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DOCTOR TURNS AGAINST MESSENGER RNA COVID-19 VACCINES, CALLS FOR GLOBAL PAUSE

Dr. Aseem Malhotra. (Courtesy of Dr. Aseem Malhotra)
By Zachary Stieber
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A doctor who promoted COVID-19 vaccines is now calling for health authorities
around the world to pause the administration of two of the most-widely utilized
COVID-19 vaccines, saying that the benefits from the vaccines may not outweigh
the risks.

“There is more than enough evidence—I would say the evidence is overwhelming—to
pause the rollout of the vaccine,” Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist
and evidence-based medicine expert, told The Epoch Times.

A paper from Malhotra detailing the evidence was published on Sept. 26.

Among the citations is a recent reanalysis of the Pfizer and Moderna clinical
trials that concluded that vaccinated trial participants were at higher risk of
serious adverse events. He called the study a “smoking gun.”

Malhotra also pointed to the lack of reduction in mortality or severe disease in
the trials, which were completed in 2020.

Taking into account death rates and other figures since then, the number of
people who need to be vaccinated to prevent a single COVID-19 death ranges from
93,000 for people aged 18–29 to 230 for people aged 80 and older, according to
an analysis of UK safety and effectiveness data by the Health Advisory &
Recovery Team.

The author also noted that serious side effects have been detected after the
trials, such as myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation.

Overall, looking at the absolute benefits and drawbacks of the vaccines, it’s
time to halt their usage and allow authorities and other experts to closely
examine the data to see if the vaccines should be used again down the road,
according to Malhotra.

The paper was published in the Journal of Insulin Resistance in two parts
following peer review.

Pfizer and Moderna didn’t return requests for comment.


REVERSAL OF OPINION

Malhotra received the Pfizer primary series in January 2021. He became a
promoter of the vaccine, even appearing on “Good Morning Britain” to advise
Indian film director Gurinder Chadha to get the vaccine. Chadha did so shortly
after.

Malhotra said he began digging into vaccine data after his father, Dr. Kailash
Chand, suffered a cardiac arrest at home approximately six months after
receiving Pfizer’s vaccine.

The post-mortem showed two of Chand’s major arteries were severely blocked, even
though Malhotra described his father as a fit person who didn’t have any
significant heart problems.

Malhotra began reading about post-vaccination issues, including a study abstract
in the journal Circulation that identified a higher risk of a heart attack
following vaccination with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and a study from
Nordic countries that identified a higher risk of myocarditis.

While authorities have claimed that myocarditis is more common after COVID-19
than vaccination, many studies have found otherwise, at least for certain age
groups. Some papers have found no increased incidence of heart inflammation for
COVID-19 patients.

Malhotra has come to believe that his father’s death was linked to the vaccine.

“I’ve always approached medicine and science with uncertainties because things
constantly evolve. And the information I had at the time is completely different
to the information I have now,” Malhotra told The Epoch Times. “And in fact, it
is my duty and responsibility as the information has changed to act on that
information. And that’s what I’m doing.”

A doctor prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center
in Halifax, England, on July 31, 2021. (Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)


RESPONSE TO CRITICISM

After the new paper was published, critics noted that Malhotra is a board member
of the Journal of Insulin Resistance.

He acknowledged the position but said the article went through an independent
peer review process and that he has no financial links to the journal.

The doctor encouraged people to view his publication history, which includes
articles in the British Medical Journal and the Journal of the American Medical
Association.

He said he chose to submit the paper to the insulin journal for several reasons,
including it being “one of the few journals that doesn’t take money from the
pharmaceutical industry.”

“I don’t think that there’s any validity to question the integrity of the
piece,” he said. “People can argue I’ve got an intellectual bias. We all have
intellectual biases, but there’s certainly no financial bias for me.”


PAPER GAINS SUPPORT

Leading scientists say the new paper is important.

“We fully believe that vaccines are one of the great discoveries in medicine
that has improved life expectancy dramatically, however, mRNA genetic vaccines
are different, as long-term safety evaluation is lacking but mandatory to ensure
public safety,” Sherif Sultan, president of the International Society of
Vascular Surgery, said in a statement.

Sultan also noted that the findings “raise concerns regarding vaccine-induced
undetected severe cardiovascular side effects and underscore the established
causal relationship between vaccines and myocarditis, a frequent cause of
unexpected cardiac arrest in young individuals.”

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University
of Stanford, said that Malhotra “makes a good case that there is considerable
heterogeneity across age groups and other comorbid conditions in the expected
benefits and expected side effect profiles of the vaccine” and “finds that while
there may be a case for older people to take the vaccine because the benefits
may outweigh expected harm that may not be the case for younger people.”

Dr. Campbell Murdoch, who advises the Royal College of General Practitioners,
said the study “describes multiple systemic failures in the provision of safe
and effective evidence-based medicine” and the situation has made it “impossible
for patients and the public to make an informed choice about what is best for
their health and life.”

Some others criticized the paper, including Dr. Victoria Male, an immunologist
at Imperial College London.

Male wrote on Twitter that the table in the paper outlining the number of people
in each age group estimated to need a vaccination to prevent a COVID-19 death
“is quite in favour of vaccination.”



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