Canadian Updates: Adverse Health Events from COVID Vaccines and COVID-19 Statistics – Feb 26 2021

 

Author: Tracey Young. (Feb.26, 2021). Canadian Updates: Adverse Health Events from COVID Vaccines and COVID-19 Statistics – Feb 26, 2021. Canadian Advocacy Centre for Health, Safety and Justice. Retrieved from: https://canadianadvocacycentre.blogspot.com/2021/02/canadian-updates-adverse-health-events.html.

Introduction

Canada is now in the third month of COVID vaccines being administered across the country. Post-COVID vaccine immunization Adverse Health events, vaccine injuries, and deaths have been observed in all jurisdictions where these vaccines are being used. 

Since December 2020 when COVID vaccines started being administered, Canada has failed to report a single COVID Vaccine related death, unlike most other jurisdictions. However, Canada has reported statistical data and information about hundreds of serious and non-serious reactions in those who have received these experimental vaccines.  

In this article I will provide a round up of Canadian data and information about Adverse Health events, vaccine injuries and reactions that have been associated with COVID vaccines up to February 19th, 2021, the last date these statistics were reported.

Canadian COVID-19 Survival Rate

• In Canada, there is a 99+% survival rate associated with COVID-19 for almost all age groups.

• .06% of the Canadian population have died with COVID-19, according to the Government of Canada. 

• We also know that various provinces are including deaths for other reasons if the individuals had tested positive with COVID-19. This includes, British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec COVID-19 mortality statistics. 

• Researchers have identified those who are in higher-risk groups for more serious cases, and increased mortality. These includes people who are obese; people with diabetes; people with cardio-vascular conditions; and the elderly of advanced age. 

• We must also acknowledge the positive news that many people who are in higher-risk groups have also survived the experience of having COVID-19. 

Informed Consent and COVID Vaccines

Being able to exercise Informed Consent requires having adequate information to weigh the potential benefits, costs, and risks of having a vaccine versus the risk of having a particular health condition and illness, such as COVID-19. 

Because COVID vaccines are still experimental for the next 2+ years, and have only received interim, or emergency authorization from regulators in different countries, there is a great deal more safety data and information that is still being gathered. 

An important note: 

Canada is not conducting research, or randomized clinical experimental (RCT) studies on the vaccines that have been approved for Interim authorization and use Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and AstraZeneca.

Therefore, we are relying on the research being done in other countries. This means the responsibility is on health care participants to ensure they have reviewed information to conduct their own personal risk assessments that takes into consideration their own unique health profile and needs. 

Legal Indemnification and National Vaccine Injury Support Program in Canada

“Our publicly funded health care system is a source of pride, and this program will make it even better. Canadians can have confidence in the rigour of the vaccine approvals system, however, in the rare event that a person experiences an adverse reaction, this program will help ensure they get the support they need. I will work with my provincial and territorial counterparts to set this program in place quickly.”

The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health (Dec. 10, 2020)

On December 10th, 2020, the Government of Canada released a media release that they were creating a National Vaccine Injury Support program for the first time in Canadian history. Three months later and there are still no details about this program, or how people can apply for, and receive support for vaccine injuries, and disabilities. 

The reason this is important is that the Canadian government also reported that the contracts they signed with the manufacturers of the COVID vaccines legally indemnifies those companies. What this means is they cannot be sued, or found legally liable, or responsible for vaccine injuries, disabilities, or deaths associated with their specific vaccines. Since some people do become debilitated, including losing income from being off work, this is an important issue. 

Sources: Government of Canada/Public Health Agency of Canada. (Dec. 10, 2020). Government of Canada Announces pan-Canadian Vaccine Injury Support Program. Retrieved from: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2020/12/government-of-canada-announces-pan-canadian-vaccine-injury-support-program.html.

Gilmore, R. (Dec. 14, 2020). Coronavirus vaccine makers are shielded from liability. Here's why officials say that's normal. Global News. Retrieved from: https://globalnews.ca/news/7521148/coronavirus-vaccine-safety-liability-government-anand-pfizer/.

                     Most Commonly Reported Canadian Adverse Events Following                                                     Immunization (AEFI) (Government of Canada)

Canada: COVID Vaccines: Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) Statistical Data and Information

COVID-19 Vaccine Safety - Government of Canada

Source: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety

Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) Statistical Data

Dates: From mid-December 2020 – February 19^th, 2021

• COVD Vaccine Doses Administered in Canada: 1,402,139 (Feb. 12th: 1,221,539)

• 1235 AEFI’s (.09% of all doses administered); (Feb. 12th: 957)

• 167 Serious AEFI’s (.01% of all doses administered); (Feb. 12th: 140)

• 1068 Non-serious AEFI’s (.08% of all doses administered); (Feb. 12th: 817)

• # of reported adverse events was highest among females and those aged 18 to 49.

