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InternalMedicineDoc's avatar

I have not had the time to look through the study to see if this was addressed. This is certainly not addressed in the above graphs.

Interesting - in that just about a week ago - a group of internists were at a meeting I attended and we were all noting the fact of how it appeared to us that Hashimoto's thyroiditis just seemed to be exploding in our practices. Alex, it is not clear from what you have placed in this piece if the researchers elucidated further. The basic test for this kind of thyroid disease is known as the thyroid peroxidase antibody. It would be very interesting to see if there was any kind of correlation with these overall very elevated numbers of hypothyroid patients. If the thyroid peroxidase antibodies are also very elevated compared to the unvaccinated it would definitely seem to suggest an autoimmune issue. For those interested - these kinds of thyroid issues will be going on for the rest of the patient's life. There is no cure. You have to be on thyroid supplement and you have to have constant testing. It is also interesting to note above that HYPERthyroid issues were also above the HR. That is deeply alarming for they are generally much more involved in all kinds of organ systems, most notably the eyes and the heart. For example, Both George HW Bush and Barbara Bush had Graves disease. I understand both had a fib - and this puts people at extreme risk for strokes. It can also lead to unfortunate instances like when he vomited all over the Prime Minister of Japan ( look it up on youtube - it is there). In brief, neither of these big groups of thyroid problems is what we would want to see increasing in the population.

The data coming out just keeps getting more and more alarming every day.

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

Hmmm…what are the chances that both spouses in a marriage have the same autoimmune disease? I’m guessing that doesn’t happen very often. Obviously this was pre- COVID, but makes me wonder about toxic exposures, diet, and lifestyle factors that they may have shared that may have tipped the scales toward this disease?

AM's avatar

IIRC the Bushes (HW) spent time in China where he was a diplomat (??). Perhaps they got a bunch of vaccines to go over there.

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

That’s a check mark in the toxic exposure box. Anything else?

Anmadeli's avatar

Maybe they need some Lugol

Mercy O'Warren's avatar

30 percent MORE likely, I imagine--not "30 percent likely" (!). Although both are bad.... :-)

Alex Berenson's avatar

Changed to likelier, ugh... I had both "more likely" and "likelier" in there, and I settled on "likely."

John T's avatar

Thanks to Alex for using some actual numbers in this article. I often see risks cited as "30% more likely" when the baseline is still very low and the actual incident rate is still pretty insignificant. Not the case here.

Maggie's avatar

What a lovely way for pharmaceutical companies to ensure there’s a long-term need for their products 🙄.

Brogan12's avatar

They learned long ago there is no money in a healthy society!

Matt Poling MD's avatar

Never attribute to malevolence what can be just as easily explained by ignorance or incompetence. Generic thyroid supplement makers are not the Illuminati.

Anmadeli's avatar

Maybe not illuminati but greedy, for sure not incompetent neither ignorant.

Thyroxine has been the most prescribed drug in the U.S. for several years.

And that was in 2009!

Anmadeli's avatar

Yes! And this was B.C. (before corona):

Thyroxine has been the most prescribed drug in the U.S. for several years. So, the manufacturers of thyroxine benefited tremendously from this deception. It also resulted in the destruction of the thyroid gland by means of radioiodide in patients with hyperthyroidism caused by iodine deficiency, although this condition had previously been treated successfully with Lugol solution. The radioablation of the thyroid gland with radioiodide resulted in 90 percent of these patients becoming hypothyroid within the first year and eventually joining the ever-increasing thyroxine-consuming population. “Supplying thyroid hormones to iodine-deprived individuals masks the iodine deficiency and can result in zombie-like effect. The patients are capable of performing physical work but are not able to think and reason at maximum capacity. An even greater negative effect is realized if iodine deprivation is combined with goitrogen saturation, using the potent goitrogens bromide, fluoride and perchlorate in the food and water supply.

https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/modern-diseases/the-great-iodine-debate/#gsc.tab=0

Allison Brennan's avatar

Every time I discuss the dangers of the jabs with anyone who is pro-COVID vaccine, they say, "But getting COVID is more dangerous." Doesn't matter that virtually everyone I know who got the vaccine also got COVID either before, after, or both. Until someone these people trust comes out and says, "We were wrong, these are dangerous, and we're taking them off the market," they will continue to get boosters.

