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Army flight surgeon drops bombshell: 29 troop deaths after COVID shot, 55,000 adverse-events, and 2,500 death files now under review

A bombshell sworn declaration filed in federal court is raising new questions about the Biden-era COVID-19 vaccine mandate imposed on America’s military.

According to TrialSite News, Army Lt. Col. Theresa Long, a retired Army flight surgeon now serving as senior medical military adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and reporting to War Secretary Pete Hegseth, filed a sworn declaration in Adirim v. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency et al., in the Eastern District of Virginia.

Long told the court she has firsthand knowledge of more than 29 service-member deaths after COVID-19 vaccination and that she has been tasked with examining roughly 55,000 military-linked adverse-event reports, including 2,544 death reports in the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

“I have first hand knowledge of over 29 deaths of servicemembers after vaccination with the COVID-19 vaccines. I am currently tasked with investigating the 55,000 vaccine adverse event reports filed on individuals identified as members of the U.S. Armed Forces, this includes 2544 deaths.

“As the first aviation brigade surgeon I had one servicemember die of rapid onset and progression of esophageal cancer after COVID vaccination and one in which a student pilot who had never been COVID positive, who experienced sudden cardiac death at the controls of a helicopter during a training flight.

“An independent cardiologist evaluated all imaging, labs and history on the student pilot and determined that myocardial injury secondary to the COVID-19 vaccines was the most likely cause.

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Vaccine-Injured Canadians Finally Got a Hearing. Health Canada Was Absent.

For years, vaccine-injured Canadians have described being ignored, gaslit, and left to navigate serious illness with little help or compensation. Their questions extend beyond their own medical care: Who knew about the risks? How were reports of injury investigated? And who is responsible for helping them now?

Other countries have opened their pandemic decisions to public scrutiny. According to the Allison Inquiry’s organizers, more than 30 democracies have held some form of inquiry into their pandemic response. Though those proceedings have differed in scope and conclusions, Canada has yet to hold a national public inquiry of any sort.

Conservative MP Dean Allison decided Canadians should not have to keep waiting.

With lawyer Shawn Buckley as inquiry counsel and a volunteer team behind him, Allison organized four days of hearings on Parliament Hill focused on COVID-19 vaccine injuries. More than 1,400 people applied to testify. From September 8 to 11, roughly 50 witnesses took the oath, including injured Canadians, bereaved families, physicians, and researchers.

The hearings had limited powers. They could not compel witnesses or subpoena records, and their terms prohibited findings of fact or conclusions. Even within those limits, witnesses could explain publicly what had happened to them and what they wanted investigated.

Health Canada did not testify.

CBC published a report on the final afternoon. Global News aired a segment two days after the hearings closed. The testimony itself deserves attention: families describing lives upended, physicians recounting their attempts to report injuries, and researchers questioning how those reports were handled.

IMA readers will recognize several participants, including Senior Fellow Dr. Jessica Rose, Senator Ron Johnson, and Dr. James Thorp. Below are eight witnesses and excerpts from their testimony. For those seeking help with symptoms after vaccination, IMA’s free post-vaccine treatment guide offers a resource to discuss with a treating clinician.

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FDA relied on broken data mining process to sell COVID vaccines: report

Top officials with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were warned in early 2021 of a critical defect in the country’s vaccine monitoring system yet chose to rely on it anyway while assuring the public of the COVID-19 vaccines’ safety, according to a new report.

On September 16, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a report detailing flaws in the algorithms used to sift through the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) to find safety signals with the COVID shots that would require investigation.

One of those algorithms would calculate “proportional reporting ratios” (PRRs), identifying events that were reported at a higher rate than others, along with “empirical bayesian” data mining.

But according to the BMJ’s investigation, the agency’s algorithm was “mathematically compromised by the deluge of covid vaccine adverse event reports – resulting in a near total loss of signal detection sensitivity for the new mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna.” More significantly, top officials were warned early in 2021, yet chose to keep relying on it anyway, and even “cited the absence of signals when assuring clinicians and the public of the vaccines’ safety.”

In February 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Health informed the FDA and CDC of a “a large number of reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people” after vaccination, and followed up five weeks later that two of the 77 had died. The Pentagon Defense Health Agency subsequently reported a “cluster” of myocarditis cases among male soldiers. By May, VAERS had gotten hundreds of such reports, prompting the CDC to begin alerting medical professionals.

