Six years after the COVID pandemic and five after the mRNA COVID vaccine, questions still abound regarding the vaccine’s safety and efficacy. President Trump said it saved millions of lives, but in May his health care team significantly scaled back vaccine distribution. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/fda-plans-limit-covid-shots-65-high-risk/story?id=122030887
In a major policy change, the Food and Drug Administration has announced a plan to limit access to future COVID-19 shots only to people over 65 years old or those with an underlying health condition.
Was this the right decision? Why do this if the vaccine actually saved millions of lives? Or was the vaccine itself a problem? What did we know four years ago and what do we know today?
2021: The Early Days
Four years ago, vaccine critics claimed a University of North Carolina study showed the COVID vaccine had negative efficacy (i.e. recipients were more likely to contract COVID after vaccination). The study’s defenders said critics were “vaccine deniers” and way off base.
Critics, even if overstating the case, were not far from the truth. The study made claims not worth trumpeting:
- the vaccine had “modest” positive effects in children
- the vaccine “effective for up to 4 months, although effectiveness waned over time,”
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2209371
Among previously uninfected children, vaccine effectiveness reached 63.2% at 4 weeks after the first dose and decreased to 15.5% at 16 weeks. Among previously infected children, vaccine effectiveness reached 69.6% at 4 weeks after the first dose and decreased to 22.4% at 16 weeks
Rapid decline in protection against omicron infection that was conferred by vaccination and previous infection provides support for booster vaccination.
The researchers found that all forms of protection — from vaccination, infection, or the combination of both — were initially strong, then waned over time . . . Infection with Omicron in both vaccinated and unvaccinated children offered potent protection against re-infection by Omicron for the first two months, then began to drop off.
A vaccine effective for just two months shouldn’t be described as “strong” and “potent”. Why set such a low standard for COVID vaccines?
The study reported no known deaths among the 273,157 vaccinated children compared to 7 deaths among unvaccinated children. Still, that result is not particularly decisive. Seven deaths among such a large sample is still extremely low. This wasn’t a practical study to begin with; children were the least at risk. Why not study a broader segment or those more severely impacted?
In August 2021, four months prior to this study and eight months after vaccine trials, Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA vaccines, warned of the vaccine’s lack of durability, its inability to stop infections and transmissibility, and its potential to enhance the deadliness of the virus. He was mocked and censored for his warnings.
A Chaotic Day | Guest: Dr. Robert Malone | 8/3/21 (rumble.com) (advance to minute 49).
Also, in August 2021, CDC Director Wallensky said vaccinated individuals can contract COVID and transmit it to others. The vaccine, she said, could no longer “prevent transmission.” https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html
“Our vaccines are working exceptionally well,” Walensky told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “They continue to work well for Delta, with regard to severe illness and death – they prevent it. But what they can’t do anymore is prevent transmission.”
Another superlative was misapplied. What was “exceptional” about a vaccine which eight months after its release had short-lived potency and no longer prevented transmission? One-channel media and public health officials, however, continued to promote the vaccine no matter the results. What was their angle?
Modest positive results must also be weighed against the increased risk from the vaccines themselves. Every medical treatment has some risk, however slight. The UNC study did not weigh both the costs and benefits of vaccination.
Healthy children were at zero risk from COVID. Minors accounted for an imperceptible fraction of COVID deaths. (Those under 30 accounted for less than 1%, and the few youth stricken had complicating factors.). Why add the risk of vaccination for those not impacted by COVID itself?
Furthermore, the risk from the vaccine itself was significant. During Summer 2021, the FDA issued a myocarditis warning.
Dr. Fauci and Our NIH Gang never mentioned this complication. Why?
In December 2021, a JAMA Pediatrics study found adolescents were seven times more likely to be hospitalized for myocarditis after receiving a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine new study published by JAMA Pediatrics.
(https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22129-myocarditis: Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle, or myocardium. This inflammation weakens your heart muscle, making it harder for your heart to pump).
In 2021 and beyond, as deaths from COVID declined, excess deaths around the world increased (the trend continued for years). The number of young, healthy athletes dying or collapsing on the field of play spiked dramatically. These stories were reported and then ignored as “local” news stories. Disability claims to the government also spiked in early 2021, coincidental with the start of wide-spread vaccine distribution. vsafe-excess-deaths-athletes-collapsing
V-SAFE, a CDC program in which volunteers reported vaccination problems directly to the CDC, registered nearly ten million COVID vaccine recipients. The CDC later (years later) revealed more than 7% registered reported problems:
- 782,900 reported seeking medical assistance, emergency care and/or hospitalization following the Covid-19 injection.
