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In light of recent info are vaccines ... The Healthy You: Health and Fitness Polls
Started 10/24/22 by WALTER784; 85759 views.
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From: WALTER784
4/26/23
Have you changed your mind since your last vote?
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From: Showtalk
4/26/23
Sorry, no. I still say No. I am not getting any boosters, but I’m still happy with my original decision. My health is even better now than it was four years ago,
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From: WALTER784
4/27/23
Top Pathologist confirms Cancer, Infertility & Strange Blood Clots are common side effects of Covid-19 Vaccination
BY THE EXPOSÉ
APRIL 22, 2023
According to an experienced pathologist, Covid injections’ toxic lipid nanoparticles and mRNA induce the body to make hazardous spike proteins, which then distribute themselves throughout the entire body increasing the risk of inflammation, micro blood clots and fibrous blood clots.
Unfortunately, according to the same experienced pathologist, who has carried out studies to prove this, Covid injections also have the ability to cause cancer and infertility.
Dr. Ryan Cole is an Idaho pathologist who is no stranger to controversy. His claims of horrific side effects from mRNA vaccines and his recommendations of alternative treatments for Covid launched medical board investigations in multiple states, prompting the doctor to defend his license. As the owner of Cole Diagnostics, one of the largest independent diagnostics laboratories in Idaho, Dr. Cole says he has seen – and photographed – shockingly large blood clots appearing since 2021.
Dr. Cole’s concern is we’re still seeing a big public push for an injection that’s still experimental and has side effects. “We’re pushing something that can cause more harm than good,” he said.
Regulatory Agencies and Big Pharma
All scientists agree – when you censor the ones who don’t. There are financial interests, there is a cosiness between regulatory agencies and big pharmaceutical companies.
It was fascinating that Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla in the Washington Post interview said to his scientists: Why are we doing mRNA? We’ve only been working on this for two and a half years. “So, he had questions and his scientists just said: ‘Well, it’s because we’re doing this and that’s our plan’,” Dr. Cole noted.
“It was also interesting that Moderna hadn’t successfully brought an mRNA product to the human market prior to this [Covid vaccine]. Their animal studies with different toxicities and different autoimmune effects etc. with mRNA technologies didn’t work either.”
It raises many questions not least of all: Why did we treat these products as though they were “vaccines” when they’re indeed an injection of a gene sequence?
Dr. Cole is seeing some adverse effects that are highly concerning. “Not only for now but the immune modulation that we’re seeing going forward has me concerned as well,” he said.
“I’m pointing out the harms of the spike protein, the harms of these gene-based injections. The lipid nanoparticle in and of itself is toxic. And here’s probably even a graver concern I have … the human body cells weren’t made to make foreign proteins … The human cell is made to make human proteins. To make a human cell make a protein from an infectious agent – and especially make a protein which has known cytotoxicity, cellular toxicity, human body toxicity – that’s a big scientific concern.”
The lipid nanoparticle, which envelopes the selected genetic material, goes anywhere and everywhere in the body. It was originally designed for carrying chemotherapeutic agents across the blood-brain barrier and for carrying genes for rare genetic conditions. “So, the lipid nanoparticle going everywhere is a dangerous construct in the sense you can’t control where it goes,” Dr. Cole explained. “The lipid nanoparticle goes everywhere, it can land anywhere in the human body any organ, bone, bone marrow, spleen, brain, heart etc.”
Spike Protein Under the Microscope
By placing samples of tissue which have been stained to specifically identify certain proteins, it is possible to see spike protein induced by Covid “vaccines.” And depending on which stain is used, it is possible to determine, in body tissue samples, whether the spike protein came from the virus or was induced by Covid injections.
Before we look at the images Dr. Cole shared, it may be worth familiarising ourselves with the structure of a coronavirus to help us understand the terminology.
Structure And Genome of Coronaviruses, COVID-19: Coronavirus replication, pathogenesis, and therapeutic strategies, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
The nucleocapsid (“N protein”) is mad
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From: WALTER784
4/27/23
Ex-NZ PM Jacinda Ardern’s COVID Dictatorship caused 3203% increase in Excess Deaths due to Mandatory C-19 Vaccination Laws
BY THE EXPOSÉ
APRIL 20, 2023
The year 2021 was one of hope and promise for New Zealand, as the world began to recover from the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
But according to official figures quietly released by the Government of New Zealand, the opposite happened.