Then-FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research director Peter Marks emailed CDC director Rochelle Walensky, expressing concern that “myocarditis and pericarditis have not actually signaled … Can you help me understand why we are doing this when pediatricians and others in the community already seem to be aware?”

As VAERS reports continued to mount, health officials inquired as to why they were not receiving safety signals from the government.

“The problem arose because, in the first year of the rollout, almost all the reports coming into VAERS – more than 90% of 1.1 million – were for the mRNA covid shots, dwarfing vaccines for all other diseases,” BMJ explained. “This meant that analyzing the safety of one vaccine, for example Pfizer’s product, involved comparing it to other vaccines, which were overwhelmingly limited to Moderna’s product. But if both mRNA vaccines elevated the risk of an adverse event like myocarditis in roughly equal amounts, the ‘observed’ frequency and ‘expected’ frequency would be similar, resulting in no automated alert. The statistical phenomenon is known as ‘masking.’”

Microbiologist and immunologist Ana Szarfman, an expert in drug safety data mining who worked with the FDA for decades, emailed Marks directly with concerns about the system. Two weeks later, a video conference was held in which Szarfman’s presentation explained that the PRR analysis “Highlights almost everything,” whereas the FDA’s bayesian approach did not: “You are not getting useful information with such low counts.”

Yet Marks and his team declined to change course and urged Szarfman to “hold off on creating and sending data mining reports and analyses using covid-19 vaccine AE (adverse event) data.”

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Anthrax Attacks Paved Way for COVID-Era ‘Junk Drugs and Vaccines’

The anthrax attacks that followed 9/11 did more than frighten Americans — they helped create the legal, regulatory and biosecurity framework that later enabled the government’s response to COVID-19, according to Dr. Meryl Nass.

Speaking at the Turning the Tide: 9/11 25 Years Later conference last week in New York City, Nass drew a direct line between the anthrax letters of 2001 and the coronavirus pandemic.

“It’s worth thinking about the similarities between the COVID experience and the anthrax letters because it seems that both were inside jobs planned by the same cabal for the same purpose,” Nass said.

Nass, an internal medicine physician who has conducted extensive research on biological warfare and anthrax, outlined what she sees as striking parallels between the two events.

“Each had an uncanny, scripted simulation preceding it,” she said, pointing to the Dark Winter tabletop exercise in 2001 and Event 201, a pandemic simulation, in 2019.

“Each was blamed on countries the U.S. government had already targeted,” Nass said. The anthrax attacks were initially blamed on Iraq while COVID-19 was blamed on China.

“A huge, expensive biodefense gravy train resulted after each of them,” she said.

Both events were also accompanied by “a massive amount of false narrative construction and control of the media to project the false narratives.” And neither received a serious investigation into who perpetrated the event, according to Nass.

In addition, both crises “led to a mushrooming of the surveillance state,” Nass said.

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Gates used vaccine funding to pressure governments – Merkel

Bill Gates turned the vast financial resources of his foundation into political leverage, using its wealth to pressure governments to spend more on vaccination, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.  

In the Meckel & Matthes podcast released by Handelsblatt earlier this month, Merkel warned that uncontrolled corporate power could leave governments doing “what the corporations order.” She said she first saw the danger not with the rise of artificial intelligence, but when Gates set up his foundation, which had more money “than the development budgets of major industrialized countries.”  

An unelected billionaire had effectively put himself on a political footing with elected leaders, according to Merkel.  

“He was suddenly received at least as warmly by some heads of state in the world as I was,” Merkel recalled. “And then he also had the power – by virtue of his money – to exert moral pressure.” If governments failed to provide enough funding for the international vaccine alliance, “we were immediately in a bad light,” she said.  

Gates would then tell African leaders that “Merkel had been stingy this year,” she recalled. “And with that, he had gained considerable power.”  

The vaccine alliance Merkel referred to is Gavi, a public-private partnership involving governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank and private donors. The Gates Foundation was a founding partner, providing $750 million in seed funding, and has since contributed billions of dollars to the organization. Germany became a major Gavi donor during her chancellorship, pledging €600 million for 2016-2020 and another €600 million for 2021-2025.  

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Leaked Data Show Israel Covered Up HUNDREDS of COVID Shot Deaths and Hospitalizations Within Weeks of Vaccine Rollout

A newly published peer-reviewed study has exposed an internal Israeli Ministry of Health pharmacovigilance dataset documenting 531 hospitalizations and 67 deaths within weeks of mass COVID-19 “vaccine” rollout.

