October 26, 2021, Global Research
published an interview with Dr. Peter McCullough, in which he reviews
and explains the findings of a September 2021 study published in the
journal Toxicology Reports, which states:1
“A novel best-case scenario cost-benefit analysis showed very
conservatively that there are five times the number of deaths
attributable to each inoculation vs those attributable to COVID-19 in
the most vulnerable 65+ demographic.
The risk of death from COVID-19 decreases drastically as age
decreases, and the longer-term effects of the inoculations on lower age
groups will increase their risk-benefit ratio, perhaps substantially.”
McCullough has impeccable academic credentials. He’s an internist,
cardiologist, epidemiologist and a full professor of medicine at Texas
A&M College of Medicine in Dallas. He also has a master’s degree in
public health and is known for being one of the top five most-published
medical researchers in the United States, in addition to being the
editor of two medical journals.
Authors Defend Their Paper
Not surprisingly, the Toxicology Reports paper has received scathing
critique from certain quarters. Still, corresponding author Ronald
Kostoff told Retraction Watch that the criticism has actually been “an
extremely small fraction” of the overall response, which by and large
has been overwhelmingly positive and supportive. Kostoff went on to say:2
“Given the blatant censorship of the mainstream media and social
media, only one side of the COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ narrative is reaching the
public. Any questioning of the narrative is met with the harshest
response …
I went into this with my eyes
wide open, determined to identify the truth, irrespective of where it
fell. I could not stand idly by while the least vulnerable to serious
COVID-19 consequences were injected with substances of unknown mid and
long-term safety.
We published a best-case scenario. The real-world situation is
far worse than our best-case scenario, and could be the subject of a
future paper.
What these results show is that we 1) instituted mass
inoculations of an inadequately-tested toxic substance with 2)
non-negligible attendant crippling and lethal results to 3) potentially
prevent a relatively small number of true COVID-19 deaths. In other
words, we used a howitzer where an accurate rifle would have sufficed!”
COVID Jab Campaign Has Had No Discernible Impact
Certainly, data very clearly show the mass “vaccination” campaign has
not had a discernible impact on global death rates. On the contrary, in
some cases the death toll shot up after the COVID shots became widely
available. You can browse through covid19.healthdata.org3 to see this for yourself. Several examples are also included at the very beginning of the video.
This trend has also been confirmed in a September 2021 study4 published in the European Journal of Epidemiology. It found COVID-19 case rates are completely unrelated to vaccination rates.
Using data available as of September 3, 2021, from Our World in Data
for cross-country analysis, and the White House COVID-19 Team data for
U.S. counties, the researchers investigated the relationship between new
COVID-19 cases and the percentage of the population that had been fully
vaccinated.
Sixty-eight countries were included. Inclusion criteria included
second dose vaccine data, COVID-19 case data and population data as of
September 3, 2021. They then computed the COVID-19 cases per 1 million
people for each country, and calculated the percentage of population
that was fully vaccinated.
According to the authors, there was “no discernable relationship
between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases
in the last seven days.” If anything, higher vaccination rates were
associated with a slight increase in cases. According to the authors:5
“[T]he trend line suggests a marginally positive association such
that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated
have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people.”
The Kostoff Analysis
Getting back to the Toxicology Reports paper,6
which is being referring to as “the Kostoff analysis,” McCullough says
the analysis is definitely making news in clinical medicine. The paper
focuses on two factors: assumptions and determinism.
Determinism describes how likely something is. For example, if a
person takes a COVID shot, it’s 100% certain they got the injection.
It’s not 50% or 75%. It’s an absolute certainty. As a result, that
person has a 100% chance of being exposed to whatever risk is associated
with that shot.
On the other hand, if a person says no to the injection, it’s not
100% chance they’ll get COVID-19, let alone die from it. You have a less
than 1% chance of being exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and getting sick. So,
it’s 100% deterministic that taking the shot exposes you to the risks of
the shot, and less than 1% deterministic that you’ll get COVID if you
don’t take the shot.
The other part of the equation is the assumptions, which are based on
calculations using available data, such as pre-COVID death statistics
and death reports filed with the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reports
System (VAERS).
Mortality Data
As noted by McCullough, two reports have detailed COVID jab death
data, showing 50% of deaths occur within 24 hours and 80% occur within
the first week. In one of these reports, 86% of deaths were found to
have no other explanation aside from a vaccine adverse event. McCullough
also cites a Scandinavian study that concluded about 40% of post-jab
deaths among seniors in assisted living homes are directly due to the
injection. He also cites other eye-opening figures:
- The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports having
more than 30,000 spontaneous reports of either hospitalizations and/or
deaths among the fully vaccinated
- Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services show
300,000 vaccinated CMS recipients have been hospitalized with
breakthrough infections
- 60% of seniors over age 65 hospitalized for COVID-19 have been vaccinated
COVID Shots Are ‘Failing Wholesale’
“When we put all these data together, we have clear-cut science that
the vaccines are failing wholesale,” McCullough says. The shots are
particularly useless in seniors.
