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COVID Vaccine May Cause Long-Term Heart Damage, Even in People With No Symptoms

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Japanese researchers said they found evidence of long-term heart damage in people who received COVID-19 vaccines — including in asymptomatic patients. The findings contradict claims by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that most people who develop myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccines experience symptoms but “feel better quickly.”

By Angelo DePalma, Ph.D.

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Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender’s Top News of the Day. It’s free.Japanese researchers said they found evidence of long-term heart damage in people who received COVID-19 vaccines — including in asymptomatic patients — even though vaccine-induced myocarditis was thought to be rare, transient and limited to subjects experiencing heart symptoms.

Regardless of age or sex, patients who received their second vaccination up to 180 days before imaging showed a 47% higher uptake in heart tissues of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), an imaging agent, than unvaccinated subjects.

FDG is identical to glucose, a sugar that is the body’s main energy source, but it contains fluorine-18, a radioactive form of fluorine that allows imaging of organs and tissues where FDG accumulates.

Stressed or damaged cells, a hallmark of myocarditis, take up more glucose than healthy cells.

Researchers led by Takehiro Nakahara at Keio University School of Medicine used a retrospective study design to compare positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scans between patients undergoing imaging before COVID-19 vaccines were available (from Nov. 1, 2020, to Feb. 16, 2021) to scans on other subjects after the vaccine rollout (Feb. 17, 2021, to March 31, 2022).

The 1,003 subjects — 700 vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 and 303 unvaccinated — were grouped by age (younger than 40, 41-60 years, and older than 60), sex and time between vaccination and PET/CT.

Of the vaccinated subjects, 78% received the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 product while 21% got the Moderna mRNA shot. No difference in FDG uptake was observed in patients taking either product.

Subjects who received AstraZeneca’s shot, or one of the other less common vaccines, were excluded because their low numbers would have introduced uncertainty to the analysis.

To capture safety signals from asymptomatic subjects only, investigators chose subjects who were scanned for issues unrelated to the heart. Most scans were for cancer diagnoses.

Higher FDG uptake was also observed in tissues outside the heart, including the liver, spleen, and the whole body, and particularly in axial (armpit) lymph nodes. Earlier studies claimed these effects disappear after 2-3 weeks, but Nakahara showed they last for up to six months.

Twenty-five subjects had more than one scan during one or both study periods, and 16 underwent a PET/CT test in both the pre- and post-vaccine time periods. Within this small subgroup, vaccinated subjects showed significantly higher FDG uptake in both the heart and axial lymph nodes.

Although myocarditis persisted longer than 120 days, its occurrence was not statistically significant beyond that time point.

Myocarditis occurs in the general population at rates of 6.1 and 4.4 per 100,000 for men and women, respectively. Symptoms include chest pain, shortness of breath and heart palpitations.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Most patients with myocarditis or pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination responded well to medicine and rest and felt better quickly.”

Treatment for myocarditis involves rest, pain relievers, anti-inflammatory medications and in some cases, hospitalization.

Authors noted three limitations in study

Nakahara and co-authors listed three limitations to their analysis.

First, since this was a retrospective study from a single hospital with limited ability to control for a subject’s health status and metabolism, its power to predict myocarditis was limited. This led the study authors to conclude: “A prospective study would be needed to validate the findings of this study, including comparisons with cardiac enzyme levels, cardiac function, and non-mRNA vaccination.”

Second, since scan results came from historical records, investigators were unable to prepare subjects appropriately for an FDG heart study. FDG accumulates and is metabolized similarly to table sugar, so subjects undergoing FDG imaging usually undergo a fast or specialized diet leading up to the test. Nakahara could not control for pre-scan prep.

Third, the FDG tests were not performed specifically to assess myocarditis.

In an editorial critique appearing in the same issue of the same journal, David Bluemke, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiovascular imaging specialist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, downplayed the Japanese researchers’ findings, noting two other deficiencies that may have skewed results upward.

Bluemke described Nakahara’s subject inclusion criteria as providing a “convenience sample” — one that was tailor-made for a desired result. He argued that the higher cardiac uptake of FDG might be normal for cancer patients and not a result of vaccination.

But his main criticism focused on the limitations of FDG heart scans. “Unfortunately, in routine clinical practice, 18F FDG PET/CT is a terrible tracer with which to evaluate myocardial inflammation … because glucose is the normal source of energy for the myocardium [heart],” Bluemke wrote. “Routine PET/CT cannot help to reliably identify higher activity due to inflammation on an already high background of normal myocardium.”

‘Almost no one who took a shot right now has a normal heart’

Not all commenters were skeptical, however.

Dr. Peter McCullough, a cardiologist and critic of COVID-19 vaccination, commented on the Nakahara study in an online interview with Zeee Media.

McCullough noted the record numbers of cardiac arrests in young people, including athletes. Despite normal autopsy findings in most of those cases, “Something is wrong with the heart,” he said.

McCullough told Zeee Media:

“This late-breaking paper by Nakahara and colleagues filled in a lot of the answers. Positron emission tomography is a test that I order when I’m looking for a diseased area of the heart. Typically the PET scan will be positive in a zone that’s not getting enough blood flow or is diseased.”

McCullough explained that the human heart requires free fatty acids as its fuel source. Heart muscle cells that change to preferring glucose signal metabolic dysfunction or disease.

“What Nakahara reported was that for nearly every person who took a COVID-19 vaccine, the heart began to prefer glucose over free fatty acids,” McCullough said. And FDG lit their hearts up “like a Christmas tree. But people who didn’t take the vaccine had normal PET scans. Nakahara had patients out to six months after the shots and the changes were [still] there.”

When asked if the damage was permanent, McCullough said, “We don’t know. We don’t know the implications — they’re so broadly reaching — but what I can tell you today, it looks like almost no one who took a shot right now has a normal heart by positive emission tomography scan.”

McCullough cited a study that found heart damage nine months post-vax, and other work suggesting that the risk of permanent heart damage was about 2.5% per shot, meaning someone who took two shots plus a booster may have a nearly 8% increased risk for persistent myocarditis compared with unvaccinated individuals.

McCullough’s clinical experience is in line with these findings. He reported seeing some small areas of damage in the left ventricle, the heart’s main pumping chamber, resolve over time, typically after more than a year of treatment, but involvements above 15% do not resolve.

“In general, when there’s more than 15% of the left ventricle involved with myocarditis the risk of cardiac arrest skyrockets.”

VAERS underreporting creates false assumptions

Bluemeke based his commentary on the assumption that the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) accurately captures all vaccine-related injuries.

He wrote that by December 2021, VAERS “contained 1626 reported cases of myocarditis that occurred within 7 days of vaccination,” which translated to a myocarditis rate of between 7 and 11 cases for every 100,000 mRNA vaccine doses administered.

Bluemke noted that this rate was later revised to between 8-27 cases per 100,000 males, and a March 2021 study confirms this re-estimate.

But VAERS’ ability to record all or even most vaccine side effects has come under question. A November 2023 editorial in the British Medical Journal noted that:

“VAERS is supposed to be user friendly, responsive, and transparent. However, investigations by The BMJ have uncovered that it’s not meeting its own standards. Not only have staffing levels failed to keep pace with the unprecedented number of reports since the rollout of covid vaccines but there are signs that the system is overwhelmed, reports aren’t being followed up, and signals are being missed.”

A late-2020 study submitted in July and presumably written before or at the beginning of the pandemic reported that VAERS’ capture of anaphylaxis — a severe, life-threatening immune reaction — following vaccine administration was routinely in the 12-24% range. In other words, as many as 7 in 8 cases go unreported.

An October 2021 preprint analysis by Spiro Pantazatos, Ph.D., a neuroscientist then at Columbia University, “suggests VAERS deaths are underreported by a factor of 20, consistent with known VAERS under-ascertainment bias.” Pantazatos concluded that “the risks of COVID vaccines and boosters outweigh the benefits in children, young adults and older adults with low occupational risk or previous coronavirus exposure.”

Pantazatos’ status as a Columbia faculty or staff member is unclear, as is the publication status of his paper. Columbia still lists him on neuroscience web pages but an email to his columbia.edu address bounced. Pantazatos most recently was associated with the Brownstone Institute, which still lists his main affiliation as a Columbia assistant professor.

As late as Sept. 12, 2023, the CDC reported that anaphylaxis rates following COVID-19 vaccination occurred in just 5 of 1 million administered doses — a rate 50 times lower than the number Bluemeke cited in his editorial.

According to the latest VAERS data, 26,366 cases of myocarditis/pericarditis were reported following COVID-19 vaccination between Dec. 14, 2020, and Oct. 27, 2023. There were also 5,385 reports of myocardial infarction.

CDC Runs Two VAERS Systems — The Public Can Access Only One of Them

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An investigation by The BMJ into the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, found multiple deficiencies in the system, including the revelation that the government runs two systems — one for the public, and a private back-end system that contains all of the corrections and updates, including deaths that occurred after an initial injury.

By John-Michael Dumais

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When Dr. Robert Sullivan collapsed on his treadmill three weeks after his second COVID-19 vaccine in early 2021, he fell into a “nightmare” ordeal that he said exposed glaring deficiencies in the nation’s vaccine safety monitoring system.

Diagnosed with sudden onset pulmonary hypertension, the healthy and fit 49-year-old anesthesiologist from Maryland attempted to file a report through the government-run Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

But like others interviewed in a recent investigation by The BMJ, Sullivan hit barrier after barrier when trying to submit and update his report.

Almost three years later, still grappling with debilitating symptoms, Sullivan’s experience highlights the systemic problems with the U.S. adverse events monitoring system run jointly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

From doctors unable to file reports to disappearing data, limits on transparency and lack of resources to follow up on concerning vaccine reactions, experts warn VAERS is failing to detect critical safety signals.

According to one of those experts — VAERS researcher Albert Benavides, whose experience includes HMO claims auditing, data analytics and revenue cycle management — VAERS’ failure isn’t accidental.

“It is not broken,” Benavides wrote in his Substack coverage of The BMJ investigation. “VAERS runs cover for the big pharma cabal.”

‘They even delete legitimate reports’

Like others interviewed by The BMJ, Sullivan experienced limited follow-up after submitting his VAERS report. He received only a temporary report number months after his initial submission.

A physician named “Helen” (pseudonym) told The BMJ that fewer than 20% of concerning reports get follow-up, including many deaths she reported.

In consultation with Benavides, an audit by React19 found that 1 in 3 COVID-19 vaccine adverse events reports in VAERS were either not posted publicly or were deleted. React19 is a nonprofit that collects stories of people injured by the mRNA vaccines.

According to The BMJ, of those queried by React19, “22% had never been given a permanent VAERS ID number and 12% had disappeared from the system entirely.”

Benavides, who publishes the VAERSAware dashboards documenting many of the problems with VAERS, said there is even deeper dysfunction in the VAERS system — from inventing symptoms to deleting reports.

“VAERS does not publish all legitimate reports received,” Benavides told The Defender. “They throttle publication of reports. They even delete legitimate reports.”

For a system dependent on voluntary engagement, these restrictive policies keep critical data hidden, according to Benavides.

In 2007, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contracted with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC) to review the VAERS system. In 2010, HPHC filed its r report, which determined that 1 in 39 people experienced vaccine injuries and that only around 1% of vaccine-related injuries or deaths are ever reported to VAERS.

The CDC, which operates under HHS, scuttled the study, refused to take calls from the researchers and declined to upgrade the VAERS system when a new, much more effective system was developed.

‘Blind spots are self-created’

VAERS “collects reports of symptoms, diagnoses, hospital admissions, and deaths after vaccination for the purpose of capturing post-market safety signals,” according to The BMJ.

But the limited transparency of VAERS data presents barriers to proper analysis, according to The BMJ’s investigation and researchers like Benavides.

The public — including doctors and other report submitters — can access only incomplete initial reports, not updates with vital details.

This means outcomes like death are often excluded if the initial report was for an injury and a subsequent death report was filed.

“I made the false assumption that my conversation [with VAERS] would result in an adjustment to the publicly reported case,” Patrick Whelan, M.D., Ph.D., told The BMJ.

Whelan, a rheumatologist and researcher at the University of California Los Angeles, in 2022 filed a report of a cardiac arrest in a 7-year-old male patient after COVID-19 vaccination.

“I assumed that, since it was a catastrophic event, the safety committee would want to hear about it right away,” Whelan said. But nobody called him or requested an update after his submission.

“There was no mechanism for [updating] it,” Whelan told The BMJ. “The only option I had was to make a new VAERS report.” Without updates, the VAERS data showed that the boy was still hospitalized.

Whelan is one the authors of a recent critique of the Cochrane Review that concluded the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were not dangerous.

The problem with VAERS is not limited to a lack of adequate follow-up but to the incomplete and often inaccurate information found there.

“VAERS in effect allows typos, truncated lot #’s, UNK [unknown] ages, UNK vax dates, UNK death dates, etc. to pass through into publication,” Benavides said.

Benavides said specific data — including ethnicity, hospital names, attending physicians, submitter’s relationship to the patient, patient and submitter addresses, telephone numbers and emails — collected by VAERS are not published,

“Any blind spots are self-created, in my opinion,” he said.

Agencies maintain two separate VAERS databases — public gets to see only one

“There’s two parts to VAERS, the front end and back end,” stated Narayan Nair, division director for the FDA’s Division of Pharmacovigilance at a December 2022 meeting with advocates, according to The BMJ. “Anything from medical records by law can’t be posted on the public-facing system,” he said.

The BMJ investigation discovered that the FDA and CDC maintain two separate VAERS databases, one available to the public that contains only initial reports, and a private back-end system containing all of the updates and corrections.

“Anything derived from medical records by law” cannot be posted on the public-facing system, Nair told the advocates, according to The BMJ.

In an apparent contradiction to this claim, The BMJ noted the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), which collects post-marketing information on drug reactions, posts its updates publicly.

Sullivan, who met Nair years before COVID-19 and considers him a friend, told The Defender that if this “very bright, kind and caring person” could not fix VAERS, “I don’t think it’s fixable.”

CDC says it reviewed 20,000 reports of deaths — none were related to COVID shots

Withholding outcome data like deaths obscures critical safety signals, experts contend.

James Gill, a medical examiner, reported the death of a 15-year-old patient after vaccination, but the case was dismissed by the CDC despite autopsy evidence, according to the BMJ investigation.

Physician “Helen” told The BMJ that after filing reports on her medical patients, including six who had died, she received only a single request for medical records on the death and two for hospital-admitted patients.

The standard operating procedure for COVID-19 vaccine reports in VAERS, according to The BMJ, is for reports to be processed quickly and for “serious reports” to receive special review by CDC staff.

However, while some other countries have acknowledged the probable connection between the mRNA vaccines and death, the CDC, while claiming to have reviewed nearly 20,000 death reports, has yet to acknowledge a single death linked to the COVID-19 vaccines, The BMJ said.

Benavides provided The Defender examples of VAERS “deleting legitimate reports,” not just duplicates or false claims.

“VAERS even deleted dead Pfizer Trial patients,” he said, claiming that this report, for example, was not a “duplicate” and did not appear to be fake.

Benavides said:

“There are currently about 50 deaths that are not counted as deaths because the correct box is not checked off.

“There are thousands of reports and about 100 deaths in ‘UNKNOWN VAX TYPE’ in VAERS. Read the narrative to see these are clearly C19 jab-related deaths.

“There are over a thousand cardiac arrests where they are not marked as dead, and I question if they actually survived because there is no mention of ROSC [return of spontaneous circulation].”

“Why couldn’t VAERS populate the ages of these dead kids before publication?” Benavides said, pointing to this report on his website.

Physicians report only FDA-recognized adverse events

Ralph Edwards, former director of the Uppsala Monitoring Centre and until recently editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, told The BMJ the regulators may be relying too heavily on past epidemiological data, especially for new types of adverse events. “If something hasn’t been heard of before, it tends to be ignored,” he said.

Without guidance to report potential risks, doctors also face barriers. “Physicians are only willing to talk about FDA-recognized vaccine adverse events,” stated physician “Helen” in a 2021 meeting between the FDA and physicians and advocates, according to The BMJ.

Svetlana Blitshteyn, a neurologist and researcher at the University at Buffalo, New York, told The BMJ if physicians are not educated to look for a specific condition, they’re unlikely to test for it or know how to treat it.

Sullivan told The Defender he believes his experience of developing pulmonary hypertension after taking the mRNA vaccine is one such safety signal the CDC and FDA are overlooking — a condition he believes many athletes have unknowingly developed.

Sullivan co-authored a paper of his and one other similar case of post-vaccine pulmonary hypertension. According to the paper:

“Pulmonary hypertension is a serious disease characterized by damage to lung vasculature and restricted blood flow through narrowed arteries from the right to left heart. The onset of symptoms is typically insidious, progressive and incurable, leading to right heart failure and premature death.”

“Athletes are canaries in the coal mine,” Sullivan told The Defender, speaking of the unusual numbers of athlete deaths since the rollout of the vaccine. Sullivan thinks that those with superior physical conditioning, like him, stand a better chance of survival with early detection.

However, he said, “Athletes will get echocardiography, and it will be essentially normal. The only way to tell for sure is to do a right-heart catheterization” that can identify the anomaly.

