The TGA have been caught red handed covering up deaths from the vaccine.
This time it isn’t about some hard to understand biochemistry.
No this is very straight forward.
An autopsy was conducted on a 52 year old man after he died 7 days after taking the Pfizer vaccine.
He collapsed in his home and died in front of his wife and 16 year old son. They tried unsuccessfully to revive him.
The TGA never reached out to the family nor were they ever compensated.
The Pathologist concluded the cause of death was Myocarditis following the Pfizer injection.
Given Myocarditis is a recognised side effect of the vaccine why did the TGA not report this to the public?
The answer is simple. The TGA did not want to admit they approved a dangerous medical product.
This death occurred early on in the rollout when middle aged and young people were being forced to get the vaccine.
Thousands of young and middle aged people have suffered serious injuries from the vaccine, not just from myocarditis but other serious conditions as well.
Yet the TGA said nothing about the serious risks of this vaccine.
How many other autopsy reports have they ignored.
How many people have needlessly been injured because of the TGA’s deception?
There is no way out for the TGA here. They don’t have the authority to override a qualified pathologist who actually examined the body.
The TGA didn’t even solicit the autopsy. They don’t do it as a matter of course. Why not?
How is this not criminal negligence?
If the Government has any sense of decency they need to charge John Skerritt and Professor Kelly with criminal negligence now.
They also need to compensate all vaccine victims and apologise to everyone they traumatised throughout the rollout.
Community Affairs Legislation Committee
07/11/2024
Estimates
HEALTH AND AGED CARE PORTFOLIO
Department of Health and Aged Care
Senator RENNICK: So do you have a report on how many autopsy reports you received throughout the rollout of the COVID vaccine and how many of those autopsy reports were reported to the public?
Prof. Lawler: Yes, thanks for that, Senator. We’ve gone through, I think, many times in previous estimates about the intersection between the work of the TGA and the work of state coronial organisations and also local pathologists. It’s not the role of the TGA to request or monitor autopsies. That is an arrangement that occurs within state legislation and with treating clinicians. And, as previously highlighted, we have a robust process of pharmacovigilance that incorporates a number of different signals, including adverse event reporting and regular monitoring of international safety signals to ensure that we’re able to identify and respond to safety issues as they arise.
Senator RENNICK: Okay, thank you—because I’ve got an autopsy report here of a 52-year-old male who passed away seven days after receiving the Pfizer vaccine in July 2021. He had a heart attack and died in front of his wife and his 16-year-old son, and his daughter walked in on it. That family has never been contacted. This report was given to the TGA. That family has never been contacted by the TGA to hear from them. They’ve never received any compensation. And, just as concerningly, this reported death from the Pfizer vaccine was never made known to the public. This occurred in July 2021. At the time, the rollout of the vaccine was stepping up for younger people. Can you tell me why the TGA never made this known to the public, and why they never contacted the family of the deceased?
Prof. Lawler: Thanks for that question, Senator. We’ve had multiple conversations previously around the processes that we follow for the reporting, investigation and monitoring of, and response to, adverse events, including death following vaccination. As has been highlighted to you a number of times previously, there is a distinction between death following vaccination and the clear identification of a causal link between vaccination and that death. I’m happy to provide you with a list of the questions on notice where we’ve highlighted and explained the processes that we follow for the monitoring of and response to adverse events following vaccination. Also, I just wonder whether it might be more appropriate for this conversation to occur under outcome 1.8, when we would actually have the relevant staff from the TGA.
Senator RENNICK: It may be, but it comes to the whole rollout of the vaccine, which is, to me, a whole scope-of-department issue. This autopsy report, performed by a pathologist, who examined the body, said the cause of death was from the Pfizer vaccine. So my question to you is: what authority did TGA have to override and suppress this information? This should have been known to the public. This was in the public interest, and the TGA never made it known to the public.
