Six Deaths at Dartmouth
Six Deaths at Dartmouth
Six deaths at Dartmouth in two months: A "booster blip," or the beginning of an explosion?
The following report is not intended as an exercise of journalism. It is a personal reflection. I have come across a story that, along with others in recent days, has prompted dread and curiosity about what is happening in the world — whether the “quiet” of the summer1 was the calm before the long-anticipated storm. Necessarily, this commentary will invade upon the privacy of the recently deceased.
Two months, six deaths
Two current Dartmouth students, one researcher, two 2022 graduates, and one visiting 2020 graduate died between August and September. One death was an apparent alcohol-related accident; another a reported suicide; another has no details. The other three were medical.
Dartmouth required “full” Covid vaccination for the 2021-2022 term, and added a third-dose requirement in January.2 Third doses continue to be required for the 2022-2023 term.
(Naturally, Dartmouth community members who already had a third dose may also have gotten an additional, fourth dose of their own volition, including the bivalent injections emergency-authorized after September 5.)
Fall classes started on September 12.
(Aside: I came across these deaths by accident after reading an interesting profile, by Diana West, of the Dirt Cowboy Cafe at Hanover, whose owner was injured by the Janssen injections and now includes vaccine-critical messaging in the cafe.)
The Deaths
Name (age) class, and at Hanover or away (Hanover, NH is home to Dartmouth).
August:
David Gallagher (24), class of ‘20 - in Hanover
Gallagher apparently fell off Ledyard Bridge early Sunday morning, August 7, after the postponed 2020 commencement ceremony. He was not alone; the incident is described as a “freak accident,” and naturally may have involved alcohol.
Richard Ellison (57) - in Hanover
Ellison died “suddenly” of a “likely heart attack” on August 18. He was currently a student in the Tuck School of Business and Geisel School of Medicine master’s program.
Joshua Watson (22), class of ‘22 - away
Watson died of unstated causes on August 27 while on leave from Dartmouth. However, his death was only announced at Dartmouth in late September. Valley News was not successful in gaining more information from his family.
Alex Simpson (22), class of ‘22 - away
Simpson died on August 27 after a 10-month battle with a relapse of a rare, genetic form of cancer (which therefore would have begun in October, 2021). She is also reported to have suffered a stroke in June, 2022. Emphasis added:
Hidden from nearly everyone around her, Simpson privately fought a 10-month battle against CIC-DUX4, a rare sarcoma, before she died on August 27. Simpson overcame her original cancer diagnosis at age 13 and again at age 14. Following seven years in remission, another tumor appeared last fall [2021]. Simpson underwent radiation and chemotherapy treatments at Boston Children’s Hospital all while remaining enrolled at the College, where she graduated alongside her class in June.
September:
Sam Gawel (21), class of ‘23 - in Hanover
Gawel is reported to have died on campus of suicide on September 21. The report of suicide comes from his mother, not from campus authorities directly. Dartmouth had two suicides in the 2020/2021 term, during the harshest prohibitions against “gatherings,” so this is not off-pattern in the school per se.3 However, the timing — so early in the year — seems odd.
Luke Veenhuis (30), researcher - away
Veenhuis, a Thayer School of Engineering researcher, died “unexpectedly of natural causes” at home in Wisconsin on September 26. Note that The Dartmouth reports him as the seventh death in the last two months; however, I could only find six.
Setting aside Gallagher (who would not have been subject to any school mandates, having already graduated), Gawel, and Watson, three of these six appear to be medical. Watson, the unstated case, may be as well; and Gawel’s suicide strikes me as poorly substantiated.
Simpson’s turbo-cancer relapse in fall, 2021 should be considered prima facie “vaccine-mandate-associated” (medical exemptions required Dartmouth independent review and approval; I will go on a limb and say none were probably granted).
Ellison’s heart attack is ambiguous, but cardiac harms are notoriously associated with the injections.
Veenhuis is for all intents and purposes the poster-case of the current epidemic of “unexpected, natural” deaths. It is not natural for a 30 year-old to just die unexpectedly.
Though most of the deaths took place in August, the last days of September featured three announcements back-to-back, the first two prompting a daytime-vigil attended by 500, and Veenhuis’s following the next week.
The timing of deaths therefore does not support a strong roll for the new, bivalent injections, as further discussed below.
