Did the head of the "Vaccine Confidence Project" admit in 2019 that repeated vaccines may be damaging the immune system?

Elizabeth Hart

left this comment under my recent article on international regulatory coordination.

It reads as follows:

Here's something else to think about Jonathan...in regard to controlling the medical profession...

You're familiar with the Vaccine Confidence Project, director is Heidi Larson? https://www.vaccineconfidence.org/who-we-are/team/heidi-larson/

Heidi Larson gave the plenary lecture at the WHO Global Vaccine Safety Summit held on 2-3 December 2019.

I'll state the date again... 2-3 December 2019.

The title of her lecture is: Vaccine safety in the next decade. Why we need new modes of trust building?

During her lecture, which occurs just before all hell breaks loose re 'Covid', Larson notes:

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This was our first, we developed a vaccine confidence index, which we've been running for five years, we're under review now, and an analysis of 250,000 people in 148 countries, we have all their background, demographics to look at, what are the trends and patterns. But this is one of the first ones we did, 67 countries in 2016. And I was actually surprised at Europe being so acutely sceptical when it came to safety. I knew other countries were having some issues, but it was quite acute in Europe. When we tried to disaggregate that by different kinds of reasons, safety is the biggest issue, safety is the biggest issue, fear of side effects, low sense of risk.

The other thing that’s a trend and an issue is, not just just confidence in providers, but confidence of healthcare providers. We have a very wobbly health professional front-line, that is starting to question vaccines and the safety of vaccines. That’s a huge problem. Because to this day, any study I’ve seen, and we’re constantly looking on any studies in this space, still the most trusted person on any study I've seen globally is the healthcare provider. And if we lose that, we’re in trouble.

And we haven’t lost it yet, but we’ve talked about it earlier, some of the challenges are when the front-

line professionals are starting to question, or they don’t feel like they have enough confidence about the safety to stand up to it, to the person asking them the questions. I mean most medical school curriculums, even nursing curriculums, I mean in medical school you’re lucky if you have a half day on vaccines, never mind keeping up to date with all this.

One of the things that we need to think about, as we generate more safety data, how can we get it into the hands, the people that need to represent and speak for it? Because they’re not getting enough of it.

END OF QUOTE

Think about that Jonathan...

What action was taken to rein in that "very wobbly health professional front-line, that is starting to question vaccines and the safety of vaccines"?

Also, for some more background on the Vaccine Confidence Project, please see my BMJ rapid response published in February 2019: 'Pharma-led chorus' dominates the public narrative on vaccination: https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l312/rr-6

Videos of sessions at the WHO Global Vaccine Safety Summit 2-3 December 2019 are still accessible here: https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2019/12/02/default-calendar/global-vaccine-safety-summit

I transcribed Heidi Larson's lecture, I'll send you a copy.

Elizabeth did indeed send me a transcript of Larson’s lecture - which includes her highlighting:

Heidi Larson Who Plenary Lecture Transcript

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In her email to me, Elizabeth drew my attention to this:

We have a very wobbly health professional front-line, that is starting to question vaccines and the safety of vaccines. That’s a huge problem. Because to this day, any study I’ve seen, and we’re constantly looking on any studies in this space, still the most trusted person on any study I've seen globally is the healthcare provider. And if we lose that, we’re in trouble.

And we haven’t lost it yet, but we’ve talked about it earlier, some of the challenges are when the front-line professionals are starting to question, or they don’t feel like they have enough confidence about the safety to stand up to it, to the person asking them the questions. I mean most medical school curriculums, even nursing curriculums, I mean in medical school you’re lucky if you have a half day on vaccines, never mind keeping up to date with all this.

The entire lecture makes for interesting reading, especially as it dates from just a few weeks before the start of the public part of the covid operation.

There is much to be critical about; I was also struck that some of her comments appeared to be more accepting of potential safety issues with vaccines that I would have expected.

For me, though, the standout comments were these (bolding is mine):

I think that one of our biggest challenges is, as Bob said this morning, or yesterday, we’re in a unique position in human history, where we’ve shifted the human population to vaccine-induced, to dependency on vaccine-induced immunity. And that’s on the great assumption that populations would cooperate. And for many years people lined up, the six vaccines, people were there, they saw the reason. We’re in a very fragile state now. We have developed a world that is dependent on vaccinations. We don’t have a choice but to make that effort, to make that extra...

This to me is quite astonishing as it suggests that she is aware that - assuming she isn’t theorising that circulating pathogens have become more dangerous - repeated vaccinations are damaging natural immunity to the extent that if people don’t have the injections they are less able to fight off the infections than if they’d not had them at all.

Even if this turns out not be true, it’s disturbing that one of the central characters in the pro-vaccine camp could hold these views and for that facet of the vaccine narrative to have been hidden from information available to the public which is germane to their assessment of risks and benefits.

About the Vaccine Confidence Project:

This project’s mission is as follows:

We provide decision-makers with global vaccine confidence insights to support policy and intervention design, and reduce vaccine inequalities. Our team has conducted research in over 150 countries – almost 80% of the world.

Our goal is to empower individuals and their communities with the knowledge to make informed health decisions for themselves and their families.

I would have thought that effective vaccines should - in general - allow people to live without such fear that they have to wear masks, but what do I know?

Partners of the project are listed as follows, but not to worry as “funders have no role in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, or writing of studies conducted by the VCP”.