In a November 12, 2021, weblog put up,1 Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., critiques how the advantages of the COVID-19 photographs have been exaggerated by the drug corporations and misrepresented to the general public by an uncritical media. She has beforehand given many lectures on how the drug corporations conflated absolute and relative dangers for statin medication.2
Demasi was a revered Australian science presenter at ABC tv till she produced a Catalyst report on the risks of Wi-Fi and cellphones. Within the wake of the controversy it raised, she and 11 of her employees members have been axed and the episode retracted.3 That was 2016. At present, Demasi is without doubt one of the few skilled journalists searching for and publishing the reality about COVID-19.
Absolute Versus Relative Danger Discount
In her put up, Demasi highlights one of the generally used methods within the ebook — conflating absolute and relative threat discount. As famous by Demasi, AstraZeneca and Australia’s well being minister, Greg Hunt, claimed the AstraZeneca injection supplied “100% safety” in opposition to COVID-19 demise. How did they get this quantity? Demasi explains:4
“Within the trial5 of 23,848 topics … there was one demise within the placebo group and no deaths within the vaccinated group. One much less demise out of a complete of 1, certainly was a relative discount of 100%, however the absolute discount was 0.01%.”
Equally, Pfizer’s COVID shot was mentioned to be 95% efficient in opposition to the an infection, however this too is the relative threat discount, not absolutely the discount. Absolutely the threat discount for Pfizer’s shot was a meager 0.84%.
It’s value noting that an extremely low variety of folks have been contaminated within the first place. Solely 8 out of 18,198 vaccine recipients developed COVID signs (0.04%), and 162 of the 18,325 within the placebo group (0.88%).
Since your threat of COVID was minuscule to start with, even when the shot was in a position to scale back your absolute threat by 100%, it might nonetheless be trivial in real-world phrases.
In accordance with Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Harding Centre for Danger Literacy on the Max Planck Institute, solely quoting the relative threat discount is a “sin” in opposition to clear communication, as it may be used as a “deliberate tactic to govern or persuade folks.” Demasi additionally quotes John Ioannidis, professor at Stanford College, who instructed her:6
“This isn’t occurring only for vaccines. Over many a long time, RRR [relative risk reduction] has been the dominant approach of speaking outcomes of medical trials. Nearly all the time, RRR appears nicer than absolute threat reductions.”
Demasi continues:7
“When requested if there was any justification for deceptive the general public concerning the vaccine’s advantages to encourage uptake, Prof Ioannidis rejected the notion.
‘I do not see how one can enhance uptake through the use of deceptive info. I’m all in favor of accelerating uptake, however this wants to make use of full info, in any other case eventually incomplete info will result in misunderstandings and can backfire,’ says Ioannidis.
The best way authorities have communicated threat to the general public, is prone to have misled and distorted the general public’s notion of the vaccine’s profit and underplayed the harms. This, in essence, is a violation of the moral and authorized obligations of knowledgeable consent.”
US Well being Authorities Have Misrepresented the Information
U.S. well being authorities, like Australia’s, are responsible of misrepresenting the information to the general public. In February 2021, Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky co-wrote a JAMA paper8 which acknowledged that “Scientific trials have proven that the vaccines licensed to be used within the U.S. are extremely efficient in opposition to COVID-19 an infection, extreme sickness and demise.”
Alas, “there have been too few deaths recorded within the managed trials on the time to reach at such a conclusion,” Demasi writes.9 This remark was made by professor Peter Doshi, affiliate editor of The BMJ, throughout Sen. Ron Johnson’s Professional Panel on Federal Vaccine Mandates, November 1, 2021.10 Throughout that roundtable dialogue, Doshi acknowledged that:
“The trials didn’t present a discount in deaths, even for COVID deaths … Those that claimed the trials confirmed that the vaccines have been extremely efficient in saving lives have been flawed. The trials didn’t reveal this.”
Certainly, the six-month follow-up of Pfizer’s trial confirmed 15 deaths within the vaccine group and 14 deaths within the placebo group. Then, throughout the open label section, after Pfizer determined to eradicate the placebo group by providing the precise shot to everybody who wished it, one other 5 deaths occurred within the vaccine group.
Two of these 5 had initially been within the placebo group, and had taken the shot within the open label section. So, ultimately, what we now have are 20 deaths within the vaccine group, in comparison with 14 within the placebo group. We even have the suspicious undeniable fact that two of the placebo contributors abruptly died after getting the true deal.
How You Specific Impact Dimension Issues
As famous in a July 2021 Lancet paper,11 “totally understanding the efficacy and effectiveness of vaccines is much less easy than it might sound. Relying on how the impact dimension is expressed, a fairly totally different image would possibly emerge.”
