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Omicron good news

Nov 30, 2021


Dr. John Campbell


Omicron, Guess work so far More transmissibility Some vaccine escape Some natural infection escape Causing reinfections in SA in people that had had infection and vaccination Mostly mild symptoms in the vaccinated Effecting younger people Sinovac recipients may do well Global within the week Lateral flow tests still work Every vaccinated and unvaccinated person will encounter this variant

Tiredness, headache, body aches, scratchy throat, dry cough

Netherlands https://www.dw.com/en/omicron-present... Omicron present at least a week Before 13 (out of 61) passengers from South Africa found to be omicron positive National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) https://www.rivm.nl/en

November 19th and 23rd Omicron variant in two test samples (South Africa announced they had identified omicron November 26th) (First Belgium case, 24th November) (Botswana on November 11th) It is not yet clear whether the people concerned (in the earlier cases) had also been to southern Africa

Tracking down some 5,000 passengers from South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe Michael Hoelscher, Department for Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Munich University Hospital We're finding an increasing number of variant cases all around Europe, and in fact we believe that the introduction of those variants has been ongoing for a few weeks already What we are also seeing is that there are now first cases of community transmission, so it's within Europe, and the travel bans will probably delay the spread of the disease a little bit but will not be able to hold it up

US President Biden Cause for concern not a cause for panic Get boosted No new US lockdown

Sequencing 80,000 samples per week Moderna No tweaked vaccine until 2022 Endemic with yearly vaccines UK 13 England, 9 Scotland omicron cases All 5 English cases linked to southern Africa Scotland Nine omicron cases so far Scotland Chief Medical Officer Gregor Smith Not aware of anyone dying of the omicron variant as of yet Boosting boosters https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/inde...

Prime Minister, throw everything at it Next Thursday Finished by end of Jan, next 2 months Sites all over the place Boosters to all over 18 Gap between 2nd dose and boosters, cut to three months From December 1, doctors, £15 per jab £20 for Sunday and Bank Holiday 400 soldiers will help The best thing to happen? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...

Professor Karl Lauterbach, clinical epidemiologist (Germany's next health minister) Could mean omicron it is optimised to infect, in line with how most respiratory viruses evolve Professor Paul Hunter The theory may prove to be true ? levels of protection from previous infection in SA High levels of previous infection and vaccination, offering protection Franco Locatelli, president of Italy's Higher Health Council Not overly concerned by the new variant May be more contagious but it is not more dangerous than other strains The time it took to become predominant was much less compared to other variants But we don't have any evidence to suggest it can provoke more serious illness or evade the protective effect of vaccines in a major way
 

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CDC, FDA NIH and Fauci doing more harm than good

Premiered 65 minutes ago


Peak Prosperity


The highest goals of public and /or national level health agencies should always be doing the greatest good when the totality of their efforts are summed up. This means that after all is said and done, fewer people die in a given year and more people are living healthier lives. That is, less mortality and less morbidity (sickness).

How have the various agencies done in the US on those fronts? Terribly! They get an “F.” In 2021 excess deaths (above expected baselines) are higher than they should be, by far, and are even running above 2020 levels - the supposed height of the pandemic. What are the reasons for this? We don’t know. For some reason the national health agencies are not only silent on the matter, but apparently completely uninterested.

(Part II behind a pay wall)
 

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Bonus - The Omicron Variant

Nov 30, 2021


Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health


How did omicron come to the world’s attention? Why is this variant generating so much concern? Is it expected that vaccines will provide substantial protection? What can governments do to protect their populations? What can people do to protect themselves? Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with Hopkins virologist Dr. Andy Pekosz about all things omicron.
 

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Will New Jabs Be Necessary To Fight Omicron? Here Is Goldman's Answer

TUESDAY, NOV 30, 2021 - 02:49 PM

Over the weekend, Goldman Sachs' analysts slammed the latest round of variant hysteria and insisted that the omicron variant will likely be remembered as a laughable sideshow, not unlike "Delta-plus". By Sunday night, the word had spread - don't fall for the latest round of COVID variant FUD. It's just one more tool for the Biden Administration and Dr. Anthony Fauci to push their own agenda while trying to frighten Americans into getting both the original jabs and their booster.

In its latest note, the Goldman team started by ticking off a bunch of new stats about omicron that millions of Americans can probably site by memory at this point. The variant is roughly ~50 mutations, with ~30 on the Spike protein and ~10 on the receptor binding domain.

A map of omicron's mutations shows that the variant has several attributes believed to promote immune escape. However, this doesn't necessarily guarantee that the variant will eventually replace delta as the most pervasive variant in the world.



After mapping out four market-moving scenarios, Goldman is taking three parallel approaches to addressing the omicron variant from the perspective of Moderna, maker of the second most-popular American COVID jab (after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, of course).

Should the authorized 50μg booster dose of Spikevax prove insufficient to boost waning immunity against Omicron, with data on the first two expected in the coming weeks, the company is trying to 1) evaluating whether a higher dose booster of Spikevax (100 μg) can neutralize the variant, 2) studying two multi-valent booster candidates (mRNA-1273.211, which includes several mutations in Omicron also present in the Beta variant and mRNA-1273.213, which includes many mutations also present in the Beta and Delta variants) in the clinic.

As Goldman prepares to host Stephane Bancel at a summit for clients set for tomorrow, the analysts note that releasing an omicron specific booster isn't the only way to conquer this new strain. After all, it has only infected less than 200 people so far.

Offering faint praise for Moderna, Goldman said the flexibility of the mRNA platform would support a swift transition to produce a new formulation of the vaccine if needed.

Moderna's CEO Stephane Bancel reiterated during his latest round of interviews that his company is poised to produce another round of vaccines within months - that is, if the world still cares about omicron three months from now.

Bancel's eagerness to speak to perceived faults in his company's breakthrough vaccine is actually self-serving; one order from the US government for a bloc of millions of new omicron-focused vaccines might be Moderna's best chance at meeting Wall Street's lofty sales projections.

Since we can't always trust Bancel's warnings about the short-comings of his own vaccine (given the overwhelming need to talk his own book outweighing the public's health), how can the public determine whether a new round of shots are necessary?

Well, it looks like Goldman has some answers about the "regulatory path forward".

First, Moderna's Spikevax is authorized as a booster for multiple populations at the 50μg dose level and MRNA is working to test the ability of the current vaccine dose to neutralize the Omicron variant with data from in vitro neutralization assay experiments expected in the coming weeks.

Recall, in similar in vitro experiments performed for other variant strains, when compared to the ancestral strain (Wuhan), one week after the participants’ second dose of the primary series the Delta variant led to a 2.1-fold reduction in neutralizing titers, and a 7.3 or 8.4-fold reduction in neutralizing titers occurred with versions of the Beta variant relative to the ancestral strain. This level of reduction in neutralizing titers led MRNA to begin development of a booster candidate (mRNA-1273.351) against both the Wuhan strain and the Beta variant.

MRNA is evaluating three different approaches should the currently authorized 50μg booster dose of Spikevax (mRNA-1273) prove insufficient to boost waning immunity against the Omicron variant.
  1. In vitro studies will be performed to evaluate whether sera from vaccinated individuals from its high-dose booster (100ug of Spikevax) can neutralize Omicron. Recall, MRNA has completed dosing of 306 participants in a safety and immunogenicity study of the high dose booster.
  2. Studying two multi-valent booster candidates in the clinic that MRNA designed to anticipate mutations such as those that have emerged in the Omicron variant. The first candidate (mRNA-1273.211) includes several mutations present in the Omicron variant that were also present in the Beta VOC, and MRNA has completed dosing in a potentially pivotal safety and immunogenicity study of mRNA-1273.211 at the 50 μg (N=300) and 100 μg (N=584) dose levels. A second multi-valent candidate (mRNA-1273.213) includes many of the mutations present in the Omicron variant that were also present in the Beta and Delta variants, and MRNA has completed dosing at the 100μg (N=584) dose level and also plans to evaluate the 50 μg dose level in ~584 participants. MRNA will expand testing of sera from completed and ongoing multi-valent booster studies to determine if these candidates can provide superior neutralizing protection against Omicron.
  3. Advance an Omicron-specific booster candidate (mRNA-1273.529), within the existing strategy to advance variant-specific candidates for a subset of variants of significant concern. MRNA noted its precedence advance new candidates to clinical testing in 60-90 days.
Goldman continues: Should an Omicron-specific vaccine be necessary, an outstanding question on the forward will be whether it should be administered as a booster or as a primary series, which MRNA expects will be discussed with regulators and which we expect to be informed by data that has yet to be generated and emerging epidemiology. On the approval process for an Omicon-specific vaccine, MRNA noted two potential scenarios at the discretion of regulators: 1) while there is no established correlate of protection (COP) based on neutralizing antibody levels, evidence of a COP is emerging based on studying breakthrough cases, which may support a regulatory path forward; 2) through an immunobridging study, whereby MRNA would need to demonstrate that the neutralizing antibody titer levels are at the same level (or higher) than levels observed in the Ph3 COVE study of Spikevax.

How will this impact MRNA’s manufacturing?
MRNA is producing vaccine at scale and anticipates it would take on the order from a few weeks to one-two months to switch over production to a novel formulation of the vaccine.

Similar to Spikevax, production capacity will largely depend on whether an Omicron-specific vaccine would be administered as a booster or a primary series.

Interestingly, in an endemic market, MRNA anticipates demand for a lower number of doses per vial (~5 doses), noting glasswear is currently a limiting factor for supply. If Omicron necessitated that the population receive a new vaccine, the vaccine could be supplied in a 10-dose vial as it is now, in which case supply may be greater than current capacity.

What do we model for?
We model for FY22 vaccine revenue of $29.5bn per ~2bn doses (guidance of 2bn-3bn)and our COVID-19 vaccine revenue stream in 2023+ ($10.5bn per year) serves as a proxy for a COVID-19, flu or combination respiratory viral vaccine incorporating both.



Valuation: Our 12-month price target of $395 is based on a blended 50% DCF value of $411 and 50% value of $378 based on a 13x P/E multiple (mean multiple for large US pharma) applied to our FY22(75%)/FY23(25%) EPS forecasts. Our 13x target P/E multiple is in line with the mean consensus multiple assigned to large pharma, which we believe is appropriate given MRNA’s platform and growth profile. For our DCF value, we continue to employ a 10% WACC and 6% TGR.

Downside risks: Clinical/technology setbacks, failure of mRNA medicines to achieve the expected safety profile, failure to demonstrate clinical proof of concept across the remaining modalities, failure to successfully develop mRNA medicines across modalities or achieve the projected commercial profile, physician/payer pushback on use and coverage, approval of competitor drugs, regulatory headwinds, IP risk, manufacturing difficulties and financing/dilution.
 

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Oxford Professor: Official Data Shows Face Masks "Made No Meaningful Difference" To Infection Rates

TUESDAY, NOV 30, 2021 - 12:15 PM
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

University of Oxford Professor Jim Naismith asserts that despite England dropping its mask mandate in July and Scotland keeping its rules in force, official data shows this “has made no meaningful difference” to infection rates.


Naismith goes on to argue that new face mask mandates imposed in England today are “unlikely to have much of an impact” in fighting off the spread of the Omicron variant.

Despite flatlining case numbers and declining deaths, partly achieved because England chose to lift lockdown restrictions in the summer unlike many European countries, mask mandates are once again back in force.

Face coverings are compulsory in shops, on public transport and numerous other venues arbitrarily chosen by the government.

Highlighting the absurdity of the rules, face masks are mandatory in takeaways but not restaurants, meaning you have to wear one if picking up a takeaway but not if you stay inside the restaurant for a sit down meal.

According to Naismith, Director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute and Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford, masks are largely pointless.

“The ONS survey results on prevalence shows that the Scottish and English approach to masking, although formally different since July, has made no meaningful difference to Delta,writes Naismith.

“In both countries very high levels of prevalence have continued for months. Thus the new changes announced are unlikely to have much of an impact if Omicron does indeed spread rapidly,” he added.



As the graph above illustrates, despite England dropping mask mandates and Scotland keeping them in place after July, infection rates were similar or indeed higher in Scotland.

ONS graphs also validate such assertions.



“You can see the ONS graphs below for yourself, and he’s right,” notes Will Jones.
“Yet the Government has re-imposed masks in schools, shops and on public transport, despite there being no evidence that they make any significant impact on the spread of disease.”
A comparison between case rates in Sweden (which never legally imposed face masks) and the rest of Europe is also very revealing.

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Naismith’s verdict on face masks is backed up by UK government SAGE adviser Dr Colin Axon, who dismissed masks as “comfort blankets” that do virtually nothing, noting that the COVID-19 virus particle is up to 5,000 times smaller than the holes in the mask.
“The small sizes are not easily understood but an imperfect analogy would be to imagine marbles fired at builders’ scaffolding, some might hit a pole and rebound, but obviously most will fly through,” Axon said.
As the video below illustrates, public health officials like Dr. Hillary Jones (and even Dr. Fauci himself) originally were correct in saying that face masks were pointless.

However, as soon as they ‘got the memo’ that face masks were a tool of population control to keep people scared and compliant, their rhetoric on face coverings did a complete 180.

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Omicron Unlikely To Cause Severe Illness In Vaccinated Patients, BioNTech Founder Says

TUESDAY, NOV 30, 2021 - 12:13 PM

Update (1130ET): In Germany, Chancellor-in-waiting Olaf Scholz said Tuesday that the Bundestag would vote on whether to back compulsory vaccinations. He blamed the unvaccinated, raising questions about whether the Germans truly see the omicron variant as a threat. If so, will these mandatory vaccinations apply to a new round of omicron-specific vaccines?


