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Covid mRNA vaccines are “clearly the most failing medical product in the history of medical products, both in terms of efficacy and safety” and should be withdrawn immediately as they cause “an unprecedented level of harm including the death of young people and children”, a top drug safety expert has said.
Professor Retsef Levi, an expert in analytics, risk management and health systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, released a video this morning where he set out the alarming findings of his investigations and how they have been completely ignored by the Israeli Government. The video was tweeted by leading cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra.
Hi. My name is Retsef Levi, and since 2006 I’ve been a faculty member at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I have more than 30 years of experience as a practitioner and an academic in using data analytics to assess and manage risk, particularly in the context of health systems and health policies, as well as the management of safety and quality of manufacturing of biological products.
I’m filming this video to share my strong conviction that at this point in time all COVID-19 mRNA vaccination programmes should stop immediately. They should stop because they completely fail to fulfil any of their advertised promises regarding efficacy. And more important they should stop because of the mounting and indisputable evidence that they cause an unprecedented level of harm, including the death of young people and children.
I personally became concerned with the vaccine safety around the middle of 2021, when it became known that the mRNA vaccines cause myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart.
Since myocarditis is known to be hard to diagnose I was very concerned that it will not be detected by the existing vaccine safety surveillance systems. Motivated by that, we decided to analyse the Israel national EMS [emergency services] data to see if there are any signals of increased out-of-hospital adverse events.
We detected an increase of 25% in the cause ‘with cardiac arrest’ diagnosis among ages 16-39 in the first half of 2021, exactly when the vaccination campaign in Israel was launched. A smaller increase was also detected in the older ages. Moreover, we also detected a statistically significant temporal correlation between the number of the Pfizer vaccine doses administered to this population and the number of EMS calls with cardiac arrest diagnosis.
By now I believe that the cumulative evidence is conclusive and confirms our concern that the mRNA vaccines indeed cause sudden cardiac arrest as a sequel of vaccine-induced myocarditis
And finally, autopsies of people that die closely after they receive the vaccine indicate that with the enlarged number of cases, there is strong evidence that the death was caused by vaccine-induced myocarditis.
So presented with all of this evidence, I think that there is no other ethical or scientific choice but to pull out of the market these medical products and stop all the mRNA vaccination programmes. This is clearly the most failing medical product in the history of medical products, both in terms of efficacy and safety. And we need to investigate and think hard: How did we end up in a situation that it’s also the most profitable medical product in the history of medical products?
Thank you for your attention.
The TGA has an extensive section on its website describing how its data on adverse effects is used. This states that “an assessment of the safety of a medicine or vaccine cannot be made based on this information”.
Jacques Raubenheimer, a senior research fellow in biostatistics at University of Sydney who has written on vaccine misinformation and data misinterpretation, said the nature of the adverse event data meant it could not be used to draw the inferences made in the Daily Exposé article.
“They are assuming that every death listed against other vaccines was caused by those vaccines, and that every death listed against COVID vaccines were caused by the COVID vaccines. That should immediately give us (reason to) pause,” he told AAP FactCheck.
University of Queensland associate professor Paul Griffin, an infectious diseases physician and microbiologist, agreed that the post’s analysis was flawed.
“When the majority of the population is vaccinated, which we are fortunate is now the case with these COVID-19 vaccines, essentially all events, whether they be adverse events or indeed completely unrelated events, will occur mostly in the vaccinated as they are now the majority of the population,” he said in an email.
Dr Griffin added that there was “a tendency by some who fail to understand this concept to link events to the fact that people are vaccinated”.
originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Another non-medical self-described expert performing data analytics using flawed analytic approaches.
The TGA has an extensive section on its website describing how its data on adverse effects is used. This states that “an assessment of the safety of a medicine or vaccine cannot be made based on this information”.
Jacques Raubenheimer, a senior research fellow in biostatistics at University of Sydney who has written on vaccine misinformation and data misinterpretation, said the nature of the adverse event data meant it could not be used to draw the inferences made in the Daily Exposé article.
