In the past few months I’ve read newspaper articles warning of the increased risk of death following gardening, stress at work, solar flares, sleeping in front of the television, hot weather, cold weather, shock of high energy bills, the price of food, laughing too much and sleeping in the wrong position – these recent warnings add to the multitude of stories on the health consequences of our dietary choices, sedentary lifestyle and climate change. If that wasn’t scary enough, we’ve also seen efforts to educate the public about how common sudden deaths are in younger adults and teenagers. Given this background of suddenly emerging risks to life resulting from our modern lifestyle, it is clearly very important to fully understand all risks that might be emerging resulting from the Covid vaccines, no matter how trivial.
With the above in mind, it is perhaps rather surprising that the Vaccine Surveillance Report from the UKHSA has never actually mentioned vaccine side-effects or complications. Sure, the word ‘safe’ is typically used a few times in each report, but there’s never been a mention of side-effects and their rates. They don’t even like to use the term ‘rare side-effects’ – as far as the Vaccine Surveillance Reports are concerned the vaccines are simply ‘safe’. They’ve never reported any of the data from the Yellow Card side-effect reporting system, nor mentioned any of the increasing numbers of scientific studies reporting on an increasing number of ‘complications’ after receiving the various vaccines.
I suppose at this point I could stop – since side-effects aren’t covered in the Vaccine Surveillance Reports, and this is a series of posts reviewing the UKHSA Vaccine Surveillance Reports, there’s nothing to discuss. However, vaccine side-effects and complications are important, so I hope that I can be forgiven for exploring this aspect of the vaccines a little further in this post.
Over the past 18 months there have been many studies which have found worrying high side-effect rates following vaccination. The results of these studies have been discussed in multiple places across the internet, and many of these studies have been covered by the Daily Sceptic. The only common theme has been the remarkable insistence by authorities worldwide on ignoring the results of these studies, except where the evidence has become overwhelming and they are forced into some response.
The vast array of side-effects found by these investigative studies is now too voluminous to cover completely here, so instead I’ll focus on a few specific side-effects and discuss the response to these new findings.
Thrombocytopenia and blood-clotting related problems
The first inkling that there might be a risk of thrombocytopenia (low blood platelet count) after vaccination came in January 2021, a mere month after the vaccinations started, after a doctor in New York died of complications following acute thrombocytopenia about two weeks after being given the Pfizer vaccine. Pfizer responded with a statement that this definitely wasn’t anything to do with their vaccine, despite acute thrombocytopenia being relatively rare and the doctor not being in a risk group. In the months that followed, many more cases of thrombocytopenia and other blood clotting disorders occurred, from Pfizer and the other vaccine offerings, but the official response remained coincidence. Eventually the volume of problems became too large to ignore, and in June 2021 the U.K. authorities decided that those aged under 40 shouldn’t be offered the AstraZeneca vaccine. I found this restriction to the AstraZeneca vaccine a bit odd, as the other vaccines appeared to have similarly high rates of clotting problems in the weeks following vaccination, but it appears that the authorities had chosen their demon to blame. Of course, older adults weren’t too keen to be told that they were going to have to take these risks, and demand for the AstraZeneca vaccine plummeted. A few months later the AstraZeneca vaccine was only made available to those who were unable to take the Pfizer vaccine (the only alternative in the U.K. at that time). Even though the known problems of clotting related disorders post-vaccination are bad enough, it isn’t clear if the instances of severe clotting related problems (resulting in hospitalisation) are also accompanied by higher numbers of clotting problems below the clinical threshold (‘microclotting’), or whether these mild cases might have longer term consequences. Another area of post-vaccine effects that demands more research.
Myocarditis
The risk from myocarditis first appeared in a leaked report out of Israel in April 2021 suggesting worryingly high rates occurring in younger males. Quite why it was deemed necessary for this safety-related information to be kept secret isn’t clear, but authorities worldwide responded quickly once the information was leaked to reassure everyone that this risk was very very low and that the vaccines were very very safe (and effective, of course). While the official line is that post-vaccination myocarditis is rare, studies keep on finding higher and higher incidence rates, particularly in the young male risk group. Indeed, in August a scientific paper describing the impact of Covid vaccination in Thailand suggested that the conditions suggestive of myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccination were found in over 29% of vaccine recipients aged between 13 and 18 years of age, and a similar result has since been described after vaccination in Switzerland. The longer term impact of these ‘mild problems related to the heart’ aren’t yet known.
