This is the seventh of the weekly round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news compiled by a group of medical doctors who are monitoring developments but prefer to remain anonymous in the current climate (find the sixth one here). By no means is this part of an effort to generate alarm about the vaccines or dissuade anyone from getting inoculated. It should be read in conjunction with Lockdown Sceptics‘ other posts on vaccines, which include both encouraging and not so encouraging developments. At Lockdown Sceptics we report all the news about the vaccines whether positive or negative and give no one advice about whether they should or should not take them. Unlike with lockdowns, we are neither pro-vaccine nor anti-vaccine; we see our job as reporting the facts, not advocating for or against a particular policy. The vaccine technology is novel and the vaccines have not yet fully completed their trials, which is why they’re in use under temporary and not full market authorisation. This has been done on account of the emergency situation and the trial data was largely encouraging on both efficacy and safety. For a summary of that data, see this preamble to the Government’s page on the Yellow Card reporting system. (Dr Tess Lawrie recently wrote an open letter to Dr June Raine, head of the MHRA, arguing that: “The MHRA now has more than enough evidence on the Yellow Card system to declare the COVID-19 vaccines unsafe for use in humans”, a claim that has been “fact checked” here.) We publish information and opinion to inform public debate and help readers reach their own conclusions about what is best for them, based on the available data.
- An article in the peer-reviewed journal Vaccines discusses the balance of benefits and risks of COVID-19 vaccines. Based on analysis of data from Israel and Europe, the study finds that for every three Covid deaths vaccines prevent they cause two deaths through adverse reactions, leading the authors to question the lack of clear benefit of the current vaccination policy. The journal has subsequently published an “expression of concern” about the paper to notify readers that it is reviewing the numerous complaints it has received about the article.
- A preliminary review of VAERS reports (the U.S. equivalent of Yellow Card reports) has found that 86% of the first 250 deaths reviewed were correctly reported as involving an adverse reaction to the vaccine.
- There have been reports of “breakthrough” infections among the fully vaccinated in a Cornwall care home, though all were reportedly asymptomatic. Massachusetts has reported 4,000 infections among the fully vaccinated, also said to be mainly asymptomatic or mild with a low viral load. Half of Israelis in the most recent outbreak are also reported to have been fully vaccinated.
- Further reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome linked with the vaccines, particularly AstraZeneca, in India and the UK.
- The American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports has released a study that looks at “acute-onset central serous retinopathy after immunisation with COVID-19 mRNA vaccine”, finding that there may be a causal link in a 33 year-old male case study.
- Reuters reports on the recent decision of the FDA to add warnings of possible heart inflammation following vaccination with Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines and JAMA reports on 23 cases of heart inflammation among members of the U.S. military following vaccination with mRNA vaccines, which was “higher than expected among male military members after a second vaccine dose”.
- The Mirror reports on a case of a 48 year-old male writer and filmmaker who died of blood clots associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine, raising questions over access to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme for the families of victims of vaccine injury who have died as a result of the vaccine.
- Suspected adverse events in the U.K. as reported in the media: the latest victim is Lucy Taberer, a 47 year-old mum of three.
Summary of Adverse Events in the U.K.
According to an updated report published on June 24th (covering the period up to June 16th), the MHRA Yellow Card reporting system has recorded a total of 970,696 events, based on 285,219 reports. The total number of fatalities reported is 1,356.
- Pfizer (16.8 million first doses, 10.9 million second doses) now has one Yellow Card in 375 doses, 2.8 adverse reactions per card.
- AstraZeneca (24.6 million first doses, 19.6 million second doses) has one Yellow Card in 196 doses, 3.6 adverse reactions per card.
- Moderna (0.73 million first doses) has one Yellow Card in 140 doses, 2.8 adverse reactions per card. (It’s possible the continuing very high rate of Yellow Cards with Moderna is to do with skin reactions.)
Key events analysis:
- Acute Cardiac Events = 10,779
- Anaphylaxis = 1,173
- Headaches = 96,899
- Migraine = 9,047
- Blindness = 292
- Spontaneous Abortions and Still Birth = 215 + 12
- Vomiting = 13,376
- Facial Paralysis incl. Bell’s Palsy = 1,214
- Face Swelling = 1,488
- Disturbances in Consciousness = 13,128
- Strokes and CNS haemorrhages = 2,083
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome = 345
- Dizziness = 29,061
- Tremor = 10,303
- Thrombosis & Embolism (All types) = 5,559
- Pulmonary Embolism – 255 (Pfizer), 1,283 (AZ), 4 (Moderna), 6 (Unknown)
- Deep Vein Thrombosis – 163 (Pfizer), 969 (AZ), 1 (Moderna), 7 (Unknown)
- Seizures = 2,295
- Paralysis = 842
- Haemorrhage (All types) = 4,530
- Vertigo/Tinnitis = 7,337
- Reproductive/Breast = 12,170
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re: Unlike with lockdowns, we are neither pro-vaccine nor anti-vaccine; we see our job as to report the facts, not advocate for or against a particular policy.
