Proof that the government suppresses the truth about vaccines if they are actually dangerous. Any possible doubts about Polio Vax safety, even if well-founded, cannot be allowed to exist! Are the vax pushers on ET paid to plant pro-vax propaganda? At least one of them with two accounts (3 letters in the names)? From the Federal Register:
Once again you are just shoveling more anti-vax nonsense. Let's take a deeper look at higher excess death rate of Republican anti-vaxxers and how their misinformation is leading to outbreaks of measles, chickenpox and polio outbreaks across the country. Even prior the Covid era -- Republicans had a much higher excess death rate than Democrats. Since Covid it has gotten even worse. Why Are So Many People Dying? Reaping the Anti-Vaxx Whirlwind. Back in September, my Yale colleagues Jacob Wallace, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, and Jason Schwartz published a preprint of a paper called “Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the Covid-19 Pandemic.” This trio linked 2017 voter registration in Ohio and Florida with mortality data in those same states from 2018 to 2021 at the individual level. During this period, the excess death rates were 76 percent higher among Republicans than among Democrats. Once vaccines came online for Covid-19, the gap in deaths widened—with excess death rates 153 percent higher among Republicans than among Democrats. The study also showed that these excess deaths were concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates. Other research shows similar partisan divides in acceptance of Covid-19 vaccination and other mitigation measures, as well as mortality during the pandemic. What is now becoming clear is that this resistance to vaccination is leaching out of the soil of the same partisan divides—and spreading beyond aversion to Covid-19 immunization. Party affiliation is now becoming more and more associated with hesitancy toward immunization against such common childhood diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, polio and chickenpox. Recent polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation suggests that more than a third of parents—up from less than a quarter in 2019—now oppose school vaccination requirements. Once again, this resistance to vaccination is concentrated among Republicans or those that lean that way; 44 percent of such parents now say they want out of these routine vaccination requirements. Vaccine hesitancy has been an ongoing problem in the United States for decades—and while routine childhood vaccination rates overall have been historically high here, there have long been pockets of parents refusing vaccination, whose views span the political spectrum from liberals in San Francisco, Marin County, and Vashon Island near Seattle to libertarians and conservatives to religious groups including the Amish in Ohio and Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn. It’s in these same places and among these same communities that we recently, in the years just before Covid, saw outbreaks of childhood scourges like measles. But as another of my Yale colleagues, Dan Kahan, warns, tagging vaccine hesitancy to any partisan stance risks solidifying such resistance rather than softening it. As people “look to protect their ties to others, individuals face a strong psychic pressure to conform their perceptions of risk to those that distinguish their group from competing ones”—in other words, tribal allegiances get reinforced when people are forced to choose between their sense of belonging and whether to vaccinate their kids. In the context of Covid-19 immunization, this is why in-group endorsement, when a Republican leader offers support for vaccination, is far more successful than having a Democrat make the same case. For similar reasons, President Biden’s repeated insistence through 2021 and ’22 that this was a pandemic of the unvaccinated may have done more harm than good in terms of communication to communities most at risk. It also wasn’t factually accurate; during 2022, the share of vaccinated elderly dying of Covid increased sharply. But now we’re seeing measles, chickenpox and polio outbreaks across the country. While it’s tempting to assign the blame to partisan affiliation, that is not the whole story. Though it’s clear that GOP politicians—Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is the poster boy here—have ginned up animosity, fear, and suspicion of vaccines for months now for political gain, and that their appointed judges see going after vaccine mandates as just another way to smash the regulatory state, some of these outbreaks have nothing to do with politics per se. Collapsing