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Biden's WH calls for a 4th COVID jab; what? a 4th when the 3rd booster FAILS with negative efficacy? where is evidence Mr. POTUS? Has the White House gone nuts? Fire Ashish Jha & Fauci!!! CLUELESS!

Why a 2nd booster shot? Is Fauci insane? I thought he was but now know he is, for there is no evidence for this; the current vaccines do not protect the upper airways and driving variants, severity

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Biden's WH calls for a 4th COVID jab; what? a 4th when the 3rd booster FAILS with negative efficacy? where is evidence Mr. POTUS? Has the White House gone nuts? Fire Ashish Jha & Fauci!!! CLUELESS!
Why a 2nd booster shot? Is Fauci insane? I thought he was but now know he is, for there is no evidence for this; the current vaccines do not protect the upper airways and driving variants, severity
Dr. Paul Alexander
17 hr ago

Say NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! No evidence for this, say NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fear porn. That is all it is. Yes, BA.5 is a problem but for the vaccinated. It is the vaccinated that is in trouble due to BA.5 that the vaccine itself due to selection pressure and non-neutralizing antibodies, caused this and more such variants to come. In fact, we predict a severe virulent lethal variant to emerge due to the vaccine.

Where is the data for a 4th shot, a 2nd booster? Where? If something is not working, you do not just do more of it so that it looks like you are doing something. They did same with the failed lockdowns, they did more of it, they hardened it even knowing it was killing people. Same is being done with these injections. At this point, there is no data, no evidence to support these vaccines and the vaccine MUST be stopped.

Moreover, if they went and brought a bi-valent shot as they say in the fall/winter with a Wuhan and omicron spike, this will be even more disastrous for

1) you would be vaccinating into a pandemic a second time with massive infectious pressure of circulating virus

2) you will be again using the failed Wuhan strain that is long gone (a year now it is gone) and not circulating so original antigenic sin will be at play and you will be pressuring the spike antigen driving variants again; the omicron sub-variant BA.5 will likely be gone and displaced and again, you will be vaccinating with a vaccine and content that will mismatch the dominant future variant; antibodies will be to the existing sub-variants when a new variant will likely be dominant; again, with mass vaccination into an ongoing pandemic, you will be driving mounting sub-optimal population immune pressure (with non-neutralizing vaccinal antibodies) as there is concurrent massive infectious pressure. The vaccinal antibodies will be non-neutralizing when they do not match the prevailing variant/clade. Natural selection will play a huge role and the variants that are hardiest and fittest and infectious and which can overcome this sub-optimal non-neutralizing pressure will surmount the vaccinal pressure and become enriched in the environment and become the new dominant, INFECTIOUS variant, and potentially a lethal one.

The FDA’s credibility is now zero! Absolutely zero! Corrupted. Inept. Evidence based medicine (EBM) is also dead. Corrupted. It killed itself over COVID’s grant money. Sold itself out, sadly as I know many of these people and prior to COVID, I thought were principled. Academic research medicine is also dead. I just cannot believe how scientists have stood silent and in many cases joined on in the lies and fraud of COVID, the lockdowns, and this fraud dangerous COVID vaccine. Academic publishing is also dead. Journal editors have zero credibility as corrupted and politicized and biased. They all died over COVID. Over grant money. Yes, they sold us all out.

Our medical doctors are a major part if not the major part with the fraud corrupted disaster of COVID and the response. Of that sordid cabal who sold us out. Doctors should be fired, stripped of licenses, and hang their heads in shame, would be remembered in history for the cowards, the pusillanimous cowards and sell outs they are and were, for going along when they knew and know better. Why? For money, for salary, for grants, for job, when they helped governments enact policies that fired good healthy people and many people and children took their lives in this. They were so destroyed by the losses and the lockdown lunacy and school closures, business closures.

Now, do not forget Gruber and Kraus resigned from the FDA over the political pressure from the White House over boosters.

