Regarding the COVID Vaccine
As pediatrics has always been an important part of my practice, I have spent a lot of time discussing vaccinations over my career. And I have always tried to approach it from a balanced, and yet self-admittedly biased, point of view. This basis comes mainly from having treated many vaccine injured patients over the years. I believe this is a perspective that most people and even conventional doctors have no exposure to.
As you can imagine, I have been asked about the COVID vaccine countless times - it is an important topic in important times. In many ways I am approaching inquiries around the vaccine for COVID-19 in the exact same way as I would any childhood vaccine.
Parents who have discussed vaccination for their child with me have heard me say, “You need to weigh the potential risk associated with each vaccine versus the likelihood the child will be exposed to and have a negative outcome with the disease”. I believe this is the healthiest and most balanced approach to vaccination or medical procedure. In my opinion, there should not be “one size fits all” for vaccinations or any medical intervention for that matter.
In our current context it makes no sense to me that we would prescribe the exact same medical treatment to every man, woman and child aged six months and older. We wouldn’t do this for anything else in medicine. Every person has a different risk profile for both the potential side effects of a vaccine as well as the disease from which it is designed to protect. COVID is no different. This should make us evaluate each medical choice on an individual basis. For a disease that has killed 0.0004% of the world’s population, mass vaccination really doesn’t make any sense.¹
We now have data that enables us to see the risk of dying from COVID. This data falls in the following age ranges:
If you are between 50 and 70 years old, your risk is 1 in 7,500 (0.00013%).
If you are between 25 and 50 years old, your risk 1 in 50,000 (0.00002%).
Under 25 years old, you have a 1 in 275,000 (0.0000036%) chance of dying from COVID.
If you are uncomfortable with these odds, then the vaccine could be a good choice for you.
This isn’t to say that there isn’t a cost associated with contracting this virus, we have had some patients get very sick for 7-10 days and people have definitely died from it. But I don’t believe this warrants a blanket policy which may have long reaching negative effects on our population. And these negative effects have not been studied.
We would never give the same drug, remedy, plant, surgery, medication, supplement, procedure, or suggestion to every person on the planet. This behavior is in direct opposite of the individualization of medicine that we need now more than ever, which would in turn lead to Wholism.
Wholism: a theory that states that all the parts of a whole are inextricably interconnected. These parts cannot exist nor be understood without reference to the whole. The implication is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
I believe Wholism is the solution to our current medical crisis. A lack of individualism in medicine has already, and will continue to, create much harm. Additionally, I don’t believe the way out of this pandemic is through a mass vaccination program. The way out of this one, and the pandemics yet to come, is to improve our individual health and the health of our planet; to detoxify, change our habits, ferret out stealth infections, manage stress and to work to become healthier humans in a healthier world - every single day. This is Wholism and this is the way to avoid disease, particularly viruses.
When systems are addressed wholistically viral signals cannot continue to loop endlessly - their signal turns off. They only persist when a person is in a state of lowered vitality. This has shown to be glaringly true with COVID.
Could this intervention be right for some? Yes. If you are over 65 and are obese, diabetic, have cardiovascular disease, or have no desire or ability to work on, and improve your health, getting this vaccination might prevent you from having a worse outcome with COVID. On the other hand, if you are a healthy, robust 12-year-old with no disease, the risk associated with the intervention may have consequences which are worse than the disease itself.
My takeaway message is to encourage you do what is right for you despite whatever governmental, media, societal, or familial pressures you are experiencing. Every person is an individual and every medical choice should be treated as such. No one can, or should, make health choices for you.
Love and light,
Dr. Chris Chlebowski
3,460,000 million reported deaths from COVID divided by the human population of the earth which is currently 7.6 billion.