Resources for Persons Injured by COVID-19 “Vaccines”
“Practice two things in your dealings with disease: either help or do not harm the patient.” – Hippocrates, Epidemics 1, Chapter 11
Although U.S. government agencies are hesitant to admit it, there is an abundance of data revealing that COVID “vaccines” (hereinafter referred to as “jabs” “shots,” or “injections,” as they are not true vaccines by the historic definition of the word) can seriously injure people who have taken them, as I will elaborate below. The ramification of this reality in the lives of those so affected has been horrendous, as I will also make clear. However, there are valuable resources for these victims, which I will outline in the concluding sections of this essay.
Notably, government agencies and officials in some advanced nations have been less reticent to acknowledge the fact and the breadth of COVID jab injuries than has the U.S. Government—at least of late.
Germany
In Germany, for example, The German Federal Ministry of Health tweeted on July 20th, 2022: “One in 5000 people is affected by a serious side effect after a COVID19 vaccination. If you suspect an adverse reaction, get medical attention and report your symptoms to @PEI_Germany.” (English translation)
Soon after, they corrected the figures to read one in 5,000 doses, an even more concerning figure. The data they used included 5,862 reports of suspected adverse reactions in children and adolescents. [ 1 ] (Note here that all numbered references are clickable to URL links.)
In harmony with that admission, researchers at Charité Berlin, Germany’s top hospital and one of Europe’s largest, announced a high rate of severe adverse effects after COVID-19 jabs (in approximately eight out of every 1,000 persons), lasting months or longer, based on a survey of about 40,000 Germans. Extrapolating those results to the population as a whole, the study’s lead author, Dr. Harald Matthes, concluded that some 500,000 Germans might have been severely injured after receiving COVID-19 shots! He also called on the government to take seriously persons reporting “vaccine” injuries and to provide committed outpatient care for them. [ 2 ]
Scandinavia
Some nations have carefully studied the risk-benefit ratio of these injections and have declined to recommend or even to give them to certain populations. After a 2021 preprint of a Nordic Study of 23.1 millions residents twelve years and older across four countries in Scandinavia revealed that “the risk of myocarditis was higher within 28 days of vaccination with both BNT162b2 [Pfizer’s shot] and mRNA-1273 [Moderna’s shot] compared with being unvaccinated” and that this “risk was highest among males aged 16 to 24 years,” these countries began taking action. (That preprint was eventually published in JAMA Cardiology in the Spring of 2022. [ 3 ] ) Finland paused the Moderna jab for males under 30 in October of 2021. [ 4 ] In January of 2022, Sweden decided against recommending COVID shots for kids aged 5-11, noting that the benefits do not outweigh the risks. [ 5 ]
In early 2022, Denmark said it was going to stop vaccinating children against COVID-19 and didn’t recommend vaccination for low-risk folks under 50 years of age. Then, in April of that year, this nation stated that it was “winding down” the COVID jab program and that invitations for the shots would no longer be issued after the 15th of May. [ 6 ]
United Kingdom
In late 2022, the British M.P. Andrew Bridgeon, who had been double-“vaccinated” with the Astra-Zeneca injection, gave a couple of powerful presentations (Oct. 24th, and Dec. 13th) before Parliament, warning about serious safety issues with the COVID shots. In the latter presentation, he pointed out: “Since the roll-out in the UK of the BioNTech-Pfizer mRNA vaccine, we have had almost half a million Yellow Card reports of adverse effects from the public. That is unprecedented. It is more than all the Yellow Card reports of the past 40 years combined…. Only a couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed by a journalist from a major news outlet who said that he was being bombarded by calls from people who said that they were vaccine-harmed but unable to get the support they wanted from the NHS [National Health Service].” Bridgeon went on to say: “In a Westminster Hall debate some weeks ago, I quoted a report by the Journal of the American Medical Association studying the effect of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccination on children under five years of age. It showed that one in 200 had an adverse event that resulted in hospitalisation, and symptoms that lasted longer than 90 days.” Elements of his speech also centered on corruption: “It has been brought to my attention by a whistleblower from a very reliable source that one of these institutions is covering up clear data that reveals that the mRNA vaccine increased inflammation of the heart arteries. They are covering this up in fear that they may lose funding from the pharmaceutical industry.” Bridgeon also observed that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) itself receives an astounding 86% of their funding from Big Pharma. “In effect” he summed up, “we have the poacher paying the gamekeeper.” [ 7 ] [ 8 ] (See 2 the videos below for the speeches.)