Sullivan believes the lives of many athletes could still be saved if the reporting system recognized and investigated the signal — and said he would be happy to join a project dedicated to this goal.

He also told The Defender he believes many of the sudden deaths reported in the 25- to 44-year-old age group are a result of this hidden condition.

 

‘The buck stops with the CDC for reforms’

Critics point to choices by the CDC as compounding VAERS’ passive design and understaffing issues.

Despite over 1.7 million reports since the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, staffing was not boosted accordingly, according to statements the CDC made to The BMJ.

A Freedom of Information Act request by The BMJ revealed Pfizer has nearly 1,000 more full-time employees working on vaccine surveillance than the CDC. Records showed in 2021, Pfizer on-boarded 600 additional full-time employees to handle the volume of adverse reports and planned to hire 200 more.

Physician “Helen” in The BMJ article called for an end to the “negative feedback loop” whereby the FDA fails to list adverse reactions because passive surveillance systems like the FDA’s don’t display them, while at the same time, because of that lack of disclosure, “physicians are blinded to the adverse reactions in their patients, and thus aren’t reporting them.”

“The buck stops with the CDC for reforms needed to open up data,” Benavides told The Defender, adding several suggestions that could immediately improve VAERS:

“Revert back to pre-January 2011 when VAERS did append initial reports with follow-up data, including death. Take off the arbitrary 30-minute time limit to file a report before getting kicked off. Make the process easier to submit follow-up data.”

When asked why the incompetence of VAERS had been allowed to continue for so long, Sullivan told The Defender, “Because of the lack of product liability” for the vaccines “and the surge to defend economic interests.”

Sullivan said he’d like to see the following changes to the system:

  • Pharmaceutical advertising banned.
  • Pharmaceutical company revenues devoted to advertising instead be spent on R&D.
  • The tax money collected on pharma profits be directly sent to victim injury funds.

Yale cardiologist takes on study of COVID vaccine injuries

Benavides said he spoke with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) Monday and is also in discussion with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to address the concerns with VAERS, including the under-publishing of reports.

“That’s a long overdue prospect and it would be incredible to actually get some analysis by that committee,” he said.

Another bright spot comes from news reported in The BMJ’s investigation that Dr. Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist and researcher at Yale University, has been recruiting members of React19 to study their vaccine injuries.

“We are working hard to understand the experience, clinical course, and potential mechanisms of the ailments reported by those who have had severe symptoms arise soon after the vaccination,” Krumholz told The BMJ.

Sullivan told The Defender that medical science is “just beginning to catalog the damage to the heart” from the vaccines but that “in order to treat something, you have to diagnose it” — and that, because of the shortcomings with VAERS, “we have yet to scratch the surface of that.”

Sullivan, now almost three years into his ordeal, is outliving his initial prognosis.

“I have a grim diagnosis hanging over me, but I’m optimistic because I’m still here,” he said. “I had something bad happen to me, but I’ve met so many amazing, wonderful people along the way who are just interested in truth.”

“I’m going to live the best and most productive life I can with the time I have left,” Sullivan said, helping others who “have this cloud hanging over their future.”

 

LeanMachine Submission to Australian Government COVID-19 Response Inquiry

Sent to the Australian Government COVID-19 Response Inquiry on 11th December 2023
Note: if you are reading this before 15th December 2023 then please use any material here to send your own version.
https://www.pmc.gov.au/domestic-policy/commonwealth-government-covid-19-response-inquiry
I have now made this document public.
By: Brenton Wight, Health Researcher since 2010
More data at www.leanmachine.com.au/coronavirus-protection
There are over 2,400 articles with over 800 related to Coronavirus in my 14 years of research at www.leanmachine.com.au
There is not enough room in the required 3 pages so these are just some of the basic points:
– The promoting of untested mRNA vaccines that are not safe nor effective but are killing and maimimg thousands of Australians.
– The Australian Constitution gives Australians the right to free speech, ignored by the Australian Government
– The censorship of truth by the media, the AMA (Australian Medical Association) and the Government
– The failure to report the vaccination status of all those infected, in Hospital or died
– Vaccination damage to Cassandra and many thousands of others
Vaccine Effectiveness: How can the People of Australia trust a corrupt Government who continue to lie:
Lie #1: “95% effectiveness” was a RELATIVE effectiveness, where the ACTUAL effectiveness was less than 1% and only initially, then negative effectiveness after a very short time.
Lie #2: “The vaccine stops COVID”.  The vaccine INCREASES risk of getting COVID.
Lie #3: “The vaccine stays in the arm”. The vaccine goes everywhere in the body.
Lie #4: “The COVID virus originated in the Wuhan wet market”. The gain-of-function virus was MANUFACTURED in the Wuhan Lab using funding from the US Department of Defence and Moderna and the US Taxpayers with the full knowledge and direction of Dr Fauci.
Lie #5: “Save Grandma from the virus by vaccinating your children”. Children have almost zero chance of dying from the virus but real risks for myocardis and death from vaccination, and does NOT prevent transmission of the virus to Grandma.
Lie #6: “The vaccines are safe because they are thoroughly tested”. They skipped many of the tests, and the vaccine produced by Pfizer is not the same as that given Emergency approval, and not tested while being given to millions of people.
Lie #7: “The vaccines are safe”. The vaccines have billions of particles of unknown DNA, cancer-causing SV40 and many other UNKNOWN CONTAMINANTS in each and every dose.
Lie #8: “The vaccines cannot alter DNA”. The vaccines can indeed change DNA, in the recipient and in future generations with unknown consequences.
Lie #9: “Wearing a mask stops infection and transmission”. Mask-wearing studies prove zero benefit, but wearers risk ill-health due to insufficient oxygen, also by breathing fibres from the mask that contaminate the lungs.
Lie #10: “The vaccine would only last in the body for a short period of time”. These products remain in our body and remain biologically active for an undetermined period of time, of at least weeks and probably many months.
Lie #11: “The vaccine is safe for pregnant women”. Pfizer’s own study and the real-world results show this is another lie.
Lie #12: “The vaccine reduces risk of serious COVID and death”. The vaccine INCREASES risk of serious COVID and death.
Lie #13: “For the best protection from COVID, get your vaccinations up to date”. This is completely wrong.  The more vaccinations, the more likely an early death.
Lie #14: “Myocardis is very rare”. Every person vaccinated has measurable impact on the heart, even if they have no symptoms.
Lie #15: “The TGA reviews all vaccine products thoroughly before approving them”. The TGA simply follows advice from the corrupt CDC and FDA, and refuses to admit the enormous numbers of deaths and injuries from the vaccine.
There are so many more lies but running out of room here.

DANGERS of the COVID VACCINES
Newly Leaked Data Shows Just How Dangerous the COVID Vaccines Are. Why Does the Government Hide Vaccine Injury Data and When Will This Stop? Read the proof here:
https://www.leanmachine.com.au/newly-leaked-data-shows-just-how-dangerous-the-covid-vaccines-are

Vaccine DOES Change DNA – We already knew that our DNA CAN BE CHANGED by the vaccination.
Now we know about the contamination :
DNA Fragment Risks

The FDA refuses to accept that billions of unknown DNA and other fragments pose any risk to humans. Read the truth about how these fragments, including the cancer-causing SV40 DNA fragments can self-assemble and incorporate into human DNA, a report by Dr Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA:
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/mod-mrna-vaccines-dna-fragment-risks

Fake News and Censorship
Australian Government proposes a Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill  – This is a Digital Censorship Bill
They call it disinformation but it is Censorship to stop the truth being told! This goes against all human rights of free speech, as well as complete prevention of scientific discussion about anything.
This Bill mut be prevented at all cost, and is insane from a Government who claims that these practices in China and other countries abolish Human Rights to Free Speech.
The so-called “Fact Checkers” are not doctors, they are paid by the drug companies to discredit and censor everything except the vaccinations.
The Australian Government is GUILTY of DIS-INFORMATION (LIES) and should face the consequences.

Informed Consent
Australians were never given true information about the COVID-19 vaccines, which do not work and can kill us, maim us for life, reduce immunity so more likely to get cancer, multiple sclerosis, stroke, clots, heart attacks and death.
Vaccinations also cause shingles (Oh but we have another vaccine for that), or Pneumonia (Oh but we have another vaccine for that).
Informed Consent is guaranteed in the Nuremburg Code, to which Australia’s signature means nothing.

Vaccine Injuries to Cassandra
My Grand-Daughter Cassandra is a qualified Personal Trainer, at 25 years old and in perfect physical and mental health, was mandated to receive 2 shots of Pfizer “vaccine” with the threat of losing her job.
The morning after the second shot, she woke feeling like a lump of concrete was sitting on her chest, with trouble breathing, chest pain, rapid heart rate and arrythmia. As a personal trainer, she knew this was serious.
At the Mildura Base Hospital she had several tests, but one of the most important  (d-Dimer) was NOT performed. She claimed it must have been a vaccine injury, and was met with a common “It’s all in your head” response from the so-called “Doctors”.
However, she was then referred to a Cardiovascular specialist, who found she had heart damage, and confirmed that:
The Heart was damaged, including the Mitral valve, a problem normally only seen in seniors.  The Liver was damaged, rare for a young fit person who had a healthy diet and lifestyle.  The damage was caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.
The damage was more than likely permanent, and she was warned that the additional stress of any future pregnancy may prove dangerous, so the next scheduled review was brought forward.
Cassandra has suffered financial loss including lost time from work, medical expenses of many hundreds of dollars, but is unable to claim for this vaccine-induced damage because she did not meet the criteria of spending one night in Hospital.
Her future as a Personal Trainer is in doubt, her future fertility is under question (half her reproductive system removed), her health risk in any future pregnancy is higher, her heart is still damaged, her longevity will be shorter.
Her compensation? Zero. The Government MUST compensate victims or they will never be trusted again and will face class-action law suits.

Excess All-Cause Deaths are higher than those reported by the ABS.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics is showing tens of thousands of excess deaths, in spite of “doctoring” the results. Deaths in 2020 (no vaccines but the height of a “deadly pandemic”) were substantially lower that the previous 5 years, so 2020 was excluded from the future COVID death comparisons. Deaths in 2022 were compared to a baseline period consisting of the average number of deaths occurring in the years of 2017-2019 and 2021.
Inclusion of 2021 where there was an unusually high number of excess deaths, blamed on COVID-19 but undoubtedly caused by COVID-19 vaccinations, makes the 2023 deaths appear lower in comparison.
Even so, the Excess deaths continue to rise. The ABS can easily access the Australian Vaccination Register to give the vaccination status of those who died, but if they do, it would show conclusively that the more vaccines a person has, the more likely they will die. By not publishing the death causes from the vaccination, Australians can no longer trust the Government due to lack of transparency.

Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed
 I am not vaccinated and have NEVER HAD COVID no doubt because my immune system is excellent, even at my age of 76.
When NSW were publishing the vaccination status in their weekly reports the proof was there: The more vaccinations, the higher risk of death. The report suddenly left out this data.
The INQUIRY MUST PUBLISH the VAX STATUS of EVERY DEATH in AUSTRALIA.
This will prove to every Australian that the vaccines are killing people.
The ABS can do this. It is not difficult. Failure to show the truth means the Government is CORRUPT and should be thrown out.

Contamination of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines from billions (or hundreds of billions) of particles of unknown DNA, other unknown particles, cancer-causing SV40 etc in each and every dose has unknown causes of unknown problems for current and future generations.
Canada Health, Europe Health and many researchers and organisations have verified this.
Why does the TGA allow these toxins?
Why has the TGA ignored thousands of death reports and admit to only about 14 of these as caused by the vaccinations? Doctors have given up reporting vaccine deaths because it is a waste of their time.

No more room here to comment on:
– Mandated masks that do nothing to prevent transmission
– The WHO; contributor to the pandemic and the lies.
– Fertility, stillbirths problems caused by the vaccinations leading to a sudden drop in live births.
– How the Variants
are caused by the vaccinations

The Government MUST tell the truth NOW because Australians will find out anyway sooner or later, and will blame past and future Governments for witholding the data.
Minor parties tell the truth but are silenced and ridiculed by the major parties.
Various members of the Major parties also know the truth but are silenced or risk being thrown out.
I do not support or recommend any  particular party and do not blame any particular elected official.
However I trust that this INQUIRY will bring about major changes in political parties and in the future they will not be led or bribed by the Drug Companies, the WHO, the WEF and other evil organisations.

Please contact me and I will provide more proof of everything I say here and much more. 3 pages is nowhere enough to supply all of the information required.

Summary: The VACCINE ROLLOUT must STOP IMMEDIATELY.

Yours,
Brenton Wight, Health Researcher for 14 years. 11th December 2023.

Latest Data Raise More Questions About Pfizer Vaccine Trial

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A recent Pfizer data dump reveals more suspicious anomalies around the trial that launched a worldwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

By Madhava Setty, M.D.

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I have not written about the COVID-19 mRNA products recently. What’s the point?

The Pharma-owned medical establishment will likely never admit that mistakes were made. The Centers for “Disease Concoction and Perpetuation” continues to ignore the 300,000-plus reports of serious adverse events (SAEs) and tens of thousands of reports of deaths following COVID-19 vaccination in their own adverse event reporting systems, which were created as a concession to the public in exchange for granting vaccine manufacturers immunity from any liability related to their products.

Instead, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have repeatedly doubled down on their assertion that these products, developed at a breakneck pace, underwent the most rigorous testing for safety.

How can anyone squeeze a typical five- to 10-year vaccine testing cycle into a few months? Is this why it was named Operation Warp Speed?

Nevertheless, by citing cherry-picked observational data riddled with confounders and flawed means of calculating effectiveness, the CDC and legacy media continue to assure the public that the mRNA vaccines are doing something good.

If there is ever going to be a reckoning it will come from an honest look at the trial that launched the worldwide vaccination campaign three years ago. Two recent papers analyze data that recently became available through a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT) in September 2021.

Though their findings will likely not receive attention from legacy media, we can still endeavor to educate the public. This is why I have chosen to write this article.

Trial was suspicious from the start

Much has been written about this multinational trial involving 44,000 participants over approximately six months. Though touted as a miracle of modern medicine at a time when we needed a miracle, formidable questions were asked and at least one whistleblower with evidence of fraudulent practices came forward. The questions went unanswered and the whistleblower was ignored.

How did we know that Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was unjustified three years ago?

It came down to two pieces of data published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that described the initial findings from the then ongoing trial:

There were 126 of approximately 22,000 vaccine recipients who suffered an SAE. Serious events are, well, serious. Here is the definition — SAEs are:

  • Death.
  • A period where your life was threatened.
  • The need for medical or surgical intervention.
  • Hospitalization (initial or prolonged).
  • Permanent disability.
  • Birth defect.

126 of 22,000 is 0.6%, or 6 in 1,000. Is this a high or low number?

The answer is that it depends. It depends on the efficacy of the vaccine. Is it worth exposing yourself to that risk? Here is the answer, from NEJM (emphasis is mine):

“RESULTS

“A total of 43,548 participants underwent randomization, of whom 43,448 received injections: 21,720 with BNT162b2 and 21,728 with placebo. … Among 10 cases of severe Covid-19 with onset after the first dose, 9 occurred in placebo recipients and 1 in a BNT162b2 recipient.”

Injecting 21,720 people with the primary series will prevent eight cases of severe COVID-19 over the brief (six weeks) period of observation.

Severe COVID-19 is, well, severe. It puts you in the hospital. This is about the best we can do to compare apples to apples. The problem is that in order to prevent a single case of severe COVID-19, approximately 2,500 people have to receive the primary series. That’s what the trial demonstrated.

This means that preventing a single case of severe COVID-19 will result in 15 SAEs!

Another way to interpret this is that if you got the primary series, there is a 1 in 2,500 chance that it will protect you from severe COVID-19 — but it requires you to expose yourself to a 1 in 167 (6 in 1,000) chance of experiencing an SAE.

Why would anyone choose to take that bet? I understand that some would, for their own reasons. But why would the FDA and the CDC authorize a product that is associated with 15 times more significant medical problems for every one that it prevents?

Moreover, there was no reason to believe that the efficacy of the vaccine would improve over time.

Like most vaccines, the mRNA shots were quickly shown to have waning efficacy. The number of SAEs, however, can only climb as time goes on. The odds that the primary series would do more good than harm was 15 to 1, and those odds would almost certainly get worse over longer periods of observation.

The answer is also in Table S3 (above). It turns out that 0.5% of those who got the placebo also had a SAE. That’s 5 in 1,000. Because the differences in SAEs were relatively equal, FDA and CDC advisory committees concluded the vaccine was relatively safe.

Pfizer explicitly states that the placebo used in its trial is saline, the safest compound for the human body, making it the ideal control to measure vaccine safety. As an anesthesiologist, I have personally given or attended to the administration of saline to over 20,000 patients in my career. Not one of those patients developed an SAE.

The 5 in 1,000 number is not representative of the risk of saline to human physiology. It represents the background rate of SAEs in the population — in this case, over a mean observational period of six weeks. Is this possible? I personally don’t think so, but this is difficult to prove.

