Saving children or saving the vaccine program?

Summary:

Tal Brosh, Coordinator of Israel’s Epidemic Management Team, which voted to recommend Covid-19 vaccines for children ages 5-11 years, knew in advance of the November 10, committee meeting and vote that the vaccine would not stop the spread of the virus. He also knew, even before the vaccine was rolled out last year, that it carries potentially serious unknown long-term risks which would not be evident for at least two years after it was in use.  At that time, however, he considered it more important to take the risk with people's lives, rather than live with Covid-19 (which isn't a serious illness for most people) for another two years.

Brosh estimated, prior to the meeting, that the committee would vote in the affirmative, going along with the FDA, CDC, Israel Ministry of Health, and Israel Pediatric Association, that were all predisposed to vaccinate 5-11 year olds. Considering what Brosh knew about the vaccine’s potential long-term adverse effects, the serious problems with the FDA authorization, the fact that the vaccine doesn’t stop transmission or infection (and was never expected to even from the start), and comes with serious documented adverse effects, including death, one has to ask why the committee voted to vaccinate 5–11-year-olds, or anyone, for that matter. Was the real purpose of the affirmative vote to save the vaccine program and not the children?

When Tal Brosh, Israel’s Epidemic Management Team Coordinator and Head of the Infectious Disease Unit at Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, was interviewed by the Israel Hayom newspaper, as reported by Israel National News (INN), on November 10, 2021,^[1] just hours before the team met to vote on vaccinating children 5-11 years against COVID-19, he already knew that the vaccines were neither safe nor effective. During the interview he admitted:

Vaccinating children will not eliminate the pandemic in Israel, and at the end of the day there will be repeat waves of infection, and everyone will be exposed, sooner or later, to the virus."

When Brosh spoke with the Jerusalem Post, in November 2020, a month before the Pfizer BioNTech162b2 vaccine was rolled out for adults in Israel,^[2] about the long-term dangers of the vaccine, he explained that:

• “… [T]hese are completely new and revolutionary vaccines … [we] will not know anything about their long-term effects.”
• “There is a race to get the public vaccinated, so we are willing to take more risks …”
• ’"… there are unique and unknown risks to messenger RNA vaccines, including local and systemic inflammatory responses that could lead to autoimmune conditions.’"
• "We will have a safety profile for only a certain number of months, so if there is a long-term effect after two years, we cannot know,” … adding that we could wait two years to discover them, “but then we would have the coronavirus for two more years.’”

The Jerusalem Post article also referenced “[a]n article published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a division of the National Institutes of Health, [which] said other risks include the bio-distribution and persistence of the induced immunogen expression; possible development of auto-reactive antibodies; and toxic effects of any non-native nucleotides and delivery system components.”

This means that the US government agencies that helped develop the Moderna vaccine^[3],[4] and promoted Covid-19 vaccines, knew from the start that they were dangerous.

It is now a year after the vaccines have been rolled out, yet we are still living with COVID-19. It is evident that COVID-19 vaccines do not stop transmission.

Vaccinated individuals can be infected and spread disease.

1. In respect to the Delta Variant, CDC director, Rachel Wolensky, said in early October 2021, that the vaccine no longer stops transmission.^[5]
2. A paper by the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies titled “Increase in COVID-19 are unrelated to level of vaccination across 68 countries and 2,497 counties in the United States”^[6] showed that countries with higher vaccination rates had higher cases of Covid-19 per million people. Israel, with over 60% of the population vaccinated had the highest COVID-19 cases per 1 million people in the last 7 days.” The paper had a similar finding for U.S. counties, wherein higher vaccination did not equate to less cases.
3. A CDC study^[7] of an outbreak in Barnstable County, Massachusetts found that 74% of those infected were fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and that the vaccinated had on average more virus in their nose than the unvaccinated who were infected.
4. A Tel-Aviv University study^[8] of a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak among 42 patients in a hospital setting, found that “39 were fully vaccinated,” the “index case was … fully vaccinated,” “all transmission between patients and staff occurred between masked and vaccinated individuals,” and that this “outbreak exemplifies the high transmissibility of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant among twice vaccinated and masked individuals.”
5. Dr. Sharon Elroy-Preis, Head of Public Health Services of the Ministry of Health, said in an August 1, 2021, interview that 50% of the confirmed cases were in vaccinated individuals and that they mostly infected other household members.^[9],[10]
6. In the period before the booster, Israel saw a high rate of illness and death among vaccinated individuals as this Health Ministry official explained:

