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Coronavirus Update 122: The Research So Far on COVID-19 and Vaccines vs. Pregnancy
•Feb 15, 2021


MedCram - Medical Lectures Explained CLEARLY

Professor Roger Seheult, MD discusses the impacts of COVID 19 on pregnant women, and the research we have so far on COVID vaccine safety in pregnancy. For more on this topic, please see our interview with reproductive immunologist Dr. Victoria Male: https://youtu.be/fFudXb8l7H8 (This video was recorded on February 14, 2021).

Roger Seheult, MD is the co-founder and lead professor at https://www.medcram.com He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine and an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.

LINKS / REFERENCES: Explainer on COVID19 vaccination, fertility and pregnancy (Dr. Viki Male, Imperial College London) | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_wHI... REG 174 INFORMATION FOR UK HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS (UK Department of Health and Social Care) | https://assets.publishing.service.gov... Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting December 17, 2020 (FDA) | https://www.fda.gov/media/144434/down... Public Assessment Report Authorisation for Temporary Supply (MHRA) | https://assets.publishing.service.gov... Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women With and Without Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection (JAMA) | https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama... COVID-19 pandemic effect on early pregnancy: are miscarriage rates altered, in asymptomatic women? (Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics) | https://link.springer.com/article/10.... Coronavirus disease 2019 and first-trimester spontaneous abortion: a case-control study of 225 pregnant patients (AJOG) | https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-93... Clinical manifestations, risk factors, and maternal and perinatal outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 in pregnancy: living syst. review and meta-analysis (BMJ) | https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/370/b... I’m pregnant. Should I get a COVID* vaccine? (UMASS) | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1amyu...

VACCINES AND RELATED BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE BRIEFING DOCUMENT (FDA) | https://www.fda.gov/media/144246/down... Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting December 17, 2020 (FDA) | https://www.fda.gov/media/144434/down... Public Assessment Report Authorisation for Temporary Supply (MHRA) | https://assets.publishing.service.gov... Influenza Vaccine Efficacy and Effectiveness in Pregnant Women: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (PubMed) | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31865... VAERS - Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System | https://vaers.hhs.gov/index.html

 

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COVID 19 Update - Vitamin C and Zinc
•Feb 15, 2021


Doctor Mike Hansen

COVID 19 Update - Vitamin C and Zinc #vitaminc #covid19 #zinc Welcome to another COVID 19 Update, based on a recent study that looked at giving vitamin C and Zinc for mild COVID illness. Zinc gluconate and vitamin C, aka ascorbic acid, are commonly available over-the-counter supplements that people often take to treat viral illnesses. Zinc is known to play a role in our immune function by helping to produce antibodies, in addition to enhancing our white blood cell's ability to fight infection, especially when it comes to neutrophils, a type of white blood cell. There is also some evidence that zinc deficiency increases pro-inflammatory cytokines.

Also, studies done on the first SARS virus have shown that zinc might inhibit its ribonucleic acid polymerase….thats the enzyme that allows the virus to replicate its RNA. But the biological activity of zinc against viruses may require ionophores like Pyrithione to accomplish this. Vitamin C is an antioxidant that may play a role in our immune system’s ability to fight infection. In vitro and in vivo studies in chicks have shown that it could be protective against coronavirus, and human trials have found that it may decrease susceptibility to viral respiratory infections. When it comes to the common cold, there is limited evidence to suggest that high doses of oral vitamin C and zinc might reduce the duration of symptoms and decrease the severity of symptoms.

But what does that mean for zinc in real life? Based on a review of 13 studies, if zinc is taken within 24 hours of the first signs of a cold, it might reduce the length of a cold by…..a day. And with vitamin C, some research suggests that it can shorten colds by 8% in adults and 14% in kids, but it doesn't appear helpful if taken after the symptoms start. Vitamin C in the INTRAVENOUS form has also been looked at for non-COVID patients is variable. A meta-analysis review investigated its use in critically ill patients. It failed to show a significant association with mortality but inconsistent associations with secondary endpoints, including duration of patients requiring a breathing tube with a ventilator and length of stay in the hospital. But what about zinc and vitamin C for the treatment of COVID 19? The COVID A to Z study was a prospective randomized clinical open-label trial at multiple hospitals within a single health system, involving sites in Ohio and Florida. Enrolled participants remained in their own home settings, and all study visits and/or procedures were conducted virtually, via telephone, email, computer, or laptop. So we are not talking about hospitalized COVID patients. We're talking about patients with mild, perhaps moderate illness here. A total of 214 patients were randomized, 132 women, 82 men, and 45.

Patients were randomized in a 1:1:1:1 ratio, meaning 1/4th received vitamin C, 1/4th received zinc, 1/4th received both vitamin C and zinc, and 1/4th received neither, just standard of care, which is nothing more than rest, hydration, and maybe some Tylenol or ibuprofen, but no supplements. The vitamin C group received 10 days of 8,000 mg vitamin C after being diagnosed with COVID based on PCR testing. The zinc group received 50 mg of zinc gluconate at bedtime. The zinc and vitamin C group received 8,000 mg of vitamin C and 50 mg of zinc. So we are talking big doses here, much more than what most people take. Patients then tracked their symptoms daily, including potential side effects from vitamin c and zinc. During the course of study, patients admitted to the hospital were considered treatment failures and were no longer required to continue study supplementation or track their daily symptoms. The trial's primary endpoint was the number of days required to reach a 50% reduction in symptom severity score from peak symptom score. Secondary endpoints were the number of days required to get a total symptom severity score of 0, cumulative severity score at day 5, hospitalizations, deaths, adjunctive prescribed medications, and adverse effects of vitamin C and Zinc. Based on statistical analysis, there was no significant difference in the primary outcome of days required to reach a 50% reduction in symptoms among the 4 study groups. Patients who received usual care without supplementation achieved a 50% reduction in symptoms on average 4.4 days compared with 3.7 for the vitamin C group, compared to 4.9 days for the zing group, and 3.4 days for the group that received both.

Doctor Mike Hansen, MD Internal Medicine | Pulmonary Disease | Critical Care Medicine Website: https://doctormikehansen.com/

 

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Report: Liars, cheaters, and scammers have stolen more than $100 billion of coronavirus aid | Blaze Media

According to federal law enforcement officials, the fraud is deeply complex and will take months to fully account for

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Report: Liars, cheaters, and scammers have stolen more than $100 billion of coronavirus aid

According to federal law enforcement officials, the fraud is deeply complex and will take months to fully account for
CHRIS PANDOLFO
February 15, 2021

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Waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money in the coronavirus relief package Congress passed last year have reached "staggering" levels, to an extent not fully known but estimated to be more than $100 billion, according to a report from NBC News.

Last year, while the American people were in the full grip of economic hardship imposed on them by the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, the United States Congress passed a $2 trillion spending bill to provide economic relief. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, was intended to give needed aid to 17 million unemployed people, help small businesses survive, and provide stimulus checks for every nearly American.

But liars, cheaters, and scammers have swindled billions of dollars from the U.S. government, stealing money from taxpayers and depriving people in need of the economic relief Congress appropriated for them during the pandemic.

"The Labor Department inspector general has yet to complete a full investigation but, based on previous programs, estimates at least $63 billion of the $630 billion in disbursements has been misspent," NBC News reported Saturday. "The full scope of the loss in taxpayer funds is likely many times higher, experts and officials say, soaring well beyond $100 billion."


In California, one fraud scheme disrupted by police cost taxpayers an estimated $11 million. Police say a social services business charged non-qualifying individuals $700 each to file false unemployment claims.

"This isn't just an Orange County problem. It isn't just a California problem," Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said. "This is a breakdown of catastrophic proportions that has failed the American taxpayer."

California is currently conducting a review of its COVID-19 relief program and estimates that fraud may have cost taxpayers as much as $30 billion, or 27% of relief spending. In Nebraska, an audit of unemployment benefit spending found that about 66% of payments made last June were misspent. Many states have not reviewed their coronavirus relief spending, so the total amount of fraud nationwide remains difficult to quantify, but nevertheless massive.

"In California, this is unquestionably the largest fraud against public agencies in our history," Vern Pierson, president of the California District Attorneys Association, said. "Increasingly we are learning there could be fraud of historic proportions nationwide. While we don't know the exact price tag, we know the amount of the loss of taxpayers is staggering."

Law enforcement experts interviewed by NBC News described how the federal government relied on state agencies to distribute coronavirus relief funds, despite warnings that these agencies were ill-equipped to deal with con artists and other criminal organizations.

For example, one new program flagged by the Labor Department as "high risk," the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, was intended to help gig workers, caregivers, and self-employed people collect unemployment insurance. These workers typically don't qualify for federal unemployment insurance, but Congress mandated that coronavirus relief be made available to them. So state agencies had to rely on self-reported work history to determine who qualified to claim unemployment checks. Facing a "crushing" volume of claims made and political pressure to get people coronavirus relief, states also relaxed oversight on spending. An auditor in Kentucky reportedly found that the program's oversight was so weakened that the state actually violated federal law.

Criminals obviously exploited the program, and the full extent of widespread fraud is currently unknown and being investigated by several state governments. The most prolific fraudsters appear to be transnational organized crime rings located in West Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe, law enforcement officials told NBC News.

The U.S. Department of Justice has created a task force to investigate fraud nationwide.

According to the DOJ, more than 100 defendants have been charged across 71 cases related to CARES Act unemployment fraud. NBC reports federal law enforcement has seized or frozen $65 million, about half of the losses associated with the crimes.

In December, months after the CARES Act was passed, Congress finally required states to verify the identity of unemployment claimants. ID.me, a company contracted with 21 states to combat the "veritable tsunami" of fraud, told NBC News the criminal activity facing states is a "national crisis."

ID.me said that in about 20% of the fraudulent claims, identity thieves use Social Security numbers and other personal information stolen in data breaches. Another 10% of fraud schemes are "social engineering" scams where criminals convince a victim to share personal data or cooperate in fraud by posing as potential employers or even government officials.

Some thieves have used computer-generated 3D-printed masks of victims' faces to pass identity verification checks.

The fraud is so brazen that criminals have stolen the identities of high-profile political figures like Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R), and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul.

Millions of Americans who have received 1099 tax forms from the IRS without receiving benefits may be victims of fraud.

In a statement, the Labor Department told NBC News: "We are working on a comprehensive approach to partnering with states to minimize fraud, waste and abuse, while making sure Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own are able to receive the benefits they deserve and desperately need."

