Interview. Dr. Peter A. McCullough on Censorship, Covid Vaccine Safety Issues, and Most Doctors Being in a Fear-Driven Trance

Well-known American cardiologist Dr. Peter A. McCullough says he has never had a doctor say to his face that they support the Covid vaccines. That is how bad it is, according to him.

“Some doctors had the skill and the art of medicine to see the illness, learn how to treat it, and then understand vaccine safety and efficacy. And other doctors were in a fear-driven trance,” Dr. Peter A. McCullough says about the Covid pandemic. And this trance seems to be an ongoing issue as we learn from him.

Dr. McCullough has been a critic of the government's Covid policies all through the pandemic. He is an internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist, and scientist with a long career in the medical field in the United States, holding several prestigious positions. As a scientist, he has published on a range of topics in medicine with more than 1,000 publications to his name. During the pandemic, he was advocating for a different pandemic approach that would have not caused such harm and pointed to the ineffectiveness of the Covid vaccines and the serious injuries related to them. His practice now manages common infectious diseases as well as the cardiovascular complications of both the viral infection and the injuries developing after the Covid-19 vaccine. For more information about his work, you can visit Dr. McCullough's web page and the Substack publication Courageous Discourse. This written interview is based on our recent podcast with Dr. McCullough, which you can listen to here.

I will start with a question, which is quite puzzling to me. I find it bizarre that there are still medical institutions that mandate Covid vaccines and one is from Texas, it should be familiar to you, the Baylor College of Medicine. As I understand they mandated boosters to students and employees there. So, what is going on – can you explain?

It's inexplicable. Texas has philosophical, religious and medical exemptions from vaccines. I am told they are not accepting any of those. The syndrome is now quite mild. It's basically like a runny nose for a day or so. I haven't had to prescribe any medications, we use Viricidal nasal Washes and Gargles, over the counter agents. There is no hospitalisations and deaths that we are seeing with this outbreak. The vaccines, even if they did work, they are not medically necessary and they are not clinically indicated. Now the booster that is proposed, is the XBB.1.5 booster, but it's a single shot posed as a primary series. 25% of Americans never took a vaccine at all and of those who did take a vaccine, almost everybody is out of date. So they are basically back to baseline. So, a single shot as a primary series, never tested in humans that way, antibody data just from 10 animals, antibodies that are raised against XBB.1.5 which is now extinct, but they are also raised against EG.5, that is simply not sufficient to ever be approved for human use, let alone be compelled at a medical school such as Baylor College of Medicine. Baylor College of Medicine previously was thought to be an esteemed scientific institution. It's a top national health institution. But Baylor and the leaders there, they know that the XBB booster does not meet the scientific standard for use at all, in any human, let alone to force it on their students.

So, what is going on? Why do they do that? It kind of seems to me that they did fail, the medical institutions – they did fail during the pandemic, but they are still failing, aren't they?

They still are. They are failing, they can't see the truth that the vaccines simply didn't work. They never stopped Covid-19, they did not stop transmission, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - HS) and the company executives all agree on that. And they never reduced hospitalisation or death. There has not been a double blind randomized placebo controlled trial that ever showed a reduction in death. In fact, a recent paper by Michels and colleagues shows that there were 38 deaths in the Pfizer programme that were not captured from the time of the data cutoff to the briefing booklet presentation. And those 38 deaths, you know, tip the scales against Pfizer. There was a three to fourfold increased risk of cardiovascular death in the randomized trials with Pfizer. And sure enough, we saw that in clinical practice. But the medical institutions, the regulatory agencies, they appear to be willfully blind to the adverse safety events we're seeing with the vaccines. And Americans are spooked, they're scared right now. I can tell you they don't trust their doctors or institutions that are not looking at the safety of these vaccines.

“There was a three to fourfold increased risk of cardiovascular death in the randomized trials with Pfizer.” Photo: Mat Napo.

This is a really bad outcome. About those Covid vaccines – you recently published a paper with your colleagues. I understand you looked at 325 autopsy reports and 74% of those deaths that you looked at were caused by the vaccine. You managed to publish the study in the preprint server of The Lancet, but it was taken down. So tell us what happened there?

