Prior to COVID, the most dangerous vaccine in human history was the vaccine for smallpox. Regarding smallpox, let’s be reminded that it is a terrible disease. Its mortality ratio is over 30%. That is, almost 1 in 3 people who contract the disease perish. There is no known cure. You either recover or you die. Smallpox killed an estimated 500 million people from 1880 to 1980 before it was eradicated,
What were the risks from the smallpox vaccine? Twenty years ago, 60 Minutes did a piece on smallpox and its vaccine. They interviewed Dr. Paul Offit, one of the country’s top infectious disease specialists.
Offit noted:
“We know if we immunize a million people, that there will be 15 people that will suffer severe, permanent adverse outcomes and one person who may die from the vaccine…We tend to think of vaccines as being very safe and very effective, which they are. But all the vaccines that we use today are the result of modern technology. That’s not true of the smallpox vaccine. It has a side effect profile that we would not accept for vaccines today,”
But no one is really certain just how many adverse reactions there would be to the smallpox vaccine. A 1969 study found that 74 people out of a million would have serious complications. At least one of those complications would be death.
What was being said then is that if we were to vaccinate the entire country for smallpox, approximately 330 people would die from the getting the vaccine. And at least 5,000 people would suffer permanent adverse outcomes. This is contrasted with the millions who would die if a smallpox epidemic raged unchecked through the country.
Please note that Dr. Offit stated that these side effects would not be acceptable for a vaccine today.
How do the COVID vaccines stack up against the most dangerous vaccine in history? Let’s take a look at just one serious adverse event, anaphylaxis. According to the CDC, “Anaphylaxis after COVID-19 vaccination is rare and occurred in approximately 2 to 5 people per million vaccinated in the United States based on events reported to VAERS.”
VAERS is a voluntary reporting system that takes up to a half an hour to complete for a single event. It is notorious for underreporting these adverse reactions. Are there other sources for such numbers?
Steve Kirsch reported on a study with regard to anaphylaxis.
Anaphylaxis is a well known side effect and doctors are required to report it (see FDA Fact Sheet at the top of page 10) because it is considered a “severe adverse reaction.” It occurs right after the shot. You can’t miss it. It should always be reported.
A study at Mass General Brigham (MGM) that assessed anaphylaxis in a clinical setting after the administration of COVID-19 vaccines published in JAMA on March 8, 2021, found “severe reactions consistent with anaphylaxis occurred at a rate of 2.47 per 10,000 vaccinations.” This rate is based on reactions occurring within 2 hours of vaccination, the mean time was 17 minutes after vaccination. This study used “active” surveillance and tried not to miss any cases.
On a million-dose basis, this is 247 cases. A Japanese study came up with 204 cases per million.
So which is it? 2 to 5 per million (according to VAERS) or a few hundred per million (with tight clinical controls)? I know which numbers I believe are closer to reality. The multiplication factor for the VAERS system reports needs to be between 40 and 120.
How does this translate to deaths from vaccination? The probability is that deaths may be even more underreported because a death is usually not proximate to having received an injection. There may be less connecting of the two events. The number of deaths in VAERS exceed 18,000. Regardless of multipliers the number of deaths from a COVID jab exceed by many orders of magnitude the number of deaths from the most dangerous vaccine in history.
Using just the VAERS numbers, one is more than 60 times more likely to die from a COVID jab than from the smallpox one. The reality is probably multiple orders of magnitude higher.
And what is the risk/benefit analysis? Does the COVID jab stop a disease with a 30% mortality rate? A 10% mortality rate? A 3% mortality rate? The fact is that the mortality rate is miniscule among healthy people. And another fact is that the jab does not stop infection. It may reduce the seriousness in some cases although it may also produce more serious events in others.
So, except for lining the pockets of Big Pharma, why is the administration pushing the most dangerous jab on everyone?