The island suffered 2,169 excess deaths in 2021 and then a shocking 5,286 excess deaths by week 49 of 2022. These are terrifying figures for a small island with an estimated population of just 5 million.
Especially when compared to 2020, when no excess deaths were suffered and 160 fewer deaths were actually recorded than expected at the height of the Covid pandemic and prior to the rollout of the Covid injections.
This means New Zealand suffered a shocking 3,203% increase in excess deaths in 49 weeks throughout 2022 compared to 53 weeks throughout 2020.
The figures have been provided to the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Government of New Zealand. So these aren’t independent estimates. They are official Government-authorized figures. And they show that the Covid-19 vaccination campaign has been an absolute disaster and official UK Government data support this.
The very thing that you were told would end the alleged pandemic and put a stop to the alleged colossal rise in deaths across the world in 2020, has ended up having the opposite effect.
Instead of reducing deaths, COVID vaccination has increased deaths exponentially.
The figures that prove this can be found in a report titled ‘Deaths by Vaccination Status, England, 1 January 2021 to 31 May 2022‘, and it can be accessed on the ONS site here, and downloaded here.
Table 2 of the report contains the monthly age-standardised mortality rates by vaccination status by age group for deaths per 100,000 person-years in England up to May 2022.
And that table reveals that mortality rates per 100,000 are lowest among the unvaccinated in every single age group.
The following two charts show the monthly age-standardised mortality rates by vaccination status for non-Covid-19 deaths in England between January and May 2022 for each age group –
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(You can read a full investigation of the above figures broken down by age group here.)
These figures prove that the Covid-19 vaccines are not effective and are causing side effects so severe that they are resulting in increased mortality.
This should be of grave concern to everyone, especially those who have been vaccinated.
And it should be on the front page of every newspaper, and the main topic of discussion on every news channel.
The science is definitive, and authorities and Governments should withdraw the Covid-19 vaccines immediately from future use.
If they do not do this then they are proving to the public that they have an ulterior motive to reduce the world’s population.
Because this is precisely what will happen if the repeat rollout of these experimental and dangerous injections is allowed to continue.
FWIW
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From: WALTER784
4/27/23
MAD-HUMAN DISEASE? Prion-based diseases can be induced by mRNA vaccines, according to study
Sunday, April 23, 2023
by: S.D. Wells
(Natural News) Some may be reminded of an old saying in medicine that goes, “the cure may be worse than the disease,” and that now applies to the Covid-19 mRNA vaccines. Similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or “mad cow disease”), a progressive neurological disorder of cattle that results from an infection by transmissible agents called prions, the Pfizer “vaccine” for Covid-19 has been revealed by analysis to have two potential risk factors for inducing prion-based disease in humans.
In a study published in Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in February of 2021, the Pfizer mRNA spike-protein-prion jab was analyzed for the presence of sequences that can activate or induce prion disease in humans, and the conclusion is very concerning. Two sequences were identified that are considered risk factors for prion disease, and the RNA vaccine is shown to be able to activate these prions that can lead to the development of common neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a nervous system disease where nerve cells break down and impact physical function. There is no cure.
The mRNA vaccine study revealed the presence of sequences that can activate two intrinsic proteins, TDP-43 and FUS, capable of inducing neurologically-impairing prion diseases in humans. Over the years, a wealth of knowledge has been published on a certain class of RNA-binding proteins that has been revealed to cause a whole host of neurological diseases, and now the Wuhan Virus jabs may be classified under that nightmarish umbrella.
Brighteon.TV
PRION-BASED DISEASES are induced by mRNA-based vaccines due to activation of intrinsic proteins to form prions, leading to neurodegenerative diseases
The Pfizer RNA-based Covid-19 protein-prion injection was NEVER approved by the FDA. Under the “Emergency Use Authorization” Act, it is clearly stated that this kind of authorization can only be put into use if there are no other alternatives that are effective at mitigating the infection in question, and there were several, so even the EUA was not legitimate, so the experimental gene-mutating “vaccines” should never have been authorized for use on humans.
