The German Government publicly acknowledged on Wednesday that the Covid vaccines cause serious side effects for one in every 5,000 doses.
A tweet from the Ministry of Health stated (via Google translate): “One in 5,000 people is affected by a serious side effect after a COVID19 #vaccination. If you suspect #sideeffects, get medical attention and report your symptoms to @PEI_Germany.” It later added a correction that the figure related to the reporting rate and to doses rather than individuals: “Correction: According to @PEI_Germany, the reporting rate for serious reactions is 0.2 reports per 1,000 vaccine doses.” Subsequently, the original tweet was deleted and a corrected version put up.
This is an unusual and welcome admission from a Government, and perhaps the beginning of governments properly acknowledging the scale of injuries caused by the novel Covid vaccines.
However, the one in 5,000 figure is certainly on the low side. The correction tweet clarified that it was a reporting rate of serious reactions, and it appears from the PEI website to refer to the rate of adverse event reports to the German equivalent of the Yellow Card and VAERS passive reporting systems. Assuming this is right, then we might expect an under-reporting factor of around 10, meaning the true number of serious side-effects may be 10 times higher.
The Germans are actually very good at monitoring vaccine safety. In addition to their passive reporting system, the German medicines regulator, the PEI, runs an active vaccine safety monitoring app called SafeVac 2.0. The data from this monitoring app were included in a Europe-wide report on vaccine safety published last month and showed that 0.3% of vaccine recipients in Germany reported at least one serious adverse reaction to the first dose of the vaccine. The report states:
Of the 520,076 participants from Germany who had received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, 1,838 (0.3%) reported experiencing at least one serious adverse reaction. A total of 1,191 (0.2%) and 39 (0.2%) participants receiving BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna respectively reported experiencing a serious adverse reaction while 608 (0.7%) receiving AstraZeneca reported a serious reaction.
These German figures are in line with the overall rates across Europe, according to the report: “Across the sites 0.2-0.3% reported at least one serious adverse reaction after receiving the first and/or the second dose.”
However, note that a rate of 0.3% is 15 times higher than the rate of 0.2 per 1,000 (i.e., 0.02%) quoted in the tweet. If the figure in the tweet comes, as I suspect, from a passive reporting system (which seems likely as the tweet directs readers to the PEI’s passive reporting portal), this would be an under-reporting factor of 15, which is about what we expected.
But why, then, is the German Government using the 0.02% figure instead of the 0.3% figure from its state-of-the-art vaccine safety monitoring tool when drawing attention to vaccine side effects? I’d like to think that question didn’t answer itself.
I should add that it wasn’t easy to find the SafeVac 2.0 data. I searched in vain for them on the PEI website; if they’re there then they are nowhere obvious. In the end I could only find them, via a general web search, embedded in the Europe-wide study cited above.
Worries about high rates of serious vaccine side effects have been raised before in Germany. In May, Professor Harald Matthes, a scientist leading a separate study into the safety of the vaccines, said that according to his data around 0.8% of vaccinated people in Germany were struggling with serious side-effects. This was in line with international evidence, he said, and much more needs to be done to help them.
The number is not surprising. It corresponds to what is known from other countries such as Sweden, Israel or Canada. Incidentally, even the manufacturers of the vaccines had already determined similar values in their studies… Most side effects, including severe ones, subside after three to six months, 80% heal. But unfortunately there are also some that last much longer.
In view of around half a million cases with serious side effects after Covid vaccinations in Germany, we doctors have to take action. We have to come to therapy offers, discuss them openly at congresses and in public without being considered anti-vaccination.
A board member of a large German insurance company also spoke out in February, saying that his company’s data showed serious vaccine injuries running at around 10 times the rate reported by the German Government.
Elsewhere, an Israeli Government survey found that 0.3% of vaccinated people reported being hospitalised as a result of their Covid vaccination, while a U.S. CDC survey found 0.9% of vaccinated people reported seeking medical care as a result of their vaccination.
The evidence is consistent, then: 0.3-0.9% of vaccinated people (the percentage partly depending on the number of doses) suffer a serious reaction to the vaccine that leads them to require medical care or hospitalisation.
These data should be much more widely publicised as part of obtaining informed consent. Everyone who receives a Covid vaccine should have been told in writing that the rate of serious side effects is around one in 300 doses (with variations for age and sex). Note that such a frequency is properly termed ‘uncommon’, rather than ‘rare’ as per the current labelling. This is an extremely high frequency for a vaccine of course, and raises serious questions about whether the vaccines should be approved at all, especially for younger age groups.
As it is, hardly anyone knows that these are the Government’s own data on serious vaccine reactions, and governments are making no obvious effort to tell them.
So, it’s one cheer for the German Government for actually doing something to raise awareness of serious vaccine side effects. But next time, maybe use the actual data, rather than a figure that’s 15 times smaller.
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“Note that such a frequency is properly termed ‘uncommon’ not ‘rare’: It might be better to state the difference between whatever it is compared with other vaccines, which are in common use. It’s awkward to access such records, but I’ve come across some Swedish comparisons between annual ‘flu vaccines and both the Pfizer and AZ C-19 products; they did not look very nice. No vaccine product is 100% risk free, like most activities – but the promoters avoid explaining what they mean by terms like “safe and effective”.
