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"The Ministry of Health in Israel is actively hiding critical information about side effects of the vaccines from the Israeli public. Moreover, the Ministry of Health, for the longest time… had a very dysfunctional system to monitor side effects…Now, why is that important beyond Israel?…[In] all the approval stages of the FDA…Pfizer is quoting & relying on data from Israel."
A series of leaked videos suggest authorities in Israel, one of the most vaccinated countries in the world, knew much more than they let on about the vaccine’s side effects, says Retsef Levi, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
He’s co-authored a paper that found a 25% rise in heart attack emergency calls among young Israelis after the country’s rollout of the COVID genetic vaccine.
Like other regulatory health agencies in the world,
and regulatory agencies in the world,
the Ministry of Health in Israel is actively hiding
critical information about side effects of the vaccines
from the Israeli public.
Moreover, the Ministry of Health, for the longest time,
did not really monitor side effects in a very appropriate way
and had a very dysfunctional system
to monitor side effects of the vaccine.
It's important beyond Israel because Israel was essentially
the first country to launch the vaccination campaign,
the national vaccination campaign,
and it did that under a very unique agreement with Pfizer
that essentially made Israel a worldwide lab
for the rest of the world.
And indeed, if you follow all the approval stages
of the FDA of the vaccine,
in each one of them, Pfizer is quoting and relying
on data from Israel.
And in fact, in some of them, Israeli officials
are presenting to the FDA about, for example,
the booster outcomes.
Now, what we see here is an internal discussion
that was recorded between some senior officials
from the Ministry of Health in Israel
and a research team that the Ministry of Health itself
hired to analyze side effects.
Why did they hire this special team?
Because only at the end of 2021,
a year after vaccination started in Israel,
the Ministry of Health finally was able to launch
an appropriate system to surveillance side effects
and collect reports of side effects from patients.
And this is in contrast to what the Ministry of Health
was saying publicly, including to the FDA,
that they have a very robust system
to monitor side effects.
So after a year, they were finally able
to launch the system, and they basically hire
this research team to investigate and study
the reports that were received.
And what we just heard was part of multiple messages
that this research team gave to the Ministry of Health.
Here, what they told them is that they were surprised
to find out that unlike what was told to the public
and maybe against the existing narrative,
many of the side effects are in fact not short-term,
but actually last weeks, months, and sometimes over a year.
When I say side effects, I talk about
menses irregularities, I talk about neurological,
serious neurological side effects, and so forth and so forth.
And we just heard the head of the research team
essentially advising the Ministry of Health officials
to think medical legal, because they have
a serious problem with potential lawsuits by patients
because they communicated to the public in Israel
and to the world that the side effects are rare
and if they happen, they don't last for a long period of time.
They go away.
And that's not what the data is saying.
The data is suggesting that in a substantial number of cases,
the side effects actually last for many, many weeks,
months, and over a year.
So he's advising them how to communicate,
to think carefully how do they communicate this
to the Israeli public.
It seems that the Ministry of Health in Israel
took this to their attention,
because when you look on the actual report
that they post in the public domain,
they essentially took out a lot of the messages,
a lot of the findings that were found
by the research team that they hired.
And moreover, they misrepresented the data
and misrepresented the reporting rates
of the different side effects
and made them look like very, very rare side effects,
whereas the fact of the matter is
that the reporting rates were much higher.
How did they do that?
They did that by doing two things.
They basically ignored the fact that the system
was only launched at the end of 2021,
a year after the vaccination started.
So when they considered the number of reports,
they took this number and divided it
by the total number of doses of vaccine
that were given in Israel
throughout the entire period of time.
That's clearly manipulative, right?
The irony is that when they took the number
of reports on menses irregularities,
they divided it by the number of doses
of men and women.
I think that everybody could tell,
you don't need to be a scientist
to know that that's wrong.
Well, I was going to say it's either manipulative
or a really, really bad error.
I don't think it's a bad error
because even after that was pointed out to them,
they never really admitted that it was an error.
And they also are hiding from the Israeli public
that these reports represent only 15,
maybe 17% of the population in Israel.
The reason is that the data was collected
from, theoretically speaking,
from four large HMOs,
Healthcare Maintenance Organization.
That's kind of how the healthcare system
in Israel is set up.
It's very different than the U.S.
The fact was that only one HMO
was primarily reporting.
And essentially, these reports are representing
only six months out of a year and a half
and only 15 to 17% of the population in Israel,
rather than the entire population
and all the doses that were given in Israel.
When you actually look on these true reporting rates,
you actually become very concerned
that these are actually quite high reporting rates.
And that was another thing
that the Ministry of Health kind of manipulated.
And lastly, the research team
was essentially talking about clear evidence
that these reports, in many cases,
demonstrate causal relationship to the vaccine.
How did they infer that?
They infer that based on a phenomenon
that is called re-challenge.
What does this mean?
It means that, say, I took one dose of the vaccine
and had a neurological reaction.
And then when I took the second dose of the vaccine,
this neurological reaction either came back
or became worse.
So now I have a situation
when every time that I take the vaccine,
I see the same response.
That is called re-challenge
because the vaccine, every dose of the vaccines,
is re-challenging the appearance of the side effect.
And in which case, it's a common kind of methodology.
And we're going to see a video
where the head of the research team is explaining that.
It's a common methodology to basically conclude
there is a causal relationship with the vaccine.
Now, this is a system where they actually know the individuals.
So the Ministry of Health currently knows
that there are people that have clear evidence
that they were harmed by the vaccine.
So not only that they did not expose the fact
that there is an evidence of causal relationship
to the public in Israel,
they also did not reach out to these individuals
to try and compensate them and take care of them.
So there are many, many failures.
And as much as I want to give them the benefit of the doubt
that these are maybe innocent errors,
it's very hard to believe given the mounting evidence
that there's so many things that were hidden here
that this is something innocent.