Period related problems
All clinical studies into side-effects are mindful of the need to treat any issues related to sexual function carefully – individuals are less likely to seek medical attention when it comes to sex-related problems and those related to our reproductive systems in general. Thus it should have been a huge red-flag when anecdotal reports of heavy or missed periods following vaccination started to appear early in 2021. Alas, our authorities simply responded with the usual ‘it definitely isn’t the vaccines’ and ignored the problem. The complex situation regarding reporting of side-effects related to reproductive function is nicely illustrated by the number of problems reported to the Yellow Card side-effect reporting system – early May 2021 saw a huge increase in reporting of side-effects related to menstruation. The reason? Most likely, an article on the problem on BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour in late March, in which listeners were urged to report any problems into the Yellow-Card system. It is very disappointing that our side-effect reporting system could be so heavily influenced by a radio programme in this way. Really there should have been active monitoring of post-vaccination complications and side-effects, but the inadequate Yellow Card system is all we had. Official guidelines now state that problems related to menstruation are relatively rare but even if they do occur they’ll be of no consequence whatsoever and women shouldn’t worry about taking the vaccines. Eventually we’ll find out if this reassurance was correct.
What’s also troubling is the way that the only side-effects that are discussed in the traditional media are the ones that have been officially recognised (albeit under duress). What about the increase in hospital consultant activity for stroke victims over the last 18 months?
Or the increase in consultant activity for hormonal problems?
Or the increase in referrals for suspected cancers?
Like the significant increase in excess deaths that we’ve seen this year, there seems to be much going on but little interest on the part of our authorities to investigate these issues at all. Maybe they’re all the result of the lockdowns, maybe they’re due to Covid itself, maybe it was the vaccines, and perhaps it is all just a massive coincidence – but it simply isn’t good enough to decide that it can’t possibly be the vaccines and refuse to even discuss undertaking the research that might clarify the situation.
At least in recent weeks we’ve had an increase in calls for some robust investigations to be undertaken, such as discussed in the Daily Sceptic in mid October. Then again, we’ve also had the brief hour-and-a-half spent a week ago by the House of Commons to debate the issues around vaccine safety. Despite some MPs detailing concerns about the safety of the vaccines, the Chair was quick to respond with empty reassurances and the debate ended with a statement urging people to get vaccinated to protect themselves, others and the NHS. I fear that there’ll be quite some way to go before the full impact of the vaccines is accepted by our authorities.
An important aspect of the rate of side-effects and complications is the impact on the risk-benefit analysis used by our authorities to determine who should take the vaccines. The risk of side-effects should be tolerable so long as the benefit offered by any medical product is greater than the risks. Since the vaccines were introduced back in December 2020 we have seen marked changes both in the risks posed by the vaccines (more side-effects and complications have come to light) and the benefits offered (the vaccines clearly offer little protection against infection, their protection against hospitalisation and death appears to be rather less than claimed, and at the same time Covid appears to have evolved to become much less virulent). In addition, nearly everyone in the Western world will now have had a Covid infection, resulting in at least some natural immunity. Unfortunately, our authorities have never actually published any of their risk-benefit analyses and how the ratio changes with age and morbidity, so we can’t tell how new information on risks and benefits has changed the calculation. Then again, I suppose it is easier to be inconsistent if you never actually tell anyone what factors your decisions are based upon.
One of the big problems regarding the Covid mRNA vaccines in particular is that there were only sparse data published on how long the mRNA would remain active in the body and where it would end up (pharmacokinetics and biodistribution). Originally the reassuring voices told us that the mRNA would break down within hours, and that the mRNA vesicles would remain close to the point of injection. However, evidence has emerged in the months since our authorities proceeded to inject everyone in the world that has suggested that the mRNA remains active for many weeks following vaccination, that it travels to multiple organs in the body and that the pharmaceutical companies knew this prior to the vaccines being released. Even worse, a recent study has suggested that the mRNA is present in breast milk for a short time following vaccination (for fairness I must point out that our authorities still think that it is completely and utterly safe for recently vaccinated mothers to continue breastfeeding). I find it concerning that we’re only now starting to find out the full complexity of the interaction of the mRNA vaccines with the body.