Australia
Just recently, the former president of the Australian Medical Association came forward to describe her “vaccine” injury, lambasting the government suppression of the jab-injured and of doctors speaking out about the harms that can be caused by these so-called vaccines. Her testimony was extensively presented in an Australian newspaper [ 9 ]—something that never would have been allowed in America’s Pharma-captured press. (As one example, after a woman in the U.S. suffering from serious neurological damage after the COVID shot pleaded fruitlessly with health agencies for help, she wound up catching the attention of a reporter at a small media company who interviewed her for over two hours; however, the reporter then informed her that the story was quashed after Pfizer had exerted pressure on the news agency. [ 10 ] )
Then, in early December of 2022, Senator Gerard Rennick from Queensland addressed the Australian Parliament in an animated speech in which he highlighted the nearly 140,000 jab injuries on record, “more than all the injuries reported from vaccines since 1971.” He went on to say that “the TGA [Therapeutic Goods Administration] wants to pretend that there's nothing to see here. And why wouldn't they? Because professor [John] Skerritt [director of the TGA] is head of an organization that is funded by Big Pharma. If you want to talk about a conflict of interest, that's it.” Rennick then lambasted Parliament’s lack of compassion for the jab-injured: “Today and last night and day after day for the past 15 months, I get contacted by people who have had their lives destroyed by this vaccine, a vaccine the government said was safe and effective. And if that isn’t bad enough that these people, and I’m looking at you people in this chamber here today, didn’t read the documents that took over somebody else’s body because it suited your narrative, your control and command narrative. You showed no humanity—no humanity. There are people out there that are not only injured, they have lost their jobs and they cannot get medical support to help them. There are husbands and wives of injured couples who had to quit their jobs to stay home and look after those people who are being injured, are in incredible amount of pain.” [ 11 ]
Israel: Pronounced Evidence of Harm
Israel, one of the first nations to plunge headlong into using the COVID jabs, didn't start to gather safety data until over a year into the “vaccine” program—that is, until December of 2021. It was then that their Ministry of Health (MOH) asked an independent expert panel under Professor M. Berkowitz—an expert on toxicology and pharmacology—to carefully assess the safety data that would be collected from this point in time until May 31st, 2022 (six months, then, altogether). During this investigation, this panel limited their research to five frequently reported events (neurological injuries; general side effects; menstrual irregularities; musculoskeletal system disorders; and digestive system/kidney and urinary system). In June, the panel presented their findings to the MOH, revealing that the COVID injections were much more harmful than what was being conceded by the world’s governments.
Most interesting is that the researchers noted that some of the reported adverse events disappeared and then reappeared after later doses. “All of these things were recorded for future analysis of the causal relationship,” the researcher presenting the data pointed out, “because these are things that can support the establishment of a causal relationship between the vaccine and the adverse events.” (This methodology of re-challenge to determine causality is the widely accepted Naranjo Algorithm for determining whether a drug is responsible for an adverse event. [ 12 ] ) The researcher noted, however, that in many of the persons who reported particular adverse events, these did not disappear at all. Most of the neurological injuries for which duration information was available, for example, were reported as lasting longer than three months. Almost one-third of such lasted for over a year and of these 65% were still ongoing. (Re-challenge data was thus available for only about 7% of persons with neurological damage.) Long-lasting menstrual changes were also highlighted in the presentation. All in all, the researchers’ findings contradicted the Ministry’s prior messaging that the “vaccine” was safe and that adverse effects were both rare and short lasting. [ 13 ]
What, then, did the MOH do with the research shared with them by the independent study committee? Sadly, they hid it from the public and produced a report that made the jabs look safe! [ 14 ]
Disappointingly, too, while they had told the researchers during their presentation that they had done a great job, that it was much appreciated, and that they wanted the research to continue, they then abruptly abolished the funding for Dr. Berkowitz’s team—thereby killing any further research on the latter’s part.
Surprisingly, a recording of the Zoom meeting was leaked to the world beginning in August, [ 15 ] which the MOH later conceded was genuine. [ 16 ] (See full tape via YouTube, below)
The Israeli legacy media blacklisted the story, however, so that it was left to journalists who cared to bring it to the attention of the world. [ 17 ]
The United States: VAERS
What, though, about the situation in the U.S.? In America, we have the VAERS database, jointly run by the CDC and the FDA. This is a passive reporting system that allows both healthcare providers and the general public to submit reports of suspected vaccine injury, although the healthcare provider who gave the injection (or under whose authority the injection was administered) is required by law to make such a report, whether that person believes the adverse event was connected with the vaccine or not. From the VAERS Website: “Healthcare providers who administer COVID-19 vaccines are required by FDA, and under the provider agreements for the CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Program to report the following to VAERS: Vaccine administration errors…. Serious AEs [adverse events] regardless of whether the reporter thinks the vaccine caused the AE. Serious AEs per FDA are defined as: Death; a life-threatening AE; inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization; a persistent or significant incapacity or substantial disruption of the ability to conduct normal life functions; a congenital anomaly/birth defect; an important medical event that based on appropriate medical judgment may jeopardize the individual and may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the outcomes listed above; cases of myocarditis after a Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or Novavax vaccine; cases of pericarditis after a Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or Novavax vaccine; cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and adults; cases of COVID-19 that result in hospitalization or death. Healthcare providers are encouraged to report to VAERS any additional clinically significant AEs following vaccination, even if they are not sure whether the vaccine caused the event.” [ 18 ] Information on how to submit a report to VAERS is available at https://vaers.hhs.govexternal icon or by calling 1-800-822-7967.
