The cry of the figures

10/02/2023 · Sandrine Heerebout.

While the pandemic struck hardest in 2020 and 2021, 2022 saw a striking rise in sudden deaths and excess mortality. There is reason to wonder and to worry.

Global alarm over excess mortality in 2022

In all four corners of the globe, many media outlets are reporting abnormal excess mortality in 2022. Here are a few examples among others:

Belgium: “The number of deaths rising in Belgium in 2022”, headlines Le Vif in its article of 26 January, reporting an increase of 5.5% in deaths in 2022^[1].
Japan: “Japan records a record excess mortality rate”^[2] (Ouest France, 20 January 2023).
Canada: “Strokes are on the rise in Canada” (Alberta Prime, 31 January 2023).
Australia: “Fatal heart attacks have surged in Australia”^[3] (Sydney Morning Herald, 20 January 2023).
England: “Excess deaths in 2022 among worst in 50 years” (BBC News, 10 January 2023).

The British channel recently reported that more than 650,000 deaths were registered in the United Kingdom in 2022, 9% more than in 2019. Excluding the pandemic, this represents the highest level of excess deaths in 70 years – and only a fraction of these deaths is attributable to Covid^[4].

France: “The first time we’ve had such a big peak: waiting times rising sharply at crematoriums”^[5] (BFMTV, 6 January 2023).
India: “Why heart attacks are on rise in young adults?” ^[6] (India TV News, 15 January 2023).

We are offered a mosaic of interchangeable causes, which is, when all is said and done, fundamentally rather convenient.

A small sample: the heatwave, pollution, cold, stress, lack of exercise, obesity, the ageing population, collateral damage from lockdowns, the collapse of hospital care, Covid and, of course, long Covid. For the sake of seriousness, we will not mention here the lobster, considered by Le Point^[7] as a possible source of neurological problems.

That is still a lot of different reasons put forward for one identical worldwide phenomenon, after all…

On the other hand, some states or bodies, more honest, admit that they do not understand.

It has to be said that two years after the start of the mass vaccination roll-out, no link between the vaccination rate and the mortality rate has officially been made. While the planet’s inhabitants are increasingly vaccinated, declared Covid mortality in 2022 and 2023 remains high, even though the virus has become much less lethal.
Europe, 70% vaccinated with vaccines deemed reliable, nevertheless experienced in 2022 a mortality rate barely lower than that of 2020 (without vaccine), and this with an Omicron variant much less lethal than the original virus.
Speaking of reliability, we will remember that Astrazeneca and Janssen vanished into the wings without further ado when their vaccines were quietly withdrawn following side effects.

As a reminder, the greatest scientists swear on every TV set, with humble smiles and moist eyes, that they always question research results.

Why, then, does this sacrosanct doubt, brandished like a trophy in the scientific approach, not apply to the vaccine?

In Germany, “10 times more sudden deaths since 2021!”

That is what emerges from the decoding of health insurance fund data on 72 million insured people by the analyst Tom Lausen:

“After obtaining and analysing the data of the KVB (Federal Association of Health Insurance Funds in Germany), the expert managed to get his explosive file up to federal level.”^[8]

MP Martin Sichert considers it scandalous that the Paul Ehrlich Institute (responsible for vaccination pharmacovigilance in Germany) has not evaluated the KVB data, which is contrary to its legal mandate.

Martin Sichert is proposing a series of emergency measures, including autopsies on all people who died suddenly, compulsory recording of the vaccination status of the deceased and the immediate suspension of Covid vaccinations.

Faced with this bombshell, the Vice-President of the Bundestag (German Parliament) Wolfgang Kubicki told the daily die Welt^[9]:

“I think it is essential that every unexplained death occurring within 14 days of a vaccination be automatically registered as a suspected case with the Paul Ehrlich Institute [...]”.

It should be noted that Vice-President Kubicki had also referred to autopsy results published by Peter Schirmacher, chief pathologist at Heidelberg University Hospital^[10]. This study had established, in 30 to 40% of cases, a causal link for deaths occurring shortly after vaccination^[11].

In Switzerland, and this is also very striking, Christoph Berger, president of the Federal Commission for Vaccination, told the Zurich daily Tages Anzeiger^[12]: “It is clear that there are adverse reactions to vaccination, even serious ones […]. The assessment of the benefits and risks of the Covid vaccine has changed.”.

Young people: the victims who raise the most questions

Young people are the victims who raise the most questions, which proves paradoxical in the receding phase of a pandemic that had largely spared them in the first waves.

We can start with the list of athletes of all levels who have collapsed on the pitch, which has regularly made the front pages of all the newspapers for 2 years.

Then the studies corroborating the problem are multiplying.

“Cardio-on line” (a digital platform dedicated to the French-speaking cardiology community) published a study entitled “Incidence non négligeable des myocardites après la 3ème dose de vaccin à ARN messager anti-Covid 19” presented by Doctor Christian Eugen Mueller at the 2022 congress of the CSE, the European Society of Cardiology^[13].

