Five years ago today, we authored the Great Barrington Declaration, arguing for focused protection instead of lockdowns. A wholehearted thank you to the almost one million co-signers. We were proven right.
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Yet a study worryingly suggests that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines may have negative non-specific effects #NSEVac on the risk of other infections.
In this study among health care workers, the more COVID-19 vaccines (almost exclusively mRNA-based) an individual had received, the higher their risk of influenza-like illness.
The study adds to several epidemiological and immunological studies (many of them cited in the paper) showing that mRNA vaccines for a period dampen the immune response to unrelated pathogens and increase the risk of other infections.
These findings underscore the need to assess vaccines for their overall health effects, not just for their effects on the target infection. A protective effect against a non-severe target infection may be completely offset by a negative effect on the risk of multiple other - and potentially more severe - infections.
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What the AMA forgets, is that in 2021, they encouraged COVID vaccine mandates that ignored both science and the principle of informed consent. This disregard has significantly contributed to the erosion of public trust in health institutions. Itâs time for the AMA to acknowledge this failure, reflect, and take meaningful steps toward reform.
Evidence of the AMAâs stance can be seen here:
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In 2022, the @NIH terminated a subaward to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. American taxpayers had for years been sending money there to fund dangerous gain of function research. Wuhan refused to turn over lab notebooks that the NIH demanded.
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Study finds 45% of people reported to have died of COVID, did not die of COVID.
Media and quoted "experts" repeatedly overstated COVID deaths during the pandemic, scaring the shit out of the public. It was almost military duty for some science writers.
We have a new record.
Spike protein present 709 days post vaccination!
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Itâs not normal for protein to stick about this long.
Have a look at what ChatGPT has to say about that below.
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New paper by @DrJBhattacharya@MartinKulldorff with a thorough analysis of the COVID-19 vaccine trials.
Two major problems identified:
- a failure in the design, with a mismatch between the clinical trial endpoints (any COVID-19 infection) and the public health interest (severe infection, death).
- a failure in the interpretation, with a mismatch between what the trials showed (short-term effect on COVID-19 infection) and what public health officials claimed (long-term effects, effects on transmission).
This has led to increased vaccine hesitancy.
The paper points to several lessons learned, including that regulators must require industry to conduct trials with clinically and epidemiologically meaningful endpoints, such as protection against severe disease and death.
As a historical analogue, the paper mentions the Salk polio vaccine which was tested in a trial with >400,000 participants. Public health was under pressure to deploy the vaccines rapidly, but rightly took the time to conduct a proper evaluation. Had they not done so, there would have been valid concerns about the vaccine.
We have recently pointed out that the current system for testing and approving vaccines needs to be updated after the discovery that vaccines can have non-specific effects #NSEvac. Vaccines should be evaluated for their effect on the risk of other infections and on overall health outcomes (Benn et al, Drug Safety 2023).
It is increasingly clear that to deserve and maintain public trust, we need better designed and larger clinical trials documenting effects on overall health outcomes.
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