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Covid pill could kill you
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Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Covid pill could kill you
Reuters reported, "Philippines approves Merck's covid-19 pill for at-risk patients."
That is how the vaccines started. They were supposed to be for the old and the infirm. Now some jurisdictions are demanding children get vaccinated.
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1475846251228942337
2:03 min
The Reuters report said, "The Philippines on Thursday approved emergency use of Merck & Co Inc's covid-19 treatment pill for adult patients at risk of developing severe illness as it tries to boosts the country's arsenal of drugs to fight new variants."
The approval was on an emergency basis, as were the approvals of the vaccines. I get that covid is seen as an emergency, but what I don't get is why we are acting like it is fully vetted.
There are ill effects from the vaccine. The media has spent more time mocking the skeptics than it has spent examining the side effects.
And there are side effects to every medication. Even aspirin.
NBC reported, "As the omicron surge pummels a pandemic-weary nation, the first antiviral pills for covid-19 promise desperately needed protection for people at risk of severe disease. However, many people prescribed Pfizer’s or Merck’s new medications will require careful monitoring by doctors and pharmacists, and the antivirals may not be safe for everyone, experts caution."
Hmm. HCQ is an antiviral medication. It has been around for nearly 80 years. We know its side effects. It costs pennies.
The media mocked it and the FDA pooh-poohed it when President Trump said it could be a game-changer.
But 18 months later, we are rolling out new expensive and experimental antiviral medications.
The NBC report said, "The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s Paxlovid for mild to moderate Covid in people as young as 12 who have underlying conditions that raise the risk of hospitalization and death from the coronavirus, such as heart disease or diabetes. However, one of the two drugs in the antiviral cocktail could cause severe or life-threatening interactions with widely used medications, including statins, blood thinners and some antidepressants. And the FDA does not recommend Paxlovid for people with severe kidney or liver disease."
Cocktails. They no longer are drugs but cocktails. I wonder if they come with little umbrellas.
The report also said, "When Paxlovid is paired with other medications that are also metabolized by the CYP3A enzyme, the chief worry is that the ritonavir component may boost the co-administered drugs to toxic levels.
"Complicating matters, the drugs that pose interaction risks are widely prescribed to people at the greatest risk from Covid because of other health conditions.
"The medications include, but are not limited to: blood thinners; anti-seizure medications; drugs for irregular heart rhythms, high blood pressure and high cholesterol; antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications; immunosuppressants; steroids (including inhalers); HIV treatments; and erectile dysfunction medications."
America is the most drugged nation in the world. 131 million Americans have at least one prescription. The average is four.
Add to that the millions who take illegal drugs as well as legal drugs (tobacco, marijuana, and alcohol) and you have a potential to turn half the country into a walking time bomb.
Democrats and the media politicized covid from the get-go, as they denounced President Trump's travel restrictions on Red China as racist and xenophobic.
Governors and mayors have used covid as an excuse to ignore the Constitution.
The danger covid poses is not that it will kill us. Everyone dies. No, the danger is that we will continue to allow those in power to trample our God-given rights.
Having cops kick a family out of a Burger King because their papers aren't in order should be the last straw.
But there were 100 last straws before this, and I am pretty sure the there will be 100 last straws before we finally end this madness.
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NEW - Dr. Fauci: "Important thing: Many of the children are hospitalized with Covid as opposed to because of Covid."
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NEW - Dr. Fauci: "Important thing: Many of the children are hospitalized with Covid as opposed to because of Covid."
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Australian Nazis freak out over 19 year-old who went to the club with Covid…
Posted by Kane on December 30, 2021 12:34 pm
View: https://youtu.be/4v-SNEco70M
5:38 min
Insane overreaction in Australia
6 hour waits for a booster in Adelaide, the largest city in the South Australia territory.
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1476560793629904901
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Australian Nazis freak out over 19 year-old who went to the club with Covid…
Posted by Kane on December 30, 2021 12:34 pm
5:38 min
Insane overreaction in Australia
6 hour waits for a booster in Adelaide, the largest city in the South Australia territory.
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1476560793629904901
.36 min
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Ben Harnwell: The Americans Simply Won’t Put Up With This Any Longer
Ben Harnwell, the "War Room" foreign correspondent, talks about the resistance to the vaccine mandates in Europe and the United
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Ben Harnwell: The Americans Simply Won’t Put Up With This Any Longer
December 30, 2021
in Pandemic, SHOW NOTES
Ben Harnwell, the “War Room” foreign correspondent, talks about the resistance to the vaccine mandates in Europe and the United States.
“There is a fundamental difference between the outlook of Europeans and Americans, and I go back to the words Lincoln himself used in Gettysburg:
America is a nation ‘conceived in liberty.’ Europe, our various nations, [were] conceived in feudalism and serfdom. … Fundamentally, in Europe, we have liberties because the state gives them to us … America is the only nation I’m aware of on the face of the planet, in the whole of human history, that basically starts from the direct opposite presupposition. You start with the individual, with his God-given natural rights, and that individual then enters society and gives to government its rights and limitations… The Americans, being a people conceived in liberty, simply will not put up with this [covid authoritarianism] any longer.”
Part 1: America Is A Country Conceived In Liberty
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Part 2: Globalist Elites Are Doubling Down
Rumble video 4:35 min
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Suddenly, msnbc gets religion on Covid… It’s nothing more than the Flu…
Posted by Kane on December 30, 2021 12:48 pm
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1476362129229983745
1:07 min
Chris Hayes has bashed freedom fighters for almost two years who said the same thing.
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Crisis actors pushing the Vaccine…
Posted by Kane on December 30, 2021 1:12 pm
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1475951634496868356
.26 min
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CDC quietly revises ‘the science’ for second time this week…
Posted by Kane on December 30, 2021 1:18 pm
This is the second change to CDC guidance in the last week.
3:18 min
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(includes the German diaspora to Paraguay to escape COVID totalitarianism)
Inconvenient truth for Fauci…
Posted by Kane on December 30, 2021 2:06 pm
View: https://youtu.be/mxdzLmL22Fs
11:49 min
According to Worldometers, 71 percent of Germans are fully Vaccinated, but they make up 96 percent of all Omicron cases. This is another data point that you will never hear in corporate media.
Inconvenient truth for Fauci…
Posted by Kane on December 30, 2021 2:06 pm
11:49 min
According to Worldometers, 71 percent of Germans are fully Vaccinated, but they make up 96 percent of all Omicron cases. This is another data point that you will never hear in corporate media.
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Quebec announces curfew starting on New Year’s Eve…
Posted by Kane on December 30, 2021 2:04 pm
According to a report in La Presse, the curfew could go into effect Friday — New Year’s Eve — and last for three weeks. Other measures will include delaying the return to class until Jan. 17 and further restricting gatherings, which are currently limited to six people. An official announcement is expected Thursday afternoon.
Almost 78 percent of Quebec is Fully Vaccinated…
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Eric Adams — I will keep Deblasio Vaccine mandates…
Posted by Kane on December 30, 2021 2:10 pm
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1476582395382046726
.31 min
Adams held a press conference a few hours ago where he laid out his Covid plan.
3:20 min
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You need 6 Covid shots…
Posted by Kane on December 30, 2021 2:25 pm
Netherlands Health Minister is preparing another three booster vaccines to fight new variants, with two shots planned for 2022 and another mRNA injection slated for 2023.
Continue reading at Newsweek…
Netherlands announced new lockdowns last week
View: https://youtu.be/zoeQ3QaDGhs
1:51 min
You need 6 Covid shots…
Posted by Kane on December 30, 2021 2:25 pm
Netherlands Health Minister is preparing another three booster vaccines to fight new variants, with two shots planned for 2022 and another mRNA injection slated for 2023.
Continue reading at Newsweek…
Netherlands announced new lockdowns last week
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Fauci defends CDC guidelines, says ‘We’re still in the middle of a pandemic’
Dr. Anthony Fauci joined “Morning in America” Thursday, where he offered a full-throated defense of the CDC’s changing recommendations for asymptomatic people and emphasized the importance of wides…
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Fauci defends CDC guidelines, says ‘We’re still in the middle of a pandemic’
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Posted: DEC 30, 2021 / 05:45 AM CST | Updated: DEC 30, 2021 / 11:58 AM CST
Video 20:58 min
CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — New guidelines shortening COVID-19 quarantine times are about keeping people at their jobs, and does not signal the pandemic is letting up, Dr. Anthony Fauci said.
