A medical doctor, whose submission to the Senate’s excess mortality inquiry was omitted from the public record, has questioned the transparency of the inquiry process, after the committee’s report revealed that a majority of submissions it received had been suppressed.

The Senate committee’s report, tabled in Parliament last Friday, concluded that Covid was the “key contributing factor to excess mortality,” which peaked in 2022 and continued into 2023, including deaths “both directly and indirectly caused by the virus.”

Reduced access to healthcare due to the pandemic response and mortality displacement from deaths averted during 2020, when respiratory disease circulation was low, were other causal factors identified in the report. Despite “large amounts of correspondence… in relation to vaccine injuries,” Covid vaccines did not contribute to excess mortality, but in fact “significantly reduced” it, the report said.

However, Whitsundays GP, Dr Melissa McCann, said that “transparent analysis of the causes” of Australia’s excess deaths may have been “hindered” by the committee’s decision not to publish more than half of the public submissions made to the Inquiry.

In a post to Substack, Dr McCann said that she was personally invited to make a submission to the Inquiry, but that the committee declined to accept it without explanation, receiving it instead as “unpublished correspondence.”

Dr McCann’s unpublished submission is one of 79 withheld by the committee, while only 51 out of the 130 public submissions made to the Inquiry have been published.

In his dissenting report, Senator Ralph Babet, of the United Australia Party, said that the withheld submissions included those from professors, doctors, medical specialists, academics, actuarial and subject matter experts, and concerned members of the public.

“I am at a loss to why the committee would decline to accept and publish an invited submission by a medical doctor,” said Dr McCann, who was previously invited to make submissions to inquiries into long Covid and a proposed vaccine indemnity bill, both of which were published.

Canberra Daily is able to share key evidence presented to the excess mortality inquiry from four of the 79 withheld submissions.

Dr Melissa McCann, General Practitioner, Australia

Dr McCann submitted that Vaccine Associated Enhanced Disease (VAED) may be a key driver of Australian excess deaths. Per the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Brighton Collaboration, VAED is described as a syndrome of “disease enhancement” associated with some viral vaccines, “where those immunized suffered increased severity or death when they later encountered the virus or were found to have an increased frequency of infection.”

This is particularly relevant to Australia said Dr McCann, where “the overwhelming majority of the population contracted Covid 19, sometimes multiple times, despite being vaccinated.”

The TGA and the Brighton Collaboration both identified VAED as an important potential risk of Covid vaccination, with the latter recommending that all cases of vaccine failure (also called “breakthrough infections”) be carefully investigated by authorities.

Additionally, Dr McCann said that TGA records show that 28% of deaths reported to the DAEN in association with Covid vaccines occurred within one week of vaccination, and the majority occurred within six weeks or less from vaccination, “which is highly suggestive of likely causality based on the temporal relationship.”

Augusto Roux, Lawyer, Argentina

Augusto Roux’s submission presented “evidence that information about serious harms (including deaths) during Pfizer/BioNTech’s phase 3 clinical trial were [sic] deliberately withheld from government drug regulators.”

As a participant in Pfizer/BioNTech’s phase 3 clinical trial, Roux suffered “loss of consciousness, fainting, tachycardia that almost left me near death, and extremely dark urine” after his second dose of vaccination. He was rushed to hospital and was diagnosed with pericarditis with pericardial effusion and liver damage.

Roux alleges that Pfizer first tried to blame his condition on a Covid infection, which he had not tested positive for. Then, Roux alleges that the principal investigator on the trial falsified records, claiming that Roux’s symptoms were caused by a mental health illness (which he didn’t and doesn’t have). Roux also highlighted irregularities in the recording of deaths within the clinical trial.

Raphael Lataster, Researcher, Australia

Lataster, a former pharmacist and hospital administrator, summarised the peer-reviewed evidence questioning Covid vaccine safety and effectiveness, and pointing to negative effectiveness.

Lataster claimed that not only are the safety and effectiveness of Covid vaccines exaggerated in clinical trials and observational studies, but “There is also increasing evidence of negative effectiveness – where the vaccine appears to increase the chance of COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, and even death.”

Lataster’s research highlights the skewed benefit/risk profile of Covid vaccination for young people. “Hundreds of thousands of young and healthy people need to be vaccinated to prevent a serious COVID-19 hospitalisation,” he said, while recent research indicates “the rate of serious adverse effects in the vaccinated is as high as 1 in 400.”

In a recently published study, Lataster found “clear, statistically significant, correlations between both COVID-19 vaccination rate and total COVID-19 vaccine doses in approximately 30 European countries with excess mortality, persisting into 2024.”

The Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS)

The committee refused to publish the AMPS submission in full. Only a summary document was published to the public inquiry page, hyperlinking to the full submission on the AMPS website.

The multi-disciplinary submission contends:

• Covid deaths account for 29% of excess mortality at most. While the actuaries and the ABS attributed all Covid deaths to excess mortality, only half of Australian Covid deaths could be considered “excess,” even considering the unusually broad WHO coding for Covid death attribution. (Chapter 4)
  
  
• Excess deaths may be 25% higher than estimated by the ABS. Alternative modelling of Australian cumulative excess deaths throughout 2021-2023 estimates approximately 40,000, as opposed to the ABS estimate of 29,601. (Chapters 5 and 6)
  
  
• Public health failures are a key driver of excess mortality. Public health policies that were harmful to health include: prolonged lockdowns, vaccine mandates, failure to address key determinants of Covid outcomes such as obesity, failure to promote proven early treatments, and misinformation about ivermectin. (Chapters 1 and 2)
  
  
• Unprecedented rates of adverse event reporting associated with Covid vaccines. Detailed analysis of the TGA’s DAEN and the AusVaxSafety Program shows that, relative to the number of doses administered, Covid vaccines are associated with unprecedented rates of adverse event reporting, including 400 new types of adverse events not previously reported over the 52-year history of the DAEN. A temporal relationship between excess deaths and the Covid vaccine rollout is observed. (Chapter 6)
  
  
• The effect of mortality displacement on excess deaths is estimated to be minimal. Mortality displacement likely accounts for no more than one tenth of excess mortality in 2022 onwards. (Chapter 5)
  
  
• Data gaps prevent rigorous analysis of the impact of vaccination on excess mortality. Linked all-cause mortality data stratified by age and vaccination status is required to make a proper assessment of the effectiveness of the Covid vaccine rollout in the Australian population. To date, no government department has released the linked data or produced its own analysis of all-cause mortality by vaccination status. (Chapter 5)

Senator Babet said it was “wholly unsatisfactory” that the majority of submissions had been suppressed by the committee, noting that it is common practice for Senate committees to publish on their website the majority of submissions received for any inquiry.

Committee Chair, Greens Senator Penny Allman-Payne did not respond to several requests for comment.