Symptomatic vaccinated individuals have been found to have high viral loads just like the symptomatic unvaccinated individuals. This information comes from a CDC and State Health Department study released Sept. 9, 2021, which emphasizes the dangers of denying rights based on a medical procedure. The study, titled “Shedding of Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Despite Vaccination”^[11] reviewed swab specimens from 36 counties in Wisconsin from the end of June to the end of July 2021.  They then checked the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in each swab. They found high viral load in “158 of 232 unvaccinated (68%...) and 156 of 225 fully vaccinated (69%...) symptomatic individuals.” Meaning there was effectively no difference between the symptomatic vaccinated and unvaccinated in terms of who was carrying, and therefore spreading, the virus. But the study does not end there. It also found high viral loads in “7 of 24 unvaccinated (29%...) and 9 of 11 fully vaccinated asymptomatic individuals (82%...).” Meaning, among asymptomatic individuals, the vaccinated had a higher percentage with a high viral load. … this reflects that the unvaccinated that catch the virus are more likely to be at home in bed with symptoms, while the vaccinated that catch the virus are more likely to have no symptoms and hence continue their daily routine unknowingly spreading the virus.

We are now up to the Omicron variant, which was found in vaccinated individuals, proving that the vaccine does not work against this most recent variant, either.^[12]

It should, however, come as no surprise that the Covid-19 vaccines do not stop transmission. They were never expected to stop transmission, even when they were first rolled out against the initial virus.

• In early December, 2020, shortly before the Pfizer vaccine received Emergency Use Authorization, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said, regarding the vaccine’s ability to stop transmission: "... We are not certain about that right now with what we know.^[13]
• Tal Zaks, CEO of Moderna said “Our trial will not demonstrate prevention of transmission,” … “because in order to do that you have to swab people twice a week for very long periods, and that becomes operationally untenable.”^[14]
• WHO Chief Scientist, Soumya Swaminathan said: “I don’t believe we have the evidence on any of the vaccines to be confident that it’s going to prevent people from actually getting the infection and therefore being able to pass it on.”^[15]

According to Brosh’s assessment, it is still at least a year too early to begin to find out what any of the actual long-term effects will be, but there have already been many serious short term adverse effects reported. The US VAERS (vaccine adverse event reporting system)^[16] shows the following (as of Nov 26, 2021):

• 927,738 (52%) of the 1,782,451 REPORTS OF VACCINE ADVERSE EVENTS IN VAERS are COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports
• 19,532 (68%) of the 28,689 Total Reported Deaths since its inception are Covid vaccine reported deaths.
• 99,943 (55%) of the 181,030 Total Reported Hospitalizations are COVID Vaccine Reported Hospitalizations.

The European Medicines Agency, the UK’s Yellow Card Scheme, and the WHO’s Vigiaccess also show mounting injuries and deaths.^[17] Israel does not have a transparent adverse event reporting system; Israeli Covid-19 vaccine injuries and deaths have been captured on websites such as Vax testimonies, Nakim, and Evidence of People Injured by the Corona Vaccine, and by organizations such as Dr. Pinky Feinstein’s ‘The Israeli People’s  Committee’.

