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I figure that's why the Biden admin is "giving" away so many wuflu vaccines. He knows good and well that parts of the government were complicit in the wuflu research, and by giving away vaccine before this news becomes global, he'll be able to say "But look at how we tried to fix it" and put all the blame on the Chinese.

EcoHealth’s Peter Daszak Claims People ‘Misunderstand The Chinese Government’ While Defending Wuhan Lab.

• JUNE 12, 2021
• NATALIE WINTERS

Peter Daszak – who served as a World Health Organization COVID-19 investigator despite having close financial and personnel ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology – appeared to defend the Chinese Communist Party from having to defend itself against the “lab leak” theory in a recent interview.

Daszak appeared to defend the Chinese Communist Party from so-called “conspiracy theories” – which count support from former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield – while speaking on a May episode of the podcast “This Week in Virology.”

“Your fourth scenario is laboratory incident, and this has been going on for a year. We started with deliberate creation, I think we’ve moved away from that. Now we’re into accidental release, and I would love to hear your thoughts on that,” the interview asks Daszak and two fellow World Health Organization COVID-19 investigators Marion Koopmans and Thea Kølsen Fischer.

“One thing that I heard from the lab director that I thought was very interesting, and he said, and he speaks okay English,” Daszak begins before adding that “we were asking him all these questions about, they call them rumors over there, we call them conspiracy theories, and he said basically, in sort of his version of English, we’ve not responded to those rumors because if you do that, you give them oxygen.”

Daszak, who runs the Anthony Fauci-funded EcoHealth Alliance which has come under scrutiny for funneling money to the Wuhan lab, also suggests that people “misunderstand the Chinese government” while revealing that a “senior level” Chinese Communist Party officials “runs” the lab:

WATCH: CCP’s 'Bat Lady' Thanks NIH & 'Longtime Collaborator' Peter Daszak. - The National Pulse
“So I think people misunderstand the Chinese government, and he’s a Chinese government worker at the senior level running a lab, not speaking up about when they’re accused. The reason is, he stated quite clearly, they don’t want to give oxygen to these conspiracies. They’re unfounded. And every now and again, they make a statement: that is simply not true. What do you do?

Fellow interviewee Thea Kølsen Fischer also reveals that the WHO investigation was not a “lab audit” but merely a question-and-answer exercise with Wuhan lab personnel. “This is based only on questioning, not us coming with swabs, and testing, or serology, follow-up or looking into lab locks because it was not a lab audit. We were there to question and to interview together,” she divulged.

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Shocking New Numbers Just Released Of Vaccine Related Injury And Death

By B.K. House | Jun 13, 2021

According to the CDC-linked Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) tracking site, there have been more vaccine-related deaths in the United States in the past 5- months than there were for the past 10- years. And if you think that statistic is frightening, consider that reportedly only about 1% of adverse reactions and deaths from the vaccine are actually being reported to the VAERS system.

Shocking VAERS update just released shows: 329,021 reports of adverse events following COVID vaccines; 5,888 deaths and 28,441 serious injuries

Every Friday, VAERS makes public all vaccine injury reports received as of a specified date which includes data collected about a week before the release date. On Friday, VAERS’ newly released data shows a mind-boggling, 329,021 reports of adverse events following COVID vaccines, including 5,888 deaths and 28,441 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and June 4, 2021. There were 59- reports of heart inflammation and 19- cases of blood clotting disorders among 12- to 17- year olds, a horrifying statistic.

The Defender Children’s Health Defence News & Views reports, Of the 5,888 deaths reported as of June fourth, 23% occurred within 48- hours of vaccination, 16% occurred within 24 hours and 39% occurred in people who became ill within 48- hours of being vaccinated.

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Gateway Pundit shared some stunning stats of injury, illness, and impairment experienced post Covid19 vaccinations: 329,021 Reports which include: DEATHS 5,888, HOSPITALIZATIONS 19,597, Urgent Care 43,891, OFFICE VISITS 58,800, ANAPHYLAXIS 1,459, BELL’S PALSY 1,737, Life Threatening 5,885, Heart Attacks 2,190, Myocarditis/Pericarditis 1,087, Thrombocytopenia/Low Platelet 1,564, Miscarriages 652, Severe Allergic Reaction 15,052, Disabled 4,583

As shocking as these statistics are, it’s important to remember that not all adverse events make it to the VAERS system.

Federal Judge: Houston Hospital May Force Employees to Get COVID Shot

'As a thank you for their service and sacrifice, Methodist Hospital awards them a pink slip and sentences them to bankruptcy...'

ByAssociate Editor
June 13, 2021

AP Photo: Houston Methodist Hospital system.
(Headline USA) A federal judge threw out a lawsuit filed by employees of a Houston hospital system over its requirement that all of its staff receive the experimental COVID-19 shot.

The Houston Methodist Hospital system suspended 178 employees without pay last week over their refusal to get the shot.

Of them, 117 sued seeking to overturn the requirement and over their suspension and threatened termination.

In a scathing ruling Saturday, U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes of Houston deemed lead plaintiff Jennifer Bridges’ contention that the vaccines are “experimental and dangerous” to be false and otherwise irrelevant.

He also found that her likening the vaccination requirement to the Nazis’ forced medical experimentation on concentration camp captives during the Holocaust to be “reprehensible.”

Hughes also ruled that making vaccinations a condition of employment was not coercion, as Bridges contended.

“Bridges can freely choose to accept or refuse a COVID-19 vaccine; however, if she refuses, she will simply need to work somewhere else. If a worker refuses an assignment, changed office, earlier start time, or other directive, he may be properly fired. Every employment includes limits on the worker’s behavior in exchange for remuneration. That is all part of the bargain,” Hughes concluded.

Jared Woodfill, a Houston lawyer representing Bridges and the other clients, promised an appeal.

“All of my clients continue to be committed to fighting this unjust policy,” Woodfill said in a statement.

“What is shocking is that many of my clients were on the front line treating COVID-positive patients at Texas Methodist Hospital during the height of the pandemic. As a result, many of them contracted COVID-19. As a thank you for their service and sacrifice, Methodist Hospital awards them a pink slip and sentences them to bankruptcy.”

Employees had a June 7 deadline to complete their immunization.

In a Tuesday memo, the hospital system’s CEO, Marc Boom, said that 24,947 employees had complied with the jab requirement and that 27 of the 178 others had received the first of a two-dose shot and wouldn’t be fired if they got their second. The rest are subject to termination.

He also wrote that 285 other employees received medical or religious exemptions, and 332 were deferred because they were pregnant or for some other reason.

Can Schools Mandate Covid-19 Vaccines for Children? What We Know
Schools and districts can’t require Covid-19 vaccines for students, but states can


About 23% of youths 12 to 15 years old have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Yoree Koh
June 11, 2021 8:00 am ET


Many education officials, public-health officials and parents believe that vaccinating children against Covid-19 will play a key role in resuming normal life in time for in-person learning in the fall. That stance has led some parents to wonder: Will K-12 students be mandated to receive the vaccine to be allowed on campus this fall?

Children as young as 12 years old are now eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE. Moderna Inc. said Thursday it has asked U.S. health regulators to authorize the use of its Covid-19 shot in adolescents ages 12 to 17, setting up the potential availability of a second vaccine option for adolescents.

About 23% of youths 12 to 15 years old have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since U.S. health regulators cleared it for use among that age group last month, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

About 51% of people are in favor of mandating vaccines for middle-school students, 56% for high-school students and 61% for college students, according to a Gallup poll of more than 3,500 adults conducted in May.

About 53% of parents of children between the ages of 12 and 15 said they plan to have their child vaccinated. The same percentage of parents of children under 12 said they planned to have their children vaccinated once the green light is given.



Schools and school districts generally don’t have the authority to mandate student vaccines.
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State policies regarding vaccinations will play a key role in whether schools can require Covid-19 vaccinations in a way similar to how many require shots for infectious diseases such as measles.

Can schools mandate Covid-19 vaccines?
Schools and school districts generally don’t have the authority to mandate student vaccines.
But other authorities can: namely, state legislatures or health officials acting under legislative authority, said Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, a public-health law professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

The one exception is New York City, where a 2018 court case over flu vaccinations implies that city officials can likely require student vaccines in addition to the ones authorized by the state.

“This is an area that is already simply pretty highly regulated,” said Ms. Reiss.

Some states such as California allow state health departments to add other vaccines to those required by law. But the health department has never exercised that allowance, said Ms. Reiss. Every one of the 10 vaccines on California’s approved list has been added through the state legislature, she said.

Have state lawmakers shown an interest in mandating the Covid-19 vaccines for K-12 students?
Not really, and that isn’t surprising, according to Ms. Reiss. For starters, the vaccine has only been approved for use in children 12 and up. So making an argument that a vaccine is necessary might prove hard if only half the school population can receive it, said Ms. Reiss. Lawmakers are unlikely to push for a mandate until the vaccine is approved for use by all school-age children. Another reason is that all three Covid-19 vaccines are currently approved under an emergency-use authorization, said Ms. Reiss. While that status doesn’t necessarily preclude a mandate, it does weaken the legal standing.
Oklahoma became the first state to pass legislation blocking K-12 vaccine requirements. The bill, signed by Republic Gov. Kevin Stitt late last month, also forbids schools from implementing a mask mandate on unvaccinated students. Similar bills prohibiting schools to require the vaccine are making their way through Michigan and Pennsylvania legislatures.

