By Samantha Jones-
Covid vaccines may have contributed to the rise in excess death rates since the start of the pandemic, according to a damning new study suggests.
Excess death rates remained high in the West for three years running since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a data analysis of 47 countries published in the open access journalBMJ Public Health.
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Researchers who are calling on governments and policymakers to thoroughly investigate the link further, following the comprehensive analytical findings.
Vaccines were globally recommended as a necessary protective valve against Covid 19, and were also stipulated by many governments as a requirement for travel into their country. Several individuals and groups objected to the imposition of vaccines on them, but were generally criticised as being difficult.
However, they note that it’s not clear how many of the excess deaths seen within the last three years reflect the impact of COVID-19 infection, or the indirect effects of containment measures and vaccination programmes.
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It is not clear how many of the excess deaths seen within the last three years reflect the impact of COVID-19 infection, or the indirect effects of containment measures and vaccination programmes.
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, said: “Although COVID-19 vaccines were provided to guard civilians from suffering morbidity and mortality by the covid-19 virus, suspected adverse events have been documented as well.”
Some vaccinated people claimed to have experienced serious side effects, and there were also rumours of others who died as a result of being vaccinated.
The authors of the new BMJ study cite numerous studies reporting that COVID-19 vaccination may induce myocarditis, pericarditis and autoimmune diseases.
However, side effects arising from vaccination are believed to have been quite rare, with the benefits outweighing the risks.
More than 13.5 billion doses of Covid vaccines have been administered globally over the past three years, saving over one million lives in Europe alone.
The largest study of its kind ever carried out in the UK found that 7,180 of the 40,393 hospitalisations and deaths from COVID-19 could have been avoided had the population been fully vaccinated.
The safety of the vaccines has been extensively reviewed in both adults and children by the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
NHS England is still urging at-risk groups to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
While it’s likely that the indirect effects of containment measures and vaccination did change the scale and nature of disease for numerous causes of death following the pandemic, those caused by restricted healthcare use and socioeconomic upheaval are difficult to prove, they add.
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