The EUA states that only in certain emergencies can the FDA issue the EUA, if there are no adequate and available alternatives. Yet, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D and zinc all were proving to be effective at preventing, mitigating, and ending Covid-19 infection.
The Pfizer jab was dished out to hundreds of millions of humans with no long-term safety studies conducted, and with all this prior information about RNA having the potential to cause neurologically-impairing prion diseases. Now, research reveals the spike protein encoded by the vaccine can lead to pathologic prion transformation, causing MORE disease than the pandemic of Covid-19. This is the epitome of the old saying, “the cure may be worse than the disease.”
This type of research can be used to develop bioweapons, dirty bombs, and other tactics that violate the Geneva Convention, which prohibits using poisonous gases or biological weapons on humans during wartime. The current analysis indicates that Pfizer’s RNA-based China Flu jab contains MANY of the RNA sequences that have a HIGH affinity for TDP-43 and FUS, giving the viral-spike-protein-jab the likely potential to induce chronic degenerative neurological diseases in humans. Is that not a bioweapon?
To make matters worse, the Pfizer vaccine uses a unique RNA nucleoside that, according to FDA briefing documents, was chosen to REDUCE activation of the innate immune system. If the so-called “vaccine” is in fact a bioweapon, then a second more dangerous virus could be released that would bind spike protein found on the host cells of the vaccine recipients, with mass casualties caused by these infectious agents. See where this is going? One word. Depopulation.
Bookmark Vaccines.news to your favorite independent websites for updates on experimental mRNA gene mutation injections the CDC and fake news claim are “safe and effective” when they’re really dangerous and health-damaging.
FWIW
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From: WALTER784
4/28/23
Pfizer funded a CDC “behavior change” project that targeted vaccine critics with psyops
04/14/2023
By Ethan Huff
A new report has shed fresh light on the connection between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and numerous private-sector drug, vaccine, and health care companies that have been working together to silence vaccine critics from speaking their minds.
The Public Good Projects (PGP), as it is benevolently dubbed, describes itself as a public health non-profit group centered around “large-scale monitoring programs, social and behavior change interventions.” The truth, though, is that it is a fascist public-private operation aimed at keeping a lid on the deadly truth about vaccines.
PGP is little more than a mass censorship operation that, especially at the height of the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “pandemic,” kept itself busy de-platforming doctors and other medical specialists who tried to sound the alarm about the dangers of Fauci Flu shots.
In addition to the CDC and the FDA, other PGP partners include Kaiser Permanente, Rockefeller, and Humana, according to the Tennessee Department of Health, which identified these partners from the biography of PGP CEO Dr. Joe Smyser.
(Related: Stanford University also ran an authoritarian censorship operation called the “Vitality Project” that worked to silence true stories about vaccine injuries.)
PGP funding came not from lobbyists but directly from vaccine manufacturers like Pfizer and Moderna
Deviating from the norm of receiving funding from industry lobbyists working on behalf of corporations, PGP’s operating cash came directly from major industry players such as Pfizer and Moderna, both of which have a vested interest in stamping out so-called “vaccine hesitancy.”
When people think for themselves, Pfizer and Moderna do not make money. So, they funneled gobs of cash into the PGP in an effort to keep people in the dark and the profits flowing.
The New York City Health Department’s Misinformation Response Unit (MRU) also contributed to the PGP, which also operates an initiative called Shots Heard that is similar to the United Nations Verified Initiative, the Vaccine Confidence Project, and Team Halo.
All of these entities have the same goal of bullying and silencing voices like those of Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, a Stanford-educated doctor who found herself in the crosshairs when she questioned covid “vaccines” and promoted ivermectin on social media platforms like Twitter and TikTok.
Social media “influencers” like Zachary Rubin and Christina Kim, both members of Team Halo, called Bowden “problematic” while calling for her to be stripped of her medical license. They were also instrumental in getting Bowden suspended from her position at Houston Methodist Hospital.
“Over the following months, Bowden’s life was thrown into chaos as multiple social media influencers targeted her,” reads an article from the Houston Chronicle. “However, the most dogged was a pharmacist named Savannah, who posts under the handle @rxOrcist.”
This “Savannah” character is a member of Shots Heard, and she is even more vile than the others, having falsely accused Bowden of “xenophobia and racism” because she happened to mention that most of the anti-ivermectin pharmacists she spoke with were of Asian descent.
