So, the hospital didn’t track solicited adverse events carefully. What about serious adverse events?
People’s Hospital’s investigation into the death of Deepak Marawi, a 45-year old participant, has raised troubling questions on this front too. Because serious adverse events lead to deaths or hospitalisation, investigators are obliged to probe any possible link with the vaccine. Even if a vaccine causes a slightly higher rate of such events, compared to a placebo, its risk-benefit ratio can change dramatically.
Yet, People’s Hospital’s conclusion that Marawi was poisoned, and that his death was unlikely to be due to the vaccine, has several flaws.
First, it ignores Marawi’s family’s account of his symptoms before his death. The family says Marawi’s health deteriorated incrementally between December 12, when he got his first shot in the trial, and Dec 21, when he died. During this time, he experienced dizziness and weakness initially, followed by vomiting from December…