Is C-19 Vaccination Uptake Linked to Higher Death Counts?
Let's catch the mainstream media lying, shall we?
An article in yesterday’s New York Times reports that Brazil’s federal police want to criminally charge former president Jair Bolsonaro for falsifying his own COVID-19 vaccine card. Which he allegedly did in 2022, for himself and his then 13-year-old daughter, in order to travel to the United States.
Bolsonaro said publicly that he did not get a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the article. He has also denied the accusation that he falsified vaccine records or was involved in any scheme to do so.
The New York Times reports:
“During the pandemic, Mr. Bolsonaro was critical of the Covid-19 vaccine, joking that it would turn people into crocodiles and instead promoting unproven treatments, such as hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug.
“His administration hesitated to secure vaccines when they were first being distributed, exacerbating the pandemic in Brazil, according to a Brazilian congressional investigation that recommended in 2021 that the former president be charged with ‘crimes against humanity,’ among other charges, for his actions during the pandemic,” the article continues.
“Prosecutors at the time did not charge him. More than 700,000 people have died in Brazil because of Covid-19, the second-highest national death count after the United States.”
Stop, wait a minute
This article implies strongly that there is a causal relationship between the former Brazilian president’s failure to secure the C-19 vaccine in Brazil and the country having the second-highest death count in the world.
But data collected and compiled by the New York Times itself when vaccine uptake rates were still being tracked shows that Brazil had a 90% vaccination rate at the time, one of the highest in the world.
Let’s leave that inconsistency aside for a minute.
Since this kind of data is very difficult to collect and is likely to be inaccurate, let’s pretend instead that Bolsonaro’s actions did, indeed, lead to vaccine hesitancy in Brazil and that the New York Times’s own research does not indicate otherwise.
High death rates independent of vaccine uptake?
The same article states that the first highest national death count due to COVID-19 was the United States, a country with a high vaccine uptake rate where the president never expressed any concerns about vaccine efficacy, safety, or necessity. A country where citizens were bullied into doing vaccines and relentlessly vilified if they chose not to allow themselves to be injected with an experimental technology. As you all know but it’s worth me reminding you anyway, Americans, even children, who remained unvaccinated were barred from public and private life, denied educational opportunities, and even had their access to health care restricted.
So the United States has had and continues to have among the highest vaccination rates in the world, yet we have also had, according to the New York Times article anyway,* the highest death count from COVID?
*I contacted the journalist to find out what his source for these statistics were. I have yet to hear back. If and when I do, I will let readers know in the comment section or as a post script below.
Muddy waters
It’s hard to know if any of this is accurate. But if it is, it suggests quite clearly that vaccine uptake and death rates from COVID-19 are not connected.
At the same time, we know that there **IS** a link between vaccination uptake and all-cause mortality.
For example, in countries where there was the MOST vaccine uptake, scientists in Norway found that there were also the MOST excess deaths.
“All cause mortality increased more the higher 2021 vaccine uptake,” according to these researchers.
In other words, vaccination in 2021 was linked to higher excess deaths in 2022.
Even when controlling for other factors, the link remained “robust.”
Nurse educator and researcher John Campbell has an excellent discussion of the preprint of this scientific paper, which you can watch here.
The paper was subsequently published in the Asian Pacific Journal of Health Sciences.
You can read it in its entirety here.
It’s also worth noting here that Japan has among the highest vaccination uptake rates in the world (if this world data is accurate) and is a country that has also suffered from an enormous uptick in excess mortality.
But this is, perhaps, neither here nor there.
After all, we can use fruit to take apart all these observations.
Cherry-picked information! Comparing apples and oranges!
Nothing to see here, folks. Time to move along.
Could exposure to this herbicide be another reason for poor outcomes?
So let’s go back to Brazil and the United States and the high numbers of people who have died from COVID-19, vaccine or no vaccine.
My colleague and friend, MIT’s Dr. Stephanie Seneff (follow her on Twitter X where she’s killing it; or better yet, read her meticulously researched and fascinating book, Toxic Legacy), has a theory about why these two countries were hit so hard by COVID.
According to Dr. Seneff, these two countries are among the top five for glyphosate and other pesticide and herbicide usage on core crops.
Glyphosate is the main ingredient in Roundup. It’s a weed killer that also causes a host of health problems in humans, despite industry-funded propaganda insisting otherwise.
In April 2020 I hosted an article by Dr. Seneff on my website. The article, “Connecting the Dots: Glyphosate and COVID-19,” includes 38 references and dozens of internal links. After it went viral four years ago, it was heavily censored by search engines. (Since it won’t come up on most searches, save it as a PDF if you think you might want to re-read it. Even I have trouble finding it and it’s on my site…) In that article, Dr. Seneff hypothesized that glyphosate exposure compromises the human immune system so much that the collateral damage may be one of the main reasons coronavirus is deadly for some people.
In an email to me about the New York Times article, Dr. Seneff reiterated this idea: “Glyphosate causes deficiencies in vitamin D, melatonin, methionine, glutathione, Bifidobacteria, and NAD, she wrote, “and deficiencies in all of these are linked to bad outcomes from COVID.”
Could glyphosate be a causative factor in deaths from COVID?
Absolutely.
Do we know definitively that it is?
We do not.
Some takeaways from all of this:
If you want real information, you have to read beyond the headlines and draw your own conclusions.
There’s still a lot we don’t know about coronavirus.
And even when scientific “proof” appears, it’s good to keep an open mind.
At the same time, assuming that the COVID-19 vaccines have done any human any good is probably a straw-man assumption, and one that I hope journalists like Jack Nicas will start investigating for themselves.
Being concerned about mRNA vaccine safety does not make you anti-vaccine. It makes you pro-science.
And it just might be that the money you’re spending on a subscription to the New York Times would be better spent elsewhere. Like on a paid subscription to Vibrant Life (hint hint nudge nudge) or another Substack you enjoy reading so that you’re supporting independent journalism and medical choice.
You’re welcome.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading.
About the author:
Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., is an award-winning science journalist who dishes up health information on Substack with a side of snark.
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I used to think that only a few, powerful people were corrupt, and a great many were ignorant and/or misguided.
After witnessing the events of the last four years, I believe that the vast majority of powerful people are corrupt. This has been very difficult to acknowledge. How could so many people care so little about the harms done to other people? What choice is there though, when this gateway treatment - the mRNA one for covid - has already opened the door to bivalent covid/flu, and those in authority are marching on with establishing factories to produce this new technology here in Australia. Apparently this is based on the 'success' of the the first mRNA product. I am seeing new uses for it popping up with horrifying rapidity. Only today I discovered that they have been approved in the USA for pig vaccines!
It seems blindingly obvious that this rapid spread of its use was planned and expected.
I am truly fearful for my grandchildren.
Powerful & informative - thank you JM & God bless you & your OUTstanding work ...