As things have panned out, I’m glad I said “no thanks, I might change my mind if it becomes an established product”, when it was offered to me. I suspect that the usual suspects do not want to be open about it, and in effect, proper informed consent is not available unless one does a fair bit of independent work. That is not a proper service to us.
These are the recorded adverse effects of the influenza vaccine and MMR vaccine according to the BNF. Apologies for the formatting.
“For influenza vaccineCommon or very common
With intramuscular use Chills; hyperhidrosis; induration; local reactions; pain
With intranasal useNasal complaints
UncommonWith intranasal useEpistaxis; face oedema
Frequency not knownWith intramuscular useAngioedema; encephalomyelitis; extensive swelling of vaccinated limb; febrile seizure; nerve disorders; nervous system disorder; paraesthesia; presyncope; shock; syncope; thrombocytopenia; vasculitis
With intranasal useGuillain-Barré syndrome”
and
MMR
“For measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, liveUncommonIncreased risk of infection; rhinorrhoea
Frequency not knownAngioedema; arthritis; ataxia; cough; dizziness; encephalopathy; eye inflammation; irritability; meningitis aseptic; nerve deafness; nerve disorders; oculomotor nerve paralysis; oedema; panniculitis; papillitis; paraesthesia; regional lymphadenopathy; respiratory disorders; seizures; Stevens-Johnson syndrome; subacute sclerosing panencephalitis; syncope; throat pain; thrombocytopenia; vasculitis”
“Description of the frequency of side-effects
Very common greater than 1 in 10
common 1 in 100 to 1 in 10
Uncommon [formerly ‘less commonly’ in BNF publications] 1 in 1000 to 1 in 100
Rare 1 in 10 000 to 1 in 1000
Very rare less than 1 in 10 000
Frequency not known frequency is not defined by product literature or the side-effect has been reported from post-marketing surveillance data”
Thanks for that information.
There is no hard evidence that the Covid shots are either safe or effective, or that they ever will be. The incorporation of the Covid-19 shots into the routine schedules would be based on what exactly?
German headline should read –
“Covid Vaccines cause serious injury for one in 5,000 doses – TO DATE”
The future doesn’t look too bright either. There seems to be evidence of the jabbed being more susceptible to further covid infection resulting from vaccine failure and/or a weakening of their immune systems. GVB, Dr. Peter McCollough etc.
All those I know currently ill with the C1984 are fully perforated. And there have been a few.
Add to that growing evidence of infertility
So it’s been a “success” then?
Eugenicist Bill will be pleased, won’t he?
This report on the “vaccine” injury rate is after 2 or 3 doses of the monkey-juice. Prof Bhakdi (and others) predicted that with every booster shot, the rate of adverse effects and the number of deaths it would cause would get worse.
Whilst it is progress that the Germans, and to a lesser degree, the British Government is admitting that they cause damage/death to some (the UK Government has finally paid out compensation to a handful of people) they are still down-playing the numbers affected and are pushing jabs on younger and young people and boosters on people who really don’t need one.
What these very belated admissions demonstrate to Joe Public (or would, if they used their brains and paid attention) is that by having the monkey-juice, you are participating in a mass human “vaccine” experiment. Do these people NEVER look in the mirror and suspect that they see a lab rat looking back at them?
Joe just watches the telly and believes in the adverts, reads the posters and so on. Of course, it there was a proper advertising standards outfit, a lot of it would not be published in any media, or the publishers would be at risk of being prosecuted or sued for damages.
Oi, I have never had a telly to watch
Canada is an interesting case study at present. They currently have the highest fatality rate they’ve ever experienced from Covid despite 86% vaccine coverage & far higher than this in the vulnerable age groups, 70+. So, if you were a Canadian wouldn’t you wonder why you’d taken the risk inherent in the vaccine for no benefit?
Is there anyone who can shed light on what’s happening in Canada or has OWID got the data wrong?
The reports from EudraVigilance that cover all Europe show, overall, a serious adverse reaction of 1 in 424 per jab. Averaged over the last 3 weeks, it is 1 in 111.
The actual deaths from the jabs is unclear, the last total being 46,652, but this based on summing from reactions. There appear to be currently overall 3.22 reactions per death. This makes the total 14,468.
From these death figures, we have an overall death rate per jab of 1 in 62,304. Averaged over the last 3 weeks, it is 1 in 18,380.
Overall, the deaths per case have been remarkably constant at about 1 in 40 average over all 4 jab types.
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These are all short-term effects; In a few year’s time, things could be far, far worse,
That’s true. However, it seems that EudraVigilance monitor cases for a longer time that MHRA. This is evidenced by reports for AstraZeneca which is hardly used in Europe.
MHRA totally fail to follow up any cases – even fail to investigate those unexplained ‘sudden death’ cases currently running at 640.
Definitely. This Winter will see an escalation.
Hi CG, well I have tried to respond to your message – twice in fact but some reason it they haven’t gone.
Cannot find out how to PM you through this site.
Will check this post in a few hours.
So sorry about this as I would like to help.
“As it is, hardly anyone knows that these are the Government’s own data on serious vaccine reactions, and governments are making no obvious effort to tell them.”
Is it me, or is this criminal? Free and informed consent, anyone?