Vaccinated are the Majority of Covid Cases in New South Wales By Mrs Vera West
While there is still to be found in the mainstream media the claim that there is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” the tale of the statistic is that, for example considering New South Wales, the majority of Covid cases of hospitalisation and deaths are in the vaccinated. Of course, with the vast majority of the population being vaccinated, there would be a bias in any sample of the population towards the vaccinated getting infected. But that is the real problem; an effective, non-leaky vaccine would not result in such large numbers of people getting infected in the first place. Clearly there must be something wrong with the vaccines. If a competing vaccine did not lead to the vaccinated getting infected with Covid, surely that would be better?
“Vaccinated people are the vast majority of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Australia’s largest state, driving the worst surge in New South Wales since the onset of the virus.
According to the latest COVID surveillance report of the New South Wales Department of Health (NSW Health), a record spike in cases since the emergence of Omicron late last year has been overwhelmingly linked to the vaccinated.
Between November 26, 2021 and January 8, 2022, around 90 percent of people in the state who tested positive for coronavirus and whose vaccination status was known had received “two effective doses” of a COVID vaccine. NSW Health defines cases with “two effective doses” as having had a second jab “at least 14 days prior to known exposure to COVID-19 or arrival in Australia.”
When excluding children under 12 who are ineligible for the vaccines, double-vaccinated people were a stunning 98 percent of cases with known vaccination history. The unvaccinated, by contrast, were less than one percent of cases.
NSW Health specifically classifies the unvaccinated as having “no effective dose,” which also includes anyone who took the first shot of a two-dose vaccine course within 21 days of exposure to COVID or arrival in Australia.
Pandemic of the vaccinated
The double-jabbed dominated New South Wales’ surging COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths over the same period, as well.
Among patients hospitalized for the virus whose vaccination history was reported, 82 percent had received two doses – or 87 percent without taking into account kids ineligible for vaccination.
People with two jabs also made up around three-quarters of ICU patients and COVID deaths.
New South Wales has a high vaccination rate, with 91.5 percent of residents age 12 and older “fully vaccinated” as of late November. Cases have nevertheless skyrocketed to unprecedented levels in recent weeks in the western Australian state amid the record numbers of breakthrough infections.
According to NSW Health, COVID cases and hospitalizations have exceeded previous peaks from September 2021 and approximately doubled in the week that ended January 8 from the week before.
At the height of the Delta wave in September, the state reported a seven-day average of about 1,400 cases, before most Australians were “fully vaccinated.” In early January, daily cases peaked at more than 90,000.
Coronavirus deaths in New South Wales have similarly spiked since January 8, with a current average of 40 per day, up from around one at the end of December, according to Our World in Data.
New South Wales continues to require health care workers, teachers, airport workers, and senior care workers to be “fully vaccinated,” despite evidence that the jabs are failing.
COVID-19 remains survivable and treatable for most who catch it, as the NSW Health data reaffirms. 99.4 percent of unvaccinated people 12 years old and up who tested positive for COVID in New South Wales between November 26 and January 8 have not died. Unvaccinated children under age 18 have a death rate of less than .1 percent.
“Since the start of the pandemic, 0.2% of cases (738 people) have died,” NSW Health noted. “This includes 122 residents of aged care facilities.”
New South Wales’s pandemic of the vaccinated mirrors similar COVID trends in Europe, where recent data from Denmark, the U.K., and Iceland have reported higher rates of infection among vaccinated people.
In the U.K., the unvaccinated have lower case rates than double-vaccinated individuals across all age groups older than 18 as of late January, according to the U.K. Health Security Agency. The vaccinated also dominated British COVID deaths last month, outpacing the unvaccinated nearly five to one.”
In fact, studies now show that with Omicron in particular, the vaccinated are more likely to be infected with Covid than the unvaccinated. Parsimony indicates that the most reasonable explanation is vaccine failure.
“Vaccinated people are more likely than the unvaccinated to catch COVID-19, and particularly the omicron variant, according to new European data.
A study released late last month by Danish researchers found that people with two doses of an mRNA COVID vaccine have a higher likelihood of catching omicron than those without a jab. Based on Danish nationwide data, Pfizer’s shot dropped below -50 percent efficacy against the variant after three to five months. The effectiveness of the Moderna jab similarly fell to around -50 percent in the same timeframe.
The findings reflect real-world data from across Europe. A recent U.K. government survey of omicron cases reported that residents with one, two, or three COVID shots all had higher infection rates than the unvaccinated, with a more than six times higher rate among people with a booster. The figures, taken from between December 3 and December 16, found a 2.5 times higher COVID rate for the double-vaccinated.
And in the U.K. Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) latest weekly COVID report, the unvaccinated have the lowest rates of COVID-19 infection across all age groups over 18 years old.
The report notes that the efficacy of two Pfizer, Moderna, or AstraZeneca jabs has dropped to about zero percent against omicron. Boosters don’t restore full protection, and their efficacy falls to roughly 50 percent or lower within weeks of injection, according to the data.
“Boosters begin to fail essentially immediately against Omicron, despite the massive (and potentially dangerous) increase in anti-spike-protein antibodies they produce,” journalist Alex Berenson commented. “Why are we encouraging people to get ‘vaccinated’ or ‘boosted’ with a ‘vaccine’ that within a few weeks probably increases their risk of becoming infected with the newly dominant variant of Sars-Cov-2?”
Iceland’s COVID statistics reflect similar trends of negative vaccine efficacy. As of January 5, “fully vaccinated” adults in Iceland have nearly double the infection rate of unvaccinated adults, at 5,158 in 100,000 versus 2,755 in 100,000.
Though the Icelandic data appears to suggest that those with boosters have lower rates of infection, anyone who received a booster continues to be counted as “fully vaccinated” up to two weeks after being jabbed. COVID vaccines have been shown to cause immune suppression in the two-week window immediately following injection, potentially leading to heightened risk of COVID infection soon after an additional dose.
The vaccinated have also accounted for most recent COVID hospitalizations in several European countries, including Denmark, which reported last week that around three-quarters of patients admitted to the hospital for omicron have been jabbed.
In the U.K., more than 80 percent of COVID-19 emergency care patients over 80 years old had at least one vaccine, according to the UKHSA’s most recent COVID report. The “fully vaccinated” were the majority of COVID hospitalizations and deaths for every age subgroup older than 50.”
“Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 infection with the Omicron or Delta variants following a two-dose or booster BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 vaccination series: A Danish cohort study
Christian Holm Hansen, Astrid Blicher Schelde, Ida Rask Moustsen-Helm, Hanne-Dorthe Emborg, Tyra Grove Krause, Kåre Mølbak, Palle Valentiner-Branth
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.20.21267966
ABSTRACT
In this brief communication we are showing original research results with early estimates from Danish nationwide databases of vaccine effectiveness (VE) against the novel SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) up to five months after a primary vaccination series with the BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 vaccines.
Our study provides evidence of protection against infection with the Omicron variant after completion of a primary vaccination series with the BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 vaccines; in particular, we found a VE against the Omicron variant of 55.2% (95% confidence interval (CI): 23.5 to 73.7%) and 36.7% (95% CI: -69.9 to 76.4%) for the BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 vaccines, respectively, in the first month after primary vaccination. However, the VE is significantly lower than that against Delta infection and declines rapidly over just a few months. The VE is re-established upon revaccination with the BNT162b2 vaccine (54.6%, 95% CI: 30.4 to 70.4%).”
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