CAUSE OF DEATH? "Thousands of healthy people are dying unexpectedly, but our public health agencies are assuring us that their demise was not caused by the COVID-19 vaccination.".

• Author: Orient, Jane M.
• Position: MEDICINE & HEALTH

IN THIS AGE of supposed scientific medicine and a pandemic, we are relying on death certificates for statistics on the cause of death, even though they are known to be extremely unreliable.

Thousands of healthy people are dying unexpectedly, but our public health agencies are assuring us that their demise was not caused by the COVID-19 vaccination. As of this writing, the toll of post-vaccine deaths has reached nearly 7,000, according to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). It is the best system we have, even though it misses 90% or more of the actual events.

Moreover, I have seen a report of just one autopsy. This patient had been given one dose of the Pfizer shot and died four weeks later. Although there were no characteristic features of COVID-19, almost all tissues tested positive on PCR (polymerase chain reaction) for SARS-CoV-2.

A 45-year-old mother died of heart issues and brain swelling shortly after getting the COVTD shot required before she could begin her job at Johns Hopkins University. There were tears and flowers, but no autopsy--and no pause in the shots demanded for mothers and potential mothers if they want to work at Hopkins.

My internal medicine training was in the dark ages before CT and MRI, but we still were supposed to make an accurate diagnosis. A patient who died without a medical history was a "ME case." We had to call the medical examiner, who would decide whether an autopsy was indicated. Anything potentially related to the death, such as pill bottles, was evidence. If an injection had been given, the vial would be recovered if possible. With vaccines, one is supposed to record the lot number, so it would be possible to check a sample for contaminants.

If the patient died in-hospital, the medical resident was required to request permission for an autopsy. Survivors might be persuaded by the possibility that their loved one may have had a hereditary condition or an infection that might affect them. In any event, we assured them that their loved one would be treated with respect and that funeral arrangements would not be affected. A chaplain would volunteer to attend.

The most-important reason was that the "altar of truth" was the ultimate "quality assurance" mechanism. Hospitals were required to perform autopsies on a certain proportion of decedents in order to maintain their accreditation. A classic study of 100 randomly selected autopsies from each of three years (1960, 1970, and 1980) revealed...