Fauci joined “Morning in America” on Thursday to discuss the country’s plan for mitigating the highly transmissible omicron variant of COVID-19 and to answer NewsNation viewer questions live. He also elaborated on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s changing recommendations for asymptomatic patients, noting that the shorter isolation period could help keep “society running.”
“There is no magic number” of vaccinations or cases to signal the end of the pandemic, Fauci said. “It’s when the level of … virus is so low in society that it doesn’t interfere with our function. Three hundred thousand (cases) per day is not out of it. You want to get very, very low.”
Dr. Fauci: The full NewsNation interview and transcript https://www.newsnationnow.com/morninginamerica/dr-fauci-the-full-newsnation-interview-and-transcript/
New cases of COVID-19 have soared to the highest levels on record in recent days. There are now more than 265,000 cases per day on average in the United States, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The CDC also reported 377,014 COVID cases on Dec. 29.
But the solution to the spread of COVID-19 is more complicated than setting the nation’s sights on a targeted number of daily infections, Fauci said. The severity of the cases are important. So far, the omicron variant is not making people as sick as previous COVID-19 versions, and booster shots are helping to prevent serious infection.
“What’s important is getting a level of hospitalization that’s quite low so that people are not concerned that if they get infected, they’re going to wind up seriously ill, so that it’s a very unusual event when someone gets hospitalized,” Fauci said. “As opposed to now, when we have in the hospital at any given time 70-80,000 people. That’s not where we want to be. We need to be much lower than that.”
The CDC recently outlined new COVID-19 guidelines that recommend a five-day isolation period for those infected with COVID-19. Under the new rules, all Americans who test positive, regardless of vaccination status, should isolate themselves for five days and wear a mask for another five, even among family at home. Boosted Americans who are close contacts of a confirmed case do not need to isolate, provided they’re wearing masks for 10 days after they were exposed.
The decision, Fauci said, strikes a balance of keeping Americans safe without “drain(ing) society of their very critical workers.”
“It’s not 100% risk-free but then again nothing is 100% risk-free,” Fauci said.
The decision, Fauci said, strikes a balance of keeping Americans safe without “drain(ing) society of their very critical workers.”
The updated guidelines aren’t a reflection that asymptomatic people are less contagious, rather how long a person is contagious for, Fauci said.
“The first five days it’s much more likely that you have the capability of transmitting it whether you’re with symptoms or without symptoms,” Fauci said.
That likelihood “diminishes considerably” in the second five days, he said.
To avoid the spread of the virus, Fauci has suggested smaller gatherings ahead of New Year’s Eve.
“If your plans are to go to a 40- to 50-person New Year’s Eve party with all the bells and whistles and everybody hugging and kissing and wishing each other a happy New Year, I would strongly recommend that this year we not do that,” he said.
Earlier this week he suggested the administration should consider requiring people on domestic flights to be vaccinated. Though he clarified it would only happen if things get “dramatically” worse, he said it’s “on the table” alongside several other mitigations.
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Rochelle Walensky drops bomb on PCR tests…
Posted by Kane on December 30, 2021 6:39 pm
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1476236664741769218
.22 min
CFP readers have known that PCR tests don’t work for 15 months.
The CDC is finally admitting the truth.
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Trump — I’m 100% against mandatory Vaccinations…
Posted by Kane on December 30, 2021 7:33 pm
President Trump told Marjorie Taylor Greene that he supports the COVID Vaccine but opposes making the shots mandatory. “He is 100% AGAINST the mandates, but he still encourages everyone to get the vaccine and booster,” Greene said in a lengthy Twitter thread after they chatted by phone. “That’s his position.”
“I told him I’m sick and tired of weak pathetic Republicans who won’t fight hard against the Democrats Communist agenda,” Greene wrote. “He agrees. RINO’s are the worst!”
Despite their deep loyalty to Trump, Greene and other MAGA lawmakers are among the most outspoken and effective voices undermining the vaccine campaign that he spearheaded during his time in the White House.
The split with Trump over vaccines has become even more clear in recent days since he won rare praise for his pro-vaccine stance from Biden and public health experts.
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Study: Children Develop Robust & Sustained Immune Responses to COVID-19
A critical new study in Nature Immunology titled “Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive spike-specific imm...
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A critical new study in Nature Immunology titled “Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive spike-specific immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infections” reveals children build up strong and durable immunity when they have been infected with COVID-19. Considerably stable beyond 12 months, these immune response findings “provide insight into the relative clinical protection that occurs in most children.” Significantly, the study states:
“We showed that children display a characteristically robust and sustained adaptive immune response against SARS-CoV-2 with substantial cross-reactivity against other hCoVs. Spike-specific T cell responses were more than twice as high in children. And broadly stable beyond 12 months. This is likely to contribute to the relative clinical protection that occurs in most children.”
As of December 30, 2021, nearly 285 million people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 worldwide, of which around 5.4 million have died. SARS-CoV-2 infection in children is typically asymptomatic or mild and contrasts with high rates of hospitalizations and death in older adults. As such, the variation in how age affects an individual’s response has sparked an ongoing interest in “understanding the profile of the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in children.”
Repeatedly, research confirms that “children diagnosed with COVID-19 have an overall excellent prognosis.”
The study, partly funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)/National Institute for Health Research through the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium (P.M.), points out that one possible explanation for the different immune responses to COVID-19 across various age groups might be “the timing of exposure to the four additional endemic human coronaviruses (hCoVs).” These comprise the Beta-coronaviruses OC43 and HKU-1, which have 38% and 35% amino acid homology with SARS-CoV-2, and the more distantly related Alpha-coronaviruses NL63 and 229E, each with around 31% homology.
These four coronaviruses (hCoVs) cause routine mild childhood infections, and antibody seroconversion occurs typically before age 5. The study notes that infection with one of the Alpha- or Beta-coronaviruses provides short-term immunity against reinfection from coronaviruses and represents brief cross-reactive immunity within the subtypes. As such, “recent hCoV infection might presensitize children against SARS-CoV-2 infection and may explain cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2-neutralizing antibodies in some seronegative children.”
With that in mind, the researchers compared antibody levels against the four hCoVs in children and adults who were seronegative and seropositive for SARS-CoV-2.
The study compared antibody and cellular immunity in children aged 3-11 and adults aged 20 to 71. Blood samples were obtained from 91 children and 154 adults, including 35 children and 81 adults who tested positive for the virus in previous rounds of testing. All infections were asymptomatic or mild, and no staff or students in the cohort required medical care or hospitalization.
a,b, Antibody binding to spike (a) and RBD proteins (b) from SARS-CoV-2 variants using plasma from children (n = 19) or adults (n = 18). The bars indicate the geometric mean ± 95% CI. Kruskal–Wallis with Dunn’s multiple comparisons tests were used. c,d, Live virus neutralization assays on SARS-CoV-2 variants displayed as maximal neutralization of infection (c) and titer at 50% neutralization (d) using plasma from children (n = 28) or adults (n = 43). The bars indicate the median ± 95% CI.
Antibody responses to viral proteins were broadly identical in seropositive children and adults. However, the study revealed that geometric mean antibody titers against all four areas (hCoVs) were more significant in children, with the N-terminal domain (NTD) and receptor-binding domain (RBD) showing 2.3-fold and 1.7-fold increases, respectively, though these did not achieve statistical significance. Unlike earlier findings, the authors found antibody responses to nucleoprotein, with a 1.3-fold higher antibody titer in children than in adults.
Compared to the seronegative group, SARS-CoV-2 seropositive adults had a 1.2–1.4-fold rise in hCoV titers. In contrast, SARS-CoV-2 seropositive children had significantly greater antibody levels against all four viruses, with 2.3, 1.9, 1.5, and 2.1-fold higher antibody levels than the seronegative group. Notably, seropositive children had similar levels of hCoV-specific antibodies to adults, whereas seronegative children had lower responses than adults.