We are not told which of the six types of SAEs made up the 111. We were also not told who experienced them. Were they healthy and young? Or old and sick? These are important factors when estimating the background rate of medical events. Most of the trial participants were healthy — only 1 in 5 had a previous medical condition.

There’s something screwy about that number of SAEs occurring in a pool of relatively disease-free people in such a short time. We may now have some clues about why this happened …

What deeper dives into the trial data reveal

It’s been two years since PHMPT demanded the FDA release the complete clinical trial data it relied upon when it licensed the Pfizer vaccine. A federal court judge dismissed FDA objections and ordered the regulatory agency to comply, which it has been doing incrementally.

The most recent release of data centers around detailed narrative reports of participants who died or suffered adverse events during the trial.

Paper No. 1: Placebo associated with more adverse events and other anomalies

Tore Gulbrandsen, a data scientist and guest author on Norman Fenton and Martin Neil’s Substack, Where are the numbers, published this analysis of the recently released data.

Gulbrandsen made a number of important observations, including a peculiar distribution of deaths in trial participants:

Figure 4 demonstrates that there is a statistically significant aberrancy in the timing of deaths from inoculation. There is a period of very few deaths soon after inoculation, but around 100 days later, a large number of fatalities occur in a short window of time.

How large is large? Plot C shows us the p-value for this anomaly. In other words, there is a less-than-5% chance that this could have happened by coincidence alone.

This suggests there may be a risk of vaccine-mediated death that manifests after approximately 100 days. Gulbrandsen addresses the possibility that this might be due to a seasonal variation in the death rate. However, the correlation is stronger in elapsed time than in calendar time. The opposite would be true if this was a seasonal phenomenon.

More surprising is that this is happening in the placebo group at an even more improbable rate. There can be only three reasons for this:

  1. The placebo is responsible for these fatalities (impossible if the placebo is saline).
  2. The placebo recipients were reassigned (fraudulently) to the vaccine cohort (or both).
  3. Though highly improbable (1 in 500) chance, there is always a chance that it happened coincidentally.

There is more data that suggest danger from the placebo:

Figure 6 is called a forest plot. It depicts the ratio of the number of placebo recipients who suffered an adverse event to the number of vaccine recipients who also experienced an adverse event.

As demonstrated, there were more people in the placebo group who suffered an adverse event than those who got a vaccine, independent of their prior medical history. This is reflected in the last row, “Sum.”

There were 15.6% more placebo recipients who had an adverse event. This number is statistically significant.

Trials do not attribute causation, only correlation. The experimental vaccine is correlated with a lower risk of developing symptomatic and severe COVID-19.

The same data indicate that the placebo is correlated with a higher incidence of adverse events. How is this possible?

Furthermore, Gulbrandsen found this:

Figure 5 plots the occurrence of adverse cardiac events in both groups. We see a peak of cardiac events in both groups 25 days after injection, which is not statistically significant among placebo recipients.

However, at approximately 100 days, there is a statistically significant peak of cardiac events happening in the placebo group.

In other words, vaccinated participants had a peak of cardiac events three-and-a-half weeks after injection. And, for some reason, placebo recipients had a surge of cardiac events and deaths approximately 100 days after injection, which coincided with a surge of fatalities in the vaccine group.

To summarize:

  • The placebo is associated with more adverse events than the mRNA vaccine.
  • Fatalities and cardiac events are clustered around 100 days after injection in both cohorts.
  • Though there were few fatalities in the days after injection in both groups, vaccine recipients had significantly more non-fatal cardiac events during this period.

How are we to make sense of this? We can only speculate.

If the placebo was cardiotoxic, there should have been a similar number of cardiac events in the placebo group soon after injection. There wasn’t.

If the placebo was innocuous, there shouldn’t have been a greater number of adverse events, nor a large number of fatalities, occurring at 100 days out in that group. There was.

One possibility is that the placebo was, in fact, saline, but once injuries started occurring among the vaccinated, some were reassigned to the placebo group. This would explain the peak of mortality in both groups and the increased incidence of adverse events in the placebo group.

What do you think? (Please comment below.)

Paper No. 2: Pfizer reports to FDA on 38 deaths inconsistent with trial data

From a recently published article in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research, “Forensic Analysis of the 38 Subject Deaths in the 6-Month Interim Report of the Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine Clinical Trial” (emphasis is mine):

“This report focuses on the 38 trial subjects listed in the Pfizer/BioNTech 6-month Interim Report (6-Month Interim Report of Adverse Events C4591001) who died between the start of the trial on July 27, 2020, and March 13, 2021, the data end date of the 6-Month Interim Report.

“Our analysis revealed important inconsistencies between the subject data listed in the 6-Month Interim Report and the materials on this data submitted by Pfizer/BioNTech to the FDA: Pfizer/BioNTech’s FDA Application for Emergency Use Authorization (Emergency Use Authorization for an Unapproved Product Review Memorandum), Polack et al. (Polack 2020), and Thomas et al. (2021).

“Most alarming, we found evidence of an over 3.7-fold increase in number of deaths due to cardiac events in BNT162b2 vaccinated subjects that Pfizer/BioNTech did not report. Had this information been known at critical time points, it might have been sufficient to question the safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine, delay EUA approval of the vaccine, and alter recommendations made to the public during the worldwide roll-out.”

Here’s a key graph:

There are two big takeaways from the graph. The first is that throughout the course of the trial, the number of deaths in both arms of the trial nearly match each other. This is not what one would expect in a trial where one group was purportedly receiving a life-saving intervention and the other wasn’t.

The second is that the total number of deaths is actually well below what should have happened in a group of 44,000 people over this period of time, especially during the height of a pandemic. Based on age-adjusted U.S. death rates, the authors calculate that there should have been over 200 deaths in this period under normal circumstances.

The most likely explanation for this discrepancy is the large number of participants that were “discontinued subjects.” This group comprises 1 in 25 of the total number of people enrolled in the trial. Among that group are those who were “lost to follow-up.” Approximately 100 in each group were “lost to follow-up” prior to Nov. 14, 2020, the cutoff date for data submitted by Pfizer to the FDA in support of their request for EUA.

There were only 11 deaths reported at that time. There should have been 6 times as many. With so few deaths reported, only a handful of deaths in either group of those who were “lost to follow-up” would have skewed a key metric in one way or another.

Undoubtedly, some of those who were lost to follow-up died. How hard did Pfizer’s investigators investigate? Nevertheless, FDA regulators did not take issue with the missing participants.

Pfizer delayed death reports prior to authorization

The clinical trial narrative reports from individual trial sites demonstrate another suspicious pattern: The actual dates of death as reported in the narrative reports by investigators at each trial site do not match those of what Pfizer inserted in corresponding case reports.

Pfizer used dates of death in the case reports to summarize the results of the ongoing trial to FDA regulators.

More importantly, the average delay in case reports was nearly 3 times higher among the vaccinated than the control group prior to authorization. But after EUA was granted, reporting delays dropped significantly in both groups.

The end result was that two cardiac-related deaths in the vaccinated group were omitted from consideration at the critical time of FDA EUA approval.

Furthermore, there was a 25-day period prior to authorization when Pfizer, though aware of more fatalities, chose to not update the death count in the trial.

Once again the FDA was not interested in the latest numbers. As a result, six extra deaths were excluded from consideration at the time EUA was granted.

Had the six deaths been included, a clearer picture of possible cardiotoxicity would have emerged: 75% of deaths in the vaccine group were due to cardiac events compared to 33% of deaths in the placebo group.

This was a clear safety signal that was hidden and would have prompted a more detailed inquiry, assuming that the FDA was interested in doing its job.

Authors’ conclusions

The authors summarize (emphasis is mine):

  1. The C4591001 placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial of 22,030 vaccinated and 22,030 placebo subjects was the world’s only opportunity for an unbiased evaluation of the Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine.
  2. Unblinding of placebo subjects starting in Week 20 terminated the placebo-controlled clinical trial, thereby ending all unbiased evaluation of possible adverse event signals.
  3. The mRNA-LNP platform is novel, not previously phase 2/3 tested in humans, and the toxicity of PP-Spike protein was unknown. Taken together, a 20-weeks placebo-controlled clinical trial is NOT sufficient to identify any except for the most common safety concerns.
  4. The number of all-cause deaths is NOT decreased by BNT162b2 vaccination.
  5. Of the 38 deaths reported in the 6-Month Interim Report of Adverse Events, 21 BNT162b2 vaccinated subjects died compared to 17 placebo subjects.
  6. Delayed reporting of the subject deaths into the Case Report Form, which was in violation of the trial protocol, allowed the EUA to proceed unchallenged.
  7. The number of subject deaths was 17% of the expected number, based on age-adjusted US mortality. One possible explanation could lie in the 395 subjects that were“Lost to Follow-up”.
  8. There was a 3.7-fold increase in cardiac events in subjects who received the BNT162b2 vaccine versus the placebo.
  9. Of the 15 subjects who were Sudden Adult Deaths (SAD) or Found Dead (FD), 12 died of a cardiac event, 9 of whom were vaccinated.
  10. The cardiac adverse event signal was obscured by delays in reporting the accurate date of subject death that was known to Pfizer/BioNTech in the subject’s Narrative Report.

Conclusion

Three years later, the results of the Pfizer trial are still hard to explain. With hundreds of thousands of pages of original data and narrative reports to examine, more clues may emerge with time.

We can certainly say that the FDA and CDC advisory panels could not have adequately assessed this much information in the 25 days they had prior to their decision to authorize this product for hundreds of millions of people.

Furthermore, a court order shouldn’t be necessary to impel the FDA to let the public know what was known. What possible excuse would an agency of public health have for hiding data from the public?

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children’s Health Defense.

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The Myocarditis Timeline

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Zachary Stieber confirms it – What we knew all along, but how they tried to keep it secret

The CDC and the FDA and Pfizer and Moderna knew about myocarditis and hid it and pushed covid vaccines on tens of millions of American (and foreign) kids at high risk.

By By Zachary Stieber

Courtesy of Zachary, This is a timeline of what they knew about Myocarditis and Pewricarditis and what they did about it (Nothing!)

2020

Sept. 22, 2020: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identifies myocarditis as an adverse event of special interest, or a potential side effect.

Oct. 30, 2020: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identifies myocarditis as an adverse event of special interest.

December 2020: One case of pericarditis reported to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which is co-managed by the CDC and FDA.

Dec. 11, 2020: FDA authorizes the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for Americans 16 and older.

Dec. 13, 2020: CDC launches V-safe, a new vaccine safety monitoring system, without including myocarditis as an option in the adverse events list.

Dec. 18, 2020: FDA authorizes the U.S. government-backed Moderna vaccine for Americans 18 and older.

2021

2021: Myocarditis cases spike in the U.S. military.

January 2021: 28 cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis reported to VAERS.

January 2021: First U.S. military member experiences postvaccination myocarditis, according to a study published months later.

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January 2021: First cases of postvaccination myocarditis recorded in Israel.

January 2021: VAERS report processing is delayed due to unexpected spike in reports.

February 2021: 64 cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis reported to VAERS, including two deaths.

Feb. 1, 2021: Israeli teenager is hospitalized with myocarditis after Pfizer vaccination, doctors say.

Feb. 18, 2021: Safety signal for myocarditis triggered in VAERS using CDC-endorsed method called Proportional Reporting Ratio.

Feb. 19, 2021: Safety signal for myocarditis triggered in VAERS using another method called Fisher’s Exact Test.

Feb. 24–25, 2021: CDC meets with its advisers but does not discuss COVID-19 vaccines.

Feb. 27, 2021: FDA authorizes Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine.

Feb. 28, 2021: Israeli officials privately alert CDC to “a large number of reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people, following the administration of the Pfizer vaccine.”

Feb. 28, 2021: 57 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis within seven days of vaccination in Pfizer’s database in document given to the FDA in April 2021 and not revealed to the public until November 2021.

March 2021: 54 cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis reported to VAERS.

March 1, 2021: CDC officials disclose (pdf) that two postvaccination cases were identified in the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), another CDC-run system.

March 2, 2021: CDC recommends Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine for adults.

March 3, 2021: Israeli authorities meet with hospital officials to discuss postvaccination heart problems.

March 4, 2021: Israeli officials confirm they’re investigating postvaccination pericarditis.

March 5, 2021: FDA holds meeting with its advisers. Myocarditis is not discussed.

March 6, 2021: Rutgers University becomes first major US school to announce COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

March 8, 2021: Australian health officials contact CDC about U.S. myocarditis cases.

March 9, 2021: U.S. internal memorandum says Israel received around 40 reports of postvaccination myocarditis. U.S. officials say some postvaccination cases were reported in the United States and acknowledge issues with passive surveillance such as underreporting. “Thus, FDA has not made a final determination regarding the causality between myopericarditis and the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,” the memo stated.

March 20, 2021: First postvaccination myocarditis case report is published in the literature.

March 20, 2021: Pfizer contract with South Africa (pdf) says that “there may be adverse effects of the vaccine that are not currently known.”

March 31, 2021: Second postvaccination myocarditis case report published.

March 31, 2021: First death from postvaccination myocarditis reported in Israel. The deceased was a 22-year-old previously healthy woman.

April 2021: 158 cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis reported to VAERS.

April 2021: CDC holds multiple public meetings with no discussion of myocarditis.

April 1, 2021: Israel has received 84 reports of postvaccination myocarditis or pericarditis, news outlet reports.

April 2, 2021: U.S. military officials, CDC meet on postvaccination myocarditis cases.

April 5, 2021: Israeli officials brief the CDC on postvaccination myocarditis cases.

April 5, 2021: Canada reports first case of postvaccination pericarditis.

April 7, 2021: U.S. government call covers myocarditis cases recorded in military members after vaccination.

April 10, 2021: CDC-funded Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment program reviewed postvaccination myocarditis cases, email shows.

April 12, 2021: U.S. military officials brief CDC on postvaccination myocarditis cases.

April 12, 2021: Canada reports first case of postvaccination myocarditis.

April 13, 2021: U.S. military has submitted manuscripts on myocarditis cases to two journals, CDC official says.

April 13, 2021: CDC, FDA advise pause in administration of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine due to six cases of blood clotting.

April 15, 2021: Two otherwise healthy adults hospitalized with chest pain and diagnosed with myocarditis after Moderna vaccination, CDC adviser tells agency.

April 17, 2021: CDC official tells adviser there have been reports of myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination “but we aren’t observing any clear indication of a safety signal.”

April 20, 2021: Three cases of myocarditis after second Pfizer dose in Idaho, official tells CDC.

April 23, 2021: United States lifts recommended pause on Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine.

April 23, 2021: Israeli Ministry of Health report on postvaccination myocarditis identifies two deaths, Israeli media report. The second deceased was a previously healthy 35-year-old man. Among men aged 18 to 30, there is a one in 20,000 probability of developing myocarditis, the report found. “It seems that these events can be a signal of a possible connection to the vaccine,” the committee said. The findings were sent to the FDA.

April 26, 2021: U.S. military officials are tracking 14 cases of myocarditis following messenger RNA vaccination, Military.com reports.

April 26, 2021: CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky says CDC “aware of” cases in the military. She says “we have not seen any reports of those” and that “we have not seen a signal” in CDC databases.

April 27, 2021: CDC officials privately acknowledge that processing of VAERS reports is “taking longer than usual.”

April 27, 2021: CDC officials say 24 cases of myocarditis were identified in VSD.

April 27, 2021: U.S. military official warns that pausing administration of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines “will have an adverse impact on US/CA vaccination rates.”

April 28, 2021: France detects safety signal for postvaccination myocarditis.

April 28, 2021: CDC director receives notes from discussion with military on myocarditis cases.

April 29, 2021: First cases of pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination reported in the literature.

April 30, 2021: FDA receives Pfizer report noting myocarditis cases in Pfizer’s database.

May 2021: 487 cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis reported to VAERS, including four deaths.

May 2021: CDC forms a team to review medical records for reported cases of postvaccination myocarditis.

May 5, 2021: CDC meets with advisers but doesn’t discuss COVID-19 vaccines.

May 7, 2021: European Medicines Agency announces it has asked Pfizer for information on myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination.

May 10, 2021: FDA authorizes Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 15. It does not mention myocarditis.

May 12, 2021: Myocarditis is not discussed during meeting on Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, a CDC official, gives a presentation on blood clotting after Johnson & Johnson vaccination.

May 12, 2021: Dr. Walensky recommends Pfizer’s vaccine for virtually all children aged 12 to 15, based on advice from advisers.

May 13, 2021: CDC officials told to direct questions on potential myocarditis cases to two top vaccine safety officials, Drs. John Su and Shimabukuro.

May 13, 2021: Same officials discuss analyzing VAERS data for myocarditis using the Proportional Reporting Ratio in heavily redacted emails. The agency says the analysis didn’t actually start until 2022.

May 13, 2021: CDC adviser says “multiple people texting and email[ing] me with concerns” about myocarditis.

May 13, 2021: Children’s National in Washington registers two suspected cases.

May 14, 2021: Dr. Shimabukuro seeks “experts in myocarditis.”

May 16, 2021: CDC official says in email, “we are hearing quite a lot about this now, and I don’t have a clear understanding of what is and has been being done.”

May 17, 2021: CDC workgroup says there are “relatively few” reports of myocarditis after vaccination and that rates “have not differed from expected baseline rates.”

