ICWA Weekly News 10-4-23
Check out the breaking news from the WA Dept. of Health; and how many departments ignored the side effects from COVID-19 shots.
This week:
Breaking: “COVID-19 death rates were 0.70 deaths per 100,000 persons in the most vaccinated areas and 3.08 deaths per 100,000 persons in the least vaccinated areas.” Calling all statisticians: does this compute???
ILR: Reversing Illness + Restoring Rights on the Informed Life Radio Show
Were early signs of myocarditis ignored in Washington?
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Breaking news: WA State has just released a report titled: Excess Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic and 2021 Heat Dome
From the Washington report:
We used death data from 2011 to 2019 to produce an expected number of deaths in 2020 and 2021, had historical trends continued. In 2020, the number of excess deaths were lower than the reported number of COVID-19 deaths. In 2021, excess deaths were higher than reported COVID-19 and heat-related deaths. After COVID-19 vaccines were introduced, excess deaths decreased statewide, with the largest drops occurring in areas with the highest rates of vaccination.
Key Findings
• In 2020, there were 2,930 (5 percent) more deaths than expected in Washington, based on historical trends. This is 827 fewer than the number of reported COVID-19 deaths (3,757), meaning some COVID-19 deaths were offset by declines in other types of death.
• In 2021, there were 7,367 (12 percent) more deaths than expected. This is 883 more than deaths attributed to COVID-19 (6,327) and the heat dome (157) combined.
• In the two-year period, excess death rates were highest for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN), Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI), and Black persons.
• Those that lived in areas with the highest vaccination rates were three times less likely to die from COVID-19 than the areas with the lowest vaccination rates.
• During the heat dome, there were 1,232 excess deaths. This is 826 more than reported COVID-19 (249) and heat-related (157) deaths around this time. Comparing heat dome weeks to all other weeks in 2021, excess deaths increased most in people who are at least 85 years old, Black persons, or American Indian/Alaska Native.
At the end, they conclude:
Discussion
Washington State experienced both a global pandemic and a notable heat dome during 2020 – 2021. We found death rates far above what was expected from historical trends. The pattern of excess deaths compared to COVID-19 deaths was different in the two years examined. In 2020, more COVID-19 deaths were reported than excess deaths, indicating COVID-19 deaths were offset by other kinds of death. In 2021, excess deaths were higher than deaths attributed to COVID-19 and the heat dome combined. This could be due to undetected COVID-19 infections, an increased risk of death from chronic health conditions due to COVID-19 or excessive heat, or other unexpected impacts of life during the pandemic.
We are just now beginning to analyze the report. They ignored the elephant in the room — the mass rollout out of experimental shots leading to vaccine reaction deaths and vaccine-induced non-Covid deaths, such as heart disease and cancer. But the report did acknowledge that excess deaths occurred, for which they had no explanation. They did not cite actual individual death data matched to vaccination status, but instead used population data to address deaths in areas of high or low vaccination rates.
What do you think? We invite everyone to let us know their thoughts, especially those skilled in data analysis and methods used to obscured, deflect, or obfuscate. CONTACT ICWA.
Myocarditis in Washington Following COVID-19 Shots
We are sending out this newsletter in special recognition of Dr. Umair Shah, Secretary of Health in Washington, with hope that he reads this.
September 2023: reports surfaced that health agencies ignored adverse events following the shots that were supposedly safe and effective to ‘protect’ against COVID-19. You might call it Monday quarterbacking, but there is a compelling set of reporting that attempts to set the record straight.
The Brownstone Institute published a concerning story by Justin Hart:
It started slowly at first – a trickle of concerning reports that something wasn’t right. In January 2021, just weeks after the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, cases of myocarditis began cropping up.
Myocarditis – inflammation of the heart muscle – had never been linked to vaccines before. So when 28 cases were reported to the US vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS) that month, it raised eyebrows.
By February, the trickle had become a stream. VAERS received 64 more reports, including two deaths. Then in March, Israel and the military started reporting cases too. Something strange was going on. But the authorities ignored it.
The article got more specific:
Behind closed doors though, alarm bells were ringing. The CDC met with the military to discuss the myocarditis cases in young troops. Israel was reporting dozens of cases, including in teenagers. The FDA knew from Pfizer that there were nearly 60 cases already in its database.
Meanwhile, for the public, it was denial and dismissal. The CDC director claimed she wasn’t aware of any military cases. We now know that Pfizer safety data was not easily obtained and that the ‘safe and effective’ position was difficult to defend. It was increasingly concerning when the FDA rubber-stamped authorization of the shots for teenagers in May without a mention of myocarditis.
