Covid Vaccine Adverse Events

Swiss Policy Research A systematic overview of severe covid vaccine adverse events. (18+) A) Neurological disorders; B) Menstrual disorders, miscarriages, birth defects; C) Heart inflammation, heart attacks, cardiac arrest; D) Blood clots and strokes; E) Severe skin reactions; F) Eye disorders and blindness; G) Bell’s palsy (facial paralysis); H) Shingles and other virus reactivations; J) Tinnitus, hearing loss, dizziness and vertigo; K) Anaphylactic shock; L) Tumor growth and cancer; M) Appendicitis; N) Children: PIMS, myocarditis, blood clots; O) Diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis; P) Other […]

Natural Immunity Is Not – And Never Was – Just a Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory

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Jonathan Engler There was never any reason to expect that “natural immunity”  – the protection acquired through infection by SARS-COV-2 – should not be similar to that acquired for other respiratory viruses humankind has come into contact with – robust, flexible and durable. Were it not, our species would have been wiped out many millennia […]

Duration of Immune Protection of SARS-CoV-2 Natural Infection Against Infection in Qatar

Hiam Chemaitelly et al. The future of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic hinges on virus evolution and duration of immune protection of natural infection against reinfection. We investigated duration of protection afforded by natural infection, the effect of viral immune evasion on duration of protection, and protection against severe reinfection, in Qatar, between February 28, 2020 and […]

Model Misspecification and Grossly Inflated Estimates of Lives Saved

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Spiro Pantazatos In a recent study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Watson et al. apply mathematical modeling to estimate that mass COVID-19 vaccinations saved between 14-20 million lives worldwide during the first year of the COVID-19 vaccination program. Previous Brownstone articles by Horst and Raman have already pointed out several erroneous assumptions in the […]

The Biggest Public Health Threat Is Not a Virus but a Weakened Immune System

Carla Peeters A growing list of scientific studies have now shown that immunity following natural infection provides durable protection often far better than immunity following Covid-19 vaccination. Several governments focus on mandated vaccination. However natural immunity and a strong immune system are what are really needed to build full protection and a healthier population. … […]

Officials Investigate How Bird Flu Contaminated Vaccines in Europe

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Helen Branswell Officials are trying to get to the bottom of how vaccine manufacturer Baxter International Inc. made “experimental virus material” based on a human flu strain but contaminated with the H5N1 avian flu virus and then distributed it to an Austrian company. … Accidental release of a mixture of live H5N1 and H3N2 viruses […]

COVID-19 and the Unraveling of Experimental Medicine – Part II

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K. E. Thorp, James A. Thorp, Elise M. Thorp In the second part of our trilogy, we begin by examining social policies sponsored by the science community and enacted by policy-makers to curtail the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic. Containment /mitigation strategies such as lockdowns came at great social and economic costs and yet failed […]