- Another 2.5 million people (1 in 4) reported missing work, school or normal everyday activities because of a health event after receiving a Covid-19 injection.
V-SAFE results coincide with a similar finding from a Rasmussen study: covid-19-concerns. This percentage translates to 18 million Americans experiencing major vaccine side effects, many of them probably not even aware of what caused problems.
COVID vaccines negatively impacted not just youth and adolescents, but also pregnant women as noted in a lawsuit directed at Pfizer lets-put-the-science-on-trial:
Pfizer tracked 458 pregnant women who received the vaccine. More than half had adverse reactions, and 10% had a miscarriage, many within days of vaccination. Lab studies, prior to human trials, also showed the vaccine was linked to infertility, loss of litters, and stillborn offspring.
Still, media and public health figures latched onto any positive result to justify vaccinations. Vaccine mandates were imposed; many were fired for refusing to vaccinate. It was no longer your choice. Informed consent had become outdated given the overstated risk of COVID itself. This tunnel vision was especially galling with regard to children. A vaccine may have been appropriate for an unhealthy child who had complicating risk factors (a decision for parents and their pediatricians, in any case). In any case, the choice for minors, minus the pressure campaign, should have been quite simple.
Did our media and public health officials share all information, positive or negative, so we could make informed decisions? No. Negative vaccine news was concealed. https://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/13993/20211120/fda-wants-people-to-wait-55-years-before-releasing-data-behind-covid-vaccines-that-already-killed-thousands.htm
On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) filed an appeal at the courts to give them an extension of up to the year 2076 to review and finally release its files documenting the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine – a process that took them only months to finish.
Trust CDC and NIH officials because they know more than the rest of us after all, right?
Public officials steadfastly claimed vaccines were safe and effective and the unvaccinated were at great risk. President Biden said vaccinated individuals would not get sick and would not be hospitalized. CDC Director Walensky could not support this unsubstantiated claim during testimony to Congress. wenstrup-questions-CDC-Dir-Walensky
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests revealed CDC claims lacked supporting documentation. The CDC admitted it could not document a single instance of someone previously infected from COVID who remained UNVACCINATED and subsequently was REINFECTED and passed along COVID to someone else.
Did the vaccine provide protection or did natural immunity or some combination? Such questions were worth posing and answering; yet, CDC admitted they were not tracking such information while pretending they had the answers.
When COVID policy became too sensitive, public officials hid from the light. The public could not see how COVID policy was made.
Even the renowned Dr. Tony Fauci was caught up in the game as well.
People trusted the vaccine and government recommendations, but they weren’t given all the facts. Furthermore, those asking questions or wishing to engage in debate were stifled, including so-called “fringe epidemiologists” who had more impressive credentials than their government accusers.
From NIH Director Collins:
We knew all this in 2021, the year of the vaccine. Has the landscape changed since?
Fast Forward a Few Years
Results should have been the ultimate barometer, but faith in the vaccine remained regardless of results.
FORD JR.: “I won’t wear a mask, but I’m going to get the shot.”
PIRRO: “You are? How — what number shot is this for you?”
FORD JR.: “I’ve had it every — so, I’m due one in October, I have one in April —“
WATTERS: “How many? What’s the total?”
FORD JR.: “This will be my seventh.”
WATTERS: “Seventh! (laughs)”
PIRRO: “Why?”
FORD JR.: “And I had Covid three times!”
This example leads to ridiculous hypotheses: is protection from COVID better after seven doses? What is the increased risk of seven doses over a relatively short time frame? Of course, no studies posed these questions.
Initially, I thought the vaccine was a godsend, but, as evidence rolled in, my opinion shifted dramatically. Why defend a vaccine which cannot prevent an individual from contracting COVID multiple times–even after seven doses?
Furthermore, why defend a vaccine with such a questionable safety record?
HHS is now considering banning aluminum from vaccines. Aluminum is added to most vaccines (including the COVID vaccine) to stimulate the body’s response to the treatment. Former FDA Director, Scott Gottleib worried there may be no vaccines left if aluminum is banned. (gottlieb-tries-to-get-ahead-of-a-potential-hhs-report-on-aluminum-and-autism.
I will avoid the on-going debate on vaccines and autism. Perhaps aluminum is a cause or perhaps not. Still, is it necessary to give healthy children aluminum to protect them from a disease which poses no risk? Pretending the COVID vaccine only has an upside is foolish.
