This is a tale about the U.K. drugs regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), and its consultation with its independent safety adviser, the Commission on Human Medicines, and two of its subcommittees – the Pharmacovigilance Expert Advisory Group (PEAG) and the COVID-19 Vaccines Benefit Risk Expert Working Group (VBR-WG). I know that sounds a bit tedious and forensic but bear with me. It reveals that the MHRA is at it again, redacting vaccine safety data without a proper reason and trying to avoid revealing further safety data.
In February 2021, MHRA announced four strands of its “proactive vigilance” to monitor the safety of the Covid vaccine rollout.
One of those strands was new: the MHRA’s Yellow Card Vaccine Monitor (YCVM) programme. A proactive programme, working closely with the NHS, where a random selection of Covid vaccinees would be invited to register (before vaccination and therefore before the onset of any side-effects) for follow-up at set intervals to ask whether any adverse reaction had occurred. As someone who had a senior role in a safety critical sector for over 20 years, that proactive programme seemed like a very sensible thing to do – not least to overcome the massive under-reporting of side-effects to MHRA’s main Yellow Card system, the lack of medium and long term safety data from the rushed Covid vaccine trials, and to try address concerns in the Cumberlege Report that the MHRA does not listen to patients. In the event, 30,000 people registered by mid 2021.
Having seen no trace of the YCVM programme since its announcement, I recently decided to ask for a copy MHRA’s latest report about it. MHRA very helpfully sent me a copy of its report dated August 2021 to the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) Pharmacovigilance Expert Advisory Group (PEAG). It contains comparisons of the ethnic, gender and age profiles and top side-effects between the proactive YCVM programme and its wider but passive Yellow Card scheme, but no details about the frequency or severity of the side-effects.
Call me cynical but I suspect that’s all they wanted me to believe is the purpose of the YCVM programme. Unfortunately for MHRA, the report also included vaccine safety data presented the previous month (July 2021) to a different group – the CHM’s COVID-19 Vaccines Benefit Risk Expert Working Group (VBR-WG). The safety data from the YCVM programme related to Covid vaccines in pregnancy and breastfeeding (para 25) and about menstrual disorders (para 27) with the data reproduced at Appendices 2 and 3.
So, for its reply to my FOI request to be true – that the August 2021 report to the PEAG was the most recent about its YCVM programme – the MHRA must not have presented any further safety data from the YCVM to the VBR-WG subsequent to July 2021.
I therefore did a bit of digging. I found the minutes of the CHM PEAG August 2021 meeting with MHRA about the report. And it’s true, the PEAG has not subsequently discussed the YCVM programme. However, I could not find any minutes of the VBR-WG. Imagine my surprise when I found MHRA’s reply to FOI 22/592: that the VBR-WG is “not a permanent body and minutes are not published”.
I cannot believe that MHRA did not make any subsequent presentations to the VBR-EWG, its independent safety adviser, about Covid vaccine safety data from the YCVM, not least because the benefit-risk balance associated with the Covid vaccines has changed so markedly since the vaccine rollout began. The AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has been as good as withdrawn and there are eligibility criteria for the other Covid vaccines. So I have pointed all this out to MHRA and requested that it conducts an Internal Review about how my FOI request was handled.
There was another concerning aspect. Some data in Appendix 2 of the August 2021 paper were redacted, namely the number of YCVM reporters with ongoing problems from Covid vaccine side-effects. The reason the MHRA gave was “to maintain patient confidentiality”. This appears to be an entirely specious argument. Numbers in a table are, by definition, anonymous. Rather than just trot out ‘patient confidentiality’, MHRA needs to explain how not redacting a number would compromise patient confidentiality. That was also part of my requested Internal Review.
Finally, those who have stayed with me so far will have spotted one glaring loose end – that the minutes of the CHM’s COVID-19 Vaccines Benefit Risk Expert Working Group, which the MHRA uses as an independent safety adviser, are not published. Regardless of the YCVM programme, it is inevitable that the CHM reviewed the evidence for continuing the vaccine roll-out as COVID-19 reduced in lethality and safety risks emerged over time. This is not the transparency the public deserves or was promised. The CHM is not a Public Body so it is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Someone in authority needs to demand that the minutes of this pivotal meeting are published. Perhaps an MP would like to ask a Parliamentary Question.
Until Nick retired a few years ago, he was a Senior Civil Servant in a Government Department.
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A good job, well done. I’m glad I said “NO” at the start of the campaign in March ’21. I was not familiar with the bureaucratic structure of those groups, but it’s worth noting that the link provided says at the end: “The MHRA will operate a transparent process. On a regular basis, the MHRA will produce an up to date summary of the safety experience, including aggregate Yellow Card reports, on our website. “ The quote mentioned was allegedly published on 5/2/2021. Did they actually do what they said?
I would like to think that this relentless chipping away will eventually break the dam and people will start being held responsible for all the damage, although I’m not too hopeful.
The problem I see is that practically everyone is in on this. The government, the bureaucracy, the medical establishment, the scientific community, the media, the corporate establishment and large swathes of the population. They all pushed this experimental treatment on the mass population.
