Several countries have recorded a rise in deaths since they began their Covid-19 vaccine rollout. A comparison between those countries that have started vaccination programmes and those that have not, is striking. Below we present graphs of data from the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Israel, UAE, Bahrain, and Jordan. The graphs of Covid-19 mortality rates in different countries and Covid-19 vaccination rates show marked rising deaths rates commencing around the time the rollouts began, which correlate with rate and number of vaccinations administered.
Sadly, it seems to be the case that certain care homes were not necessarily hit as hard as they could have been, if at all, with deaths and infections going back into 2020, but once the vaccine was rolled out, both infections and deaths rose markedly. (See here, here and here.)
Add the Flu Vaccine Into the Mix
Journalist Neville Hodgkinson below also raises the issue of flu vaccination, that Gibraltar had undergone its most ‘intensive’ flu vaccination campaign during the winter. Hodkinson quotes a study (Positive association between COVID-19 deaths and influenza vaccination rates in elderly people worldwide) showing that more covid-19 deaths occur FOLLOWING flu vaccination. Other studies exist demonstrating the same connection. See Greg Wolff’s off-cited Pentagon study: Influenza vaccination and respiratory virus interference among Department of Defense personnel during the 2017–2018 influenza season as well as this list:
- 2018 CDC Study: Flu shots increase risk of non-flu acute respiratory illnesses (ARI) in children.
- 2011 Australian Study: Flu shot doubled risk of non-influenza viral infections and increased flu risk by 73%.
- 2012 Hong Kong Study: Flu shots increased the risk of non-flu respiratory infections 4.4 times and tripled flu infections.
- 2017 Study: Vaccinated children are 5.9 more likely to suffer pneumonia and 30.1 times more likely to have been diagnosed with Allergic Rhinitis than unvaccinated children.
- 2014 Study: Influenza-vaccinated children were 1.6 times more likely than unvaccinated children to have a non-influenza “Influenza-like-illness” (ILI).
Why are we vaccinating anybody?
A little reminder of vaccine scepticism among the French. This from last month: Why are France’s elderly not queuing up to get the Covid vaccine?
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What Connection Does Gibraltar’s High Covid Death Rate Have With the Vaccines, if Any?
NEVILLE HODGKINSON for Lockdown Sceptics
Gibraltar’s 34,000 residents are unwitting participants in the battle against COVID-19 that may hold lessons for the rest of the world – on the one hand, as a success story, and on the other, as a tragic mystery.
Since the start of a vaccination programme on January 9th, about two thirds of the tiny British enclave’s population has received the Pfizer/BioNTech jab. Only 3.5% declined it, and with a new delivery being rolled out, Dr Krish Rawal, acting Medical Director of the Gibraltar Health Authority, said this week that community protection could be close and “a normal summer” expected.
The mystery, however, is that with 83 deaths related to the disease so far, Gibraltar currently has the highest COVID-19 death rate in the world.
The first was only registered in mid-November last year. By January 6th the toll rose to 10, and by January 18th it had more than quadrupled to 45, prompting Chief Minister Fabian Picardo to tell a news conference:
This is now the worst loss of life of Gibraltarians in over 100 years. Even in war, we have never lost so many in such a short time.
The fact that some of these deaths occurred at the same time as the vaccine rollout led to claims on social media that the jab could be responsible, a claim denied by the Gibraltar Health Authority. In a statement issued on January 27th it said only six of those who had died at that point had received the vaccine. All but one were care home residents, and all had died for unrelated reasons.
Nevertheless, the loss of so many lives over such a short period in such a small community seems to demand explanation.
With the Rock having avoided the spike in deaths that occurred in the UK last April, perhaps a more virulent form of the disease arrived there late and its elderly were simply more vulnerable than elsewhere.
Another, potentially more significant, possibility is that their vulnerability to COVID-19 was increased by an intensive flu vaccination campaign this winter. It was the largest in Gibraltar’s history, being aimed at avoiding the double disaster of a flu epidemic on top of COVID-19.
A major, peer-reviewed study published last October, based on data sets from 39 countries, found “a significant increase in COVID-19 deaths from eastern to western regions of the world” associated with flu vaccination rates among those aged over 65.
The finding was all the more surprising since the review followed previous studies, from Italy and Brazil, suggesting the flu vaccine might offer protection against COVID-19, and the research was aimed at confirming those findings.
The tragedy in Gibraltar chimes with growing concerns about the impact of vaccination on the very elderly and those in care homes, in particular from the Covid jab.
In an open letter to the UK Vaccine Minister and Health Secretary this week, the UK Medical Freedom Alliance cited Office for National Statistics data showing that weekly care home deaths tripled in the two weeks 8th – 22nd January, when there was a massive increase in the rate of vaccination of care home residents.
A possible explanation, the letter said, could be transient reduction in lymphocytes, one of the body’s main immune defenders, originally noted in Pfizer’s vaccine trial: “This could result in a heightened susceptibility to infections in the week post-vaccination, which could be catastrophic for some frail and elderly people.” (ER: Our medical contacts affirm that this is what happens in the week following Pfizer vaccination, a reduction in the capacity of the immune system.)
The letter also cites epidemiological data, media reports, and warnings from doctors and regulators internationally of the need for special care with frail elderly people. It demands a full investigation of all deaths before a rollout of second vaccine doses to those who have received the first dose.
The Conservative MP David Davis is also raising questions about the vulnerability of the elderly, tweeting:
Neville Hodgkinson is a former medical and science correspondent of the Daily Mail and Sunday Times, and the author of AIDS: The Failure of Contemporary Science (Fourth Estate, 1996).
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