Here, There, and Everywhere
The Dartmouth death wave coincides with a transition in the collective consensus of reality, which circa September suddenly perceived and acknowledged that it seems like regular people are dying all over the place. A commentary by a San Diego doctor appearing at Fortune on Thursday captures the ironic-in-the-literal-sense zeitgeist:4
Barber, who as a doctor probably has an expansive circle of acquaintances, reports the following experiences:
A 35-year-old acquaintance drops dead from a hemorrhagic stroke. A friend in her 40s, and another in his 70s, experience recurrent spells of extreme dizziness, their hearts pounding in their chests when they stand. A 21-year-old student with no prior medical history is admitted to the ICU with heart failure, while a 48-year-old avid tennis player, previously healthy, suddenly suffers a heart attack. A relative is diagnosed with pericarditis, an inflammation of the protective sac surrounding the heart [you know, the thing the news told you your teen son will “totally recover” from].
Barber also highlights recent twitter threads by user meetjess, who has compiled similar sudden deaths as avidly as any Deathvax Depop Conspiracy Site, but without suggesting any relation to the injections.
Meetjess’s threads act as condensing solids, eliciting multiple additional anecdotes of sudden-onset death in the replies. Everyone is suddenly dying; everyone is seeing it happen; or so the self-selected anecdotes in her replies would make it seem.
Blame it on the Virus
Barber, like many of meetjess’s repliers, naturally goes on to suggest that these mysterious sudden deaths are related to the virus that has been around since early 2020, not to the experimental injections unleashed on humanity in 2021, variously mandated, and subsequently accumulated in the form of repeat-dosing.
I can’t confirm the exact etiology of all these cases. But every one of the people I mentioned had a history of COVID either days or months beforehand–and all of them experienced only mild cases of infection at the time.
Barber cites numerous studies which have determined statistically that confirmed infection with SARS-CoV-2 is associated with extra health complications down the line compared to background, relying especially on the work of Ziyad Al-Aly5 and colleagues which has been sensationalized all year long. As Igor Chudov pointed out in February, the Al-Aly team is very elusive with the data for the influence of the Covid vaccine in their data-set.6 It seems quite possible (if not certain, based on the mechanistic argument) that the team's raw data would show greater association of ailments with the injections than with the virus.
But the real problem, to shoot from the hip, is that I don’t think Barber can possibly know enough people for a statistically-determined elevation of rare cardiac events to cross her radar is such a stark way. Unless her circle of acquaintances, friends and relatives is in the 10,000s, she should not know four with infection-associated cardiac complications (given that not all would have been infected until this year). It could be true that infection was doubling, or ten-folding how often healthy people’s hearts stop working: She still wouldn’t see four cases of it (again, shooting from the hip here as far as the math). This is something bigger.
Moreover, her effort to imply that reinfections are magnifying the issue (like much of the fear-mongering over viral spike here in Substack) ignores that none of Xie’s findings are verified for the Omicron variants.
What Barber is seeing is obviously the injected, mRNA-encoded spike, visiting a holocaust upon her blinkered, narrative-trusting world.
But what about those Mouse Boosters?
And so, to bring it back to Dartmouth, the question becomes whether this is just a temporary ripple caused by the new bivalent injections; some prime, fire interaction between earlier injection and summer BA.5 wave infections; or just the early flashes of a gathering storm.
Regarding the first possibility, the only “sudden, natural” death in September is Veenhuis. Since the others occurred in August, they can’t be related to the “Mouse Boosters.” They may be due to pre-term uptake of the classic brew of “booster,” or may be time-delayed outcomes from the original injections. But since “boosters” were already mandated in January, at least on paper, it seems unlikely that they played a big part.
So it would seem that the Dartmouth deaths, unless they are a truly random event, support a “prime, fire” or gathering storm phenomenon. (And both might as well be the same reality, since the virus doesn’t appear to be going anywhere.) And in that case, the new reality at Dartmouth and all over is only just beginning to take hold.
(Of course, that doesn’t mean that Mouse Boosters won’t make it even worse.)
Postscript: Morbidly paying it backward, to a dissident cafe in Hanover.
