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Heliobas Disciple · Jun 23, 2021

COVID-19 Virus Produces microRNA That Can Have Impacts on Infected Cells

New research published in the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine indicates that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, produces microRNAs that can have impacts on infected cells. MicroRNAs are genetic molecules that prevent the production of particular proteins by binding to and destroy

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COVID-19 Virus Produces microRNA That Can Have Impacts on Infected Cells
By Wiley
June 22, 2021

New research published in the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine indicates that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, produces microRNAs that can have impacts on infected cells. MicroRNAs are genetic molecules that prevent the production of particular proteins by binding to and destroying messenger RNAs that code for those proteins.

Investigators found that the virus’ microRNAs affect individuals’ respiratory system, immune response, and vitamin D pathways. Understanding these impacts could provide new insights related to SARS-CoV-2 infection, pathogenesis, and treatment.

“Our finding highlighted genes’ involvement in three crucial molecular pathways and may help develop new therapeutic targets related to SARS-CoV-2,” the authors wrote.

Reference: “Interplay between SARS-CoV-2-derived miRNAs, immune system, vitamin D pathway and respiratory system” by Elham Karimi, Hanieh Azari, Maryam Yari, Ahmad Tahmasebi, Mehdi Hassani Azad and Pegah Mousavi, 22 June 2021, Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine.
DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.16694

Jubilee on Earth · Jun 23, 2021

Dr. Chris Martinson posted an excellent video yesterday interviewing Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche about the dangers of this slow roll out of vaccination. It goes into how the vaccine doesn’t immediately provide full immunity the way natural immunity would, and hence the reason we’re seeing the Delta variant emerge so quickly. He states that other variants will continue to produce, which would likely require repeat booster vaccinations. In theory, this entire vaccination roll out just prolonged the endless cycle of COVID-19 instead of allowing natural herd immunity take hold and eradicate the virus for good. In a sense, this vax messed it all up and is likely going to result in worldwide disaster. It was really eye opening.

Run time 29:13

nebb · Jun 23, 2021

marsh said:
Kamala Harris Tells Activists to Knock on Doors and Harass People Who Haven't Been Vaccinated in Desperate Push to Meet 4th of July Goal (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

Kamala Harris told left-wing activists to knock on doors to pressure people to get vaccinated as Biden’s July 4th vaccine goal is likely to fall short.

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Kamala Harris Tells Activists to Knock on Doors and Harass People Who Haven’t Been Vaccinated in Desperate Push to Meet 4th of July Goal (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published June 22, 2021 at 12:02pm

Kamala Harris told left-wing activists to knock on doors to pressure people to get vaccinated as Biden’s July 4th vaccine goal is likely to fall short.

The Biden Admin set a goal to fully vaccinate 70% of Americans by July 4th.

Americans are refusing to get the Covid vaccine for many different reasons, but the Biden Admin is pushing for 70% vaccination so they can wield power over the unvaccinated.

This has nothing to do with saving lives.

It’s all about power.

Kamala Harris told so-called ‘volunteers’ in Atlanta to knock on doors and harass people who may be hesitating to get the vaccine for one reason or another.

Harris even gave the activists several pointers on how to overcome objections.

“For example, if you knock on the door and someone says they ‘don’t have the time to get the vaccine’ — because people are busy. They’re just trying to just make it through the day. Or they say that pharmacies are never open when they do have time, well, let’s address that. Because now, you can let them know that pharmacies across our country are keeping their doors open for 24 hours on Fridays in June, including today. Because we need to meet people where they are! Some folks are working two jobs…” Harris said.

“And what if they say they can’t miss work? Well, you can tell them that there are employers across the country who are offering paid time off for their employees to get vaccinated and we want to encourage and challenge more employers to do the same,’ she said.

Have young children? Kamala’s got you covered.

“Other folks who need time to recover after they get the shot, right? And may need a little moment where they need some help with their kids. So we have partnered with the YMCA, with KinderCare, and the Learning Care Group to provide free childcare for both vaccination and recovery. We need to meet people where they are.”

“You might run across people as you’re out talking and knocking, folks might say, ‘I don’t have a car’ or ‘there’s no public transportation or bus that comes by my house.’ And that’s fair, because how can we expect them to get to a vaccination site? Well, now, as part of the solution, rideshare companies are giving free rides to and from vaccination centers,” Kamala said.

VIDEO:

View: https://youtu.be/KVXL2IBihhI
18:12 min

marsh · Jun 23, 2021

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The COVID Lockdowns Showed Us How Dangerous Social Engineers Have Become

WEDNESDAY, JUN 23, 2021 - 04:40 PM
Authored by Birsen Filip via The Mises Institute,

Since the onset of the covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world, along with a handful of unelected medical experts, have been behaving as though they are the social engineers of totalitarian regimes (e.g., fascism, Nazism, and communism).

To be more precise, this select group of political leaders and medical experts have upended economies, as well as the lives of billions of ordinary people, by implementing extremely coercive and restrictive lockdowns and physical distancing measures for the stated purpose of bringing the pandemic under control and preventing future outbreaks.

Specific measures have included curfews; police patrols on the streets; the compulsory closure of businesses deemed nonessential, as well as workplaces, schools, and institutions of higher education; the banning of social gatherings; the cancelation of sporting and cultural events; the suspension of religious services; and restrictions on personal movement and interactions at the local, national, and international levels. In many parts of the world, people have been subjected to mandatory stay-at-home orders, requiring them to spend most of the day confined and isolated in their homes.

Lockdown measures have also been used to prohibit people from engaging in public protests and freely expressing their opinions, as failure to comply with limits on social gatherings has led to people being arrested, detained, and fined. It has also not been uncommon to see excessive police force being used to enforce lockdowns and curfews, and to disperse protests against unreasonable restrictions. Some governments have also set up detention centers for international travelers entering into their countries, where they are forced to quarantine at their own expense while they wait for the results of their covid-19 tests. Shockingly, in early June 2021, the provincial government in Ontario, Canada, went so far as to announce that residents in long-term care homes would soon be permitted to engage in “close physical contact, including handholding” and “brief hugs” with visitors when both parties are fully immunized.

Unfortunately, instead of criticizing this state of affairs, the mainstream media and major social media platforms are fully on board. They have turned out to be willing collaborators of the governments in these matters by glorifying their oppressive and punitive measures, censuring critical viewpoints, and fostering a culture of surveillance, all while spreading fear. They have also been ceaselessly promoting the injection of experimental vaccines as the only solution that will bring totalitarian lockdown measures to an end.

If Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek had witnessed the type of central planning that has taken place since the beginning of the pandemic, they would have called it “holistic social engineering.” They were convinced that supporters of the concept of a social engineer sought to extend “the power of the State” in controlling and reshaping society as a whole in accordance with their own ideals, goals, and wills. According to Popper, social engineers believe that they can diagnose the goals and needs of society, and then implement a strategy to achieve them through large-scale planning. However, such an undertaking would require social engineers to centrally coordinate the activities of millions of people by replacing the wills and ends of those individuals with their own. Meanwhile, Hayek stated that the best way to make everybody serve the ends of the social engineers is

to make everybody believe in those ends. To make a totalitarian system function efficiently it is not enough that everybody should be forced to work for the same ends. It is essential that the people should come to regard them as their own ends. Although the beliefs must be chosen for the people and imposed upon them, they must become their beliefs, a generally accepted creed which makes the individuals as far as possible act spontaneously in the way the planner wants. If the feeling of oppression in totalitarian countries is in general much less acute than most people in liberal countries imagine, this is because the totalitarian governments succeed to a high degree in making people think as they want them to.

Social engineers of the pandemic have been largely successful in convincing the masses that the oppressive lockdown measures that they are being forced to endure are ultimately in the best interests of society as a whole. In many instances, they have managed to make many people believe that the goals of the lockdowns are in fact their own goals. At the same time, social engineers have been discouraging “criticism,” as they do not “easily hear of complaints concerning the measures” that they have instituted. Accordingly, the critical views put forth by some journalists, activists, dissenters, legal experts, medical professionals, and anybody else who cares about freedom, human rights violations, and the common good have been systematically silenced. Popper explained that the social engineer:

will have to be deaf to many complaints; in fact, it will be part of his business to suppress unreasonable objections. (He will say, like Lenin, “You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.”) But with it, he must invariably suppress reasonable criticism also.

After nearly a year and a half of antiliberal, undemocratic, unethical, antiscientific, ahistorical, and oppressive governmental measures, while denying billions of people their basic human rights, freedom, and sovereignty, social and economic life has essentially been completely crippled in many countries and regions. Nonetheless, social engineers of the pandemic period have treated critics and complaints as “a blemish,” proof of irrationality, and violations of the common good.

Hayek and Popper incessantly warned about the form of central planning that we are currently being subjected to, which has been used by numerous dictators and tyrants such as Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot. They specifically argued that it would not only lead societies down “the road to serfdom,” but also cause irreversible, large-scale social and economic damage. In fact, since the lockdowns began, general freedom (e.g., freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, and intellectual freedom), negative freedom (i.e., freedom from coercion), positive freedom (i.e., freedom of self-development), subjective freedom (i.e., freedom to act based on one’s own will and views), objective freedom (i.e., freedom of “being with other”), and economic freedom (e.g., freedom to earn one’s living, to produce, to buy, to sell, etc.) have been all violated to some extent. Furthermore, hundreds of millions of people have lost their jobs or endured income reductions, many small and medium-sized companies have gone bankrupt, unemployment rates have increased across major economies, and most countries have gone into recession.

Moreover, the lockdowns have also had a number of unintended social and health consequences, including increases in domestic violence to unprecedented levels, in the form of both physical and emotional abuse; a significant rise in substance abuse and related deaths (i.e., overdoses); worsening mental health problems leading to depression and suicides; isolation and antisocial lifestyles and behavior, particularly in children; physical inactivity and weight gain; and, the cancellation or delay of medical procedures, surgeries, and consultations. The unexpected destructive consequences of the totalitarian lockdown measures will undoubtedly be felt for decades to come.

Hayek and Popper would not have been surprised that the lockdown measures generated so many adverse impacts on people, the economy, and society. In fact, they warned that social engineering could never successfully achieve its predetermined goals and ends in the real world for two main reasons: the limited and dispersed nature of human knowledge and the spontaneous forces of society. Based on the concept of dispersed knowledge, “we know little of the particular facts to which the whole of social activity continuously adjusts itself in order to provide what we have learned to expect. We know even less of the forces which bring about this adjustment by appropriately coordinating individual activity.”

Hayek and Popper would have argued that social engineers of the pandemic could not realistically possess the type and the abundance of knowledge needed to plan such large-scale oppressive lockdowns. According to them, by ignoring the dispersed nature of human knowledge, social engineers falsely believed that they could possess all of the knowledge required to redesign an entire society while also having complete control over all efforts directed toward the achievement of teleologically evaluated goals. In fact, Hayek and Popper concluded that it was impossible to exercise complete control over society via social engineering because the limitations of human knowledge meant that nobody could foresee all of the possible consequences of human actions, which is necessary if common goals are to be achieved. These sentiments apply to contemporary social engineers of the pandemic, and could explain why they were unable to accurately predict the consequences of many of the oppressive policies and measures that were intended to mitigate the spread and impacts of covid-19.

Popper and Hayek argued that even if it were hypothetically possible for a social engineer to possess all the knowledge needed to centrally plan and organize an entire society, they would still be unable to attain their teleologically evaluated goals in the manner they envisioned on account of the spontaneous forces of society, which represent the second main obstacle to the success of large-scale central planning. The spontaneous forces of society would make it impossible to effectively collect detailed information about the constantly changing activities, private interests, particular circumstances, complex relationships, and preferences of millions of people. The unexpected and unplanned outcomes associated with the spontaneous forces of society mean that the original plans of any social engineer will end in failure, because “the real outcome will always be very different from the rational construction” of the social engineer. In order to realize their predetermined goals, social engineers would be forced to continuously modify and change their plans, while using their exclusive power to coerce individuals for the purpose of imposing increasingly restrictive measures. That is to say, they would need to constantly interfere in the choices that individuals make without having to obtain any input from them.

Hayek warned that the coercive measures employed by social engineers could “destroy those spontaneous forces which have made advance” and progress possible across history, and inevitably result in “a stagnation of thought and a decline of reason.” He wanted people to understand that while “it may not be difficult to destroy the spontaneous formations which are the indispensable bases of a free civilization, it may be beyond our power deliberately to reconstruct such a civilization once these foundations are destroyed.” This is why Popper called social engineering the “greatest and most urgent evil of society.” According to him, “even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it hell—that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.”

marsh · Jun 23, 2021

CDC Admits — Vaccine has ‘likely caused’ heart inflammation in teens…

Vaccine has ‘likely association’ with heart inflammation in teens The latest data show over 1,200 16-24-year-olds have developed rare heart conditions after receiving Pfizer or M…

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CDC Admits — Vaccine has ‘likely caused’ heart inflammation in teens…
Posted by Kane on June 23, 2021 4:42 pm

Vaccine has ‘likely association’ with heart inflammation in teens

The latest data show over 1,200 16-24-year-olds have developed rare heart conditions after receiving Pfizer or Moderna jabs. A CDC safety group has admitted the link is “distinct.” As of 11 June, 267 cases have been detected after one vaccine, 867 after two, and another 132 with an unconfirmed number of doses administered, while nine remain hospitalized and two in ICUs.

