Peter C. Gøtzsche, Maryanne Demasi | 5 Apr 2023
The review reveals major errors on the part of regulators, flawed health guidance recommendations, weak vaccine trials, underreporting of injury and a miscalculation of cost-benefit analysis.
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Dr. Peter Gøtzsche is a well known Danish physician with four decades of research experience, publishing 97 papers in the “big five” (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, and New England Journal of Medicine) and 19 Cochrane reviews.
He is a co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, a British international charitable organization formed to organize medical research findings to facilitate evidence-based choices about health interventions involving health professionals, patients and policy makers.
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Gøtzsche, along with medical scientist and investigative journalist Maryanne Demasi, PhD, have published a new paper titled “Serious harms of the COVID-19 Vaccines: A Systematic Review.”
It’s been a task for academics to look into this phenomenon given the fact that vaccine manufacturers and drug regulators never allowed independent researchers to examine the raw trial data, forcing transparency advocates to sue the FDA for access to the documents.
To conduct the review, the authors used a number of papers that have been published with data on serious adverse events (SAEs) associated with a COVID-19 vaccine.
The most important points outlined by the authors are as follows:
- Many of the studies we reviewed were of very poor quality and published in journals that failed to identify fundamental errors.
- The adenovirus vector vaccines increased the risk of venous thrombosis and thrombocytopenia. (Authorities have responded by suspending the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine across many European countries, and in the US, regulators have advised restricted use of Janssen’s vaccine).
- The mRNA-based vaccines increased the risk of myocarditis, with a mortality of about 1-2 per 200 cases. It was more common in younger males.
- We found evidence of serious neurological harms, including Bell’s Palsy, Guillain-Barré syndrome, myasthenic disorder and stroke, which are likely due to an autoimmune reaction from mRNA and adenoviral vector vaccines.
- Severe harms, i.e. those that prevent daily activities, were underreported in the randomized trials.
- Severe harms were very common in studies of fully vaccinated people receiving boosters (3rd dose), and in a study of vaccination of previously infected people (i.e. those with naturally acquired immunity).
- Drug regulators and other authorities have been very slow in following up signals of serious harms.
- Given the difficulties of accessing regulatory data, obfuscations, and documented underreporting, we find it likely that there are other serious harms of the covid-19 vaccines, than those uncovered so far.
- Population-wide recommendations for covid vaccination and boosters ignore the negative benefit to harm balance in low-risk groups such as children and people who have already recovered from covid-19 (natural immunity).
The authors also point out that, given all the difficulties and obstacles involved with getting access to regulatory data, obfuscations, and documented underreporting, it is likely that there are other serious harms than those uncovered so far.
You can refer to the study for more details regarding the methods used, and more. It’s just been published, is still in pre-print form, and has yet to go through peer-review.
Below are some of my most recent articles regarding all things COVID for those who are interested:
New Analysis Shows How The CDC Spread False Information That Exaggerated The Severity of COVID-19
Autopsy Results From People Who Died Unexpectedly Within Days of COVID-19 Vaccination