everything to a red-versus-blue face-off is far too simplistic. For instance, New York State’s polio outbreak occurred in an orthodox Jewish community where vaccination rates have been low for a long time now. In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic has interrupted routine medical care, including immunization, for many, and some fear exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in health care settings and have avoided doctors’ offices altogether. So where do we go from here? Focusing on the GOP politicians, anti-vaccine advocates, and their media fellow-travelers is a bit of a dead end—at least in the short term. It’s hard to believe anything will convince the (at-least-once-Covid-vaccinated) DeSantis to give up his anti-vaccination campaign when he and his political career feed on it like Dracula on a night out. And no scientist or journalist or activist is going to get Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to end his long-standing crusade against vaccination of all kinds when his family and friends have struck out despite making repeated appeals over the years. Yet precisely because vaccine hesitancy is not a new phenomenon, experts have well-documented strategies for this moment at the ready. First, like any good campaign, you need to know your audience. Micro-targeting aimed at fence-sitters—not the smaller number of outright vaccine refusers—is likely to achieve greater gains in immunization uptake. And as Dr. Kimberly Manning, a professor at Emory University School of Medicine, said in an NPR story in 2021 on Covid vaccination (and which applies to childhood immunization as well): Some people are “slow yeses,” and “we just are too impatient to get to the point where we let them get to their yes,” she said. “We’re like the used-car salesman. We’re just trying to close the deal.” Helping people along with patience and empathy is key; part of that is knowing where people are coming from—which requires cultural sensitivity and knowledge. Jeneen Interlandi from the New York Times editorial board made a plea for this in the context of the New York polio outbreak: stop judging and blaming the Haredi community. Instead, figure out what is driving hesitancy and who the key influencers are among them (in this case, it’s women making health care decisions for families and those with graduate degrees within the community who are already pro-vaccine). This all speaks to the need to go into communities, work with them, know them, and support those who can help shift opinion, rather than continuing to pursue top-down initiatives in which this local knowledge and power is overlooked. Building trust is vital to overcoming vaccine hesitancy—and if you think about whom you trust with decisions about your life, it’s people you know personally, people you respect—and who you believe have your best interests at heart. This is why family physicians are so important in conversations about vaccination with parents—and why they also need the resources to help them have precisely the conversations that have become more difficult for so many providers during Covid-19. In the GOP strongholds, where anti-vaccination sentiment against Covid and serious childhood infections is growing, the same principles apply. Not everyone in a Trump-voting county is a vaccine refuser, or even hesitant; seeking out those who support vaccination—and have the trust of their communities—is crucial. Treating all Republicans as a monolith when it comes to vaccine uptake is a fatal mistake. Instead, we’re going to have to craft strategies to meet people where they’re at—in the places that are hardest for people like me to go. At the same time, we can’t give up on the high-level policy work needed to make it harder to opt out of vaccination or delay immunization, to shore up our data systems to track immunizations across the country, and to target vaccine misinformation and its purveyors. But we need to resist the temptation to fall back on the technocratic policy fix, since a big part of the answer is good old shoe-leather public and community health work. This means building up from the bottom a public health force that’s been decimated and demoralized by this pandemic. Our public health workers are the first line of defense against infectious diseases—and always will be. Public health is local, and happens in and with our communities. Stopping Covid—like stopping measles, polio, and chickenpox—has to start there.
Oh wow.. non-medical "Dr." Eli David -- a continuous purveyor of endless Covid vaccine disinformation with numerous failed fact checks -- including trying to claim people died from the Covid vaccine who were not even vaccinated. SAD.