You know, autopsies were being reported case by case in the literature. It didn't look good for the vaccines, but they were coming out of Korea, the United States, Germany. They were case by case and it's hard to see a pattern. So we commissioned a project, Nick (Nicolas - HS) Hulscher is the first author, University of Michigan School of Public Health. We got it approved through the School of Public Health. We examined 600 papers, extracted all the relevant data, created data tables of all the findings. Then we independently adjudicated each case because we have now contemporary knowledge and warnings on it. So we didn't rely on the original authors' conclusions at all. We independently adjudicated them. Three doctors experienced in cardiac pathology, including myself, and then we came to an agreement on whether or not the vaccine directly caused the death or significantly contributed to it. And these are people who've died after taking the vaccine. And the findings were, as you said, in 73.9% of the cases the vaccines significantly contributed to, or in fact directly cause the death. And more than half were cardiovascular – myocarditis, blood clots, etc. So this was submitted to Lancet. I had previously published in Lancet early in the pandemic. I'm a well-known author around the world, and Lancet viewed it favorably. They triaged it to a lower journal. We respectfully moved on to higher tier journals, but they encouraged it on their pre-print server. It went through two sets of checks, was up on the pre-print server overnight, was getting record downloads. And then Lancet and Elsevier (the publishing house for The Lancet - HS) shut it down. And they said after the fact, they didn't think the conclusions were supported by the methodology. While it was standard research methodology. This looks like a clear active censorship. We posted it on the European Commission pre-print server, it received record downloads. Typical vaccine papers getting about 25 to 50 downloads and reads. Ours is at 250,000 downloads. So believe me, the scientific community knows that death after vaccination is likely due to the vaccine when there's no other clear cause.

Dr. McCullough pointed out on X that when The Lancet said “the stydy’s conclusions are not supported by the study methodology”, they were actually saying that they disagree with autopsy reports.

Let's talk a bit more about those vaccines, because I know you're dealing with a lot of patients that have a lot of problems, with post vaccine injuries. What are the main troubles?

This vaccine is the most dangerous biological product we've ever seen in clinical practice. We know from the CDC v-safe (smartphone-based tool with which you can promptly tell the CDC if you experience any side effects from the Covid-19 vaccines – HS) data that 7.7% of people who take a shot become so sick that they have to go to the emergency room. Two papers, prospective cohort studies, Mansanguan and Le Pessec, demonstrated the rate of heart damage to about 2.5% by blood testing and imaging. This is catastrophic. So the four major areas of damage we're seeing are cardiovascular myocarditis, acceleration of cardiovascular disease, and cardiac arrest. The second is neurologic stroke, ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, Guillain-Barré syndrome, a small fiber neuropathy, hearing loss, vision loss. All this is demonstrated in the peer-reviewed literature. The third area is blood clots. The spike protein generated from the vaccine is found within the blood clots. The largest blood clots we've seen resistant to treatments with anticoagulants. And then immunologic, that is, various syndromes – vaccine-induced thrombocytopenic purpura, multisystem inflammatory disease, ANA positive syndromes (ANA: antinuclear antibody; being positive is a sign of autoimmune disease – HS). Then the fifth area – it's still a hypothesis right now, but it's not looking good – is that the vaccines could cause cancer.

So how common are they again?

Overall, the CDC v-safe data had it at 7.7% acutely ill. A Zogby survey of people who took the vaccine came in at about 15% of people have these illnesses. They're grossly under-reported in the safety system. There's 39 safety systems worldwide and they're grossly unreported. But roughly, and this fits with my experience, about 15% of people are now having some new problem from the vaccine. By the way, a lot of public figures as well. Megyn Kelly recently, a well-known TV broadcaster, approached former President Trump on this. She's got an autoimmune syndrome. Eric Clapton who's a well-known musician, has a small fiber neuropathy. The list goes on and on: ESPN announcer Kirk Herbstreit – blood clots, weatherman Al Roker – blood clots, former Tampa Bay coach Bruce Arians – myocarditis, and so on. You know, we can just look to public figures now who have been damaged by these vaccines.