Further exposing the issue, The Epoch Times wrote about the CDC’s lies on September 17th about a meeting with military officials:
The CDC met with military officials twice behind closed doors in April 2021. Military officials presented data during at least one of the meetings to the CDC. That presentation, which has never been released to the public "included our preliminary patient data and analysis that suggested to us that myocarditis was indeed a possible side effect to the messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines (within the US military)," Dr. Jay Montgomery, one of the presenters, told The Epoch Times via email.
On April 27, 2021, after the meetings, then-CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky finally spoke about the matter in public, during a White House briefing.
Dr. Walensky said "we have not seen any reports" of myocarditis after vaccination. That's false, according to CDC data—the agency received 141 reports of myocarditis in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) by the end of March 2021. Another 24 cases were recorded in the Vaccine Safety Datalink, a second system run by the CDC.
What else did Dr. Walensky know?
Additionally, before the briefing, Dr. Walensky was copied on multiple threads discussing myocarditis and a related condition, pericarditis, including a thread about doctors in California seeing the cases, internal emails obtained by The Epoch Times show. She responded to one of the threads, saying the information was "super helpful."
"We have not seen a [safety] signal," Dr. Walensky also told reporters during the briefing, "and we’ve actually looked intentionally for the signal in the over 200 million doses we’ve given."
Beyond the possible cover-up, The Epoch Times reported on VAERS myocarditis from the first months of the COVID-19 shots:
Health care providers who administer COVID-19 vaccines are required to report serious adverse events, including all cases of myocarditis, to VAERS. But not all doctors were following the rules, other emails show.
"Providers aren't reporting these cases to VAERS," Dr. John Su, one of the CDC's top vaccine safety officials, wrote to colleagues on May 17, 2021. He also wrote that the "myocarditis thing" was "exploding."
This is where it gets even more interesting. The Epoch Times article also brought out information regarding Washington state:
CDC officials, in correspondence with officials in Washington state, said around the same time that nine post-vaccination myocarditis cases had not been reported to VAERS.
VAERS currently shows 17,178 cases of myocarditis following the COVID-19 shots, including 134 reports in Washington.
Notably, VAERS data shows more than half of the cases were in those between six and twenty-nine years old.
Kevin Bardosh raised the myocarditis alarm. A University of Washington (UW) professor (with whom we would like to meet over coffee), and who was featured in an August 1, 2023 ICWA Weekly News article for criticizing the COVID-19 shot mandates at a Congressional Subcommittee hearing at the nation’s capital, said:
A lot of parents were reaching out to us as a group, saying, 'hey, I've looked through the scientific literature ... I'm worried about my young, healthy, athletic son, getting myocarditis or suffering some other adverse event.
A study from Seattle Children’s Hospital, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, found thirty-five cases of children with myocarditis following the COVID-19 shots:
This case review includes patients younger than 18 years of age presenting to Seattle Children's Hospital with chest pain and elevated serum troponin level from April 1, 2021, to January 7, 2022, within 1 week of receiving the second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. A total of 35 patients with the diagnosis of myopericarditis associated with Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine were followed at our institution.
The Defender summarized the study:
Researchers at Seattle Children’s Hospital reviewed cases of patients younger than 18 years old who presented to the hospital with chest pain and an elevated serum troponin level between April 1, 2021, and Jan. 7, 2022, within one week of receiving a second dose of Pfizer’s vaccine.
While 35 patients fit the criteria, 19 were excluded for various reasons. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the remaining 16 patients was performed three to eight months after they were first examined. The MRIs showed 11 had persistent late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), although levels were lower than in previous months.
According to the study, “The presence of LGE is an indicator of cardiac injury and fibrosis and has been strongly associated with worse prognosis in patients with classical acute myocarditis.”
Why were these warnings not passed on? Why were the 19 patients excluded?
Was this a government agency cover-up of myocarditis warning signals.
Again, from the Brownstone Institute, looking at the first half of 2021:
As myocarditis reports flooded into VAERS in the hundreds during the summer, young, healthy people continued being pressured to get vaccinated. Mandates rolled out across the country. The authorities told the public the benefits outweighed the risks.
And from The Epoch Times:
Even after deaths from myocarditis - inflammation of the heart - were reported and myocarditis was designated as a likely side effect of the shots, U.S. officials kept recommending vaccination for virtually the entire populace. That led to millions of young people receiving a vaccine.
Early in the vaccine rollout, Washington state vaccinees could have helped warn everyone (through VAERS - its purpose), which now lists 423 U.S. deaths from myocarditis following the COVID-19 shots.