Bowden was ultimately axed from TikTok while YouTube suspended her account. She also received a litany of fake patient reviews on her career pages, which have negatively impacted her career – and she is unable to get them removed.
In a few instances, Bowden’s office was also targeted and security had to get involved.
“Individual citizens must adopt a here but no further mentality and retaliate against their oppressors who cross the line knowing full well they may lose their lives in the process,” one of our readers wrote about all this oppression. “They can take our lives, but they can’t take our freedom.”
More of the latest news about the CDC’s collusion with Big Pharma and the vaccine industry can be found at CDC.news.
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From: WALTER784
4/28/23
Bad Pfizer Vaccine Batches Account for 4.2% of doses but 71% of Serious Adverse Events
Explains Why Some Have Severe Side Effects and Others Do Not
PETER A. MCCULLOUGH, MD, MPH™
2023/04/13
I am routinely asked: why are so many people who took the COVID-19 vaccines apparently fine while others are suffering heart damage, strokes, blood clots and are ending up disabled or dead? It has been suspected for many months that there may be variations in vaccine lots or batches that could partially explain these observations. In other words, not everyone is getting the same dose of mRNA.
Under Emergency Use Authorization, the vaccine companies and their subcontractors do not have any inspections of the final filled and finished vials. This is unprecedented for a widely used product of any type. It is possible that lipid nanoparticles aggregate in suspension and so some batches may contain more mRNA than others. Likewise, since lot size has varied over time, it is possible that contaminants from the manufacturing process may be concentrated in some smaller lots compared to larger ones. Finally, there may be product transport, storage, and use factors that denature mRNA including heating, air injected into vials, and multiple needles dipped into the suspension.
The contaminant issue came to light as Japan returned millions of doses when visible debris was seen in the bottom of the vials. Additionally, since metallic beads are used by the biodefense contactors, it is possible that smaller initial lots could have had magnetic debris that explained “magnetism” in the arm where the shot was given as reported early in the vaccine campaign.
A report from Schmeling and coworkers using Pfizer BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine found that 71% of serious adverse events came from 4.2% of doses (high risk batches) conversely <1% of these events came from 32.1% of doses (low risk batches). The variation explained for the high and moderate risk batches was 78 and 89%, respectively. Thus as more doses were given out of those vials, the greater the number of side effects were reported. This means that the majority of risk is in the shot and not the person who received it.
Schmeling, M, Manniche, V, Hansen, PR. Batch-dependent safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Eur J Clin Invest. 2023; 00:e13998. doi:10.1111/eci.13998
These are critically important results. They imply the COVID-19 vaccine debacle is indeed a product problem and not due to patient susceptibility in most circumstances. Additionally, the lack of inspections has led to a safety disaster. Some unfortunate patients are getting too much mRNA, contaminants, or both and thus are exposed to damaging and in some cases, lethal injections.
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Reuters Aug 2021, Japan suspends 1.6 mln doses of Moderna shot after contamination reports
Schmeling, M, Manniche, V, Hansen, PR. Batch-dependent safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Eur J Clin Invest. 2023; 00:e13998. doi:10.1111/eci.13998
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From: WALTER784
4/28/23
$4,634 down... $1 Trillion to go...
US Approves First 3 COVID ‘Vaccine’ Injury Claims, Pays Out A Total of $4,634.89
By Alicia Powe
Apr. 14, 2023 1:15 pm
The US government approved three payments to Americans injured by the experimental COVID-19 vaccine, amounting to a mere total of $4,634.89.
One $2,019.55 payment was issued to a Covid vaccine recipient who developed anaphylaxis from the jab and two payments — $1,582.65 and $1,032.69 — for myocarditis by the Health and Resources Service Administration’s Countermeasure Injury Compensation Program, according to a HRSA vaccine injury report published April 1.
Compensation in the anaphylaxis case was pending since the fall of 2021 and the two myocarditis cases had been pending review since January, as the vaccine-injured plaintiffs underwent “medical benefits reviews” to determine payment.
The Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program was established under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, which shields pharmaceutical companies from liabilities acquired from “countermeasures,” including vaccines administered during a public health emergency.
The CICP has compensated a total of 33 claims for vaccine injury since 2010. In April, the first COVID-19 vaccine recipient received payment for vaccine injury.