Wiser words have rarely been spoken.
I think there is a very important distinction to be drawn between advocating for or against someone getting themselves vaccinated and advocating for or against government policy on vaccines as it is being executed.
Health decisions should be private affairs hopefully based on that individual, should they choose to do so, looking at a realistic risk/reward estimate based on accurate data.
Government vaccine policy can and IMO must be open to criticism.
In light of the above I think it’s wrong to remain neutral regarding government policy.
Of course added to that is this evil mission creep.
Initially this was about protecting the vulnerable seeing as this is a very discriminating virus.
Now it’s jab everyone or else, which is sinister, against the Nuremberg convention, and needs to stop.
LS should be leading with this.
Yep… vaxx your offspring and sub 30yo family members… and destroy your future bloodlines…
‘Pfizer’s pharmacokinetic studies, submitted to the Japanese government, which reveal that Pfizer knew all along that the vaccine accumulates in organs throughout the body in rats, including the ovaries and the testes, with potentially profound implications for fertility [3]’
https://doctors4covidethics.org/prof-sucharit-bhakdi-md-meeting-address-17-june-2021/
see my post re trying to enter Spain, it is now abundantly clear if you dont vaxx up you arent going to be able to travel
Johnson spouting today about the “double jabbed” without mentioning the boosters in autumn and beyond.
Yes, all those points are correct, and valid reasons to oppose government policy (and media propaganda) on covid vaccination.
In addition there is the political one that it feeds the poisonous narrative that tells us there was an emergency and the state, along with the techno/plutocrats, saved us with its emergency authoritarian measures.
From the point of view of anyone whose personal priority is resisting totalitarianism and corruption, the vaccines have been a disaster, totally outweighing any small numbers of lives they might have saved (if indeed they turn out to have any net life-saving effect at all).
Others have said it in different ways, but the wisest words that underlie this crisis are : “It has long been a basic ethical principle that whether to assent to a treatment is my decision, and my decision alone, based on full information. Now f.off”
Many vaccine deaths will go unreported. Heart attacks brought on by blood clots will be difficult to attribute to the vaccine. Nonetheless, those deaths will be there.
But it’s not only deaths : many non-fatal adverse events indicate similar basic responses.
As someone simply put:
Covid + Stroke = Covid Death.
Vaccine + Stroke = Stroke Death
The fact that we brush aside any correlation between vaccines and deaths does medical science a great disservice. But y’know – gotta get dem money’s.
So to be consistent it should either be:
Covid + Stroke = Covid Death.
Vaccine + Stroke = Vaccine Death
or
Covid + Stroke = Stroke Death.
Vaccine + Stroke = Stroke Death
which way do you vote?
OP is expressing the point that there is a tendency to label a death from X in the presence of C19 as a C19 death, while to label a death from X in the presence of the vaccine as an X death.
But to answer your question, clearly the second. In both cases the death is caused by the stroke, But that misses the point. The question should be, given death by stroke, would the stoke not have occurred absentia C19/absentia the vaccine.
Otherwise we might as well say:
Accidentally falls on chainsaw = death by blood loss
Knife wound to abdomen = death by blood loss
OP is expressing the point that there is a tendency to label a death from X in the presence of C19 as a C19 death, while to label a death from X in the presence of the vaccine as an X death
I see the opposite tendency (to put it mildly) on this forum. Which was my point. I am only asking for consistency. I tend to agree with you (I think) and label them both as strokes and don’t assume the contribution of C19 or vaccine without further information.