Nearly half of all hospitalization reports involved myocarditis or pericarditis. Among people under 30, that figure surged to 151 of 211 (71.6%), including 48 patients under 18.

But the most important revelation was how early Israeli authorities had this information. By March 25, 2021, barely three months into the vaccine rollout, Israel had already reported to Pfizer 46 deaths, 157 hospitalizations, and 65 myocarditis/pericarditis cases. These were not retrospective estimates assembled years later; they came from an operational Ministry of Health pharmacovigilance dataset used to document serious events considered relevant enough to report directly to the manufacturer. The median reported interval from vaccination to death was just 3 days.

Israel had already alerted the CDC and European Medicines Agency to approximately 40 myocarditis cases by the end of February 2021. By March 25, the internal records contained the 46 deaths, 157 hospitalizations, and 65 myocarditis/pericarditis reports described above. Yet the study reconstructs a delay of roughly three to four months before the myocarditis signal was meaningfully communicated to clinicians and the public.

When the risk was finally acknowledged, the public messaging emphasized that myocarditis was “rare,” “mild,” and transient and that vaccination benefits outweighed the risks. That characterization was fraudulent given their internal record containing hundreds of serious hospitalizations, severe cardiac injury, and deaths.

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Ohio Schools Can Send Unvaccinated Kids Home for 25 Days — Even If They’re Not Sick

Ohio’s new policy forcing healthy, unvaccinated children out of school for 21 to 25 days after a confirmed case of measles or rubella is drawing fire from parents, lawyers and scientists.

Critics say the policy isn’t needed to protect public health, it could harm children and it may be illegal.

The policy, part of a public health order signed in February by Ohio Department of Public Health (ODH) Director Bruce Vanderhoff, is enforceable even if the unvaccinated student shows no signs of illness or infection.

The policy also applies whenever a mumps or chickenpox outbreak occurs — and it extends to sports and extracurricular activities, not just classroom attendance.

The 21-to-25-day quarantine resets every time a new case or outbreak is reported at the student’s school.

Jeffrey Tucker, president and founder of the Brownstone Institute, called the policy “cruel and discriminatory” and a violation of the rights of children and their parents or guardians.

“If the policy is to protect the unvaccinated children, the parents should be the ones to decide,” Tucker said.

Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., senior research scientist for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), said the “contrast between medical freedom and medical tyranny is blatant” in the policy, which he said “discriminates against people based on medical choice … with zero evidence that they pose a risk.”

Policy could lead to ‘serious risk of vaccine injury’

Ohio’s school vaccine mandates require students to receive routine childhood vaccinations for 10 diseases: diphtheria, hepatitis B, measles, meningococcal, mumps, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, rubella, tetanus and varicella (chickenpox).

Earlier this month, Ohio school districts sent letters to parents warning that children who haven’t received two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine will be “excluded from school” for 21 days whenever the school confirms a measles case.

According to the policy, any vaccine doses children received five or more days before the minimum interval or age are “invalid” — so those students are classified as unvaccinated and required to be re-vaccinated.

That could put those children “at serious risk of vaccine injury,” according to Ohio Advocates for Medical Freedom, which called for the “immediate repeal” of the policy.

In a letter to leaders and members of the Ohio Senate and House of Representatives, the group said Ohio’s policy amounts to a “coercion tactic to bully parents into submitting to vaccination against their conscience out of desperation.”

Most families will be unable to find solutions to keep their unvaccinated children at home for several weeks or months, the letter noted.

Leslie Manookian, president of the Health Freedom Defense Fund, agreed that the policy appears deliberately designed to “coerce busy parents into vaccinating their children so they won’t be excluded from attending school and any school-related activities.”

However, Manookian questioned whether the policy will change the minds of parents who have chosen not to vaccinate their kids.

“This policy misses a larger point, which is that many parents would prefer to take the risk of their child contracting measles than to subject their child to the potential risk of the measles vaccines,” she said.

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A Hall of Mirrors of the Healthy Vaccinee Effect

Introduction

Since the registration trials of the Covid-19 vaccines, there have been no randomized studies to track the efficacy of these vaccines. The virus kept mutating and the convalescent fraction of the population has been growing. Thus, the original efficacy figures reported in the registration trials – dubious to start with – were clearly not valid when the mass vaccination campaign started in early 2021. Moreover, in the meantime we learned that the registration trials tested a different product than the one used in the mass vaccination campaign. This cast further doubt on the advertised 95% efficacy against symptomatic infection.

