Breaking: Alberta COVID-19 Pandemic Data Review Task Force : Final Report - Released ! (UPDATED with Quotes)
UPDATED: What Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says to report critics (Added in Appendix)
Last month, the U.S. government released its long-awaited final report on the COVID-19 response.
Now, a Canadian provincial government—Alberta—has followed suit, unveiling its own Final Report on COVID-19 Measures.
Released on January 28, 2025, this report comes half a year after completion, delayed until now. It was commissioned by the newly elected Danielle Smith government shortly after taking office in Fall 2023. The COVID-19 Review Task Force was charged with investigating the province’s handling of the pandemic, and their findings echo many of the concerns raised in the U.S. report.
What’s in the Report?
The Alberta COVID-19 Final Report provides a deep dive into pandemic policies, exposing flaws in decision-making, emergency powers, mandates, and public health interventions. It questions the efficacy of lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and censorship of dissenting voices, while also highlighting the economic, social, and mental health toll of these policies.
Mainstream Media Will Try to Bury It—Will You?
Predictably, corporate media will attempt to discredit, distort, or outright ignore this report—just as they have with similar findings worldwide. But now it’s your turn to share, discuss, and demand accountability.
This report isn’t just history—it’s a warning. It’s about ensuring that such overreach never happens again.
Read the Full Report & Share Widely
📄 [Link to the Alberta COVID-19 Final Report]: https://open.alberta.ca/publications/albertas-covid-19-pandemic-response
The Google Doc version of the Report (for easier extraction of text and pictures from it) is available here. Quotes from the Report, its review by Canadian Scientists are included below.
Let’s break the silence, start the discussion, and challenge the pandemic mishandling deniers.
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Quotes from the report
Page 186. Chapter 8: Vaccines - Executive Summary
The Task Force conducted a comprehensive review of the data and decisions related to the approval and use of COVID-19 vaccines in Alberta. The Task Force analyzed various aspects, including the risk of COVID-19 to the public, the safety of the vaccines, their effectiveness in preventing transmission, hospitalization, and death, and the specific impact on minors.
The Task Force found that the risk of severe COVID-19 infection or death is primarily associated with age, with the elderly being most at risk. Children and teenagers have a very low risk of serious illness from COVID-19. COVID-19 vaccines were not designed to halt transmission and there is a lack of reliable data showing that the vaccines protect children from severe COVID-19.
In terms of safety, the Task Force identified reports of deaths and injuries attributed to the vaccines, as well as a known risk of myocarditis, particularly in young males. The long-term safety of the vaccines is undetermined due to their rapid deployment and limited follow-up.
Task Force recommends halting the use of COVID-19 vaccines without full disclosure of their potential risks, ending their use in healthy children and teenagers, conducting further research into their effectiveness, establishing support for vaccine-injured individuals, and providing an opt-out mechanism from federal public health policy.
Overall, the Task Force's review highlights the need for a careful assessment of the risks and benefits associated with COVID-19 vaccination, particularly in specific populations such as minors. Further research, transparency, and individual choice in decision-making will be important for any future pandemic response vaccination initiative.
• The Task Force conducted a review of COVID-19 vaccines in Alberta.
• They found that severe COVID-19 primarily affects the elderly with comorbidities.
• Children and teenagers have a low risk of serious illness from COVID-19.
The authors, headed by Dr. Gary Davidson, former chief of emergency medicine at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre made a number of significant findings:
The task force says it did not see any evidence that vaccines were superior to natural immunity and government messaging was wrong to indicate otherwise.
The task force calls for an end to the COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and teens.
“It is inaccurate to suggest that masking is entirely safe and provides effective protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection.” The report recommends that the choice to wear a mask should be allowed to be a personal medical decision “guided by informed consent.”
‘Lockdowns’ did not substantively reduce transmission or off-set the use of healthcare resources and have come at considerable social and economic costs.”
The report states researchers and decision-makers in the province at the time “overlooked crucial data” when forming policies. “Given the data and information available, the Task Force is unclear as to why Alberta continued to implement containment measures through policy and mandates when the information at the time did not justify such aggressive actions.”
In response to COVID-19, “Alberta opted to reinvent the wheel, creating a hastily assembled operational system without a clear mandate and relying heavily on direction and guidance from national and international groups.”
Alberta Health Services’ Scientific Advisory Group “used product monographs to recommend against ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment but did not apply the same scrutiny to vaccines regarding transmission.”
Alberta’s regulatory colleges did not appear to conduct internal reviews of studies and data. The authors say the colleges followed directives from Alberta’s chief medical officer of health and did not engage in “due diligence.”
The province’s ability to find effective solutions to the virus was limited by the threats and disciplinary action against health professionals, who were “constrained” “into a narrow band of COVID-19 responses acceptable to health regulators.” Regulatory bodies “should not have the power to stifle scientific inquiry and debate.” - https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/alberta-covid-19-task-force-says-no-evidence-for-vaccine-superiority-to-natural-immunity-effectiveness-of-masking-5798634
Review of the Report by Renown Canadian Scientists
By Dr. David Speicher - one of the Report Task Force members:
By Dr. Byram W. Bridle:
More quotes and commentary:
https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/danielle-smith-defends-covid-19-report
Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Smith said critics of the report are trying to control the narrative and said she doesn’t want to see “contrarian voices” shut out when reviewing pandemic response measures.
“I know there’s been a narrative, and the narrative has been enforced by shutting down contrarian voices,” she said.
“We’re going to listen to every voice, and we’re going to make our best assessment based on what we’re seeing with the evidence — and the evidence has changed.”
https://calgaryherald.com/news/albertas-covid-19-review-task-force-releases-final-report
The 268-page report, posted online Friday afternoon, recommends “halting the use of COVID-19 vaccines without full disclosure of their potential risks” and for the province to allow physicians to prescribe alternative treatment options for the virus, such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
It also encourages the province to end the use of COVID vaccinations among healthy children and teenagers; conduct further research into the vaccines’ effectiveness; establish support for “vaccine-injured” individuals, and provide an opt-out mechanism from federal public health policy.
“The COVID-19 vaccines were not designed to halt transmission of the virus and there is limited data on their effectiveness in preventing severe illness in children,” the report claimed.
Smith directed the task force’s creation in late 2022, shortly after she was elected. The panel’s mandate was to review health information data and the Alberta government’s decision-making processes regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, while also recommending how to better navigate a future pandemic.
In addition to calling for an end to COVID-19 vaccines, the report touts the benefits of herd immunity, or the idea that prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 can provide durable and protective immune responses.
“Infection-acquired immunity should not be overlooked or downplayed in public health messaging and policies,” the review states.
It also criticized what it called a “restrictive approach taken by Alberta health authorities” regarding alternative treatment options for COVID-19, including drugs like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, fluvoxamine, and colchicine.