A case study in fraud?
Augusto Roux may very well hold the key to bringing down the Pfizer vaccine trial, or a least proving fraud at the largest trial site that was home to over 10% of the participants in the trial.
Which trial? this little one:
This post is drawn from Dr. David Healy in three extremely important blog posts: 1, 2, 3. and
He volunteered for the trial and had a first dose on August 21, 2020. He felt pain and swelling in his arm right after the injection. Later that day he had nausea, difficulty on swallowing, and felt hungover. ( He doesn’t smoke or drink and runs frequently and does Cross-Fit)
He had his second dose on September 9 at 1800. He stayed in observation for 40 minutes and went out feeling well.
On the way home by taxi, he started feeling unwell. At 1930, he was short of breath, had a burning pain in his chest and was extremely fatigued. He lay on his bed and fell asleep. He woke up at 2100 with nausea and fever (38-39 C) and was unable to get out of bed due to the fatigue.
Over the next two days, he reports a high fever (41 C) and feeling delirious.
On September 11, he was able to get out of bed and go to the bathroom when he observed his urine to be dark (like Coca-Cola). He had a sudden lack of breath and fell unconscious on the floor for approximately 3 hours.
Once he recovered, he felt tired, was uncomfortable, had a high heart rate on minor movement, was dizzy when changing posture. He had a chest pain which radiated to his left arm and back. He contacted a friend who recommended he go to the hospital.
At Hospital Aleman, Sept 12 to 14, Augusto has a negative PCR test for covid, but his CT scan revealed a pericardial effusion which, given his symptoms, suggests vaccine induced pericarditis.
On Sept. 14, he was discharged. The doctor wrote in his chart that he had suffered an adverse reaction to the vaccine. Augusto was told by hospital staff they there had been a huge influx of people from the clinical trial coming to the hospital (there were 2,981 subjects enrolled in the trial before Augusto), so his experience was not new to them. (The trial site managed to enlist several thousand subjects in just a few weeks.)
One nurse estimated they had seen around 300 people.
Remember this was in the early days of Covid Vaccine trials. Investigators, like Polack, should have been knocking on the door of Hospital Alemán trying to find as much information as possible about this adverse event. Augusto gave them permission to do so. Instead on 17 September Polack writes in Augusto’s record:
“the hospitalisation was not related to the vaccine”.
Furthermore, he later diagnosed Augusto as suffering from anxiety when he tried to find out whether he, Augusto, was in the vaccine or placebo group.
Neither Augusto’s pericardial effusion, nor another volunteer’s penile vein thrombosis, appear to have found their way into the reported side effects of this trial.
Now here’s where it gets really interesting, and we know all of this because Augusto, a lawyer, successfully sued to get his medical and trial clinical records, even though it took him over a year.
Even though Augusto had a negative PCR test at the hospital, and even though the doctor at the hospital wrote that his condition was due to the vaccine, when Augusto called the trial site on Sept. 14 to notify them he was in the hospital, they wrote down in his clinical trial record that he had been admitted for a bilateral pneumonia that had nothing to do with the “investigational product” — even though that was not what he told them, or what was on the CT scan.
On October 7, the clinical trial notes that “at the request of the sponsor” (AKA Pfizer), the adverse event code was updated to COVID-19 disease and that’s how Pfizer made cases of myocarditis and pericarditis disappear, by sweeping them under the rug of COVID-19.Moreover, the diagnosis of COVID-19 would not count against the efficacy calculations, since those required a positive PCR test to confirm diagnosis.
Two days later On Oct. 9, Augusto was formally unblinded. The principal investigator for the trial, Fernando Polack (pictured below), had told him that Augusto could only be unblinded if his life were in danger, which is simply untrue. So Augusto appealed to ANMAT, the Argentinian FDA. In a formal hearing they forced the trial investigators to tell Augusto if he had received the vaccine or not. He had. If you think the timing of the Oct. 7 request by Pfizer to change his AE is suspect, you’re not alone.
Augusto had the vaccine, and had injuries consistent with the vaccine but for some reason did not have detectable antibodies to the Pfizer vaccine while later having antibodies but no injuries to the Sinopharm vaccine.
Remember, Fernando P Polack was the first author of the December, 2020 NEJM paper on the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. Augusto has recordings of Polack and another trial investigator admitting to him that someone at the trial site died. However, according to information provided to a member of the Argentine parliament, nobody is recorded as having died in the trial at that site
The clinical safety data for the Pfizer trial states 302 people on the active vaccine dropped out for protocol violations. A recently released document giving dropouts lists over 200 dropouts for the Buenos Aires site – but this does not include Augusto.
This appears to mean Augusto is registered with Pfizer and FDA as a case of Covid within the 7 days of dose 2, despite a negative PCR test, and hey presto, consistent with an Argentinian history of “disappearing” people … Augusto’s adverse reaction was among the disappeared.