Do school districts want the Covid-19 vaccine to be mandated?
Many are keeping quiet on the issue. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has authority over schools, indicated last week that he isn’t keen on a vaccine mandate.

“I think when we get in the business of mandating, we create conflict that we don’t need in this,” said Mr. de Blasio. He added that increasing vaccinations by educating about their effectiveness would be better.

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner said vaccines should be made mandatory once they have been proven to be safe and effective.

“I would expect that in the not too distant future—I don’t know if it’s weeks, months or hopefully not years—the state would mandate it. Why would we treat Covid differently than we treat measles and mumps? It doesn’t make sense to me,” said Mr. Beutner.

Mr. Beutner, head of the country’s second-largest school district, said that he has discussed a potential mandate with state legislators for months and that when the politics around the topic are put aside, many agree that the vaccine should be required. There are differing views on when would be the right time to implement it, he said.

Mr. Beutner is stepping down from his job at the end of the month.

Nearly 50 urban school districts, including New York City, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Detroit, are offering vaccinations to students and families at school buildings, according to the Council of the Great City Schools.

What do teachers say?
The National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers union, said it doesn’t have a national position, and the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union, said it isn’t pushing for vaccination to be required. Randi Weingarten, the group’s president, has said it is important to convince people of the vaccine’s efficacy to overcome hesitancy.

How effective are the Covid-19 vaccines among children?
The results of a Pfizer-BioNTech study of 2,260 adolescents found that the two-dose shot was 100% effective at protecting against symptomatic Covid-19 in 12- to 15-year-olds.

So far, researchers haven’t found evidence that the vaccines pose any additional or different risks to children versus adults. The most common side effects of the vaccine, according to the CDC, are flulike symptoms, such as fever, muscle aches and chills.

Do school vaccine mandates work?
Yes, according to Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Take the case of measles, the first vaccine to be mandated at schools in some states.

According to a 2003 paper in the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics, “Evidence showed that states with school immunization laws had rates of measles 40-51% lower than states without such laws.”

Such findings led to more state mandates and strict enforcement.

“Because of those mandates we ultimately eliminated measles from this country” for a time, said Dr. Offit.
Every state requires children to be vaccinated to attend school, with inoculations for mumps, measles and rubella, as well as polio and diphtheria among the most common. But there are exemptions. Six states—West Virginia, Mississippi, New York, Maine, California and Connecticut—allow only medical exemptions.
Forty-four states and the District of Columbia grant religious exemptions, and 15 states allow philosophical exemptions, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.


More Colleges Say Covid-19 Vaccines Will Be Mandatory in the Fall

A growing number of U.S. colleges will require students to get Covid-19 vaccinations before returning to campus. The policies are igniting a debate over whether businesses and institutions like schools can make vaccines a condition of attendance. Photo: Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

What about colleges?
Hundreds of colleges and universities—both public and private—are requiring students to be vaccinated to participate in on-campus learning this fall.

The legal restrictions that bind K-12 schools don’t always apply because most public universities have self-governing powers from the state, and private universities generally aren’t subject to state regulations, said Ms. Reiss. But the self-governing powers of public universities usually aren’t strong enough to override state legislation. If states say that public universities can’t make the Covid-19 vaccine a condition for attendance, such as in the case of Oklahoma and Utah, then the universities’ powers might be limited, said Ms. Reiss.

What’s next?
Some public-health experts and pediatricians caution that it might be prudent to wait until more data is available before making the Covid-19 vaccine a requirement. Danny Benjamin, a professor of pediatrics at Duke University, said he would want “maximum information” on the vaccine’s efficacy and mortality rates on a much larger scale than provided through the initial trials. “We’re really early in the life cycle of mandating it,” said Dr. Benjamin.

Dr. Benjamin, whose four children have all received the vaccine including two who were part of the initial trials, said that given the hesitancy regarding vaccines it is best not to rush to mandates. Instead, encouraging vaccinations through incentives and education would be better, he said.

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What’s next?
Some public-health experts and pediatricians caution that it might be prudent to wait until more data is available before making the Covid-19 vaccine a requirement. Danny Benjamin, a professor of pediatrics at Duke University, said he would want “maximum information” on the vaccine’s efficacy and mortality rates on a much larger scale than provided through the initial trials. “We’re really early in the life cycle of mandating it,” said Dr. Benjamin.

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Something about 6,000 deaths and many thousands of injuries still has to be discussed.

Houston Methodist employees who have decided NOT to take the COVID vaccination should simply walk out, en masse.

No arguments, no emotional hand-wringing.

Set the tone for the nation's hospitals, and show OTHER hospital organizations what can happen if their healthcare employees refuse vaccination edicts.

Or, lick the hands of those fascist employers, whimper, and take the shot (and the continuing paycheck, material lifestyle/the Jones' that "you" have become accustomed to, your retirement plan, and the kudos incoming from "your" pro-vaccination peer groups).

Choices.


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Funny thing. The CDC suddenly decided LAST MONTH on May1, 2021 to QUIT counting what they call "breakthrough Covid19 infections" of fully immunized people who got Covid anyway, serious enough to be hospitalized OR Die!
I bet the numbers make them look bad.
They also now wont be able to be forthright in informing us about the percentage of serious cases who are vaccinated.

As of May 1, 2021, CDC transitioned from monitoring all reported vaccine breakthrough cases to focus on identifying and investigating only hospitalized or fatal cases due to any cause. This shift will help maximize the quality of the data collected on cases of greatest clinical and public health importance.

Previous data on all vaccine breakthrough cases reported to CDC from January–April 2021 are available.

COVID-19 Breakthrough Case Investigations and Reporting | CDC

Information and resources to help public health departments and laboratories investigate and report COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases.

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I am in complete agreement with you intothatgoodnight!

DH and I are both in healthcare and have discussed this very topic. The moment our employers mandate this "thing" as a condition of employment, is the day we both quit our jobs. We are not alone in this belief either. We both knew that this day would come and have been planning accordingly.

One of the large teaching hospitals near us, has many staff members who have refused to take the shots and will like us, walk off the job. This is a very bad thing for the hospital and I think they know this. With no staff, in a hospital that is lately in "diversion" status d/t high census (no beds available)
several days a week, the administration knows that they are between a rock and a hard place.

You want to see our healthcare system implode? Let these, who make these decisions in their plush offices, far away from those of us who have to care for those who are sick and dying...keep pushing us to violate our conscience(s) and the sanctity of the body we were given by The Creator.

That will be a turning point in this, I promise you. Many of us old Nurse Ratchet's have been at it for over 30 years...have put up with a lot of crap, too. Give me a reason to retire...I just dare you.

Well there, I feel better

Have a Great Day All...Keep Looking Up and waiting for THE CALL!

Walkin' Away

Pfizer, Moderna Jabs Cause Heart Inflammation In Some Young Men, CDC Finds

TUESDAY, JUN 15, 2021 - 01:39 PM

As American public health officials and political leaders struggle to entice more young adults to accept the COVID-19 vaccine, researchers have just discovered a disturbing side effect of the Pfizer and Moderna jabs, which rely on new mRNA technology to program the body to fight the virus. While the adenovirus-vector jabs like the AstraZeneca shot have been tied to dozens of fatal cerebral blood clots, the mRNA vaccines have now been found to cause heart inflammation in some patients.

We first caught wind of this late last week when the CDC announced it would hold an "emergency meeting" about the rising number of heart inflammation cases in the US VAERs database.



According to Reuters, the CDC started investigating after Israel's Health Ministry reported that it had discovered a likely link to the condition in young men who received the Pfizer jab. Although some patients were hospitalized, most recovered on their own and (most importantly) nobody died.



The CDC told Reuters that it's still assessing the risk from the condition and has not yet concluded that there was a causal relationship between the vaccines and cases of myocarditis or pericarditis. Still, there are some lingering signs that the potential side effects from the vaccines is higher for young people. More than 50% of the cases reported to the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System - better known as VAERS - after people had received their second dose of the jab were in people between the ages of 12 and 24, the CDC said. Those age groups accounted for under 9% of doses administered.

"We clearly have an imbalance there," said Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, deputy director of the CDC's Immunization Safety Office, during a presentation to an advisory committee to the agency on Thursday. The bulk of these cases have emerged within a week of vaccination. Shimabukuro added that doctors saw a "preponderance" of young white men. This contrasts with the AstraZeneca brain clots, which overwhelmingly afflicted women. Just under 80% of all of these cases were found in men.

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Scientists knew something was wrong because, according to VAERS, there were 283 observed cases of heart inflammation after the second vaccine dose in patients aged 16 to 24. That's compared with an expectations of 10-to-102 cases tally for that age group based on demographic data.

Another database, the Vaccine Safety Datalink, also showed a jump in incidents of heart inflammation in younger men after their second shot when compared to the rate seen after jab 1.

Meanwhile, Pfizer said it supports the CDC's assessment of the heart inflammation cases, noting that "the number of reports is small given the number of doses administered." Already 130MM Americans have already received both of the Pfizer, or both of the Moderna, jabs. Moderna spokespeople cautioned that consumers shouldn't jump to conclusions before scientists have had time to further study this issue. At this point, health authorities officially consider both vaccines to be "safe" for public use. Moderna also claimed that researchers hadn't established a "causal" relationship between the jabs and the heart complications.

OF course, it's just the latest reminder of the drawbacks when authorities take short cuts to approve vaccines.

Zuckerberg Group Funnels Six-Figures To Wuhan Lab Partner, Gain-Of-Function Advocate.