The VAERS website also notes: “The strengths of VAERS are that it is national in scope and can often quickly detect an early hint or warning of a safety problem with a vaccine….. VAERS is designed to rapidly detect unusual or unexpected patterns of adverse events, also referred to as ‘safety signals.’” [ 19 ] The import of VAERS reports was emphasized by the Committee on Government Reform in a House Report printed by the U. S. Government in 2000, which stated: “VAERS is intended to serve as the ‘front line’ of vaccine safety…. VAERS is considered especially valuable in assessing the safety of newly marketed vaccines.” [ 20 ]
Research conducted in 2012 showed that 86% of reports submitted to VAERS were made by healthcare providers, coroners, or the vaccine manufacturers and only 14% by victims or by family members of victims who had died after having received a vaccine. [ 21 ] A more recent download and analysis of VAERS data that was done in early April 2021 found health-service employees responsible for 67% of reports, pharmaceutical employees for 5% of reports, and lay people for the remaining 28% of reports. [ 22 ]
Surprising to some, perhaps, is that a single VAERS report takes, on average, about half an hour to do and that the person making the report is timed out after 20 minutes of inactivity, with no salvation of the report up until that point—thus being forced to start all over. False reports are punishable by law: “Knowingly filing a false VAERS report is a violation of Federal law (18 U.S. Code § 1001) punishable by fine and imprisonment.” [ 23 ]
Taking all of this into account strongly suggests that the vast majority of laypersons who have made these reports have done so sincerely and not falsely (as some naysayers have alleged). Sadly, though, we have numerous testimonies on record from physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and other healthcare professionals that some medical doctors in whose clinics these injections were given have opted out of submitting VAERS reports, claiming that they don’t have the time. Shockingly, too, some physicians have claimed not even to be aware of the existence of VAERS or of their legal obligation to make such reports. Collette Martin, a 17-year RN, told a Louisiana Health & Welfare hearing on Dec. 6th,. 2021: “The majority of nurses, nurse managers and some doctors do not even know what VAERS is. I’ve spoken to our chief medicine, managers, other nurses on why we’re not reporting to VAERS and the most common response is, ‘What is VAERS’?” [ 24 ] In a recent survey, when 100 Indiana nurses were asked if they were aware of VAERS, 26% reported that they “had heard the name, but didn’t know much more than that” and 6% responded that they had never heard of it. Moreover, 76% of nurses do not know where to file a report, despite sixty-eight percent (68%) of respondents claiming to have a working knowledge of VAERS. [ 25 ]
In a September 2021 interview on The Highwire program hosted by Del Bigtree, Deborah Conrad, PA-C, observed the same lackadaisical attitude toward VAERS reports in the New York hospital in which she had worked for many years. She therefore felt obliged to take it on herself to make these reports. Shamefully, however, she was chastised by her medical facility for shouldering such responsibility because, as was explained to her, such activity could be interpreted as encouraging ‘vaccine hesitancy’—thus inveighing against the hospital’s servile compliance to the Government’s goal of putting a needle in nearly everybody’s arm. [ 26 ]
Then, too, the first video of a COVID “vaccine” investigative series released by Project Veritas featured an interview with U.S. Health and Human Services insider Jodi O’Malley, who worked as an RN at a local Indian Medical Center and who noted the failure of the healthcare practitioners there to report adverse effects after the COVID jabs to VAERS. [ 27 ]
All of these complications have resulted in a vast underreporting to the VAERS system, as even the VAERS website has admitted. (“‘Underreporting’ is one of the main limitations of passive surveillance systems, including VAERS.” [ 28 ] ) In fact, a Government-sponsored study undertaken by Harvard University concluded that “fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported” to VAERS. [ 29 ] Steve Kirsch, director of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, estimated that based on data he had collected and analyzed, the underreporting factor for the COVID injections in particular is 41. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Moreover, a computational biologist, Jessica Rose, Ph.D., who has been a dogged VAERS analyst for many months, estimated the underreporting factor as 31, but noted that this was a conservative estimate. [ 32 ] She also found that “hundreds of thousands” of COVID jab injury reports were backlogged in VAERS as of the end of October, 2021. [ 33 ]
Yet, even with such an underreporting and back-up of reports, what do the VAERS data reveal? As of this date (Jan. 15th, 2023), 188,857 hospital visits, 143,580 urgent-care visits, 220,606 doctor-office visits, 62,019 permanently disabled, 42,003 severe allergic reactions, 35,918 life-threatening reports, 10,331 instances of anaphylaxis, 16,598 instances of Bell’s palsy, 18,181 heart attacks, 26,166 instances of myocarditis or pericarditis, 15,329 instances of shingles, 8,400 instances of thrombocytopenia, 4,873 instances of miscarriage, and, most tragically, 33,591 deaths. [ 34 ] Using the URF calculations above, one is confronted with a truly staggering amount of serious adverse events occurring after the COVID shots.
The VAERS website states, however, that VAERS reports do not necessarily indicate causation: “Some reports to VAERS might represent true vaccine reactions, and others might be coincidental adverse health events not related to vaccination at all.” [ 35 ] Theoretically, that statement is true. However, several astute researchers who have deeply analyzed the actual VAERS data have discovered and highlighted some highly suspicious trends that would point towards causality for the bulk of the reports. Jessica Rose, cited above, noted here: “In the context of all the AEs [adverse effects], 70% of all individuals had onset of symptoms within 48 hours following first or second doses…. The percentages of reported deaths, hospitalizations and emergency doctor visits are highest in the first two days post-injection…. The percentages of cardiovascular, neurological and immunological events are highest in the first two days post-injection. Again, if causation was absent, there should not been excess of reports on days 0, 1 and 2. “ [ 36 ] The temporal association of an adverse event with an injection, which is the point that Rose makes above, is actually one—and many would say the most important—of the Bradford-Hill Criteria for causality, as defined by the World Health Organization. Aside from temporality, these criteria include strength of association, consistency, specificity, biological gradient, plausibility, coherence, experiment, analogy, and reversibility. The WHO, however, has noted that only five of these ten criteria are needed to establish causation from vaccines, namely, consistency, strength of the association, specificity, temporal relation, and biological plausibility. [ 37 ]
In a skillful examination of the Bradford Hill Criteria made in a presentation on Feb. 5th, 2022, Rose carefully explained how the adverse effects reported after COVID shots meet even more than five of the WHO’s criteria. (You can read her extensive excursus here: https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/multimedia/uvc-jessica-rose/ [ 38 ] ) Peter McCullough, a noted cardiologist and epidemiologist as well as the former editor of two medical journals, has also pointed to the Bradford Hill Criteria and discussed how adverse effects reported after the COVID “vaccines” fulfill each and every one of the five criteria needed to establish causation. [ 39 ] [ 40 ]
The CDC and FDA’s “VAERS Team” says that they monitor VAERS very closely to look for “potential new safety concerns for COVID-19 vaccines.” [ 41 ] Yet, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by Children’s Health Defense, the CDC made the mind-boggling admission that they never analyzed the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System for safety signals for the COVID-19 injections via the Proportional Reporting Ratios (PRR) they had promised (in their own Briefing Document) that they would use to do so. They even went on to claim that “such data mining is outside of th[e] agency’s purview.” [ 42 ] (Proportional Reporting Ratios refer to the incidence of a specific adverse event after a specific vaccine compared to the incidence after all other vaccines.)
