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NHS accused of 'lying' about Covid stats to promote vaccination
8 Nov, 2021 15:36
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NHS chief Amanda Pritchard claimed that 14 times as many Covid-19 patients are in Britain’s hospitals as this time last year. However, even the NHS itself has admitted that Pritchard’s claim uses misleading figures.
Multiple news reports on Monday told the same story: Britain’s hospitals are seeing “14 times more coronavirus patients than this time last year,” and the country faces a “difficult winter,” as people gather indoors, where the virus is more likely to spread.
The source of the “14 times” figure is Amanda Pritchard, Chief Executive of NHS England. Pritchard used the apparently alarming surge in hospitalisations to encourage the 4.5 million Britons who still haven’t gotten vaccinated to roll up their sleeves, and those eligible to take their third shot of the vaccine.
However, NHS data shows that Pritchard’s figures are false. According to the health service, a 7-day average of 9,331 Covid-19 patients were in hospital at the beginning of November, compared to 12,654 a year earlier. Just over 1,000 people per day were being admitted to hospital at the end of October, compared to 1,500 last year.
Pritchard was swiftly accused of peddling fake news, with commentators warning that such misleading figures were straying into “resignation territory.”
I think it has long exceeded resignation territory. This was not a poor interpretation of data, this is outright fabrication. Far-left people have no respect for the truth; they tend to think that the ends justify the means.
Amid a growing clamour online, NHS officials told reporters shortly afterwards that Pritchard was citing figures from August 2021 compared to August 2020. Hospital admissions were indeed 14 times higher this August than in 2020, but only for several days toward the end of the month. Since then, they have trended downwards and are now comparable to last year’s rate.
However, hospitalisations persist despite the fact that nine out of 10 people over the age of 12 in the UK have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, according to NHS statistics. Rising cases too have called into question the long-term efficacy of the jabs, but government officials still insist on vaccination as key to defeating the virus – and studies suggest those vaccinated patients still fare better if they catch the virus.
As Pritchard called on the population to get vaccinated or go in for booster jabs, former Health Secretary Matt Hancock called on Monday for the government to mandate vaccines for healthcare workers. “There is no respectable argument left not to force health and social care workers to get jabbed,” he wrote in The Telegraph, calling the vaccine “the only reason for the safe return of our liberty.”
Pfizer CEO calls people spreading vaccine ‘misinformation’ criminals
9 Nov, 2021 19:55
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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has blamed people spreading “misinformation” on Covid-19 vaccines for the loss of “millions of lives,” and declared that things can only go “back to normal” once they take the jab.
Most people in western countries have taken the jab, twice, and we are far from back to normal. In fact, the situation is deteriorating. Now we need a third shot.
It's sickeningly ironic that the CEO of any Big Pharma company would call people who don't trust Big Pharma - criminals. I would trust a lawyer or a used car salesmen long before a Big Pharma exec.
Speaking to the NATO-backed Atlantic Council think tank on Tuesday, Bourla said that a “very small” group of people are spreading “misinformation” on Covid-19 vaccines, his company’s own shots included.
Big Pharma is the epitome of misinformation!
“Those people are criminals,” he told Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe.
They’re not bad people. They’re criminals because they have literally cost millions of lives.
And how many lives has Big Pharma cost? With their 'through the roof' pricing? With their ignoring cheap cures to keep their high cost maintenance drugs selling? With their financing campaigns to destroy cheaper drugs? How dare Bourla call us criminals!
Bourla’s words echo those of US President Joe Biden, who during the summer accused social media platforms of “killing people” by offering a platform to vaccine skeptics and opponents. Though Biden later walked his comments back, he still insisted that “bad information” was supposedly responsible for deaths.
While studies have shown the efficacy of Pfizer’s vaccine to wane with time, and although the vaccinated can still catch and become sick from Covid-19 regardless, Bourla insisted that mass vaccination will result in daily life going “back to normal.”
“The only thing that stands between the new way of life and the current way of life is, frankly, hesitancy to vaccinations,” he told Kempe.
At the same time, should any cases of side effects of Pfizer’s vaccine emerge, the developer will not be held criminally accountable. Pharmaceutical companies are shielded from liability in the event of vaccine-induced injuries or deaths in the US, UK, EU, and multiple other jurisdictions.
No wonder they don't care how many people get sick or die from their vaccines!
