Drew Davis, a data analyst for a large pharmaceutical company, joins the podcast to discuss Covid by the numbers. When his company demanded that he get a Covid vaccine, he engaged in an aggressive pattern of research to understand the numbers as published by mainstream information outlets like the CDC and others from the mainstream medical community. In the process, he uncovered fascinating perspectives which he shares with us today. 

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Welcome to the Church and Family Life podcast. Church and Family Life exists to proclaim the sufficiency of scripture. And today we're gonna do something unusual. We're gonna talk about statistics, COVID by the numbers. There are particular data points that we're being fed from different sources.

But we're gonna do this program on particular data points on some of the important issues. But we're doing something different here. We're going to take our numbers from the official government websites. And Before we get into that, I want to just tell you about a book I've just written called Forced Vaccinations Thinking Biblically. You can get it on our website.

It's a resource that'll help you think through the matter of forced vaccine mandates. Also on our website, you can see I've written an article recently on the use of fetal cells in the vaccines, and you can get that at churchandfamilylife.com. Well, to do COVID by the numbers, I have with me Drew Davis. Hey, Drew. Hello, how are you?

Great. So good to have you here and talk about all this stuff. Now, Drew works for a pharmaceutical company as a data analyst. And when all of these things broke and vaccine demands were made, he began to examine the data. Well, that's his business.

That's what he does for a living. And so he started creating charts. He started creating all kinds of remarkable visual representations of what was going on from the CDC, particularly, and some other places as well. So, Drew started showing me these charts. We live in the same community.

I was so intrigued by them, I thought, this would be really interesting to talk about publicly. Drew, thank you so much. Hey, thanks for the work that you did and just the beautiful representations of the numbers. Well, thank you. I'm excited to share it with people.

I think it's important for people to be looking at the data and closely examining the information they're taking in. Absolutely. So what we're going to do is we're just going to look at some of the slides, some of the graphical representations that you came up with. Now, hey, just tell us about your methodology first before we begin. Sure.

So all of the data from these charts and graphs that we're going to go over came from either government websites or studies that have been peer reviewed are in the process of being peer reviewed. So none of this is like conspiracy related information. It's just using the publicly available information by our institutions just to look objectively at really how dangerous COVID is and what's the risk with this virus. And in showing these numbers, we're not asserting that all these numbers are necessarily accurate. Correct.

They may not be. I think We questioned some of them, but I think what is interesting about these numbers is that they come from official pro-vaccine sources, pro-lockdown sources, and that type of thing. So anyway, that's why we're doing it. So let's begin. You created a representation.

A dashboard, yes. Yeah, a dashboard of these various issues. One of them is the death rate by age. You know, schools have been locked down. Children are in fear.

They're wearing masks. So what's the real story about children and basically the ages of those who are vulnerable? Definitely. Well, let's pull up the first slide and take a look at the information. So this graph here illustrates the percent of chance of death based on the total deaths by age.

So if we take all the COVID-19 deaths, and these are the deaths that are listed per the CDC. So, you know, there's a lot of questions around is this number inflated. For example, some hospitals would take anyone who died within 30 days of a COVID-19 test and count it as a COVID-19 death. So we could definitely question if the volume is accurate. But if we look at the overall picture, even with these potentially inflated numbers, we see that most of the deaths happen to people that are already past the average American life expectancy.

And then you can also see as you look down towards children, you know, zero to 17 years, the percent of death is extremely small. You know, 0.04 percent, for example, for under 17. So this graph just really illustrates that people should take a look at the data and based on their age, definitely consider what the potential danger is for them in kind of a worst-case scenario if these numbers were to be accurate. What's really interesting about this graph is that the average age of death by COVID is the average age of death for everything else historically. There's lots of data models that are showing that the average age of death kind of mirrors the curve that you typically see for distribution based on age.

What kind of conclusion should we draw from this? I think people should draw from that, that for one, it's not really altering life expectancy. So that really indicates how serious of a problem is it. And secondly, I think what people can draw from this is that, you know, how likely are you actually to be impacted from COVID-19? Is your child under the age of 17 years likely?

And the answer is no. And even if you kind of go up the up the graph you can see that until you get kind of to that top bracket most of the people that are passing away are not in those younger age categories. And I think in this first age category, zero to 17, in 18 or 20 months, just a few hundred children have died in the entire United States. Yeah, in the entire United States, I believe it was 600 children as of today since the pandemic started, which is less than the number of children that have passed away from poisoning, actually, at the same time period. Yeah, and that's over a time horizon of almost two years, 18 months.

