Open Letter to the WHO re: recognition of vaccine side effects
Please read the Open Letter to the WHO authored by several concerned action groups here in the UK, with regards to an ICD recognition of C0VID-19 vaccine-induced side effects and related disorders.
Please read the Open Letter to the WHO authored by several concerned action groups here in the UK, with regards to an ICD recognition of C0VID-19 vaccine-induced side effects and related disorders. Also available to download if you wish to share the letter in PDF version.
17 June 2023
Open Letter from UK Doctors, Healthcare Professionals and Scientists to:
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus - WHO Director General
Dr Hans Kluge - WHO Regional Director for Europe
Dr Michael Ryan - Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme
Dr Jeremy Farrar - WHO Chief Scientist
RE: ICD Recognition of COVID-19 vaccine-induced side effects and related disorders
We, the undersigned, write to request that you consider the contents of this open letter and its implications for global health, in accordance with your stated goal of keeping the world safe.1
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been replete with medical interventions, both non-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical. The non-pharmaceutical interventions and treatment policies must be addressed elsewhere. The most significant pharmaceutical intervention globally, however, has been the mass rollout of COVID-19 mRNA and DNA-viral-vector “vaccines”.
As health professionals and academics with decades of experience, we are appealing to you for urgent action to assess and quantify the issues we raise below. As clinicians, we are seeing patients with severe diseases that appear linked to COVID-19 vaccines rather than SARS-CoV2 infection. Clinicians are trained to recognise new and unusual patterns of illness and have an ethical duty to report a suspicion of iatrogenic harm being caused. As academics, we can also see plainly that even the trial data itself shows a higher rate of serious adverse reactions from the vaccine (12.5 per 10,000) than any reduction in serious events from COVID-19 (2.3 and 6.4 per 10,000 for Pfizer and Moderna, respectively).2
As with all medical interventions, mRNA-based and DNA-based vaccines have been associated with adverse effects. The absolute figures are unclear, however using the latest published European Medicines Agency EudraVigilance data, there were a total of 1,626,491 reports to of side effects following COVID-19 vaccines, up to November 23, 2022.3
In the US, a similar safety signal is seen, with 1,563,950 adverse events relating to the COVID19 vaccines reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) up to 2 June 2023, including 35,347 deaths and 202,505 hospitalisations.4 In 2021, 737,689 adverse events were reported following COVID-19 vaccines, representing 93% of the total reported for any Page 2 of 7 vaccine in that year.5 Given that only 1–10% of all vaccine-related adverse events are reported to VAERS,6 it is likely that these official numbers are significantly underestimating the extent of the problem. A comparison of COVID-19 injections in 2021 with all other vaccines over the preceding 10 years, shows a more than 10-fold increase in adverse events reports.7 While these reporting systems are only indicators of a potential problem and full epidemiological investigation is required to measure the true extent of the problem, in the meantime these systems exist as a crucial safety measure and the safety signals we refer to are being negligently ignored.
The same pattern is seen all over the world. For example, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) received a total of 138,932 COVID-19 vaccine adverse event reports up to 11 June 2023.8 Again, we can assume that the true figures are a lot higher. Of additional concern, other official data from Australia suggest that the more COVID-19 doses received by an individual, the higher the likelihood of hospital admission, intensive care unit admission, and death.9 These data have serious implications for global health and, in accordance with WHO stated goals, requires immediate attention.
Pharmaceutical companies and regulators now acknowledge several serious side effects, specifically vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopaenia (VITT), myo- and peri-carditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome and transverse myelitis.10 VITT was the first serious adverse outcome to be recognised after the onset of the mass vaccination campaign.11 It has now been officially recognised as a COVID-19 vaccine side effect, and blood tests of those with VITT have pathognomonic features of raised D-dimer, low fibrinogen, and presence of PF4 antibodies.12 Access to high quality, evidence-based early diagnosis and treatment for patients with VITT remains inconsistent and lamentable internationally, and is an issue that the WHO must address and seek to rectify as a matter of the highest priority.
