We’re publishing a round-up of Covid vaccine safety reports and news compiled by a group of medical doctors who are monitoring developments but prefer to remain anonymous in the current climate. By no means is this part of an effort to generate alarm about the vaccines or dissuade anyone from having them. At Lockdown Sceptics we report all news about the vaccines whether positive or negative and give no one advice about whether they should or should not be received. Unlike with lockdowns, we are neither pro-vaccine nor anti-vaccine; we see our job as to report the facts, not advocate for or against vaccines. The vaccine technology is novel and the vaccines have not yet fully completed their trials, which is why they’re in use under temporary and not full market authorisation. This has been done on account of the emergency situation and the trial data was largely encouraging on both efficacy and safety. For a summary of that data, see this preamble to the Government’s page on the Yellow Card reporting system. We publish information and opinion to inform public debate and help readers come to their own conclusions about what is best for them, based on the available data.
News Round-Up
- COVID-19 vaccines are to be investigated by the European Medicines Agency for side-effects including Guillain Barre Syndrome, face-swelling anaphylaxis and blood clots.
- AstraZeneca faces further bans in Slovakia, Quebec and Brazil (for pregnant women).
- 57 Scientists and Doctors have created a report that summarises key concerns on COVID-19 vaccines regarding long and short term health implications.
- The Israeli People’s Committee have released a report on the adverse events related to the COVID-19 vaccine (Pfizer).
- Concerns continue to arise around COVID-19 vaccination and pregnancy. The MHRA have announced that the vaccines are safe for pregnant women, following the results of a “preliminary study” in the New England Journal of Medicine which only included a small group of 827 women, 13.9% of whom suffered pregnancy loss. Cases of spontaneous abortion have been reported to Yellow Card, VAERS and Eudravigilance and countries like Brazil have currently banned certain vaccines. Hundreds of thousands of reports have been made of hormonal disruption, bleeding and miscarriage with Facebook groups being censored and removed, as also reported by the BBC. Fears could centre around the effect of the virus (as replicated by vaccination) as flagged up in this study in the Journal of Cells on the effects on the placenta of COVID-19.
- The MHRA has given approval for the mixing of vaccines following the publication of the Com Cov Study by Oxford University in the Lancet. This is despite findings that there is some increase in adverse events with the mixing of vaccines.
- A useful article in the Pharmaceutical Journal summarised all the current approved vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 and others currently in development.
- Concerns about the connection between COVID-19 vaccines and blood clots are ongoing – this week in relation to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
- In a study by Radboud University Medical Center and Erasmus MC in the Netherlands, and the Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover Medical School (MHH), and the University of Bonn, in Germany, researchers have found possible links between mRNA vaccines and the reprogramming of the innate immune system.
- VAERS update: The U.S. vaccine adverse event reporting system has recorded 4,057 deaths relating to COVID-19 vaccines as of May 7th 2021. This is over twenty times the average annual number of all vaccine-related deaths usually reported to VAERS (under 200 per year) in a period of less than four months. Forty six per cent of these deaths occurred in people who fell ill within 48 hours of being vaccinated.
Summary of Adverse Events UK
Updated report published on May 6th 2021 from MHRA Yellow Card Reporting up to 28th April 2021. (NB: Reported adverse events are not necessarily caused by the vaccine.)
Cumulatively 20 weeks for Pfizer (approx 19.5 million doses) and 16 weeks for AstraZeneca (approx 28.5 million doses) and two weeks for Moderna (approx 0.1 million doses); 34 million unique people received one or two doses; 215,939 unique reports filed with Yellow Card.
Total Events 757,564; Total Reports 215,939; Total Fatalities 1,102.