Getting into the reports ——-
VAERS ID: 1499689
A 35-year-old male who took the first dose of Pfizer on May 11, 2021. His onset began twenty-three days later. The date of the death was not given. The report was submitted on July 24, 2021. The submitted write-up mentions other possibilities besides myocarditis: ED note initially mentions concern for myocarditis due to vaccine causing heart failure and subsequent respiratory failure, but appears this piece was written prior to MRI showing basilar stroke. Death note has myocarditis listed as a cause of death (among many), though a bit unclear if this was intentionally listed or just reflects a list of all hospital problems. The end of the write-up suggests that a heart attack could have led to a bad fall: Also had a CT of his head which showed scattered foci of gas within intraorbital soft tissues along with mild proptosis; unclear etiology for this (perhaps a fall with facial injuries prior to arriving at hospital?) Awaiting additional physician notes/imaging reports.
VAERS ID: 2057959
A 62-year-old male whose onset began sixty-nine days later after taking his second dose of Moderna on February 1, 2021. He died on April 11, 2021. The report was recorded on January 23, 2022. This means it took over nine months after his death for the report to surface on VAERS, and reflects in The Epoch Times article the backlog of recording the myocarditis submissions that VAERS had to deal with. In the submitted write-up, his daughter reports that his chest pain and abdominal discomfort began on April 11, 2021. It started in the morning and continued into the afternoon. He was admitted to a room where his vitals showed aggravated hypertension, The CT scan showed aortic dissection, after which he was given nitroglycerin via IV and "gastric cocktail" oral solution. They had to plan to transport him to another facility as this location was only an emergency room. They barely got him into an ambulance, and after leaving the parking lot, he went into cardiac arrest. The ambulance paramedics performed CPR for over ten minutes without a result. He was brought back into the ER where the staff continued CPR for another fifteen minutes. The daughter then wrote the following: Spouse had to make choice to stop CPR as his aortic dissection was now such a low chance of success and due to lack of oxygen, per MD, less then 2% chance of neurological recovery. He had an autopsy performed which showed aortic dissection, massive cardiac arrest as well as myocarditis and enlargement of the heart, fluid around the heart. All data provided here is either from my first-hand witnessing in the ER (I am a trained Medic) or the actual autopsy report and ER medical records my stepmom & I obtained after his death. He was pronounced dead at 9PM on April 11th, 2021; approx 3 hours after admittance.
These reports are not isolated. The pileup of cardiovascular issues include numerous cases of myocarditis following the COVID-19 shots. ICWA Weekly News ran an article last August 28 on Steve Kirsch’s interview with Seattle’s Jay Bonnar.
Of the fifteen Seattle-area residents Jay Bonnar knew who died suddenly following jabs, nine had cardiac issues:
#3 Matt Runte: Matt was a forty-four-year-old Seattle firefighter whom Bonnar knew from his first responder days in King County. The fire department had a vaccine mandate. “Matt went out for a jog early one morning,” Bonnar said. “He was super fit as firefighters are, and dropped dead of a heart attack.”
#5 Scott Plutko: Saviynt is a company that Bonnar used to work for. They were strong believers in vaccination. All the senior executives were vaccinated. Bonnar was asked to take the shot, but he refused and was fired because he could not attend the sales kickoff meeting without a vax. Two of the nine executives at Saviynt who took the shot are either dead or injured. The one who died was Jay’s work colleague Scott Plutko, who was fifty-three years old. “Scott was perfectly fit and healthy,” Bonnar said. “He had to get his booster, for it was a requirement for getting into London. ‘I’m going to get that shot out of the way tomorrow, and then I’ll fly out that afternoon,’ is what he had told me. Scott presumably got his booster shot, walked out onto the stage in London, and, in front of a large audience, he dropped dead of a massive heart attack.”
#6 Alexander Nuber: “He went to my gym,” Bonnar said. “He was thirty-one, he was gym goer, very fit and very healthy, and he and I had a conversation about how eager he was to get the COVID shot. I expressed my concerns that they tried to rush this, but he said that he trusted the government, and if it’s okay with them, then it’s okay with me. He got the shot. Then his girlfriend found him that night in his kitchen, dropped dead of a massive heart attack. It was the first injection he got, and the doctors think he was dead four hours later.
