A health insurance company claims that there are many more side effects of the corona vaccinations than appear in the official statistics. There is criticism of the data. However, the PEI wants to start a study.
Berlin/Langen – In order to analyze possible side effects of vaccines even better, the official vaccination quotas are to be linked in a study with data from health insurance companies. The Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) in Langen announced that it should start promptly.
The health insurance company BKK Provita states that, after analyzing data from insured persons, it came to significantly higher numbers of side effects from the corona vaccines than officially listed.
“Our analysis shows that we are dealing with a clear under-recording here,” said BKK-Provita board member Andreas Schöfbeck of “Welt”. The official figures on the undesirable side effects of vaccinations must “urgently be checked for plausibility”. According to the newspaper, in a letter to PEI President Paul Cichutek, Schöfbeck calls the evaluation a “significant alarm signal that must be taken into account when the vaccines are used further”.
According to the PEI, the letter has been available since Tuesday. The data cannot be assessed, “since the institute has not yet had access to the original data and it also has no information on the evaluation method”. The information in the letter was “general and non-specific”. It is not specified how many cases relate to mild reactions and how many to severe reactions that are notifiable. In general, billing data should not be equated with side effects. “In addition, it cannot be inferred from the letter whether a causal connection with the vaccination has actually been established.”
The health insurer reported that they pricked up their ears when the case management team at BKK Provita received more and more diagnoses that suggested side effects from the vaccination. The data pools of all BKK health insurance funds were then evaluated and all diagnosis codes intended for vaccination side effects were filtered out. However, the BKK umbrella organization announced via Twitter that “the data does not come from the BKK umbrella organization as reported”. The umbrella organization did not want to comment on the content.
In an analysis that was available to “Welt”, BKK Provita writes that in the first seven months of 2021 alone, 216,695 BKK policyholders were treated for side effects from vaccines. The data referred to 10.9 million insured. For comparison: By the end of 2021, the PEI recorded only 244,576 side effect reports based on 61.4 million vaccinated people. Nothing can be said about the nature and severity of the symptoms: “One thing is clear: people felt so bad that they went to the doctor.”
The Virchowbund, which represents resident doctors, criticized the “Schwurbel-BKK”: It was either “embarrassing ignorance or a cunning intention to deceive”. The conclusions from the data are “complete nonsense,” said Federal Chairman Dirk Heinrich. The BKK Provita mixes two completely different areas: the medical diagnosis coding and the report to the PEI. “Apparently you want to do advertising in the vaccination-critical clientele.” dpa
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