THE TRUTH ABOUT COVID – THE SHOTS DIDN’T WORK
I am surprised that in this day and age, I continue to run into some people who still think the COVID shots are safe and effective. Nothing could be further from the truth. The medical evidence over the past 5 years demonstrates that they are extremely dangerous. Further, not only are they ineffective, they actually increase the risk of infection. Five years of data is a lot to share. But we have to start somewhere, so here we go.
The Study From Qatar
The first study I ran across that demonstrated what I was seeing clinically was the one by Chemaitelly et al., Duration of mRNA vaccine protection against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 subvariants in Qatar.
This study was done in 2021, published in 2022 and done in Qatar. The location of this study is significant in that Qatar is a wealthy nation. Only rich countries got COVID shots right away and many poor countries never received them at all. Further, Qatar essentially has just one health care system and one electronic medical record for the entire country. Thus, the data to millions of its citizens are accessible for medical study.
The data showed that early in the study, two weeks after the 2nd shot (recall that was when we were told people were officially “vaccinated”), the shots had its greatest effect reaching about 50% effectiveness. Immediately, this effectiveness declined in a linear fashion, plummeting to just 9% after 3 months. (As an aside, vaccines that are only 50% effective are far too weak to achieve “herd immunity” and are normally never FDA approved. A vaccine that is only 9% effective is too weak to make any significant, positive clinical impact at all, and is far outweighed by the side effects.) After 6 months, the effectiveness was measured at -17.8%. The effectiveness became negative. The treated group was more likely to get COVID compared to the unvaccinated. The same phenomenon was demonstrated after booster doses.
After this study was published, more followed demonstrating the same problem – not only were these shots ineffective, they made the problem worse. I will share some of these studies in the near future.
The Cleveland Clinic Study
In 2022, physicians and scientists at Cleveland Clinic did a study that was published in April 2023. The study was called, Effectiveness of the Coronarvirus Disease 2019 Bivalent Vaccine. Their data demonstrated that the cumulative incidence of COVID illness was highest in the group that received the highest number of COVID shots. Conversely, the group that had the lowest incidence of cumulative infection was the one that received zero doses.
Effectiveness of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Bivalent Vaccine Nabin K. Shrestha,1, Patrick C. Burke,2 Amy S. Nowacki,3, James F. Simon,4 Amanda Hagen,5 and Steven M. Gordon1 1Department of Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2Infection Prevention, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 3Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 4Enterprise Business Intelligence, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and 5Occupational Health, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37274183/ https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad209
Those who got 2 COVID shots did worse than those who got one. Those who got 3 did worse than those who got 2. And so on. The group that did the best was the one that received zero shots. While looking at the situation from a different angle compared to the Chemaitelly et al. study (discussed in the previous post), the take home message was the same – COVID shots make things worse, not better. And the more you get, the worse it gets.
A Study From Japan
This next study by Nakatani et al. was done in late 2023 in Japan and was published in 2024. It focused on employees at small and medium sized companies. It found “the odds of contacting COVID-19 were higher among vaccinated individuals compared to unvaccinated individuals (adjusted OR 1.85 (95% CI: 1.33-2.57, p<0.001).” In other words, being vaccinated increased the odds of getting infected with COVID by 85% compared to those who were unvaccinated.
When looking a little deeper and focusing on the impact of the number of COVID shots, here were the results.
“Participants who received one to two doses had an adjusted OR of 1.63 (95% CI: 1.08-2.46, p=0.020).
Those who received three to four doses had an adjusted OR of 2.04 (95% CI: 1.35-3.08, p=0.001).
Those who received five to seven doses had an adjusted OR of 2.21 (95% CI: 1.07-4.56, p=0.033).”
As people received more doses of COVID shots, their risk of infection went up significantly.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39803093
The VA Study
A study was done using data from the Veteran Health Administration (VHA) system collected from October 2023 through May 2024, and published in March 2025. The title of the study was Effectiveness of the 2023-2024 XBB.1.5 COVID-19 Vaccines Over Long-Term Follow-up. Approximately 587,000 vaccinated veterans were compared to 587,000 unvaccinated veterans.