Prof. Lawler: Thanks, Senator. As I previously mentioned, I am really happy to provide the list of the questions and notice where we explained—
Senator RENNICK: No, sorry, just to be clear—
Prof. Lawler: I think it’s actually relevant to your question, Senator—where we explain very clearly that it is not the role of the TGA to overrule a cause of death determination. The cause of death determination is by the treating clinician. What the work of the TGA is is to identify, where appropriate, causal linkage between vaccination and death and, on the basis of that, combined with appropriate scrutiny of international safety signals, to take regulatory action where appropriate.
Senator RENNICK: Okay. So, if you didn’t overrule the pathologist, why then didn’t you report this death as a death from Pfizer—to the public?
Mr Comley: Could I just make a comment, Chair. We’ve just had a report put in front of us, in 30 seconds or a minute, about a particular individual case. I think that makes it a little bit difficult for the witnesses to provide information. I also think we just have to be careful about what information we’re providing about one individual. I think Professor Lawler is talking about the general approach, but I’m a little concerned about how we respond to this specific issue without notice.
CHAIR: I am in agreement. So there was a request to table this document, which we are deferring, given the public nature of that process and the detail in this inquiry. I have suggested it can be distributed to officials and committee members for the purposes of questions, but, of course, officials are entitled to take this on notice. As you said, this is something they have just received. So, if you’re not in a position to comment on an individual case, you should take that on notice. That’s perfectly reasonable.
Prof. Lawler: As mentioned, Chair, I’m happy to talk about general processes. Whether we do that now or under the appropriate outcome, I don’t mind.
CHAIR: So, Senator Rennick, could we perhaps move away from the specific details of this particular case.
Senator RENNICK: I’m happy to go, general. My question is: how many other autopsy reports have you received that weren’t reported to the public? Do you have to take that one on notice?
Prof. Lawler: It’s less an issue of having to take it on notice, Senator. It’s more an issue that we undertake a process of very broad understanding of adverse events. We don’t solicit autopsy reports. We don’t commission autopsies. We don’t request autopsy reports. Would you like to add anything, Dr Larter?
Dr Larter: Thank you for the question, Senator. As we’ve previously provided on notice, there is a proportion of reports of fatal adverse events that have gone through a coronial process. The TGA has close working relationships with the state and territory coroners to share information. As we’ve previously advised, the TGA does not overrule the findings of coroners or the treating practitioners. The purpose of our regulatory assessment is to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to support a link between an adverse event and vaccination, irrespective of whether that adverse event had a fatal outcome. As we have previously advised, to date, the TGA has identified 14 adverse events as causally linked to vaccination; 13 of these were for the AstraZeneca vaccine and one for Spikevax.
Senator RENNICK: My question to you is: if you don’t solicit autopsy reports, even though this one was submitted to the agency—and I would have thought you’d still contact the family, but we’ll take that offline—how can you make an assessment without the autopsy report? If you were going to continue to do ongoing surveillance, which is one of the conditions of the rollout, I would have thought that at every reported death, you would have asked the question, ‘Is there an autopsy report, and, if there is, shouldn’t we solicit it?’ and speak to the doctor or the pathologist or whoever performed the autopsy. Wouldn’t that be quality assurance?
Dr Larter: Thank you for the question, Senator. I can reassure you that the TGA does work closely with the state and territory public health units, who have regular contact with the coroners, and so we often do receive information relating to the cause of death, even if we don’t receive the actual autopsy report. We take that cause of death, based on what the coroner or treating practitioner has certified it to be.
Senator RENNICK: So how do you not report this, though? Why would you say, ‘I’m not going to report a pathologist who has conducted an autopsy and said the cause of death is from’—this is significant, right? This vaccine was rolled out to the population and younger people. Why would you not report this? How is it that you could say, ‘I’m not going to report this to the public?’ You did for AZ. How could you say that the pathologist, if you haven’t examined the body, got it wrong?
Prof. Lawler: Can I just clarify something, Senator? It would be really helpful to me to know. You’ve indicated that this is a whole-of-portfolio comment, but there are a lot of questions that do go beyond the specific remit of the TGA, and I know that there are a lot of other TGA staff from without the Pharmacovigilance Branch who weren’t intending to be here until this evening when the appropriate outcome is dealt with.
Senator RENNICK: Okay. I’ll raise that tonight. Thanks, Chair.
