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They knew day one . My comment on Defender last night and my letter to BMJ on-line Feb 17, 2021:-

I have said this countless times: they could not not know. They had the most colossal signals ever and they just twiddled their thumbs. On 17 February 2021 I wrote to BMJ Rapid Responses

https://www.bmj.com/content...

Deep concern over vaccination safety

Dear Editor

At the same time as Fiona Godlee refers to “the phenomenal success of the vaccine programme” [1] deaths on the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) for the two Covid vaccines currently in use in the US, manufactured by Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna, are off the scale. As of 4 February there were 653 reported deaths [2]. This was at a time when approximately 35.2 million doses had been administered [3]. It compares with 75 reported deaths associated with influenza vaccine for the current season [4] from 193.6 million doses: this is approximately 48 times the rate. Deaths are also a much higher proportion of total reports for Covid vaccines as compared with Influenza vaccines [6,7]: approximately 5% as compared with about 0.8%. Although none of these cases is confirmed VAERS is a passive reporting system which was said in 2010 to pick up less than 1% of cases [8].

On top of this the New York Times reports [9]:

“ More than 34 million Americans have received Covid vaccines, but the much-touted system that the government designed to monitor any dangerous reactions won’t be capable of analyzing safety data for weeks or months, according to numerous federal health officials.”

All this is deeply concerning to say the least.

[1] Fiona Godlee, ‘Covid 19: Two million deaths, so what went wrong?’, BMJ 2021; 372 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj... (Published 11 February 2021)

[2] https://medalerts.org/vaers......

[3] 7:12 p.m. ET, February 4, 2021, Roughly 35.2 million Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the US, according to From CNN's Deidre McPhillips, https://edition.cnn.com/wor......

[4] https://medalerts.org/vaers...

[5] Table of 2020-21 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine — Total Doses Distributed, https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pre...

[6] Found 12,697 cases where Vaccine targets COVID-19 (COVID19). , https://medalerts.org/vaers......

[7] Found 9,077 cases where Vaccine targets Influenza (FLU(H1N1) or FLU3 or FLU4 or FLUA3 or FLUC3 or FLUC4 or FLUN(H1N1) or FLUN3 or FLUN4 or FLUR3 or FLUR4 or FLUX or FLUX(H1N1) or H5N1 or FLUA4) and Appearance Date on/after '2020-09-01'. , https://medalerts.org/vaers...

8] Lazarus et al, ‘Electronic Support for Public Health - Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, Results, p.6, https://digital.ahrq.gov/si......

[9] Sheila Kaplan, ‘ The F.D.A. is struggling to start up its comprehensive monitoring system for vaccinations.’, 12 February 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/202......

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For those who don't do video, here's a transcript of the relevant excerpt of the clip with RFK, Jr:

Filmed June 18, 2021

source: https://welcometheeagle.substack.com/p/by-late-2021-cdc-officials-already

TRANSCRIPT - EXCERPT

00:00

ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR: —and I'll just tell you one, you know, story about how [inaudible]. I was on a, a, a Zoom call this week with a bunch of people who work in the VAERS system.[1] People who work either at CDC or they work, they're part of the VAERS system. And what they said to me, and these are people who are doing this, is that every week there were 10 deaths disappearing from the system that were reported, and now there's at least 10 a day disappearing. So they're reported and they're disappearing. And they say, not only deaths but injuries, that 150,000 injuries have been dropped from the system. These are people within the system. But even when the system is working, it collects, it captures fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries.[2]

00:58

[the clip then goes to a scene of public prayer]

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At the time he gave this speech at Calvary in San Jose, California, Robert F. Kennedy Jr was Chairman of the Board, and Chief Legal Counsel for Children’s Health Defense. From the website, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/

"Children’s Health Defense® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our mission is ending childhood health epidemics by eliminating toxic exposure. We will restore and protect the health of children by eliminating environmental exposures, holding responsible parties accountable, and establishing safeguards to prevent future harm of children's health. Protecting Children. Exposing Harms. Seeking Justice."

[1] VAERS is the official US government Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.

https://vaers.hhs.gov/about.html

It is co-managed by CDC and FDA. See: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vaers/index.html

(Note: https://openvaers.com provides VAERS data in a more reader-friendly presentation)

[2] See: "Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP: VAERS)"

Inclusive dates: 12/01/07 - 09/30/10

Grant Final Report

Grant ID: R18 HS 017045

Principal Investigator: Lazarus, Ross, MBBS, MPH, MMed, GDCompSci

Team members: Michael Klompas, MD, MPH

Principal Investigator: Lazarus, Ross, MBBS, MPH, MMed, GDCompSci

Performing Organization: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc

Project Officer: Steve Bernstein

https://rickjaffeesq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-20116.pdf

This report concludes that "Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. Although 25% of ambulatory patients experience an adverse drug event, less than 0.3% of all adverse drug events and 1-13% of serious events are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported. Low reporting rates preclude or

slow the identification of “problem” drugs and vaccines that endanger public health. New

surveillance methods for drug and vaccine adverse effects are needed. Barriers to reporting

include a lack of clinician awareness, uncertainty about when and what to report, as well as the

burdens of reporting: reporting is not part of clinicians’ usual workflow, takes time, and is

duplicative." (page 6)

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