May 17, 2021: Dr. Shimabukuro speaks with American Academy of Pediatrics officials to “centralize our coordination” with outside groups.

May 17, 2021: Dr. Su says health care providers “aren’t reporting these cases to VAERS.”

May 17, 2021: Dr. Su says the “myocarditis thing” is “exploding.”

May 18, 2021: States across the U.S. publicly report cases of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination.

May 18, 2021: First case report of an American person with postvaccination myocarditis published.

May 19, 2021: CDC tells state officials it has been “closely monitoring” myocarditis and pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination and that cases “can be serious.”

May 20, 2021:  Three more cases of postvaccination myocarditis at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, official tells CDC.

May 20, 2021: CDC officials hold meeting with doctors from pediatric hospitals on myocarditis cases. Slides from the meeting were provided to The Epoch Times fully redacted.

May 23, 2021: The American Heart Association says the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination for everyone eligible “enormously outweigh the rare, possible risk of heart-related complications, including inflammation of the heart muscle.”

May 24, 2021: CDC workgroup acknowledges for the first time that the number of reports of postvaccination myocarditis to VAERS was higher than expected in those 16 to 24.

May 24, 2021: French Society of Cardiology calls for vaccinating heart failure patients without acknowledging possible vaccine-myocarditis connection.

May 24, 2021: Massachusetts official asks CDC for “messaging” on postvaccination myocarditis.

May 25, 2021: Dr. Paul Offit, an FDA adviser, says about myocarditis and COVID-19 vaccines, “there’s every reason to think this isn’t a problem.”

May 26, 2021: The New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority says there’s a safety signal for myocarditis and COVID-19 vaccines.

May 28, 2021: CDC says to keep vaccinating everyone eligible, or virtually all Americans 12 and older.

May 28, 2021: Case series of young, previously healthy males hospitalized with postvaccination myocarditis discloses hospitalizations happened as early as Jan. 30, 2021.

May 28, 2021: CDC says it is focusing on reported cases among those 30 and under.

May 28, 2021: Nine postvaccination myocarditis cases from one state not reported to VAERS, according to CDC.

May 30, 2021: Brighton Collaboration issues case definition for myocarditis.

June 2021: 752 cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis reported to VAERS, including five deaths.

June 2021: Some experts start calling on U.S. authorities to pause COVID-19 vaccination of young, healthy people.

June 2, 2021: Israel says “there is some probability for a possible link between the second vaccine dose and the onset of myocarditis among young men aged 16 to 30” after researchers find incidence of one in 3,000 to one in 6,000 men aged 16 to 24.

June 4, 2021: U.S. researchers report seven cases in healthy young males following Pfizer vaccination.

June 10, 2021: 99 cases of myocarditis/pericarditis detected in FDA’s Biologics Effectiveness and Safety Initiative database, and 1,260 cases reported in Medicare claims data, FDA official says (pdf).

June 10, 2021: CDC working to rapidly follow up on reports of myocarditis following vaccination among people aged 30 and under, CDC official says (pdf). Most cases are in young adults after a second dose.

June 10, 2021: “There’s a lack of alternative explanations” apart from vaccination given the consistency across postvaccination cases, Dr. Cody Meissner, an FDA adviser, says.

June 10, 2021: “I think the myocarditis is something that needs to be looked at closely because we’re likely seeing the tip of the iceberg,” says Dr. Michael Kurilla of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, another FDA adviser. June 10, 2021: Pfizer spokesperson tells news outlets that “the benefit-risk profile of our vaccine remains positive.”

June 11, 2021: European Medicines Agency announces investigation into reports of myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination.

June 23, 2021: CDC’s safety committee says evidence now suggests a “likely association” of mRNA vaccination and myocarditis.

June 23, 2021: Number of myocarditis cases recorded in VSD rise to 75. Based on VAERS reports, CDC says number of events higher than expected after dose two in males aged 12 to 49 and females aged 12 to 29. Among children 12 to 17, 188 cases were reported within 21 days of vaccination through June 11. CDC advisers say data suggest vaccines cause myocarditis.

June 23, 2021: CDC estimates (pdf) Pfizer’s vaccine will cause up to 69 myocarditis cases per million second doses but will prevent 215 hospitalizations and two deaths in males aged 12 to 17.

June 25, 2021: FDA adds warnings about “the suggested increased risks” of myocarditis and pericarditis to labels for the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.

June 28, 2021: The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs says privately it detected more myocarditis cases than expected.

June 29, 2021: Military researchers report 22 previously healthy members suffered myocarditis after receiving a messenger RNA vaccine. “The presentation pattern and clinical course suggest an association with an inflammatory response to vaccination,” they say. The cases are among hundreds reported in the literature this month.

June 29, 2021: CDC officials say of reported cases that “the striking clinical similarities in the presentations of these patients, their recent vaccination with an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, and the lack of any alternative etiologies for acute myocarditis suggest an association with immunization.”

June 30, 2021: Canada adds myocarditis and pericarditis risk information to labels of Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.

July 2021: 364 cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis reported to VAERS, including seven deaths.

July 3, 2021: 13 young males with postvaccination myocarditis treated at a single hospital in Washington state between April 1, 2021, and June 21, 2021, researchers report.

July 6, 2021: CDC estimates for every million doses of vaccination, dozens of cases of myocarditis can be expected, including 56 to 69 cases among 12- to 17-year-olds. The expected benefits outweigh the risks, though, according to the agency.

July 9, 2021: European Medicines Agency recommends listing myocarditis and pericarditis as side effects for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines after identifying 221 cases after mRNA vaccination. Five of the patients died.

July 10, 2021: South Korean researchers report a 22-year-old man was killed by vaccine-induced myocarditis, the first such death reported in the literature.

July 22, 2021: CDC says it confirmed 282 postvaccination myocarditis cases in people aged 18 to 29.

July 28, 2021: Pfizer tells FDA of “important identified risk” of myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccination and discloses 17 deaths among the cases reported.

July 30, 2021: Data mining does not show a signal for myocarditis among adolescents 12 to 17, CDC and FDA say.

July 31, 2021: Australian experts recommend people be informed about possibility of myocarditis and pericarditis following vaccination.

August 2021: 311 cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis reported to VAERS, including seven deaths.

Aug. 4, 2021: UK delays recommending second dose for 16- and 17-year-olds.

Aug. 10, 2021: 15 children hospitalized at Boston Children’s Hospital with postvaccination myocarditis between May 1 and July 15, 2021, researchers say.

Aug. 13, 2021: Canada identifies a safety signal for postvaccination myocarditis.

Aug. 17, 2021: Death of 27-year-old man following myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination reported by U.S. researchers. Family declined an autopsy. No non-vaccination causes identified.

Aug. 18, 2021: U.S. researchers report death of 42-year-old man with myocarditis following Moderna vaccination. No other causes identified.

Aug. 18, 2021: Dr. Walensky and other U.S. government officials call for COVID-19 vaccine boosters to be cleared due to waning effectiveness.

Aug. 19, 2021: Two deaths from myocarditis following Pfizer vaccination, Pfizer reports to the EMA.

Aug. 19, 2021: Dr. Walensky notified of UK preference for Pfizer over Moderna for adolescents.

Aug. 23, 2021: FDA approves Pfizer’s vaccine for people 16 and older. Approval theoretically has a higher bar than authorization. The agency says that analyses of reported events “will not be sufficient to assess known serious risks of myocarditis and pericarditis.”

Aug. 23, 2021: Excess myocarditis risk for vaccinated males aged 16 or 17 “approaching 200 cases per million,” FDA discloses, based on data from Optum health care claims database.

Aug. 24, 2021: South Korean authorities determine a young man died from myocarditis after Pfizer vaccination.

Aug. 30, 2021: One myocarditis case and one pericarditis case occurred among vaccinated trial participants, Pfizer reveals.

Aug. 30, 2021: Of 742 reports in VAERS that met the CDC case definition of myocarditis or myopericarditis after vaccination, 701 patients required hospitalization and 18 are still hospitalized, CDC official reports (pdf). Twenty-three percent of patients whose cases were detailed in VAERS reports were not known to have recovered at the time of the report.

Aug. 30, 2021: Highest rate of reported myopericarditis cases within seven days of a shot was 71.5 cases per million second Pfizer doses among boys aged 16 or 17, according to the CDC.

Aug. 30, 2021: CDC announces (pdf) plans to follow myocarditis patients to try to assess long-term outcomes.

Aug. 30, 2021: Myocarditis and pericarditis cases in VSD rise to 115, with some patients still experiencing symptoms, CDC official says (pdf).

Aug. 30, 2021: Benefits of Pfizer’s vaccine continue to outweigh the risks, CDC officials say. They estimate every million Pfizer shots among 16- to 17-year-olds will cause 73 cases of myocarditis but prevent more hospitalizations.

Aug. 30, 2021: Woman who died in New Zealand after Pfizer vaccination perished from myocarditis, an independent safety panel said.

September 2021: 377 cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis reported to VAERS, including 10 deaths.

Sept. 2, 2021: 654 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis in Pfizer’s safety database, company says. Seventy-seven reports of myocarditis or myocarditis and pericarditis in Moderna’s safety database, company says. Some patients, including a young male, died or had not recovered.

Sept. 2, 2021: Based on the reports and other data, a causal association between myocarditis/pericarditis and the mRNA vaccines is “considered of at least a reasonable possibility,” the European Medicines Agency says.

Sept. 3, 2021: 67 myocarditis/pericarditis cases recorded in VSD among people aged 12 to 39, CDC says.

Sept. 8, 2021: Healthy, young boys face a higher risk of cardiac events from vaccines than from COVID-19, U.S. researchers find.

Sept. 9, 2021: U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration announce COVID-19 vaccine mandates for tens of millions of Americans, including many young, healthy people.

Sept. 15, 2021: Hong Kong changes recommendation from two doses of Pfizer to one dose after spike in myocarditis cases.

Sept. 21, 2021: “A clear signal for vaccine associated myocarditis has emerged,” U.S. doctors say.

Sept. 22, 2021: One case of myocarditis reported after Pfizer booster, CDC official says. Not possible to determine the risk of rare side effects like myocarditis after boosting, CDC safety committee says.

Sept. 22, 2021: V-safe does not collect information on myocarditis, CDC official admits.

Sept. 22, 2021: FDA authorizes a Pfizer booster for millions of Americans.

Sept. 23, 2021: CDC officials say they don’t know how many cases of myocarditis booster shots will cause. They project up to 26 cases per million boosters in 18- to 29-year-olds, but say more COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations would be prevented.

Sept. 24, 2021: CDC recommends Pfizer’s booster for certain populations.

Sept. 27, 2021: New Zealand expert tells CDC it “seems to make huge sense to me” to delay second doses for young people.

Sept. 28, 2021: Pfizer vaccine may have “played a role” in death of 15-year-old California boy who died after receiving shot, medical examiner tells CDC.

Sept. 29, 2021: CDC meets on non-COVID vaccines.

Sept. 30, 2021: CDC falsely tells California officials that reports of postvaccination myocarditis did not come until June 2021.

October 2021: 321 cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis reported to VAERS, including five deaths.

Oct. 4, 2021: Identification of postvaccination myocarditis cases “does not change clinical decision-making,” JAMA Internal Medicine editors say.

Oct. 7, 2021: Norway, Finland, and Sweden suspend use of Moderna’s vaccine for younger people due to myocarditis risks.

Oct. 8, 2021: Iceland suspends use of Moderna’s vaccine due to the heart inflammation.

Oct. 11, 2021: CDC director briefed on how Nordic countries are limiting vaccination due to myocarditis.

Oct. 12, 2021: Secret U.S. government meeting considering counting post-infection immunity as one or more vaccine doses ends with no update.

Oct. 14, 2021: FDA says more myocarditis/pericarditis cases have been reported to its Biologics Effectiveness and Safety Initiative system.

Oct. 21, 2021: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has identified 7 post-vaccination myocarditis cases, CDC publicly discloses, but no signal was established and all cases resolved.

Oct. 21, 2021: Highest rate of myocarditis following vaccination, based on VAERS data, is 69.1 cases per million second shots among males aged 16 or 17, Dr. Su says (pdf).

Oct. 21, 2021: About a quarter of cases in people 29 or younger reviewed in VAERS were not known to have recovered, according to available data, with 19 still hospitalized.

Oct. 21, 2021: Analyses of VSD data “indicate that both Pfizer and Moderna are associated with increased risk of myocarditis/pericarditis in 12–39-year-olds,” Kaiser Permanente doctor says (pdf). Myocarditis/pericarditis cases in VSD rise to 138, with rates higher after Moderna vaccination compared to Pfizer vaccination.

Oct. 21, 2021: CDC says tens of millions of Americans should get a Pfizer or Moderna booster.

Oct. 22, 2021: Rates of reported cases among males aged 18 to 24 approximately 139 per million after Moderna second dose and 43 per million after Pfizer second dose, French researchers say.

Oct. 22, 2021: Norway says adolescents can’t get second doses of Pfizer’s vaccine.

Oct. 26, 2021: FDA says benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks. Projection of harm is highest for 16- and 17-year-old males, at 196 postvaccination myocarditis/pericarditis cases, and 171 myocarditis/pericarditis hospitalizations per million doses.

Oct. 26, 2021: CDC cardiologist Dr. Matthew Oster says “we don’t know a whole lot” about myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination. “We really need to see what the long-term outcomes for these kids will be,” he added later.

Oct. 26, 2021: Dr. Michael Nelson, an FDA vaccine adviser, says he’s concerned that some cases of postvaccination myocarditis aren’t being reported.

Oct. 26, 2021: Dr. Eric Rubin, another FDA adviser, says “we’re never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it.”

Oct. 27, 2021: World Health Organization says the mRNA vaccines likely cause myocarditis.

Oct. 27, 2021: Prevalence of postvaccination myocarditis may be underestimated due to its reliance on symptoms for diagnosis, researchers say.

Oct. 28, 2021: Dr. Su says myocarditis reported after COVID-19 vaccination “has been neither severe nor persistent … however, we’ll need to wait to see if longer-term complications arise.” He also says CDC does not know what percent of cases became chronic.

Oct. 29, 2021: FDA authorizes Pfizer’s vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 despite dearth of efficacy data.

Oct. 30, 2021: Seventeen myocarditis patients seen at a single facility in Switzerland between March and July 2021, researchers report (pdf).

Oct. 31, 2021: FDA delays decision on approving Moderna’s vaccine for children.

November 2021: 267 cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis reported to VAERS, including six deaths.

Nov. 1, 2021: Dr. Su says in email that “we’re all doing our part to build confidence” in COVID-19 vaccines.

Nov. 1, 2021: English researchers estimate vaccinating children aged 12 to 17 will prevent 230 to 4,590 COVID-19 hospitalizations while causing 160 cases of myocarditis requiring hospitalization.

Nov. 1, 2021: Seven patients still had symptoms about a month after being diagnosed with myocarditis, U.S. researchers report.

Nov. 2, 2021: Nine deaths with myocarditis reported among people 29 and younger in VAERS. Most deaths had at least one potential non-vaccination cause while evaluation of two was still ongoing, CDC official says (pdf).

Nov. 2, 2021: Of postvaccination myocarditis patients who received cardiac MRIs, 72 percent had abnormal results, official says. Of patients who responded to CDC survey, 48 percent reported symptoms persisting after three months.

Nov. 2, 2021: Rates of myocarditis after Pfizer vaccination in children aged 5 to 11, if cleared, is unknown, CDC says (pdf). Rates in those 12 to 15 are as high as 108.5 per million second doses among males.

Nov. 2, 2021: CDC recommends virtually all children aged 5 to 11 receive a Pfizer series.

Nov. 3, 2021: 18-year-old previously healthy woman dies after COVID-19 vaccination with fulminate myocarditis, Washington state officials tell CDC. They attribute the myocarditis to asymptomatic COVID-19. Family declined an autopsy at one facility and King County Medical Examiner’s Office says it did not perform an autopsy due to “social and complex” reasons.

Nov. 8, 2021: France halts Moderna’s vaccine for people under 30.

Nov. 16, 2021: UK recommends second dose for 16- and 17-year-olds.

Nov. 18, 2021: Reported cases of myocarditis as high as 117 per million after doses of Moderna, and 47 per million doses of Pfizer, among males aged 18 to 29, German researchers say.

Nov. 19, 2021: Lower rates of myocarditis reported to VAERS after booster doses, CDC official says (pdf). Fifty-four reports were lodged, with some people not known to have recovered.

Nov. 19, 2021: CDC enables all adults to receive a booster of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.

Nov. 23, 2021: Between Dec. 27, 2020 and Sept. 3, 2021, 113 patients with suspected myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination presented to a single practice, German researchers report.

Nov. 26, 2021: Six people were reported to have died with myocarditis or pericarditis after Pfizer vaccination, the Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb reports. Other causes were found for two of the deaths.

Nov. 28, 2021: Hong Kong researchers find rate of 212 myocarditis cases among 12- to 17-year-old males per million Pfizer second doses.

Nov. 28, 2021: Three verified cases of post-booster myocarditis, CDC discloses in private emails.

Nov. 29, 2021: UK recommends second dose for 12 to 15-year-olds.

