Largest Study of Its Kind Finds Excess Deaths During Pandemic Caused by Public Health Response, Not VirusReal-

By on Jun 26, 2024

A study released today of excess mortality in 125 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic found the major causes of death globally stemmed from public health establishment’s response, including mandates and lockdowns that caused severe stress, harmful medical interventions and the COVID-19 vaccines.

“We conclude that nothing special would have occurred in terms of mortality had a pandemic not been declared and had the declaration not been acted upon,” the authors of the study wrote.

Researchers from the Canadian nonprofit Correlation Research in the Public Interest and the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières analyzed excess all-cause mortality data prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning with the March 11, 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic declaration and ending on May 5, 2023, when the WHO declared the pandemic over.

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The results, presented in a detailed 521-page analysis, establish baseline all-cause mortality rates across 125 countries and use those to determine the variations in excess deaths during the pandemic.

The researchers also used the baseline rates to investigate how the individual country variations in excess death rates correlated to different pandemic-related interventions, including vaccination and booster campaigns.

Not all of the results on a country-by-country basis were the same. For example, in some countries, mortality spikes occurred before the vaccines were rolled out, while in other places, the mortality spikes tracked closely with vaccine or booster campaigns.

In some places, excess mortality rates returned to baseline or close to baseline in 2022, while in others, the rates persisted well into 2023. Denis Rancourt, Ph.D., lead author of the study, told The Defender the disparities result from the complex nature of pandemic measures — and the data — in different areas.

Once Rancourt’s team was able to establish the baseline and excess mortality data for each place, they clustered and examined the data through different filters to interpret it, and drew several conclusions.

Data ‘Incompatible with a Pandemic Viral Respiratory Disease as a Primary Cause of Death’

The researchers established that there was significant excess mortality worldwide between March 11, 2020, and May 5, 2023.

Overall excess mortality during the three years in the 93 countries with sufficient data to make an estimate is approximately 0.392% of the 2021 population — or approximately 30.9 million excess deaths from all causes.

The conventional explanation for the excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rancourt said, is that the SARS-CoV-2 virus caused virtually all deaths — and there would have been even more deaths if there hadn’t been a vaccine.

The variations in excess all-cause mortality rates across space and time, the authors wrote, “allow us to conclude that the Covid-period (2020-2023) excess all-cause mortality in the world is incompatible with a pandemic viral respiratory disease as a primary cause of death.”

They said the theory that the virus caused the deaths is propped up by mass virus-testing campaigns that should be abandoned.

‘Idea that Vaccines Saved Lives Is Ridiculous’

Rancourt and his team cited several factors they believe disprove the theory that the virus caused a spike in all-cause mortality.

For example, they wrote that excess mortality surged almost simultaneously across several continents when a pandemic was declared, while there were no comparable surges in areas that had not yet declared a pandemic.

This suggests that pandemic interventions like lockdowns, which were implemented synchronously across many countries, likely caused the surges.

The researchers also pointed out the significant variation in mortality rates during the pandemic in all time periods, even across different political jurisdictions directly adjacent to each other. If the virus caused the deaths, it would follow that the infection fatality rate would be the same, or at least similar across political boundaries.

The researchers also found a lot of variability in death rates within countries over time, which also would not be an expected outcome if those deaths were caused by a pathogen.

Rancourt said they found “the idea that the vaccine saved lives is ridiculous,” and based on flawed modeling as he and colleagues also showed in a previous paper.

Here again, they found no systematic or statistically significant trends showing that vaccination campaigns in 2020 and 2021 reduced all-cause mortality.

Instead, they found that in many places, there was no excess mortality until the vaccines were rolled out, and most countries showed temporal associations between vaccine rollouts and increases in all-cause mortality.

Medical Interventions — Including Denial of Treatment — Caused Premature Deaths

Rancourt said the excess deaths his team identified are strongly associated with the combination of two major factors — the proportion of elderly in a country’s population and the number of people living in poverty. Both factors increased peoples’ vulnerability to “sudden and profound structural societal changes” and “medical assaults.”

While the proximal cause of death may be classified on death certificates as a respiratory condition or infection, the researchers noted, they argue the true primary causes of death are actually biological stress, non-COVID-19-vaccine medical interventions and the COVID-19 vaccination rollouts.

The study provides an overview of plausible mechanisms for this hypothesis, including research showing that some people experienced severe biological stress from measures like mandates and lockdowns.

“If you structurally change the society by preventing people from moving, breathing, working, having their lives, having to stay at home, lock them in. If you do all these incredibly huge changes, structural changes in society, that is going to induce biological stress,” Rancourt told The Defender.

“There’s very compelling scientific evidence that biological stress is a massive killer,” he added.

