More COVID-19 Vaccination Deaths than COVID-19 Deaths in the US

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1. At this point, at any rate, the vaccines seem to have lost their effectiveness.

   This would be supported by the evidence coming out of Israel as well where they are having an increase in cases while they have ~85% of the adult public vaccinated.

2. This is from one of Google’s “fact-checkers.” (healthways). What is interesting about it is that it admits that in Britain, well over half of recent Covid deaths (64%) have been of people who had at least one vaccination shot, and 46% from those who have received both shots. Only 37% from people who have not been vaccinated at all. And this from a “fact-checker” who supports vaccinations and seeks to discredit skeptics.

   At this point, at any rate, the vaccines seem to have lost their effectiveness.

   Vaccinated people are less likely to die from the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 compared to unvaccinated people; viral claim misinterpreted PHE report
   “You are more likely to die from the Delta variant if you have been vaccinated”
   DETAILS

   Inaccurate: Of the 257 deaths caused by the Delta variant in the U.K., only 46% had received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Most of the people who died from the Delta variant hadn’t been vaccinated (36%) or had received only one dose of vaccine, which doesn’t offer full protection (18%).
   Misleading: COVID-19 deaths occur mainly in people aged 50 or older, who have a higher vaccine coverage (80%) than the rest of the population. Since vaccines don’t offer perfect protection, a few deaths still occur in the vaccinated population, but those who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 have a lower chance of death than those unvaccinated in the same age group.

   KEY TAKE AWAY

   COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective but don’t provide 100% protection. Therefore, infections and deaths can still occur among the vaccinated population, but at much lower rates compared to unvaccinated people. The higher proportion of deaths due to the Delta variant was among the unvaccinated population aged 50 and older. Vaccines have prevented tens of thousands of deaths from COVID-19 in the U.K. alone.

   FULL CLAIM: “You are more likely to die from the Delta variant if you have been vaccinated”; “Delta variant kills more vaccinated than unvaccinated”

   Different variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, have emerged since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. Each variant has specific mutations that make it genetically distinct from other variants and from the precursor (wild-type) virus. Some of these variants may be more contagious[1], cause a disease with more severe illness[2], or reduce the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines[3].
   One of these variants, first detected in India in December 2020, is the Delta variant or B.1.617.2. The Delta variant has certain mutations that could increase its infectivity and make it more contagious than other variants. The Delta variant is already prevalent in several countries, including the U.K., where it has caused more than 97% of the new COVID-19 cases as of July 2021.

   On 10 July 2021, Sky News Australia broadcasted a news segment discussing deaths caused by the Delta variant in the U.K. In that segment, Sky News reported that a total of 257 people had died from the Delta variant. Of these, 92 hadn’t been vaccinated, 47 had received one dose of vaccine, and 118 had received two doses. It also indicated that 231 of the deceased were 50 years or older and 26 deaths occurred in those under 50 years old.

   On the same day, a website that appears to be associated with an organization located in the Bahamas, called We Love Trump, shared the video, claiming that it showed vaccinated people were more likely to die from the Delta variant than unvaccinated people. The claim implied that the COVID-19 vaccines weren’t effective against the Delta variant or they might even increase the risk of death. This claim went viral on social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram (see examples here, here or here).

   This review discusses the current figures on deaths caused by the Delta variant in the U.K., and how the vaccination campaign has prevented deaths due to the disease.

   The COVID-19 vaccines offer a high level of protection against the Delta variant, but aren’t 100% effective

   Clinical trials in the U.K, Israel, and Canada have shown that the COVID-19 vaccines offer high levels of protection against the Delta variant for fully vaccinated people. Data from the U.K. PHE showed an effectiveness in reducing hospitalizations of 96% for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 92% for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

   However, a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines is less protective against the Delta variant, as noted in a report published by Public Health England (PHE): “After a single dose there was an 14% absolute reduction in vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease with Delta compared to Alpha, and a smaller 10% reduction in effectiveness after two doses”. This represents an efficacy of 35% in the reduction of symptomatic cases due to the Delta variant after receiving the first vaccine dose.

   Some of the COVID-19 vaccines, including the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, require two doses to achieve full protection against the disease. For this reason, persons who have not received the second dose of the vaccine are not considered fully vaccinated.

   According to data from the U.K., of the 257 deaths caused by the Delta variant, 92 people hadn’t been vaccinated (36%), 47 had received one dose of vaccine (18%) and 118 had received two doses (46%). Therefore, the majority of deaths (54%) were among persons who hadn’t acquired the full protection that is only provided two weeks after completing both doses of the vaccine.

   As shown in Figure 1, while less than 20% of people aged 50 and above remained either unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated, they accounted for 54% of the deaths caused by the Delta variant. On the other hand, while 80% of people aged 50 and above were fully vaccinated, they only accounted for 46% of the deaths.

   This demonstrates that in people aged 50 and above, unvaccinated people or people who aren’t fully vaccinated are more likely to die from the Delta variant compared to fully vaccinated people of the same age group, as seen in Figure 1.