Okay, so there you go. The young are very unlikely, very, very, very unlikely to die. Now we're going to drill down a little bit deeper, and we want to look at the common causes of death for those who are under 18. Yeah, so this is kind of the graph that we just alluded to previously. So if we look, this is breaking down the total number of deaths for typical common causes.

You know, there's a lot more than this, but I just picked some of the ones that might be relatable. And obviously every death is a tragedy. No one would want that for children. But if you look at the statistics, I mean, car crashes, cancer, drownings, even suicides for people under the age of 18 or higher than the number of children that have allegedly passed away due to COVID-19. And so when people are trying to assess, you know, how risky is it that their child should catch COVID-19, I would just say how many people do you know that their children died of poisoning?

I mean, do you know anybody? I don't know anybody who's died of poisoning. I mean, neither do I. And obviously, it's heartbreaking for those 600 children that did, but very, very low risk. So you have to ask yourself, is it worth keeping your children locked inside and having them miss out on growth and opportunities to experience everything for that really low risk.

Yeah, I mean here the numbers the death type like for car crashes over 4000 over 4000 for cancer over 3000 for drownings just a little over 2000, suicide, probably about 1750, poisoning, I guess that's 600, and COVID-19 less than that. So, you know, children are riding in cars, they're swimming, they're involved, you know, they're involved in ingesting things, and COVID-19 is the least threatening for children. Absolutely. Definitely down on the bottom. And you have to wonder, should the government be pouring all this funding into COVID-19 research or cancer research?

There you go. OK. OK, so let's keep moving. Let's talk about hospitalization, general health. We keep hearing that if a person has various comorbidities, other physical problems, they're far more likely to die or be hospitalized either way.

And so let's take a look at this analysis that you did on that issue. Sure. So on the left, it's highlighting how BMI is linked to hospitalization. And BMI is? Body mass index.

There you go. Obesity. Obesity, yep. So if you look at the 25 to 30 people in that category would be considered overweight, and then 30 plus would be obese, and then you get to morbidly obese, and so forth. And what this really highlights is if you take the healthy person with the baseline of one in a 20 to 25 BMI range, and then you look at people as the BMI goes up, you can see that their chance of hospitalization grows quite quickly.

And so we have to ask ourselves, you know, are lockdowns the right approach, or is really holistic medicine the approach? You know, get our bodies healthy, watch what's coming in, are we exercising? And doing basic things like that really drives down the risk of any infection, whether it's COVID or the flu or cancer. And so I think we have to ask ourselves, is our government and Americans focusing on the right thing, the pharmaceutical industry, or should we be focusing on our health? One of the interesting things about this idea, I've been looking at the church that I'm a pastor at, and pretty much everybody is healthy, And it's just illustrated the blessing of being healthy, because we haven't had any problems with COVID in our church, but it's a good thing to take good care of your body.

Absolutely. Our body is a temple, and we can't expect the Lord to bless it if we don't treat it like that. And then you also have this death count and fatality analysis. Tell us about that. Sure.

So, I put this up just to put COVID-19 in perspective of other plagues and epidemics and diseases that have affected humanity. And so if we look at numbers like the Black Plague, estimates do vary. You know, that's a historical disease. So, you know, those numbers vary, you know, plus 5, 10 million, depending on the person that was recording it and so forth. But if you just look at the big picture, I mean, you'll see how small the number of COVID deaths are, including the death rate as well, compared to other diseases.

I mean, if you look at cancer, where we've racked up over 100 million deaths in COVID, you know, only four. That's just a really a shocking graphic. We're pouring, you know, trillions of dollars into, you know, COVID-related research and medicine and lockdowns and lost economic growth and so forth. And at the same time, many people are dying from cancer, but no one's panicking about that. So you have to wonder why the panic about COVID specifically and why the focus when other things historically have been worse and presently cancerous.

Yeah, we've been saying this pandemic is not your grandpa's pandemic. Absolutely. That's why you've got 100 million dying of cancer, 500 million of smallpox, 50 million of the black plague, and about 4 million if that's actually an accurate number. Well, that's the number that's reported. That's the high side, likely lower, right?

You know, a few years from now, once people have a chance to go look and correct the numbers, you know, is calling deaths that happened 30 days after a positive test the right measure to attribute, you know, a COVID-19 death and so forth. The hospitals have a lot of liberty to classify if a death is COVID-related or not. And you know, there's a lot of questions around, you know, the funding medical institutions are getting for each recorded COVID death and so forth. And obviously places wouldn't purposely cause death, but if there's financial incentives for reporting deaths that already happened as COVID, you have to wonder if that number is high. I've been hearing that the more accurate number would be less than 1% for the COVID death rate, rather than the 2% to 3% we're seeing, depending on the country currently.