Full story at CNBC…

marsh · Jun 23, 2021

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New Delta Virus Variant Escalates Lockdowns

by Dr. Joseph Mercola
June 23, 2021

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

The emergence of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant from India, called “Delta,” may result in a new round of lockdowns around the world, including the U.K. and Chile
Chile has one of the highest COVID-jab rates in the world; 58% of the population have received two doses and 75% have received their first dose. Santiago locked down as of June 10, 2021, after the capital reported the highest COVID-19 case numbers since the beginning of the pandemic
Research by Public Health England (PHE) suggests two doses of Pfizer’s mRNA COVID shot is 88% effective against the Delta variant, while AstraZeneca’s DNA injection appears to be 60% effective. After a single dose, either of the shots was only 33% protective against symptomatic illness
PHE claims the Delta variant is 64% more likely to transmit within households than the Kent (Alpha) variant that had previously dominated, and that it’s 40% more transmissible outdoors and more likely to affect younger people
Variants are unlikely to pose significantly differing risk to people with natural immunity compared to the original, as resistance is primarily based on your T cells, which have been shown to recognize and attack variants that are up to 80% dissimilar. SARS-CoV-2 variants are at most 0.3% dissimilar from the original, which means T cell immunity will easily recognize and protect against them

According to the regional director of the European office of the World Health Organization, Hans Henri Kluge, a new coronavirus variant called “Delta” (its scientific name being B.1.617.2 and originating in India) is “poised to take hold” in Europe, which may necessitate renewed lockdowns.1

In a June 10, 2021, article, The Hill reported that the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant “can spread quickly and infect those who have received one of two vaccine doses at higher rates than the fully vaccinated.”2

According to Kluge, Europe is facing the same situation as they did back in the winter of 2020, when cases rapidly rose, resulting in “a devastating resurgence, lockdowns and loss of life.” “Let’s not make that mistake again,” Kluge said during the press conference.

Indian Variant Refuels Fear
The Delta variant is now the dominant strain in the U.K., where a surge in cases, supposedly, has occurred predominantly among younger people between the ages of 12 and 20.3

Research by Public Health England (PHE) suggests two doses of Pfizer’s mRNA COVID shot is 88% effective against the Delta variant, while AstraZeneca’s DNA injection is “supposedly” 60% effective. After a single dose, either of the shots was only 33% protective against symptomatic illness.4,5

However, while single-dose recipients are said to be at greater risk than those having received two doses, more fully “vaccinated” people have actually died from this variant. According to the PHE, of the 42 Britons who had died with the Delta variant as of mid-June 2021, 12 had received two doses of gene therapy, compared to just seven single-dose recipients.6

More importantly, a June 11, 2021, PHE report7 shows that as a hospital patient, you are six times more likely to die of the COVID Delta variant if you are fully vaccinated, than if you are not vaccinated at all.

The information shows up in Table 6 of the 77-page document, which are labeled as the attendance to emergency care and deaths by vaccination status and confirmed Delta cases from February 1, 2021, to June 7, 2021.

Of 33,206 Delta variant cases admitted to the hospital, 19,573 were not vaccinated. Of those, 23 (or 0.1175%) died. But, of the 13,633 patients who were vaccinated with either one or two doses, 19 (or 0.1393%) died, which is an 18.6% higher death rate than for the unvaccinated patients. Seven of the 5,393 patients who were partially vaccine with one dose died, or 0.1297%.

Of the 1,785 patients who had both vaccine doses 14 days or more before admission, 12 (or 0.6722%) died. This death rate is 5.72 times higher than that for unvaccinated patients. Put another way, if all 33,206 patients had been fully vaccinated, there would have been 223 deaths.

The PHE also claims the Delta variant is 64% more likely to transmit within households than the Kent (Alpha) variant that had previously dominated, and that it’s 40% more transmissible outdoors.8

Knowing what we now know about how science and statistics are being manipulated to give the appearance of a serious problem where there is none, I take these statements and data with a grain of salt. World leaders, however, are using the data to impose yet more restrictions. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now considering keeping lockdown rules in place until spring of 2022.9

Similarly, Chile, which has one of the highest COVID-jab rates in the world, with 58% of the population having received two doses and 75% having received their first dose, authorities announced a blanket lockdown across the capital of Santiago, June 10, 2021. The lockdown came in response to the highest COVID-19 case numbers since the beginning of the pandemic.10

Why Was a Disgraced Disease Modeler Relied on Yet Again?
In the U.S., Delta accounts for about 10% of cases and is doubling every two weeks, according to the former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who spoke about the variant on a “Face the Nation” broadcast June 13, 2021.11,12

According to Gottlieb, Delta is likely to “spike a new epidemic heading into the fall.”13 Showing just how crazy a repeat this is, Gottlieb is again citing data from Neil Ferguson. Yahoo! News calls Ferguson a “prominent British epidemiologist” but in fact, the man is beyond untrustworthy and has been thoroughly — and publicly — disgraced.

His only prominence is that of a failed statistician whose models have been repeatedly proven faulty to a ridiculous degree. The fact that Gottlieb is again using Ferguson’s models ought to set off warning bells that this is fear propaganda to justify even further COVID jabs and nothing else.

It was Ferguson’s Imperial College model14 that predicted the death of 2 million Americans and 500,000 Britons unless draconian lockdown and social distancing measures were implemented. A major flaw in his model was that he didn’t account for the fact that the susceptible population is only ever a small portion of people, never 100%.15

Ferguson was also the source of the December 2020 prediction that the Alpha variant B117 — the so-called “Kent” strain that became the predominant strain before Delta — would be 50% to 70% more contagious than previous variants circulating in the U.K., and would infect children and teens to a greater extent than previous variants.16

Well, what happened? PHE data reveal the rolling average of infections (i.e., positive tests, which may be symptomatic or asymptomatic) sharply declined starting in January 2021, from a high of 68,053 cases in early January to a low of 1,649 cases in early May 2021.17

Daily hospitalizations also dropped, as did the number of daily deaths, which plunged from a high of 1,610 in January 2021 to a low of eight on June 13, 2021.18 Apparently, the much-feared and “far more infectious” B117 strain didn’t unleash a mass-death cascade after all.

In the U.S., CDC data show a total of 204 teens — aged 12 to 17 — were admitted to hospital for COVID assessment between January and March 2021. These are hardly catastrophic numbers. Fewer than one-third required intensive care and none died.

Long article - go to website to read the rest

Tristan · Jun 23, 2021

Don't know if this has been posted already, but perhaps it bears a repeat if so:

"Lessons from the Zimbabwe Ivermectin Experience"

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYCRV6RUKBQ

rt: 7:41

Seems to have saved a bunch of lives there. Huge delta in deaths by treating early vs. Hospital standard of care.

Heliobas Disciple · Jun 24, 2021

Heliobas Disciple said:
The WHO is not recommending that children get the COVID vaccine.

NOT ANYMORE. The WHO has updated their page:

COVID-19 Vaccines Advice

www.who.int

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COVID-19 advice for the public: Getting vaccinated

(SNIP)

WHO SHOULD GET VACCINATED

The COVID-19 vaccines are safe for most people 18 years and older, including those with pre-existing conditions of any kind, including auto-immune disorders. These conditions include: hypertension, diabetes, asthma, pulmonary, liver and kidney disease, as well as chronic infections that are stable and controlled.
If supplies are limited in your area, discuss your situation with your care provider if you:

Have a compromised immune system

Are pregnant (if you are already breastfeeding, you should continue after vaccination)

Have a history of severe allergies, particularly to a vaccine (or any of the ingredients in the vaccine)

Are severely frail

Children should not be vaccinated for the moment.

There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults. However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.

(SNIP)

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WHO Stealth Edits Page Warning Against Vaccinating Children
by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Jun 22, 2021 - 06:20 PM

Update (1920ET): Having been caught delivering some fact-base 'science' that does not jibe with the establishment's message that all kids should be jabbed immediately, The WHO has rapidly 'adjusted' its science-based recommendations for whether children should get vaccinated... or not...

Gone is the big headline - "Children should not be vaccinated for the moment."

The new guidance is as follows: (emphasis ours... in case you are confused by their guidance)

Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults, so unless they are part of a group at higher risk of severe COVID-19, it is less urgent to vaccinate them than older people, those with chronic health conditions and health workers.

More evidence is needed on the use of the different COVID-19 vaccines in children to be able to make general recommendations on vaccinating children against COVID-19.

WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) has concluded that the Pfizer/BionTech vaccine is suitable for use by people aged 12 years and above. Children aged between 12 and 15 who are at high risk may be offered this vaccine alongside other priority groups for vaccination.

Vaccine trials for children are ongoing and WHO will update its recommendations when the evidence or epidemiological situation warrants a change in policy.

So to clarify... children aren't really at risk of this virus so no hurry on the jab... more evidence is needed on its usefulness in kids... oh but the Pfizer vax is suitable?

So is there evidence or not? Is the vaccine worthwhile for kids? If you have to ask, you aren't following the science.

Here's the new page (source)

h/t @AlexBerenson

Color us not entirely surprised at this farce... but one thing we are sure of, this will simply be dismissed as a coincidence and WHO had planned on adjusting its guidance the whole time (it was just waiting to get caught in a disagreement with Fauci and friends).

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As The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity's Adam Dick noted yesterday, in America, national, state, and local governments are pulling out all the stops to advance giving experimental coronavirus shots to children down to the age of 12.

Up next, babies and children up to age 11.

The shots are “safe and effective,” the propagandists proclaim.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has a different approach. The WHO says do not vaccinate children, at least not yet.

At its website, the WHO offers this advice regarding giving experimental coronavirus vaccines, some of which are not even vaccines under the normal meaning of the term, to children:

Children should not be vaccinated for the moment.

There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults.However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.

Choose accordingly.

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marsh · Jun 24, 2021

Fauci resisted Trump directive to cancel virus research grant linked to Wuhan lab, new book says

Excerpts from the book, "Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History," are being released.

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Fauci resisted Trump directive to cancel virus research grant linked to Wuhan lab, new book says

Excerpts from the book, "Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History," are being released.

By Nicholas Sherman
Updated: June 24, 2021 - 3:40pm

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States' top infections disease expert, resisted a directive from President Trump to cancel a research grant for a non-profit that was linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to a new book detailing the Trump administration's handling of COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump issued a directive to Fauci and the National Institutes of Health in April 2020 to cut funding for a study examining how coronaviruses jump from infected bats to humans after it was reportedly linked to the lab in Wuhan, suspected of having leaked the virus.

The exchange between Fauci and the White House is detailed in an upcoming book by Washington Post reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta called "Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History," according to Fox News.

The study's sponsor, EcoHealth Alliance, was then told to end the remaining $369,819 balance of its 2020 grant.

According to the book, on April 2020, Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins received notice that Trump wanted to cancel the grant. Fauci and Collins resisted, telling the White House they "were not sure the NIH actually had the authority to terminate a peer-reviewed grant in the middle of a budget cycle."

"The HHS general counsel told them to do it anyway and made clear it was a direct order from the president, implying that their jobs were on the line if they didn’t comply. Fauci and Collins reluctantly agreed to cancel the grant," an excerpt of the book reads.

marsh · Jun 24, 2021

AUDIO: Fauci-Funded Researcher Describes Gain-of-Function 'Collaboration' With Wuhan Lab, Reveals NIH Was 'Very Supportive.' » The National Pulse+

Audio from a podcast unearthed by The National Pulse appears to reveal Dr. Ralph Baric – who conducted bat coronavirus manipulation alongside Chinese researchers – contradicting Anthony Fauci’s claim that such research was never funded by his National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease...

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AUDIO: Fauci-Funded Researcher Describes Gain-Of-Function ‘Collaboration’ With Wuhan Lab, Reveals NIH Was ‘Very Supportive.’

Audio from a podcast unearthed by The National Pulse appears to reveal Dr. Ralph Baric – who conducted bat coronavirus manipulation alongside Chinese researchers – contradicting Anthony Fauci’s claim that such research was never funded by his National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

The November 22nd, 2015 episode of the show This Week In Virology – “It’s not SARS 2.0” – features Baric as a guest to discuss a paper he recently co-authored: “A SARS-like Cluster of Circulating Bat Coronaviruses Shows Potential for Human Emergence.”

Two researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including “bat woman” Shi Zhengli, are co-authors of the paper which notes it was “supported by grants from the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease.”

The collaborative work between Shi and Baric was recently referenced by Senator Rand Paul when he pressed Dr. Fauci on whether or not his National Institutes of Health (NIH) agency had funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci asserted that the claims were “entirely and completely incorrect.”

The paper discussed on the podcast, however, reveals otherwise. It repeatedly prefaces its findings with acknowledgments that the relevant research was completed before an October 2014 ban on gain-of-function research:

“These studies were initiated before the US Government Deliberative Process Research Funding Pause on Selected Gain-of-Function Research Involving Influenza, MERS and SARS Viruses

(http://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/Documents/gain-of-function.pdf). This paper has been reviewed by the funding agency, the NIH. Continuation of these studies was requested, and this has been approved by the NIH”

“Experiments with the full-length and chimeric SHC014 recombinant viruses were initiated and performed before the gain-of-function research funding pause and have since been reviewed and approved for continued study by the NIH,” the paper reiterates before cautioning that “this approach must be considered in the context of the US government–mandated pause on gain-of-function studies.”

Weeks after the publication of the paper, Baric and co-author Vineet Menachery joined the show “This Week In Virology” to discuss their findings and, more broadly, the moratorium on gain-of-function research.

“You were interested in the coronaviruses in bats that were SARS-like,” the interviewer inquires with Baric, who responds “that’s correct.”

“Your strategy was to take a human SARS coronavirus strain and substitute its spike with that of SHC014, and you found that this could infect human cells and mice. Now that’s part of what generated a lot of controversy about this paper because you made a new virus, and Simon Wain-Hobson said this virus doesn’t exist in nature, and who knows what would happen if it got out,” the interviewer follows up.

“We did experiments with pseudotyping in collaboration with our collaborators at Wuhan University. We pseudotyped lentiviruses with the SHC014 spike and some other spikes from other bat coronaviruses and human coronaviruses. The other spikes could program entry into human cells, and the SHC104 spike could not,” Baric responds.

