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Doctor Calls For Withdrawal Of Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines
Following New Research

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An American doctor is joining the calls for the withdrawal of the
messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines, pointing to new research that
highlights a connection between the shots and adverse events.
Doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and vaccination record cards
await pediatric patients at UW Medical Center - Roosevelt in Seattle,
Wash., on June 21, 2022. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

Dr. Joseph Fraiman, a doctor based in Louisiana who also conducts
research on COVID-19 and other health issues, says it’s time to halt
the administration of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines until
new clinical trials prove the benefits from the vaccines outweigh the
harms.

The new research, including a reanalysis of the trials for the
vaccines, raise concerns about whether the benefits from the vaccines
outweigh the harms, according to the doctor.

“I don’t see how anyone couldn’t be certain that the benefits are
outweighing the harms on a population level, or even in the high-risk
groups. I don’t see the evidence to support that claim,” Fraiman told
The Epoch Times. “But I also can’t say that there’s evidence to
support that it’s potentially more harmful, but there’s also
uncertainty here. … Given that scenario, I believe that people should
not be given the [vaccines] outside of a clinical trial, because we
need to figure out … if their benefits outweigh harm or if harm
outweighs benefits.”

“The only thing that can answer that question is going to be a
randomized trial,” he added.
Pfizer and Moderna did not respond to requests for comment.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which cleared the shots
and has never stopped promoting them, did not return an inquiry.
The Data

Fraiman led a study that reanalyzed the original Pfizer and Moderna
trials. He and his colleagues concluded in a study published following
peer review that the vaccinated were at higher risk of serious adverse
events.

That’s one data point. Another is the identification of safety
signals, or adverse events, that are potentially caused by the
vaccines but require further study. The FDA revealed in December 2022
that the Pfizer vaccine was linked to blood clotting in elderly
individuals. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), which recommends the vaccines for virtually all Americans,
found hundreds of other signals in its research, according to records
obtained by The Epoch Times.

Several serious problems that can lead to death have been causally
linked, or proven to be caused by the vaccines. They include
myocarditis, or heart inflammation.

While U.S. health officials have repeatedly downplayed the severity of
myocarditis and a related condition, pericarditis, German researchers
who dug into the deaths of 25 people who died suddenly at home after
vaccination ruled out every potential cause except for vaccination for
five of the people. They reported their results in a study that was
published after peer review in late 2022.

“Given alternative causes are unlikely to cause myocarditis within one
week of vaccination, this is essentially conclusive evidence that
we’re seeing sudden cardiac deaths from the vaccines,” Fraiman said.

Fraiman also noted that excess mortality, or deaths from all causes,
have risen during the pandemic—with spikes correlating with the
introduction of the vaccines. Vaccines may not have caused the
additional deaths, he says, but some researchers, including British
professors Norman Fenton and Martin Neil, have examined the data and
found a signal that the vaccines were linked to at least some of the
excess deaths. U.S. officials say some of the deaths may be from
COVID-19.

Initial Thoughts

When the vaccines were first introduced, Fraiman backed giving them to
the elderly and others at high risk from COVID-19, or people of all
ages with serious underlying health conditions. He says he also did
not recommend against vaccination for any ages, though he told younger
family members he was not sure if it was a good idea to get a jab.

Fraiman also says the vaccines likely reduced hospitalizations in the
first two quarters of 2021, recalling how he did not see a single
vaccinated person in his hospital until June of that year.

When he and the other scientists discovered the vaccinated were at
higher risk of serious problems, he shifted to a stance of the harms
likely outweighing the benefits among healthy people.

With the new evidence of harm, along with Omicron being less dangerous
and more likely to evade vaccine immunity, Fraiman questions whether
the benefits outweigh the serious harms even among the elderly and
otherwise infirm.

“I see the likelihood that the harm could outweigh the benefit in the
group who stood to benefit the most from the vaccine,” he said.
Standards Fall

Clinical trial data on the vaccines have been hard to come by,
especially trials not run by the vaccine makers themselves, and the
standards for the trials have been lowered over time.

The FDA authorized shots for children based on immunobridging, or
trial data that found the vaccines triggered a similar antibody
response in kids than that in adults. For the new bivalent boosters,
created because the original vaccines have been providing much lower
levels of protection against Omicron and its subvariants, no clinical
data, not even antibody measurements, was provided at all. Months
later, that data is still not available to the public.

Some observational studies have estimated the boosters provide subpar
protection against infection and solid protection, at least initially,
against hospitalization. Randomized, controlled trials are typically
considered superior.

Fraiman recommends withdrawing the vaccines and U.S. officials going
to the vaccine makers and asking them to demonstrate the benefits
outweigh the harms in light of the changed dynamics of the pandemic.
The trials should feature investigators looking closely at each
COVID-19 hospitalization to distinguish whether they were caused by
COVID-19, or the COVID-19 diagnosis was incidental. That distinction
is known widely as being hospitalized, or dying, with COVID-19 versus
from COVID-19.

The trial would take five or six months, similar to the original ones,
Fraiman says.
Other Calls

Some countries, such as Denmark, meanwhile, have stopped offering
booster shots to certain segments of the population. A growing number
of experts, meanwhile, are calling for the administration of the
Moderna and Pfizer shots, which are by far the most administered in
the United States, to be halted.

The group includes Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British doctor who turned
against the vaccines in 2022 due to the growing evidence of side
effects. Malhotra’s citations included the Moderna and Pfizer trials,
which showed no reduction in mortality or severe disease, and the
research led by Fraiman.