by Barbara Gehrett, MD; Joseph Gehrett, MD; Chris Flowers, MD; and Loree Britt, Daily Clout:
By late February 2021, a group of experts called Brighton Collaboration released a paper, which was published in Vaccine, clearly defining Vaccine-Associated Enhanced Disease (VAED), which is a more severe clinical presentation of a disease in a person vaccinated against that disease than would normally be seen in an unvaccinated person. Yet, Pfizer, public health, and media spokespeople only referred to post-COVID-vaccination COVID-19 infections as “breakthrough cases” — i.e., normal, not more severe, COVID infections — without explaining the possibility of VAED in such cases. Not explaining VAED kept the public in the dark about how receiving initial and additional COVID vaccine doses may cause worse COVID illness than remaining unvaccinated.
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Public health entities, the medical community, and media constantly assured the public that the COVID-19 mRNA shots were “safe and effective;” yet, during the first three months of the Pfizer’s public vaccine rollout, Pfizer was informed about thousands of cases of post-vaccination COVID-19 as covered by WarRoom/DailyClout researchers in Report 90. Those COVID cases are very important, because contracting COVID post-vaccination opens the door to suffering VAED or Vaccine-Associated Enhanced Respiratory Disease (VAERD), which is “disease with predominant involvement of the lower respiratory tract.” [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7901381/] In other words, getting a COVID vaccine opened the door to vaccinated individuals getting more serious COVID illness than they may have experienced if they remained unvaccinated. Despite Table 5 of Pfizer’s document ‘5.3.6 Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports of PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) Received Through 28-FEB-2021’ (a.k.a., “5.3.6“) stating, “No post-authorized AE [adverse event] reports have been identified as cases of VAED/VAERD, therefore, there is no observed data at this time,” the actual data in Pfizer’s post-marketing report paint a very different picture showing that thousands of the COVID cases and COVID-related serious adverse events (SAEs) appear to qualify as VAED or VAERD.
As Pfizer received post-marketing surveillance reports in December 2020 and early 2021, it knew its COVID vaccine was not stopping people from contracting COVID. In the VAED/VAERD table on page 11 of 5.3.6, 138 patients had 317 “relevant events,”, i.e., conditions or diseases, which included 101 confirmed and 37 suspected COVID-19 cases. Pfizer categorized all 138 cases, including 38 deaths, as ‘serious.’ The company stated that, of the subjects with confirmed COVID-19, “75 of the 101 cases were severe, resulting in hospitalization, disability, life-threatening consequences or death.” Seemingly inexplicably, Pfizer went on to conclude, “None of the 75 cases could be definitively considered as VAED/VAERD. In this review of subjects with COVID-19 following vaccination, based on the current evidence, VAED/VAERD remains a theoretical risk for the vaccine. Surveillance will continue.” In light of that, the definition of VAED and the different diagnostic levels of the condition, as defined by the Brighton Collaboration experts, becomes critically important.
In March 2020, the Brighton Collaboration gathered to define VAED. The group concluded that it is “difficult to separate vaccine failure (also called breakthrough disease) from VAED in vaccinated individuals. All cases of vaccine failure should be investigated for VAED.” [Bold and italics added.] Despite this expert recommendation, the FDA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other public health spokespeople told the public that COVID infections after vaccination were “breakthrough” cases and did not mention VAED or VAERD as possibilities. The Brighton authors also asserted, “VAED always involves a memory response primed by vaccination and, in the experiences best characterized until now, targets the same organs as wild-type infections.” [Bold added.] They concluded, “The broad spectrum of natural disease manifestations in different populations and age groups makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to determine how severe COVID-19 infection would have been in the absence of vaccination in the individual case.” (Italics in the original, bold added.) However, the Brighton Collaboration provide a means to make such a determination easier.