Rancourt also pointed out that the stress of lockdowns affected poor people quite differently than it did people who could easily work from home, have food delivered and live relatively comfortably.

The authors also pointed to extensive evidence showing that medical interventions — including denial of treatment — caused premature deaths.

Such interventions included but were not limited to the denial of antibiotics and ivermectin against bacterial pneumonia, the systematic use of mechanical ventilators, experimental treatment protocols, new palliative medications and overdoses, isolation of vulnerable people and encouraged voluntary or involuntary suicide.

The March-April 2020 COVID-19 peak they identified in several countries is difficult to explain without such medical interventions, they wrote.

17 Million Excess Deaths Tied to COVID Vaccines

Finally, the researchers projected that 17 million of the excess deaths they identified were associated with the COVID-19 vaccines, confirming the findings of their previous research on a smaller sample of countries.

Those vaccine-related estimations were based on analyses of places that had large spikes immediately following vaccination or booster campaigns and also by examining the numbers of vaccine doses and their relation to deaths over time.

Thirty percent of the countries they analyzed had no excess deaths until either the vaccine rollouts or the booster campaigns. And there were significant correlations between COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and peaks or increases in excess all-cause mortality. Ninety-seven percent of countries showed a late-2021 or early-2022 peak in excess all-cause mortality temporally associated with booster rollouts.

It is highly unlikely, the researchers wrote, that the vaccine-mortality associations are coincidental.

Rancourt noticed that people critical of this idea point to the fact that in some places, there are sometimes campaigns or booster campaigns that aren’t associated with spikes in excess mortality.

However, he said vaccination campaigns don’t always lead to such spikes because vaccination was not related to death in the same way in every situation. Vulnerability factors like the age of those vaccinated, the health of the population and other sociological factors related to stressors on the immune system change how they are affected by vaccine toxicity or the vaccines’ effects on the immune system.

Based on their analysis and interpretations, they concluded,

“We are compelled to state that the public health establishment and its agents fundamentally caused all the excess mortality in the Covid period.”

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Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., is a senior reporter for The Defender. She wrote and taught about capitalism and politics for 10 years in the writing program at Duke University. She holds a Ph.D. in human geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s from the University of Texas at Austin.

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World Bombshell: Pfizer mRNA Vaccine Fades–No Protection Against Hospitalization Even Boosters Fall Short

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Staff at TrialSite | Quality Journalism

Jun. 26, 2024, 9:30 a.m.

Are the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines durability improving? No, they are not, and in fact, even if an individual followed public health instructions, getting three doses of the primary series to bolster protection with a mutating virus and a vaccine truly lacking in durability such as the Pfizer BNT162b2 product consumers are afforded absolutely no protection against hospitalization unless they get annual boosters. This is the clear message taken from the latest research led by researchers at Kaiser Permanente, Department of Research & Evaluation, Pasadena and other locations. The team of physicians and epidemiologists pondered whether administration of the Pfizer BNT162b2 XBB vaccine offers additional protection against COVID-19 hospital admissions and ambulatory visits for US adults compared with not receiving a BNT162b2 XBB vaccine of any kind and whether older versions of the COVID-19 vaccine still provide any protection compared with being unvaccinated. Executing a case-control study targeting 2854 cases and 15, 345 controls, the Pfizer BNT162b2 XBB vaccine provided statistically significant additional protection against a range of COVID-19 outcomes during the early part of the 2023 to 2024 viral respiratory season according to the study outcomes. Older versions of COVID-19 vaccines offered no additional protection compared with being unvaccinated, including against COVID-19 hospital admissions, regardless of the number or type of prior doses received. Sara Y. Tartof, PhD, MPH and colleagues report their study outcomes support the current recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for annual updates. Put another way, the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine durability continues to be a challenge, with waning effectiveness, necessitating the recommendation of an annual booster for any protection of hospitalization whatsoever. What is not contemplated are the potential long-term consequences of repeated mRNA boosters, year after year. This impact has not been studied.

Tartof and colleagues at Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest health systems, report that the last COVID-19 vaccine version uptake was low. By December 22, 2023, only 19% and 37% of all adults 18 years and older and 65 years and older, respectively, actually opted to receive the XBB vaccine.

Now, the authors report, based on the results of this Pfizer-funded study, “Current COVID-19 vaccine coverage considerably lags that of seasonal influenza vaccines, despite both vaccines being made available during the autumn and winter and current CDC guidelines that support co-administration of the 2 vaccines.” 

Why such low vaccination rates? The authors list the usual reasons but do not point to the government, its mishaps in communications and overreach during the pandemic. 

