'Because We Said So' Not Good Enough for Everybody: Surgeon General Mad About Covid Misinformation but Fails to Dispel Claim that Vaccines Carry Substantially Serious Side Effects and May Cause Death

From [HERE] Joe Biden’s administration renewed its assault on social media companies allegedly spreading Covid-19 misinformation on Sunday, as new infections continued to surge across the entire US.

Vivek Murthy, the US surgeon general who has accused companies including Facebook of “poisoning information” about coronavirus vaccines, said they were not doing enough to check the online proliferation of false claims.

“The reality is that misinformation is still spreading like wildfire in our country aided and abetted by technology platforms,” he said on Fox News Sunday.

“I’m worried about what is to come because we are seeing increasing cases among the unvaccinated in particular. It’s so important people have the information they need about the vaccine … it is our fastest, most effective way out of this pandemic.” [MORE]

Last month a medical study that appeared on the National Library of Medicine website called "The Safety of COVID-19 Vaccinations — We Should Rethink the Policy" explained that the COVID vaccines are effective but carry significant risk of death and serious side effects. The doctors who authored the study, Harald Walach Rainer (Poznan University of the Medical Sciences, Pediatric Hospital in Poland ) J. Klement (Department of Radiation Oncology, Leopoldina Hospital, Germany) and Wouter Aukem (Independent Data and Pattern Scientist, Brinkenbergweg, The Netherlands), explain that ‘governments should rethink their vaccination policies in light of the deadly risks involved.’

The study was removed from the internet last week and replaced with a version that has “retracted” stamped across it. The original is posted here. The abstract states:

COVID-19 vaccines have had expedited reviews without sufficient safety data. We wanted to compare risks and benefits. Method: We calculated the number needed to vaccinate (NNTV) from a large Israeli field study to prevent one death. We accessed the Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) database of the European Medicines Agency and of the Dutch National Register (lareb.nl) to extract the number of cases reporting severe side effects and the number of cases with fatal side effects. Result: The NNTV is between 200–700 to prevent one case of COVID-19 for the mRNA vaccine marketed by Pfizer, while the NNTV to prevent one death is between 9000 and 50,000 (95% confidence interval), with 16,000 as a point estimate. The number of cases experiencing adverse reactions has been reported to be 700 per 100,000 vaccinations. Currently, we see 16 serious side effects per 100,000 vaccinations, and the number of fatal side effects is at 4.11/100,000 vaccinations. For three deaths prevented by vaccination we have to accept two inflicted by vaccination. Conclusions: This lack of clear benefit should cause governments to rethink their vaccination policy.