Elsewhere in Berlin, BioNTech co-founder Dr. Ugur Sahin warned that the omicron variant might evade antibodies generated by the vaccines, the omicron variant would likely remain vulnerable to immune cells that destroy the virus once it enters the body. Put another way, Sahin said, his message to the world is: 'Don't freak out.'.

[Note: globally, only 226 cases of omicron have been confirmed, and zero cases have been confirmed in the US].

Whatever happens with omicron, Sahin said, BioNTech's plan remains the same: convince more people to get their booster jabs.
"Our message is: Don’t freak out, the plan remains the same: Speed up the administration of a third booster shot," Dr. Sahin said in an interview Tuesday.
Based on current knowledge about the mechanisms behind the vaccine and the biology of variants like omicron, Dr. Sahin said he assumed that immunized people would have a high level of protection against severe disease, even if they are infected by omicron.

Delta, the variant that presently dominates the world, has shown itself more adept at infecting vaccinated people than earlier variants. In that sense, omicron is hardly unique.

What's more, the vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer has a multi-layered response. The first stage involves triggering antibodies, which should stop patients from being reinfected because antibodies should stop the virus from spreading to health cells.

But if the virus does 'break through', infections should only be mild, since the second layer of protections involves triggering T-cells, which are immune cells n the body that mobilize to destroy infected cells after an infection has taken hold. No variant has eluded the T-cell response, and it's unlikely that omicron will achieve what scientists call full "immune escape" - that is, dodge both the antibodies and the T-cell response.
"Our belief [that the vaccines work against Omicron] is rooted in science: If a virus achieves immune escape, it achieves it against antibodies, but there is the second level of immune response that protects from severe disease—the T-cells," he said.
"Even as an escape variant, the virus will hardly be able to completely evade the T-cells."
Sahin's comments were framed as a response to Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel, who sent shares of his own company spiraling lower, along with the rest of the market, by doubling down on omicron FUD in comments to the press, warning that the current generation of vaccines may not offer any protection against omicron.

Still, Sahin welcomed the UK's decision to offer booster shots to all adults just three months after they had received their second jabs. BioNTech is already conducting laboratory tests to see whether the omicron variant could infect people who have been vaccinated. The tests, which started last week and take about two weeks to produce results, won’t show whether the variant causes severe disease; this can only be evidenced by real-life clinical practice.

Sahin agreed with Bancel that it wouldn't take long for the major vaccine players to produce another round of jabs. A new vaccine could be ready in under 100 days, Sahin said.

The real question is whether people will still care about omicron 100 days from now.

* * *
After careful consideration, readers could be forgiven for believing the omicron variant is really just an early Christmas present for mRNA vaccine makers, who are pounding the alarm about the purported risks, likely because they see dollar signs. The South African scientists who initially discovered omicron (the latest in a string of variants first identified in South Africa) have already attached a giant caveat to their initial warning. They said early this week that while omicron might spread more easily than delta, early data suggest it isn't as deadly, and that the sickness it causes is less intense.



Vaccine-makers have long been waiting for these reports about a new killer mutation that might enable them to sell millions more vaccine doses in the US and around the world.

Apparently, the drive to boost their top-line sales growth to meet Wall Street's increasingly lofty expectations has overridden their purported obligation to "the science".

But in case you, dear reader, were wondering: "the science" hasn't yet decided. Dr. Gottlieb, who is on Pfizer's board of directors, said early Tueday that there's reason to be optimistic that boosted jabs will provide "meaningful protection" against the omicron variant (the opposite of what Moderna wants us to believe).

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Gottlied cited a recent study out of Israel to help bolster his argument.

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But beyond Gottlieb, the University of Oxford, which helped develop the UK's AstraZeneca COVID jab, said Tuesday that data on omicron and its efficacy remains "limited", and that it would "carefully evaluate" the impact of the variant on its own shot, echoing an AstraZeneca statement from last week. Oxford also pointed out that the first generation of vaccines has remained effective despite a parade of new variants that have emerged over the past year.

Reuters cited some excerpts from Oxford's statement.
"Despite the appearance of new variants over the past year, vaccines have continued to provide very high levels of protection against severe disease and there is no evidence so far that Omicron is any different," it said in a statement. "However, we have the necessary tools and processes in place for rapid development of an updated COVID-19 vaccine if it should be necessary."
Bloomberg picked up on Oxford's latest statement a few minutes ago.1638323567455.png

In other words: public health authorities shouldn't panic about the omicron variant. It's time for us all to take a deep breath and wait for more data to trickle in over the next two weeks.

But Dr. Anthony Fauci would probably be satisfied to see Americans lining up for their booster jabs, although he may have unwittingly undermined the case for getting them, since millions of Americans will likely opt to wait to see if omicron necessitates another round of as-yet-undeveloped jabs.
 

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Moderna CEO Repeats That Vaccine Won't Work For Omicron; Antibody Cocktails Also Need Modification

TUESDAY, NOV 30, 2021 - 07:35 AM

After spending yesterday doing interviews with practically every major American news organization, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel on Tuesday tanked shares in his own company after telling Britain's premier financial newspaper that he expects vaccines will "struggle" to stop the omicron variant.

Existing jabs will be less effective at tackling omicron than earlier strains of COVID, and it may take months before pharmaceutical companies can manufacture new variant-specific jabs at scale, Bancel warned in an interview with the FT.

The CEO predicted a "material drop" in the current jabs' efficacy at fighting omicron.

Given the large number of mutations in omicron's spike protein (which is critical to the virus's ability to infect human cells), along with the "rapid spread" of the new variant in South Africa, Bancel believes the current crop of vaccines will need to be modified by next year.

Bancel told the FT that "there is no world where [the effectiveness] is the same level...we had with Delta," during an interview at Moderna's headquarters. Most experts believed such a highly mutated variant wouldn't emerge for another year or two, Bancel added.

Some might ask themselves why Bancel seems so eager to raise doubts about his own product. Keep in mind: public service isn't a factor here. Omicron is a blessing for Moderna and Pfizer, because ultimately it will enable them to sell more jabs.


The current crop of vaccines (including Moderna's) focuses on the spike protein, which is why the large number of mutations seen in omicron could render the jabs ineffective at stopping it, even for patients who have received both the vaccine and the booster.

More data detailing whether omicron causes severe disease in vaccinated patients are expected to be released within the next two weeks, Bancel added. Once they have the new data, Moderna expects to have the next batch of vaccines ready in a matter of months.

It's worth noting that Bancel wasn't the only Moderna executive to reiterate concerns about omicron.

Co-founder Noubar Afeyan told Bloomberg that the many mutations seen in omicron suggests new vaccines will be needed. "The number of mutations on this virus are surprising," Afeyan said.

One can't help but feel like the timing of this sudden emergence of a 'more infectious, less deadly' variant and the manic and coordinated response to such low case counts is anything but coincidental with the fact that vaccination rates have slowed and vaccine makers need new revenue sources (remember yesterday, the UK's health minister suggested citizens will need a booster every 3 months!?).

As for Bancel's comments, Prashant Newnaha, a senior Asia-Pac rates strategist with TD Securities in Singapore, said on Tuesday that the Moderna CEO's comments aren't really anything new, "so they should be a fade."

"While we won’t know with any clarity how disruptive this new variant will be, the uncertainty does remove the urgency for the Fed to announce a speed up in its taper and by extension an earlier Fed lift-off. On this basis the risk-reward favors curve-steepening trades," Newnaha said.

But it's not just vaccines that may need to be reformulated.
WSJ reported on preliminary data Tuesday which appear to show that antibody cocktails from Regeneron and Eli Lilly might also need to be modified to ensure they're able to defend against the new strains.

These findings are the result of the race to assess the impact of the new variant on COVID treatments that patients, doctors and hospitals have already been relying on. We're also waiting to hear more about the pills being developed by Merck, Pfizer and others - these pills promise to keep patients at risk of severe COVID out of the hospital. It appears the deciding factor will be whether the drugs target the spike protein, which is the locus of the new variant's mutations.

For those who are unfamiliar, monoclonal antibodies are lab-made molecules derived from survivors of COVID or mice engineered to have human immune systems. When given soon after infection, the drugs attach to the surface of the coronavirus and prevent it from replicating itself in new cells. The drugs differ from vaccines in this way: vaccines train the immune system how to protect against the virus. Regeneron says it will be able to quantify the impact of the variant in the coming weeks until further testing is done.

While these reports are new, none of this information is particularly surprising. Bancel has been pounding the alarm for the last week, and the preliminary results reported by WSJ appear to confirm scientists' fears that some of the treatments developed to combat COVID might be less effective. But the WSJ report doesn't tell us anything new about Merck's molnupiravir or Pfizer's as-yet-unnamed oral COVID treatment.

At any rate, after riding a wave of optimism higher on Monday, US equity futures pointed to a steep drop at the open on Tuesday, the latest sign that investors are still eager to hear more from the scientific community about omicron's ability, or inability, to surpass vaccines and drugs.
 

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Judge Blocks Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate For Federal Contractors

TUESDAY, NOV 30, 2021 - 09:45 PM
By Zachary Stieber of Epoch Times

A judge on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, finding that Biden likely lacks the authority to force them to get vaccinated.
“This is not a case about whether vaccines are effective. They are. Nor is this a case about whether the government, at some level, and in some circumstances, can require citizens to obtain vaccines. It can,” U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, a George W. Bush nominee, wrote in the 29-page order.
“The question presented here is narrow. Can the president use congressionally delegated authority to manage the federal procurement of goods and services to impose vaccines on the employees of federal contractors and subcontractors?
In all likelihood, the answer to that question is no,” he said.
The judge granted a request for a preliminary injunction by the attorneys general of Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee.



The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“This is not about vaccines, it’s about the mandates,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, said in a statement.
“The judge’s opinion clearly states that and it has been our position all along that the president cannot impose these mandates on the people.”
Biden signed an executive order on Sept. 9 that led several weeks later to the White House requiring contractors force all their workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine unless the worker is entitled to an exception.

Contractors who did not comply with the order, originally set with a Dec. 8 deadline, were poised to lose the government’s business.

The states charged that the vaccine mandate was both illegal and unconstitutional, in part because it was imposed with little regard to “important aspects surrounding the mandate, including but not limited to economic impacts, cost to States, cost to citizens, labor-force and supply-chain disruptions, the current risks of COVID-19, and basic distinctions among workers such as those with natural immunity to COVID-19 and those who work remotely or with limited in-person contacts, among other aspects.”

The government disagreed, arguing that the president does have authority to regulate contractors under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act because. Courts have ruled the president can pursue “efficient and economic” procurement, which he was in the order, lawyers asserted.

Van Tatenhove sided with the states.

Defendants, he said, failed to point to a single instance when the services act was used “to promulgate such a wide and sweeping public health regulation as mandatory vaccination for all federal contractors and subcontractors.” He also expressed concern that the mandate “intrudes on an area that is traditionally reserved to the States,” citing the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution.

A preliminary injunction means the mandate is blocked for now in the three states, with the possibility of becoming a permanent block or eventually being allowed to take effect.

A preliminary injunction has already been entered against the Biden administration’s health care worker vaccine mandate and a similar mandate for private businesses.
 

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Australia Will Not Return To Lockdown In Wake Of Omicron Variant: PM

TUESDAY, NOV 30, 2021 - 10:25 PM
Authored by Brendan Taylor via Insider Paper (emphasis ours),

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has stated that the country will not be placed back into lockdown in response to the Omicron variant of Covid-19.



Morrison met with state and territory leaders on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the national response to the new variant of concern.

Prior to the meeting, Morrison stated that the federal, state, and territory governments would be cautious about Omicron, but ruled out a return to strict stay-at-home restrictions, according to the Xinhua news agency.

He said he would use the national cabinet meeting to implore state and territory leaders to keep domestic borders open in the run-up to Christmas.

We’re not going back to lockdowns. None of us want that,” he told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday.

“What we did last night was protecting against that by having a sensible pause and to keep proceeding with where we are now and to further assess that information so we can move forward with confidence.”

Earlier on Tuesday, Health Minister Greg Hunt said that the federal government’s “overwhelming view” is that the Omicron variant is “manageable.”

Six cases of the new variant had been confirmed in Australia as of Tuesday.

Australia reported more than 1,100 new Covid-19 cases and nine deaths on Tuesday morning, as the country battles the third wave of infections.

The majority of new cases were reported in Victoria, the country’s second-most populous state with Melbourne as its capital city, which reported 918 cases and six deaths.

According to the Health Department, as of Monday, 92.4 percent of Australians aged 16 and up had received one vaccine dose and 87% had received their second dose.
 

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US May Impose New Omicron-Inspired Travel Restrictions As More Cases Confirmed In Canada

TUESDAY, NOV 30, 2021 - 10:45 PM

Fewer than 250 confirmed cases of the omicron variant have been recorded worldwide (although epidemiologists fear the number of cases caused by the variant could be much higher). But that isn't stopping the CDC, led by Rochelle Walensky - the same bureaucrat who admitted two months ago that COVID jabs "can't prevent transmission" of the virus - from pushing for tighter travel restrictions in an effort to "slow" the new variant's entry into the US.

President Joe Biden signaled that he would be taking the new variant seriously during a press conference yesterday where he delegated to Dr. Anthony Fauci multiple times. Dr. Fauci has seized the opportunity to bombard Americans with FUD related to the new strain.