The authors also examined antibody titers against influenza subtypes and respiratory syncytial virus in relation to SARS-CoV-2 serostatus to see if this outcome was exclusive to hCoV or a more general effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection on antibody responses against heterologous infection. No change in antibody titers against these viruses was observed in children or adults. These findings indicate that SARS-CoV-2 infection improves antibody responses against hCoVs in children.
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Following the increase in hCoV-specific antibody titers in children after SARS-CoV-2 infection, the authors analyzed whether this was cross-reactive with SARS-CoV-2 or an hCoV-specific response. Accordingly, plasma samples were pre-absorbed with recombinant S1 or S2 domain protein from SARS-CoV-2 before measuring antibody levels to both SARS-CoV-2 and the four hCoV subtypes.
The researchers observed that antibody titers against the whole spike protein were remarkably reduced after pre-absorption with both the S1 and S2 domains.
RBD- and NTD-specific antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 were absorbed by the S1 domain but not the S2 domain, with no effect on the nucleocapsid-specific binding for either domain.
The S1 domain did not affect antibody binding to any of the four hCoV subtypes, suggesting that cross-reactive antibodies against this domain are doubtful. Comparatively, the S2 domain inhibited antibody binding to OC43 and HKU-1.
Regarding the alpha coronaviruses NL63 and 229e, no such effect was seen.
The study joins a long list of peer-reviewed research demonstrating that children exhibit a characteristically robust and sustained adaptive immune response against SARS-CoV-2 with significant cross-reactivity against other hCoVs.
Undoubtedly, this natural immunity contributes to the relative clinical protection acquired by children.
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Easy as 3.141592653589..
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Biden $137M Means COVID Lockdown May Extend Beyond 2024, Democrats Push For Lockdowns And Mandates
Dec 30, 2021
Tim Pool
Biden $137M COVID Deal Means Pandemic To Extend Past 2024, Quarantine Facility Proves This WONT END. Unless Democrats get voted out and replaced by populist republicans the pandemic will never end. Democrats have consistently called for more lockdowns and heavily favor vaccine mandates. This next year will be brutal. Democrats will pull out all the stops for the 2022 Midterms to prevent a republican red wave.
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14:26 min
Omicron science, good news
Dec 30, 2021
Dr. John Campbell
New science explains South Africa's low rates of omicron severe disease SARS-CoV-2 spike T cell responses induced upon vaccination or infection remain robust against Omicron https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.11...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.11... Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant has multiple Spike (S) protein mutations These contribute to escape from the neutralizing antibody responses, reducing vaccine protection from infection We assessed the ability of T cells to react with Omicron spike In participants who were vaccinated with Ad26.CoV2.S (J and J) (n = 20) or BNT162b2 (Pfizer) (n = 15 or in unvaccinated convalescent COVID-19 patients (n = 15) SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells play a key role in modulating COVID-19 severity and provide protective immunity Results 70-80% of the CD4 and CD8 T cell response to spike was maintained across study groups
The magnitude of Omicron cross-reactive T cells was similar to that of the Beta and Delta variants These results demonstrate that, despite Omicron’s extensive mutations and reduced susceptibility to neutralizing antibodies, the majority of T cell response, induced by vaccination or natural infection, cross- recognises the variant.
Well-preserved T cell immunity to Omicron, is likely to contribute to protection from severe COVID-19, supporting early clinical observations from South Africa.
Further explanation The limited effect of Omicron’s mutations on the T cell response suggests that vaccination or prior infection may still provide substantial protection from severe disease. Indeed, South Africa has reported a lower risk of hospitalisation and severe disease compared to the previous Delta wave Cross-reactive T cell responses acquired through vaccination or infection may contribute to these apparent milder outcomes for Omicron. The resilience of the T cell response demonstrated here also bodes well in the event that more highly mutated variants emerge in the future.
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Top Marine Commanders Have Rejected All 3,080 Religious Exemption Requests From Healthy Marines for Experimental COVID Vaccine | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Marine commanders have rejected all 3,080 religious exemption requests from US Marines so far this year for the required COVID vaccine.
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Top Marine Commanders Have Rejected All 3,080 Religious Exemption Requests From Healthy Marines for Experimental COVID Vaccine
By Jim Hoft
Published December 30, 2021 at 7:05pm
Marine commanders have rejected all 3,080 religious exemption requests from US Marines so far this year for the required COVID vaccine.
Healthy adult males between 20 and 50 have almost zero chance of serious complications or death from the coronavirus. But the regime is demanding they all get vaccinated anyway.
103 Marines were discharged earlier this month for refusing the vaccine.
NEW: 103 US Marines Discharged For Refusing Covid Vaccine | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
103 US Marines were discharged on Thursday for refusing to get the Covid vaccine.
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The headline from the Global Times (propaganda arm of the CCP) is a little unsettling based on what we're seeing in Xi'an.
Xi 'an reports hemorrhagic fever cases, but no need to panic as medical experts urge quick vaccinations
By Xu Keyue and Cui Fandi Published: Dec 19, 2021 12:22 PM
The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University Photo: VCG
Since the beginning of winter, Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province has recorded a series of hemorrhagic fever cases, a natural epidemic disease with a high fatality rate. Medical experts said that rodents are the main source of infection, and called on the public not to panic as vaccinations can effectively prevent and control the disease, while human-to-human transmission is basically impossible.
The Global Times learned from a medical staff member at the infection unit of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University that the hospital admitted a patient with non-life-threatening hemorrhagic fever in the past few days.
Due to the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Xi'an, many hospitals with infection units have temporarily stopped receiving patients and are only attending to patients infected with COVID-19, said the staff member.
According to media reports, hemorrhagic fever is a common infectious disease in northern China. Starting from October every year, some areas of Shaanxi enter the high incidence season of hemorrhagic fever.
In recent years, the virus institute of the Shaanxi Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed local infections in Xi 'an by widespread field investigations and laboratory neutralization antibody detection and identification.
Experts said that hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, also known as epidemic hemorrhagic fever, is caused by Hantavirus, with rodents as the main source of infection.
It can be transmitted by a mouse bite, by eating food or water that a mouse has crawled over, or by contact with infected mouse blood, urine or feces.
Humans are generally susceptible to the disease, and the incidence is high among farmers who often work in the field, or workers engaged in the agricultural industry and food processing.
Hemorrhagic fever is an acute infectious disease characterized by fever, bleeding and renal damage, and it can lead to death in serious cases.
According to data released by the China CDC, the number of epidemic hemorrhagic fever cases in China from January to August in 2020 was 4,359, and the death toll was 21.
In 2019, there were 9,596 cases and 44 deaths from the disease in China, with an average mortality rate of 0.4 percent, media reports said.
Preliminary symptoms of epidemic hemorrhagic fever and common flu are similar. As a result, many patients may think it is a common cold by mistake. Medical experts in Xi'an urged patients to have treatment in a timely manner due to the onset of hemorrhagic fever and its rapid progress.
Zhou Zijun, a public health expert at Peking University, told the Global Times on Sunday there is no need to panic and it is less likely that China will have a big outbreak of the disease.
Epidemic haemorrhagic fever has at times been serious in China, so the medical response strategy has matured. Tests, targeted drugs and effective vaccines are available for the disease, medical experts said.
Also, experts noted although there are a couple of routes of transmission, the two main sources of infection are rattus norvegicus and apodemus agrarius. Neither is common in cities.
The disease has obvious regional and seasonal characteristics. People living in rural areas have more exposure to rats. People who live in urban areas are much less at risk of encountering hantavirus, have less need to panic, and have no need to kill their children's pet rats, experts said.
Two peaks come every year - the spring peak from March to May, and the winter peak from November to January.
Experts say vaccination is the most effective way for individuals to avoid the disease. People aged from 16-60 in high incidence areas, especially farmers in their 60s and students who have turned 16, should actively take the vaccine. Also, vaccination against hemorrhagic fever is recommended for those who plan to travel to endemic areas for field exploration, tourism, farming and other activities, or before long-term outdoor work assignments.
The vaccine is given in three doses, with the first two doses spaced 14 days apart and the third at least six months later. The first two shots are essential for basic immunity. If the second injection is not given on schedule, the course of this round of hemorrhagic fever immunity will be invalid, media reports said.