Co-author Menachery also mentions his and Baric’s collaborative work with Wuhan researchers on sequencing and spike proteins:

“Our collaborators at the Wuhan Institute have developed – they’ve isolated a number of sequences. […] Our collaborators at Wuhan shared with us their pseudotyping data, where they’d taken the spikes and using a lentivirus system had shown that their SARS wildtype spike with the WIV1 spike that the virus could enter using human ACE2.”

“Simon Wain-Hobson has said that if this virus got out, you couldn’t predict what would happen in people. How do you address that?” the interviewer also asks Baric.

“So, number one, it’s unlikely that the SHC014 spike, which as far as we can tell never circulated through human population, would be capable of programming as serious an infection the SARS epidemic strain was capable of doing,” Baric begins before insisting that “public health intervention strategies” and inherent features of SARS mitigate the potential risk.

Baric also notes “it’s quite possible that these experiments would never be allowed at all, and I think that would be tragic” while discussing the then-moratorium on gain-of-function research.

Co-author Menachery was also questioned if, in response to the gain-of function moratorium, the paper would fall under the category of “the kind of experiment you could not do today.”

“Mouse adaption of SARS would not be, I mean it falls under the pause. It’s an increase in pathogenicity in a mammalian model. Is it making it more pathogenic in humans? The answer is we don’t know,” he responds.

Despite this, Menachery also reveals that the NIH was “very supportive” of the study:

“They have been very supportive of this work. They’ve been very complimentary. In a lot of ways, it’s important to realize that while NIH is administrating, they’re at the frontlines of this. The policy came down from the State Department. The pause is not an NIH directive.”

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marsh · Jun 24, 2021

FDA to Add Heart Warning for Pfizer and Moderna mRNA Vaccines

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to “move rapidly" to add warning labels to Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

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FDA to Add Heart Warning for Pfizer and Moderna mRNA Vaccines

Empty vials of different vaccines by Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca against Covid-19 caused by the novel coronavirus are pictured at the vaccination center in Rosenheim, southern Germany, on April 20, 2021, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty …

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to “move rapidly” to add warning labels to Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, following the emergence of heart inflammation cases — myocarditis and pericarditis — after receiving the non-traditional mRNA jabs, the agency’s Dr. Doran Fink said Wednesday.

The move follows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting roughly 1,200 cases of heart inflammation conditions occurring primarily in young men after receiving the mRNA jabs. The advisory panel said there is a “likely association” between the condition and the mRNA vaccines, which teach cells to make a protein that triggers an immune response.

The warning “would likely include information stating these events have occurred in some vaccine recipients following dose 2 of mRNA vaccines,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The heart inflammation condition typically occurs “within several days to a week following vaccination,” and symptoms include shortness of breath, chest pain, and a pounding or fluttering heart.

Despite this, the CDC is continuing to urge everyone 12 and older to get vaccinated.

“The facts are clear: This is an extremely rare side effect, and only an exceedingly small number of people will experience it after vaccination,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Rachel Levine said in a joint statement.

“Importantly, for the young people who do, most cases are mild, and individuals recover often on their own or with minimal treatment,” the statement said, adding the conditions are “much more common if you get COVID-19, and the risks to the heart from COVID-19 infection can be more severe.”

“We strongly encourage everyone age 12 and older who are eligible to receive the vaccine under Emergency Use Authorization to get vaccinated,” the statement, signed by medical associations in addition to Walensky and Levine, continued:

Especially with the troubling Delta variant increasingly circulating, and more readily impacting younger people, the risks of being unvaccinated are far greater than any rare side effects from the vaccines. If you get COVID-19, you could get severely ill and be hospitalized or even die. Even if your infection is mild, you or your child could face long-term symptoms following COVID-19 infection such as neurological problems or diminished lung function.

Of the over 150 million people in the U.S. who are considered “fully vaccinated,” over 79 million opted for the two-dose Pfizer vaccine, and over 59 million received the Moderna jab. Nearly 12 million have received the more traditional J&J vaccine.

marsh · Jun 24, 2021

Pete Buttigieg: Feds Should 'Encourage' Private Sector Vaccine Passports

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said this week the federal government should "encourage" vaccine passports. | Politics

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Pete Buttigieg: Feds Should ‘Encourage’ Private Sector Vaccine Passports

Secretary of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg listens during a press briefing at the White House, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said this week the federal government should “encourage” the private sector to utilize vaccine passports.

“If a company, a business wants to take steps to keep their workers and their passengers safe, I would think that, from a government perspective, we want to do everything we can to encourage that,” Buttigieg told FOX 4 Monday.

“And that’s certainly our view at the federal level,” Fox News reported.

But a Department of Transportation spokesman told Fox News “the Biden administration does not support any form of government-mandated vaccine passport.”

Buttigieg has been consistent in his believe the private sector should be the enforcer.

During an April appearance on CNN, Buttigieg said a Biden administration would not mandate the use of vaccine passports, but would “support” private sector companies that make them a requirement to participate in daily life:

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“We don’t view this as the role of the government, to create or mandate any kind of vaccine passport — but these technologies are there,” Buttigieg said.

“Private sector is working on them,” the transportation secretary added. “We’re interested in following that, providing any kind of technical advice or support where needed.”

Buttigieg said the Biden administration would make recommendations to airlines to make decisions about “what they think is right to protect their passengers, to protect their workers, and to build up that confidence in the safety of American travel.”

Some states, notably Florida, are banning the public and private sectors from using vaccine passports as a condition to do business or obtain a service, but that is not stopping entities from attempting to require them, anyway.

A Florida State University department required music therapy students to be vaccinated for the coronavirus prior to enrolling in courses, which the school later said was an error.

In a statement to Breitbart News, College of Music Dean Todd Queen said the email was sent to students because a course “includes practical educational experiences inside a local hospital,” and Queen said the email was “erroneously stating the course required a COVID-19 vaccination.”

“This information was incorrect. Neither FSU nor the hospital requires COVID-19 vaccination for students. The students enrolled in the course have been notified of the error,” Queen said. “FSU and the music therapy program respect all students’ rights to privacy and regret the error.”

“We have to fight woke institutions every day to ensure the protection of our rights,” Florida state Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R) told Breitbart News. “FSU did the right thing when they got caught. The truth is, we shouldn’t have to catch them at all.”

marsh · Jun 24, 2021

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Delta Variant COVID – How Will It Impact America?

Jun 24, 2021

Doctor Mike Hansen

Delta Variant of COVID, or B.1.617.2, will soon be the dominant COVID strain in the United States. What does it mean for those who got the COVID vaccine?
What does it mean for those who did not get the COVID vaccine?

Are The Vaccines Effective? The UK is a world leader in genomic surveillance, and couple that with lots of COVID cases, they were able to do some great analytics in their studies. Thankfully, studies there show that the COVID vaccines, which in the UK are the Pfizer and Astrazeneca vaccines, remain effective against the delta variant. As long as people had both shots.

So far we don’t have data on the J&J and Moderna vaccines, but we should get the data soon. Presumably, the Moderna vaccine will have similar efficacy as Pfizer, since they are very similar mRNA vaccines, and they have similar efficacy against COVID in general. Hopefully, the J&J vaccine will have the same efficacy against the delta strain as it does other strains.

What about those who are unvaccinated? Their risk depends on many factors. You still have the usual risk factors for COVID. Older age. Male. Type A blood. High blood pressure. Obesity. Diabetes. Heart disease. But how does that risk change based on previous COVID strains compared to the delta variant? Based on the limited data so far, this risk is only going up. The delta variant in Scotland doubled the risk of hospitalization for those who contracted COVID.

Delta variant is 60% more transmissible than the alpha variant. Delta variant COVID cases are doubling every 11 days in the UK. In the US, its soaring in the Midwest and southeast. There is a company in California called Helix, and they are conducting nationwide genomic sampling. They found that the proportion of cases caused by Alpha fell from more than 70% in late April to around 42% as of mid-June, with the rise of Delta driving much of the shift.

So far data from Helix suggest that the Delta variant is spreading faster in US counties where less than 30% of residents have been fully vaccinated, compared to higher vaccinated counties. If you look at the country as a whole, the delta variant made up 10% of COVID cases, and as of the recording of this video, is already 21%. The numbers have been doubling about every 2 weeks, so it will likely become the dominant strain in a few weeks, especially now that we have lifted restrictions.

According to the CDC, as of June 23, two-thirds of the adult population in the US has received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, based on recent polls, 20% of American adults say they won't get vaccinated. The proportion is higher in certain groups - like younger age, those who live in rural areas, and White evangelical Christians.

What The Models Are Predicting

The most recent models based on the Delta variant being 60% more transmissible along with a predicted 75% of eligible Americans becoming vaccinated, means that we're probably looking at on average 2,000+ deaths per week during the fall and winter. Then you combine that with kids less than 12 who can't get the vaccine, at least not yet, who will be back in school at that time, and that’s a bad outlook. But based on the model, if 86% of eligible Americans are vaccinated – that might avert over 10,000 deaths by the time you hit December.

Risk of mRNA COVID Vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) When we talk about risks with the mRNA vaccines, with Pfizer and Moderna, we know that they can cause some side effects in the first 2 days. That’s the immune system at work for you. And there is a very small risk of allergic reactions, which are almost never serious. But what about myocarditis, meaning inflammation of the heart muscle? Or pericarditis, inflammation of the sac that covers the heart? Myocarditis and Pericarditis often go together. I dedicated a whole video to this topic, which will be posted June 25th.

marsh · Jun 24, 2021

Senate Democrats Block GOP Effort to End the Federal Mask Mandate

Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked Sen. Rick Scott's (R-FL) and Sen. Mike Lee's (R-UT) effort to end the federal mask mandate.

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Senate Democrats Block GOP Effort to End the Federal Mask Mandate

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to reporters during a brief press availability with new Democratic Senators at the U.S. Capitol on January 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Schumer and the Senate Democrats now have a narrow majority in the Senate as they begin …

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Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked Sen. Rick Scott’s (R-FL) and Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) effort to end the federal mask mandate requiring masks to be worn on public transportation, with Scott concluding Democrats only care about following “their political science.”

Last week, Scott introduced the Stop Mandating Additional Requirements for Travel (SMART) Act, which would bar the federal government from requiring Americans to wear masks on public transportation, but he could not garner unanimous consent to get the bill out of committee and onto the floor.

“The government has no right to tell them what to do,” Scott said of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the floor Wednesday, asking why the government agency continues to single out airlines and public transportation.

“Now, the science is clear that broad mask mandates aren’t necessary.

Unfortunately, the CDC has decided to buck the science when it comes to travel and it is still requiring face masks on public transportation,” he said.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) opposed the measure, citing the spread of the Delta variant and the number of unvaccinated people in the U.S.

“We cannot pretend this pandemic is over. This virus is still spreading, it is still mutating, it is still costing lives, and it is still leaving survivors with long-haul symptoms,” she said.

“And, the new delta variant is more contagious, likely to send people to the hospital, and already in our country,” Murray added.

“I’m actually shocked that my colleague from the state of Washington doesn’t want to follow the science,” Scott said. “Americans would do the right thing. It is not our job to dictate and tell them how to live their lives.”

“While we choose to listen to the science, all the Democrats care about is following their political science,” Scott added in a press release.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) followed the Biden administration’s lead and released an order “requiring the wearing of masks by people on public transportation conveyances or on the premises of transportation hubs to prevent spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus],” which went into effect February 1. The original order was set to expire May 11, but the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) extended it until September 13.

marsh · Jun 24, 2021

CDC: 'Yes' Vaccinate Your Children Despite Heart Concerns

The CDC continued to recommend parents to vaccinate their children 12 and older, despite reports of cases of heart inflammation.

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CDC: ‘Yes’ Vaccinate Your Children Despite Concerns of Heart Inflammation

Luke Allan, 13, closes his eyes as he gets a Covid-19 vaccination at the Fairfax Government Center vaccination clinic in Fairfax, Virginia on May 13, 2021. - The campaign to immunize America's 17 million adolescents aged 12-to-15 kicked off in full force on May 13, a key part of President …

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to recommend parents vaccinate their children 12 and older, despite reports of a “likely association” between Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines and cases of heart inflammation, specifically among young men.

The CDC has reported roughly 1,200 cases of heart inflammation, according to the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which held a meeting Wednesday to discuss the rare cases of myocarditis or pericarditis developing in young people after receiving the mRNA vaccines. Most of the cases are among male adolescents and young adults and are primarily occurring after the second dose of the vaccine series. Symptoms include chest pain, shortness of breath, or feelings of a fluttering or pounding heart.

According to a June 23 report from the CDC, since April 2021 there have been over one thousand reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) of cases of myocarditis and pericarditis after receiving the mRNA vaccinations. The agency said it is “actively monitoring these reports, by reviewing data and medical records, to learn more about what happened and to understand any relationship to COVID-19 vaccination.”

Despite that, however, the CDC is continuing to recommend everyone 12 and older to receive a vaccine.

“Should I Still Get Myself or My Child Vaccinated?” the agency poses in a Q&A.
“Yes. CDC continues to recommend COVID-19 vaccination for everyone 12 years of age and older, given the risk of COVID-19 illness and related, possibly severe complications, such as long-term health problems, hospitalization, and even death,” the agency said, contending the “potential benefits” of the vaccine “outweigh the known and potential risks, including the possible risk of myocarditis or pericarditis.”

“Also, most patients with myocarditis and pericarditis who received care responded well to treatment and rest and quickly felt better,” it added.

Over 79 million people in the U.S. who are considered “fully vaccinated” have received the two-dose Pfizer vaccine, and over 59 million “fully vaccinated” individuals opted for the two-dose Moderna. Nearly 12 million have received the more traditional J&J jab, per the CDC’s June 23 data.

marsh · Jun 24, 2021

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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England Set To Drop Face Mask Rules After Huge Economic Impact Revealed

THURSDAY, JUN 24, 2021 - 02:00 AM
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

England is set to drop all face mask rules on July 19th after it was revealed that keeping such restrictions in place is costing the economy billions and will force many businesses to close.

