Summary of proven issues with the mRNA vaccines for COVID-19
Attn.: University and college leaders, administrators, and legal counsel; faculty colleagues and union executives; students and families; and the general public
After receiving a reminder that my university’s COVID-19 Vaccination Policy with its vaccination mandate for students and employees is merely “on pause”, I thought I’ll make another attempt at summarizing the best-studied and most egregious risks from the mRNA injections. What follows are by no means the only concerns with this technology, but I hope they are the most widely acceptable, easiest to understand concerns that should tell every single person reading these lines to end COVID vaccination altogether rather than just pause vaccination mandates.
Unknown long-term safety and efficacy acknowledged in Pfizer contracts
According to archived metadata, the manufacturing and supply agreement between Pfizer Export B.V. and the Albanian government was leaked in full by an Albanian news site about two weeks after it was signed in January 2021, shortly after the beginning of the global vaccination drive. The pdf document contains, among other incriminating details, the following statement (emphasis added):
Purchaser further acknowledges that the long-term effects and efficacy of the Vaccine are not currently known and that there may be adverse effects of the Vaccine that are not currently known.
In April 2021, the Italian state broadcaster RAI disclosed both the Pfizer and Moderna contracts with the European Commission. Pfizer’s “ADVANCED PURCHASE AGREEMENT … for the development, production, priority-purchasing options and supply of a successful COVID-19 vaccine for EU Member States” contains the above “purchaser acknowledgement”, yet the redacted version released by the European Commission has the entire paragraph removed. Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, also in April 2021, compared the redacted and unredacted versions for their readership. A full timeline of these early and subsequent releases, confirming the authenticity of the material, was put together by Robert Kogon for the Brownstone Institute here.
I also personally obtained a copy of a previously released access-to-information request containing the “Manufacturing and Supply Agreement Between Pfizer Canada ULC and Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada, Represented by the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, Dated as of October 26, 2020”. The file was received directly from Public Services and Procurement Canada and includes much of the same text (still with ample redactions) as all other copies, including the purchaser acknowledgement of unknown long-term “effects and efficacy”.
=> At this point in time, there is no rational basis for asserting that these vaccines are safe and effective. Neither politicians nor public health officers, doctors, journalists or fact-checkers have grounds to make such claims. In doing so, they only turn themselves into stunt performers for the pharma industry.
COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent infection
What does “effective” even mean here? If you are offering, and perhaps recommending, an intervention for the benefit of the recipient, their decision should be based on an individual risk-benefit assessment, e.g. together with their family doctor. Fully informed, voluntary consent must be the given under any circumstances, but if you are planning to mandate a medical procedure for every member of your organization, you better have strong evidence for its efficacy in protecting others (e.g., fellow students, co-workers, family members at home) to make any sense.
Are the current COVID-19 vaccines effective at protecting others, i.e. do they prevent infection and/or transmission of SARS-CoV-2? No, they absolutely do not. For example, you may be surprised by what Dr. Anthony Fauci recently wrote about the “scientific and public health failure” in developing protective vaccines against “mucosal respiratory viruses” such as Influenza- and Coronaviruses. Or read our commentary about his article.
Upper respiratory tract infections cannot be stopped by drugs injected into your body. A recent report by Toronto’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Eileen De Vila, is patently false in this regard.
At some points during the COVID pandemic, some researchers claimed to have determined modest reductions in infection or transmission among vaccinated individuals. If these studies are to be believed at all, the degree and duration of this protection would have to be carefully assessed against all health, social, and ethical risks of vaccination mandates. This has not happened in any meaningful way. Additionally, one could just argue that “mandatory vaccination amounts to discrimination against healthy, innate biological characteristics, which goes against the established ethical norms and is also defeasible a priori.” (Kowalik 2021)
=> Thus, there is no ethical or rational basis for coercing anyone into getting the shots for another person’s protection nor as a contribution to “ending the pandemic”.