I agree with your last statement. However, it’s not simply a case of ignoring the SARS-CoV-2 aspect or including vaccination on the death certificate. A death certificate has two parts. Part 1 is for the cause(s) of death. Part 2 is for comorbidities. When my mother died from sepsis her certificate had sepsis, osteomyelitis in part 1 and diabetes in part 2. If a person dies from a stroke (CVA) then that is the cause of death and appears in part 1. If the same person is being actively treated for CoViD19 then that may appear in part 1 or part 2 depending on whether the certifying physician thinks it contributed to the death or not. If, instead, there was a positive test result for SARS-CoV-2 then that will appear in part 2. Due to the conflation between infection and disease these all count, inaccurately, as covid deaths and must appear on the certificate as a notifiable disease. If a person dies of a stroke with a negative test then CVA is cause of death, irrespective of whether they have had the vaccination as an autopsy is unlikely to be required. The hospital could request an autopsy if they are… Read more »
That is a good point but ONS reports both deaths involving Covid and deaths due to Covid which I have always assumed corresponded to part 1 and part2
. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales
SARS – CoV 2 has not been isolated as a virus ? A million dollars going to prove it exists ..
You got the first one wrong, its Positive PCR Test + Stroke = Covid Death
There are three ways of recording a death as Covid:
Within 28 days of +ve PCR test
Mentioned on the certificate
Cause of death on certificate
I put most faith in the last one as the majority of certificates for Covid deaths are done in hospitals where I would expect the doctor to know what their patient died of – if they have died they have presumably been the subject of days if not weeks of scrutiny and tests.
Additionally Dobba, as soon as you see ´fact check’, you can guarantee it’ll be a whitewash job. Thus far that’s been 100% the case.
Of course. Who fact checks the fact checkers? They’ve become the new Witchfinder Generals.
“By no means is this an attempt to generate alarm about vaccines.” LS then proceeds to lay out alarming evidence. Perhaps it’s simply a way of preserving your license to publish and operate, but at the same time this fence squat couldn’t be any more painful. I also don’t know why Toby Young, who I respect greatly for the FSU and for starting up this site, doesn’t speak out more freely on vaccine concerns. This is the biggest medical scandal ever, bar none.
I suspect TY doesn’t speak out more freely because he knows doing so would weaken his case by making it easy for him to be labelled anti-vaxx, which it probably would – I think it’s a defensible position, just about, though others probably disagree. It’s not the position I would take, and I started off neutral about the vaxx.
Fully agree. I think this is a fair surmise Julian.
Similar symptoms in an elderly relative, post pfizer second jab, like these, below, were referred to the GP:
‘…there have been very rare reports of Guillain-Barre’s syndrome and also some cases of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) after influenza vaccine. Our patient, an 86-year-old female, presented with bilateral shoulder and hip pain, and stiffness 2 weeks after she received her influenza vaccine, and both the patient and family were very adamant and upset that the problem was caused by the vaccination. Patient’s erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein were elevated, a clinical diagnosis of PMR was made, and she was started on steroids to which she had a dramatic response.’
‘While we strongly recommend the administration of influenza vaccination, we also want to create awareness among the clinicians of this possibility, and proper education of the patients regarding this existence.’
https://www.journalmc.org/index.php/JMC/article/view/2788/2121
The GP made no connection between the second pfizer jab and these symptoms.
Purely anecdotal, of course, but this does, in a very small way, suggest a general lack of awareness potentially leading to under-reporting of vaccine related adverse events.
Correlation or causation? GBS is an autoimmune syndrome, it can be triggered by any number of infections including gastroenteritis, it may be triggered by any vaccine; the typical time from cause to effect is around 2 weeks.
There was a recent report where a man had food poisoning whilst on holiday and GBS developed 2 weeks later that spread up towards his chest causing breathing problems. It has taken him 18 months to recover.
It’s PMR, as in the example above. Do you think the NHS has any interest in establishing causation? ‘Medical sister 59 years old got second vaccine and 4 days later felt severe shoulder pain, swelling and limitation of motion. After first vaccination, there was only minor shoulder pain of the same side. Focus of injection (lateral shoulder) was not tender or red but a forward part of humeral head became swollen and painful. US showed pannus of subdeltoid bursa. Intrabursal injection with bethamethasone 6 mg followed by gradual pain, swelling and stiffness resolution during one week. Second history was graduate development of severe bilateral shoulder pain and stiffness in patients 83 years old for 3 weeks after second COVID-19 vaccination. Both injections performed on the same side. Severe subacromial tenderness, swelling and limitation observed. US showed bilateral tenosynovitis, subdeltoid bursitis and deltoid fasciitis associated with polymyalgia rheumatica. C-reactive protein was elevated 35 times of normal.’ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ootbv_nQLeQJ:https://www.openaccessjournals.com/articles/are-subdeltoid-bursitis-and-polymyalgia-rheumatica-preferances-of-covid19-vaccine-14563.html+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk Re GBS: ‘Clinicians in India and England have reported cases of a rare neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome after individuals were vaccinated against COVID-19. Seven cases were reported from a regional medical centre in Kerala, India, where around 1.2 million people were vaccinated with the AstraZeneca… Read more »
It’s not about being anti-vaccine, it’s about being anti-vaccine-induced Bell’s Palsy, spontaneous abortion, acute cardiac events, blindness, seizures, thrombosis etc. There are clearly serious safety concerns with the mass injection programme. I’m not sure what compunction is preventing LS from being unequivocal on this point.
