In 2021, 17 stillbirths and 35 first-year infant deaths were reported in Iceland, a total of 52, against 28 in 2020 in the island nation of 366,000 people. The rate of stillbirths almost doubled compared with the 2011-2020 average. In 2020 there were two stillbirths per 1,000 live births, but in 2021 there were 3.5. First-year infant deaths more than doubled, from an average of 3.5 per 1,000 to 7.2. Taken together the 2021 figure was 10.7 per 1,000, an 82% rise on the 10-year average of 5.9 per 1,000 (see above). These startling figures were reported by Icelandic daily Frettin, based on new data from Statistics Iceland.
Some studies have indicated a possible relationship between stillbirths and COVID-19 infection while others have found no relationship. In Iceland, almost 6,000 cases of COVID-19 were reported in 2020 and 21,000 in 2021, almost a third of those during the final month of the year as Omicron arrived. The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, saw no increase in stillbirths or newborn deaths above the average. No infant deaths have been attributed to COVID-19 according to official data. Mass vaccination against COVID-19 began early 2021 and by July 15th, 70% of the population had been fully vaccinated. Eleven cases of foetal damage following vaccination had been reported to the Icelandic Medicines Agency by April 2022.
Little research is yet available on vaccine safety for pregnant women, though there is no shortage of articles recommending pregnant women get vaccinated to protect their unborn child against COVID-19, a minuscule risk. A study published in early 2021 purportedly proving vaccination to be safe for pregnant women turned out to be so poorly designed its conclusion was invalid and had to be corrected. This didn‘t prevent its findings from being used around the world to justify the vaccination of pregnant women.
Some anecdotal evidence for a relationship between vaccination and rate of miscarriage or stillbirths has appeared. A recent U.S. CDC study indicates vaccination during pregnancy is safe, but it suffers from several serious flaws, including mismatch between study conclusions and underlying data showing a considerable increase in the risk of preterm birth among vaccinated women, badly matched cohorts and a lack of mothers vaccinated in the first trimester. It must also be kept in mind that all indications of safety concerns for pregnant women are vigorously suppressed by so-called ‘fact-checkers’ and scientific and mainstream media. Recent Israeli data however indicate a 33% relative increase in probability of stillbirth among vaccinated women. U.K. data signify a similar risk. The released Pfizer trial documents show that in animal trials the vaccine quantity increases substantially in the ovaries during the 48 hours after the injection. Until further research is available, those indications, along with reports of foetal damage following vaccination, support worries that vaccination played a part in the sudden jump in stillbirths and infant deaths in Iceland in 2021.
Thorsteinn Siglaugsson is an economist who lives in Iceland. Find him on his blog.
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Everything about the WHO is suspect.
it always makes me shake my head when you hear people and the media say “india has had more deaths than the UK and scare people with supposed high figures” well yes, but india has different factors, i.e. the population of at least 1.4 billion, india’s hygiene and sanitary conditions are considered worse than a lot of Weston countries and also the general health conditions and diseases are also poorer. When the Who and the media spout big figures and ignore the many other factors it really is disingenuous.
Interestingly, you would think Covid would have had a bigger impact on California’s large homeless population.
Two articles on the WHO figures today. On one hand we are to take the data about Sweden seriously but not the data about India. Personally, I’m taking it all with a large pinch of salt.
Indeed, we seem to be picking cherries and sour grapes somewhat arbitrarily.
Except that the data for Sweden is far more likely to be accurate than the guesstimates for India
The Indian’s secret was vindaloo.
Vindaloo takes no prisoners.
More objectively likely, or more helpful to our preferred narrative?
The deaths in India need to be adjusted in order to fit in with The Science (the computer models).
They are having similar problems with the recorded global temperatures, turns out the weather is a climate change denier, they will cancel the weather’s Twitter account asap.
The WHO seems like a bigger version of the EU – out of touch, irrelevant, and a law unto itself.