   Figure 1. The proportion of infections and deaths resulting from Delta variant infection occurring in people aged 50 and above, classified based on vaccination status (blue: fully vaccinated; red: unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated). Data obtained from Public Health England.

   It’s important to keep in mind that no vaccine is 100% effective and the COVID-19 vaccines are no exception. This means that there will still be a small proportion of vaccinated people who develop the disease and among them, some will die.

   As the proportion of vaccinated persons in the population increases, so does the proportion of cases in the vaccinated population, as well as the proportion of deaths in vaccinated persons. In a 100% vaccinated population, all deaths would occur in vaccinated persons. However, vaccination would reduce the proportion of deaths—a population that isn’t fully vaccinated would see more deaths compared to a fully vaccinated population.

   Muge Cevik, clinical lecturer in infectious diseases and medical virology at the University of St. Andrews, explained the same concept in a Reuters fact-check dealing with a similar claim: “When most people are vaccinated, most infections and deaths are expected to be among those vaccinated”.

   Furthermore, the vaccines don’t increase the risk of dying from the Delta variant, but actually reduce COVID-19 deaths. According to estimates from Public Health England, the vaccination campaign in the U.K. prevented between 7.5 and 8.9 million cases of COVID-19 and between 29,000 and 31,800 deaths until 4 July 2021, as well as preventing around 46,300 hospitalizations.

   Most of the fatalities caused by the Delta variant in the U.K. were among the population aged 50 or older, which has been vaccinated in higher proportion than the rest of the population

   The source of the information on Delta variant deaths provided in the video is a briefing published by PHE on 9 July 2021. According to the briefing, the U.K. detected 123,620 cases of COVID-19 caused by the Delta variant between 1 February and 21 June 2021.Among them, 111,008 were in people under 50 years old (around 90% of all cases were in this age group) and 12,404 were in people aged 50 or older (around 10% of all cases).

   As indicated in the video, 26 deaths occurred in people under 50 years old, while 231 deaths occurred in people aged 50 and above. These figures translate to a mortality rate of 0.02% in the population under 50 years old, and 1.86% in the population aged 50 or older. This shows that the Delta variant has a much higher fatality rate in the population aged 50 or older. This is in line with the evidence showing that older people are more likely to die from COVID-19.

   Regarding the vaccination status of the infected persons, also indicated in the PHE briefing, of the 111,008 infections in persons under 50 years old, 70,664 (63%) hadn’t received the vaccine, while 5,600 (5%) had received both doses. The remaining infections (32%) corresponded to persons who had received one dose or whose vaccination status was unknown.

   The situation in persons 50 years of age and older is different, since of the 12,404 cases of the Delta variant, 5,234 (42%) had received both doses, 4,651 (37.5%) had received one dose, 1,267 (10%) hadn’t received the vaccine and 1,252 (10%) had an unknown vaccination status.

   These data show that the proportion of infected persons who had completed the vaccination schedule was higher in the population aged 50 or older (42%) compared to the proportion of infected persons who had completed the vaccination schedule in the population under 50 years old (5%).

   The U.K. initiated its COVID-19 vaccination campaign in December 2020, focusing on different priority groups based on age and the presence of long-term clinical conditions. According to a report on the status of the vaccination campaign, published by PHE on 8 July 2021, almost 80% of the population aged 50 or older has received the second dose of the vaccine, and this figure increases to over 90% for the population aged 65 or older.

   On the other hand, the proportion of fully vaccinated persons in the age groups younger than 50 years old is notably lower (see Figure 2). As the risk of dying from COVID-19 correlates with age, the elderly were prioritized for vaccination. In the U.K., 80% of the individuals 50 or older are already fully vaccinated. Therefore, vaccinated people are over-represented among COVID-19 deaths.

   Figure 2. Age/Sex pyramid for COVID-19 vaccine uptake by age in England for dose 2, as of 1 July 2021. Source: Weekly national Influenza and COVID-19 surveillance report. Week 27 report (up to week 26 data), 8 July 2021. Public Health England.

   Conclusion

   The claim that people are more likely to die from the Delta variant if they have been vaccinated is false, as it ignores the fact that deaths from COVID-19 occur mainly in high-risk groups, which have a higher vaccine coverage than the general population. No vaccine offers perfect protection, meaning that some cases and deaths would still occur in the vaccinated population. But COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at reducing both the risk of hospitalization and the risk of death from COVID-19, and have prevented tens of thousands of deaths in the U.K. alone, demonstrating that vaccination has greatly improved our situation in contrast to a time when no COVID-19 vaccine was available.

   REFERENCES

   1 – Davies et al. (2021) Estimated transmissibility and impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England. Science.
   2 – Davies et al. (2021) Increased mortality in community-tested cases of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7. Nature.
   3 – Jangra et al. (2021) SARS-CoV-2 spike E484K mutation reduces antibody neutralisation. The Lancet Microbe.