Another effective measure to prevent hemorrhagic fever is rodent control. Medical experts advise people to avoid activities near water, grass and other places where rats are likely to appear, and avoid contact with rats and their fecal pollutants. Rodent control and other prevention measures can be implemented in places such as villages, orchards, vegetable gardens and breeding farms.
Experts also suggested wearing long pants, long shirts and closed shoes to prevent being bitten by rats. It is recommended to wear a mask to prevent aerosol pollution in areas where weeds or straw are piled up and rat urine and dung may exist.
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Wow! I'm sitting here reading this and I'm completely stunned, amazing that the irony of this goes right over the head of people. It's almost like a Babylon bee article, shocking.
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Gee, we beat Uttar Pradesh. A third world state in a third world country with a vax rate of 54/30%.
Read my lips…
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Omicron Surge: U.S. Tops One Million New COVID Cases in Just Two Days; Wave of Walmart Stores Closed for Deep Cleaning | The Gateway Pundit | by Kristinn Taylor
The United States totaled over one million new cases of COVID-19 in the period covering Wednesday through Thursday as the highly infectious Omicron variant–which for most will be a bad cold or flu–starts to take over as the dominant COVID strain.
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Omicron Surge: U.S. Tops One Million New COVID Cases in Just Two Days; Wave of Walmart Stores Closed for Deep Cleaning
By Kristinn Taylor
Published December 30, 2021 at 6:30pm
The United States totaled over one million new cases of COVID-19 in the period covering Wednesday through Thursday as the highly infectious Omicron variant–which for most will be a bad cold or flu–starts to take over as the dominant COVID strain. Even with relatively low hospitalizations and deaths compared to previous strains, the sheer volume of cases at one time with an overlap of the lingering more virulent Delta strain threatens to disrupt daily life for the coming month due to isolation and quarantine protocols. An indication of what’s ahead has been the cancellation of thousands of flights this past week and the abrupt closings of several Walmart stores around the country for deep cleaning at the height of the Christmas shopping season.
Data kept by Worldometer shows that on Tuesday the U.S. had 339,545 news cases, Wednesday, 471,742 and Thursday as of this writing, 527,974 with a few hours to go before the tally is closed for the day, marking over 1,000,000 new cases in just two days and over 1.3 million in three days.
Reports from around the country show Walmart stores in Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey, Texas, Louisiana and other states have been closed for deep cleaning due to high COVID cases among staff.
The reports have a statement from Walmart that is the same excerpt for store location and specific closings and reopenings:
Wisconsin on Thursday: Walmart to temporarily close two Milwaukee stores to sanitize for COVID-19. The stores will reopen Saturday.
New Jersey on Thursday: 2nd NJ Walmart Abruptly Closes as State’s COVID Outbreak Worsens
Connecticut on Thursday: New Haven Walmart Closed for Cleaning, Stocking
Texas on Thursday: Dallas Walmart Temporarily Closing For Cleaning As New COVID Cases Surge
Louisiana on Thursday: Tchoupitoulas Walmart closing for deep cleaning due to COVID-19
Illinois on Wednesday: COVID Closes UChicago Ingalls-Flossmoor Urgent Aid, Olympia Fields Walmart
Florida on Wednesday: South Florida Walmart location temporarily closed for cleaning
Ohio on Wednesday: Ashtabula and Bainbridge Walmarts temporarily closing for cleaning
Ohio on Wednesday: Walmart in Aurora temporarily closing for cleaning
Last week in Heath, Ohio: Heath Walmart temporarily closes because of COVID
Also in Ohio on Wednesday, the Cloumbus Dispatch reported Governor Mike DeWine (R) added another thousand national Guard troops to help at hospitals across the state: (excerpt):
The Omicron wave is expected to peak by late January according to the course it took in South Africa.
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CDC Warns People Against Going on Cruises Regardless of Vaccination Status After Major Covid Outbreaks on Fully Vaxxed Ships | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
So the Covid vaccines don’t work?
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CDC Warns People Against Going on Cruises Regardless of Vaccination Status After Major Covid Outbreaks on Fully Vaxxed Ships
By Cristina Laila
Published December 30, 2021 at 1:44pm
So the Covid vaccines don’t work?
The CDC on Thursday warned people against going on cruises regardless of vaccination status.
Cruises require all crew members and passengers to be fully vaccinated, however dozens of ships have had major Covid outbreaks.
US cruises have reported more than 5,000 Covid cases to the CDC in the last couple weeks.
“It is especially important that travelers who are at an increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19 avoid travel on cruise ships, including river cruises, worldwide, regardless of vaccination status,” the CDC said.
CNBC reported:
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Michigan Refuses to Follow Updated CDC Guidance on Shortened Quarantine and Isolation Times | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
Michigan won’t follow the updated CDC Covid guidance on shorter quarantine and isolation times.
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Michigan Refuses to Follow Updated CDC Guidance on Shortened Quarantine and Isolation Times
By Cristina Laila
Published December 30, 2021 at 12:37pm
Michigan won’t follow the updated CDC Covid guidance on shorter quarantine and isolation times.
The CDC on Monday recommended shorter Covid isolation and quarantine time for all Americans.
The CDC made the decision to cut isolation time from 10 to 5 days in an effort to help Joe Biden and make sure there isn’t a total collapse of society under his watch.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Wednesday said the agency’s updated Covid guidance was based on [as much tyranny] as people would tolerate.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) on Thursday said it is sticking to the 10 day quarantine.
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued new guidance for quarantine and isolation that modified or shortened the quarantine and isolation period in some circumstances. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) intends to review the supporting evidence behind this guidance, while awaiting additional information from the CDC, specifically for special populations and in high-risk settings.” the MDHHS said in a statement.
“In the interim, MDHHS will retain current quarantine and isolation guidelines including guidelines for K-12 and congregate care settings. MDHHS will update Michigan’s guidance when additional information becomes available from the CDC.” the department said.
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Germany: 96% of Latest Omicron Patients were FULLY Vaccinated – Only 4% Unvaccinated
By Jim Hoft
Published December 30, 2021 at 12:14pm
A new study in Germany of 4,206 Coronavirus patients found that 4,020 were fully vaccinated individuals.
186 of the Coronavirus patients were unvaccinated.
The Robert Koch Institute released the information Friday.
more…
Germany is 71% vaccinated.
Watch them blame the unvaccinated!
UPDATED - Most of the Patients infected with Omicron Variant in Germany were FULLY Vaccinated | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
UPDATE: The Robert Koch Institute published a corrected report a few days later, saying there were actually 1,097 omicron cases among the unvaccinated, not 186 as originally reported. A new study in Germany of 4,206 Coronavirus patients found that 4,020 were fully vaccinated individuals.
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Germany: 96% of Latest Omicron Patients were FULLY Vaccinated – Only 4% Unvaccinated
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Published December 30, 2021 at 12:14pm
A new study in Germany of 4,206 Coronavirus patients found that 4,020 were fully vaccinated individuals.
186 of the Coronavirus patients were unvaccinated.
The Robert Koch Institute released the information Friday.
more…
Germany is 71% vaccinated.
Watch them blame the unvaccinated!
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France Bans Eating and Drinking at Theaters, Sports Venues and on Public Transit Amid Covid Surge
By Cristina Laila
Published December 30, 2021 at 11:27am
This is totally normal.
France banned eating and drinking at theaters, sports venues and on public transportation amid the latest Omicron surge.
The new Covid restrictions will begin on Monday.
Over the summer French President Emmanuel Macron announced that a Covid passport would be required in order to enter restaurants and theaters.
2022 in France: Fully vaxxed, masked and banned from eating and drinking in public settings.
AP reported:
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France Bans Eating and Drinking at Theaters, Sports Venues and on Public Transit Amid Covid Surge
By Cristina Laila
Published December 30, 2021 at 11:27am
This is totally normal.
France banned eating and drinking at theaters, sports venues and on public transportation amid the latest Omicron surge.
The new Covid restrictions will begin on Monday.
Over the summer French President Emmanuel Macron announced that a Covid passport would be required in order to enter restaurants and theaters.
2022 in France: Fully vaxxed, masked and banned from eating and drinking in public settings.