Pericarditis and myocarditis are acknowledged by the CDC to occur following the COVID-19 vaccines. 1314 We highlight recent Scandinavian studies that have shown that there is a 4.8 - 28 times greater chance of suffering myocarditis following the COVID-19 vaccine compared to COVID-19 itself. 15 16 The risks are highest in the youngest age groups, who are at the least risk from SARS-CoV-2 infection, yet this has not been widely recognised in the medical literature or official guidelines. The WHO has an important duty of care to the public, to communicate risks as well as benefits of medical interventions, and we cannot understand why this risk has not been highlighted. The potential long-term outcomesfor adolescents with vaccine-associated myocarditis are only now being officially investigated.17
In addition to these major and now acknowledged risks, the published literature has multiple studies highlighting other adverse effects occurring shortly after vaccination, including (but certainly not limited to): acute hair loss,18 non-Hodgkin lymphoma,19 acquired haemophilia A,20 psychosis,21 acute depression,22 peripheral neuropathy,23 genital ulcers,24 angioedema,25 Page 3 of 7 thyroid eye disease,26 central diabetes insipidus,27 optic neuritis,28 irregular bleeding and menstrual changes,29 autoimmune encephalitis30 , sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease31 and potential consequences for the immune system.32 33 We present these examples to highlight that COVID-19 vaccines appear, increasingly, to drive a wide range of pathologies.
There are numerous things the WHO need to do to put right the harm caused and to prevent a repeat, but a first step should be this one. Due to the sheer number and variety of disease states and side effects occurring after COVID-19 vaccines, we believe it is imperative to introduce “COVID-19 vaccine-induced side effects and related disorders” as an umbrella term disease state in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), in order to begin to assess the scale and magnitude of the problem.
This would not only assist in the initiation of much-needed research into diagnostics and treatment for COVID-19 vaccine injuries, but also help identify those who have sustained a vaccine injury so that they can get the appropriate care they require.
In consideration of the World Health Organization's stated role to “promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable”,34 we urge you to adopt our request.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Eashwarran Kohilathas BMBS – Doctors for Patients UK
Dr Elizabeth Evans MA (Cantab) MBBS (Lond) DRCOG - CEO UK Medical Freedom Alliance
Dr Clare Craig BMBCh FRCPath - Pathologist, Co-chair HART
Dr Jonathan Engler MBChB LlB (Hons) DipPharmMed - Co-chair HART Professor Angus Dalgleish MD FRCP FRACP FRCPath FMedSci - Principal, Institute for Cancer Vaccines & Immunotherapy
Professor John A Fairclough BM BA BMedSci FRCS FFSEM - Professor Emeritus
Professor Keith Willison PhD - Professor of Chemical Biology
Lord Moonie MBChB MRCPsych MFCM MSc - retired member of House of Lords, former Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Health, former consultant in Public Health Medicine
Dr Ayiesha Malik MBChB MRCGP (2014) LFHom - General Practitioner
Dr Salmaan Saleem MBBS BMedSci RCGP (2019) - General Practitioner
Dr M A Bell MBChB MRCP(UK) FRCEM - Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Mr Ian McDermott MBBS MS FRCS(Tr&Orth) FFSEM(UK) - Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Dr David Critchley BSc (Hons), PhD - Clinical Pharmacologist
Dr Fiona Martindale MBChB MRCGP - General Practitioner
Dr Ancha Bala-Joof MRCGP MBChB BSc - General Practitioner
Mr T James Royle MBChB FRCS(Ed) MMedEd - Colorectal and General Surgeon
Dr David Cartland BMedSci MBChB - General Practitioner
Dr Alistair J Montgomery MBChB MRCGP DRCOG - retired General Practitioner
Dr I Mian MBBS(Lond) BDS(Lond) LRCP MRCS(Eng) LDS RCS(Eng) MFGDP(UK)
Dr Gill Breese BSc MBChB DTM&H DFFP - General Practitioner
Dr Sheena Fraser MBChB MRCGP (2003) Dip BSLM - General Practitioner
Dr Angela Musso MD BS MRCGP DRCOG FRACGP - General Practitioner
Dr Rohaan Seth BSc MBChB MRCGP - General Practitioner
Dr Scott Mitchell MBChB MRCS – Medical Practitioner
Dr Cathy Greig MBChB (Hons) MRCGP - General Practitioner
Dr Ian Barros D’Sa BM MRCS FRCR PGCMEd - Consultant Radiologist
Dr Lydia Sugaru MRCGP FRACP - General Practitioner
Dr Rosamond Jones MBBS MD FRCPCH - retired Consultant Paediatrician