Cases of the variant have been confirmed in Canada, and many believe it's only a matter of time before a case is confirmed in the US (even if the US were to close its borders to non-citizens again tomorrow).

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But instead of taking such drastic action, the CDC is looking at a handful of less intensive measures.

These include narrowing the testing window for travelers heading into the US, while adding quarantine requirements in certain cases, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday on a call with reporters. It’s also expanding surveillance programs at four major airports to test for the omicron variant, and just regular old COVID, from certain international arrivals.

In the meantime, Canada, which has just confirmed another case of the new variant, is reportedly adding Nigeria, Malawi and Egypt to the list of African countries where travelers are banned due to concerns about the new variant, the Toronto Star. The first cases of omicron were reported in travelers from Nigeria.

Walensky added that local health officials across the US are actively looking for the omicron variant. "Right now, there is no evidence of omicron in the United States...the delta variant remains the predominant circulating strain" she added.

She also warned that the CDC is "strengthening" its recommendation that all adults over 18 get their booster shots.
"Everyone ages 18 and older should get a booster shot either when they are 6 months after their initial Pfizer or Moderna series or 2 months after their initial J&J vaccine," she said.
Assuming the US does impose new travel restrictions, how much longer until Americans who don't have their boosters are treated as de facto unvaccinated? While those who haven't had any of their shots are treated like lepers.


Source: NYT
A handful of countries - Israel, Morocco, Japan and South Korea - have closed off foreign travel while European nations shut their borders specifically to travelers from southern Africa. And a US governor has already declared a state of emergency without a single omicron case being confirmed. That all seems to contradict President Biden's insistence that the new variant is a "cause for concern, not panic".
 

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Escobar: Fauci As Darth Vader Of The COVID Wars

TUESDAY, NOV 30, 2021 - 11:45 PM
Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times,

Robert F Kennedy Jr’s The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health should be front-page news in all the news media in the US. Instead, it has been met with the proverbial thundering silence.


Critics seeking to have Kennedy dismissed as a kook trading on a famous name had scored a hit in February, when Instagram permanently deleted his account, allegedly for making false claims about coronavirus and vaccines. Nevertheless, the book, published only a few days ago, is already a certified pop hit on Amazon.

RFK Jr., chairman of the board of and chief legal counsel for Children’s Health Defense, sets out to deconstruct a New Normal, encroaching upon all of us since early 2020. In my early 2021 book Raging Twenties I have termed this force techno-feudalism.

Kennedy describes it as “rising totalitarianism,” complete with “mass propaganda and censorship, the orchestrated promotion of terror, the manipulation of science, the suppression of debate, the vilification of dissent and use of force to prevent protest.”

Focusing on Dr Anthony Fauci as the fulcrum of the biggest story of the 21st century allows RFK Jr to paint a complex canvas of planned militarization and, especially, monetization of medicine, a toxic process managed by Big Pharma, Big Tech and the military/intel complex – and dutifully promoted by mainstream media.

By now everyone knows that the big winners have been Big Finance, Big Pharma, Big Tech and Big Data, with a special niche for Silicon Valley behemoths.

Why Fauci?

RFK Jr. argues that for five decades, he has been essentially a Big Pharma agent, nurturing “a complex web of financial entanglements among pharmaceutical companies and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and its employees that has transformed NIAID into a seamless subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry. Fauci unabashedly promotes his sweetheart relationship with Pharma as a ‘public-private partnership.’”

Arguably the full contours of this very convoluted story have never before been examined along these lines, extensively documented and with a wealth of links. Fauci may not be a household name outside of the US and especially across the Global South. And yet it’s this global audience that should be particularly interested in his story.

RFK Jr accuses Fauci of having pursued nefarious strategies since the onset of Covid-19 – from falsifying science to suppressing and sabotaging competitive products that bring lower profit margins.

Kennedy’s verdict is stark: “Tony Fauci does not do public health; he is a businessman, who has used his office to enrich his pharmaceutical partners and expand the reach of influence that has made him the most powerful – and despotic – doctor in human history.”

This is a very serious accusation. It’s up to readers to examine the facts of the case and decide whether Fauci is some kind of medical Dr Strangelove.

No Vitamin D?
Pride of place goes to the Fauci-privileged modeling that overestimated Covid deaths by 525%, cooked up by fabricator Neil Ferguson of the Imperial College in London, duly funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This is the model, later debunked, that justified lockdown hysteria all across the planet.

Kennedy attributes to Canadian vaccine researcher Dr Jessica Rose the charge that Fauci was at the frontline of erasing the notion of natural immunity even as throughout 2020 the CDC and the World Health Organization (WHO) admitted that people with healthy immune systems bear minimal risk of dying from Covid.

Dr Pierre Kory, president of Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, was among those who denounced Fauci’s modus operandi of privileging the development of tech vaccines while allowing no space for repurposed medications effective against Covid: “It is absolutely shocking that he recommended no outpatient care, not even Vitamin D.”

Clinical cardiologist Peter McCullough and his team of frontline doctors tested prophylactic protocols using, for instance, ivermectin – “we had terrific data from medical teams in Bangladesh” – and added other medications such as azithromycin, zinc, Vitamin D and IV Vitamin C. And all this while across Asia there was widespread use of saline nasal lavages.

By July 1, 2020, McCullough and his team submitted their first, ground-breaking protocol to the American Journal of Medicine. It became the most-downloaded paper in the world helping doctors to treat Covid-19.

McCullough complained last year that Fauci has never, to date, published anything on how to treat a Covid patient.” He additionally alleged: “Anyone who tries to publish a new treatment protocol will find themselves airtight blocked by the journals that are all under Fauci’s control.”

It got much worse. McCullough: “The whole medical establishment was trying to shut down early treatment and silence all the doctors who talked about success. A whole generation of doctors just stopped practicing medicine.” (A contrarian view would argue that McCullough got carried away: A million US doctors – the approximate number practicing at any given time – could not all have been in on it.)

The book argues that the reasons there was a lack of original research on how to fight Covid were the dependence of much-vaunted American academics on the billions of dollars granted by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the fact they were terrified of contradicting Fauci.

Frontline Covid specialists Kory and McCullough are quoted as charging that Fauci’s suppression of early treatment and off-patent medication was responsible for up to 80% of deaths attributed to Covid in the US.

How to kill the competition
The book offers a detailed outline of an alleged offensive by Big Pharma to kill hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) – with research mercenaries funded by the Gates-Fauci axis allegedly misinterpreting and misreporting negative results by employing faulty protocols.

Kennedy says that Bill Gates by 2020 virtually controlled the whole WHO apparatus, as the largest funder after the US government (before Trump pulled the US out of the WHO) and used the agency to fully discredit HCQ.

The book also addresses Lancetgate – when the world’s top two scientific journals, The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine published fraudulent studies from a nonexistent database owned by a previously unknown company.

Only a few weeks later both journals – deeply embarrassed and with their hard-earned credibility challenged – withdrew the studies. There was never any explanation as to why they got involved in what could be interpreted as one of the most serious frauds in the history of scientific publishing.

But it all served a purpose. For Big Pharma, says Kennedy, killing HCQ and, later, Ivermectin (IVM) were top priorities. Ivermectin happens to be a low-profit competitor to a Merck product, molnupiravir, which is essentially a copycat but capable of retailing at a profitable $700 per course.

Fauci was quite excited by a promising study of Gilead’s remdesivir – which not only is not effective against Covid but is a de facto deadly poison, at $3,000 for each treatment.

The book suggests that Fauci might have wanted to kill HCQ and IVM because under federal US rules, the FDA’s recognition of both HCQ and IVM would automatically kill remdesivir. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation happens to have a large equity stake in Gilead.

A key point for Kennedy is that vaccines were Big Pharma’s Holy Grail.
He details how what could be construed as a Fauci-Gates alliance put “billions of taxpayer and tax-deducted dollars into developing” an mRNA “platform for vaccines that, in theory, would allow them to quickly produce new ‘boosters’ to combat each ‘escape variant.'”

Vaccines, he writes, “are one of the rare commercial products that multiply profits by failing.… The good news for Pharma was that all of humanity would be permanently dependent on biannual or even triannual booster shots.”

Any similarities with our current “booster” reality are not mere coincidence.

The final summary of Pfizer’s clinical trial data will raise countless eyebrows. The whole process lasted a mere six months. This is the document that Pfizer submitted to the FDA to win approval for its vaccine. It beggars belief that Pfizer won the FDA’s emergency approval despite showing that the vaccine might prevent one (italics mine) Covid death in every 22,000 vaccine recipients.

Peter McCullough: “Because the clinical trial showed that vaccines reduce absolute risk less than 1 percent, those vaccines can’t possibly influence epidemic curves. It’s mathematically impossible.”

The Gates matrix
Bill Gates – Teflon-protected by virtually all Western mainstream media – describes the operational philosophy of his foundation as “philantrocapitalism.” It’s more like strategic self-philantropy, as both the foundation’s capital and his net worth have been ballooning in style ($23 billion just during the 2020 lockdowns).

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – “a nonprofit fighting poverty, disease and inequity around the world” – invests in multinational pharma, food, agriculture, energy, telecom and global tech companies. It exercises considerable de facto control over international health and agricultural agencies as well as mainstream media – as the Columbia Journalism Review showed in August 2020.

Gates, without a graduate degree, not to mention medical school degree (like author Kennedy, it must be noted, whose training was as a lawyer), dispenses wisdom around the world as a health expert. The foundation holds corporate stocks and bonds in Pfizer, Merck, GSK, Novartis and Sanofi, among other giants, and substantial positions in Gilead, AstraZeneca and Moderna.

The book delves in minute detail into how Gates controls the WHO (the largest direct donor: $604.2 million in 2018-2019, the latest available numbers). Already in 2011 Gates ordered: “All 183 member states, you must make vaccines a central focus of your health systems.” The next year, the World Health Assembly, which sets the WHO agenda, adopted a Global Vaccine Plan designed by – who else? – the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Foundation also controls the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE), the top advisory group to the WHO on vaccines, as well as the crucial GAVI Alliance (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization), which is the second-largest donor to the WHO.

GAVI is a Gates “public-private partnership” that essentially corrals bulk sales of vaccines from Big Pharma to poor nations. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, only three month ago, proclaimed that “GAVI is the new NATO”. GAVI’s global HQ is in Geneva. Switzerland has given Gates full diplomatic immunity.

Few in East and West know that it was Gates who in 2017 handpicked the WHO’s director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus – who brought no medical degree and a quite dodgy background.

Dr Vandana Shiva, India’s leading human rights activist (routinely accused of being merely anti-vax), sums up: “Gates has hijacked the WHO and transformed it into an instrument of personal power that he wields for the cynical purpose of increasing pharmaceutical profits. He has single-handedly destroyed the infrastructure of public health globally. He has privatized our health systems and our food systems to serve his own purposes.”

Gaming pandemics
The book’s Chapter 12, Germ Games, may be arguably its most explosive, as it focuses on the US bioweapons and biosecurity apparatus, with a special mention to Robert Kadlec, who might claim leadership of the – contagious – logic according to which infectious disease poses a national security threat to the US, thus requiring a militarized response.

The book argues that Kadlec, closely linked to spy agencies, Big Pharma, the Pentagon and assorted military contractors, is also linked to Fauci investments in “gain of function” experiments capable of engineering pandemic superbugs.

Fauci strongly denies he’s promoted such experiments. Already in 1998 Kadlec had written an internal strategy paper for the Pentagon – though not for Fauci – promoting the role of pandemic pathogens as stealth weapons leaving no fingerprints.

Since 2005 DARPA, which invented the internet by building the ARPANET in 1969, has funded biological weapons research. DARPA – call it the Pentagon’s angel investor – also developed the GPS, stealth bombers, weather satellites, pilotless drones, and that prodigy of combat, the M16 rifle.

It’s important to remember that in 2017 DARPA funneled $6.5 million through Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance to fund “gain of function” work at the Wuhan lab, on top of gain of function experiments at Fort Detrick. EcoHealth Alliance was the organization through which Kadlec, Fauci and DARPA financed these gain of function experiments.

DARPA also developed the GPS, stealth bombers, weather satellites, pilotless drones, and that prodigy of combat, the M16 rifle. In 2017 DARPA funneled $6.5 million through Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance to fund “gain of function” work at the Wuhan lab, on top of gain of function experiments at Fort Detrick. EcoHealth Alliance was the organization through which Kadlec, Fauci and DARPA financed these gain of function experiments,

Few people know that DARPA also financed the key tech for the Moderna vaccine, starting way back in 2013.

RFK Jr dutifully connects the Germ Games progress, starting with Dark Winter in 2001, which emphasized the Pentagon’s drive towards bioweapon vaccines (the code name was coined by Kadlec); the anthrax attack three weeks after 9/11; Atlantic Storm in 2003 and 2005, focused on the response to a terrorist attack unleashing smallpox; Global Mercury 2003; and Lockstep in 2010, which developed a scenario funded by the Rockefeller Foundation where we find this pearl:

During the pandemic, national leaders around the world flexed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets. Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified. In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems – from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty – leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power.

RFK Jr paints a picture in which, by mid-2017, the Rockefeller Foundation and US intel agencies had all but crowned Bill Gates as the top financier for the intel/military pandemic simulation business.

Enter the MARS (Mountain Associated Respiratory Virus) simulation during the G20 in Germany in 2017. MARS was about a novel respiratory virus that spread out of busy markets in a mountainous border of an unnamed nation that looked very much like China.