• JUNE 14, 2021
• RAHEEM KASSAM AND NATALIE WINTERS

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative – the funding group behind much of the unlawful election changes of 2020 – gave nearly half a million dollars to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The university counts Wuhan lab collaborator and gain-of-function proponent Dr. Ralph Baric as a lead researcher.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Professor – who has also attended conferences at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and is described by the lab’s “bat woman” as her “longtime collaborator” – received the grant from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic group in July 2020.

“The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) recently awarded a $433,000 grant to UNC for laboratory equipment that will accelerate research to address the COVID-19 pandemic,” a press release notes. “This grant represents a new collaboration between the West Coast philanthropic organization CZI and UNC in search of a global solution to the pandemic,” a summary adds before detailing how the grant was used:

The grant covers the purchase of a “liquid handler” — a robotic arm that can pipette fluids much more quickly and accurately than humans can — and supporting instruments, including another robot that detects active virus particles in samples and a machine to sequence RNA. Together, these tools increase the rate of testing compounds by 20-fold.

The grant allegedly helped produce a study – currently awaiting peer review – entitled SARS-CoV-2 infectious virus, viral RNA in nasopharyngeal swabs, and serostatus of symptomatic COVID-19 outpatients in the United States.

“Here, we provide a comprehensive analysis of demographic, immunologic, virologic, and clinical disease factors associated with infectious virus isolation and levels of viral RNA in nasopharyngeal swab samples in the largest study of symptomatic outpatient adults with COVID-19 to date,” the summary notes.

A slide from a Baric presentation on the matter also listed support from Gilead Sciences, the National Institutes for Health, and Dr. Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

Dr. Fauci recently attempted to cover-up his relationship with Zuckerberg by telling MSNBC host Chuck Todd he had “no idea” what Senator Marsha Blackburn was getting at when discussing the pair’s leaked e-mails.


SLIDE FROM BARIC PRESENTATION.

The Baric Lab study says it aimed to gain a “deeper understanding” of COVID-19 in order to “accurately identify and quarantine contagious individuals”

“A deeper understanding of the viral and host factors associated with infectious virus detection is essential to accurately identify and quarantine contagious individuals. Several studies have reported associations between SARS-CoV-2 virus isolation and viral RNA levels or time from symptom onset. However, little is known about which host factors (i.e. demographics, comorbidities, SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity, symptomatology etc.) are associated with infectious virus detection.”

The financial ties between Baric and the Facebook-linked charity follow the social media platform heavily censoring users and stories that promoted theories that COVID-19’s origins could be traced to a Wuhan lab.

Facebook contracts with the exclusively Democrat-run “Lead Stories” group, staffed mostly by CNN flunk-outs, in order to censor inconvenient information. Lead Stories is also contracted by TikTok, in turn owned by ByteDance, a firm used by the Chinese Communist Party and its People’s Liberation Army to further communist propaganda.

Dr. Baric – who has defended controversial gain-of-function research as a “crucial tool” – was an early proponent of the Facebook-approved theory that COVID-19 originated through his involvement with a Lancet journal statement prematurely asserting the virus had natural origins.

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The CZI has come under increased scrutiny for its role in the 2020 presidential election, funneling millions into Democratic districts to turn out the vote for Joe Biden.

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Once A ‘Conspiracy Theory’, Vaccine Passports Just Deployed In Europe… And CNN Wants Americans To Sign Up Too.

• JUNE 15, 2021
• RAHEEM KASSAM

The idea of “vaccine” or “health passports” was once labelled a “conspiracy theory.” For millions of Europeans, it is an authoritarian nightmare now coming true.

The “EU Digital COVID certificate” or “EUDCC” was unveiled in June to little fanfare and scarce media scrutiny.

The digital version can be stored on a mobile device and EU citizens request a paper version. Both contain a QR code with extremely private information, as well as a digital signature.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen curiously announced: “Today the European Digital COVID certificate reassures us of this spirit of an open Europe. A Europe without barriers. But also a Europe that is slowly but surely opening up after most difficult times of pandemic. This certificate is a symbol of an open and digital Europe. We developed this certificate in record time. It will make travel in our union easier and it will give Europeans back the freedoms they value and cherish so much.”

The curious part? Claiming that movement is “free” when it literally costs hundreds of millions in taxpayer cash to develop, and, as Von der Leyen even admits in the latter part of her statement: freedom.

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The digital certificate will:

• Cover Covid-19 vaccination, test, and recovery;
• Be free of charge and available in all EU languages;
• Be available in a digital and paper-based format;
• Be secure and include a digitally signed QR code.

Nine member states originally signed up, with 12 announced on June 14th. A further three are expected to join the ranks soon, with some outlets such as CNN even considering American citizens joining the scheme.
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/daszak-reveals-chinese-colleagues-manipulating-coronaviruses/
“Right now if you’re an American, not living in the EU, you could get the certificate if you ask the national authorities of a member state to give you that certificate based on some proof that you’ve been vaccinated, or had a recent Covid test,” an EU spokesman told CNN.

Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, and Spain are currently deploying the system, with the rest of the 27 total EU member nations set to begin from July 1st.

The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union on June 23rd 2016, and will therefore not be part of the EU’s authoritarian measure.

The news comes despite columnists raging against vaccine passports as a “conspiracy theory”:



The Times of London’s Hugo Rifkind railed against liberty-minded citizens using the cringeworthy portmanteau “Covidiot.”

Now, his claims of just seven months ago have proved who the real “Covidiot” is.

CDC says vaccine link to heart inflammation is stronger than previously thought
The heart of the problem getting vaccinated...
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Christian Spencer | June 14, 2021

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How a Small Group of Scientists Created the Natural Origins Narrative | Truth Over News

•Jun 15, 2021


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15 States Are Moving To Curb Public Health Agency Powers Following Lockdown Carnage

TUESDAY, JUN 15, 2021 - 07:25 PM
Authored by John Miltimore via The Foundation for Economic Education,

More than a dozen states have passed or advanced legislation to place new checks on the powers of public health agencies in the wake of the pandemic...



Mike Fratantuono grew up in a restaurant. Literally.

For decades, Sunset Restaurant in Glen Burnie, Maryland, was the family business. Over the years, he’d done seemingly every job imaginable: busboy, bartender, and butcher; prep cook and plumber; handyman and manager.

Fratantuono says that’s what made it so hard to watch the family’s legacy become a COVID casualty in 2020.

“It kills me. We were supposed to be getting ready to celebrate our 60th anniversary this year, and instead we’re packing up and closing at the end of this month,” Fratantuono told the Washington Post last year.

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“I try not to get too sentimental about it, because it won’t change a damn thing, but sometimes the stress hits me and my heart starts going like crazy. I get frustrated. It makes me angry.”

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Fratantuono is just one of the countless business owners across America who saw their dreams vanish before their eyes in the wake of government lockdowns that crushed their businesses. Now, in the wake of the pandemic, states across the country are advancing legislation to curb the powers of public health departments following one of the most destructive and contentious years in American history.

Reining in Public Health Agencies
In May, the Network for Public Health Law published a report showing that in recent months no fewer than 15 state legislatures have passed or are considering passing measures that would restrict the legal authority of public health departments.

Among the provisions passed or considered are the following:

• Prohibitions on requiring citizens to wear masks;
• Prohibiting health agencies from closing businesses or schools;
• Banning the use of quarantines for people who have not been shown to be sick;
• Preventing state hospitals and universities from requiring vaccinations for employees and students;
• Preventing local governments from exercising emergency powers that are inconsistent with state health department guidelines;

Earlier this year, for example, North Dakota passed legislation making it unlawful for state officials to force citizens to wear masks—just one of a growing number of states to place restrictions on mask orders. In March, Kansas’s legislature passed legislation that removes the governor’s ability to shut down businesses during a public health emergency.

Meanwhile, more than 40 states passed legislation that made it unlawful for health departments to mandate COVID-19 vaccination.

A Serious Threat to Life?
The report concludes that opposition to “reasonable” public health measures poses serious dangers to life and health.

“Legislation to stop expert public health agencies from leading the response to health emergencies creates unforeseen, serious risks to life and health,” the report states.
“These laws could make it harder to advance health equity during a pandemic that has disproportionately sickened and killed Black, Hispanic and Latino, and Indigenous Americans.”

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Not mentioned in the report, however, are the unintended consequences of the actions taken by public health agencies across the country in 2020. The collateral damage of lockdowns included business closures, job losses, supply disruptions, mass protests, surging violence, increased mental health problems, unprecedented drug overdoses, and a collapse in cancer screenings.

Public health agencies, meanwhile, proved incapable of taming the coronavirus through the use of lockdowns. And these struggles were not confined to the United States.

“A new study by German scientists claims to have found evidence that lockdowns may have had little effect on controlling the coronavirus pandemic,” The Telegraph reported last week.
“Statisticians at Munich University found ‘no direct connection’ between the German lockdown and falling infection rates in the country.”

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The Lesson of Lockdowns
The devastating impact of lockdowns, combined with their failure to slow the spread of the virus, demonstrates why states are right to curb the powers of public health agencies.

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s the danger of unchecked executive power. Using emergency powers, governors and public health bureaucrats across the country took unilateral, sweeping, and indefinite measures that massively damaged livelihoods and infringed on the rights of millions of Americans. People were fined and arrested for simply gathering privately or exercising outside, walking a pet, paddling a boat on the water (alone), or taking a child to the park—even though most transmissions took place in homes and the coronavirus is rarely transmitted outdoors.

