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Ireland considering restarting mandatory hotel quarantine

by Reuters
Friday, 26 November 2021 19:01 GMT

DUBLIN, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Ireland is considering restarting its mandatory hotel quarantine regime after it told residents to avoid non-essential travel to seven southern African countries due to concerns over a new COVID-19 variant, its health minister said on Friday.

While Ireland has no direct flights to Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, it urged all Irish residents there to return as soon as possible and quarantine at home for 10 days upon their arrival.

"I've had advice from the chief medical officer to say it (mandatory hotel quarantine) is something we should consider," Stephen Donnelly told national broadcaster RTE, saying he would bring legislation before parliament early next week to enable the regime to resume after it was stood down in late September.

Tensions emerge over redefining the fully vaccinated .29 min

November 26, 2021 - 06:02 AM EST

Tensions emerge over redefining the fully vaccinated

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Why IS the Omicron variant so scary? Super strain has evolved to have ALL of the worst mutations of Alpha, Beta and Delta combined plus new ones that could make it the most infectious and jab-resistant variant ever

• British scientists warn new variant has twice as many mutations as Delta
• Experts think it will slash protection from Covid vaccines by 40 per cent
• Health Secretary Sajid Javid last night announced travel from six countries

By EMILY CRAIG HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 06:17 EST, 26 November 2021 | UPDATED: 18:23 EST, 26 November 2021

The Botswana Covid variant, described by experts as the worst strain ever, has all the worrying mutations from previous versions of the virus, plus many more that could make it the most infectious and vaccine-resistant one so far.

The super strain has acquired the mutations of Delta, which made that variant so transmissible that it became world-dominant in months.

And the new variant also includes the vaccine-resistant alterations seen on Beta — another strain of concern that emerged in South Africa and was thought to be best at escaping the immune system until now.

It also contains a drop-out mutation that helped the Alpha variant take off in the UK last winter. In total, the new super strain has 32 mutations on its spike protein, more than any variant before it and twice as many as Delta.

It contains two unique alterations on a specific part of the spike which help viruses open the door to human cells.

All warning signs suggest it will become world-dominant in months but scientists have cautioned they have not confirmed any of the effects of the mutations in a laboratory.

South Africa’s population has very high levels of natural immunity and seems to be spreading with ease, which UK experts think may allow it to easily infect former Covid patients.

But there is no rise in hospitalisations in the region, which raises hopes it could be a milder Covid iteration.

Here is everything we know about the variant so far:



The Botswana variant has around 50 mutations and more than 30 of them are on the spike protein. The current crop of vaccines trigger the body to recognise the version of the spike protein from older versions of the virus. But the mutations may make the spike protein look so different that the body's immune system struggles to recognise it and fight it off. And three of the spike mutations (H665Y, N679K, P681H) help it enter the body's cells more easily.

Meanwhile, it is missing a membrane protein (NSP6) which was seen in earlier iterations of the virus, which experts think could make it more infectious. And it has two mutations (R203K and G204R) that have been present in all variants of concern so far and have been linked with infectiousness

What is so concerning about the variant?

Experts say it is the 'worst variant they have ever seen' and are alarmed by the number of mutations it carries.

The variant — which the World Health Organization has named Omicron — has 32 mutations on the spike protein — the most ever recorded and twice as many as the currently dominant Delta strain.

Experts fear the changes could make the vaccines 40 per cent less effective in a best-case scenario.

This is because so many of the changes on B.1.1.529 are on the virus's spike protein.

The current crop of vaccines trigger the body to recognise the version of the spike from older versions of the virus.

But because the spike protein looks so different on the new strain, the body's immune system may struggle to recognise it and fight it off.

It also includes mutations found on the Delta variant that allow it to spread more easily.

Experts warn they won't know how much more infectious the virus is for at least two weeks and may not know its impact on Covid hospitalisations and deaths for up to six weeks.

What mutations does the variant have?

The Botswana variant has more than 50 mutations and more than 30 of them are on the spike protein.

It carries mutations P681H and N679K which are 'rarely seen together' and could make it yet more jab resistant.

These two mutations, along with H655Y, may also make it easier for the virus to sneak into the body's cells.

And the mutation N501Y may make the strain more transmissible and was previously seen on the Kent 'Alpha' variant and Beta among others.

Two other mutations (R203K and G204R) could make the virus more infectious, while a mutation that is missing from this variant (NSP6) could increase its transmissibility.







It also carries mutations K417N and E484A that are similar to those on the South African 'Beta' variant that made it better able to dodge vaccines.

But it also has the N440K, found on Delta, and S477N, on the New York variant — which was linked with a surge of cases in the state in March — that has been linked to antibody escape.

Other mutations it has include G446S, T478K, Q493K, G496S, Q498R and Y505H, although their significance is not yet clear.

Will it affect Christmas in the UK?

Experts said it will be weeks until they know how worrying the new variant is, so it is not yet clear what extra steps might need to be taken in the run up to Christmas.

The only restrictions brought in by the Government so far has been to add six countries to the red list.

But Professor Adam Finn, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said new restrictions cannot be ruled out.

He told ITV's Good Morning Britain: 'On the one hand, I don't want to induce unnecessary anxiety in people, but on the other hand, I think we all need to be ready for the possibility of a change in the restrictions.'

And when asked what the situation would mean for the UK around the festive period, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said Plan B measures — including mandatory face masks and work from home guidance — would be brought in if needed to control infection rates.

Is it a variant of concern?

The World Health Organization has classified the virus as a ‘variant of concern’, the label given to the highest-risk strains.

This means WHO experts have concluded its mutations allow it to spread faster, cause more severe illness or hamper the protection from vaccines.

Where has the variant been detected so far?

The variant has so far been spotted in five nations: South Africa, Botswana, Hong Kong, Israel and Belgium.

Most cases have been spotted in Gauteng, a province in north east South Africa where Johannesburg is based.

The first case was uploaded to international variant database GISAID by Hong Kong and was spotted in someone who travelled to the country from South Africa.

No cases have been seen in the UK. But scientists do not sequence every positive Covid sample in the UK and not everyone who catches the virus will take a test.

This means there could be people infected with the variant in Britain.

What is the UK doing about the variant?

The Health Secretary announced last night six countries would be added to the red list from midday on Friday November 26.

The red-listed countries are: South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and Zimbabwe. This means all direct flights from these countries to the UK are banned.

Anyone arriving in England between midday today and 4am on Sunday from these countries — or who has been in the countries in the 10 previous days — must complete a passenger locator form, quarantine at home and should take a PCR test.

Anyone arriving from these countries after 4am on Sunday must stay in a managed quarantine hotel for 10 days and take a Covid test on or before the second day of their stay, as well as another test on or after day eight.

And the UK Health Security Agency classified B.1.1.529 as a Variant Under Investigation, which means it has worrying mutations.

Experts will now conduct a risk assessment and may increase its ranking to Variant of Concern if it is confirmed to be more infectious, cause more severe illness or make vaccines and medicines less effective.

Where did B.1.1.529 first emerge?

The first case was uploaded to international variant database GISAID by Hong Kong on November 23. The person carrying the new variant was travelling to the country from South Africa.

The UK was the first country to identify that the virus could be a threat and alerted other nations.

Since then, 77 cases have been confirmed in South Africa, two in Hong Kong and three in Botswana.

Health chiefs in Israel today announced it had one confirmed and two suspected B.1.1.529 cases, while there are two suspected cases in Belgium.

Experts believe the strain may have originated in Botswana, but continental Africa does not sequence many positive samples, so it may never be known where the variant first emerged.

Professor Francois Balloux, a geneticist at University College London, told MailOnline the virus likely emerged in a lingering infection in an immunocompromised patient, possibly someone with undiagnosed AIDS.

In patients with weakened immune systems infections can linger for months because the body is unable to fight it off. This gives the virus time to acquire mutations that allow it to get around the body's defences.





Dr Susan Hopkins shares concerns over Covid variant from South Africa

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Will I be protected if I have a booster?

Scientists have warned the new strain could make Covid vaccines 40 per cent less effective.

But they said emergence of the mutant variant makes it even more important to get a booster jab the minute people become eligible for one.

The vaccines trigger neutralising antibodies, which is the best protection available against the new variant. So the more of these antibodies a person has the better, experts said.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: 'The booster jab was already important before we knew about this variant – but now, it could not be more important.'

When will we know more about the variant?

Data on how transmissible the new variant is and its effect on hospitalisations and deaths is still weeks away.

The UK has offered help to South Africa, where most of the cases are concentrated, to gather this information and believe they will know more about transmissibility in two to three weeks.

But it may be four to six weeks until they know more about hospitalisations and deaths.

What is the variant called?

The strain was scientifically named as B.1.1.529 on November 24, one day after it was spotted in Hong Kong, but has not yet been given a name based on letters of the Greek alphabet.

The variants given an official name so far include Alpha, Beta, Delta and Gamma.

Experts at the World Health Organization are holding emergency meetings about the variant today, during which it is expected to be named. It could be called the 'Nu' variant.

Merck's COVID-19 pill significantly less effective in new analysis

by Reuters
Friday, 26 November 2021 16:59 GMT

Nov 26 (Reuters) - Merck & Co said on Friday updated data from its study of its experimental COVID-19 pill showed the drug was significantly less effective in cutting hospitalizations and deaths than previously reported.

The drugmaker said its pill showed a 30% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths, based on data from 1,433 patients. In October, its data nL1N2QX0QJ showed a roughly 50% efficacy, based on data from 775 patients. The drug, molnupiravir, was developed with partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics.

The lower efficacy of Merck's drug could have big implications in terms of whether countries continue to buy the pill. Interim data from 1,200 participants in Pfizer Inc's trial for its experimental pill, Paxlovid, showed an 89% reduction in hopsitalizations and deaths.

Merck's shares fell 3.5% to $79.39 in morning trading.

Merck released the data before the U.S Food and Drug Administration published a set of documents on Friday intended to brief a panel of outside experts who will meet on Tuesday to discuss whether to recommend authorizing the pill.

The agency's staff did not make their own recommendation as to whether the pill should be authorized.

FDA staff asked the panel to discuss whether the benefits of the drug outweigh the risks and whether the population for whom the drug should be authorized should be limited.

They also asked the committee to weigh in on concerns over whether the drug could encourage the virus to mutate, and how those concerns could be mitigated.

Pills like molnupiravir and Paxlovid could be promising new weapons in the fight against the pandemic, as they can be taken as early at-home treatments to help prevent COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths. They could also become important tools in countries and areas with limited access to vaccines or low inoculation rates.

EASIER TREATMENT
The Merck and Pfizer pills are cheaper to produce and easier to administer than existing treatment options such as antibody therapies from Regeneron and Eli Lilly, which are mostly administered as intravenous infusions.

The two experimental drugs have different mechanisms of action. Merck's is designed to introduce errors into the genetic code of the virus. Pfizer's drug, part of a class known as protease inhibitors, is designed to block an enzyme the coronavirus needs in order to multiply.

Merck filed for a U.S. authorization of molnupiravir on Oct. 11, following the interim data, and submitted the updated data to the FDA this week.

The molnupiravir arm of the study had a hospitalization and death rate of 6.8%, according to the updated data. The placebo group had a hospitalization and death rate of 9.7%.

One patient in the molnupiravir arm died, versus nine in the placebo group.

The United Kingdom conditionally approved molnupiravir, branded as Lagevrio, earlier this month.

Merck expects to produce 10 million courses of the treatment by the end of this year, with at least 20 million set to be manufactured in 2022. It has a contract with the U.S. government to supply as many as 5 million courses at a price of $700 per course. Several other countries have already secured millions of courses of the pill.

Merck has said data shows molnupiravir is not capable of inducing genetic changes in human cells, but men enrolled in its trials had to abstain from heterosexual intercourse or agree to use contraception. Women of child-bearing age also had to use birth control.

Still, the FDA said in its briefing document that there are safety concerns about potential birth defects from the drug and asked the panel to discuss whether the drug should be available to pregnant women.

November 26, 2021 - 10:30 AM EST

BioNTech says it will know vaccine's effectiveness against new variant in two weeks
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BioNTech is studying the new COVID-19 variant that emerged in South Africa and said it will know in two weeks if the vaccine it developed with Pfizer is effective against it, The Financial Times reported.

The German company said it is testing the B.1.1.529 variant to determine if its vaccine would have to be reworked, noting the new variant "differs significantly from previously observed variants."

"We expect more data from the laboratory tests in two weeks at the latest. These data will provide more information about whether B.1.1.529 could be an escape variant that may require an adjustment of our vaccine if the variant spreads globally," a BioNTech spokesperson told Reuters.

Pfizer and BioNTech put plans in place months ago to be able to adapt the vaccine in 6 weeks and ship a new version of their shot within 100 days if necessary, the spokeswoman added.

BioNTech did not immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment.

The new variant was detected in South Africa and a number of countries moved quickly on Friday to restrict travel from southern Africa.

Scientists have been trying to understand the variant, and whether it can evade immune responses triggered by vaccines.

The new variant has been described by U.K. health officials as the "most significant" variant identified yet, citing more mutations in the spike protein of the virus.

China is working overtime.

Vaccine Mandates Pressure Businesses, Stoke Division Amongst Employees, Executives Say

FRIDAY, NOV 26, 2021 - 04:30 PM

As if you already didn't know, business owners are making it clear: President Biden's vaccine mandates are making it difficult to hire and are "stoking tensions" among workers.