 

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Rantz: State funneled federal COVID relief to radical political groups, all based on race

Washington State Department of Commerce gave federal COVID relief dollars to nonprofits with radical political agendas in a selection process based on race.

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Broken windows at a Tacoma Aladdin Bail Bonds. Some activists find cash bail racist. One group is trying to end cash bail for that reason. In the meantime, they'll pay for a suspect's bail. Now, federal tax dollars helped. (Jason Rantz, KTTH)

The Washington State Department of Commerce gave federal COVID relief tax dollars to nonprofits pursuing radical political agendas. Tax dollars even went to indirectly bail criminals out of jail.

The selection process for funding was based on race. And some of the vetting seems influenced more by ideology than by need.

The Department of Commerce, led by Lisa Brown, aimed to “distribute COVID relief funds equitably to the communities hardest hit by the pandemic.” But to qualify to the Washington Equity Relief Fund, a group of “reviewers” made sure the nonprofits were “led by and serving Black, Indigenous and people of color.”

In other words, if the nonprofit is run by majority white people or serve entire communities, it wouldn’t qualify for assistance. How equitable.

Should federal tax dollars go to political nonprofits, chosen by hand-selected “reviewers” who share the political beliefs of the very nonprofits they’re rewarding, all under the auspices of COVID relief? No.

Radical organizations get COVID dollars

The Department of Commerce partnered with Philanthropy Northwest (where the chair and two vice chairs appear to all be white) to award nearly $12 million in grants to Washington nonprofits. The funds were from the federal CARES Act.

A group of over 100 peer reviewers discussed and scored applications before doling out funding, in collaboration with the Department of Commerce.

The reviewers were “prioritized” on the basis of their race. About 95% identified as a racial minority and 77% experienced poverty. Ironically, the Department of Commerce had the reviewers, who were excluding nonprofits run by white people due to perceived privilege, go through compulsory “anti-bias” training. They were each paid $500.

Excluding nonprofits on the race of its leadership is certainly controversial. But some nonprofits receiving federal tax dollars hold radical left-wing political views. Is this where COVID relief tax dollars should go?

Tax dollars for political advocacy

Not all organizations to receive funding are controversial. You may wonder what the Seattle World Percussion Society would do with $25,000, but their organization doesn’t raise eyebrows.

But other nonprofits receiving tax dollars are concerning.

Collective Justice, part of the Public Defenders Association, is a partisan, social justice group. It actively lobbies light-on-crime policies and is now being propped up by federal tax dollars.

The nonprofit is currently asking supporters to back a Democrat-sponsored bill forcing courts to ignore the juvenile crimes of adult defendants in sentencing. It received $25,000 in federal tax dollars through the state.

Also receiving funds: the Council on Islamic American Relations of Washington (CAIR-WA). It frequently engages in partisan political activism and has fundraised locally for anti-Semitic congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN). The Anti-Defamation League calls out CAIR for its anti-Semitic leaders and their ties to Hamas and anti-Israel groups.

According to internal documents, the reviewers apparently rejected the application, in part because their budget is already high. It appears the rejection was overruled and they were given $50,000.

Tax dollars to bail criminals out of jail

The Bail Project Spokane received $50,000 from the fund. The nonprofit is part of the national group, which opposes cash bail. It has been responsible for paying the bail for criminals who commit high-profile crimes after release.

Documents from the Department of Commerce suggest this group received inadequate vetting. Based on the rationale explaining the funding, Bail Project Spokane was selected for its political cause, not for being impacted by COVID.

The Bail Project was described as a “small startup program” by internal paperwork to justify the grant. But it is not a small startup.

The Bail Project national organization had an operation budget of nearly $25 million in 2018 and $15 million in 2019, according to Charity Navigator.

Bail Project Spokane docs don’t cite COVID need

The Bail Project Spokane does not reveal how COVID impacted its work in any of the funding documents the Department of Commerce released to the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH.

COVID had to impact the nonprofit in order to receive funding. Indeed, Secretary Brown said the fund was established because “these nonprofits are fighting to survive because the donations and local resources they depend on have dried up.”

Instead, the rationale behind offering the nonprofit tax dollars for COVID relief was tied specifically to agreement with the group’s political activism.

“The Bail Project Spokane addresses inequities created by the cash bail system, which disproportionately impacts BIPOC communities in Spokane,” reads the rationale from Philanthropy NW, provided to them by the nominating organization, Empire Health Foundation. “Many individuals in Spokane are held in jail, pretrial, due to a bond they cannot afford to pay which is commonly less than $500. While some individuals can afford to pay their bond, others are forced to sit in jail for weeks and months before their court dates due to inability to pay.”

This may be a noble cause, but nobility is not a pre-requisite for funding. The Bail Project Spokane did not return emails requesting clarification on how COVID impacted their organization. It’s unclear how they used the grant money.

The Bail Project Spokane, like all nonprofits receiving funding, signed a letter of attestation. It declares: “I agree that my organization has been impacted, including financially, by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

But in this case, it doesn’t explain how.

That’s unlike the Climate Justice Initiative, a environmentalist group that was granted $50,000 from the fund. In its application, it specifically noted that COVID led to cancelled contracts and fundraisers.


scribd doc on website

Did federal dollars go to bailing out felons?

Did federal tax dollars go to the Bail Project? It’s unclear if it was directly used for that purpose. Indirectly? Yes.

It is the group’s mission to bail suspects out of jail. Any funding to help keep the group operating is funding to help bail suspects out of jail.

The organization’s representative signed an attestation document. In it, it makes promises.

I agree that my organization may be required to provide receipts or additional documentation for up to 6 years following the receipt of any grant funding. If any of the expenses paid with grant money are found ineligible according to Federal Treasury or application guidelines, Grantee agrees to reimburse Commerce the full amount of the grant award.

But a spokesperson for Commerce tells the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH that “none of the organizations awarded grants are required to show receipts,” just that they sign the attestation letter.

Why does this matter? The Bail Project has a track record of bailing out criminals who recommit.


Scribd doc on website

Some controversies

In Chicago, the Bail Project helped pay for the release of 34-year-old Christopher Stewart for an incident with an ex-girlfriend. Stewart allegedly shot a gun into the ground at her 6-year-old son’s birthday party before threatening to kill her. The Bail Project posted Stewart’s bail.

The following month, he was charged for trying to burn her alive inside her apartment. The Chicago Tribune reports that, “police rescued her as she hung out of a kitchen window.”

It was considerably more tragic in St. Louis. Hours after bailing out Samuel Lee Scott in a domestic assault case, he was accused of beating his wife to death. Local leaders with the Bail Project downplayed their role in releasing the accused murderer.

“If he’d just been wealthy enough to afford his bail he would have been free in either case,” Mike Milton, site manager of the St. Louis Bail Project, told the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

“Moments like this are devastating, but it’s important not to lose sight of the larger injustices of cash bail and the need for reform.”


Washington isn’t alone with its pandering

Most nonprofits have been hit hard by COVID. They’re not fundraising like they used to, and not just because events have been cancelled. Our pandemic economy means less people have money to give.

That the state is using federal tax dollars to reward nonprofits on the basis of the racial makeup of its leadership or the community it serves is disturbing. But it matches the political pandering of the last several months from Democrat lawmakers. Citing equity goals, Democrats claim they’re fixing historical wrongs. They tend to leave out that those wrongs were established while their party was in power.

Washington state, to be clear, isn’t alone in this woke grant-giving.

The Oregon Cares Fund earmarked over $60 million to exclusively help Black Oregonians and Black-owned businesses. The funding also came from the CARES Act. It now faces discrimination lawsuits.

In Denver, artists from marginalized communities were given priority to one-time grants funded by the CARES Act. A similar program was announced in Boston. Federal funds doled out COVID financial support as “a beginning effort to address the historical disparity in support for BIPOC communities and arts.”

Is this a political slush fund for some groups?

The Washington Equity Relief Fund seems as much about rewarding some nonprofits for their political activism, as it was about helping them cope with COVID interference.

That they hand-picked “reviewers” to go over applications with an eye toward racial diversity, but not ideological diversity, is instructive. Their bias ensures that certain groups will get preferential treatment, even after their anti-bias training.

But more importantly, tax dollars shouldn’t go to partisan political groups.

The vetting doesn’t seem intense based on the Bail Project paperwork submitted. And that the groups promise they must submit receipts, but the WA DOC doesn’t actually require them, suggests there is little oversite. Who ensures our tax dollars staying away from the very activities it shouldn’t fund?

 

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Zinc and Vitamin C for COVID-19 Symptoms
•Streamed live 116 minutes ago


JAMA Network

February 16, 2021 Milind Y. Desai, MD, MBA, joins JAMA Network Open Digital Media Editor, Seth Trueger, MD, MPH, to discuss a randomized clinical trial examining whether high-dose zinc and/or high-dose ascorbic acid reduces the severity or duration of symptoms compared with usual care among ambulatory patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.

Read the article here: https://ja.ma/2OulpUV.
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Steve Guest
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Massive lie from Joe Biden on CNN: “we didn’t have [the coronavirus vaccine] when we came into office”

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1361862724419014657

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Just the facts: President Biden said tonight “we didn’t have [the coronavirus vaccine] when we came into office”. He got vaccinated LIVE ON TV. First dose on Dec 21, 2020. Oh boy, did he forget? BTW, Second dose on Jan 11, 2021. His first day in office, January 20, 2021.

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...and the next day, Biden was asked how he felt after the shot, and he patted his RIGHT arm and said, "great" or something like that...

 

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Coronavirus Update With CDC Director Rochelle Walensky - February 17, 3:20 Central US

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JAMA Network

@Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH returns to JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the agency's response to emerging variants, implications for the planned vaccine mobilization strategy, the upcoming J&J vaccine FDA advisory hearings, strategies for reopening K-12 schools, and other agency activities and priorities related to COVID-19 control. Originally broadcast February 17, 2021.

 

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COVID-19 Q&A with A&V Livestream 2/17/21

•Streamed live 2 hours ago


Vincent Racaniello

Virologists Amy Rosenfeld and Vincent Racaniello answer your COVID-19 questions on this livestream on 2/17/21.

 

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Zerohedge

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

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Is A Revolutionary Movement Developing In Europe?

THURSDAY, FEB 18, 2021 - 2:00

UPDATE: Dutch appeals court rushes to the defense of tyranny and overrules Hague district court and reinstates illegal curfew.

A three-judge appellate panel granted an emergency injunction following a request from the Dutch government on Tuesday, agreeing to vacate the earlier order from a lower court to end the nightly curfew, DW reported.