Americans may disagree on the precise role public health departments should play in society today. But the pandemic reminded us why checks and balances on concentrated power are so important.

The American constitutional system was deliberately designed to avoid concentrated power because the Framers feared it above all else.

“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty,” wrote John Adams.

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The authors of the Network for Public Health Law report express concern that public health agencies are being stripped of the power to act by dangerous radicals. The truth is that dangerously radical government agencies are being put in check.

Ohio, for example, passed a law in March that limits the length of a public health emergency order to 90 days unless it’s extended by the legislature. The same month, lawmakers in Utah passed legislation allowing the state legislature to override state health agency orders during public health emergencies. Missouri, meanwhile, has proposed a law that limits lockdowns to 15 days, after which extensions must be approved by legislative bodies.

These reforms are not radical. They are both reasonable and sensible. They do not represent an attack on science—which tells us what is, not what we ought to do—but are prudent checks on power from lawmakers acting within their rightful province.

“It is necessary to curb the power of government,” the economist Ludwig von Mises noted in Human Action.

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“This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.”

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The preservation of liberty, protected by separating and checking power, is the ideal on which the American system was founded. Following a year that saw Americans’ rights, dreams, and health trampled by central planners wielding vast power with little restraint and few checks, it’s a vision Americans are right to rekindle.

Just ask Mike Fratantuono and the millions of other Americans whose lives were derailed in 2020.

Congressman: House should investigate Fauci for possible profit motives related to COVID-19

"You can turn the stock market so you go and invest your money in this or that, turn the stock market, and sell it back into this or that; it's an easy process," Carl said.

By Nicholas Ballasy
Updated: June 15, 2021 - 11:34pm

Alabama Republican Rep. Jerry Carl told Just the News that he wants the House of Representatives to investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for possible profit-making motives related to COVID-19.

Carl, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said he came to the conclusion that such an investigation should take place after reviewing about 700 of Fauci's email messages, which he said were "easy to read" because they were heavily redacted.

"I would like to know if he made any money off of this COVID-19," Carl told "Just the News AM" on Monday. "I think that's a fair question. What most people don't realize are the true bureaucrats in Washington are in your state capitol, on your local government, they control so much of what's going on. And when you're like Fauci and you can step out on the stage at any given day, make a statement and turn the stock market, it's easy to predict that.

"You can turn the stock market so you go and invest your money in this or that, turn the stock market, and sell it back into this or that. It's an easy process. Do I have anything to base that on? No, I do not. All I'm saying it's a great time for us, the people, to ask that our bureaucrats be held responsible for what they do and how they say it."

Buzzfeed obtained and published thousands of Fauci's emails.

Carl said Fauci's email messages related to Facebook made him wonder about a potential profit motive.

"Facebook refers to an offer that they made, and then it was blacked out, it was whited out," he said. "So I'm just really curious what that offer was — was it a financial offer? Was it an offer to open up Facebook to getting his messages out? I don't know, but it's whited out. But that one kind of stuck out to me."

Carl explained that he sees a Fauci probe as separate from investigating the origins of COVID-19.
"I'd love access to his personal email account, because what we're looking at is his government email account," he explained. "No telling what's on his personal email account, and again, that would be tough to get to; the same would be as financials."

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The Truth About The Origin of COVID-19 and the Lab-Leak Theory

•Jun 16, 2021


Doctor Mike Hansen

Jon Stewart was just on late night with Stephen Colbert, and his take on the lab-leak theory of COVID-19 surprised the audience. How COVID originated is important, because the answer has the potential to aid in the prevention or mitigation of future pandemics. But there was something that Jon Stewart said that I think is over-the-top.

On May 26, 2021, President Biden directed the U.S. Intelligence Community to step up their investigative efforts into the origin of the pandemic and report back in 90 days. In addition, Australia, the European Union, and Japan have expressed a desire to make a more concerted effort to determine the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. On March 4, 2021, prominent scientists, in an open letter to the World Health Organization, called for a full and unrestricted investigation. Why the sudden interest? A recently released U.S. intelligence report stated that several researchers at China's WIV fell ill in November 2019 and had to be hospitalized. And just today, there was a study that showed evidence that people had antibodies in the United States in December of 2019.

The Lab leak theory

Was an employee at the Wuhan virology lab accidentally infected and then spread the virus, especially if the initial contacts were asymptomatic? The largest collection of bat samples, especially ones containing bat coronaviruses, are in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

Could poor lab techniques by inadequately trained technicians allow the virus to escape? Could researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have made the virus more virulent and transmissible by experimenting with gain of function mutations? These mutations are designed to hasten the evolutionary process so scientists can be prepared for future pandemics.

This theory carries more controversy than the theory that the virus was naturally transmitted. It is more politically charged and has economic, social, and political implications. Unfortunately, this theory received only a brief mention in the WHO report. A mere 4 of the 313 pages of the report were devoted to it.

The Timeline

Several researchers inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) became ill in the fall of 2019 with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 or the seasonal flu. In November 2019, three of the WIV researchers became sick enough to seek hospital care.

Dr. Robert Redfield believes the current pandemic began in Wuhan as a localized outbreak in September-October 2019. Especially because of how well-adapted this virus is to human ACE2 receptors. This virus essentially hit ground running.

The Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases did not formally notify the U.S. of the cluster of patients with pneumonia until December 31, 2019.

Dr. Robert Kadlac said that China used this 30 day lead time to purchase supplies. Dr. Redfield spoke with his Chinese counterpart, Dr. George Gao, who was distraught that many people infected with COVID-19 were not at the wet market.

The Precedent for Lab

Accidents Lab accidents have caused previous outbreaks of infection in China and elsewhere. In Beijing, China, for example, an outbreak infected nine people and killed one. A smallpox lab leak occurred in the United Kingdom in 1978, and an anthrax lab leak occurred in the United States in 2014.

Furthermore, Dr. Shi Zhengli aka the bat woman, has admitted that coronavirus research was carried out in labs with Biosafety Level 2 rather than the more stringent Biosafety Level 4. In a Biosafety Level 2 lab, researchers wear white coats and gloves, not protective gear.

U.S. Embassy officials raised concerns about WIV's lab safety in 2018. These concerns specifically addressed a severe shortage of appropriately trained technicians. Chinese experts have also expressed concerns about lab safety in their own country, lamenting that "lab trash can contain man‐made viruses, bacteria or microbes" and that "some researchers discharge laboratory materials into the sewer after experiments without a specific biological disposal mechanism."

U.S. Labs have also been cited for safety issues, including the Biosafety level (BSL)‐4 United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) facility in Fort Detrick.

Marc Lipsitch, a well-known Harvard University epidemiologist, estimated the risk of a pandemic occurring due to an accidental release from a high-security bio lab at between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 10,000 per year. He previously warned about the proliferation of these labs globally.

This theory gains credence when independent journalists, investigators, and global health authorities have been denied access to WIV researchers.

A Group Of Parents Sent Their Kids' Face Masks to A Lab for Analysis. Here's What They Found

Scott Morefield
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|Posted: Jun 15, 2021 9:00 PM



Source: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File

We've been told for well over a year that widespread forced public masking should be implemented because, even if only moderately to slightly to negligibly effective at curbing the spread of COVID-19, there are ZERO drawbacks.

"What's the harm?" they ask.
"It's only a minor inconvenience," they bleat.
"If it saves ONE LIFE, it's worth it!" they implore.

Meanwhile, we on Team Reality have not only continued to point to real-world data that shows masking to be entirely ineffective, we've also maintained that forced public masking, especially long-term, has negative societal and even health ramifications that the powers-that-be are all-too-happy to ignore in subservience to their newfound face mask god.

It only stands to reason that one of those health ramifications would be the fact that millions of people, particularly children, have been forced to wear and carry around pieces of cloth they've continually breathed through for hours on end. What lurking pathogens might be found on these disgusting contraptions being incessantly handled, stuck in pockets, and mindlessly tossed on books, tables, and desks? Well, one group of Florida parents sent a batch of masks worn by their children to a lab to find out.

And yeah, you'll probably need to make sure you aren't eating dinner anytime soon before you digest THESE results.

Via press release:

Gainesville, FL (June 16, 2021) – A group of parents in Gainesville, FL, concerned about potential harms from masks, submitted six face masks to a lab for analysis. The resulting report found that five masks were contaminated with bacteria, parasites, and fungi, including three with dangerous pathogenic and pneumonia-causing bacteria. No viruses were detected on the masks, although the test is capable of detecting viruses.

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The analysis detected the following 11 alarmingly dangerous pathogens on the masks:
• Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumonia)
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis (tuberculosis)
• Neisseria meningitidis (meningitis, sepsis)
• Acanthamoeba polyphaga (keratitis and granulomatous amebic encephalitis)
• Acinetobacter baumanni (pneumonia, blood stream infections, meningitis, UTIs— resistant to antibiotics)
• Escherichia coli (food poisoning)
• Borrelia burgdorferi (causes Lyme disease)
• Corynebacterium diphtheriae (diphtheria)
• Legionella pneumophila (Legionnaires' disease)
• Staphylococcus pyogenes serotype M3 (severe infections—high morbidity rates)
• Staphylococcus aureus (meningitis, sepsis)

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Half of the masks were contaminated with one or more strains of pneumonia-causing bacteria.