They then changed their tune, saying that the analysis was indeed performed, starting back in February of 2021. But, then, in a letter to U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted: “CDC performed PRR analysis between March 25, 2022, through July 31, 2022. CDC also recently addressed a previous statement made to the Epoch Times to clarify PRR were not run between February 26, 2021, to September 30, 2021.” [ 43 ]
What, though, was the result of the CDC’s PRR analysis? The public might never have known had not The Epoch Times, by means of a Freedom of Information Act request, obtained three weeks of safety signal analyses from the CDC for VAERS data updated on July 15, 22 and 29, 2022 after the CDC had refused to release them. These age-stratified analyses related to VAERS reports for COVID shots from the period when they were initiated (in December 14, 2020) through the end of July, 2022 and compares them to reports for the entirety of non-COVID vaccines from January 1, 2009 through July 29, 2022. In this type of analysis, chi-squaring was implemented, where the higher the chi-square, the more serious the event. According to the VAERS Team’s Standard Operating Procedures for COVID-19, p. 16: “A safety signal is defined as a PRR of at least 2, chi-squared statistic of at least 4, and 3 or more cases of the AE following receipt of the specific vaccine of interest.” [ 44 ]
Shockingly, this newly acquired data reveals blatant safety signals encompassing a wide range of serious neurological, immunological, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and menstrual adverse events among adults! All in all, in fact, 758 different types of non-COVID adverse events that showed safety signals were discerned, including more than 500 adverse events larger than myocarditis and pericarditis—the two serious adverse events previously acknowledged by the FDA and the CDC as having ensued from the COVID jabs. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] (More precisely, 66.4% of the adverse events had a bigger safety signal than myocarditis and 77.3% were larger than pericarditis.)
To give some comparison, the PRR analysis revealed that the number of serious adverse events reported for the COVID injections in less than two years time was 5.5 times larger than all of the serious reports for vaccines given to adults in the U.S. since 2009! Moreover, in adults, a much higher proportion of the adverse events occurring after the COVID jabs were shown to be serious as compared to those accruing from the non-COVID vaccines—11.1% vs. 5.5%. Even higher still were the death reports for the COVID jabs compared to the body of non-COVID vaccines—15.4% vs. 2.5%. The number of safety signals for the 12-17 year-olds was a whopping 96 (primarily cardiovascular and pulmonary incidents, but also including perforated appendix, menstrual irregularities, and instances requiring intensive care). For children aged 5-11, there were 67 safety signals, with the type of adverse events similar to what the older kids, above, experienced. [ 47 ] [ 48 ]
CDC and FDA’s VAERS Team has promised Americans that if any safety signals were ever detected, “further investigation” would be pursued. [ 49 ] Yet, Prof. Josh Guetzkow, senior lecturer at the Hebrew University at Jerusalem and a statistician trained at Princeton University, observes: “The current practice seems to be to ignore safety signals, dismiss them as noise without any evidence, and stall any investigation into them as long as possible. The precautionary principle, however, dictates we should presume that a safety signal indicates causality, until proven otherwise. Since, it has been acknowledged that the mRNA COVID vaccines can cause myocarditis and pericarditis (often referred to as myo-pericarditis), we can take those AEs as a kind of benchmark, and propose that, at minimum, any AE with a signal of equal or greater size should be considered potentially causal and investigated more thoroughly.” [ 50 ] (The precautionary principle re: safety signals that Guetzkow mentions has been much more appreciated in Europe where, as Diego Montano notes in a paper published in Frontiers in Public Health: “In the EU, adverse events notified by healthcare professionals and consumers to the EudraVigilance report system are considered suspected adverse reactions implying that ‘a causal relationship between a medicinal product and an occurrence is suspected’” (here citing the European Medicines Agency’s Guideline on Good Pharmacovigilance Practices). [ 51 ]
This PRR fiasco, however, has caught the attention of U. S. Senator Ron Johnson who, under date of Jan. 10th of this year, wrote to the CDC director demanding that “CDC must explain how it determined what is and is not an ‘unexpected safety signal.’” He also informed them: “The American people have a right to know the extent to which your agency was aware of and tracked COVID-19 vaccine adverse events.” [ 52 ]
V-Safe
The U.S. Government, however, has another adverse-event reporting system known as V-Safe, which is a smartphone-based program with 10,108,273 registered users from the public as of August 2022. About nine million people registered for this reporting system between December 2020 and April 2021, when “vaccine” fervor was in the air and jab mandates had not as yet been instituted to any extent. These smartphone users were informed that they could “quickly and easily share with CDC how you, or your dependent, feel after getting a COVID-19 vaccine.” They were asked to answer a series of questions, some of which found form via a check-the-box format, and most of which related to minor adverse effects that might have occurred after the jab (such as chills, headache, fatigue, tiredness, and vomiting), although there were also questions relating to any need for medical care that might have been sought by the users. No questions relating to serious adverse events of special interest were asked, but there was a free-text field that allowed users to record other adverse events.(You can view the questions that are asked here, after scrolling down a bit: https://zero-sum.org/v-safe-part-two-what-is-v-safe-what-data-does-it-contain/ )