The decision came just moments before the 9pm curfew was set to take effect, with the judges scheduling a full hearing on its legality for Friday.


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Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
US media provides little news of Europe.

What is provided is strictly “narrated.”

Consequently, Americans are unaware of what seems to be a spontaneous, leaderless, popular uprising against mandated lockdowns and masks.

There are large demonstrations in Germany, and they have spread to Vienna and to Copenhagen. The people have more sense than the public authorities and reject the Covid mandates.

In The Netherlands, the Hague Court has ruled that the Covid curfew has no legal basis and “is a far-reaching violation of the right to freedom of movement and privacy and limits, among other things, the right to freedom of assembly and demonstration.”

Klaus Madersbacher, proprietor of the antikrieg.com website, thinks that Germans are associating the fear-based campaign that is asserting new government controls over people’s lives and activities with an American hegemonic agenda. He believes that it is a revolutionary mass movement that should now become organized under leadership in order to achieve the independence of countries and their peoples.

One wonders if insouciant Americans are capable of a revolutionary temperament or whether the only protests Americans will witness are the Establishment-funded Antifa and BLM riots that loot and burn private businesses.



Here is Madersbacher’s analysis of what he is witnessing:

A New Revolutionary mass movement

Klaus Madersbacher

QUERDENKEN is a revolutionary mass movement directed against the US-controlled German regime, similar in essence to the revolution of the Iranian people in 1978 against the US-run dictatorship of the Shah in Iran. It should be emphasized that the Iranian revolution was a peaceful revolution in the course of which the Iranian security forces refused to fight against their own people. The same type of revolutionary movement seems to be emerging in countries under the dominance of the United States of America.

Instead of serving their own people, European regimes serve the interests of Washington, which seems driven to obtain supremacy over the world for material reasons and also as a way out of the economic crisis in which it finds itself.

The theater with and around the coronavirus is staged with the explicit intention of distraction and of creating fear and a climate of general insecurity that leads to control measures that enable hegemonic power, perhaps resulting in a “global reset” that serves the interest of the few at the expense of the many. It is against these measures that the Germans and neighboring nations are rising up in an unprecedented and unforeseen readiness to defend themselves as a people and a society. I read the protests of the last several months as clear expressions that the German people are no longer willing to submit to puppet governments that fail to represent the interests of the people.

Germans and Europeans are used as support for Washington/NATO’s push against Russia and Asia, which is clearly against European interests. If spontaneous cooperation is achieved among European peoples, Washington’s aspirations are defeated, and representative governments will form in place of Washington’s puppet states.

Since the ruling European governments are neither willing nor able to represent the interests of their peoples, they have lost the confidence of the people and forfeited the right to remain in power. Constitutionally prescribed steps can be followed as far as possible to remove them from office.

First steps /measures

As a first step, a revolutionary council should be elected consisting of two or three members per federal state.

The revolutionary council will accept no guidance from the EU, Washington, or any agreements that limit the exercise of national sovereignty.

Existing governmental and financial institutions will continue in operation, but the revolutionary council will reestablish all civil liberties, such as freedom of movement, freedom of income, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of travel. The institutional structure of government will then be thoughtfully reconstructed to be consistent with human rights and national wellbeing.

The Covid control measures will be revoked.

The campaign of fear will be halted, and open public discussion by independent medical and scientific experts will be used to determine reasonable measures to protect the population from Covid.

Layoffs, terminations & repossessions resulting from Covid ordinances will be reversed.
Fines and penalties collected under Covid ordinances will be repaid, and court judgments against citizens under Covid ordinances will be reversed.

The Iranian Revolution against the Shah shows that revolutionary mass movements can be peaceful. To reconstruct the state to serve the people, a constitutional requirement is required that permits the passage of no law that cannot be proved in open discussion to serve the people over organized interests. To protect the people’s interest, schooling will be used to support the ethos that honor, not material interests or service to ambition, is the basis for government service.

These idealistic aims will never be fully achieved, but their conscious cultivation can preserve the freedom of European peoples.

 

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257 - A COVID-19 Long-hauler Shares His Story

•Feb 18, 2021


Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Jim Golen, a nurse in Minnesota, became sick with COVID in March of 2020. Nearly one year later, he still suffers from severe shortness of breath and brain fog and may have permanent lung damage. Golen talks with Stephanie Desmon about how he got COVID, the doctors who misdiagnosed him with anxiety and depression, and how long-haul COVID has completely changed life for him and his wife. Golen also speaks about support groups for long-haulers that have been helpful for him and one message he hopes everyone hears: Wearing a mask is an act of empathy and kindness. Read more about Jim Golen’s story in Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine: https://magazine.jhsph.edu/2020/covid...

 

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Study: Genetic mutation inherited from Neanderthals could help protect against severe COVID-19 cases

Researchers have discovered a possible genetic link between Neanderthal DNA and a lower risk of developing a severe case of the coronavirus.A new study, conducted by Hugo Zeberg and Svante Pää…

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February 17, 2021 - 06:35 PM EST

Study: Genetic mutation inherited from Neanderthals could help protect against severe COVID-19 cases

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Researchers have discovered a possible genetic link between Neanderthal DNA and a lower risk of developing a severe case of the coronavirus.

A new study, conducted by Hugo Zeberg and Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, followed up on recent research that suggested Neanderthal DNA was actually linked to higher risk of severe illness.

They found that a certain haplogroup, a population that shares common DNA, was roughly 22 percent less likely to develop a severe case of COVID-19. The common DNA is believed to have been inherited from Neanderthals.

The haplogroup is common in populations outside of Africa, the study notes, as Neanderthal evolved off the continent.

The Neanderthal DNA believed to protect against illness was found on the 12th chromosome, while the DNA discovered in a previous study that researchers theorized increased the chances of severe illness was found on the third chromosome.

The researchers said that Neanderthals and their Asian sister group the Denisovans became extinct tens of thousands of years ago, but their genetic impact still lingers today.

"Some of these contributions may reflect adaptations to environments outside Africa where Neanderthals lived over several hundred thousands of years. During this time, they are likely to have adapted to infectious diseases, which are known to be strong selective factors that may, at least partly, have differed between sub-Saharan Africa and Eurasia," they wrote.

The study suggested that the Neanderthal DNA that protects against severe illness may have occurred due to past epidemics that were caused by RNA viruses, a category that includes the coronavirus.

 

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258 - COVID-19 Research Update: Schools

•Feb 19, 2021


Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

In this episode, Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with Hopkins researchers who break down three research papers with implications for the national discussion over COVID and schools. Dr. Nikolas Wada talks about a paper related to how the coronavirus is transmitted in schools in the United Kingdom; Dr. Sheree Schwartz talks about a paper examining children’s role in the household transmission of COVID-19; and PhD student Greg Rosen talks about a study of what happened with national COVID cases in Israel when schools reopened with few precautions last spring. All three researchers are part of the novel coronavirus research consortium, with many summaries of new studies available at http://ncrc.jhsph.edu.

 

[marsh]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvPg6PMI-q0
9:26 min
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
Coronavirus mRNA Vaccine Safety and Efficacy

•Premiered 21 minutes ago


JAMA Network

Millions of people are now being immunized with mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. Both vaccines have very high efficacy and look safe in the short-term. This video reviews experience with the vaccines since they were authorized for use in December 2020. (Produced February 2021). 0:00 Introduction 0:26 How mRNA vaccines work 2:11 Efficacy 2:56 Prevention of symptoms vs infection and transmission 5:00 Safety 5:43 Post-authorization safety surveillance 6:39 Data on anaphylactic reactions 7:26 Experience since authorization

 

[jward]

EndGameWW3
@EndGameWW3
1h

Update: Los Angeles County reports 2 more cases of the variant first found in the U.K. 14 known cases in L.A. County now.

 

[marsh]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWGD6q3VfUI
30:13 min

TWiV 721: COVID-19 clinical update #50 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
•Feb 20, 2021


Vincent Racaniello

In COVID-19 clinical update #50, Daniel Griffin discusses CDC guidance on school opening, decreased viral load after vaccination, randomized clinical trial of vitamin D treatment, a study of zinc plus vitamin C, anticoagulation therapy effect on mortality, and multi system inflammatory phase in children. Show notes at https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-721/

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDgadcjdtno
2:02:53 min

TWiV 722: More coronaviruses in the pipeline
•Feb 20, 2021


Vincent Racaniello

The entire TWiV team assembles to discuss resurgence of COVID-19 in Manaus, Brazil, discovery of SARS-CoV-2 related viruses in bats in Southeast Asia, and increased Ct values after administration of mRNA vaccine. Show notes at https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-722/

 

[Mary Contrary]

Man dies after receiving vaccination at Javits Center; doctor says initial indications show no allergic reaction

Man dies after receiving vaccination at Javits Center; doctor says initial indications show no allergic reaction
News 12 Staff
Feb 09, 2021, 5:37pm EST
Updated on:Feb 09, 2021, 5:37pm EST



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The New York state Department of Health reported that a man collapsed and died Sunday morning about 25 minutes after receiving the coronavirus vaccine at the Javits Center.
However, the health commissioner says initial indications are that the man, whose name has not yet been released, did not have an allergic reaction.
"The benefits of this vaccine far outweigh any potential risks,” said Dr. Rossi Hassad, “He was observed for 15 minutes following the vaccine, which is the required protocol."
Hassad added that the most severe reactions will occur in that time period.
Health officials say the man who died exhibited no adverse reactions during observation.
"Their death might be linked to the vaccine because of the proximity, but it’s a coincidence - it’s not a causal connection,” said Hassad.
Dr. Hassad said he understands some people may be concerned but says there are no known negative outcomes and those allergic reactions to the vaccine are rare.
"This is a very safe and very effective vaccine...Vaccines do not kill, not having vaccines kill," said Hassad.
He says that if anyone has concerns, they should consult with their doctor--especially if they’ve had severe allergic reactions to vaccines in the past.
He says some people may experience a fever, aches and headaches afterward, which is completely normal.
"Mild vaccine reactions you get which are indicators that your immune system is responding appropriately,” said Hassad.

But the guy DIED soon after and you STILL say the vaccine is safe??????????????????????

 

[Mixin]

But the guy DIED soon after and you STILL say the vaccine is safe??????????????????????

Could you share your thoughts on how the shot killed him?