Key Summary of Adverse Events (for full table see below)
- Acute Cardiac events 8,079
- Anaphylaxis 875
- Blood Disorders 10,296
- Eye Disorders 11,336, of which 178 resulted in Blindness
- Psychiatric Disorders 13,930
- Spontaneous Abortions/Foetal Death 114
- Facial Paralysis 763
- Disturbances in Consciousness 9,983
- Strokes and CNS haemorrhages 1,391
- Guillain Barre Syndrome 214
- Tremor 8,910
- Thrombosis & Embolism (All types) 3,515
- Seizures 1,578
- Paralysis 592
- Haemorrhage (All types) 2,017
- Reproductive/Breast issues 3,987
Adverse Event Analysis
Based on 20.1m doses of Pfizer and 30.8m doses of AstraZeneca (with Moderna there are still far too few doses), Pfizer has one Yellow Card for 361 doses and AZ one for 184 doses. The average number of adverse events (i.e., symptoms) per report remains consistent: 2.9 for Pfizer, 3.7 for AZ. Pfizer has one fatal report per 54,324 doses and AZ per 40,741.
Yellow Card Reports Summary
Source: Pfizer; Moderna; Astrazeneca; Unspecified. “F” denotes Fatal
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I seem to remember the Germans were initially very enthusiastic about not buying Russian gas.
They said stuff like “Rather a cold shower than Russian gas!”.
But eventually reality catches up with you.
It always does.
Remember how the German contingent giggled when trump told them that they relied too much on Russian gas?
Your arrogance has come home to roost
Swivel on that finger Germany!
Remember how it was actually German money that financed the Bolshevik revolution and that from the late 1930s until 1941 Germany and Russia had a defence pact?
I suppose this is a case of schadenfreude really, although it isn’t just Germany that has been affected by an inability to understand energy security.
Question for historians (I am definitely not one!): is the 2024 budget the start of the biggest revolution in land ownership since the Bolshevik Revolution, or, more locally, since the Inclosure Acts? Will the changes be analogous to the Industrial Revolution, but with land replacing labour? That is, whereas the Inclosure Acts made agriculture efficient and moving employment from the land into the factories, will the forthcoming Farm Inheritance Bills seek to resources from the farms into the “Renewable Revolution”? If so, it will become unstuck, spectacularly, because the Industrial Revolution based on real technological progress, whereas the Renewable Revolution is based on belief in unicorns, authoritarianism, delusionalism and fiat currency.
It looks like it’s intended to be a 21st century version of the Highland Clearances to me.
Subsistence farming family in the Scottish Highlands were cleared off the land to make way for a more valuable commodity … sheep.
Keir-Ching! and Theeves (actually the WEF) want them off the land to make way for solar panels, windmills and housing for migrants.
100%
Yes, I do remember!
Sniggering, contemptuous faces.
A very shallow poor article that doesn’t offer any incite into Germany’s cratering economy as high electricity costs are the final straw for most companies on top of over regulation, educated people leaving for a better standard of living, the decline in people’s wealth driving a decline in spending on goods which supplies a lot of tax income in Germany and the decline in tax income means they are running out of money to subsidise electricity for industry. They have allowed unfettered expansion of rooftop solar that causes an oversupply at times of low demand and this has to be paid for so is haemorrhaging yet more tax money and bringing their grid to the edge of collapse. Hard not to laugh but under the current shower of shite led by Never Here Kier we are going the same way.
Nicely articulated. Trying to explain a complex economic situation by assigning cause to just one variable among many – natural gas – is absurd.
Germany is just in a more advanced state of ruin than the other EU basket cases, and of course our current Socialist nitwit rulers are mirroring them, because UK never properly cast itself off from the EU.
And there is also the sunk-cost fallacy, as well as not admitting being wrong they was well articulated in an article yesterday.
A good summary, but why has THAT happened?
A common factor is the arrogant belief of Arts and Humanities graduates that Intelligence is a substitute for Experience and that they can skill up by having conversations with the suitably ‘STEM Experienced’ Sales Force of the Green Industries.
