Unusual patterns in 2021 U.S. death rates have raised questions about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine, say researchers.
At their peak during the pandemic, deaths from respiratory diseases for younger age groups differed from the peaks for the oldest age groups, unlike previous years’ mortality, writes Genevieve Briand, Ph.D., assistant director of the Advanced Academic Program at Johns Hopkins University, in a working paper titled “Age Distribution per Cause U.S. Monthly Deaths 1999-2021.”
“In September 2021, recorded COVID-19 deaths show 65- to 74-year-olds died in greater numbers than [persons] 75 years and older, and COVID-19 deaths for the 45- to 54-year-olds were as high as for the 85 years and older [group],” wrote Briand. “This has never happened before for deaths due to respiratory diseases, from 1999 to 2019.”
‘Vaccine Deaths Hypothesis’
One explanation for this unusual age distribution is that some people may have died from complications after receiving the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters authorized in August-September 2021, writes Briand.
“These September 2021 peaks for ‘younger’ age groups are consistent with the vaccine deaths hypothesis,” wrote Briand. “The hypothesis should further be tested with death data for groups of individuals who all have been vaccinated, such as individuals in the Armed Forces,” wrote Briand. “If these vaccines can lead to death, then they can certainly lead to conditions requiring hospitalization. The hypothesis thus could further be tested by looking at hospitalization data.”
Mortality rates rose during the pandemic, but it isn’t established which deaths are from COVID, says Twila Brase, the president and co-founder of Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom and policy advisor to The Heartland Institute, co-publisher of Health Care News.
“The CDC has all but ignored the rise in all-cause mortality,” said Brase. “Insurance companies have started to publish alarming statistics, and the Briand study confirms their cause for concern.”
The idea the vaccines themselves contributed to the rise in mortality should be investigated, says Brase.
“If Americans could be dying from the COVID injection, we need answers to serious questions,” said Brase. “Why have the CDC and the FDA seemingly turned a blind eye to soaring non-COVID deaths? Why did they just approve the COVID shot for our youngest citizens? Americans can no longer count on the CDC or the FDA as a source of truth on the COVID infection, COVID statistics, or the COVID injection.”
Are Vaccines Ineffective?
There is evidence from other countries the shots don’t do much good, according to Joel Hirschhorn, Ph.D., author of Pandemic Blunder.
For example, German government reports claim there were 2,255 fatalities following COVID-19 injections, but health insurance claims from the European Medicines Agency (last updated March 26, 2022) show 31,254 deaths, states Hirschhorn in the Pandemic Blunder Newsletter on April 7.
Furthermore, the claim nearly one million Americans died from COVID before the vaccines became available includes deaths from other causes, Hirschhorn told Health Care News (see related article nearby).
“All the COVID death data from the U.S. and other countries are proof that COVID vaccines have always been a failure, contrary to the often-cited assertions that they may not prevent illness but [they do] curtail deaths; the data disprove this, especially the figure of one million U.S. COVID deaths,” said Hirschhorn.
Were Deaths Preventable?
Nearly one million additional deaths after the vaccines became available could have been prevented if every eligible adult had received the shots, according to an analysis by National Public Radio (NPR) in consultation with Brown University and Microsoft AI Health, NPR’s All Things Considered reported on May 13, 2022.
“One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge share of them didn’t have to,” states the NPR report.
That assumes the vaccines are effective, whereas COVID-19 is different from other disease pandemics ended by mass inoculation campaigns, writes David R. Usher of Civitas Economic Engineering.
“We must recognize that vaccines are unlikely to ever become as effective against respiratory virus diseases like influenza and COVID as vaccines against the stable smallpox, polio, and measles viruses,” wrote Usher. “Instead, SARS-CoV-2 mutates far faster than the 6 to 9 months it takes for a new mRNA vaccine to be approved and distributed. By the time the vaccine hits the market, the virus it targets will be long gone.”
Bonner Russell Cohen, Ph.D. (bcohen@nationalcenter.org) is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research.
Internet info:
Genevieve Briand, “Age Distribution per Cause U.S. Monthly Deaths 1999-2021,” March 2022: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359706880_Age_Distribution_per_Cause_US_Monthly_Deaths_1999-2021_MARCH_2022_PAPER_Genevieve_Briand
This article was revised on July 1, 2022.