The authors level out that the relative threat discount actually must “be seen in opposition to the background threat of being contaminated and changing into sick with COVID-19, which varies between populations and over time.” Because of this absolutely the threat discount determine is so necessary:12
“Though the RRR considers solely contributors who may benefit from the vaccine, absolutely the threat discount (ARR), which is the distinction between assault charges with and and not using a vaccine, considers the entire inhabitants …
ARR can also be used to derive an estimate of vaccine effectiveness, which is the quantity wanted to vaccinate (NNV) to stop yet another case of COVID-19 as 1/ARR. NNVs carry a special perspective: 81 for the Moderna–NIH, 78 for the AstraZeneca–Oxford … 84 for the J&J, and 119 for the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccines.
The reason lies within the mixture of vaccine efficacy and totally different background dangers of COVID-19 throughout research: 0.9% for the Pfizer–BioNTech … 1.4% for the Moderna–NIH, 1.8% for the J&J, and 1.9% for the AstraZeneca–Oxford vaccines.
ARR (and NNV) are delicate to background threat — the upper the danger, the upper the effectiveness — as exemplified by the analyses of the J&J’s vaccine on centrally confirmed circumstances in contrast with all circumstances: each the numerator and denominator change, RRR doesn’t change (66–67%), however the one-third enhance in assault charges within the unvaccinated group (from 1.8% to 2.4%) interprets in a one-fourth lower in NNV (from 84 to 64) …
With the usage of solely RRRs, and omitting ARRs, reporting bias is launched, which impacts the interpretation of vaccine efficacy.
When speaking about vaccine efficacy, particularly for public well being choices akin to selecting the kind of vaccines to buy and deploy, having a full image of what the information really present is necessary, and making certain comparisons are based mostly on the mixed proof that places vaccine trial leads to context and never simply one abstract measure, can also be necessary.”
The authors go on to emphasize that evaluating the effectiveness of the COVID photographs is additional hampered by the truth that they use quite a lot of totally different research protocols, together with totally different placebos. They even differ of their major endpoint, i.e., what they take into account a COVID case, and the way and when prognosis is made, and extra.
“We’re left with the unanswered query as as to whether a vaccine with a given efficacy within the research inhabitants could have the identical efficacy in one other inhabitants with totally different ranges of background threat of COVID-19,” the authors observe.
The most effective real-world examples of that is Israel, the place the relative threat discount was 94% on the outset and an absolute threat discount of 0.46%, which interprets into an NNV of 217. Within the Part 3 Pfizer trial, absolutely the threat discount was 0.84% and the NNV 119.13 As famous by the authors:14
“This implies in a real-life setting, 1.8 occasions extra topics would possibly have to be vaccinated to stop yet another case of COVID-19 than predicted within the corresponding medical trial.”
SARS-CoV-2 Particular Antibodies Pose Hazard for the Overweight
In associated information, a latest research15 printed within the Worldwide Journal of Weight problems warns that “the vast majority of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies in COVID-19 sufferers with weight problems are autoimmune and never neutralizing.”
In plain English, in case you’re overweight, you’re liable to creating autoimmune issues in case you get the pure an infection. You’re additionally at increased threat of a severe an infection, because the antibodies your physique produces should not the neutralizing form that kill the virus. As defined by the authors:16
“SARS-CoV-2 an infection induces neutralizing antibodies in all lean however solely in few overweight COVID-19 sufferers. SARS-CoV-2 an infection additionally induces anti-MDA [malondialdehyde, a marker of oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation] and anti-AD [adipocyte-derived protein antigens] autoimmune antibodies extra in lean than in overweight sufferers as in comparison with uninfected controls.
Serum ranges of those autoimmune antibodies, nonetheless, are all the time increased in overweight versus lean COVID-19 sufferers. Furthermore … we additionally evaluated the affiliation of anti-MDA and anti-AD antibodies with serum CRP and located a constructive affiliation between CRP and autoimmune antibodies.
Our outcomes spotlight the significance of evaluating the standard of the antibody response in COVID-19 sufferers with weight problems, significantly the presence of autoimmune antibodies, and determine biomarkers of self-tolerance breakdown. That is essential to guard this susceptible inhabitants at increased threat of responding poorly to an infection with SARS-CoV-2 than lean controls.”
Now, these findings apply to overweight individuals who develop the pure an infection, but it surely makes one wonder if the identical holds true for the COVID jab. If the antibodies produced in response to the precise virus are primarily autoantibodies, will overweight folks develop autoantibodies as an alternative of neutralizing antibodies in response to the COVID shot as nicely?
For readability, an autoantibody is an antibody that’s directed in opposition to a number of of your personal physique’s proteins. Many autoimmune ailments are attributable to autoantibodies that focus on and assault your personal tissues or organs.
