COVID Vaccine Efficacy Data

COVID Vaccine Efficacy Data

Pamela A. Popper, President

Wellness Forum Health

According to newly disclosed government data and emails, vaccinated seniors were much more likely to get COVID than those who were unvaccinated. The report was provided by Humetrix Cloud Services, which was hired by the U.S. military to analyze vaccine data for seniors.

For the week ending July 31 2021, 73% of COVID-19 cases were people who had been vaccinated, and the infection rates were higher in those who were vaccinated earlier. The rates were two times high for people vaccinated 5-6 months prior, as compared to people vaccinated 3-4 months prior, indicating that vaccine efficacy rapidly declined. That same week, 63% of COVID-19 hospitalizations were among those fully vaccinated, with the same trend of waning efficacy over time.

Seniors who had already had COVID-19 and recovered were more likely to avoid hospitalization than the vaccinated. This is particularly important, since natural immunity was denied as a justification for exemption from COVID vaccine mandates.

The Humetrix data showed that at the time of the report, there had been 133,000 cases, 27,000 hospitalizations and 8300 intensive care admissions among the fully vaccinated since the vaccines became available. These data were shared with the CDC in August 2021.

Humetrix CEO Dr. Bettina Experton sent an email to FDA officials on September 15, 2021 that included this statement:

“Our observational study VE [vaccine efficacy] findings show a very significant decrease in VE against infection and hospitalization in the Delta phase of the pandemic for individuals vaccinated with either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine for those 5–6 months post vaccination vs. those 3–4 months post vaccination.”

Emails show that FDA and public health officials were aware of the data:

Peter Marks MD PhD, Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at FDA wrote “It would have been nice to know [the military] was conducting this prior to now. Also would have been nice for CDC to share the data.”

Janet Woodcock, acting FDA commissioner at the time, wrote, “This is more worrisome than the other data we have in my opinion.”

Frances Collins, then director of NIH, wrote, that the study provided “pretty compelling evidence that VE is falling 5-6 months post vaccination for both infection and hospitalization for those over 65. Even for those 4-5 months out there is a trend toward worsening VE.”

While clearly aware that there was a problem, the FDA, CDC, NIH and other agencies did not make the data public and continued to support vaccine mandates. The agencies also did not provide the data to their own committees. 

The CDC held a meeting with its vaccine advisors on August 30 2021, during which waning vaccine efficacy was discussed. The Humetrix report was not provided. Instead, CDC presented data from COVID-NET which showed that the vaccines were still 80% effective and data from Israel showing that protection against infection ranged from 39% to 84%; against hospitalization vaccine efficacy ranged from 75-95%.

The FDA held a meeting with its vaccine advisors on September 17 2021, and also did not present the Humetrix data. The FDA approved the Pfizer booster for most Americans, and the CDC agreed that most people should be boosted. The Moderna booster was added as another option, and eventually officials recommended that all Americans ages five and older be given a COVID booster.

Trust in public health officials and institutions has never been lower than it is right now, and for good reason. As more and more data are made public, this will most likely get worse. The individuals involved in this spectacular and unprecedented fraud must be punished for their roles, and their agencies need to be defunded, disbanded, and replaced with smaller entities that are more accountable to legislative bodies. Accomplishing these goals will take considerable resources and time.

In the meantime, Americans should commit to learn as much as possible about health (informed consumers know when to ignore public health directives); to contribute to litigation (the government will never punish or fix itself – it’s up to us to do this!); and more important – REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH MEDICAL TYRANNY DISGUISED AS PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORIES AND ORDERS! Remember that agencies and officials are only as powerful as we allow them to be.

Zachary Stieber. FDA, CDC Hid Data on Spike in COVID Cases Among the Vaccinated: Documents. Epoch Times Sept 3 2023

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/fda-cdc-hid-data-on-spike-in-covid-cases-among-the-vaccinated-documents-5483439

Leana Wen Changes Her Mind Again!

Leana Wen Changes Her Mind Again!

Pamela A. Popper, President

Wellness Forum Health

CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen has made yet another about face concerning COVID-related policies. First Wen, who advised that children should wear N-95 masks to school, wrote in a Washington Post Op-Ed last year that she would not be masking her own children anymore because she thought it was harmful.[1] Then Wen, who stated publicly that unvaccinated people should be excluded from society and treated like intoxicated drivers because they could cause harm to others,[2] wrote in another Washington Post Op-ed that natural immunity is better than immunity from COVID-19 vaccines and that military personnel should no longer be forced to get a COVID vaccine.[3]

Now, Wen has stated in yet another Washington Post Op-Ed that it is important to make a distinction between people who died from COVID vs those who died with COVID because we need to put “The continuing toll of the coronavirus into perspective.”[4]

Wen’s column begins with this statement: “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States is experiencing around 400 deaths every day. At that rate, there would be nearly 150,000 deaths per year. But are these Americans dying from COVID or with COVID?” She adds, “A gunshot victim or someone who had a heart attack, for example, could test positive for the virus, but the infection has no bearing on why they sought medical care.”