Researchers suspected that this data was a potential goldmine of information for adverse events relating to the COVID jabs and vigorously sought to procure this information, but the CDC steadfastly refused to release it. Not to be thwarted, however, the legal team for the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) began to make legal demands and then appeals once these demands were refused. Then this team, headed by attorney Aaron Siri, initiated a federal lawsuit in December of 2021 to secure the data. When the CDC still refused to release the data, Siri’s team sued again. This time the CDC acquiesced to a court-ordered schedule requiring it to release nineteen months of data collected from the users between December 14th, 2020 and July 31st, 2022. However, ICAN only received the information exclusive of the free-text fields, the latter of which the CDC stubbornly held back. Even so, the data procured revealed that a highly concerning 7.7% of V-Safe’s 10,108,273 users reported needing to receive medical care after being injected and that over 70% of those users were hospitalized or went to urgent care or to the emergency room! [ 53 ]
( In close harmony with the figure of 7.7% of V-safe users requiring medical care after receiving one of the COVID shots, a Rasmussen Reports poll of 1,000 Americans surveyed from Nov. 20th to Dec. 1st, 2022 who had received a COVID “vaccine” found that 7% reported a major adverse effect. See video just below.)
ICAN also obtained a list of fifteen different “adverse events of special interest” that had been enumerated by the V-Safe program back in November of 2020 (note: before V-Safe was launched to the public) that have never been included in the check-the-box format offered to V-Safe users to be tracked. These included anaphylaxis, heart attack, stroke, myocarditis, pericarditis, seizures, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, transverse myelitis, Kawasaki Disease, Multi-Inflammatory Syndrome, narcolepsy, and even death. [ 54 ] [ 55 ] The fact that these options were not offered to V-Safe users can only be seen as deeply disturbing.
ICAN has created a dashboard interface that allows users to graphically view the 144+ million health entries that they have obtained. (See here: https://icandecide.org/v-safe-data/ ) Of course, it contains at present only the pre-populated fields checked by V-safe users because the free-text fields have not as yet been wrested from the CDC; ICAN is still litigating to obtain that information. [ 56 ] Nevertheless, V-Safe’s 682,578 reports of severe joint pain and 1,896,424 reports of moderate joint is deeply concerning, to say the least.
One more thing: Siri has made a strong case that many of the persons reporting to V-Safe most likely never reported to VAERS, thus further contributing to the underreporting in that latter’s safety monitoring system, to the detriment of public knowledge. His detailed and somewhat lengthy reasoning can be viewed here: https://substack.com/inbox/post/95862817
The FDA & Pfizer’s Clinical Trial
As if to rival the CDC’s stubborn unwillingness to be transparent with the American public, the FDA refused to release the Pfizer Phase 3 clinical trial data on its experimental injections to the public, arguing that they needed 75 years to release such data! [ 57 ] [ 58 ]
When the issue was forced in court, Judge Mark T. Pittman the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, issued an order on Jan. 6, 2022, denying the FDA’s outlandish request and requiring this government agency to “produce the ‘more than 12,000 pages’ articulated in its own proposal, see ECF No. 29 at 24, on or before January 31, 2022,” as well as to “produce the remaining documents at a rate of 55,000 pages every 30 days, with the first production being due on or before March 1, 2022, until production is complete.” Interestingly, in issuing this order, Judge Pitman quoted the immortal words of one of our greatest presidents, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, as follows: “A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” [ 59 ] [ 60 ]
In March, the court-ordered release of an initial batch of some 10,000 pages of documents occurred, including Pfizer’s trial documents sent to the FDA in April of 2021 in hopes of licensing their product. Entitled “Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports of PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) Received through 28-Feb-2021,” this report listed 1,291 distinct kinds of adverse events following “vaccination,” including a vast array of previously unknown adverse effects. In all, the listing of these adverse events actually encompassed 8.5 single-spaced pages! (See pp. 30-38 of the document. [ 61 ] ) [ 62 ]
Then there is a September 2022 study by a worldwide group of scientists published in the medical journal Vaccine and entitled “Serious Adverse Events of Special Interest Following mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination in Randomized Trials in Adults.” This group included Peter Doshi of the School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland in Baltimore and an associate editor of The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal); Robert M Kaplan, an Emeritus Distinguished Professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Stanford University's Clinical Excellence Research Center; Sander Greenland, an Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics at UCLA; Patrick Whelan, MD, PhD, of the Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; and three others. These researchers “sought to investigate the association between FDA-authorized mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and serious adverse events identified by the Brighton Collaboration, using data from the phase III randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials on which authorization was based” and restricted their analysis to that trial data. The result of their investigation? One serious adverse event for each 800 persons receiving the COVID injection! Some specific conclusions: “Combined, the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were associated with an absolute increased risk increase of serious adverse events of special interest of 12.5 per 10,000 (95% C1 2.1 to 22.9). The excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest surpassed the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalization relative to the placebo group in both Pfizer and Moderna trials (2.3 and 6.4 per 10,000 participants, respectively).” And: “These results raise concerns that mRNA vaccines are associated with more harm than initially estimated at the time of emergency authorization. In addition, our analysis identified a 36 % higher risk of serious adverse events in vaccinated participants in the Pfizer trial: 18.0 additional SAEs per 10,000 vaccinated (95 % CI 1.2 to 34.9)….. Pfizer’s trial did not report SAEs occurring past 1 month after dose 2. This reporting threshold may have led to an undercounting of serious AESIs in the Pfizer trial.” [ 63 ] [ 64 ]
Lack of Informed Consent
In view of the information presented above, the failure of the vaccine companies and of the medical people giving these shots to provide a true and complete informed consent seems immoral to the nth degree.
