OPINION:
Americans are hearing they need another dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The news is as unwelcome as an annoying jingle that keeps repeating unbidden in the brain. It is also puzzling since the pandemic and its attendant panic are subsiding. Before submitting for another jab — and another and another — the nation’s medical establishment should come clean on what it knows about troubling spikes in death that have followed recurring waves of frightened citizens crowding pharmacies for their turn to get vaccinated.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told CBS’ “Face the Nation” a week ago the three-dose vaccine his company has manufactured “is good enough — actually quite good for hospitalizations and deaths.” Protection against variants like omicron is short-lived, though, and “it is necessary, a fourth [dose] for right now,” he said.
There are certain effects associated with the Pfizer shot and the similarly formulated Moderna injection that raise questions — sometimes described darkly as “vaccine hesitancy” — among reasonable individuals.
One anomaly that fairly shouts for attention arises from a graphic published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing dramatic surges in the excess death rate among Americans of the 25-44 age group during the pandemic.
Concerned citizens with analytical skills have observed a fluctuating pattern to these coronavirus deaths and have searched for clues to explain it. Former BlackRock portfolio manager Edward Dowd noticed a 36% death rate rise between November 2020 and February 2021 when the vaccines debuted, a much sharper spike between August and December 2021 when government-ordered vaccine mandates mushroomed and, most recently, a 42% hike during the first two months of 2022 when Americans were urged to get the third-dose boosters.
“The millennial generation experienced 61k excess death in the second half of 2021,” wrote Mr. Dowd in a March 10 tweet clearly crafted to roil vaccine orthodoxy. “That is a Vietnam War event. Death by government mandates … we call this democide.”
Correlation is not necessarily causation, but a seemingly recurrent interrelationship between inoculation and death within a relatively robust age cohort suggests that Mr. Dowd is eying a statistical nugget that requires a full accounting.
Feminist author Naomi Wolf has pointed out another uncomfortable finding that requires explanation. On Steve Bannon’s “War Room” Tuesday, Ms. Wolf described a “pretty terrifying” discovery among 55,000 documents related to the COVID-19 vaccines that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration tried unsuccessfully to shield from public scrutiny for 75 years: a chart showing vaccine batches formulated with varying concentrations of ingredients.
“If you look at this table, it would appear that some batches have more of the spike protein … than others,” she said. The implication is that strong doses of the critical immune-response-triggering ingredient administered without regard for a patient’s physical size and medical history could result in deadly side effects.
Americans deserve to know whether excess deaths that surge in tandem with the repetitive rush for the next vaccine dose are coincidence or correlation.
For more information, visit The Washington Times COVID-19 resource page.
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