I haven't read the full article, so no comment (yet) on the balance of it. FWIW, I do believe that there are severe harms from the vaccines, and that both VAERS and all-cause mortality stats point to that being the case.
One note at the outset though: You said that total deaths were about the same as prior years in the earlier months of …
I haven't read the full article, so no comment (yet) on the balance of it. FWIW, I do believe that there are severe harms from the vaccines, and that both VAERS and all-cause mortality stats point to that being the case.
One note at the outset though: You said that total deaths were about the same as prior years in the earlier months of 2020, but based on data from the CDC WONDER system, that doesn't look to me to be the case.
I pulled data from 2016 - 2020, and the annual and monthly numbers for 2016 - 2019 are remarkably similar, both overall and seasonally. The year to year variation (standard deviation) in total deaths for those years is only 1.7%. By contrast, total deaths in 2020 were 20.3% higher than the prior average full-year numbers.
It's true that deaths in December were much higher than in previous months, but it's not a case of an abrupt, single-month spike. There was a fairly smooth upward trend from September (17% higher than previous 4-year average) through December (44% higher than previous average). The spike in April 2020 was almost as large, at 39% more deaths than the previous average for April.
Bottom line, while I do think that there are ample signs of vaccine injury (and even negative effectiveness) in the data, 2020 death data does show significant excess deaths from COVID before the vaccines were deployed.
I'll read the rest of your (apparently excellent, deeply-researched) article, but wanted to point this out at the beginning. I think it's important that those of us arguing that there's evidence of vaccine injury not weaken our arguments with inaccurate data or characterizations.
The 2020 numbers rose, or became inflated, long after 2020 ended. I thought this might be happening, so in February and March of 2021 I took dozens of screenshots of CDC's reported excess mortality data for 2020. Those screenshots are published in my book The Defeat of COVID.
I haven't read the full article, so no comment (yet) on the balance of it. FWIW, I do believe that there are severe harms from the vaccines, and that both VAERS and all-cause mortality stats point to that being the case.
One note at the outset though: You said that total deaths were about the same as prior years in the earlier months of 2020, but based on data from the CDC WONDER system, that doesn't look to me to be the case.
I pulled data from 2016 - 2020, and the annual and monthly numbers for 2016 - 2019 are remarkably similar, both overall and seasonally. The year to year variation (standard deviation) in total deaths for those years is only 1.7%. By contrast, total deaths in 2020 were 20.3% higher than the prior average full-year numbers.
It's true that deaths in December were much higher than in previous months, but it's not a case of an abrupt, single-month spike. There was a fairly smooth upward trend from September (17% higher than previous 4-year average) through December (44% higher than previous average). The spike in April 2020 was almost as large, at 39% more deaths than the previous average for April.
Bottom line, while I do think that there are ample signs of vaccine injury (and even negative effectiveness) in the data, 2020 death data does show significant excess deaths from COVID before the vaccines were deployed.
I'll read the rest of your (apparently excellent, deeply-researched) article, but wanted to point this out at the beginning. I think it's important that those of us arguing that there's evidence of vaccine injury not weaken our arguments with inaccurate data or characterizations.
The 2020 numbers rose, or became inflated, long after 2020 ended. I thought this might be happening, so in February and March of 2021 I took dozens of screenshots of CDC's reported excess mortality data for 2020. Those screenshots are published in my book The Defeat of COVID.