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One-third were contaminated with one or more strains of meningitis-causing bacteria. One-third were contaminated with dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens. In addition, less dangerous pathogens were identified, including pathogens that can cause fever, ulcers, acne, yeast infections, strep throat, periodontal disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and more.

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The face masks studied were new or freshly-laundered before wearing and had been worn for 5 to 8 hours, most during in-person schooling by children aged 6 through 11. One was worn by an adult. A t-shirt worn by one of the children at school and unworn masks were tested as controls. No pathogens were found on the controls. Proteins found on the t-shirt, for example, are not pathogenic to humans and are commonly found in hair, skin, and soil.

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A parent who participated in the study, Ms. Amanda Donoho, commented that this small sample points to a need for more research: “We need to know what we are putting on the faces of our children each day. Masks provide a warm, moist environment for bacteria to grow.”

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These local parents contracted with the lab because they were concerned about the potential of contaminants on masks that their children were forced to wear all day at school, taking them on and off, setting them on various surfaces, wearing them in the bathroom, etc. This prompted them to send the masks to the University of Florida’s Mass Spectrometry Research and Education Center for analysis.

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The below chart, put together by the group of parents, shows the potential dangers from each pathogen:



Appetizing, eh? Of course, nothing above, or anything else, will deter the extremists in the masking cult, some of whom now want to see masking in schools forever.

Rhodes College announces plan to profile and discriminate against unvaccinated students, fine them $3,000 per year

06/16/2021 / By Lance D Johnson / Comments



Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee just released a new policy of segregation for the Fall 2021 semester. Rhodes College will violate the medical privacy of their students and require each individual to show digital proof that they were inoculated by an emergency use authorization (EUA) covid vaccine. If a student fails to comply, they will be profiled as an “unvaccinated student” and fined $1,500 per semester. Moreover, the “unvaccinated student” will be subject to “mandatory testing” in the form of weekly DNA swabs and may be forced into intermittent ten-day isolation if they refuse to submit to the forced medical experiment.

University’s forced medical experimentation takes segregation to a new level

According to the school’s new policy of segregation, the unvaccinated student can be held down for ten days at a time, stripped of their due process rights, and determined to be guilty of infection at all times. The student will be isolated on the basis of a fraudulently-calibrated PCR test that cannot determine non-infectious viral debris from an actual infection. The policy promises to abuse the “unvaccinated student” further and deprive them of their right to move about freely, associate with others and breathe unhindered.

The policy also states that the university can use these “mandatory tests” to generate more restrictions on unvaccinated students as a whole. If the tests reach a certain positivity rate (predetermined by the university), the unvaccinated students can be segregated further, and may “not be permitted to participate in certain campus events and activities including Athletics, clubs and intramurals, and student organizations.”

Students who have gained immunity over the past two years will be treated like slaves in a Chinese internment camp, stripped of their medical privacy rights while being forced into mandatory testing, oxygen restriction orders, and constant surveillance. Students who already have immunity and healthy students who could easily get natural immunity will be persecuted for the entire school year, abused by unlawful medical edicts and segregated from their vaccinated peers into the unforeseeable future.

In the state of Tennessee, students are protected from medical discrimination and segregation based on vaccination status. The state respects the right of individuals to SAY NO to any or all vaccines on the basis of religious (conscientious beliefs) and medical grounds. Rhodes College must abide by this law and allow students to file a religious or medical exemption to these inoculations. This personal medical information is to be kept private; however, the college is threatening to use information on an individual’s vaccination status in a way that profiles and discriminates against them. (Related: Rutgers University violates state, federal and international law by mandating experimental covid vaccines.)

According to administrators, the university’s [illegal] tactics are working, forcing compliance

Rhodes College Vice President for Student Life, Meghan Weyant, commented on the new policy: “As we prepare to welcome our returning students’ home and the largest incoming class in Rhode’s history, we believe a campus-wide commitment to vaccination will really allow us to do our part in getting our students back on campus for the academic experience that we know they so much want.”

Even though the university’s tactics are illegal and in violation of basic human rights, the threat of exclusion, daily abuse, large fines and social ostracizing is an effective measure of control, breaking down the psychology of the students. When an individual’s body autonomy, basic human dignity and freedom is threatened, they may be more willing to go along with a forced medical experiment. Meghan Weyant confirmed she has got “no push back” from the students. She said that students “want to be on campus” and are therefore complying with the inoculation requirements. It’s appalling that a university in America is using medical discrimination to ROB certain students of both their finances and their human dignity.

Reach the university’s student life team at studentlife@rhodes.edu

The university’s director of health services, Adora Browne, can be reached at health-forms@rhodes.edu

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WHO 'Highly Compromised', Unfit To Lead COVID-19 Investigation According To Former CDC Director
by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Jun 15, 2021 - 09:05 PM

The World Health Organization is "highly compromised" and unfit to lead an investigation into the origins of COVID-19, according to former CDC head Robert Redfield.

"Clearly, they were incapable of compelling China to adhere to the treaty agreements that they have on global health, because they didn’t do that," Redfield told Fox News on Tuesday. "Clearly, they allowed China to define the group of scientists that could come and investigate. That’s not consistent with their role."

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z89OtQT9RpI
Exclusive: Former CDC director believes COVID-19 came from Wuhan lab
Jun 15, 2021
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In March, Redfield told CNN that he doesn't believe the natural origin theory which posits that COVID-19 jumped from a bat to a human through a yet-to-be determined intermediary species.

"I think they were highly compromised," Redfield said of the World Health Organization (WHO), which 'investigated' the origins of the pandemic in what was nothing more than political theatre conducted by a highly conflicted group - one of whom, Peter Deszak of NGO EcoHealth Alliance, worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and was funded to the tune of millions of dollars by Anthony Fauci's NIH.

Redfield slammed Fauci during the interview, saying that while he supports the lab-leak hypothesis, "Other individuals, Tony Fauci, for example, would say that he prefers to support that it evolved from nature."

"Now, why would that be?" asked Redfield, adding that "sometimes scientists when they bite into a bone on a hypothesis, it’s hard for them to move on."

"I guess if I’m disappointed about anything about the early scientific community it’s that there seemed to be lack of openness to pursue both hypotheses," he continued.

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Infection of Immature Red Blood Cells May Help Explain Low Oxygen Levels in COVID-19 Patients
By University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
June 16, 2021


A new study published in the journal Stem Cell Reports by University of Alberta researchers is shedding light on why many COVID-19 patients, even those not in the hospital, are suffering from hypoxia—a potentially dangerous condition in which there is decreased oxygenation in the body’s tissues. The study also shows why the anti-inflammatory drug dexamethasone has been an effective treatment for those with the virus.

“Low blood-oxygen levels have been a significant problem in COVID-19 patients,” said study lead Shokrollah Elahi, associate professor in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry. “Because of that, we thought one potential mechanism might be that COVID-19 impacts red blood cell production.”

In the study, Elahi and his team examined the blood of 128 patients with COVID-19. The patients included those who were critically ill and admitted to the ICU, those who had moderate symptoms and were admitted to the hospital, and those who had a mild version of the disease and only spent a few hours in the hospital. The researchers found that, as the disease became more severe, more immature red blood cells flooded into blood circulation, sometimes making up as much as 60 percent of the total cells in the blood. By comparison, immature red blood cells make up less than one percent, or none at all, in a healthy individual’s blood.

“Immature red blood cells reside in the bone marrow and we do not normally see them in blood circulation,” explained Elahi, who is also a member of the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute and the Cancer Research Institute of Northern Alberta. “This indicates that the virus is impacting the source of these cells. As a result, and to compensate for the depletion of healthy immature red blood cells, the body is producing significantly more of them in order to provide enough oxygen for the body.”

Immature red blood cells susceptible to COVID-19

The problem is that immature red blood cells do not transport oxygen—only mature red blood cells do. The second issue is that immature red blood cells are highly susceptible to COVID-19 infection. As immature red blood cells are attacked and destroyed by the virus, the body is unable to replace mature red blood cells—which only live for about 120 days—and the ability to transport oxygen in the bloodstream is diminished.

The question was how the virus infects the immature red blood cells. Elahi, known for his prior work demonstrating that immature red blood cells made certain cells more susceptible to HIV, began by investigating whether the immature red blood cells have receptors for SARS-CoV-2. After a series of studies, Elahi’s team was the first in the world to demonstrate that immature red blood cells expressed the receptor ACE2 and a co-receptor, TMPRSS2, which allowed SARS-CoV-2 to infect them.

Working in conjunction with the lab of virologist Lorne Tyrrell at the U of A’s Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, the team performed investigative infection testing with immature red blood cells from COVID-19 patients and proved these cells got infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

“These findings are exciting but also show two significant consequences,” Elahi said. “First, immature red blood cells are the cells being infected by the virus, and when the virus kills them, it forces the body to try to meet the oxygen supply requirements by pumping more immature red blood cells out of the bone marrow. But that just creates more targets for the virus.

“Second, immature red blood cells are actually potent immunosuppressive cells; they suppress antibody production and they suppress T-cell immunity against the virus, making the entire situation worse. So in this study, we have demonstrated that more immature red blood cells mean a weaker immune response against the virus.”

The dexamethasone mechanism

Following the discovery that immature red blood cells have receptors that allow them to become infected by the coronavirus, Elahi’s team then began testing various drugs to see whether they could reduce immature red blood cells’ susceptibility to the virus.

“We tried the anti-inflammatory drug dexamethasone, which we knew helped to reduce mortality and the duration of the disease in COVID-19 patients, and we found a significant reduction in the infection of immature red blood cells,” said Elahi.

