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Pfizer omitted at least one vaccine trial death

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Concerning my risk/benefit estimations, one little thing that was bugging me was that there were apparently no vaccine related deaths in any of the clinical trials. I had no evidence of misreported deaths, although that would not be surprising in view of the criminal track records of companies like Pfizer. And we already found that Pfizer covered up the case of a girl who ended up in a wheelchair with a feeding tube.

Another thing that remained in the back of my mind was a disagreement in the reported number of deaths in Pfizer's placebo group - according to the main text of their publication there were 4 deaths in the placebo group, but according to the supplementary data p.2607 there were 3 (note that there were zero Covid deaths in either group). It was puzzling to me how such a mistake could occur if they had not messed with the data.

Since then, an accusation was made that in Argentina a vaccine death was covered up, but I have no idea how well founded that was (here and here). I had no hard evidence of anything.

But recently, thanks to a FOIA Request as described here,
the FDA was obliged to release a huge pile of documents. Buried inside that pile there's a document called fa-interim-narrative-sensitive.pdf
In that document a death in the vaccination group is recorded that Pfizer failed to mention or even account for in its publication.

I made the following overview, reduced to what I deem data of interest.

Reported deaths in BNT162b2 Pfizer vaccine group
C4591001 1007 10071101 - heart attack after 2 months
C4591001 1162 11621327 - died 3 days after dose 1, probably due to arteriosclerosis
C4591001 1152 11521497 - died in hospital after fainting at home. RECORDED BY PFIZER AS SUBJECT WITHDRAWAL. UNKNOWN CAUSE OF DEATH. NO AUTOPSY. Wrongly omitted from the published report!

Reported deaths in Placebo group
C4591001 1066 10661350 USA
C4591001 1081 10811194 USA
C4591001 1152 11521085 USA
C4591001 1231 12313972 Argentina. History of hypertension. Hemorrhagic stroke 14 days after Dose 2. No autopsy.

Following Occam's razor, the simplest explanation that I can think of is that the reported Argentina placebo group death was in reality in the vaccine group, and there was a slip-up in the falsification. If so, not one but two deaths were mislabeled.

Now why would Pfizer cover up one or two deaths? It can't be because of the small and rather balanced true numbers. As a matter of fact, the reported numbers in the main text of their published article (4 deaths in placebo group but only 2 in vaccine group, despite zero due to Covid) caught my attention, it was almost suspicious.
The only reason I can think of is that the reporting of any death that was possibly vaccine related but not investigated, could have made approval more difficult or complicated, risking a restricted approval for only the elderly. Billions of dollars were at stake.

This is much worse than the Boeing 737Max scandal, which also involved a government agency. Among other things, the FDA either overlooked or closed their eyes to an unexplained death in the vaccine group of Pfizer's clinical trial. Note that they tried to stall release of the documents by decades, but were forced to deliver.

So, governments were either lying or simply talking BS when assuring the public that all Covid19 vaccines were safe and effective. Of course, we already knew that but now it's a hard fact - the possible unsafety of at least Pfizer's vaccine was already swept under the rug in the clinical trial.

I now reckon with most likely one vaccine related death in Pfizer's vaccine trial. That doesn't really change my estimations but improves consisteny.


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Admin

11 months ago
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This blog post is rather short, but meant to serve as coathanger for adding information about vaccine risk/benefits. In 2023 I hope to write blog posts and articles about other topics.
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Admin

10 months ago
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Precision: the fainting occurred within three weeks after vaccination.
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Anonymous user #1

10 months ago
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This is somewhat interesting, but it would need more proof to actually make any difference. "The only reason I can think of ..." is not a truely scientific statement (like some others in this article - rather emotional, the whole thing), and would never hold up in trial. If there really is such a conspiracy as suggested, I hope there will be a follow up ...
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10 months ago
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Thanks anonymous 1. We agree that this fact makes little difference for us as it merely aligns with the facts that we already new from later developments. However for authorities and the greater public it should make a difference that at least one vaccinated person in the Pfizer trial died from unknown causes not long after vaccination, and that Pfizer covered it up in their publication. The greater public trusted statements by authorities that the vaccines had been tested to be safe and effective. The product should not have received emergency authorization in any country. It's interesting but irrelevant if there was a conspiracy of any kind.
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10 months ago
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Note that this should not be interpreted as a reason to single out Pfizer as the "bad guy", and others as "good guys". For reasons that escape me, Pfizer has been most scrutinized, with the result that we know their dirty laundry better than those of others.
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8 months ago
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I had not paid enough attention to the case of the man who died three days after the shot.

For starters, contrary to the summary by Pfizer which I simply reported, he surely did not die three days after the shot but in less than three days, perhaps within one or two days. And dying from arteriosclerosis was just an uninformed guess.

As Igor Chudov [explained] on his Substack:

'Read this closely: this man lived alone. He was found dead BY POLICE, because of a welfare check requested by someone. He was found on Day 4 after the shot. He was cold and his skin had lividity. So, a good amount of time passed after his death. Police sent his body to a local medical examiner, who ruled the cause to be “arteriosclerosis”.