It gets curiouser and curiouser when one learns that MARS’s two moderators were very close to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and one of them, David Heymann, sat with the Moderna CEO on the Merieux Foundation USA Board. BioMerieux happens to be the French company that built the Wuhan lab.

Big Pharma kisses Western intel
Afterward came SPARS 2017 at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation happen to be major funders of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. SPARS 2017 gamed a coronavirus pandemic running from 2025 to 2028. As RFK Jr. notes, “the exercise turned out to be an eerily precise predictor of the Covid-19 pandemic.”

By 2018 bioweapons expert Peter Daszak was enthroned as the key connector through whom Fauci, Kadlec, DARPA and USAID – which used to be a CIA cover and now reports to the National Security Council – moved grants to fund gain-of-function research, including at the Wuhan Institute of Virology Biosafety Lab.

Crimson Contagion, overseen by Kadlec after eight months of planning, came in August 2019.

Fauci was on board the self-described “functional exercise,” representing the NIH, alongside the CDC’s Robert Redfield and several members of the National Security Council. The war game was held in secret, nationwide. The After-Action Crimson Contagion Report only came out via a FOIA request.

The star of the Gates pandemic show was undoubtedly Event 201 in October 2019, held only 3 weeks before US intel may – or may not – have suspected that Covid-19 was circulating in Wuhan. Event 201 was about a global coronavirus pandemic. RFK Jr. persuasively argues that Event 201 was as close as possible to a “real-time” simulation.

The book’s Germ Games chapter leads the reader to acknowledge what mainstream media have simply refused to report: how the pervasive involvement of US (and UK) intel has a secretive – yet dominating – presence in the whole response to Covid-19.

A very good example is the Wellcome Trust – the UK version of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – which is a spin-off of Big Pharma’s GlaxoSmith Kline. This epitomizes the marriage between Big Pharma and Western intel.

The Wellcome Trust chair, from 2015 to 2020, used to be a former director general of MI5, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller. She was also chair of the Imperial College since 2001. The “English Dr. Fauci,” Neil Ferguson, of the infamous, deadly wrong models that led to all lockdowns, was an epidemiologist working for the Wellcome Trust.

These are only a few of the insights and connections woven through RFK Jr’s book. As a matter of public service, the whole lot should be available for popular scrutiny worldwide. These matters concern the whole planet, especially the Global South.

Nobel laureate Luc Montaigner has noted how, “tragically for humanity, there are many, many untruths emanating from Fauci and his minions.” Even more tragic is what emanates from his masters.
 
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11/30/21

Federal Judge Rejects DOD Claim That Pfizer EUA and Comirnaty Vaccines Are ‘Interchangeable’

A federal district court judge rejected a claim by the U.S. Department of Defense that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine being administered under Emergency Use Authorization is interchangeable with Pfizer’s fully licensed Comirnaty vaccine.

By
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.


'The DOD cannot mandate vaccines that only have an EUA.'


A federal district court judge has rejected a claim by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine being administered under Emergency Use Authorization is interchangeable with Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine, which in August was fully licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

In an order issued Nov. 12 in Doe et al. v. Austin, U.S. Federal District Judge Allen Winsor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida denied a preliminary injunction requested by 16 service members against the U.S. Military’s COVID vaccine mandate. A hearing is scheduled for Sept. 14, 2022.

However, the judge’s acknowledgment that “the DOD cannot mandate vaccines that only have an EUA” is significant for two reasons.

One reason pertains to the difference in ingredients and manufacturing process between Pfizer’s EUA vaccine and the approved Comirnaty vaccine, and the other pertains to the legal difference between a fully licensed vaccine and an EUA vaccine.

The latter reason would apply not just to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, but also to the vaccines produced by Moderna and Johnson & Johnson (Janssen), both of which are authorized only as EUA products.

Under law, everyone has ‘right to refuse’ EUA product

When the FDA approved Pfizer’s Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine in August, approval was accompanied by a series of confusing documents and equally confusing public statements.

One such confounding statement reads as follows:

“The licensed vaccine has the same formulation as the EUA-authorized vaccine and the products can be used interchangeably to provide the vaccination series without presenting any safety or effectiveness concerns. The products are legally distinct with certain differences that do not impact safety or effectiveness.”

The FDA provided no explanation as to how the licensed Comirnaty vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech EUA vaccine could “be used interchangeably” despite having “certain differences” that make them “legally distinct.”

There are key differences between fully licensed vaccines and those authorized under EUA. EUA products are considered experimental under U.S. law. This means they cannot be mandated, and everyone has the right to refuse such vaccines without consequences.

Τhe Nuremberg Code, as well as federal law, provide that no human being can be forced to participate in a medical experiment. Under 21 U.S. Code Sec.360bbb-3(e)(1)(A)(ii)(III), “authorization for medical products for use in emergencies,” it is unlawful to deny someone a job or an education because they refuse to be an experimental subject.

This is also made clear in the FDA fact sheet provided to patients receiving any Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. It states:

“Under the EUA, it is your choice to receive or not receive the vaccine. Should you decide not to receive it, it will not change your standard medical care.”

However, U.S. law does allow employers and schools to require students and workers to take licensed vaccines.

EUA products can’t be used once fully licensed product becomes available

Another key difference between fully licensed and EUA vaccines is that, under the 2005 Public Readiness and Preparedness Act (PREP Act), EUA vaccines are accompanied by a far-reaching liability shield that protects all parties involved with the product from lawsuits.

Specifically, if one is injured by an EUA vaccine, the only way to claim damages and receive compensation is to apply to the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), an administrative process under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which authorized the vaccines.

This scheme potentially covers only unpaid medical expenses and lost wages and creates significant barriers for filing a vaccine injury lawsuit.

Notably, under 4% of claims made through this program have been compensated. To date, CICP has not compensated any claims for COVID-19 vaccine injuries.

At this time, the Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine may have no liability shield, making it subject to product liability laws that allow those injured by it to potentially sue for damages, although Pfizer asserts that the vaccine is protected under the PREP Act as well.

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a fully licensed vaccine on its recommended vaccination schedule, the vaccines similarly enjoy generous liability protections, but those protections are not as complete as under the PREP Act.

The FDA fact sheet states:

“This EUA for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine and COMIRNATY will end when the Secretary of HHS determines that the circumstances justifying the EUA no longer exist or when there is a change in the approval status of the product such that an EUA is no longer needed.”

This appears to contradict black-letter law — defined as well-established legal rules that are certain, no longer disputable, free from doubt and generally well-known — in addition to well-established case law.

In this case, an EUA is considered illegal and invalid if there is a fully licensed alternative available. This appears to be the case with Pfizer’s licensed Comirnaty while its EUA Pfizer-BioNTech is still on the market.

As stated by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) in its lawsuit against the FDA and Dr. Janet Woodcock, acting commissioner:

“The black letter law is clear. There can be no biologic license approved to a medical product for diagnosing, preventing or treating COVID-19 if there is also still an Emergency Use Authorization for the same medical product serving the same purpose.”

In another CHD lawsuit, pertaining to mask mandates for school children issued under an EUA, CHD President Mary Holland, co-counsel on the case, stated that “t is black-letter law that EUA devices … cannot be mandated at all.”

Still, many media outlets refer to COVID vaccine mandates as an inevitability, based on a narrative which attempts to (mis)lead the public into believing the COVID vaccines have been fully licensed.

The same media narratives, such as a recent USA Today “fact check,” also claim the Comirnaty and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are the same.

CHD though, in its lawsuit against the FDA, argues that Comirnaty’s licensure was a classic “bait and switch,” and that there is no legal basis to retain the EUA status for other COVID vaccines once the FDA has fully licensed a COVID vaccine.

A recent lawsuit filed by Arizona’s attorney general against the Biden administration over its vaccine mandates made a similar argument:

“…the whole point of the mandates is to deny any such ‘option’ to those governed by them. Notably, only the Pfizer vaccine has received [U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)] approval, and none of the stock of it in the U.S. is actually the FDA-approved version (and instead is entirely under the EUA label subject to the EUA-mandated conference of choice).”

Do vaccines labeled ‘Comirnaty’ even exist?

All of these issues came to the fore in Judge Winsor’s Nov. 12 decision.

As recognized by the judge, “u
nder the EUA statute, recipients of EUA drugs must be ‘informed … of the option to accept or refuse administration of the product.”

The judge further noted that with regard to the administration of an EUA product to members of the armed forces, such a right of refusal may be waived only by the president.

As noted, “[t]he DOD acknowledges that the president has not executed a [waiver], so as things now stand, the DOD cannot mandate vaccines that only have an EUA.”

Judge Winsor also pointed out that “DOD’s guidance documents explicitly say only FDA-licensed COVID-19 vaccines are mandated.”

While this would be applicable to the Comirnaty vaccine, the judge noted “the plaintiffs have shown that the DOD is requiring injections from vials not labeled ‘Comirnaty.’ Indeed, defense counsel could not even say whether vaccines labeled ‘Comirnaty’ exist at all.”

The judge also noted that the DOD “later clarified that it was mandating vaccines from EUA-labeled vials,” adding that “n the DOD’s view, this is fine because the contents of EUA-labeled vials are chemically identical to the contents of vials labeled ‘Comirnaty’ (if there are any such vials).”

The judge found this argument “unconvincing,” stating that “FDA licensure does not retroactively apply to vials shipped before BLA approval.”

He further noted that EUA provisions suggest “drugs mandated for military personnel be actually BLA-approved, not merely chemically similar to a BLA-approved drug,” not just in terms of labeling, but also in terms of being produced at BLA-compliant facilities.

As the judge stated, “there is no indication that all EUA-labeled vials are from BLA-approved facilities,” adding that “the DOD cannot rely on the FDA to find that the two drugs are legally identical.”

What comes next?

Despite the federal judge’s opinion in Doe et al. v. Austin, no court has yet issued a final, definitive ruling that an institution may not mandate a COVID EUA product.

Some courts, most notably in Bridges et al. v. Houston Methodist Hospital, have upheld EUA mandates for employees in a case where 116 hospital employees filed a lawsuit disputing their employer’s vaccine mandate on the grounds the vaccines were being administered under an EUA.

This decision was appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, and a decision is far from final.

Previous case law also appears to provide a precedent against mandating EUA vaccines, especially in the military context.

The DOD’s anthrax vaccine immunization program (AVIP), established in 1997, sought to mandate a vaccine previously used for cutaneous anthrax, to protect service members against inhalation anthrax. This alternate use was legally considered off-label usage, requiring informed consent from each individual or a presidential waiver of informed consent.

Service members filed a lawsuit in 2003, seeking to halt the AVIP. Later that year, a federal court, in response to the lawsuit, halted AVIP, due to the DOD’s failure to adhere to informed consent requirements.

The FDA, eight days after this decision, expanded the vaccine’s label to include inhalation anthrax. This decision was challenged by service members on procedural grounds, based on the claim that the FDA did not follow its own regulations regarding label amendments.

In October 2004, a federal district court sided with the service members, vacating the FDA’s decision. Subsequently, then-President Bush signed the Project BioShield Act into law, which amended the Public Health Service Act to “provide protections and countermeasures against chemical, radiological or nuclear agents.”

Following this, the FDA, in December 2004, filed for an EUA for the anthrax vaccine, which was issued within weeks. The new EUA encompassed inhalation anthrax. Vaccinations of service members resumed, but only on a voluntary basis.

It was not until December 2005 that the FDA formally approved a label expansion for the anthrax vaccine, and only after this did mandatory vaccinations resume for certain categories of service members.

This prior precedent seems to lend legal credence to the argument that EUA vaccines cannot be mandated, at least for military service members, based on a narrow interpretation of the relevant case law.

Nevertheless, it remains to be seen how courts will ultimately rule in relation to mandating COVID vaccines administered under an EUA.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children's Health Defense.
 
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The molnupiravir arm of the study had a hospitalization and death rate of 6.8%, according to the updated data. The placebo group had a hospitalization and death rate of 9.7%.
Dr. Tyson has treated over 6,000 patients with alphabet soup, better than 99% recovery. Far less than $700, and no risk of cancer or mutations.
 

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Lloyd Austin tells National Guard to get vaccinated or lose federal pay

The order comes amid a standoff between Austin and the Oklahoma National Guard over whether to enforce the Pentagon's vaccine mandate.

Updated: November 30, 2021 - 11:49pm

The Pentagon has ordered all National Guard and Reserve members to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or be barred from training and from being paid, according to a memo signed Tuesday by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

"No credit or excused absence shall be afforded to members who do not participate in drills, training, or other duty due to failure to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19," Austin wrote in the Nov. 30 memo to military service secretaries and other leaders.

The memo comes amid a standoff between Austin and the Oklahoma National Guard, whose adjutant general has said that he will not compel his troops to obey the Defense Department's sweeping mandate that the entire force, including the Guard, must be vaccinated.

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt earlier this month asked Austin to suspend the vaccine mandate for members of the Oklahoma National Guard.

"It is irresponsible for the federal government to place mandatory vaccine obligations on Oklahoma national guardsmen which could potentially limit the number of individuals that I can call upon to assist the state during an emergency," Stitt wrote in a Nov. 1 letter to Austin.

"This mandate violates the personal freedoms of many Oklahomans, as it asks them to potentially sacrifice their personal beliefs in order to not lose their jobs," Stitt wrote. "All of our national guardsmen take this calling very seriously. These are patriotic citizens who are willing to put their lives on the line to protect others in our communities during times of greatest need."