AP reported:
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OUCH! Radio Host Hugh Hewitt Interviews Fauci, Rattles Off Extensive List of His Failures and Lies, Asks Him to Resign (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt was an early critic of Donald Trump, even insisting the GOP dump Trump at the national convention in Cleveland in 2016.
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OUCH! Radio Host Hugh Hewitt Interviews Fauci, Rattles Off Extensive List of His Failures and Lies, Asks Him to Resign (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Published December 30, 2021 at 9:00am
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt was an early critic of Donald Trump, even insisting the GOP dump Trump at the national convention in Cleveland in 2016.
Hewitt grilled Trump on Islamist terror leaders in 2015 to the delight of Democrats and fellow RINOs. President Trump later laid out the greatest foreign policy successes, including the decimation of ISIS in Syria-Iraq, of any president in a generation.
Since that time Hugh Hewitt has come around and President Trump even sat with him for an interview recently.
Hugh Hewitt also sat down with Dr. Tony Fauci earlier this week. Hewitt destroyed him. After rattling off an extensive list of Fauci’s failures and lies, Hewitt tells him to resign.
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Israel Mulls 'Herd Immunity' Covid Strategy As Global 'Pox Party' Pivot Continues
THURSDAY, DEC 30, 2021 - 08:00 PM
Last week South Africa became the first country to dial back COVID-19 restrictions after it became clear that the Omicron variant was far more mild than other strains, and that it had peaked much sooner than expected.
On Christmas Eve, the government announced that contacts of Covid-positive cases will no longer need to test or self-isolate if they aren't showing symptoms, while those who develop mild symptoms will be required to isolate for eight days, and anyone with severe symptoms will need to isolate for 10 days
Let us remind you that South Africa is roughly 75% unvaccinated.
Three days later, the US CDC made major changes to their Covid isolation mandates - including cutting quarantine from 10 days to 5 days (plus 5 days of masking), and eliminating PCR tests from it's end-of-isolation guidelines. And they swear it isn't because of test-kit shortages and/or their decision not to distribute rapid tests to Americans before the holidays.
Tell us you want everyone to get Covid without telling us you want everyone to get Covid.
As a related aside, informed Zero Hedge reader Doug R. notes regarding the CDC's 'substantial' revision in Omicron cases - where they now say it jumped from 3% infectivity to 58.6% of all cases over the course of two weeks (revised down from an even more implausible 73% they first reported): "Sorry, still not buying it. This still implies a level of infectivity that is hard to believe. My guess is the real starting point was it was already in the range of 10%-20% market share, and the CDC completely missed it. In part because it is so mild, but in larger part because they failed at their job of detecting and tracking. Because they are bad at what they do."
And now, Israel is mulling a new 'herd immunity' policy amid a second day of spiking cases.
According to the Times of Israel:
The plan would mirror Sweden's policy in the early stage of the pandemic - which essentially meant doing nothing to restrict the spread for people who aren't in at-risk groups. Israeli officials estimate that within two weeks, Omicron will account for 90% of Covid-19 cases across the country.
Back to Doug R., he poses the following thought exercise: "If Omicron was the original virus, and behaving this way, how would society have reacted? My guess, very differently to how it is reacting now. No global freakout, lockdowns, and NO treatment with vaccinations. It wouldn’t be necessary. But we are now where we are, which provokes an incredibly strong and odd reaction to something that appears so mild, and may be a free vaccine."
Maybe policymakers are finally catching on? Their corporate media wing seems to have gotten the memo.
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Xi'an Paralyzes By Panic As Millions Struggle To Buy Groceries
THURSDAY, DEC 30, 2021 - 07:20 PM
As the lockdown in Xi'an continues through its second week, 13M residents are getting a taste of what life was like for the millions in Wuhan who suffered through that city's 70+ day lockdown back in the spring of 2020.
Xi'an has counted more than 1,000 cases, with none confirmed to be omicron (China has found some omicron cases in Shanghai and the southern part of the country). As a result, the city has been on total lockdown - with people only allowed to leave once every few days to buy essential goods like groceries.
According to a report in the Caixin business journal, many are struggling to buy groceries as city life grinds to a halt.
Although there have been reports that some hospitals are resuming service for patients who make an appointment.
The outbreak has also impacted some college students who are in the middle of exams. Some have borne the expense of living in hotels while the process is disrupted.
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Xi'an Paralyzes By Panic As Millions Struggle To Buy Groceries
THURSDAY, DEC 30, 2021 - 07:20 PM
As the lockdown in Xi'an continues through its second week, 13M residents are getting a taste of what life was like for the millions in Wuhan who suffered through that city's 70+ day lockdown back in the spring of 2020.
Xi'an has counted more than 1,000 cases, with none confirmed to be omicron (China has found some omicron cases in Shanghai and the southern part of the country). As a result, the city has been on total lockdown - with people only allowed to leave once every few days to buy essential goods like groceries.
According to a report in the Caixin business journal, many are struggling to buy groceries as city life grinds to a halt.
Desperate residents have taken to social media to complain about online food orders - a last resort for many - that have gone undelivered. Local authorities since Tuesday night started mobilizing districts to deliver free food to residents in sealed areas, but a large number of people still face difficulties in procuring daily necessities.
Authorities say the outbreak in Xi'an is still in the "rapid development" stage.
Caixin's report painted a picture of a city in chaos.
Residents with chronic health issues are facing a serious problem: many have lost practically all access to care as resources are diverted to dealing with the COVID outbreak. Many hospitals in the city have stopped accepting new or transferred patients, creating serious bottlenecks to care.
For what it's worth, the Global Times reported that the real problem isn't shortages of food supplies, but a difficulty in the "last mile" delivery that's supposed to bring food products to customers placing orders. In response, officials from Xixian New District said at a press conference on Thursday that they are actively coordinating the supply chain, and that they have also set up 1,603 WeChat groups, covering 195 communities, to supply more than 30 kinds of food and medicine for local residents.
Although there have been reports that some hospitals are resuming service for patients who make an appointment.
The outbreak has also impacted some college students who are in the middle of exams. Some have borne the expense of living in hotels while the process is disrupted.
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COVID & Corrupt Federal Statistics
THURSDAY, DEC 30, 2021 - 07:00 PM
Authored by James Bovard,
Federal agencies don’t count what politicians don’t want to know. President Biden and other Democrats continuously invoke “science and data” to sanctify all their Covid-19 mandates and policies, but the same shenanigans and willful omissions have characterized Covid data.
During his update on his Winter Covid Campaign on Tuesday, President Biden declared, “Almost everyone who has died from COVID-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated.” This was true from the start of the pandemic in early 2020, until the vaccines’ efficacy began failing badly in recent months. Oregon officially classifies roughly a quarter of its Covid fatalities since August as “vaccine breakthrough deaths.” In Illinois, roughly 30 percent of Covid fatalities have occurred among fully vaccinated individuals.
According to the Vermont Department of Health, “Half of the [Covid] deaths in August were breakthrough cases. Almost three-quarters of them in September were,” as well, according to Burlington, Vermont TV station WCAX.
The Biden administration guaranteed that the vast majority of “breakthrough” infections would not be counted when the Centers for Disease Control in May ceased keeping track of “breakthrough” infections unless they resulted in hospitalization or death. Ignoring that data permitted Biden to go on CNN in July and make the ludicrously false assertion: “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” But federal data on fully vaxxed Covid fatalities is far flimsier and less reliable than the numbers compiled by some states. Honestly recognizing the limits of vaccines could be fatal to Biden’s push for compulsory vaccinations.
The same policymakers who claim to be guided by data have little or no idea how many Americans have been hit by Covid. According to the CDC, there have been 51,115,304 Covid cases in America. But a different CDC web page estimates that there had been 146.6 million Covid infections in the US as of October 2, 2021. That CDC analysis estimated that only one in four Covid infections have been reported, which would mean that based on the latest official case numbers, more than 200 million Americans have contracted Covid. For Biden and his fellow policymakers, a potential error of 150 million Covid infections is “close enough for government work.” Relying on the lower number is convenient for policymakers who want to continue ignoring the natural immunity acquired by 199 million Americans who survived Covid infections.
Deceptive federal Covid data is not an anomaly. The same charades permeate the official data guiding both domestic and foreign policies.
