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Febrile Seizures Identified as Potential Cause of Sudden Unexplained Deaths of Children

A study published in the Feb. 13, 2024 journal Neurology designed to investigate the cause of sudden unexplained death of children, which usually occurs during sleep, found that the deaths of seven toddlers examined in the study were related to convulsions, also known as seizures. This finding suggests that many unexplained sleep-related deaths unexpectedly occurring in infants under age one (sudden infant death or SIDS) and in children over age one (sudden unexplained death in childhood or SUDC) may result from seizures.1

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that there are approximately 3,400 cases of SIDS in infants under one year old every year in the United States with no obvious cause. In 2020, there were 1,389 deaths due to SIDS, 1,062 deaths due to unknown causes, and 905 deaths due to accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed.2

For many decades, researchers have attempted to find an explanation of why SIDS occurs in children and observed that there is a link between SIDS and children with a history of febrile seizures (seizures accompanied by fever). Research in the past suggested that children who died suddenly and unexpectedly were 10 times more likely to have had febrile seizures than children who did not die suddenly and unexpectedly.3 4

According to The Sleep Foundation, febrile seizures are relatively common and 1 in 25 children experience at least one febrile seizure triggered by fever.5

Study Analyzes Home Video Recordings of Child’s Last Sleep Before Death

In the study published in Neurology, the findings were derived from a registry of over 300 SUDC cases that was set up ten years ago by researchers at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Medical records and video evidence of seven toddlers aged 13 to 27 molnths, who suddenly died in their sleep, were donated by families to the researchers and were analyzed. A team of eight physicians analyzed the home video recordings. The recordings were either time stamped from security systems or commercial crib cameras, while each child was sleeping right before of their death. Six forensic pathologists, a pediatric epileptologist, and a sleep medicine/epileptologist physician reviewed the videos independently.6

Three cases had no significant medical history. Four had common pediatric conditions such preterm birth with recent otitis media (ear infection), chronic otitis media and bilateral myringotomies (surgery to treat chronic ear infections), egg allergy, and febrile seizures. All children had normal development milestones.7

Five of the seven video recordings were continuously running at the time and showed sound and visible motion that indicated an occurrence of a seizure. The remaining two recordings were triggered by sound or motion, but only one suggested that a muscle convulsion (a sign of seizure) had occurred and also only one toddler had a documented previous history of febrile seizures.

The autopsies that were performed revealed no definitive cause of death,  however it is well known that pathological evidence of seizures prior to death is difficult to detect in autopsies.8

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Excess Deaths vs. Hospitalizations

The previous edition of this series dealt with Denmark. This is the third report on the contrast between weekly excess death rates and weekly hospitalizations. If progress is made in a pandemic, then you will find lower rates of excess death in relation to hospitalizations — because you are able to keep more who are hospitalized alive.

Here are the weekly excess deaths per million (red) and the weekly hospitalizations per million (blue) for Israel…

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Excess Deaths in Australia Correlated to Covid Vaccine Uptake — Study

A peer reviewed study has found a correlation between Covid vaccine administration and excess mortality in Australia. While correlation does not imply causation, it indicates a plausible causation that should be further researched, which it has previously and causation has been confirmed including in Australia.

“The study explores the relationship by Australia State between COVID Booster Vaccinations and excess deaths. There is evidence of a very strong correlation in ordinary least squares regression analysis. Cross-validation tests support the strength of the regression relationship. The results suggest that it would be worthwhile to explore these associations in greater depth as it is an important public health issue,” the study said in the ‘Abstract’ section.

A positive correlation between the shot and extra deaths has been discovered.

A positive correlation describes how when one factor increases or decreases (Covid vaccination) the other factor (excess mortality) moves in the same direction. While correlation does not verify a direct cause-effect relationship between the first and second factor (causation), it does indicate a causal factor may be at play.

Booster doses have the biggest effect on death rates it appears.