The Israel 2021 summer wave of infections clearly demonstrated to the whole world that the “vaccines” do not protect against symptomatic infection in any meaningful way. Consequently, the goal posts were moved and the authorities started claiming that the “vaccines” may not protect against infection but they protect against severe course of infection, hospitalisation, and death from Covid. However, there were (and there still are) no data from randomized trials to support this causal claim.

This embarrassing gap in evidence was filled by a trove of papers that estimated the effectiveness of the “vaccines” from observational data. Most of these studies claimed the vaccine effectiveness was very high, often close to 100%. Rogue governments all over the world used these studies to force people into vaccination. 

Readers of this forum know very well that observational data are loaded with the so-called Healthy Vaccinee Effect. This is a type of indication bias that originates from healthy people having easier access to the vaccine. For example, people on their deathbed are usually not vaccinated, which means that deaths tend to concentrate in the unvaccinated group, making the vaccinated group much “healthier.”

At the same time, those frailest individuals who are close to the end of their lives are also those most susceptible to die from/with Covid. Healthy Vaccinee Effect (HVE) thus causes observational studies to vastly overestimate vaccine effectiveness against any endpoint (and vastly overestimate vaccine safety as well). The now legendary paper by Tracy Hoeg, Ram Duriseti, and Vinay Prasad showed that the reported 95% effectiveness of Covid vaccines against Covid-related death in Israel in 2021 was entirely due to HVE. In other words, had HVE been removed, the true vaccine effectiveness would have been zero. I still can’t figure out how they got this published in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

Try to Explain HVE to a Professor

We first noticed HVE in the middle of 2021 when Angelika Bazalova – an investigative journalist – had the brilliant idea to FOIA her way to the records on all-cause mortality of the clients of several health insurance companies in the Czech Republic. Readers (with an AI translator from Czech) can still see our initial confusion as we were reporting the data and proposing possible explanations (one of the articles was titled “The elixir of youth”). After some time, we made sense of all the data and reported it in a paper for the International Journal of Infectious Diseases and in a further paper in a Polish journal.

My original conclusion that “this paper invalidates all estimates of vaccine effectiveness based on observation data” was changed to “In view of the presence of HVE, the baseline difference in the frailty of vaccinated and unvaccinated populations in periods without COVID-19 must be taken into account when estimating COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness from observational data.” But that is the Newspeak we all had to learn during the past years in order to get anything published in official journals.

Since then, we have been trying to explain HVE to medical professionals, policymakers, researchers, and the public. It has been frustrating. Most people think that the vaccines work because they keep hearing it from all the media. So, when they see data which seemingly confirm their prior belief – the unvaccinated are dying at a much higher rate than the vaccinated – they cannot make themselves think about any other explanation apart from the convenient one – that the vaccines have prevented these deaths.

When you suggest that it is weird that the vaccines seem to protect against deaths unrelated to Covid, they usually acknowledge that it is weird, but the “Aha” moment of understanding rarely comes that HVE invalidates everything they “knew” about vaccine effectiveness.

Three Illusions of Vaccine Effectiveness

In order to better understand HVE and to be able to explain it more clearly to everyone, we proposed a simple simulation model that can help us to understand three important and common types of misinterpretation of observational data that originate from ignoring the HVE:

1. An illusion of vaccine efficacy

2. An illusion of vaccine waning efficacy

3. An illusion of vaccine-related mortality

We first present a simple model (Model 1) of a placebo vaccine (i.e., a vaccine with zero efficacy and no adverse effects) with no HVE as a sanity check and baseline. Then we make a slight amendment to the model (Model 2), introducing the Healthy Vaccinee Effect controlled by two parameters, the HVE duration, and HVE magnitude. We will still assume the same placebo vaccine as in Model 1. We will show how the three illusions described above naturally appear in the observational data.

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2,544 Unverifiable Deaths: Nobody in the Pentagon Looked, and Autopsies Were Never Done

One unexplained death in a young, fit, pre-screened soldier should have been a red flag. There are now over two and a half thousand reports, and almost no pathology to read them by.

