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Just how many people were injured by the shots? We don’t know, and our government has no desire to find out. But a torrent of new data demonstrates that it’s exponentially more than any adverse event reporting system is showing, and the number of severe reactions could be millions in each large country.
According to Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), a public broadcaster in Leipzig, "The number of severe complications after vaccination against Sars-CoV-2 is 40 times higher than previously recorded by the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI)," a study with around 40,000 participants by the Berlin Charité concludes. “One result: eight out of 1,000 vaccinated people struggle with serious side effects.”
This is a very strict criteria and only includes symptoms that last for weeks or months and require medical attention. Yet the researchers believe that adverse events were underreported by a factor of 40 and that nearly 1% of people experienced this degree of injury from the shots. Roughly 179 million doses are administered in Germany.
These numbers come several months after a whistleblower for BKK, one of Germany’s largest health insurers, provided data based on medical billing codes to show that the official German adverse event count from the Paul Ehrlich Institute underreported adverse events by a factor of 7 and the number of severe adverse events by a factor of 13.86.
These numbers also harmonize with the survey from Israel’s health ministry, which showed 0.3% of all Israelis who got Pfizer boosters reported being hospitalized within 30 days and 0.5% reported Bell’s palsy, in addition to 4.5% reporting some degree of neurological side effects. If the numbers were this high just for the boosters, in totality (including all doses) the numbers were probably higher, which would corroborate the number of 0.8% experiencing severe reactions reported by the new Berlin Charité study. --->READ MORE HERE
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Regulators say the concerns are not new — but are persistent — and that other coronavirus vaccines are safer
The Food and Drug Administration imposed new restrictions Thursday on the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, saying the risk of a rare and life-threatening blood clot syndrome outweighed the benefits of the vaccine for people who are 18 or older and can get another shot, unless they would otherwise remain unvaccinated.
The FDA said only people who are unable to receive other vaccines because they are not accessible or clinically appropriate, or because individuals refused to get a different vaccine, should receive the Johnson & Johnson shot.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been associated with a rare but potentially deadly blood clotting and bleeding syndrome called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, or TTS. The condition usually occurs within one to two weeks of vaccination, and a commonly used treatment to address clotting, heparin, can cause additional harm.
“This is not a new safety signal — it is based on updated information showing that it is a persistent safety signal,” Peter Marks, the FDA’s top vaccine official, said in an interview. He said other, safer vaccines that can be used to inoculate people against the coronavirus. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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