• 88.1 reports per 100,000 doses administered (out of a total of 1,235 reports) up to and including February 19, 2021.

Definition of Serious AEFI:

An event is considered serious if it:

• results in death
• is life-threatening (an event/reaction in which the patient was at real, rather than hypothetical, risk of death at the time of the event/reaction)
• requires in-patient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization
• results in persistent or significant disability/incapacity, or
• results in a congenital anomaly/birth defect

Anaphylaxis: Among the 167 serious reports, the most frequently reported adverse event was anaphylaxis.

Canadian COVID-19 Statistics: February 26, 2021

➤ 2% of Canadians have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in 1+ year

➤️.08% Active cases in the Canadian population

➤ 94% Recovered 

➤ 5% hospitalization rate

➤️ 3.7% + rate for 19+ million Canadians tested

➤️ .06% of Canadian population have been reported to die with COVID-19

➤ 96% of those who have died with CV-19 were over 60 years old, with pre-existing health conditions that are associated with more severe cases

Source: Government of Canada. (Feb. 26, 2021). Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Epidemiology update. Retrieved from: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html.

Previous COVID Vaccine Adverse Health Events Reports

Update on Global Reports of Adverse Health Events from COVID Vaccines - Feb 19 2021, for previous Canadian, UK, and US data, information and statistics.

Link: https://canadianadvocacycentre.blogspot.com/2021/02/update-on-global-reports-of-adverse.html.

COVID Vaccine Adverse Health Events, Injury & Death Tracker Sites

COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects World Map 

• Description: An overview of Covid-19 Vaccine Side Effects, Allergic Reactions and Deaths worldwide.

Source: https://hpv-vaccine-side-effects.com/covid-19-vaccine-side-effects-world-map/.

Open VAERS Data

• An open source developer-created searchable data and information site to learn more about Adverse Health events related to the COVID vaccines. Events include reactions and deaths following vaccination. 

Source: https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data

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LETTER: Retired Mountie says interfering with church services is a criminal offence

'It's concerning that the public health officials are escaping prosecution'

Leland (Lee) Keane. (Dec. 23, 2020). BC Local News. Retrieved from: https://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion/letter-retired-mountie-says-interfering-with-church-services-is-a-criminal-offence. 

I’m concerned that the offence of interfering with church services under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Criminal Code of Canada is being hidden from the public at large.

Please read of section 176(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada. This section makes it a dual procedure offence to interfere in a religious service. It’s an arrestable offence by citizen or police.

[Editor’s note: Neither the RCMP nor other officials have interfered with church services as of yet, but the churches have been issued fines for violating the public health orders on in-person gatherings.]

The Charter of Rights is the Supreme law followed by the Criminal Code. Freedom of conscience and freedom of assembly are unassailable rights in Canada or were until the Liberal Government of Canada became too cozy with the dictatorship of the People’s Republic of China.

Parishioners and anyone affected by unlawful actions such as an offence under section 176(1) have recourse under our law.

Certainly private informations can be sworn before a justice against anyone who commits such and offence at any courthouse. Penalties upon conviction can indeed result in incarceration.

It’s concerning that the public health officials are escaping prosecution along with those who blindly follow their direction.

I am troubled that the authorities, specifically the public health officials are not being charged with a criminal offence(s) in regards to their law-breaking.

Leland (Lee) Keane

Director(retired)

Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada (MPPAC)

Update on Global Reports of Adverse Health Events from COVID Vaccines - Feb 19 2021

 

Tracey Young. (Feb.19, 2021). Canadian Updates: Update on Global Reports of Adverse Health Events from COVID Vaccines - Feb 19 2021. Canadian Advocacy Centre for Health, Safety and Justice. Retrieved from: https://canadianadvocacycentre.blogspot.com/2021/02/update-on-global-reports-of-adverse.html.

Introduction

We are now over two months into COVID vaccines being rolled out around the world. Adverse Health events, vaccine injuries, and deaths have been observed in many jurisdictions. 

In this article I will provide a round up of data and information about Adverse Health events, injuries and deaths that have been associated with COVID vaccines. Being able to exercise Informed Consent requires having adequate information to weigh the potential benefits, costs, and risks of having a vaccine versus the risk of having a particular health condition and illness, such as COVID-19. 

Because COVID vaccines are still experimental for the next 2+ years, and have only received interim, or emergency authorization from regulators in different countries, there is a great deal more safety data and information that is still being gathered. 