“The requirement to wear facemasks on public transport and in shops will be replaced with guidance advising people to wear masks in certain circumstances, rather than compelling them,” reports the Times.

The decision follows the findings of an internal economic impact assessment produced by the government’s Events Research Programme which detailed the massive impact social distancing measures are having on businesses.

Politico Playbook reveals that, “keeping any measures would cost the economy billions and see many businesses close.”

Specifically, indoor seated venues such as the arts, cinemas and business events would achieve just 59 per cent of their 2019 turnover if restrictions remain, costing them a whopping £4.88 billion over the next year.

Even if the only remaining restriction kept in place is face masks, “The entire events industry would reach just 82 percent of its 2019 turnover.

Indoor seated venues would get just 72 percent. Indoor non-seated just 65 percent. Outdoor non-seated venues would manage just 82 percent of their 2019 figure.”

The events industry as a whole is bringing in only 60 per cent of normal revenue under the current restrictions, which will likely continue until July 19th.

However, with some government advisers (namely a former Communist) pushing for restrictions to continue literally forever, don’t be surprised to see some of them reintroduced in the winter.

But with vaccine passports for pubs still being considered, any return of restrictions will likely only impact those who haven’t taken a vaccine.

This will then create a two tier society where those who for whatever reason haven’t had the jab will face discrimination and de facto lockdown for years to come.

Heliobas Disciple · Jun 25, 2021

China Coronavirus (COVID-19) Records Were Deleted from a US Database Per the Request of Chinese Scientists | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

Americans deleted data in a database of early coronavirus cases per the request from Chinese scientists. The Financial Times reported yesterday: Records of early Covid-19 cases in Wuhan were deleted from a US database at the request of Chinese scientists, American officials have confirmed.

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China Coronavirus (COVID-19) Records Were Deleted from a US Database Per the Request of Chinese Scientists
By Joe Hoft
Published June 24, 2021 at 5:33pm

Americans deleted data in a database of early coronavirus cases per the request from Chinese scientists.

The Financial Times reported yesterday:

Records of early Covid-19 cases in Wuhan were deleted from a US database at the request of Chinese scientists, American officials have confirmed.

A team of academics from Wuhan, where the first documented cases of Covid-19 appeared, submitted sequences of the virus that causes the disease to a US-based archive in March 2020.

Three months later, however, they asked for those sequences to be removed and the data were deleted, the US National Institutes of Health said on Wednesday, confirming the results of an investigation by biologist Jesse Bloom.

CNN reported of the incident:

Scientists investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic might be working with the wrong samples, because some early samples of the virus submitted by a Chinese researcher were deleted from a shared database, an expert in the evolution of viruses says.

Jesse Bloom, a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, said he found genetic sequences taken from early coronavirus cases in China that were deleted from a US National Institutes of Health database.

Examination shows some of the early cases in the Chinese city of Wuhan are different, genetically, from the variants that eventually spread to cause the pandemic.

The sequences themselves do not shed any more light on the renewed debate about whether the virus spread naturally from animals to humans, or was the result of a laboratory leak,Bloom told CNN.

It looks like something must have happened because the media now has bounced back to the lie that the China coronavirus was a natural phenomenon and not created in a laboratory in Wuhan. The media continues to cover for China.

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Heliobas Disciple · Jun 25, 2021

NYT's coverage of this:

Scientist Finds Early Virus Sequences That Had Been Mysteriously Deleted (Published 2021)

By rooting through files stored on Google Cloud, a researcher says he recovered 13 early coronavirus sequences that had disappeared from a database last year.

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Scientist Finds Early Virus Sequences That Had Been Mysteriously Deleted
By rooting through files stored on Google Cloud, a researcher says he recovered 13 early coronavirus sequences that had disappeared from a database last year.
By Carl Zimmer
June 23, 2021Updated 4:59 p.m. ET

About a year ago, genetic sequences from more than 200 virus samples from early cases of Covid-19 in Wuhan disappeared from an online scientific database.

Now, by rooting through files stored on Google Cloud, a researcher in Seattle reports that he has recovered 13 of those original sequences — intriguing new information for discerning when and how the virus may have spilled over from a bat or another animal into humans.

The new analysis, released on Tuesday, bolsters earlier suggestions that a variety of coronaviruses may have been circulating in Wuhan before the initial outbreaks linked to animal and seafood markets in December 2019.

As the Biden administration investigates the contested origins of the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2, the study neither strengthens nor discounts the hypothesis that the pathogen leaked out of a famous Wuhan lab. But it does raise questions about why original sequences were deleted, and suggests that there may be more revelations to recover from the far corners of the internet.

“This is a great piece of sleuth work for sure, and it significantly advances efforts to understand the origin of SARS-CoV-2,” said Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the study.

Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who wrote the new report, called the deletion of these sequences suspicious. It “seems likely that the sequences were deleted to obscure their existence,” he wrote in the paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal.

Dr. Bloom and Dr. Worobey belong to an outspoken group of scientists who have called for more research into how the pandemic began. In a letter published in May, they complained that there wasn’t enough information to determine whether it was more likely that a lab leak spread the coronavirus, or that it leapt to humans from contact with an infected animal outside of a lab.

The genetic sequences of viral samples hold crucial clues about how SARS-CoV-2 shifted to our species from another animal, most likely a bat. Most precious of all are sequences from early in the pandemic, because they take scientists closer to the original spillover event.

As Dr. Bloom was reviewing what genetic data had been published by various research groups, he came across a March 2020 study with a spreadsheet that included information on 241 genetic sequences collected by scientists at Wuhan University. The spreadsheet indicated that the scientists had uploaded the sequences to an online database called the Sequence Read Archive, managed by the U.S. government’s National Library of Medicine.

But when Dr. Bloom looked for the Wuhan sequences in the database earlier this month, his only result was “no item found.”

Puzzled, he went back to the spreadsheet for any further clues. It indicated that the 241 sequences had been collected by a scientist named Aisi Fu at Renmin Hospital in Wuhan. Searching medical literature, Dr. Bloom eventually found another study posted online in March 2020 by Dr. Fu and colleagues, describing a new experimental test for SARS-CoV-2. The Chinese scientists published it in a scientific journal three months later.

In that study, the scientists wrote that they had looked at 45 samples from nasal swabs taken “from outpatients with suspected Covid-19 early in the epidemic.” They then searched for a portion of SARS-CoV-2’s genetic material in the swabs. The researchers did not publish the actual sequences of the genes they fished out of the samples. Instead, they only published some mutations in the viruses.

But a number of clues indicated to Dr. Bloom that the samples were the source of the 241 missing sequences. The papers included no explanation as to why the sequences had been uploaded to the Sequence Read Archive, only to disappear later.

Perusing the archive, Dr. Bloom figured out that many of the sequences were stored as files on Google Cloud. Each sequence was contained in a file in the cloud, and the names of the files all shared the same basic format, he reported.

Dr. Bloom swapped in the code for a missing sequence from Wuhan. Suddenly, he had the sequence. All told, he managed to recover 13 sequences from the cloud this way.

With this new data, Dr. Bloom looked back once more at the early stages of the pandemic. He combined the 13 sequences with other published sequences of early coronaviruses, hoping to make progress on building the family tree of SARS-CoV-2.

Working out all the steps by which SARS-CoV-2 evolved from a bat virus has been a challenge because scientists still have a limited number of samples to study. Some of the earliest samples come from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, where an outbreak occurred in December 2019.

But those market viruses actually have three extra mutations that are missing from SARS-CoV-2 samples collected weeks later. In other words, those later viruses look more like coronaviruses found in bats, supporting the idea that there was some early lineage of the virus that did not pass through the seafood market.

Dr. Bloom found that the deleted sequences he recovered from the cloud also lack those extra mutations. “They’re three steps more similar to the bat coronaviruses than the viruses from the Huanan fish market,” Dr. Bloom said.

This suggests, he said, that by the time SARS-CoV-2 reached the market, it had been circulating for awhile in Wuhan or beyond. The market viruses, he argued, aren’t representative of full diversity of coronaviruses already loose in late 2019.

“Maybe our picture of what was present early in Wuhan from what has been sequenced might be somewhat biased,” he said.

In his report, Dr. Bloom acknowledged that this conclusion would have to be confirmed with a deeper analysis of the virus sequences. Dr. Worobey said that he and his colleagues are working on a large-scale study of SARS-CoV-2 genes to better understand its origin and that they’ll now add Dr. Bloom’s 13 recovered sequences.

“These additional data will play a big role in that effort,” Dr. Worobey said.

It’s not clear why this valuable information went missing in the first place. Scientists can request that files be deleted by sending an email to the managers of the Sequence Read Archive. The National Library of Medicine, which manages the archive, said that the 13 sequences were removed last summer.

“These SARS-CoV-2 sequences were submitted for posting in SRA in March 2020 and subsequently requested to be withdrawn by the submitting investigator in June 2020,” said Renate Myles, a spokeswoman for the National Institutes of Health.

She said that the investigator, whom she did not name, told the archive managers that the sequences were being updated and would be added to a different database. But Dr. Bloom has searched every database he knows of, and has yet to find them. “Obviously I can’t rule out that the sequences are on some other database or web page somewhere, but I have not been able to find them any of the obvious places I’ve looked,” he said.

Three of the co-authors of the 2020 testing study that produced the 13 sequences did not immediately respond to emails inquiring about Dr. Bloom’s finding. That study did not give contact information for another co-author, Dr. Fu, who was also named on the spreadsheet from the other study.

Some scientists are skeptical that there is anything sinister behind the removal of the sequences. “I don’t really understand how this points to a cover-up,” said Stephen Goldstein, a virologist at the University of Utah.

Dr. Goldstein noted that the testing paper listed the individual mutations the Wuhan researchers found in their tests. Although the full sequences are no longer in the archive, the key information has been public for over a year, he said. It was just tucked away in a format that is hard for researchers to find.

“We all missed this relatively obscure paper,” Dr. Goldstein said.

“You can’t really say why they were removed,” Dr. Bloom acknowledged in an interview. “You can say that the practical consequence of removing them was that people didn’t notice they existed.” He also noted that the Chinese government ordered the destruction of a number of early samples of the virus and barred the publication of papers on the coronavirus without its approval.

For his part, Dr. Worobey still wants answers. “I hope we hear from the authors who generated, but then deleted, these crucial sequences so we can understand more about their motivation for doing so,” he said. “It certainly is strange at face value and really demands an explanation.”

Regardless of what happened to these 13 sequences, Dr. Bloom now wonders what other clues might be discovered online. In order to reconstruct the origin of Covid-19, all those clues potentially matter.

“Ideally, we need to try to find as many other early sequences as possible,” he said. “And I think this study suggests that we should look everywhere.”

Heliobas Disciple · Jun 25, 2021

Here is his twitter feed on this:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1407445604029009923

View: https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1407445604029009923

Bloom Lab @jbloom_lab
5:09 PM · Jun 22, 2021

In a new study, I identify and recover a deleted set of #SARSCoV2 sequences that provide additional information about viruses from the early Wuhan outbreak: Recovery of deleted deep sequencing data sheds more light on the early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 epidemic

Specifically, NIH maintains the Sequence Read Archive, where scientists around world deposit deep sequencing data for others to analyze. I noted Insights on early mutational events in SARS-CoV-2 virus reveal founder effects across geographical regions lists all #SARSCoV2 data in archive as of March-31-2020. Most from a project by Wuhan University.

But when I went to Sequence Read Archive, I found entire project was gone! (Note that as detailed below, this does *not* imply malfeasance by NIH. Sequence Read Archive policy allows submitters to delete by e-mail request.)

I was able to determine deleted data corresponded to a study that partially sequenced “45 nasopharyngeal samples from [Wuhan] outpatients with suspected COVID-19 early in the epidemic“ Nanopore target sequencing for accurate and comprehensive detection of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses

I discovered that even though the files were deleted from archive itself, they could be recovered from the Google Cloud at links like https://storage.googleapis.com/nih-sequence-read-archive/run/SRR11313485/SRR11313485

Using this approach, I recovered files for the 34 early samples that were virus positive. I was able to use the data in the files to reconstruct partial viral sequences (from start of spike to end of ORF10) for 13 of these samples.

Now I need to give background to explain a confusing scientific mystery about other early #SARSCoV2 sequences. Although events that led to emergence of #SARSCoV2 in Wuhan are unclear (zoonosis vs lab accident), everyone agrees deep ancestors are coronaviruses from bats.

Therefore, we’d expect the first #SARSCoV2 sequences would be more similar to bat coronaviruses, and as #SARSCoV2 continued to evolve it would become more divergent from these ancestors. But that is *not* the case!

Instead, early Huanan Seafood Market #SARSCoV2 viruses are more different from bat coronaviruses than #SARSCoV2 viruses collected later in China and even other countries. @lpipes
@ras_nielsen give nice technical analysis at Assessing Uncertainty in the Rooting of the SARS-CoV-2 Phylogeny

The conundrum is easily seen by plotting the relative differences from the bat coronavirus RaTG13 outgroup versus collection date for early #SARSCoV2. See how the first reported viruses from Wuhan (leftmost blue points) aren’t the closest to RaTG13.

Same result if we use other bat coronaviruses like RpYN06 or RmYN02. To see this, go to https://jbloom.github.io/SARS-CoV-2_PRJNA612766/deltadist.html for an interactive plot that allows you to select the bat coronavirus outgroup and mouse over points for strain details.

How do deleted sequences I recovered relate to this conundrum? If we include those sequences, and note 4 sequences from Guangdong are from two groups of people infected in Wuhan in late Dec / early Jan, we get plausible scenarios that resolve above problems.

These two scenarios are plotted below. Each has a different “progenitor”, which is the sequence that gave rise to all *currently* known #SARSCoV2 sequences (still may not be virus that infected patient zero if other early sequences remain unknown).