Employers with 100 or more workers now have to make sure employees are fully vaccinated, according to new federal rules outlined by the Wall Street Journal. Those without vaccination need to test negative for Covid-19 "at least weekly", the report says.

While the mandate continues to play out in the courts and OSHA has temporarily agreed not to enforce it, many business owners continue to prepare for it.

For some, it's not all good news. Business owner Pete Yohe told the WSJ he supports vaccines: “But I hate the 100-plus mandate, which forces some of our employees to quit and go to smaller companies.”

40 of his roughly 140 employees haven’t been vaccinated, he said. He expects that two would quit before following the mandate.

Jason Hitch, chairman of Hitch Enterprises Inc., told the Journal he is hoping the courts strike down the mandate. He says while he is encouraging staff to vaccinate, he “doesn’t want to be the police officer of the government’s mandate.”

He is considering staying below the 100 employee threshold simply to avoid the mandate.

When he asked his employees about their vaccination status for the first time, "the response was so negative that they were reluctant to broach it again", he said.

He predicts 60% of his workers are vaccinated, but that there's a "vocal minority" who are strongly opposed to it.

Employees at Dyco (Photo: WSJ)

“They understand it’s the government, but we are the implementers. It directs the vitriol towards us," Hitch said.

Steven Davis, area manager for Huntsville, Ala.-based Inline Electric Supply Co., says that mask mandates among unvaccinated workers would only cause division amongst employees. He said: “We are not acting as a team. It is frustrating to me.”

He guesses that about 40% of his company's 255 employees have been vaccinated, telling the Journal: “We have absolutely tried to educate people. It’s just right now, we have hit a wall. People have dug in.”

48 year old Christian Cook, who is a saw operator at Dyco, had Covid land him in the hospital for five days. He says he is still "on the fence" about being vaccinated. “I don’t need to have somebody tell me what I am going to do and not do,” he said.

Allen Hurlburt, co-owner of H&M Gopher Control in Tulelake, Calif., implemented a vaccine mandate for his 7 employees. Five of his unvaccinated employees quit.

“Ignoring the problem and [deciding to] continue operations was not an option,” Hurlburt said after replacing his staff. “We do not have the skilled personnel we had, but all are vaccinated. We are filling orders. We are getting the job done.”

Reid Tileston, who owns Giddings Hawkins Maintenance Service, said he didn't want to take chances with the future of his business.

“For me as a business owner, it was vaccinate the workforce or face chapter 11 [bankruptcy],” he concluded. One employee refused to get vaccinated and was terminated.

“His position is no longer available to him," Tileston concluded.

Blue States Experience Massive Coronavirus Surge in Last Two Weeks
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HANNAH BLEAU26 Nov 2021437

Blue states, some of which had the most restrictive requirements in the country throughout the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, are experiencing massive surges of the virus as the holiday season arrives, prompting some to reimplement mitigation strategies and keep others in place.

Michigan is reporting one of the biggest surges in the nation, experiencing a daily average of 8,457 cases, or 85 per 100,000, according to the New York Times‘ tracker. That reflects an 88 percent increase in cases in the last 14 days alone. This week, the federal government agreed to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) request to send “two medical teams to local hospitals to relive doctors and nurses as they treat COVID-19 and other patients” amid the surge.

Pennsylvania, under Gov. Tom Wolf’s (D) leadership, is seeing a daily average of 6,251 cases, or 49 per 100,000. That reflects an increase of 40 percent over the last two weeks as well.

Similarly, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) New York is reporting a daily average of 6,666 cases, or 34 per capita. That reflects an increase of 37 percent in the last 14 days.

While neighboring New Jersey is faring slightly better, reporting 25 cases per 100,000, or a daily average of 2,183 cases, that still reflects an increase of 61 percent over the same time period.

Meanwhile, Illinois, one of the few states with a statewide mask mandate in place, is reporting a daily average of 4,661 cases, or 34 per 100,000. That reflects an increase of 86 percent in the last two weeks.

The Sunshine State, whose Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) stood against longterm lockdowns, continues to have the lowest coronavirus rate per capita in the nation, sitting at six. That reflects a two percent decrease in cases over the last two weeks.

Military to Assist Michigan with Coronavirus Surge After Gov. Whitmer Seeks Help
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AMY FURR26 Nov 2021294

The federal government plans to send 44 military medical workers to Michigan to assist hospitals treating coronavirus patients during a fourth surge that has become the worst in the nation, according to state health officials.

“It also will open beds at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Detroit for transfers. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer sought the assistance at the request of the Michigan Health & Hospital Association,” the Associated Press (AP) reported Wednesday.

The two groups of 22 physicians, nurses, and respiratory therapists are scheduled to arrive next week and tend patients for 30 days inside Beaumont Hospital located in Dearborn, and Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, the health department explained.

Over 4,100 individuals had been hospitalized with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases as of Wednesday, the AP report said, adding that the number of hospitalized adults who had confirmed illnesses was 3,900, which is 87 percent more than one month ago and approximately 94 percent of the state’s record high that was reached in April.

“Right now, our doctors and nurses are reporting the vast majority of their patients are unvaccinated or have not yet received a booster dose,” the governor noted in a recent statement.

“We can all do our part to help reduce the strain on our hospital systems by getting vaccinated, making an appointment to get a booster dose and continuing to take precautions to keep ourselves and loved ones safe,” she added.

Last week, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) announced an indoor mask advisory for residents two years old and up before the holiday season, regardless of their vaccination status.

Brian Peters, who is CEO of the statewide hospital group, described the current situation as “dire” and said the Department of Defense’s help was “desperately needed.”

“Many hospitals throughout the state are operating at capacity, delaying nonemergency medical procedures and placing their emergency departments on diversion,” he explained.

“Receiving these teams of federal caregivers can only help those hospitals.”



Meanwhile, Gov. Whitmer (D) was seen maskless at a bar in Washington, DC, according to photos that emerged in late October.

The pictures obtained by the Washington Free Beacon showed Whitmer at the Vue rooftop bar at the Hotel Washington without a mask, “a violation of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) indoor mask mandate,” Breitbart News reported at the time:



“Whitmer gained a reputation last year for her strict coronavirus policies when cases began surging, but her reputation suffered, per polling, as she repeatedly came under fire for violating her own orders,” the Breitbart News report concluded.

Prediction Comes True: Legislation Proposed to Deny Insurance Coverage to the Unvaccinated

BY STEVE MACDONALD / 26 NOVEMBER 2021

IN a world where vaccine passports are all the rage, the idea of blocking (any) insurance coverage on the same terms occurred to me early on – and here it is. A NY Democrat is proposing precisely that.

Freedom isn’t free doesn’t mean what you think it means, New York State Assembly-thing Pat Burke. And you are not at all serious about “the do your own part or pay your own way.” Not as a blanket worldview.

Just about everyone you hate would love that.

But you don’t want people educating their children their way. Heck, I doubt you trust them to do much of anything, being a New York Democrat. But let’s skip that and try to stick to your idiot premise.

On the whole, people who refuse a vaccine are prohibited from receiving treatment if they catch the thing you claim the vaccine exists to prevent.

Even if you could pass it, this won’t stand a chance in court.

Being vaccinated might protect people from the tyrannical musings of petty despots like yourself, but it doesn’t do a damn thing to prevent them from getting or spreading COVID19.

Discovery and cross-examination would destroy your case in a heartbeat, assuming The Jab hadn’t stopped that heart.

But Burke is nothing if not a persistent despot.

After facing backlash on Twitter, Burke said, “Let me know when smoking and obesity become highly contagious diseases that disrupt every facet of life, overwhelm hospitals, and cost the government trillions of dollars.”

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If COVID19 is anything, it’s Rubenesque amassing a significant body count in the more massive among us. And since when did Democrats abandon the scourge of smoking or secondhand smoke as public health emergencies?

You taxed and spent trillions over the last several decades, and if obesity is not an issue, then diet isn’t either, and we kick that Government food pyramid out the front door.

And you know what overwhelms hospitals? The natural right to healthcare was always, in my mind, a lot like what you’ve just suggested. Another power grab by the Left that would allow the social engineers to Pidgeon hole behavior ad nauseum.

Vaccine passports are just another gateway drug to redesigning society in your own busted and broken image. Complete with all the incompetence, waste, and fraud that comes with it.

Former Pfizer Employee & Biotech Analyst Karen Kingston Says Pfizer Jab Recipients More Likely to Contract COVID
There's data, scientists, doctors and experts who back this up

BY RED VOICE MEDIA
NOVEMBER 26, 2021

In a report that seemingly flew under the radar in early October, a former Pfizer employee who now works as a pharmaceutical marketing expert and biotech analyst presented research that reportedly found recipients of the Pfizer jab are more likely to get COVID than without having been jabbed.

On September 25th, Karen Kingston, the former Pfizer turned biotech analyst, spoke during a public conference alongside Ohio-based medical freedom rights attorney Thomas Renz.

Renz, who has reportedly been immersed in numerous critical lawsuits against federal agencies connected to fraud and abuses of medical freedom rights since the onset of the pandemic, introduced Kingston during the conference and showcased the documents she provided.

One such document presented was a September 17th “FDA Briefing Document” that was titled “Application for licensure of a booster dose for COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA),” which included a report pertaining to a study conducted by Pfizer that examined the length of immunity provided by their COVID jab.

The primary research, which included over 36,000 people, found that those who had the Pfizer COVID shot schedule earlier were more likely to get infected with the virus than those who received it later, suggesting a probable “waning of immunity” for the injections.

In the aforementioned time period, individuals who were injected earlier had a 7% likelihood of infection, while those who were injected later had only a 5.16% chance, indicating that the former had a 36% higher risk of infection than that of the latter.

VAERS Data Reveals 50-Fold Increase in Ectopic Pregnancies Following Covid-19 ‘Vaccine’ Shots

by MARY VILLAREAL
November 26, 2021

Data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) showed 2,620 more fetal deaths after getting the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine than the reported number of fetal deaths from all other vaccines in the past 30 years. One “symptom” tracked is for ectopic pregnancy.

Upon performing a search in VAERS for ectopic pregnancies following COVID-19 shots in the past 11 months, there have been 52 cases in 11 months where pregnant mothers received COVID-19 vaccine shots, and then later found to have ectopic pregnancy.

To compare, there had been 30 cases where pregnant mothers received vaccines approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and reported ectopic pregnancies in the past 30 years for an average of one ectopic pregnancy per year.

This means that there had been a 50-fold increase in ectopic pregnancies in women who had COVID-19 vaccine shots compared to other women receiving safe, FDA-approved vaccines in the past 30 years.

There had been many examples of these fetal deaths being reported, but the government continues to turn a blind eye even as reports continue to flood in.

For instance, two medical doctors and some protesters in Canada recently gathered at the Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, asking the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to press charges against health officials after it was reported that there had been 13 stillborn deaths within 24 hours.

Learn more about ectopic pregnancy
Pregnancy always begins with the fertilization of an egg. This fertilized egg usually attaches itself to the lining of the uterus. But in ectopic pregnancies, the fertilized egg implants and grows outside the main cavity of the uterus, usually in a fallopian tube. It can also occur in other areas, such as the ovary, abdominal cavity or the lower part of the uterus (cervix).

Because of the location of the fertilized egg, an ectopic pregnancy can’t proceed normally. The fertilized egg cannot survive in other parts of the body, and it may even cause life-threatening bleeding if left untreated.

Most pregnant women don’t notice any symptoms of ectopic pregnancy early. However, ectopic pregnancy does present the usual signs and symptoms of pregnancy such as a missed period or breast tenderness and nausea. (Related: Is the new “morning after pill” a Covid vaccine?)

Women who take pregnancy tests find their results to be positive, but the pregnancy cannot continue as normal. As the fertilized egg grows in an improper place, signs and symptoms become more noticeable.

Often, the first warning signs include light vaginal bleeding and pelvic pain. If blood leaks from the fallopian tube, there may also be shoulder pain or an urge to have a bowel movement, depending on where the blood collects and which nerves are irritated.

There are some factors that make women more likely to have ectopic pregnancies, including inflammation, infection from sexually transmitted diseases, fertility treatments, previous tubal surgery and even the choice of birth control.

One can’t prevent an ectopic pregnancy, but there are ways to decrease the risk, such as limiting the number of sexual partners and using condoms to prevent sexually transmitted infections. Smoking is also a risk factor, so women are advised to quit smoking when trying to get pregnant.

Is COVID-19 vaccine really safe for pregnant women?
A separate study that reported preliminary findings regarding the safety of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnant persons noted that the clinical trials for mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines did not include pregnant women, limiting safety data in the group.

With more pregnant women in the general population receiving the vaccines since, they were able to provide information to assess safety data.

The results showed that 3,958 pregnant women enrolled in surveillance system registries, and that injection-site pain was reported to be the most common among pregnant women. However, the pregnancy outcomes were concerning.

Of the registered women, only 827 participants completed their pregnancy. Out of these, 86.1 percent gave live birth, 12.6 percent had spontaneous abortions, 0.1 percent had stillbirths and 1.2 percent had other outcomes like induced abortion and ectopic pregnancy.

VAERS data from December 14, 2020, to February 28, 2021, alone showed 29.9 percent pregnancy-related reports out of 221, most of which include spontaneous abortions – 37 in the first trimester, two in the second trimester and seven unknown or not reported.

The authors concluded that data from three different surveillance systems – including VAERS – did not indicate any obvious safety signals regarding pregnancy or neonatal outcomes associated with the COVID-19 vaccinations.