Both the World Health Organization (WHO) and America’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have declared Pfizer’s vaccine ‘safe and effective’.
And, I wonder, how many of those on the WHO or CDC boards have shares in Pfizer?
Search this blog for Big Pharma to find many stories that confirm my accusations.
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WHO admits Covid-19 is not going anywhere
10 Nov, 2021 10:30
The World Health Organization's Europe director, Hans Kluge, has warned that the Covid pandemic won't end until nations “learn to live with the virus,” ensuring health systems are not overwhelmed by infections and deaths.
Speaking during an interview with Spain's La Vanguardia newspaper, Kluge warned that the international health body is not able to declare an end to the pandemic while there is still a risk that health systems may be unable to cope with a spike in case numbers.
“We have to learn to live with the virus. As soon as our health system is not overwhelmed by hospitalizations and deaths from Covid, that is, it can provide the services it provided before, the pandemic will possibly become an endemic,” Kluge said.
The comments from the WHO's Europe boss came as he addressed concerns about the situation on the continent ahead of the winter months.
Responding to a question about whether “Europe is once again the epicenter of the pandemic,” Kluge flagged that the organization is expecting “half a million deaths” from the virus before February. Blaming a combination of “fake news” and the “relaxation of public health and social measures,” Kluge was clear that countries have to refute opposition to the Covid vaccine and safety protocols, and proposed a “working group in Europe” to challenge critics.
Despite concerns about the situation in Europe, the WHO director was clear that the situation would have been “very difficult” without the, so far, effective vaccine rollout in many countries. However, for vaccinations to be fully effective, Kluge stressed that countries must “leave no one behind” and focus on booster shots and inoculating children to maximize the coverage provided and to reduce the spread of the virus.
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Taiwan suspends 2nd doses of Pfizer for teens over health risk
11 Nov, 2021 19:00
The Taiwanese health authorities have suspended the administering of second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine for children aged between 12 and 17, citing concerns about an increased risk of heart inflammation.
A panel of experts made the decision to cease giving the jab to teens on Wednesday, pending further review, according to the country’s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) head Chen Shih-chung. The health authority opted to call a halt to the second jab due to concerns about an increased risk of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the heart’s outer lining).
The Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices said it was suspending giving second doses of the inoculation to 12- to 17-year-olds for a two-week period. During that time, experts from the country’s Centers for Disease Control will examine the 16 reported myocarditis cases among Taiwanese teens who received the jab.
There will be no vaccination of children under 11 years old until any potential issue with administering a second dose to adolescents is fully understood, Chen added, and international data will also be considered. The CECC director noted that Hong Kong and the UK are the only countries not vaccinating children between the ages of 12 and 17 with double doses.
The US Centers for Disease Control has noted reported cases of myocarditis among recipients of mRNA Covid vaccines, such as Pfizer’s, “especially in male adolescents and young adults” and which occurred “more often after the second dose”.
FDA recalls millions of Covid test kits over false results
11 Nov, 2021 16:22
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued “the most serious type of recall” for popular home testing kits that show if one is infected with coronavirus. At least 2.2 million products may have been showing false positives.
Some 2,212,335 kits produced by the Australian-based biotech company Ellume and distributed in the US potentially show false positive SARS-CoV-2 test results, the public health agency said in a statement on Thursday.
The FDA warned that the use of faulty kits “may cause serious adverse health consequences or death,” identifying the case as a ‘Class I recall.’
The antigen test, which detects coronavirus proteins, was authorized for emergency use by the FDA last year. It is available without a prescription for both adults and children aged two and older, and uses swab samples taken from a nose to detect if one has Covid. Some “specific lots,” manufactured between February and August this year, are now being recalled in the US, with the company saying it has worked with the authorities to voluntarily remove the affected tests from the market. The company has offered its apologies “for any stress or difficulties [customers] may have experienced because of a false positive result.”
The “higher-than-acceptable” false results, showing that a person has coronavirus when in reality they do not, have been reported to the FDA in at least 35 cases. No false negative results have been detected. However, the inaccurate diagnostic could have life-threatening consequences. A person might receive wrong or unnecessary treatment, including with antiviral and antibody therapy, and suffer additional trauma over having to isolate from family members and friends. It might also lead to people disregarding precautions, including getting vaccinated against Covid-19, the FDA has said.
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