Both putative progenitors have 3 mutations relative to Seafood Market viruses that make them more similar to bat coronavirus. One is progenitor inferred by @kumar_lab
@sergeilkp et al (Evolutionary Portrait of the Progenitor SARS-CoV-2 and Its Dominant Offshoots in COVID-19 Pandemic), other has C8782T, T28144C, and C29095T relative to Wuhan-Hu-1.

Both progenitors suggest #SARSCoV2 was circulating in Wuhan before December outbreak at Huanan Seafood Market, which is corroborated by lots of other evidence, including news articles from China in early 2020 (see intro to my paper linked in first Tweet in this thread)

There are also broader implications. First, fact this dataset was deleted should make us skeptical that all other relevant early Wuhan sequences have been shared. We already know many labs in China ordered to destroy early samples: China confirms unauthorised labs were told to destroy early virus samples

Sequence sharing could be further limited by fact that scientists in China are under an order from the State Council requiring central approval of all publications: China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins

Second major implication is that it may be possible to obtain additional information about early spread of #SARSCoV2 in Wuhan even if efforts for more on-the-ground investigations are stymied.

Scientific communication and data sharing typically rely on trust. The NIH Sequence Read Archive has >13,000,000 runs, so they have to trust authors when they request deletions as not feasible to validate reasons for all requests, some of which are legitimate.

In case of data set I describe above, it seems possible that trust that the NIH Sequence Read Archive grants to scientific authors to delete data may have been used to obscure sequences informative for understanding early #SARSCoV2.

Fortunately, Sequence Read Archive has rigorous data tracking enabling them to determine when data deleted & stated justification by authors. In fact, @NIHDirector @NCBI have already determined this & generously shared info w me, but will let them share more widely.

It is important to examine if other trust-based systems in science conceivably may have also been used to hide data relevant to origins / early spread of #SARSCoV2. This includes not only looking more at sequence databases, but also paper reviews, grant reporting, etc.

Third major implication is that scientists need to stay focused on data-driven study of #SARSCoV2 origins / early spread. After spending the last 4 months studying this closely, I am cautiously optimistic that additional relevant data are still likely to come to light.

We should therefore avoid dogmatic arguments about #SARSCoV2 origins / early spread, and instead focus on following two questions: (1) How can we get more data? (2) How can we better analyze the data we have?

Finally, my analysis is on GitHub at jbloom/SARS-CoV-2_PRJNA612766 where you can access all code, data, & paper drafts. All updates are via time-stamped commits. This ensures transparency/reproducibility of this study are not in doubt, regardless of your views on interpretation.

SECOND TWITTER FEED:

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A short addendum to my pre-print on early Wuhan #SARSCoV2 sequences deleted from the Sequence Read Archive courtesy of an anonymous Twitter user.

It turns out that mention of the sequencing project in question (PRJNA612766) also disappeared from China National GeneBank (CNGB) shortly after it was removed from the NIH Sequence Read Archive.

On June-19-2020: hCoV-19 Database - disease dataset - CNGBdb

On July-3-2020: hCoV-19 Database - disease dataset - CNGBdb

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marsh · Jun 26, 2021

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd5tV-SoCeo
9:50 min

Myocarditis, COVID, and Pfizer & Moderna Vaccines

Jun 25, 2021

Doctor Mike Hansen

Myocarditis is heart inflammation, but to be more specific, it’s inflammation of the heart muscle. Pericarditis is inflammation of the pericardium (outer lining of the heart). Myocarditis and pericarditis often occur together, hence the term myopericarditis. How often is it caused by COVID? How often is it caused by the mRNA vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna? What are the symptoms of heart inflammation? How is it diagnosed? I’m going to unpack all of it in this video.

Myocarditis is an interesting diagnosis, because it can present in a variety of ways. Not just in terms of various signs and symptoms, but a variety of non-specific labs in the bloodwork. Non-specific EKG findings. Non-specific echocardiogram findings, meaning ultrasound of the heart. Also, most people with this diagnosis have zero or mild symptoms. On the flip side, it can RARELY present with sudden cardiac arrest. And even if you are able to make the diagnosis, it’s usually even TRICKIER to determine the cause. Disease severity can range from unnoticeable, to mild symptoms, to severe illness requiring the ICU, to death. More often than not, it’s a mild, temporary issue. In more serious cases, when there is more heart inflammation, the heart has a harder time pumping blood, which can lead to heart failure.

What are the Symptoms? The highest risk population for myocarditis is from puberty to the early 30s. It affects males more often than females.

There are no specific symptoms associated with myocarditis, but common symptoms include:
• Chest pain or pressure • Shortness of breath • Fatigue • Swelling in the hands and feet • Heart palpitations • Lightheadedness • A sudden loss of consciousness

How does COVID-19 affect the heart?

Even though COVID is a respiratory virus, it can affect the heart in several ways. First, when COVID causes pneumonia, it can damage the lungs, decreasing the amount of oxygen that gets to the heart and making it harder for it to pump blood to the body. This is known as demand ischemia.

Second, the inflammatory response from the immune system to fight the virus, is sometimes excessive. The cytokine storm that you hear about, it’s a cascade of cytokines and chemokines of the immune system, that can ultimately damage organs in the body. Basically, its collateral damage. The damage from this inflammatory response is known to especially affect the kidneys, brain, and heart. And that’s when you have myocarditis. What is the risk of COVID-19 in Children?

As of June 10th, 4,008,572 children have contracted COVID-19. This number represents 14% of all cases and is about 5,300 cases per 100,000 children. About 17,000 children have been hospitalized, and 330 have died. COVID-19 has been in the top 10 causes of pediatric death since the pandemic began. As a comparison, 188 children died of influenza in the 2019-2020 season. The CDC reported that as of June 9th, 2,637 people under age 30 have died of COVID-19.

What is the risk of myocarditis from the COVID-19 vaccine?The COVID vaccines that are mRNA (Pfizer and Moderna) have caused some cases of myocarditis (heart inflammation). There have been cases and very small studies, looking at patients who developed myocarditis after getting the covid vaccine. The CDC has received 1,226 preliminary reports of myocarditis and pericarditis following about 300 million total doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. These preliminary reports came through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System maintained by the CDC and the FDA. Among people 12 and older, there were 267 reports of heart inflammation after one dose of vaccine, 827 after the second dose, and 132 after an unknown dose. The CDC continues to recommend COVID-19 vaccination for everyone 12 years of age and older. Why? For every million second-dose vaccinations with either Moderna or Pfizer, there may be tens of myocarditis cases, but thousands of Covid-19 cases prevented.

In males aged 12 to 17, it’s estimated that for every 1 million second-dose vaccinations, 5,700 Covid-19 cases, 215 hospitalizations, 71 intensive care unit admissions and two deaths would be prevented, with an estimated 56 to 69 myocarditis cases. For females aged 12 to 17, its estimated that for every 1 million doses to complete a two-dose series of vaccine, 8,500 Covid-19 cases, 183 hospitalizations, 38 intensive care unit admissions and one death would be prevented, and an estimated 8 to 10 cases of myocarditis. And In those aged 18 to 24 years, the numbers look even better. Since Wednesday, there’s been a joint statement from the leaders of more than a dozen health agencies and organizations -- including the the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association and more – all saying that the Covid vaccines are safe and effective, and that they "strongly encourage" everyone 12 and older to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

marsh · Jun 26, 2021

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a00ypwfAMLk
38:31 min

TWiV 772: COVID-19 clinical update #68 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Jun 25, 2021

Vincent Racaniello

In COVID-19 clinical update #68, Daniel Griffin discusses children acquiring infection at birthday parties, immunogenicity of vaccines in solid organ transplant patients, reinfection rates in recovered patients, lack of efficacy of azithromycin, bacterial and fungal infections in hospitalized patients, effect of monoclonal antibody treatment on clinical outcomes of ambulatory patients, and reduction in mortality of hospitalized patients treated with remedesivir. Show notes at https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-772/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYo9oK-Giso

Heliobas Disciple · Jun 26, 2021

WHO says jury out on ‘fleeting contact’ strain of Delta virus in Australia

The World Health Organisation’s director of health emergencies says it’s scientifically possible but not proven that Delta can be transmitted within seconds.

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WHO says jury out on ‘fleeting contact’ strain of Delta virus in Australia
By Latika Bourke
June 26, 2021 — 10.32am

London: Health officials at the World Health Organisation say there is not yet enough evidence to confirm a growing belief in Australia that the Delta COVID-19 can transmit in just five seconds rather than 15 minutes.

While the Delta variant — which first emerged in India and is currently dominant in Britain and now seeding an outbreak in Sydney — is known to be more transmissible than earlier variants, Australian officials have raised the possibility that the virus can spread in the amount of time it takes to breathe in.

Dr Mike Ryan, director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Program, said the concept was scientifically possible as the virus mutated to become “fitter” as it sought to replace previous versions.
It’s not known exactly how long it takes to infect someone with Delta virus by breathing on or near them.

“It can shift the infectious dose, in other words the virus may be more efficient at infecting cells and you need less virus to cause an infection,” Dr Ryan told a virtual news conference from the WHO’s headquarters in Geneva on Saturday morning.

“How much virus do you need to be contaminated by or inhale before you reach a dose that causes you to have an infection? That’s not even known for the previous strains and it’s not fully understood for these newer strains - Delta strain included,” he said.

The Centres for Disease Control in the US says COVID-19 is predominantly spread when someone inhales an infected person’s fine respiratory droplets - which can remain suspended in the air for hours.

A person can can also become infected when they touch their mouth, nose or eyes if the virus has settled on their hands from exhaled respiratory fluids or contaminated surfaces.

Epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove said there were several groups studying the virus’ evolution in detail.

She said research had already shown that in all the mutations of COVID-19 the virus adheres to a person’s cell more easily.

“So that’s one of the reasons why we’re seeing increased transmissibility,” she said.

Researchers are also exploring whether the virus has adapted specifically to spread differently in healthcare settings.

NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant has said a person infected with the Delta variant at Sydney’s Bondi Junction Westfield caught the disease in a “scarily fleeting” encounter, according to CCTV footage.

“They are clearly facing each other but it is literally someone moving across from each other for a moment, close, but momentary,” Dr Chant said.

According to Chant, two other people may have been infected in the same manner.

Similarly, Jeroen Weimar, Victoria’s COVID-19 commander, has also previously said infections were occurring in situations where people had very little contact and had simply brushed past each other in a small shop.

Sydneysiders were first advised but then required to wear masks following the detection of the “fleeting contact” cases.

The WHO said people needed to take a more “fastidious” approach to physically distancing, washing their hands and wearing masks because these basic behaviours guard against all strains of the virus.

marsh · Jun 26, 2021

Massive London Protests Against Lockdowns -- "Enough Is Enough" | The Gateway Pundit | by ProTrumpNews Staff

The people of London have had enough.

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Massive London Protests Against Lockdowns — “Enough Is Enough”

By ProTrumpNews Staff
Published June 26, 2021 at 9:20am

The people of London have had enough.

Massive protests against COVID lockdowns have broken out in London.

The event is called the “Freedom March.”

The crowd size is massive:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1408769709382774790

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1408804882002423815
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Big freedom protests again in London today.

Are you watching @BorisJohnson? Tyranny will not be tolerated in these Isles.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1408764952194715649

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1408779015381565442
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Many are also protesting vaccine passports:

Former European Parliament member and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage spoke out on the protest and threw his support behind it:

The anti-lockdown protest in London looks big. Enough is enough. https://t.co/D48PTl2Boo
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) June 26, 2021

It was exposed that Matt Hancock, the UK Health Secretary was caught breaking the COVID rules he preached while having an affair with one of his aides:

Omg. I can’t unsee this! He has to go! #sackthecock Watch Matt Hancock affair video as he kisses Gina Coladangelo in his office after checking the coast is clear
— Gillian McKeith (@GillianMcKeith) June 25, 2021

The Sun reported:

Married Matt Hancock was yesterday branded a hypocrite for canoodling with his mistress despite preaching to the nation to hug “carefully”.

We exclusively revealed the Health Secretary’s affair with aide Gina Coladangelo, including how they were caught on camera snogging on May 6.

The Sun can today tell how they were “all over each other” again this week in the same ninth-floor Whitehall office.

On May 16 — with indoor hugging still banned — Hancock warned the country: “We should all be careful. We all know the risks. Of course there are people who have been yearning to have some physical contact.

marsh · Jun 26, 2021

NOT MAKING HEADLINES: CDC Officials Admit More Hospitalizations of Young People from Vaccine than From the Actual COVID Virus - Including HUGE Number of Heart Problems Reported | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Earlier this week the CDC admitted to finding more cases of rare heart inflammation in young adults than was expected after receiving COVID vaccine shots.

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NOT MAKING HEADLINES: CDC Officials Admit More Hospitalizations of Young People from Vaccine than From the Actual COVID Virus – Including HUGE Number of Heart Problems Reported

By Jim Hoft
Published June 26, 2021 at 8:51am
Earlier this week the CDC admitted to finding more cases of rare heart inflammation in young adults than was expected after receiving COVID vaccine shots.

The Wednesday CDC presentation shows a surge in myocarditis/pericarditis cases in young adults after their second dose of the COVID vaccine.

Former New York Times reporter and author Alex Berenson watched the CDC presentation was shocked with their results and dangerous advice to American parents and their young children.

The CDC’s own voluntary vaccine side effect reporting system received about 48,000 reports for ALL vaccines. This year that number is at least seven times that many for Covid vaccine cases alone.

Berenson then notes that from the CDC’s own data they are seeing more children and young adults hospitalized from the COVID vaccine than they ever saw from the COVID virus.

Via AlexBerenson:

We can no longer trust the Centers for Disease Control to weigh honestly the risks and benefits of Covid vaccines for young people.