“They are assuming that every death listed against other vaccines was caused by those vaccines, and that every death listed against COVID vaccines were caused by the COVID vaccines. That should immediately give us (reason to) pause,” he told AAP FactCheck.
University of Queensland associate professor Paul Griffin, an infectious diseases physician and microbiologist, agreed that the post’s analysis was flawed.
“When the majority of the population is vaccinated, which we are fortunate is now the case with these COVID-19 vaccines, essentially all events, whether they be adverse events or indeed completely unrelated events, will occur mostly in the vaccinated as they are now the majority of the population,” he said in an email.
Dr Griffin added that there was “a tendency by some who fail to understand this concept to link events to the fact that people are vaccinated”.
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“When the majority of the population is vaccinated, which we are fortunate is now the case with these COVID-19 vaccines, essentially all events, whether they be adverse events or indeed completely unrelated events, will occur mostly in the vaccinated as they are now the majority of the population,” he said in an email.
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Another non-medical self-described expert performing data analytics using flawed analytic approaches.
The TGA has an extensive section on its website describing how its data on adverse effects is used. This states that “an assessment of the safety of a medicine or vaccine cannot be made based on this information”.
Jacques Raubenheimer, a senior research fellow in biostatistics at University of Sydney who has written on vaccine misinformation and data misinterpretation, said the nature of the adverse event data meant it could not be used to draw the inferences made in the Daily Exposé article.
“They are assuming that every death listed against other vaccines was caused by those vaccines, and that every death listed against COVID vaccines were caused by the COVID vaccines. That should immediately give us (reason to) pause,” he told AAP FactCheck.
University of Queensland associate professor Paul Griffin, an infectious diseases physician and microbiologist, agreed that the post’s analysis was flawed.
“When the majority of the population is vaccinated, which we are fortunate is now the case with these COVID-19 vaccines, essentially all events, whether they be adverse events or indeed completely unrelated events, will occur mostly in the vaccinated as they are now the majority of the population,” he said in an email.
Dr Griffin added that there was “a tendency by some who fail to understand this concept to link events to the fact that people are vaccinated”.
www.aap.com.au...
Stop the vaccine apologetics and denialism of reality. And stop defending the pharmaceutical companies.
“Unfortunately, despite the somewhat cautious language used by the authors, this paper clearly fails to adhere to sufficient standards of scientific rigor throughout,” reads an unpublished manuscript asking for the retraction of the study, posted online on May 5 and signed by 10 scientists. “While the authors have described their analysis as ‘not establishing causal relationships’ … they have in fact not even established useful correlations. The paper does not pass basic statistical and epidemiological review, which brings into question whether the findings do indeed ‘raise concerns regarding vaccine-induced undetected severe cardiovascular side-effects’ … or whether the reported weak correlations are simply the result of inadequate and inappropriate methodological choices.”
The study, which has been referred to as an MIT study published in Nature, was not actually published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature. It was published in Scientific Reports, a peer-reviewed open access journal that is part of Nature Portfolio, a group of journals that includes Nature published by Springer Nature.
On May 5, the journal added a note alerting readers that “the conclusions of this article are subject to criticisms that are being considered by the Editors.”
Some findings of the study also contradict clinical evidence on myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination. For instance, as we have reported, most cases of vaccine-induced myocarditis have been observed in young males, following a second dose of mRNA vaccines. But the study does not find much of a difference in calls after doses one and two, and both types of calls increased more in females than in males. The authors also said they opted to use biweekly counts of first and second vaccine doses because studies “suggest myocarditis typically appears within two weeks from vaccination.” But according to CDC data, most myocarditis cases occur within a few days of vaccination.
One of the authors, Retsef Levi, told us in an email that the study’s finding are “merely correlation and NOT proving causality!” and that the paper suggests more studies should be done to “better understand causal mechanisms that could be any combination of COVID-19 infections, vaccines and potentially other factors, such as changes in patient behaviors.”