Recent studies have estimated the current rate of serious short-term side-effects after the Covid vaccines at around one in 800. I find this number interesting, as I suspect that this is as bad a side-effect rate as could be found for a supposedly benign or prophylactic treatment. I estimate that an incidence rate of around one in 1,000 marks the point at which problems become apparent even to a casual observer, provided sufficient numbers are given the medical product. If a side-effect rate for a benign or prophylactic treatment is worse than this people would notice and demand that the medicine or medical treatment is withdrawn. Thankfully, there aren’t too many examples of terrible medical mistakes – probably the most famous example is Thalidomide, where around one in 1,000 mothers who took the drug gave birth to a child with serious physical malformations. Even so, it took three years before the nature of the problem was understood and Thalidomide was withdrawn from sale. It is perhaps interesting to note that at least in the early stages of the problem being recognised the blame was put on the nuclear tests that had occurred in previous years – was this the 1950s equivalent of ‘climate change’?
Where serious side-effects are more common than this for a supposedly benign product, the response is typically more rapid. The famous example here is Elixir Sulphanilamide, a treatment for bacterial infections created in the 1930s that caused over 100 deaths in the few weeks that it was for sale. The problem with Elixir Sulphanilamide was that it hadn’t been tested before release and the manufacturers hadn’t realised that a primary component was highly toxic. The owner of the company that made the elixir famously denied responsibility, stating that “we have been supplying a legitimate professional demand and not once could have foreseen the unlooked for results”. It was this scandal that led to the creation of the FDA in the USA, along with stringent requirements for the testing of new medical products. After the disaster it was demanded that never again would a medical treatment be released and given to many thousands of people without being fully tested to explore all potential problems (and not simply the ‘looked-for’ problems). As a side note, the outcome of the Elixir Sulphanilamide scandal was that the scientist who developed the formula committed suicide as a result of the extreme guilt of causing so much harm, while the company that released the medicine without testing was given a nominal fine. The manufacturer went on to produce further drugs (and profits) and after a succession of takeovers is now part of the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. Funny how it all works.
Next time I’ll discuss one of the most wildly enthusiastic aspects of the Vaccine Surveillance Report – the predictions made by computer-models of the reduction in infections, hospitalisations and deaths offered by the vaccines.
Amanuensis is an ex-academic and senior Government scientist. He blogs at Bartram’s Folly.
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Vaxxinazism is a religion. 60 years, nay 200, of endless propaganda. Follow the money. MHRA et al profit from the drugs and stabs. None of the Death Care system components and players want to be criminally liable. So deny. Produce fake studies with fake control groups using fake stats. Overwhelm with bullshit to baffle common sense. Don’t shake your duvet or your mammaries too hard, you will die, first identified by the one and only science in 1977….it is a cult of stupid, dedicated to profits and power. Shoving poisoned sh-t of any variety into your bloodstream is unlikely to make you super boy or super girl and is unlikely to be ‘healthy’ let alone ‘safe and effective’…..80% of the supposed Rona dead were fat, obese piglets, average age 84, 3 conditions. IFR of 0.03% overall. What a f***king clown show of fascism.
Yes, we were already worshipping vaccines and that has been ruthlessly exploited by various parties for gain.
There’s no way on God’s Earth that at some of those involved don’t know they are lying through their teeth. It is satanic.
I guess it’s possible that they don’t want to release the information until they’ve completed their mass, human, pharmaceutical experiment.
And then they won’t do it … because they already know that the results will be appalling.
Thanks Amanuensis. NHS consultants across a wide spectrum of specialisms must suspect the injections are causing harm. If enough spoke out at the same time, they would be impossible to ignore.
Exactly what I have been thinking for a long time.
I appreciate it can be quite difficult to stand up and speak out, particularly when such a formidable wall has been built by governments, pharma companies and big tech working together, easily destroying anyone who dares chip at the wall.
Last year, when the Dutch government was following the pfisser/murderna propaganda to a T, pointing out how the unvaxxed were superspreaders, were causing variants, were prolonging things, were blocking beds (all after it was known that being poked did not stop infection or transmission), the doctor heading the ICU units and member of the Outbreak Management Team spoke out publicly and said that was not the road NL should be going down, that we shouldn’t be shaming people or talking of excluding them or denying health care. No one backed him up, natch. I always thought if he had made a big point of resigning (ICU doctors were considered god at the time and there weren’t nearly enough of them), this would have got attention – even more so if other ICU doctors had joined him.