In the first paragraph of the Discussion section, the authors wrote, “the COVID-19 vaccine targeting the XBB.1.5 variant of Omicron was not protective against documented SARS-CoV-2 infection and had a relatively low estimated effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2-associated hospitalization (VE, 16.64%) and death (VE 26.61%).”
Indeed, the VE was -3.26% (95% CI, -6.78% to -0.22%) against documented SARS-CoV-2 infection. So, again – as demonstrated in the studies from the previous posts, the vaccinated group had a statistically significant higher infection rate than the unvaccinated control group.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39903865
The Pediatric Study From the CDC
This one is interesting because it was a pediatric study done by the CDC in conjunction with medical institutions in Washington, Oregon, Michigan, Arizona, and Utah. It’s called Protection from COVID-19 vaccination and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection among children aged 6 months – 4 years, United States, September 2022-April 2023. Even though the study period ended in early 2023, the paper was not published until January 2025.
First, it showed that natural immunity is effective protection from infection. “Participants with evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection were less likely to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 and experience symptomatic COVID-19 compared with those who had no evidence of prior infection (HR: 0.21 [95% CI: 0.08-0.54]).” This amounts to a 79% reduction in risk of infection.
Overall, the vaccinated group had a 61% increased risk of infection compared to the unvaccinated group (HR: 1.61 [95% CI: 0.65-4.03]).
However, when looking specifically at the Pfizer vaccine combined with lack of natural immunity, that group’s performance was exceptionally poor. Pfizer-vaccinated children from the age of 6 months to 4 years without prior infection were 257% (HR 3.57, 95% CI: 1.10-11.63) more likely to develop symptomatic COVID-19 compared to the children who were unvaccinated.
This paper had 35 authors from 15 different medical institutions across the country, including the CDC and the University of Michigan. Funny, I didn’t hear about this study in the news. Did you?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39656907
The Swiss Study
This next study, Association of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination status with risk of influenza-like illness and loss of workdays in healthcare workers, comes to us from Switzerland and was published recently, August 9, 2025. Since COVID testing is rarely done now in Switzerland, these authors decided to study “influenza-like illnesses,” ILIs, which they defined as illnesses with fever (38C or higher) plus respiratory symptoms within 7 days. Healthcare workers, from technicians to physicians, were the subjects of this study and their incidence of developing an ILI was analyzed based on their COVID-19 vaccination status. This data was collected from November 2023 through April 2024.
Those who had received a total of 3 COVID shots had a 56% higher risk of ILI compared to those unvaccinated (aIRR 1.56, 95% CI: 1.22-2.03, p=5.63e-04).
Those who had received a total of 4 COVID shots had a 70% higher risk of ILI compared to those unvaccinated (aIRR 1.70, 95% CI: 1.27-2.28, p=3.76e-09).
Those who had received a total of 3 COVID shots had 49% more workdays lost compared to those unvaccinated (aIRR 1.49, 95% CI: 1.08-2.01, p=0.011).
Those who had received a total of 4 COVID shots had 50% more workdays lost compared to those unvaccinated (aIRR 1.50, 95% CI: 1.04-2.13, p=0.28).
[Note: Those with 1 or 2 shots also had a higher risk, but the aIRRs were not statistically significant.]
During the time of this study in Switzerland, 21% of individuals with ILI tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and 20% tested positive for influenza. The remaining 59% of cases are presumed to have been caused by other respiratory viruses. Given this information, it is clear that COVID booster shots increased the risk of infection from multiple different viruses, not just SARS-CoV-2.
The authors concluded: “Based on our data, we conclude that SARS-CoV-2 booster vaccination does not contribute to the protection of the healthcare workforce in a post-pandemic setting. SARS-CoV-2 vaccination may even temporarily increase the likelihood of symptomatic infection and workday loss.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40783603
Conclusion
There are more, but these studies summarize the main points. The COVID shots don’t work. They never did. They made things worse. They actually increased the risk of infection.