Australia’s medicine and therapeutics regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), has introduced new restrictions on the prescribing of ivermectin for COVID-19 and other off-label use. The TGA, an agency under Australia’s Commonwealth government Department of Health, announced that the changes were introduced “because of concerns with the prescribing of oral ivermectin for the claimed prevention or treatment of COVID-19.” This move […]
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During the period of 2009 to 2019 inclusive in Australia the average death rate from all causes is about 6.5 per thousand. In 2020 it was 6.3 per thousand which is no different to the preceding 10 years. Then looking at the influenza and pneumonia deaths over the same time period we see that 2020 […]
You may have been deceived into believing that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was extremely dangerous; more dangerous than the seasonal flu. But that is just not so. In a normal flu season more than a thousand aged and frail people die each year in Australia, but no lockdowns, mask wearing and massive PCR testing is done […]
Australia (TGA) has a voluntary reporting system for adverse drug and vaccine reactions. See report here for those adverse reactions up to 27 June 2021. They report 4.6 adverse reactions per 1000 which translates to 0.46% of the total number of doses administered. Also they list 335 deaths up to this time. But since this […]
According to the Australian TGA (equivalent of the US FDA) To 23 May 2021, 3.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been given in Australia. In this period, the TGA has received 210 reports of deaths following immunisation – 109 have been reported for the Pfizer vaccine, 94 for the AstraZeneca vaccine and seven where […]