The Icelandic Health Insurance fund has now received 46 applications for damage payouts after COVID-19 vaccination. Most of the claims are still being processed. Three have already been approved and three have been declined. The mean age of the applicants whose applications have been approved is 39 years.
Around 311,000 Icelanders have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, which means one in 6,760 have so far made a claim.
To date, a total of 311 serious cases of adverse effects following COVID-19 vaccination had been reported to the Medicines Agency, or one in every 1,000 vaccinated. Thus, it appears that around 15% of those reporting serious adverse effects went on to claim compensation.
In 2021 and 2022 just over 6,000 cases of adverse effects after COVID-19 vaccination, serious or not, had been reported to the Medicines Agency. This is around one in every 52 persons vaccinated.
In 2019 the Medicines Agency received a total of nine reports of adverse effects after influenza vaccination, none of them serious. It may be assumed that around 70,000 people were vaccinated against the flu that year, which means approximately one in every 7,800 reported mild adverse effects and none reported severe effects.
Recently, data from large German insurer Techniker Krankenkasse showed one in every 23 persons insured had received payout due to adverse effects after vaccination, an eleven-fold rise compared with previous years once corrected for the different scale of the Covid vaccination effort compared with earlier years. Around 76% of the German population have been fully vaccinated and, assuming the same ratio for the 11 million insured by the Techniker Krankenkasse, this amounts to one in every 17 vaccinated. It must be taken into account here that this includes all adverse effects, serious or not. The Icelandic numbers are well below this.
As of May this year, 36 Icelanders had filed claims after COVID-19 vaccination. Since then there have been 10 more, which, considering the low rate of vaccination during the summer months, such a 27% increase indicates a considerable lag; we may thus assume this number will keep rising over the next months, even years. It must also be kept in mind that the application process is no easy task and for an application to be accepted a hard proof of causal relationship must be provided.
The rate of one claim for every 6,760 people vaccinated is huge and extremely worrying. Compared with an expected rate of one to two cases of serious adverse effects in a million after influenza vaccination, this amounts to a 75 to 150-fold increase and there is little doubt those numbers will keep rising. If we use a conservative estimate, based on the cases already evaluated (three accepted, three declined) we still see a 33 to 75-fold increase against what may generally be expected after vaccination against influenza. Even if we only count the three claims already accepted, that amounts to about 10 in a million, five to 10 times the expected rate.
Thorsteinn Siglaugsson is an economist, consultant and writer based in Iceland. You can subscribe to his Substack newsletter here.
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So there’s a pattern here, the vaccine is much less safe than claimed and is much less effective than claimed. It’s almost like it’s a dangerous and ineffective medical treatment rushed out against all safety protocols just to make money.
Spent the evening with friends one has had shingles post jab another had pains down his left side then had a seizure on Friday night. Both healthy, normally. Make of it what you will, but both friends have been critical of my status. I dare not mention that it could be vaccine related I would be cut to ribbons.
One of my healthy 41 year old friends recently developed big liver troubles. Like you, I daren’t ask. But he knows my stance and he didn’t offer any sort of, “don’t worry, it’s not the jab…”
A close friend has just undergone a major operation on her liver …. jabbed 3 times.
The niece of of a friend has had 2 heart attacks in as many months. She’s 34, mother of 2 kids and not getting great treatment it seems. She’s normally in good health.I asked if she’d been vaccinated, got the weirdest of looks and the reply “Of course”. I left it at that.
Well, that’s because they aren’t vaccines in the original sense of the word (before the definition was changed, about ten years ago, funny that), and haven’t ever been fully tested (and now never will be).
Who could have foreseen that the global rollout of a rushed, never before used, gene therapy might have undesired consequences?
I said at the time – this should be for the elderly only.
For that unpopular opinion I was called an anti-Vaxxer by my GP uncle on family WhatsApp group and slurred as ‘far-right’ by a friend for sharing Lockdown Sceptic articles. Sadly he still seems wedded to the notion that the economic shitshow we are currently experiencing is a consequence of Brexit.
No longer a friend, I’m afraid.
Well, as so often seems to be the case, life is about avoiding the idiots. So, you’re making progress!
My uncle, a chemist of Imperial College’s making, has accused me repeatedly of “terrible behaviour”. But not to my face.
And STILL Governments around the world are pushing these dangerous products onto millions of people who don’t need them.