1. The MHRA is not fit for purpose. This is a slide from a recent talk by June Raine (CEO of MHRA). It supposedly shows the number of Yellow Card reports (of adverse reactions to drugs/vaccines) per 100K of the population by region.
2. Can it possibly be correct that the number of reports DECREASED in 2021 - the year the covid vaccines were introduced? The slide suggests about 43 reports per 100K UK population in 2021. That's about 2,800 total reports for the whole UK.
3. Yet, we know from other MHRA reports that between Jan 2021-March 2023 there were 474,018 separate Yellow Card reports with covid vaccine adverse events
4. In fact, we have other obvious evidence that June Raine’s slide EXCLUDES covid vaccine reports entirely. Here is Table 1 from the Wales Yellow Card Annual 2021-22 report. Note the * says it excludes covid vaccine reports!!!!! https://t.co/NKuxvQFoc6
5. So why would June Raine put out a slide in a talk she did in Nov 2022 titled “Making Medicines safer” which boasted about how important the Yellow Card system was and yet completely ignored all covid vaccine reports? Here is the full talk https://t.co/XncZsCJdN2
6. Something else is very revealing about the slide. The very different regional reporting rates means there must be massive underreporting of adverse events generally, e.g. Scotland reporting rate is less than 1/3 of Wales.
7. There was a push to ensure more reporting in Wales, but this only proves how much under-reporting there is in the rest of the country. Drugs aren’t any more dangerous in Wales than elsewhere.
8. The MHRA make it almost impossible to get any simple summary national data on yellow card reports and they have now stopped publishing their covid vaccine reporting updates. Why?
9. Anyway, when we include the covid vaccine reports June Raine's slide would look rather different .....
10. And @OS51388957 did this analysis of Yellow Card data in Dec 2022
11. This report on the failings of the MHRA by the Perseus Group is important https://t.co/DOni4ZwqCs
12. Update: Here is a video I've made about the June Raine speech: https://t.co/jLwdgJRD3x