Today, Tal Brosh no longer addresses the issue of adverse events that he revealed before the vaccines were rolled out nor does he address the serious short term adverse events of the vaccine. In February 2021, Brosh even called vaccine ‘skeptics’, including rabbis and doctors who warned against the vaccine, spreaders of fake news.^[18]

Covid-19 vaccine safety data - a troubling picture

Even before the meeting, Brosh estimated that the committee would vote to vaccinate, citing FDA and CDC recommendations and the positive stance of the Health Ministry and the Israel Pediatric Association. This begs the questions:

Did the Health Ministry, the Israel Pediatric Association, or any of the members of the epidemic treatment team, including Brosh,

1. study Israel’s own data?
   1. Israeli computational neuroscientist, Matan Holzer, just two days before the vote "released an analysis and demonstration of the Israel Health Ministry COVID-19 vaccine safety reporting system and data, concluding that “their data is worth nothing,” and “their adverse event data collection is façade, evidently resulting in huge under-reporting.” The US FDA relies on Israeli data for their decision making.
   2. An independent non-profit group, the ‘Professional Ethics Front, comprised of Israeli lawyers, researchers, scientists, and physicians, sent a report to the FDA before their October 26, 2021 Advisory Committee meeting, citing deep concerns with the “integrity, quality, reliability, and legality of all Israel data associated with COVID-19 vaccination that is being used regarding the safety and efficacy of Pfizer’s “vaccine”.^[19]
2. review the FDA’s analysis of Pfizer’s EUA (emergency use authorization for the Covid-19 vaccine) for the Covid-19 vaccine in children 5-11 years old? Toby Rogers, whose research focus is on corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, called the FDA’s analysis one of the shoddiest documents he had ever seen. know that an advisor to the FDA, Dr. Eric Rubin of Harvard University said, in relation to injecting 5–11-year-olds: “… we’re never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it.”^[20]
3. know that Pfizer violated its own protocol in order to get FDA emergency use authorization for their vaccine for children ages 12-15?
4. know the NNTV, the number of children needed to be vaccinated in order to save 1 child from dying of Covid-19? The NNTV, one of 21 necessary items that must be included in health studies per the CDC, was missing from the FDA’s risk-benefit analysis. Toby Rogers’s own calculations show that number to be 117 - 117 children would need to be vaccinated in order to save one child from dying of Covid-19.^[21]
5. know that Pfizer did not validate the efficacy of the vaccine for this age group from actual trial data? Pfizer used a process called ‘immunobridging’^[22],[23] to infer the effectiveness of the vaccine in this age group based on data used to authorize the vaccine for older children and, for the two immunobridging processes they did, Pfizer took data from small subsets of children - 485 (21.56%) of the 2250 study participants for the first process (for which they used a validated assay) and 38 (1.69%) of the 2250 study participants for the second process, for the Delta variant (at which time they used a non-validated assay to immunobridge).^[24]
6. know that the vaccine formulation tested on children in the clinical trials is not the same formulation that the FDA approved for use in the EUA for the children’s Covid-19 vaccine?^[25] The FDA did not require them to use then new formulation in the clinical trials because, as explained by a Pfizer executive at the Advisory Committee meeting^[26] know that the vaccine formulation tested on children in the clinical trials is not the same formulation that the FDA approved for use in the EUA for the children’s Covid-19 vaccine?^[27] The FDA did not require them to use then new formulation in the clinical trials because, as explained by a Pfizer executive at the Advisory Committee meeting^[28] the mRNA and the lipid nanoparticle are the same so the mRNA and the lipid nanoparticle are the same so the reactogenicity (adverse effects) and efficacy are expected but not verified, to be the same.

Furthermore, an article published online in September 2021,^[29] analyzed data for both the illness and the vaccines as they related to Covid-19 inoculations for children. Their research (section 3.2) revealed the following (emphasis added):

… the clinical trials did not address long-term effects that, if serious, would be borne by children/adolescents for potentially decades.

