Claim: Covid vaccines protect against heart failure....????
The following study’s conclusions are doubtful in the extreme - in the study the authors do not deal with the major question - whether patients were counted as unvaccinated in the first fourteen days after vaccination. This means they probably did count patients as unvaccinated for the first fourteen days, which means they may well be measuring sudden death by myocarditis.
Furthermore, whistleblower nurses in many places have recounted the terrible treatment hospitals meted out particularly to unvaccinated Covid patients: in the expectation that these patients would be the first to die, they were put on ventilators and tranquillised in specialised wards, where the nurses themselves would not go.
And that means this study may well be a record of how many patients the hospital killed.
Association of Reduced Hospitalizations and Mortality Rates Among COVID-19-Vaccinated Patients With Heart Failure
Kipp W. Johnson, MD; Phd *Sonika Patel, MD *; Sahityasri Thapi, MD; Suraj K. Jaladanki, BS; Aarti Rao, MD; Sharon Nirenberg, MD, MS; Anuradha Lala, Md. Journal of Cardiac Failure, June 9 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2022.05.008
ABSTRACT
Background
Patients with heart failure (HF) are at high risk for adverse outcomes when they have COVID-19. Reports of COVID-19 vaccine-related cardiac complications may contribute to vaccine hesitancy in patients with HF.
Methods
To analyze the impact of COVID-19 vaccine status on clinical outcomes in patients with HF, we conducted a retrospective cohort study of the association of COVID-19 vaccination status with hospitalizations, intensive care unit admission and mortality after adjustment for covariates. Inverse probability treatment-weighted models were used to adjust for potential confounding.
Results
Of 7094 patients with HF, 645 (9.1%) were partially vaccinated, 2200 (31.0%) were fully vaccinated, 1053 were vaccine-boosted (14.8%), and 3196 remained unvaccinated (45.1%) by January 2022. The mean age was 73.3 ± 14.5 years, and 48% were female. Lower mortality rates were observed in patients who were vaccine-boosted, followed by those who were fully vaccinated; they experienced lower mortality rates (HR 0.33; CI 0.23, 0.48) and 0.36 (CI 0.30, 0.43), respectively, compared to unvaccinated individuals (P< 0.001) over the mean follow-up time of 276.5 ± 104.9 days, whereas no difference was observed between those who were unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated.
Conclusion
COVID-19 vaccination was associated with significant reduction in all-cause hospitalization rates and mortality rates, lending further evidence to support the importance of vaccination implementation in the high-risk population of patients living with HF.
This study claims that the Covid 19 vaccination reduces the incidence of hospitalisation and mortality from heart failure.
I have five big questions about this study:
It is most likely that the signal we are seeing here is sudden death from myocarditis within fourteen days from receiving the shot. The big question is, were recently vaccinated people counted as belonging to the unvaccinated cohort during the first fourteen days after receiving the shot? The study rules out patients vaccinated before the start of the study, but says nothing about this at all; it is to be assumed that they were, because this was standard practice during the period of Covid.
What is the proposed mechanism for the shots protecting against heart failure and hospitalisation? No mechanism is proposed in the study. The experimental Covid shots were not designed to protect against heart failure or hospitalisation.
For the unvaccinated patients who had not received a shot in the past 14 days, could it be possible that nurses and doctors were biased against these people and they received worse care? Early 2021 was the period in which the bias against unvaccinated people was clear and obvious. Eyewitness accounts have come from hospitals of bias against unvaccinated patients, not feeding them, putting them on the Remdesvir/tranquilizer treatment that killed them, nurses not even entering their rooms for fear of catching Covid.
The patients were all in their 70s. This is not the age of risk for heart failure from the vaccines, it is under 40, in fact.
Why are their data and conclusions so different from other studies and independent data?
One fact in particular supports my tentative conclusion that this study records the rate of hospital-care caused death: the unvaccinated tended to be of a lower social status and income than the vaccinated. Immediately one tends to think they may have received more contempt and less care; particularly in view of the account of the despicable goings-on at a New York hospital recounted by Erin Olszewski during the same period in her whistleblower book Undercover Epicenter Nurse: How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital.
Change log: Added references and revised opening paragraph, and last paragraph.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Undercover-Epicenter-Nurse/Erin-Marie-Olszewski/9781510763661
See my article here about why the first fourteen days matter. Norman Fenton in the UK has pinpointed this problem.
Norman Fenton’s video explaining this:
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Norman Fenton says on his website:
In assessing the efficacy of Covid vaccines in observational studies (such as in the large Israel study which claimed 95% efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine) it is now standard to assume that the vaccine takes 14 days to 'work' and hence to classify a person as 'unvaccinated' within 14 days of vaccination. But, as the previous example shows, such an approach inevitably exaggerates efficacy.
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The video also shows how vaccine effectiveness in observational trials is further exaggerated if the unvaccinated are less likely to get tested for the virus than the vaccinated (as happened in the Israel Pfizer study).
Studies and data that contradict the result of this study:
Rose, Jessica, & McCullough, Peter. (2022). Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis Requiring Hospitalization. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6556390
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/pfizer-adverse-event-data
Evidence given by the CDC: https://jessicar.substack.com/p/is-covid-19-injection-induced-myocarditis
https://www.eurorad.org/case/16643
Halushka MK, Vander Heide RS. Myocarditis is rare in COVID-19 autopsies: cardiovascular findings across 277 postmortem examinations. Cardiovasc Pathol. 2021 Jan-Feb;50:107300. doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2020.107300. Epub 2020 Oct 23. PMID: 33132119; PMCID: PMC7583586.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carpath.2020.107300\
Kornowski R, Witberg G. Acute myocarditis caused by COVID-19 disease and following COVID-19 vaccination. Open Heart. 2022 Mar;9(1):e001957. doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2021-001957. PMID: 35264415; PMCID: PMC8914394. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35264415/
Cushion S, Arboleda V, Hasanain Y, Demory Beckler M, Hardigan P, Kesselman MM. Comorbidities and Symptomatology of SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2)-Related Myocarditis and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine-Related Myocarditis: A Review. Cureus. 2022 Apr 12;14(4):e24084. doi: 10.7759/cureus.24084. PMID: 35573496; PMCID: PMC9099161.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35573496/
Schneider J, Sottmann L, Greinacher A, Hagen M, Kasper HU, Kuhnen C, Schlepper S, Schmidt S, Schulz R, Thiele T, Thomas C, Schmeling A. Postmortem investigation of fatalities following vaccination with COVID-19 vaccines. Int J Legal Med. 2021 Nov;135(6):2335-2345. doi: 10.1007/s00414-021-02706-9. Epub 2021 Sep 30. PMID: 34591186; PMCID: PMC8482743. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34591186/
https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-023-07998-3
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/dose-3-response-much-like-sore-thumb
Note that the foreign data set has been removed from VAERS for no apparent reason, so the last data set is difficult to verify now.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221029201701/https://www.tga.gov.au/news/covid-19-vaccine-safety-reports/covid-19-vaccine-safety-report-25-08-2022 High rate for young men and boys.