Vaccine-induced myocarditis reconfirmed in Pfizer press release and ongoing Ontario serious adverse event surveillance
The best-known and generally admitted side effects of the shots is myocarditis in male teenagers and young men. Last week, Pfizer issued a corporate press release that reiterated earlier cautions that the Pfizer/BioNTech product “show[s] increased risks of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the lining outside the heart)”. One of the mentions of these two conditions is placed under the heading “IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION” (all-caps and bold as per original).
I have written about myocarditis as a serious mRNA vaccine side effect e.g. in “The University and the Vaccine” (22 June 2021) on this blog or “Heartbroken” (9 February 2022) in the all but defunct Toronto Moon. This serious adverse event is of greatest concern specifically for high school-aged teenagers and for young adults attending college or university. Two years after the province of Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health issued a preferential recommendation for Pfizer over Moderna due to higher myocarditis risk in the latter, the reporting rate remains well above 1 in 5,000 according to current Public Health Ontario data.
For example, college-aged 18-24 year-old males are exposed to a 201.7 per million, or about 1 in 5,000, risk of suffering myocarditis when receiving a 2nd dose alone. For a three-dose course, the risks add up to 295.4 per million, or 1 in 3,385. For teenage boys, the risk is even greater. Therefore, it is disingenuous of Public Health Ontario to provide the total and per-sex summary values as all-dose averages rather than the sum of per-dose risks. The agency also stopped reporting the percentage of cases requiring hospitalization, allowing public health bureaucrats and media fact checkers to fantasize about “mild” heart inflammation.
=> Teenagers and young adults, in particular males, continue to be at an unacceptably high risk of suffering a serious adverse event from the mRNA vaccines. Post-secondary students are among those who can be injured for life, while individual or community benefits of vaccination mandates are speculative at best. Colleges and universities ought to have known this for more than two years.
Vaccine contamination with E.coli bacteria DNA confirmed by independent Ontario researcher
In April 2023, private DNA sequencing lab director Kevin McKernan in Massachusetts accidentally discovered billions of DNA fragments in several mRNA vaccine vials. This contamination was confirmed by other independent researchers, including cancer geneticist Dr. Phillip Buckhaults in South Carolina and most recently by microbiologist Dr. David Speicher in Ontario as presented in a preprint article.
The concerning finding is related to another accidental discovery in Pfizer’s Phase 3 trial documentation. In a rapid response published in May 2023, Drs. Joshua Guetzkow and Retsef Levi drew the medical community’s attention to the fact that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing process was changed at the end of the trial, rendering all findings with respect to safety and efficacy of the vaccines questionable. In order to upscale the production of mRNA, the pharma industry had to employ fast-multiplying E.coli bacteria carrying the blueprint for the mRNA ingredient; the residual DNA contamination noted above stems from this step in the manufacturing process.
The contents of vaccine doses was not fully disclosed and the contamination with bacterial DNA fragments carries unknown health risks for the vaccinated. For example, in a sponsored insight published by StatNews, Marwan Alsarraj, Associate Director for Marketing Programs/Digital Biology at Bio-Rad Laboratories, writes in general terms about manufacturing challenges for cell and gene therapies (emphasis added):
Since cell and gene therapies are biological products delivered directly to patients, it is critical that the viral vector batches be kept completely free of impurities and contaminants, including host cell components. Any level of contamination can have potentially disastrous consequences if it isn’t caught before the treatment is administered.
Should any host cell DNA make it into a patient, there is a risk that it will trigger an adverse reaction, such as an immune or inflammatory response.
=> It appears that Pfizer’s Process 2 may not comply with the “current Good Manufacturing Practices” (cGMP) explicitly required in the purchase agreements signed by our governments and monitored by our regulatory agencies. I for one do not want E.coli in my salad and am ever more confident in my decision to not let E.coli gene fragments be injected into my arm either.
Thanks Claus. Thanks for the great summary. It is most concerning that academic institutions mandated and may reinstate measures that disregard the foundational policies of evidence based and ethical education.
Thanks Claus. I appreciate your work. It's hard to accept that any university leaders/administrators etc. would assert Covid vaccination mandates are merely on pause; these measures weren't even defensible when they were first introduced and enforced from 2021. Our commentary from Ireland, for readers who might be interested: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02610183231174846