Lancet Study on Covid Vaccine Autopsies Finds 74% Were Caused by Vaccine – Study Removed Within 24 Hours

A Lancet review of 325 autopsies after Covid vaccination found that 74% of the deaths were caused by the vaccine – but the study was removed within 24 hours.

The paper, a pre-print that was awaiting peer-review, is written by leading cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch and their colleagues at the Wellness Company and was published online on Wednesday on the pre-print site of the prestigious medical journal.

However, less than 24 hours later, the study was removed and a note appeared stating: “This preprint has been removed by Preprints with the Lancet because the study’s conclusions are not supported by the study methodology.” While the study had not undergone any part of the peer-review process, the note implies it fell foul of “screening criteria”.

The original study abstract can be found in the Internet Archive. It reads (with my emphasis added):

Background: Concerns have been raised about potential mechanisms of injury, including systemic lipid nanoparticle (LNP) and mRNA distribution, spike protein-associated tissue damage, thrombogenicity, immune system dysfunction, and carcinogenicity, as a result of the rapid development and widespread deployment of COVID-19 vaccines. The purpose of this systematic review is to examine potential causal relationships between receiving the COVID-19 vaccine and passing away using autopsies and post-mortem examination.

Methods: We looked for all autopsy and necropsy reports about the COVID-19 vaccine that had been published up until May 18th, 2023. After screening for our inclusion criteria, we selected 44 papers from a pool of 678 studies that totaled 325 autopsy cases and one necropsy case. Whether COVID-19 vaccination was the direct cause of death or significantly contributed to it was determined after an independent review of each death by three medical professionals.

Findings: The most implicated organ system in COVID-19 vaccine-associated death was the cardiovascular system (53%), followed by the hematological system (17%), the respiratory system (8%) and multiple organ systems (7%). Three or more organ systems were affected in 21 cases. The mean time from vaccination to death was 14.3 days. Most deaths occurred within a week from last vaccine administration. A total of 240 deaths (73.9%) were independently adjudicated as directly due to or significantly contributed to by COVID-19 vaccination.

Interpretation: A high likelihood of a causal relationship between COVID-19 vaccines and death in most cases is suggested by the consistency seen among cases in this review with known COVID-19 vaccine adverse events, their mechanisms, and related excess death. This is in addition to autopsy confirmation and physician-led death adjudication. For the purpose of elucidating our findings, urgently more research is needed.

The full study does not appear to have been saved in the Internet Archive, but can be read here

Without further detail from the Preprints with the Lancet staff who removed the paper it is hard to know what substance the claim that the conclusions are not supported by the methodology really has. Since many of the authors of the paper are experts in their fields, it is difficult to believe that their review methodology was truly so subpar that it called for removal at initial screening rather than being subjected to a thorough critical appraisal. It smells more like outright censorship of a newspaper that defied authority. Remember that the CDC has not yet confirmed that any deaths were brought on by Covid vaccines. The U.S. public health establishment clearly does not want to hear autopsy evidence that suggests otherwise.

Dr. Clare Craig, a pathologist and co-Chair of the HART pandemic advisory group, says that in her view the approach taken in the study is sound. She claimed that:

The VAERS system [of vaccine adverse event reporting] is designed to alert to potential harms without necessarily being the best way of measuring the extent of those harms.

By examining the overall mortality rates in a nation, one can calculate the effect of deaths.

The accuracy of any baseline is questionable due to the fact that a deficit of deaths would be anticipated following a period of excess deaths, making this an imperfect solution.

An autopsy audit of such deaths is a sound alternative strategy.

The likelihood of causation may be exaggerated by a bias [in the study] towards reporting the autopsies of deaths where there was evidence of causation. For instance, 19 of the 325 deaths occurred as a result of vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT), but this information may be exaggerated due to the regulators’ willingness to report such deaths.

However, it is crucial that efforts are made to quantify the risk of harm, and censoring these efforts in favor of open scientific criticism does nothing to assuage public concerns.

Dr. Harvey Risch, one of the study’s authors, told the Daily Sceptic he deems it “pure Government-directed censorship, even after the Missouri v. Biden injunction”. 

“Meanwhile, my colleagues are studying what they call ‘Long Vax‘ which is vaccine-caused damage. But of course that is a rare, rare, rare outcome, except that they seem not to be having any problem finding such individuals to enroll in their study,” he added.