The few thousand dollars issued to those debilitated by the jab is tragic, contends the acting general counsel for the Children’s Health Defense Kim Mack Rosenberg.
“These long-awaited awards were overdue, highly anticipated and speculated upon,” Rosenberg said. “What is remarkable is that less than $5,000 was paid — total. This is a tragedy that highlights the severe limitations of the program.”
The payments for myocarditis, which increases mortality rates to 50 percent within five years, is “insulting,” contends CHD Acting President Lauro Bono.
“The CICP is a pathetic, government-run program that gives complete liability protection to the very industries profiting from the COVID vaccine or product. While victims linger with their injuries, paying out-of-pocket for expenses, or at worst die, the industries run to the bank,” Bono said.
To date, 11,425 people have requested compensation for vaccine injuries related to COVID-19 jabs, according to the HRSA. Nineteen have qualified for compensation and will receive payment after undergoing a medical benefits review.
Nearly 11,000 of the 11,941 claims filed with the CICP since 2010 are still under review.
More Americans died from COVID-19 gene-editing shots than any vaccine in history. To date, there have been 1,541,275 reports of adverse events following Covid-vaccination submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System.
According to VAERS, 22,391 people died after receiving a COVID jab in 2021, 12479 people died from Covid vaccine in 2022 and 1,339 people in 2023 to date.
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From: WALTER784
4/28/23
Doctors in Kentucky, California received millions in bonus payments for vaccinating Medicaid patients against COVID
04/13/2023
By News Editors
Documents reveal that the federal government and insurers incentivized healthcare providers in Kentucky and California to vaccinate Medicaid patients against COVID-19 by offering bonuses based on the percentage of patients successfully vaccinated.
(Article by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. republished from ChildrensHealthDefense.org)
The federal government and insurers incentivized healthcare providers in Kentucky and California to vaccinate Medicaid patients against COVID-19 by offering bonuses based on the percentage of patients successfully vaccinated.
“[This is] truly sickening and I am embarrassed for my profession by this,” Dr. Meryl Nass, an internist and biological warfare epidemiologist, wrote on her Substack, where she posted several documents relating to the COVID-19 vaccine provider incentive programs.
The documents help to draw a picture of the broader effort at the federal, state and local levels to unleash a range of strategies targeting low-income and people-of-color communities, which tended to have lower vaccination rates.
The strategies included providing hundreds of millions of dollars for the creation of “culturally tailored” pro-vaccine materials and for training “trusted” and “influential messengers” to promote COVID-19 and flu vaccines to communities of color in every state.
Nass’ revelations showed these efforts went beyond advertising, fear campaigns, payments to patients and payments to trusted community actors and included, in some cases, direct financial incentives to healthcare providers.
Kentucky: Medicaid paid doctors up to $250 per vaccinated Medicaid patient
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid in Kentucky told physicians in 2021 it would “recognize your hard work by offering incentives for helping patients make the choice to become vaccinated.”
The more people vaccinated, the higher the per-person incentive.
For physicians who treated an Anthem Medicaid cohort with a minimum of 25 patients in their practice, Anthem Medicaid offered incentives for vaccination by Sept. 1, 2021, that ranged from a $20 bonus per vaccinated person for physicians who vaccinated 30% of the cohort, to $125 per vaccinated person for those who vaccinated 75% of the cohort, with several incremental steps in between.
As time went on, the rates increased.
Between Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, 2021, physicians received payments ranging from $100 per newly vaccinated person for those who vaccinated 30% of their patient cohort, to $250 per newly vaccinated person for those who vaccinated 75% of their patient cohort.
In 2022, the Anthem provider incentive program changed to a flat rate. Providers received $50 per newly vaccinated Medicaid patient. This included children ages 6 months to 4 years and kids 12 and older vaccinated between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2022, and children ages 5 to 11 vaccinated between June 1 and Dec. 31, 2022.
Medi-Cal: $350 million in incentives to vaccinate low-income children, people of color
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) on Aug. 6, 2021, announced $350 million in incentive payments — $250 million to providers and $100 million for direct non-monetary payments, such as gift cards, to vaccine recipients — to encourage vaccination among Medi-Cal’s 14 million beneficiaries.
