“Soften the news”

‘a threatening phone call’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/08/how-astrazeneca-vaccine-was-shelved/

8th November 2023

In March 2021, The Telegraph was one of the first newspapers to imply a causal link between the jab and blood clots after Norwegian scientists suggested a possible mechanism.

On the day we published the story we received a threatening phone call from a senior official at the MHRA warning that The Telegraph would be banned from future briefings and press notices if we did not soften the news.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency

From FDA to MHRA: are drug regulators for hire?

https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1538

June 2022

Industry money saturates the globe’s leading regulators.

The BMJ found that the majority of regulators’ budget—particularly the portion focused on drugs—is derived from industry fees

Another well-known Cambridge academic got in touch to complain about our “disgraceful fear-mongering headline” on the story, claiming that it would discourage vaccine uptake and cost lives.

We politely pointed out that hiding the facts from people was not helpful and could also cost lives. The academic did not respond.

In February this year, TikTok removed an audio clip in which I discussed whether the benefit of vaccination was worth the risks for young people, claiming it had breached community guidelines.

After we showed that the Government’s own website acknowledges the link, the clip was reinstated.

All of this shows a troubling paternalism in government, academia and some media outlets who believe that the public is not capable of weighing up the pros and cons of medical interventions and so must be shielded from the truth.

Excess mortality in England post Covid-19 pandemic: implications for secondary prevention

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666776223002211?via%3Dihub

Many countries, including the UK, have continued to experience an apparent excess of deaths long after the peaks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021.

Numbers of excess deaths estimated in this period are considerable.

The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) has calculated that there were 7.2% or 44,255 more deaths registered in the UK in 2022

OECD, UK

https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=104676

Excess deaths in 2022, 52,514 (9.26%)

This persisted into 2023 with 8.6% or 28,024 more deaths registered in the first six months of the year than expected.

OECD, UK, weeks 1 – 44, 2023

Excess deaths, 49,389 (9.44%)

The causes of these excess deaths are likely to be multiple and could include the direct effects of Covid-19 infection,

acute pressures on NHS acute services resulting in poorer outcomes from episodes of acute illness,

and disruption to chronic disease detection and management.

Further analysis by cause and by age- and sex-group may help quantify the relative contributions of these causes.

Office for Health Improvement and Disparities

3rd June 2022 to 30th June 2023

Excess deaths for all causes were relatively greatest for 50–64 year olds (15% higher than expected)

11% higher for 25–49 and under 25 year olds,

and about 9% higher for over 65s

Several causes

3rd June 2022–30th June 2023

All cardiovascular diseases, 12%

Heart failure, 20%

Ischaemic heart disease, 15

Liver diseases, 19%

Acute respiratory infections, 14%

Diabetes, 13%

For middle-aged adults (50–64)

Cardiovascular diseases, 33% higher than expected

Ischaemic heart disease, 44%

Cerebrovascular disease, 40%

Heart failure 39% higher

Deaths involving acute respiratory infections, 43% higher

Diabetes, deaths were 35% higher

The pattern now is one of persisting excess deaths which are most prominent in relative terms in middle-aged and younger adults

Timely and granular analyses are needed to describe such trends and so to inform prevention and disease management efforts.

JP-S is Partner at Lane Clark & Peacock LLP, Chair of the Royal Society for Public Health and reports personal fees from Novo Nordisk and Pfizer Ltd outside of this submitted work.

N the months of December-January/February there are typically many deaths due to the low temperatures, but it is all relative in the northern hemisphere (climate and general population age/health as factors, comparing year to year by the week).

Today’s new data from ONS adds Week 49 to the record, showing 11,318 deaths in England and Wales this year compared to 10,585 in 2014-2019 on average. In 2019 COVID-19 was already here, resulting in 10,816 deaths. So the true pre-COVID-19 figure would be 2014-2018 or about 10,450 – i.e. almost 1,000 more deaths than this year’s Week 49.

More of the same. No recovery seen. The population here did not grow 10% since the pandemic started.

‘ve just published this article about a rigged system designed to enrich predators who borrow and then stash money.

NTERNET services and the Web are not the same thing. There’s more to the Net than the Web browser and Google relies on many people using the browser and nothing else.

About a week ago Google introduced “Gemini Pro” or “Gemini” and it seems likely it was intentional – the aim being to hijack the name of Gemini Protocol [1, 2, 3], primarily a way of bypassing the Google-controlled or Google-dominated Web.

Google has become very malcicious. Don’t trust today’s Google.

aving just repeatedly refreshed this page in pursuit of the latest numbers (usually due 9:30AM every Tuesday), I can finally see that in Week 48 the number of recorded deaths in England and Wales is 11,385.

Before COVID-19 (2014-2019 average) it was 10,164.

That’s an increase of 1221 (actual people!) or 12.01%.

In November (the end of the month) COVID-19 had already begun spreading worldwide, so the number of deaths in 2019 was 10,958. This means that an increase of a lot more than 12% can be measured by leaving out 2019.

‘ve just noticed a new video that explains a COVID-19 experience, including a lack of productivity.

My wife and I got it two months before him. This new video more or less echoes our experience, first with negative tests and a few uncomfortable things (nothing major).

Maybe 4+ years later the virus is less severe (smaller, milder strain).

‘ve checked the latest numbers released today (12 December 2023) by ONS, which almost every week publishes “[p]rovisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales, by age, sex and region, in the latest weeks for which data are available. Includes the most up-to-date figures available for deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19).”

Before COVID-19 the mortality level for the country was a lot lower. With new numbers due soon (mortality), let’s consider what it looked like in 2014-2019, January until October (when COVID-19 is said to have broken out in China).

From January 4th until October 4th: 405,046 deaths across England and Wales.

This year, as per the latest figures from ONS, January 6th until October 6th: 449,555 deaths across England and Wales.

That’s almost 50,000 more deaths, with 2 more months left in the year.

One can imagine the surplus by year’s end will be around 55,000.

These are not mere statistics. They represent actual lives lost and devastated relatives.

I just want to thank the NHS for still persisting, despite the government’s attack on this invaluable public service (an attack whose goal to push privatised replacements).