Category: Safe and Effective

Down the memory hole

Remember when the public health authorities assured us that herd immunity would be achieved when a large percentage of the population was fully vaccinated? Someone needs to remind them of that, since they clearly seem to have forgotten. Who needs accountability when you can just redefine failure out of existence?

Despite early obsessions with herd immunity, classical herd immunity leading to disease eradication or elimination is almost certainly “an unattainable goal” with COVID, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top U.S public health officials wrote in a recent article. SARS-CoV-2 mutates constantly, “neither infection nor vaccination appears to induce prolonged protection” in many or most people, they said…

 

A Coming Covid Storm?

File this under ” I hope these guys are wrong”.

el gato malo – covid is becoming increasingly vaccine enabled

each new variant is seeing this relative risk rate rise and the rate of rise is accelerating. this is, unfortunately, exactly what one would predict as a leaky vaccine with a strong tendency to antigenically fixate those having received it drives viral evolution to prey upon this vulnerability. herd OAS replaces herd immunity and vaccine driven evolution does the rest.

if your immune system keeps responding the same way while the virus keeps evolving to take greater and greater advantage of this fact, it could, indeed, eventually become something you can never quite clear.

For an even more pessimistic take…

Geert Vanden Bossche- I SERIOUSLY expect that a series of new highly virulent and highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 (SC-2) variants will now rapidly and independently emerge in highly vaccinated countries all over the world and that they will soon spread at high pace. I expect the current pattern of repetitive infections and relatively mild disease in vaccinees to soon aggravate and be replaced by severe disease and death.

Pfizer- Help Wanted

Dan Astin-Gregory- Within weeks of @pfizer ’s vaccine being administered pursuant to emergency use authorization, Pfizer had to hire 600 full time employees “to help alleviate the large increase of adverse event reports” being received by the company. But it’s wrong to ask questions about safety?

CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021

Due to the large numbers of spontaneous adverse event reports received for the product, the MAH has prioritised the processing of serious cases, in order to meet expedited regulatory reporting timelines and ensure these reports are available for signal detection and evaluation activity.

Pfizer has also taken a multiple actions to help alleviate the large increase of
adverse event reports. This includes significant technology enhancements, and process and workflow solutions, as well as increasing the number of data entry and case processing colleagues. To date, Pfizer has onboarded approximately 600 additional fulltime employees (FTEs). More are joining each month with an expected total of more than 1,800 additional resources by the end of June 2021.

Justin Trudeau and Omar Ahghabra:

You failed. End the Mandates!

And what about the unused doses? 

Postcard from Germany

eugyppius- In Germany, Corona Limps On

The past few weeks have seen fraught negotiations within the coalition government to draft a new Infection Protection Act and continue the circus. Today, after acrimonious debate, the Bundestag voted in the new legislation. It provides two tiers of ongoing Corona regulation:

Then there’s the latest myocarditis numbers out of Ontario.

Kelly Brown- 717 total known cases of mRNA vaccine-related myocarditis in Ontario. Largest cohort; 12-29 yo males.

Covid Cannon Fodder

Any bets on whether this is under or over reported?

Government of Canada- Reported” side effects following COVID-19 vaccination in Canada

Adverse events (side effects) have been reported by 40,891 people. That’s about 5 people out of every 10,000 people vaccinated who have reported 1 or more adverse events.  8,556 were considered serious.  Serious adverse events are rare, but do occur. They include anaphylaxis (a severe allergic reaction), which has been reported 795 times for all COVID-19 vaccines across Canada.  h/t Viva Frei

Blacklocks – A federal program to compensate families of Canadians who suffer death or injury as a result of Covid vaccination is budgeted to run at least five years.

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While data shows that “most reported adverse events were mild and short in duration,” according to the study, which was published in the UK-based medical journal The Lancet, 6.6% of all side effects were categorized as “serious,” and resulted in “inpatient hospitalisation, prolongation of hospitalisation, permanent disability, life-threatening illness, congenital anomaly or birth defect.”

Deaths represented a stunning 1.3% of side effects reports.

Study is here.

The Pandemic Politic

How it started;

[T]o end the pandemic, wealthier countries must address global vaccine inequality. The low vaccination rates in developing countries are driving the relentless mutation of the virus. Not only do these wealthier nations have a moral obligation to expand vaccine access in these countries, but they should also do so to better protect themselves and developing countries who lack the infrastructure necessary to relax public safety regulations.

How it’s going…

Now, with the world taking sides in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, vaccine access is being used to retaliate against countries that aren’t expressing full opposition to Russia’s actions. This is what happened in the case of Lithuania, which decided to cancel its donation of nearly half a million Pfizer covid-19 vaccine doses to Bangladesh, after Bangladesh abstained in the UN General Assembly’s vote condemning the invasion.

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