Dubious premises in the article

JOANNA Blythman has been allowed to publish a second article on Covid vaccination which selects articles to support her dubious premises while ignoring any caveats in them.

She states that the NHS Yellow

Card scheme recorded 1,766 deaths caused by the Covid vaccines.

No it didn’t. It actually recorded this number of deaths possibly associated with Covid vaccines. Similarly, she quotes 1,261,714 adverse events caused by the vaccines.

The Yellow Card scheme encourages healthcare workers to report any event which follows an intervention such as vaccination.

Sometimes these are relevant, but only a proportion of the

1.2 million reports are caused by the vaccine.

To give a slightly ludicrous example, if I fell and broke my leg on the day of my vaccination, I could record this as a possible adverse reaction.

Blythman quotes Anthony Fauci’s comments on waning immunity. Immunity with almost all vaccines wanes, which explains why many of us are being offered a top-up vaccine six months after the previous one.

Some double-vaccinated people will be hospitalised but even waning immunity makes a fatal outcome much less likely. She doesn’t bother to quote the

French experience of the public’s response to vaccine passports as it wouldn’t suit her dubious argument, so I’ll do it for her: the prospect of a vaccine passport being required for almost all social activities led to an increase in the voluntary vaccination rate increasing from 54% to 75%.

Blythman states that we should all have informed consent to any medical procedure.

I agree, but we should also be spared misinformation such as provided by her article.

Sam Craig, Glasgow.