Total Annual Cases
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From: Chris McCashin
Dear Ministry of Health,
Please provide the following in table format from 2000 - 2022
Annual Cases of
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Myocardial infarction
Pulmonary Embolism / Blood Clots
Stroke
Bells Palsy / Facial Paralysis
Cancers - To be broken down into type
Spontaneous Abortion / Miscarriage
Myocarditis
Pericarditis
Thanks in advance
Yours faithfully,
Chris
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Kia ora Chris,
Thank you for your request for information on 14 August 2023. Please find
attached our response to your request.
If you have any questions, please get in touch at
[1][email address].
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at [2]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by phoning 0800 802 602.
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Te Whatu Ora Ministerial Team
Ministerial Services
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From: Chris McCashin
Dear hnzOIA,
There are a few things that don't really make sense when looking at this dataset, data from Medsafe and adverse reactions to the vaccine and just generic information which leads me to a few more questions. Are you able to please provide the following.
With regard to the Overview of Vaccine Reports - how are the background rate "hospitalisations per year" calculated? There seem to be some significant anomalies. eg.
Guillain-Barre - Background rates in vaccine reports are at 273 per year yet at no point in the last few years are the numbers this high. Why are the background rates seemingly overestimated in vaccine reports?
This is the same with Bells Palsy - background rates in vaccine reports are 694 yet the maximum in the data you provided me mention 435 only this latest year. This is 60% above the most recent numbers so why is this so high.
The vaccine reports show 974 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis yet the data you provided me says there were circa 330 cases. Where have the other 600 odd cases gone?
Per the background rates myocarditis / pericarditis you state background rates of 931 cases per year yet the numbers you provided me - up until recently there haven't been more than 400 cases and then in the vaccine reports there are 974 cases that don't appear to be in the data you provided me?
There appears to be a number of other significant anomalies specifically relating to the Medsafe Vaccine reports overestimating the background rates of illnesses when compared against actual data notably stroke, heart attacks, embolisms - pretty much everything
Is it also concerning that every single illness appears to be going up for the Heatlh authorities - we know why these numbers are so bad the last couple of years with the "vaccine", but from the early 2000's it appears each and every metric kiwis are getting unhealthier - food, toxins, pesticides?
But most important for this request is how background rates for Medsafe vaccine reports are calculated, yet all of the actual illness data you provided is significantly lower and then it seems the background rates are massively overinflated. It is very concerning.
Yours sincerely,
Chris McCashin
From: hnzOIA
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Kia ora Chris,
Thank you for your request for information on 7 September 2023. Please
find attached our response to your request.
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[1][email address].
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complaint to the Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available
at [2]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by phoning 0800 802 602.
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Te Whatu Ora Ministerial Team
Ministerial Services
Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
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From: Chris McCashin
Dear hnzOIA,
If this is the case then how are you completing the background rates that you have come up with?
A follow up
- Please provide all of the datasets used, inputs, variables formulas used to obtain the background rates used in the Medsafe reports for all of the safety signals identified in the Medsafe Reports
Unless we know that accurate baseline data is being used and datasets are compared accurately then you really aren’t able to give us proper information. For example, even if there were 100 extra cases of Myocarditis (which I doubt because before the vaccine nobody had it) diagnosed by primary health providers there has still been a 7000% increase from the vaccine and we are just getting fudged statistics to try and hide the true damage.
So I can’t quite work out if you are in cover up mode or we need to call out the competence of the agency and ability to do the job properly.
Yours sincerely,
Chris McCashin
R Bailey left an annotation ()
You need to request the files and emails related to how this "monitoring" system was setup.
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From: hnzOIA
Tēnā koe Chris,
Thank you for your email of 3 October 2023, asking for the following
information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):
"If this is the case then how are you completing the background rates that
you have come up with?
A follow up
- Please provide all of the datasets used, inputs, variables formulas used
to obtain the background rates used in the Medsafe reports for all of the
safety signals identified in the Medsafe Reports
Unless we know that accurate baseline data is being used and datasets are
compared accurately then you really aren’t able to give us proper
information. For example, even if there were 100 extra cases of
Myocarditis (which I doubt because before the vaccine nobody had it)
diagnosed by primary health providers there has still been a 7000%
increase from the vaccine and we are just getting fudged statistics to try
and hide the true damage.
