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WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION


With an abundance of caution Ireland shot itself in the foot, not in the arm.


By Dr Terry Maguire


n the 1960s, US President Johnson was considering mandatory vaccination to eradicate a number of infectious diseases, but was advised against doing so.


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The move would, he was told, cause 30,000 cancer deaths and 100,000 heart deaths. The President asked how the advisor knew this, to which the advisor replied that this was the annual number of deaths from cancer and heart disease in the US but, with mandatory vaccination, each one would be causally linked to a vaccine. This was a powerful insight, but not one that has been informing the actions of many European countries - including Ireland in the middle of March.


Irish health authorities made a major mistake on Monday 15 March and it could cost lives. Professor Karina Butler, chair of the National Immunization Advisory Committee, was quoted in a statement on the organisation’s website: ‘The vaccine is proven to be very effective against severe COVID-19 disease, which is associated with a risk of clotting events... We have taken this step [to defer use] out of an abundance of caution.’


Abundance of caution??? It could be straight from W B Yeats or Seamus Heaney. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) - which advises the Medicines and Health products Regulatory Authority - did not view the need for a precautionary stoppage in vaccination, confident in the safety and efficacy of the Astra Zeneca (AZ) vaccine while it undertakes an assessment of 37 blood-clotting events in patients recently vaccinated. The World Health Organisation agreed there is most likely not causal link.


A month previous, there was much social media noise in the US about deaths linked to COVID-19 vaccines. The FDA investigated 1117 deaths in people who had a vaccine within a few days of death. Given that there were some 40 million vaccines administered in the US at that time - the majority of which were to the elderly and the clinically vulnerable - it was quickly established that this was the normal expected number of deaths.


The damage had, however, been done.


The anti-vaxx websites were alight and the conspiracies multiplied.


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