Journalist Megyn Kelly revealed recently she developed an autoimmune condition after getting vaccinated. Photot: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons.

So it is that bad, but still they don't recognize it. And this is one of the questions I've been puzzled about. How is it so that the entire medical system failed the people in such a big way? Can you explain it?

You know, the best way I can explain it is that some doctors had the skill and the art of medicine to see the illness, learn how to treat it, and then understand vaccine safety and efficacy. And other doctors were in a fear-driven trance. They never treated the illness. Patients died unnecessarily because they weren't treated. And these doctors themselves have taken the vaccine and they continue to promote the vaccine even though it doesn't work, and it's not safe. You know, a recent report by oncologist William Makis from Canada shows we're up to over 180 dead Canadian doctors after they've taken the vaccine. These have been written up and officially reported to the Canadian authorities. And again, there seems to be no concern, no interest whatsoever. I've written to the American College of Cardiology about myocarditis and fatal myocarditis. We have bonafide fatal cases. American College of Cardiology is showing no concern, still supporting vaccination, despite, you know, the vaccines having official warnings that they cause heart damage. This is the first non-cardiology product that the American College of Cardiology is recommending, and it causes heart damage. You know, the American College of Cardiology should have no recommendations on a vaccine for an infectious disease, let alone one that has cardiovascular safety warnings from the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration - HS).

I think part of the problem here is also that people who even understand the risks – medical doctors and scientists – they're afraid to speak. So this is also going back to the censorship issue. It's not only the censorship, it's also about cancelling people who speak out. And I think you are also pretty familiar with that. Correct?

It's true. The cancelling appears to be a kind of an electronic phenomenon. I've never had a doctor actually talk to me face to face and tell me that they support the vaccines. It's never happened. They don't answer texts or emails, don't engage in conversation. I've testified three times in the US Senate and Anthony Fauci, the entire Coronavirus Task Force panel, they don't show up. They won't face it. I testified in the European Parliament and there weren't any other doctors who confronted us and said that they think the vaccines are safe and effective. In fact, there are no prominent doctors right now out there claiming the vaccines are safe and effective and engaging in discussions on this. You mentioned Baylor College of Medicine. The new vaccine front man is Peter Hotez from there. Now that Anthony Fauci is retired. And I told Joe Rogan and Robert F. Kennedy that I'll be happy to meet with Hotez in Austin, Texas. We'll go over vaccine safety. Hotez won't do it. He won't face any type of conversation on vaccine safety.

Dr. Peter Hotez from Baylor College of Medicine is known for his pro-vaccine stance. “He won't face any type of conversation on vaccine safety,” dr. McCullough says. Photo: Larry D. Moore/Wikimedia Commons.

We have record numbers of deaths, our vaccine adverse event reporting system in the United States among Americans shows over 18,000 Americans have died after the vaccine, largely reported by healthcare personnel that think the vaccine caused it. And 1,100 of those deaths occurred on the same day they took the shot. I mean, this is astounding. And the underreporting factor is somewhere in the FDA records at 30. There is a published underreporting factor of 40, but even at 30, we're approaching 600,000 Americans who've died after the vaccine. And if our autopsy series are in line, you know, three quarters of them is actually due to the vaccine. Recently researcher Denis Rancourt has published that the worldwide death number could be between 15 and 20 million people who've died after the vaccine. So this is astounding. The Nobel Prize was just awarded, and there is a history of Nobel Prizes that are awarded for things that go bad. And that started out even with Nobel himself and the use of dynamite for damaging purposes. And it went on to Haber, who invented chlorine gas that was used by Germany against their adversaries in World War I and World War II. And it just keeps going and going. So we've got a problem now. I've testified in front of the US Senate, European Parliament, that the Covid-19 vaccine should be pulled off the market. World Counsel for Health and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons officially have recommendations to pull them off the market. They're not safe enough for my patients. I'm not advising my patients to take them. It's just gonna get worse as people take more shots.