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Fatal Myocarditis following COVID-19 mRNA Immunization: A Case Report and Differential Diagnosis Review

Carditis in childhood is a rare disease with several etiologies. We report a case of infant death due to pericarditis and myocarditis after the mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 (COVIDmRNAV). A 7-year-old male child received the first dose of the COVIDmRNAV and presented with monoarthritis and a fever non-responsive to oral antibiotics. The laboratory investigation showed signs of infection (leukocytosis, high levels of c-reactive protein). His condition rapidly deteriorated, and the patient died. The autopsy identified pericardial fibrin deposits, hemorrhagic areas in the myocardium, and normal valves. A diffuse intermyocardial inflammatory infiltrate composed of T CD8+ lymphocytes and histiocytes was identified. An antistreptolysin O (ASO) dosage showed high titers. The presence of arthritis, elevated ASO, and carditis fulfills the criteria for rheumatic fever. However, valve disease and Aschoff’s nodules, present in 90% of rheumatic carditis cases, were absent in this case. The temporal correlation with mRNA vaccination prompted its inclusion as one of the etiologies. In cases of myocardial damage related to COVID-19mRNAV, it appears to be related to the expression of exosomes and lipid nanoparticles, leading to a cytokine storm. The potential effects of the COVID-19mRNAV must be considered in the pathogenesis of this disease, whether as an etiology or a contributing factor to a previously initiated myocardial injury.

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

Overtreatment with drugs kills many people, and the death rate is increasing. It is, therefore, strange that we have allowed this long-lasting drug pandemic to continue, and even more so because most of the drug deaths are easily preventable.

In 2013, I estimated that our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer,1 and in 2015, that psychiatric drugs alone are also the third leading cause of death.2 However, in USA, it is commonly stated that our drugs are “only” the fourth leading cause of death.3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission.5

This methodology clearly underestimates drug deaths. Most people who are killed by their drugs die outside hospitals, and the time people spent in hospitals was only 11 days on average in the meta-analysis.5 Moreover, the meta-analysis only included patients who died from drugs that were properly prescribed, not those who died as a result of errors in drug administration, noncompliance, overdose, or drug abuse, and not deaths where the adverse drug reaction was only possible.5

Many people die because of errors, e.g., simultaneous use of contraindicated drugs, and many possible drug deaths are real. Moreover, most of the included studies are very old, the median publication year being 1973, and drug deaths have increased dramatically in the last 50 years. As an example, 37,309 drug deaths were reported to the FDA in 2006 and 123,927 ten years later, which is 3.3 times as many.6

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Study Confirms — Trans Fats Policy Killed Millions

For the past six decades, saturated fats and cholesterol have been wrongly vilified as the central culprit of heart disease, stroke and peripheral vascular disease. However, research has demonstrated that it’s actually trans fats and processed vegetable oils found in many processed foods that are the real enemy.

In the decades saturated fats were demonized, the food industry responded by replacing saturated fats with more shelf-stable trans fats and a new market of low-fat (high-sugar) foods was born.

Americans’ health has plummeted ever since, and millions have been prematurely killed by this mistake. Making matters worse, genetically engineered soy oil, which is a major source of trans fat, can oxidize inside your body, thereby causing damage to both your heart and your brain.

One of the first articles published exonerating saturated fats was in 1957 by the late Dr. Fred Kummerow,1 who spent eight decades absorbed in the science of lipids and heart disease. In 2013, Kummerow sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for not withdrawing trans fats from the market.2 It was Kummerow’s lifetime work that revealed the dangers of trans fat and oxidized cholesterol and the relationship to heart disease.

Not surprisingly, trans fat is also linked to dementia as the arterial changes that occur in the heart muscle also occur in the brain, triggering neurological damage. Research has demonstrated the dangers to health and a great financial burden that eating a diet with trans fat has placed on the American public.

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What the Australian excess deaths inquiry refused to publish

A committee investigating potential causes of Australia’s record excess deaths has refused to publish a comprehensive interdisciplinary submission by the Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS), of which I am a contributor.

Since 2021, Australia has experienced excess mortality at rates not seen outside of wartime. Not all of it is due to Covid. Therefore, the Australian Parliament established the world’s first excess deaths inquiry to get to the bottom of what’s causing so many more Australians to die than would normally be expected.