The WHO is significantly worse. It’s an unelected gremium of so-called public health experts with the ambition to dicate government policy globally down to the level of who is when allowed to talk to whom and how people must dress in public. This is based on the notion that globally acting health bureaucrats get to decide which human acitivies are essential and which aren’t and can thus be harmlessly prohibited. Considering that people’s lives are usually tighty coupled to there jobs, this basically means grouping people into essential and inessential ones. The essential ones are allowed to work. The others are supposed to remain at home on often meagre government handouts financed by printing money or accumulating debts.
And it gets more evil than that: The WHO would also like to see universal, mandatory COVID vaccination. Even in the best case (which is far from the actual case), a vaccine will always kill some people. Hence, forcing people to get vaccinated is equivalent to decreeing that some of them are so inessential that it’s ok to put them to death by injection.
Lead by a terrorist…
What could possibly go wrong?
Still the most fundamental aspect of this is that no new pathogenic virus was properly isolated from any sick individuals in China, there was no proof of a new virus that caused a new disease.
When you look into the topic it turns out that virology is a complete joke of a science.
What they call isolation really is a fraud, they don’t isolate anything, they simply mix a sputum sample from a sick patient, mix it with monkey kidney cells as a cell culture host and then starve those cells and poison them with nephrotoxic antibiotics, when the kidney cells die they cliam that it but be virus wot done it.
From there they let a computer analyse all the gentic debris from the toxic soup and get the computer to piece together every possible combination that these bits could convievably make up, they then declare one of these made up sequences to be the new virus.
This is why they have an endless number of variants, the computers can generate endless different possible combinations and the virologists can keep claiming which ever ones they like as being significant.
The whole thing is a colossal fraud as are the vaccines that are claimed to combat these claimed viral infections.
Don’t fall for the “viruses don’t exist” scam either. There is pathogenic contagion that we call viruses, they just understand very little about them. The part they really don’t like to talk about is “terrain”, the health of the individual plays a much bigger part in how successful a virus is than any vaccine.
When humans play god disaster often follows.
Matthew Syed has written an absolutely appalling article in the Sunday Times using the WHO estimates to ‘prove’ how reasonable the UK government’s actions were/are. He also has a swipe at this website and all who ‘sail in her’ ( calling it by its old name).
I commented, needless to say my comment has been removed. The Times doesn’t like the truth. Goodness knows what the interweb will be like with the ‘on-line harms’ legislation.
the online harms bill ensures access to100% state viewpoints at all times, no exceptions.
VPN.
I didn’t realise we had been namechecked. I always assumed we were too small for anyone to notice. Evidently not. Excellent – a swipe shows we’ve hit a nerve and got people worried.
Yes, Syed accuses us of cherrypicking data!
Gave me a good chortle after what we have seen with government statistics.
Mark Woolhouse, a senior government scientist wrote a book about the Covid debacle; appropriately titled “The Year the World went Mad”. He concludes that the lockdowns were not necessary.
They’re just finishing the job.
They exaggerated the risk people were facing from a new pathogen and they are now exaggerating the total deaths. They are writing history, in preparation for the future and leaving no lose ends:
– The virus was super dangerous
– Lockdowns, masks, tests and vaccines saved us.
– Millions still died because we were slow to act.
– In the future we must act very quickly.so that we don’t have 15 million deaths.
That’s the story they are going with and they have the force of international institutions, the corporate media, national governments and major corporations to make sure their version is firmly established.
Even with their bloated estimates of death the claimed virus was still a damp squib, but they have injected billions of people with their poisons so their work is done.
They have left an enormous number of loose ends, and they will unravel. We just have to keep pulling on them.
One of the best articles I’ve seen linked to by DS is this one which concerns itself with the Italians kick-starting the covid scam in the West.
If you read it, pay close attention to the section that talks about how the main mechanism of the fraud, the test kit, was developed in Italy in cooperation with the communist Chinese.
It wasn’t long ago MI5 admitted the communist Chinese has infiltrated Westminster.
“In the words of Neil Ferguson, architect of the wildly-inaccurate Covid models that sent the world into a tailspin:
A single sentence said it all – I will never forget it.