The Study

The Kaiser Permanente team designed and executed the test-negative case-control study to estimate the effectiveness of the Pfizer BNT162b2 XBB vaccine against COVID–19–associated hospitalization and emergency department (ED) or urgent care (UC) encounters among adults in the Kaiser Permanente Southern California health system between October 10, 2023, and December 10, 2023. Cases were those presenting with an acute respiratory illness and who had a positive SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction test; controls had an acute respiratory illness but tested negative for SARS-CoV-2.

Tartof and colleagues analyzed patients and controls separately for COVID-19 hospital admissions and ED/UC encounters. Applying estimated odds ratios and 95% CIs as well as multivariable logistic regression models adjusted for patient demographic and clinical characteristics, the study team calculated estimated vaccine effectiveness as 1 − odds ratio × 100%.

Findings

Out of 2854 cases (patients) and 15,345 controls (median [IQR] age, 56 [37-72] years; 10,658 [58.6%] female), adjusted estimation of effectiveness of the BNT162b2 XBB vaccine received a median of 34 days prior vs not having received an XBB vaccine of any kind was 62% (95% CI, 32%-79%) against COVID-19 hospitalization, and 58% (95% CI, 48%-67%) for ED/UC visits. Compared with being unvaccinated, those who had received only older versions of COVID-19 vaccines did not show statistically significant reduced risk of COVID-19 outcomes, including hospital admission, meaning that there were no latent, residual benefits from the Pfizer mRNA vaccine despite claims to the contrary by multiple studies and government declarations.

A Critical View

At many times during the pandemic, American society was informed by public health agencies and experts in academia and industry that getting at least the primary series offered more protection against hospitalization and death endpoints than those unvaccinated.

The results of this study shatter such a myth, demonstrating just how short-lived the Pfizer mRNA vaccine really is in real-world use. The results of this important study reveal literally, that the SARS-COV-2 virus mutates and the original vaccine durability wanes, and that there is no difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated states.

Relative Estimation of Effectiveness for BNT162b2 XBB Vaccine Against COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization and Emergency Department/Urgent Care Visits by Comparison Group

Source: JAM Internal Medicine

One must commit to getting a COVID-19 vaccine every year for the product to have any probability of protecting against hospitalization and other encounters such as emergency department visits.

And even for those cases that received the Pfizer BNT162b2 XBB vaccine as compared to not receiving an XBB vaccine for any kind the vaccine effectiveness equaled 62% but was as low as 32% in protecting against hospital admission at day 34.

Figure 3. Absolute Estimation of Effectiveness for Older (Non-XBB) Versions of COVID-19 Vaccines Against COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization and Emergency Department/Urgent Care Visits vs Being Unvaccinated

Source: JAM Internal Medicine

Tartof and colleagues shared in the entry:

“Thus, analogous to influenza, although older versions of COVID-19 vaccines once provided high levels of protection, the combination of waning vaccine-induced immunity and continuous SARS-CoV-2 strain evolution eventually rendered prior versions of vaccines ineffective. This, in turn, warrants routine updates to COVID-19 vaccines—also like influenza—so long as SARS-CoV-2 continues to circulate and cause disease.”

This study did not look at the waning attributes of this last version of the vaccine. But based on these findings, the answer is clear regardless.

In concluding the study, Kaiser Permanente looked for the rosiest of possible outcomes one could glean from such data.

But the reality of this story: persons who received three doses of previous vaccines (no XBB) “had little, if any, additional protection compared with unvaccinated individuals against COVID-19 endpoints, including hospital admission, regardless of the number or type of prior doses received.”

While yes, the “receipt of a BNT162b2 XBB vaccine, however, was associated with statistically significant reduced risk of developing a range of COVID-19 outcomes during the early part of the 2023 to 2024 viral respiratory season—with the strongest protective effects seen against hospital admission,” the reality is that all of those elderly persons that didn’t opt for the booster promotions previously were no worse off than those individuals that went and got a third jab. Moreover, because the Kaiser Permanente team only looked at day 34 what we do not see in this data is the inevitable decline in effectiveness that occurs with each and every iteration.

The authors conclude that A) they reaffirm CDC recommendations for “broad age-based use of annually updated COVID-19 vaccines”; B) uptake of the last year’s vaccine version was low and C) health authorities should employ a “targeted and tailored intervention” to improve COVID-19 vaccine uptake.

Limitations

Of course, all of these observational studies have inherent limitations, but when they showed some form of positive impact they were heavily promoted on mainstream media and by government agencies.

TrialSite summarizes the key limitations of this study.

Residual confounding associated with unaccounted-for differences in the likelihood of exposure or severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals must be factored into the study outcomes.

The median time since receipt of a BNT162b2 XBB vaccine was only 34 days, and future studies are needed to evaluate the durability of protection. Why the authors could not analyze with different dates it’s not clear. The design could have been modified for that purpose.

Sara Y. Tartof, PhD, MPH, Corresponding Author

Lead Research/Investigator

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