Tory MP Andrew Bridgen today tweeted, then deleted, a link to data which suggests the Covid mRNA vaccines are unsafe due to a plethora of side effects linked with the jabs.
The data, shared on a blog called Zero Hedge, is said to be from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), via a Freedom of Information Request submitted by The Epoch Times.
It claims to show the number of Covid mRNA vaccine side effects reported to the agency’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) – a surveillance system set up in the 1990s and designed to monitor the risks of all jabs used in America.
If the analysis was to be taken at face value, it would suggest that more than 70,000 heart-related ‘major’ side effects have been logged after a Pfizer or Moderna jab. On top of that, there would have been 50,000 affecting the brain and in the region of 25,000 blood clots.
However, if the data is from the CDC’s VAERS database, as it is claimed to be, then it doesn’t paint the full picture.
All Americans are urged to report any health problem they notice post-vaccination, even if they aren’t certain the jab was to blame.
In essence, it means that the jab will not be to blame for all the events. The exact proportion that will be down to the jab is not something the CDC estimates. It merely keeps a log of complaints to spot trends in the data that could signal a serious side effect.
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It states only that VAERS reports ‘may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable’.
The CDC adds: ‘Just because an adverse event happened after a person received a vaccine does not mean the vaccine caused the adverse event.’
The UK has a similar reporting mechanism in place, called the Yellow Card Scheme, where around 475,000 adverse events to Covid vaccines have been reported.
It helped detect an extremely rare blood-clotting complication of the AstraZeneca jab, which led to it being only offered to over-40s because the benefits did not clearly outweigh the risks to the young. The side effect was so rare that it wasn’t spotted in initial trials involving tens of thousands of people before the jab was given the green light.
But other concerns, such as Covid vaccines interfering with menstrual cycles, have yet to be fully substantiated in the data.
Under the surveillance system in the UK, reports of flatulence, yawning and crying have been logged by vaccine recipients. But, based on the same logic as the CDC’s VAERS, it does not mean that the jabs are to blame.