When the team began exploring why dexamethasone had such an effect, they found two potential mechanisms. First, dexamethasone suppresses the response of the ACE2 and TMPRSS2 receptors to SARS-CoV-2 in immature red blood cells, reducing the opportunities for infection. Second, dexamethasone increases the rate at which the immature red blood cells mature, helping the cells shed their nuclei faster. Without the nuclei, the virus has nowhere to replicate.

Luckily, putting Elahi’s findings into practice doesn’t require significant changes in the way COVID-19 patients are being treated now.

“For the past year, dexamethasone has been widely used in COVID-19 treatment, but there wasn’t a good understanding as to why or how it worked,” Elahi said. “So we are not repurposing or introducing a new medication; we are providing a mechanism that explains why patients benefit from the drug.”

Reference: “Erythroid precursors and progenitors suppress adaptive immunity and get invaded by SARS-CoV-2” by Shima Shahbaz, Lai Xu, Mohammed Osman, Wendy Sligl, Justin Shields, Michael Joyce, D. Lorne Tyrrell, Olaide Oyegbami and Shokrollah Elahi, 11 May 2021, Stem Cell Reports.

DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2021.04.001

Elahi noted that Wendy Sligl and Mohammed Osman had a crucial role in recruiting COVID-19 patients for the study. The research was supported by Fast Grants, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a grant from the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology.

:: shakes head n rolls eyes in derision :: apparently still DJT's fault. No shame. Nary an ounce o' it to b found anywhere.

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JUST IN - Scientists did not come forward sooner to back the Wuhan lab theory because "at the time, it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didn't want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins." (NBC)

11:06 AM · Jun 17, 2021·Twitter Web App

jward said:

:: shakes head n rolls eyes in derision :: apparently still DJT's fault. No shame. Nary an ounce o' it to b found anywhere.

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JUST IN - Scientists did not come forward sooner to back the Wuhan lab theory because "at the time, it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didn't want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins." (NBC)

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They should be fired.

naegling62 said:

They should be fired.

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Given the world wide destruction wrought upon every facet of peoples' lives n the wellbeing stripped from them, I would suggest they should be fired UPON

jward said:

Given the world wide destruction wrought upon every facet of peoples' lives n the wellbeing stripped from them, I would suggest they should be fired UPON

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Top Virologists Admit Lying to American Public for Months on Likely Wuhan Lab Leak Theory Because They Didn’t Want to be Associated with President Trump

By Jim Hoft
Published June 17, 2021 at 1:35pm


Alina Chan is a biologist at the Silver lab at the Harvard School of Medicine.

Chan is one of 18 scientists who finally admitted in the journal of Science last month that the Wuhan coronvirus likely originated in a Wuhan, China virology lab.

Chan says liberal scientists lied to the American public for months about their beliefs on the origination of the virus. They did this because they didn’t want to be associated with President Trump — who was right about the virus all along.

These people are disgusting!

Chan was one of 18 scientists who published a letter in the journal Science last month calling for a more in-depth investigation into the virus’s origin that takes into account theories about both natural occurrence and laboratory spillovers. The letter helped kick-start a new round of calls to investigate the “lab leak hypothesis,” including demands from President Joe Biden and several leading scientists.

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The shift reflects how some scientists who previously avoided the topic or were quick to dismiss it are grappling with enduring uncertainties about the virus’s origin, free from the politicization that clouded such discussions during the Trump administration.

Chan said there had been trepidation among some scientists about publicly discussing the lab leak hypothesis for fear that their words could be misconstrued or used to support racist rhetoric about how the coronavirus emerged. Trump fueled accusations that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a research lab in the city where the first Covid-19 cases were reported, was connected to the outbreak, and on numerous occasions he called the pathogen the “Wuhan virus” or “kung flu.”

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you lied to us then
but now, you admit you lied
so now you can be trusted
. . . to receive federal grant money

Fauci-Funded Researchers Including Ralph Baric Attended Chinese Government ‘Gain-Of-Function’ Conference With Military Scientists.

• JUNE 17, 2021
• NATALIE WINTERS

Dr. Ralph Baric – described by the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s top bat coronavirus researcher Shi Zhengli as a “longtime collaborator” – attended a Beijing-based scientific conference discussing “gain-of-function” research alongside several researchers working for the Chinese military and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The unearthing of the 2015 conference follows a recent exchange where Senator Rand Paul probed Dr. Anthony Fauci about whether or not his agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), had funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“For years, Dr. Ralph Baric, a virologist in the U.S., has been collaborating with Dr. Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Virology Institute, sharing his discoveries about how to create super viruses. This gain-of-function research has been funded by the NIH.”

Senator Paul outlined before Fauci asserted the claims were “entirely and completely incorrect.”

Adding to a growing list of evidence revealing otherwise, The National Pulse can reveal that Baric spoke at a Chinese Academy of Sciences event in 2015 discussing gain-of-function research – which can increases the transmissibility or lethality of a virus – alongside researchers working for China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

In addition to featuring high-level Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers, two individuals from the Academy of Military Medical Sciences were also in attendance.

CONFERENCE ATTENDEES.

The two-day event – the 34th meeting of the Beijing Life Science Forum-Seminar on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Safety and Global Health Safety Issues – started on September 29th, 2015. “Strengthening academic exchanges and discussions, taking advantage of international cooperation and joint research, and better responding to emerging outbreaks of infectious disease research have become major issues facing global health security,” notes a summary of the joint event with the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).

The fifth session of the event was titled “Gain of Function Research” and featured a Chinese scientist lecturing on “Phosphorylation regulates the replication of influenza A virus” and American scientist David Franz delivering a lecture on the “NAS Gain-of-Function Meeting Report (The scientists’ view).”

SCHEDULE.

The gain-of-function session immediately followed speeches by Baric on “MERS: Genetic Systems and Models” and Wuhan’s “bat woman” Shi Zhengli, who addressed the conference about “bat coronaviruses associated with human diseases.”


CONFERENCE.

The sixth session of the event – High-Containment Labs…Safe, Secure, Productive, and Sustainable – contained remarks from the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Deputy Director on “biosafety management of high-level biosafety laboratory for emerging disease control” and a lecture from Fauci-funded researcher Thomas Ksiazek entitled “high containment laboratories: putting the pieces of laboratory safety and global health security together.”

George Gao, who thanked Fauci for dismissing the “lab leak” theory in private emails revealed through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, hosted the event.


GAO SPEAKING.

The conference sponsor, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

“CAS is not run independently of government,” the organization asserts before divulging its close ties to the regime in a statement in the journal Nature:
The establishment and development of CAS have been entirely based on the wisdom and support of the central government. The role of the academy in leading China’s research has always been recognized by China’s leadership, which has respected science and technology from the start — for its own sake as well as for developing a sustainable economy. Contrary to your headline, CAS has never sought or achieved financial autonomy. Over the past 40 years, half of its income has come directly from central-government investment; the rest has been from competitive funding or technology transfer. CAS could not develop without the funding and support of the central government.

Doctors Speak Out: Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Tufts Warns About Vaccinating Children

by Arthur Allen
June 17, 2021


Lucien Wiggins, 12, arrived at Tufts Children’s Hospital by ambulance June 7 with chest pains, dizziness and high levels of a protein in his blood that indicated inflammation of his heart. The symptoms had begun a day earlier, the morning after his second vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA shot.

For Dr. Sara Ross, chief of pediatric critical care at the Boston hospital, the event confirmed a doubt she’d been nursing: Was the country pushing its luck by vaccinating children against covid at a time when the disease was relatively mild in the young — and skepticism of vaccines was frighteningly high?

“I have practiced pediatric ICU for almost 15 years and I have never taken care of a single patient with a vaccine-related complication until now,” Ross told KHN.

“Our standard for safety seems to be different for all the other vaccines we expose children to.”

To be sure, cases of myocarditis like Lucien’s have been rare, and the reported side effects, though sometimes serious, generally resolve with pain relievers and, sometimes, infusions of antibodies. And a covid infection itself is far more likely than a vaccine to cause myocarditis, including in younger people.

Lucien went home, on the mend, after two days on intravenous ibuprofen in intensive care. Most of the 800 or so cases of heart problems among all ages reported to a federal vaccine safety database through May 31 followed a similar course. Yet the pattern of these cases — most occurred in young males after the second Pfizer or Moderna shot — suggested that the ailment was caused by the vaccine, rather than being coincidental.

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee is set to meet to discuss the possible link and whether it merits changing its recommendations for vaccinating teenagers with the Pfizer vaccine, which the Food and Drug Administration last month authorized for children 12 and older. A similar authorization for the Moderna vaccine is pending, and both companies are conducting clinical trials that will test their vaccines on children as young as 6 months old.

At a meeting last week of an FDA advisory committee, vaccine experts suggested that the agency require the pharmaceutical companies to hold larger and longer clinical trials for the younger age groups. A few said FDA should hold off on authorizing vaccination of younger children for up to a year or two.

Interestingly, Lucien and his mother, Beth Clarke, of Rochester, New Hampshire, disagreed. Her son’s reaction was “odd,” she said, but “I’d rather him get a side effect [that doctors] can help with than get covid and possibly die. And he feels that way, which is more important. He thinks all his friends should get it.”

Data regarding covid’s impact on the young is somewhat messy, but at least 300 covid-related deaths and thousands of hospitalizations have been reported in children under 18, which makes covid’s toll as large or larger than any childhood disease for which a vaccine is currently available. The American Academy of Pediatrics wants children to receive the vaccine, assuming tests show it is safe.