Irish Bearcat's avatar

You omitted the part which the shot lovers recite after they catch Covid i.e. that they are vaccinated and thankful for the protection of the vaccines. It is part of the vax liturgy.

They remain convinced that, but for the vaccines, they would have been hospitalized or died.

CMCM's avatar

Yep. My brother-in-law just thinks that while he got covid a few times after the vaccination, the shots still saved his life because he believes he would have gotten far sicker than he did without them! There's absolutely no reasoning with him.

Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

"It would have been so much worse" is their mantra.

Allison Brennan's avatar

I know these are just stories, but everyone I know who got the jab has since gotten COVID. My 80 year old mom didn't get the jab, she had COVID in 2020 -- we all did, before testing -- and she hasn't been sick since. Her 82 year old brother has had every booster and has had COVID multiple times. I worry about him. But he won't listen to me. To this day he won't go to a restaurant unless they have outdoor seating.

Michael Carter's avatar

I have brothers and sisters, all >65, who got covid, got vaccinated, then got covid again. My wife and I, 75, got no vaccination, got covid once and no more. Another anecdote to support the uselessness of the vaccine, at least to help immunity. However, seems to do great at supporting big pharma.

Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

Oh, the vaxxed got Covid multiple times - at least from what I saw with everyone around me.

Valerie's avatar

In our family of my husband and I, our 3 adult kids and 2 in law kids, not one of us who refused the covid shot has had covid, but both of the people that took the vaccine did, at least twice each that I know of. They were required for their jobs (my son is in the military and his wife is a nurse who worked in the covid ward sometimes, neither had a booster). Just saying.

Louise C's avatar

They are so brainwashed that they repeat the vaccine mantra, "it could have been worse or I could have been hospitalized", like robots.

Matt Poling MD's avatar

They were right to get vaccinated if they had not yet contracted covid in 2021. I don't think Berenson or anyone serious disputes that.

Allison Brennan's avatar

I don't think young, healthy people were "right" to get vaccinated because the virus wasn't dangerous to young, healthy people -- even middle aged healthy people like myself. I don't think they were wrong to get vaccinated because the pressure campaign was intense and people generally trusted vaccines for other diseases, so why not this one? But the mRNA technology was new, it wasn't fully tested, and they blew up the trial by offering the control group vaccines after 6 months -- which means absolutely no long-term studies as required for most drugs and vaccines (by long-term I mean 5 years.)

I don't know what Alex thinks -- I remember him saying long ago that if you were older and in the risk group for bad outcomes (like 70+ with co-morbidities) then get it, but anyone who was healthy or young shouldn't. But I don't want to put words in his mouth.

Sandra Slivka's avatar

So intense that my pediatrician daughter became orate with me when I suggested that covid vaccines were not warranted for her children because there was no evidence the benefits outweighed the risk.

Allison Brennan's avatar

I'm sorry. It's awful when families argue. I have five kids and I'm close to all of them, but my #2 -- who lives in NYC -- took all the jabs. She's in her 20s, healthy, I told her not to, and ultimately we couldn't talk about them anymore. (We also couldn't talk about lockdowns, school closures, or masks -- she was really mad at me that I refused to mask. I just didn't go places that required them.) She, too, got COVID after her 2nd shot AND after her booster -- and believes that she would have been seriously sick if she hadn't been vaccinated so she was "lucky." Argh.

Louise C's avatar

When the shots were approved for children, I told my daughter not to get my then 3 and 5 year old grandkids vaccinated, children do not need it. She believed in masks and lockdowns and wouldn't even think of dining at an indoor restaurant. I hope she listened to me but I'm not sure. Like your daughter, she would not even discuss the shots with me.

Tommy's avatar

Getting an experimental, virtually untested, shot for a respiratory virus that had been circulating for over a year and with a risk profile, at worst, similar to a seasonal flu, wasn't merely not "right" in 2021 -- it was utterly insane.

The tweet that got Alex banned from Twitter in Aug 2021 is below. I can't imagine he, or any thoughtful person, would agree with your statement. "MD". Your profession has utterly disgraced itself.

""It doesn't stop infection. Or transmission. Don't think of it as a vaccine. Think of it – at best – as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS. And we want to mandate it? Insanity."

