The Difference Between Misinformation and "Doctored" Information
... is apparently a matter of degrees when it comes to HPV vaccines
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair
(*if you’re short on time and you already know you want to oppose HPV mandates, feel free to skip right to the Take Action part)
Know Thy Expert
Dr. Eddy Bresnitz thinks that HPV vaccines should be added to the list of required vaccines for children to attend school.
This position becomes less surprising as you scroll down to his bio:
Eddy Bresnitz is a physician and former deputy commissioner for Public Health Services in the New Jersey Department of Health, where he was also the state’s chief epidemiologist. From 2008 to 2020, he was the global medical director for adult vaccines at Merck, during which time Merck’s position was to be neutral on state mandates. He retired from Merck several years ago and no longer owns individual stocks in the company.
And then I remembered, the first time I saw Dr. Bresnitz’s name.
It was in response to an inquiry I made to my local board of health about the MATH+ protocol and other early treatment protocols for COVID that Dr. Paul Marik and others were using successfully very early in the pandemic.
Note the date.
I sent this to a local board of health member who happened to be my daughter’s favorite school nurse. She was kind enough to forward my request to her colleagues. She sent me back what she considered “the most valid response” from our then BOH president:
Dr. Eddy Bresnitz, former State Epidemiologist and currently Consultant to the State Dept of Health, on a webinar strongly recommended against taking supplemental medications to try to prevent infection, since none have been shown to work.
I wonder if he ever revisited this position. A visit to his Linked-in page suggests the answer is likely no.
I have 40+ years of experience and an extensive professional global network in academia, government public health and the pharmaceutical industry with a focus on the development of vaccines and implementation of vaccines policy.
Bresnitz is currently working independently as a healthcare consultant…
I provide consultation services to biotech companies to develop a strategy to obtain favorable vaccine policy recommendations.
He is also on the commercial advisory board of VBI Vaccines, a biopharmaceutical company that “is committed to targeting and overcoming significant infectious diseases, including hepatitis B, COVID-19 and coronaviruses, and cytomegalovirus (“CMV”), as well as aggressive cancers including glioblastoma (“GBM”)” via vaccines that use virus-like particles (VLPs).
Here is Dr. Bresnitz reassuring the public of the safety and efficacy of the COVID shots.
The public should have confidence in the efficacy and the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine or vaccines because of the intensive work and effort that was done by the manufacturers to do an appropriately conducted clinical trial with stringent requirements for how that trial was done by the Food and Drug Administration… We had independent scientific reviews from a data safety monitoring board, a vaccine advisory committee to the FDA and an advisory committee to the CDC, all looking at the data and evaluating it for safety and efficacy.
So, to review… A former global medical director for adult vaccines at Merck, who championed vaccines as state epidemiologist and consultant to the State Dept of Health in NJ, who currently provides consultation services “to obtain favorable vaccine policy recommendations” and is on the commercial advisory board of a vaccine company that is making vaccines for cancer…believes it’s time for an HPV vaccine mandate.
Got it.
Moving on, let’s find out why Dr. Bresnitz feels we need to mandate vaccines for a virus that is sexually transmitted to attend school.
First, the most recent vaccination data show that the number of teens getting the vaccine has slowed, or even declined, over the last few years, and is much worse than other routine and required childhood vaccines.
Bresnitz seems to have decided that low compliance is reason enough to mandate a vaccine. But what if low compliance demonstrates that, despite the federal government awarding more than 50 grants worth $40 million to increase HPV vaccine uptake, parents have become aware of some of the serious side effects, including postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, celiac disease, lupus erythematosus, pemphigus vulgaris, Addison’s disease, Raynaud’s disease, encephalomyelitis and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), that have been linked to the shots? Perhaps parents are aware of the growing number of lawsuits against Merck for its Gardasil HPV.
Maybe parents are doing their own risk/benefit analysis.
Although most sexually active people will be infected at some point, HPV infections rarely result in cancer. In 90% of cases, HPV resolves on its own within 2 years and does not cause health problems. Smoking, oral contraceptives and compromised immunity increase the risks of developing cervical cancer. Studies also suggest that vaginal microbiota play a significant role. (Could it be that this is yet another disease of vulnerability that could be better avoided with lifestyle changes?)
Cervical cancer also takes years, usually decades, to develop and is treatable. Cervical cancer rates had already been steadily declining for decades prior to the introduction of HPV vaccines in the US in 2006. This was largely attributed to routine cervical cancer screenings. Curiously, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have recently changed their recommendations expanding the time between cervical cancer screenings to once every 3 years as it doubles down on vaccines.
Back to Bresnitz..
Second, the FDA-approved HPV vaccine, which now contains nine infectious strains of the virus, has been shown over the years to prevent not just cervical cancer, but also a wide range of cancers and precancerous lesions and no new serious side effects. And rates of HPV infection and early cancers tied to the virus are falling since the vaccines were first deployed.
That’s some serious cherry-picking.