That is the only possible interpretation of Wednesday’s CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting about the link between Covid shots and serious heart problems in teens and young adults…

At the meeting, CDC scientists presented horrendous data. It showed that even without accounting for underreporting, a second dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines could increase the risk of problems up to 200-fold in young men.

But the scientists then went on to suggest the vaccines should still be given – even to kids already suffering from heart problems…

…the CDC’s own data shows that for every 100,000 vaccines given to young people, more than 25,000 will have temporary side effects that prevent them from “normal activities,” 700 will require medical care and 200 will be hospitalized.

In contrast, the CDC estimates that only about 50 out of 100,000 adolescents have EVER been hospitalized for Covid-related illness.

This is shocking news.

So why are kids being vaccinated again?

And why are the CDC leaders and their cohorts and enablers like Dr. Fauci still walking the streets?

This is medical malpractice on a national scale!

God help us!
Read the entire report here.

marsh · Jun 27, 2021

Delingpole: Thousands Converge on London for Anti-Lockdown Rally

Thousands of anti-lockdown protesters converged in London on Saturday. Yet again, it was largely ignored by the mainstream media.

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Delingpole: Thousands Converge on London for Anti-Lockdown Rally. Ignored Again by MSM

Kurt Zindulka
JAMES DELINGPOLE27 Jun 2021107

Video on website 2:33 min

Thousands of anti-lockdown protesters converged in Central London on Saturday. Yet again, all too predictably, it was largely ignored by the mainstream media.

The aim of the latest march, one of the anonymous organisers told me beforehand, was to broaden the protest’s appeal. “We’ve even got double-vaccinated people turning up to support us,” he said.

Video on website 1:55 min

Sure enough, the rally attracted lots of newcomers, including Church of England curate Jamie Franklin (host of the Irreverend podcast) who had turned up in his cassock for his first-ever protest march.

He said:

I feel that there are vast swathes of society who are not being represented by the government and I want to be a voice for them. We see the corruption in the government: it’s one rule for them, another rule for everyone else. People are sick of this corruption. They can see the immorality. They can see the lies. And they want this to end right now.

Once again, the crowd was a great deal more diverse than you’d encounter at an Extinction Rebellion rally or a Black Lives Matter rally, where the crowds tend to be much more white and middle class.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1408816996465139716

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marsh · Jun 27, 2021

Report: Lockdowns Hurt Young People of Color the Most

Coronavirus lockdowns hurt young people of color the most, according to a report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).

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Report: Lockdowns Hurt Young People of Color the Most

Young man wearing mask looking away while standing in subway train - stock photo

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KATHERINE HAMILTON27 Jun 2021279

Coronavirus lockdowns hurt young people of color between the ages of 20-24 the most, according to a report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).

In the first three months of 2021, about 3.81 million people in that age bracket were not in work or school, a 740,000 (24 percent) increase compared to the same time last year, according to the report.

When broken down by race and ethnicity, the Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET) rate shows even greater disparities.

The NEET rate for all 20- to 24-year-olds increased from 14.7 percent to 18.3 percent between last year and this year. For black young people, the percentage grew from 20.9 percent to 24.8 percent. For Hispanics, it was 16.2 percent to 19.7 percent, and for white people, it was 12.8 percent to 15.9 percent.

“About one-in-four Black 20- to 24-year-olds were neither in school nor working during the first quarter of 2021 compared to about one-in-five Hispanics and one-in-six whites,” the report states.

The increase in NEET rates for 20- to 24-year-olds between 2020 and 2021 appears to be driven exclusively by large employment declines and offset slightly by a modest increase in school attendance:

Young adults tend to get hit harder during recessions and experience more long-term consequences from downturns in comparison to older workers. Previous analysis from CEPR has found that young people were hit hard by the pandemic and were largely employed in sectors that did not allow remote work options and would not be as quick to recover from the pandemic’s shock. Young adults remain disproportionately affected by the economic shock.

People of color have “also been more vulnerable to job and income losses from the ensuing economic crisis, in large part because Black and Latino workers are over-represented in the service industries wiped out by shutdowns,” Politico reported in December of 2020.

The top ten states with the harshest lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic were California, Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington, according to the New York Times. Each of those states have Democrat governors.

Amid calls for “equity,” states insistent on prolonged lockdowns hurt the very people they aim to help.

“Inactive youth is a worrying sign for the future of the economy, as they don’t gain critical job skills to help realize their future earnings potential. Further, high NEET rates may foster environments that are fertile for social unrest,” Bloomberg reported.

marsh · Jun 27, 2021

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Losing The Plot On COVID

SATURDAY, JUN 26, 2021 - 10:45 PM
Authored by Dan Rabil via AmericanThinker.com,

What happens when a population of introverts, hypochondriacs, and obsessive-compulsives is continuously bombarded with messages to seclude and disinfect themselves, for fear that COVID-19 prickle-balls lurk everywhere, waiting to attack?

What happens is that emotionally damaged people start driving bad politics and bad policy.

"Fifteen days to flatten the curve."

That phrase is surely now banned by corporate media, for it reminds us how the supposedly acute health threat of March 2020 was repeatedly re-packaged to keep populations off-balance and out of business not for 15 days, but for 15 months.

Never in modern times has a health issue been so flagrantly politicized, nor wielded as a club, as the Wuhan virus has been. Outside a few rational locales, almost every nation drank the COVID Kool-Aid, competing to see who could enforce the stupidest rules.

Naturally, academia would lead the way:

Among Americans aged 15–24, a total of 587 died of COVID in 2020, according to the CDC, representing about 0.16%, or about 1 in 642, of COVID deaths.

If you are young, you have essentially no chance of dying of COVID. The low youth mortality impact from COVID was known by April 2020.

Yet many universities now require these low-risk young people to inject the experimental vaccine or be banished from campus.

Did you already catch the WuFlu and have antibodies?

Too bad. The great pulsating brains of academia cannot differentiate.

Young people who want to serve their country are also targets: the passive-aggressive command at West Point compels the unvaccinated to sacrifice a week's vacation to quarantine and then to wear masks in the most ridiculous circumstances imaginable — to harass them and make them look like fools.

Military leaders do not care whether the experimental vaccines might do more harm than good, especially on a previously COVID-exposed youth. Take the jab and shut up, cadet; Colonel Suckup needs to PowerPoint his 100% compliance success.

Famed baseball pitcher Anthony Fauci claims that he is Science personified, yet anyone can make simple deductions that have eluded the doctor: there is effectively no difference in COVID rates between regions that went full Stalin on COVID rules and those areas that took a more holistic or decentralized approach to the virus.

Great Britain, with its multiple draconian lockdowns, has a COVID case rate of 6.76% of the population, while Sweden, which mostly left schools and businesses open and went soft-touch on mask mandates, has a case rate of 10.7%. But Sweden's death rate is 20% lower than the U.K.'s, so what was the point of Britain's lockdown hysteria?

Similarly, some U.S. schools were closed for up to a year, and kids as young as two were required to wear masks in a sickening display of fear-psychosis. Yet in Switzerland, schools reopened permanently about 4–5 weeks after the initial virus panic in the spring of 2020, and children under 12 were never required to wear masks at any time. Switzerland's COVID case and death rates are both lower than the U.S.'s. On the other hand, in Washington, D.C., where self-righteous residents wear masks even while jogging in the woods, restaurants were already open in March 2021, while in Switzerland, restaurants were closed from December until late May, in the apparent hope of destroying every last small eatery. There's no science in any of this posturing.

And none of this jumping through hoops made any difference in the progression of the virus: lockdown-crazy Michigan has a higher COVID death rate than libertarian Florida (despite its large elderly population).

Lost in all of this seems to be the simple fact that the COVID virus is not that deadly. True, about 12% of the 4.7-million total U.S. deaths recorded between January 2020 and June 2021 were credited to COVID. About 1.7% of positive cases end in death. But 80% of COVID deaths occurred in the over-65 population, which always has a much higher death rate from infectious diseases, such as pneumonia. If you are under 65 and test positive for COVID, you have a 0.25% chance of death (1/400), which is probably about the same as if you caught a bad flu and suffered complications from it. It's also logical that we will see periods of below-average death rates in the next year or two, in the same way that there are bad flu years and not-bad flu years.

Self-serving politicians locked down free citizens (and, ironically, released prisoners), destroyed businesses, marred kids' psyches, and harassed people with mask and testing mandates, all for a coronavirus that in the end was not that novel. And they did it with the connivance of corporate media, which censored and slandered anyone who asked the most basic questions about the virus' origins and treatments.

In a future sane world, people will view the orchestrated panic of the COVID era with the same bemused condescension we might view the supposed War of the Worlds radio invasion scare of 1938, or the bygone use of leeches for seemingly every ailment.

Yes, grandson, back in 2020, the whole world went batty.

marsh · Jun 27, 2021

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Ivermectin: Can A Drug Be "Right-Wing"?

SATURDAY, JUN 26, 2021 - 09:45 PM
Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News,

On December 31st of last year, an 80 year-old Buffalo-area woman named Judith Smentkiewicz fell ill with Covid-19. She was rushed by ambulance to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Williamsville, New York, where she was put on a ventilator. Her son Michael and his wife flew up from Georgia, and were given grim news. Judith, doctors said, had a 20% chance at survival, and even if she made it, she’d be on a ventilator for a month.

As December passed into the New Year, Judith’s health declined. Her family members, increasingly desperate, had been doing what people in the Internet age do, Googling in search of potential treatments. They saw stories about the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, learning among other things that a pulmonologist named Pierre Kory had just testified before the Senate that the drug had a “miraculous” impact on Covid-19 patients. The family pressured doctors at the hospital to give Judith the drug. The hospital initially complied, administering one dose on January 2nd. According to her family’s court testimony, a dramatic change in her condition ensued.

“In less than 48 hours, my mother was taken off the ventilator, transferred out of the Intensive Care Unit, sitting up on her own and communicating,” the patient’s daughter Michelle Kulbacki told a court.

After the reported change in Judith’s condition, the hospital backtracked and refused to administer more. Frustrated, the family turned on January 7th to a local lawyer named Ralph Lorigo. A commercial litigator and head of what he calls a “typical suburban practice,” with seven lawyers engaged in everything from matrimonial to estate work, Lorigo assigned one of his attorneys to review materials given to them by the family, which included Kory’s Senate testimony. The associate showed Lorigo himself the the material next morning.

“I was so convinced by what Dr. Kory was saying,” Lorigo says. “I saw the passion and the belief.”

Lorigo immediately sued the hospital, filing to State Supreme Court to force the facility to treat according to the family’s wishes. Judge Henry J. Nowak sided with the Smentkiewiczes, signing an order that Lorigo and one of his attorneys served themselves, and after a series of quasi-absurd dramas that included the hospital refusing to let the Smentkiewicz family physician phone in the prescription — “the doctor actually had to drive to the hospital,” Lorigo says — Judith went back on ivermectin.

“She was out of that hospital in six days,” Lorigo says. After a month of rehab, his octogenarian client went back to her life, which involved working five days a week (she still cleans houses). Her story, complete with photo, was told in the Buffalo News, causing Lorigo’s phone to begin ringing off the hook.

Doppleganger cases soon began dotting the map all over the country.

One of the first was in nearby Rochester, New York, where the family of Glenna Dickinson went through an almost exactly similar narrative to the Smentkiewiczes: they read about ivermectin, got a family doctor to prescribe it, saw improvement, only to later have the hospital refuse treatment. Again Lorigo intervened, again a judge ordered the hospital to treat, again the patient recovered and was discharged.

Hospitals fought hard, hiring expensive law firms, at times going to extraordinary lengths to refuse treatment even with dying patients who’d exhausted all other options. At Edward-Elmhurst hospital in Chicago, a 68 year-old named Nurije Fype was admitted, put on a ventilator, and again, as all other treatments failed, her family got a judge to order the use of ivermectin. Lorigo claims the hospital initially refused to obey the court order, which led to the filing of a contempt motion, which in turn led to a pair of counter-motions and another confrontation before another befuddled Judge named James Orel.

“Why wouldn't this be tried if she's not improving?” the Chicago Tribune quoted Orel as saying. “Why does the hospital object to providing this medication?”
“He basically said, ‘What do you have left?’” Lorigo recounts. “No one would administer the ivermectin. It’s as safe as aspirin, for Christ’s sake. It’s been given out 3.7 billion times. I couldn’t understand it.”

Stories like these aren’t proof the drug works. They don’t even really rise to the level of evidence. People recover from diseases all the time, and it doesn’t mean any particular treatment was responsible. Short of the gold standard of randomized controlled trials, there’s no proof.

However, anecdotes have a power all their own, and in the Internet age, ones like these spread quickly. Lorigo estimates he now gets “10, 15, 20” calls and emails a day. At this level, at the bedside of a single Covid-19 patient who’s already received the full official treatment protocol and is failing anyway, the decision to administer a drug like ivermectin, or fluvoxamine, or hydroxychloroquine, or any of a dozen other experimental treatments, seems like a no-brainer. Nothing else has worked, the patient is dying, why not?

Telescope out a little further, however, and the ivermectin debate becomes more complicated, reaching into a series of thorny controversies, some ridiculous, some quite serious.

The ridiculous side involves the front end of Lorigo’s story, the same story detailed on this site last week: the censorship of ivermectin news that, no matter what one thinks about the evidence for or against, is clearly in the public interest.
Anyone running a basic internet search on the topic will get a jumble of confusing results. YouTube’s policies are beyond uneven. It’s been aggressive in taking down videos containing interviews with people like Kory and doling out strikes to independent media figures like Bret Weinstein, but an interview with Lorigo on TrialSite News containing basically all of the same information is still up, as are clips from a just-taped episode of the Joe Rogan Experience that feature both Weinstein and Kory. Moreover, all sorts of statements at least as provocative as Kory’s “miraculous” formulation in the Senate still litter the Internet, many in reputable research journals. Take, for instance, this passage from the March issue of the Japanese Journal of Antibiotics:

When the effectiveness of ivermectin for the COVID-19 pandemic is confirmed with the cooperation of researchers around the world and its clinical use is achieved on a global scale, it could prove to be of great benefit to humanity. It may even turn out to be comparable to the benefits achieved from the discovery of penicillin…

There clearly is not evidence that ivermectin is the next penicillin, at least as far as its effects on Covid-19. As is noted in nearly every mainstream story about the subject, the WHO has advised against its use pending further study, there have been randomized studies showing it to be ineffective in speeding recovery, and the drug’s original manufacturer, Merck, has said there’s no “meaningful evidence” of efficacy for Covid-19 patients. However, it’s also patently untrue, as is frequently asserted, that there’s no evidence that the drug might be effective.