Dr Alan Black MB BS MSc DipPharmMed - retired Pharmaceutical Physician
Dr Kulvinder Singh Manik MBBS - General Practitioner
Michael Cockayne MSc PGDip SCPHNOH BA RN - Occupational Health Practitioner
Dr Noel Thomas MA MB ChB DCH DRCOG DTM&H MFHom
Dr Tanya Klymenko PhD FHEA FIBMS - Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences
Mr Malcolm Loudon MB ChB MD FRCSEd FRCS (Gen Surg) MIHM, VR - Consultant Surgeon
Mr Ian F Comaish MA BM BCh FRCOphth FRANZCO - Consultant Ophthalmologist
Dr Alan Mordue - retired Consultant in Public Health
Dr Greta Mushet MBChB MRCPsych – retired Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy
Mr Anthony Hinton MBChB FRCS FRCS(Oto) - Consultant ENT surgeon
Dr Gerry Quinn PhD - Microbiologist
Dr Ali Haggett - Mental Health Community Work 3rd sector, former Lecturer in the History of Medicine (University of Exeter)
Dr Branko Latinkic BSc PhD - Molecular Biologist
Dr Theresa Lawrie MBBCh PhD - Director, Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd, Bath Page 5 of 7
Dr Michael D Bell MBChB MRCGP - General Practitioner
Dr Peter Chan BM MRCS MRCGP - General Practitioner, Functional Medicine Practitioner
Dr John Flack BPharm PhD - Retired Director of Safety Evaluation at Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Senior Vice-president for Drug Discovery SmithKline Beecham
Dr Julian Tompkinson MBChB MRCGP PCME - General Practitioner, GP Trainer
Natalie Stephenson BSc (Hons) - Paediatric Audiologist
Dr Rachel Nicoll PhD - Medical researcher Rev
Dr William J U Philip MBChB MRCP BD - Senior Minister The Tron Church Glasgow, formerly Physician specialising in Cardiology
Dr Jon Rogers MBChB - retired General Practitioner
Gayle Gerry BSc (Hons) RGN - NHS registered Nurse
Mr Angus Robertson - Orthopaedic surgeon
Professor Roger Watson FRCP Edin FRCN FAAN - Academic Dean Southwest Medical University China, President of the National Conference of University Professors
Dr Jonathan Eastwood BSc MBChB MRCGP - General Practitioner
Dr Tim Kelly MB BCh BSc - NHS Doctor
Matt Taylor - Specialist Paramedic
Dr Julia Wilkens MD - Consultant Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Dr Angharad Powell MBChB - General Practitioner
Eshani King BSc (Hons) FCA CTA BFP - Evidence Based Research in Immunology and Health
Livia Tossici-Bolt PhD - retired NHS Clinical Scientist
Sophie Gidet – Registered Midwife
Helen Auburn DipION mBANT NTCC CNHC - Registered Nutritional Therapist
Cheryl Grainger BSc - Pharma Training Consultant
Kaira McCallum BSc - retired Pharmacist, Director of Strategy UK Medical Freedom Alliance
Julie Nicholls RGN LCSP (Phys) IEMT – BodyMind Coach, retired Nurse
Dr Carmen Wheatley DPhil - Orthomolecular Oncology
Mr John Bunni MBChB (Hons) Dip Lap Surg FRCS [ASGBI Medal] - Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon
Dr Charlie Sayer MBBS FRCR - Consultant Radiologist
Margaret Moss MA (Cantab) CBiol MRSB - The Nutrition and Allergy Clinic, Cheshire
James Cook Bachelor of Nursing (Hons) Master of Public Health (MPH) - NHS Registered Nurse
Mr Shiraz Akram BDS - Dental Surgeon
Wendy Armstrong - Practice Nurse
Marco Suadoni RN BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing MSc - Specialist Palliative Care Lead
Dr Christopher Newton PhD - Biochemist
Julie Annakin RN - Immunisation Nurse Specialist
Dr Felicity Lillingston IMD DHS PhD ANP - Doctor, Urgent Care, Research Fellow
Dr Jannah van der Pol MBBS MRCGP - General Practitioner
Dr Michael Bazlinton MBCHB MRCGP DCH - General Practitioner
Dr Andrew Lees MB BS MRCGP DCH - retired General Practitioner
Dr Christina Peers MBBS DRCOG DFSRH FFSRH - Women’s health specialist
Dr Geoffrey Maidment MD FRCP - retired Consultant Physician
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X#sec15 (see Section 15 Considerations regarding the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System)
Please , let us have a letter like this one FROM EACH STATE/COUNTRY/PROVINCE
Even Organizations, cities, counties
Get the picture?
We need this kind of letter from EVERYWHERE!
With citations.
Put the WHO ON NOTICE
Thank you for your excellent work, and for sending it to us. I hope, with you and the many others, that your letter will strongly influence all of the necessary people and organizations. Speaking just for myself, it is useless to tell people the vaccine is dangerous. Why would they believe such a thing? "Everyone knows" how the jab has saved the world. Most people don't want to watch, or they don't understand, videos on health or statistics, or read publications. Your letter is concise and easy to understand.