He told us the paper was driven “by the known fact that both COVID-19 infections and vaccines could cause adverse cardiac related outcomes, for example, myocarditis.” And added that it “uses unique comprehensive country level EMS data” and “well-accepted statistical methods to study temporal correlations between infections, vaccination level and the respective weekly EMS calls.”
originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: quintessentone
“When the majority of the population is vaccinated, which we are fortunate is now the case with these COVID-19 vaccines, essentially all events, whether they be adverse events or indeed completely unrelated events, will occur mostly in the vaccinated as they are now the majority of the population,” he said in an email.
That sounds like another way of saying there's no way anybody will ever be able to prove the vaccine has caused any harm.
originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: quintessentone
“When the majority of the population is vaccinated, which we are fortunate is now the case with these COVID-19 vaccines, essentially all events, whether they be adverse events or indeed completely unrelated events, will occur mostly in the vaccinated as they are now the majority of the population,” he said in an email.
originally posted by: quintessentone
originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: quintessentone
“When the majority of the population is vaccinated, which we are fortunate is now the case with these COVID-19 vaccines, essentially all events, whether they be adverse events or indeed completely unrelated events, will occur mostly in the vaccinated as they are now the majority of the population,” he said in an email.
That sounds like another way of saying there's no way anybody will ever be able to prove the vaccine has caused any harm.[/quote
No, cause can be determined by autopsy not by data analytics.
medium.com...
Overall, the risk of myocarditis is greater after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after COVID-19 vaccination and remains modest after sequential doses including a booster dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. However, the risk of myocarditis after vaccination is higher in younger men, particularly after a second dose of the mRNA-1273 vaccine
In order to avoid the pitfalls of absolute numbers, it is useful to instead look at incidence rates—usually expressed as the number of deaths per 100,000 people. Standardizing the denominator across all groups offers a very different picture.
Taken at face value, these numbers may appear to indicate that vaccination does not make that much of a difference. But this perception is an example of a phenomenon known as the base rate fallacy. One also has to consider the denominator of the fraction—that is, the sizes of the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. With shots widely available to almost all age groups, the majority of the U.S. population has been vaccinated. So even if only a small fraction of vaccinated people who get COVID die from it, the more people who are vaccinated, the more likely they are to make up a portion of the dead.
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Data shows...
Overall, the risk of myocarditis is greater after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after COVID-19 vaccination and remains modest after sequential doses including a booster dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. However, the risk of myocarditis after vaccination is higher in younger men, particularly after a second dose of the mRNA-1273 vaccine
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That's just one peice of data that contradicts the OP... getting heart issues is a less than .007% chance according to some studies.
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Data shows...
Overall, the risk of myocarditis is greater after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after COVID-19 vaccination and remains modest after sequential doses including a booster dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. However, the risk of myocarditis after vaccination is higher in younger men, particularly after a second dose of the mRNA-1273 vaccine
www.ahajournals.org...
That's just one peice of data that contradicts the OP... getting heart issues is a less than .007% chance according to some studies.
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Data shows...
Overall, the risk of myocarditis is greater after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after COVID-19 vaccination and remains modest after sequential doses including a booster dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. However, the risk of myocarditis after vaccination is higher in younger men, particularly after a second dose of the mRNA-1273 vaccine
www.ahajournals.org...
That's just one peice of data that contradicts the OP... getting heart issues is a less than .007% chance according to some studies.
Apparently you haven't read any other pieces of information. Plenty posted in many threads. The analysis by Professor Levi contradicts the vaccine dogma. Likewise Dr Malhotra has published worked that shows the benefits of vaccination do not outweigh the risks and the risks could be more than the benefits.
One of the authors, Retsef Levi, told us in an email that the study’s finding are “merely correlation and NOT proving causality!” and that the paper suggests more studies should be done to “better understand causal mechanisms that could be any combination of COVID-19 infections, vaccines and potentially other factors, such as changes in patient behaviors.”
It seems that once some people here latch onto anything (meaning self-proclaimed experts not even in the relevant medical fields) that confirms their confused beliefs all truth and facts are ignored. What's this site's mission statement: Deny Ignorance.