Austin's memo clarifies his position that the Defense Department can enforce the vaccine mandate even while troops are on duty with their states.

"All members of the National Guard must be fully vaccinated in order to participate in drills training and other duty conducted under Title 32, U.S. Code," Austin wrote.

The reference describes the law wherein a state governor is authorized by the president to activate the National Guard within his or her state. Troops under Title 32 orders serve on active duty under state control, but with pay and benefits provided by the federal government.

"No DoD funding may be allocated for payment of duties performed under Title 32 for members of the National Guard who did not comply with vaccination requirements," Austin wrote.

The memo did not specify how the Pentagon would identify individual Guard members whose pay would be withheld.

A spokesperson for Stitt did not immediately return a request for comment.

[COMMENT: Look at all the athletes who are dropping from heart complications from the vaxx. I am sure the CCP is jumping for joy that we are making all our fit young service personnel take this vaxx.]
 

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“This Isn’t Science or Medicine, It’s a Political Decision.” – Dr. and Col. Lawrence Sellin on Current Treatments for COVID

By Joe Hoft
Published November 30, 2021 at 6:29pm
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Yesterday retired Colonel and PhD. Lawrence Sellin shared an article at TGP where he claimed the ‘smoking gun’ related to the origin of COVID is related to the coronavirus itself and the cover-up surrounding it. Col. Sellin then discussed this article on the radio.

Below is the article presented by PhD. Sellin with evidence supporting the fact that COVID was developed and released in China.


Dr. Sellin then shared on The Joe Hoft Show on RealTalk933.com his article and other thoughts surrounding COVID-19. Here are some comments from that discussion with Dr. Sellin.
  • He was astounded when the US Intelligence community said they had no idea where COVID came from. “When it’s crystal clear it was made in a laboratory in China. I think they were basically told to do that because if you said it was made in a laboratory in China they would have to do something about it.”
  • “There are elements within the virus that it’s clear that the virus didn’t come from nature.”
  • “To me, the smoking guns, in this case, have to do with the people who were involved themselves, and particularly Peter Daszak of the Ecohealth Alliance, who works very close with the ‘bat woman’ Zheng Li Shi.
  • In response to Dr. Navarro’s comments that Dr. Fauci committed the world’s greatest lie of omission sitting next to President Trump and not telling the President that he worked with China on coronavirus research, Dr. Sellin shared: “If we had known very early on how this particular virus was created in China, we would have known something about in particular how the mutations were developing. Because it almost seems as if, I can’t prove this right now, it seems as if the furin cleavage site was developed to mutate…you actually created a virus that would mutate and become more dangerous over time.
  • The new variant from South Africa requires an entirely new vaccine.
  • We shouldn’t wait for people to go to the hospital to treat them.
  • This isn’t science or medicine, it’s a political decision.
Below is an audio of the discussion.

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REVEALED: Fully Vaccinated Patients Show Mild Symptoms after Omicron Infection in Botswana — Non-Vaccinated Show No Symptoms at All

By Jim Hoft
Published November 30, 2021 at 7:23pm
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The Gateway Pundit previously reported that the South African Medical Association debunked the hysteria over the Omicron COVID variant.

According to Angelique Coetzee, the chairwoman of the South African Medical Association who first raised the alarm of the new COVID variant, says the new variant known as the ‘Omicron’ causes “unusual but mild symptoms.”

On Monday, the Assistant Minister of Health and Wellness testified during a parliament hearing that not one of the Omicron variant cases identified needs oxygen support and hospitalization.

According to Assistant Minister Sethomo Lelatisitswe, Botswana has still 15 ‘Omicron’ variant cases, 3 of the patients showed mild symptoms while the rest did not. Of those 15 cases, 11 were vaccinated, while those 4 unvaccinated did not show symptoms at all, Lelatisitswe said.


The country recorded 19 cases of ‘Omicron’ variants in total. Four of those cases were foreign nationals on a diplomatic mission and left the country after their diagnosis.

Here is an excerpt of the assistant minister’s statement from the parliament meeting:
Mr Speaker, as part of their routine genomic surveillance of SARS-COV-2, our local scientists detected this variant on four foreign nationals who had visited Botswana on a diplomatic mission earlier this month. At the conclusion of their mission in Botswana, the quartet tested positive for COVID-19 after conducting their pre-travel tests. Their COVID-19 variant was confirmed as B 1. 1. 529 on 24 November 2021, and has now been renamed Omicron.
Mr Speaker, following this development, contact tracing was immediately conducted and all contacts tested negative for the COVID-19. Further assessments and analysis of other positive COVID-19 samples have up to now produced 15 more cases of the new Omicron variant. This means that to date Botswana has recorded a total of 19 cases of the new variant. We continue to expand contact tracing to ensure that we do not leave any potential case undetected.
Mr Speaker, fourteen (14) of the nineteen (19) cases were reported in the Greater Gaborone DHMT area, four (4) are from the Serowe/Palapye DHMT area, while Kgatleng DHMT reported one (1) case. All cases reported by the Serowe/Palapye DHMT are truck drivers who were detected at a point of entry (Martins Drift), as part of COVID-19 screening strategy for arrivals. The case reported by Kgatleng DHMT was of an individual who resides in South Africa and had visited his family in Botswana, and tested as pre-travel test requirement. Given this short characterization, it appears to us that most of the 19 cases so far detected in Botswana are imported cases.
According to the latest update from the local news Mmgi, “the country’s COVID-19 cases however remain low with an update from the government this evening showing 602 active cases as at November 26. The country has thus far fully vaccinated 33.3 percent of adults, with 60.2 percent having received their first dose.”
 

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Leading Cardiologist Says Researchers Are Refusing to Publish Supporting Study Results That Show Covid Vaccine’s Link To Massive Increase In Heart Attacks

By Julian Conradson
Published November 30, 2021 at 8:15pm

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Throughout the existence of the scientific process, replicating results has always been a necessary component in order to gain a scientific consensus and gauge the accuracy of the results of whatever test or calculations were conducted, but when the supposedly trustworthy experts find something in the results that doesn’t fit the approved narrative – leading them to bury the information – the credibility of the scientific establishment goes completely out the window.

Well, according to one world-renowned cardiologist out of the UK, that is exactly what is happening right now.

A recently released study that was presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions Meeting claims the risk of developing acute coronary syndrome (ACS) – a potentially life-threatening condition that leads to an increased risk of heart issues – increases significantly in patients who receive the experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

Researchers found that the risk of developing heart diseases increases from 11% to 25% in patients who receive the Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna using the new mRNA technology.

The study – titled “mRNA COVID Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and ACS Risk as Measured by the PULS Cardiac Test: a Warning” – was presented by renowned cardiologist Steven Gundry at the AHA annual conference on November 8, 2021, and was published in the AHA medical journal Circulation.

The study concludes that the mRNA vaccines “dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle,” which researchers say is likely to account for the increased number of adverse cardiac or vascular events and side effects such as thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and others in patients post-vaccination.

From the study:
“These changes resulted in an increase of the PULS score from 11% 5 yr ACS (acute coronary syndrome) risk to 25% 5 yr ACS risk.

At the time of this report, these changes persist for at least 2.5 months post second dose of vac.We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.”
This is not the only study to have found this result, but it is the only one to have been released.

Esteemed British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra went on GB News to blow the whistle about how he had been contacted by another researcher from a prestigious British Institution who told him that research done by his department has found similar results, saying they too had found a link between the inflammation of coronary arteries and the experimental mRNA vaccines during their own imaging studies.

Unbelievably, the whistleblower says the institution has decided not to publish the findings, opting instead to hide the results over fears that the institution would lose its research funding.

Malhotra explained that the whistleblower – who is remaining anonymous for his safety – was furious about the decision to bury the findings, especially considering the fact that the latest health data from the UK shows there has been a substantial increase in the number of cardiology-related deaths in the country since the time the experimental vaccine was made available.
“In good science, we never rely on one study. We need to replicate these findings.

A few days ago after this was published, somebody from a very prestigious British institution – a cardiology department researcher [and] a whistleblower – contacted me to say that researchers in [his] department had found something similar within the coronary arteries linked to the vaccine.

They had a meeting and these researchers at the moment have decided they’re not going to publish their findings because they are concerned about losing research money from the drug industry.

Knowing this information, which is very concerning, [in addition to] Steven Gundry’s paper, and also anecdotal evidence…being told by colleagues that younger and younger people coming in with heart attacks.

So what does this mean in terms of the data? We know since July there’s been almost 10,000 excess non-Covid deaths and most of those, or a significant portion of those have been driven by circulatury disease – or in other words heart attack and stroke.”
Watch:

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3:54 min

While research study results that show this link between the rushed Covid vaccines and damage to the circulatory system in this way have only been coming out recently, it is possible that the mRNA vaccine developers, particularly Pfizer, knew about such possible effects of their vaccines already.

Meanwhile, as “trusted experts” bury their findings of the serious dangers that the vaccines pose, Pfizer CASHES IN to the tune of $1,000 PER SECOND, with an estimated $36 BILLION in profits for 2021, according to their latest quarterly report.
It’s sickening.
 
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Secretary of Defense Sends out Memo to Force Full Vaccination of All Members of the Armed Forces Under DoD Authority

By Jim Hoft
Published November 30, 2021 at 10:31pm
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The Gateway Pundit previously reported that the Air Force last week announced that anyone not vaccinated for COVID is no longer eligible for a permanent change of station.

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget is telling federal agencies behind the scenes that they should refrain from suspending or firing federal workers who have not complied with Biden’s authoritarian vaccine mandate until the holidays are over, according to a memo obtained by ABC News.

Today the Secretary of Defense dropped another memorandum to all the Secretaries of the Military Departments. The memo directs the secretaries to immediately begin full vaccination of all members of the Armed Forces. This includes all members under Department of Defense authority on active duty or in the Ready Reserve including the National Guard.

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A member of the Air National Guard and a Lt. Colonel pilot reached out to The Gateway Pundit and pleaded for help to stop this unlawful mandate.

Here is an excerpt from his email:
I’m a currently serving Air National Guard member, Lt Col, pilot, with over 19 yrs in. I love our nation deeply, I’m a God-fearing red-blooded family man, and am a faithfully serving member. I’m currently engaged in the battle for my career and livelihood against the COVID vaccine mandate and seeking religious accommodation which I fully expect will be denied. At the sametime, I’m thoroughly convinced that the current vaccine DOD mandate is an unlawful order since FDA licensed COMIRNATY is not available in the entire US. Only the EUA licensed Pfizer/BioNTech is currently available and the EUAs cannot be mandated without a presidential waiver, which they don’t have nor can it be justified, according to my reading. Per the 23 Aug FDA approval letter, it’s “legally distinct.” Our JAG even stated that they’re two different licenses, but the DoD is simply treating them as the same. I do not think one has to be a legal scholar to figure out that it is indeed not the same.
Are you and your team tracking this at all?:
  1. Sen Ron Johnson: There is not an FDA approved COVID vaccine in the US | Fox News
Sen. Ron Johnson: There is not an FDA approved COVID vaccine in the US
  1. Ron Johnson pens letter to Biden, DoD questioning military vaccine mandates | Fox News
Ron Johnson pens letter to Biden, DoD questioning military vaccine mandates
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ro...den-dod-questioning-military-vaccine-mandates
A pilot buddy of mine actually brought this to Sen Johnson’s attention. In any case, time is running out for us all…please help and look into this if you can. It would be extremely helpful to not only me, but my fellow ~650K military brethren that are in jeopardy of losing it all due to this unlawful, immoral, and unconstitutional mandate.
These military members need our support.

** Contact the Department of Defense here.
 

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BREAKING: Federal Judge Blocks Vaccine Mandate Nationwide – Protects Health Care Workers Across America

By Jim Hoft
Published November 30, 2021 at 5:11pm
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Louisiana U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty blocked a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers Tuesday. The ruling has nationwide implications.

The ruling by Judge Doughty follows Missouri US District Judge Matthew Schelp’s ruling on Monday that blocked mandates in 10 states.

Judge Doughty was appointed by President Donald Trump.


Life News reported:

Federal court has issued a nationwide injunction protecting health care workers across the country from Joe Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate.
Yesterday, in response to a multi-state lawsuit led by Missouri, a federal court barred the Biden administration from enforcing a vaccine mandate for health care workers in 10 states who are employed at federally-funded health care clinics. That means they doctors and nurses can’t be fired for refusing the COVID vaccine despite Biden’s federal mandate requiring them to get it.
Today, a federal court in Louisiana expanded on that ruling and blocked the vaccine mandate nationwide.

The Daily Advertiser reported:
Louisiana Western District U.S. Judge Terry Doughty’s decision follows an identical ruling Monday from Missouri U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp, but Schelp’s decision only covered 10 states.

Doughty ruled on the lawsuit led by Republican Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and joined by 13 other states, but Doughty added a nationwide injunction in his ruling.
“If the executive branch is allowed to usurp the power of the legislative branch to make laws, two of the three powers conferred by our Constitution would be in the same hands,” Doughty wrote. “If human nature and history teach anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency.”
 