December 2021: 304 cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis reported to VAERS, including five deaths.

Dec. 1, 2021: 22-year-old woman spent 74 days in hospital with myocarditis after AstraZeneca vaccination, South Korean researchers report.

Dec. 2, 2021: European Medicines Agency says safety signal confirmed for postvaccination myocarditis.

Dec. 2, 2021: Israeli researchers estimate 106.9 myocarditis cases per million vaccinated males aged 16 to 29.

Dec. 9, 2021: FDA authorizes booster doses for 16- and 17-year-olds.

Dec. 9, 2021: CDC says 16- and 17-year-olds should get a booster shot. It does not mention myocarditis.

Dec. 14, 2021: 114 vaccinated people had myocarditis listed as a cause of death on their death certificate, English researchers report.

Dec. 16, 2021: Eight cases of myocarditis among children aged 5 to 11 confirmed, including one in a 6-year-old male, CDC official says.

Dec. 18, 2021: 26-year-old New Zealand man’s death ruled as being caused by vaccine-induced myocarditis following an autopsy.

Dec. 25, 2021: Males under 40 face an excess risk of 101 cases per million second doses, UK researchers find.

Dec. 27, 2021: Incidence of myocarditis among males 12 to 39 is 195.4 per million second doses among males aged 12 to 39, U.S. researchers estimate. They identify cases missed by the CDC.Dec. 28, 2021: Risk of myocarditis much higher from Moderna’s vaccine compared with Pfizer’s shot, Canadian officials report.

Dec. 30, 2021: 21 patients with myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination admitted to a single center between Dec. 15, 2020, and June 15, 2021, U.S. researchers report.

Dec. 30, 2021: 14-year-old hospitalized with shock after Pfizer vaccination, Moroccan doctors say.

2022

Jan. 3, 2022: Non-vaccine causes of death ruled out in death of 57-year-old New Zealand woman who experienced myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination, researchers report.

Jan. 5, 2022: 327 myocarditis cases among children aged 12 to 15 reported to VAERS, with some cases not known to have recovered, CDC official says (pdf). Rates among males in the age group estimated at 45.7 per million second doses and 4.3 per million second doses among males aged 5 to 11, both of which were higher than expected.

Jan. 5, 2022: Most confirmed myocarditis patients aged 12 to 17 in VSD hospitalized, with more than a quarter being hospitalized for at least four days, VSD researcher says (pdf). Excess cases as high as 70.8 within 21 days per million second doses in the age group. Nearly half of the confirmed cases had new or worsening symptoms during follow-up visits at least three months later, and half had abnormal electrocardiogram results.

Jan. 5, 2022: Rate of myocarditis in Israel after Pfizer vaccination reported as high as 153 per million second doses among males aged 16 to 19.

Jan. 11, 2022: 26-year-old American man confirmed to have died from vaccine-induced myocarditis.

Jan. 19, 2022: Rates of reported cases in the United Kingdom as high as 71 per million second Moderna doses among people aged 18 to 29.

Jan. 24, 2022: CDC alerted to death of male with autopsy-confirmed, vaccine-induced myocarditis.

Jan. 25, 2022: Rates of reported myocarditis cases 70.7 per million second doses for males 12 to 15 and 105.8 per million second doses for males aged 16 and 17, CDC reports. Agency has verified 1,626 reports and says underreporting likely.

Jan. 31, 2022: FDA approves (pdf) Moderna’s vaccine for people 18 and older. FDA says data on reported cases is “not sufficient to assess known serious risks of myocarditis and pericarditis and identify an unexpected serious risk of subclinical myocarditis.”

Feb. 3, 2022: Death of 24-year-old American man confirmed from vaccine-induced myocarditis. Man’s family later sues U.S. government.

Feb. 4, 2022: Three cases of pericarditis among vaccinated trial participants, Moderna reports (pdf). Two cases, including one in a 23-year-old male, were classified as vaccine-related.

Feb. 4, 2022: Rates of reported VAERS myocarditis cases as high as 40 per million second doses among 18- to 24-year-olds within seven days of vaccination, CDC official says. Most patients were hospitalized and discharged but 30 percent were not known to have recovered.

Feb. 4, 2022: Excess cases of myocarditis up to 61.8 per million within seven days of second Moderna doses in males, according to data from VSD.

Feb. 4, 2022: Excess risk of myocarditis 9.8 times higher after a Moderna second dose among males aged 12 to 39 when compared to the unvaccinated, Danish officials report to the CDC.

Feb. 4, 2022: Among 360 people who suffered myocarditis and responded to a CDC survey an average of 143 days afterwards, about half reported at least one symptom, such as chest pain, in the prior two weeks, CDC says (pdf). According to patient providers, about four in 10 had restrictions on physical activity months after the diagnosis.

Feb. 4, 2022: Data now show an “association of myocarditis” with Moderna’s vaccine and young people, CDC safety committee says. Group says it will continue to review data on myocarditis after vaccination.

Feb. 4, 2022: Lower rates of myocarditis recorded when the space between the two primary series doses is extended, Canadian researchers tell CDC.

Feb. 4, 2022: 68 cases of myocarditis expected after each million Moderna second doses, and 47 after each million Pfizer second doses, among males aged 18 to 39, CDC says (pdf). More hospitalizations are expected to be prevented, according to the agency, keeping the benefits higher than the risks. They use outdated effectiveness assumptions and myocarditis rates from VSD.

Feb. 4, 2022: Definition of myocarditis cases expanded after feedback, VSD researcher reveals (pdf).

Feb. 9, 2022: FDA claims “the societal benefit of mass vaccination is overwhelming.”

Feb. 11, 2022: FDA postpones planned meeting on whether to authorize Pfizer’s vaccine for babies and toddlers.

Feb. 11, 2022: Internal Pfizer document says “there is evidence that suggests patients who receive a COVID-19 vaccine are at an increased risk of myocarditis.”

Feb. 14, 2022: U.S. medical examiners report two deaths among minors from myocarditis following Pfizer vaccination.

Feb. 15, 2022: 21 patients with myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination at a facility in Canada through November 2021, researchers report.

Feb. 23, 2022: CDC updates guidance to say people, including young males, might want to wait eight weeks between primary series doses.

Feb. 25, 2022: Hong Kong researchers report one in 2,563 males aged 12 to 17 suffered myocarditis after Pfizer vaccination.

March 10, 2022: Myocarditis rates in children aged 12 to 15 higher among vaccinated versus unvaccinated, Israeli researchers report.

March 10, 2022: “Vaccine-induced myocarditis should be considered in patients with acute symptom onset after mRNA vaccination,” German researchers say.

March 15, 2022: Persistent heart injury found in followup 106 to 134 days after myocarditis diagnosis in five teenagers.

March 18, 2022: 17-year-old boy spent 23 days in hospital with myocarditis after second Pfizer dose, Japanese researchers report.

March 21, 2022: U.S. researchers estimate in preprint paper 450 myocarditis cases per million doses among males aged 12 to 17.

March 23, 2022: Heart scarring detected in seven of nine patients seven to eight months after myocarditis diagnosis, Israeli doctors report. Scarring has been associated with sudden death and patients are recommended to receive annual checkups.

March 25, 2022: CDC runs Proportional Reporting Ratio on VAERS data for the first time and detects safety signals for both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines. The CDC falsely claimed it started the mining in 2021, but later retracted the claim.

March 25, 2022: Many patients with followup at three to eight months had persistent abnormalities on cardiac MRIs, U.S. researchers report.

March 25, 2022: Ethics experts warn against vaccinating healthy children.

April 6, 2022: Israel has recorded 213 cases of postvaccination myocarditis, official says.

April 8, 2022: Non-peer-reviewed CDC study concludes COVID-19 presents a higher risk of myocarditis than vaccination.

April 20, 2022: Myocarditis meets safety signal in VSD, CDC panel told (pdf). About half of the cases were verified through review of medical charts. Forty cases occurred after a booster in people aged 12 to 39 and another 34 occurred after a booster in those aged 40 and up.

April 20, 2022: Number of reported cases in VAERS rises to 148 within seven days of a booster, CDC official reports. The highest rate is 23.2 cases per million Pfizer booster doses among people aged 16 or 17. Most patients were hospitalized but all were discharged.

April 20, 2022: New data “do not suggest safety concerns beyond those previously identified,” CDC’s vaccine safety committee says (pdf).

April 20, 2022: Reported cases in U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs system up to 40; chart review confirmed 15.

April 20, 2022: Up to 379 excess cases per one million vaccinated males aged 16 to 24, Nordic researchers estimate.

April 26, 2022: FDA projects per one million Pfizer primary series, up to 196 excess myocarditis cases requiring hospitalizations will be caused among males aged 16 or 17. That number exceeds the number of prevented COVID-19 hospitalizations in two of three scenarios.

April 28, 2022: Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), identified in 80 percent of myocarditis patients who had followup cardiac MRIs a median of 92 days after hospital discharge, U.S. researchers report. LGE is associated with sudden death.

May 2022: Proportional Reporting Ratio analyses comparing the mRNA vaccines to other vaccines is conducted by the CDC on VAERS data for the first time, showing a safety signal for myocarditis for both shots.

May 3, 2022: Subclinical pericarditis detected in one of 41 people in prospective booster study.

May 4, 2022: Signs of scarring in followup cardiac MRIs, Canadian researchers report.

May 5, 2022: FDA limits use of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine over blood clotting risks.

May 6, 2022: “There is no test or investigation that can establish causality for vaccine-associated myocarditis or pericarditis,” Canadian doctors say.

May 14, 2022: Study finds Pfizer vaccine effectiveness turns negative over time in some children.

May 17, 2022: Hong Kong authorities opt to compensate family of 66-year-old woman who died from myocarditis after Pfizer vaccination.

May 19, 2022: CDC reports postvaccination myocarditis death in young boy. CDC acknowledges “rare reports” of postvaccination myocarditis deaths in other countries, but claims “it is unclear to what extent such cases were investigated.”

May 19, 2022: 64 cases of myocarditis after Pfizer vaccination reported among children aged 5 to 11 in VAERS; 20 were confirmed, CDC says (pdf). Another 10 cases reported in the age group in VSD, 6 were confirmed.

May 19, 2022: Reported rates of myocarditis within seven days of vaccination as high as 74.2 per million after a second dose of Pfizer’s vaccine among males 16 or 17. Rates for males are 48.1 for 12 to 15 and 35.3 for 18 to 24.

May 19, 2022: As CDC panel of advisers votes in support of Pfizer booster for ages 5 to 11, adviser Veronica McNally says parents should know rates of myocarditis are lower after a booster and that the booster will increase protection.

June 7, 2022: CDC official says (pdf) evidence supports a causal association between the mRNA vaccines, the first time the CDC has made such a statement.

June 7, 2022: Reported rates of myocarditis higher than expected in males as young as 5 and as old as 49, CDC says. The number of verified cases ending in deaths is up to 21, but CDC says none of the deaths have been confirmed as having been caused by the myocarditis.

June 7, 2022: Survey of health care providers who cared for patients estimated 18.3 percent had not fully recovered months later. Available information indicates most people “recover from myocarditis by 3-8 months after diagnosis,” Dr. Shimabukuro says, but “there can be long-term effects.”

June 7, 2022: Novavax says five cases of myocarditis happened in vaccinated volunteers in its COVID-19 vaccine trials.

June 11, 2022: 411 myocarditis cases detected within seven days of COVID-19 vaccination in health claims database that includes CVS Health data.

June 14, 2022: Rates of reported myocarditis following a booster higher than expected in males aged 12 to 29, CDC official says (pdf).

June 14, 2022: Myocarditis meets safety signal for children aged 12 to 17 after first and second doses in FDA’s BEST system, FDA official says (pdf).

June 17, 2022: FDA authorizes Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for children as young as 6 months of age.

June 17, 2022: Hong Kong’s single-dose recommendation led to a decline in myocarditis cases, researchers find.

June 21, 2022: Heart failure and sudden death recorded after COVID-19 vaccination, Hong Kong researchers report.

June 21, 2022: It is “difficult to know … what the myocarditis rates would be” among adolescents after boosting, CDC official says.

June 23, 2022: Nearly 1,000 cases of myocarditis among children 5 to 17 after Pfizer vaccination reported to VAERS, CDC official says (pdf). Verified reports show rates as high as 75.9 per million among males 16 or 17 after a second Pfizer dose.

June 23, 2022: 37 percent of patients whose health care provider responded to a CDC survey were not confirmed to be fully recovered at least 90 days after diagnosis.

June 23, 2022: Myocarditis meets safety signal criteria in VSD for boosters from Pfizer and Moderna, CDC panel told. Excess cases as high as 200.3 per million boosters among males 16 or 17, which is higher than the second dose rate. Many patients were hospitalized but all were discharged.

June 23, 2022: Dr. Sarah Long, a CDC adviser, expresses surprise with the myocarditis rate following a booster.

June 23, 2022: More than 1,000 myocarditis reports in Moderna’s database, Moderna official says (pdf).

June 23, 2022: Likely patients who suffered myocarditis after a first dose, got vaccinated again, and suffered myocarditis again, CDC official says.

June 23, 2022: Vaccinated at higher risk of serious adverse events of special interest, researchers find in reanalysis of clinical trial data.

June 25, 2022: French researchers find one myocarditis case per 5,900 males aged 18 to 24 who receive a second Moderna dose.

June 28, 2022: 75 reports of confirmed myocarditis following vaccination in adolescents aged 12 to 17 as of Feb. 22, 2022, Australian doctors report.

July 3, 2022: 27-year-old man’s death 28 days after losing consciousness in sports practice and 36 days after Moderna vaccination ruled due to myocarditis after autopsy.

July 4, 2022: Prospective study of health care workers receiving a booster identifies two cases of myocarditis among about 3,800 subjects.

July 13, 2022: FDA authorizes Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine even after finding evidence that the vaccine increased the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis.

July 14, 2022: 45 myocarditis events reported in children 5 to 11, some verified, during first four months of COVID-19 vaccine administration to the age group.

July 19, 2022: Number of confirmed VAERS myocarditis reports up to 1,321, with another 515 ruled out or still under review. Highest rate remains 75.9 per million second doses administered to males 16 or 17. Highest excess case rate in VSD is 62.8 per million Moderna second doses in 18- to 39-year-old males.

July 19, 2022: CDC recommends Novavax’s vaccine for adults.

July 20, 2022: German doctors call for more autopsies of people who die with myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination.

July 20, 2022: 41 myocarditis cases, including one death, among adults following COVID-19 vaccination in Kaiser Permanente health system through Feb. 28, 2022.

July 28, 2022: 448 myocarditis or pericarditis cases identified in Italy through Sept. 30, 2021.

July 30, 2022: Excess myocarditis cases per million second doses among males aged 18 to 29 estimated at 162 and among males aged 39 to 39 estimated at 244, Canadian researchers say.

Aug. 5, 2022: CDC official admits giving false information on COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring.

Aug. 8, 2022: Prospective study of 301 school students finds 29 percent experienced cardiovascular effects after Pfizer vaccination, Thai researchers report. “Adolescents receiving mRNA vaccines should be monitored for cardiovascular side effects,” they say.

Aug. 8, 2022: 3,107 reports of myocarditis after vaccination received through Feb. 15, 2022, in Moderna’s global safety database.

Aug. 16, 2022: Data mining for the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines “didn’t really contribute to much of anything,” CDC official says privately.

Aug. 22, 2022: More than 2,800 hospital admissions with myocarditis identified after COVID-19 vaccination, UK researchers report.

Aug. 31, 2022: FDA authorizes updated, bivalent Pfizer and Moderna vaccines as boosters for people 12 and older. The boosters had only been tested in animals.

Sept. 1, 2022: Risk of myocarditis from bivalent COVID-19 boosters is “unknown,” CDC official says (pdf).

Sept. 1, 2022: CDC recommends people aged 12 and up receive one of the new boosters.

Sept. 1, 2022: No reports of myocarditis to VAERS among young children, CDC official says. Higher rates than expected, as high as 21.6 per million among males 16 or 17, within seven days of a booster for males aged 12 to 29.

Sept. 1, 2022: Myocarditis rates in VSD as high as 189 per million for males aged 16 or 17 after a booster, which is higher than the 137 per million after a second dose.

Sept. 6, 2022: Israeli officials say the postvaccination myocarditis cases “suggest a causal relationship” between the mRNA vaccines and the heart inflammation.

Sept. 6, 2022: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin not alerted to myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination through May 25, 2021, military says.

Sept. 23, 2022: Most myocarditis patients had recovered at followup 60 to 180 days after diagnosis, though some had persistent symptoms, Hong Kong researchers report.

Sept. 28, 2022: Blood samples taken during and two to four days after fourth vaccine dose showed myocardial injury in two participants, prospective study in Israel finds.

Oct. 4, 2022: Rate of reported myocarditis cases in VAERS higher after booster for young males than after second dose, CDC officials disclose.

Oct. 7, 2022: Florida’s surgeon general recommends against mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for males aged 18 to 39 due to analysis of death certificates.

Oct. 15, 2022: Two of five adult myocarditis patients had persistent symptoms at followup at least 57 days after initial cardiac MRI, Minnesota researchers report.

