Peter McCullough on health: what the evidence says · JRE #1747
SUBJECT: HEALTH
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
A good example was Colin Powell. Colin Powell just died recently. He was in his 80s. He was fully vaccinated, and he died of multiple myeloma, but he was also COVID positive.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Colin Powell, 84, died on October 18, 2021 of complications from COVID-19 while fully vaccinated; his family and treating physicians attributed the acute cause of death to COVID-19, not directly to multiple myeloma. Powell had been treated for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that impairs the immune system's ability to mount antibody and T-cell responses, and a peer-reviewed study published in the journal Leukemia found that only about 45% of active multiple myeloma patients developed an adequate antibody response after two mRNA vaccine doses, with roughly 22% partial responders and the remainder showing minimal to no response. Medical experts said Powell's case illustrated that severely immunocompromised, elderly patients remain vulnerable to fatal COVID-19 even when vaccinated, not that his COVID diagnosis was miscounted or that multiple myeloma rather than COVID-19 was the true cause of death. Powell had also not yet received a booster dose, having fallen ill in the days before a scheduled booster appointment. Recharacterizing an accurately reported COVID-19 death in a high-risk, immunocompromised patient as an example of overcounting is not supported by contemporaneous medical reporting or the vaccine-response literature; the case is better understood as illustrating vaccine breakthrough risk in immunocompromised populations than evidence of miscategorized COVID deaths.