Canada is not conducting research, or randomized clinical experimental (RCT) studies on the two vaccines that have been approved for Interim authorization -- Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. Therefore, we are relying on the research being done in other countries. This means the responsibility is on health care participants to ensure they have reviewed information to conduct their own personal risk assessments that takes into consideration their own unique health profile and needs. 

COVID Vaccine Adverse Health Events, Injury & Death Tracker Sites

COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects World Map 

• Description: An overview of Covid-19 Vaccine Side Effects, Allergic Reactions and Deaths worldwide.

Source: https://hpv-vaccine-side-effects.com/covid-19-vaccine-side-effects-world-map/.

Open VAERS Data

• An open source developer-created searchable data and information site to learn more about Adverse Health events related to the COVID vaccines. Events include reactions and deaths following vaccination. 

Source: https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data

Most Commonly Reported Canadian Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) (Government of Canada)

Canada

COVID-19 Vaccine Safety - Government of Canada

Source: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety

Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) Data

Dates: From mid-December 2020 – February 12^th, 2021

• COVD Vaccine Doses Administered in Canada: 1,221,539

• 957 AEFI’s (.08% of all doses administered)

• 140 Serious AEFI’s (.01% of all doses administered)

• 817 Non-serious AEFI’s (.07% of all doses administered)

• # of reported adverse events was highest among females and those aged 18 to 49.

Definition of Serious AEFI:

An event is considered serious if it:

• results in death
• is life-threatening (an event/reaction in which the patient was at real, rather than hypothetical, risk of death at the time of the event/reaction)
• requires in-patient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization
• results in persistent or significant disability/incapacity, or
• results in a congenital anomaly/birth defect

Anaphylaxis: Among the 140 serious reports, the most frequently reported adverse event was anaphylaxis.

United Kingdom

Total Vaccine Reactions: 59,614

Deaths: 143

Total reports: 20,319

COVID-19 mRNA Pfizer- BioNTech vaccine analysis print 

Report Run Date: 11-Feb-2021. Retrieved from: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/960150/COVID-19_mRNA_Pfizer_BioNTech_vaccine_analysis_print.pdf.

List of Post-COVID vaccine Disorder Health & Mortality Events

• Blood (1437)
• Cardiac (712; 17 deaths)
• Congenital (1)
• Ear (445)
• Endocrine (3)
• Eye (823) 
• Gastro-intestinal (6605; 8 deaths)
• General (19354; 77 deaths)
• Hepatic (Liver) (10)
• Immune System (includes Allergic and Anaphylaxis reactions) (308) 
• Infections (includes COVID-19; pg. 19) (1186; 22 deaths)
• Injuries (224) 
• Investigations into various health events (653)
• Metabolic (357; 1 death)
• Misc.: Product contamination; device malfunction (8)
• Muscle & tissue (8129) 
• Neoplasms (6) 
• Nervous System (11,160; 11 deaths)
• Pregnancy (includes miscarriages, 5) (8)
• Psychiatric (830)
• Renal & Urinary (120) 
• Reproductive & Breast (187)
• Respiratory (2397; 6 deaths)
• Skin (3947; 1 death) 
• Social circumstances (disability) (11)
• Surgical & medical procedures (17) 
• Vascular (676) 

United States

Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS)

Open VAERS. Retrieved from: https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data

VAERS Adverse Events After COVID Vaccine

Retrieved from: https://vaxpain.us

• Browse AE data post-COVID vaccine administration. Videos also available. 

What is VAERS?

• VAERS accepts reports of adverse events and reactions that occur following vaccination. Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public can submit reports to the system.

• VAERS is designed to rapidly detect unusual or unexpected patterns of adverse events, also known as “safety signals.” 

Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) (official site)

Retrieved from: https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html.

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The Plan: Strategic Actions to Break Down and Subvert Communities and Society

 

Author: Tracey Young. (Feb. 19, 2021). The Plan: Strategic Actions to Break Down and Subvert Communities and Society. Canadian Advocacy Centre for Health, Safety and Justice. Retrieved from: https://canadianadvocacycentre.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-plan-strategic-actions-to-break.html. 

Introduction

Global and societal transformation doesn't just happen. As Saul Alinsky detailed throughout his life and work, there are deliberate, intentional, and strategic actions

that bad actors take which involve deceiving, manipulating, and seizing control. 

Some Quotes From Alinsky

A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revoluation to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage – the political paradise of communism. 

The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

Source: https://www.azquotes.com/author/247-Saul_Alinsky

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Useful Idiot

Definition of useful idiot

: a naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agendaIt is one task of the KGB [in 1982] to apply its skills of secrecy and deception to projecting the Soviet party's influence. This it does through contacts with legal Communist Parties abroad, with groups sympathetic to Soviet goals, with do-gooders of the type that Lenin once described as "useful idiots" … .— The Wall Street Journal
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/useful%20idiot.