Spartacus's avatar

I am 62 years old and I know no one who got unusually sick in 2020, nor do I know anyone who knows anyone who got sick. If it wasn’t for people’s responses, I would have no idea a pandemic of an allegedly deadly novel virus had been declared.

Southern Kristin's avatar

I respectfully disagree with you. The "wisdom" that was constantly doled out was to get the vaccine even if you had already contracted the virus itself, which never made any sense at all to me and was never actually explained. Furthermore, I never got a vaccine, contracted Covid once and only once in October 2021 (ooh, the scary Delta variant), and was mildly sick for about 3 days. No lingering problems, no hospitalization. I've never had it again. Gosh, I suppose I would have been much better off if I had just had an experimental drug shot in my body? No thanks.

Brogan12's avatar

Almost Memorial day wkd 2025 now, and to date not ONE person on the entire planet has remotely been held accountable for ANY of this. The absolute perfect CRIME against humanity. If it was not so tragic one would have to admire the perfection in execution of said crime. Just yday, I read over on the Epoch Times site RFK say going forward the mRNA gene therapy medication injections are NOT recommended for pregnant women and children. Think about this...even NOW they will NOT say these injections MUST be never injected into human bodies even after ALL that is now KNOWN. Just what will it take? Not ONE!

CMCM's avatar

Too many dirty hands were in the covid pot so I don't believe a single person will have to answer for what happened. Basically, they are all party to mass murder and they got away with it.

Tina C's avatar

I’m currently reading The Real Anthony Fauci by RFK,Jr. I’ve come away with two thoughts

1 Why isn’t he in jail?

2. Why is remdesiver still being used here when China , of all places , tested it and PROVED it killed patients! It’s criminal what Fauci and his minions have done!

Allison Brennan's avatar

My SIL, a nurse, read this book and kept sending me screen shots of clips like this. She is appalled by what Fauci has gotten away with since the AIDS crisis. I also can't believe that remdesiver is still being used.

Louise C's avatar

Why did Fauci get a preemptive pardon from the Biden Administration? To me that means that they knew he had been funding gain of function research illegally at a lab that was notorious for leaks or they were working with him.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

So when does Jake Tapper go to the same excruciating lengths, with uncovering the jab conspiracy, as he did to uncover the shocking mental decline of Biden that Tapper covered up?!

CMCM's avatar

He would say he never heard about any of it.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Such a fake...with zero shame

Louise C's avatar

When other networks play clips of Tapper insisting Biden just had a stutter or he was sharp as a tack, it makes him look like the fool he is. If he didn't work for a corporate news outlet, he might be ashamed of reporting what he knew was a lie instead of cashing in on it.

Brad Thomas's avatar

I am a long-time reader of your books and posts and subscriber. Thank you for your great work on Covid and marijuana. You helped friends avoid the vaccine.

I did not.

I had 2 shots during the peak period. I am now 71-years old. I take thyroid medication, but think I took it before I was vaccinated.

For the first time in my life this week, I had an allergic reaction. My PA suggested it was shellfish, the most common allergy.

But a well-informed friend suggested the vaccine can harm the immune system, to make people more likely to have allergies. Perhaps the shellfish alone was not the cause of the reaction. I have eaten shellfish for many decades.

I do not claim to know. But once again, I found your recent work and insights relevant.

Thank you.

CMCM's avatar

The immune system is an interesting thing. I have celiac disease, which is a genetic autoimmune condition that may or may not be triggered in a person's life. If triggered to begin (can happen at any age), it begins to damage the digestive system and a person may not realize it or get a diagnosis for a long time. If left untreated (which for celiac, means you banish all gluten from your diet to treat it and then your system heals) , it can lead to a whole host of any of around 200 other autoimmune conditions (rheumatoid arthritis is one, for example). I can certainly see that happening with the mRNA messing things up. No telling what will happen,.

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

Excellent article! Thanks so much, Alex! I haven’t seen this anywhere else. The studies just keep coming out, don’t they? Eventually we may have a study correlating bad outcomes for every organ in the body connected to these “vaccines”. So far, we have heart issues, ovarian issues, thyroid issues, what am I missing? And yes, as others have commented, when will the trials begin for these people? At least Pfizer is being investigated for election interference. Kind of like putting a mobster in jail for tax evasion because you can’t prove he killed a bunch of people. The wheels of justice turn very slowly, and it’s very hard to have patience.

