During the COVID epidemic, I became aware of three athletic young men who, within close to a week of receiving the COVID shot, all died of heart failure.
This could be due to chance, but it made me wonder. One healthy, young, 28-year-old man was the son of a physician.
The father related to me that his son’s death was caused by myocarditis related to the COVID vaccine that he had just gotten a week before.
Since then I have learned of various claims by friends claiming the same thing happened in their family.
A new study lent evidence to my suspicions. The study found, of 325 autopsies they reviewed, 240 deaths, or 74 percent, were independently adjudicated as “directly due to or significantly contributed to by COVID-19 vaccination.”
The autopsies showed the most-affected organ system in COVID-19 vaccine-associated death was the cardiovascular system.
The rate was 53 percent, followed by the hematological system, 17 percent, the respiratory system, 8 percent, and multiple-organ systems, 7 percent. The average time from vaccination to death was 14.3 days.
The lead author, internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough noted that “The striking cases were people who were perfectly healthy and had no other medical problems.”
“The only new thing in their life was the vaccine, and they died with an obvious syndrome like a blood clot or heart damage—myocarditis.”
The study was soon removed by the journal had published it. According to Dr. Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, the authors were not given an explanation for how their conclusions failed to meet their study standards.
Co-author, senior epidemiology research scientist at Yale University, Dr. Harvey Risch, stated that he believes the paper was censored by Lancet’s publisher, Elsevier.
Dr. McCullough noted that the project was approved through the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, and the team used the standard scientific evaluation methodology called the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. They searched through hundreds of papers to identify 44 cases that met the research criteria.
Dr. McCullough was not a novice researcher. He has published more than 1,000 scientific articles that were cited by 660 journals.
The study’s co-authors included top pathologist Dr. Roger Hodkinson, former chairman of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s examination committee in pathology, and Dr. Paul Alexander, of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. McCullough said that before its removal, the study had hundreds of views. Fortunately, it is now on the Zenodo preprint server (https://zenodo.org/record/8120771) and has had almost 77 thousand views and 63 thousand downloads.

Another study by Dr. McCullough and molecular biologist Dr. Jessica analyzed data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and found myocarditis spiked in teenagers after COVID-19 vaccination.
McCullough’s co-researchers included Nicolas Hulscher, BS; Paul E. Alexander, PhD; Richard Amerling, MD; Heather Gessling, MD; Roger Hodkinson, MD; William Makis, MD; Harvey A. Risch, MD, PhD; and Mark Trozzi, MD.
Vaccine papers get special attention because some people do not want to have the safety data presented, since it may discourage people who need the vaccine from getting it. I believe that sooner or later the facts about this concern will be public.