New Vaccine Studies, Impacts, Kennedy & Dowd, Jobs dilemma
Struthers Report V29 # 6.9
As anyone that invests in bio tech stocks would know, it takes many years to get a drug or vaccine approved as safe and effective. In fact about 7 to 10 years to go through all the trial phases. You would also know that very few make it through. In fact, previously I have shown studies and statistics that prove only about 10% succeed after making it past the animal trials. This means that the odds of proving a drug or vaccine as safe and effective is only about 1 in 10.
The Covid shots were developed under a program they called 'Warp Speed'. That was a big red flag in itself and as such they skipped animal trials and went straight to humans.
We should not be surprised these shots are not working and causing more harm than good. The odds were stacked 10 to 1 against them.
I came across some new and recent studies. New data keeps coming out and it will be many years before we learn what these shots really did, probably 7 to 10 years as if it went through a normal trial.
A stunning pre-print study by the Cleveland Clinic was out in December 2022 and I just came across it. This stuff does not make the regular news. The Cleveland Clinic is very prominent as the State of Ohio health care system with about 300 locations, mostly in Ohio, but two hospitals in Florida and one in Canada. U.S. News & World Report consistently names The Cleveland Clinic one of the nation’s best hospitals, including the nation’s #1 heart center, in its annual “America’s Best Hospitals” survey
Quote from the study: “The association of increased risk of COVID-19 with higher numbers of prior vaccine doses in our study, was unexpected.”
It shows that MRNA vaccines raise the risk of contracting COVID-19 and that each MRNA vaccine booster increases the risk of contracting COVID-19, while those who have not received any MRNA vaccine have the lowest risk of contracting COVID-19.
The study was conducted this past fall of 51,011 Cleveland Clinic workers to see how effective the new bivalent MRNA vaccine was in preventing infections. Only 21 percent of workers received the bivalent booster which was seen to only have a 30 percent effectiveness. Overall, five percent of all workers in the study contracted COVID during the 13-week study period. Just 21% in the health care environment is a pretty good sign of a lack of confidence in these shots.
The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines fell below 20 percent a few months after vaccination, with booster shots seeing effectiveness drop below 30 percent.
RESULTS
Of 51977 eligible subjects, 966 (1.9%) were excluded because of missing age or gender. Of the remaining 51011 employees included in the study, 34507 (68%) had been in employment since before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (pre-pandemic hires). 1794 subjects (3.5%) were censored during the study period because of termination of employment before the end of the study. By the end of the study, 10804 (21%) were bivalent vaccine boosted. The bivalent vaccine was the Pfizer vaccine in 9595 (89%) and the Moderna vaccine in the remaining 1178. Altogether, 2452 employees (5%) acquired COVID-19 during the 13 weeks of the study.
The study was reported by the Cleveland Clinic’s Nabin K. Shrestha, Patrick C. Burke, Amy S. Nowacki, James F. Simon and Amanda Hagen, Steven M. Gordon.
This is not the only study to find a possible association with more prior vaccine doses and higher risk of COVID-19. A large study found that those who had an Omicron variant infection after previously receiving three doses of vaccine had a higher risk of reinfection than those who had an Omicron variant infection after previously receiving two doses of vaccine. Another study found that receipt of two or three doses of a mRNA vaccine following prior COVID-19 was associated with a higher risk of reinfection than receipt of a single dose.
People who received a COVID-19 vaccine have an increased risk of a serious eye problem, according to a new study out of Taiwan. The risk of retinal vascular occlusion “increased significantly” after a first or second dose of the messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines, researchers reported in a study published by Nature. Retinal vascular occlusion refers to the blockage of veins or vessels that carry blood to or from the retina. It can cause sudden vision loss.
Out of 207,626 Pfizer vaccine doses administered in the population that was studied, 226 cases of the eye problem were detected after two years. Among 97,918 Moderna vaccine doses administered, 220 cases were detected over the same time. These numbers suggest Moderna is about twice as bad.
While some cases were detected among AstraZeneca recipients, the risk wasn’t statistically significant.
The risk of retinal vascular occlusion was 3.5 times for vaccinated people compared to an unvaccinated group after 12 weeks and 2.19 times higher after two years. An increased risk was found shortly after vaccination.
“We demonstrated a higher risk and incidence rate of retinal vascular occlusion following COVID-19 vaccination, after adjusting for potential confounding factors,” Chun-Ju Lin, an eye doctor, and other Taiwanese researchers reported in the study.
There are two excellent video interviews that I highly recommend.
This presentation by Ed Dowd is quite long and is mostly about his economic forecast going forward. It is very worth while and Dowd has become very well know with his excess injury analysis in the monthly US jobs report and his excess death calculations. He touches a bit on this in his presentation.