 

[marsh]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cgPw3tQ6kc
22:25 min
259 The Politics of COVID-19: How Worldview Influences Willingness to Follow Public Health Guidance
•Feb 22, 2021


Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

A person’s worldview is a fundamental, gut-level set of instincts that has played a larger role in influencing political attitudes and affiliations in the last two decades. It can also influence thinking on the COVID-19 pandemic and on protective actions like mask wearing and social distancing. Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, UNC professors and authors of the book “Prius or Pickup? How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America’s Great Divide,” talk with guest host Colleen Barry about the concept of worldview and why it matters for understanding the politics of COVID-19.

 

[marsh]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrFmAhjHW_g
35:25 min

Mental Health and Wellness During a Pandemic - Dr.Yellowlees
•Feb 22, 2021


MedCram - Medical Lectures Explained CLEARLY

Dr. Yellowlees discusses strategies for optimal mental health and wellness during the COVID 19 pandemic, and tips for avoiding anxiety, depression, and social isolation Peter Yellowlees, MD is Professor of Psychiatry and Cheif Wellness Officer at UC Davis Health. He has published seven books and over 200 scientific articles and book chapters. Full bio here: https://health.ucdavis.edu/team/searc... Interviewer: Kyle Allred, Physician Assistant, Producer / Co-Founder of MedCram.com (This video was recorded on February 19, 2021) REFERENCES: CBT-i Coach App | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cbt-i-c...

 

[marsh]

Dem Rep. Khanna: 'We Don't Want' Small Businesses That Can't Afford $15 Minimum Wage

Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) declared Sunday on CNN’s "Inside Politics" that we should not want "low-wage businesses" when pressed on small businesses who would struggle under a federal mandate to pay employees $15 an hour. | Clips

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Dem Rep. Khanna: ‘We Don’t Want’ Small Businesses That Can’t Afford $15 Minimum Wage

PAM KEY21 Feb 202114,908

Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) declared Sunday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that we should not want “low-wage businesses” when pressed on small businesses who would struggle under a federal mandate to pay employees $15 an hour.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would cost 1.4 million Americans their jobs over the next four years.

Anchor Abby Phillip said, “I know that you feel very strongly like many progressives about the minimum wage issue. Right now, at the same time, businesses, both large and small, are struggling in this pandemic economy, more than 9 million jobs have been lost in the last year, and they still aren’t back, and the problem is particularly acute in industries like retail and foodservice, which are more likely to pay minimum wage. I think the question that a lot of Republicans are posing and perhaps some moderate Democrats is timing. Is now the right time to increase it to $15? I should say the bill has stages, of course, but immediately it would go up about 30% right now. Is now the right time to do that?”

Khanna said, “Abby, it’s absolutely the right time to give working Americans a raise. Let’s look at the facts. Amazon raised their wage to $15 nationally, not regionally. They have more jobs today. It didn’t hurt job creation or business. Target followed. They also did it nationally, more jobs.”

Phillip said, “Large businesses like Amazon and McDonald’s, for example, can and perhaps should pay more, but I’m wondering what is your plan for smaller businesses? How does this, in your view, affect mom and pop businesses who are just struggling to keep their doors open, keep workers on pate roll right now?”

Khanna said, “Well, they should be doing it by paying people low wages. We don’t want low-wage businesses. Most successful small businesses can pay a fair wage. If you look at the minimum wage, it increased with worker productivity until 1968, and that relationship was severed. If workers were actually getting paid for the value they were creating, it would be up to $23. I love small businesses, I’m all for it, but I don’t want small businesses that are underpaying employees. It’s fair for people to be making what they’re producing. I think $15 is very reasonable in this country.”

 

[TammyinWI]

Directory of Doctors Prescribing Effective Outpatient COVID-19 Therapy

Updated: 22 February 2021

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INFORMATION ONLY - NOT GUARANTEED ACCURATE NOT MEDICAL ADVICE - CONSULT A DOCTOR (See TERMS below)

Only your inherent immune system can eliminate the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Medications and supplements are used to slow down viral replication as well as provide immune enhancement and regulation until your body can get ahead of and survive long enough to clear the viral load. Earlier treatment is better. Outside of the body, soap and other sanitizers destroy the virus.

The general population will not have access to COVID-19 vaccines for several months. Even when available, the vaccines will not be 100% effective; people will continue to contract COVID-19 and require effective treatment of the disease. Currently available treatments (provided by the doctors listed in the directory below), therefore, will remain important to limit physical, emotional and economic suffering resulting from COVID-19.

Early aggressive treatments of viral replication, bacterial infections, immune system over-reaction (dysregulation) and blood clotting (thrombosis) for COVID-19 outpatients is essential to limit the disease symptoms severity and duration ... and its longer term damage to the patient. Viral inhibitors, antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, vitamins and supplements are included in the treatments.

Two important summaries of the COVID-19 disease process and its treatment are provided in these videos by

Dr. Paul Marik, Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lt6R3b8kfI&t=1s


Dr. Darrel DeMello, a family practitioner who has treated more than 3000 COVID-19 patients

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h16NUYlSAo

Ivermectin (IVM) ... and possibly Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) plus Zinc, if HCQ is provided very soon after beginning of diagnosis ... have proven effective for COVID-19 therapy. In addition, no adverse reactions (contraindications) are typical from simultaneous use of IVM and HCQ and other substances in the treatment protocols. Some doctors include both IVM and HCQ+Zinc in their treatments.

Based on clinical evidence, Ivermectin is the most effective treatment medication... for all phases of COVID-19.

IVM appears to inhibit viral replication, control immune system over-reaction, and minimize excessive blood clotting.

https://ivmmeta.com


Several areas in the Americas and India have experienced excellent results treating COVID-19 with Ivermectin (see: "EVIDENCE" page)

Epidemiologic analyses on Ivermectin in COVID-19 | FLCCC | Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance

“Ivermectin for COVID-19 is effective and has been given to us on a silver platter. It can completely change the history of this disease. Ivermectin is one of the safest medicines you can give a human being. It has been in use for 40 years and is on WHO’s list of essential medications. We are facing a crisis. It is unethical to wait for more clinical trials, giving placebo to some patients who are dying. With patient's consent, it is a doctor's absolute ethical duty to treat with Ivermectin.”

Paul Marik, MD, Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School



The World Health Organization (WHO) is conducting a meta analysis of clinical trials using IVM for COVID-19 treatment.

Initial conclusions show a significant benefit from treatment using IVM.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOAh7GtvcOs


"Ivermectin really is going to be a transformational treatment" Dr. Andrew Hill, University of Liverpool, UK, WHO researcher


The United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) on January 14, 2021 withdrew its previous recommendation not to use Ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19.


Please provide names for the directory of additional medical professionals prescribing IVM and/or HCQ for COVID-19

by using the ”CONTACT” form.

(Please do not use this “Contact” link to ask for prescriptions, treatment or medical advice. Contact one of the medical professionals listed in the Directory below. The Directory lists all using these treatments for COVID-19 of whom we are aware.)

The primary drug used by each doctor is provided in parentheses.

The information is not guaranteed to be accurate. A particular doctor currently may not be accepting new patients.

DIRECTORY

See "Listing of early home-based treatment kits provided for COVID-19 illness by various countries" on TREATMENT page.

MULTIPLE COUNTRIES (Telemedicine)

Dr. Darrell DeMello (IVM) +91-7718079507 darrelldemello@gmail.com


ARGENTINA

States using IVM: Corrientes, Salta, Santa Cruz

Dr. Hector Eduardo Carvallo (IVM) 11 4389 1215

Dr. Maria Eugenia Farinella (IVM) 11 4389 1215

Dr. Roberto Raul Hirsch (IVM) 11 4360 5700

Dr. Rodrigo Zoni (IVM) 54 379 441 00 00


AUSTRALIA

The Centre for Digestive Diseases (IVM) 2 9713 4011 GP@CDD.com.au referrals

Dr. Peter Lewis (IVM) 3 9822 9996

Dr. Shashikanth Manikappa (IVM) 3 8768 1200


BANGLADESH

Dr. Mohammad Tarek Alam (IVM) 9120792 93

BELIZE

IVM approved by Belize’s Ministry of Health as a prescription treatment option for Covid-19

BOLIVIA

Bolivian government added IVM to its guidelines for treating coronavirus infections in May 2020

Dr. Andres Zurita (IVM) +79606228793 andreszc1.11.111@gmail.com (consultations by telemedine for all Bolivia)


BRASIL (BRAZIL)

Cities using IVM: Belem, Fortaleza,Itajai, Paranagua, Porto Alegre, Porto Feliz

Dr. Geysa Regina Canarim Pin (IVM) 17 3216 3408 (São José do Rio Preto)

Dr. Renato J. Freitas (IVM) 17 3227 0508 (São José do Rio Preto)

Dr. Lucy Kerr (IVM) 55 11 3287 3755 (São Paulo)

Dr. Jussara Resende (IVM) 55 11 98825 6308 (São Paulo)

Dr. Raissa Soares (IVM+HCQ) 73 98834 0357 (Porto Seguro, Bahia)

Dr. Fernando Suassuna (IVM) 55 84 98103 1515 (Natal)

Dr. Nise Hitomi Yamaguchi (HCQ) 55 11 21411446 (São Paulo)


BULGARIA

Use of IVM for COVID-19 treatment is common

CANADA

Dr. Ira Bernstein (IVM) 416-256-7731 (North York, Ontario)


CUBA

HCQ available; IVM being tested for COVID-19 treatment


DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

IVM is used widely both for prophylaxis and for treatment of COVID-19. Some doctors use HCQ as well.

