In estimates I asked John Skerritt if he would apologise to the victims of the Moderna vaccine, particularly the mother of 21 year old Natalie who watched her daughter suffer before passing away.
Skerritt claimed Moderna was 100% effective in stopping death.
Rather than showing some humility and compassion, Skerritt blatantly lied to cover up his reckless and misleading statement.
Skerritt never referred to a New England Journal of Medicine once. He referred to 140 million Moderna doses used the US.
This is just another example of how Skerritt will lie to cover his crimes. And if he lied about this, what else did he lie about?
The 7 and 9 children whose deaths were given the causality decision by the AEFI assessment team comes to mind. Did Skerritt lie about that as well? He lies about everything else.
On script just as Skerritt’s lie is exposed I start getting abused by Senator Katy Gallagher as to my motive. This callous creature has no empathy either and is only interested in playing politics.
Full transcript of press conference is below and I quote:
“And of course, we can build on widespread global experience. So in the US alone, there has been over 140 million doses of Moderna used. The other really encouraging thing about Moderna is even after six months, it’s proving to be 93 per cent efficacious against any infection, 98 per cent against severe disease and 100 per cent against death. And that’s really exciting.”
Community Affairs Legislation Committee
16/02/2023
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Senator RENNICK: I want to go to the causality determination for the seven- and nine-year-olds.
Dr Skerritt : Senator, you’re misunderstanding basic English. Causality is—
CHAIR: Senators, the committee will suspend for a moment and then Senator Rennick has the call.
Senator RENNICK: It does say causality here at the bottom of these two statements. My question is: at some point, the AEFI assessment team has said causality. The other assessment—
Dr Skerritt : No.
Senator RENNICK: Can I just finish my statement?
CHAIR: Dr Skerritt, Senator Rennick is entitled to ask his question in silence and then you will give your answer in silence.
Senator RENNICK: Of the 10 that we’ve seen, some say awaiting causality and some say it’s not causality. There are four. One has a question mark. The other three say causality. My question is: why did these particular ones with causality have causality? Who has overruled that and why?
Dr Skerritt : Senator, causality is a heading. That is what I was trying to explain. It’s the way it’s used on the form. You have a decision. Let’s use the example that you’ve quoted at me. I have the form in my hand. It says causality. In the next dot point under causality, it says WHO, unable to be determined, unclassifiable because of a lack of information. Causality is the heading. It’s not the conclusion.
Senator RENNICK: It actually says ‘decision, causality’.
Dr Skerritt : It says decisions, dot point 1. I can table this for the chair. I have the document in front of me. It says, ‘Decisions, dot point 1, causality, then WHO, unclassifiable, unable to be determined.’ That is what it says in black and white.
Senator RENNICK: You previously described cardiac arrest as a heart attack. They are two separate things. Do you know the difference between a cardiac arrest and a heart attack?
Dr Skerritt : There’s a range of different—
Senator RENNICK: You just submitted it.
CHAIR: Senator Rennick! Dr Skerritt.
Dr Skerritt : Yes, thank you. This was a cardiac arrest but it was not determined, with the information given, to be related to the vaccination—as I’ve said again. What I feel is absolutely wrong that you are saying is that somehow this form said that it was causally related. The form did not say that. I swear on my mother’s grave.
Senator RENNICK: Okay. You’ve got your point across.
Dr Skerritt : Thank you.
Senator RENNICK: You just said myocarditis doesn’t lead to heart attacks. Does myocarditis lead to cardiac arrest?
Dr Skerritt : There are cases where people who have had myocarditis have an increased prevalence of a range of other cardiac conditions. But to say that it leads to cardiac arrest is misleading, especially given that most myocarditis associated with vaccination—indeed, there’s a recent publication in a top medical journal by Nordic scientists—is much milder than myocarditis after COVID infection or other forms of viral myocarditis.
