{"id":242499,"date":"2021-09-11T06:04:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T06:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=242499"},"modified":"2021-09-12T10:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T10:21:48","slug":"perspectives-on-the-pandemic-with-dr-peter-mccullough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=242499","title":{"rendered":"Perspectives on the Pandemic With Dr. Peter McCullough"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Analysis by Dr Joseph Mercola &#8212; Mercola.com Sept 10, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3>Story at-a-glance<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Peter McCullough is an internist, cardiologist and epidemiologist who warns that COVID-19 vaccines not only are failing but are putting lives at risk<\/li>\n<li>McCullough believes if the proper safety boards had been in place, the COVID-19 vaccine program would have been shut down in February 2021 based on safety and risk of death<\/li>\n<li>By January 22, 2021, 186 deaths had been reported after COVID-19 vaccination \u2014 more than enough to reach the mortality signal of concern<\/li>\n<li>In his practice, McCullough is seeing an array of neurologic syndromes in people who\u2019ve been vaccinated, with symptoms including blindness, paralysis, difficulty swallowing, headaches, ringing in the ears, myocarditis and more<\/li>\n<li>McCullough also mentions antigenic, or immune, escape, which he believes is driving the creation of COVID-19 variants and making the pandemic worse instead of better<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mccullough.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-236516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mccullough.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Dr. Peter McCullough has an impressive list of credentials<sup>1<\/sup> \u2014 he\u2019s an internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist and a full professor of medicine at Texas A&amp;M College of Medicine in Dallas and is the editor of two medical journals and published hundreds of studies in the literature. He\u2019s also among those brave and courageous persons speaking out about the dangers of COVID-19 jabs, and putting his medical license and future livelihood at risk by so doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a hunting that\u2019s going on here that\u2019s very disturbing,\u201d McCullough said in an episode of Perspectives on the Pandemic.<sup>2<\/sup> He was referring to state medical boards hunting down doctors and their and threatening revocation of their licenses based on the spreading of unidentified \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is absolutely astonishing that this is happening over a fair exchange of ideas,\u201d he said. What is Dr. McCullough sharing that the powers that be don\u2019t want you to hear? It\u2019s about COVID-19 injections and, to sum it up in a sentence, \u201cIt\u2019s not working and it\u2019s causing tremendous damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">COVID Jab Efficacy and Safety Overstated From the Start<\/h2>\n<p>In the U.S., Operation Warp Speed is the federal effort that fast-tracked COVID-19 jab candidates to market. Gene transfer technology platforms emerged as the frontrunners, including adenoviral DNA platforms or messenger RNA (mRNA) platforms designed to deliver genetic material to the human body.<\/p>\n<p>Once the mRNA is injected, the body then takes up the genetic material and changes in some way. These technologies have been under study for years, in most cases being designed to replace a defective gene, which could potentially be used for cancer treatment, for example. Except historically, \u201call failed,\u201d McCullough said.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2020, however, Pfizer, in a joint venture with Germany-based BioNTech, announced that their mRNA-based injection was \u201cmore than 90% effective\u201d in a Phase 3 trial.<sup>3<\/sup> This does not mean that 90% of people who get injected will be protected from COVID-19, though, as it\u2019s based on relative risk reduction (RRR).<\/p>\n<p>The absolute risk reduction (ARR) for the jab is less than 1%. \u201cAlthough the RRR considers only participants who could benefit from the jab, the absolute risk reduction (ARR), which is the difference between attack rates with and without a jab, considers the whole population. ARRs tend to be ignored because they give a much less impressive effect size than RRRs,\u201d researchers wrote in The Lancet Microbe in April 2021.<sup>4<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the jabs received emergency use authorization. By giving the emergency authorization, not approval, the jab administration constituted a research trial, with the sponsors being the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. According to McCullough:<sup>5<\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cWe\u2019ve never had two government bodies together be a sponsor of a major research program. Shockingly, they did not have, and to this day they\u2019ve never put together, an external critical event committee, an external data safety monitoring board or a human ethics committee. They had these committees in the registrational trials \u2026 and these are standard.