Again, based on a best-case conservative scenario, seniors are five
times more likely to die from the shot than they are from the natural
infection. This scenario includes the assumption that the PCR test is
accurate and reported COVID deaths were in fact due to COVID-19, which
we know is not the case, and the assumption that the shots actually
prevent death, which we have no proof of.
All things considered, you are FAR better off taking your chances
with the natural infection, as McCullough says. The Kostoff analysis
also does not take into account the fact that there are safe and
effective treatments.
It bases its assumptions on the notion that there aren’t any. It also
doesn’t factor in the fact that the COVID shots are utterly ineffective
against the Delta and other variants. If you take into account vaccine
failure against variants and alternative treatments, it skews the
analysis even further toward natural infection being the safest
alternative.
FDA and CDC Should Not Run Vaccine Programs
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the CDC claim not a
single death following COVID inoculation was caused by the shot, they
should not be the ones making that determination, as they are both
sponsoring the vaccination campaign.
They have an inherent bias. When you conduct a trial, you would never
allow the sponsor to tell you whether the product was the cause of
death, because you know they’re biased.
What we need is an external group, a critical event committee, to
analyze the deaths being reported, as well as a data safety monitoring
board. These should have been in place from the start, but were not.
Had they been, the program would most likely have been halted in
February, as by then the number of reported deaths, 186, already
exceeded the tolerable threshold of about 150 (based on the number of
injections given). Now, we’re well over 17,000.7 There’s no normal circumstance under which that would ever be allowed.
“The CDC and FDA are running the [vaccination] program. They are NOT the people who typically run vaccine programs,” McCullough says. “The drug companies run vaccine programs.
When Pfizer, Moderna, J&J ran their randomized trials, we
didn’t have any problems. They had good safety oversight. They had data
safety monitoring boards. The did OK. I mean I have to give the drug
companies [credit].
But the drug companies are now just the suppliers of the vaccine.
Our government agencies are now just running the program. There’s no
external advisory committee. There’s no data safety monitoring board.
There’s no human ethics committee. NO one is watching out for this!
And so, the CDC and FDA pretty clearly have their marching
orders: ‘Execute this program; the vaccine is safe and effective.’
They’re giving no reports to Americans. No safety reports. We needed
those once a month. They haven’t told doctors which is the best vaccine,
which is the safest vaccine.
They haven’t told us what groups are to watch out for. How to
mitigate risks. Maybe there are drug interactions. Maybe it’s people
with prior blood clotting problems or diabetes. They’re not telling us
anything!
They literally are blindsiding us, and with no transparency, and
Americans now are scared to death. You can feel the tension in America.
People are walking off the job. They don’t want to lose their jobs, but
they don’t want to die of the vaccine! It’s very clear. They say,
‘Listen, I don’t want to die. That’s the reason I’m not taking the
vaccine.’ It’s just that clear.”
Bradford Hill Criteria Are Met — COVID Jabs Cause Death
McCullough goes on to explain the Bradford Hill criterion for
causation, which is one of the ways by which we can actually determine
that, yes, the shots are indeed killing people. We’re not dealing with
coincidence.
“The first question we’d ask is: ‘Does the vaccine have a
mechanism of action, a biological mechanism of action, that can actually
kill a human being?’ And the answer is yes! because the vaccines all
use genetic mechanisms to trick the body into making the lethal spike
protein of the virus.
It is very conceivable that some people take up too much
messenger RNA; they produce a lethal spike protein in sensitive organs
like the brain or the heart or elsewhere. The spike protein damages
blood vessels, damages organs, causes blood clots. So, it’s well within
the mechanism of action that the vaccine could be fatal.
Someone could have a fatal blood clot. They could have fatal
myocarditis. The FDA has official warnings of myocarditis. They have
warnings on blood clots. They have warnings on a fatal neurologic
condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome. So, the FDA warnings, the
mechanism of action, clearly say it’s possible.
The second criteria is: ‘Is it a large effect?’ And the answer is
yes! This is not a subtle thing. It’s not 151 versus 149 deaths. This
is 15,000 deaths. So, it’s a very large effect size, a large effect.
The third [criteria] is: ‘Is it internally consistent?’ Are you
seeing other things that could potentially be fatal in VAERS? Yes! We’re
seeing heart attacks. We’re seeing strokes. We’re seeing myocarditis.
We’re seeing blood clots, and what have you. So, it’s internally
consistent.
‘Is it externally consistent?’ That’s the next criteria. Well, if
you look in the MHRA, the yellow card system in England, the exact same
thing has been found. In the EudraVigilance system in [Europe] the
exact same thing’s been found.
So, we have actually fulfilled all of the Bradford Hill criteria.