Dr. José Natalio Redondo Galan (IVM) josenatalioredondo@gmail.com


EL SALAVDOR

Government sanctioned protocol includes IVM https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYmTD7kXsAIh2L_?format=jpg&name=large


FRANCE

Dr. Sabine Paliard-Franco (HCQ) 3 81 07 62 64

Dr. Denis Gastaldi (HCQ) 3 87 86 31 05

Dr. Jean-Jacques Erbstein (HCQ) 3 87 94 49 71


GUATEMALA

Dr. Jorge Alfonso Lemus (IVM) WhatsApp 502 5391 7777 (Guatemala City)


HONDURAS

Government approved protocol includes IVM and HCQ


HUNGARY

Clinical trial of IVM for COVID-19 treatment at the South Pest Central Hospital and the National Institute of Pulmonology


INDIA

States using IVM: Uttar Pradesh

Dr. Rakesh Arora (IVM) 97792114

Dr. V. K. Arora (IVM) 120 4880077

Dr. Digambar Behera (IVM) 172 274 7585

Dr. Darrell DeMello (IVM) 7718079507 (Mumbai) darrelldemello@gmail.com

Dr. Bhupesh Dewan (IVM) 22 30610000

Dr. Jagadish G Donki (IVM) 9845917230 (Bangalore) doctor333in@yahoo.co.in also treats long Covid-19 (Post Covid Syndrome)

Dr. Surya Kant (IVM) 522 2255167

Dr. Rahul Mayekar (IVM) 22 2406 3000

Dr. Parthiv Mehta (IVM) 757 500 4800

Dr. Narayana Pradeep (IVM) 949 6358176

Dr. P. Sarat Singh (IVM) 38 5244 3144

Dr. Mohankumar Thekkinkatti (IVM)l 759 8110066

Dr. Agam Vora (IVM) 22 2895 4811


ISRAEL

Dr. Eli Schwartz (IVM) 03-5305000


JAPAN

Dr. Haruo Ozaki, chairman, Tokyo Medical Association, recommends use of Ivermectin for COVID-19 patients (9 Feb 2021)

Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans clinical trials of Ivermectin for outpatient treatment of COVID-19 (30 Jan 2021)


MACEDONIA

IVM for COVID-19 treatment approved by MALMED Drug Agency for North Macedonia


MEXICO

States using IVM: Chiapas

Mexico City government is giving away COVID-19 kits with Ivermectin & Azythtromycin through kiosks.

Dr. Guadalupe Espitia Hernández (IVM) 55 54471424 ext 13272 (Mexico City)

Dr. Ezequiel Jose Castro Ortiz (IVM) drecastro@live.com (Monterrey)

Dr. José Humberto Galindo Rendón (IVM) (492) 156 0805 (Zacatecas)


NIGERIA

Clinical trial approved in Lagos state for Ivermectin treatment of Covid-19


PAKISTAN

Dr. Najma Parveen (IVM) 322 5335786

Dr. Sohaib Ashraf (IVM) 333 447452


PANAMA

Government has approved and stockpiled IVM and HCQ


PARAGUAY

States using IVM: Alto Parna


PERU

States using IVM: Arequipa, Cusco, La Libertad , Loreto, Moquegua, Piura, Tumbes, Ucayali

Dr. Gustavo Aguirre Chang (IVM) Facebook: Gustavo Aguirre

Dr. Carlos Calampa Del Águila (IVM) 1 641 9847

Dr. Antonio Camargo (IVM) WhatsApp +51 942610346 dr@antoniocamargo.com

Dr. Risof Solis Cóndor (IVM) risofneumologia@gmail.com

Dr. Jose Eduardo Gotuzzo Heritage (IVM) 1 319 0000


PHILIPPINES

Dr. Allan A. Landrito (IVM) 09323137060 dr.allan.landrito@gmail.com


POLAND

Dr. Włodzimierz Bodnar (Amantadine) +48 16 677 00 79, +48 16 671 87 77 https://przychodnia-przemysl.pl


SLOVAKIA

January 27, 2021: The Health Ministry approved the therapeutic use of Ivermectin for six months


SOUTH AFRICA

South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) allows controlled compassionate Ivermectin use for Covid-19


VENEZUELA

Government approved COVID-19 treatment protocol includes IVM and HCQ


ZIMBABWE

Ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment is authorized for compassionate use and research

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USA

MULTIPLE STATES (Telemedicine)

Dr. Miguel Antonatos (IVM) (855) 767-8559 https://text2md.com

(States: AL, AZ, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, KS, KY, MD, ME, MI, MN, ND, NE, NJ, NV, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WA, WI)

Dr. Alan F. Bain (IVM+HCQ) (312) 236-7010 https://docintheloop.com (all 50 states)


Dr. Darrell DeMello (IVM) +91-7718079507 darrelldemello@gmail.com (located in India; licensed in and treats in the USA)

Dr. Syed Haider (IVM+HCQ) (281) 219-7367 Text or better yet sign up: Dr. Syed Haider

(States: AZ, CO, CT, DE, FL, HI, IA, ID, IN, IL, KS, MA, MD, MI, MO, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, PA, SC, TX, VA, VT, WI, WY)


Dr. Richard Herrscher (IVM) (972) 473-7544 www.aircaremd.com

Dr. Joseph N. Holmes (IVM+HCQ) (980) 264-9020 Text preferred

Dr. Clifford F. Porter (IVM+HCQ) (512) 553-1501 https://www.txmedicalcare.com

Dr. Lisbeth W. Roy (IVM + HCQ) (561) 444-7751 specialist@doctorsstudio.com

Dr. David Gregory Walker (IVM) (713) 776-2200 GregWalkerMD@sbcglobal.net (all 50 states)

Ken Wamwiri, MSN FNP-C (IVM) (817) 987-1127 www.evergreentclinic.com (all 50 states)

Brian Weinstein MS APN NPC (IVM+HCQ) www.synergyhealthdpc.com (all 50 states)

Dr. Anna Yoder-Olson, DNP (IVM+HCQ) (720) 397-8203 no texts please. Connect at: Connect with your doctor on Medici (States: AZ, CO, MN, OR, WA) COVID-19 visit: Prophylaxis $50; Positive $75.


America's Frontline Doctors (IVM+HCQ) (855) 503-2657 How Do I Get COVID-19 Medication? – America's Frontline Doctors

My Free Doctor (IVM+HCQ) (850) 750-1321 (Text Only) https://myfreedoctor.com (all 50 states)

iCareVIP (IVM) (888) 447-7902 https://icarevip.com



ALABAMA

Dr. David Calderwood (HCQ) (256) 535-5944



ALASKA

Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-BC (IVM) SVT Health & Wellness - Homer, Seldovia & Anchor Point, Alaska



ARKANSAS

Dr. Rob Karas (IVM) (479) 966-5088; (479) 770-4343



ARIZONA

Dr. David Jensen (IVM) (480) 444-8715 djensenmedical@gmail.com

Dr. Barry Zaretzky (IVM + HCQ) azoncalltelemedicine@gmail.com



CALIFORNIA

Dr. Margaret Aranda (IVM + HCQ) (800) 992-9280 dra@ArandaMDenterprises.com www.arandaMDenterprises.com

Dr. Jeffrey Barke (IVM) (949) 706-3300

Dr. George C. Fareed (HCQ) (760) 351-4400

Dr. Bob Hamilton (HCQ) (310) 264-2100

Dr. Sabine Hazan (IVM) (805) 339-0221

Dr. Joseph Ladapo (HCQ) (310) 206-6232

Dr. Mark McDonald (HCQ) (310) 954-9565

Dr. Donald C. Pompan (HCQ) (831) 770-0444

Dr. Brian M.Tyson (IVM + HCQ) (760) 592-4351

Dr. Daniel Wohlgelernter (HCQ) (310) 315-0101

Dr. Tom Yarema (IVM) (831) 621-2535 DrTom.com/CovidConcern

CONNECTICUT

Dr. Steven Phillips (HCQ + IVM) (203) 544-0005


Continued:

COVID-19 Doctors Directory

Directory of Doctors Prescribing Effective Outpatient COVID-19 Therapy

www.exstnc.com

 

[jward]

Indo-Pacific News - Watching the CCP-China Threat
@IndoPac_Info
43m

German scientists says extremely highly possibility that Corona virus leaked from Wuhan laboratory. https://taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4134301

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1364215830712639491

View: https://twitter.com/IndoPac_Info/status/1364215830712639491?s=20

 

[marsh]

Los Angeles Parents Are Fed Up, Organize ‘Zoom Blackout’ Until In-Person Learning Resumes

Californians are fed up with their small businesses being shut down indefinitely over COVID-19 and they are fed up with

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Los Angeles Parents Are Fed Up, Organize ‘Zoom Blackout’ Until In-Person Learning Resumes

by Rich Welsh
February 22, 2021



Californians are fed up with their small businesses being shut down indefinitely over COVID-19 and they are fed up with churches being punished by vengeful and vindictive government officials. But parents most specifically are livid over their kids being kept out of school for what is coming to an entire year.

On Monday, one parent in Los Angeles told Fox News Channe’s “Fox & Friends” that she helped out organizing a Zoom blackout for a formal protest for schools to be reopened and in-person classes to resume because “there is a really big urgency to get our kids back in school.”

Cynthia Rojas admitted that she is speaking out because she feels that parents in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) are being misled intentionally.

According to a flier that has been passed out, the Zoom blackout that started on Monday and will go on every day for “as many days as it takes,” adding that “enough is enough” and that parents “can no longer sit by and wait for UTLA to come up with more excuses to keep our schools closed.”

American taxpayers are paying for public schools. It’s their schools and they do not belong to the school districts. It doesn’t belong to the teachers and it most certainly doesn’t belong to the teacher’s unions. If it’s called “public schools” then it means if the “public,” who pays for it to function, demands that the teachers do their damn jobs and stop lying to the parents about the dangers of COVID when it’s known that kids do not catch the virus and are in no way considered super spreaders. I think this kind of rebellion by parents is going to start to take place all across the country in states where Democrats are destroying children’s lives.

Rojas spoke about the frustration of learning over the last few months that parents have “have very little voice in this whole situation.”

“We don’t have a seat at the table when it comes to the negotiations between LAUSD and UTLA (United Teachers Los Angeles) and so we’ve been trying the standard calling and voicemails, and e-mails, but it’s not working,” Rojas said. “And so I’m part of a group of just parents who are just really frustrated.”

She stressed that she thinks the Zoom blackout is “going to give feedback to LAUSD and UTLA that they are not providing an education for our children.”

“I feel like every time we log in, it gives them the opportunity to say, ‘Hey, oh we’re providing education, there’s online learning, what’s the big rush to get back to school,’” she added.
“And what we’re seeing is there is a really big urgency to get our kids back in school,” she continued noting that the science says it’s safe to go back to in-person learning.

A little side note, my youngest is a senior in high school. He has gotten straight A’s and has been on the top Honors roll for three years, but right now he’s failing because of virtual learning. Not everyone is cut out for it and the schools don’t care. As an example, he told me that what happens all the time is just as he is starting to get what the teacher is talking about some technical glitch happens, the feed goes down, and it takes about five minutes to get back into the virtual classroom. That’s only one problem he faces daily. In my other life, I am a senior programmer, and I can tell you that whenever I am interrupted by someone when my head is buried deep in code it takes me at least ten minutes after the interruption to get my head back in the game. School districts don’t even want to hear about things like what my son is going through. It’s his senior year, a very important year for pathways of his future.

Last month the CDC released a report of a study that shows that in-person learning is safe if schools take proper precautions, yet it seems like the unions don’t want teachers to go back to work.