Oct. 26, 2022: Myocarditis safety signal after Pfizer vaccination identified in people aged 12 to 64 in health claims surveillance system, FDA reports.

Oct. 31, 2022: Six of nine myocarditis patients showed persistent heart injury, with one experiencing persistent symptoms, at 12-week followup, Italian researchers report.

Nov. 4, 2022: Nine cases of myocarditis or pericarditis reported after bivalent vaccination, CDC says.

Nov. 7, 2022: Expected rate of myocarditis 269.5 cases per million Moderna second doses and 58 cases per million Pfizer second doses in males 18 to 29, Canadian researchers report.

Nov. 9, 2022: LGE still observed at followup in myocarditis patients, with two reporting persistent symptoms, German researchers report.

Nov. 12, 2022: Number of Moderna doses needed to harm higher than number of doses needed to treat for 16- to 19-year-old men, Italian researchers estimate.

Nov. 21, 2022: 141 myocarditis cases within 21 days of COVID-19 vaccination through March 10, 2022 in British Columbia, Canadian researchers report.

Nov. 27, 2022: Autopsies of German people who died unexpectedly within 20 days of a COVID-19 vaccination identified myocarditis in five people, with other possible causes ruled out.

Dec. 5, 2022: U.S. researchers estimate that for every COVID-19 hospitalization prevented by vaccine boosters, 1.5 to 4.6 myocarditis cases would be caused in young males.

Dec. 16, 2022: Clusters of myocarditis cases after second Pfizer dose in 12 to 39 age group in VSD, researchers with the CDC and other institutions report.

Dec. 28, 2022: Most studies on postvaccination myocarditis lacked proper stratification, review finds.

Dec. 28, 2022: LGE present in all seven myocarditis patients with followup cardiac MRIs three to six months after diagnosis, Turkish researchers report. Two patients had heart swelling.

Dec. 31, 2022: Pfizer fails to meet deadline for post-approval myocarditis study. FDA later reveals it allowed Pfizer to delay the deadline.

2023

Jan. 3, 2023: Eight sudden cardiac deaths in Qatar after COVID-19 vaccination determined to likely be from the vaccination.

Jan. 4, 2023: Analysis of blood finds “unbound” spike protein in plasma of people with myocarditis after vaccination.

Jan. 5, 2023: One percent of electrocardiograms return abnormal in prospective study of second Pfizer dose in high school students in Taiwan.

Jan. 5, 2023: “Unequivocal” evidence supporting a link between the COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis, Portuguese Society of Cardiology says.

Jan. 9, 2023: Imaging study of five children three to 109 days after onset of myocarditis symptoms following Pfizer vaccination finds signs of heart scarring.

Jan. 26, 2023: Safety signal for myocarditis and pericarditis for adults aged 18 to 35 for Pfizer’s updated vaccine, FDA official says (pdf).

Feb. 1, 2023: 530 people across Nordic countries diagnosed with myocarditis related to mRNA vaccination, researchers report. Six died.

Feb. 8, 2023: Taiwanese researchers estimate 126 myocarditis cases per million second doses among males aged 12 to 17.

Feb. 13, 2023: England stops offering younger, healthy people booster shots.

Feb. 14, 2023: 134 cases of heart failure, six cases of myocarditis in 2021 among vaccinated in 99 counties, U.S. researchers report in medical chart review.

Feb. 15, 2023: Australia found that myocarditis contributed to the death of a 21-year-old woman, newly disclosed documents show.

Feb. 22, 2023: Singapore says it will pay family of man who died with myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination.

Feb. 24, 2023: CDC estimates a small number of myocarditis cases for every million boosters in its latest risk-benefit analysis (pdf). Experts criticize calculus as flawed.

Feb. 24, 2023: One case of myocarditis after bivalent vaccination detected in VSD, CDC official says.

Feb. 24, 2023: Risk of myocarditis after a bivalent shot is unknown, CDC official says.

Feb. 24, 2023: CDC officials give false information on vaccine safety monitoring and refuse to correct the record.

Feb. 27, 2023: Family of young girl who died from myocarditis after Pfizer vaccination to be compensated, Taiwanese authorities say.

March 3, 2023: CDC discloses it never acted on plans for a collaboration to “stimulate VAERS reporting” from health care workers and long-term care facilities.”

March 9, 2023: Persistent heart inflammation identified in three of 17 people at two month followup, Canadian researchers report.

March 14, 2023: FDA authorizes Pfizer’s bivalent as a booster for children under 5.

March 15, 2023: FDA adds warning about myocarditis to fact sheets for Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine.

March 17, 2023: CDC adds language to its website saying the mRNA vaccines cause myocarditis.

March 20, 2023: 14-year-old girl’s death was diagnosed as vaccine-related myocarditis, Japanese researchers report.

March 22, 2023: Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel claims all age groups face a higher risk of myocarditis after COVID-19 infection versus vaccination.

March 30, 2023: World Health Organization says additional boosters would provide “marginal” benefit to healthy children and younger adults.

April 3, 2023: Extending interval between primary series doses reduced myocarditis incidence, Hong Kong researchers report.

April 5, 2023: 173 postvaccination myocarditis cases among children between July 19, 2021, and Sept. 30, 2022, South Korean researchers report.

April 10, 2023: Switzerland opts against recommending COVID-19 vaccines for citizens due to high levels of previous infection and/or vaccination.

April 14, 2023: Woman died from myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination, coroner in Singapore concludes.

April 15, 2023: Malaysian researchers identify 87 myocarditis cases within 21 days of COVID-19 vaccination among those vaccinated between Feb. 1, 2021, and Feb. 28, 2022.

April 18, 2023: FDA replaces old Moderna and Pfizer vaccines with the updated bivalent shots, despite no clinical trial efficacy estimates being available.

April 18, 2023: U.S. government compensates two people for myocarditis injuries caused by COVID-19 vaccines.

April 18, 2023: FDA rejects request to add risk of sudden death to labels for mRNA vaccines.

April 19, 2023: CDC officials, including Dr. Shimabukuro, repeat lies about COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring.

April 20, 2023: CDC says unvaccinated people should get a bivalent, and some vaccinated people should get an additional shot.

April 24, 2023: mRNA COVID-19 vaccines did not have an effect on overall mortality, researchers say after crunching trial data.

May 10, 2023: Some myocarditis patients had LGE on cardiac MRIs performed around 107 days after initial MRIs, U.S. researchers report.

May 11, 2023: COVID-19 public health emergency ends, but vaccines are still available under emergency authorization.

May 11, 2023: 96 percent of cases registered as postvaccination myocarditis verified as correct registration, Swedish researchers report.

May 12, 2023: Most remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates end.

May 22, 2023: FDA says myocarditis hits safety signal criteria in children aged 12 to 17.

May 22, 2023: Vaccine-injured sue federal government over Big Tech censorship.

June 1, 2023: U.S. government compensates third person for myocarditis caused by COVID-19 vaccination.

June 1, 2023: FDA revokes authorization of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine.

June 2, 2023: Sudden deaths caused by COVID-19 vaccination, South Korean researchers determine.

June 13, 2023: CDC claims no postvaccination deaths have been caused by myocarditis.

June 13, 2023: South Korean researchers estimate 82 myocarditis per million third doses in those under 19.

June 14, 2023: Seniors not at higher risk of myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination, FDA reports in review of surveillance data.

June 15, 2023: FDA estimates that each one million Moderna primary series among people aged 18 to 25 will prevent 635 to 5,957 COVID-19 hospitalizations, and cause an excess of 68 to 241 myocarditis cases.

June 27: 139 postvaccination myocarditis cases across 29 centers in Spain from Aug. 1, 2021, to March 10, 2022, researchers report. After a 3-month follow-up, the incidence of adverse events was 12.7 percent, with 1.4 percent mortality.

June 30, 2023: Deadline for Moderna’s subclinical myocarditis study passes without publication.

July 17, 2023: Australia stops reporting postvaccination myocarditis cases, saying rates have stabilized.

July 20, 2023: One in 35 health care workers had signs of heart injury associated with vaccination, prospective study finds.

July 31, 2023: Long-term issues detected in followup of up to one year, Hong Kong researchers report.

Aug. 3, 2023: Pfizer officials tell Australian Senate it doesn’t know why company’s vaccine inflames the heart.

Sept. 5, 2023: CDC repeatedly told people who suffered adverse events after vaccination to get additional shots, documents show.

Sept. 12, 2023: Two cases of myocarditis or pericarditis after bivalent vaccination in VSD, CDC officials report.

Sept. 12, 2023: Bivalent protection against hospitalization sharply drops within months, CDC data show.

Sept. 12, 2023: CDC recommends new vaccines with trial data from just 50 people.

Where will this end?
When will the CDC, FDA, Pfizer, Moderna, the US Government and others involved face the music and be punished for their crimes against humanity?

Alarming government study reveals ‘forever chemicals’ taint almost half of U.S. tap water

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forever-chemicals-in-tap-water(NaturalHealth365) As you probably know, our bodies are composed of approximately 60% to 70% water.  It’s truly incredible how much water plays a fundamental role in our very existence.  As we age, our bodies naturally experience water loss, underscoring the importance of adequate water intake to maintain our overall health and sustain optimal energy levels.  Furthermore, water is vital in eliminating harmful toxins from our system.

Even most medical professionals widely agree that the average individual should consume more than six 8 oz glasses of water daily, depending on health status and activity levels.  However, an intriguing revelation made by Patricia Bragg in her book “Water: The Shocking Truth That Can Save Your Life” challenges the safety of tap water for human consumption.

As far back as 2015, the federal government publicly acknowledged the potential hazards of fluoride, an additive commonly found in tap water.  Yet, fluoride is not the sole concern regarding tap water quality.  A recent government study has unveiled the presence of toxic “forever chemicals” in nearly half of the country’s tap water supply.

Think twice before drinking: The startling truth about PFAS in tap water

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just released a report based on data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), and it’s quite eye-opening.  According to their findings, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been detected in the bloodstream of almost every single American.  Imagine how bad this must be for a corrupt government “health” agency, like the CDC, to admit how toxic the bloodstream has become.

Now, you might wonder how these forever chemicals are making their way into our bodies.  One of the primary routes of exposure is through water consumption, among other means.  This means that the water we drink can potentially introduce these substances into our system.

The study referenced above holds tremendous significance, as it represents the first comprehensive nationwide attempt to assess the prevalence of PFAS in tap water across the United States.  Its findings reveal a startling reality: there is a nearly 50% probability that the tap water flowing from your kitchen faucet contains these persistent chemicals, commonly known as forever chemicals, which have been linked to a wide range of health issues, including cancer.

Unfortunately, it appears that mainstream media outlets have only provided limited coverage of the study results.  This restrained approach may stem from a desire to mitigate public outcry or prevent undue panic.  Nevertheless, given the potential health implications associated with PFAS exposure, it is crucial to ensure that this issue receives the attention it deserves and that appropriate actions are taken to address it effectively.

Greater public awareness is the key to ensuring these chemicals get out of our environment.

Contaminated drinking water is nearly everywhere

It’s a harsh truth that might surprise many, but the reality is that contaminated drinking water is a widespread issue that affects not only specific regions but also extends across rural, suburban, and urban areas throughout the entire nation.

Now, you may be wondering why our drinking water has become unsafe for consumption.  The answer lies in a combination of factors.  Industrialization, with its accompanying manufacturing processes and chemical usage, has played a substantial role in introducing these contaminants into our water sources.  For more information about this issue, watch the movie “Dark Waters” – which reveals the greed and corruption related to how forever chemicals have poisoned our water supply.

In addition, many would argue that ineffective (negligent) federal government agencies, often criticized as being influenced by corporate interests, fail to adequately regulate and truly protect public health.  No doubt, this is a big part of the problem.

Where are the chemicals coming from?

The introduction of “forever chemicals” into our public and private water sources can be attributed to the products manufactured by corporations that have operated with limited oversight.  This has allowed the unchecked use of these substances, leading to their widespread presence in our environment.  Again, the movie “Dark Waters” does an excellent job at revealing how corporations ignore the dangers of their products.

To understand the current situation, it’s worth mentioning the landmark 1976 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Buckley v. Valeo.  This ruling established that political campaign contributions, including those from corporations, are considered a form of free speech.  Unfortunately, this decision has had unintended consequences, enabling corporations to engage in financial contributions to political campaigns with the aim of influencing policy decisions in their favor.

As a result, politicians at both the federal and state levels often lack the financial incentive to regulate corporations effectively, including those that employ PFAS in a variety of consumer goods.  From cooking pans to food packaging and clothing, these products can contain PFAS, and their disposal in landfills can lead to the contamination of groundwater and other water bodies.  This ultimately compromises the quality of the water that Americans rely on for their ongoing health, biological functions, and overall survival.

Tips for consuming healthy drinking water

Bragg’s recommendation to distill tap water indeed presents an option for those concerned about water quality.  Water distillers, although they can be a bit costly and produce some noise, offer a method to address potential health compromises resulting from toxic chemicals and impurities in tap water.  The distillation process effectively eliminates these contaminants, providing a purified water source.

It’s important to note that distilled water lacks minerals naturally present in water.  However, it’s entirely possible to obtain these minerals through other dietary sources.  So, even though distilled water may not contain minerals, it can still be a viable option for drinking and other uses.

However, it’s understandable that not everyone may have the financial means to invest in water distillers.  In such cases, using a water filter can still be a practical alternative to remove at least some of the harmful components found in tap water.  For instance, a reverse osmosis filtration system is a great option.  While it may not provide the same level of purification as distillation, a water filter can help improve the overall quality and safety of the water you consume.

Ultimately, the decision to distill water or use a water filter depends on your circumstances, preferences, and budgetary considerations.  Regardless of the method chosen, take proactive steps to ensure the purity of your drinking water, safeguarding your health and well-being.

Sources for this article include:

Harvard.edu
Sciencedirect.com
NIH.gov
EPA.gov
Pressherald.com

 

Why Pfizer Stopped COVID Vax Trial


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why pfizer stopped covid vax pregnancy trial

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • In February 2021, Pfizer launched a randomized, placebo-controlled, observer-blind study to evaluate the safety of its COVID-19 shot — BNT162b2 — in healthy pregnant women
  • The injections were set to take place between 24 and 34 weeks’ gestation, with participants randomized 1-to-1 to receive a COVID-19 shot or placebo
  • The study was initially set to enroll 4,000 women, but Pfizer only signed up 349, then stopped enrollment entirely
  • The CDC’s widespread endorsement of COVID-19 shots for pregnant women before the study was completed may have negated the need for the trial
  • Pfizer stated that because so many pregnant women had already gone ahead and gotten the shot, due to the government’s endorsement, enrollment dropped and there was no reason to move ahead with the study

No randomized trial data are available for use of the COVID-19 shot in pregnant women, and Pfizer cut its pregnancy trial short.1 But this doesn’t stop the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from recommending COVID-19 injections for everyone 6 months and older, including “people who are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant now, or those who might become pregnant in the future.”2

“Not having any good data didn’t seem to bother the CDC,” Dr. Martin Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, wrote in Tablet.3 He and a team of scientists petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to add a disclaimer to the shot’s label about the lack of trial data on its safety in pregnant women. The FDA declined, stating that this information wouldn’t be relevant.

Pregnant women, however, do need to know about the shot’s lack of testing during pregnancy — it’s the foundation of informed consent. They’d also likely be interested to know why Pfizer stopped its pregnancy trial early and has yet to make the results it did find public.

Pfizer Stopped COVID Jab Pregnancy Trial, Withholds Data

In February 2021, Pfizer launched a randomized, placebo-controlled, observer-blind study to evaluate the safety of its COVID-19 shot — BNT162b2 — in healthy pregnant women. The injections were set to take place between 24 and 34 weeks’ gestation, with participants randomized 1-to-1 to receive a COVID-19 shot or placebo.4 But while the study was initially set to enroll 4,000 women,5 Pfizer only signed up 349, then stopped enrollment entirely.6

“Most concerning,” Makary explained, “the pregnancy outcomes of those who participated in the trial, and their babies, are still not public today, nearly two years later.”7 Pregnant and breastfeeding women were excluded from Pfizer’s and Moderna’s phase III clinical trials,8 but in April 2021, CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced, “CDC recommends that pregnant people receive the COVID-19 vaccine.”9

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) soon echoed this statement, recommending pregnant women get injected, as did the UK’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.10

So, as the months passed, hundreds of thousands of pregnant women globally rolled up their sleeves to receive the vaccine, despite the absence of any clinical trials. “The message from authorities was clear — the harm from COVID-19 infection outweighed any harms from the mRNA vaccine — but in truth, they couldn’t possibly have known,” noted Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., a former medical scientist with the University of Adelaide and former reporter for ABC News in Australia.11

Animal Studies Show Fetal Loss, Skeletal Variations

Pfizer’s product labeling suggested, “No vaccine-related adverse effects on female fertility, fetal development or postnatal development were reported.” But, Demasi reported, a freedom of information request from 2021 showed this was based on an animal study of just 44 rats, which showed concerning findings about fetal loss:12

“The study found the vaccine led to a statistically significant doubling in fetal loss (9.77% mRNA vs 4.09% saline), but Pfizer concluded that the difference between the two groups was “not biologically meaningful.”