But healthy people under 18 have generally not suffered major covid effects, and the number of serious cases among the young has tumbled as more adults become vaccinated. Unlike other pathogens, such as influenza, children are generally not infecting older, vulnerable adults. Under these circumstances, said Dr. Cody Meissner — who as chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Tufts consulted on Lucien’s case — the benefits of covid vaccination at this point may not outweigh the risks for children.

“We all want a pediatric vaccine, but I’m concerned about the safety issue,” Meissner told fellow advisory commission members last week. An Israeli study found a five- to 25-fold increase in the heart ailment among males ages 16-24 who were vaccinated with the Pfizer shot. Most recovered within a few weeks.

Two deaths occurred in vaccinated men that don’t appear to have been linked to the vaccine.

Young people could experience long-term effects from the suspected vaccine side effect such as scarring, irregular heartbeat or even early heart failure, Meissner said, so it makes sense to wait until the gravity of the problem becomes clearer.

“Could the disease come back this fall? Sure. But the likelihood I think is pretty low. And our first mandate is do no harm,” he said.

Ross said the biggest pandemic threats to children that her ICU has witnessed are drug overdoses and mental illness brought on by the shutdown of normal life.

“Young children are not the vectors of disease, nor are they driving the spread of the epidemic,” Ross said. While eventually everyone should be vaccinated against covid, use of the vaccines should not be expanded to children without extensive safety data, she said.

The government could authorize childhood vaccination against covid without recommending it immediately, noted Dr. Eric Rubin, an advisory committee member who is editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. “In September, when kids are back in school, people are indoors, and the vaccination rates are very low in certain parts of the country, who knows what things are going to look like? We may want this vaccine.”

Moderna and Pfizer this summer began testing their vaccines in younger kids. A Pfizer spokesperson said the company expects to give about 2,250 children ages 6 months-11 years vaccine as part of its trial; Moderna said it would vaccinate about 3,500 children in the 2-11 age range.

Some members of the FDA advisory committee proposed that up to 10,000 kids be included in each trial. But Marion Gruber, leader of the FDA’s vaccine regulatory office, pointed out that even trials that large wouldn’t necessarily detect a side effect as rare as myocarditis seems to be.

At some point, federal regulators and the public must decide how much risk they are willing to accept from vaccines versus the risk of a covid virus that continues to spread and mutate around the world, said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

“We’re going to need a highly vaccinated population for years or perhaps decades,” Offit said at the meeting. “It seems hard to imagine that we won’t have to vaccinate children going forward.”

Ross argued that it makes more sense to selectively vaccinate children who are most at-risk for serious covid disease, such as those who are obese or have diabetes. Yet even to raise questions about the vaccination program can be a freighted decision, she said. While authorities have a duty to speak frankly about the safety of vaccines, there is also a responsibility not to frighten the public in a way that discourages them from seeking protection.

A 10-day pause in the Johnson & Johnson vaccination campaign in April, while authorities investigated a link to an occasionally fatal blood-clotting disorder, led to a major decline in public confidence in that vaccine, although as of late May authorities had detected only 28 cases among 8.7 million U.S. recipients of the vaccine. Because of the declining appetite for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, millions of doses are in danger of passing their use-by date in refrigerators around the country.

Focusing too much attention on potential harms from the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for children could have a tragic result, said Dr. Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health and an expert on vaccine hesitancy. “Very soon we could be in a situation where we really need to vaccinate this population, but it will be too late because you’ve already given the message that we should not be doing it,” he said.

Eventually, perhaps next year, K-12 mandates might be called for, said Dr. Sean O’Leary, a professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Colorado. “There’s so much misinformation and propaganda spreading that people are reticent to go there, to further poke the hornet’s nest,” he said. But once there is robust safety data for children, “when you think about it, there’s no logical or ethical reason why you wouldn’t.”

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More dangerous ‘delta’ strain now classified ‘variant of concern’ in U.S.—here’s what that means for you
Published Wed, Jun 16 20212:05 PM EDT

Cory Stieg

The delta variant of the coronavirus, which was first detected in India, is now classified as a “variant of concern,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Delta, previously known as B1617.2, currently accounts for 10% of new Covid cases in the United States.

Delta is more transmissible and more likely to cause severe illness in unvaccinated people.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, said delta will likely become the dominant strain in the U.S., and could “spike a new epidemic heading into fall,” during an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday.

The best way to prevent that is to get vaccinated.

In the U.K., where delta has already become the dominant strain, “transmission is peaking in the younger group of 12- to 20-year-olds — mainly that group that we’re concerned about here, about making sure they get vaccinated,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said during a White House press briefing June 8. (In May, the FDA authorized Covid vaccination for children ages 12 and up.)

Here’s what you need to know about the delta variant:

What is a ‘variant of concern’ and why does delta qualify
The CDC uses a classification scheme that defines three classes of SARS-CoV-2 variants. The first level is a variant of interest, then a variant of concern and finally a variant of high consequence.

A variant surpasses “interest” and becomes a variant of “concern” when there’s evidence of a couple things: an increase in transmissibility, more severe disease, a reduction in the neutralizing antibodies that you get from vaccination or having Covid, reduced effectiveness of treatments or vaccines or when there’s a decrease in effectiveness of diagnostic tests for it, according to the CDC.

(So far no variants have been classified as “high consequence” in the U.S.)

The re-classification of delta “is based on mounting evidence that the delta variant spreads more easily and causes more severe cases when compared to other variants, including B.1.1.7 (Alpha),” the CDC said in a statement to NBC News.

Indeed, data from Public Health England (PHE) indicates that delta is 60% more transmissible in households than alpha, which was originally documented in the U.K. And alpha is already more transmissible than the original version of the coronavirus. Early data suggests that there may be an increased risk of hospitalization with delta, according to PHE.

The WHO deemed delta a variant of concern in May. Other variants of concern include alpha; beta, previously known as the South Africa variant; and gamma, identified in Brazil. (The WHO assigns variants a Greek alphabet letter to make it easier to say than the scientific name and to avoid the stigma that may come if the variant is nicknamed after a particular region.)

What this means for you
The good news is that two doses of the currently available Covid vaccines in the U.S. appear to be effective against the delta strain.

A recent study out of the U.K. showed that the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine is 88% effective against the delta variant two weeks after the second dose.

However three weeks out after just one dose, the Pfizer vaccine and the AstraZeneca vaccines (the latter of which is approved in the U.K., but not in the U.S.) were only 33% effective against symptomatic disease from delta, which is why it’s so important to get both doses.

Other preliminary data showed that the antibodies produced by Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines were able to neutralize the delta variant. And the Johnson and Johnson single dose vaccine appears to be effective, Gottlieb said on “Face the Nation.”

However, experts warn that there could be outbreaks of the delta variant as soon as the summer in parts of the U.S. where vaccination rates are lower.

Dr. Bob Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, tweeted Monday that vaccinated people should keep an eye on the percentage of delta infections in their community.

“If you’re seeing more cases [and] more Delta, I’d restore some precautions (esp. if you’re high risk),” he said on Twitter, including wearing a mask indoors.

In the U.S., 52.6% of the population has received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine and 43.9% is fully vaccinated.

Pushing, pushing, pushing.

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Delta variant could become dominant strain in U.S. this summer, CDC head says
Latest: Starting Saturday, D.C. residents can get gift cards when they get vaccinated
By
Michael E. Miller
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Jennifer Hassan
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Lateshia Beachum
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Hannah Knowles

June 18, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. PDT

The unusually contagious delta coronavirus variant, first found in India, could become the dominant strain in the United States this summer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky said Friday.

“It is more transmissible than the alpha variant, or the U.K. variant that we have here,” Walensky said in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Friday. “We saw that quickly become the dominant strain in a period of one or two months, and I anticipate that is going to be what happens with the delta strain here.”
Repeating calls for people to get vaccinated, Walensky said she fears that a new strain could prove resistant to vaccines but emphasized that full vaccination protects against the delta variant.
“As worrisome as this delta strain is with regard to its hyper-transmissibility, our vaccines work,” she said.


Here are some significant developments:

• The European Union formally recommended Friday that its member nations gradually open borders to nonessential U.S. travelers, while giving them leeway to set their own restrictions.
• Canada announced Friday that it will extend its restrictions on nonessential travel at the U.S.-Canada border until July 21, even as vaccination rates in the country have climbed and infections have waned.
• Italy announced Friday that it will impose a new five-day quarantine for British travelers, citing the delta variant as a concern.
• A “significant” outbreak of the coronavirus at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul has prompted a lockdown for its staff members.
• As of Friday, all adults in England are able to register for coronavirus vaccinations. Inoculation is key to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s already delayed plan to fully reopen the country.

Pinecone said:

Pushing, pushing, pushing.

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. . . while J6P's response is being measured and sifted/evaluated moment-by-moment via an 24/7 AI-driven data-mining system - which feeds back, in real-time to the operators/handlers, what their next communist move should be, and to what degree - wash, rinse, repeat - ad infinitum - as the AI sharpens and improves its "understanding" of human psychology under specifically induced duress.

J6P is being analyzed/studied, like lab rats. We are "playing" against a machine of high capability (IMHO).

Do we (collectively) realize this, yet?