Four years ago, my wife and I decided (following advice from medical friends and experts speaking publicly) the COVID vaccine was riskier to our teenagers than the virus itself. I still believe that was the right call. In January 2025, a Florida grand jury investigating COVID policy came to a similar conclusion:
florida-covid-grand-jury-final-report
For a sizable group of healthy young men, there is credible evidence that the risk of side effects from second doses of BNT162b2 or MRNA-1273 (Pfizer and Moderna’s shots) always outweighed their benefits, even at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The grand jury report also concluded the health care system failed the public many other ways.
sponsors and federal regulators collaborated to push out booster after booster based on shallow, inaccurate safety and efficacy data, sidelining their own ombudsmen to get doses of these vaccines into the arms of every American, regardless of their underlying risk
from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Erstwhile gatekeepers became cheerleaders as federal regulators with the trust of the American people dragged their feet in publicly confirming important safety signals, and then sanctioned long delays in mandatory postmarketing studies involving those very same signals. Sponsors abused the scientific journal system and regulatory reporting requirements, delaying public disclosure of serious adverse events from their clinical trials for years. Experienced and respected scientists saw their careers turned upside down for dissenting from “the science,” while experts with opinions matching those of regulators filled the gaps with contrived research and ill-conceived study designs, propagandizing citizens into believing things about the SARSCo V-2 virus and the COVID-19 vaccines that simply were not true.
Was any of this deception criminal? We should find out and hold the fiends accountable.
Problems with the COVID vaccine seemed obvious four years ago. It seemed obvious government deliberately mislead the public and served an interest other than public health. Nothing since has changed those opinions.
The grand jury also noted a lack of flexibility in government’s response. As new evidence arrived, government conclusions and recommendations, public health officials couldn’t (or wouldn’t) keep up:
As time went on, however, the infection, disease, hospitalization and death risks associated with SARS-CoV-2 have become significantly smaller, meaning that these vaccines were no longer able to confer the same level of protective benefits. This is true for everyone, not just healthy young men.
there are profound and serious issues involving the process of vaccine development and safety surveillance in the United States. Some of those are acute, COVID-19-era problems that are unlikely to occur outside the context of another once-in-a-hundred-year pandemic. Others, however, are systemic; they will occur over and over until someone fixes them.
Our pediatrician, in a newsletter, also argued for flexibility and the need for actual policy debate: Dr-M-newsletter
This is an apolitical essay. This is a child centric essay. They deserve change. My children and future grandchildren deserve change. We do not need any more of the same.
I am fielding lots of questions in the office about the safety of vaccines. People are scared. Are they wrong? Should they be? . . . I believe that the vaccine schedule and the risk should be questioned on a rolling basis in perpetuetum. This is the function of medical science. Question dogma always. Look for errors of past thinking and reassess on a continual basis.
I think that on the face of it, the skepticism is well placed as the organizations tasked with our safety have made a mess of being honest during the COVID pandemic vaccine rollout. The simple examples here are the mRNA vaccine timing between doses, the myocarditis risk with young men, making the vaccine mandatory when it was clear that it was neither preventing transmission nor illness in many individuals post vaccination. It clearly prevented death in many at high risk individuals, but that is vastly different than what was being said.
Paul Offit recently and correctly discussed the poorly stated beureaucratic decisions regarding natural immunity on Zdogg’s podcast. Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins would not accept natural immunity as a proof of disease immunity. This would be akin to forcing a child to take the varicella vaccine after they already had chickenpox. Nonsensical.
Then there was the closing of schools for way too long causing undue harm to the children in underprivileged situations. We knew very early on that children were not the spread source.
Also, in 2025, more questions have arisen regarding the vaccine’s impact on fertility and pregnancy. A recent Czech Republic study, concluded vaccinated women had 33% fewer conceptions per 1,000 than unvaccinated women. The sample size was quite large and it shows stark differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated women:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09246479251353384
Results: During the study period, there were approximately 1,300,000 women aged 18–39 years in the Czech Republic, and the proportion of COVID-19-vaccinated women increased from January 2021 until reaching a steady state of around 70% by the end of 2021. At least from June 2021, SCs per 1000 women were considerably lower for women who were vaccinated, compared to those that were unvaccinated, before SC. Furthermore, SC rates for the vaccinated group were much lower than expected based on their proportion of the total population.
Conclusions: In the Czech Republic, SC [successful conception] rates were substantially lower for women vaccinated against COVID-19 before SC than for those who were not vaccinated. These hypothesis-generating and preliminary results call for further studies of the potential influence of COVID-19 vaccination on human fecundability and fertility.
Should we be worried or is this more propaganda for vaccine deniers?