I’ll tell you right now that COVID-19 vaccine is, from an
epidemiological perspective, causing these deaths or a large fraction.”
Zero Tolerance for Elective Drugs Causing Death
There may be cases in which a high risk of death from a drug might be
acceptable. If you have a terminal incurable disease, for example, you
may be willing to experiment and take your chances. Under normal
circumstances however, lethal drugs are not tolerated.
After five suspected deaths, a drug will receive a black box warning.
At 50 deaths, it will be removed from the market. Considering COVID-19
has a less than 1% risk of death across age groups, the tolerance for a
deadly remedy is infinitesimal. At over 17,000 reported deaths, which in
real numbers may exceed 212,000,8 the COVID shots far surpass any reasonable risk to protect against symptomatic COVID-19. As noted by McCullough:
“There is zero tolerance for electively taking a drug or a new
vaccine and then dying! There’s zero tolerance for that. People don’t
weigh it out and say, ‘Oh well, I’ll take my chances and die.’ And I can
tell you, the word got out about vaccines causing death in early April
[2021], and by mid-April the vaccination rates in the United States
plummeted …
We hadn’t gotten anywhere near our goals. Remember, President
Biden set a goal [of 70% vaccination rate] by July 1. We never got there
because Americans were frightened by their relatives, people in their
churches and their schools dying after the vaccine.
They had heard about it, they saw it. There was an informal
internet survey done several months ago, where 12% of Americans knew
somebody who had died after the vaccine.
I’m a doctor. I’m an internist and cardiologist. I just came from
the hospital … I had a woman die of the COVID-19 vaccine … She had shot
No. 1. She had shot No. 2. After shot No. 2, she developed blood clots
throughout her body. She required hospitalization. She required
intravenous blood thinners. She was ravaged. She had neurologic damage.
After that hospitalization, she was in a walker. She came to my
office. I checked for more blood clots. I found more blood clots. I put
her back on blood thinners. I saw her about a month later. She seemed
like she was a little better. Family was really concerned. The next
month I got called by the Dallas Coroner office saying she’s found dead
at home.
Most of us don’t have any problem with vaccines; 98% of Americans
take all the vaccines … I think most people who are still susceptible
would take a COVID vaccine if they knew they weren’t going to die of it
or be injured. And because of these giant safety concerns, and the lack
of transparency, we’re at an impasse.
We’ve got a very labor-constrained market. We’ve got people
walking off the job. We’ve got planes that aren’t going to fly, and it’s
all because our agencies are not being transparent and honest with
America about vaccine safety.”
Early Treatment Is Crucial, Vaxxed or Not
As noted by McCullough, the vast majority of patients require
hospitalization for COVID-19 is because they’ve not received any
treatment and the infection has been allowed free reign for days on end.
“To this day, the patients who get hospitalized are largely those who receive no early care at home,” he says. “They’re either denied care or they don’t know about it, and they end up dying.
The vast majority of people who die, die in the hospital; they
don’t die at home. And the reason why they end up in the hospital, it’s
typically two weeks of lack of treatment. You can’t let a fatal illness
brew for two weeks at home with no treatment, and then start treatment
very late in the hospital. It’s not going to work.
There’s been a very good set of analyses, one in the Journal of
Clinical Infectious Diseases … that showed, day by day, one loses the
opportunity of reducing the hospitalization when monoclonal antibodies
are delayed … No doctor should be considered a renegade when they order
FDA [emergency use authorized] monoclonal antibody. The monoclonal
antibodies are just as approved as the vaccines.
I just had a patient over the weekend, fully vaccinated, took the
booster. A month after the booster she went on a trip to Dubai. She
just came back, and she got COVID-19! … I got her a monoclonal antibody
infusion that day. [The following day] she started the sequence of
multidrug therapy for COVID-19. I am telling you, she is going to get
through this illness in a few days …
Podcaster Joe Rogan just went through this. Governor Abbott was
also a vaccine failure. He went through it. Former President Trump went
through it. Americans should see the use of monoclonal antibodies in
high risk patients, followed by drugs in an oral sequenced approach.
This is standard of care!
It is supported by the Association of Physicians and Surgeons,
the Truth for Health Foundation, the American Front Line Doctors, and
the Front Line Critical Care Consortium. This is not renegade medicine.
This is what patients should have. This is the correct thing! …
If we can’t get the monoclonal antibodies, we certainly use
hydroxychloroquine, supported by over 250 studies, ivermectin, supported
by over 60 studies, combined with azithromycin or doxycycline, inhaled
budesonide … full-dose aspirin … nutraceuticals including zinc, vitamin
D, vitamin C, quercetin, NAC … we do oral and nasal decontamination with
povidone-iodine.
In acutely sick patients we do it every four hours, [and it]
massively reduces the viral load … Fortunately, we have enough doctors
now and enough patient awareness, patients who … understand that early
treatment is viable, is necessary, and it should be executed.”