Wen reports that she spoke to two infectious disease experts who told her that the death counts were inflated. Dr. Robin Dretler, an attending physician at Emory Decatur Hospital and the former president of the Georgia chapter of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, estimates that 90% of patients diagnosed with COVID are hospitalized with another illness.

According to Wen, people with gunshot wounds or other serious illnesses often test positive for the virus, and wrote, “If these patients die, COVID might get added to their death certificate along with the other diagnoses. But the coronavirus was not the primary contributor to their death and often played no role at all.”

Another expert, infectious disease doctor Shira Doron, told Wen that “in recent months, only about 30 percent of total hospitalizations with COVID were primarily attributed to the virus” in Massachusetts hospitals.

Wen writes…”To be clear, if the covid death count turns out to be 30 percent of what’s currently reported, that’s still unacceptably high. But that knowledge could help people better gauge the risks of traveling, indoor dining and activities they have yet to resume. Most importantly, knowing who exactly is dying from covid can help us identify who is truly vulnerable. These are the patients we need to protect through better vaccines and treatments.”

Gosh – it almost seems like Wen agrees with the Great Barrington Declaration, which called for focused protection of the vulnerable, while allowing the rest of the world to go back to normal – in 2020.[5]

In early 2020 I reported that COVID cases and deaths were being inflated in my weekly newsletters and videos, and included documentation for the information I provided. I was censored by social media sites, and received hate mail and death threats in response.

I then wrote a book about the COVID debacle: COVID Operation: What Happened, Why It Happened, and What’s Next. The book covered the entire COVID fraud, and included a chapter with 57 references concerning inflated cases and deaths. Here is just one excerpt:

“On April 20, 2020, Illinois Department of Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike explained how her department decides whether a death is due to COVID-19. She said that anyone who dies and has tested positive is categorized as a COVID-19 death.

Here is, verbatim, what she said:

“If you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means technically even if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it’s still listed as a COVID death. So, everyone who’s listed as a COVID death doesn’t mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of the death.”[6]

This was taking place all over the country.

COVID Operation was sent to the publisher at the beginning of September 2020. It seems that a lowly naturopath/conspiracy theorist (me!) in Columbus Ohio had a better grip on the data and what was going on almost three years before the famous Dr. Wen. Forgive me if I take a little victory lap, much deserved after what I’ve endured while telling the truth.

Wen is taking a lot of heat for deciding to report the truth, so a logical question is why is she doing it? I think it’s because she is trying to preserve her reputation. Almost everything she reported about COVID has proven to be false, and this may be her way of slowly changing her narrative so that it matches the coming onslaught of disclosures about COVID-19.

Another logical question is why is CNN, which presented COVID propaganda 24/7 for almost three years, tolerating Wen’s changing stances? The reason may be that CNN has an audience problem – a big one. At the end of 2022 CNN’s prime time audience averaged 730,000 viewers as compared to FOX with 2.33 million viewers.[7] Interest in COVID propaganda seems to be dropping, and CNN may start telling the truth in order to regain market share.

The pivot has only just begun.


[1] Leana S. Wen. I’m a doctor. Here’s why my kids won’t wear masks this school year. Washington Post August 23 2022

[2] Paul Joseph Watson. CNN Medical Analyst Demands Biden ”Further Restrict the Activities of the Unvaccinated.” https://summit.news/2021/12/23/cnn-medical-analyst-demands-biden-further-restrict-the-activities-of-the-unvaccinated/

[3] Leana S. Wen. “A compromise on the military covid vaccine mandate. Washington Post December 18 2022

[4] Leana S. Wen. We are overcounting covid deaths and hospitalizations. That’s a problem. Washington Post January 13 2023

[5] https://gbdeclaration.org/

[6] IDPH Director explains how Covid deaths are classified. 25News Week.com April 20 2020

https://week.com/2020/04/20/idph-director-explains-how-covid-deaths-are-classified/  accessed 9.2.2020

[7] Dominick Mastroangelo. Fox News tops 2022 cable ratings. The Hill December 15 2022