The label also states that Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine was not tested for its potential to cause carcinogenicity (ability to cause cancer), genotoxicity (ability to damage genetic information), or impairment of male fertility.”

An animal study conducted by Moderna also showed a significant number of rats were born with skeletal variations after their mothers were injected with the COVID-19 shot while pregnant. But, according to Demasi, “Moderna concluded that the “Skeletal variations are structural changes that do not impact development or function of a developing embryo” and therefore “not considered adverse.””

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Trial Stopped Because Many Pregnant Women Already Injected

Pfizer hasn’t publicly explained why its trial on pregnant women was stopped short, nor why the resulting data hasn’t been published. It’s possible they ended the trial because of unfavorable results. It wouldn’t be the first time.

However, in this case it appears the CDC’s widespread endorsement of COVID-19 shots for pregnant women — before the study was completed — may have negated the need for the trial altogether, at least from Pfizer’s perspective. As Makary put it:13

“In the case of the COVID vaccine trial in pregnant women, the trial may have been terminated not because the results were unfavorable, but because no data was needed. The medical and public health establishments had already made up their minds, declaring it safe and effective regardless of what the data was going to show. Why evaluate a product if the CDC and ACOG are already sold on the product?”

Demasi agreed. In fact, she published an email from Pfizer, in which the company admitted that enrollment for their trial significantly declined in the end of 2021, because health officials had already given the shot their seal of approval. Because so many pregnant women had already gone ahead and gotten the shot, due to the government’s endorsement, there was no reason to move ahead with the study. Demasi published Pfizer’s email response, which reads:14

“In the fourth quarter of 2021, enrollment was stopped in C4591015 Study (a Phase 2/3 placebo controlled randomized observer-blind study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of BNT162b2 against COVID-19 in healthy pregnant women 18 years of age and older). This study was developed prior to availability or recommendation for COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant women.

The environment changed during 2021 and by September 2021, COVID-19 vaccines were recommended by applicable recommending bodies (e.g., ACIP in the U.S.) for pregnant women in all participating/planned countries, and as a result the enrollment rate declined significantly.

With the declining enrollment, the study had insufficient sample size to assess the primary immunogenicity objective and continuation of this placebo controlled study could no longer be justified due to global recommendations. This proposal was shared with and agreed to by FDA and EMA.”

As for the lack of published data, Pfizer stated it doesn’t have it:15

“Pfizer does not yet have a complete data set from the maternal immunization study, C4591015. Pfizer and BioNTech plan to complete the analysis of the clinical trial C4591015 and share it with global public health regulators and seek publication or presentation as is our standard practice.

It is important to note that relevant real-world evidence on the use of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnant women has been presented and published numerous times by various parties in multiple journals and forums.”

Natural Immunity Is Still Being Ignored

Not only does ACOG “strongly recommend” that pregnant women get a COVID-19 shot, but they also recommend a booster dose.16 “Vaccination may occur in any trimester, and emphasis should be on vaccine receipt as soon as possible to maximize maternal and fetal health. This recommendation applies to both primary series and booster vaccination,” ACOG states.17

But missing from their information is data about natural immunity. Research by Makary and colleagues, published in JAMA,18 showed that natural immunity to COVID-19 — achieved by prior infection, not an injection — was durable for about two years, suggesting it’s longer lasting than any protection gained from a COVID-19 shot.19

A systematic review and meta-analysis published in The Lancet20 also revealed natural immunity to be at least as effective as, and likely superior to, COVID-19 injections.21 Health officials don’t have the data from Pfizer’s randomized trial of the shots in pregnant women. But rather than erring on the side of caution — especially for those with natural immunity — they’re still recommending everyone get the shots.

Scientists Warn Pregnant Women Not to Receive COVID Shots

Not everyone’s onboard with health agencies’ push for pregnant women to get injected. “The pushing of these experimental COVID-19 vaccines globally is the greatest violation of medical ethics in the history of medicine, maybe humanity,” Dr. James Thorp, a maternal fetal medicine expert, told Tucker Carlson.22

Thorp and colleagues published a preprint study that found striking risks to pregnant women who received the shots, along with their unborn babies.23 The outcomes were so dire that the researchers concluded pregnant women should not receive COVID-19 shots until further research is completed.

“A worldwide moratorium on the use of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy is advised until randomized prospective trials document safety in pregnancy and long-term follow-up in offspring,” they explained.24 Compared to the flu vaccine, COVID-19 shots were associated with a significant increase in adverse events (AE), including:25

Menstrual abnormality Miscarriage
Fetal chromosomal abnormalities Fetal malformation
Fetal cystic hygroma Fetal cardiac disorders
Fetal arrhythmia Fetal cardiac arrest
Fetal vascular mal-perfusion Fetal growth abnormalities
Fetal abnormal surveillance Fetal placental thrombosis
Low amniotic fluid Fetal death/stillbirth

The data also revealed a 27-fold higher risk of miscarriage and a more than twofold increased risk of adverse fetal outcomes across six different categories, according to board-certified internist and cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough.26

NIH Study Confirms Menstrual Changes Post-Jabs

Delayed menstruation has also been confirmed following COVID-19 shots, according to a study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology — funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health.27

The study involved 3,959 individuals between the ages of 18 and 45 years. Those who had not received a COVID-19 shot noted no significant changes in cycle four during the study compared to their first three cycles. But those who received COVID-19 shots had longer menstrual cycles, typically by less than one day, when they received the shots.

The European Union, meanwhile, has recommended that “heavy menstrual bleeding” be added as a side effect to mRNA COVID-19 shots.28 Makary noted:29

“Here in the U.S. there’s been no such update to product labeling. This lack of humility was also evident when healthy young women were told with incredible absolutism that the COVID vaccine cannot affect fertility. The right answer should have been: We don’t think it will affect fertility but we don’t have any good data on the question.”

Officials Choose ‘Stern Paternalism’ Over Informed Consent

In the absence of data for a vulnerable population — pregnant and breastfeeding women — health officials should have urged caution. As the effectiveness of natural immunity became clear, people should have been informed of this and warned of potential risks from COVID-19 shots. This way, they could make an informed decision before consenting to an injection that could have serious reproductive effects.

The Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge (IPAK) felt the data were compelling enough in 2021 to withdraw the shots for vulnerable populations like pregnant women,30,31 but health officials chose, instead, to make them guinea pigs for an untested, experimental shot.

“In the absence of good data, organized medicine chose the path of stern paternalism. But in my experience as a physician, it’s far better to properly inform a patient rather than steamroll their questions,” said.32 If and when Pfizer does release the data, it’s possible that health agencies will have some explaining to do if the data aren’t favorable. Makary continued:33

“It may be that Pfizer’s pregnancy trial would have been favorable to the vaccine, showing that the benefits outweigh harms, but Pfizer has not released the data. Perhaps the data was not favorable, or perhaps Pfizer realized they had convinced the medical establishment without data, so why run the risk of sharing what a placebo-controlled trial shows?”

Kennedy’s Health Policy Roundtable


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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • June 27, 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a Health Policy Roundtable featuring a panel of health freedom advocates
  • Panelists included me; my good friend Dr. Patrick Gentempo; Maureen McDonnell, a holistic pediatric nurse; Dr. Pierre Kory, cofounder of the Frontline COVID Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC); filmmaker Mikki Willis; Sayer Ji, founder of Greenmed.com; and Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
  • Kennedy wants to implement a digitized medical informatics system so that correlation studies can be rapidly done to determine the impact of drugs and vaccines on public health
  • He also intends to redirect federal grants away from infectious disease research to study chronic disease instead. He would also end the practice of allowing scientists with the National Institutes of Health to collect royalties on products they’ve worked on
  • Kennedy also vows to end gain-of-function research, and will work to get all nations to sign onto a treaty to ban it, as manmade pathogens have been responsible for most of the worst infectious outbreaks in modern history

June 27, 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a Health Policy Roundtable featuring a panel of health freedom advocates, including yours truly; my good friend Dr. Patrick Gentempo; Maureen McDonnell, a holistic pediatric nurse; Dr. Pierre Kory, cofounder of the Frontline COVID Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC); filmmaker Mikki Willis; Sayer Ji, founder of Greenmed.com; and Dr. Sherri Tenpenny.

Opening Statements

The event was hosted by Mary Holland, former president and general counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), an organization founded by Kennedy. She’s currently on a leave of absence from the CHD to work on Kennedy’s presidential campaign.

“I’m on the campaign in large part because of Mr. Kennedy’s strong stance to protect freedom, including health freedom, and to protect fundamental human rights,” Holland said in her opening statement.

“Many of you watching are key supporters of the health freedom movement, and you’re familiar with a lot of the things Mr. Kennedy has been talking about over the years — about agency capture, corporate greed, corruption, pharmaceutical and medical harm, and abuse of government power, especially during COVID … and most of you agree that the U.S. healthcare system needs deep reform, which is our subject tonight.”

Charles Eisenstein, who has been working closely with Kennedy on policy and messaging moderated the event.

“What distinguishes the people on this panel is courage,” Eisenstein said. “This is not merely an abstract ideal — health freedom — for any of us here. It’s something that all of us have risked our careers for …

What unifies us is a certain independence of thought, and also a practicality that we’re actually seeking to do something about it, at a time when the information landscape has become so fragmented that it’s hard to tell who to trust and what to believe, when the traditional authorities have lost the trust of the public.

I hope that everybody listening will tune in both to the content of what is said [and] to the tone of the inquiry, and to trust your instincts on who is sincere and who is truthful. Run it by your reason and logic …

Many of us have been ‘alternative’ for a very long time. This is the moment where the collapsing center … the dysfunctional health system, finally opens up, and what has so long been alternative might become a new mainstream that could transform the health of this country. This is the … possibility that we’re engaged in.”

As expected, mainstream media have had nothing good to say about the event, attempting to smear Kennedy and the panelists with headlines like “RFK Jr. Claims ‘Vaccine Research’ Likely Responsible for HIV and the Spanish Flu”1,2 and “RFK Jr. to Hold Event With Doctor Who Says COVID Vaccine Makes Forks Stick to Your Body.”3 I suggest following Eisenstein’s invitation to listen to it and make up your own mind. Below I will summarize some of the central highlights from this Q&A.

How Kennedy Intends to Change the Health Care System

McDonnell asked Kennedy how he intends to transform our current disease care system into a health care system that “takes into account and effectively addresses root causes of illnesses, the underlying issues of these chronic conditions that are plaguing our nation.” Kennedy replies:

“That’s one of the issues that really makes me excited to be able to debate … and my capacity to actually get something done on that issue is one of the things that that really attracted me to make this run.

I think I know how to fix the problem … and a lot of the problem can be fixed from the Oval Office without the cooperation of Congress, so it can be done pretty quickly. The regulatory process usually takes about seven years, but you can change policy and guidelines overnight.

I need to end the financial conflicts, and to the extent I can do that with executive orders, I will … One is the advertising of pharmaceutical drugs on TV, which I can change with executive order. At least I can direct NIH, or I can direct FDA and the FCC … to institute a regulatory process to end that practice …

I’m also going to intervene directly with the journals. I’m going to call the journals into the Department of Justice and tell them that we believe they’re involved in racketeering with the pharmaceutical industry to systematically lie to the public — through their retractions, through their financial entanglements, which encourage them to publish false information to promote pharmaceutical products.

One thing I can directly do that I’m most excited about is, I can terminate a lot of the grants to infectious disease and virologists and redirect those grants … to study chronic disease. I’m going to pressure journals to publish the results of these studies.

We’re going to start funneling studies to a different group of scientists, to people who actually want to see where the chronic disease is coming from. I’m going to open up the vaccine safety DataLink, which is now in a lockbox. It’s like locked up like Fort Knox. I’m going to open it up so every scientist can get in there and look at the data.

That data you can do cluster analyses on because that’s the vaccination records in the health records of … at least 10 million Americans from the top 10 HMOs. What I would like to do is a real medical informatics system where you digitalize all that data, so you can do these … studies, literally in seconds.

You can say, show me the association between children’s hepatitis B vaccine within their first 30 days and diabetes, and ASD and autism … You can correlate all that stuff and look at very good data almost instantaneously … So, I’m very excited about having a real medical informatics system, not just to look at vaccines, but to look at every medicine.

If you’ve got two competitive diabetes medicines, why don’t we know which one is most effective? Why don’t we know which one is most likely to result in heart attacks or whatever?

We’ll be able to compare every medical intervention in the country instantaneously, and compare it to all the alternatives, and do hundreds of these studies in a day, and then notify the insurance companies. ‘Look, this isn’t a medicine that actually works, and this is a medicine that is going to cost you money over the long term.’”

Kennedy would also weed out scientists who have approved harmful interventions due to conflicts of interest. Scientists and leaders on medical approval committees have a sacred responsibility to protect American health, and if they’re not living up to that duty, they would be forbidden from serving on any federal medical commission ever again.

Preventing Political Bias in Research

Kory, in turn wanted to know how Kennedy intends to ensure that political bias is kept out of future funding decisions, particularly funding for research. While funding decisions need to go through Congress, Kennedy could make many changes that don’t require Congressional approval.

For example, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) no longer studies chronic disease and has instead become an incubator for drug development, from which the agency then collects royalties. “I’m going to end that, to the extent that I can,” Kennedy says. One way to end that scheme is to end the practice of allowing NIH scientists to collect royalties on products they’ve worked on.

“That’s just wrong,” Kennedy says. “Regulators should not be making money on products that they worked on at taxpayer expense. But mainly, I don’t think NIH should be in the business of incubating drugs for the pharmaceutical industry, unless there’s some compelling reasons that pharmacy is not going to develop that drug on its own.

By the way, I do not believe that infectious disease is an enormous threat to human health. We had a huge death rate from COVID in this country, but almost everybody who died had chronic disease … The real threat to American health is not coming from infections; it’s coming from chronic disease, and that is what we should target for all of our research.”

We Must End Gain-of-Function Research

Kennedy also vows to end all gain-of-function research, and will work to get all nations to sign onto a treaty to ban all such research.

“Gain-of-function research, it’s just a disaster,” he says. “It’s given us no benefits, it’s given us everything from Lyme disease to COVID, and many other diseases. RSV, which is now one of the biggest killers of children, came out of a vaccine lab …

There’s good evidence that even Spanish flu came from … vaccine research … Vaccine research has actually created some of the worst plagues in our history …”

Kennedy Stands for Constitutional Absolutism

Gentempo asked Kennedy how he intends to prevent the destruction of Constitutional rights in the name of “health care” or a “medical emergency,” as was done during the COVID pandemic. Kennedy replied:

“I’ll have to go to Congress … and change the criteria for the declaration of emergencies in this country. We need to make it clear that the Constitution is inviolable, and that even in the most dire emergency, you can’t waive the Constitution, and that you have to go through the democratic process.

Now, that doesn’t mean you can’t have short emergencies. But what we saw with this emergency was really extraordinary, because the entire democratic process was waived … But it doesn’t matter if the life of the nation is at stake — you cannot do [that]. The Constitution is more important even than the nation, or any amount of lives, and we need to go back to that.”

Redirecting the Democratic Party to Its Original Values

For my part, I chose to play the devil’s advocate and asked Kennedy why people should support another Democrat for President, seeing how the federal government has been hijacked by globalist billionaires, and the Democratic Party under the Biden regime has become the most authoritarian administration in United States history.

The barrier to Kennedy winning as a Democratic candidate seems near insurmountable, thanks to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) super PACs. Kennedy would have to get 66% of the vote to win those state delegates. So, why has he chosen to run as a Democrat, when the party has a massive arsenal with which to prevent him from winning? Kennedy replied:

“I’m not asking you to support the Democratic Party. I’m trying to recall the Democratic Party to its initial values. The values that I grew up with, that my uncle and father represented …

I think, for me, the best path to victory is through the Democratic Party, although, at this point, people can look at it and say it’s insurmountable. But I think we have a pretty good plan for getting there. I ask you to have faith and watch what we do, and I think that you’ll be pleased.

A lot of people say, ‘Maybe you should run as an independent.’ But if you run as an independent, there is no primary process. Nobody pays attention to the independent until the general election, and that is a year from now.

I right now have 800 press requests, and I’m somebody who couldn’t get on the press for 18 years. For the first time, I’m able to talk to broad swaths of the public about these issues, to be completely honest about them, and debate them for the first time.”

How Kennedy Will Choose His Science Team

Tenpenny was next:

“We spent the last three and a half years under the tyranny of [Dr. Anthony] Fauci and [Dr. Deborah] Birx. I don’t know why Birx is still walking around. She admitted lying to the president. We have no Department of Justice, which I hope you will address as a lawyer.

But my question for you is based on how the country was hijacked by Fauci and Birx and a few of their comrades. How are you going to choose your medical advisory team? And where do the three-letter agencies like the NIH and the CDC fit in? How are you going to go about choosing the people you’re going to listen to?”

Kennedy replied:

“I’ll have a diverse medical advisory team. I feel like I’m pretty much an expert on parsing medical information and figuring it out … I’m going to have people who are dissidents. I’m going to have people who are moving away from the pharmaceutical paradigm.

