New Study: No Evidence COVID Vaccines Provided ‘Any Benefit’

by Sun Bay Paper contributor

New Study: No Evidence COVID Vaccines Provided ‘Any Benefit’:

Joseph Hickey, Ph.D., co-author of a global study analyzing excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, recently appeared on “The Defender In-Depth” to discuss the study’s outcomes and explore the probable reasons behind the surge in excess deaths and overall mortality.

A recent investigation by a group of Canadian researchers into excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic discovered that global patterns of excess mortality couldn’t be solely attributed to the virus, including long COVID.

The study, conducted by researchers from Correlation Research in the Public Interest, reviewed excess mortality data across 125 countries during the pandemic. It revealed that mortality trends closely matched the enforcement of restrictions, such as lockdowns, and the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccines.

The research concluded that the restrictions related to the pandemic were responsible for 30 million deaths worldwide, with 17 million deaths linked to the COVID-19 vaccines.

The researchers asserted that “nothing special would have occurred in terms of mortality had a pandemic not been declared and had the declaration not been acted upon.”

Joseph Hickey, Ph.D., a co-author of the study and president of Correlation, appeared on “The Defender In-Depth” this week to delve into the study’s findings and to analyze the probable reasons behind the increase in excess deaths and overall mortality.

Excess death data ‘not compatible’ with ‘particularly virulent special pathogen’
Hickey clarified that “all-cause mortality” denotes “the total number of deaths without filtering by cause during a specific period,” while “excess deaths” represent “the number of deaths that exceeded what would have been expected during that time frame.”

Hickey and his fellow researchers examined pre-pandemic data from 2015 to 2019 and data collected between 2020 and 2023. Hickey noted that the data, gathered from 125 countries, showed “a significant number of excess deaths.”

“We calculate that over the COVID period … about 0.39% of the global population died in excess. That compares to about 0.97%” during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918.

Hickey highlighted that this was “the largest non-war mortality event in 100 years” on a global scale.

The study also discovered that excess mortality patterns around the world were “very heterogeneous,” differing “significantly from country to country,” across regions within the same country, and among different age groups. Hickey remarked:

“There are some countries that immediately following the declaration of the pandemic in March of 2020 had an enormous spike in … excess mortality that is very sharp, very fast and very narrow. But that does not occur in all countries.

“There are neighboring countries that don’t have that at all. There are countries that do not have any excess mortality throughout all of 2020, and it’s only in 2021 when the vaccines are rolled out, that they suddenly have excess. And that excess can be a sharp spike, or it can be a raised and sustained plateau.”

Hickey observed that none of the countries experienced excess deaths before the pandemic was declared, which does not align with the spread of a lethal virus.

“If you take the model of a new very deadly pathogen that is spreading around the world, you should not see this very high degree of heterogeneity … it’s simply not compatible with the hypothesis of a particularly virulent special pathogen,” he said.

“If there was a specifically virulent and dangerous pathogen that was spreading around the world, it would not wait for a political declaration of a pandemic to start causing excess mortality,” Hickey added.

Instead, “a much simpler, much more elegant explanation is that it’s differences in national policies, national measures of one kind or another that are responsible for these very different outcomes in excess mortality,” Hickey said.

‘Biological stress’ caused by ‘political measures’ the ‘big cause’ of deaths
According to Hickey, he and his co-researchers used a method known as the “P-score” to calculate excess deaths, taking into account variables like the age structure and health status of a particular country.

Their analysis found that “the main correlation between excess mortality and a socioeconomic variable is with poverty.”

“Over the whole COVID period … there’s more excess mortality in that adjusted P-score measure when there’s more poverty,” Hickey said. Such as individuals and families beneath the poverty line and the elderly, as of January 2023, the poverty line was $14,891 for an individual and $29,960 for a family of four....and many are surviving on much less. 

Hickey indicated that people in more vulnerable situations were more likely to suffer negative impacts from restrictive measures such as lockdowns.

“It’s really more frail populations … that would be more affected by things like shutting down the economy, the informal economy,” Hickey said. “Having measures that restrict people to remain in their residences, obviously that has a much larger impact on poorer people than richer people in terms of their lifestyle, their ability to do exercise, receive goods by delivery and so on.”

Hickey noted that such measures contributed to “biological stress,” which disproportionately harmed the poorer segments of society in most countries.

“The data simply does not support the hypothesis of a particularly virulent pathogen that is novel and that is spreading,” he said. “Instead, it has to be attributed to various health measures. And those include things like the early lockdowns, the isolation of vulnerable people in care homes and so on from receiving visitors and seeing their families.”

Hickey suggested that treatments such as placing mildly sick patients on “ventilators and the associated medications that are used with those,” combined with the “very significant” stress caused by “curfews and removing opportunities for work [and] leaving one’s home,” created a “large” amount of medically significant stress.

“Biological stress that comes from political measures are really the big cause here … creating excess mortality,” he said. “What it does is it makes your immune system less capable to defend you from pathogens” because of a “time-varying and unpredictable stress that is being applied to you in a significant way.”

‘No apparent benefit’ from COVID vaccines
Hickey stated that his team’s research also identified COVID-19 vaccines as a major factor contributing to excess deaths.

“The vaccine rollouts involve a direct injection of product into your body that can be toxic,” Hickey said, pointing out that this might be due to several possible factors. He elaborated:

“If there is immunosuppression that’s due to the vaccines, is it due to the actual vaccine product and how it interacts with the body, or is it due to something more simple like … some clearly toxic components like the cationic lipid membranes that, when they’re injected, result in your body having to deal with a toxic substance?

“Or is it more a more complicated immune system response to receiving the spike antigen and the detailed immune response that goes with that? There’s lots of questions following that hypothesis, and that needs to be studied very carefully going forward.”

Hickey also mentioned that vaccine-related impacts might have affected unvaccinated individuals and could have interacted with pandemic-related restrictions.

“It’s also possible that if vaccines have an immune-suppressing effect, people who get vaccinated are then more likely to get infected with run-of-the-mill pathogens or omnipresent pathogens,” Hickey said. “Once they’re infected, they could then infect … unvaccinated people who also might be subjected to some immunosuppression based on the measures and the stress that accompanies the vaccine rollouts.”

Hickey noted that peaks in excess deaths across the studied countries “correlate very closely” with peaks in vaccination in those same countries.

"A significant example can be seen in Australia, where in January 2022—a period during the Australian summer when there's typically a dip in all-cause mortality—there was a booster campaign underway for the first booster shot. At that precise moment, an unusually high spike in mortality was observed."

Hickey's analysis also revealed "no apparent benefit of the [COVID-19] vaccines," highlighting that "the countries that were most vaccinated, that had the highest vaccine uptake, end up having persistent excess mortality into … 2023."

Hickey explained, "Ultimately, the excess mortality is the result of political interventions, including public health measures that should not have been implemented. This also covers the vaccine rollouts, as there is clearly no evidence showing that the vaccines reduced excess deaths or provided any benefit."

'All we can do is try to seek the truth' Hickey mentioned that Correlation is focusing on more "great, interesting research," including a "comprehensive study of what happened in the spring of 2020 in … subnational jurisdictions," adding that his team has already found "some very interesting results with that."

"In our forthcoming papers, we’ll be focusing on more specific jurisdictions, and these will be substantial publications once again. Our team at Correlation is working diligently on these projects," Hickey stated.

"We receive no funding from governments or corporations. Any financial support we have comes from individual donations," Hickey said. "All we can do is strive to uncover the truth ... We're doing our utmost to shed light on as much as possible."