If you actually ever got to put on trial everyone who in one way or other was complicit in the violation of the Nuremberg Code, I’m not sure you’d have too many people left in positions of authority. They’d have to build one bloody large prison, that’s for sure.
So the sum of all the incentives to sweep this under the rug far outweigh those to expose the crime. And this is true at a global scale, not just in our own country.
If I had to bet this will at best end up like the Iraq invasion where in the end we all realised we were lied to, a horrible crime was perpetrated but no one paid for it. And what was left was cynicism and a vague sense of not wanting a repeat any time soon.
I hope I’m wrong, though.
Indeed. I doubt we’ll see this presented in the mainstream in its proper light until most of the main protagonists are dead or long retired. Where is the incentive to break ranks?
The reference to Iraq is instructive. There was a lot more opposition to that war, and yet the whole thing remains largely covered up.
It’s actually worse than if it remained covered up.
It’s completely in the open. Totally uncovered. And nothing.
That just makes people lose all faith in the system, in our institutions in any sense of fairness.
It suggests that there is no real justice and that ultimately might is right.
In fact, that may be the best argument to persuade our lawmakers to do something. If they want to retain some semblance of order in our society, they better start thinking of rounding up some scapegoats – good ones, mind you, not some token sacrifices – and making a terrible example of them.
Yes, I guess by “covered up” in the this context I meant “not spoken of”.
I’m not sure many of our lawmakers are much bothered about maintaining a semblance of order – they’ve got away with it so far. It would take a big pushback to make them take notice. One such shock could be the electoral destruction of the Tory party. Some of them might then think that pushing for covid justice is a good way back into power, and hopefully many of those responsible for the covid nonsense will lose their seats, never to return.
The destruction you call for would let in the Labour and Liberal parties who were even more hysterical in their demands for more NPIs. So how would that help?
Indeed. It would help by leaving space for a properly conservative political party to emerge.
The Tories are evil. Voting Tory is suicide. Voting for the similarly evil Labour/Lib is asking to be murdered. Either way, you end up dead.
I’m not voting next time. If only ten per cent of the population turn out to vote, the system will collapse.
I’ve participated in a rigged game, holding my nose and voting for the least worst option, for too long. I’m not playing anymore. No party represents my very average, middle-of-road world views, which I suspect most of the population have.
I’m offered extremist Schwab-Gates-Soros ideology by Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak’s Tories and an extremist Schwab-Gates-Soros-inspired ‘New Britain’ by Starmer’s Labour Party. Ideally, a ballot paper would say ‘None of the above’!
I agree with you Stewart though I am little more hopeful that people will be held to account eventually. I think it’s quite clear the regime wants this stuff swept under the carpet and forgotten about. Our response must be “no bloody way!”
No one will be held to account, because there is no one in authority who could hold the guilty to account. Parliament, academia, public – everyone was complicit.
This is pretty much it. I can’t see us turning over the whole international order without some serious support and muscle.
Thanks to DS and Mr Denim for this. Suggest sending it to Bridgen, Chope and Swayne.
I would hope that Messrs Bridgen, Chope and Swayne, at least, have DS as part of their daily reading. It would be a poor show if that was not the case.
I kind of doubt it, at least Swayne and Chope. Maybe Bridgen does as he seems the most switched on now. Swayne spotted the madness early on but appears to have moved on, to an extent, though he did express some measure of support for Bridgen in a recent blog post. Not sure about Chope. I sort of assumed they were too busy.
The Australian regulators present the data from their Ausvaxsafety active monitoring programme in the same way, showing only the “most common” symptoms such as injection site pain, while the less common but much more serious reactions are censored. https://ausvaxsafety.org.au/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-adult-formulation/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-safety-data-all-participants
Talking of examples of democide worldwide…what the heck is going on in Japan? These graphs are rather stark. Now here we really do have a very compliant populace that would totally have headed to the ‘showers’ en masse without having to be told twice.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/mortality-in-japan-2010-to-2022-the
Great stuff! Well done! Thank you.
They lied in the beginning, they have lied since, they will always lie. They are servants of the pharmaceutical industry. The creature in charge said as much when she said the rôle of the MHRA was to get products to market as quickly as possible.
It is therefore cheer-leader, not gatekeeper.
It’s rôle is supposed to be to ensure nothing gets to market that shouldn’t be there because it is not safe and/or effective.
But when 75% of you salary, benefits and existence is paid for by the very entities under your scrutiny, a conflict of interest is inevitable.
They are either too busy investigating the cause of 1000 excess death a week over the past year or filling in applications for the next round of honours .
Question?? If TPTB don’t get us digitally ID,d before the Jab truth blows up , would it mean we might be able to put a stop to the whole charade
They’d need to keep tabs on the whole population digitally to spot those wicked people suppressing vaccine data. Kind of like everybody has to be searched to prevent one terrorist who is actually the one doing the searching.
And the ‘enablers’ would sign off on it in a heartbeat…..
https://rudolphrigger.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-the-trouble-ive-vax
Bloody brilliant – love it.
Definitely well worth reading. The lunatics are running the asylum
This article makes very good sense if we consider the MHRA to be a “egulator”. However, their chief executive has decided the MHRA is an “enabler” so none of this pesky side-effects issue is of interest to them.