While not directly comparable, the proportions of adverse outcomes in vaccinated women were said to be similar to those reported in studies involving them before the pandemic. Experts suggest further studies are necessary, especially in women vaccinated in the first trimester.

Learn more about adverse effects following COVID-19 vaccinations at Immunization.news.
Sources include:

• GlobalResearch.ca
• MayoClinic.org
• OBGProject.com

As Omicron Variant Throws World Into Chaos, One Pharmaceutical Company Suddenly Says It Already Has a ‘Vaccine’ in Testing for It

November 26, 2021
by Kyle Becker



Written by Kyle Becker

The Omicron variant, the latest Covid mutation grabbing international headlines, is already causing a devastating ripple effect throughout the world. Global authorities in the U.K. and the E.U. are tightening their borders in anticipation of another Covid wave.

In the United States, New York’s governor Kathy Hochul has already canceled elective surgeries in the state citing the Omicron variant, even as the transmissibility and deadliness of this latest Covid mutation are unknown. The variant is believed to have originated in Botswana, and may be playing a role in a Covid surge in South Africa. The variant has been identified in Botswana, South Africa, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam in The Netherlands.

Pfizer-BioNTech, fresh off sky-high profits off of its government-mandated ‘vaccines,’ is already mullying a ‘future relaunch‘ of a Covid-19 vaccine to deal with the Omicron variant. It looks like a lesser-known pharmaceutical company, Novavax, however, may beat it to the punch.

Novavax said on Friday it has “started working on a version of its COVID-19 vaccine to target the variant detected in South Africa” and “would have the shot ready for testing and manufacturing in the next few weeks,” Reuters reported.

“The company’s COVID-19 shot contains an actual version of the virus’ spike protein that cannot cause disease but can trigger the immune system,” Reuters noted. “The vaccine developer said it had started developing a spike protein specifically based on the known genetic sequence of the variant, B.1.1.529.”

“The initial work will take a few weeks,” a company spokesperson said. “Shares of the company closed up nearly 9% on Friday.”

The report notes that Novavax’s vaccine received its first emergency use approval earlier this month in Indonesia, followed by the Philippines.

“The company has said it is on track to file for U.S. approval by the end of the year,” the report continued. “It has also filed for approvals with the European Medicines Agency as well as in Canada.”

Novavax’s statement indicates a potential continuation of the track record of Covid vaccines that are patented and developed ‘too quickly.’ Before SARS-CoV-2 burst onto the global scene in December 2019, it was expected that a vaccine took years of testing and development.

Suddenly, it takes almost no time at all to produce a so-called “vaccine” that is actually just a prophylactic therapeutic, which subsequently wears off in months and requires “boosters.” It is reminiscent of the manner that China rapidly produced a patent for a vaccine after international authorities learned of Covid-19, which the Communist Chinese Party apparently knew about and kept hidden from the world since May 2019.

The sudden appearance of Covid-19 in Wuhan preceded China filing an improbably early COVID-19 vaccine patent. Indeed, the ‘warp speed’ rollout would have been virtually impossible, unless the Chinese were already conducting research on the deadly coronavirus before the world knew about it.

The Australian reported that the “U.S. paid for the People’s Liberation Army to engineer coronaviruses.” The implications of the Pentagon funding such dangerous research in China are sweeping and profound.

National security sources said the ties between Zhou [Yusen] and Dr Shi [Zhengli aka the “Bat Woman”] supported claims by US intelligence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was engaged in “secret military activity.”

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“Zhou, who conducted the research in conjunction with the Wuhan institute, the University of Minnesota and the New York Blood Centre, was the first to file a patent for a Covid-19 vaccine on February 24 last year, according to documents obtained by The Weekend Australian.”

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This was only five weeks after China admitted there was human-to-human transmission of the virus.

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The holder of the patent is striking. “Zhou is listed as the lead inventor on the patent application lodged by the ‘Institute of Military Medicine, Academy of Military Sciences of the PLA’,” the report states.

The Australian contacted a viral expert who corroborates that the vaccine timeline is virtually impossible.

Nikolai Petrovsky, a medical researcher at Flinders University who has been developing a Covid-19 vaccine, said that while it was technically possible to have a vaccine in this time frame, it appeared to be a “remarkable achievement”.

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He said it left open the possibility the Chinese scientists were working on a vaccine before authorities publicly admitted there was a coronavirus outbreak.

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“This is something we have never seen achieved before, raising the question of whether this work may have started much earlier,” Professor Petrovsky said.

The plot thickens. One of the scientists involved in the research, Zhou Yusen, was the subject of an “unexplained death” in May 2020 after a probe into the origins of COVID-19 had begun. Five Eyes intelligence is investigating the mysterious death as part of a probe that was initiated by the Biden administration.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that scientific researchers believe that the RNA sequence in the SARS-CoV-2 virus is almost certainly unnatural in origin.

“The CGG-CGG combination has never been found naturally. That means the common method of viruses picking up new skills, called recombination, cannot operate here,” the scientists wrote in the WSJ.

“A virus simply cannot pick up a sequence from another virus if that sequence isn’t present in any other virus,” they added.

A scientist who has been studying the Omicron variant described it as “horrific.” It also has unusual properties that have not been seen in other Covid variants.

Tom Peacock, a virologist the Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College in the U.K., gave the latest state of scientific research on the Omicron variant.

“Just spotted: very small cluster of variant associated with Southern Africa with very long branch length and really awful Spike mutation profile including RBD – K417N, N440K, G446S, S477N, T478K, E484A, Q493K, G496S, Q498R, N501Y, Y505H (github.com/cov-lineages/p…)
Full Spike profile: A67V, Δ69-70, T95I, G142D/Δ143-145, Δ211/L212I, ins214EPE, G339D, S371L, S373P, S375F, K417N, N440K, G446S, S477N, T478K, E484A, Q493K, G496S, Q498R, N501Y, Y505H, T547K, D614G, H655Y, N679K, P681H, N764K, D796Y, N856K, Q954H, N969K, L981F.”
“For those interested this has an NTD insertion at the NTD insertion hotspot (at aa214) which shows high likelihood of being host-derived (from host TMEM245 mRNA),” he continued.



“Worth emphasising this is at super low numbers right now in a region of Africa that is fairly well sampled, however it very very much should be monitored due to that horrific spike profile (would take a guess that this would be worse antigenically than nearly anything else about),” he added.

“A final observation – this variant contains not one, but two furin cleavage site mutations – P681H (seen in Alpha, Mu, some Gamma, B.1.1.318) combined with N679K (seen in C.1.2 amongst others) – this is the first time I’ve seen two of these mutations in a single variant,” he noted.

Then he provided a few updates: “[T]his lineage has now been assigned as B.1.1.529: (github.com/cov-lineages/p…)

“Update on South African situation from @Tuliodna (Who is absolutely the best person to follow for updates on this) – bottom line is B.1.1.529 may already be quite widespread in SA,” he added.

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Tulio de Oliveira, the director of South Africa’s Center for Epidemic Response and Innovation, told the BBC the variant has an “unusual constellation of mutations.” For example, the Delta variant had two mutations to its receptor binding domain; this variant has 10, he said.

There are also anecdotal reports of cases in vaccinated people and reinfections, but health officials said more investigation is needed, Nature reported. Researchers are trying to measure the variant’s potential to spread globally, as well as if it will prove to be milder than the Beta and Delta variants.

“A burning question is ‘does it reduce vaccine effectiveness, because it has so many changes?’” Aris Katzourakis, who studies virus evolution at the University of Oxford.

Moore told Nature that breakthrough infections have been reported in South Africa among people who have received any of the three kinds of vaccines in use there: Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer–BioNTech and Oxford–AstraZeneca.

Ravindra Gupta, a professor of clinical microbiology at the University of Cambridge, said the new variant has a high number of spike mutations that could affect transmissibility and immune response.

“There’s a lot we don’t understand about this variant,” Richard Lessells, an infectious-diseases physician at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, said at a press briefing.

“The mutation profile gives us concern, but now we need to do the work to understand the significance of this variant and what it means for the response to the pandemic.”

“We’re flying at warp speed,” Penny Moore, a virologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, told Nature. Moore added that “at this stage it’s too early to tell anything” about the anecdotal reports of reinfections and of cases in vaccinated individuals.

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is already under scrutiny for the waning efficacy of its mRNA prophylactic therapeutic, which has been marketed as a ‘vaccine’ for Covid-19. The pharmaceutic company, whose Comirnaty vaccine was ‘fully authorized’ for Covid-19 by the Food and Drug Administration was granted full liability shielding by the Biden administration.

The so-called ‘vaccines’ have worn off so fast that the Centers for Disease Control is already recommending “boosters.”

Novavax may soon be the next pharmaceutical company to get in on the Covid profiteering. If it can produce a vaccine within weeks, it may find its product being mandated to millions of people worldwide — without anyone knowing the side effects or even if people will need more boosters in another six months.

Are We Overreacting to Omicron?

by Paul E. Alexander
November 26, 2021

With natural exposure immunity and early outpatient treatment and when combined with no reports of increased lethality, the WHO’s reaction of generating panic toward “Omicron” is causing needless fear and panic. So too with the Biden administration’s newly imposed travel restrictions, which will achieve nothing and will once again disrupt trade and violate human rights.

The WHO has said that the Omicron variant can spread more quickly than other variants. Likely true. The virus is behaving just like how viruses behave. They are mutable and mutate and via Muller’s ratchet, we expect this to be milder and milder mutations and not more lethal ones given the pathogen seeks to infect the host and not arrive at an evolutionary dead-end.

The virus will mutate downward so that it can use the host (us) to propagate itself via our cellular metabolic machinery. The Delta has shown us this: it is very infectious and mostly non-lethal. Especially for children and healthy people. So is the WHO panicking the globe needlessly? Is this Covid-19 February 2020 once again?

The problem with South Africa as is with Australia and New Zealand and even island nations like Trinidad is that it has low natural immunity to SAR-Cov-2. This is because, as we witnessed over the last year and more, if you lock down your society too long and too hard, you deny the nation and population from inching closer to population-level herd immunity. And you have no economy or society from which to reemerge. You devastate your society for a pathogen that is largely harmless to the vast majority of people, especially children.

Moreover, governments asked us for two weeks to flatten the curve to help prepare hospitals so that they can tend to surges and other non-Covid illnesses. We as societies gave our governments 2 weeks, not 21 months. They failed to tend to the non-Covid illnesses and we locked down the healthy and well (children and young and middle aged healthy persons) while failing to properly protect the vulnerable and high-risk persons such as the elderly. We failed and it was like killing fields in our nursing homes.

This failure rests on public health messaging and government. Additionally, what did our governments in the US, Canada, UK, Australia etc. do with the tax money for the hospitals and PPE etc.? Hospitals must be prepared by now. Governments have failed! Not the people. The Task Forces have failed, not the people.

These nations thought that they could stay locked down and wait for a vaccine. This is a reasonable view though I was against lockdowns as they would and did cause crushing harms on especially poor persons and children. The problem is there was an opportunity cost because the vaccine we were waiting on was sub-optimally developed without the proper safety testing or assessment of effectiveness.

We have data that the Pfizer vaccine loses 40% of antibodies per month, meaning in 3 months post-shot, you have low effective vaccinal immunity. We see it clearly playing out now whereby you got to tamp down spread with the draconian lockdowns, but you did it at the cost of natural immunity. That is the opportunity cost. So we spent on getting the vaccine and it cost us natural immunity and thus herd immunity.

For example, the vaccine has failed to stop infection and spread against Delta. We have research findings by Singanayagam et al. (fully vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit infection in household settings, including to fully vaccinated contacts), by Chau et al. (viral loads of breakthrough Delta variant infection cases in vaccinated nurses were 251 times higher than those of cases infected with prior strains early 2020), and by Riemersma et al. (no difference in viral loads when comparing unvaccinated individuals to those who have vaccine “breakthrough” infections and if vaccinated individuals become infected with the delta variant, they may be sources of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to others) that reveal the vaccines have very suboptimal efficacy.

This situation of the vaccinated being infectious and transmitting the virus has also emerged in seminal nosocomial outbreak papers by Chau et al. (HCWs in Vietnam), the Finland hospital outbreak (spread among HCWs and patients), and the Israel hospital outbreak (spread among HCWs and patients). These studies have also revealed that the PPE and masking were essentially ineffective within the healthcare setting. All of the HCWs were double-vaccinated yet there was extensive spread to themselves and their patients.

In addition, Nordström et al. (vaccine effectiveness of Pfizer against infection waned progressively from 92% day 15-30 to 47% day 121-180, and from day 211 and onwards no effectiveness), Suthar et al. (a substantial waning of antibody responses and T cell immunity to SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, at 6 months following the second immunization), Yahi et al. (with Delta variant, neutralizing antibodies have a decreased affinity for the spike protein, whereas facilitating antibodies display a strikingly increased affinity), Juthani et al. (higher numbers of patients with severe or critical illness in those who received the Pfizer vaccine), Gazit et al. (SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees had a 13-fold increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant, and substantially elevated risk of symptomatic Covid and hospitalization), and Acharya et al. (no significant difference in cycle threshold values between vaccinated and unvaccinated, asymptomatic and symptomatic groups infected with Delta) collectively reveal the poor efficacy and even negative efficacy of the Covid vaccines. Levine-Tiefenbrun et al. reports that the viral load reduction effectiveness declines with time after vaccination, “significantly decreasing at 3 months after vaccination and effectively vanishing after about 6 months.”

