Posted on 05/19/2024 6:11:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Thursday that many officials who tried to warn the public about potential problems with COVID-19 vaccines were pressured into silence and that it’s high time to admit that there were “significant” side effects that made people sick.
Dr. Redfield made the remarks in a May 16 interview with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation, during which he lamented the loss of public confidence in public health agencies because of a lack of transparency around the vaccines, which he said “saved a lot of lives” but also made some people “quite ill.”
“Those of us that tried to suggest there may be significant side effects from vaccines ... we kind of got canceled because no one wanted to talk about the potential that there was a problem from the vaccines, because they were afraid that that would cause people not to want to get vaccinated,” Dr. Redfield said.
In his role as head of the CDC, Dr. Redfield was part of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, a project to surge COVID-19 vaccine development at a time during the pandemic when little was known about the virus and rapid vaccine rollout was widely seen as key to getting the outbreak under control and lockdowns lifted.
In September 2020, a few months before the first COVID-19 vaccines were given in the United States, Dr. Redfield testified before the Senate that COVID-19 represented the “most significant public health challenge to face our nation in more than a century,” and that the prevailing view among scientists at the time was that the overall case fatality rate of the disease was somewhere between 0.4 and 0.6 percent in the United States.
“If you were to look right now, individuals under the age of 18, it’s about 0.01 percent, 19 to say 69, it’s more like 0.3 percent. And if you’re over the age of 70, it’s about 5 percent now,” he testified at the time.
While there’s lingering controversy about the severity of COVID-19, a recent study estimates that the global case fatality rate was 8.5 percent in February 2020 but had plunged to 0.27 percent in August 2022, meaning that the estimated relative risk reduction over that time was a whopping 96.8 percent.
In his interview on NewsNation, Dr. Redfield said that the vaccines that were developed as part of Operation Warp Speed were “important” and saved “a lot of lives.” However, despite their benefits, the drawbacks of the vaccines must be a matter of open discussion, he said.
“They’re important for the most vulnerable people, those over 60, 65 years of age. They really aren’t that critical for those that are under 50 or younger. But those vaccines saved a lot of lives, but they also—we have to be honest, some people got significant side effects from the vaccine,” he said.
“I have a number of people that are quite ill and they never had COVID, but they are ill from the vaccine,” he continued. “And we just have to acknowledge that.”
The severity of COVID-19 remains a matter of debate because it’s unclear whether deaths were overcounted or undercounted due to various factors, such as lack of clarity around the role of underlying medical conditions in fatalities in cases where COVID-19 was listed as the primary cause, or underreporting of asymptomatic infections. Aside from the issue of whether people died “from” COVID-19 or “with” a positive test for SARS-CoV-2, there have also been questions about the role of secondary pneumonia caused by mechanical ventilation.
Either way, a study from January 2023 indicates that the global case fatality rate from COVID-19 has dropped dramatically over the course of the pandemic. Global case fatalities ranged from 1.7 to 39.0 percent in February to March of 2020, according to the study—but fell to below 0.3 percent in July to August 2022.
The researchers estimate that the risk of death from COVID-19 has dropped by 96.8 percent over the course of the pandemic.
Along with a decline in COVID-19 fatalities, there have been growing concerns about vaccine side effects, given that a significant number of vaccinated people have reported various adverse reactions.
The most common COVID-19 vaccine adverse events are those that affect the body generally, with fever, fatigue, and overall discomfort being the top three, according to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). But there are others.
For instance, heart muscle inflammation (myocarditis) and inflammation of the lining outside the heart (pericarditis) have both officially been acknowledged by the CDC as a known side effect of Moderna’s and Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
Nervous system disorders have also been reported, with such disorders being the third most common in the Pfizer trials, coming after general and muscle-related adverse events.
