07-05-2025
General Debate 01 May 2025
The needle and the damage done…
Hospitals in Athens, Greece, incorrectly attributed hundreds of deaths to COVID-19, according to a peer-reviewed study published Monday in Scientific Reports.
A team of 19 Greek doctors and researchers studying 530 deaths that occurred in seven Athens hospitals between January and August 2022, found nearly half of the deaths attributed to COVID-19 were unrelated to the virus.
Researchers determined the virus was directly responsible for only a quarter — 133, or 25.1% — of the deaths.
In an additional 157 (29.6%) cases, COVID-19 'contributed to the chain of events leading to death' — for a total of 290 deaths 'from' COVID-19.
Another 240 (45.3%) deaths occurred among people 'with' COVID-19, but the deaths could not be directly attributed to the virus.
Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., senior research scientist for Children's Health Defense, highlighted another key outcome of the study not mentioned in the text, but found in an accompanying table.
According to Jablonowski, among the 288 deaths of people whose vaccination status was known, and who died 'from' COVID-19, more than half — 53.8%, or 155 — were vaccinated, either fully or boosted.
'Of the vaccinated who died 'from' COVID-19, 65.8% (102 of 155) were boosted,' he said.