As an example, the Swedish study (retrospective with 842,974 pairs (N=1,684,958) is particularly alarming for it shows that while the vaccine provides temporary protection against infection, the efficacy declines below zero and then to negative efficacy territory at approximately 7 months, underscoring that the vaccinated are highly susceptible to infection and eventually become highly infected (more so than the unvaccinated). A further example emerges from Ireland whereby reporting suggests that the Waterford city district has the State’s highest rate of Covid-19 infections, while the county also boasts the highest rate of vaccination in the Republic (99.7% vaccinated). Reports are that the U.S. Covid-19 deaths for 2021 surpassed the deaths from 2020, leading some to state that “more people have died from COVID-19 in 2021, with most adults vaccinated and nearly all seniors), than in 2020 when nobody was vaccinated.”

Thus these nations that locked down and stayed that way are in a quandary for they do not know what to do now. If you open you will get surges in infection. Where is the money that was to go to hospital preparation? Did governments embezzle and steal and misappropriate the money for the hospitals remain still not prepared?

We have a lot of natural immunity in the US, e.g. near 65-70% of the population. The open states (those that did not lock down too long and too hard and opened quickly) will likely do very well with this Omicron or any new variant. This also is the power of natural immunity.

And we need not forget the potency of the overlooked ‘innate’ immunity with the innate antibodies and innate natural killer cellular compartment. This innate response is particularly potent in children (our first line of defense against pathogens) and is what has spared children from Covid and how children typically stave off pathogens, especially young children still laying down immunological memory.

Moreover, there is no reporting of increased virulence/lethality of this new Omicron variant. As yet this will remain the case based on Delta and prior variants. There are no guarantees but we operate based on risk and all things point to the same for this new variant.

Just because there is a wave in SA does not mean that there will be waves in the US or Israel or other places with greater natural immunity. This was the prize of letting people enjoy day-to-day living. The nations that have ended lockdowns are likely to move past this new variant scare, and be fine. This is more of an overreaction by the WHO and governments and much ado about nothing.

Image by Alexandra_Koch from Pixabay. Article cross-posted from Brownstone Institute.

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'We Are Lab Rats': Israeli Vaccine Victims Want Their Lives Back (Film)

Amy Mek
November 26, 2021



Israeli journalist Avital Livny created the ‘The Testimonies Project” to expose what the mainstream is hiding: the damage done by the mRNA DNA gene-therapy injections.

“I want my life back, but there is no turning back,” says a desperate Israeli woman. The coronavirus “vaccination,” which is mandatory in Israel, has destroyed her life. So Israeli journalist Avital Livny created the ‘The Testimonies Project” film to expose what the mainstream is hiding: the victims’ who the mRNA DNA gene-therapy injections have damaged.

Citizens want to keep going to the synagogue, going to work, being free. Now because of the mandatory vaccine, they can’t do all this anymore. Unvaccinated citizens are being pressured, coerced, threatened with loss of their jobs, and issued steep fines if they do not consent.

Recently, RAIR Foundation USA reported on military recruits who were intimidated and physically abused by military officers trying to administer the jab.

Many who succumbed to the state’s “vaccine” pressure suffer severe side effects and damage to their lives from the injection. At the same time, others are left mourning the death of people who have died because of the jab.

“I’m The Injection’s Side Effects”
In The Testimonies Project film, thirty-six people discuss the effects of the injection on their bodies from myocarditis, miscarriages, blood clots, vaginal bleeding, skin problems, neurological issues, 100% disability, death, and more.

“I’m 27; I’ve always worked. Now I have heart disease. Why is this happening to me?” complains a young man. “I had a miscarriage – the walls and stairs were full of blood,” says a mother who lost her second child to the experimental jab.

A man lost his son. Healthy young women who are now 100% disabled: “We are lab rats. It is an international catastrophe!” explains a horrified woman.

Watch the following film, providing a platform for those affected by the gene injection and ensuring their voices are heard. We hope this project will encourage more and more people to tell their stories:

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Would some of you check out the right side of Stu’s neck - HIS right side - and tell me what that big bump is? It really doesn’t look like it should be there.

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TWiV 834: COVID-19 clinical update #90 with Dr. Daniel Griffin

Nov 26, 2021


Vincent Racaniello

In COVID-19 clinical update #90, Dr. Griffin covers FDA expansion for booster doses, 3 more at home antigen tests approved by FDA, immune correlates analysis of mRNA-1273 vaccine, risk for stillbirth, PROVENT prophylaxis trial results, fluvoxamine recommendations, advice on molnupiravir, automated text messaging service for monitoring illness, and long COVID-19 after vaccination and infection. Show notes at https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-834/

Marsh, I don’t know how you do it, but thank you. This has to be one of the most comprehensive sources of covid information available anywhere.

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A new COVID variant causes widespread panic. YAY

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Wake Up America Podcast

Oh boy. The WHO named a new COVID mutation Omicron on Friday as Biden restricts travel from seven countries in an effort to stop the spread. The DOW plunges and the pandemic era fears of widespread lockdowns return. Welcome to tonights show.

This doctor trained at the Mayo Clinic and runs the largest independent testing laboratory in Idaho. Listen to what his lab testing is showing.
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PROOF: COVID vaccines cause prion diseases

Twitter suspended my account (likely forever since there is no appeal) due to one post on prion diseases. Here's the information they wanted to make sure you NEVER find out.

Summary:

"There is no doubt the mRNA vaccines are causing prion diseases. People didn’t have these diseases before the shot and suddenly they develop them after the shot. There is no other explanation for this. None of the “fact checkers” can explain the cause of the excess rates. Prion diseases are incurable and always fatal. You can die as soon as 6 weeks after COVID vaccination (see within 6 weeks and within 6 months examples).

However, Twitter believes this is not true, but they refuse to tell anyone why they think that. Other fact checkers who have checked this out never did a VAERS query and are unable to explain away the “excess” number of reports other than doing a blanket dismissal that everything in VAERS is fraudulent without providing any evidence of that claim (other than one report out of 1.6M reports).

None of the fact checkers will debate on this to set the record straight."

On November 24, 2021 I posted the following message on Twitter:


Twitter suspended my account hours later. There is no appeal available. All content over the last 12 years was removed. All my 75K followers were zeroed. My messages were removed. There was no opportunity to download my content.

The only thing left: that my Twitter ID was @stkirsch.

Twitter refuses to tell us what I said that was misleading?
Twitter won’t tell me that!!!! They are deliberately withholding their definitive analysis on this extremely important scientific issue. Why???

I really want to know. Obviously, Twitter fact-checkers (all of whom I presume must have PhD degrees or MD degrees to be able to assess my claims) were able to quickly read all the medical literature and determine without a doubt I made an error and should be terminated for making a mistake. But they won’t tell me the mistake!!

If they want to fight misinformation, why aren’t they posting a link to their research proving me wrong when they terminate the account. They obviously invested hours of time in the research before they terminated me. Why not provide a link to that research so everyone can learn from it including me??

Here’s the evidence for my claim
Back in May 2021 when Professor Byram Bridle was disclosing the FOIA request on the Pfizer vaccine bio-distribution data he mentioned that the spike protein was associated with Lewy body formation which is linked to prion diseases. He expressed concern that the vaccines could cause prion diseases like dementia, Alzheimer’s, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

What do you know. He was right. Now we have proof.

Check out these VAERS query results. These searches are over all 30 years of VAERS and all 70+ vaccines. See anything unusual? Yeah, for less than 1 year of the COVID vaccines, the results are off the charts.


And for CJD which is extremely rare:


Remember, these are 30 year searches for all vaccines. Clearly there are excess reports. And we know VAERS isn’t being “over-reported” this year which I’ve shown many times before (events not caused by the vaccine are reported at rates comparable to other vaccines).

If it wasn’t the COVID vaccines causing this, what was the cause?
Nobody can answer that question, not even the Twitter fact checkers!

For further reading, check out these articles:

1. Jessica Rose’s article on COVID vaccines and prion diseases
2. Stephanie Seneff’s paper on prion disease and the COVID vaccines
3. Bart Classen’s paper linking the vaccines and prion diseases
4. SARS-CoV-2 causes brain inflammation and induces Lewy body formation in macaques
5. SARS-CoV-2 Prion-Like Domains in Spike Proteins Enable Higher Affinity to ACE2

And compare them to some of the “fact checks” which claim there are no instances in VAERS which as you can see from the queries above (which you can replicate yourself):

1. USA Today fact check on prion disease
2. Politifact "fact check" on prion diseases

You decide who is telling the truth.

And note that the “fact checkers” never did a single VAERS query. Wow. That’s the first place you’d look to prove the claim is false.

"We are mandating a vaccine where there is no scientific evidence that it has ever saved a single life."

Guest Post by Steve Kirsch

As the BMJ noted today, we will NEVER have that evidence because the vaccine makers are structuring the trials to avoid proving an all-cause mortality benefit since they know it is negative.

If you are are still in doubt as to whether we are being hoodwinked on the safety and efficacy of the COVID vaccines, this Editorial in the BMJ today should remove all doubt. We are being hoodwinked. And it’s not going to get better. Ever. So we are stuck with a vaccine that is being mandated where most people have no fu*king clue as to whether it works or not.
Why? It’s simple. They know full well from the VAERS data that the vaccine kills far more people than it saves (regardless of age) and they want to make sure you will never find out.

Get it?

Those of us who know how to interpret the safety data from VAERS and other similar systems know full well what is going on, but when we try to warn people, we are being marginalized as spreaders of misinformation. Who’s lying? Well, suffice it to say that no self-proclaimed VAERS expert will agree to a debate.

Note: For those of you upset about the headline, sure, they can argue that the COVID vaccines saved people from dying from COVID. I concede that. But the all-cause mortality (ACM) rate (which nobody is looking at), has always been far greater than the COVID lives saved.

And that my friends is the inconvenient truth.

SHOCK VIDEO: from 2017 Dr. Fauci & some NIH scientists discuss needing a “disruptive event” like a flu like virus out of China in order to justify bypassing decades of approval for a new vaccine technology they want approved
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November 26, 2021

Fully Vaccinated Pro-Vaccine Canadian Senator Dead at the Age of 56




by The Exposé
A prominent Canadian politician who was fully vaccinated against Covid-19 has passed away from “covid”, according to government officials.

Josée Forest-Niesing, 56, suffered from an autoimmune condition that reportedly affected her lungs. After getting vaccinated, she fell sick and had to be sent to the hospital, where she remained for a month undergoing treatment.
Eventually, Niesing was sent home on November 14th, only to have her condition deteriorate even further. One week later, she passed away due to the vaccine-induced illness from which she had suffered.

Niesing was appointed a seat with the Independent Senators Group in 2018, which is primarily made up of people affiliated with the Liberal Party.

Despite the circumstances surrounding her death, Niesing’s office issued a statement of praise for the covid vaccines. Rather than honour her life, Niesing’s office took the opportunity to promote the vaccine and share more propaganda.

“Senator Forest-Niesing would like to remind all Canadians of the importance of vaccination,” reads the official statement. “(She) remains convinced her fight would have been much different if it had not been for this protection.”

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Speaker of the Senate George Furey released his own statement extending his condolences to all of Niesing’s family, friends and loved ones.
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Return of Mandatory Masks: Boris Johnson Announces ‘Tighter Rules’ in Response to Omicron Variant

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reintroduced mandatory masks for shops and public transport in response to the discovery of a new COVID-19 variant, despite the requirements only being lifted in July.

On Wednesday, a new strain of coronavirus — B.1.1.529, dubbed ‘Omicron’ — was identified in southern Africa, prompting the United Kingdom on Friday to impose travel restrictions on those coming from several southern African countries and requiring arrivals to quarantine in hotels for ten days.

On Saturday, two cases on the Omicron variant were detected in the UK, in Essex in the southeast of England and in Nottinghamshire in central England. Health Secretary Sajid Javid said the cases were linked to recent travel from southern Africa. Mr Javid had said yesterday that the Omicron strain “may be more transmissible” than the dominant delta variety, and there remained the possibility “the vaccines that we currently have may be less effective” against it.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson held an impromptu press conference on Saturday at 5 pm, during which he used rather unclear language to announce a “tightening up” of the rules on mask-wearing in shops and on public transport — rules that were lifted in July, leaving unclear what there is to “tighten up”.

Mr Johnson told the press during his speech: “We will also be asking all of you to help contain the spread of this variant by tightening up the rules on face coverings in shops and on public transport.”

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Likely communicating a confusion expressed by many hearing such an unclear statement, Sky News’s Nick Martin asked Johnson: “Can you just be a bit clearer about what you said about face coverings? You said it would be necessary to ‘tighten up’ on them. Are you tonight saying you’re going to make face coverings mandatory in whatever indoor spaces?”

The prime minister was forced to confirm that yes, this meant the return of mandatory masks, saying: “On face coverings, what we’re looking at is retail and transport just going back to where you have to wear them in retail settings or on public transport.

“But the health secretary, Saj, will be setting out more in the course of the next day or so.”

The measures, Prime Minister Johnson said, are “temporary and precautionary”.



The prime minister announced during his speech other “targetted and proportionate” measures, “as a precaution while we find out more” about the virus, including a testing regime of arrivals from across the whole world, where travellers must take a PCR test by the end of the second day of their arrival and to self-isolate until they have a negative result. People will not be stopped from undertaking international travel, however.

All contacts of those who test positive with a suspected case of Omicron will be told to self-isolate for ten days, “regardless of your vaccination status”.