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Biden Admin Considering Seven-Day Home Quarantine for Americans Returning from Other Countries Regardless of COVID Vaccine Status or Negative Tests

By Kristinn Taylor
Published November 30, 2021 at 11:58pm

The Biden administration is looking to announce new Covid restrictions Thursday when Joe Biden addresses the global omicron variant hysteria. One option being debated according to the Washington Post is a seven-day home quarantine for all travelers entering the U.S.–including American citizens–regardless of vaccination status or negative test results.
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Biden spoke on Monday about the omicron variant.
Excerpt:
The Biden administration is preparing stricter testing requirements for all travelers entering the United States, including returning Americans, to curb the spread of the potentially dangerous omicron variant, according to three federal health officials.
As part of an enhanced winter covid strategy Biden is expected to announce Thursday, U.S. officials would require everyone entering the country to be tested one day before boarding flights, regardless of their vaccination status or country of departure. Administration officials are also considering a requirement that all travelers get retested within three to five days of arrival.
TRENDING: BREAKING: Federal Judge Blocks Vaccine Mandate Nationwide - Protects Health Care Workers Across America
In addition, they are debating a controversial proposal to require all travelers, including U.S. citizens, to self-quarantine for seven days, even if their test results are negative. Those who flout the requirements might be subject to fines and penalties, the first time such penalties would be linked to testing and quarantine measures for travelers in the United States.
Fox News White House reporter Peter Doocy raised several questions about the new travel restrictions being debated by the Biden administration:

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1465868261661233162
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Journalist Glenn Greenwald raised civil disobedience as a response to government overreach:

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Nazi Propaganda: State Media Blames Unvaccinated 'For Thousands of Covid Deaths' (Video)

Amy Mek
December 1, 2021

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The Holocaust didn’t’ start with death camps; it began with propaganda, scaremongering, scapegoating, segregation, and exclusion.

In a hateful tirade reminiscent of Hilter’s Propaganda Ministry, German journalist Sarah Frühauf attacked unvaccinated people and called for mandatory vaccinations. Furthermore, the State Funded Media (MDR) correspondent identified the unvaccinated as the sole culprits in the coroanvirus crisis and blamed them for the current authoritarian measures and thousands of coroanvirus deaths.

However, even Germany’s chief virologist Christian Drosten denies the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” myth. Like Hitler’s nazi propaganda machine, Frühauf is exploiting ordinary Germans by encouraging them to be co-producers of a false reality.

Unvaccinated Responsible For Mass Murder
Germany’s dangerous propaganda against the unvaccinated seems to have reached a new level of escalation. In a 1:44 minute hate speech on prime time television, left-wing correspondent Sarah Frühauf first blamed the unvaxxed for destroying Christmas, keeping people from their families, and extending lockdowns for at least another year,
Thank you very much – to all those who have not been vaccinated. Thanks to you, there is a risk of next winter in lockdown – in many places again without Christmas markets, perhaps again without the Christmas holidays in the family circle.
Next, Frühauf blamed the unvaccinated for the economic destruction of business owners. She accused those refusing to take the jab of harming health care workers,
They are responsible for society being once again under pressure and doctors and health workers being forced to perform beyond their limits
The state media spox accused the unvaccinated of mass murder, claiming that they are responsible for the “thousands of lost lives during this wave of Corona.” Furthermore, “all those who refuse to get vaccinated have to live with the rebuke that they are to blame for the present situation,” stated Frühauf.

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Unvaccinated Are The New Jews
Frühauf’s dangerous unscientific attacks are precisely how you divide society, and genocides happen. As previously reported at RAIR Foundation USA, it is dangerous to brand people (the unvaccinated) as scapegoats, sources of disease, or profiteers. Historically, there have been (and are) vast and conclusive examples of the genocidal playbook that all begin with the political and social dehumanization of the “offending” population.

Early last year, 94-year-old Auschwitz survivor Marian Turski gave a speech during the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the camp’s liberation. The Polish Holocaust survivor reminded the audience that the Holocaust didn’t’ start with death camps. Instead, it began with propaganda, scaremongering, scapegoating, segregation, and exclusion. Then, it was an easy next step to strip further rights, dehumanize, and brutally extinguish that minority.

Backlash: Criminal Complaints For Sedition Filed
Germany’s only conservative party, the Alternative für Deutschland, sharply criticized Sarah Frühauf’s dangerous diatribe. The media policy spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group in Saxony-Anhalt, Tobias Rausch, criticized her sharply stating:
With this inflammatory charge, the GEZ-financed broadcasters are contributing to the further division of society. If the incantatory individual opinion of an MDR employee is offered such a platform, a limit has been exceeded. Public broadcasters are obliged to report objectively and balanced manner; they are not mandated to exert or increase social pressure. The AfD condemns the increasing propaganda against unvaccinated people and especially calls on the public to report neutrally.
AfD’s Deputy Leader, Beatrix von Storch, filed a criminal complaint against Frühauf. The leader states that the state-employed journalist violated Section 130 of the country’s criminal code. Furthermore, her televised opinion “is full of incitement and decidedly suitable to disturb the public peace,” stated Storch.

Frühauf also accused those choosing not to take the experimental mRNA injection of causing suffering for health care professionals and are even indirectly portrayed as murderers, stated Storch. Furthermore, the statements of Mrs. Frühauf in her “opinion piece” attacked the dignity of the unvaccinated and caused them great harm. Storch explained she called on the public prosecutor’s office to take action. Furthermore, she demanded that those dividing society into vaccinated and unvaccinated must be stopped.

Many courageous citizens also brought criminal complaints against the tax-payed funded propagandist. More and more people across the world are fighting back against their regimes’ dangerous and discriminatory actions. Freedom fighters have taken to the streets, protesting at their places of work, and fighting in the courts to protect their freedoms.

Auschwitz survivor Turski implored people to learn from the past, remain and remain faithful to his Eleventh Commandment:
Never be a bystander. He then addressed his daughters and grandchildren, warning them to “defend the constitution, defend your rights, defend your democratic order, defend the rights of minorities” and above all, “thou shalt not be indifferent.” Turski explained, “if you become complacent, before you know it, some kind of Auschwitz will suddenly appear from nowhere and befall you and your descendants.
Video Transcript
Well, thanks a lot to all of you unvaccinated. Thanks to you, we’re threatened with another lockdown this winter. In many places Christmas markets were cancelled again.

Perhaps family Christmas gatherings will be too. The measures that were recently announced in Saxony and Bavaria are a slap in the face for everyone who showed their solidarity these last few months.

Namely, those who got the vaccination. Without a doubt, the restrictions are necessary, but they wouldn’t have been necessary if more people had acted responsibly.

All those who refuse to get vaccinated have to live with the rebuke that they are to blame for the present situation.

They are responsible for society being once again under pressure and doctors and health workers being forced to perform beyond their limits.

Shop and restaurant owners struggle to keep their livelihoods, again.

Above all, they should consider their own responsibility for the thousands of lost lives during this wave of Corona. The responsible politicians have wavered far too long and should have put more pressure on the unvaccinated much earlier.

Apparently they were afraid that the anger of the unvaccinated would affect the election results.

That was negligent, and that’s why it is the way it is. The wave is now unstoppable, but Germany needs to exit the endless loop of Corona.

Because, at some point, the vaccinated who have shown solidarity will no longer participate.

They don’t have any desire to continue to follow the anti-Corona restrictions.

Politicians need to provide them some incentive. A winter like this, can’t be repeated.

How?

Our neighbors in Austria are leading by example with mandatory vaccination for everyone who is medically able to get one.
 

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This too shall pass.

COVID-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified
Published:November 20, 2021DOI:Redirecting

In the USA and Germany, high-level officials have used the term pandemic of the unvaccinated, suggesting that people who have been vaccinated are not relevant in the epidemiology of COVID-19. Officials’ use of this phrase might have encouraged one scientist to claim that “the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19”.

1 But this view is far too simple.

There is increasing evidence that vaccinated individuals continue to have a relevant role in transmission. In Massachusetts, USA, a total of 469 new COVID-19 cases were detected during various events in July, 2021, and 346 (74%) of these cases were in people who were fully or partly vaccinated, 274 (79%) of whom were symptomatic. Cycle threshold values were similarly low between people who were fully vaccinated (median 22·8) and people who were unvaccinated, not fully vaccinated, or whose vaccination status was unknown (median 21·5), indicating a high viral load even among people who were fully vaccinated.

2 In the USA, a total of 10 262 COVID-19 cases were reported in vaccinated people by April 30, 2021, of whom 2725 (26·6%) were asymptomatic, 995 (9·7%) were hospitalised, and 160 (1·6%) died.

3 In Germany, 55·4% of symptomatic COVID-19 cases in patients aged 60 years or older were in fully vaccinated individuals,

4 and this proportion is increasing each week. In Münster, Germany, new cases of COVID-19 occurred in at least 85 (22%) of 380 people who were fully vaccinated or who had recovered from COVID-19 and who attended a nightclub.

5 People who are vaccinated have a lower risk of severe disease but are still a relevant part of the pandemic. It is therefore wrong and dangerous to speak of a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

Historically, both the USA and Germany have engendered negative experiences by stigmatising parts of the population for their skin colour or religion. I call on high-level officials and scientists to stop the inappropriate stigmatisation of unvaccinated people, who include our patients, colleagues, and other fellow citizens, and to put extra effort into bringing society together.

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Here is another article in the Lancet by this same guy, probably based on the same research, but worded differently:


The epidemiological relevance of the COVID-19-vaccinated population is increasing

Open AccessPublished:November 19, 2021DOI:Redirecting

High COVID-19 vaccination rates were expected to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in populations by reducing the number of possible sources for transmission and thereby to reduce the burden of COVID-19 disease. Recent data, however, indicate that the epidemiological relevance of COVID-19 vaccinated individuals is increasing. In the UK it was described that secondary attack rates among household contacts exposed to fully vaccinated index cases was similar to household contacts exposed to unvaccinated index cases (25% for vaccinated vs 23% for unvaccinated). 12 of 31 infections in fully vaccinated household contacts (39%) arose from fully vaccinated epidemiologically linked index cases. Peak viral load did not differ by vaccination status or variant type [
[1]
]. In Germany, the rate of symptomatic COVID-19 cases among the fully vaccinated (“breakthrough infections”) is reported weekly since 21. July 2021 and was 16.9% at that time among patients of 60 years and older [
[2]
]. This proportion is increasing week by week and was 58.9% on 27. October 2021 (Figure 1) providing clear evidence of the increasing relevance of the fully vaccinated as a possible source of transmission. A similar situation was described for the UK. Between week 39 and 42, a total of 100.160 COVID-19 cases were reported among citizens of 60 years or older. 89.821 occurred among the fully vaccinated (89.7%), 3.395 among the unvaccinated (3.4%) [
[3]
]. One week before, the COVID-19 case rate per 100.000 was higher among the subgroup of the vaccinated compared to the subgroup of the unvaccinated in all age groups of 30 years or more. In Israel a nosocomial outbreak was reported involving 16 healthcare workers, 23 exposed patients and two family members. The source was a fully vaccinated COVID-19 patient. The vaccination rate was 96.2% among all exposed individuals (151 healthcare workers and 97 patients). Fourteen fully vaccinated patients became severely ill or died, the two unvaccinated patients developed mild disease [
[4]
]. The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identifies four of the top five counties with the highest percentage of fully vaccinated population (99.9–84.3%) as “high” transmission counties [
[5]
]. Many decisionmakers assume that the vaccinated can be excluded as a source of transmission. It appears to be grossly negligent to ignore the vaccinated population as a possible and relevant source of transmission when deciding about public health control measures.
Figure 1

Figure 1Vaccination rates and proportions of fully vaccinated people among symptomatic COVID-19 cases (≥ 60 years) in Germany between 21. July and 27. October 2021 based on the weekly reports from the Robert Koch-Institute
[
[2]
]
.
 

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Watch Live | Fauci holds White House press conference…
Posted by Kane on December 1, 2021 1:56 pm

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Fauci is leading today’s presser with Psaki

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Fauci announces first Omicron case in USA…
Posted by Kane on December 1, 2021 2:26 pm

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Fauci announces firs Omicron case in USA


WASHINGTON (AP) — A person in California who had been vaccinated against COVID becomes the first in the U.S. to have an identified case of the Omicron variant, the White House announced Wednesday.

He was a traveler who returned from South Africa on Nov. 22 and tested positive on Nov. 29. Fauci said the person was vaccinated but had not received a booster shot and was experiencing “mild symptoms.”

Watch Fauci live right now…
 

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12:40 min

SAGE omicron leak

Dec 1, 2021


Dr. John Campbell


World, now up to 226 confirmed cases in 20 countries Moderna, a material drop in efficacy

Pfizer applied to FDA to boost 16 and 17 year olds

Pfizer's chief scientific officer, Mikael Dolsten https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/30/p... Enough experimental vaccine to begin a clinical trial within about two months Very high commercial scale, by early March cautiously optimistic, especially for the boosted

Pathogenicity https://www.dw.com/en/covid-how-dange... Preliminary data suggests that there are increasing rates of hospitalization in South Africa, but this may be due to increasing overall numbers of people becoming infected, rather than a result of a specific infection with omicron Professor Salim Abdool Karim, South Africa The vaccine should hold well in terms of preventing hospitalizations

The European Union 44 confirmed cases in EU countries https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-new... Dr. Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission’s President Must consider mandatory vaccination highly contagious omicron variant 150 million not vaccinated This is an enormous health cost coming along 77 % of adults 66% of whole population Greece and Austria already mandating Netherlands 13 cases US Sewage surveillance FDA Narrow vote (14 to 10) approve Merck molnupiravir Only high-risk patients Not in pregnancy UK 22 cases https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/...