I know several people who had a family member die of cancer after having cancer for a long period, and they were coded a COVID death. They were lying. So I think many, many of us know people in that category. So I don't know if that number 4 million is correct, but whatever it is, it, the comparison is just striking. Absolutely.

This is not your grandpa's pandemic. Well said. And then, OK, anything else to say about that one before we move on? I mean, I think that covers the gist of it. If they access the Tableau Dash, they can play around and filter based on money spent by disease and filter for different diseases.

But I think that covers the bulk of it on this PowerPoint. Okay. Well, I'd like to move on and talk about the vaccine itself and the approval of the vaccine. You know, as you know, I've got this book, Force Vaccinations, thinking biblically. But you know, we've all been thinking a lot about the vaccine.

What's clear is that many people are nervous about the length of time for testing. In fact, there's a whole new group of anti-vaxxers. They've never been anti-vaxxers before. Historically you've had the anti-vaxxers, That's just how they've always thought or whatever. But there's a whole new group that's been created.

And I'm just going to call them the people who are saying, not that one. I'm not taking that one. I'm not taking that mRNA. I'm not taking the Johnson & Johnson vaccine because it hasn't been tested very long. So there's almost this new wave of quote unquote anti-vaxxers, but they're not comprehensively anti-vaxx.

Sure, yeah. I mean, I would fall into that new category. I'm not anti-vax overall. I mean, I think there's some good moral questions around aborted fetal tissue that you mentioned in your article in numerous vaccines, but as far as vaccine technology overall, I'm definitely not anti-vax. But I do think the approval process for this vaccine specifically does raise some questions, especially when you consider, you know, the really low chance of death from COVID-19.

So now they're doing clinical trials and testing the vaccine on children who have a 0.04% chance of, on the high side, of dying from COVID-19. So you have to ask, are companies motivated by profits or actually protecting people for this particular vaccine? We look over at the graph. So the one on the left is highlighting, you know, vaccine approval time. So the median, not the average, the median, the median is usually a better measure for things like this.

So middle of the road vaccine takes around 8.1 years to get approval. The quickest approval time before COVID came about from the FDA was a little over six years. And then if we look at the COVID-19 vaccine, you know, kind of paired with the Operation Warp Speed that Trump and then Biden have had a big hand in. If you include the emergency youth period, along with the regular approval process, they did it in about 1.3 years, which is, I mean, that's just shocking if you look at the standard approval time. Yeah, and the reason for the length of time for approval is because vaccines tend to have residual effects, and so those need to be observed over time.

So We're going here from six to eight years to just a little over a year. That scared a lot of people because The way I understand it many of the negative manifestations show up within about four years Some of them happen immediately and then some of them spin out later on in about the space of four years and then some go on after that. That's why we have such long approval cycles. Another thing to add on to that, while mRNA technology isn't completely brand new, It's still a relatively young technology. So we have a decreased approval time with a relatively new technology.

This isn't a standard vaccine, historically speaking. And MRNA technology might prove to be excellent, but it's not been around as long as some of the other methods. And then we really rushed the vaccine approval time. And if we look at the FDA's history and we look at drugs and other substances that they approved on a shorter window, A lot of time the results are really bad. If we look, for example, at OxyContin and Purdue Pharm, how they kind of ingrained themselves with the FDA and rushed the approval and kind of skirted guidelines for their medicine to get it to market sooner, all the negative effects of the opioid crisis and all that directly related to the FDAs and produce actions.

It's a little scary when it goes so quick. You know, everybody was rejoicing when the FDA approved one of the vaccines as if, we're safe, everything is beautiful, no problems. But your next slide here is kind of a contradiction to that. It might make one pause there rejoicing. So tell us about that one.

So this one's highlighting, you know, the number of major issues that drugs... So drugs include vaccines along with other medicines that FDA has approved from 2001 to 2010. So this is an old study. It was a study produced by Yale School of Medicine. And what it highlighted is that within four years after approval, about a third of FDA-approved medicine had major issues.

Some were pulled from the market, some needed new warning labels, sometimes they changed who could get access to it depending on the severity of the major issue. But that's not a great track record, 66% or 68% chance of getting it right with a normal lengthy approval time. Well, and the scary part is that other number, 31.98% are getting it wrong and manifesting dangerous results. So Just because the FDA approved something means that About 32 percent of the time There's a lot of bad news in it. Absolutely.

