Philippines Pharmacovigilance: Comparison of PH FDA Reports with Philippines VAERS reports for Persons Aged 60 and Older. Philippines FDA Reported 1,614 Deaths, VAERS 607.
Janssen Batches 212C21A and 213C21A were the leading products implicated in SAE and deaths in this age-group. Rollout of 3.2 M doses (first delivery, likely only 4 batches) started on 20th July 2021.
The Philippines FDA has received reports of 1,614 deaths following Covid-19 vaccination. Cause is mostly ascribed to underlying health conditions, and it is emphasized that a report of death does not mean that the outcome was due to the recently received injection.
VAERS has 2,189 counts for Filipino reports encompassing persons aged 60 and above. 607 of these are deaths representing only 37.6% of deaths in this age-group making it to the VAERS system.
Deaths by manufacturer are attributed as 214 to Pfizer (77 million Filipino doses), 74 to Moderna (21.6 million Filipino doses), and 319 to Janssen (7.65 million Filipino doses).
The gross disproportionality between dosing and deaths indicates that Janssen was vastly more toxic to this older age-group. Ironically, many older Filipinos who did not want to take covid-19 vaccines, but felt compelled to, waited specifically for Janssen rationalizing that a single dose product should have been safer than a multi-dose product. Unfortunately, their trust was often rewarded with death or disability.
Do not forget that underreporting could make actual deaths magnitudes higher than those apparent from these reports. That there were 43.2% excess and unexplained deaths in 2021 (compared to 2020), with some 265,000 people having died unexpectedly, and markedly from July to September (the first tranche of 3.2 M doses of Janssen was rolled out specifically from 20th July to mid-August 2021).
Batch toxicity can be examined by gross numbers of deaths and AEFI reported. There were two Janssen Batches in the top 3 AEFI batches. Batch sizes are still unknown, so relative toxicities cannot be calculated.
Deaths and SAE particularly spiked from 20th July 2021, which happened to be the rollout date for the first tranche of 3.2 million doses of Janssen comprising batches 212C21A, 213C21A, 205C21A and 209C21. Of these 4 batches, it appears that all except 205C21A (which also had 6 Laos deaths reported) were exclusive only to the Philippines. Onset of adverse events spiked particularly from day 0 to day 2.
Age-breakdowns of 2021 and 2022 excess deaths show that elderly folk died disproportionately in these years.
4 cases selected from the 60+ death reports: -
77-year-old male. Injected with Janssen 212C21A on 26th July 2021. Died (suddenly, it appears) from unknown causes 21 days later on 16 August 2021, at 8:45 am.
80-year-old female, received comirnaty Dose 1 on 25 November 2021. Died from “fatigue” which was fatal, with onset on 25 November 2021. Yeah right!?!
79-year-old male received Cominarty as Dose 3 on 14 Jan 2022, after having received Coronavac as primary series. He died from “malaise” which had onset on the same day as his booster. Manufacturer states “interchange of vaccine products” as a factor in the deaths. Recall that DOH was recommending people take whichever vaccines were available with heterologous (mixed) dosing recommended to maximize “benefits” from each vaccine.
74-year old male who lost consciousness after receiving a 3rd dose of vaccine which was Moderna. 1 to 2 hours post vaccination, while watching the online burial mass of his sister, he was found unconscious on the floor with loss of continence. Apparently, he died after initially regaining consciousness. Little information is provided.
Recall that prior to 2021, the normal pattern of death for pretty much everyone, other than for accidents of various sorts, was typically good health, followed by a long slow decline, followed by a short rapid decline (days or weeks), followed by death.
Sudden deaths are not normal at any age, aside from occasional acute cardiac or vascular events, mostly in persons with multiple risk factors. Sudden death, particularly in the very old who have reached advanced ages typically due to robust health, is not usual. More usual is a gradual fading away over weeks to months.
The patterns of deaths observed since 2021 are anything but normal. We should not accept these patterns. We must remember what normal death looked like! The ages it occurred and the patters with which it presented.