Toronto Sun;

A safety monitoring system flagged that U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech’s updated COVID-19 shot could be linked to a type of brain stroke in older adults, according to preliminary data analyzed by U.S. health authorities.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Friday that a CDC vaccine database had uncovered a possible safety issue in which people 65 and older were more likely to have an ischemic stroke 21 days after receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech bivalent shot, compared with days 22-44.

An ischemic stroke, also known as brain ischemia, is caused by blockages in arteries that carry blood to the brain.

I’d be comparing the frequency of ischemic strokes 21 days after with 21 days prior, but that’s just me.

Speculation on 24 year old NFL player, Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest continues.  The obsolete media is leaning heavily on the theory that it was “Commotio cordis“. Others are leaning towards the Jab as the culprit. Actual evidence via tests has yet to be made public.

Tucker Carlson- Cardiologist Peter McCullough, MD, MPH speaks with Tucker Carlson on January 3, 2023 about the tragic collapse of Damar Hamlin.

Peter A. McCullough- Public Health Obligation to Disclose Cause of Cardiac Arrest and Sudden Death

Robert Malone- Cardiac Arrest in Athletes

Alex Berenson- On Damar Hamlin, mRNA shots, and spin

Gad Saad- It’s appropriate to ask all relevant questions; it’s inappropriate to presume any given conclusion.

Francisco- Just putting this out there, recreational or performance enhancing drugs could also be possibilities.

Addendum, from Kate: Its generally unwise to speculate on the cause of any specific, high profile case such as this, because of the obvious risk in having it blow up in your face and thereby undermine whatever credibility you might have going forward in legitimate discussions on vaccine safety.

I cannot for the life of me understand why some of the public profiles mentioned above have chosen to do so.

Should the topic come up in discussion, and I’m pressed for an opinion, my current response is “climate change”. If you’re going to exploit a tragedy to promote a narrative, make it their stupid narrative.

The biggest story in sports today.

https://twitter.com/ProFootballDoc/status/1610095199610613764

Wall Street Journal- Damar Hamlin’s On-Field Collapse Was Due to Cardiac Arrest, Bills Say

It couldn’t possibly be this?

Francisco- Too early to tell for sure what the cause was but it sure makes one wonder.

It also needs to be pointed out that a lot of the same people who are now advocating a “wait and see” attitude were wishing death and destruction on those who had similar thoughts and feelings about the -Magic Juice™- not that long ago.

Alex Berenson:

A group of German scientists released the research as a preprint in July, but it attracted little notice until Science Immunology formally published it on Dec. 22. It is not clear if the new interest comes because the paper has passed peer review or because Covid’s continued surge is troubling researchers.

Like many other scientists, the German researchers measured anti-spike-protein antibodies that people produce after Covid vaccination. Both mRNA and DNA jabs cause the body’s cells to produce spike proteins like those on the surface of the coronavirus.

Those proteins then cause the immune system to make antibodies – Y-shaped proteins which attach to pieces of the spikes. In the case of a real coronavirus infection, the vaccine-generated antibodies stick to the surface spikes on the coronavirus and keep it from attaching to our cells.

Confirming hundreds of similar studies, the German researchers found that levels of a crucial antibody called Immunoglobulin G, or IgG, rose dramatically after the second and third mRNA doses. Those increased antibodies have been the triumph of the mRNA vaccines.

Then the German scientists took a step other researchers had not.

The paper is here (link fixed): Class switch towards non-inflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination. An explanatory thread from one of the paper’s authors, Kilian Schober.

The Effect of the COVID-19 Vaccine on the Menstrual Cycle Among Reproductive-Aged Females in Saudi Arabia

Overall, the changes in the menstrual cycles after both COVID-19 vaccine doses were observed among 46.7%, mainly more menstrual pain in 22.9% following the first dose compared with 21.4% after the second. Menstrual changes were observed among almost two-thirds of women in the age groups 18-22 years (65.2%) and 38-45 years (65.4%) compared with only 43.5% of those in the age group 23-27 years, p<0.001. The Moderna vaccine was associated with the highest rate of menstrual changes (65.4%), whereas Oxford-AstraZeneca was associated with the lowest rate (44.9%), p=0.040. The duration of changes in the cycles after the COVID-19 vaccine (one dose or both) was less than one month among 42.5% of females, whereas it was three months or more among 27.1%.

Nobody knows why, but this is of no concern whatsoever.

On Rumble: A discussion with British cardiologist Aseem Malhotra.

(h/t Ian)

Australia;

Former federal MP Dr Kerryn Phelps has revealed she and her wife both suffered serious and ongoing injures from Covid vaccines, while suggesting the true rate of adverse events is far higher than acknowledged due to underreporting and “threats” from medical regulators.

In an explosive submission to Parliament’s Long Covid inquiry, the former Australian Medical Association (AMA) president has broken her silence about the “devastating” experience — emerging as the most prominent public health figure in the country to speak up about the taboo subject.

“This is an issue that I have witnessed first-hand with my wife who suffered a severe neurological reaction to her first Pfizer vaccine within minutes, including burning face and gums, paraesethesiae, and numb hands and feet, while under observation by myself, another doctor and a registered nurse at the time of immunisation,” the 65-year-old said.

“I continue to observe the devastating effects a year-and-a-half later with the addition of fatigue and additional neurological symptoms including nerve pains, altered sense of smell, visual disturbance and musculoskeletal inflammation. The diagnosis and causation has been confirmed by several specialists who have told me that they have seen ‘a lot’ of patients in a similar situation.”

Judicial Watch announced yesterday;

…that it had obtained records from a FOIA lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease. The entities had failed to respond to a FOIA request filed in June of 2021 regarding “the biodistribution studies and related data for the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson& Johnson COVID vaccines.”

Judicial Watch said that the records contained information…

…regarding data Moderna submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, which indicate a “statistically significant” number of rats were born with skeletal deformations after their mothers were injected with the vaccine. The documents also reveal Moderna elected not to conduct a number of standard pharmacological studies on the laboratory test animals.

Moderna submitted a Nonclinical Overview to the FDA to have its vaccine approved. Included in that overview was information that rats born to mothers that had been given the mRNA vaccine had skeletal abnormalities that included conditions such as “rib nodules” and “wavy ribs.” Moderna said the conditions were not considered “adverse.”