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Suzanne Anton: Making sure public health orders hold up to challenges

Suzanne Anton: "The provincial government should ensure that enough justification for each public health order is given to hold up in court, if challenged."

Tracey Young. (Feb. 17, 2021). Suzanne Anton: Making sure public health orders hold up to challenges. Canadian Advocacy Centre for Health, Safety and Justice. Retrieved from: https://canadianadvocacycentre.blogspot.com/2021/02/suzanne-anton-making-sure-public-health.html.

Making sure public health orders hold up to challenges

(Feb. 17, 2021). The Orca. Retrieved from: https://theorca.ca/visiting-pod/making-sure-public-health-orders-hold-up-to-challenges.

When Parliament and Legislatures enacted the Canadian Charter of Rights and Human Rights Codes, they were establishing meaningful and enduring rights. Rights which are there for all of us, all the time – not just when things are going swimmingly.

Charter rights include freedom of conscience and religion; freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression; freedom of peaceful assembly; freedom of association; and mobility rights. The BC Human Rights Code prevents discrimination based on race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or age.

These are powerful rights, in place to protect citizens from both government overreach and the tyranny of the majority.

The ongoing COVID public health orders are by far the most significant limitations of rights in our lifetimes. Perhaps in the history of the country. Public health orders are perfectly legitimate and can be completely compatible with the rights of Canadians. Reasonable limits to rights can be made, so long as the limits are supported by evidence, and not arbitrary.

In my opinion, recent orders have not met this standard.

An example is the extension of orders around masking in schools. On February 4, Minister of Education Jennifer Whiteside talked glowingly about the relative safety of our schools. There are plenty of “exposure events,” she said, but little or no actual transmission in the school system.

Public health orders are perfectly legitimate and can be completely compatible with the rights of Canadians. Reasonable limits to rights can be made, so long as the limits are supported by evidence, and not arbitrary.

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry reinforced that messaging the next day, talking of the importance of children being in class, both for learning and for socializing. I believe she is absolutely right, and am glad that our schools opened in September and have stayed open. Many jurisdictions have not been so fortunate.

So with both the Minister and Dr. Henry reminding us how well the schools are doing and how little risk they pose to children or to their teachers, why was it necessary to change the public health orders around masks in schools?

Public demand, from teachers and parents.

Because of public demand, high school students will now have to put on their masks away from their desks. If new medical or scientific evidence was driving this change, the provincial government should have put it front and centre.

It’s hard to imagine how a 14-year-old putting a mask (back) on to sharpen her pencil will prevent even one case of COVID, but I am not an expert. I would have listened with interest to any information demonstrating the contrary, but none was forthcoming.

An order made without evidence and bowing to public demand is not a properly made order.

Much broader, and far more serious, is the continuing extension of the group of orders made in November. They were broad-based orders, including the prohibition of events or gatherings of any kind (with minor exceptions); prohibitions against having anyone to your home, indoors or outdoors (with some exceptions); restrictions on sporting activities; and travel advisories.

The justification for the orders was the second wave, alarm over rising case numbers, and potentially overstressing the health care system.

The orders were made for two weeks to get through one or two incubations. They were renewed biweekly at first, then for a month, and now indefinitely.

In my opinion, the justification for the one month renewal in January was weak; the justification for the indefinite renewal was no better: Worries about a variety of issues including more infectious variants of the virus, but overall just the need to “buy time,” said officials.

But aside from worry, no real evidence was offered in support. That worry may be justified, but worrying out loud is not sufficient cause for suspending basic rights. And were it to come to a legal challenge, I fear numbers would not support it; trends in new case numbers, hospitalizations, and patients in ICU are declining. These were the metrics when the orders were first put in place nearly a year ago. And these were the metrics in November when the current orders were made.

That worry may be justified, but worrying out loud is not sufficient cause for suspending basic rights.

Now there are no metrics. No goalposts. Do we need to get to zero cases? Or a number greater than zero? Hospitalizations at zero?

Even setting aside the enormous social and economic impacts – which are serious, from banning even minimally risky outdoor gatherings and bored, stifled children, up to undiagnosed cancers and the misery of those stranded in long-term care who have not hugged relatives in nearly a year – the legal precedent is worrisome. And even if you broadly support these orders – or more yet restrictive ones –  the provincial government should ensure that enough justification was given to hold up in court, if challenged.

Authorities should absolutely carry on requiring COVID plans, providing health advice, and issuing public health orders where and when necessary. But it’s worth worrying about the precedent set when basic, essential rights are curtailed with orders made to “buy time,” and without clear-cut justification.

Hon. Suzanne Anton QC is a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of British Columbia and a former Vancouver City Councillor.

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