This was emphasized most forcefully on August 25, 2021 when Holocaust survivors and their relatives hand-delivered an open letter to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in Amsterdam. It accused the authorities of utterly failing to inform people about the risks and consequences of the COVID-19 injections. After pointing to the statistics showing that the toll of casualties in just four months was more devastating “than all available vaccines combined from mid-1997 until the end of 2013 — a period of 15.5 years” and that “people affected worst are between 18 and 64 years old – the group which was not in the Covid statistics,” they declared: “We call upon you to stop this ungodly medical experiment on humankind immediately.”
The authors then went on to quote extensively from the Nuremberg Code, including the following selections: “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should… be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision…. There should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment… all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.”
“There is no question,” the authors continued in their plea to the EMA, “of a free decision. Mass media spread fear and panic and use the rule of Goebbels’ propaganda by repeating untruths until they are believed. For weeks now, they have been calling for the ostracism of the unvaccinated….. Physical integrity, freedom to travel, freedom to work, all coexistence has been taken away from people in order to force vaccination upon them. Children are being enticed to get vaccinated against their parents’ judgment. The 22 terrible side effects already listed in the FDA emergency use authorization were not disclosed to the subjects of the experimental trial…. By definition, there has never been informed consent.”
Toward the end of their letter, the authors quoted again from the Nuremberg Code: “During the course of the experiment, the scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe… that a continuation of the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject.” The letter ends with this plea: “Honest disclosure of the true number of ‘vaccine’ injured, terminally injured as well as deceased worldwide is long overdue…. Provide us with the true numbers of Covid vaccine casualties now. How many will be enough to awaken your conscience?” Fifty-three Holocaust survivors and their descendants signed the document. [ 65 ]
Financial Compensation?
Under a U.S. law called the PREP Act—Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19—pharmaceutical manufacturers of the COVID “vaccines” have immunity from liability. [ 66 ] As a consequence of this Act, the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program was created, allegedly to allow vaccine-damaged individuals during a serious health emergency to receive compensation for their injuries. However, as the CICP website explains, these must be “covered serious injuries or deaths that, based on compelling, reliable, valid, medical and scientific evidence, are found to be directly caused by the administration or use of a covered countermeasure or are determined to meet the requirements of a countermeasure injury table.” Moreover, claims must be submitted within one year of the alleged injury and, if rejected by CICP, the decision is final—no appeal or due process is allowed. Of further note is that, as the CICP website states: “The CICP is the payer of last resort. This means that it only covers expenses or provides benefits that other third-party payers, such as health insurance, the Department of Veterans Affairs, or Workers’ Compensation programs, don’t have an obligation to pay.” [ 67 ]
For COVID jab-related injuries alone, 7,624 claims have been filed as of December 1st, 2022. As to how many of these have been compensated or even addressed, the CICP website notes: “As of December 1, 2022, 12 COVID-19 countermeasure claims, all of which are COVID-19 vaccine claims, have been determined eligible for compensation and are awaiting submission of eligible expenses documents. Ten claims are the result of myocarditis. One claim is the result of pericarditis. One eligible claim is the result of anaphylaxis and has been partially compensated…. Sixty-eight COVID-19 countermeasure claims have been denied compensation because the standard of proof for causation was not met and/or a covered injury was not sustained.” [ 68 ] (One can only imagine the gauntlet that must be run to obtain a “standard of proof for causation” from unwilling medical providers who have been snookered into believing that these shots are always “safe and effective.”) That leaves, or course, over 7,540 claims yet to be adjudicated! Yet, with a stingy budget for compensation of only one million dollars for 2022 and five million for 2023, [ 69 ] it is not difficult to imagine why many claims may not yet have been addressed and will probably not be addressed any time soon.
Educational Films and Documentaries about the “Vaccine”-Injured
Yet, if financial compensation for COVID jab injuries seems far-fetched, are there other avenues of help for the victims of COVID injections? Here, the realization that such ones are not alone can often be of some comfort. In this regard, I would like to draw attention to three important films/documentaries that powerfully bring attention to the wide range of persons who have been injured by the COVID jabs and their stories of courage and survival.