Rojas said that parents in California are claiming that they should have the right to choose whether or not they send their children back to school.

When asked what he missed the most about going to school, Rojas’ son Nicholas Jardim said, “What I really miss the most is my friends and how I used to play with them at recess.”

That’s another component of virtual learning from home. The psychological damage being done to millions of school children will be studied for decades because kids need to socialize with other kids. Suicides are happening due to the isolation of virtual learning and for that reason alone you would think the teacher’s unions would want their teachers to go back to in-person learning if they really believed it’s all about the kids, but with the advent of the COVID-19 virus, the parents are getting a very strong lesson themselves in the reality that in many cases the teacher’s unions care more about the employment of adults than the education of our children.

 

[marsh]

GA Election Expert Garland Favorito Puts Election Committee On Notice For Future Election Fraud - CD Media

GA Election Expert Garland Favorito Puts Election Committee On Notice For Future Election Fraud. GA Legislature Working For Fair Elections?

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GA Election Expert Garland Favorito Puts Election Committee On Notice For Future Election Fraud

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GA Election expert Garland Favorito, of VoterGA.org, has put the GA Legislature on notice as to requirements to prevent future election fraud. GA politicians have been historically repelled by doing what is actually needed to prevent election fraud in the Peach State. Below is a reader comment by an attendee of a recent Dekalb County GOP breakfast, posted on a recent article of ours.

Brad Carver’s committee with Ga House Affairs put together a list of sound suggestions for restoring election integrity. Getting rid of Dominion was on that list. Yesterday at GOP breakfast meeting in Dekalb County, they spoke to every topic related to election integrity except for dumping Dominion. When we asked about it, he said Dominion isn’t going anywhere. That was an unfortunate response, now we know our vote will never count. I have tried to hang in there with the GOP, but we need to either hijack it or destroy it. They are empty suits.

Below is Favorito’s email to GA Special Election Committee members:

Immediate Ballot, Image and Voting System Transparency Needs

Special Election Committee Members,
If you are serious about detecting and preventing election fraud you must make Georgia elections transparent. Specifically, this means:

1. Make Ballots publicly available (per 2019 VoterGA SAFE Voting Commission recommendations)

1. Make Ballot images publicly available (per 2019 VoterGA SAFE Commission recommendations) (SOS legal counsel claim of AG issuing an opinion that ballot images should not be public is false)
2. Require counties to allow their election management system to be imaged upon demand for independent forensic exams (this requires only an hour to copy the server for forensic exam and does not impact election processing in any way)

See my letter to the committee for more information on why these three steps are the ones that are most necessary at this time:

general-assembly-legislative-objectives.pdf (wordpress.com)
Sincerely,
Garland Favorito
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[marsh]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ymKocjsmUo
10:41 min

MedCram - Medical Lectures Explained CLEARLY

How well will COVID-19 vaccines work against the coronavirus variants first discovered in the UK, South Africa, and Brazil? Dr. Seheult discusses the research we have so far on SARS CoV 2 mutations. (This video was recorded on February 23, 2021). Roger Seheult, MD is the co-founder and lead professor at https://www.medcram.com He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine and an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.

LINKS / REFERENCES: COVID: UK variant spreading rapidly in Germany (DW) | https://www.dw.com/en/covid-uk-varian... Germany: Schools reopen for younger children amid rising COVID infections (DW) | https://www.dw.com/en/germany-schools... Where schools are reopening in the US (CNN) | https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/... Adapted booster vaccines in the works (Medical News Today) | https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/arti... Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 pseudovirus by BNT162b2 vaccine-elicited human sera (Science) | https://science.sciencemag.org/conten... Reduced neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant by convalescent and vaccine sera (Cell) | https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0... mRNA-1273 vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies against spike mutants from global SARS-CoV-2 variants (bioRxiv) | https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11... Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Retains Neutralizing Activity Against Emerging Variants First Identified in the U.K. and the Republic of South Africa (Moderna) | https://investors.modernatx.com/news-...

 

[marsh]

Zerohedge

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New Mutant COVID Strain Discovered In Finland Which May Evade Tests

WEDNESDAY, FEB 24, 2021 - 12:26
Hospital officials in Finland are grappling with a surge in COVID-19 cases, as the spread of new and more contagious strains spread throughout the country - including one new variant which may not show up on tests, according to the Helsinki Times.

According to Veli-Matti Ulander, the chief administrator for the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), the number of COVID-19 patients has nearly doubled in one week - forcing the transfer of patients to other parts oft he country, as an "attempt to try to spread out the burden placed by the coronavirus on HUS," Ulander told Finnish media. Chief HUS physician Asko Järvinen added that pressure to transfer patients comes primarily from staffing shortages.


The new strain, discovered by the Helsinki-based Vita Laboratories, is unlikely to have emerged in Finland given the country's low rate of infection, according to the Evening Standard, however it is unclear whether it's any more infectious - or deadly - than other strains currently in circulation.

"Vita Laboratoriot Oy and the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Helsinki have detected a previously unknown variant of the coronavirus in a sample from southern Finland," said the lab, which named the new strain Fin-769H. "Mutations in this variant make it difficult to detect in at least one of the WHO-recommended PCR tests. This discovery could have a significant impact on determining the spread of the disease."

Since the mutant strain was only discovered last week, it's unclear what impact it's having on the country's outbreak, though the timing is certainly curious.

"The variant was discovered in a patient last week, so details about the infectivity and potential resistance of this strain to vaccines are not yet known," said Taru Meri, a researcher at Vita Laboratories.

Finland has bucked the trend of falling COVID cases globally. Instead, the country has seen daily numbers remain steady since the start of the new year.

As of Thursday, 450 new cases of various COVID-19 mutations have been reported in Finland, according to THL infectious disease control head Taneli Puumalainen. Of these, nearly all were of the British variant, 22 South African and one of the Brazilian strain.

That said, virology professor at the University of Turku explained the evidence of the new strain - despite its apparent ability to evade certain PCR tests - shouldn't prompt panic.

"I would not be hugely worried yet because we do not have clear information that this new strain would be more easily transmitted or that it would affect the immune protection brought about by already having had the virus or having received a vaccination," said Julkunen. Meanwhile, Petri Auvinen, research director of the University of Helsinki’s Institute of Biotechnology, said the discovery of new coronavirus variants was inevitable.

Finland has had 51,595 cases and 723 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic out of a population of 5.5 million.

 

[marsh]

Dr. Marilyn Singleton: With Covid, ‘it looks like we’re being groomed for more authoritarian control’

Covid-19 isn't just a healthcare problem. It quickly morphed into a political play early on and has persisted in being

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Dr. Marilyn Singleton: With Covid, ‘it looks like we’re being groomed for more authoritarian control’

Government and media love to say, "Follow the science." But are they really practicing what they preach? According to Dr. Marilyn Singleton, the decisions being made about how to handle Covid-19 have less to do with science and more to do with how the government wants to control us all.

by JD Rucker
February 23, 2021

Covid-19 isn’t just a healthcare problem. It quickly morphed into a political play early on and has persisted in being used as a tool through which authority-minded politicians can advance and sustain their power. We’ve seen examples from coast-to-coast, particularly at the state and local levels. From New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to California Governor Gavin Newsom and several others in between, promoting draconian policies against businesses, schools, and individuals continues to be prominent. I had the pleasure of discussing this with Dr. Marilyn Singleton on the latest episode of NOQ Report.

Dr. Singleton is well-qualified to express her perspectives on the issue. She was president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. With a M.D. from UC San Francisco Medical School and a J.D. from UC Berkeley Law School, she has expertise in both the medical and legal arenas. Based on her experience and understanding of the current state of affairs in America with the pandemic raging, she is not a fan of Dr. Anthony Fauci.

“I think he should have been fired months ago, but that’s where the politics enters,” she said. “And I’m sure the President thought ‘if I fire this guy, anything that happens after this, it’ll all be on me.’ And Fauci, it’s kind of interesting listening to him now. He talks in kind of this third person, as if it was someone else who was doing all the medical stuff last year.”

Dr. Fauci has famously flip-flopped multiple times on a plethora of issues. He was against using face masks before being for them. He was in favor of using multiple face masks before saying it wasn’t necessary. And with every passing study or decree from the Centers for Disease Control, his perspectives seem to change constantly.

“He seems not to know everything that he’s talking about, or if he does know he’s keeping things from the public,” she said. “I think the thing that was so appalling is in the beginning he said, ‘don’t worry about this, no need to wear a mask, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, have sex with people in Tinder.'”

She continued, “It was completely cavalier. And then, all of a sudden, it’s this loss of memory, and ‘oh no, you have to do this, you have to do that, you have to wear a mask for the rest of your life, you have to stay on lockdown for the rest of your life.'”

But Dr. Fauci is simply an extension of the political side of the pandemic. His recommendations, heavily touted by mainstream media, many Republicans, and nearly every Democrat, rely less on the science behind Covid-19 and more on the political agenda at any given moment. With perspectives that are so mercurial, it’s a wonder that more have not called him out.

As a tool for progressive politicians, he has been able to help maintain a level of fear appropriate to keep us on edge. Unfortunately, keeping the masses at this level of fear has driven many to go over the edge. It’s conspicuous that numbers pertaining to drug overdoses, clinical depression, and suicide have suddenly become difficult to acquire. The last thing they want is for people to start asking more questions about the efficacy of pandemic policies, lest they risk losing control.

If we follow the true science surrounding this coronavirus, we see clear paths to be able to reopen and return to higher degrees of normalcy. But it’s a political form of pseudoscience that seems to be driving the decisions made at every level. Dr. Singleton believes she knows why this is.

“This should be reproduceable results and asking solid questions of people,” she said, referring to the proper way to study and react to Covid-19. “There’s epidemiological lists that should be gone through, and none of this is really being done. It seems like only the data that supports what the government wants you to do, and I just hate to say this but it looks like we’re being groomed for more authoritarian control.”

Public information regarding Covid-19 is limited for a reason. There’s a political agenda that holds primacy over the true medical considerations. They’re not following the science. They’re using the science for control.