Doctors and scientists with integrity could have put a stop to this atrocity had they stood together and slapped politicians and regulators on the phama payroll back into place. It would very much behoove them to rectify that mistake and speak out now. They have to know something isn’t right and that it is not being investigated. We speak out, but as laypeople are not listened to. Let the ‘experts’ right this egregious and obvious wrong.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-63486547
Extreme disruption to NHS services has been driving a sharp spike in heart disease deaths since the start of the pandemic, a charity has warned.
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) said ambulance delays, inaccessible care and waits for surgery are linked to 30,000 excess cardiac deaths in England.
The NHS likes people to think that without their benevolence we’d all have lifespans similar to the Victorians.
Unfortunately, in this case data from overseas suggests that the excess deaths aren’t simply occurring because the NHS wasn’t able to do its magic.
Indeed, though I suppose you could use a similar excuse for heath services in other countries that had lockdowns. I wonder how Sweden’s excess deaths look right now.
The pathetic BBC censors are working hard to remove any comment that dares to suggest the injections are in some way related to the excess deaths, including one with a link to the following website: –
https://www.ukcvfamily.org
I can imagine. I’m not sure I would call the BBC pathetic. They seem to be at war with me and my family – at least that’s how I interpret their actions. I want to see the BBC disintegrate.
Not the BBC in their war against truth, but those wretched individuals employed by the BBC to muffle any voice trying to express a negative opinion about the injections. What a miserable way to earn a living.
Fair point, yes.
My fault, I should have been clearer: The BBC’s pathetic censors.
Our wonderful genetic engineers.
Deliberate innate immune suppression without which mRNA would not “work”.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
Because it is not properly independent, but actually operating as a marketing agent for the manufacturers? I’m guessing, but might be quite close to the truth. As a minimum, they are being selective with the truth, by the look of it.
The recent statement by the MHRA that they’d act as ‘enablers’ was astounding.
As a side note, the outcome of the Elixir Sulphanilamide scandal was that the scientist who developed the formula committed suicide as a result of the extreme guilt of causing so much harm, while the company that released the medicine without testing was given a nominal fine.
To be fair, and as I’ve said on here before, unless otherwise implicated it’s not fair to blame the scientists who have been developing this stuff for the subsequent problems. It’s not their fault that the testing and regulatory systems have failed so utterly.
mRNA has a terrible reputation now. But even I’ll admit that it’s the result of some very clever science, and that in future it may potentially offer some great benefits for mankind (and it may not of course). Nevertheless, it is – and was – clear that these technologies were a least a decade, and probably decades, away from being ready to put into human beings.
The problem with the stabs isn’t science, rather the commercial and political corruption and abuse of science. That and public ignorance of science.
Well, I agree up to a point but what was and is stopping all these sincere, innocent, well-meaning scientists piping up now that it’s clear these so-called safe and effective vaccines are nothing of the sort?
The risk of them losing their reputation and the associated financial loss, perhaps.
No I disagree. Viral vectors have been known for many years to be associated with thrombocytopenia. Sarah Gilbert would have known this. Yet she did nothing to stop her vaccine from being injected into millions, killing some and maiming more.
I don’t know how she can live with herself. Poor Gareth Eve lost his wife. Their son his mother. Alex Mitchell lost his leg.
SHE KNEW. She didn’t care.
Can someone please advise whether current excess deaths are higher than excess death from March 2020 to the end of 2021…thanks
I’m a bit busy but this link shows 2022 England and Wales to date, and allows comparison with 2021. So far 470k deaths this year as opposed to 460k last year, 5 year average 436k. I’m sure there are figures for 2020 on the same page as the link.
Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional – Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)
https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales/2022/publicationfileweek422022.xlsx
Many thanks for that
Why doesn’t the UKHSA mention side effects?
-because:
a) they are accomplished liars
and
b) they are unwilling to tell the truth
and
c) they are unable to handle the truth.
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The Times muppets have denounced those supporting Sir Christopher Chope as “celebrity anti-‘vaxxers’ “.
Once again, I must point out that the Times muppets appear to be anti-truthers, employing as they do someone (Oliver Wright) who wrote these pieces about big pharma corruption when working for the Independent in 2014 (refreshing the page appears to display the full article).
Big Pharma lobbyists exploit patients and doctors | The Independent | The Independent
Revealed: Big Pharma’s hidden links to NHS policy, with senior MPs saying medical industry uses ‘wealth to influence government’ | The Independent | The Independent
It includes (among other things) the following section about some drugs companies:
“JMC Partners’ clients include blue-chip drugs firms such as Novatis, Astro Zenica, Sanofi and Pfizer. It also represents a number of medical device manufacturers and biotech companies who sell their products to the NHS, including Roche Diagnostics, Cyberonics and Bausch & Lomb.
