Serious vaccination side effects increase by a factor of 114 in Switzerland

The bulletin of the Swiss regulatory authority, Swissmedic, dated September 3, 2021, cited 2161 serious reported side effects. For comparison: In 2019, the last period with reliable comparative figures, Swissmedic recorded “77 medically important events and 19 events with serious consequences” throughout the year.

In the eight months or so since the vaccination campaign began, the serious side effects have increased 114-fold. Projected over the whole year, the increase is actually a factor of 171. Some 867 serious side effects occurred after the mRNA injection from Pfizer/BioNTech, and 1239 after that from Moderna.

More serious side effects with Moderna

Previously, the distribution of serious side effects has always been relatively even. The fact that significantly more serious side effects are registered with the Moderna mRNA “vaccine” is new. Swissmedic did not provide information about this in its press release. As a reminder: In Japan, the health authorities recently withdrew millions of Moderna doses because a “substance that reacts to magnets” was found in the vials.

All in all, Swissmedic cited 6603 “reports of suspected adverse effects of Covid-19 vaccinations” and 32,6 percent of the reported cases were serious. For comparison: in 2019 the “19 events with serious consequences” made up 7 percent of all 273 reports that cited “adverse effects”. Those affected by the side effects were on average 55,5 years old – in the cases classified as serious, the average age was 59,2 years.

In the first three months since the vaccination campaign began, the “serious side effects” had already increased thirteen-fold. This value corresponded to the experience from the VAERS database (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) of the US health authorities at the time.

Nevertheless, Swissmedic saw “no indications of new safety problems”. “The reports of adverse effects that have been received and analyzed so far do not change the positive risk-benefit profile of the Covid-19 vaccines.”

According to Swissmedic, 37 people have so far “died at different intervals from the vaccination” and these deaths have been “analyzed particularly carefully”. However, no autopsies were carried out.

Swissmedic’s conclusion: “Despite a temporal association, there is no concrete evidence that the vaccination was the cause of the death.” A serious comparison with deaths due to vaccinations in previous years is not therefore possible since only cases with a medically confirmed connection to a vaccine are published. In 2019 there were two such cases. If this practice is continued unchanged, the 37 deaths after vaccination so far will not appear in the statistics.

The method of counting the “serious side effects” is nevertheless identical and shows a clear increase.

The language used by Swissmedic is interesting when it writes: “The reports now provide a clearer picture of the safety of the vaccines in daily use, which largely confirms the known side-effect profile.”

The “known side effect profile” refers to the test vaccinations carried out by Pfizer itself on 20 000 test subjects. However, the small number of test subjects does not allow for any information about so-called “rare events”. Therefore, for the Pfizer study, the conclusion is not expected until January 2023.

According to information from the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), around 1,25 million vaccine doses had been administered in Switzerland by March 21, 2021 and around 466 000 people had been fully vaccinated.

Swissmedic has a cooperation agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It is both the approval authority for new therapeutic products and the control body for side effects. According to Swissmedic spokesman Lukas Jäggi, the number of unreported cases for their own reporting online system ElViS (Electronic Vigilance reporting System) is 85 percent. Swissmedic collects, analyzes and publishes the data. There is no independent control.

Hardly any autopsies

The statement that there was no evidence that the vaccinations led to deaths is only possible because vaccine-related deaths are not being studied closely. Up to now, no autopsies have been carried out. The licensing authority does not seem to be interested in pursuing this either.

Swissmedic recently criticized the fact that some had compared the current side effects with those of 2019. “It is scientifically not legitimate to compare reports from 2019 with reports on vaccine side effects from 2021 – also because they are not reports of the same vaccinations,” media spokesman Alex Josty told Corona Transition at the end of June.

In this context, Josty pointed out that never before had such a high number of people in Switzerland been vaccinated in such a short time. It is therefore in the nature of things that Swissmedic received more reports. However, when asked how many vaccinations were administered in Switzerland in 2019, Swissmedic was unable to answer and referred to the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH).

Josty also said that the side effects of the current Corona “vaccinations” were reported more frequently than usual, contradicting Swissmedic spokesman Jäggi who said that the number of unreported cases was 85 percent.