Where is Broad Street and Why do We Care?
A 166 year old pump handle, VAERS, and CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service
The Pump Handle
In 1854 people living in the Soho district of London, England experienced an extraordinary outbreak of cholera that killed more than 500 Londoners in just 10 days. The epicenter of this outbreak was near the intersection of Cambridge Street and Broad Street.
John Snow was a physician who lived in Soho and who was busily learning about the new technique of using anesthetics during labor and delivery but Snow also had an interest in learning how cholera was spread. Dr. Snow had a theory that it was spread by human waste contaminating drinking water and so he set about trying to prove his theory and stopping the outbreak of cholera in Soho.
In 19th Century London drinking water was most often obtained from public wells. One such well as on Broad Street. By talking to business owners and residents who drew water from the Broad Street well and comparing that data with data from areas where there few if any cases and deaths due to cholera, Snow determined that the drinking water from the Broad Street well was highly contaminated with human waste and was the probable source of the cholera outbreak. Snow lobbied city officials to remove the pump handle from the Broad Street well. City officials agreed to remove the pump handle but only on trial basis. The out break subsided.
Despite having followed the science and showing the results of it Snow met with opposition from the city leaders who didn’t want to continue the trial or address the city’s sewage problems. It wasn’t until 30 years later when Robert Koch demonstrated that the source of cholera was the bacteria, Vibrio cholerae and that the disease that it caused was cholera and that it was spread only by contaminated water that city officials world wide took steps to prevent the contamination of drinking water by sewage.
Snow was a careful scientist who did three simple things: 1) he recognized an excess of a particular disease; 2) he determined its source; and 3) he found the remedy.
Today John Snow is recognized as the Father of Epidemiology, the study of epidemics. We all recognize an “epidemic” to be an illness that disproportionately affects a large number of people within a population, community, or region at the same time. And we have unfortunately learned that a “pandemic” is an epidemic that occurs in multiple countries at the same time. COVID-19 is not the world’s first pandemic. In fact, we see a pandemic during every seasonal flu occurrence.
Because of John Snow every government in the world has a public health function and schools of public health to train epidemiologists. Among those agencies are the US Food and Drug Administration and The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sentinel Health Events and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
Today’s epidemiologists recognize certain diseases as “Sentinel Health Events” — those things that warn us of outbreaks or epidemics of serious illnesses. They identify those sentinel health events through surveillance activities.
What exactly is a “Sentinel Health Event”?
A Sentinel Health Event (SHE) is a preventable disease, disability, or untimely death whose occurrence serves as a warning signal that the quality of preventive and/or therapeutic medical care may need to be improved.
And that brings us once again to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) of the FDA and CDC.
”Established in 1990, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national early warning system to detect possible safety problems in U.S.-licensed vaccines.” (emphasis added)
Death with a common trait is considered a Sentinel Health Event. The graph below is taken from OpenVAERS. Why is this graph so alarming? Very simply because it suggests that there are more vaccine related deaths associated with the new SARS-CoV-2 “vaccines” then we have observed for all prior vaccines combined over the last 30 years.
I encourage each of you who haven’t done so to spend some time browsing through this site. And ask yourselves this question: If I were John Snow — what would I do?
CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)
“EIS is a long-standing, globally-recognized fellowship program, renowned for its investigative and emergency response efforts.”
And here we find a list of “featured publications” by EIS officers. Please note that there is not one single publication that addresses the data in CDC’s own data base of vaccine Sentinel Health Events related to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.
Why?
I think that is a good and fair question. One might guess that the EIS Officers (that is how they are referred to) are rookies; people with no prior public health credentials or medical or scientific training. That clearly is not the case. Here is the 70 member class of 2021. Hardly rookies lacking in scientific and medical credentials.
Perhaps, there is a separate VAERS team within CDC.
No, there is not. Here is the VAERS page on CDC.gov. There is not one single mention or link to a any administrative component within CDC with dedicated staff who’s sole job is to analyze VAERS reports.
What about the FDA? The FDA is also a partner in the development of VAERS.
”FDA and CDC continually monitor VAERS reports for any unexpected patterns or changes in rates of adverse events.
VAERS reports generally cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness. Some events may occur coincidentally after the administration of a vaccine while others may in fact be caused by a vaccine. As a result, if a safety signal is found in VAERS, further studies can be conducted in safety systems such as the CDC's Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), or the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) project. These systems do not have the same limitations as VAERS and can better assess health risks and possible connections between adverse events and a vaccine. Additional information about VAERS, VSD, and the CISA project are available here.” (NOTE: Despite the suggestion of a link to the VSD and the CISA projects —none exists)
Surveillance, Sentinel Events, and VAERS
As both the FDA and CDC are quick to mention VAERS is not a system meant to identify causality. In other words, a large number of reports of any particular adverse event following a vaccination program does not mean that the vaccine caused it.
No problem.
HOWEVER, such an a substantial number of reports over such a short period of time that have one thing in common need to be taken seriously and investigated because they are, in fact, Sentinel Health Events.
VAERS reports of death, myo/pericarditis, Bell’s Palsy, and adverse reproductive effects are the handle on the pump.
Who will remove it?
Union, KY
Feb 19, 2022