“We don’t yet exactly know how effective our vaccines will be against Omicron, but we have good reasons for believing they will provide at least some measure of protection,” Mr Johnson said, as he urged more people to be vaccinated and boosted, announcing his government vaccine committee will look at the possibility of widening access to boosters to as many people as possible.

“The measures that we are taking today, including on our borders, on facemasks, are temporary and precautionary. We will review them in three weeks. At that point, we should have much greater information about the continuing effectiveness of our vaccines.

“I very much hope that we will find that we continue to be in a strong position and we can lift these measures again. But right now, this is the responsible course of action to slow down the seeding of the spread of this new variant and to maximise our defences so that we protect the gains we worked for so hard and so that we can continue to save lives,” the prime minister concluded.

States with Mask Mandates Reporting Higher Coronavirus Numbers than Maskless Florida

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HANNAH BLEAU27 Nov 2021382

States with statewide mask mandates in place are reporting higher coronavirus cases per capita than Florida, a target of the establishment media throughout the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Illinois is just one of a handful of states that has a mask mandate in place. Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) reinstituted the mandate in late August, which requires all Illinois residents older than two to wear a mask in indoor settings, regardless of vaccination status. However, that has not seemed to stop the virus from spreading.

According to the New York Times’ coronavirus tracker, Illinois is reporting a daily average of 4,661 cases, or 37 per 100,000. That reflects an increase of 45 percent over the last two weeks.

While Oregon lifted its controversial outdoor mask mandate this week, it still has an indoor requirement in place. Still, it is reporting a daily average of 806 cases, or 19 per capita.

In October, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s (D) administration in New Mexico extended the statewide mask mandate. Yet, as of Saturday, it reported a daily average of 1,406 cases, or 67 per capita, representing an increase of five percent in the last two weeks.

Other states that have a mask mandate in place include Nevada, which is reporting a daily average of 21 cases per 100,000, and Washington, which is reporting a daily average of 18 cases per 100,000.

Hawaii is the only state with a mask mandate in place that comes close to Florida, reporting a daily average of seven cases per 100,000. Florida is still the lowest in the nation, reporting 6 per 100,000.

The Sunshine State never once had a statewide mask mandate in place.


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“They should not be mandated. No government entity should force you to do that. That is your choice. If that’s something you believe provides you protection, no one is going to say anything to you. But that should not, absolutely not, be mandated,” Gov. DeSantis said in August, defending his long-held belief and noting that “even some of these experts now are acknowledging, with an aerosolized virus, a piece of cloth is not going to stop the aerosols.”

“I leave that [masking] to people to make their own judgments. If they feel comfortable with that, do it. But absolutely not should that be mandated in any way,” he emphasized

CLUSTER**** NATION – BLOGNovember 26, 2021

Decolonize This!

Now that Thanksgiving with all its racist trimmings is put to bed, will Americans be able to “decolonize” their minds? Not if the masters of universal hysteria can help it. Here it comes, just in time to reignite the limbic channels in your brain with pulses of cosmic terror on the runway to Christmas: The B.1.1.529 Covid-19 variant out of Botswana. It’s a beauty, with thirty-two mutations on its decorative spike protein, supposedly making it a deadly hazard to the already-vaccinated.

Except the already-vaccinated were already catching the boring old Delta variant that so energized the year 2021, with its Fauci-inspired affronts to the Bill of Rights, working needle-in-arm with the mystery managers of “Joe Biden,” the cigar-store Indian who has decolonized the oval office from the brutish grip of western civ and all its dastardly legalities.

Yes, I am sorry to tell you that the mRNA “vaccines” are just not working that well. The already-vaccinated millions, marinated in the goodness of their obedience to authority, live in terror of the unvaccinated, who so knavishly spread disease to those vaccinated against it. Say, what? Something ain’t workin’ right here.

Half the nation can’t think straight, and for a good reason: The relentless mind****ery abroad in this land courtesy of your politicized news media, the despotic social networks, the bottomless greed of the pharmaceutical-makers and their errand boys in the CDC, plus the malevolent generosity of sponsors like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and George Soros. Thus, the blue mommies of America follow Pied Pipers like NPR and Sanjay Gupta holding hands with Big Bird to vax-up the kids.

It’s just a cult initiation ceremony, you understand. Vaxing the kids reinforces the psychotic mass formation intoxication of the blue mommies. It does absolutely nothing good for the kids, who realistically have a near-zero chance of being harmed by Covid-19 — but have a fair chance of being harmed by the mRNA “vaccines,” which will mess with their still-developing immune systems and their various organs. All the authority of Anthony Fauci’s officialdom presses remorselessly toward the ever-receding horizon of max vax. It begins to look like enough parents are onto the game and will refuse to go along with it.

Dr. Fauci and his evil network are in the process of being smashed at long last. First, there is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s book just out, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. I was up reading it at two-thirty in the morning.

The Kindle version is $2.95, cheap. Get it. It’s a seamless, gripping, and lucid legal brief against a bureaucratic monster who was allowed to run amuck in forty-plus years of power-seeking, malicious money-grubbing, and death-dealing, and who has capped that career by destroying the economies of the western world and our accustomed liberties with it. RFK lays out exactly what Dr. Fauci has done, footnoted to the max with fact and numbers to back it all up, so that the people still capable of thinking cannot avoid the conclusion that they have been viciously played.

But events themselves are dispelling the cult psychosis that infected the blue half of the public consensus. The not-guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case confirmed at least one remaining constitutional principle: that you have a right to defend yourself even with a firearm against forces of anarchy. Rack up an “L” for blue Marxists whose ultimate yearning is to disarm American citizens so that they would have no say in the further destruction of this society (accomplished by manufactured anarchy). Those forces of anarchy are on notice now, despite all the funding by George Soros and the perfidious operations of Merrick Garland at DOJ and Christopher Wray at the FBI.

The vehicular mass homicide at a Waukesha, Wisconsin, Christmas parade, carried out by a walking stereotype of a dangerously deranged antisocial maniac named Darrell Brooks, who advertised his racial animosities lavishly on public video and Twitter, is taking the starch out of the popular “white supremacy” meme brandished by the likes of President “Joe Biden” and his dwindling corps of admirers. That trend was reinforced by the flash-mob robberies all over the country last week. Observers couldn’t fail to notice, for instance, that the eighty-or-so folks rampaging out of Nordstrom’s in Walnut Creek, CA, their arms full of stolen merch, were not a manifestation of “white supremacy.” Could be we have turned the page on that hustle.

Up ahead on this runway to Christmas we’ll be waiting to see how many people get sick in the heralded latest Covid-19 surge, but especially how many of these are among the “vaccinated” and re-vaccinated. Many of the really old folks who got their shots early-on in the January-to-March 2021 period have by now lost whatever immunity those shots conferred, since the alleged protection dribbles away after six months. Dr. Fauci and his CDC will do whatever they can to confound the statistics on their illnesses, probably referring to this cohort as “unvaccinated” — which they have already been doing in their campaign to force the latest boosters. Don’t put it past them to simply not report it.

Among the non-old “vaccinated,” it remains to be seen how much their immune systems may have been damaged by the invasive mRNA magic, and whether they will meet with severe contagion as a result. On a quite separate track from the immune system issue is the question as to how much the spike proteins prompted by the vaxxes have damaged people’s bloodstreams and organs, meaning, whether we’ll see a spooky uptick in non-Covid deaths from heart attacks, strokes, embolisms, and other typical vascular dysfunction as the winter wears on. In the face of all this, how do the organs of our body politic come through? And will anybody pay for the many harms done?

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Omicron variant detected from Britain to Hong Kong as countries race to impose controls

Chico Harlan, Lesley Wroughton - 12h ago

ROME —Countries on Saturday raced to gauge how far the newly detected omicron variant had spread, introducing travel bans and restrictions amid concerns that a potentially more transmissible form of the coronavirus could bring a surge in new cases.


© Denis Farrell/APOmicron variant detected from Britain to Hong Kong as countries race to impose controls

Health experts around the world continued Saturday to map the spread of the variant — first detected by scientists in South Africa and now with cases confirmed in Asia and Europe, including at least two in Britain and two in Germany. Israel announced it would ban nearly all international travelers.

Such a scenario reflects what has long been one of the most feared — and anticipated — risks of gaping vaccine inequities: that a variant emerges in an area with low vaccine rates and then causes havoc in an interconnected world.

Scientists and other experts caution that many crucial aspects about the omicron variant remain unknown, including whether it can evade vaccines or results in a more severe form of the disease. But they say the recent alarm — including new travel restrictions and diving stock markets — should serve as a reminder of the world’s vulnerabilities as long as richer countries have wide vaccine access and poorer ones do not.

In an opinion piece in the Guardian, former British prime minister Gordon Brown — now an ambassador with the World Health Organization — criticized the developed world for hoarding vaccines and for failing to deliver the donated doses it had promised.

“Despite the repeated warnings of health leaders, our failure to put vaccines into the arms of people in the developing world is now coming back to haunt us,” Brown wrote.

What we know about the new Omicron variant

The Geneva-based WHO has led a program to help distribute vaccines to nations in need, but major challenges remain in transporting the vaccines and having them reach remote areas.

Vaccine makers say they are racing to understand how well their vaccines can counter omicron. Findings should emerge within two weeks, said the maker of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

Omicron 'quite different'
As part of the response Saturday, a new round of countries rushed to cut off or restrict travel to the southern region of Africa.

Australia, Japan and Britain are among the latest nations to either halt flights to the region or announce mandatory quarantines and screenings. Thailand said it would bar entry from the same eight countries — Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa — that the United States had targeted with restrictions a day earlier. After confirming two local cases, the United Kingdom also announced that masks would become compulsory on public transport and in shops.

“It is quite different to previous variants we have been watching,” Australia’s chief medical officer, Paul Kelly, said. He called his government’s approach “proportionate to the risk.”

South Africa’s International Relations and Cooperation Ministry, however, urged countries to reconsider travel bans, pointing out the damage caused to families and the travel and tourism industries.

The bans are “akin to punishing South Africa for its advanced genomic sequencing and the ability to detect new variants quicker,” the ministry said in a statement. “Excellent science should be applauded and not punished.”


© Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Workers remove fences next to the entrance of the World Trade Organization headquarters on Nov. 27, 2021 in Geneva after next week's WTO ministerial conference, the global trade body's biggest gathering in four years, was postponed at the last minute due to the new Omicron variant.

For now, omicron — designated Friday by the WHO as a variant of concern — is surging in South Africa’s populous Gauteng province around Johannesburg, where it is outpacing the delta variant. In that province, the share of swabs that tested positive for the coronavirus spiked from 3.6 percent Wednesday to 9.1 percent Friday. The country is bracing for the possibility that public health systems could become overwhelmed.

“I haven’t been one to panic about new variants, but this one looks like it might be the perfect storm,” said Michael Worobey, an expert on viral epidemics at the University of Arizona.

Vaccine inequity
For months, delta has been the world’s predominant variant, and even delta is far more infectious than earlier versions of the coronavirus.

Omicron’s discovery adds dread in a world still struggling with delta.

Europe is facing another wave of cases, with deaths rising as well, sending some countries back into lockdowns. A handful of European Union nations have increasingly set up barriers for the unvaccinated, barring them from restaurants and even workplaces.

“Please get vaccinated as soon as possible, if not done yet,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Friday, adding that Europe was taking the new variant “very seriously.”

Earlier in the pandemic, when other variants were discovered — including delta — countries also responded with travel bans.

But the pandemic has shown that travel bans often fail to keep highly infectious variants out.

Variants often arrive in a country before a ban is announced, and even then can spread via returning citizens and travelers entering via third countries. The WHO has cautioned against such travel restrictions, saying countries should instead take a “risk-based and scientific approach.”


© Kin Cheung/APA man walks past a bank's electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index in Hong Kong on Nov. 26, 2021.

The WHO said the first confirmed omicron infection came from a specimen collected Nov. 9. As a result, the travel measures have probably come too late to stop the international spread, said Jeffrey V. Lazarus, a health systems and policy professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health.

“Travel restrictions give a false sense of security,” he said, adding that it would be wiser to include strong safeguards for those who fly.

Biden restricts travel from 8 African countries due to Omicron variant

Europe’s center for disease control said Friday that the likelihood that omicron would spread across Europe was “high.” It labeled the variant, which is characterized by 30 changes in the spike protein, as the “most divergent” that has been detected in significant numbers so far.

Omicron cases have already been detected in Israel, Belgium, Britain and Hong Kong, among other places.

'Need to do even more'
Omicron was first detected in a part of the world where vaccination rates lag well behind the global average, largely because of scant availability, even as the United States and other wealthy countries have moved on to booster shots.

Among the eight countries that have been targeted with travel restrictions, none has vaccinated even one-third of its population — and in Malawi, the immunization rate is in the single digits, according to Our World in Data.

Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said on Twitter that the failure to help vaccinate southern Africa “left us all exposed to risk.”

“Omicron is an urgent reminder of why we need to do even more to vaccinate the world,” she said.

But as vaccine deliveries to poorer parts of the world pick up pace, countries are also running into issues with vaccine hesitancy. The South African Medical Research Council has blamed low vaccination rates in the country on factors such as complacency, fear of needles and a lack of understanding about how vaccines work.

Glenda Gray, who heads the South African Medical Research Council, pushed back against accusations from some business groups that the scientists should have waited until more was known about the variant before going public.

“When you discover a new variant of concern or discover something that can have an impact on transmissions, it behooves you to alert the country,” she told News24. “The scientists were doing their job. We don’t know how this new variant will impact us or on vaccine efficacy. If this alert makes people vaccinate, that’s a good thing,” she added.