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Every large clinical investigation has these three committees \u2026 I chair many of these committees for pharmaceutical companies and the National Institutes of Health. Americans should have had at least weekly, if not monthly, reviews of safety to ensure Americans that the jabs are safe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">By March 2021, McCullough Was Worried<\/h2>\n<p>Initially, McCullough said, it seemed like the experimental jabs might be safe, and about 70% of his patients had received one by December 2020. But by March 2021, he was uncomfortable with what he was seeing. From December 14, 2020, through March 8, 2021, more than 92 million doses of COVID-19 jabs were administered in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>He cited data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database, which showed that during that time, there were 1,637 reports of death in people who had received a COVID-19 jab. The CDC and FDA said none of them was related to the jab but, according to McCullough, by January 22, 2021, 186 deaths had been reported \u2014 more than enough to reach the mortality signal of concern to stop the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a program this size, anything over 150 deaths would be an alarm signal,\u201d he said. The U.S. \u201chit 186 deaths with only 27 million Americans jabbed.\u201d McCullough believes if the proper safety boards had been in place, the COVID-19 jab program would have been shut down in February based on safety and risk of death.<\/p>\n<p>Such was the case in 1976, when a fast-tracked injection program against swine flu was halted after an estimated 25 to 32 deaths.<sup>6<\/sup> Yet, despite a much larger death toll, COVID-19 jabs continues. As of August 6, 2021, VAERS COVID-19 data showed 12,791 deaths related to the jabs, according to McCullough, and tens of thousands of hospital and clinic visits.<sup>7<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In an analysis of COVID-19 vaccine death reports from VAERS, researchers found that 86% of the time, nothing else could have caused the death, and it appears the vaccine was the cause.<sup>8<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The researchers noted, \u201cThe sample contains only people jabbed early in the program, and hence is made up primarily of those who are elderly or with significant health conditions. Despite this, there were only 14% of the cases for which a COVID injection reaction could be ruled out as a contributing factor in their death.\u201d<sup>9<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Further research shows, McCullough stated, and this is a very important point that I want you to understand and remember: that 50% of the deaths occurred within 48 hours of getting the shot, while 80% occurred within a week. An informal survey on Twitter, to which 10,000 people responded, also asked whether respondents knew someone who died after a COVID-19 jab.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve percent said they did. \u201cWhen people see others in their circle dying, you can\u2019t stop that type of organic COVID jab hesitancy,\u201d McCullough said. Other confirmed adverse effects of the COVID jabs include myocarditis and blood clots.<sup>10<\/sup><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">An Incredible Violation of Human Ethics<\/h2>\n<p>Your body recognizes the spike protein in COVID-19 jabs as foreign, so it begins to manufacture antibodies to protect you against COVID-19, or so the theory goes. But there\u2019s a problem. The spike protein itself is dangerous and known to circulate in your body at least for weeks and more likely months<sup>11<\/sup> \u2014 perhaps much longer \u2014 after the COVID jab.<\/p>\n<p>In your cells, the spike protein damages blood vessels and can lead to the development of blood clots.<sup>12,13<\/sup> It can go into your brain, adrenal glands, ovaries, heart, skeletal muscles and nerves, causing inflammation, scarring and damage in organs over time.<\/p>\n<p>In his practice, McCullough is seeing an array of neurologic syndromes in people who\u2019ve been injected, with symptoms including blindness, paralysis, difficulty swallowing, headaches, ringing in the ears, myocarditis and more. Other research suggests that the heart, brain, immunologic system and hematologic system may be most at risk from the jabs.<sup>14<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Children, who are at extremely low risk from COVID-19, receive no benefit from the jab, nor do those who have already had COVID and have immunity, McCullough said, calling the situation \u201ca catastrophe in real time\u201d that\u2019s violating human ethics:<sup>15<\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen an incredible violation of human ethics. No one, for an investigational product, under any circumstances, should receive any pressure, coercion or threat of reprisal for not participating in the research.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 jab received FDA approval on August 23, 2021, but prior to this, million-dollar raffles, free tuition, bonuses and other bribes like free beer and doughnuts were offered to entice people to get injected. When that didn\u2019t work, mandates increased, including for many health care workers, and hundreds of U.S. colleges<sup>16<\/sup> are also requiring students to get jabbed in order to attend.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Vaccinated People Are Getting COVID Anyway<\/h2>\n<p>Media reports keep referring to the pandemic as a crisis of the unvaccinated, which is simply inaccurate, since COVID-19 continues to affect and spread among those who have been vaccinated. July 30, 2021, the CDC\u2019s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) posted online details of an outbreak of COVID-19 that occurred in Barnstable County, Massachusetts \u2014 74% of the cases occurred in fully vaccinated people.