Federal education policy has perennially been exempt from the fraud penalties that the Federal Trade Commission inflicts on private corporations. The No Child Left Behind Act, passed in 2002, promised that federal mandates would make all students proficient in reading and math by the year 2014. Almost half the states responded to the law’s perverse incentives by “dumbing down” academic standards, lowering passing scores on tests to avoid harsh federal sanctions. It was obvious within the first year that the law was backfiring, but the feds covered up the catastrophe to permit President George W. Bush and other politicians to continue lying about saving America’s children.
Food stamps have been one of the most popular ways for politicians to prove their love of downtrodden Americans. Liberals perennially claim that the food stamp program has a fraud rate of only one percent. But that is based solely on the number of violators who get caught, and federal rules discourage states (which administer the program) from vigorously pursuing violators. New Mexico Human Services Secretary Sidonie Squier complained in 2013 that the biggest fraud issue in her state was recipients selling their food-stamp Electronic Benefit (EBT) Cards and claiming that they were lost or stolen. Roughly 70 percent of all the EBT cards issued in New Mexico in 2012 were replacement cards. Squier told Albuquerque’s KOB-TV, “We know that there are some people who lose them four, six, or eight times, and it’s pretty suspicious, but you can’t do anything about it based on the federal rules. They want people to have the cards — they want the cards replaced.”
The Peace Corps, one of the most sainted federal agencies, is also guilty of perennially covering up deadly risks to its recruits. The Peace Corps has long acted as if its volunteers’ good intentions are body armor that shield them against all perils. But its basic model – sending inexperienced young college graduates to live and work alone in many of the world’s most dangerous nations – is failing mightily. The Peace Corps routinely buries evidence of rapes suffered by its volunteers. Michael O’Neill, the Peace Corps’ security director from 1995 to 2002, commented, “Nobody wanted to talk about security [for volunteers]. It suppresses the recruitment numbers.” After a 29-year-old volunteer was gang-raped in Bangladesh, Rep. Ted Poe (R-Tx) condemned the agency’s reaction: “For political reasons, the Peace Corps did everything it could to ignore and cover up the dastardly deed, blaming the crime on the victim.” A 2021 USA Today investigation found that the agency continues suppressing evidence even though almost half of the female Peace Corps recruits “who finished service in 2019 were sexually assaulted in some way.” But this horrendous failure rarely shows up in the agency’s endless press release victory proclamations.
Federal statistics cannot raise the dead, but they can make troublesome corpses vanish. The Obama administration vastly increased drone killings of terrorist suspects in many nations and claimed that almost all the victims were bad guys. A Salon analysis, summarizing an NBC News report, noted, “Even while admitting that the identities of many killed by drones were not known, the CIA documents asserted that all those dead were enemy combatants. The logic is twisted: If we kill you, then you were an enemy combatant.” Daniel Hale, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, leaked information revealing that nearly 90% of people who were killed in drone strikes were not the intended targets. Biden’s Justice Department responded by coercing Hale into pleading guilty to “retention and transmission of national security information.”
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the media has portrayed federal officials like Tony Fauci as America’s “best and brightest.” But Washington is full of Towers of Paternalist Babel built on statistical quicksand. Bureaucracies conspire against admitting their failures, and politicians often rig reporting requirements to hide the damage their laws inflict. Anyone who has blind faith in federal data is unfit to judge public policy in the real world.
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CDC Director Admits Latest COVID Restrictions Based On What Government "Thought People Would Be Able To Tolerate"
THURSDAY, DEC 30, 2021 - 02:00 PM
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted Wednesday that the agency’s latest guidance on COVID was based on what the government perceived people would accept.
Appearing on CNN, Walensky addressed the fact that the CDC suddenly updated its guidelines after Joe Biden declared that “there is no federal solution” to the virus.
Restrictions including quarantine times were lessened from ten days to five.
“It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate,” Walensky starkly admitted.
She added, “We really want to make sure we have guidance in this moment where we were going to have a lot of disease that could be adhered to, that people were willing to adhere to, and that spoke to specifically when people were maximally infectious. So it really spoke to both behaviors and to what people were able to do.”
Watch:
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Walensky’s comments dovetail with those of Anthony Fauci, who yesterday (after two years of isolating everyone) admitted that isolation is ‘not good for society.’
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Elsewhere in her interview, Walensky said that the government is considering opening booster shots for 12 to 15 year olds, urging “the first thing to note is to get your children vaccinated.”
“I know that the companies and manufactures are working towards data for under five year olds. That will not be in the months ahead, but we’re working to get there soon,” the CDC head added.
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Full interview for context:
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T-Cells "Minimize" Damage Caused By Omicron, Studies Show
THURSDAY, DEC 30, 2021 - 12:20 PM
Two new studies - one from Erasmus University in the Netherlands and one from the University of Cape Town in South Africa - have just reminded humanity that our antibodies aren't the last line of defense against COVID, and its newest variant, omicron.
Both have confirmed that T-cells, what Bloomberg describes as the body's weapon against every virus-infected cell, have shown a surprising ability to defend against omicron.
The report goes on to explain that T-cells are the reason why mortality hasn't increased alongside the advent of omicron: with or without vaccines, the human body still has a tool in its toolkit to suppress viruses like these. The T-cell's most critical attribute, when it comes to fighting viruses, is that they target the whole of the spike protein that viruses use to bind with human cells. Because of this, mutations that impact the spike protein (omicron was said to have 50 pertinent mutations in that department) won't help it evade the T-cell response.
For their study, the Dutch researchers looked at 60 vaccinated health-care workers and found that while their antibody responses to omicron were lower or nonexistent (compared with the beta or delta), their T cell responses were largely unaltered and still potent, "potentially balancing the lack of neutralizing antibodies in preventing or limiting severe Covid-19," according to the study.
The other study, from the University of Cape Town’s Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, looked at recovered COVID patients, and those who had been vaccinated with the Pfizer or J&J jabs.
While antibodies didn't fare well, they found that 70% to 80% of the T-cell responses were able to suppress omicron.
Vaccines are helpful in that they help induce a T-cell response to the virus, according to the Dutch researchers. Overall, these results demonstrate that vaccination and infection induce a robust CD4 and CD8 T-cell response that largely cross-reacts with omicron, consistent with recent work from our laboratory and others on limited T-cell escape by Beta, Delta and other variants..."
The Dutch summarized the data from their study in a pair of figures, presented below:
Readers can find the Dutch study below courtesy of medrxiv:
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Here's something to think about, dear reader, as the people in charge try to solve a problem with more of the same (ie more bosters for the already-boosted): immune protection has several layers. While antibodies block infection, T-cells kill infected cells, preventing the virus from spreading and causing more damage. Wendy Burgens, one of the authors of the University of Cape Town study, wrote on her Twitter account Virus Monologues. "They can’t prevent you from getting infected, but they can minimize the damage that comes afterwards," she said.
That's something to keep in mind.
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Facebook Fact-Checking Group Apologizes For Wrongly Flagging Article Questioning Face Masks In Schools
THURSDAY, DEC 30, 2021 - 12:00 PM
Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times,
A Facebook fact-checking group on Tuesday admitted that it had incorrectly flagged an article by Reason magazine that questioned whether or not wearing face masks in schools can limit outbreaks of COVID-19.
Science Feedback, a fact-checking organization partnered with Facebook, flagged a Reason article on Facebook written by Robby Soave and titled “The Study That Convinced the CDC To Support Mask Mandates in Schools Is Junk Science.”
The organization had said the article contained “false information, checked by independent fact-checkers” and its writer received a disclaimer noting that “pages and websites that repeatedly publish or share false news will see their overall distribution reduced and be restricted in other ways,” according to Reason.
Soave said the article contained information regarding several other subjects too but that Facebook had “made matters fairly clear that the fact-checkers were taking issue with the part about masks in schools.”
The Reason senior editor noted that when people attempted to share the article on Facebook, they were greeted with a warning message which redirected them to an article by Science Feedback. That article states that “masking can help limit transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in schools” and that it is inaccurate to say that “there’s no science behind masks on kids.”
“Since I had never made this claim, it was odd to see it fact-checked. Indeed, the purveyor of false information here was Science Feedback, which had given people the erroneous impression that my article said something other than what I had actually written,” Soave wrote, noting that the source for his article was a piece published by The Atlantic’s David Zweig titled “The CDC’s Flawed Case for Wearing Masks in School.”
