Category: Corona Virus

ICAN Confronts Federal Health Agencies About the Deletion of Over One Thousand VAERS Reports, Most from J&J COVID Vaccine

Aug 7, 2023

After ICAN discovered that 1,102 reports were deleted from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) on May 19, 2023 and May 25, 2023, ICAN’s attorneys wrote letters to the CDC, FDA, and HHS demanding answers.

The deleted reports include serious adverse events reported after COVID vaccinations and included 225 deaths, 16 life-threatening events, 51 additional ER visits, and 108 hospitalizations. An incredible 71% of the reports (784 out of 1,102 reports) were related to the J&J vaccine.

The timing is interesting as just a few weeks prior to the reports going missing, CDC announced all U.S. stock of the J&J vaccine was disposed of due to its expiration and, just a few days ago, FDA revoked J&J’s COVID vaccine emergency use authorization. Of course, neither of these actions justifies the deletion of any VAERS report. As ICAN pointed out in the letter, removal of a vaccine from the market does not remove the harms it caused while authorized.

Many Americans continue to suffer debilitating injuries from the J&J vaccine while others continue to mourn their loved ones who died after receiving them. These missing reports only further damage VAERS’ data integrity and further diminish the public’s trust in federal health authorities.

Rest assured ICAN intends to get answers and will bring you any responses as we get them. In the meantime you can read ICAN’s letters here, here, and here.

See below for some of ICAN’s other letters demanding answers from federal health agencies:

https://icandecide.org/press-release/ican-confronts-federal-health-agencies-about-the-deletion-of-over-one-thousand-vaers-reports-most-from-jj-covid-vaccine/

Subclinical myocardial damage after COVID boosters

Aug 7, 2023

1 in 35 suffer heart damage

References: 1 in 35 myocardial injury, from John Campbell:    • One in 35 myocardial i…   Buergin et al 2023.

Sex‐specific differences in myocardial injury incidence after COVID‐19 mRNA‐1273 Booster Vaccination.

European Journal of Heart Failure. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/p…

Clip taken from DarkHorse Podcast Livestream #185 (originally streamed live on RUMBLE Aug 02, 2023): https://rumble.com/v3412x7-bret-and-h…https://youtube.com/live/AbkUg6c-Igk?…https://open.spotify.com/episode/70TH…

Why are reporters hyping a deeply flawed study supposedly proving Covid killed more Republicans because they had lower jab rates?

Aug 2, 2023

The paper says what media outlets want to hear about Covid, the vaccines, and the GOP. So they’re ignoring a huge hole in it that essentially destroys its findings.

Last week, three Yale researchers reported Republicans had higher death rates from Covid than Democrats after mRNA vaccines became available to everyone.

The highest gap in death rates occurred in counties with low vaccination levels, suggesting differences in jab rates caused it, the study said.

Media outlets quickly broadcast the findings, which ran in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association. “Republican deaths in Florida, Ohio linked to COVID vaccine politics,” Axios wrote. On Twitter, Chris Hayes of MSNBC claimed the study showed that “a bunch of people with big platforms [tried] to get their audiences killed.”

The paper actually was first published in non-peer-reviewed form in September 2022 – and got hefty media attention then too. News outlets do not usually report on research that’s 10 months old and already received attention, but they made an exception this time.

No surprise, as the research backs up the many, many, many stories in summer 2021 about unvaccinated middle-aged (or even younger) Republicans clogging emergency rooms and dying of Covid.

To its credit, the paper is elegantly designed and makes interesting arguments.

Just one problem. A crucial detail in its findings essentially blows up the results. The authors do not exactly hide the problematic result, but they do brush over it. Only a close reading of the paper makes it clear.

The detail suggests that the apparent connection between party affiliation and death may result from hidden epidemiological factors. At the least, it undoes any effort to suggest that young or middle-aged Republicans suffered from being unvaccinated.

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Deep in the paper’s appendix is another puzzling finding. Click here to continue reading…

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/why-are-reporters-hyping-a-deeply?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

mRNA Covid Shots Should Be Labeled ‘Gene Therapy Products,’ Peer-Reviewed Study Warns

Aug 6, 2023

An explosive peer-reviewed study has warned that mRNA Covid shots are being incorrectly classified in an effort to bypass regulations for public use.

Researchers behind a study published in the renowned International Journal of Molecular Sciences are urging regulatory agencies to consider the safety issues associated with the rapid approval of COVID-19 vaccines.

They are calling on federal government agencies to correctly classify messenger RNA (mRNA) shots as gene therapy products (GTPs).

The researchers warn that mRNA shots must be correctly labeled as GTPs to prevent pharmaceutical companies from bypassing regulatory standards.

According to the paper, Covid mRNA shots, by mode and action, are gene therapy products and should adhere to different regulatory standards.

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/mrna-covid-shots-should-be-labeled?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

What can some simple Bayesian analysis tell us about vaccine safety?

Aug 4, 2023

Steve Kirsch posed the following problem:

He has a dataset of 7500 people of whom 5625 were vaxxed; 1875 were unvaxxed

Over a period of 6 months (182 days) 15 people died, ALL from the vaxxed group

Of the 15 who died, 4 died within 24 hours of getting the vaccine.

Steve asked what’s the probability of this happening if the vaxx was safe?

Here’s how I answered it using Bayes Theorem to combine the different pieces of evidence. (Note: this assumes the data is accurate, ignores all confounders like age, and assumes the vaxxed and unvaxxed are similar types of people)

Software used for the Bayesian network analysis is https://www.agena.ai/

Arbitrator rules in favor of Massachusetts State Police troopers fired for refusing COVID-19 vaccine

Aug 4, 2023

Former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed an executive order requiring all executive branch employees to provide proof of vaccination by October 2021 or face disciplinary action, including possible termination.

Eleven Massachusetts State Troopers and one sergeant were fired in April over their refusal to get vaccinated. Their termination came nearly eight months after the vaccine mandate was put into place.

On Friday, an arbitrator ruled in favor of the troopers, resulting in seven of them being given the option to be reinstated.

According to the police union, as part of the award handed down by the arbitrator, the state police must contact all impacted troopers to offer them their previous positions with full back pay retroactive to their initial suspension.

They have also been awarded their full seniority rights and all benefits minus any interim earnings and/or unemployment compensation, according to the union news release.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wcvb.com/amp/article/massachusetts-state-police-covid-19-arbitrator-jobs/44738547?espv=1