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intothatgoodnight said:

. . . while J6P's response is being measured and sifted/evaluated moment-by-moment via an 24/7 AI-driven data-mining system - which feeds back, in real-time to the operators/handlers, what their next communist move should be, and to what degree - wash, rinse, repeat - ad infinitum - as the AI sharpens and improves its "understanding" of human psychology under specifically induced duress.

J6P is being analyzed/studied, like lab rats. We are "playing" against a machine of high capability (IMHO).

Do we (collectively) realize this, yet?


intothegoodnight

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I wonder when it'll be a crime to not have the vaccine? Sorta like we're going to arrest you now because you might commit a crime (spread the virus).

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NEW - Positive PCR test results do not sufficiently prove that people infected with #SARSCoV2 can infect others with the coronavirus, new research that included 190k results from 160k people at the UDE Faculty of Medicine in Germany concludes.

Hospitals See Surge In Double-Lung Transplants As COVID "Honeycombs" Organs

FRIDAY, JUN 18, 2021 - 05:45 AM
As scientists start to assess the impact that COVID-19 has had on patients and the American medical system more broadly, Bloomberg reports that hospitals across the US have seen a surge in patients receiving single- and double-lung transplants.


Transplants are necessary for only the most serious COVID-19 cases. In these patients - pretty much always patients with comorbidities - COVID-19 ravages the lung tissue, leaving nodules in the lungs incapable of absorbing oxygen from the air and transmitting it to the blood stream. For many patients, the grueling procedure may be the only solution after experiencing the worst lung damage caused by the virus - when the body fails to properly respond to, and heal from, the hyper-inflammatory response provoked by COVID-19.

John Micklus’s battle with Covid-19 began last Christmas and ended five weeks later with lungs so irreversibly damaged that doctors said there was nothing they could do to save him.

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"The doctor’s recommendation was to get my affairs in order," Micklus said. The 62-year-old called his wife from his hospital bed in southern Maryland. She, in turn, desperately called several physicians, and eventually learned of one last option: A double-lung transplant.

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Micklus was transferred to the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, where a rigorous assessment qualified him to receive lungs from a matched donor days later. He was discharged from the hospital on March 30, marking the center’s second successful lung transplant in a Covid survivor.

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Micklus and other double-lung transplant survivors suffered from a phenomenon that scientists call the "honeycomb change."

All of that can cause the deposition of yellow fibrotic scar tissue, creating a “honeycomb change” that makes the lungs completely solid, said David Kleiner, who heads autopsy pathology in the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

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The process irreversibly destroys the tiny grape-like air sacs through which gas is exchanged in the lungs, Kleiner said in a lecture on Covid autopsies in July. “Patients really only survive to that fibrotic stage if they are intubated,” he said, adding that the harmful scarring can occur within a couple of weeks of lung injury.

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A study published in the Lancet, the premier UK medical journal, aggregated what the scientific community has learned about the phenomenon. The report determined that "lung transplantation is the only option for survival in some patients with severe, unresolving COVID-19-associated ARDS."

Between May 1 and Sept 30, 2020, 12 patients with COVID-19-associated ARDS underwent bilateral lung transplantation at six high-volume transplant centres in the USA (eight recipients at three centres), Italy (two recipients at one centre), Austria (one recipient), and India (one recipient). The median age of recipients was 48 years (IQR 41–51); three of the 12 patients were female. Chest imaging before transplantation showed severe lung damage that did not improve despite prolonged mechanical ventilation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The lung transplant procedure was technically challenging, with severe pleural adhesions, hilar lymphadenopathy, and increased intraoperative transfusion requirements. Pathology of the explanted lungs showed extensive, ongoing acute lung injury with features of lung fibrosis. There was no recurrence of SARS-CoV-2 in the allografts. All patients with COVID-19 could be weaned off extracorporeal support and showed short-term survival similar to that of transplant recipients without COVID-19.

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Without the procedure, patients can't survive without a ventilator or a machine that oxygenates the blood via an artificial lung - an expensive proposition. The procedure is intense: Bloomberg described three patients, ages 28, 43 and 62, whose surgeries each took about 9.5 hours and two weeks of post-op recovery care.

Lung transplantation - especially a double-lung transplant - is still an expensive and risky proposition, and not everyone will succeed in finding a donor. But breakthroughs are making the procedure more manageable for surgeons.
Still, lung transplantation will likely remain a last resort, as even a lengthy rehab stint would be preferable to taking the risks of a transplant.

Doctors in Japan reported in April the world’s first “living donor” transplant in a Covid patient who received lung segments from her son and husband. The procedure at Kyoto University Hospital took a team of 30 medical personnel about 11 hours to perform.

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“We demonstrated that we now have an option of lung transplants” from living donors, Hiroshi Date, a thoracic surgeon at the hospital who led the operation, told reporters.

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Reed, who is also a professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Maryland, said transplant surgery shouldn’t be seen as a way to speed up post-Covid recovery. Lung recipients need to take more than a dozen medications for the rest of their lives to prevent organ rejection and infections, and many of the drugs come with toxic side effects.

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“You would probably rather have a long run of slow rehab and have your own lungs in there than to get a transplant,” Reed said in an interview over Zoom. “But for people that are likely going to die in two years and for people who are essentially crippled by their lungs, it can be just amazing.”

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Fortunately, COVID-19 vaccines supposedly offer "100% protection" against "severe" COVID-19 symptoms. Though patients with comorbiditis may still be at risk as variants like the "delta" strain continue to spread.

Out of Control Coronavirus in China Cancels Hundreds of Flights
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GABRIELLE REYES18 Jun 2021125

A major international airport in southern China near Hong Kong canceled more than 400 flights on Friday after a staff member at a restaurant inside the airport tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, China’s state-run Global Times reported.

Canceled arriving and departing flights at Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport in Guangdong province on June 18 “accounted for around 40 percent of the total number of flights at the airport,” the Global Times reported, citing data from the Chinese flight information platformVariFlight. The canceled flights included “cancellations on Friday and cancellations in advance.”

“According to a notice issued by the Shenzhen airport epidemic prevention and control office obtained by the Global Times, a staff [member] at a restaurant in the airport tested positive for the virus, despite the person being vaccinated twice in January and February,” the newspaper reported. “The staff [member] previously tested negative on June 1, 7, 9 and 15.”

“The airport has asked 56 staff [members] working at the same restaurant to go into quarantine, the notice said, warning of the possibility it would cancel more flights. The airport has closed all stores and started the third round of mass nucleic acid testing,” according to the Global Times.

Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport is located just 60 miles southeast of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province. Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, one of the busiest international airports in China and the world, has been forced to cancel several hundred flights per day since May 30 because of a local outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus.

“As of 1:30 pm Sunday [June 6], the airport had canceled 892 flights,” the Global Times reported.

Guangzhou’s latest coronavirus epidemic started on May 21, quickly spreading at an “alarming” rate to the nearby cities of Foshan and Maoming, the South China Morning Post reported at the time. Guangzhou health authorities ordered Guangzhou’s Liwan district into lockdown on May 29 after allegedly tracing the city’s outbreak to a woman who had recently dined at a local dim sum restaurant. The stringent lockdown orders came after Guangdong health officials said they had detected just 20 cases of the Chinese coronavirus in Guangzhou and its surrounding area, which is home to nearly 14 million people.

Municipal government officials announced on May 30 that all people attempting to travel out of Guangzhou must show proof of having tested negative for the Chinese coronavirus within the past 72 hours before they would be allowed to leave the metropolis. Guangzhou updated this travel restriction on June 7, requiring travelers to present a negative coronavirus test result taken within 48 hours of leaving the city. The testing requirement was also expanded to all of Guangdong province as local coronavirus infections continued to surge.

“We call on our residents not to travel out of the province unless necessary.

Those who need to travel out of the province must have a negative test done 48 hours before their departure,” Chen Bin, a spokeswoman for the Guangzhou Health Commission, told reporters at a June 6 press briefing.

Joe Biden Warns of ‘Potentially Deadlier’ Delta Variant of Coronavirus
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JOSHUA CAPLAN18 Jun 2021366

President Joe Biden on Friday issued a warning regarding the “potentially deadlier” delta coronavirus variant as part of a plea to Americans to receive the coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible.

“Even while we’re making incredible progress it remains a serious and deadly threat,” Biden said in a White House speech on the virus.

“It’s a variant that is more easily transmissible, potentially deadlier and particularly dangerous for young people, but the good news is we have the solution,” the president continued, before adding that vaccines are the most effective protection against the illness.

“We’re heading into, God willing, the summer of joy, the summer of freedom,” he added. “On July 4, we are going to celebrate our independence from the virus as we celebrate our independence of our nation. We want everyone to be able to do that.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 305 million vaccine doses had been administered as of June 10. About 141.6 million people, or 42.6% of the U.S. population, have been fully vaccinated.

The pace of new vaccinations in the U.S. has dropped significantly from a high of nearly 2 million per day about two months ago, jeopardizing Biden’s ability to hit the 70% mark.

The White House said its whole-of-government approach to the vaccination effort has put the virus in retreat, which in turn has brought Chinese coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths to their lowest levels in more than a year.

[COMMENT: I thought that mutations in nature were supposed to be less deadly, not more. Mutations are a survival strategy for the virus and killing the host does not accomplish that. I wonder if this was a second CCP release.]

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It is unacceptable that the Wuhan virus lab that may have caused the pandemic remains eligible to receive US funds. I’m proudly cosponsoring the Defund Wuhan Institute of Virology Act to ensure US taxpayer dollars never again fund this dangerous lab.
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