Thread by @BeauxReliosis

One thing about the failed #LymeDisease #vaccine—#LYMErix—that has always been sort of a mystery is what the heck SmithKline @GSK meant by “definite #Lyme disease” and “asymptomatic infections,” the latter of which they claimed their 💉was 💯effective against. 🤔

I mean…

“If you are one of the few people at risk of having zero symptoms from #LymeDisease infection, take our #vaccine to make sure you are 100% protected from an illness you wouldn’t have known you had, if you had it!”

Quite the sales pitch.

I just happened to be skimming some of my #LymeDisease library and noticed this blurb from the October 1997 ACIP meeting.

“In year 2, there were 13 cases of asymptomatic seroconversion, all in the placebo group, for a #vaccine efficacy of 100%”

🤦‍♀️
#LYMErix

Which begs the question:

Doctors do everything possible to avoid testing people who have #LymeDisease symptoms. So WHY were they testing asymptomatic people in the #LYMErix trials?

OR was it more sinister than that?

We know they ran with the idea that #LymeDisease is this entity that causes an arthritic knee & is associated with a strong immune response, excluding from the case definition those who are actually sick because #Lyme has obliterated their immune system…

So it seems they must have tested trial victims who showed up with a “summer flu” and found 13 in the placebo group who were “positive” by some measure.

Except…

“The case definition required that subjects have one clinical manifestation and at least one positive laboratory test for confirmation.”

So there is no way SmithKline @GSK could have determined efficacy for “asymptomatic infection.” There had to be one symptom.

#LymeDisease

Now that we’ve established their claim about efficacy against not having not disease is complete BS, I don’t see any reason to examine wtf they could possibly mean by “definite infection”.

😏

#LYMErix #LymeDisease #vaccine

And if SmithKline @GSK had to *pay* to get insurance to cover #LYMErix, the fake #LymeDisease #vaccine, EVERYONE must have known it was fake.

cafepharma.com/boards/threads…

“#GSK managers in MC were so freaking crooked and unreal. I saw things in Franklin Plaza meeting rooms that would make you shudder. I could still name names of CEO's that we wrote massive checks to to get stuff on forumlary.The last one i remember was for #Lymerix!!”
#LymeDisease

Another fun fact: #LYMErix was sold in 5-packs, even though it was a 3-dose series. People were being forced to buy all five doses and then sometimes the third dose, which was supposed to be taken a year after the first two, would expire before the year was up. 🤣
#LymeDisease

I always bring receipts.

The article explains near the end that SmithKline did a study to determine that the third dose could, in fact, be given after just six months instead of waiting a year. 😆

#LYMErix
#LymeDisease
#vaccine

This explains some of the disconnect between SmithKline’s @GSK claims of how many people got LYMErixed v. how many doses were actually administered. The number I see most frequently is 1.4 million doses *sold.*
#LymeDisease
#vaccine
#LYMErix

It seems somewhere around 40% either expired or were simply wasted, and that’s not including second and third doses that may have been declined after adverse events from the first or second dose.

#LYMErix
#LymeDisease
#vaccine

Of course, a benefit to SmithKline of inflating the number of doses administered would have been an artificially low rate of adverse events after their fake #LymeDisease #vaccine hit the market.

Ultimately, the @US_FDA gave them an ultimatum: You withdraw it or we will.