<sup>17<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>So-called \u201cbreakthrough infections,\u201d which used to be known as vaccine failures, were reported by the CDC far earlier, though, including in their May 28, 2021, MMWR, which documented 10,262 breakthrough infections reported January 1 to April 23, 2021, across 46 states.<sup>18<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>This, they believed, was \u201clikely a substantial undercount,\u201d but rather than continuing to assess the situation, they stopped monitoring most COVID-9 infections among vaccinated people:<sup>19<\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cBeginning May 1, 2021, CDC transitioned from monitoring all reported COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infections to investigating only those among patients who are hospitalized or die, thereby focusing on the cases of highest clinical and public health significance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>McCullough also mentions antigenic, or immune, escape. If you put a living organism like bacteria or viruses under pressure, via antibiotics, antibodies or chemotherapeutics, for example, but don\u2019t kill them off completely, you can inadvertently encourage their mutation into more virulent strains. Those that escape your immune system end up surviving and selecting mutations to ensure their further survival.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 has a high capacity for mutation but, if the virus isn\u2019t under pressure, it won\u2019t necessarily see a need to select mutations to, for instance, become more infectious. But if you put it under pressure, as is occurring during the mass vaccination campaign, this may change. McCullough stated:<sup>20<\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cIf we keep this up with the injections, there is going to be one variant after another \u2026 We\u2019re playing with fire here with this mass vaccination \u2026 My interpretation as an internist and cardiologist \u2014 I\u2019m a trained epidemiologist, I\u2019ve literally done a year of intense COVID research and training \u2014 I\u2019m going to tell you, I think this Delta outbreak that we have right now is the product of mass vaccination.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>If we didn\u2019t have the jab, we would have been better off. We had already treated this down to a very acceptable level.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">How to Break Through the Trance<\/h2>\n<p>McCullough believes many health care providers and the U.S. public are in a vaccination trance. It defies logic and commonsense how public officials and hospital executives can see the vaccines failing to work, can see the rising cases of adverse effects and deaths, and yet increasingly issue vaccine mandates or recommend the vaccine to groups for which it clearly shouldn\u2019t be, like pregnant women. McCullough likens it to a form of psychosis or a group neurosis.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. public, however, has seen so much fear, hospitalization and death during the pandemic that they may have been prepared to accept casualties associated with the vaccines. Still, a sizable number of Americans aren\u2019t being fooled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re at this pressure point, and I think right now, in talking to American people in my circles, they\u2019re ready to take a time out,\u201d McCullough said. If it means taking a sabbatical from work or delaying school for a year, many Americans are willing to do it to avoid getting vaccinated. \u201cThe only way to stay healthy right now is to stay away from this vaccine. If you get COVID-19, get to one of these treatment networks and get immunity on the other side.\u201d<sup>21<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>McCullough is a proponent of early treatment of COVID-19 and believes treatment options have been suppressed to allow for mass vaccination:<sup>22<\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cI think we\u2019ve completely suppressed any form of treatment or help to people in order to promote the vaccine. Now the vaccine doesn\u2019t work completely and it\u2019s, frankly, dangerous. We\u2019re down to almost one message: Take the jab or else \u2026 It\u2019s the scariest time to be an American, and thank goodness half of Americans didn\u2019t take it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>We\u2019re going to have to see what this is going to look like. I think the next month or so is going to be incredibly interesting and it\u2019s going to be ominous.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>McCullough believes that eventually people will break out of the jab trance and realize that the answer isn\u2019t these injections, while the handling of the pandemic, including mass jabs, will become a course in violation of human ethics and the Nuremberg code. With fear, isolation, hospitalizations and deaths still occurring, however, it may take years before the fog is lifted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2021\/09\/10\/perspectives-on-the-pandemic-with-dr-peter-mccullough.aspx\">Source&#8230;(includes references)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCullough believes if the proper safety boards had been in place, the COVID-19 vaccine program would have been shut down in February 2021 based on safety and risk of death. In his practice, McCullough is seeing an array of neurologic syndromes in people who\u2019ve been vaccinated, with symptoms including blindness and paralysis, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242499"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242593,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242499\/revisions\/242593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}