A novel best-case scenario cost-benefit analysis showed very conservatively that there are five times the number of deaths attributable to each inoculation vs those attributable to COVID-19 in the most vulnerable 65+ demographic. The risk of death from COVID-19 decreases drastically as age decreases, and the longer-term effects of the inoculations on lower age groups will increase their risk-benefit ratio, perhaps substantially. For children the chances of death from COVID-19 are negligible, but the chances of serious damage over their lifetime from the toxic inoculations are not negligible.

Is Brosh credible?

Yisrael Hayom, as INN reported, asked Brosh:

"What can you tell parents who read an article by a doctor who said that coronavirus is not a serious illness in children, and that the vaccine does not prevent PIMS.^[30] after coronavirus?" (PIMs, also known as MIS-C, is a multi-system inflammatory syndrome associated with Covid-19 infection in children.)

Brosh responded:

"The article is well-written, but she makes absolute statements which are very imprecise," … "This is an incorrect analysis of the data.”

Brosh, himself, seems to be making absolute statements that are very imprecise. He never explained why she was wrong or what a correct analysis of the data would be and why. Since INN didn’t link to either the Yisrael Hayom interview, the article in question, or reveal the identity of the doctor who made the statements, we have no way of verifying what the other doctor wrote, if Brosh is accurate in his assessment, or if Yisrael Hayom was indeed referring to a specific article. (As AFLDS has previously shown, individual’s claims that the other side is wrong are not always supported by their own proof references.)

What about the actual question regarding the ‘mystery’ doctor’s contention that Covid-19 is not a serious illness in children and the vaccine can’t prevent PIMS after coronavirus?

As was shown above, the survival rate for children to ages 0-19 who contract Covid-19 is almost 100%. The risk hasn’t changed for children, either, since the Delta variant appeared. According to Betsy Herold,^[31] a pediatric infectious disease physician at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine

“… less than 2 percent of children known to be infected by the coronavirus are hospitalized, and less than 0.03 percent of those infected die.”

Brosh states that

“… the data from Israel, which is similar to the data from the US, shows that the frequency of PIMS is 1 in 3,000 children who are infected, and the chance of hospitalization with serious illness from coronavirus is one in 1,000."

PIMS/MIS-C is not just an adverse effect of Covid-19, it is an expected adverse effect of the vaccine, included on the FDA’s draft list of adverse events to watch out for, which was presented at an FDA meeting on October 22, 2020. (See image below.)^[32]  This means that inoculating Israel’s children against Covid-19 will put 100% of the children at risk of PIMS, not just the very few who may suffer from it as a result of a Covid-19 infection. Even without seeing the data used by the anonymous doctor, it doesn’t appear that she was wrong in her analysis, as Brosh claims she was.

Green Pass is not about health.

The issue of the Green Pass was also raised in the interview. Brosh said that it will be used to “convince” Israelis to vaccinate. This is in line with a recent hot mic conversation between Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, which revealed that the government is using the green pass as a tool of coercion since there is no epidemiological evidence for many of the areas where they require it.^[33]

Is the vaccine program more important than our and our children’s health and future?

At the end of the day on November 10, the Epidemic Management Team voted to approve Covid-19 vaccinations for children 5-11 years old.^[34]  According to Chairman of the Team, Dr. Boaz Lev, of the 75 panel members, 73 said the vaccines were safe and effective and the team voted 68 to 6 in favor of inoculating children from 5-11 years old.^[35]

Brosh’s team and the Israeli government were willing and are still willing to put citizens, including younger and younger children, at risk of not-so-trivial short term, and unknown long-term, adverse effects of a novel vaccine. Last year it was for the supposed benefit of not having to live for two more years with a virus that the CDC knew, in September 2020, has survival rates of 99.997% for ages 0-19, 99.8% for those 20-49, 99.5% for ages 50-69, and 94.6% for those 70 and above.^[36] What could be the reason for continuing with it now?

Who or what is Brosh and the Epidemic Management Team (and the government) really protecting?

Experts agree” to “follow the science” and vaccinate children

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