COVID-19 vaccines and government containment policies may have driven up excess deaths in Western countries, Dutch researchers say in a new peer-reviewed study.
The study was published Monday in a peer-reviewed journal.
BMJ Public Healthexamined all-cause excess mortality in 47 Western countries from 2020 to 2022. It was shown that there were 3,098,456 excess deaths during this period. 87% of the countries studied experienced excess deaths in 2020, 89% in 2021, and 91% in 2022.
The researchers clarified that excess mortality “includes not only deaths due to SARS-CoV-2 infection but also deaths associated with the indirect effects of health strategies to combat the spread of the virus and transmission.”
What caught the researchers’ attention was not only the fact that high excess mortality rates continued even after the pandemic, but also the fact that [1,256,942] 2021 has been a year of containment measures and experimental vaccinations, resulting in the highest number of infections ever recorded.
In 2020, when residents of Western countries mainly had to contend with the virus, government restrictions on the right to movement, and the closure of schools, churches, workplaces, restaurants and parks, there were 1,033,122 excess deaths.
When most containment protocols were lifted in 2022 and COVID-19 vaccination rollouts declined rapidly, the researchers suggested there were 808,392 excess deaths.
“This is unprecedented and raises serious concerns.”
These huge figures reflect the difference between the number of deaths reported in a country in a given year and the number of deaths that would be expected under normal circumstances. As a benchmark, the Dutch researchers used Ariel Karlinski and Dmitry Kovac’s linear regression estimation model, which “uses the country’s historical mortality data from 2015 to 2019 and takes into account seasonal and year-to-year trends in mortality due to changes in demographic and socio-economic factors.”
“Excess mortality rates have remained elevated in Western countries for a third consecutive year despite COVID-19 containment measures and vaccination rollout,” the researchers wrote. “This is unprecedented and raises serious concerns.”
“During the pandemic, politicians and the media stressed daily that every COVID-19 death matters and that every life should be protected through containment measures and COVID-19 vaccines,” the researchers continued. “In the aftermath of the pandemic, the same moral outlook should apply.”
At the start of their study, the Dutch researchers noted that while experimental COVID-19 vaccines and strict containment measures may have been effective in protecting some people, particularly those with comorbidities and the elderly, they still “had some detrimental effects that led to poorer outcomes.”
“COVID-19 vaccines have been provided to protect the civilian population from morbidity and mortality due to the COVID-19 virus, but suspected adverse events have also been documented,” the researchers wrote.
A secondary analysis of a placebo-controlled randomized phase 3 clinical trial of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine showed a 36% higher risk of serious adverse events in vaccinated recipients in the Pfizer trial. The risk difference was 18.0 (95% CI 1.2 to 34.9) per 10,000 vaccine recipients, with a risk ratio of 1.36 (95% CI 1.02 to 1.83). In the Moderna trial, the risk of serious adverse events in vaccine recipients was 6% higher. The risk difference was 7.1 (95% CI -23.2 to 37.4) per 10,000 vaccine recipients, with a risk ratio of 1.06 (95% CI 0.84 to 1.33). 39 By definition, these serious adverse events either result in death, are life-threatening, require hospitalization (extended hospitalization), cause permanent/significant disability/incapacity, are associated with congenital anomalies/birth defects, or involve events that are medically significant per medical judgment.
Previous Comparison Comparing existing influenza vaccines with the new mRNA vaccines (which the Dutch researchers point out have been classified as “a gene therapy product that requires long-term and rigorous adverse event monitoring” in several French studies), they found that the latter poses a much higher risk of serious adverse reactions.
“Both medical professionals and members of the public have reported serious injuries and deaths following vaccination.”
The COVID-19 vaccine has also been linked to a variety of illnesses, including heart disease, blood clots, bleeding, intestinal problems, thrombosis, myocarditis, pericarditis, autoimmune diseases, etc. Many of these links are well documented and acknowledged by pharmaceutical giants like AstraZeneca.
The Dutch researchers noted that some of the risks posed by these experimental vaccines were recognized over time outside of clinical trials, saying “both health professionals and the general public have reported serious injuries and deaths following vaccination to various official databases in Western countries, such as VAERS in the US, EudraVigilance in the European Union and the UK Yellow Card Scheme.”
The researchers said the risk posed by vaccines is even more serious, given that the threat of the virus has been exaggerated.
Before the vaccine, the infection fatality rate was reported to be 0.03% for those over 60 and 0.07% for those over 70. It was virtually poses no threat to people under 19, whose infection fatality rate was 0.0003%.
Gordon Wishart, Chief Medical Officer at Check4Cancer, said:
Said The Telegraph noted: “The authors are right to point out that many serious vaccine-related adverse events may go unreported, and the fact that the rise in deaths in Germany has coincided with the coronavirus vaccination is in itself a fact that deserves further investigation.”
Just as the vaccines have not been as “safe and effective” as promised, the supposed health safety protocols appear to have had the opposite effect.
The study acknowledges that different causes of excess deaths are difficult to distinguish because national death registrations “varieties in quality and thoroughness, and may not accurately record the cause of death”, and that there is no consensus in the medical community on whether deaths of people who were infected with COVID-19 but not caused by the disease should be classified as COVID-19 deaths.
But they seem confident enough to cite research showing a “substantial increase” in deaths from non-COVID causes in the US during the first two years of the pandemic and argue that “indirect effects of containment measures have likely changed the magnitude and nature of the disease burden for many causes of death since the pandemic.”
U.S. heart disease deaths are likely to be 6% above baseline in 2020 and 2021. Diabetes deaths are 17% above baseline in 2020 and 13% above baseline in 2021. Alzheimer’s disease deaths increased 19% in 2020 and 15% in 2021. Alcohol-related deaths are 28% above baseline in 2020 and 33% above baseline in 2021. Drug-related deaths are 33% above baseline in 2020 and 54% above baseline in 2022.
The study noted that “lockdowns, school closures, physical distancing, travel restrictions, business closures, stay-at-home orders, curfews, and quarantine measures with contact tracing” have many indirect negative effects that increase morbidity and mortality from other causes, including “economic damage, limited access to education, food insecurity, child abuse, limited access to health care, interruption of health programs, and mental health problems.”
The researchers concluded that policymakers and government officials should “thoroughly investigate the underlying causes of persistent excess mortality and evaluate health crisis policies.”
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