She said banning international travel was not an effective way of stopping the spread of new variants.

“I think that it’s hard to contain variants‚ we saw with the delta variant. By the time people recognized that a variant is present in the country it has probably already moved. I’m not convinced that restrictions on travel help. It didn’t help us with delta, and I’m not sure it will help with this. It’s always sad when people impose restrictions because, at that stage, the horse has bolted.”

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Race against time to tweak vaccines against Omicron variant: AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna say they can create NEW jab for super-mutant amid claims it makes existing ones 40% less effective against transmission

• Scientists are racing to tweak existing vaccines against new Covid variant spreading across the planet
• The Omicron strain has reached the UK and Belgium after originally being discovered in South Africa
• Now a number of pharmaceutical firms have said they are working to adapt their vaccines to beat Omicron
• AstraZeneca said it is working with Oxford University to quickly develop a vaccine in response

By JACK WRIGHT FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 10:15 EST, 27 November 2021 | UPDATED: 10:52 EST, 27 November 2021

Scientists are racing to tweak existing vaccines against the new Covid variant spreading rapidly across the planet.

The 'monster' strain, named Omicron and designated a 'variant of concern' by the World Health Organisation on Friday, has reached the UK and Belgium after being discovered in South Africa.'

The UN public health body sparked panic by warning that preliminary evidence suggested that the mutation has an increased risk of reinfection and is more transmissible than other strains. Downing Street's scientists previously said that the variant could be vaccine resistant.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid banned flights from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe and Namibia yesterday, telling MPs that there is 'huge international concern' about the mutation.

The Prime Minister is due to hold a press conference at 5pm this evening after health officials confirmed two cases of Omicron were found in Nottingham and Brentwood.

Now a number of pharmaceutical firms have said they are working to adapt their vaccines to beat Omicron. AstraZeneca said it has 'developed, in close collaboration with Oxford University, a vaccine platform that enables us to respond quickly to new variants that may emerge' and is 'already conducting research in locations where the variant has been identified'.

Pfizer and BioNTech said that in the event of a variant which could escape the effects of the vaccines, the firm expects 'to be able to develop and produce a tailor-made vaccine against that variant in approximately 100 days, subject to regulatory approval'.

Novavax said it has 'already initiated development of a new recombinant spike protein based on the known genetic sequence of B.1.1.529 and will have it ready to begin testing and manufacturing within the next few weeks'.

And Moderna said: 'Since early 2021, Moderna has advanced a comprehensive strategy to anticipate new variants of concern. This strategy includes three levels of response should the currently authorized 50 microgram booster dose of mRNA-1273 prove insufficient to boost waning immunity against the Omicron variant.'

Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, expressed cautious optimism that existing vaccines could be effective at preventing serious disease from the Omicron variant. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he added that that most of the mutations are in similar regions seen in other Covid variants so far.



Scientists are racing to tweak existing vaccines against the new Covid variant spreading rapidly across the planet



The 'monster' strain, named Omicron and designated a 'variant of concern' by the World Health Organisation on Friday, has reached the UK and Belgium after being discovered in South Africa



Cases of Omicron have already been picked up in the UK, South Africa, Botswana, Hong Kong, Israel and Belgium. It is not yet known whether the variant arrived in the Netherlands yesterday but Dutch authorities are sequencing passengers' tests. There are also suspected individual cases being sequenced in Germany, the Czech Republic and Australia



Britain has sequenced two cases of the Omicron variant in Nottingham and Chelmsford, Health Secretary Sajid Javid confirmed this afternoon

Sajid Javid confirms two linked Omicron cases found in UK

British vaccine could give strong protection against new super-mutant Covid strain: Tweaked version of AstraZeneca jab is in final trial stages and may be ready within weeks
A British vaccine that could provide strong protection against the new super-mutant Covid strain is already in the final trial stages, it was revealed last night.

Test results on the formula, developed by the team behind the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, are due in the next few days.

Should it prove effective, it could be ready for use within a matter of weeks.

The news was delivered by immunologist Professor Sir John Bell, a member of the government's vaccine task force, who also revealed it was too late to stop 'the monster' variant currently ripping through Southern Africa from reaching our shores.

The latest AZ formula was originally created to fight the first South African variant of Covid, which threatened to spread widely last year before being overtaken by the Delta strain.

If needed, it could be 'plugged in' to modify the currently-used AZ vaccine with relative ease and be administered through booster shots.

Sir John and his Oxford University colleagues have been closely monitoring the new variant, B11529, which has some 30 mutations, since its surge began a few days ago.

But a more detailed analysis will get under way early next week using samples of the virus flown to Britain from South Africa in secure canisters.

Scientists hope to learn more about it such as its ability to spread and its capacity to cause serious illness.

The EU, US and Canada all followed Britain's move to impose travel restrictions on visitors from southern Africa ahead of the WHO adding the strain, also known as B.1.1.529, to its highest category for concerning variants.

Mr Javid told the Commons on Friday that there are concerns the variant may be more transmissible, make existing vaccines less effective, and it may hinder one of the UK's Covid treatments, Ronapreve.

Ministers were facing calls to go further to prevent a wave of the new variant arriving in Britain while a Delta surge is ongoing, as Belgium became the first EU country to announce a case.

Professor John Edmunds, who advises the Government as part of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), warned that could create a 'very, very, very difficult situation'.

However, Prof Pollard said a new vaccine to combat Omicron could begin 'very rapidly' if required, adding: 'The processes of how one goes about developing a new vaccine are increasingly well-oiled, so if it's needed that is something that could be moved very rapidly.'

Marc Van Ranst, a virologist at the Rega Institute in Belgium, said a sample was confirmed as the variant in a traveller who returned from Egypt on November 11 before first showing symptoms 11 days later.

The six African countries were added to the UK's travel red list on Thursday evening and passengers arriving in the UK from these countries from 4am on Sunday will be required to book and pay for a Government-approved hotel quarantine for 10 days. Downing Street urged anyone who has arrived from those countries recently to get tested.

Mr Javid said discussions are ongoing over the prospect of adding further countries to the red list, telling the Commons the Government 'won't hesitate to act if we need to do so'.

Boris Johnson held a call with South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday afternoon after foreign minister Naledi Pandor said the flight ban 'seems to have been rushed'.

The Prime Minister 'commended South Africa's rapid genomic sequencing' and its 'leadership in transparently sharing scientific data', Downing Street said.

'They discussed the challenges posed globally by the new Covid-19 variant and ways to work together to deal with it and reopen international travel,' a statement said.

Prof Edmunds said the new strain 'is a huge worry' and that 'all the data suggests' it would be able to evade current immunity.

'Our fears are it would do so to a large extent,' he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.

(long article - see website for the rest Race against time to tweak vaccines against Covid variant )

Oncologist issues warning on the Vaccine…
Posted by Kane on November 27, 2021 10:38 am

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Dr. Ray Page at the Texas Covid Summit earlier this week.

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Nazis are harassing citizens in Berlin…
Posted by Kane on November 27, 2021 10:11 am

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Freedom is going in the wrong direction. Covid compliance raids in Germany.

New York Governor declares state of emergency…
Posted by Kane on November 27, 2021 10:05 am

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Hochul declared a state of emergency over Omicron



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Omicron Variant – NEW COVID Variant Worse Than Delta?

Nov 27, 2021


Doctor Mike Hansen

Omicron Variant – NEW COVID Variant Worse Than Delta?

The Omicron variant just might be the scariest version of COVID yet. The WHO just announced that this SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, B.1.1.529, has been elevated to a "variant of concern."

The 3 things about Omicron that make it SUPER concerning: 1. The specific mutations on the spike protein 2. The number of mutations in this virus 3. The fact that this FASTEST spreading COVID Variant

The Covid Omicron variant emerged in South Africa. It was first discovered by scientists a few days ago. It has over 30 mutations on the spike protein that raise concerns that it might be more contagious, possibly cause more severe infection, and might evade our vaccines. This is not known for sure, but there is a HIGH level of concern, mainly because of how FAST this virus is spreading there.

The question is, will our vaccines still be effective against the Omicron variant? That was the concern when Delta came out, and thankfully, our vaccines remain effective against Delta. But Delta doesn't have the same number of mutations as Omicron, and the big FEAR this virus evading our immune system might come true.

I mean, we've had new variants emerge. We have seen many variants pop up over the last 8 months, and most of them, for example, Lamda, have not amounted to much. I mean, you hear about these new variants emerging all the time. They're expected. And they're detected because scientists are constantly running surveillance on COVID. But here we are with the new one, Omicron. It has a certain level of concern, not just because it has MORE mutations in its spike protein, over 30 mutations, but also because some of those mutations are the SAME mutations as the other 4 variants of concern. But we won't really know if this variant will escape our vaccines until probably a few weeks from now because it takes time to do these studies.

Keep in mind that whenever there is a new virus, just like in Wuhan, by the time you actually identify, you are already a few weeks behind it, which means it's already spread, most likely throughout the world.

When you look at one of these mutations on the spike protein, any given mutation can clue you in as far as its ability to potentially evade the immune system's antibodies. So what you do is duplicate that new spike protein, mix it with the different antibodies, and hope that the antibodies stick to that spike protein. If it's not sticking, that means you have a problem. So this is what SCIENTISTS are going to be looking at ASAP. I would expect these test results to become public in the next couple of weeks.

Is it possible that the Omicron Variant is in the US? As of right now, there are no confirmed cases here. But it's only a matter of time. We do know that it went to Botswana and made its way to Hong Kong and Belgium. So it may be in the US, but as of the making of this video, there are no confirmed cases, which speaks to just how fresh this new variant is. A specimen from the first known case in South Africa was collected on November 9 and spread quickly there.

To test for it, you have to first get the exact molecular blueprint of the new strain, so US scientists are collaborating with South African scientists to make this happen, which is my guess will take a few days. So scientists will have some preliminary data in a few days to know if it will escape vaccines.

But I have to say, I do not have a good feeling about Omicron. The specific mutations, the number of mutations, and how QUICKLY it became dominant in South Africa. Meaning how fast a specific strain spreads in a certain area. We're talking days to weeks as opposed to Delta, which took months. WHO officials also said in their statement Friday preliminary evidence suggests Omicron also poses a higher risk of reinfection than other variants of concern.

And when scientists see this, it's no wonder why world leaders react quickly to this by announcing new travel restrictions. How effective those travel restrictions are, is another conversation. Regardless, President Biden said he will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other nations starting Monday.

You already have vaccine makers getting ready too. Even testing Omicron-specific boosters.

Doctor Mike Hansen, MD Internal Medicine | Pulmonary Disease | Critical Care Medicine Website: https://doctormikehansen.com/ Contact and Social Media Links: https://doctormikehansen.com/contact/

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DW news interview, Omicron latest

Nov 27, 2021


Dr. John Campbell

Latest thinking on Omicron

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The O variant

Nov 26, 2021


Dr. John Campbell

Worst ever Covid variant? Omicron B.1.1.529 Increased contagion Immune escape Sicker people WHO, VOC

https://www.who.int/news/item/26-11-2...
The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution Independent group of experts First reported to WHO from South Africa on 24th November 2021 South Africa, infections have increased steeply, coinciding with the detection of B.1.1.529 variant The first known confirmed B.1.1.529 infection was from a specimen collected on 9th November 2021 Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant The number of cases of this variant appears to be increasing in almost all provinces in South Africa Current SARS-CoV-2 PCR diagnostics continue to detect this variant. For one widely used PCR test, one of the three target genes is not detected (called S gene dropout or S gene target failure) This variant may have a growth advantage.

How did the new variant develop? https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158... Professor Francois Balloux, Computational Biology Systems, University College London Mutated during a chronic infection of a person whose immune system was already weakened by an untreated HIV/Aids infection Botswana Discovered, November 11th (collected 9th) 2021 in Botswana South Africa 77 confirmed cases 90% of new cases in Gauteng, probably B.1.1.529 Early signs of rapid spread in Gauteng province, 900 cases per day May have spread to eight other provinces in South Africa SA, fully vaccinated, 24% Israel https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-he...

1 returnee from Malawi Two other people suspected of having the variant are also in quarantine All three were fully vaccinated Prime Minister Naftali Bennett We are currently on the verge of a state of emergency

Belgium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfwoR... 1 case Came from Egypt to Belgium on November 11th First symptoms on November 22nd

Hong Kong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm-Wz... Two cases, from next door in quarantine hotel Traveller from SA Penny Moore, virologist, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Breakthrough infections have been reported following, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer-BioNtech, Oxford-AstraZeneca R = 2 so far SA, National Institute for Communicable Diseases Cases, + 2,465 (nearly double yesterdays) 32 mutations in the spike protein 10 on RBD (Delta variant has 8 mutations) Beta (SA) variant has 3

Younger people appear to be contracting and spreading BioNTech-Pfizer need two weeks to assess new variant's impact Would need two weeks at most to assess how well its coronavirus vaccine works against B.1.1.529 may require an adjustment of our vaccine if the variant spreads globally

Global spread WHO advises risk-based, scientific approach to travel restrictions risk-based and scientific approach to travel restrictions WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier At this point, implementing travel restrictions is being cautioned against UK flight bans so far 700 arrivals per day to UK from SA South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini, Zimbabwe Recent arrivals from southern Africa will also tracked down and offered tests Germany, Italy, Israel, Kenya, Singapore, Japan, France, Bahrain, Czech Republic have also suspended flights European Commission, called on members to ban flights

Sajid Javid very live discussions about adding to the red list Professor Danny Altmann, immunologist Imperial College We thought delta was the dominant variant and nothing could displace it – this looks potentially horrible enough to displace it, if it is allowed to spread.

