future outbreaks. If a drug company behaved this way its executives would be facing lawsuits, bankruptcy and probably criminal charges. Dr. Fauci and his fellow public health officials can’t easily be sued, but they need to be put out of business long before the next pandemic.” See also: “Failings of the C.D.C. Prompt a Rebuke and an Overhaul” NYT, August 18…”The C.D.C. Continues to Lead From Behind” by Ross Douthat, NYT, August 13…”US CDC announces major changes after criticism of its responses to covid-19 and monkeypox” by Janice Tanne, BMJ 2022;378:o2074, August 23. (** I met Don Henderson in Cooperstown in 1977. He had been a trainee at Bassett Hospital before going on to a celebrated career in public health)
SUMMARY: 1) The effectiveness of existing Covid-19 vaccines at present is very limited. The most recent studies indicate that it takes a few weeks for the vaccines to become effective; effectiveness peaks about 6-10 weeks after the first vaccine dose and 3-6 weeks after the second dose; effectiveness progressively declines thereafter until by 5-6 months the vaccines are either ineffective or are negatively effective, actually increasing the risk of infection. Boosters may revive protection, but the duration of their effectiveness is also transient, and the overall effect on immune defenses of repeated injections is unknown…2) The effectiveness of Pfizer’s new BA.4/BA.5 Omicron booster is presently unknown…3) Covid-19 vaccine adverse effects are common and some are very serious. Studies by unbiased experts indicate that the frequency of serious adverse effect of vaccines (SAE) substantially exceed the frequency of severe Covid-19 infections…4) In recent months Covid-19 vaccinations have been statistically associated in several countries with an increase in the frequency of Covid-19 infections, including Covid-associated hospitalizations and deaths. Vaccinations have also been statistically associated with increases in non-Covid mortality…5) There are plausible hypotheses that mRNA vaccines are likely to increase the risks of cardiovascular, neurological, and autoimmune diseases and cancer…6) Vaccinating children against Covid-19 is being resisted for good reasons…7) Professional and financial conflicts of interest have compromised the humanitarian and scientific missions of public health authorities.
“But many a mild-eyed scientist…means in the long run just the same as the Nazi rulers of Germany.”
Thanks again to Noel Thomas, Elizabeth Hart, Leah Rosenberg and others for keeping me informed.