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Government ‘withholding data that may link Covid jab to excess deaths’

UKHSA argued that releasing figures would lead to ‘distress’ of bereaved relatives if connection were discovered

The public health watchdog has been accused of a “cover-up” after refusing to publish data that could link the Covid vaccine to excess deaths. ...

UsForThem, a campaign group, requested that UKHSA release the data under freedom of information laws. But the agency refused, making a number of different arguments including that publishing the data “could lead to misinformation” that would “have an adverse impact on vaccine uptake” in the public.

According to The Telegraph, UKHSA argued that disclosing vaccine dates and corresponding dates of death could cause “distress” to bereaved families and fuel “misinformation.”

Campbell said the agency’s logic defies belief.

“They argued that release of data would lead to distress of bereaved relatives if a link … was discovered,” he said. “‘So the reason we’re not telling you why your mom died is because it might upset you.’”

Campbell said the public is being denied the most fundamental data required to assess vaccine safety. He noted that only two simple data points are needed to conduct a basic correlation analysis: vaccine dose dates and dates of death.

The story was cast as an interview with Dr. Retsef Levi, an applied mathematician who specializes in health systems management. He has a PhD from Cornell, and has been a prominent faculty member at MIT’s Sloan School of Management since 2006. During the pandemic, like many of us, Levi was initially optimistic about the vaccines and willingly took the first two jabs.

But between 2021-2023, Levi became alarmed by the data. He began to shift toward what he called “mounting evidence” of safety problems, including myocarditis as well as broader signals of other serious adverse events. In a now-famous 2023 video, he called for an immediate halt to the jabs, arguing that surveillance data showed an “unprecedented” level of harm in younger people than any traditional vaccine.

This year, RFK appointed Dr. Levi to the CDC’s new ACIP vaccine committee, causing consensus scientists to experience an anxious, woozy feeling very similar to incipient myocarditis. ...

Realizing Politico was actually letting Dr. Levi speak was shocking. Based on the usual corporate media playbook, I had expected to just see a series of quotes from critics, interspersed with a few of Levi’s short, out-of-context comments to make him sound crazy.

But instead, the article’s structure gave Dr. Levi adequate room to present his counter-narrative, from questioning Hep‑B birth-dose safety, alleging undisclosed myocarditis deaths, and denying the “anti-vaxxer” label, to calling for a broader, outcome‑based safety redesign of vaccine surveillance in general.