At some point you're going to realize you can not challenge every single Covidiot at Elitetrader.com that post something you disagree with. People come here to the political threads to vent or be abrasive to other members...nothing more. If they're not vaccinated... it's their choice. No minds will be changed and that is OK. Just worry about your family, friends (people you actually know and are not anonymous online), and yourself. Talk to them about the Pandemic, Covid, and Vaccines. This is just a trader forum with a few strange non-trading sections...this is not Twitter, Youtube or Facebook. wrbtrader
zh article: Medical pathologists from Heidelberg University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany have published direct evidence showing how people found dead after mRNA vaccination died. As this team of six scientists explore in their study, these mRNA-vaccinated patients suffered from heart damage because their hearts were attacked by their own immune cells. This autoimmune attack on their own heart cells then leads to their damaged hearts beating so many times per second that, once the tachycardia unexpectedly started, they died in minutes. mRNA vaccines cause myocarditis by leading your own immune cells to attack your heart, which can lead to sudden death by ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation. (Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock) The article, “Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination,” was published on Nov. 27, 2022, in the journal Clinical Research in Cardiology, the official journal of the German Cardiac Society. The research team autopsied 25 victims of different ages who were found dead at home within 28 days of vaccination. They looked at their heart tissue under the microscope to find out why these people died of cardiac rhythmic disruption when they had no apparent underlying heart disease. In the authors’ own words: “Our findings establish the histological phenotype of lethal vaccination-associated myocarditis.” Histological phenotype means direct observation of microscopic tissue. In a video analyzing the results, nurse educator Dr. John Campbell, who is based in the United Kingdom, told his audience: “This is peer-reviewed. This is proper science, and a definitive pathological diagnosis by a group of leading German pathologists.” Campbell’s video has been viewed 918,000 times. He has 2.58 million subscribers on his channel. source paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-022-02129-5
What complete nonsense you push. Let's look at the reality. No, a German “autopsy report” didn’t show COVID-19 vaccines as “likely” cause of sudden deaths https://healthfeedback.org/claimrev...covid-19-vaccines-likely-cause-sudden-deaths/ FULL CLAIM: “Major New Autopsy Report Reveals Those Who Died Suddenly Were Likely Killed by the Covid Vaccine”; “The fact that those who die suddenly after vaccination may have died from the hidden effects of the Covid vaccine on their heart is thus now firmly established in the medical literature.” REVIEW Social media posts claiming that there has been a spike in people who “died suddenly” due to COVID-19 vaccination made the rounds in late November 2022, thanks to a popular film that rehashed debunked claims about COVID-19 vaccines and conspiracy theories. More recently, a study published at the end of November 2022 in the journal Clinical Research in Cardiology provided food for yet more claims running in the same vein. The study by Schwab et al., titled “Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination”, reported that out of 25 people who had died unexpectedly and within 20 days of COVID-19 vaccination, five of those people showed signs of myocarditis for which no other cause was identified except COVID-19 vaccination[1]. Some social media users cited the study, implying that COVID-19 vaccines were deadly and that avoiding vaccination is safer than getting vaccinated (see examples here and here). An article written by Will Jones for the website The Daily Sceptic, promoting this claim, also went viral through social media posts, examples of which can be seen here and here. Jones, who holds a PhD in political philosophy, asserted that the study meant it was now a “firmly established” fact that COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for sudden deaths. The article was republished by the Brownstone Institute, a website that published COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation. The claim received more than 7,600 interactions to date, according to social media analytics tool CrowdTangle. The study doesn’t permit epidemiological conclusions to be drawn and doesn’t sufficiently rule out alternative causes of death apart from vaccination However, experts who weren’t involved in the study found that such an interpretation isn’t substantiated by the work actually done in the study. Cardiologist Christopher Labos told Health Feedback that “The study by Schwab et al. doesn’t actually establish how common myocarditis post vaccination is, whether it is actually higher than the background rate (because many things can cause myocarditis), nor how likely someone is to die when they develop myocarditis”. In fact, the authors of the