We have all become pandemic fatigued, yet if this was a report of a terrorist threat, we would now be raising the threat level from amber to red. Professor Madhukar Pai, global health, McGill University This is what happens when we leave three billion plus people unvaccinated

Vaccines can be tweaked if needed Dr Anthony Fauci Flight ban possible We need to get the facts no indication it has yet reached the US New variant is a red flag Until it's properly tested... we don't know whether or not it evades the antibodies that protect you against the virus Angelique Coetzee, South African Medical Association

For now, it is a storm in a tea cup https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world... Peter Horby, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Oxford many red flags - more than we would've expected or ever planned for

Fauci: Omicron Probably Already In The US

SATURDAY, NOV 27, 2021 - 06:15 PM
Earlier today, Candace Owens asked a rhetorical question:



Perhaps to help anyone still on the fence with the answer, this morning Anthony Fauci, who somehow is still Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser despite having been documented funding gain of function viral research in the Wuhan Institute of Technology, the origin of the global covid pandemic, said that the world's latest bogeyman, the omicron variant - which also moonlights as an anagram for "moronic" - may well already have arrived in the U.S.

“I would not be surprised if it is,” Fauci said on NBC’s “Weekend Today” on Saturday. “We have not detected yet,” but when a virus shows “this degree of transmissibility” it “almost invariably ultimately is going to go essentially all over,” he said confirming yet again that there is a vast difference between the fact-based "scientific method", which operates on actual, falsifiable hypotheses, and fact-free "scientific propaganda" whose only purpose is to facilitate an emotionally charged and unprovable political agenda, in this case the spread of "grassroots" panic - due to a variant which may or may not be worse, but let's just only hammer the possibility that it is much, much worse to freak out the population - so when the time comes for more trillions in vote-buying (and inflation spiking) stimmies, the Biden admin will find little resistance.

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Fauci also said that travel restrictions imposed by Biden on South Africa and seven other countries in the region are a way to buy time for the U.S. to prepare defenses against the variant and shouldn’t lead to panic, which of course is hilarious in light of the full-court media press meant to do just one thing: lead to panic.

“It seems to have spread rather rapidly in South Africa,” he said. “Its ability to infect people who have recovered from infection and even people who have been vaccinated makes us say this is something you have to pay really close attention to and be prepared for something that’s serious.”

Questions about the omicron variant include whether it causes disease that’s more serious than infections with the earlier delta variant, he said. While It’s “conceivable” that the latest variant may diminish vaccine protection against Covid-19, existing vaccination may be able to contain it, Fauci said realizing that if he pressed the opposite, what little credibility he has left would vaporize.

Meanwhile, South Africa’s medical chief Dr. Angelique Coetzee described the panic tidal wave spreading across western "democracies" as a “storm in a teacup,” adding that she had only seen “very very mild cases” of the variant so far. Then again, what actual scientists think is irrelevant when the propaganda ScienceTM is in charge.

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PM Johnson Unveils Measures To Fight Omicron COVID Variant In 76% Vaxx'd UK

SATURDAY, NOV 27, 2021 - 03:55 PM
Update (1420ET): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Saturday a series of "temporary and precautionary" health measures to contain the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant.

Speaking at a press conference, Johnson told reporters anyone entering the UK would have to receive a negative PCR test.

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He said regardless of vaccination status, anyone suspected of Omicron must isolate for ten days. Face masks will be mandatory in shops and on public transportation but not in restaurants. At the moment, 76% of the population is vaccinated.



The new measures come as all flights from a growing list of countries in Africa, including South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe and Namibia (soon to include Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Angola), have been suspended to prevent further spreading of the virus.

Johnson described the measures as "temporary and precautionary" that will allow health experts to assess the situation.

The prime minister said: "Our scientists are learning more hour by hour, and it does appear that Omicron spreads very rapidly, and can be spread between people who are double vaccinated."

"There is also a very extensive mutation which means it diverges quite significantly from previous configurations of the virus, and as result, it might — at least in part — reduce the protection of our vaccines over time," he said.

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Johnson said the policies would be re-evaluated in three weeks just before Christmas.
Two cases of Omicron have already been confirmed in the UK. Cases are spreading in Europe. One of the most serious is in the Netherlands, where 61 people tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving on two flights from South Africa on Friday.
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Two infections with the new Omicron variant (also known as B.1.1.529 COVID-19 variant) have been detected in the U.K., according to the health secretary.

Health Minister Sajid Javid tweeted Saturday that the U.K. Health Security Agency has been notified about two U.K. cases of the Omicron variant. He said, "the two cases are linked and there is a connection with travel to southern Africa," adding "these individuals are self-isolating with their households while further testing and contact tracing is underway."

Javid said one infection was detected in Chelmsford, Essex, and another in Nottingham. He said, "as a precaution, we are rolling out additional targeted testing in the affected areas," calling the infiltration of the new coronavirus variant "a fast-moving situation."

He added, "We are taking decisive steps to protect public health."

The health secretary announced that four countries – Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, and Zambia – will be added to the "red list," effective from 0400 local time Sunday. Anyone returning from these countries must isolate for ten days and receive "PCR tests."

Last week, scientists first detected the new variant in Botswana and then in South Africa. It has since spread to other countries, including Israel, Hong Kong, and Belgium, prompting officials in Europe, Asia, and North America to restrict travel from Africa.

Citi analyst Andrew Baum spoke with Pfizer's CEO, Albert Bourla, about the new variant, who said laboratory tests are underway and could take up two weeks to decide whether a reformulation of the COVID-19 vaccine is needed. If so, Bourla said it could take 100 days to develop a novel variant vaccine to combat Omicron.

Courtesy of Bloomberg's James Ludden, here are the latest updates on the latest COVID scare:

U.K. Reports Two Cases of Omicron Variant (9:16 a.m. N.Y.)
The U.K. has confirmed two cases of the new Covid-19 strain omicron. "The two cases are linked and there is a connection with travel to southern Africa," Health Minister Sajid Javid said on Twitter. The individuals and their households -- one in Chelmsford and one in Nottingham -- are self-isolating and contact tracing is ongoing, according to the U.K. Health Security Agency

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German Scientists Urge Immediate Restrictions (8:03 a.m. N.Y.)
The German National Academy of Science Leopoldina is urging the government to implement stringent contact restrictions immediately for a few weeks to combat the pandemic and address the Omicron variant. These bans must also cover vaccinated people and those who recovered from an infection. The government also must make vaccination mandatory over the coming months, the academy said in a statement on its website.

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Highly Probable Omicron Is in Germany (6:21 p.m. H.K.)
It's "very likely" the new coronavirus strain, omicron, has arrived in Germany, a state official said Saturday. A traveler returning from South Africa on Friday night showed several symptoms typical of the new variant, Kai Klose, minister of social affairs in the German state of Hesse, said on Twitter without providing more detail. While the virus sample hasn't been sequenced, there's a "high level of suspicion" that the person has the new strain, Klose said. The traveler has been isolated at home.

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Modi Wants to Review Easing of Travel Rules (6:02 p.m. H.K.)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Indian officials to review plans for the easing of international travel restrictions after the emergence of the new omicron variant. India needs to be "proactive in light of the new variant," Modi said during a meeting on the Covid-19 situation and the pace of vaccinations in the country. On Friday, the Press Trust of India cited the civil aviation ministry as saying scheduled international flights to and from India will resume starting Dec. 15.

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Dutch: 61 Flyers From S. Africa Test Positive (5:49 p.m. H.K.)
Sixty-one people arriving in the Netherlands on separate flights from South Africa tested positive for the coronavirus and were in isolation Saturday, the A.P. reported. Further tests are underway to determine if any of those who arrived at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport are infected with the new omicron variant. The planes arrived in the Netherlands on Friday shortly after the Dutch government imposed a ban on flights from some southern African nations following discovery of the new variant.

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New Zealand, Australia Tighten Borders (4:17 p.m. H.K.)
New Zealand joined Australia in banning entry to travelers from nine African countries in an effort to protect against the new omicron variant. The restrictions start Sunday night but don't apply to returning citizens, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said. New Zealanders returning from those nations are required to undergo testing and a 14-day managed isolation period, he said. Earlier, Australia said direct flights from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, the Seychelles, Malawi and Mozambique were being suspended, Health Minister Greg Hunt said. Returning citizens and their dependents who have been in any of those countries in the past 14 days must enter supervised quarantine on arrival.

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Thailand Bars Entry From Eight African Nations (2:38 p.m. H.K.)
Thailand will ban entry from eight southern African nations from Dec. 1, after Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha ordered agencies to step up vigilance against the new omicron variant. Arrivals from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe will be forbidden, said Opas Karnkawinpong, director general of the Disease Control Department.

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N.Y. Governor Declares State of Emergency (8:35 a.m. H.K.)
New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency on Friday due to a rise in the state's Covid cases and the threat of the omicron variant. She said the variant hasn't yet been detected in New York but she decided to sign an executive order to allow the health department to limit non-essential, non-urgent procedures at hospitals and acquire critical supplies more quickly. The order takes effect Dec. 3 and will be re-assessed Jan. 15.

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CDC Concerned Vaccines May Not Work Well (5:49 a.m. H.K.)
Based on omicron's mutation profile, partial immune escape is likely, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said in a threat assessment report Friday. The E.U.'s health agency is among the first official authorities to acknowledge that vaccines may not work well against the new strain. The ECDC pushed authorities to "urgently" reinforce pandemic restrictions, avoiding travel to affected areas, and the vaccination of holdouts.

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U.S., Canada Curb Travel From Southern Africa (2:05 p.m. N.Y.)
President Joe Biden's administration will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other countries starting on Monday, according to senior administration officials. In addition to South Africa, they include Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi. The policy doesn't apply to American citizens and lawful permanent residents, though they must still test negative prior to travel to the U.S. Canada is banning the entry of foreign nationals who have traveled through southern Africa in the last 14 days.

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As anyone who works in P.R. and or marketing knows, global elites need to keep their COVID narrative fresh, relevant and scary. We urge everyone to read what we know so far about variant in Friday's note titled "A Scared Nu World: Here's What We Know About The COVID "Omicron" Strain."

Here's a possible guide of what could happen next:



Remember, U.S.' top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, did say months ago that the U.S. may face a "dark winter." How long until he blames the unvaccinated?

Biden 'Forgets' To Close The Southern Border Against 'Omicron' Variant

SATURDAY, NOV 27, 2021 - 02:45 PM
Authored by Monica Showalter via AmericanThinker.com,

Much has been made of the news that Joe Biden has shut the door to eight countries over the new 'omicron' COVID variant. AT deputy editor Andrea Widburg has an excellent piece today on that here.

Some of the implications, of course, are vaguely comical. Biden's White House medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the so-called "expert" and voice of "science" he touted was last seen recommending against the closure of air travel.

Joe, of course, did it anyway, signaling that Fauci's expertise to him is all about what's politically useful and, apparently, this wasn't.

After all, country after country was shutting its air travel from countries where that variant is present. According to Axios:

Countries across Europe and Asia are rushing through new travel restrictions in response to a new COVID variant identified by scientists in South Africa.

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The big picture: Israel, Japan, the U.K., France, Germany, Italy and Singapore are moving to restrict entry from countries in the south of Africa, AP reports. Many are also adding quarantines for their own citizens upon return from the region.

• The U.K. ban targets "South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and Zimbabwe," per the N.Y. Times.
• The European Commission on Friday recommended EU countries "activate the emergency break" on travel from countries in southern Africa and other nations affected by the new variant.
• "All air travel to these countries should be suspended ... until we have a clear understanding about the danger posed by this new variant," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. "Travelers returning from this region should respect strict quarantine rules."

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For Joe, it's all about being part of the 'in' crowd, never mind that his administration seems to be of multiple minds on the matter and that historically, pandemic variants tend to be weaker than whatever came before them.

Fauci's calls to not shut the air traffic got left by the wayside.

Joe, meanwhile, left himself looking like a fool.

Via Instapundit's Ed Driscoll, these Biden wokester tweets show what he was claiming earlier:




Funny how he can change his tune.

There's just one problem with all this purported concern from Biden about the variant and tune-changing:



He hasn't said a thing about the wide-open border.

In fact, he's still leaving the border open to all comers.

Thus far, he has said nothing about shutting the border, which this year has seen a record 1.6 million illegal "border encounters" into the U.S. in the past year, a record high, with tens of thousands more on their way.

Illegal migrants from Central America's top three migrant-exporters alone, which is far from the only group coming, have shelled out nearly $2 billion for the illegal journey to the states with 92% coming for economic reasons, according to a new survey. The bulk of that cash goes to cartel human smugglers. African migrants, who first made an appearance with a splash in 2019, have also increased in numbers, with at least some coming from the southern countries of the continent which harbors the omicron variant.

Where's Joe Biden on Title 42, a law which requires the expulsion of illegal migrants based on COVID concerns? Well, the Biden administration may be nominally fighting for it in court, based on CDC recommendations, but the law doesn't seem to be getting any enforcement, what with the busloads and planeloads of illegal migrants being spread about the country. That includes African migrants, in particular, some of whom come from countries where the COVID omicron variant has been detected.

He hasn't said a thing at all, let alone done any work to ensure that every illegal, unvetted border crosser gets sent back. No bully pulpit from him as he dramatically cuts legal travel, despite the fact that it might actually raise his poll numbers. He's still got a policy of every migrant an exception to the rule.