This past week, for instance, Oxford University announced it was launching a large-scale clinical trial. The study has already recruited more than 5,000 volunteers, and its announcement says what little is known to be true: that “small pilot studies show that early administration with ivermectin can reduce viral load and the duration of symptoms in some patients with mild COVID-19,” that it’s “a well-known medicine with a good safety profile,” and “because of the early promising results in some studies, it is already being widely used to treat COVID-19 in several countries.”

The Oxford text also says “there is little evidence from large-scale randomized controlled trials to demonstrate that it can speed up recovery from the illness or reduce hospital admission.” But to a person who might have a family member suffering from the disease, just the information about “early promising results” would probably be enough to inspire demands for a prescription, which might be the problem, of course. Unless someone was looking for that information, they likely wouldn’t find it, as mainstream news even of the Oxford study has been effectively limited to a pair of Bloomberg and Forbes stories.

Ivermectin has suffered the same fate as thousands of other news topics since Donald Trump first announced his run for the presidency nearly six years ago, cleaved in two to inhabit separate factual universes for left and right audiences.

Repurposed drugs generally have had a hard time being taken seriously since Trump announced he was on hydroxychloroquine last year, and ivermectin clearly also suffers from its association with Republican Senators like Ron Johnson. Still, the drug’s publicity issues go beyond the taint of “conservative” news.

The drug has become a test case for a controversy that’s long been building in health care, about how much input patients should have in their own treatment.

Well before Covid-19, the medical profession was thrust into a revolution in patient information, inspired by a combination of Google and new patients’ rights laws.

Should people on their deathbeds be allowed to try anything to save themselves? That seems like an easy question to answer. Should the entire world be allowed to practice self-care on a grand scale? That’s a different issue. Some would say absolutely not, while others would say the corruption of pharmaceutical companies and the medical system unfortunately make it a necessity. The world is increasingly divided along this trust/untrust axis.

thompson · Jun 27, 2021

marsh said:
Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News

Matt Taibbi is well-regarded in many circles and has a reputation for taking on subjects that fly in the face of "conventional wisdom". His name on this article will insure that many who ordinarily would not deign to read something not in the 'official canon' will read it, and give it weight and consideration.

marsh · Jun 28, 2021

HERE WE GO: WHO Recommends Masks and Social Distancing For Everyone - Vaccinated and Unvaccinated - Due to Covid "Delta" Variant | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

The China-funded World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending masks and social distancing for everyone – vaccinated and unvaccinated – due to the Covid “ta” variant.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

HERE WE GO: WHO Recommends Masks and Social Distancing For Everyone – Vaccinated and Unvaccinated – Due to Covid “Delta” Variant

By Cristina Laila
Published June 27, 2021 at 6:50pm

The China-funded World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending masks and social distancing for everyone – vaccinated and unvaccinated – due to the Covid “Delta” variant.

“Vaccine alone won’t stop community transmission,” Dr. Mariangela Simao, WHO’s assistant director-general for access to medicines and health products, said. “People need to continue to use masks consistently, be in ventilated spaces, hand hygiene … the physical distance, avoid crowding. This still continues to be extremely important, even if you’re vaccinated when you have a community transmission ongoing.”

Fox News reported:

As the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus gained traction around the world, the World Health Organization urged vaccinated people to continue to wear masks and social distance, according to reports.

The recommendation comes weeks after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said vaccinated people can go most places without masks. However, federal mandates remain on airplanes, for example.

The vaccines are considered “highly effective” against the delta variant, according to a recent study by the British government, although slightly less than the original strain.

But the WHO urged those vaccinated to “play it safe” and wear a mask because so many remain unvaccinated globally and the variant has become the main spreader in several countries, CNBC reported.

Authoritarians are already using the “Delta” variant to justify a new round of lockdowns and mandates.

The Australian city of Sydney just went into a two-week hard lockdown after more than 80 new cases of the “Delta” variant of Covid-19 were confirmed.
Israel reinstated its mask mandate because of the “Delta” variant.

marsh · Jun 28, 2021

4,115 Vaccinated People Have Been Hospitalized With COVID-19 'Breakthrough' Infections: CDC

More than 4,000 people have been hospitalized or died from COVID-19 "breakthrough" cases, according t...

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A pharmacy student prepares a Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles, Calif., on May 7, 2021. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

4,115 Vaccinated People Have Died, Been Hospitalized With COVID-19 ‘Breakthrough’ Infections: CDC

BY JACK PHILLIPS
June 27, 2021 Updated: June 27, 2021

More than 4,000 people have been hospitalized or died from COVID-19 “breakthrough” cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In an update late last week, the agency said that 4,115 people have been hospitalized or have died from COVID-19 despite having been fully vaccinated.

The total number of individuals who have died from COVID-19 after being vaccinated is 750, according to the agency. It noted that 76 percent of hospitalizations and deaths from breakthrough cases occurred among individuals over the age of 65.

“As of June 21, 2021, more than 150 million people in the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19,” said the agency in its June 25 update.

“During the same time, CDC received reports from 47 U.S. states and territories of 4,115 patients with COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infection who were hospitalized or died.”

Federal health officials have downplayed the new data and said that they had anticipated breakthrough cases, illnesses, and deaths.

“To be expected,” Dr. Paul Offit, a top advisor to the Food and Drug Administration on children’s vaccines, told CNBC on June 25. “The vaccines aren’t 100 percent effective, even against severe disease. Very small percentage of the 600,000 deaths.”

On May 1, the CDC announced that it had stopped counting all breakthrough cases and only reports on those that lead to hospitalization or death.

COVID-19 is the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, otherwise known as the novel coronavirus.

The CDC update comes as Israeli officials said last week that during a recent outbreak of COVID-19, about half of the adults infected in the recent outbreak were fully vaccinated.

Ran Balicer, who leads an expert advisory panel for the Israeli government, in announcing the finding on June 25, said that the country might end up in lockdown again. Balicer and other officials said that 90 percent of the new cases were caused by the so-called Delta COVID-19 variant.

“The entrance of the Delta variant has changed the transition dynamics,” he told The Wall Street Journal.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported last week that nearly 4,000 people who were fully vaccinated have tested positive for the virus.

“We’re learning that many of the breakthrough infections are asymptomatic, or they’re very mild and brief in duration,” Boston University infectious diseases specialist Davidson Hamer said, according to local media. “The viral load is not very high.”

And Hamer—like Offit—also downplayed the breakthrough infections, saying they’re to be expected.

“Breakthroughs are expected, and we need to better understand who’s at risk and whether people who have a breakthrough can transmit the virus to others,” Hamer said. “In some cases, they’ll be shedding such low levels of the virus and won’t be transmitting to others.”

Heliobas Disciple · Jun 28, 2021

Potential New COVID-19 Treatment: A Tapeworm Drug

Charité conducts clinical trial to test potential new treatment against SARS-CoV-2. Researchers from the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the University of Bonn have examined the way in which SARS-CoV-2 reprograms the metabolism of the host cel

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Potential New COVID-19 Treatment: A Tapeworm Drug
By Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
June 27, 2021

Charité conducts clinical trial to test potential new treatment against SARS-CoV-2.

Researchers from the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the University of Bonn have examined the way in which SARS-CoV-2 reprograms the metabolism of the host cell in order to gain an overall advantage. According to their report in Nature Communications, the researchers were able to identify four substances which inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication in the host cell: spermine and spermidine, substances naturally found in the body; MK-2206, an experimental cancer drug; and niclosamide, a tapeworm drug. Charité is currently conducting a trial to determine whether niclosamide is also effective against COVID-19 in humans.

Viral replication depends on host cell machinery and the use of the host’s molecular building blocks. In order to avoid detection by the immune system, viruses also have to ensure that they can evade cellular surveillance systems. To do this, they manipulate various processes in the infected host cell – and every virus pursues a different strategy. This is why a team of researchers led by PD Dr. Marcel Müller of Charité’s Institute of Virology and Dr. Nils Gassen of the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Clinic and Outpatient Clinic at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) have investigated the way in which SARS-CoV-2 reprograms host cells for its own benefit.

Their key finding was as follows: The new coronavirus slows down the cell’s own recycling mechanism, a process known as autophagy. The purpose of this ‘auto-digestion’ mechanism is to enable the cell to dispose of damaged cell materials and waste products while recycling usable molecular building blocks for incorporation into new cellular structures.

“In our study, we were able to show that at the same time as using the cell’s building blocks for its own benefit, SARS-CoV-2 deceives the cell by simulating a nutrient-rich status, thereby slowing cellular recycling,” explains first author Dr. Gassen. As part of this work, the researchers undertook a detailed analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infected cells and the lung tissue of COVID-19 patients, studying cellular metabolism and the processing of molecular signals.

“It is likely that SARS-CoV-2 uses this to avoid dismantling by the cell. After all, viruses are also subject to autophagic disposal,” adds the study’s last author, DZIF researcher PD Dr. Müller. He adds: “The same reprogramming strategy is also used by the MERS coronavirus, whose autophagy-inhibiting action we were able to demonstrate more than a year ago. However, there are other coronaviruses which, quite in contrast to this, induce autophagy. These mainly infect animals.”

When results from the study suggested that the recycling mechanism might be a potential target for COVID-19 therapy, the researchers tested whether substances which induce cellular recycling also reduce the replication of SARS-CoV-2 inside infected cells. Interestingly, the researchers found four substances which proved effective – all of them already in use in humans. These included the polyamine spermidine, an autophagy-enhancing metabolite which is produced in all human cells and by bacteria in the human gut. It occurs naturally in foods such as wheat germ, soya, mushrooms, and mature cheese and is freely available as a food supplement.

When the researchers added spermidine to cells infected with SARS-CoV-2, this resulted in an 85 percent reduction in the numbers of virus particles produced. Similar results were produced by spermine, another polyamine which occurs naturally in the body. This derivative of spermidine was found to reduce viral replication by more than 90 percent in human lung cells and in a human gut model comprising clusters of cells known as ‘organoids’.

“The obvious effects produced by spermidine and, in particular, spermine are certainly encouraging. For one thing, substances which occur naturally in the body are less likely to induce side effects,” says PD Dr. Müller. “Having said that, we worked with pure forms of these substances which are not suitable for medical use. Spermidine, in particular, has to be used at relatively high concentrations to achieve an appreciable effect in cell culture.

“Many questions therefore remain to be answered before we can consider polyamines as a potential treatment against COVID-19: When used in the body, will it be possible to achieve blood levels high enough to inhibit viral replication in the respiratory tract? And, if yes: would administration before or during the infection be advisable? Are there any side effects? Even so, our findings from cell culture are a good starting point for research involving animal models. Self-medication is not advisable, one of the reasons being that viruses also use polyamines to help boost replication; the correct dosage is therefore crucial. The same applies to fasting, which can stimulate the body’s autophagy process. Given that the body needs energy to mount an immune response, it remains unclear whether fasting is advisable in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients.”

The third substance to prove effective against SARS-CoV-2 was the ‘AKT inhibitor’ MK-2206. The substance is currently at the clinical trial stage and undergoing testing for its tolerability and efficacy against a range of different cancers. In the current study, MK-2206 reduced the production of infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus by approximately 90%. It did so at plasma concentrations which had already been achieved during a previous study. “Based on our data, I would consider MK-2206 as an interesting treatment candidate against COVID-19 which, after a careful analysis of risks and benefits, would justify further study in clinical trials,” explains PD Dr. Müller.

The most pronounced antiviral effect was associated with niclosamide, which the researchers had shown to be effective against the MERS coronavirus during an earlier study. The tapeworm drug was found to reduce the production of infectious SARS-CoV-2 particles by more than 99 percent.

“Niclosamide showed the strongest effect in our cell culture-based experiments. What is more, it has been licensed for use against tapeworm infections in humans for a very long time and is well tolerated at potentially relevant doses,” says PD Dr. Müller. He adds: “Out of the four new candidate substances, we consider it to be the most promising one. This is why we are now conducting a clinical trial at Charité to test whether niclosamide might also have a positive effect on people with COVID-19. I am delighted at this development. It shows how quickly findings from basic research can reach patients if research and clinical practice are closely interlinked and work together in an efficient manner.”

The Phase II clinical trial – entitled ‘NICCAM’ – is being led by Prof. Dr. Martin Witzenrath, Deputy Head of Charité’s Department of Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine. The study will test the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of niclosamide combined with camostat (another licenced drug) in patients recently (within the last few days) diagnosed with COVID-19. The study is currently recruiting and looking for participants. Potential participants wishing to find out more information on the study should contact the team at ‘Charité Research Organisation’ on +49 30 450 539 210 or by emailing patienten(at)charite-research.org.

