We all know, I hope, about the significant and sustained number of excess deaths since May 2022. Most recently, you probably saw Esther McVey MP asking if the Department of Health would commit to an urgent and thorough investigation.
Maria Caulfield MP, one of the health ministers, replied saying that it’s also happening elsewhere and there is a range of factors. Implicitly, she was refusing to investigate. Outrageous.
However, it actually reminded me that way back in February 2021, MHRA promised to do a whole range of routine population-level data analysis “to quickly detect a potential safety signal” for the Covid vaccines. It announced it here under the section “Rapid Cycle Analysis and Ecological Analysis“. It explains what it involves as follows:
[A]s COVID-19 vaccination records (i.e., those given outside of GP surgeries) begin to get updated within GP systems, the MHRA will implement a form of active surveillance known as ‘Rapid Cycle Analysis’. This method involves proactive, weekly analysis of a range of pre-defined events (theoretical side effects) to quickly identify safety signals – it again involves ‘observed vs expected’ analyses (i.e. comparing rates after vaccination to rates in unvaccinated comparator groups) but doesn’t rely on people directly reporting any concerns through the Yellow Card scheme. It is also a more robust way to quickly determine if rates are likely to be consistent with a coincidental association. It also uses the MaxSPRT approach with adjustments made for the expected delays in the recording of events presenting to and diagnosed in secondary care settings. The list of pre-defined events of special interest is not fixed and can be expanded at any time.The MHRA will also use the CPRD data to conduct ‘ecological analyses’. This involves monitoring trends in the rates of pre-defined events within given population cohorts, based on prioritisation groups for vaccine roll out, to see if they are occurring to a greater extent amongst those targeted for vaccination after it is deployed compared to historical rates from the pre-deployment period. Comparisons can also be made to trends seen in groups not targeted for vaccination at the same time. This approach is most useful when we see high vaccine uptake and is another way to quickly detect a potential safety signal.
So I had a poke around MHRA’s website to see how it is getting on with this. Not very well, it turns out.
One of MHRA’s five divisions is called Clinical Practice and Research Datalink (CPRD) and it maintains a bibliography of peer-reviewed research and reports which have used data provided by MHRA from NHS datasets for things like ICU, A&E, inpatients, outpatients, cancer registration and pregnancy. When I looked, the bibliography had been updated as recently as January 9th 2023. So well and truly up-to-date. So far, so good.
Imagine my surprise when I could only find two population-level studies relating to the Covid vaccines, both relating to thrombocytopenia (low blood platelet count), one from February 2022 and one from October. So just one type of adverse event has been put through MHRA’s promised ecological analysis in the last two years. It doesn’t say much for MHRA’s commitment to use population-level data “to quickly detect a potential safety signal”.
Imagine my further surprise that none of the datasets which MHRA’s CPRD Division provides for research contains data after June 2021.
So in conclusion, all about as useless as the other strand of Covid vaccine surveillance it promised, Targeted Active Monitoring, which I noted in a recent article it quietly dropped 15 months ago.
For me, there are only two possible conclusions: either the MHRA is not doing the Covid vaccine surveillance it promised, or it is doing it and not making the results publicly available. Either way, it’s high time that MPs, the Covid Inquiry and the media started asking MHRA some searching questions.
Until Nick retired a few years ago, he was a Senior Civil Servant in a Government Department.
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FOI to the ONS 2020, 2021, 2022: ‘Are you going to monitor the effects your self-declared emergency, experimental mRNA jabs and use control groups to measure efficacy including the unstabbinated ?’ Answer, ‘not now but we might’.
FOI to the MHRA – same question, same answer.
A ‘health’ system would be doing this from day 1. A profits-system, with no indemnity, protected by government, would not care. We don’t have a ‘health’ system.
This is proof of a criminal conspiracy, even if only ‘after the fact’.
If you don’t want to find something, the best course of action is to not look for it.
And that’s what the MHRA is doing. And so are approximately 648 of the useless parasites on the green benches in Westminster.
Notice, a major lack of parasites on the benches when this topic is discussed!
https://youtu.be/Ll8GxuqmApQ?list=TLGGkYbGuG5BZ5oyODAxMjAyMw
But I seem to remember that the billboard posters said that it’s “safe and effective”? Blatant lies, of course, and it’s no surprise that they are deliberately avoiding looking for evidence that undermines their plan.
This is actually negligent, especially as this is a novel therapy only authorised under emergency legislation.
As the Doctor from Pfizer said its a revolving door between the regulators and the Pharma industry, it was and is exactly the same in the financial industry, the rating agencies and regulators want the big money they can earn with the Banks and Funds so they let things go through that should not, hence the crash in 2008 and hence this larger and more human tragedy of millions of injuries and deaths worldwide, caused by the collusion of Regulators and Politicians with Big Pharma. It is obvious now that Pfizer and the like are the the ones controlling world Governments and institutions, they are the ones developing Bioweapons, to use on people in the west such that they can continue to use our bodies and health as cash cows.
Boula should be hanged along with those who have worked with and for him, likewise Gates and the other Pharma involved in the Covid 19 scam, they are terrorists threatening the whole of humanity for their own gain.
Well said 👏
There’s a bigger crash coming! It’s just being covered up better, all this spending on quantative easing (the essence of prevarication) lockdowns, war, furlough and benefits must be paid for!
The UK is stoney broke! as are most western countries but they keep on pretending their not! It will come crashing down around our ears soon!