I am concerned about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines more than I am about the AstraZeneca one. I am in the “at risk” category and I have had both doses of the AstraZeneca with little more than myalgia. However, I don’t think it is necessary or right to treat all age groups the same.
Vaccines of all types can induce some of the side effects listed, possibly due to an overreaction of the immune system, particularly the inflammatory response.
I too am in the ‘at risk’ category, but decided early on that I wouldn’t touch the snake oil.
That was partly due to the predicted and actual adverse reactions, but the decider was that the fraudulent ’emergency’ rationale undermines sound and accepted testing – so it was partly a principle issue, even before you got to conflicts of interest and basic ethics.
Agree with you, but just to point out that ‘snake oil’ isn’t the best euphemism, since it suggests something significantly less harmful.
‘the trial data was largely encouraging on both efficacy and safety.’ – ummm – what trial ? Oh phases 1 and 2 but not properly tested on close to human animals or properly on humans re toxicology… oh and efficacy…? Big Pharma cheat a bit with vaccine results and give a relative risk reduction and not the Absolute Risk Reduction (ARR) which for these experimental vaccines = 1·3% for the AstraZeneca–Oxford, 1·2% for the Moderna–NIH, and 0·84% for the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccines. Accurate information is important but pharma skews data, ghostwrites papers and corrupts regulatory bodies – so be sure about your facts
I struggle with the idea of “a symptomless outbreak”.
Struggle? I can’t even recognize it as anything other than a fantasy.
Just need to rectify an error on the site, no one’s fault the Spanish have changed their rules twice in 2 days
On monday you could enter The Ballearics which are on the green list without having to provide test evidence or vax evidence
on tuesday they changed the criteria to double vax, a pcr test or the equivalent i.e antigen test which had to be done within 48 hours of travel. Folks if you fly on a monday no lab will guarantee a pcr test within 48 hours as labs dont tend to work sundays. so antigen/rapid flow test next solution.
On Weds the Spanish changed again and now only double vax or pcr test acceptable. so if you are flying on a monday and not double vaxxed its nigh on impossible to sort and travel insurance will not cover.
Please update the site.
Fed up and out of pocket would be traveller
Don’t expect tho see this in the BBC’s reports (yes, I know I shouldn’t read their web site).
On comments below the line last week someone suggested that all children should be vaccinated to save others; I responded with:
I was reported to the moderators and my comment found to have broken House Rules. The BBC did not accept my appeal.
It’s extraordinary how such a reasonable question is not permitted. The BBC should be defunded.
I Heart Attenuated
needs to be on a T-shirt
I thunk it is extremely important that LS remains impartial on the vaccine coercion – it then allows room to criticise without seeming biased; something perhaps we should have expected from our media.
The vaccines are terrifying. Why on earth has the programme not been stopped with so many deaths?
The NHS has a huge part to play in this- my sister was trying desperately to coerce me into taking it in February- the staff in the NHS have been fed more propaganda than we have and i fear for the future of medicine because no-one will trust them after this. Already people are deciding not to have any vaccine- this is a tragedy as we have managed to erase so many childhood illnesses that caused death and disability, all through a criminal pushing of this new technology.
You know things are really bad when even the inventor of the mRNA technology warns that it’s dangerous. Why is no-one listening?
Anyway- greetings from a sunbed in Spain!
The inventor of mRNA technology, Robert Malone, who has just had his LinkedIn account closed for ‘multiple violations of misleading or inaccurate information.” I know who I trust to know what they’re talking about!
LOL
The total number of reported deaths is now up to 1403, up 47 from last week. The weekly increase in reported deaths is not decreasing, despite the decreasing age of those being injected in recent days/weeks. The MHRA’s explanation that these are deaths that would have happened anyway (because of age and comorbid conditions) is looking more and more ridiculous.