I really want to try to move this country away from the pharmaceutical paradigm and move our objectives … [to] metrics that show better health. Are we reducing chronic disease? Are medical bills going down? Are our children healthier? Do we have better infant mortality?

Do we have better longevity? And base everything on empiricism, on evidence-based science. Let’s do the studies and make sure these interventions work. And then, not be closed minded to natural remedies and to integrative medicine …

I’ve been litigating against all of those agencies for many, many years … the NIH, CDC and FDA. So I know the people who I trust within each of those agencies. I have kind of a cadre of people whose judgment I believe is independent; wise people who are discerning and prudent and also understand what the problem is.”

Where Kennedy Stands on the Pandemic Treaty

Ji’s question revolved around Kennedy’s stance on the World Health Organization’s Pandemic Treaty and the amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHRs), which threaten the sovereignty of our nation and the right of people to make informed medical choices.

“Under my presidency, we’re not going to be submitting to any WHO treaty,” Kennedy replied. “I’m going to be reevaluating the U.S. relation with WHO. The WHO has gotten away from what it did really well, which was nutrition, hygiene, local economic development … things that were really helping … locally based strategies that were rooted in local culture …

They’ve instead been checked by big corporations who want to promote … cookie cutter technology for every problem … I want to help people develop their own solutions rather than having U.S. corporations impose technological solutions for problems that people have been solving themselves for thousands of years, and help them do what they want to do.

The same with medicine. I don’t think good health comes in a syringe. I think good health comes from … good water, good nutrition, healthy foods. That’s what stops the mortality from infectious disease, and the switching of priorities away from traditional hygiene, nutrition, economic development and local health care, has really destroyed any kind of … legitimacy to the WHO and we need a complete reboot of that agency.”

Where Does Kennedy Stand on Climate Change?

The next question came from Willis, who stated that, even as a long-time progressive environmental activist, he’s now starting to see the dark side of the climate change narrative. “I am now aware that the climate change narrative has been grossly exaggerated by power hungry politicians,” he said.

How does Kennedy feel about the current climate change narrative? “I believe that the climate is an existential threat, and I believe that carbon contributes to climate change,” Kennedy replied. But as for how much of climate change is being caused by carbon dioxide, he’s not sure.

“Climate science is so complex and requires so many disciplines. I don’t understand the mathematical modeling, the physics or the chemistry well enough to make any independent assessment,” he said. However, he believes the climate scientists who predict dire outcomes are correct. Willis interjected:

“What I’m most concerned about … is the way that politicians have exaggerated the narrative such that we now have a generation of young people vowing never to have children because they think that our world is going to end …

I think the misinformation of the climate narrative has taken our eye off the ball and is stopping us from correcting pollution and things that we could actually have the funding and the technology for today.

It’s the doom narrative that is terrorizing so many Americans, particularly young people, and I would love to know, are you going to carry on with that narrative? Or what will you do to put our next generations at ease such that they won’t pass up one of the greatest gifts ever, which is creating a family?”

Kennedy agreed that the climate narrative has indeed been hijacked by the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates and the like, and is being used by globalists to consolidate power, diminish democracy and constrict civil rights and human rights.

“I think the climate crisis right now is being used in that way by those people,” Kennedy said. “My approach to climate has always been a free market approach. For 40 years, I’ve said that we should use marketplace rules rather than top-down controls. We should reward the cheapest, most efficient energy sources, and those are going to be renewable sources, generally speaking, depending on where you are in the world …

If we have market-based rules, carbon will disappear anyway. What I focused on during my career is not scaring people with carbon, but talking about what’s really happening … I’ve spent a lot of time in West Virginia, and we have now … flattened an area larger than the state of Delaware, 1.4 million acres …

We’ve filled 2,200 miles of rivers with rubble. That’s one of the costs of coal. The other costs is mercury contamination of every freshwater fish in America and most of the big saltwater fish. We have acid rain that has destroyed 150 lakes and the Appalachians are now sterilized. That forest cover has disappeared …”

Kennedy’s View on Vaccine Mandates

Next, Tenpenny inquired where Kennedy stands on vaccine mandates, be they related to emergency situations or childhood vaccinations mandated to attend school.

“I’m not against vaccines any more than I’m against medicine,” Kennedy replied. “If you show me a vaccine that works — so that people who take it, 10 years from now are safer and healthier and more alive in every respect … I would take that vaccine, and I would urge other people to take it as well.

But I wouldn’t ever mandate it. I’m against vaccine mandates or any kind of medical mandates. I’m against mass aids … So mandating those is something I would not allow as President.”

Uniting the Country Through Honesty

In closing McDonnell asked how Kennedy intends to unite this sorely divided country, in which people can’t seem to see eye-to-eye on anything.

“We have a nation that’s so divisive. It’s so divided over gender, over religion, over politics. I heard you speak when you announced your candidacy in Boston, and one of the interviewers said to you, ‘Your own siblings don’t agree with you; they’re not supporting you.’

And you said something very profound. You said, ‘In my family, we’re allowed to debate, we’re allowed to discuss, we’re allowed to disagree, but we all love each other.’ So, my question to you is, with that sentiment, can you help bring the country together? How would you do that?” McDonnell asked.

Kennedy replied, “Honestly, I think the reason people are all angry at each other is that they’re being lied to.” If government and media, institutions that are supposed to be trustworthy, quit lying and started telling the truth, much of that anger would dissipate.

“Journalists have become propagandists for official narratives, and people know that they’re being lied to,” Kennedy said, “and so they look for other sources of information. And they have to be punished for doing that, because that’s a heresy. And so, they’re silenced, or they’re deplatformed, or they’re gaslighted.

They’re told that they’re lying, and that makes people angry. So, I think most of the anger is rooted in people lying, censorship and all the reactions to the lies. The principal antidote for that is a government that is rigorously truthful [and] that starts encouraging in various ways the media start telling the truth to the public.

The first thing I’m going to do when I get in there — besides pardoning Julian Assange and a bunch of other things I promise to do — is to put out an executive order [that says] federal agencies cannot participate in either propagandizing the American public or censoring the American public. That will be step one, and then I’m going to do a lot of other strong stuff to make sure … it never happens again.”

For information about how you can support Kennedy’s presidential campaign, visit Kennedy24.com.

COVID Shots Associated With Increased Risk of Blindness


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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
     Fact Checked     June 13, 2023

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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • The broad range of reported side effects of the COVID jab is astounding. Effects involve just about every part, organ and system of the body, including a range of eye problems
  • The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s data mining of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reveals reports ranging from eye discomfort, bruising and numbness, to serious conditions such as retinal vein and retinal artery occlusions, eye hemorrhage and retinal and ophthalmic migraines
  • Two recent papers highlight the risk of ophthalmic vascular events, which can lead to blindness, following the COVID jab. Less than 20% of patients who experience central retinal artery occlusion, i.e., a blockage in the main artery of the retina, regain functional visual acuity in the affected eye
  • A systematic review of 49 studies found that most vascular events involving the eyes occurred after the first dose, and were more common after the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots
  • A second risk assessment concluded that, across age groups, the risk of retinal vascular occlusion more than doubled in the two years following the mRNA COVID jab

While U.S. health agencies have admitted that myocarditis (heart inflammation), and a related condition called pericarditis (inflammation of the heart sack), are potential side effects of the COVID jab,1 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ignored hundreds of other safety signals that have shown up during their Proportional Reporting Ratio (PRR) data mining of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

For example, in individuals aged 18 and older, there are 770 safety signals for different adverse events, and more than 500 of them have a stronger safety signal than myocarditis and pericarditis.2

Range of Eye Problems Reported Post-Jab

The broad range of reported side effects is also astounding. They involve just about every part, organ and system of the body, including a range of eye problems. For example, looking at the list of reported side effects in 18-and-over age group in the CDC’s PRR document,3 we find:

Ocular discomfort
Eye contusions (bruising)
Eye color change
Eyelid sensory disorder
Hypoesthesia eye (numbness of the eye, typically resulting from nerve damage and/or blood clots that result in tissue damage)
Retinal vein occlusion (blood clot in the vein that carries deoxygenated blood from your retina back to your heart)
Retinal artery occlusion (blood clot in the artery that feeds blood to your retina)

Eye hemorrhage

Retinal migraine (a retinal disease accompanied by migraine caused by ischemia or vascular spasm in or behind the affected eye; bouts can cause diminished vision or temporary blindness)
Ophthalmic migraine (a nervous system problem typically involving the third, fourth or sixth cranial nerves that allow for various eye movements; the condition is associated with severe headache and pain around the eyes; double vision is common during bouts)

Ophthalmic Vascular Events Linked to COVID Jab

Two recent papers specifically highlight the risk of ophthalmic vascular events, which can lead to blindness, following the COVID jab. Basically, what we’re talking about are acute ischemic strokes that affect the eyes and can cause permanent loss of vision.

For example, according to research4 published in 2021, less than 20% of patients who experience central retinal artery occlusion,5 i.e., a blockage in the main artery of the retina, regain functional visual acuity in the affected eye.

The first paper, a systematic review6 of 49 studies published in the journal Vaccines in December 2022, found that most vascular events involving the eyes (46.2%) occurred after the first dose, and were more common after the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots.

“Ophthalmic vascular events are serious vision-threatening side effects that have been associated with COVID-19 vaccination. Clinicians should be aware of the possible association between COVID-19 vaccines and ocular vascular events to provide early diagnosis and treatment,” the authors concluded.

Prolonged Increased Risk of Blindness Post-Jab

The second article was published May 2, 202 in NPJ Vaccines.7 Here, the researchers did a risk assessment to determine just how common retinal vascular occlusion — which can cause blindness — was after the COVID-19 jab. The results were devastating.

Across age groups, the risk more than doubled in the two years following the shot. For a detailed breakdown of retinal vascular occlusion incidence among various age groups, genders and ethnicities, see Table 2 on this page.8 According to Retsef Levi, that amounts to one additional case for every 300 seniors jabbed (age 64 and older), and one additional case for every 1,000 people jabbed between the ages of 18 and 64.9

According to the CDC,10 58,739,476 seniors aged 65 and older have received at least one dose. Divide that by 300, and we could be looking at 195,798 additional cases of retinal vascular occlusion and potential blindness among the elderly. And that’s just in the United States.

If we look at the 18 and older age group, the CDC claims 238,163,284 Americans have received at least one dose.11 Divide that by 1,000, and we’re potentially looking at an additional 238,163 instances of eye damage that could lead to blindness.

That’s an awful lot of visually impaired people. For reference, in 2017, an estimated 1.08 million Americans were blind.12 Of that 1.08 million, only 141,000 were younger than 40 (about 13%).

Retinal Vascular Occlusion Post-Jab Not Likely Coincidental

Patients included in the NPJ Vaccines study13 were jabbed between January 2020 and December 2022. Individuals with confirmed COVID-19, a history of retinal vascular occlusion, and those who used medication within four weeks of getting the jab that could affect blood coagulation were excluded. In the end, 739,066 “vaccinated” cohorts were matched to the same number of unvaccinated individuals at a ratio of 1-to-1. As reported in this paper:14

“Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines are associated with several ocular manifestations. Emerging evidence has been reported; however, the causality between the two is debatable. We aimed to investigate the risk of retinal vascular occlusion after COVID-19 vaccination …

We employed multivariable-adjusted Cox proportional hazards models after performing a 1:1 propensity score matching between the vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts.

Individuals with COVID-19 vaccination had a higher risk of all forms of retinal vascular occlusion in 2 years after vaccination, with an overall hazard ratio of 2.19 (95% confidence interval 2.00–2.39).

The cumulative incidence of retinal vascular occlusion was significantly higher in the vaccinated cohort compared to the unvaccinated cohort, 2 years and 12 weeks after vaccination. The risk of retinal vascular occlusion significantly increased during the first 2 weeks after vaccination and persisted for 12 weeks.

Additionally, individuals with first and second dose of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 had significantly increased risk of retinal vascular occlusion 2 years following vaccination, while no disparity was detected between brand and dose of vaccines.

This large multicenter study strengthens the findings of previous cases. Retinal vascular occlusion may not be a coincidental finding after COVID-19 vaccination.”

The authors cite 10 different case reports15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24 of retinal vascular occlusion following vaccination, as well as two additional literary reviews25,26 on the condition as it relates to mRNA COVID “vaccination.” Unfortunately, both are behind a paywall. You can review the case reports, however, if you want.

Molecular mimicry of the S protein, which shares sequence homology with human proteins, may play a central role in retinal vascular occlusion. ~ NPJ Vaccines

As for how the mRNA COVID jab might cause retinal vascular occlusion, the authors’ hypothesis is that “molecular mimicry of the S protein, which shares sequence homology with human proteins, may play a central role.”

Special Vaccine Issue to Focus on Post-Jab Eye Problems

Apparently, medical scientists are concerned enough about what they’re seeing so far that the journal Vaccine has issued a call for manuscripts for a special issue of “Ophthalmic Adverse Events Following SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination.” The submission deadline is December 31, 2023, so obviously, we won’t see this special edition until sometime in 2024. As noted in the manuscript request:27

“Over the past 20 months, several reports and studies have highlighted the adverse events (such as myocarditis, Guillain–Barré syndrome, etc.) following the administration of these vaccines. In this special edition, we are compiling case reports, series, review articles and studies focused on ophthalmic adverse events following SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations. The submissions may include:

1.Case of rare ophthalmic adverse events following vaccination

2.Studies reporting risk of ophthalmic adverse events following vaccine

3.Analysis of global databases reporting vaccine-associated ophthalmic adverse events

4.Review articles evaluating published literature on ocular adverse events with special emphasis on underlying potential mechanisms.”

Signs and Symptoms of Retinal Vascular Occlusion

In closing, it’s important to realize that the primary symptom of retinal vascular occlusion is a sudden change in vision — be it blurry vision, or a partial or complete loss of vision — typically only in one eye. Rarely ever is there pain.

Should this happen, seek evaluation immediately. The risk of more severe and/or permanent vision loss increases the longer the treatment delay. Your ophthalmologist (eye doctor) can give you a diagnosis, but it would be prudent to seek emergency room care if you suddenly lose your vision in one eye — particularly if you’ve received one or more mRNA COVID shots.

Since this is like a “stroke” in your eye, the sooner you are able to provide the tissue that is not being supplied with oxygen, the more likely it is you will recover function. We know that there are two supplements that will help with these types of reperfusion injuries, methylene blue and melatonin. I discussed this in my interview with Dr. Russel Reiter.

In May 2023, actor Jamie Foxx suffered what is being reported as a stroke that left him partially paralyzed and blind.28 Hollywood journalist AJ Benza claimed Foxx had been pressured to get the shot for the production of “Back in Action,” but sources close to Foxx claim his condition is unrelated to the COVID jab, and no one has even confirmed that he got the shot, although it was supposedly required on the set.

While it’s unclear if the mRNA shot had anything to do with Foxx’s sudden incapacitation, his condition resembles what I’ve discussed here, which drives home the point that this is something that needs to be taken seriously.

United States forms official committee to investigate extent of COVID jab injuries

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covid-jab-injuries(NaturalHealth365)  A whopping 672 million COVID jabs were administered nationwide from December 2020 through March 2023.  In this period, nearly 20,000 reports of death were submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).  A total of 8,000 injuries were reported to VAERS by January 2021 alone.

Fast forward a full year after the jab program’s implementation, and more than a million post-injection adverse events were reported to VAERS.  Unfortunately, the numbers continue to climb as we enter the third year of the shot program.  Now (finally!), due to this ever-expanding public health problem, the United States has created an official committee to explore the true extent of injuries caused by the jab.

United States expert panel convened to explore COVID jab adverse events

A group of health experts met in late March 2023 as part of an overarching project to gauge the extent of the adverse events caused by the jab program.  The committee, formed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), met to analyze evidence of the relationship between the shots and negative health outcomes post-injection.  Those adverse events include but are not limited to sudden death, myocarditis, irregular menstrual cycles, and infertility.

The process employed by the committee included the creation of methods for analysis, literature review, conclusions, and the generation of an informative report.  The report is expected to be released to the public in March 2024.

Will the committee’s analysis be truly objective?

The work performed by the committee is funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) also helps fund the work.  But, critical thinkers rightfully question whether such funding will compromise the integrity of the research and analysis.

According to NASEM, if one of the funding agencies does not like what the committee reports, that financier cannot keep the conclusions under wraps.  Even though this may seem “reassuring,” there is good reason to question whether the CDC played a part in handpicking some of the supposed experts added to the committee.

The committee’s findings might set the stage for a payout to jab victims

Most people don’t know that as of the date of this publication, COVID-19 jab injuries are only compensable through the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), not the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).  This makes it difficult for those injured by the shots to seek financial compensation.

Although we are not holding our breath, we hope the committee’s findings will illuminate a potential cause-and-effect relationship between the jab and adverse health outcomes.  This could pave the way for a viable avenue to seek financial compensation for those who have experienced COVID jab-related injuries.

Ultimately, according to many integrative healthcare professionals, this COVID shot program should be stopped immediately to prevent even greater harm.

Sources for this article include:

Epochtimes.com
Nationalacademies.org
Hrsa.gov
Crsreports.congress.gov
Hrsa.gov
MCTLaw.com