So I can’t quite work out if you are in cover up mode or we need to call
out the competence of the agency and ability to do the job properly."
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Kia ora Chris,
Thank you for your request for information on 3 October 2023. Please find
attached our response to your request.
If you have any questions, please get in touch at
[1][email address].
If you are not happy with this response, you have the right to make a
complaint to the Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available
at [2]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by phoning 0800 802 602.
Ngâ mihi,
Te Whatu Ora Ministerial Team
Ministerial Services
Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
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From: Chris McCashin
Dear hnzOIA,
Your numbers make no sense - for example quoted by you
"The method used to estimate the average background rates for each of the medical conditions is as follows:
For the years 2016-2019, all hospitalisation events in the National Minimum Data Set that had a
diagnosis code (ICD-10 codes) that matched the definitions of each medical condition were
counted and then divided by the number of years to get an average number of hospitalisations in a
year in that time period.
If we look at the cases you provided me for Myocarditis
Acute Myocarditis - 2016-2019 - 64+88+78 / 3 = 76
Background Rates per Medsafe Reports - 931
You have inflated background rates in the Medsafe Reports by 12 times what the rates were per the numbers you have previously given me before the vaccine was introduced. So there were 974 myocarditis events from the vaccine?
I restate you have inflated the background rates - as it stands everything that you send through makes no sense? The lies being told over there are starting to catch up to you.
Yours sincerely,
Chris McCashin
From: hnzOIA
Kia ora Chris,
It appears that you are comparing the AESI report, which we didn’t
produce, to numbers we’ve released under the OIA.
The main reason for the volume discrepancy is what is being counted. We
count hospitalisations by primary diagnoses, i.e. hospitalisations which
were caused by the condition. The AESI report may have counted secondary
diagnoses as well, i.e. events where the condition was documented.
Counting secondary diagnoses is not a robust method for counting
hospitalisations as the condition is incidental to the decision to admit.
In addition, the AESI report included some other conditions in many of the
categories.
If you are not happy with this response, you have the right to make a
complaint to the Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available
at [1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by phoning 0800 802 602.
Ngā mihi,
Ministerial Services
Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
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From: Chris McCashin
Dear hnzOIA,
Okay if that is the case then when doing the background rates for the AESI these numbers are significantly inflated. I point you to Myocarditis where hospitalizations were less than 100 for three years prior to vaccines but then the background rates in Medsafe reports are eight times this?
So these background rates are wrong or have been over inflated to minimize how bad the numbers are.
Yours sincerely,
Chris McCashin
From: hnzOIA
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M Bell left an annotation ()
Nice work anyway Chris,
We can be pretty sure these agencies all have access to the same data. I previously asked medsafe for 2021 hopitalisation rates of AESI to compare to the “background rates” they were publishing in their COVID 19 safety reports. The ombudsman assisted with getting an actual response from them eventually, and the interesting thing was that in the response and then in the subsequent reporting, the “background rates” (av 2016-2019) suddenly massively changed to reflect the massive increases in actual hospitalizations in 2021. in some cases this was basically 1000%. They claimed that it was a result in a “change in coding”, which seemed to explain the massive increases of actual hospitalizations.
Below is what medsafe gave me via OIA July 2022 as a “background rate” for 2021
Abortion (spontaneous abortion /miscarriage) 2498
Bell's palsy 666
Guillain-Barré Syndrome 224
Myocardial infarction (heart attack) 16129
Myocarditis 369
Pericarditis 1171
Stroke 14782
You can see the modified figures for background rate suddenly showing from when you go from medsafe report 44 to 45.
https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/saf...
https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/saf...
And later on they discontinued doing the reports altogether.
The evidence available indicates that so far there has been a coordinated conspiracy to conceal this type of information from the NZ public.
Chris McCashin left an annotation ()
It’s not now or has ever been in dispute. The tell is they gave themselves thousands of exemptions! The inconsistencies in the data is horrendous and like you said it’s all co-ordinated from Health, CARM, Medsafe (though not very well) and the Coroner. Some of the coroner reports I have are laughable how they gloss over a healthy person dying suddenly days and hours after they took this rubbish despite them having died from one of the safety signals in the Medsafe reports! What I want is the high ups to front a press conference with actual people willing to ask the hard questions - you might as well exclude the media from an event like that.
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Nice work here Chris, continue to hold their feet to the fire. Agree that it is either obfuscation or incompetence going on here.
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