While rates of HPV infection linked to vaccine strains (which is what the vaccines were designed to prevent, NOT cancer) fell after the introduction of the shots, cervical cancer rates in the US “have been stable over 2010-2019”. If you look at the image below, the steady decline in cases over decades actually slowed after the introduction of the vaccine.
Some highlights from a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine:
It is uncertain whether HPV vaccination prevents cervical cancer. The trials were not designed to detect this outcome, which takes decades to develop. For most outcomes, follow-up data exist for an average of only four or five years.
Although there is evidence that vaccination prevents cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 1 (CIN1) this is not a clinically important outcome (no treatment is given). Trials used composite surrogate outcomes which included CIN1.
It is unknown whether vaccine targeting will lead to substitution by other oncogenic types, as with pneumococcal vaccination.
A cost-effectiveness analysis in Australia suggested that immunisation is not cost-effective in settings with established cervical screening
Meanwhile, there has been a concerning rise in advance cervical cancers, which have a 5 year survival rate of 17%.
A new study finds that late-stage cervical cancer cases are on the rise in the U.S., and some researchers hypothesize that a decrease in screenings among young women could be why more women are being diagnosed with the deadly disease.
(Remind me why annual pap smears history again?)
Some studies suggest that HPV vaccination campaigns may be contributing to spikes in cervical cancer rates and a reversal of the downward trend that has been occurring over decades.
Could the HPV vaccination cause an increase in invasive cervical cancer instead of preventing it among already infected females and thereby explain the increase in the incidence of cancer reported by the NKCx in Sweden? The increased incidence among young females, the possibility of virus reactivation after vaccination, the increase in premalignant cell changes shown by the FDA for women who were already exposed to oncogenic HPV types and the time relationship between the start of vaccination and the increase in cervical cancer in Sweden could support this view. The answer to this question is vital for correctly estimating the benefit-risk of this vaccine. More studies focused on already HPV-infected individuals are needed to solve this question.
https://ijme.in/articles/increased-incidence-of-cervical-cancer-in-sweden-possible-link-with-hpv-vaccination/
There’s also evidence of rising cervical cancer rates in young people.
There are more than 150 strains of HPV, and 40 that have been linked to cancer. According to Cancer.gov, “there are about 14 high-risk HPV types including HPV 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66, and 68.”
But this is an evolving scenario.
Mass vaccination can drive the evolution of new dominant pathogen strains, a phenomenon called vaccine-induced pathogen strain replacement. Studies show a shift in genotype prevalence since the introduction of HPV vaccination.
But no NEW serious side effects.Phew! Just the same old reports of cardiovascular events, motor neuron disorders, autoimmune disorders, cognitive and mood disorders, neurological disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, miscarriages, menstrual disorders, seizures, headaches, extreme fatigue, skin disorders, sleep disorders, paralysis, encephalitis and death.
Third, the administration of the vaccine has become simpler, going from a three-shot series to a two-shot series, if starting before the 15th birthday. And there are initiatives and ongoing global studies that could support a one-dose vaccine policy in a few years…
So?
Is this an appeal to convenience for the sake of compliance? An acknowledgement that the shots currently lack efficacy if not repeated? Or an admission that each shot introduces additional risk?
Since, each shot contains amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate (AAHS), which travels to different sites in the body, including the brain, joints and the spleen where it accumulates and is retained for years post-vaccination, perhaps Bresnitz is trying to alleviate concerns about the the associated risks… without addressing the risks.
All states have supporting laws that allow for mandates. In some, it requires legislative action. In others — including Pennsylvania and New Jersey — it can happen through regulations, via the state department of health.
This seems to be a nod to the recent NJDOH proposal to introduce policy changes that would bypass the legislative process and immediately require COVID, flu and HPV shots to attend school by aligning school immunization requirements with current ACIP (Advisory Committee on Vaccine Practices) requirements. You can read more about that here and here.
Meanwhile, the VAERS reports and the lawsuits mount.
We do agree on this part though:
It’s our obligation and responsibility as elected officials, public health professionals, health advocates, parents and caregivers to use the tools we have to prevent disease in our children before it’s too late. We just need the courage to make it happen.
Can Dr. Bresnitz find the courage to make this happen in earnest when his job is to “develop a strategy to obtain favorable vaccine policy recommendations”?
Scientific literature suggests that cervical cancer may be a product of underlying immune deficiency and other risk factors that result in unresolved or persistent infections. HPV vaccines do nothing to address that and potentially introduce other complications and vulnerability. Evidence of vaccine-induced injuries and shortcomings of clinical trial design suggest that HPV vaccines may NOT be the best tool at our disposal and could very well be causing more harm than good. And vaccine mandates are Machiavellian at best.
We have better tools. Screenings. Quitting smoking. Dietary and lifestyle changes.
Let’s return to the obligation and responsibility to First Do No Harm. It will likely lead us to better tools.
In the meantime, NJStandsUp has some great resources to STOP the policy changes proposed by the NJDOH that would result in HPV and other vaccine mandates.
Take action here.