As mainstream media and political leaders continue to massively promote the new COVID vaccines, here are three important facts to consider:
- On 1 April 2020, CNN reported that developing a successful COVID-19 vaccine would likely take a year or two: “Eighteen months might sound like a long time, but in vaccine years, it’s a blink, and some leaders in the field say this is too fast – and could come at the expense of safety.”
TRENDPOST: The COVID vaccines in circulation were approved under the U.S. FDA Emergency Authorization Use protocol after only two months of safety trials. Full safety trials typically take years, not months.
According to The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, “Vaccine development is a long, complex process, often lasting 10-15 years and involving a combination of public and private involvement.”
- The approved vaccines use a never-before tested process with RNA, a copy of a natural chemical-genetic messenger, which produces an immune response. There are no long-term studies confirming safety. As reported in the 15 December issue of the Trends Journal, four of the 21 members of the FDA Advisory Committee did not vote in favor of releasing the vaccines. One of them, Dr. Oveta Fuller, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan, explained, “My vote wasn’t, ‘No, never,’ my vote was, ‘No, not yet’… I was actually surprised at the vote. I thought there would be a lot more ‘no’ votes.”
- Just last week, on 29 December, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at the WHO, said after only two months of trials, there was no long-term data to show that the vaccines “were going to prevent people from actually getting the infection and therefore being able to pass it on.”
Yet, the huge effort by political leaders, backed by mainstream media, to convince tens of millions of Americans to get vaccinated, accelerates.
In just one of many examples of selling fear to get people on line to get injected, on 30 December, The New York Times featured this front-page headline story:
“He was Hospitalized for COVID-19. Then hospitalized Again. And Again.”
The subtitle read: “Significant numbers of coronavirus patients experience long-term symptoms that send them back to the hospital, taxing an already overburdened health system.”
The article goes on to single out a rare circumstance where a person infected with COVID-19 had to re-enter the hospital on multiple occasions due to an inability to fight off the virus. Included are the melodramatic lines:
“The routine things in Chris Long’s life used to include biking 30 miles three times a week and taking courses toward a Ph.D. in eight-week sessions. But since getting sick with the coronavirus, Mr. Long, 54, has fallen into a distressing new cycle – one that so far has landed him in the hospital seven times. ‘This will never go away,’ he said, describing his worse fear. ‘This will be my going-forward for the foreseeable future.’”
Given the front-page status of this article, was The New York Times claim that “significant numbers of coronavirus patients experience long-term symptoms” requiring multiple trips “back to the hospital,” thereby “taxing an already overburdened health system,” prove to have any validity?
No.
According to statista.com, for every 100,000 people in Mr. Long’s age group (50-64), about 2.7 percent require hospitalization.
As for those requiring multiple visits to the hospital after being infected, the Times article cites CDC data showing that of 106,543 coronavirus patients initially hospitalized between March and July, “1.6 percent of patients had to be readmitted more than once.”
So, of the less than 3 percent in Mr. Long’s age group that requires even one hospital visit, only 1.6 percent of those, on average, needed to be re-admitted more than once. Yet the Times article refers to this minute percentage as “significant numbers.”
TRENDPOST: When The New York Times writes that the spread of the virus is “taxing the already overburdened health system,” it, along with virtually all mainstream media, continues to ignore the main reason so many Americans, living in the wealthiest nation on Earth, are suffering from the virus more than any other country.
The data proves the large majority of unhealthy Americans are the ones significantly more vulnerable to COVID.
As reported consistently in the Trends Journal, the junk-food, chemically infused, sugar-addicted diet of most Americans has led to some 70 percent of the people being significantly overweight, 42 percent obese, over 30 million have type 2 diabetes, and some 30 million with chronic heart disease and respiratory ailments.
According to the CDC, heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States. About 655,000 Americans die from heart disease each year – that’s one in every four deaths.
As for lung disease, the American Lung Association states that nearly 37 million Americans live with a chronic lung disease such as asthma and COPD, which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.