Senator RENNICK: I will dispute that, but that’s not what I’ll dispute right now. There’s a 21-year-old female who died from the Moderna vaccine. She had an antiphospholipid syndrome, which is an autoimmune disease. The vaccine was never tested on people with autoimmune diseases. Why haven’t you put a label on the actual vaccine to warn people if they have an antiphospholipid syndrome, which is one in 2,000 people, higher than the rate of multi-inflammatory disease that you have said is one in 3,000. Why haven’t you put a label on the vaccine to warn people about that?
Dr Skerritt : Again, I’ve got to pick you up on your science. First of all, antiphospholipid syndrome is actually even a bit more common than that. It might be one per cent of people. So it’s a considerably common condition. Because it was a common condition, early in the rollout of the vaccines it was indeed studied whether people with antiphospholipid syndrome had an increased risk after vaccination. There were international studies carried out published in the world’s top medical journals. There was a study using Italian patients. There was a study using Turkish patients. I believe the third study was done in British patients. Let me just quote from one of them:
The COVID vaccine does not increase the risk of thrombolitic events among patients with antiphospholipid syndrome, according to study results published in Rheumatology.
Rheumatology is a top journal which would cover people with antiphospholipid syndrome. I will then go to the patient group. There’s actually a patient support group in the UK for people who have antiphospholipid syndrome. I will read from their web advice to patients:
There is no evidence to suggest that patients with antiphospholipid syndrome were at increased risk of complications from the available COVID vaccines.
Senator RENNI CK: You said in a press conference that Moderna would provide 100 per cent protection from death. Well, in this case, it didn’t. You said it would provide—
Dr Skerritt : Senator, I didn’t say that.
Senator RENNICK: I haven’t finished my question. Don’t interrupt.
Dr Skerritt : Well, I did not—
Senator RENNICK: You said it would provide—
CHAIR: Excuse me. Senator Rennick is entitled to ask his question in silence. Dr Skerritt, I will give you an opportunity to respond in full.
Senator RENNICK : It said it would provide protection from infection for 93 per cent of the people for up to six months. You were wrong. Will you retract that statement?
Dr Skerritt : No, Senator. I will not retract that statement. Once again, you’ve quoted me out of context, and I would suggest deliberately, Senator. If you go back to the record of that press conference, it was quoting the clinical trial results as published in the New England Journal of Medicine as I stood up with your former colleague Minister Hunt. When I stated that, I stated:
Here are the results from the New England Journal of Medicine from a clinical trial that showed 100 per cent protection against death in that clinical trial.
So I stand by that statement because that paper stands in the New England Journal of Medicine, which is one of the world’s top three medical journals. So I stand by that statement. But you have somehow reworded it, Senator.
Senator RENNICK : I’m quoting your own words.
CHAIR: Excuse me, Dr Skerritt. Senator Antic on a point of order.
Senator ANTIC: I want to raise a point of order. The witness has clearly impugned Senator Rennick’s motives in saying he deliberately misquoted something or misled.
Senator Gallagher: Well, I think that’s a fact.
Senator ANTIC: I raise a point of order for you as well, Minister.
Senator RENNICK: I’m trying to raise awareness of the risks of the Moderna vaccine.
CHAIR: Senators! Senator Rennick—
Senator Gallagher: You are projecting misinformation and then challenging it when it’s met with factual answers. That’s what is going on here.
Senator RENNICK: This is on the record.
Senator Gallagher: Make no mistake. We’re all aware of what is going on.
Senator ANTIC: You’re Labor!
Senator Gallagher: The evidence and facts don’t suit your narrative.
Senator ANTIC: It does, actually.
Senator Gallagher: It doesn’t suit your narrative. I’ve been watching you scoff. I’ve been watching you roll your eyes.
CHAIR: Senators and Minister!
Senator ANTIC: This is going to turn very nasty.
CHAIR: Senators and Minister, I will suspend the committee again if I cannot bring the committee to order. This will take a very long time if every few minutes I have to suspend. The committee suspends.