The company’s website makes bold claims about how it has been able to influence policy. In one case study it says it represented a medical device manufacturer who was worried about a planned cut in the amount the NHS paid for a treatment with which it was involved. JMC boasted that it organised a lobbying campaign targeting MPs and ministers as well as mobilising doctors to support its cause. It concludes: “The market for the technology was saved.” “
I suggest that failing to address possible corrupt behaviour by drugs companies in the past two years in relation to dangerous experimental (but highly profitable) “covid” medication, despite plenty of evidence being available of concerning behaviour by these companies, whilst strongly endorsing their products, goes beyond legitimate editorial policy and merits investigation and possible charges against these Times muppets. They are insulting our intelligence if they expect us to believe that longstanding corrupt behaviour has suddenly disappeared from these companies in relation to these MRNA medications.
And if anyone with media connections would care to let these muppets know what they think of them (Toby?)…
See Mark Steyn on GB News today for the reference to the Times muppets‘ hit piece.
The current excess deaths rates are not what I expected at all. I thought when this all started that after a few years of excess deaths in vulnerable people with comorbidities, this would be followed by a reduction in deaths.
So all the more worrying.
Exactly. We should be looking at fewer deaths
My understanding is that after say a bad flu year, the next year is invariably better, for those obvious reasons.
What I don’t understand is this: The NHS has pretty perfect information about our exact vaccinations (our Covid passports) and they must have pretty perfect medical records for a huge sample of people – both vaccinated and those wonderful, stubborn vaccination refuseniks who can now act as the control group. Surely it would be a relatively simple statistical exercise to match up by vaccine combination (I was AZ-AZ-Pf) and time vaccinated, with subsequent medical problems and in this way recreate a detailed, controlled ‘post-hoc experiment’. With a database of 40m or so the results should drop out with amazing confidence levels. This is a gift the NHS could give the world. Isn’t it that easy?
A set of world Government heads who are for the most part careerist politicians, who are in the game not to remain politicians but to be on the ascending step ladder to the big paying job, you know the one funded by Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Soros, the WEF, U.N, or one of the big banks. In order to achieve this goal they need to please their future masters, oops sorry I mean employers, and so they follow and do what needs to be done to ensure their future income streams.
The Chinese and the WHO the latter owned by China and Gates kicked off the terror of the plandemic, their ever eager to please attack dog Fauci joined in with the support of Big Pharma. The need to get a solution to this very much man made panic wasthe driver, after all there was billions to be made, careers to be enhanced, and the opportunity for China to increase its control of the west. So the “vaccines” were rushed through, a wonderful opportunity to carry out mass testing on the new money maker with a terrified public. Free of Liability and only upside the Pharma and regulatory agencies went full steam ahead with the testing, protected by Fauci, Whitty, Valance and Farrar.
Now the chickens are coming home to roost, the folly of the cuckolded politicians across the western world has cost the western human population dearly, millions dying or made seriously ill from the “vaccines”, unknowns as to the effects going into the future, bankrupt economies, and China increasingly becoming our masters. The Pharma guys are protected, the investors, Gates, Google, Amazon, Meta etc are protected. The maximum a child injured by these vaccines with a life ahead of them, can expect 120k, the afore mentioned make that much in a day.
So if Governments acknowledged the problem the litigation and costs would bring the downfall of those Governments, the population once blinded would see, and the Pharma industry and its associated tapeworms would lose their “reputations” and revenue, the polititicans would find their staircase to multi millions stuck with nowhere to go.
That is why there is no truth, no investigations and if its up to them there never will be the costs to themselves are too great, after all the populace are nothing, what does it matter if the proles die the planet under their latest emergency could do with less of us.
the big Pharma companies seem to have the power to shut down any negative information about their products. Amanuenis is doing a great job in drawing attention to the issue he/she has found, but how many more are there which have not yet been discovered and who knows what the long term effects of these vaccines will be. They were never tested over a long term as all vaccines should be and the Pharma companies were given immunity against damage caused by side effects. I have had 3 doses of the vaccines and since developed a heart problem, but can’t tell if its the result of my injections. It is no surprise that many sensible people have refused to have covid vaccines and governments are surpressing the side effect information as they were forcing us to have these vaccines if we wanted to live a normal life.