There have also been papers linking spike-protein-based COVID-19 vaccines to skin problems, a dull ringing in the ears known as tinnitus, visual impairments, blood clotting, and even death. Recent reporting from EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders“ program indicates that the likelihood of death associated with COVID-19 vaccines (in close proximity to the shot rather than proven as caused by it) was over 100 times greater than for flu vaccines.
There are also concerns about a post-vaccination jump in excess deaths and disability.
The CDC still recommends that people of all ages receive a COVID-19 vaccine, saying that the potential side effects do not outweigh the potential harms of getting sick with COVID-19.
In a notice published in late April, the agency again called for adults aged 65 and older to get the latest version of the vaccines.
Ping to my reply #40.
The modified limited hangout continues.
ping
Exactly.
Thank you.
LOL!! And, her partner in jab pushing, Daisy Duke.
Thrombosis and Thrombocytopenia after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccination
Article says it’s ‘rare’.
🙃
The Swine flu vaxx was pulled in ‘77, and I’m sure you already know this, after killing around three dozen and injuring 500.
Human life is worth much less now to Deep State, isn’t it...
Yep ... whole lotta grifter, er, pushers the DS has to pay off, this time around. 😡
Meanwhile...
Is the UK’s Deep State bringing up a decades old scandal to distract from the current vaxx scandal...?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jep.13839
Kaiser Fung, Mark Jones, Peter Doshi (senior editor at The BMJ):
“we illustrate how three factors generate residual biases in observational studies large enough to render a hypothetical inefficacious vaccine (i.e., of 0% efficacy) as 50%–70% effective”
By now, most seem very convinced their opinions are right about covid and whether or not the vaxx and boosters were/are “safe and effective”.
About all that’s left now are the current excess deaths since and due to the vaxx and boosters, the predicted mass die off of the vaxxed and boosted and any birth defects or similar complications passed on to the children of the vaxxed and boosted.
Unless the ‘truth’ about these things is reported and is shocking and overwhelmingly worrisome or frightening, the truth about covid and the vaxx is whatever anyone thinks and feels it is, the same as with everything else.
But, then again, who do you trust to tell you what the truth really is?
The derpstate is faced with a conundrum. On the one hand they want to time the big reveal about the frankenshot's lethality so as to hang it all on Trump and damage his reelection, but they can't reveal too soon, as that would only boost JFKommie Jr's 3rd party bid, which ding's pedojoe more than it does Trump.
“Those of us that tried to suggest there may be significant side effects from vaccines ... we kind of got canceled because no one wanted to talk about the potential that there was a problem from the vaccines, because they were afraid that that would cause people not to want to get vaccinated,” Dr. Redfield said..............Gee, wonder why a simple statement like that would cause people not to want the shots?
I had a bad case of the Covid apparently. I was hospitalized 28 days. Got 2 shots for something(?) to do with it before leaving 48 days in Rehab. It was after that I heard the bad news about the shots. That has been a few years now & if there are any lasting results from those shots, they are not real apparent, but I’d hate to say there weren’t any.
No. They were not. I have an ex-GF (still a friend) call me up when she had Delta. Nobody was helping her. I put together elements of the FLCCC home protocol and left them on her doorstep. I walked her through what to do. Within two hours she was feeling much better. Within 2 days, she was back on her feet & tested negative. She works at the fkn hospital and was offered NOTHING.
They want to gaslight us, and follow up with a fake Commission (staffed by their side) which will make minor admissions while mainly blaming us evil antivaxxers for their own evildoing & their failures.
California was collectively paid $9.2 billion to push the jabs on everyone. pic.twitter.com/40JyVAenYv— Steve Kirsch (@stkirsch) May 21, 2024
Whoopi Goldberg - we know a lot of folks who died during ( not from ) covid.. ** Not school children. ~Dr. Phil .
Just like these creeps ....
Remember when these 3 idiots told us “the science is clear”
“These vaccines will protect you and those you love from this dangerous and deadly disease”
Humiliating!
pic.twitter.com/tz1J1OYE3w— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) May 22, 2024
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