I was just looking at the VAERS database. For all COVID vaccines they report 42,821 serious side effects in 2020-21. Out of 392 million doses, this does not seem so high. (0.01% of vaccinations.) Of course, we have no idea how many of these side effects were coincidental; might this person have ended up in the hospital anyway even without the shot? Even compared to COVID-19's death rate, this is trivial.
There are risks for everything you do. Drive to the store; a drunk might hit you and kill you. Go for a brisk walk and have a heart attack. (Been there, done that.) Go shooting and a defectively loaded cartridge might tear your gun apart sending fragments in to your skull. Move to Detroit...
A 0.01% severe side effect rate is not terribly risky.
Some have pointed out that perhaps only 10% of side effects are being reported to VAERS. Probably true. My fatigue for a day or two and my wife's more serious discomfort for several days did not get into VAERS. But I am sure the serious side effects are much more likely to get reported. Even if only 10% of serious side effects are reported (which seems unlikely) this is still .1% of vaccinations are causing serious side effects.
Please, if you are incubated you cannot read my blog. Get vaccinated.
This 2011 report "Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS)" found:
Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. Although 25% of ambulatory patients experience an adverse drug event, less than 0.3% of all adverse drug events and 1-13% of serious events are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported.
Again, I would expect less serious side effects to get less attention than serious side effects. But at the high end of that 1% (which would include the far more commonly reported less severe side effects), we would still be seeing at most 1% of vaccinations producing severe side effects.
Some conspiracy buffs imagine these vaccines as white genocide so that China can occupy the U.S. If so, they are not working very well.
The latest errors from some group called America's Frontline Doctors:
Today the facts remain the same: SARS-CoV-2 poses virtually no mortality risk to people up to 70 years old. For those beyond 70, survival approaches 95%, and with early treatment is nearly 100% survivable.
False. The breakdown of COVID deaths by age is here. Death rates are definitely much lower in lower age ranges. But even in the 18-29 year group, there have been 2092 deaths (2021) and 1481 (2020). Mortality is not the only relevant measure. Intubation is no fun. When I awoke from heart surgery, I was still intubated; I was strapped to the bed to overcome the natural desire to get that tube out of there.
Most friends who have had COVID describe it as like either a very bad flu, or sometimes not quite as bad as flu. But a lot of people do end up miserably sick and hospitalized.
Today the problems with the "vaccines" remain the same: none have been studied for long-term effects, and the short-term toxicity is alarming. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), run by the CDC, shows over 15,000 deaths following COVID vaccines.
False. I went to the VAERS data tool.
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Deaths: 6,459. Out of 392,000,000 doses that is .001%. There are 869.7 deaths per 100,000 population each year. In a population of 322 million people that would be .001%. So we have no idea how many of those deaths if any are because of the vaccine.
If this is true, why do you suppose so many medical workers are reluctant to get this vaccine?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.globalresearch.ca/nurses-speak-out-minnesota-town-hall-meeting-covid-19-vaccine-injuries-lack-reporting-vaers/5754837
An excess of caution.
DeleteThose numbers were ONLY FOR A VAX FROM ONE SOURCE. So either they deliberately looked at only one to decrease the number of adverse reactions they had to look at, or nobody is keeping track with enough accuracy to say exactly what the incidence of adverse reactions really is. However rare, that is of no comfort to those adversely affected.
ReplyDeleteActually, I selected for all COVID vaccines.
DeleteFrom an HHS-funded report (2011) on VAERS by Harvard medical school researchers:
ReplyDelete"Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. Although 25% of ambulatory patients experience an adverse drug event, less than 0.3% of all adverse drug events
and 1-13% of serious events are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported."
I would expect less serious side effects to get less attention than serious side effects.
ReplyDeleteHow would doctors know which adverse events are vaccine side effects? Lacking that knowledge, I would expect them to hesitate before blaming serious health problems on the vaccine (particularly now when the political, corporate and media establishment is so ferociously pro-vax).
...we would still be seeing at most 1% of vaccinations producing severe side effects.
Why would you expect side effects to manifest quickly? I have no idea what the long term effects of these mRNA vaccines are. Neither do you.
Western governments would have been wise to accelerate development of Novavax or something similar. There would have been much less vax-hesitancy if they'd done so.
As far as we can tell, all-cause mortality rates (which bypass problem of subjective/arbitrary diagnosis) are virtually identical between un-vaxed, Moderna-vaxed and Pfizer-vaxed. Maybe you are misjudging the relative benefit and potential harm of the current covid vax regime.
The all-cause mortality rate data is interesting. It would suggest that total deaths for the entire country are unchanged from previous years. That would be pretty easy to demonstrate from the annual mortality data.
Delete2019: age-adjusted death rate 723.6/100,000 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db395.htm
Delete2020: 828.7/100,000 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7014e1-H.pdf
People are definitely dying much faster in 2020.
The all-cause mortality rate data is interesting. It would suggest that total deaths for the entire country are unchanged from previous years.
DeleteNo, it doesn't suggest that. It suggests that Moderna and Pfizer covid vaccines do not on balance improve the mortality rate. Assume that covid kills hundreds of thousands of people. If those two vaccines have zero net (emphasis on "net") benefit, then we should expect vaxed and unvaxed cohorts to have similar mortality rates. That's in fact what we do see.
Few people die of COVID, so mortality will not be dramatically different. But being sick with it is pretty miserable.
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