Here is an extract: “Before this study, there were no prospective data on post-vaccination myocardial injury during vaccination with an mRNA vaccine. Only the most serious hospitalised cases of myocarditis had been reported, mainly affecting males under 18.”^[14]

Another study, published last September in the American monthly virology journal “Journal of Medical Virology”, notes excess deaths, particularly in the 25 to 44 age group, ranging from 23% to 34%^[15].

If we continue to look at the statistics, the video published on 23 January^[16] by John Campbell, a retired English nursing educator and host of a widely followed YouTube channel, who was nonetheless in favour of the vaccine at the start of the pandemic, may also be a source of concern.

According to John Campbell, the statistics of EuroMOMO (a mortality monitoring project in 29 European countries or European sub-regions) show excess deaths among young people aged 0 to 14 from early 2023.

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Source: Graphs and maps — EUROMOMO

He also believes that excess deaths in Europe cannot be explained by Covid 19.

He does not expressly name the vaccine as responsible, but does not rule out a possible causal link either.

It is written in black and white: the vaccine can kill, and we still do not know its long-term effects.

Should the benefit-risk balance not be re-examined before imposing it on young and healthy populations?

As for myocarditis and pericarditis, they are only now beginning to be officially recognised as significant side effects, whereas previously problems linked to inflammation of the heart muscles were classified as rare and benign.

Yet as early as 19 July 2021, though the media said very little about it, the European Medicines Agency advised adding myocarditis and pericarditis to the list of adverse effects of the two messenger RNA vaccines^[17].

As we saw earlier, researchers sounded the alarm… but governments and health bodies very largely chose to ignore it.

Yet there is a fundamental line to pursue in observing the effects of this new form of vaccination: the study of data on the Covid vaccination status of deceased persons… but apparently that is too complicated…

The French epidemiologist Laurent Toubiana nevertheless asserts that these data on Covid vaccination status “would make it possible to rule out or confirm the hypothesis of a dangerous vaccine”.

In February 2022, Laurent Toubiana asked the Senate to circulate a petition addressed to parliamentarians and aimed at “obtaining access to complete death data as part of the investigation into the side effects of Covid-19 vaccines”. After a refusal by the Ministry of Health, a request was filed with the Commission for Access to Administrative Documents (Cada). This request was declared “moot” by the Cada in an opinion issued on 22 September.

Christine Cotton, a French statistician, writes on Twitter: “STAGGERING reply from the CADA […]. There are no data on the covid vaccination status of deceased persons? How do they do their studies PROVING that the vaccine reduces mortality?”^[18]

This information is considered of relative interest by several experts contacted by CheckNews. At least that’s clear…

The data are available, but they are difficult to process, apparently. Mahmoud Zureik, professor of epidemiology and public health, explains the complexity of the procedure:

“[...] Such data matching is very complicated to analyse: ‘By crossing two columns in an Excel sheet, one might think one can draw cause-and-effect conclusions. But before crossing these two columns, a study protocol must be drawn up, an appropriate methodology developed and all the necessary parameters taken into account [...] which represents months and months of work’. And not everyone can do it.”^[19]

Given the considerable contribution this could make to research on Covid and the new mRNA vaccines, it does make you wonder…

And the WHO, what does it think of all this?

Apparently, the WHO has only just taken up the problem (Yes, indeed).

Kate O’ Brien, Director of the WHO Department of Immunization, spoke on 20 January:

“But I want to stress that we already knew there is a risk of myocarditis, which has also attracted attention recently ”…

“recently”...

Also to be added to the file is this other statement by Ms O’ Brien:

“[...] A few reports of suspected myocarditis potentially linked to the administration of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines are currently being analysed around the world. But given the resurgence of reports and news about the relationship between vaccines and heart problems, particularly in the United States, Dr Kate O’Brien said that there was no evidence of a relationship between vaccination and heart attacks.”^[20]

Since 2021, an experimental therapy whose side effects are unknown has been injected into hundreds of millions of human beings!

No, the purpose of this article is not to incriminate the vaccine but to demand an urgent and legitimate response from the scientific authorities, whose motto is, let us remember,

Primum non nocere.

Sandrine Heerebout.

The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of BAM!

Extracts from the article translated from English and German by BAM!

The standfirst is by the BAM! editorial team

[1] Le nombre de décès en augmentation en Belgique en 2022

[2] u-japon-le-covid-19-enregistre-un-record-du-taux-de-mortalite-ff05d2b0-98db-11ed-9608-2a8a34068d24

[3] fatal-heart-attacks-have-surged-in-australia-here-s-why-20230117-p5cd22.html

[4] health-64209221

[5] "La première fois qu’on a un pic aussi important": les délais en forte hausse dans les crématoriums

[6] Why heart attacks are on rise in young adults? Know risk factors and prevention | Why News – India TV

[7] Canada : des homards responsables d’une maladie neurologique ? - Le Point)