Two Years Too Late - HPRA knew about menstrual issues

Article published today on Independent.ie

Two years ago I submitted a pitch to a female news editor at a national Irish newspaper on covid vaccines and menstrual issues. You can read the email below. There was no interest in running the story.

The story I wanted to write was based on the HPRA Safety Update #12 - published October 7 2021.

The HPRA (Health Protection Regulatory Authority) is the body tasked with regulating medicines for humans and animals in Ireland. In this report series the HPRA was publishing adverse reactions to the covid vaccines administered in Ireland.

The report discussed in the pitch specifically states that regulators (EMA = European Medicines Agency) were seeing red flag links between the injections and ‘menstrual disturbances’ :

This was explained away in the HPRA report as follows:

• No specific pattern of menstrual issues found

• No causal link to vaccination found

But menstrual issues were at this point the sixth most common adverse event listed by number (see image below.) Considering menstrual issues affect women only and only women in a certain age range - the number listed below under reproductive system (1,444) actually represents a very serious issue. It’s clear from this publication, that those whose job it is to regulate medicinal products for human consumption, were aware there was an issue and failed to do anything about it.

Today, we have an article in an Irish newspaper asking if the covid 19 vaccine affects menstruation and fertility. Writing for RTE last July, freelance journalist Kate Demolder, writes honestly of her eight year struggle with depression and anxiety and how her doctor placed her on Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) - commonly prescribed anti-depressants.

Ms Demolder states that she felt ‘thankful to have been be heard'; in contrast to the experience of so many vaccine injured. Curiously, she goes on to state the following:

“I took them for nearly eight years, rising and falling by 5mg at times when my doctor and I thought it might help. Looking back, I was never sure whether any of the drugs actually lifted my mood—roughly a third of patients who take antidepressants do not respond to them—but my emotions felt less urgent and distracting, and because of this, life improved.”

If we are running roughly two years behind what appears to be a ban on questioning covid 19 safety in the Irish media, we can speculate that it might be two more years before Irish pathologists begin to implement the Burkhardt Protocols - raised by the family’s barrister at the inquest into the death of Joseph McGinty (13) earlier this year?

(For those newly subscribed I’ve written extensively on this topic here, here and here.)

It might be reasonable to suggest that Irish pathologists don’t know of these protocols - a system of immunohistochemistry staining at autopsy - except we know they are aware of the process, having used staining protocols in a study on fetal deaths, published in January 2022.

The Fetal Deaths in Ireland study looked at covid 19 (not the vaccines) as a cause for fetal deaths:

Context.—

A severe third wave of COVID-19 disease affected Ireland in the first 3 months of 2021. In this wave, 1 second-trimester miscarriage and 6 stillbirths were observed in the Irish population because of placental insufficiency as a result of SARS-CoV-2 placentitis. This observation was at odds with the country's previous experience with COVID-19 disease in pregnant mothers.

Objective.—

To describe the clinical and pathologic features of these pregnancy losses.

As Dr Billy Ralph points out below - the timing of this paper was important. It may well have been used to encourage women - feeling hesitant about taking a vaccine with no long term safety data while pregnant - to get vaccinated.

“The above paper published in January 2022 by Irish pathologists and
obstetricians contains details about the immunohistochemical staining of
placental tissue for Sars-CoV2 spike protein ( see figure 6).
These cases of placentitis were used to justify the use of Covid vaccines in
pregnancy, so it was somewhat of a ‘seminal paper’.
If the staining was used to detect spike protein pre-January 2022 and hence
determine Sars-CoV2 as a causative agent in these cases why was staining for
this protein not used in the McGinty case. Given that infection is not the only
source of spike protein?” - Dr Billy Ralph

Looking at the paper itself, the researchers state that ‘all perinatal pathology units nationally were contacted to identify cases of pregnancy loss due to SARS-CoV-2 placentitis.’

Their methodology is explained below and here (see Materials and Methods)

“Pathologic features were reviewed among the perinatal pathologists involved. Placentas had been grossly examined after fixation in formalin to reduce the risk of infection. Representative sections of umbilical cord, membranes, and parenchyma had been processed to paraffin-embedded blocks with standard hematoxylin and eosin–stained slides used for evaluation. Martius scarlet blue was used to identify fibrin. Immunohistochemistry protocols varied for the different laboratories involved, but for SARS-CoV-2 all laboratories used a spike antibody target (1A9 clone).”

So the question is, if Irish pathologists are aware of immunohistochemistry staining for detection of issues arising from the covid 19 spike protein, why not implement the same protocols for the discovery of vaccine induced harm?

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