The Atlantic article, published earlier this month, had suggested that the CDC’s claims that schools without mask mandates have triple the risk of COVID outbreaks was based on “very shaky science.”
The journalist also noted that The Atlantic article has not received the same “false information” label that his had when he tried sharing it on Facebook.
Students wearing face masks are seen inside a classroom during a regime-organized media tour at a high school as more students returned to campus following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shanghai, China, May 7, 2020. (Aly Song/Reuters)
Soave then reached out to both Facebook and Science Feedback seeking a correction or clarification and the fact-checking organization admitted that it had mistakenly flagged his article and agreed to remove the “false information” label.
The Reason senior editor asked Facebook for further details as to why his article was flagged but the social media giant appeared to pass the blame onto the fact-checking organization.
The Epoch Times has contacted Science Feedback for comment.
Schoolchildren wearing face masks listen to a teacher at a school in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Feb. 15, 2021. (Vano Shlamov /AFP via Getty Images)
Back in June Sean Davis, co-founder of the Federalist, told The Epoch Times that Big Tech companies such as Facebook are outsourcing censorship through “dishonest” fact check firms.
Davis warned that some of those fact-checking organizations are “run by college kids” who have the power to “shut down information” under the pretense of trying to stop the spread of false information and thus serve as nothing more than an “attempt to suppress narratives that are inconvenient to Big Tech.”
Facebook says its independent fact-checking organizations are International Fact-Checking Network certified that identify and review misinformation across its sites by “interviewing primary sources, consulting public data, and conducting analyses of media, including photos and video.”
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As US COVID Cases Hit Record High, CDC Admits Hospitalizations & Deaths Remain "Comparatively Low"
THURSDAY, DEC 30, 2021 - 11:25 AM
Authored by Isabel van Brugen via The Epoch Times,
New COVID-19 cases in the United States have soared to their highest level on record, as the Omicron coronavirus variant is estimated to have taken over the virus’s Delta variant as the most prevalent strain contributing to new COVID-19 infections.
The United States is seeing over 265,000 new COVID-19 infections per day on average, according to data kept by Johns Hopkins University, surpassing a prior record of 250,000 daily cases set in mid-January.
The latest wave of infections is largely being fueled by the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the strain accounts for 58.6 percent of all strains actively circulating in the United States as of Dec. 25, up from 22.5 percent for the week ending on Dec. 18.
CDC officials have said they don’t yet have estimates of how many hospitalizations or deaths out of the total are due to the high transmissible Omicron variant.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Wednesday told reporters that while some data from other countries showed less severe disease with the Omicron variant, it was too early to gauge the impact across the United States, particularly given its uneven vaccination rates.
Walensky noted that while the seven-day daily average of positive cases is up 60 percent over the previous week, the hospitalization rate for the same period is up only 14 percent, to about 9,000 per day. Deaths were down about 7 percent to 1,100 per day, she said.
Domestic flights in the United States have taken a hit due to staffing issues amid rising COVID-19 cases, with flight cancellations continuing to cause holiday travel chaos nationwide. By mid-afternoon on Wednesday, more than 900 flights within, into, or out of the United States were canceled.
The CDC also said it was monitoring 86 cruise ships that have reported COVID-19 cases.
The agency meanwhile issued new guidance this week to cut its recommended isolation time for infected Americans in half—from 10 days to five if they are asymptomatic.
Walensky acknowledged that although transmission can occur after the fifth day of isolation, the CDC made the decision to reduce its recommended isolation time for infected Americans because it anticipates a “really large” number of cases due to the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus.
“We also want to make sure that we keep the critical functions of society open and operating. We started to see challenges with that, with airline flights and other areas,” the CDC director explained.
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Britain Erects Field Hospitals As Daily World COVID Cases Top 1 Million For 3rd Straight Day
THURSDAY, DEC 30, 2021 - 10:28 AM
With New Year's Eve right around the corner, it seems 2021 is closing much like last year: with markets and COVID case tallies at record highs.
The US set a record with 488K new cases on Wednesday, just shy of the half-a-million mark. It's more than double the worst days from last winter (although we didn't have take-home rapid tests last winter). Wednesday’s 7-day average of new daily cases, 301K, was also a record, compared with 267K the day before.
Globally, the world topped 1 million cases for the third day in a row, with cases soaring 32% to 1.73M on Wednesday. As authorities revive travel restrictions, Cathay Pacific Airways is planning to scrap Hong Kong flights as Hong Kong tightens its rules.
The WHO warned this week about a "tsunami" of omicron and delta cases, though many observers might surmise that the surge has already landed.
Germany put Italy, Canada and Malta on its high-risk list, meaning travelers from those countries need to quarantine for 10 days unless they’re vaccinated.
Still, some government are loosening their restrictions because citizens are expressing their discontent and exhaustion with the status quo. Italy is dialing back its COVID curbs as authorities adjust to the fact that hospitalizations and deaths haven't risen commensurately with the new case tallies.
Australia is also dialing back its curbs as violence explodes in the capitol: Australia's former parliament building in the capital Canberra was briefly set alight on Thursday by protesters during a demonstration for Aboriginal sovereignty. Well, authorities must be relieved that they're not protesting the lockdowns anymore.
Meanwhile, more evidence is emerging that omicron may be less dangerous, particularly in vaccinated people, as virus deaths in the US decline.
A Johnson & Johnson booster shot provided strong protection against the Omicron variant, greatly reducing the risk of hospitalization, according to a clinical trial in South Africa.
That study used data from 69K boosted health care workers with a corresponding group of unvaccinated South Africans, found that two shots of the vaccine reduced the risk of hospitalization from Omicron by about 85%. In comparison, another study in South Africa found that two shots of the Pfizer jab reduced the risk of hospitalization by about 70%, along with a handful of other studies.
Over in the UK, Britain’s NHS "is now on a war footing," one of its top medical officials warned on Thursday. He said they would start erecting field hospitals to absorb a feared surge in hospitalizations as cases continue to climb. In a statement, the service outlined plans for temporary wards in England, called "Nightingale hubs" in response to the surge in omicron cases.
Britain Erects Field Hospitals As Daily World COVID Cases Top 1 Million For 3rd Straight Day
THURSDAY, DEC 30, 2021 - 10:28 AM
With New Year's Eve right around the corner, it seems 2021 is closing much like last year: with markets and COVID case tallies at record highs.
The US set a record with 488K new cases on Wednesday, just shy of the half-a-million mark. It's more than double the worst days from last winter (although we didn't have take-home rapid tests last winter). Wednesday’s 7-day average of new daily cases, 301K, was also a record, compared with 267K the day before.
Globally, the world topped 1 million cases for the third day in a row, with cases soaring 32% to 1.73M on Wednesday. As authorities revive travel restrictions, Cathay Pacific Airways is planning to scrap Hong Kong flights as Hong Kong tightens its rules.
The WHO warned this week about a "tsunami" of omicron and delta cases, though many observers might surmise that the surge has already landed.
Germany put Italy, Canada and Malta on its high-risk list, meaning travelers from those countries need to quarantine for 10 days unless they’re vaccinated.
Still, some government are loosening their restrictions because citizens are expressing their discontent and exhaustion with the status quo. Italy is dialing back its COVID curbs as authorities adjust to the fact that hospitalizations and deaths haven't risen commensurately with the new case tallies.
Australia is also dialing back its curbs as violence explodes in the capitol: Australia's former parliament building in the capital Canberra was briefly set alight on Thursday by protesters during a demonstration for Aboriginal sovereignty. Well, authorities must be relieved that they're not protesting the lockdowns anymore.
Meanwhile, more evidence is emerging that omicron may be less dangerous, particularly in vaccinated people, as virus deaths in the US decline.
A Johnson & Johnson booster shot provided strong protection against the Omicron variant, greatly reducing the risk of hospitalization, according to a clinical trial in South Africa.
That study used data from 69K boosted health care workers with a corresponding group of unvaccinated South Africans, found that two shots of the vaccine reduced the risk of hospitalization from Omicron by about 85%. In comparison, another study in South Africa found that two shots of the Pfizer jab reduced the risk of hospitalization by about 70%, along with a handful of other studies.