Safe and Effective
https://www.oraclefilms.com/safeandeffective
The Testimonies Project: COVID-vaccine Injured Patients Give Their Testimonies in a Powerful Documentary
https://www.vaxtestimonies.org/en/
See a newsletter article about this Project here:
The Anecdotals
This is the newest documentary on victims of the COVID-19 shots and, in my opinion, one of the very best. The producer is Jennifer Sharp, a “vaccine”-injured person herself who addresses skeptical viewers with pointed, reasonable questions that they might wish to consider. Aside from sharing numerous accounts of vaccine-injured folks, it features informative segments on VAERS, informed consent, COVID “vaccine” coercion, how censorship of early treatment laid the foundation for a greater amount of jab injuries, how doctors are imperiled for writing necessary medical exemption forms for patients, and how the FDA is heavily funded by Big Pharma and the consequent conflict of interest as a result.
The “Vaccine”-injured Gone Public: Individual Testimonies
There is an old saying: “Out of bad can come good.” In this regard, there are a number of individuals who have been injured by the COVID injections who have powerfully brought attention to this tragedy, paving the way for increased awareness, resources, and bridge building between the jab-injured.
One of these is Dr. Danice Hertz, a gastroenterologist who became, as she described matters, “horribly ill” and “incapacitated” after getting her first and only dose of Pfizer’s COVID shot. After months of the runaround by government officials at the NIH, CDC, and FDA, and with Pfizer (including 93 pages of email exchanges with these four parties!) she started a closed Facebook group that offered encouragement, comfort, and resources to many other jab-injured persons. Her heartbreaking story was told in The Defender, the newsletter of Children’s Health Defense, in its Sept. 23, 2021 issue. [ 70 ]
Hertz later become one of 8 doctors who had been injured by a COVID shot to formally urge CDC, FDA, and Health and Human Services (HHS) to publicly acknowledge the injection’s risks in a brilliantly composed letter by ace attorney Aaron Siri, under date of October 27th, 2021. Other physicians in the group who were personally injured included three pediatricians, a dermatologist, a hospital physician, a family-practice physician, and an orthopedic surgeon. [ 71 ] [ 72 ]
Another jab-injured person, who recently appeared on The Highwire program hosted by Del Bigtree [ 73 ], is Olivia Teseniar, who was injured in the Moderna clinical trial in which she participated in August of 2020 and who subsequently, as she related on The Highwire, experienced severe left shoulder pain (which eventually required surgery—the orthopedist’s records coding her injury as T5O.795S “adverse effect of vaccine, sequela”), brain fog, and pronounced pressure inside her head. This was eventually followed, Teseniar noted, by night sweats and by swollen axillary lymph nodes on her left side. When the axillary lymph nodes on her right side also swelled, Teseniar stated that she was soon afterwards (in April of 2022) diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma. Sadly, as she also explained, this lymphoma has progressed much more rapidly than what is typical for this type of cancer. Teseniar further related on The Highwire that she has received absolutely no assistance from Moderna to date, although her contract with them specified that such assistance would be provided if she was injured during their trial. Moreover, she did not recognize any reference to her injury in Moderna’s December 17th, 2020 Briefing Document to the FDA to apply for emergency-use authorization of their injection, which detailed several persons who had experienced serious adverse effects.
Then there is Maddie de Garay who, at 12 years old, took part in Pfizer’s clinical trial for children her age (12-15 years old). She received her first injection on December 30th, 2020 and her second jab on January 20th, 2021. Tragically, in about 18 hours, Maddie experienced severe abdominal pain, severe headache, hematuria, tachycardia, a fever averaging 101.5 F, severe neuromuscular pain and spasms, and a metallic taste in her mouth. She deteriorated rapidly in the weeks thereafter and wound up with a loss of sensation below her waist, necessitating use of a wheelchair; she also required a nasogastric tube. Yet, Pfizer, in its final report to the FDA, simply coded her with the diagnosis of “functional abdominal pain.” Despite fervent requests from her parents, neither the FDA, NIH, or CDC has investigated her case and they all refuse to discuss it. Her story was publicized in the Citizen’s Journal [ 74 ], by investigative medical journalist Maryanne Demasi, PhD [ 75 ] , and in a Substack by Aaron Siri (see immediately below).
Although Maddie’s case was made in a video plea to President Biden that was supposed to air on TV during a Saturday Night Live episode, it was pulled by Comcast at the last minute and never aired. (You can view the heartbreaking video here: https://odysee.com/@BPOC2020:88/Maddie---FINAL-mp4:6 ) The Health Freedom Movement has widely publicized Maddie’s case and she has appeared with her parents on The Highwire, [ 76 ] as well as in U.S. Senator Ron Johnson’s historic “Expert Panel on Federal Vaccine Mandates” that took place on June 28th, 2021 and which included a number of testimonials of the jab-injured. It can be viewed here: https://rumble.com/vokrf7-sen.-johnson-expert-panel-on-federal-vaccine-mandates.html (Senator Johnson, bless his heart, has been a huge advocate for the COVID jab-injured and even led a second panel in Dec. 2022 in support of these folks, which can be viewed here: https://rumble.com/v1ze4d0-covid-19-vaccines-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-possible-causes-of-injuri.html )
Another vocal soul among the jab-injured is Brianne Dressen, who has come to befriend Maddie and who appeared with her on both Ron Johnson’s roundtable (referred to just above) and on The Highwire. [ 77 ] Dressen was a participant in the AstraZeneca clinical trial and suffered a severe adverse event after her first shot, which disabled her. She was then pulled from the trial by AstraZeneca and her trial reporting app was disabled. Her adverse event was not reported in the trial’s publication in the New England Journal of Medicine. Because of that omission, Dressen wrote to that journal in November of 2021, requesting a complete reporting of the trial publication and results. However, the editor-in-chief, Dr. Eric Rubin, refused her demands. (This was the same Dr. Eric Rubin who, in the FDA’s “vaccine” advisory meeting for 5- to 11-year-olds about three weeks earlier, had declared: “We’re never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it.”) [ 78 ] Dressen’s story and a link to the full exchange between her and Rubin appeared in Demasi’s piece, cited above (which was also reprinted in the NVIC’s Vaccine Reaction newsletter [ 79 ] ).