2025: Dr. Birx Speaks
For the other side of the debate, let’s hear from Dr. Deborah Birx, former spokesperson on President Trump’s 2020 COVID advisory board. She recently spoke at a health conference in Aspen, Colorado.
“People in rural counties are dying because they don’t have doctors . . .” she begins.
This is a prelude to blaming the COVID epidemic and the inability to vaccinate all Americans on the system, not the vaccine itself. However, if you wanted a COVID vaccine, the government ensured you had access. 78% of Americans received at least one vaccine during the epidemic. The other 22% most likely didn’t want it.
Few Americans live in remote areas. A poor distribution system was not the problem. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/567613-census-rural-america-shrinks-as-people-flock-to-big-cities/
As of April 2020, just more than 86 percent of Americans live in metropolitan areas, counties that include or are adjacent to major cities with populations of 50,000 or more, an all-time high.
Dr. Birx continues: “They go see the vet instead. They didn’t have testing…”
Who goes to the vet for their own medical care? My family lives close, but not too close, to Charlotte, a major metropolitan area. We and others living further away are not so remote that we must seek the vet for our medical care.
Dr. Birx makes two more claims: “They didn’t have Remdesivir. They used Ivermectin because there wasn’t a doctor there. The vet would prescribe them Ivermectin instead…”
I was prescribed Ivermectin and not by a veterinarian. I know many others prescribed it by MDs. In fact, Ivermectin has been prescribed to humans billions of times since it was approved for human use in 1987. It is on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) list of essential medicines. Furthermore, both humans and animals receive the exact same compound (dosage varies only by weight) is not a problem.
Our pediatrician also wrote of these drugs:
Think about Ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine for COVID during the pandemic. These drugs have been around for decades, used in children and adults safely and never questioned until someone decided to try them with COVID. Now they are dangerous and “horse” medicine.
Dr. Pierre Kory, another highly credentialed MD, testified to Congress regarding Ivermectin:
We have a solution to this problem . . . A miraculous drug . . . Mountains of data have emerged from many centers and countries around the world. It basically obliterates transmission of this virus . . . If you take it, you will not get sick . . . It is proving to be a wonder drug. There are almost thirty studies . . . the drug is so safe. December 2020, Senate testimony
Dr. Birx has to know these things. Instead, she follows many others who flat out lied to us.
Dr. Birx instead promotes Remdesivir, a drug introduced to treat COVID in 2020. It was problematic from its start.
on 22 October [2020], the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Remdesivir for use against the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in the United States—the first drug to receive that status. The EU and U.S. decisions pave the way for Gilead’s drug into two major markets, both with soaring COVID-19 cases.
But both decisions baffled scientists who have closely watched the clinical trials of Remdesivir unfold over the past 6 months—and who have many questions about Remdesivir’s worth. At best, one large, well-designed study found Remdesivir modestly reduced the time to recover from COVID-19 in hospitalized patients with severe illness. A few smaller studies found no impact of treatment on the disease whatsoever.
Dr. Birx’s credentials allow her to make claims without supporting evidence. She downplays a Nobel-prize winning drug, prescribed for various human ailments billions of times, in favor of a drug discredited four years ago. We can do our own research. There is ample counter evidence to contradict her.
2025: RFK Jr. Rebuked
Another vaccine defense was mounted by Dr. Kim Schrier, a former pediatrician now in Congress. She addressed Robert F Kennedy Jr. directly with regard to the new COVID restrictions.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pediatrician-congress-tells-rfk-jr-211101475.html
You have lied to the American people,” Schrier, who is a pediatrician, charged as Kennedy sat silently before a House committee. “You have lied to parents about vaccines for 20 years.”
“And I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every death from a vaccine-preventable illness at your feet,” she said.
Every vaccine preventable death going forward is Kennedy’s fault? It would be equally ridiculous to blame Dr. Schrier for every preventable vaccine related death. The public cannot make sense of important issues when MD’s default to emotional arguments.
RFK Jr. is the HHS Director, but he has a staff of medical experts; he is not acting unilaterally. The last four years, the public has heard from many highly credentialed experts with reasoned arguments supporting this recommendation. There are many credible, often disturbing, reports regarding the vaccine. This restriction seems reasonable.
Let’s not stifle debate and appeal to emotional or unsubstantiated arguments. Instead, let’s seek justice for the the tragic consequences of misguided or dishonest COVID policy.
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Many thanks for your post. Kim Schrier is a fool. There are no vaccine-preventable illnesses and never have been. Injecting poisons into the body is a satanic deceit. She carries responsibility for her lies and is judged accordingly.
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