40:22 min Rumble video interview

 

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Death rate (deaths/1,000 population)

Country 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 United States 8.1​ 8.1​ 8.2​ 8.2​ 8.5​ 8.5​ 8.7​ 8.6​ 8.28​ 8.31​
Definition of Death rate: This entry gives the average annual number of deaths during a year per 1,000 population at midyear; also known as crude death rate. The death rate, while only a rough indicator of the mortality situation in a country, accurately indicates the current mortality impact on population growth. This indicator is significantly affected by age distribution, and most countries will eventually show a rise in the overall death rate, in spite of continued decline in mortality at all ages, as declining fertility results in an aging population.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of December 1, 2020

 

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Death rate (deaths/1,000 population)

Country 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 United States 8.1​ 8.1​ 8.2​ 8.2​ 8.5​ 8.5​ 8.7​ 8.6​ 8.28​ 8.31​
Definition of Death rate: This entry gives the average annual number of deaths during a year per 1,000 population at midyear; also known as crude death rate. The death rate, while only a rough indicator of the mortality situation in a country, accurately indicates the current mortality impact on population growth. This indicator is significantly affected by age distribution, and most countries will eventually show a rise in the overall death rate, in spite of continued decline in mortality at all ages, as declining fertility results in an aging population.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of December 1, 2020

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[marsh]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ynzfGLBpMU
29:32 min

COVID Travel Tips: Flying During Pandemic, Safety, Current Restrictions
•Feb 25, 2021


MedCram - Medical Lectures Explained CLEARLY

How to Travel during COVID 19: What are the current COVID 19 travel restrictions for people living in the United States? How safe is air travel/flying during COVID? How do I optimize safety and convenience while traveling or flying during a pandemic? Where can I find the latest coronavirus safety information on COVID travel and restrictions? This presentation by Kyle Allred, PA was recorded on February 23, 2021 at the National Conference on Wilderness Medicine: https://wilderness-medicine.com/ Info on The next National Conf. on Wilderness Medicine is here: https://wilderness-medicine.com/cme-c...

LINKS / REFERENCES: Travel.Gov | https://travel.state.gov/ CDC for Travelers | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinat... Ventilation & Filtration: Prevent COVID 19 + Optimize Health (Air purifiers, HEPA filters) Prof Joseph Allen | https://youtu.be/OQ6DhgwgtGw

 

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New link...similar info for US can be found if you scroll down this page. New number for 2021 is 8.35 per 1,000.

United States - The World Factbook

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New link...similar info for US can be found if you scroll down this page. New number for 2021 is 8.35 per 1,000.

United States - The World Factbook

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Thanks!

 

[marsh]

Zerohedge

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Federal Judge Rules Nationwide Eviction Ban Is Unconstitutional

FRIDAY, FEB 26, 2021 - 17:00
Authored by Janita Kan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

A judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that the federal government does not have the authority to issue a nationwide eviction moratorium.

Signs that read "No Job No Rent" hang from the windows of an apartment building in Washington on May 20, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
U.S. District Judge John Barker, a Trump appointee, ruled in favor of a group of property managers and landlords who challenged a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) order that prevented them from temporarily evicting tenants for non-payment of rent during the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic.

The CDC order in question was initially issued in September 2020 and was originally set to expire on Dec. 31, 2020. It was extended to Jan. 31 and then again until the end of March. The order aimed to mitigate the spread of the pandemic by reducing congregation in shared living settings or in unsheltered homeless areas, and support state and local responses to the disease.

The order made it a crime for a landlord or property owner to evict a “covered person” from a residence, subject to several exceptions. Tenants who are covered by the order include those who have used their best efforts to obtain government assistance for rent or housing; or whose income falls below a certain income threshold.

A person who violated the order could face up to one year of imprisonment, to be followed by up to one year of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000.

The order only pauses evictions but does not relieve tenants from rent or housing payments.

Barker said eviction moratoriums are usually enacted by states and that the lawsuit does not question the states’ authority to do so. But plaintiffs in the case are asking the court to determine whether the U.S. Constitution allows the federal government to order or legislate a nationwide moratorium on evicting specified tenants.

“After analyzing the relevant precedents, the court concludes that the federal government’s Article I power to regulate interstate commerce and enact laws necessary and proper to that end does not include the power to impose the challenged eviction moratorium,” Barker wrote in his 21-page ruling (pdf).

The Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) and Texas Public Policy Foundation jointly represented the plaintiffs in the case. The groups welcomed the judge’s decision.

“The court’s order today holding the CDC’s interference with private property rights under the veil of COVID-19 serves as notice to the Biden administration that the Constitution limits government power,” SLF General Counsel Kimberly Hermann said in a statement. The moratorium was first issued by the CDC under the Trump administration, and extended by Congress and then the CDC under Biden.

“The federal courts will continue to be a primary bulwark against unconstitutional overreach by federal and state governments. As our record shows, we have fought and won cases just like this for decades, and the current administration has shown no restraint. We are preparing cases across the constitutional spectrum to defend against unrestrained government action.”

The lawsuit was filed against the United States, the CDC, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and three HHS officials responsible for the order.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment.

 

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Los Angeles Parents Are Fed Up, Organize ‘Zoom Blackout’ Until In-Person Learning Resumes

Californians are fed up with their small businesses being shut down indefinitely over COVID-19 and they are fed up with

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Los Angeles Parents Are Fed Up, Organize ‘Zoom Blackout’ Until In-Person Learning Resumes

by Rich Welsh
February 22, 2021


Californians are fed up with their small businesses being shut down indefinitely over COVID-19 and they are fed up with churches being punished by vengeful and vindictive government officials. But parents most specifically are livid over their kids being kept out of school for what is coming to an entire year.

On Monday, one parent in Los Angeles told Fox News Channe’s “Fox & Friends” that she helped out organizing a Zoom blackout for a formal protest for schools to be reopened and in-person classes to resume because “there is a really big urgency to get our kids back in school.”

Cynthia Rojas admitted that she is speaking out because she feels that parents in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) are being misled intentionally.

According to a flier that has been passed out, the Zoom blackout that started on Monday and will go on every day for “as many days as it takes,” adding that “enough is enough” and that parents “can no longer sit by and wait for UTLA to come up with more excuses to keep our schools closed.”

American taxpayers are paying for public schools. It’s their schools and they do not belong to the school districts. It doesn’t belong to the teachers and it most certainly doesn’t belong to the teacher’s unions. If it’s called “public schools” then it means if the “public,” who pays for it to function, demands that the teachers do their damn jobs and stop lying to the parents about the dangers of COVID when it’s known that kids do not catch the virus and are in no way considered super spreaders. I think this kind of rebellion by parents is going to start to take place all across the country in states where Democrats are destroying children’s lives.

Rojas spoke about the frustration of learning over the last few months that parents have “have very little voice in this whole situation.”

“We don’t have a seat at the table when it comes to the negotiations between LAUSD and UTLA (United Teachers Los Angeles) and so we’ve been trying the standard calling and voicemails, and e-mails, but it’s not working,” Rojas said. “And so I’m part of a group of just parents who are just really frustrated.”

She stressed that she thinks the Zoom blackout is “going to give feedback to LAUSD and UTLA that they are not providing an education for our children.”

“I feel like every time we log in, it gives them the opportunity to say, ‘Hey, oh we’re providing education, there’s online learning, what’s the big rush to get back to school,’” she added.
“And what we’re seeing is there is a really big urgency to get our kids back in school,” she continued noting that the science says it’s safe to go back to in-person learning.

A little side note, my youngest is a senior in high school. He has gotten straight A’s and has been on the top Honors roll for three years, but right now he’s failing because of virtual learning. Not everyone is cut out for it and the schools don’t care. As an example, he told me that what happens all the time is just as he is starting to get what the teacher is talking about some technical glitch happens, the feed goes down, and it takes about five minutes to get back into the virtual classroom. That’s only one problem he faces daily. In my other life, I am a senior programmer, and I can tell you that whenever I am interrupted by someone when my head is buried deep in code it takes me at least ten minutes after the interruption to get my head back in the game. School districts don’t even want to hear about things like what my son is going through. It’s his senior year, a very important year for pathways of his future.

Last month the CDC released a report of a study that shows that in-person learning is safe if schools take proper precautions, yet it seems like the unions don’t want teachers to go back to work.

Rojas said that parents in California are claiming that they should have the right to choose whether or not they send their children back to school.

When asked what he missed the most about going to school, Rojas’ son Nicholas Jardim said, “What I really miss the most is my friends and how I used to play with them at recess.”

That’s another component of virtual learning from home. The psychological damage being done to millions of school children will be studied for decades because kids need to socialize with other kids. Suicides are happening due to the isolation of virtual learning and for that reason alone you would think the teacher’s unions would want their teachers to go back to in-person learning if they really believed it’s all about the kids, but with the advent of the COVID-19 virus, the parents are getting a very strong lesson themselves in the reality that in many cases the teacher’s unions care more about the employment of adults than the education of our children.

...kids need to socialize with other kids.

Damn, that explains it. Never saw a kid to talk to during the summer on the farm and in school, 14 kids, two were my brothers.

 

[marsh]

Zerohedge

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Scientists Discover 'All-Natural' COVID Treatment That Can Prevent 'Cytokine Storm' In Severe Patients

FRIDAY, FEB 26, 2021 - 2:45
A team of scientists from Israel and Iceland has published a new report showing that an extraction of spirulina algae has the potential to reduce the severity of COVID-19 in advanced cases.


The research, first published in a peer-reviewed journal called Marine Biotechnology, found that an extract of photosynthetically manipulated Spirulina is 70% effective in inhibiting the release of the cytokine TNF-a, a small signaling protein used by the immune system.

According to the Jerusalem Post, the research was conducted in a MIGAL laboratory in northern Israel with algae grown and cultivated in Iceland by the Israeli company VAXA. VAXA received funding from the European Union to explore and develop "natural" treatments for coronavirus.

In a small percentage of patients, infection with the coronavirus causes the immune system to release an excessive number of TNF-a cytokines, resulting in what is known as a cytokine storm. The storm causes acute respiratory distress syndrome and damage to other organs, the leading cause of death in COVID-19 patients.

“If you control or are able to mitigate the excessive release of TNF-a, you can eventually reduce mortality,” said Asaf Tzachor, a researcher from the IDC Herzliya School of Sustainability and the lead author of the study.

During cultivation, growth conditions were adjusted to control the algae’s metabolomic profile and bioactive molecules, something that Tzachor refers to as “enhanced” algae.

Meanwhile, in other Israel-related COVID news, PM Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly struck a deal with the Crown Prince of Bahrain for Israel to join a collective experiment for Middle Eastern states to develop their own vaccines.


Netanyahu, who is seeking re-election on March 23, said on Wednesday he was in talks with the heads of Pfizer and Moderna to open facilities in Israel as he seeks to get practically all of Israel's population vaccinated - effectively ending the crisis - before Election Day arrives.