The AMPS submission includes :

  • Evidence of an uptick in all-cause mortality (ACM) with the introduction of Covid vaccines to a zero Covid community,
  • An estimate of the true contribution of Covid to excess deaths (29% at most),
  • An estimate of the true number of Australian cumulative excess deaths throughout 2021-2023 in the ballpark of 40,000 as opposed to the official Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) estimate of 29,601,
  • Discussion of how the ABS drastically reduced its excess deaths estimate overnight by changing its baseline modelling,
  • Evidence that Covid vaccine injuries and deaths are under-reported in official record keeping,
  • A review of the Australian Government’s unscientific response to the Covid pandemic and its detrimental impact on health outcomes, likely contributing to excess deaths,
  • And evidence that deaths in the vaccine arm of the Pfizer trial were concealed prior to the US Emergency Use Approval (EUA) data cut-off date, plus evidence of a 3.7-fold increase in cardiac events in vaccinated vs. placebo arm subjects.

After AMPS made its submission to the inquiry earlier this year, the organisation was invited to testify at a public hearing. This resulted in some rather explosive content going in the public record, including Dr Jeyanthi Kunadhasan asking the committee,

“If the clinical sponsor can hide deaths and autopsy results, ignore a sudden adult death and cardiac event signal in the clinical trial, with the regulator waving this along, what else can they hide?”

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Suicide Now 5th Leading Cause of Death Among Preteen Boys and Girls

Suicide rates among U.S. kids ages 8 to 12 have been rising by 8.2% since 2008, according to researchers with the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Suicide has now become the fifth leading cause of death among both female and male preteens, said the team led by Donna Ruch, Ph.D., from the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.

The researchers published their findings on July 30 in JAMA Network Open. The study was funded by NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health and National Institute on Drug Abuse, and by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Ruch and her team analyzed preteen suicide records from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from Jan. 1, 2001, to Dec. 31, 2022.

“Following a downward trend until 2007,” they wrote in their report, “suicide rates significantly increased 8.2% annually from 2008 to 2022.”

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A case study, well documented, of how hospital staff murdered a 19 year old patient who was doing well, in cold blood

This one post is not enough to tell the whole story. Grace Schara was a 19 year old girl, full of life, with Down’s syndrome. She drove a car and a tractor, played the violin, told lots of jokes and was altogether delightful.

She got COVID, her O2 level dropped, and she wound up in the hospital, like so many others. Everyone knows by now that hospitals collected huge $ bonuses for each patient who went to the ICU, was placed on a ventilator (still more $) and died with COVID (even more $).

Grace drew a bad hand. She was cared for by doctors and nurses in whom a switch had been flipped. We don’t know know what was going on in their heads. But we do know they were willing to (or perhaps got pleasure from their ability to) break the law and all ethical norms to murder this patient.

A physician placed a DNR on her chart, against her family’s and the patient’ wishes. A doctor told the family she was markedly improved and close to discharge. Then she was given huge doses of morphine and lorazepam in what is charitably called euthanasia. A doctor gave the order. A nurse administered the drugs. A pharmacist presumably dispensed death-sized doses of the drugs for a 19 year old.

I met up with Scott in Denver last month, and again at the Maine Health Choice retreat this weekend. Here is a part of his and Grace’s story. This premeditated murder case could be the one that blows up COVID hospital murders for good. More details are on the Amazing Grace substack.

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Vaccines Caused 17 Million Deaths During Pandemic Plus 4 More Takeaways From Largest Excess Mortality Study to Date

A major investigation by Canadian researchers into excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic found that patterns of excess death globally could not be explained by a pandemic respiratory virus, The Defender reported last week.

Instead, the authors concluded the major causes of death globally stemmed from the public health establishment’s response, including lockdowns, harmful medical interventions and the COVID-19 vaccines.

The study by researchers from the nonprofit Correlation Research in the Public Interest analyzed excess mortality in 125 countries — about 35% of the global population — during the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning with the March 11, 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic declaration and ending on May 5, 2023, when the WHO declared the pandemic over.

The investigation concluded that “nothing special would have occurred in terms of mortality had a pandemic not been declared and had the declaration not been acted upon.”

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