The “Vaccine”-injured Organizing, Networking, Educating, and Inspiring
Out of Dressen’s horrific experiences and subsequent dogged determination to help others injured by the COVID injections has come a remarkable organization known as React19. (https://www.react19.org ) This organization’s co-founder is Dr. Joel Wallskog, a retired orthopedic surgeon. His is an interesting story as well and was featured in The Defender newsletter under date of May 9th, 2022, [ 80 ] chronicling how he was diagnosed with transverse myelitis after getting the Moderna COVID-19 injection, but now offers his time and resources to help others injured by the shot. He was, moreover, one of the eight physicians represented in the Siri letter of October 27th, 2021, discussed above. Both Dressen and Wallskog even traveled to Washington in September of 2022 to meet with FDA representative Peter Marks to seek help for the “vaccine” injured, with a Trial Site News reporter sitting in on the discussion (which Marks would only allow to take place by Zoom). Dressen described the meeting as “in one ear and out the other” and Wallskog was reported as saying. “It’s truly an unfortunate waste of time to meet with them.” [ 81 ]
The React19 website (https://www.react19.org), however, offers a wide array of valuable resources of which every person injured by the COVID shots should be aware. These include: (1) a “For Patients” page that offers a healthcare provider link, a link for financial resources, a link to forums and fellowships, and a “Kids” link that includes links to over 100 peer-reviewed scientific studies describing adverse effects in children after having received the COVID shots; (2) a “For Providers” link that offers healthcare providers who are actively helping the jab-injured an opportunity to list their contact information, as well as educational webinars, research, and other resources; (3) a “Science and Resources” page; and (4) a “Stories” page that not only allows persons injured by the shots to tell their stories but also provides a “Symptoms” breakdown and tally that is quite illuminating; at the time of this writing, it lists eight symptoms—from “GI issues” as number one to “Sleep Issues” as number eight (in-between are fatigue, head pain, brain fog, heart issues, tinnitus, and neuropathy).
They also have a Facebook page with about 5,000 followers. React19’s mission statement is, in their own words: “React19 is a science-based non-profit offering financial, physical, and emotional support for those suffering from long-term COVID-19 vaccine adverse events globally. Our mission is to bring healing to the moms, dads, friends, and loved ones who are facing life-altering side effects from their COVID-19 vaccine. We build bridges between patients and research institutions in order to develop a better understanding of our vaccine complications.”
Another association inspired by Dressen is Can We Talk About It. (https://www.canwetalkaboutit.org ), which is described as a global campaign that aims to break silence around COVID vaccine injuries. It is active on Twitter under the handle .#CanWeTalkAboutIt. The Defender featured a nice write-up of this organization in its July 22, 2022 issue. [ 82 ]
Still another organization is “Real Not Rare,” whose website (https://www.realnotrare.com/) features posts, podcasts, and videos of many persons injured by the COVID jabs. Yet, it does much more than that: It offers resources, forums/groups with which to connect with other “vaccine”-injured folks, and a “Take Action” link that features a number of ways in which people can make a positive difference in the lives of the jab injured. Their mission statement is: “Our government asked us to do our part to stop the virus. We thought we were doing the right thing. Now we are injured, many severely. We are hurting, in pain, and losing our jobs. We are demanding our government do the right thing by acknowledging our injuries, as well as establish compensation for the tens of thousands who have been injured or have died.”
Informative Sites/Newsletters on COVID Injections and the Jab-injured
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/
https://thevaccinereaction.org/
https://doctors4covidethics.org/
https://www.trialsitenews.com/
Medical Websites Featuring Resources (Incl. Practitioner Referral Links)
https://www.truthforhealth.org/
https://www.vacsafety.org/learn/research
https://covid19criticalcare.com/
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/
https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/
Some of the above sites even outline therapeutic protocols in great detail. In previous Substack essays, I, too, have outlined some evidence-based therapeutic options relative to cardiovascular issues ensuing from COVID “vaccines” or from COVID-19 itself [ https://matthewalfs.substack.com/p/heart-attack ] as well as to the phenomenon of long-COVID (which is typically treated similarly to adverse effects from COVID “vaccines” in that the common denominator of injury appears to be the spike protein). [ https://matthewalfs.substack.com/p/all-about-long-covid ]
I would like to point out here, however, that each person is unique and deserving of an individual evaluation and plan of action, something that holistic practitioners especially have come to appreciate. There is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to working with the “vaccine”-injured. A jab-injured person can, however, check the practitioner referral links on some of the sites mentioned above to try to determine suitability.
In Conclusion
If you, dear reader of this Substack essay, are a person who has been injured by a COVID injection, I hope that you have derived some valuable information and encouragement from what I have written here. Please know that you are not alone and that there are many who recognize your suffering, are sending good thoughts and prayers your way, and who truly want to help. On the other hand, if you are a reader who has not been hurt by these shots but who knows somebody who has been so injured, please share this essay with them; I think they will appreciate it.
I will close here with the following quote, which I believe speaks volumes:
“Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has”—Margaret Mead