3. Matthew, Your logic is strange. You advise getting vaccinated with the solution, which is an experimental EUA substance with known toxic ingredients. No, the risk is not small. My brother-in-law got paralyzed after the first shot. You do not anticipate the long-term implications of this “vaccination”. The producers are legally not responsible for any adverse reactions and deaths that can occur. You are talking about immediate complications, but what about the long-term effect? Why get this jab in the first place? According to CDC, these solutions do not prevent Covid. The statistics show that countries with the highest number of vaccinated people have the highest number of new Covid cases. Big Pharma does not want to treat people with Covid. The goal is to sell “vaccines” and tests. There are proven treatment protocols, but doctors do not use them.
   It’s not pandemic, it’s a war against humanity.

4. Graphene oxide in the vaccine (and nasal swabs, and some masks) has been implicated as a cause of many vaccine-related symptoms, such as myocarditis. Glutathione depletion is also indicated, and one report said glutathione can reverse the toxic effects of the vaccine.

   cf.
   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32463221/

5. My aunt got the second injection and then gradually got sicker from the vaccine until she died. That was around July 10, 2021. My aunt was elderly, probably in her 80s. It’s hard to understand why people will get an injection who are so old. They have lived their Life so it’s curious to know if they think that they’re going to get a few more years out of their existence by taking a risky vaccine.

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   We have each received a vaccine in our lives, who has ever known someone who had life alternating changes in their health by doing so, much less death. We have left the barn well in our wake relating to acceptable injuries and deaths as the rate of vaccine related deaths, alone, has increased by over 30,000X since January. This is really really bad. Covid caused a lot of fear and many mistakes were made. The ability to quickly produce the vaccine should have been a great victory, but ignoring the harms caused by them only complicates the injury which are devastating. As the inventor of the mRNA vaccines noted yesterday,

   At some point, denying this problem will get painful.

   Only the pain is present now.

   And there is no proper disclosure of these very real risks as the 95% effective claim looms large about the media with a silence on these tragic cases. People have no idea that they are volunteering to become the live lab rats in this medical experiment with our population, including children, pregnant women and soon infants in which any harm will be paid by their bankrupt future, which should be noted to reference thier simultaneously failing finances and health. The sinister nature of this willful ignorance by the authorities is disturbing to bear.

   And we have TREATMENTS, VERY SAFE, EFFICACIOUS TREATMENTS, that make the need for this choice you imply of between death/harm from Covid or death/harm from Vaccines completely unnecessary, just as it is unethical for the medical community to pursue. The treatments prevent over 80% of all cases from having any serious disease or undesirable consequences, such as death.

   The long haul Covid that you reference is exactly the syndrome that is now becoming apparent among many vaccinated as well as Dr. Hoffe’s reporting was specifically referencing. The problem is that the Spike protein is the cause of the injury in the body, and of course, this was the thing that is being injected and produced in the vaccinated person as the way to provide immunity. The obvious question is why is it that everyone is not dead or dying if this is true? Well, this is a different topic, which, if you are interested, I would be happy to discuss this and the treatment issues more fully – their pertinence is significant and well worth understanding better than many do – but it seems I have already covered the concerns you raised and the text is already too lengthy. I wrote this quickly, intending to place a great deal of information out here, so if my writing seems sharp, it is only due to a desire to keep this summary as short as possible, I know, too late as my niece often tells me. I would be interested in any reflections on these points that you or any might have, so, if you have an interest to share your thoughts, I would be very interested in the support of your perspectives on these matter more fully.
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   @Matthew

   The deaths in the US is now double the number you spoke of, as that number was accurate a little over one month ago on June 4, and yes the implication I would draw your attention to is that the deaths have doubled in a matter of weeks(6). This number continues to rise and the increase each week appears to be accellerating. You might compare this value of 11,000 to the yearly vaccine related deaths of 153 fatalities averaged over the past 10years.

   Meanwhile the FDA, for whatever reason, is known to have a large backlog of data that is not included in this number and also very few clinicians and fewer people at large will report a death on the VAERS system. Your reference to the deaths also ignores the nearly half million complaints of individuals who have developed anaphylaxis, facial paralyis, nervous ticks, heart ailments, blood clots, strokes, etc.

   The cost for the deaths and medical treatments is entirely upon the individual, as insurance companies will not pay and the experimental vaccines are not covered by any legal remedy – this results in certain bankruptcy for entire families as they suffer in the wake of their newly acquired ailment, unless the family is wealthy, or unless the illness is very short term, and even then it will become quite expensive, quite quickly. And do recall these numbers are all in the US alone – the European values are much much higher.

   Vaccines are not meant to compete for a better harm to the vaccinated as opposed to the nonvaccinated. Medicine, as opposed to other trades, carries with it the oath of “do no harm”. Well, of course this was pre-covid, and many things are different, but the fealty to this oath by the medical community, at minimum, should not be. Vaccines are given to healthy individuals to prevent illness or death. These people are becoming ill, not because of the SARS-Cov2 virus, but because of the injected biologically active spike protein inoculation. If this would have occurred when cowpox was utilized by Dr. Jenner to treat smallpox, would it have continued? I think not.
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8. There have been 5,900 deaths from the vaccine in the US out of over 200,000,000 vaccinated. More people die from eating peanuts. There is nothing that people take that doesn’t kill someone. The risk in extremely small. The risk from dying from Covid or getting long termers syndrome and being effected for the rest of your life outweigh the risk of dying by over 1000 percent.