Look at the ministers in the Dept of Energy, and note their undergraduate degrees. And it’s true of their Government Advisors, and our Media! I can remember when Generalists ruled, and Specialists, were considered minions.
Here’s Starmer knowing he’s doing the right thing, because the BBC says so:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/19/farmers-protest-starmer-bbc-iht-tax-inheritance-clarkson
It looks like a plan to level down west Germany to the much lower living standard of east Germany. And the lower living standard of east Germany to the living standard of Romania.
You omitted to mention nthe possibility of fraking. There are many areas of Europe where large reservs are believed to exist and just await exploration.
BTW why “shuttering”. What is wrong woth “closing”?
To me, “shuttering” carries a suggestion that the establishment might re-open later after a temporary suspension, whereas “closing” suggests irreversible cessation, and “demolition” even more so.
Meaning perhaps that owners/companies are thinking they may be able to reopen once the insanity of Nut Zero comes crashing down…?
We live in hope…
I seem to remember Coal Power Stations blown up, with the usual virtue signalling for good measure.
Ah yes, remember Alok Kumar Sharma? Conservative M.P. for Reading West. BSc in Applied Physics and Mathematics from Salford U. How on Earth then, President of COP26? Awarded KCMG for Services to tackling climate change, New Year 2023. Life peerage, Baron Sharma in August 2024.
Is there any woe that cannot be attributed to Russia, somehow?
”… has actually been making energy cheaper…”
Compared to what? Cheaper than it was before Green Fairy Merkel waved her Energy Wand?
The reason the German economy is in trouble is because it is a net exporter, but high energy costs (no longer subsidised) – nothing to do with gas from where-ever – as well as strangling EU regulations have made it uncompetitive on the global market with the rise of the unfettered BRICS.
Germany follows the Mussolini economic model – a triumvirate of Government, Unions, Big Business working in unison for mutual benefit but as directed by the State to serve the interests of the State. It’s only a matter of time before the wheels come off.
Government direction of economic activity with the aim to “Green” it and make things few want or can afford. This prevents the corrective market process, mis-allocates resources, prevents innovation and efficiency – and delivers economic ruin.
It is actually the end-run of the EU regulated, protectionist, centre planned and controlled, economic model.
Benito, call your Office.
The Skripal poisonings was a UK security services false flag to blame it on Russia and to stop Germany agreeing to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
The US and its vassals finally blew it up.
The US now exports more LNG to Europe than Asia.
Just follow the money.
European countries would rather sink their economies than admit that Russia was provoked and were totally justified in the actions they have taken again Ukraine.
At 4 times the price of Russian gas…
Meanwhile Ukrainian boys are fighting and dying to fill the pockets of the MIC.
God bless the neocons.
“The main reason energy costs have soared is that Germany is no longer buying large quantities of cheap Russian gas.”
No.
The main reason energy costs have soared is that Germany does not prioritise the production of cheap reliable energy. They shut all their nuclear reactors and at the same time they still have large coal fields they can exploit while fracking is also an option for them to use.
Those directing operations are clueless and double down, when any Engineer would be looking at the Plan (what plan?) and discussing what to do next.
Not a good time to be Germany or Japan. They have had an air of artificiality about them since the war but who cared when they were propped up by the Anglo-Americans. The Brits can be a bit fickle in case you didn’t notice. It was decided that the destruction of Germany would make more sense because as any analyst knows the main objective is preventing an alliance of the industrial discipline of Germany with the natural resources of Russia. I think it is woefully misguided and I know I will be proved right about that but the Anglo-Americans of today are not the Anglo-Americans of 1962. These people will bring us to destruction.
The western bankers say ‘inflate or die’. This is the point where they have to exert complete inflationary pressure and of course global war, especially nuclear war will greatly increase inflation. You might think that they aren’t crazy enough but you would be wrong. According to the demands of their system they have no choice. It has to end this way.
Poor old Germany. See what happens when your leaders become WEF puppets?you get screwed. Good luck.