Of the $350 million, $175 million came from state general funds and $175 million from federal funding. The funding period lasted from Sept. 2, 2021, through Feb. 29, 2022.
The program offered incentives to managed care plans in the name of “health equity.” In the press release, DHCS Director Will Lightborne said that raising rates among Medi-Cal beneficiaries was essential because “California will only be safe when everyone is safe.”
Nass noted that this program was rolled out one day after Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky told CNN the vaccines don’t prevent virus transmission. “That’s clearly a contradiction,” Nass told The Defender.
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From: WALTER784
4/28/23
Data from a UK hospital shows 75% of people recorded as “covid deaths” during March to June 2020 did not die from covid
BY RHODA WILSON
APRIL 25, 2023
Data from a sizeable NHS Trust suggests that in the “first wave” of the covid pandemic, there were three asymptomatic “covid deaths” for every one symptomatic covid death. The question is: how does someone die from a disease for which they have no symptoms? It’s not a trick question and you don’t have to be a doctor to know the answer – they didn’t die from covid.
John Dee is a former head of clinical audit specialising in clinical outcomes at a busy NHS teaching hospital. Before this, he headed a statistical modelling section as a G7 UK government scientist, providing consultancy for both public and private sectors.
He has been publishing a series of articles titled ‘Catastrophic Health Collapse’ on his Substack. The series details his analysis of data on respiratory illness admissions for an Accident & Emergency Department of a sizeable NHS Trust. The period of his analysis covers 2017 to 2021.
In Dee’s latest article, the seventh in the series, he compares in-hospital deaths of acute respiratory death and chronic respiratory death; and, in-hospital deaths of asymptomatic and symptomatic covid deaths. By classifying deaths into these major categories and showing the data graphically, he highlights some obvious anomalies that, even to an untrained eye, raise some questions.
John Dee begins his analysis with a detailed explanation of what a “respiratory death” means in terms of ICD-10 codes. The International Classification of Diseases (“ICD”) codes are widely used by countries that are following the diktats of the World Health Organisation (“WHO”). They are being used by 100 countries. In England, OPCS-4 and ICD-10 are fully implemented and embedded in NHS standards and mandated for use by Health Care Providers.
The section of the ICD codes for ‘Diseases of the respiratory system’ has 452 codes and sub-codes – people could die with a common cold or they can die from acute respiratory failure, so we’re looking at respiratory death within a very broad spectrum of associated conditions rather than primary uni-causal death.
With the detail offered by ICD-10 coding, it is possible to separate acute/severe/life-threatening respiratory conditions from chronic/minor. The assumption Dee makes is that if somebody is going to die from covid then they’ll enter an acute respiratory phase at some point. If they don’t enter an acute phase, then their case should not be treated as a symptomatic covid death. Equally, if somebody suffered from bacterial pneumonia or other non-covid viral pneumonia then this case should not be treated as symptomatic covid death.
“In this way,” Dee explained, “we can separate out those cases deserving of the classification of symptomatic covid death; that is to say, these are deaths whereby SARS-COV-2 is the one and only pathogen causing an acute respiratory condition leading directly to their demise. All other cases yielding a positive test result are thus coded as asymptomatic covid.”
Another point to note about ICD codes that makes the classification of covid easily identifiable is that covid is coded specifically within ICD-10 rather than generalised as a respiratory condition. Within Dee’s explanation of the “games” coders can play on how the data is presented, he wrote:
Please note that I’ve also carefully used the phrase ‘it was primarily coded as’ because the meaning of covid-19, like the virus itself, has moved on and mutated. We now have a whole bunch of covid codes … Covid is a very slippery customer, which means covid death will be a very slippery customer.
Please do bear in mind that even symptomatic covid death cannot be assumed to be causal. All we may glean in retrospect is that a medical diagnosis of covid-19 (that may or may not have been supported by a positive test and other diagnostic results) was declared at some point. For example, it is possible to bring a patient back from acute respiratory failure (covid or not) only to have their liver function collapse or sepsis set in. Then we have bacterial pneumonia doing all the damage in the shadow of a positive test result. Such is the nonsense of primary uni-causal death data coded by MUSE, as published by the ONS.
Catastrophic Health Collapse (part 7), John Dee, 24 April 2023
Respiratory Death 2017 – 2021
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