As diarized in “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
(Following the November, 2021 FDA amendment of the EUA to bless third-dosing in all adults. However, one wonders if the January third-dose requirement was really enforceable, given that it was inserted into the middle of the school year, and would not have have had the weight of matching travel requirements behind it. It is easy to imagine that many or most students waited until the fall term to comply.)
https://covid.dartmouth.edu/testing-health
Current version (accessed October 8, 2022).
Students, faculty, and staff are required to receive all recommended doses in their primary COVID-19 vaccine series, and one booster dose when eligible, or have an approved exemption.
Winter 2020 version
(https://web.archive.org/web/20220112151854/https://covid.dartmouth.edu/testing-health)
Students, faculty, and staff who are eligible are required to receive a vaccine booster by Jan. 31, 2022. Those who are not eligible by Jan. 31 must receive a vaccine booster within 30 days of becoming eligible.
Fall 2021 version (https://web.archive.org/web/20211006211305/https://covid.dartmouth.edu/testing-health)
All students enrolled for the current term are required to be fully vaccinated and submit the required vaccination documentation before the term begins. […] Individuals are fully vaccinated 14 days after their final dose in a COVID-19 vaccine series.
Corresponding FDA chicken-with-head-cut-off authorization timeline: https://www.immunize.org/timeline/
Two other student deaths in the 2020/2021 year, which occurred in early 2021 (when the first injections would have just become available to young adults), are of an unexplained nature:
Connor Tiffany (19), class of ’24, in Boston
-“passed unexpectedly” March 14, 2021.
Lamees Kareem (20), class of ’22
-died April, 2021 from “a medical condition not related to COVID-19” “for which she had been hospitalized for several weeks”
Barber, Carolyn. “Strokes, heart attacks, sudden deaths: Does America understand the long-term risks of catching COVID?” (2022, October 6.) Fortune.
This article originally identified the series with author Yan Xie. Immediately after, Al-Aly went on a media blitz and is now the dominant name attached to the VA dataset series. I have no idea which of the two actually drove the work.
My own crude analysis found that Xie’s data suggests an even greater multiplication of myocarditis from the Covid vaccine than that found by Igor.
other college students:
Cornell Univ.
Ms. Daniela Lee, 21, was a senior communications major at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York). But Ms. Lee was pronounced dead on April 19. She apparently died on campus. Cornell is withholding details.
We covered the story of Ms. Lisa Ngunda. She was the Cornell sophomore who died unexpectedly in March. At least four Cornell students have died since January. The university had a booster mandate in place for the Spring 2022 semester. But sometime in the last two weeks, Cornell lifted the booster mandate and now “strongly recommends” booster shots. One cannot help but wonder if the university’s policy change is in response to all the sudden and unexpected deaths of students.
Mary Frances Cronin, 23 yo, was a soccer player and Dean’s List engineering student at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton (Canada). Ms. Cronin “died suddenly” on Friday, April 29, 2022. The autopsy determined she had a pulmonary embolism. The University of New Brunswick implemented a vaccine mandate in August 2021.
Mr. Nathaniel Hopper, 22 yo, was a senior music major at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. Police were called to his dorm room in Hahn Hall on Thursday, May 5. Mr. Hopper was found unresponsive, and was unable to be revived. All College of Saint Rose students were required to be fully vaccinated to register for classes in the Spring 2022 semester.
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Mr. Andrew Bryan, 19 yo, was a freshman engineering student at Arizona State University in Tempe. We was swimming laps at the Sun Devil Fitness Center on April 16., 2022. ASU Police were called to the scene, they performed CPR. But Mr. Bryan was pronounced dead ten minutes after they arrived. His obituary says he “passed away unexpectedly.” ASU had a reqmt last summer that all students be fully vaccinated.
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I think these are from The Covid Blog
I'm a non-medical health practitioner. I don't ask about vaccines, as our board advised us not to since it is not within our "scope of practice". However, in casual conversation, I have had two people share with me, what I'm sure is related to having the cookies. One, the nephew of the patient, 36yo healthy guy found dead on the couch by his mom, in Canada. The other, the patient himself, in his sixties, having recurrent bouts of, severely high blood pressure (190's-200's), and symptoms of ischemia, without a history of either. He's had multiple tests, nobody knows why it's happening. Meds don't work very well. So... I'm sure something is going on. The actual magnitude of it, I don't know.