This next one is from one of the most colourful commentators, Russel Brand who interviews Robert F Kennedy Junior. It is a real eye opener and I learned several new things. With his family background, Kennedy knows everyone in the elite crowd and it is amazing how they tie together and influence major events. He gets into the family assassinations, the previous wars and Ukraine, How Covid and Fauci evolved. I watched it twice.
Next I am going to touch a bit on excess death data in the UK and Canada. Stats Canada is very slow with their data and still have not completed the final 2021 death statistics, but they do have some weekly data up to end of 2022. The UK is very good with data and I followed them because they got Covid and took shots well ahead of us.
Dr. John Campbell went into details on the UK death data for May thus far. This guy is a bit dry but very thorough. You can watch his video here, but below is the basic UK National Official data.
Previous data showed that from May 2022 to end of December 2022, there were 32,441 excess deaths, meaning above the 5 year average and/or what was expected.
The new released government data shows the week ended April 21, 2023 there were 14,024 deaths that was 22.1% above the 5 year average (2,540 excess deaths).
The most recent data is for week 17 which is to April 28, 2023 there were 13,690 deaths that is 12.9% above the 5 year average (1,569 excess deaths).
The UK excess death numbers went on all of 2022 and continue to this day. And a lot more excess deaths in the 0-24 age group.
If a vaccine is safe and effective the all cause death rate should go down after it is administered, meaning it is aiding the problem it was meant for, but obviously it is not and also causing deaths with side effects.
Now for Stats Canada data. They produced this nice chart so you can visually see what has happened. This is weekly data with the pink line being 2020. The spike in deaths is very evident when Covid-19 started and these were mostly elderly with underlying conditions. The majority were in long term care homes and Canada did a poor job here at the beginning.
Look what happened in 2021, the dark gray line. The 1st shot started to roll out in April 2021 and by June 2021, the weekly deaths were well above 2020 levels. Canada delayed the 2nd shot to four months after the 1st, unlike other countries. In the 2nd half of 2021 deaths were much higher with vaccines than 2020 without them.
Then looked what happened as the 3rd shot was rolled out in late 2021 to early 2022. The flew season which includes January and February 2022 saw death numbers sky rocket. Deaths spiked about 33% above 2019 levels. Again most of these were elderly like the start of 2022 and my father was among these that soon passed after his 3rd shot. He was 92 and had a good life.
That said, what was different was a huge spike up in the number of deaths of those aged 45 to 64 in 2022. The number of deaths in those aged 0 to 44 is now also well above 2020 levels.
Our pathetic leader, Trudeau has 90 million shots coming to Canada in 2023 that were paid for with our tax dollars and now most people will not take another shot. To this day it remains a secret what he paid for the shots. In 2020, Canada went with the Chinese for a vaccine and the Chinese screwed us so put Canada well behind. Rumours is that Trudeau paid much more than other countries to try and play catch up getting shots to Canada to save face.
Data is often posted with a delay and seldom reported if it does not fit the narrative. CDC data reveals that the deaths per week in the United States in each of the first seven weeks following the Pfizer and Moderna roll out all exceeded even the deadliest weeks of 2020 (the two weeks ending April 11 and April 18 of 2020). This should be enough to make anyone more fearful of the vaccines than of COVID-19.
Of course they made it sound like it was the unvaccinated. A major way they distort data is the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes those who were never COVID-19-vaccinated but also those who have received a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine less than seven or 14 days ago as unvaccinated. This “case-counting window bias” makes a huge difference because it allows infections, injuries, and deaths immediately following vaccination to be reported as the “unvaccinated” category. If you look at the VAERS reporting system you will find that most of vaccine deaths, whether the old influenza flu shot or Covid-19 occur in the first few days of receiving the shot. Their deception shows these as unvaccinated deaths when clearly it is a direct result of the shot.
Clearly in the above data most deaths occur in the first day of getting the shot. This can only be an immediate bad reaction. No way in hell it is just coincidental that so many would die in day 1 and day 2 after a shot. This is not so much of a distortion as of late 2022 and 2023 as vaccine uptake has severely slowed, therefore there are far less people in this 14 day window.
It is important to know what has happened so we don't get fooled again. In reality the pandemic was more about wealth distribution, controls and an experimental vaccine than medical. Now lets look at some of the economic fall out from all of this.
In the US look how the wealth of the top 1% spiked higher since 2020. The bottom 50% saw a bit of a rise with all the Covid relieve stimulus, but nothing like the $15 trillion or so jump in the top 1%. The proof of wealth distribution is very clear. And it occurred at 2 to 3 times the rate of anytime in the past.