Allison Brennan's avatar

I love your mobster analogy. Totally on point.

Richard Koenig's avatar

Alex-As usual, you're the only reporter getting the story. Two questions on other topics:

1) We are seeing the predictable pearl-clutching about Makary's insistence on placebo controls for certain vaccine studies going forward. Did not even Marks eventually write an article proposing placebo controls for Covid-vaccine boosters going forward? Maybe I've got that wrong. But if I haven't, the legacy press has sent it down the memory hole.

2) Is anybody looking at a possible association between mRNA's and tinnitus? I believe a doctor at, if memory serves, the Mayo Clinic attributed his own sudden onset of tinnitus to an mRNA jab. But I haven't seen news of a study. I know this would be a tough one given the prevalence of tinnitus and the difficulty in timing its onset.

TrishRN's avatar

I have a friend who developed tinnitus after being vaccinated for Covid. When she saw the ENT doctor, he acknowledged that he was seeing a definite increase in people who developed tinnitus since taking the vaccine. Only anecdotal, but interesting...

Anthony J . Barton's avatar

Alex Berenson, this is another unknown from the mRNA shot. Boy, if we had a jar set aside to put a dollar in for every unknown from these mRNA shots, we would have a nice vacation in a few years. If they keep piling up like this.

HorizonD7's avatar

Matt observes " . . . the United States and other heavily mRNA vaccinated countries continue to report somewhat above-normal death trends, despite the fact that Covid deaths are now close to zero."

From what I have read, Covid deaths were always close to zero, especially in young and healthy people. What exploded were deaths due to Remdesivir and ventilators.

Rebecca Johnson's avatar

This massive experiment that was foisted on the entire world makes the things the Germans did to their prisoners look like a church picnic.

Criminals, all of the people who instigated this pandemic and then coerced participation in this travesty.

IndependentHK's avatar

RN here. Didn't take the shots. Almost lost my job X2. Now, one of my colleagues, and one of the nicest, kindest RN's you'll ever meet, has thyroid cancer, after developing thyroid problems over the last couple years. People need to go to prison.

Krissy's avatar

I wonder about shedding and how real it is. And if real, the impact that will have on us non vax.

Brogan12's avatar

This issue seems to get such little attention for sure!

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I am so sorry. I have developed hyperthyroidism, with a nodule, since Jan 2024 but negative for graves. It's been a long 17 months of getting the symptoms under control. Tried a bunch of natural routes but eventually had to get on a pharmaceutical. It's why I wonder about shedding. Anyways, doesn't seem like I will ever know what caused it. In the last couple of months I have been reading about sunlight and light and been working on getting my vitamin D level up through sunlight exposure, hoping if I get that hormone in the optimal range it will help immunity. I was low at 29 and now two months later tracking it, I am at 37, working to get to 50. View sunlight first thing, grounding, sun during the day, limit blue light at night and I feel better. So I am hoping continuing on this route will be my cure and I am not a pharma consumer for the rest of my life.

Des Fleurs's avatar

This is an excellent resource on thyroid problems - mostly Hashimoto's, but this article discusses Graves and hyperthyroidism. It's well done because the author, a pharmacist, suffered herself with delayed diagnoses. A lot of holistic approaches (diet, nutrition etc.) https://thyroidpharmacist.com/articles/graves-vs-hashimotos/

Krissy's avatar

Thanks for sharing. I will check it out.

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Krissy's avatar

Thanks! Reading as much as I can because it seems I just have to figure this out on my own.

Des Fleurs's avatar

How did I know not to have the mRNA jabs? Because I have Hashimoto's and was familiar with autoimmune diseases, which run in my family. I saw in a nano-second that activation of autoimmune reactions would be a big problem with this technology. Early reports presented by Moderna to the FDA (and available online) showed that three women in their trial had autoimmune adverse events, including onset of rheumatoid arthritis. A footnote pointed out that they all had hypothyroidism. Ah-ha! So if you already have and are susceptible to autoimmune conditions, the jabs can help you develop another one. No thank you. People (the majority women) with Hashimoto's (and other autoimmune diseases) should have been advised not to have the mRNA vaccines.