The Philippines FDA June 2023 Pharmacovigilance Report on Covid-19 Vaccination was Released Today: 45 New Suspected Adverse Reaction Reports including 2 serious; 2 deaths are removed, 1 is added.

22 of the new reports are for suspected AEFI to the newly distributed bivalent Pfizer products, none are listed as serious. Cases dropping but Covid-19 Deaths rising in July! Gatdula on fact checkers!

The June 2023 Pharmacovigilance Reporting on Suspected Adverse Reactions following Covid-19 Vaccination was released today. Link.

The report is pretty much identical to the May report, except for the following changed items:

A discussion is added recognizing the rollout of bivalent Pfizer products which officially started on 15th of June 2023. 22 non-serious suspected AEFI are reported.

• 4 new cases of Covid-19 infection are added to bring total up to 4,862 (258 fatal outcomes). All are considered due to natural infection and unrelated to vaccination. Fatal cases are stated to have occurred mostly in persons who had not completed vaccination. The last monthly death (1) added was in March 2023.

• 2 deaths have been removed from the 18 - 39 age category, and 1 added to the 40 - 59 age category, giving a net loss of 1 death. The report infers that deaths are not product-related, but rather due to underlying comorbidities. Presumably that also applies to the 1,206 persons aged 59 or younger whose deaths following injection were reported by family or medical professionals. No details are provided.

• Movement on the tracked priority conditions of concern include 1 new case of myocarditis, 1 new case of pericarditis, and 1 new case of immune thrombocytopenia, all considered to be product-related. There is one new case of Bell’s palsy under review.

• Conclusions remain unchanged. I.e. Benefits of Covid-19 Vaccination outweigh the risks for most persons.

  

  Anyone in the Philippines who wishes to make an report on AEFI may still file online reports here to the Philippines FDA. Other methods of reporting are available in this link.

DOH Reported Covid-19 Deaths Post Pfizer Rollout

The DOH has reported 62 new covid-19 deaths since 21st of June 2023 (but 60 since 9th July 2023), when the Bivalent rollout started. This is quite astounding as this a big change from patterns for the whole of this year, close to 1/3 of the total attributed 2023 Covid-19 deaths in less than the past 2 weeks)! [Note: I am unable to check the actual dates of deaths (in the past deaths have been historical not recent) as I have not been able to enter the DOH portal to download the data (system problem?). I will continue to try to access the raw data].

Data is not available to permit any link or correlation between the new deaths and the very recent rollout!

Further, DOH still does not track vaccination status of persons who die reported as from Covid-19, and thus no official public answers will be forthcoming.

Wouldn’t it be important to know the vaccination status of these new deaths? Wouldn’t it be important to know if any of these people had recently received a bivalent booster? Particularly, given the international trending of higher deaths in more heavily covid-19 vaccinated populations!

Bio-surveillance results from DOH and PGC for the start of rollout and the latest available are shown below (extracted from Dr. Guido David’s twitter posts).

For what it is worth there are some changes in detected types. A drop in detected BA2.3.20, XBB 1.9.1, and XBB 2.3, and a rise in XBB 1.9.2, other XB, and all others. Maybe increasing different variant populations? I have no idea of implications.

Detection is only as good as reliability and accuracy of testing! However, something is now clearly causing more deaths that are being attributed to Covid-19, even as cases continue to trend downwards.

Bivalent Vaccines Donated from Lithuania

The Philippines current batch of Bivalent Pfizer products were received, donated from Lithuania. Curiously, it appears that Lithuania has had higher cumulative excess mortality, even than the Philippines!

Some explanations from the DOH / from public authorities would be very nice. Some complete and transparent data to either reassure or validate the very genuine concerns around these products and their outcomes?

I end with sharing a new BusinessWorld article from Jemy Gatdula. Very relevant on the suppression of free speech. There can be no scientific, no societal, no personal, no spiritual growth if there are no debates, no vigorous discourse, no challenging or questioning of narratives. We are silenced at very great cost!

Please link to read the full article.