study cautioned against the type of claim made in the article, stating that “The nature of our autopsy study necessitates that the data are descriptive in quality and does not allow any epidemiological conclusions in terms of incidence or risk estimation”. In an email to Health Feedback, Konrad Steinestel, head of pathology at the Bundeswehr Hospital Ulm, also said that the headline misrepresented the findings of the study, explaining that only 8.6% of the 35 unexpected deaths included in the study were interpreted by the authors to be causally linked to the vaccine, a result consistent with two other studies[2,3]. Furthermore, the authors’ interpretation rested on the assumption that COVID-19 vaccination was responsible for these cases of sudden death because they occurred shortly after vaccination. “[T]his is a rather large assumption,” said Labos, given that the authors also managed to identify alternative explanations for the cause of death in the cases. The German Registry for COVID-19 Autopsies (Deutsches Register von COVID-19 Obduktionen in German) at the Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, which is supported by the Federal Association of German Pathologists and the German Society of Pathologists, told Health Feedback that “there is no definite proof that the cases of myocarditis [in the study] occurred due to the COVID-19 vaccines”, highlighting the lack of a control group in the study. In a Twitter thread, Frank Han, a cardiologist at the University of Illinois in Chicago, considered the study’s histopathological methods of diagnosing myocarditis to be one of its strengths, calling it the “gold standard”. But he also made a similar observation as Labos, noting that “the patients reported to have died of myocarditis had pulmonary and vascular findings consistent with atherosclerosis and pulmonary congestion in some cases” and that “it’s unknown why [the study authors] think atherosclerosis was noncontributory”. Steinestel also came to the same conclusion, stating that “the study by Schwab et al. does not establish a mechanistic link between vaccination and (epi)myocarditis”. However, he thought that more autopsy studies would be necessary to identify risk factors for adverse events following vaccination. “[T]oo few autopsies are currently being performed,” he said. The study’s senior author, Peter Schirmacher, was interviewed by Jones for the article, but didn’t respond to Health Feedback’s request for comment. In an August 2021 article for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, a German daily newspaper, Schirmacher asserted that, of more than 40 people autopsied within two weeks of COVID-19 vaccination, 30 to 40 percent of them died because of the vaccination. That said, Schirmacher also claimed to have been vaccinated and stated that he didn’t oppose vaccination. In the same article, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the head of the Standing Committee on Vaccination in Germany, Thomas Mertens, had questioned the basis for Schirmacher’s claim, stating that he didn’t know of any data justifying it. Health Feedback reached out to Jones for comment. In response, Jones denied that there was anything inaccurate or misleading in his report of the study. Cardiac risks from vaccination are lower than from COVID-19 The discovery that certain adverse events, like blood clots and myocarditis, are associated with COVID-19 vaccination has become a mainstay of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, as previous Health Feedback reviews on the subject attest to. However, claims that cast doubt over the safety of COVID-19 vaccines frequently gloss over the fact that scientific evidence so far shows that vaccine-associated risks are lower than COVID-19-associated risks. “The risk of cardiac complications post-COVID is very high and your risk of getting myocarditis is much higher if you catch COVID-19,” Labos said, citing a study by scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study reported a 16-fold increase in the risk of myocarditis in COVID-19 patients compared to people who didn’t get COVID-19[4]. Moreover, in cases of vaccine-associated myocarditis that do happen, “the vast majority of cases are mild and resolve completely within days,” he said, pointing to studies in the U.S. and Israel[5,6]. The German Registry for COVID-19 Autopsies team also emphasized the same point, stating that “There are numerous well-performed studies on an epidemiological level that clearly showed the protective effects of vaccines; even the number of COVID-associated myocarditis cases is higher compared to those induced by vaccines”. In summary, the study by Schwab et al. doesn’t support the claim that sudden deaths are likely due to COVID-19 vaccination. The data provided in the study was descriptive in nature and therefore cannot be used to draw epidemiological conclusions about the incidence of myocarditis or risks from COVID-19 vaccination. Furthermore, experts didn’t find that the study had sufficiently ruled out alternative causes of death in the autopsies performed, thus the data alone doesn’t establish a causal relationship between the myocarditis diagnoses and COVID-19 vaccines. While COVID-19 vaccines have indeed been associated