Well a lot of bad news in addition to the bad news They already knew was there so oftentimes, you know, there's trade-offs with different medicines so there's usually some sort of negative impact or side effect. So there's that, plus an additional 32% of the drugs have serious issues they didn't even know existed, in addition to the ones they already knew were there. Yeah, so I think it's important just to understand what an FDA approval might mean. Absolutely, and a lot of doctors don't really dig in and read the studies, they just trust the FDA approval. They're busy, our doctors in America are quickly kind of being shifted into corporations versus private practices, And they're kind of being forced to adhere to all these different corporate policies.

And so a lot of them aren't even able to advise patients as they would want to. They're really boxed into these corporations and having to prescribe drugs without really digging in and just trusting the FDA. Yeah. Well, let's move on and let's talk about adverse effects, including death. We've seen a remarkable number of adverse effects with this vaccine.

I have people in the church that I attend who work at the various hospitals for months. They've been reporting to me significant, actually terrifying adverse effects from the vaccine. So I know that for sure and I also know people personally that have had adverse effects. So let's talk about this slide here about vaccine death and adverse effects. Definitely.

So there's two pieces to this slide and I just clarify before we jump into the data that so the system where these adverse events are reported, you know, historically, just because an event is reported doesn't mean it was caused by the vaccine. It happened around the time of vaccination. So if you're just talking little ups and downs, you couldn't for certain say, you know, it was caused by the vaccine because that link hasn't been scientifically established. It's just a tool where doctors and patients can report any adverse effects from vaccines, potential adverse effects. So that's what we're looking at, potential adverse effects.

But what's shocking, it makes it really hard to ignore this data, is when you take a look at how much it's increased. So on the left-hand side, if we take a look at deaths. So if we look at vaccine distribution from January 2010 until August 2021, for flu and COVID-19 shots only, we can see that the COVID shots, because they're two per person, account for roughly 19% of the vaccines distributed. Yet they account for 90% of the potential reported deaths. I mean that's a shocking number.

19% of the distribution but potentially 90% of the deaths. Very sobering. Yeah. And then if we jump over on the right side, so this is all vaccines, not just flu and COVID. And this is highlighting the number of adverse events reported each year.

And so the graph just shows increments of every two years. The numbers down there, but the bars are for every year. And you know, as we can see from like 2005 all the way through 2019, it stays pretty constant. We see a small jump in 2020. And then in 2022, there's a huge jump.

The number of reported issues spiked to over 400,000. You meant 2021. Oh, yes, 2021. Yeah, they spiked to over 400,000. And that's really a sobering number, especially since we pulled this data in August.

So we would expect by the end of the year, if the trend continues to have nearly a million adverse events reported, compared to an average of around 10, 15,000. Yeah, and you have a 15-year time horizon here from 2006. As you can see in the graph, there's just very little comparatively, and then absolute skyrocketing with COVID. And then we're like, all right, there's all these adverse events that are being reported, lots of potential issues, short approval time. Was it worth it?

And if we look at the data, it doesn't seem to be, as you know, hospitalizations are skyrocketing everywhere. In August, you know, in Israel, 60% of the COVID-19 related hospitalizations were from vaccinated patients, so more than half. And, you know, the data is similar in America now, so you have to ask, Is the vaccine doing anything helpful overall? OK. So let's move to the next slide.

And this one is here because there's a narrative floating out there that it's all of the uneducated, foolish people who have hesitancy to take the vaccine. So is that how it really is? I would definitely say that's not how it is. There's lots of doctors, nurses, other hospital workers that are really protesting and pushing back against it. After doing a detailed review of the data that's out there.

If we look at the chart on the left, again, this was pulled in August, but studies varied, but somewhere around a third of hospital workers were refusing to get vaccinated. If we take a step back even further before all these mandates were being shoved down everyone's throats. Some hospitals were at 99% unvaccinated and that was when the vaccine was available. So vaccine was available and some hospitals 99% of the people working there, doctors, nurses, other staff, were declining it. Yeah, I know in the hospitals around here, employees are forming groups to refuse the vaccine, or at least to express their concern about it.

And then also, let's talk about education. Absolutely. Just, you know, in people I know, I know a lot of well-educated people, you know, that are refusing this particular vaccine, but, you know, that's not really quantitative. But there's been several studies done. This one's an international study, and it's highlighting the education level among unvaccinated people.