Soldiers are screened before they serve. They are young, active and medically cleared, which makes them the cleanest population in the country for spotting harm from a new drug or vaccine. If even one of them had died shortly after receiving one, with no other explanation, that alone should have triggered a hard look.

Instead, the number now under review is 2,544. They are service member deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, and an Army physician has been assigned to examine them, according to a court deposition first reported by Politico. Every one of them is unverified. A VAERS entry means somebody judged the timing close enough to record. It does not establish cause, and nobody should pretend it does.

The Fauci disclosures reopened the pandemic file this year, and this review is one consequence. The harder question is what it would take to move any of those cases from unverified to verified, and how much of that evidence was never collected in the first place.

Who Is Asking

The physician is Lieutenant Colonel Theresa Long, now senior military medical adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an appointment made by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Her record matters, because the credibility of the review rests on it. She earned her medical degree in Texas in 2008 and spent ten years as a field surgeon. She then trained in aerospace and occupational medicine at the Army’s aviation medicine school and added a master’s in public health. Before the pandemic, infectious disease physicians from the Army, Navy and Air Force briefed her on emerging biological threats. Looking for exactly this kind of problem was her job.

The appointment also reflects a principle. Every inquiry into what went wrong in the pandemic has so far been staffed by people who maintained that nothing went wrong, and each returned the verdict you would predict. Handing the question to someone who spent 2021 trying to raise it is a different design, whatever you make of the politics.

The Monitoring System That Did Not Exist

Long’s account, set out in a sworn affidavit that later reached Senator Ron Johnson’s Senate inquiry, reads like a paper trail of doors closing.

In June 2021 she emailed senior leaders asking why, when a novel virus had emerged next to a virology laboratory, the military had not treated it as a potential bioweapon until proven otherwise. Her training required that assumption: act as if the worst case is true and stand down when the evidence allows. She was called a conspiracy theorist and told that everyone knew it came from the wet market.

In August 2021 she wrote to an epidemiologist at the Defense Health Agency to advise on monitoring vaccine risks. The reply, as recorded in her affidavit, was that the military had no internal system for reporting and tracking vaccine adverse events. None. Two months after a myocarditis signal appeared in the medical literature, the surveillance did not exist.

She was moved to limited duties as a brigade flight surgeon, seeing patients with no command authority. On 29 September 2021, five student pilots came through her clinic. Three had been vaccinated. She thought they had pericarditis. The Army disagreed, and raising it cost her further.

That settles one point. When the Pentagon said there was no evidence of harm in 2021, it was describing a system with no mechanism for producing any.

“When someone is telling you there is no evidence, what they mean is no one has looked and no one cares to look,” said Dr. Philip McMillan.

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1892 pamphlet: Vaccines cause cancer

This is Part 2 of the Cancer Causation series. Part 1 is HERE.

In this post, I am republishing a booklet written in 1892. Mass vaccination, especially of children and women, and laws mandating vaccines had begun in earnest in the mid-1800s. By the end of the century, it was recognised, at least by some doctors, that vaccines induce cancer, which had already begun its unstoppable rise in “civilised” populations, in perfect correlation with increasing “access to modern medicine”. The booklet is as follows.

The Increase of Cancer

(Reprinted from The TOSCIN, of March 12th, 1892.)

By William Tebb, Printed By Wertheimer, Lea & Co., Circus Place, London Wall, I892

SIR,—As the medical journals are reluctant to give currency to suggestions which, throw discredit on certain dogmas of the orthodox medical church, I venture to ask permission, in the interest of the public health, to address your readers on a subject of admitted public importance, the causation of the remarkable and mysterious recrudescence of cancer during the past 30 years. And surely, sir, the study of the sources of any malady, particularly one of so grave and destructive a character, is as well deserving of consideration as the multitudinous but abortive attempts to effect a cure.

I may mention, as an inspiring motive for this communication to the impartial columns of THE TOSCIN, that several of my friends and acquaintances have, after acute and protracted suffering, succumbed to cancer, the origin of which their friends declare to be unaccountable except on the theory below, so that I hardly need an apology for bringing the matter before the attention of those of your readers who are interested in the public health. Cancer, like leprosy, is an incurable disease; and none of the vaunted remedies have stood the test of experience. It can be disseminated like leprosy, and is increasing at an alarming rate. The deaths from cancer in England and Wales are returned by the Registrar-General, thus :— Or per million living.

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