Vaccines modify the immune system. Those changes may protect or increase the risk of acquiring unrelated infections. Also, the body’s response to immune diseases is altered.
A good example is the effect of the anti-tuberculosis vaccine, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine. Neonates who received BCG have a lower mortality rate. Is this the same for the COVID-19 vaccines?
We don’t know until now. That’s because when the COVID vaccines were tested in randomized clinical trials, those trials were not designed to see the effect on overall mortality.
Knowing the effects of the new vaccines on all-cause mortality is of utmost public health importance, especially when there is a plan to give the jabs repeatedly.
This is what prompted a group of scientists from Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany to make a study to evaluate the effect of the two types of COVID-19 vaccines: the mRNA (Pfizer, Moderna) and adenovirus vector vaccines (AstraZeneca, Johnson &Johnson, Gamaleya) on all-cause mortality.
All-cause mortality includes deaths from COVID-19, accidents, cardiovascular causes, and other non-COVID-19 deaths.
Why use all-cause mortality as an endpoint? The pharmaceutical industry designs drug studies to show the effectiveness of their drugs or vaccines. Sometimes surrogate outcomes which are easier to attain but do not necessarily reflect drug efficacy are used as study endpoints.
In the case of vaccines, the development of antibodies is an example. Antibodies might develop but whether they are effective in preventing infection or how long they will last are not mentioned. That way, the industry can recover its investment and make billions of dollars in profit once the product is released worldwide.
All-cause mortality is hard to game. A person is either dead or alive. Thus it is an unbiased measure of the effect of the COVID shots on the overall health of people.
The authors reviewed the randomized controlled trials of the mRNA and vector-based vaccines before they were released to find the answer.
Results:
Higher all cause mortality with Pfizer and Moderna mRNA shots
They found that the relative risk of dying from all causes is higher with the mRNA vaccines than with the vector-based.
For overall mortality, with 74,193 participants and 61 deaths (mRNA:31; placebo:30), the relative risk (RR) for the two mRNA vaccines compared with placebo was 1.03 (95% CI=0.63-1.71).
In the adenovirus-vector vaccines there were 122,164 participants and 46 deaths (vaccine:16; controls:30). The Relative Risk for adenovirus-vector vaccines versus placebo/control vaccine was 0.37 (0.19-0.70).
A Relative Risk value of more than one means that the intervention (vaccine) is more likely to result in the end-point of a study, which is death in this case.
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were associated with a lower risk of COVID-19 deaths. Among the casualties from the recipients of the mRNA vaccines, fifty percent were cardiovascular.
The cardiovascular deaths from Pfizer are:
- Myocardial infarction (N=2)
- Hypertensive heart disease (N=1)
- Hemorrhagic stroke (N=1)
- Cardiorespiratory arrest (N=2)
- Cardiac failure congestive (N=1)
- Cardiac arrest (N=5)
- Arteriosclerosis (N=2)
- Aortic rupture” (N=1)
From the Moderna trial:
- Myocardial infarction (N=5)
- Cardiopulmonary arrest (N=3)
- End-stage congestive heart failure (N=1)
- Cardiac arrest (N=1)
- Provisional diagnosis, sudden fatal event, likely myocardial infarction (N=1)
- Death suspected due to coronary heart disease, probably due to complications of diabetes mellitus (N=1)
These findings are consistent with the observations of Dr. Steven Grundy, who is a cardiologist that mRNA shots increase cardiovascular risk. His report was featured at mRNA vaccination increases the risk of acute coronary syndrome.
Adenovirus-vector vaccines
The other finding is that the adenovirus-vector vaccines were associated with protection against COVID-19 deaths (RR=0.11 (0.02-0.87)) and non-accident, non-COVID-19 deaths (RR=0.38 (0.17-0.88)).
My comment on the AstraZeneca vaccine study is that they used a meningitis vaccine as a control in their study in the UK and Brazil. whereas Pfizer used saline.
If the control vaccine is associated with higher deaths, then comparing the deaths associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine may not be reliable. For example, if three people died from the control vaccine and the same number died from the AstraZeneca jab, then it will show no additional deaths.
Study Summary
The whole study results can be summarized in the Forest plot all-cause mortality below comparing the estimated effects of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines versus placebo and adenovirus-vector COVID-19 vaccines versus placebo/control vaccines concerning overall COVID-19 mortality, cardiovascular death, and non-accident, non-COVID-19 mortality.
Source: Benn et al., 2022. Randomized Clinical Trials of COVID-19 VaccinesThe graph shows that the relative risk of overall mortality, cardiovascular mortality, and non-accident, non-COVID-deaths are higher in the mRNA shots compared to the adenovirus vector vaccines. While both mRNA and vector-based shots are protective against COVID-19 deaths.
The Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson shots are used in the US. Yesterday, U.S. regulators strictly limited who can receive the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccines due to the ongoing risk of rare but severe blood clots.
Know how that happens at RNA splice study shows why Astra Zeneca and Janssen jabs are clot shots
The Danish study supports previous articles on this website.
- Blood Vessel Damaging Proteins of the SARS-CoV-2
- Cerebral Thrombosis after the Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine
- The High Risk of Deadly Brain Clots in the J & J COVID Vaccine
- This study shows a Ten-Fold Risk of Developing Blood Clots after the COVID Vaccines.
- Retinal complications after COVID shots
- Platelet Changes Causes Blood Clots in COVID-19
- Kaiser Permanente study shows myopericarditis is 43 times higher than VAERS reports
- Higher blood pressure after COVID shots and why it happens
- Study shows spike proteins affect cardiac pericytes
- Kounis syndrome can explain vaccine-related heart attacks
2021 is notable for the release of the COVID-19 shots and the excess deaths seen in the population. Here are several articles about the increase in deaths.
- Above-average deaths of 5 to 74 years old for the year 2021
- US data: High numbers of autopsies done in 2021 among 15-64 years old.
- CDC data shows higher deaths from 25-54 years old in 2021 compared to 2018-2020
- 145 countries with higher COVID-19 cases and deaths after the COVID shots
- Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64
- Vaccine-induced deaths in the US and Europe are way higher than the CDC reports!
- Excess deaths continue in 2022
- Excess deaths in Scotland 2021
- More COVID jabbed dead from COVID-19 than the unvaxxed in Scotland
- German Analysis: The Higher the Vaccination Rate, the Higher the Excess Mortality
The UK has 41,700 excess deaths for 2021.
The study by Benn et al. is still a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed. You can find it at Lancet preprints.
An interview with Prof. Christine Stabell-Benn, one of the authors of the study is at Unherd.com
It is not surprising that many people do not want to have another jab.
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Reference:
Benn, Christine Stabell, Schaltz-Buchholzer, Frederik and Nielsen, Sebastian, Netea, Mihai G. and Aaby, Peter, Randomised Clinical Trials of COVID-19 Vaccines: Do Adenovirus-Vector Vaccines Have Beneficial Non-Specific Effects?. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4072489 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4072489
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