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Gerry Gajadharsingh writes
“One of the many controversial subjects in preventative healthcare these days is the subject of vaccination. The COVID 19 vaccinations have added to the conversation, and just like the Brexit debate has caused people to adopt very intransigent views, one way or the other. Like many controversial subjects in life these days it’s a pity that people take such binary and opposing views given there is often a more nuanced perspective for these complex subjects.
Most vaccinations work by stimulating the immune system to recognize and fight pathogens (like viruses or bacteria) without causing the disease, via the following mechanism.
- Introduction of Antigen
Vaccines contain antigens, which are harmless parts or weakened versions of the pathogen. The antigen can be:
- A weakened (attenuated) form of the virus or bacteria.
- An inactivated (killed) form of the pathogen.
- A piece of the pathogen, such as proteins or sugars from its surface.
- In some newer vaccines, like mRNA vaccines, a small fragment of genetic material (mRNA) that instructs cells to produce a protein from the pathogen (e.g., the spike protein in the case of COVID-19 vaccines).
- Immune System Response
Once the antigen is introduced, the immune system recognizes it as foreign and activates an immune response via various white blood cells:
- Macrophages engulf the antigen and present it to T-cells.
- Helper T-cells help coordinate the immune response by activating other immune cells.
- B-cells are stimulated to produce antibodies specific to the antigen.
- Formation of Memory Cells
After the immune system fights off the introduced antigen, it creates memory cells:
- Memory B-cells and memory T-cells are formed, which “remember” the antigen.
- If the real pathogen infects the body later, these memory cells recognize it immediately, triggering a rapid and strong immune response.
- Protection Against Disease
If the body encounters the actual pathogen in the future, the immune system can quickly produce antibodies and activate immune cells to eliminate the pathogen before it causes illness. This is why vaccination provides immunity, although for some vaccinations not lifelong immunity thus requiring booster vaccines from time to time.
This mechanism mimics the natural immune process without causing symptoms of the particular disease, preparing the body to respond effectively to future infections.
The challenge is that when you’re starting to do things to manipulate the immune system, is there a possibility that negative consequences can occur, not just immediate short-term side effects which are generally recognised by the developers of vaccines and various healthcare agencies around the world, but other long-term negative health consequences.
Many families across the United States (and I suspect the UK is no different) who are not vaccinating or who have stopped vaccinating their child or children or who choose to partially vaccinate often choose to opt out as a direct result of adverse health observations following vaccination, including health conditions that to date have not been attributed to vaccination based on epidemiological studies. Parents are almost universally told by their child’s health care provider that the health issue was not due to the vaccine, in spite of growing evidence in the scientific literature that supports both plausible mechanisms of action for chronic illnesses including epidemiological associations. It is now apparent that the commonly reported lack of association of adverse events may be due to the use of a test statistic with low intrinsic power and due to problems including model misspecification and overadjustment bias and that further research is needed to update guidelines and recommendations via additional studies.
I was sent an interesting graph from one of my Swedish fencing friends and first published by International Journal of Environmental Research, Public Health 2020, by The Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge in Pittsburgh USA and The Integrative Paediatrics in Portland USA. It gives a breakdown of many different illnesses comparing vaccinated to unvaccinated children, from birth to around 9 years of age.
The graph reproduced on my blog is startling, with a significant increase in various health issues in vaccinated children compared to unvaccinated, so I decided to hunt down the original research document which I then found had been retracted, although not in relation to data reproduced in the graph.
The authors concluded that the unvaccinated children in their practice are not, overall, less healthy than the vaccinated and that indeed the vaccinated children appear to be significantly less healthy than the unvaccinated. This is quite astonishing and goes against much main-stream medical and government thinking.
The authors concurred with Mawson et al., 2017, who reported: “Further research involving larger, independent samples is needed to verify and understand these unexpected findings in order to optimize the impact of vaccines on children’s health.”
They also concurred with Hooker and Miller 2020, who wrote: “Further study is necessary to understand the full spectrum of health effects associated with childhood vaccination”.
As the famous saying goes correlation is not causation, but data like these builds on people’s distrust and one way or another, simply shutting down people who have concerns about vaccination does a disservice and we need to have this area researched properly.
I am not an anti-vaxer, but I strongly believe in trying to support our own innate immune systems without mucking around with them too much. Like many in the healthcare industry there was almost a three-line whip to ensure healthcare workers had the COVID-19 vaccines, with talk about a law being introduced, which was promptly dropped when so many NHS workers refused to have them, the government suddenly backed off.
