A fearless, selfless Israeli researcher named David Shuldman has worked tirelessly to get data released from the clutches of Government agencies. He recently obtained data via FOIA request on neonatal deaths from the Israeli health insurance fund Maccabi, which covers about 25% of Israelis.
Neonatal deaths are defined as deaths in the first four weeks of life, from the moment after birth until 28 days later. Recently, he obtained data on the quarterly number of neonatal deaths beginning the first quarter of 2019. Here is what that looks like:
The quarterly number of neonatal deaths is very low, hovering between 4-8 for 2019 and 2020. Then in the second quarter of 2021, it suddenly jumps three-fold to 17, dips again in the third quarter and then jumps again to 18 in the last quarter of the year.
Since the total number of births changes little from month to month, these spikes are about triple the usual rate of neonatal deaths. (I confirmed this using data from a separate FOIA he filed with monthly data on live births from April 2019.)
In February 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Health started to officially recommend COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant women in their second and third trimesters, so the timing of the second quarter spike would coincide with women being jabbed later in their pregnancy two to four months prior.
The fourth quarter spike coincides with the booster vaccination campaign in Israel in August and especially September – a drive that aggressively targeted pregnant women. Unfortunately, the health insurer claimed not to have information on the vaccination status of pregnant women, so we are not able to differentiate by vaccination status.
However, the spike in the second quarter and again in the fourth quarter of 2021 is similar to what I found earlier this year in an analysis of data from a large Israeli hospital (also FOIA’d by David), where we saw a large jump in the rate of stillbirths, miscarriages and abortions (SBMAs) among vaccinated women in the second quarter (April-June):
So it is quite a coincidence seeing a spike in the neonatal death rate in the same quarter as we see a spike in the stillbirths, miscarriages and abortions rate among the vaccinated. (We don’t have November-December data so we cannot compare fourth-quarter stillbirths, miscarriages and abortions to neonatal deaths.)
What are the chances that those spikes are just a fluke? A statistical test called Chi-square can help us compare an average quarter to one of the quarters with a big spike. If we look at the average number of neonatal deaths per quarter in 2019-2020 (which is 6) and the average number births (which is 10,882) and compare that with either the second quarter or fourth quarter of 2021, the result is statistically significant: for the second quarter, you would expect that number of neonatal deaths or more about 2.5 times out of a hundred; for the fourth quarter you’d expect that number 1.8 times out of a hundred. (Anything less than 5 times out of a hundred is considered statistically significant according to conventional standards.)
The significance increases a bit if we do an annual comparison:
Since we don’t have birth data for the first quarter of 2019, I will compare 2020 to 2021. In 2021 there were 47 neonatal deaths out of 45,449 live births. In 2020 there were 24 neonatal deaths out of 42,962 live births. We’d expect such a large difference less than 1.2 times out of 100. In other words, this is a once in a hundred year anomaly. If this was due to Covid, we would have expected to see some increase in 2020 over 2019 – but the number of neonatal deaths and overall live births remained nearly constant.
Here are the full data, including the number of births and the neonatal death rate.
For more on this topic, see this post on stillbirths and fertility statistics from around the world, which I update on occasion.
Dr. Josh Guetzkow is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This article first appeared on his Substack page Jackanapes Junction, which you can subscribe to here.
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Correlation does not equal causation, blah, blah blah. The ‘coincidences’ are mounting to a point which is impossible to ignore. I was out with a few mates last night and I definitely noticed a shift in mentality. It’s now shifting from “yes, of course they work you mad anti-vaxxer” to “well, we couldn’t have known they didn’t work. You got lucky”. A lot more distrust in government and MSM as well. Quite a bit of tongue chewing needed, but it’s a healthy shift in thinking.
I often wonder if I wasn’t retired and had time to scour the internet seeking facts if I would have rolled up my sleeve.
I know a few working age people who refused the jab as I did not because they had researched ‘the facts’ but simply because they don’t trust MSM, government and their agencies.
Curiously, none of them are of the professional or managerial class.
I believe quite a considerable percentage of the ethnic minorities refused the jab for the same reason.
I don’t know thousands of people but I guess I know at least a hundred. Aside from me and Mrs ToF I only know for definite of five adults that are not jabbed.
And most notably, the timing lines up uncannily with the jabs, not the virus.
Indeed, although there is still a lot of “well, we didn’t know then what we know now ” or “of course, I only took the vaccine because it seemed the right thing to do” etc. It’ll be a while before the long term consequences are acknowledged.
I’m still seen as a conspiracy theorist by my family.
el gato malo’s latest shows a very compelling graph where the high vax rate and low birth rate in Sweden are highly correlated. What I’d like to see though is somebody looking at more than just a few countries reporting low birth rates, otherwise it just looks like cherry picking in order to support your hypothesis. There a many more highly vaxxed countries than just Sweden, Australia and Germany ( the ones that get reported on most ) so if we want to blame the vax we need much better data than just this.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/quick-updates-on-covid-vaccine-fertility
Eurostat only shows fertility statistics up to 2020, fancy that!
It’s beginning to look a lot like genocide, everywhere you go….
Do they know it’s genocide at all?
These data are incredibly worrying.
The lack of any response from governments worldwide regarding excess deaths, increased disease and problems during pregnancy has become obscene.
Yes, but they are, in the main, career politicians. Obscenity is what they do. And they are quite good at it.
Yet more confirmation of the extent of the folly and evil
More than anything, we need accurate data on vaccination status in each cohort. That nobody has even seemed prepared to properly collect this data, let alone collate and present it in a meaningful way gives us an insight into the extent of the evasion going on.
I’ve always found it astounding that the Israeli Government, bearing in mind the forced experimentation carried out by Mengele, entered into an arrangement with Pfizer which sanctioned experimentation on the entire Israeli population.
I’m assuming there must have been shed-loads of money involved for some Israelis. It would be good to know who they are.
Neonatal deaths are defined by the time of death in relation to time of birth.
The two leading causes of neonatal death (infant death occurring with the first 28 days of life) are prematurity/low birth weight and birth defects. Prematurity is a consequence of preterm labour and it would be interesting to know the incidence of preterm labour. Preterm labour would likely be markedly increased if deaths from prematurity have increased. Birth defects may have increased. A deeper analysis is required.