The fact that Ferguson felt so secure in uttering it says it all really – that his position, and that of those he advised was unchallengeable, and that he can have had so little cop on to let the cat out of the bag like that in a televised interview – so what does that say about the quality of his modeling?
Great article BTW. You are right – one of the best DS has linked to
‘The public sector scores high on petty corruption but low on efficiency. The public health service is risible’…
Are they talking about India or the UK?
And where was the header picture taken – West Bromwich or Bethnal Green?
Countries with reliable reporting systems, if not with reliable reporting, are showing mostly little above average, or even below.
Nobody in authority tells the truth.
What is also highly suspicious is that the evil cretinous scientists are claiming the spike in hepatitis in children may be linked to pet dogs.
Let’s ignore the fact the world has been forced to lockdown over the last two years while politicians (and undoubtedly the scientists themselves) partied and carried on with their lives as normal.
No they need a scapegoat and they want to destroy another joy we have in our lives.
I’ve meanwhile read a couple of arguments that keeping of pets should be prohibited because it would be to damaging the the climate.
Yes it’s quite clear the great reset includes stripping us of pets. Well they can fuck off with their fraud. I will be buying a pup within the next few months.
Can’t heklp but suspect they are taking the lead from China, where pets have been killed byt “the authorities” when forcing their owners into quarantine.Presumably they saw that it was yet another effective way to demoralise people.
I’m sure you might remember in the early days of the covid scam, the dodgy scientists were talking about pets being carriers of covid. Such warnings fizzled away from the scientists poisonous lips, but the memory remained.
Maybe they realised this was one step too far too soon and didn’t pursue it.
Maybe it was the first nudge, while the hepatitis theory is the second nudge, and perhaps the third nudge will be the final one where they’ve effectively granted themselves permission to confiscate our pets ‘for our own safety’.
They will have deemed the public suitably brainwashed by this point to be more willing to give up their beloved dog.
Do you think the famous dog owners among TPTB will be “giving up” their dogs? or having them forcibly taken from them?
The WHO has made healthcare in the 1st world countries worse, they should stick to countries who actually need them
What we had here may have made developed country healthcare worse than typical care in India or Africa.
Anyone involved in the flogging of the fake vaccines is lying. Don’t believe a word they say and do not get any more jabs. You put your health and life at risk with this poison.
Anything these monsters want is for certain not anything you want.
Indeed; all in accordance with the UN policy of population reduction.
Recent BBC Article on Excess Death – Explained from the DATA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oq8-mOldEg
Remember, whatever nonsense they try to impose upon us in the future:
JUST SAY NO!
Highly suspect organisation produces highly suspect data. Well, that’s a surprise – NOT
The WHO is clearly one of our enemy within. Anything that they publish is to be treated with suspicion and extreme scepticism. A truly evil organisation; same as the UN and WEF.
Thank you for an excellent article.The WHO figures is based on a model which is absurd for countries with reliable real world data.Look at the Nordic countries with reliable data and Sweden with the world’s oldest and also the world’s most reliable death data.How many non discovered deaths of covid in a country with the most reliable death statistics did WHO find with their model? So many that they said Sweden was highest in the Nordic countries.
Nordic countries don’t need WHO estimates.They have real data.See below age stand. adjusted excess mortality.Sweden below Denmark,Finland(both LD the latter more so)and Norway lowest.
Do you believe Nordic raw data or WHO model?
‘He who pays the piper plays the tune’….Gates has his song sheet and the “terrible” pandemic narrative must be kept uppermost in minds.
India used Ivermectin to treat Covid patients so it’s very important to the WHO that India is identified as having one of the worst outcomes from the Scamdemic.
The WHO has to punish India for using Ivermectin and undermining the “WHO Official” view that Ivermectin doesn’t work.
I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong but didn’t Japan also se ivermectin?
But they still believe China on 5,000 deaths???
Doesn’t make sense.
But having said that none of the ‘rona crap makes any sense.