 

[marsh]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MHsJB3m1go
15:47 min

Vitamin D for COVID19 (NEW Studies)

•Feb 27, 2021


Doctor Mike Hansen

Vitamin D Supplements in COVID-19, how much proof do we need? Vitamin D has been maligned and praised throughout 2020 and into 2021. As a cheap supplement that nearly everyone has access to, why is it getting so much attention? Many studies show a strong association between vitamin D deficiency and increased numbers and severity of respiratory infections.

These studies show a relationship between vitamin D supplements and COVID-19, not that vitamin D deficiency causes COVID-19. This distinction is important because a third variable may actually be responsible for the effect. Imagine you are studying 100 people who have double the number of respiratory infections per year compared to the baseline population. They all have low levels of vitamin D. Is having low levels of vitamin D the cause of their increased risk of respiratory infections? Maybe they live in a crowded, understaffed nursing home. They do not get outside and eat a poor diet. These factors could explain the increased risk for infection and the low vitamin D levels. But you would not know that unless you were looking for it or structured your study to remove the effect of other variables that are not measured. Here are five studies that support the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and more severe respiratory diseases.

Researchers in Germany followed 9548 adults aged 50-75 for 15 years to evaluate their mortality from respiratory diseases. Among study participants, 44 percent had low vitamin D levels, and 15 percent were vitamin D deficient. Overall, after adjusting for sex, age, the season of blood draw, school education, BMI, physical activity, and fish consumption, 41 percent of respiratory disease mortality was statistically because of low vitamin D levels. A meta-analysis published in the British Medical Journal in 2017 reviewed 25 randomized, double-blind, controlled trials that had 11,321 participants. Vitamin D supplements reduced each individual's risk by at least one respiratory infection. When all the results were averaged together, there was a slight protective effect. While daily and weekly doses of vitamin D reduced risk, single large doses of vitamin D did not. Protective effects of vitamin D were greatest in those with the lowest vitamin D levels.

In a retrospective study in 2020, Quest Diagnostics in the U.S. looked at the labs for vitamin D levels and SARS-CoV-2 positivity for 191,779 de-identified participants. The authors found a strong inverse relationship between vitamin D levels and SARS positivity that persisted across latitudes, races/ethnicities., sexes, and age ranges. They found the risk of being positive for SARS-CoV-2 was 1.6% lower with each vitamin D increase by 1 ng/ml. A previous study showed that for every 4ng/ml increase in vitamin D, there was a 7% decrease in risk for seasonal respiratory infections.

When researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine reviewed the health records of 489 patients who had vitamin D testing within the previous year, they found that the relative risk for testing positive for COVID-19 was 1.77 times greater for vitamin D deficient patients when compared to those who were not. Two-thirds of the study participants were non-white, and 47 percent had a BMI greater than or equal to 30 (obese). Though the results were significant, the authors point out that this was a retrospective study. There may be unknown confounding variables that increase the risk for both vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19.

 

[marsh]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKd1Z6iUpOA
36:33 min
TWiV 724: COVID-19 clinical update #51 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
•Feb 27, 2021


Vincent Racaniello

In COVID-19 clinical update #51, Daniel Griffin reviews use of two masks, effectiveness of testing in nursing homes, updates on vaccines, use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, little effect of vitamin D and remdesivir in clinical studies, and a long COVID research initiative from NIH. Show notes at https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-724/

 

[marsh]

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FDA Panel Unanimously Endorses J&J Covid Vaccine

FRIDAY, FEB 26, 2021 - 17:22
While it was so widely expected the announcement was merely a formality, just after 5pm on Friday the FDA Advisory Panel voted unanimously (22-0) to endorse the (one-shot, no mRNA) J&J vaccine, saying the benefits outweigh the risks, and recommended the agency grant emergency authorization, moving the nation's third vaccine one step closer to getting into Americans' arms.

The vaccine was 66% effective in protecting any cases of moderate to severe illness. It was 85% effective against severe cases of COVID-19 and completely prevented hospitalizations and death, four weeks after inoculation.

The FDA could now give the green light to the single-dose vaccine as early as Saturday, and it probably will.

Vaccinations will then begin as soon as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) panel recommends the vaccine and the CDC accepts that recommendation. The CDC panel is scheduled to meet Sunday.

"We are at the precipice of having another vaccine in our toolbox," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Friday. "Having an additional safe and effective vaccine will help protect more people faster."

The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine is different from the other two already on the market and could be a potential game changer. It is administered in a single dose, and does not need to be frozen when shipped and stored. It is also not based on the highly controversial mRNA technology used by Pfizer and Moderna. Unlike those two, the JNJ vaccine is what’s called a viral vector vaccine.

To create this vaccine, the Johnson & Johnson team took a harmless adenovirus – the viral vector – and replaced a small piece of its genetic instructions with coronavirus genes for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.

After this modified adenovirus is injected into someone’s arm, it enters the person’s cells. The cells then read the genetic instructions needed to make the spike protein and the vaccinated cells make and present the spike protein on their own surface. The person’s immune system then notices these foreign proteins and makes antibodies against them that will protect the person if they are ever exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in the future.

The adenovirus vector vaccine is safe because the adenovirus can’t replicate in human cells or cause disease, and the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can’t cause COVID–19 without the rest of the coronavirus.

“We need vaccines that are effective and well-tolerated. And importantly, ones that are simple to deploy,” said Gregory Poland, director of the Mayo Clinic’s vaccine research group, who spoke to the panel as part of J&J’s presentation.

The endorsement from the FDA panel of experts comes as politically motivated federal officials are again scrambling to boost the panic meter by warning about the impact of recent highly contagious variants of the coronavirus, urging people not to grow complacent despite plunging cases and hospitalizations. The rise of variants makes vaccination more important than ever, CDC officials said.

CDC epidemiologist Adam MacNeil told the FDA panel said he expects the B.1.1.7 variant, first found in the United Kingdom, has likely spread throughout the entire U.S., and could become the dominant virus in mid-to-late March. However, inadequate genetic sequencing means we may never get the true picture. Furthermore, recent computer models have predicted that not even covid variants will prevent the US from basically being covid free by June.


While the pace of vaccinations has been steadily increasing, MacNeil said the U.S. is still "nowhere close" to herd immunity, which also is a politically-motivated falsity because as we showed earlier, at least 7 states are now on the verge of herd immunity. He emphasized the effectiveness of current strategies including masking and physical distancing.


Continuing with the political narrative, to date supply has been the primary constraint to the ramping up of the U.S. vaccination effort. A vaccine by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, and another by Moderna were both authorized in December, but Pfizer has only shipped approximately 40 million doses, while Moderna has shipped about 45 million doses.

Johnson & Johnson's vaccine will only be available at a relative trickle at first. The company will only have about 4 million doses available to ship immediately upon authorization, but that number will increase to 20 million by the end of next month.

J&J has a deal with the U.S. government to supply 100 million doses of its vaccine by the end of June, and White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients said this week the federal government will do “everything we can” with the company to ramp up production.

The company asked the FDA to authorize the use of the vaccine in people aged 18 and older, but there were some concerns over the lack of data on recipients older than 75. There were also concerns over the effectiveness in people over the age of 60 with certain pre-existing conditions, like obesity and diabetes.

The J&J vaccine hasn’t been tested yet in children and teens under the age of 18, so it was not authorized for their use. A trial to study the safety and efficacy of the company’s vaccine in teens aged 17 and younger will begin late next month or early April.

Finally, while the two coronavirus vaccines already on the market may appear to be more effective than Johnson & Johnson's, experts say it is difficult to compare them head-to-head because of different clinical trial designs and different endpoints. Furthermore, the fact that the two previous vaccines are mRNA based - a rather novel and untested technology - may have sparked skepticism among many Americans.

"I really think we need to be careful not to read into the data, to look across studies when they are so different, and instead look at each vaccine individually," CDC's Nancy Messioner said Friday during an interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association.

 

[marsh]

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Is This Why "New COVID Cases" Are Crashing?

SUNDAY, FEB 28, 2021 - 7:00
Via Off-Guardian.org,

The scary red numbers are all going down. Check any newspaper or covid tracking website you want. Cases. Deaths. Hospitalisations. They’re all going down, sharply, and have been for weeks, especially in the US and UK.


So, why would that be?

Pundits across the media world have made suggestions – from vaccines to lockdowns – but there’s only one that makes any real sense.

IT’S NOT VACCINES
The assumption most people would make, and would be encouraged to make by the talking heads and media experts, is that the various “vaccines” have taken effect and stopped the spread of the “virus”.

Is this the case? No, no it’s not.

The decline started in mid-January, far too early for any vaccination program to have any effect. Many experts said as much:

Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, said the falling case numbers can’t be attributed to the COVID-19 vaccine, because not even a tenth of the population has been vaccinated, according to the CDC.

Further, the drop is happening simultaneously in different countries all around the world, and not every country is vaccinating at the same rate or even using the same vaccine. So no, the “vaccines” are not causing the drop.

IT’S NOT LOCKDOWN EITHER

Another suspect is the lockdown, with blaring propaganda stating that all the various government-imposed house arrests and “distancing” measures have finally had an impact.
That’s not it either.

Sweden, famously, never locked down at all. Yet their “cases” and “Covid related deaths” have been dropping exactly in parallel with the UK:


Clearly, if countries that never locked down are also seeing declines in case numbers, the lockdown cannot be causing them.

So what is?

THE WHO PCR TEST GUIDELINES
Maybe for our answer, we should look at the date the decline started.
Observe this graph:


As you can see, the global decline in “Covid deaths” starts in mid-to-late January.
What else happened around that time?

Well, on January 13th the WHO published a memo regarding the problem of asymptomatic cases being discovered by PCR tests, and suggesting any asymptomatic positive tests be repeated.

This followed up their previous memo, instructing labs around the world to use lower cycle thresholds (CT values) for PCR tests, as values over 35 could produce false positives.
Essentially, in two memos the WHO ensured future testing would be less likely to produce false positives and made it much harder to be labelled an “asymptomatic case”.

In short, logic would suggest we’re not in fact seeing a “decline in Covid cases” or a “decrease in Covid deaths” at all.

What we’re seeing is a decline in perfectly healthy people being labelled “covid cases” based on a false positive from an unreliable testing process. And we’re seeing fewer people dying of pneumonia, cancer or other disease have “Covid19” added to their death certificate based on testing criteria designed to inflate the pandemic.

Just as we at OffG predicted would happen the moment the memo was published.