New self-isolation rules now law 10 days after contact with omicron Even if fully vaccinated Fine up to £10,000 Until March 24 ? new pingdemic Scientific advisory group for emergencies, leak 30 scientists, Patrick Vallance, Chris Whitty https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-he...

Stringent response measures may be needed for omicron highly likely that omicron, after infection or vaccination to some extent there will be immune escape Expects booster jabs to provide protection for now Future remains highly uncertain potentially very significant wave of infections

Covid symptom tracker data https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels... WHO advice for international traffic in relation to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) https://www.who.int/news-room/article...

Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant as compared to other VOCs Current SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostics continue to be effective Blanket travel bans will not prevent the international spread People not fully vaccinated, sick or at increased risk, should be advised to postpone travel to areas with community transmission
 

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China an “Impregnable Fortress” Against Omicron

Dec 1, 2021

China Uncensored


As governments around the world are bracing for the worst with the new Omicron coronavirus variant, there's one country that's not worried. That country is China, which is broadcasting to all its citizens that it's got this new variant in the bag. Watch this episode of China Uncensored for China's shifting propaganda narrative, its unrealistic infection and death numbers, and the World Health Organization's (WHO) decision to skip the name "xi" for the new variant. Children Sent to China’s Quarantine Camps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjxF3... Omicron Coronavirus Variant: BE AFRAID https://youtu.be/PUfTVi9w1-8
 

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Fauci Announces Nation’s First Case of Omicron Covid Variant — A Fully Vaccinated Traveler from California

By Cristina Laila
Published December 1, 2021 at 1:30pm
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The ‘Omicron’ Covid variant has been detected in a fully vaccinated individual in California who just returned from traveling in South Africa, the CDC announced Wednesday.

“The individual is self quarantining and all close contacts have been contacted and all close contacts, thus far, have tested negative,” Fauci announced at a White House press briefing. “We feel good that this patient not only had mild symptoms, but actually the symptoms appear to be improving.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom said there is no reason to panic and urged people to get vaccinated and wear a mask indoors.

CA’s large-scale testing and early detection systems have found the Omicron COVID-19 variant in California. We should assume that it’s in other states as well.
There’s no reason to panic–but we should remain vigilant. That means get vaccinated. Get boosted. Wear a mask indoors.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) December 1, 2021
Earlier this week Joe Biden used the media-induced panic over the new Omicron variant to push vaccines and booster shots as Big Pharma conveniently has booster shots waiting in the wings.

The Omicron-infected individuals identified in Africa and Australia are also fully vaccinated.
According to numerous reports, patients infected with the Omicron variant are showing very mild symptoms.

On Monday, the Assistant Minister of Health and Wellness testified during a parliament hearing that not one of the Omicron variant cases identified needs oxygen support and hospitalization.

According to Assistant Minister Sethomo Lelatisitswe, Botswana has still 15 ‘Omicron’ variant cases, 3 of the patients showed mild symptoms while the rest did not. Of those 15 cases, 11 were vaccinated, while those 4 unvaccinated did not show symptoms at all, Lelatisitswe said.
 

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It Begins. Austria and Greece to Fine Citizens Who Refuse to Get Vaccinated

By Jim Hoft
Published December 1, 2021 at 12:35pm
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The Austrian and Greek governments are now pushing a totalitarian agenda item to fine its citizens who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccines.

Earlier this month, Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg imposed new lockdown restrictions on unvaccinated people to allegedly “flatten the curve.” On Nov. 19th, the chancellor announced that they will make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory starting Feb.1 next year.

Now, a leak of the draft bill has been obtained by a local news die Presse revealed that the Austrian government plans to fine or jail its citizens if they refuse to get vaccinated.

The preliminary draft bill as reported by Euractiv, states that those who refuse to get vaccinated will be summoned by the authorities and will be fined €3,600 ($4075) if they ignore the summons twice. If they keep ignoring the order and their violation will put other persons at “serious risk”, they will receive a fine up to €7,200 ($8,152).

The draft also mentioned that those who cannot prove they are vaccinated will have a fine every six months.

“Those refusing to be vaccinated are likely to face administrative fines, which can be converted into a prison sentence if the fine cannot be recovered,” according to a report from The Guardian.

As of Nov. 29, Austria has 66.7% fully vaccinated and 21.3% boosters were given.

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Despite having a high vaccination rate, their Covid cases are still high. As of Nov. 29, 8,526 new cases were recorded.

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In Greece, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced mandatory Covid-19 vaccination for all Greeks above 60 years of age on Tuesday. The prime minister believes this will help fight the “mild symptoms” caused by the new variant Omicron.

Same with Austria, those who refuse to get vaccinated will receive a monthly fine of 100 euros ($114) for each month starting on Jan. 16 and the funds collected will be given to Greek hospitals, according to Mitsotakis.

“It is not a punishment. I would say that it is the price to pay for health, a motive for protection, a boost for life, but I believed it is also an act of justice for many more people who are vaccinated,” says Mitsotakis.

As of Nov. 30, Greece has 61.6% fully vaccinated and 12.8% boosters were given.

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Greece has recorded 7,720 new cases on Nov. 30 despite having a high vaccination rate.

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CDC ORDERS AIRLINES TO TURN OVER NAMES OF ALL PASSENGERS WHO HAVE BEEN IN 8 SOUTHERN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUBJECT TO TRAVEL RESSTRICTIONS - REUTERS

8:30 AM · Dec 1, 2021·TweetDeck
 

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WAYNE ROOT: How I Beat Covid in 48 Hours with Ivermectin – Just Like Joe Rogan and NFL Quarterback Aaron Rodgers

By Assistant Editor
Published December 1, 2021 at 11:37am
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By Wayne Allyn Root

Yes, it’s true. I beat Covid in 48 hours with Ivermectin. Before I get to that story, I have more news guaranteed to make liberals’ heads explode.

I was married last week. That has to enrage liberals. The left hates marriage. But they really hate it when a man who knows he’s a man, marries a feminine woman who knows she’s a woman. I married the stunning, beautiful, sexy, Cindy Parker.

This was truly a Republican wedding.

My new wife is on the Board of Directors of many Republican organizations in Nevada. We had a large wedding with 200 guests from all over the USA- almost all Republicans, conservatives and patriots. I remarked to the crowd, “There are so many Republican politicians in this room, we could hold a Republican National Committee meeting right here.”

I opened the wedding by asking all the military veterans and law enforcement in the room to stand up. My guests gave them a standing ovation.

There were no masks. I’m guessing most of the crowd was unvaccinated. We were guarded by former Navy Seals from the finest security firm in Las Vegas.

If liberals’ heads haven’t exploded just yet, here’s the clincher. The highlight of our wedding was former Fox News host and bestselling author Rita Cosby reading a personal handwritten letter from President Trump celebrating our wedding. Want to watch liberal heads’ triple explode?

Here’s the best story yet. I was healthy and strong at my wedding because of Ivermectin.

I caught Covid for the first time a few weeks ago.
I beat Covid in 48 hours with Ivermectin and massive doses of vitamins- including intravenous Vitamin C.

But Ivermectin is truly a miracle drug. I had Covid for a day when I decided to take Ivermectin. From that point on, Covid was gone in 24 hours. Yes, Ivermectin and vitamins turned the dangerous, deadly, run-for-your-life, lockdown-the-economy, mask-up-for-life, vaccinate-or-die, Covid-19 flu bug into a minor common cold. And then it was gone in 24 hours.

Ivermectin made my Covid bout so mild, I never missed a day of work. Yes, I hosted my 3-hour national radio show every day, with Covid- and no one noticed.

Wait, it gets better. My book, “The Great Patriot Protest & Boycott Book” is out and I was on book tour promoting the book. I was a guest (over the phone) on over 20 radio shows that week, with Covid- and no one noticed.

And I appeared on multiple national television shows (via Zoom or Skype) that week to promote my book, with Covid- and no one noticed.

Ivermectin and mega doses of vitamins turned deadly Covid into a minor cold, that never slowed me one bit. No one could even tell I was sick.

But lest you think I got a mild case, not true. On the first day of Covid, I had fever, chills, a bad cough, mucous filling my lungs, awful pain in every muscle of my body, terrible exhaustion, and I lost my sense of taste. Sound familiar? It’s every symptom of Covid. I took two Covid tests just to be certain. I tested positive twice.

One day of Ivermectin and it was gone. No one ever knew.

Until now.

My treatment was pretty much exactly the same as Joe Rogan and NFL Quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Ivermectin plus mega doses of vitamins. The outcomes were the same too.

Ivermectin works like magic. It’s inexpensive. I never experienced any side effects. I thank God for Ivermectin and mega doses of Vitamin C, D3, zinc, quercetin, selenium, lysine, melatonin, garlic, liquid silver and probiotics.

No one has to fear Covid. No one needs to be forced to take a dangerous experimental vaccine.

No one ever has to choose between the vaccine or their job ever again. We have a miracle drug and a wonderful vitamin regimen that works fantastically against Covid.

I’m Exhibit A.
Hey Liberals are you listening? Have your heads exploded yet? Ivermectin works, it’s cheap, its effective, it has no side effects. India used it to make the worst Covid outbreak in the world disappear almost overnight. So did Mexico City. So did Japan. So, why are Biden, the Democrat Party, Dr Fauci, and the CDC trying to hide the truth?

Ivermectin could save millions of Americans from both Covid and the dangers of the Covid vaccine. Ivermectin can save our economy. Ivermectin can save millions of jobs. Ivermectin saves trillions of dollars in costs from missed work, vaccines, hospitalizations, and death.

I beat Covid in 48 hours with Ivermectin plus vitamins. No one has to die from Covid. I’m playing the role of Paul Revere. “The Ivermectin is coming, the Ivermectin is coming.” I want the whole world to know.
 

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Merkel, EU Chief Call For Vaccine Mandates As South Africa Sees Cases Double In A Day

WEDNESDAY, DEC 01, 2021 - 12:50 PM

As European countries from Germany, to Austria to the Netherlands tighten lockdown measures amid a surge in COVID cases (while deaths remain slightly elevated but more subdued), the continent's unelected bureaucrat in chief, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, asked during a speech on Wednesday that EU members consider adopting a vaccine mandate. All members should "think about" imposing mandates of their own in a coordinated fashion that's in keeping with the Continent's new approach.


Source: Reuters

Speaking during a news conference, the European Commission chief suggested that member states need mandates to help prevent the spread of cases and a further spike in infections due to the emergence of new variants, such as the omicron strain.
"I think it is understandable and appropriate to lead this discussion now, how we can encourage and potentially think about mandatory vaccination within the European Union," von der Leyen stated, adding that fighting the pandemic requires a "common approach" across the bloc.
Meanwhile, a former president of EU member Ireland published an editorial in Politico Europe Wednesday slamming the WTO's refusal to approve sharing of intellectual property that would allow emerging countries to produce their own vaccines.
Epidemiologists warned us time and again that allowing the virus to spread around the world is a recipe for new mutations to develop and that they will indiscriminately harm us all. This waiver, which has now dominated WTO talks for over a year, is a necessary global solution to end the pandemic. Yet one powerful voice at the WTO has continued to undermine this effort — and that must change.
Isn't it interesting how world leaders talk about vaccine mandates, while simultaneously ensuring that emerging countries will need to purchase their jabs from American pharmaceutical giants? But let's put a pin in that.

South Africa has seen the number of new COVID cases doubled between Wednesday and Tuesday, according to official data released by the same people who issued the first warnings about the omicron variant.

What's more, a top South African health official said the omicron variant would likely still be susceptible to the T-cell response caused by both natural and vaccine-induced causes. But that hasn't stopped the country from seeing a surge in infections and reinfections, which has been particularly notable among the older population, officials said.



Back in Europe, outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel has proposed new nationwide restrictions on people who haven't been vaccinated.

Coincidentally, the WHO said earlier that indications are that most omicron cases will be mild, not severe. Of course, that's true of delta and all the other strains as well. The organization later said that the world is still "in the midst" of the pandemic.

But the point is - as even some of South Africa's top virology experts discussed earlier this week and over the weekend - that even if omicron does break through natural and vaccine-induced protections, infections will likely be mild in nearly all of these patients, and the body's T-cell response will leave most people protected.

Confirmed cases of the omicron variant remained fewer than 300 (closer to 250 still by midday) while omicron cases were confirmed for the first time in South Korea (which has already imposed travel restrictions on southern African states), Saudi Arabia and Norway. More cases were found in new locations in the UK, Switzerland, Nigeria, Brazil and elsewhere.

No cases have been confirmed in the US, but several have been identified in Canada.


