There are continuing reports of people dying at higher rates than normal in many countries following mass vaccinations. A huge study done in Sweden appears to support this finding. Alex Berenson has teased out the data within this report.
Alexander Berenson (born January 6, 1973) is an American writer. He was an investigative reporter for The New York Times and has authored several thriller novels and a book on corporate financial filings. Early in the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Berenson vocally argued that people and the media were overestimating the risk of the new virus, that it posed little risk to young Americans, and that it was being used as a cover for government overreach. All of this has turned out to be true. As a result, Twitter has permanently banned Berenson from its platform for violations of its COVID policies for spreading the truth.
Berenson has carefully reviewed the Swedish study. The major thrust of the study appears to have been to review the levels of protection provided by “vaccines” released last year. Buried within the preprint paper was the following:
But on page 32 of the 34-page report, a chart shows that 3,939 of 4.03 million Swedes who received the second dose died less than two weeks later.
Over a one-year period, that rate of death would translate into an annual mortality rate of about 2.5 percent a year – 1 person in 40 – almost three times the overall Swedish average. In a typical year, about 1 in 115 Swedes dies.
Now if the reverse was true, that is, that the unvaxxed were dying at a rate three times higher than the vaxxed, this would be major headlines within Big Media for months on end without any attempt to dig into data.
Berenson refrains from doing this. After all, he was an investigative journalist at one time. Berenson also understands that the Left will use any minor error to discredit the narrative that the mRNA therapies are dangerous.
There are factors that can obscure the real world effects of the data. Berenson loads the deck in the favor of the “vaccines” and the jab still loses.
Sweden, unlike other European countries, did not have mandates. There were recommendations for mitigation. However, there was no big coercive push for vaccination. At the time of the study about 38% of the population had been jabbed. It is likely that the lack of coercion skewed the vaccination rate to the older cohorts among Sweden’s 10.6 million people. That is, to people who were more likely to be at higher risk of serious illness. These percentages are not available within the study.
However, as Berenson notes, Sweden does provide detailed data on national deaths. This makes some comparison possible.
Berenson reports:
That data shows that from an average of about 1,650 Swedes died every week between 2015 and 2019 between April 1 and early August, the period in which almost all of those 4 million Swedes in the study received their second dose. Death rates hardly varied over those years.
(SOURCE: https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/population/population-composition/population-statistics/)
In other words, during the spring and summer, Sweden normally has about 3,300 deaths every two weeks – not just in the people who received vaccines, but in all 10.6 million of its people.
Here is where Berenson stacks the deck in favor of the “vaccines.” Berenson says let’s pretend that the researchers just happened to select a group of people where every single death in Sweden would come from the selected group during the period in question.
Let me restate that. The study selected a group of 4.03 million people out of 10.6 million people. It just happens that those selected would encompass all deaths in Sweden during that the two-week period of the study. Yes, I know. That is a statistical impossibility. However, it does allow for some serious insights.
Berenson notes that if the study had achieved the statistical impossibility noted above, then, “In that case, those 4.03 million people “should” have about 3,300 deaths every two weeks. They CANNOT HAVE MORE – because all of Sweden does not have more.
Let me restate that. If the “vaccines” were effective, then the number of deaths among the 4.03 million vaxxed people CANNOT EXCEED 3,300. Why? Because that is the baseline from 2015 through 2019. One caveat here and that is that a mass casualty event like a tidal wave could skew such data. However, no such event took place.
3,939 deaths were recorded within the vaxxed group.
And 3,939 deaths is about 20 percent more deaths than “should” have occurred in those two post-vaccine weeks. Again, the 20 percent figure understates the real gap, because in the real world some deaths will occur in the 6.6 million unvaccinated people too, so the actual baseline number for the vaccinated group is not 3,300 deaths but somewhat lower.
Let’s be reminded that Sweden was not experiencing a COVID surge during the study period. Many European countries that followed the Fauci falsehoods have experienced a third surge that obscures some of the data being seen. And these surges have had significant numbers of “breakthrough” infections. Sweden has not had such a third surge. This data is consistent with the data from other more highly vaxxed European countries where excess mortality has been in the 20-30% range for months regardless of COVID surges.
This is a huge red flag. We have seen enough to know what is going on. You can tell it’s not “safe and effective” when they have to keep telling you it is. I am sure we will see more and more of these reports as we move forward in time.
It is time to stop jabbing people and take a step back to review just what is happening. If a good case can be made for some people with serious co-morbidities to get jabbed, then so be it. However, the risk/benefit curve for everybody else says No Jab!
You can review Berenson’s entire piece here.