In the UK the vaccine schedule as stated on the UK Health Security Agency website from 1st September 2024 is for children
8 weeks
DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and hepatitis B
Meningococcal group B (MenB)
Rotavirus
3 vaccines for 8 different diseases
12 weeks
DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and hepatitis B
Pneumococcal (13 serotypes)
Rotavirus
3 vaccines for 8 different diseases
16 weeks
DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Hib and hepatitis B
MenB
2 vaccines for 7 different diseases
One year old (on or after the child’s first birthday)
Hib and Meningococcal group C (MenC)
Pneumococcal
MMR Measles, mumps and rubella (German measles)
MenB
4 vaccines for 7 different diseases
Then there is the Eligible paediatric age group
Influenza (each year from September)
Additional 1 vaccine for 1 disease for some
3 years 4 months old or soon after
dTaP/IPV Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio
MMR Measles, mumps and rubella
2 vaccines for 7 different diseases
Boys and girls aged 12 to 13 years
HPV Cancers and genital warts caused by specific human papillomavirus (HPV) types
1 vaccine for 1 disease
14 years old (school Year 9)
Td/IPV (check MMR status) Tetanus, diphtheria and polio
MenACWY Meningococcal groups A, C, W and Y
2 vaccines for 7 different diseases
If a child had all vaccines suggested from birth to 14 years of age, they would receive 18 vaccinations containing vaccines with 46 different components (including all boosters) for about 19 different viruses and bacteria. (Even more if you count individually the different serotypes of the pneumonia vaccine.)
DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and hepatitis B, Meningococcal group B (MenB), Rotavirus, Pneumococcal (13 serotypes), MenB, MenC, MMR Measles, mumps and rubella (German measles), Influenza (each year from September), HPV and MenACWY.
If we look at Adults
65 years old
Pneumococcal (23 serotypes)
65 years of age and older
Influenza (each year from September)
Shingles
70 to 79 years of age (plus eligible age groups and severely immunosuppressed
Shingles
75 years old
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
I addition many people have had 2 initial COVID 19 vaccinations and multiple boosters since January 2021.
If an adult had all vaccines they would receive 8 vaccinations (including all boosters) for about 5 different viruses and bacteria (excluding any previous childhood vaccines as depending on the age group of the adults this can vary widely and maybe even more if you count individually the different serotypes of the pneumonia vaccine).
I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions regarding whether you believe the level of vaccines being given to our youngsters is appropriate or not.”
RETRACTED: Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination
by
James Lyons-Weiler
Paul Thomas
The Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, Pittsburgh, PA 15101, USA
Integrative Paediatrics, Portland, OR 97225, USA
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(22), 8674; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228674
Submission received: 23 October 2020 / Revised: 14 November 2020 / Accepted: 18 November 2020 /Published: 22 November 2020
The retraction was due to errors in the reported data, such as incorrect ADHD and ASD rates, which led to inaccuracies in the study’s conclusions. A correction was published, clarifying that the reported ADHD rate in vaccinated individuals should have been 5.3%, not 0.063%, and the ASD rate should have been 0.361%, not 0.84%.
Many families across the United States who are not vaccinating or who have stopped vaccinating their child or children or who choose to partially vaccinate often choose to opt out as a direct result of adverse health observations following vaccination, including health conditions that to date have not been attributed to vaccination based on epidemiological studies. Parents are almost universally told by their child’s health care provider that the health issue was not due to the vaccine, in spite of growing evidence in the scientific literature that supports both plausible mechanisms of action for chronic illnesses including epidemiological associations. It is now apparent that the commonly reported lack of association of adverse events may be due to the use of a test statistic with low intrinsic power and due to problems including model misspecification and overadjustment bias and that further research is needed to update guidelines and recommendations via additional studies.
- Conclusions
We could detect no widespread negative health effects in the unvaccinated other than the rare but significant vaccine-targeted diagnosis. We can conclude that the unvaccinated children in this practice are not, overall, less healthy than the vaccinated and that indeed the vaccinated children appear to be significantly less healthy than the unvaccinated.
We concur with Mawson et al., 2017 , who reported: “Further research involving larger, independent samples is needed to verify and understand these unexpected findings in order to optimize the impact of vaccines on children’s health.”
We also concur with Hooker and Miller 2020, who wrote: “Further study is necessary to understand the full spectrum of health effects associated with childhood vaccination”.
Number of Office visits vs Time (life in days) 0-9.5 years old