The current narrative in the market talks a lot about the JOLTS report which is the number of Job Openings, that dropped to 9.59 million in March (still a high number). Employment is usually the lagging indicator of recession, and when the JOLTS jobs report was issued on April 4, the slowdown in hiring pushed markets and gold prices higher. The narrative is a recession is coming so rates will have to be lowered. This is the chart you often see, but it is year over year change not the actual chart of job openings.
The latest JOLTS report, issued on May 2, continued the trend of declining and tightening labor market conditions. What markets have wrong is the JOLT data is mostly government Covid-19 policy fall out. After lock downs were lifted and things started to open back up there was enormous hiring and job openings. These are just now finally getting filled and there still is a huge number of jobs available. The chart below is the current JOLTS (job openings) and you can see that the norm before Covid-19 was 6 to 7 million and the current 9.6 million is still way above that. There is a long way to go before the job market eases.
A prime example is Toronto's air port, the largest in Canada. Just a week ago there was news that the Airport was almost back up to 2019 staffing levels. They hired over 10,000 people in the past year and what is noteworthy is how long it took. The US is not much different but somewhat better because some States did not have lock downs as long. I believe these JOLTS numbers are simply jobs being filled post pandemic. The labor market is still very tight. Ed Dowd estimates it is about 1% tighter than the 3.6% reported because of vaccine injuries affecting job numbers.
The US health emergency on Covid-19 ended May 11. Perhaps most notably, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will still have the ability to hand down emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 products, vaccines, and treatments. The agency’s decisions to use emergency use authorizations to approve certain COVID-19 vaccines has been controversial, as some independent health experts and researchers have said that not enough data on possible side effects were obtained before the FDA approved the shots. Dah, you think!!!!!
The biggest business fallout from government Covid-19 policy was felt in restaurants/hospitality, travel and health care.
In Canada and the US, nurses and doctors were fired if they did not take shots or go along with the government narrative. Then what followed was the burned-out factor for those left to deal with the pandemic. Nurses who've left Canada's health-care industry in droves are now returning to the job through private agencies, and that transition is costing the public system millions of dollars every year.
Nurses working for these temp agencies can earn more than double the wages of staff nurses doing the same jobs in the same hospitals, with full control over their work schedules, according to those in the industry.
Terri Stuart-McEwan, vice president of clinical programs and chief nursing executive at Oak Valley Health, which operates Markham Stouffville Hospital in Ontario, said she's watched as a steady stream of nurses have quit their jobs out of fatigue and frustration.
"Last year we spent, in this organization, over $4 million [on agency nurses], and we are a medium-size organization," she said. "That's a huge cost to our health-care system."
In Toronto, University Health Network's nursing agency expenditures totalled $6.74 million in the fiscal year ending in 2022, a sharp increase from the $775,926 it spent in 2021.
Manitoba spent $3.9 million in one year to fill shortages in Winnipeg alone, according to the provincial NDP, and Global News has reported that the cost province wide was more than $40 million in 2021/2022.
The mom and pop restaurants were severely effected by the lock downs as the chains survived better with take out. However, now all the supply chain issues from lock downs and inflation from excess Covid money printing is effecting the bigger chains too. People can't afford to eat out as much with high inflation. This sector has really seen a double whammy from Covid-19 policy.
The Subway chain which was one of the fastest growing and largest chains has been closing 1,000s of locations every year since 2000. The chain shed a net 571 locations - for 2.7 percent - in 2022. In 2021, it closed 1,000 shops and in 2020, it shuttered the doors to more than 1,600
A Californian investment firm is looking to acquire three seats on the board of Shake Shack in a plan to rescue the burger chain as customers pull back on spending. Shake Shack's stock price was soaring high in early 2021 but took a major hit as the rate workers returned to offices in major cities after the pandemic was very slow.
'Activist investor' Engaged Capital now wants three board seats to implement changes it says will double profits in two years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Engaged has proposed changes to Shake Shack's 'real estate strategy, store design, labor planning and supply chain'.
I don't believe Engaged can do any better than anyone else with the challenges they face. Real Estate strategy means closures near city centres where worker traffic has collapsed. Labor planning best bet is a move to robots and supply chain, maybe adjusting the menu to whats available?
I believe in the end, the solution has to be a contraction in the industry to about 30% of it's pre Covid size, especially in city centres that are no longer getting the office crowds. Some of this decline is a much shorter number of hours open. Many are opening later and closing earlier.
Travel has recovered more so as I note with the Toronto airport, probably because people had lock up fever. So what does the Trudeau government do? They will increase air travel security fees by 33% that will cost passengers more than a quarter billion dollars next year, according to estimates from a report by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO). Don't get me started on the Trudeau government, it will take a several page report. Until next time, please share and subscribe to my substack.