I’am sick and tired of our so called politicians, the Labservatives, the only political party in power, they should be stripped naked and forced to walk through the real world while being covered in excrement by the masses and goaded with (ringing bell) shame,shame,shame!
Ooh, can I say that?
YES, I’m a pi#×ed off voter!
Mr Nick Denim: poacher turned gamekeeper.
Brilliant article summing up everything that is wrong with government in this country today. Thank you.
Why are Ministers and their private secretaries not checking that their departmental policy announcements are followed up, reported on, regularly written up, results monitored, discussed?
Why are parliamentary select committees not holding ministers to account on this score?
If the reports are there, concealed, these parliamentary committees should flush them out……
Professionalism within the civil service appears to have fallen through the floor.
Here’s an idea…..start up ‘shadow’ ministries with different names, brand new young and keen staff, inexorably to take over the roles and responsibilities of the ‘old’ original ministries and allow those ‘legacy’ ministries, nil recruitment, to gradually wither on the vine.
Only this way can the present arrogant, complacent, incompetent ‘activity rather than progress’ culture of today’s public servants be stamped out.
‘activity rather than progress’
I like that. But I rather fear that the kneejerk right-wing reaction to that is to say they all have to go to office. I’ve seen plenty of ‘activity rather than progress’ in offices. In fact in my personal experience, NOT being in the office tends to make one reflect more on whether progress is being made, because simply assuming that people are producing anything useful just by being sat at their desks doesn’t work if they are unseen, at home.
I think it’s an impossible undertaking to have a huge state sector that’s efficient. Goodness knows plenty of private sector businesses are terribly inefficient too. It has to come from the politicians, but then the general public have to hold them to account and it seems we’re just too lazy, well-fed and trusting to do that – present company excepted.
Very well said. I always used to shout out ‘Look busy!’ when entering an open plan office with someone important
The only CEO of a major corporation that I have personally known had a theory that organisations have a size limit beyond which they become difficult to manage efficiently.
This is most readily apparent within the military where, as far back if not further than Roman times, about 100 men are the most that an individual can hope to command relatively directly.
Nevertheless the IT revolution has, as you say, the potential to allow much more efficient and (employee) satisfying work practices.
Employers should embrace working from home practices where possible. The idea that open plan offices are in any way more efficient or pleasant than WFH seems to me to be self serving nonsense.
There are roughly 70 of us in my firm and we have a pretty dynamic, smart CEO but there are times when we struggle to effect change when it’s needed.
I think there are some downsides to WFH – communication can be a bit more clunky, and it’s isolating for some – but IMO for most people/firms in “office” type sectors offering some WFH brings more benefits than disadvantages. We allow people to choose how much or how little time they spend in the office. We try to treat our staff like adults, and expect them to behave as such. Not everyone has an intrinsic work ethic but dragging them into an office is not necessarily the answer to that, though I would accept that there may be some benefit for some people in physically being in a working environment where they can see what work looks like – but those kind of people in my experience tend to be the least able and least productive and should probably be doing some other job more suited to their ability and temperament.
An added bonus for me is I don’t need to listen to my colleagues talking shit about The Current Thing and telling me how many covid “vaccinations” they’ve had and how many times they’ve “had covid”. Microsoft Teams is great – you can simply turn your sound off and dip back in to see if they have finished talking shit.
Teams is brilliant; the employer of its designers clearly not anywhere near as much as he thinks he is.
My brother and I have been trying to get the MHRA to do its job and investigate the death of our Mother from side effects of the Moderna Booster. Within 24 hours, she and every other resident in her care home who received the spring 2022 Moderna Booster became significantly ill with fever and most also with vomiting. Mum, who had Alzheimer’s, choked on vomit, was hospitalised and died of Aspiration Pneumonia, which her hospital doctor had told us is more dangerous than COVID. We understand another care home resident also died from the Booster’s side effects.
We reported the death of our Mother and the whole care home incident to the MHRA on 2 August 2022 asking them to investigate. To date it has failed to carry out anything approaching an investigation. It has not even ruled out dosage error, never mind a possible link with prior COVID infection – Mum and many of her fellow residents had COVID 4.5 months before receiving the Booster. The JCVI, Secretary of State for Health, Minister for Vaccines, DHSC and chairman of the HSCCOM have all proven uninterested in the case and simply refer us back to the MHRA. Yet the MHRA is failing to perform its statutory duty under the “Proactive vigilance for COVID-19 vaccines” to investigate why a whole group of vulnerable people became so ill and two died from the Booster.
We now know that the MHRA and JCVI knew that mixing different COVID vaccines leads to higher rates of adverse reactions. They also knew that Moderna has the much more common side effect of vomiting than Pfizer and AZ. Yet both bodies specified that Moderna was safe for vulnerable elderly who have lost mental capacity, cannot look after themselves and who would need assistance when vomiting. Worse, the JCVI and Government continue to recommend Moderna Boosters for this highly vulnerable group of people and clearly fail to understand that what may be classed as mild side effects for most people become dangerous with serious consequences for those who are unable to look after themselves. Protecting the vulnerable elderly from COVID-19 is one thing but this needs to be balanced with the risks of killing them in the process.
Our Mother’s life was shortened because the Moderna Booster killed her. The least the MHRA could do is to investigate why.
These questions will never be asked. The concept of ‘mea culpa’, doesn’t exist within any Government department