Source: Bloomberg

Here are some other important stories regarding COVID and the omicron variant:
  • Poland reported 29K new COVID cases, the highest in almost eight months, and 570 fatalities, on Wednesday. More alarming: the Health Ministry said 25% of the deaths were among vaccinated patients, mostly elderly people with comorbidities. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called on the nation to get boosters ahead of Christmas. The country has imposed new restrictions on travelers but hasn't confirmed a single case of omicron.
  • WHO members voted to start drafting an international agreement to help avoid future pandemics as more cases amid the spread of the omicron variant. The WHO’s members approved a proposal Wednesday that set a deadline of 2024 to try to implement such a measure. They didn’t resolve the biggest disagreement, however: whether the accord should be a legally binding treaty.
  • OECD chief economist Laurence Boone says it would cost $50 billion to vaccinate the world, a sum that pales in comparison to the $10 trillion G-20 countries have spent mitigating the impact of the pandemic. Too bad the US-controlled WTO won't share the recipe with the emerging world.
  • The EU is preparing to recommend that member states review their travel rules daily. They should pursue a "coordinated approach" and be prepared to impose new controls if necessary.
  • Finally, Israel’s coronavirus czar Salman Zarka said the country should look at mandatory vaccination now that the omicron variant has emerged. "Mandatory vaccination needs to be considered, whether through legislation or otherwise, especially given the fact that not only is the pandemic here, but I fear it will get worse," Zarka said on 103FM radio. He said he changed his mind following the appearance of omicron, which has been identified in several Israelis.
  • The US is preparing to impose new travel restrictions while the CDC plans to tighten COVID screening and testing at airports around the country by requiring international travelers to have a negative COVID test result from the past 24 hours.
  • WHO adds that vaccine makers shouldn't rush to rework their vaccines because they're not sure whether new vaccines are necessary.
  • Austrian lawmakers extended a nationwide lockdown for a second 10-day period to suppress the latest wave of coronavirus infections before the Christmas holiday period.
Nigeria, meanwhile, has detected a case of omicron from October, the latest piece of evidence to suggest that the variant has likely already spread around the world. The Netherlands says it has found a case of omicron from two weeks ago. Before this, the earliest known sample of the variant was collected on Nov. 9 in South Africa.
 

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Biden Admin Unleashes Omicron Dragnet: CDC Demands Airlines Hand Over Names Of All Southern African Passengers

WEDNESDAY, DEC 01, 2021 - 10:15 AM
We can almost feel the xenophobia intensifying.

As we wait for President Biden to confirm the new travel restrictions that have been reported Tuesday and Wednesday (the president is expected to announce them on Thursday) Reuters reported Wednesday morning that it has seen a copy of a letter from the CDC asking airlines to turn over the names of all passengers who traveled to the US from any of the southern African nations.



Once it has all the names, the CDC plans to turn them over to state and local public health departments. These authorities may then require these travelers to be retested, or perhaps even ask them to quarantine - measures they intend to enforce. Keep in mind, the US still hasn't confirmed a single case of omicron.

The south African countries in the blue ring believed to pose the highest risk of infection...despite the fact that the UK has reported the highest number of confirmed omicron cases with 22, while the Netherlands has confirmed cases of omicron stretching back at least two weeks ago. Evidence suggests the new variant has likely already gone global.



This dichotomy between how the world is treating southern African countries vs. developed nations like the UK is making some people increasingly uncomfortable.

Others have posited that the EU and US are using omicron as an excuse to tighten restrictions on the border and on society and businesses amid the EU's most recent resurgence in cases.

Some 56 countries were reportedly implementing travel measures to guard against Omicron as of Nov. 28, the WHO said, and WHO head Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was concerned that several member states were "introducing blunt, blanket measures", which "will only worsen inequities".

In Germany, which is battling a surge in COVID cases and deaths, recently announced that four fully vaccinated people had tested positive for omicron in the south, but they had only moderate symptoms.

The CDC lists about 80 foreign destinations as "Level Four" countries, the highest level of COVID transmissibility. The US discourages Americans from traveling to those destinations, and also would prefer if people who live in those countries don't travel to the US right now.
 

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[UK]


Health Boss Tells Brits Not To Socialise Over Christmas

WEDNESDAY, DEC 01, 2021 - 03:30 AM
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

Fears that bureaucrats are once again scheming to cancel Christmas arose again after a top health boss told Brits to avoid socialising with their friends and family over the festive period.



“Dr Jenny Harries, the current head of NHS Test and Trace, has told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that people can do their bit to reduce the spread of the new omicron variant by reducing the number of social contacts they have,” reports the Telegraph.

Harries said that if “the (Omicron) variant is more highly transmissible…(it) could still be a significant impact on our hospitals,” despite top doctors in South Africa saying the symptoms are “mild” and haven’t placed added strain on hospitals.

“And of course, our behaviours in winter and particularly around Christmas we tend to socialise more so I think all of those will need to be taken into account,” she added.

“So I think being careful, not socialising when we don’t particularly need to and particularly going and getting those booster jobs which, of course, people will now be able to have at a three-month interval from their primary course.”

Of course, if Christmas doesn’t involve socialising with friends and family, it might as well not exist.

Despite case numbers flatlining and deaths going down in England, such measures are being pushed again in addition to more mandatory face masks rules based on little more than hot air and media hysteria.

Suffice to say, if the government once again tries to lock up Brits and prevent them from seeing loved ones over Christmas, expect mass non-compliance like you’ve never seen before.
 

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[Germany]


Germany's New Chancellor Says Mandatory Covid Jabs "Necessary" To Contain Fourth Wave

WEDNESDAY, DEC 01, 2021 - 02:00 AM
By AFP/TheLocal.de

Germany on Tuesday inched closer to mandatory coronavirus vaccines after incoming Chancellor Olaf Scholz said they were necessary to contain a fierce fourth wave of the pandemic.

Following crisis talks with acting Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leaders of Germany’s 16 states, Scholz said he wanted parliament to vote on the matter before the end of the year.
“Too many people have not got vaccinated,” Scholz told Bild television. Making jabs compulsory is justified “to protect us all”.
The compulsory vaccinations should be in force “in the beginning of February or March so we must move quickly now,” Scholz said, promising that lawmakers would be allowed to vote according to their conscience. Generally, MPs are expected to vote with their parties on key issues, but with ethically sensitive issues, exceptions can be made to allow parliamentarians to be guided by their conscience alone.

In the meeting, Scholz had signalled his personal support for such a measure. He said he was “aware that there were cross-party debates” among lawmakers about making the vaccine compulsory, a source said.

“Scholz signalled his sympathy for such a regulation,” added the source, who is from Scholz’s centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD).

The introduction of a general vaccine mandate has been a hot topic in Germany after Austria announced the move. It has previously been ruled out in Germany but fears are growing over the dramatic fourth Covid wave and the newly detected Omicron variant.

According to sources of German news magazine Spiegel, Scholz said that compulsory vaccinations should be in place “when everyone has had a realistic chance to be double-vaccinated.”

What else is happening in the talks?
Scholz, Merkel and the heads of Germany’s 16 states had been discussing tougher curbs to confront record-high infection rates and rapidly filling intensive care beds. Among the measures discussed were the closures of bars and clubs, and limiting large events.

Several hard-hit German regions have already cancelled Christmas markets and barred the unvaccinated from public spaces like gyms and leisure facilities. But critics say the patchwork of rules is confusing, and Tuesday’s crisis talks are aimed at coming up with more uniform rules for the whole country.

Scholz reportedly spoke to Merkel and the state premiers about a “national task” in which solidarity had to be shown with the German states experiencing extreme infection figures.

The incoming Chancellor said he wanted to see 30 million Covid jabs administered to people in Germany by Christmas – and that this would help to break the wave. He said for this to happen, more vaccination offers were needed – involving pharmacists, dentists and vets in giving out shots.

According to German media, Scholz has also told participants at the talks that he is in favour of barring the unvaccinated from more parts of public life, including non-essential retail.

It comes after Germany’s highest court ruled that extreme Covid measures like curfews and contact bans – dubbed the emergency brake – were lawful, possibly paving the way for authorities to bring in tougher restrictions again if the situation calls for it.

The scheduled meeting between the federal government and state leaders has been moved forward by a week to December 2nd.

[COMMENT: From what I have read, it looks like the unvaxxed fare better than the vaxxed with Omicron.]
 

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White House Responds To First US Omicron Strain With 'Vax Up Or Get Boosted' Blitz

WEDNESDAY, DEC 01, 2021 - 02:55 PM

Update (1455ET): The White House has released a statement on the first case of the Omicron strain detected in the US, stating that Biden's medical team "continues to believe that existing vaccines will provide some level of protection against severe illness," from the variant - which we already know is a mild strain of the disease - and is urging "all adults to get their booster shots and get themselves and their kids vaccinated" if they haven't done so already.

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The first case was identified as a resident of San Francisco, according to the Mayor's office. The city 'does not' anticipate any new lockdowns or other restrictions in response.

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CNN's Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins has tweeted that the CDC has identified first case of Omicron in the US in California, according to a source.

But, but , but, isn't California all masked up?

The CDC reports that the individual was a traveler returning from South Africa.
The individual was fully vaccinated and had mild symptoms.
The individual is now self-quarantining.



Fauci explains that it's "important to get vaccinated, get booster shots"...

View: https://youtu.be/CGg9wIUNyyg
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CDC Statement
First confirmed case of Omicron variant detected in the United States
The California and San Francisco Departments of Public Health have confirmed that a recent case of COVID-19 among an individual in California was caused by the Omicron variant (B. 1.1.529).

The individual was a traveler who returned from South Africa on November 22, 2021.

The individual, who was fully vaccinated and had mild symptoms that are improving, is self-quarantining and has been since testing positive.

All close contacts have been contacted and have tested negative.

Genomic sequencing was conducted at the University of California, San Francisco and the sequence was confirmed at CDC as being consistent with the Omicron variant.

This will be the first confirmed case of COVID-19 caused by the Omicron variant detected in the United States.

On November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified a new variant, B. 1.1.529, as a Variant of Concern and named it Omicron and on November 30, 2021, the United States also classified it as a Variant of Concern. CDC has been actively monitoring and preparing for this variant, and we will continue to work diligently with other U.S. and global public health and industry partners to learn more.

Despite the detection of Omicron, Delta remains the predominant strain in the United States.
We have one word: "Brace..."



We can only imagine what public health officials will do now.
 

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Chinese Researchers Claim To Have Found Antibody 'Cure' For COVID

WEDNESDAY, DEC 01, 2021 - 02:39 PM

Have the Chinese been sitting on the secret cure for COVID this entire time? One could be forgiven for harboring suspicions - especially now that a team of Chinese researchers has purportedly found the human antibody that helps the human body suppress the virus. This could lead to a widely effective cure for COVID.



In the study, published Tuesday by researchers from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou and a host of other medical schools and institutes (all listed at the top of the paper they published), the researchers explain how they used a cryo-electron 50 microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine how human antibody 35B5 neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 by targeting a 51 unique epitope that avoids the prevailing mutation sites on RBD identified not just in the original "wild" strain of COVID (which initially emerged from Wuhan) but also all the circulating VOCs. The researchers said this antibody could be exploited to create a new vaccine that's more effective at protecting against various strains of the virus.

Or perhaps even new antibody therapies that could offer even stronger protection to the vulnerable than Merck' molnupiravir.

RT explained that "pan-neutralizing efficacy" means the antibody has the capacity to suppress not just the original COVID, but also all the existing variants and potentially even more variants that haven't yet developed. Right now, it appears the antibody targets aspects of the virus that haven't been impacted by the mutations.

These findings, the scientists argue, could be “exploited for the rational design of a universal SARS-CoV-2 [Covid-19] vaccine.”

And while they haven't tested the antibody against the omicron variant, the researchers said that the characteristics of the omicron variant suggest it also has the characteristics that 35B5 requires to suppress the virus.

RT posited that this breakthrough could become "pretty valuable" if omicron does exhibit the ability to produce a surge in 'breakthrough' infections, rendering the first generation of vaccines effectively useless, something the CEO of Moderna appears eager to see.

Readers can find the full paper, which hasn't been peer reviewed, below:
2021.11.29.470356v1.full (Scribd doc on website)

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Download this PDF
 

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First confirmed case of Omicron coronavirus variant detected in US, Fauci
The United States' first confirmed case of the Omicron coronavirus variant has been identified in California, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday

Updated: December 1, 2021 - 2:09pm

The United States' first confirmed case of the Omicron coronavirus variant has been identified in California, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday.

Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, made the announcement at a White House press conference.

He said the infected person came to San Francisco from South Africa and is experiencing "mild symptoms." Fauci also said the person is experiencing "mild symptoms" and is self-quarantining.

He also encouraged Americans to get a booster shot.

Fauci also said the U.S. travel ban is a "temporary measure" to buy some time to try to get ahead of the new variant, which follows the Delta variant.

The World Health Organization recent designates Omicron a "variant of concern." It was first identified by scientists in South Africa, and has since been detected in several countries.
 

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Anthony Fauci: Testing Border Crossers for Coronavirus ‘Different Issue’ than Testing International Travelers
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Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday border crossers were “a different issue” after confirming he advised President Joe Biden to implement testing requirements for individuals traveling to the United States.

Dr. Fauci was asked by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy during the White House daily press briefing if he believed that everyone should be tested when coming into the United States.

“The answer is yes,” Fauci replied. “Because you know that the new regulation, if you want to call it that, is that anybody and everybody that is coming into the country needs to get a test within 24 hours of getting on the plane to come here.”

When Doocy asked if migrants and border crossers should be held to the same standard, Fauci tried to clarify.

“That’s a different issue,” Fauci replied, arguing there was less of a capability for the government to enforce testing protocols for people crossing the border.

Fauci claimed there was some coronavirus testing at the border — even though the Biden administration has not required universal testing or vaccine mandates for border crossers before they are released into the United States.

Since taking control of the border, the Biden administration has struggled for months to explain why they have failed to implement the same policies for border crossers, illegal immigrants, and migrants entering the United States as legal residents, American citizens, and even tourists.

In September, White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended allowing migrants to enter the United States without proving their vaccination status, while tourists were required to do so.

“It’s not the same thing. … They’re not intending to stay here for an extended period of time,” she said.

Earlier in September, Psaki said, “That is correct,” when asked about the different standards.
 
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