Over in the UK, Britain’s NHS "is now on a war footing," one of its top medical officials warned on Thursday. He said they would start erecting field hospitals to absorb a feared surge in hospitalizations as cases continue to climb. In a statement, the service outlined plans for temporary wards in England, called "Nightingale hubs" in response to the surge in omicron cases.
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Joe Biden, American voters on different pages when it comes to COVID
New Rasmussen poll: voters increasingly fear worst of pandemic isn’t over but they’re ready to move on from restrictions any way
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Joe Biden, American voters on different pages when it comes to COVID
New Rasmussen poll: voters increasingly fear worst of pandemic isn’t over but they’re ready to move on from restrictions any way
Updated: December 30, 2021 - 11:10pm
As the pandemic enters its third year in the midst of another soaring outbreak, the American people and their president are on different pages of this non-fiction horror story.
Joe Biden prematurely declared the virus defeated in July, but Americans are increasingly convinced the worst of a pandemic that has already killed 800,000 citizens lies ahead.
Biden and his COVID sidekick, Dr. Anthony Fauci, also are preaching to cancel indoor New Year’s parties and to mask up as the Omicron variant speeds across the country on the same path as its Delta variant predecessor a few months back.
But the American people are signaling they want to move on from such restrictions, returning to life as normal while cognizant of the risks.
In other words, they’re tired of the big government lockdowns and flip-flopping advice and increasingly trust themselves to navigate the peril that lies ahead.
Those are the messages inherent in the latest polling from Scott Rasmussen unveiled this week, which found just 27% of voters now believe that the worst of the pandemic is behind us. The December figure is a stunning 29-point decline from Americans' peak optimism in May, Rasmussen said.
Nearly half of America – 46% to be exact -- now believes COVID-19’s worst wrath is yet to come.
Despite the pessimism, just 28% of voters want to see stricter lockdowns imposed, 53% are comfortable going mask-less in a public setting such as a restaurant and 74% declare they are close to resuming their normal life.
Likewise, more Americans are now worried about government imposing unnecessary restrictions (47%) than catching the deadly virus (43%.)
The signs that Americans are itching to return to normalcy and live with a virus that has proven far more persistent than medical experts predicted is apparent throughout Rasmussen’s poll results.
Nearly 3 in 5 voters believe the reluctance of some vaccinated voters to re-engage in social activities is hurting the economy.
“By a 49% to 30% margin, voters believe that President Biden and other leaders should encourage vaccinated Americans to resume a normal social routine more fully,” Rasmussen said.
The disconnect between Americans’ expectations and the federal government’s actions are taking a toll on Biden’s popularity, which began the year in the 50s and has continually sunk to a new low of 41% in December, Rasmussen said.
Rep. Byron Donalds, a freshman Republican from Florida, told Just the News that Americans’ frustrations emanate from their belief that a Washington-based solution to COVID – symbolized by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s frequent media appearances -- has been more about politics than science.
“You have too many people in the National Institute of Health and this quote, unquote, science apparatus that are political,” Donald said during a recent interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast. “They're looking to, and taking their cues, from political people. You know, I mean, Fauci is probably the poster child for this.”
Fauci dismisses such criticism, saying recently he is the representative of science.
But Donalds believes people are ready to be trusted to make their own informed decisions.
“Instead of having just this one size fits all approach that big science follows, we have to get to the point where people are making decisions based upon the information in front of them,” he said. “There's multiple pathways for people to get through a pandemic, and manage a pandemic.”
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., the outgoing chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, suggested Americans’ sentiments likely explain why Biden this week changed his messaging and declared there isn’t a federal solution to COVID.
“They found out it is a lot more difficult to govern than to take potshots at it,” he said on Fox News this week. “….It’s very enlightening.”
“They should probably leave it to the states and the medical officers there. The states are closer to the people,” he added.
It isn’t just conservatives advocating for this position. The liberal New York Times editorial page recently published an editorial calling on Washington to change its posture from defeating the virus to learning to live with it.
“Nearly two years into the pandemic, it is clear that the coronavirus is not going to disappear anytime soon,” the newspaper declared. “Surges will happen, variants of concern will pop up and mitigation strategies will need to evolve. Yet too many Americans are still paralyzed with doubt and fear over each new uncertainty, as trust in government and other institutions to manage the virus ranges from shaky to nonexistent.
“It is past time to ask ourselves, as another Covid winter begins, if we have to keep living like this: Anxious over the unknown, worried about large indoor gatherings, tense at every bit of virus news and frustrated and at times contemptuous of fellow Americans who have a dramatically different sense of acceptable risk.”
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Healthcare worker vaccine mandate reinstated in half of U.S.
Facilities will be forced to have 100% of staff vaccinated by Jan. 27, 2022.
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Healthcare worker vaccine mandate reinstated in half of U.S.
Facilities will be forced to have 100% of staff vaccinated by Jan. 27, 2022.
Updated: December 30, 2021 - 4:10pm
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday reversed on a previous decision, and will now mandate health care workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine within the next month in half of the nation where the mandate has not been put on hold by the court.
The new CMS rule reverses a decision made on Nov. 5 that suspended the mandate, making it dependent on the future of two cases, State of Louisiana et al v. Xavier Becerra, Sec. of HHS, et al and Joseph Biden, President of U.S., et al v. Missouri, et al. Half of all U.S. states joined in these lawsuits to stop the federal vaccine requirement for health care employees. The Supreme Court combined the two and will hear arguments next week.
Facilities in states not part of the pending case will be forced to have 100% of staff vaccinated by Jan. 27, 2022. If a health care center has a compliance rate of more than 80% and plans to reach a 100% rate within 60 days, then the facility will not be "subject to additional enforcement action." Depending on the rate of vaccination, enforcement mechanisms include "plans of correction, civil monetary penalties, denial of payment, termination, etc."
Workers must receive a second dose by Feb. 28, the memo states. All employees must receive the vaccine "regardless" of their job responsibilities or the amount of time they are in contact with patients.
Health care employees affected by the new rule are allowed to opt-out of the vaccine mandate, and receive other "accommodations" if they have a "disability or sincerely held religious beliefs, practices, or observations."
Centers that do not comply are at risk of losing federal Medicare or Medicaid funding.
The CMS mandate affects health care workers in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
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Hopeful sign? South Africa says death toll 'extremely low' after Omicron wave
"The gap between cases, admissions and deaths continues to widen," a South African official said.
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Hopeful sign? South Africa says death toll 'extremely low' after Omicron wave
"The gap between cases, admissions and deaths continues to widen," a South African official said.
Updated: December 30, 2021 - 11:21pm
South Africa is nearing the end of its fourth COVID-19 wave without seeing as many deaths as previous waves, according to a government statement Wednesday.
"Hospitalisations and deaths are lower than the second and third wave," Premier of Western Cape Alan Winde said. The COVID variant omicron was discovered in South Africa last month, greatly contributing to the fourth wave. While cases are now declining, Winde said, “the gap between cases, admissions and deaths continues to widen during the fourth wave."
Fareed Abdullah of the South African Medical Research Council told The New York Times: "The speed with which the Omicron-driven fourth wave rose, peaked and then declined has been staggering."
"Peak in four weeks and precipitous decline in another two. This Omicron wave is over in the city of Tshwane. It was a flash flood more than a wave," he said.
The high of South Africa's most recent wave appears to have occurred the week of Dec. 13. with nearly 163,000 cases, while the wave's peak death toll seems to have occurred the week of Dec. 20 with 428 deaths, according to World Health Organization data.
This sharply contrasts with previous South African waves. For example, during the third wave there, nearly 133,000 people were diagnosed with COVID the week of July 5, and more than 2,800 people died the week of July 19.
"While the case numbers and test positivity rate during the fourth wave have exceeded previous waves, admissions are below the peak of both the second and the third wave and deaths remain extremely low, in line with previous interwave periods. There is therefore a widening gap between these metrics, pointing to less severe disease during the fourth wave," Winde said.
The South African government is still encouraging vaccinations, and 92% of new COVID deaths occurred amongst those who were not fully vaccinated.
White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and Centers of Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Rochelle Walensky admitted on Wednesday during a COVID press briefing that the new variant seems milder.