#7 Dori Monson: Bonnar said that Dori was sixty-one years old and was the number one prime time radio host from three to six p.m. “He was a very popular conservative radio host,” Bonnar said. “I knew him personally through some friends. He was a really, really wonderful man. He was a conservative, but also a big proponent of the COVID-19 shot, and he spoke in favor of it on his show. He died of a cardiac event. No history of heart problems for Dori. I knew that Dori was fit, he was athletic, coached basketball, and he was a very active guy. There was no history of heart problems within his family or with him. He was vaccinated in 2021, and he did speak on air that he regretted doing it. He spoke of all that data of sudden deaths that were coming out, and he was concerned. He knew the work that you (Steve Kirsch) as well as Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. McCullough had been doing. I would say that he died a year or so after he was vaccinated.”
#8 Zach Broten: Zach was a thirty-year-old personal trainer. “He was extremely fit,” Bonnar said. “He dropped dead a couple days before his thirty-first birthday of a heart attack. I do not know when he had his last vaccination. I do recall seeing his profile on social media in which he had that purple frame around his picture saying, ‘I’m vaxxed; I’m protecting you.’ ”
#9 Gabriel Jungmann: “He was a friend of my son,” Bonnar said. “He was twenty years old. Perfectly healthy kid. He was taking a shower, and he had a heart attack. His parents found him in the shower. I had heard that he was vaccinated.”
#12: Rachel Marshall: Bonnar said that Rachel was the owner of Rachel’s Ginger Beer in Seattle. “I knew her casually,” Bonnar said. “I had been into her business a few times. She was forty-two years old and dropped dead of a heart attack suddenly for no reason. I know that she had very strict COVID requirements on her business, which was one of the reasons I stopped going to her store. When the governor and the King County executive demanded that everyone had to be vaccinated to go into businesses, there were some businesses that refused to abide by that, but her business eagerly complied with the mandate. She stated clearly that everyone should be vaccinated, and if you’re not vaccinated, then ‘I don’t want your business.’ And so I stopped going to her business, but at forty-two she had a massive heart attack and died.”
#13 David Black: “David was a couple years younger than I and a work colleague,” Bonnar said. “I worked with him when I did business with Boeing, which had the vaccine mandate. He had no known health problems. He died suddenly of a heart attack. No other reason given, but he worked for a company that mandated the shots.
#15 Michael Howland: “Michael was in his early forties and was a work colleague,” Bonnar said. “He worked for a technology company and was a systems integrator for Saviynt. He was a super fit guy. He was a triathlete. The company he worked for had the COVID-19 shot mandate. To get a job there and maintain a job there, you had to be vaccinated. He went on vacation in Mexico with his wife and three little kids, and he was walking down the beach with them, and he just dropped dead of a heart attack. This was back in January or February. I know that he worked for a company that required the vaccine, and if he didn’t get the vaccine, he was terminated, so I’m going to make the safe assumption that he was vaccinated.”
October ‘23 Events in the Pacific Northwest
Washington Board of Health (BOH), Monday Oct. 9th, 8 AM, Wenatchee.
The BOH Final Agenda lists public comment for only twenty minutes, beginning at 8:25 AM. In-person commenters (who wish to express their disdain for unchecked public health polices) should sign in upon arrival.
The board ‘strongly encourages’ you to register and send written comments by 12:00 Noon on Friday to sboh@boh.wa.gov to have the best chance for board members to read your truths… uh. thoughts..uh..please find a way to wake up your public officials to reality!
Rather than the state Department of Health reporting, the Chelan-Douglas regional health district will provide their update. We wonder how this will go - will they repeat CDC mantras? Or report on the signals as discussed above?
The agenda includes a possible vote on Newborn Screening for GAMT & Arginase 1 deficiencies, based on Technical Advisory Committee recommendations.
While ICWA might support early discovery of potential health issues in newborns, we are concerned these proposed tests could lead to over-diagnosis and life-long customers. We don’t have a strong position on the newborn screening topic – except to remain ever-vigilant and question a pill for every ill.
On Thursday, October 12, the Seattle Truth Network is hosting a “Connect in Person” meeting on from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Razzi’s Pizzeria in Greenwood. Dinner and conversation will start at 6:00. The meeting will start at 7:00. The address is 8523 Greenwood Ave. North in Seattle.
On Saturday, October 21, Informed Choice Washington is a sponsor of The Great Northwest Awakening, presented by Patriots United Washington, whose mission includes protecting medical freedom and elimination of vaccine mandates. Speakers, like Robert Scott Bell, will provide insight and actionable solutions to protect parental rights, health, election integrity, and ideas to work with legislators. Door prizes now include a chance to take home one of 200 MyPillows. Unfortanatly, Riley Gaines will not be attending and speaking. That amazing woman is very busy these days and her voice is required elsewhere.
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