It pretty well makes a mockery of his recent vaxx mandate for all legal border crossers coming in January, and now his shutdown of legal flights from Africa.

Seems that some get rules and enforcement and others do not.

If there is a variant issue, all of the measures to shut down the U.S. to outsiders will be useless, because illegal migrants, welcome packets in hand, are continuing to enter and be released to roam about the country, spreading the disease. What's the point of these shutdowns? Biden hopes you don't notice. But we do, and what we see is that he isn't serious about these travel restrictions, not until he takes some serious steps to shut down the border to all illegal immigration -- bar none.

Bureaucrat's False Promise: Take Two COVID Shots And We Will Reopen

SATURDAY, NOV 27, 2021 - 01:45 PM
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

More lockdowns are underway in Europe. What happened to reopen promises?



Fury Over Lockdowns
Global markets are reeling in the wake of more lockdowns and threats of them.

The Economist (paywall) notes surge of deadly covid cases in Europe is met by popular fury over lockdowns.

The sight of 40,000 unvaccinated Austrians marching through their capital, Vienna, in recent days was troubling twice over. The tightly packed opponents of lockdown measures were at risk of spreading the coronavirus. They also threatened to stir up an already tense political situation. Karl Nehammer, Austria’s interior minister, warned that anti-vaxxers in the Alpine republic are growing more radicalised. He called the demonstration’s mood “incensed” and “aggressive”. Some protesters were extremely provocative, carrying placards likening Alexander Schallenberg, Austria’s new chancellor, to Josef Mengele, the sadistic physician at the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz.

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The protesters were marching against Austria’s increasingly tough measures against anti-vaxxers. On November 22nd the government imposed a full lockdown once again, to last for at least ten days. That compels Austria’s 9m people to hunker down at home, leaving only for work, essential shopping and exercise. Austria is also the first Western democracy to make covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for all, starting on February 1st 2022. “For a long time—maybe too long—I and others assumed that it must be possible to convince people in Austria to get vaccinated voluntarily,” said Mr Schallenberg when he announced his “very difficult” decision.

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Let Our Guard Down
The Washington Post (paywalled) reports ‘We let our guard down’: Frustrated Europe heads into second pandemic winter

Life was finally starting to feel normal. An online flier for an October party in this Belgian beach town cursed the coronavirus and invited people to dance and drink again, to “get your clacker back from the attic” and kick off Carnival season.

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Hundreds attended that event and another Carnival party the next night. Most of the town is vaccinated, and people were required to show proof, or a recent negative test, to enter. But it wasn’t enough. Coronavirus cases spiked the week after. Officials worried about pressure on the local hospital. And soon the town found itself under semi-lockdown once more.

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As Americans catch up with family and friends this holiday week, with some trepidation about enduring risk, Europe is facing another wave of the virus — and a gloomy and frustrating second pandemic winter.

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New Heavily Mutated Covid Variant
CNBC reports Belgium Confirms Case of New, Heavily Mutated Covid Variant.

The emerging variant arrives in Europe amid an already devastating Covid surge linked to the delta strain. Europe saw more than 2.4 million new Covid cases over the week ended Nov. 21, an increase of 11% from the previous seven days, according to the WHO’s most recent epidemiological update.

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Europe represented 67% of all Covid cases reported globally during that span, the WHO measured.

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Belgium tightened restrictions this week to stop the spread of the virus, requiring people to work from home four days a week through the middle of December.

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Austria started its fourth lockdown of the pandemic on Monday, with a nationwide vaccine mandate scheduled to take effect on Feb. 1. Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg has said that the lockdown will last for at most 20 days.

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New Lockdowns and Restrictions

• Slovakia declared a two-week lockdown on Wednesday. People can leave home for a limited number of reasons, including buying groceries, going to work and to school, and getting vaccinated. And starting next week, all workers will have to show they’ve been vaccinated, recovered from the coronavirus or had a recent negative test.
• Austria, imposed a lockdown that will last at least 10 days and up to 20.
• The Netherlands ordered bars and restaurants to close at 8 p.m.
• Belgium has mandated that all but essential employees work from home four days a week. Belgium also reinstituted an indoor mask mandate this month.
• Merkel pushed for a German lockdown as its death toll passed 100,000.
• The U.K. halted flights from six countries in the region, and European Union member states have collectively agree to pause travel to and from southern Africa.
• Singapore banned flights from southern Africa
• Japan is increasing border controls for travelers from the region.
• Italy requires proof of vaccination or recovery for access to many parts of public life. Vaccination restrictions fcome into effect on December 6 and last until January 15.

Mess in Germany
Eurointelligence comments on Germany's Federal Virus.

The massive outbreak in Covid-19 hospitalizations and fatalities in Germany raises disturbing questions about who is in charge. Having failed to achieve the right levels of vaccine procurement early on during the pandemic, the German authorities have repeated the same mistake. They did not procure the booster shots they needed.

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They have not set up a network of vaccination centres to deliver them rapidly.

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As of this weekend, only 11.4% of the population has received booster shots. It is very difficult to get an appointment. Only doctor's surgeries are allowed to deliver them.

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The network has not been expanded to pharmacies.

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So why is this happening again? The answer is that the German healthcare system, well-funded as it is, is not set up for a pandemic, or indeed for public health emergencies in general. This is a publicly-funded, but privately run, healthcare system. The states are in charge of the local healthcare administrations and hospitals.

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Health insurance is a matter for the federal government, but states supervise the health insurance companies. What can possibly go wrong?

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Message From German Stats
In Germany, over 45% of people hospitalized for Covid-19 are fully vaccinated.

That last stat sounds more shocking than it really is. Germany is 68% fully vaccinated. Thus 55% of the hospitalizations cases come from 32% of the population.

Only 11% of Germany received a booster. Given vaccinations wear off, the proper take away is get a booster, not flout the stats.

Vaccine Mandate US
In the US, the Biden administration imposed a vaccine mandate vis OSHA on companies with more than 100 employees.

On November 15, I noted Appeals Court Blocks Biden's Vaccine Mandate in a Blistering Rebuke
The rebuke was a huge attack on the competence of Biden's mandate. My position, upfront was the mandate was unconstitutional.

Given multiple attacks on the mandate, jurisdiction, the case moved from the 5th Circuit to the 6th Circuit, where Biden doubled down.

On November 23, I commented Biden Doubles Down on Vaccine Mandate With Another Circuit Court

The justice department files an emergency motion with the 6th circuit court arguing the 5th circuit's postponement of the OSHA vaccine mandate was unjustified

I strongly suspect the 6th Circuit will reaffirm the previous ruling.

Meanwhile, protests or not, mutations go on and on.

What Covid Lockdowns and Disruptions in Europe Signal to the U.S.

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False Promise
"Take two shots and we will reopen society. That turned out to be a false promise."

It's been one false promise after another, by Dr. Fauci, by Trump, by Biden, by Merkel, globally everywhere.

Trust is essentially gone and rising protests are proof.

Omicron Variant First Detected In Four "Fully Vaxx'd" People, SA Medical Chief Only Seen "Very, Very Mild Cases"

SATURDAY, NOV 27, 2021 - 12:45 PM
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

The new ‘Omicron’ variant of COVID-19 was first detected in four people who were fully vaccinated, according to a public statement by the Botswana government.



The new variant, which some claim is three times more contagious, was initially discovered in Botswana before it spread across South Africa.

The news was met with global alarm, prompting financial markets to plummet and new travel bans to be put in place.

According to a public statement by the Botswana government, the new mutation was first discovered in four people who had received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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According to the report, four cases of the new variant “were reported and recorded” on November 22.

“The preliminary report revealed that all the four had been completely vaccinated for COVID-19,” according to Botswana authorities.

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In a subsequent statement, the government revealed that the new variant “was detected on four foreign nationals who had entered Botswana on the 7th November 2021, on a diplomatic mission.”

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“The quartet tested positive for COVID-19 on the 11th November 2021 as they were preparing to return,” according to the statement.

In a piece of good news, others who had close contact with the infectees “have no COVID-19 symptoms and have tested negative for COVID-19.”

As we highlighted earlier, according to Belgian Prime Minister , the Omicron variant is so potentially devastating that it should be called ‘COVID-21’.

Meanwhile, South Africa’s medical chief Dr. Angelique Coetzee described the panic as a “storm in a teacup,” adding that she had only seen “very very mild cases” of the variant so far.

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German Health Minister Calls For "Massive Contact Restrictions" To Fight COVID

SATURDAY, NOV 27, 2021 - 08:10 AM
By TheLocal.de,

German Health Minister Jens Spahn has urged the incoming government to take drastic measures after more than 76,000 new Covid infections were reported within a day, saying the situation was "more serious than any other time in this pandemic."

Health Minister Jens Spahn addresses reporters at a press conference in Berlin on November 26th, 2021. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Bernd von Jutrczenka
The situation is dramatically serious,” the CDU politician told reporters gathered in Berlin on Friday. “More serious than at any other time in this pandemic.”

Calling the current situation in Germany a ‘national emergency’, Spahn claimed that the incoming government was doing too little, too late to try and stem the tide. “We must stop this wave now,” he warned.

On Friday, the weekly incidence of Covid infections hit yet another new peak of 438 infections per 100,000 people, while the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported a record-breaking 76,000 new infections within a day. In the worst-hit region of Saxony, the 7-day incidence recently topped 1,000 per 100,000 people.

In the meantime, weekly hospitalisations have been edging up and now stand at 5.97 per 100,000 people nationally. The daily Covid death toll hit 357 on Friday, bringing the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 100,476.

Criticising politicians who he said had underestimated the scale of the crisis, Spahn warned that the Covid wave would “continue to move west and north” from the regions in the south and east of Germany that have been badly affected so far.

In the short term, he said, there is only one thing that will make a decisive difference: “The number of contacts must be reduced, significantly, otherwise (the measures) are no use at all.”

States should introduce consistent access rules that allow entry only to vaccinated and recovered people who have a negative test to hand (a system known as 2G plus) and should consider the cancellation of festive celebrations and large events, he said.

Appearing at the press conference alongside Spahn, RKI president Lothar Wieler also urged lawmakers to take decisive action in order to stem the spread of the virus.

RKI president Lothar Wieler appears at a press conference alongside Jens Spahn on Friday. Photo: picture alliance/dpa
“I now expect decision-makers to initiate all possible measures to jointly bring the case numbers down,” he said, adding that contact restrictions should once again be brought into play.

“With every contact we don’t have, with every meeting we forgo, with every crowd we avoid, we help slow the spread of the virus,” Wieler said.

He appealed to Germans: “Please get vaccinated or get your booster jabs, and please also comply with all the measures adopted in the federal states.”

South African ‘supervariant’
At the press conference on Friday morning, Spahn also expressed concern about the new ‘supervariant’ (B.1.1.529) that has recently appeared in South Africa.

As The Local reported on Friday, the discovery of the new variant has prompted Germany to ban all incoming travel from the country for people who don’t live in Germany or hold German citizenship.

The aim must be to avoid the entry of this variant as far as possible, the caretaker health minister said. “The arrival of a new variant is the last thing we need now in our current situation,” he added.

Spahn urged all people who have arrived in Germany from South Africa and the surrounding countries in recent days to get tested for the virus with a PCR test to be on the safe side.
RKI chief Wieler said that, as of Friday morning, he was not aware that the virus variant had made it into Europe or Germany.

At the same time, he stressed: “We are very concerned. And I very much hope that stringent work will be done to at least limit the spread of this variant as much as possible through travel restrictions.”

In some provinces of South Africa, there’s been a stark upswing in the number of infections over the past few days, which experts believe could be due to the new variant.

Compared to Delta, which has two mutations, and Beta, which has three, the as-yet unnamed South African variant has ten mutations, meaning it could be more resistant to vaccines, spread faster and place more strain on the human immune system.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is said to be studying the newly emerged variant to see if it should be classed as variant of ‘interest’ or ‘concern’.

Meeting of state leaders

On Thursday, November 25th, Germany’s ‘epidemic situation of national importance’ was allowed to expire after almost a year and a half. The epidemic situation clause had granted sweeping powers to the federal government and states to impose Covid restrictions such as lockdowns and mandatory masks without consulting parliament.

The incoming government has opted to replace the clause with amendments to the Infection Protection Act, but critics from the opposition CDU/CSU parties say the new regulation does not go far enough.

In order to get their amended Act through the upper house of parliament, the three ‘traffic light’ parties were forced to strike a deal with Merkel’s conservatives. The deal ensured that the bill would be allowed to pass in the Bundesrat – but only if it was subject to review at the next meeting of state leaders on December 9th.

Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) holds up a graph to reporters at Friday’s press conference. Photo: picture alliance/dpa
With the Covid situation worsening daily, however, outgoing Health Minister Spahn has been calling on state leaders to bring the meeting forward. The meeting should ideally be held over the next few days, he said.

In light of the rising number of Covid patients on intensive care wards, urgent operations are currently having to be cancelled and postponed, while up to 100 intensive care patients have had to be moved to other hospitals in Germany where medical staff are less overburdened, Spahn revealed.

But these are only temporary solutions and cannot continue indefinitely, he said.

According to Spahn, however, there is one piece of good news: “The vaccination campaign is picking up again.”

In the past three days, there have been more than 300,000 new vaccinations against Covid, while this week, more than two million booster vaccinations have been administered.

“Every vaccination gives hope that this winter will not be as dark as it currently looks,” the Health Minister said.