Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn

It’s important to always remember that VAERS likely only reports as little as 1 percent of actual impacts because it is voluntary and burdensome reporting that most doctors and others do not take the time to use. Brian Shilhavy, who is the editor of Health Impact News, traced his steps in the search providing links to documentation of his various findings. Having first queried the cases of “the most common cancers [that] had been reported following COVID-19 vaccines,” he found “837 cases of cancer, including 88 deaths, 66 permanent disabilities, and 104 life-threatening events.”

That wasn’t true for Richard Gard, 67, who lives just outside New Haven, Conn., a self-described “very healthy and fit” sailor, scuba diver, and music teacher at Yale University who contracted COVID in March 2020. He was the first COVID patient treated at Yale New Haven Hospital, where he was critically ill for 2½ weeks, including five days in intensive care and three days on a ventilator.

Participants reported extensive mental health problems that may have been compounded by the stigmatization and discrimination facing those who shunned COVID-19 vaccines. It also found that women, despite being unvaccinated for COVID-19, suffered menstrual and bleeding abnormalities that may have been associated with viral exposure, shedding, spike protein exposure or pandemic-related behavioral changes. Those who never wore masks reported the lowest levels of COVID-19 disease.

I often criticize the mainstream media.  But it is significant and impressive that The Washington Post just did a major front-page story titled “Long covid could change how we think about disability.”  It makes a strong case that the millions of Americans suffering with long COVID have a legitimate physical disability.  In a real sense, the COVID pandemic has morphed into long COVID. 

Instead, they have served the interests of Big Pharma, their corporate employers and government agencies, most clearly as big pushers of COVID vaccines. They do not follow or know the medical research on many pandemic issues. They either do not have the time or interest or skills to independently follow medical research.  Instead, they rely on big medical societies and government agencies. 

There are two main ways of explaining resistance to COVID.  One is that some people have strengthened their immune systems by any of a number of actions taken before or during the pandemic.  For example, some may have elevated levels of vitamin D in their blood by taking high doses of supplements.  The other explanation that appeals to medical researchers is that some people have a genetic makeup that gives them total defense against COVID infection.