TRANSCRIPT (Dr. Ben Edwards speaking before Senate Committee on State of Affairs)
Ben Edwards
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trained as a family physician did my
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undergrad at baylor
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ut houston medical school and then waco
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for family practice residency training
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where i was chief resident.
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i spent the first seven years in private
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practice at garcia county health clinic
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in post texas is the only physician in
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the county.
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the last seven years eight years i’ve
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had my own practice veritas medicals
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in lubbock abilene and san angelo we
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have offices.
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thank you for the opportunity to testify
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Today.
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i’d like to begin with a reminder to
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everyone about the definition of
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evidence-based
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medicine that sackett strauss
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at all laid out back in 2000
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they stated that the elements of
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evidence-based practice are
the integration of best research
evidence with clinical expertise
and patient values.
Patient values trump clinical expertise and clinical expertise trumps scientific evidence.
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i’m also concerned that the forced and
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coerced covid 19 vaccinations would
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in my opinion be a violation of the
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nuremberg code
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the u.n international covenant on civil
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and political rights article 7
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the u.n universal declaration of human
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rights article 3
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and unesco’s article 6 of the universal
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declaration of bioethics and human
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Rights.
in addition
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i have some concerns similar to what
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senator hall
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already mentioned according to the cdc’s
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vaccine adverse event reporting system
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which i have some updated numbers from,
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last night when i downloaded these
4178 deaths are now being reported on VAERS.
To give some context, over the past 20 years all vaccinations combined there was a reported 4182 deaths.
In the past four months we’re now sitting at 4178 deaths associated with the covid vaccine reported to VAERS.
This includes
a 15 year old boy in colorado two 16
year old girls in wisconsin
17 year old girl in wisconsin and a 17
year old boy
all healthy. he was in new hampshire
the evidence is pretty clear that VAERS
grossly underestimates
the adverse events that are reported. a
study commissioned
by the department of health and human
services this is in 2010
and harvard carried out this study and
The conclusion was
only about 1% of adverse
reactions are ever reported to VAERS.
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a similar study in 2015 by shimbukru at
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all
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came to a similar conclusion a 1995
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report by cdc
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also found that certain adverse
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reactions to vaccines are reported about
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one percent of the time.
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Even the vaccine manufacturers themselves have estimated a 50-fold under-reporting of adverse reactions.
So, i’ve grave concern
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about the under-reporting of these
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adverse reactions to VAERS
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and even at that we’re over 4 000 now in
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deaths to give you some context.
Senator Hall already mentioned the 1976 swine flu epidemic. After recording 500 cases of paralysis and 53 deaths the vaccine was pulled off the market.
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personally i’ve received numerous
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reports from family
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members of my patients close friends to
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my patients that within hours
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and to days of receiving the vaccine
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they’ve suffered from stroke heart
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attack
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pulmonary embolism blood clots sudden
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death and as far as these family members
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knew none of these were reported by the
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medical staff as being associated with
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the vaccine.
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so my concern is there is indeed a vast
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under reporting
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Lastly i would say that of harvey rich’s
data that 53 percent of
of texans are have natural immunity
studies have shown a two to three fold
increased risk of adverse reaction to
this vaccine.
If you’ve already had covid, natural immunity infers a more robust immunity than vaccine immunity could but vaccinating someone who’s already robustly immune increases their risk of adverse reaction 2 to 3 fold. Two different studies that show that.
I’m very much a proponent of preserving the individual doctor-patient relationship. It’s a sacred relationship and and I believe nothing should come between that and ultimately it’s up to the patient to decide how they want to treat their body.
On a personal note, I believe God gave us an amazing robust immune system and I don’t think you can improve on God. Not everyone obviously has to agree with
that but for those who do, and choose to rely on that natural immunity, I think we need to uphold that right to do so without any adverse outcomes on their
livelihood. Thank you.
Q and A
senator allen i do have a couple of
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questions for you.
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do people with natural
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immunity to covid
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need a vaccine and is there any
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increased risk of the
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natural immune system individual visuals
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having an adverse reaction to the
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vaccine
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natural immunity is more robust than
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vaccine immunity
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there’s a study from the original sars
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back in 2002
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the people that survived that first sars
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they’ve looked at them 17 years later
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and they
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this they showed a robust immunity still
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to sarge kobe
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one 17 years later historically we’ve
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already
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we’ve always known that natural immunity
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tends to last a lifetime
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i.e the measles natural immunity will
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last a lifetime
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so no i don’t believe there’s any need
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to vaccinate someone who’s already
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acquired natural immunity and we need to
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remember natural immunity is more than
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just antibodies you have t cells natural
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killer cells you’ve got
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the innate immune response you’ve got a
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robust immune system
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not just antibodies and to the second
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part
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reiterating that if you’ve already had
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coveted naturally and some of these will
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be asymptomatic people and some people
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won’t have a positive antibody test
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because their t cells were strong enough
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they didn’t need to mount an antibody
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response so you can’t catch all these
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guys with an antibody screen
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but if you’ve had natural immunity over
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50 percent of texans have
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then you’re at a two to three fold
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increased risk of adverse reaction
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if you get vaccinated
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can people do anything about their
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immune system
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absolutely thank you for asking senator
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hall
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i transitioned from conventional family
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practice medicine to integrative
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medicine integrating
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our god-given natural ability for the
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body to fix itself and it’s
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clear in the literature that if we
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steward this god-given design
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through nutrition proper nutrition
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hydration exercise
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sunlight most importantly peace not fear
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fear has overcome this nation
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the spirit of fear that i don’t submit
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to is overcome this
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nation in my opinion and if that’s
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influencing politics
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policy decisions i don’t i don’t want to
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have to be subjected to those policies
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so yes there’s much that you can do to
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improve your immune system
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and it sounds too simple but it’s true
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eat god food not man food
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exercise get some sunlight move around a
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little bit and most importantly be at
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peace your immune system will do what
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it’s designed to do
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thank you thank you dr edwards
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doctor thanks for your testimony thank
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you for being welcome thank you very
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much
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the chair calls dr amy offit
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