Why COVID vaccines cannot work, and evidence they are deadly

On COVID vaccines: why they cannot work, and evidence of their causative role in deaths after vaccination

Sucharit Bhakdi, MD and Arne Burkhardt, MD

This text is a written summary of Dr. Bhakdi’s and Dr. Burkhardt’s presentations at the Doctors for
COVID Ethics symposium that was live-streamed by UKColumn on December 10th, 2021.

The two presentations can be viewed at the very beginning of the video recording of the symposium.

The authors

Dr. Bhakdi has spent his life practicing, teaching and researching medical microbiology and infectious
diseases. He chaired the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene at the Johannes Gutenberg
Unversity of Mainz, Germany, from 1990 until his retirement in 2012. He has published over 300
research articles in the fields of immunology, bacteriology, virology and parasitology, and served from
1990 to 2012 as Editor-in-Chief of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, one of the first scientific
journals of this field that was founded by Robert Koch in 1887.

Dr. Arne Burkhardt is a pathologist who has taught at the Universities of Hamburg, Berne and
Tübingen. He was invited for visiting professorships/study visits in Japan (Nihon University), the
United States (Brookhaven National Institute), Korea, Sweden, Malaysia and Turkey. He headed the
Institute of Pathology in Reutlingen for 18 years. Subsquently, he worked as an independent practicing
pathologist with consulting contracts with laboratories in the US. Burkhardt has published more than
150 scientific articles in German and international scientific journals as well as contributions to
handbooks in German, English and Japanese. Over many years he has audited and certified institutes of
pathology in Germany.

The evidence

We herewith present scientific evidence that calls for an immediate stop of the use of gene-based
COVID-19 vaccines. We first lay out why the agents cannot protect against viral infection. While no
positive effects can be expected, we show that the vaccines can trigger self-destructive processes that
lead to debilitating illness and death.

Why the vaccines cannot protect against infection

A fundamental mistake underlying the development of the COVID-19 vaccines was to neglect the
functional distinction between the two major categories of antibodies which the body produces in order
to protect itself from pathogenic microbes.

The first category (secretory IgA) is produced by immune cells (lymphocytes) which are located
directly underneath the mucous membranes that line the respiratory and intestinal tract. The antibodies
produced by these lymphocytes are secreted through and to the surface of the mucous membranes.

These antibodies are thus on site to meet air-borne viruses, and they may be able to prevent viral
binding and infection of the cells.

The second category of antibodies (IgG and circulating IgA) occur in the bloodstream. These
antibodies protect the internal organs of the body from infectious agents that try to spread via the
bloodstream.

Vaccines that are injected into the muscle – i.e., the interior of the body – will only induce IgG and
circulating IgA, not secretory IgA. Such antibodies cannot and will not effectively protect the mucous
membranes from infection by SARS-CoV-2. Thus, the currently observed “breakthrough infections”
among vaccinated individuals merely confirm the fundamental design flaws of the vaccines.
Measurements of antibodies in the blood can never yield any information on the true status of
immunity against infection of the respiratory tract.

The inability of vaccine-induced antibodies to prevent coronavirus infections has been reported in
recent scientific publications.

The vaccines can trigger self-destruction

A natural infection with SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) will in most individuals remain localized to the
respiratory tract. In contrast, the vaccines cause cells deep inside our body to express the viral spike
protein, which they were never meant to do by nature. Any cell which expresses this foreign antigen
will come under attack by the immune system, which will involve both IgG antibodies and cytotoxic Tlymphocytes.

This may occur in any organ. We are seeing now that the heart is affected in many young
people, leading to myocarditis or even sudden cardiac arrest and death. How and why such tragedies
might causally be linked to vaccination has remained a matter of conjecture because scientific evidence
has been lacking. This situation has now been rectified.

Histopathologic studies: the patients

Histopathologic analyses have been performed on the organs of 15 persons who died after vaccination.
The age, gender, vaccination record, and time of death after injection of each patient are listed in the
table on the next page.

The following points are of utmost importance:
 Prior to death, only 4 of the 15 patients had been treated in the ICU for more than 2 days. The
majority were never hospitalized and died at home (5), on the street (1), at work (1), in the car
(1), or in home-care facilities (1). Therefore, in most cases, therapeutic intervention is unlikely
to have significantly influenced the post-mortem findings.
 Not a single death was brought into any possible association with the vaccination by the coroner
or the public prosecutor; this association was only established by our autopsy findings.
 The initially performed conventional post-mortems also uncovered no obvious hints to a
possible role of vaccination, since the macroscopic appearance of the organs was overall
unremarkable. In most cases, “rhythmogenic heart failure” was postulated as the cause of death.

But our subsequent histopathological analyses then brought about a complete turnaround.

A summary of the fundamental findings follows.

Case # Gender Age (years) Vaccine (injections) Time of death after last
injection
1 female 82 Moderna (1. and 2.) 37 days
2 male 72 Pfizer (1.) 31 days
3 female 95 Moderna (1. and 2.) 68 days
4 female 73 Pfizer (1.) unknown
5 male 54 Janssen (1.) 65 days
6 female 55 Pfizer (1. and 2.) 11 days
7 male 56 Pfizer (1. and 2.) 8 days
8 male 80 Pfizer (1. and 2.) 37 days
9 female 89 Unknown (1. and 2.) 6 months
10 female 81 Unknown (1. and 2.) unknown
11 male 64 AstraZeneca (1. and 2.) 7 days
12 female 71 Pfizer (1. and 2.) 20 days
13 male 28 AstraZeneca (1.), Pfizer
(2.)
4 weeks
14 male 78 Pfizer (1. and 2.) 65 days
15 female 60 Pfizer (1.) 23 days

Histopathologic studies: findings

Histopathologic findings of a similar nature were detected in organs of 14 of the 15 deceased. Most
frequently afflicted were the heart (14 of 15 cases) and the lung (13 of 15 cases).

Pathologic alterations
were furthermore observed in the liver (2 cases), thyroid gland (Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, 2 cases),
salivary glands (Sjögren`s Syndrome; 2 cases) and brain (2 cases).

A number of salient aspects dominated in all affected tissues of all cases:
1. inflammatory events in small blood vessels (endothelitis), characterized by an abundance of Tlymphocytes and sequestered, dead endothelial cells within the vessel lumen;
2. the extensive perivascular accumulation of T-lymphocytes;
3. a massive lymphocytic infiltration of surrounding non-lymphatic organs or tissue with Tlymphocytes.

Lymphocytic infiltration occasionally occurred in combination with intense lymphocytic activation and
follicle formation. Where these were present, they were usually accompanied by tissue destruction.
This combination of multifocal, T-lymphocyte-dominated pathology that clearly reflects the process of
immunological self-attack is without precedent. Because vaccination was the single common
denominator between all cases, there can be no doubt that it was the trigger of self-destruction in these
deceased individuals.

Conclusion
Histopathologic analysis show clear evidence of vaccine-induced autoimmune-like pathology in
multiple organs. That myriad adverse events deriving from such auto-attack processes must be
expected to very frequently occur in all individuals, particularly following booster injections, is selfevident.
Beyond any doubt, injection of gene-based COVID-19 vaccines places lives under threat of illness and
death. We note that both mRNA and vector-based vaccines are represented among these cases, as are all
four major manufacturers.