So just a quick glance shows that in this study, the people they recorded that 36% of the people refusing the vaccine had a higher level of education such as a doctor, a PhD, churist doctor, etc. You know, 8% of the people refusing had a master's and so forth. So it's a lot of well-educated people, it's a lot of people in the medical community that are pushing back and saying we don't want the vaccine, at least not currently. And I think what your chart tells us is that if you have a high, a high school level education, you have the lowest level of vaccine hesitancy. If you, if you correlate that to all those who've actually got a college.

Yeah, absolutely. If you combine the college levels. Okay. So let's keep moving here. Let's talk about lockdown side effects.

One of the disturbing things to many of us have been just the harmful nature of lockdowns, the harmful nature of and an ineffectual nature of masks, the fraud of social distancing, all those kinds of things. So let's look at the lockdown. Absolutely, yeah, there's a lot of questions around, you know, are the lockdowns effective and so forth. And that's really a whole nother debate, but this is really, whether they're effective or not, there's side effects to them. And people just need to be aware of the risks that are a result of these lockdowns.

So if we look at even children born during the pandemic, we can see serious cognitive decline in these little children. Big drop there pre-COVID versus post-COVID lockdowns and that was among families that did not catch COVID-19. So the decline cognitively was not due to catching the disease. They all tested negative for antibodies and so forth. This was among families that didn't catch it.

Yet these children are showing serious issues on their growth and learning abilities due to the lockdowns, due to the mask mandates. Seeing everyone's faces covered up and not seeing their emotions and their words has a big effect on little children. And then if we look to the right, we can see the percent of Americans with mental health issues overall. And this is really sobering. You know, in 2019, there was 11% approximately of Americans that had an anxiety and depression disorder.

And if we look at 2021, that jumped to 41%. So you have to question if the constant fear mongering, the constant lockdowns are doing more harm than good. Yeah, that is just so amazing. And I saw another study where IQ levels of school-aged children had dropped dramatically, you know, pre-COVID testing and then post. So it has not been helpful.

It's not been the thing that has been a blessing. And a violent crime, as you've probably seen some of those studies, 20% increase in murders and violent crime in 2020. I mean, that's a huge spike. And crime overall is going down. So it's just that the violent crime, likely due to many people struggling from mental health issues, are being locked inside.

Including suicide. So you've got death rates, suicide rates, mental illness rates, cognitive, all those going up, and then cognitive decline at the same time. Absolutely. OK, so let's also look at comparative death rates. And when all of this started, We were warned that the death rates would be very, very high.

I remember looking at a chart of death rates per year, and about mid-year, the US death rate was on track for being lower than the previous years. I know a funeral director is telling me that before the pandemic hit, I'm sorry I use the word pandemic, before the fear-mongering hit, he was warned that there would be massive deaths, they would need to have mobile morgues get ready for a big year of a lot of work to do. It never happened. So this is about death rates here. The focus here is historical death rates in the UK over a 30-year time horizon?

Definitely. I pulled the UK data because it was, they had lots of information they were putting out and it was easy to obtain official numbers for a long period of time so we could see the trend overall. And so This just breaks down the death rate per capita over the last 30 years. The bar in green we highlighted is last year they made the data available for 2020. We can see it sits right in the middle.

The deadliest year was 1993. The least deadly year was 2011 in the UK, but 2020 sits right in the middle. Next to it are 2004, 2001, and so forth. So it's not like it's pushed back. It's right in the middle of the pack.

So we have to question, you know, how severe is COVID really when you look at that? And you know, I think another reason to look at the UK data is for a part of the pandemic, you know, they used a no lockdown approach. They pivoted, but for a good part of that, they weren't locked down. So it's a good country to provide a benchmark against to see, you know, how deadly was this virus really. So there you have it.

Drew, I really appreciate you putting these slides together. They're very graphic, And again, we're not certifying all these numbers, but what we are saying is that these numbers didn't come from conspiracy theorists. They came from basically mainstream sources. And they actually contradict the narratives that we hear about in the news. So anyway, I just really appreciate your hard work and the beautiful ways you represented the numbers.

Oh, definitely. Happy to help. I hope it's helpful to people. And then, you know, I think we're going to include all the sources as well, so people can, I would encourage them, fact check, you know, do their own research, confirm, and really dig into the data? There's a lot, a lot more out there.

This is just a small snippet of what can be reviewed. Right. There were so many other statistics we wanted to cover, but this is a great start. So thank you. Really appreciate it.

Definitely. Thank you for having me. Okay. And thank you for joining us on the Church and Family Life podcast. And I hope you're able to get my book on forced vaccinations.

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