Reference: “SARS-CoV-2-mediated dysregulation of metabolism and autophagy uncovers host-targeting antivirals” by Nils C. Gassen, Jan Papies, Thomas Bajaj, Jackson Emanuel, Frederik Dethloff, Robert Lorenz Chua, Jakob Trimpert, Nicolas Heinemann, Christine Niemeyer, Friderike Weege, Katja Hönzke, Tom Aschman, Daniel E. Heinz, Katja Weckmann, Tim Ebert, Andreas Zellner, Martina Lennarz, Emanuel Wyler, Simon Schroeder, Anja Richter, Daniela Niemeyer, Karen Hoffmann, Thomas F. Meyer, Frank L. Heppner, Victor M. Corman, Markus Landthaler, Andreas C. Hocke, Markus Morkel, Nikolaus Osterrieder, Christian Conrad, Roland Eils, Helena Radbruch, Patrick Giavalisco, Christian Drosten and Marcel A. Müller, 21 June 2021, Nature Communications.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24007-w

Jubilee on Earth · Jun 28, 2021

marsh said:
HERE WE GO: WHO Recommends Masks and Social Distancing For Everyone - Vaccinated and Unvaccinated - Due to Covid "Delta" Variant | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

The China-funded World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending masks and social distancing for everyone – vaccinated and unvaccinated – due to the Covid “ta” variant.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

HERE WE GO: WHO Recommends Masks and Social Distancing For Everyone – Vaccinated and Unvaccinated – Due to Covid “Delta” Variant

By Cristina Laila
Published June 27, 2021 at 6:50pm

The China-funded World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending masks and social distancing for everyone – vaccinated and unvaccinated – due to the Covid “Delta” variant.

“Vaccine alone won’t stop community transmission,” Dr. Mariangela Simao, WHO’s assistant director-general for access to medicines and health products, said. “People need to continue to use masks consistently, be in ventilated spaces, hand hygiene … the physical distance, avoid crowding. This still continues to be extremely important, even if you’re vaccinated when you have a community transmission ongoing.”

Fox News reported:

As the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus gained traction around the world, the World Health Organization urged vaccinated people to continue to wear masks and social distance, according to reports.

The recommendation comes weeks after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said vaccinated people can go most places without masks. However, federal mandates remain on airplanes, for example.

The vaccines are considered “highly effective” against the delta variant, according to a recent study by the British government, although slightly less than the original strain.

But the WHO urged those vaccinated to “play it safe” and wear a mask because so many remain unvaccinated globally and the variant has become the main spreader in several countries, CNBC reported.

Authoritarians are already using the “Delta” variant to justify a new round of lockdowns and mandates.

The Australian city of Sydney just went into a two-week hard lockdown after more than 80 new cases of the “Delta” variant of Covid-19 were confirmed.
Israel reinstated its mask mandate because of the “Delta” variant.

I think we should all start blasting everywhere that masks and lockdowns are racist, and let that catch on. That’ll make it go away!

jward · Jun 28, 2021

I've said for months now that at least part, if not all, the reason for this nonsense was to prevent assemblage and thus communication re: and push back on our election theft. Now they'll send us to our rooms any time they want. They think.

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REPORT: No longer about health. Canada will prevent groups from gathering in order to stop the spread of 'unauthorized information'.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1409185402280316929

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jward · Jun 28, 2021

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I will NOT lockdown again because of a "variant". If you want to arrest an old Female Veteran for not allowing you you take my freedom (that I served to protect for my country)...then come damn get some!

marsh · Jun 29, 2021

Lawsuit: Biden Not Disclosing COVID Info on Illegals Released into U.S.

A lawsuit alleges Biden is refusing to disclose information related to the coronavirus transmission and treatment of illegal aliens.

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Lawsuit: Biden Refusing to Disclose Coronavirus Information on Illegal Aliens Released into U.S.

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DONNA, TEXAS - MARCH 30: Young migrants wait to be tested for Covid-19 at the Department of Homeland Security holding facility on March 30, 2021 in Donna, Texas. The Donna location is the main detention center for unaccompanied children coming across the U.S. border in the Rio Grande Valley. (Photo …

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A lawsuit filed last week alleges that President Joe Biden’s administration is refusing to disclose information related to the Chinese coronavirus transmission, testing, and treatment of illegal aliens who are then released into the United States interior.

The government watchdog organization Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after they failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request which sought coronavirus data records on illegal aliens the administration has continued releasing into the U.S. interior.

Specifically, the lawsuit seeks:

Any and all technical guidance provided to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement and/or any official or employee thereof regarding, concerning, or related to the transmission, testing, mitigation, and/or treatment of COVID-19 for undocumented immigrants who are in or are released from Department of Homeland Security and/or Customs and Border Patrol custody. [Emphasis added]

According to the lawsuit, they sent the FOIA request to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) on April 15. The following day, the lawsuit states that CDC officials confirmed they had received the request.

To date, though, the lawsuit states that the CDC has yet to reply to the FOIA request.

“The Biden administration secrecy on its border crisis includes stonewalling on the issue of Covid-19 and illegal immigration and controversial refugee resettlement programs,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.

For five months, the Biden administration has released tens of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior often without confirming that they are negative for coronavirus. In a number of cases, border crossers are put on buses and commercial domestic flights where they can bypass proof of a negative coronavirus test and have photo identity requirements waived.

In April, the New York Times reported that even as the Biden administration has put border crossers up in migrant hotels to quarantine, those border crossers regularly skip out on the quarantine and instead leave the hotels to continue traveling into the U.S. interior.

Most recently, former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Chief Mark Morgan revealed that “few to none” of the border crossers arriving at the southern border who are subsequently released into the U.S. interior have received the coronavirus vaccine.

The case is Judicial Watch v. U.S. Dep’t of Health and Human Services, No. 1:21-cv-01514 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

marsh · Jun 29, 2021

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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India May Have Failed To Count As Many As 1 Million COVID Deaths

MONDAY, JUN 28, 2021 - 11:50 PM
With nearly 400K COVID-19 deaths, India has the world's third-highest coronavirus death toll, following the US (in first place with more than 600K+) and Brazil (coming in second with 510K+). For months now, we have been reporting on commentary from analysts and public health experts speculating that India's total COVID deaths might be 2x the official number. Some journalists have even found evidence of deaths that weren't included in the official tally.

On Monday, a story published by WSJ cited modeling from the University of Washington's IHME institute, the not-very-accurate purveyor of COVID-19 forecasting, which suggests that India's COVID-19 death toll might be as high as 1.1MM. This would mean that the wave of infections that spread across India in April and May (largely driven by the Delta variant) may have been the deadliest outbreak yet.

Lacking accurate data on deaths is a problem for scientists trying to determine exactly how much deadlier the "Delta" variant is when compared with earlier strains of the virus. An accurate count is "a very important part of understanding how big a threat new variants are," said Christopher Murray, director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Dr. Murray believes the scale of under-counting of COVID-linked deaths in India is similar to the scale of under-counting seen in Africa and Latin America. But even greater than the under-counting of deaths, of course, is the under-counting of total cases, he added that the institute estimates India has detected only about 3% to 5% of all infections due to insufficient testing.

Another academic believes COVID deaths in India might be as much as 5x higher than the current tally, which would place the death toll closer to 2MM. That's according to Murad Banaji, a mathematician at the Middlesex University in London who has been tracking the pandemic in India, estimates the country’s real death toll could be around 5x the reported figure, based partly on mortality and serosurvey data (which purports to show the percentage of antibodies in the population, data that has been collected and relied upon by India's public health authorities).

Of course, as we noted above, it's not just India. The WHO believes the true number of COVID-19 cases around the world is 2x to 3x higher than the official tally.

But India's undercounting of deaths is especially severe because overwhelmed hospitals started turning away patients during the April-May outbreak, leaving many to die in their homes are cars. Many of these patients weren't counted because their deaths didn't take place in a hospital, but at home, without them ever being tested for COVID.

Several Indian states have set up compensation funds to help families that lost loved ones during the pandemic. However, these funds typically require proof that the death was caused by COVID-19, leaving thousands of families effectively shut out of one of the most reliable sources of government support.

In the village of Sirondhan in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, for example, Vijay Pal Singh said his 38-year-old wife, Mithilesh Devi, fell ill last month with a fever and struggled to breathe. Mr. Singh said he took her to the village clinic and several hospitals in the district, but none had available beds or testing kits.

"She died at home, gasping for oxygen," Mr. Singh said. Her death wasn't included in the official Covid-19 tally, he added.

At least 30 people died in the village in late April and early May, many suffering from Covid-like symptoms, according to villagers and social workers. A further 47 died in two neighboring villages.

Villager Dharamvir Singh said one or two people died almost every day during the worst weeks of the second wave. He says he believes he and four members of his family were infected. No one was tested.
"The official numbers, at least for our village and a few others close to us, are totally wrong," Mr. Singh said.

Government officials in the state insist that the official numbers are correct, and that there are no plans to expand or revise the tallies. This shouldn't come as a surprise, since Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government praises states with lower numbers while castigating states with higher numbers. While some states and cities have adjusted their tallies, the official numbers likely remain far below the true figures. A recent investigation in the state of Bihar found nearly 4,000 more Covid-19 deaths, raising its toll by over 72%.

At the very least, more communities across India are resorting to COVID prophylactics like Ivermectin, measures that have apparently helped India to finally bring its outbreak under control.

marsh · Jun 29, 2021

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Israel Sees Explosion Of Cases In Vaccinated Patients Caused By "Delta" Variant

MONDAY, JUN 28, 2021 - 08:30 PM
More evidence is emerging to suggest that the Delta COVID variant poses a very real threat, even to patients who have already been fully vaccinated.

As a reminder, the WHO's new naming scheme has the most pervasive variants named after greek letters. Right now, the Delta variant is causing the most trouble worldwide.

Source: SCMP

It prompted UK PM Boris Johnson to delaying the end of the UK's COVID-19 restrictions, which have been rolled back with agonizing slowness, as many Britons have complained. It is also now causing a wave of lockdowns and travel restrictions around the world as countries with lower vaccination rates have come to see it as a serious threat. Meanwhile, despite Israel's efforts to try and suppress the variant, more cases of Delta have been detected across the country, forcing Israel's public health authorities to consider more drastic measures.

An outbreak of the Delta variant in Israel has spread to many vaccinated people, with about half of the adults infected already being fully innocualted with the Pfizer vaccine. Along with Moderna's jab, the two mRNA-based vaccines are believed to be more than 90% effective against preventing COVID-19. Still, as more evidence of spread among the vaccinated arises, Pfizer and Moderna will have more incentive to market "booster" vaccines as they transition to protecting the vulnerable against COVID over the long term.

Ran Balicer, the head of Israel's COVID-19 government advisory committee, said that about 90% of new infections in the country were likely caused by the Delta variant.

"The entrance of the Delta variant has changed the transmission dynamics," Balicer said.

Children under the age of 16, most of whom haven't yet been vaccinated, accounted for roughly half of the new cases.

Israel has seen the Delta variant drive cases higher for the first time in months, as the average daily count of new cases has risen to 200 from around 10 a day for most of June. It doesn't look like much, but public health officials fear it might be the start of another wave of infections, undermining PM Bennett and former PM Netanyahu's efforts to crush COVID entirely.

marsh · Jun 29, 2021

Explosive Report: China Discussed Making Bioweapons to Target Certain Races

Don’t expect to see this on CNN....

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Explosive Report: China Discussed Making Bioweapons to Target Certain Races

by Matt PalumboPosted: June 28, 2021

(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

If a new report is to be believed, China may have far more to answer for than just COVID-19.
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According to The Daily Wire:

A new report from an investigative reporter who has been at the forefront of reporting on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and the Wuhan Institute of Virology alleges that China discussed the threat that man-made viruses pose to mankind and how they might be weaponized to target certain groups of people.

The investigator is David Asher, who formally led the State Department’s investigation into the pandemic’s origins before the Biden administration shut it down.

Asher said that what China wrote in its declaration to the United Nations “essentially laid out a road map of developments in biotechnology pertinent to the biological weapons convention that the Chinese indicated as particularly salient.”

“It wasn’t clear from their declaration whether this was for potential offensive use of synthetic biology and other techniques … but it certainly appears to lay out what they felt were going to be the drivers of a more potent offense in the future decade related to biotechnology,” he said. “This is probably the most disturbing thing to note that there could be a type of population-targeting or ethnic targeting using biology, according to the Chinese. That doesn’t mean they did it in the case of Covid-19 or anything else but it definitely implied that they were fully aware that this is feasible and possible.”

China made these statements in 2011 in a submission to the UN’s Seventh Review Conference of the State Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Biological and Toxin Weapons.
Their submission warned that new kinds of biotechnology would be used for hostile purposes and posted a growing threat to human society. They added that new technologies were making it harder for them to maintain “full and strict compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention.”

As they write in their report:

“Theoretically speaking, synthetic biotechnology poses a huge latent threat to mankind, as it could be used in the future to create pathogens of even greater toxicity and infectiousness than those currently known, and which are resistant to traditional vaccines and drugs as well as hard to isolate and identify with present day technology.”
“Thorough study of systems biology in the body can systematically analyze differences in genes and susceptibility to disease in the population and lay the theoretical foundations for an across the board improvement in levels of human health, but it can also create the potential for biological weapons based on genetic differences between races. Once hostile elements grasp that different ethnic groups harbor intrinsically different genetic susceptibilities to particular pathogens, they can put that knowledge into practice and create genetic weapons targeted at a racial group with a particular susceptibility.”
“The science and technology of synthetic biology are spreading rapidly and synthetic DNA technology has already become a basic tool of biological research; the related reagents and equipment are becoming ever easier to obtain. Accidental mistakes in biotech laboratories can place mankind in great danger. Synthetic biology in some civilian biotechnology research and applications may unintentionally give rise to new, highly hazardous man-made pathogens with unforeseeable consequences.”

Miles Yu, a former adviser to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said that he discovered a Chinese research paper that contained the same research fields that China mentioned in their submission to the UN. “It sent chills up my spine when I saw the submissions and the type of research China’s biological weapons experts had been working on, as China proudly announced to a world biological weapons convention, right there in black and white. It bore macabre significance because anything China’s bio-labs do might well be connected to the PLA’s biological weapons of mass destruction of the most lethal and sophisticated kind” he said.

marsh · Jun 29, 2021

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