So, that is no small concern, seeing how the mRNA within the COVID photographs (and subsequent SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which is what your physique produces antibodies in opposition to) will get distributed all through your physique and accumulates in varied organs.17,18
Vermont’s COVID Instances Regardless of Highest Vaccination Price
At this level, there’s an awesome quantity of proof displaying the COVID photographs should not working. What little safety you do get clearly wanes inside a handful of months, and should go away you worse off than you have been earlier than. We’re seeing knowledge to this impact from various totally different locations.
Within the U.S., we are able to now have a look at Vermont.19 At practically 72% vaccinated, it has the very best charge of “totally vaccinated” residents within the nation, in accordance with ABC Information,20 but COVID circumstances at the moment are abruptly surging to new heights.
U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention knowledge present Vermont had the twelfth highest COVID case charge within the nation as of November 9, 2021. Over the earlier seven days, circumstances had elevated by 42%. It couldn’t have been resulting from a surge in testing, although, because the weekly common of assessments administered had solely elevated by 9% in that point.
What’s extra, throughout that first week of November, the hospital admission charge for sufferers who have been totally vaccinated elevated by 8%, whereas the admission charge for individuals who weren’t totally vaccinated really decreased by 15%.
Remember the fact that you’re not thought-about “totally vaccinated” till two weeks after your second injection. For those who obtained your second dose every week in the past and find yourself within the hospital with COVID signs, you’re counted as unvaccinated. This gross manipulation of actuality makes it very troublesome to interpret the information, however even with this manipulation it’s past apparent that the vaccines are failing.
Total, the case charge in Vermont is FAR increased now than it as within the fall of 2020, when nobody had gotten the “vaccine.” In accordance with Vermont well being commissioner Dr. Mark Levine, the surge is going on primarily amongst unvaccinated folks of their 20s and kids aged 5 via 11 — a curious coincidence, seeing how the photographs are simply now being rolled out for 5- to 11-year-olds.
Levine blames the surge on the extremely infectious delta variant, however delta has been round for months already. The primary case of delta in Vermont was recognized in mid-Might 2021.21 Certainly, it wouldn’t have taken six months for this most-infectious of variants to make the rounds and trigger an unprecedented spike?
Two clues are given by Levine, nonetheless, when he admits {that a}) Vermont has one of many lowest charges of pure immunity within the U.S. and b) safety is waning amongst those that obtained the COVID shot early to mid-year. Breakthrough circumstances among the many totally vaccinated shot up 31% throughout the first week of November.22
Totally Vaxxed Are 9 Instances Extra Possible To Be Hospitalized
Coincidentally, knowledge from doctor assistant Deborah Conrad, introduced by lawyer Aaron Siri23 October 17, 2021, exhibits vaccinated individuals are 9 occasions extra prone to be hospitalized than the unvaccinated.
The important thing, nonetheless, was in what they counted as vaccinated. Reasonably than solely together with those that had gotten the shot two weeks or extra earlier than being hospitalized, they merely counted those that had a number of photographs, no matter when, as vaccinated. This provides us an sincere accounting, lastly! As defined by Siri:24
“A involved Doctor Assistant, Deborah Conrad, satisfied her hospital to rigorously observe the COVID-19 vaccination standing of each affected person admitted to her hospital. The result’s surprising.
As Ms. Conrad has detailed, her hospital serves a group by which lower than 50% of the people have been vaccinated for COVID-19 however but, throughout the identical time interval, roughly 90% of the people admitted to her hospital have been documented to have obtained this vaccine.
These sufferers have been admitted for quite a lot of causes, together with however not restricted to COVID-19 infections. Much more troubling is that there have been many people who have been younger, many who introduced with uncommon or sudden well being occasions, and plenty of who have been admitted months after vaccination.”
Regardless of these troubling findings, well being authorities ignored Conrad when she reached out. In mid-July 2021, Siri’s legislation agency additionally despatched formal letters to the CDC, the Well being and Human Providers Division and the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration on Conrad’s behalf,25 and people have been ignored as nicely.
“This once more highlights the significance of by no means allowing authorities coercion and mandates relating to medical procedures,” Siri writes.26
Now, one of the surprising particulars gleaned from Conrad’s knowledge assortment, which Siri didn’t clarify however Steve Kirsch highlights in a latest substack put up is that:27
“The one approach you may get these numbers is that if vaccinated individuals are 9 occasions extra prone to be hospitalized than unvaccinated. It’s mathematically unimaginable to get to these numbers every other approach. Interval. Full cease. This is called an ‘inconvenient reality.’”
Certainly, the extra knowledge we achieve entry to, the more serious it appears for these COVID photographs. Sadly, those that push them appear hell-bent on ignoring any and all knowledge that don’t help their stance.
Worse, it appears knowledge and statistics are being deliberately manipulated by our well being authorities to current a false image of security and effectiveness. All such techniques are indefensible at this level, and individuals who consider the official narrative with out doing their very own analysis accomplish that at their very own threat.