with an elevated risk of certain adverse events like myocarditis, COVID-19 itself is associated with greater risks, including cardiac complications. To date, the scientific evidence shows that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh their risks. SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK Christopher Labos, Cardiologist, Independent Expert: The study by Schwab et al. was an autopsy study that describes some of the pathology characteristics in people who may have developed myocarditis. The study by Schwab et al. doesn’t actually establish how common myocarditis post vaccination is, whether it is actually higher than the background rate (because many things can cause myocarditis), nor how likely someone is to die when they develop myocarditis. In this autopsy series they examined cases of sudden death and assumed that because they occurred shortly after vaccination, that the vaccine was responsible. But this is a rather large assumption. Also worth remembering that in most of the autopsies they performed they did find an alternative explanation for the cause of death. Data from the CDC and Israel show that the risk of myocarditis post-vaccination is low and that the vast majority of cases are mild and resolve completely within days[5,6]. The risk of cardiac complications post-COVID is very high. Your risk of getting myocarditis is much higher if you catch COVID-19[4]. Konrad Steinestel, Head of Pathology, Bundeswehr Hospital Ulm: The article misrepresents the actual content of the study. In fact, only 8.6% of the investigated deaths in the study were interpreted to be causally linked to the vaccine (3/35, Table 2), in line with findings from Schneider et al. and the meta-analysis by Sessa et al.[2,3]. The authors state that: “the data are descriptive in quality and does not allow any epidemiological conclusions in terms of incidence or risk estimation”. It is true that further autopsy studies are needed to further identify risk factors for adverse events following vaccination, and too few autopsies are currently being performed. However, the study by Schwab et al. does not establish a mechanistic link between vaccination and (epi)myocarditis. As they state in the Discussion section of their study: “we cannot provide a definitive functional proof or a direct causal link between vaccination and myocarditis.” The authors of the study state: “The reported incidence of (epi-)myocarditis after vaccination is low and the risks of hospitalization and death associated with COVID-19 are stated to be greater than the recorded risk associated with COVID-19 vaccination. Importantly, infectious agents may also cause lymphocytic myocarditis with a similar immunophenotype, thus meticulous molecular analyses is required in all cases of potentially vaccination-associated myocarditis”. German Registry for COVID-19 Autopsies (Deutsches Register COVID-19 Obduktionen): There is no definite proof that the cases of myocarditis occurred due to the COVID-19 vaccines. One limitation in this aspect is the lack of a control group, i.e., what number of subjects in a similar population of such deaths would also show similar findings? The authors of the paper themselves state that their data is merely descriptive and “does not allow any epidemiological conclusions”. The authors also correctly state that the study does not prove a causal link between the COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis. There are numerous well-performed studies on an epidemiological level that clearly showed the protective effects of vaccines; even the number of COVID-associated myocarditis cases is higher compared to those induced by vaccines. UPDATE (15 December 2022): The review initially reported Dr. Christopher Labos to be affiliated with the Queen Elizabeth Health Complex. This is incorrect as the affiliation wasn’t current. We have corrected the review to reflect this. UPDATE (14 December 2022): This review was updated to include Jones’ response to our request for comment in the fourteenth paragraph and to include the comment by the German Registry for COVID-19 Autopsies team after the ninth paragraph. The comment by the Registry further supports our verdict and did not change it. REFERENCES 1 – Schwab et al. (2022) Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination. Clinical Research in Cardiology. 2 – Schneider et al. (2021) Postmortem investigation of fatalities following vaccination with COVID-19 vaccines. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 3 – Sessa et al. (2021) Autopsy Findings and Causality Relationship between Death and COVID-19 Vaccination: A Systematic Review. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 4 – Boehmer et al. (2021) Association Between COVID-19 and Myocarditis Using Hospital-Based Administrative Data — United States, March 2020–January 2021. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 5 – Mevorach et al. (2022) Myocarditis After BNT162b2 COVID-19 Third Booster Vaccine in Israel. Circulation. 6 – Hause et al. (2022) Safety Monitoring of COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Doses Among Persons Aged 12–17 Years — United States, December 9, 2021–February 20, 2022. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.