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Linguas Bifidas © Nina Otulakowski July 2022 An Adverse Event is anything that happens while a trial is happening – even a nuclear war.  There were lots of traffic accidents and broken bones in Buenos Aires during the Pfizer trial – mostly on placebo.  Maybe Covid vaccines prevent fractures or accidents.  Not impossible if you […]

If North Americans don’t know much about Asterix cartoons – see The Harmed, Europeans don’t know about MAD. This image was adapted by Nina Otulakowski from a front cover image in Mad, see below, featuring the 1969 Bob, and Carol, and Ted and Alice movie. Born in the USA Multi-Regional Clinical Trials (MRCT) was born […]

This image of Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Augusto Roux with Augusto as Obelix (of Asterix and Obelix fame), in the Roman Colliseum, will have to wait for a full explanation.  It will make sense in Argentina and Europe but not in North America.  A detailed explanation for North Americans will come next week.  The posts […]

This post is by Mary Lynch – see Credentials in Cause and Effect.  A neuropathic arm sounds like something terrible from an Edgar Allan Poe horror story.  Anette Diamond (name changed) is a 66 year-old woman. She has approved this post. She had been living with chronic low back pain and fibromyalgia for several years […]

Frances is now in her early 70s.  She had a decades long career working as a clinical research associate primarily in oncology trials, linked to cancer or medical institutes, where she often had responsibility for adverse event reporting and went through FDA audits at trial sites – the kind that haven’t happened at Ventavia sites. […]

Josef Witt-Doerring (JWD) (See Cause and Effect Credentials) interviewed Shane Cooke on January 15 2022. Josef had Shane’s ER discharge summary describing Shane’s presentation and imaging findings. He also had access to Shane’s prior medical history. Medical History Shane got sucked into the medical system in his late teenage years. Until then he had been […]

Cody’s case is the eighth in the Cause and Effect series. Cody Flint was interviewed by DH and JWD in October and November 2021, who both concur on the details below.  Cody had previously filled out an intake form with the details of his history and clinical course following the vaccine and provided Primary Care […]

Suzanna was assessed by both David Healy (DH) and Josef Witt-Doerring (JWD) in October and November 2021.  She had previously filled an intake form with the details of her history and clinical course following the vaccine. She had provided us separately with Primary Care Physician (PCP) records covering the last 10 years and over time […]

As part of the Cause and Effect forum, I interviewed William by video in February 2022. Prior to the interview, he and Kate, his wife, had prepared an intake form laying out William’s prior history and his reactions to the vaccines he had. They gave me a letter from his family doctor outlining his prior […]

From our South American Correspondent… The Argentine national flag is from a design by General Belgrano who died on June 20 1820 – 200 years almost to the day before Fernando Polack’s strange plasma trial began. Fernando Pedro Polack MD in the spotlight Strange things have been going on in the murky world of clinical […]

This post is in part two of the Cause and Effect Forum and it, with other posts centred on the New England Journal of Misinformation, will feature under NEJM-GATE.  The third part will focus on RCTs.  Once all Ten Cases are in place, it should be possible to print the forum off to support medical […]

This post has Cases 4, Nina, and Case 5 BB.  It links to a Brain Fog post on RxISK. Case 4 Nina Otulakowski Nina was referred by her doctor for review of vaccine related problems. He had previously referred her for a possible myocarditis.  The reference came with her medical history, prior treatments and some […]

Case 3 Karunya Venugopalan This is the third case in the Cause and Effect Forum that looks at how we establish if a vaccine or a drug has caused a harm. On January 7, 2022, there was an extraordinary article in the BMJ by Priyanka Pulla – How Covid-19 vaccines exposed India’s adverse event reporting […]

Cause and Effect Case 2: Augusto Roux This post will have breaking news featured below.  See entry for March 2, Augusto is a fit 36-year-old man from Buenos Aires. He doesn’t smoke or drink alcohol. He runs frequently and does Cross-Fit.  He wanted to get vaccinated because his mother has emphysema, a lung disease, and […]

A Fine Balance © Nina Otulakowski February 2022 Brianne Dressen‘s case below is the first of 10 clinical scenarios which will be laid out on Cause and Effect over the next few weeks.  The credentials of those interviewing Bri and others can also be found there, along this week with Maddie De Garay’s case. The […]

Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering…  © Billiam James 2022 This post inaugurates a new Cause and Effect Forum which can now be found as a Tab on davidhealy.org.  Some of the Forum pieces will appear here also but the Cases at its heart will primarily appear there.  When a […]