Did the examiner, who received a routine dead body to examine, have any idea that the dead subject had an experimental Pfizer shot? Obviously, not. So he ruled the death to be due to “arteriosclerosis”, not thinking that this is any type of a special case deserving a closer look.'

Indeed, from personal experience: someone with Altzheimer's disease and prostate cancer dies, apparently due to Altzheimer's. A doctor is called, he confirms the death and asks what underlying illnesses the diseased had. Then he writes on the death certificate "prostate cancer".

Pfizer committed a psychological phrasing trick when reporting about the death that "there was no reasonable possibility that the arteriosclerosis was related to the study intervention" (the arteriosclerosis as if it was more than a good guess, and falsely presented as 100% sure cause of death). I fell for that trick.
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8 months ago
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The German newspaper Die Welt recently published a [revealing article] about this.

It phrases suspicion about the patient who died within three days as well as the patient who died 20 days after vaccination from "cardiac arrest":

'"According to the current state of science, one would assign these two cases to the vaccination,” says Berlin pharmaceutical specialist Susanne Wagner, “especially since the U.S. health authority CDC is currently investigating strokes in vaccinated people and it is known that blood clots after vaccination can cause sudden deaths.”'

And Die Welt found Pfizer fraud in ... Buenos Aires, Argentina!

'In one fell swoop, the test management had said goodbye to 53 subjects on August 31, 2020. The test candidates had been ‘unblinded,’ i.e. they were informed about their vaccination status, a process that the Pfizer study protocol expressly provides for only ‘in emergencies.’ But there is nothing about it in the approval study. In protocol documents, which are available to Die Welt, and which are actually not intended for the public, those responsible got caught up in contradictions”: three different documents contain three different explanations!

But there is more. The following is of particular interest here as it concerns the very "placebo group" death that I identified as possibly suspect:

'[The deceased under ID 12313972] came, shortly after the start of the study, with a heart attack to the Aleman hospital and died. But the death was concealed from the ANMAT inspectors. Also in the protocol of the health authority, which is available to Die Welt, is expressly stated that there were no deaths, neither in the vaccine group nor in the placebo group. Only in the approval study does he reappear.'

Die Welt cites the conjecture that Polack (Buenos Aires study director as well as first author of the approval study) quite obviously concealed this death from the health authorities, and then asks the question:
'But what reason was there to conceal a dead man if he allegedly could not have received the vaccine?'

Thus, the unsubstantiated cover-up claim of a Pfizer trial death in Buenos Aires has now been confirmed by Die Welt.

Further, my suspicion that this might well be the same death that was allegedly in the placebo group, has now also been confirmed by Die Welt - with Die Welt making the same logical inference.
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Anonymous user #2

8 months ago
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As you mentioned earlier, there is not much reason to cover up one or two apparently random deaths. So it could as well have been just mistakes or lazyness. Or a bad decision by some manager, not strategic by the company. We all know that many people have died shortly after vaccinations. But as far as I know, deaths are rarely directly related to a vaccination. As long as there's nothing more than assumptions and as far as there's proof, minor mishaps, and critical opinions by single experts such as Susanne Wagner, who is at least close to conspiracy theory groups (google her), I see no reason for alarm. But still, I am glad there are people like you (and the Die Welt author) who investigate.
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8 months ago
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Thanks for the feedback Anonymous user 2.
I did not say that there is not much reason to cover up one or two apparently random deaths - quite the contrary. I agree that mistakes are easily made, except when it concerns small numbers of death reports in a clinical study, and the accounting of those numbers. The accounting contradictions and omissions gave reason to suspect data manipulations, especially as this occurred in an established culture of fraud and falsifications - let's not be naive!
Further, "as long as there's nothing more than assumptions" : that works both ways - absence of hard proof isn't proof of absence! And while indeed Susanne Wagner leans to the other extreme as you do (instead of "one would assign" I'd say "one would suspect"!), she was right about the science, even if you didn't read it in a newspaper.

As usually I don't follow extreme thinking in either direction, simply because either extreme is statistically unlikely. If we estimate that most likely one, but perhaps two of the three suspect deaths that occurred shortly after vaccination were actually due to vaccination in that group of 21'000 people, that would still be consistent with the real world data in governmental reporting systems which were the basis of my original risk estimations.
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8 months ago
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Note also: the discussion here only referred to the short term, intermediate Pfizer study results that were used for emergency approval.

A follow-up publication provided the following numbers after 6 months since the second doses. According to Pfizer,

"During the blinded, placebo-controlled period, 15 participants in the BNT162b2 group and 14 in the placebo group died".
Of those, 1 death in the vaccine group and 2 deaths in the placebo group were Covid-related.

It's unclear if these numbers need the same corrections; if they do, the total numbers will be 16 or 17 deaths in the vaccine group (of which 1 with Covid) and 13 or 14 deaths in the placebo group (of which 2 with Covid).
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