SOURCE: Two senior FDA officials resign over Biden administration booster shot plan

There is absolutely no basis, no sound justification for a 2nd booster (4th shot). None, and the Biden’s WH knows this but is complicit with the corrupted media in running fear porn stories daily on omicron BA.5 variant. They fail to tell you that it is not the virus but that it is the vaccine that is causing the variants. These COVID injections are non-sterilizing and do not stop transmission and this is critical. They are also harmful. Altarawneh et al.’s study in Qatar below shows us evidence that the boosters have failed e.g. 3rd shot and thus why the need for a 4th when it is likely any antibody protection (if there is any) will wane in a matter of days to a week.

Biden and his White House actually have no data, zero, with which to support a 4th shot. Moreover, these inept NIH and CDC and NIAID and Bourla and Bancel do not seem to understand that the more you vaccinate with a sub-optimal vaccine that they brought, that induces non-neutralizing antibodies, the more you drive selection pressure and infectious variants to emerge. Or do they understand this and are doing this deliberately? I think the latter.

Importantly, the 4th shot will still be based on the initial Wuhan strain that does not hit the omicron sub-variant (antibody dependent enhancement of infection (ADEI), antibody dependent enhancement of disease (ADED) and original antigenic sin (OAS), I call mortal antigenic sin (MAS) all playing a role. This COVID vaccine cannot work and there will be viral immune escape. The vaccinal antibodies from the COVID injections are non-neutralizing and does not sterilize the virus. As said, Original antigenic sin (OAS) will be at play here and the immune response will be to the initial priming, imprinting, prejudicing which is to the Wuhan strain, with no new immune learning to the confronted variant/strain. Thus there will be viral immune escape and there will be as we see now, selection pressure on the spike that drives infectious variant one after the other. As we see, there is antibody dependent enhancement of infection (ADEI). So what is the basis for this 4th shot? Why continue with this vaccine when it is clearly ineffective and not properly safe?

Is this to sell vaccine and get rid of already manufactured vaccine? You do not impose a 4th shot so as to use up the vaccine that is in storage (so it will not expire on your hands), that is stockpiled and no one is taking. You have limited uptake so you are seeking ways to mandate it and force it? This is obscene, for you have no data to support the 4th dose yet you want to approve it to use up your stockpile? You cannot do that without proper trustworthy data and evidence. You have failed to make your case POTUS Biden, and thus this is outrageous. Fauci and Ashish Jha are misleading you and placing you in a terrible situation for a 4th shot will fail and actually cause morbidity and mortality in Americans.

This vaccine does not eliminate the virus and does not stop transmission. It does not work, you will never get to population herd immunity if you cannot cut the chain of transmission. This vaccine does not cut the chain of transmission.

SOURCE:
4th Booster Shot? White House Medical Adviser Dr Fauci Says May Be Needed

Calls for 4th dose of COVID-19 vaccine to protect health-care system

Summer has just begun and already there are signs we may be seeing a new wave of COVID-19 cases. This is prompting calls for fourth doses of the vaccine. Caryn Lieberman reports.

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SOURCE:
White House Urges Caution on COVID Variants, Pushes Boosters

Key statements in the Fauci article:

"Immunity wanes, so it is critical to stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines," he said.

All Americans age 5 and older should get a booster five months after their initial primary series, according to the CDC, and those age 50 and older — or those who are immunocompromised — should get a second booster four months after their first. According to the CDC, tens of millions of eligible Americans haven't received their first booster, and of those older than 50 who got their first booster, only 28% have received their second.

"If you're over 50 and you haven't gotten the shot this year, you should go get a shot," said White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha. "It's going to save your life."

So let us look at some evidence by examining the recent Altarawneh et al. Qatar study to help remind POTUS Biden and the two inept technocrats Fauci and Ashish Jha that the COVID injection fails in the 2nd and 3rd (1st booster) shot and as such, why would they think it will be effective for the 2nd booster (4th shot)?

SOURCE:
Altarawneh et al.; Effects of Previous Infection and Vaccination on Symptomatic Omicron Infections

For one, we see the potency of natural immunity from Figure 3 in terms of the protection above vaccinal immunity. We see below in Figure 3 that the mRNA vaccines are (both Pfizer and Moderna) out performed by natural exposure immunity in terms of offering protection. A key to me is that the natural exposure immunity declines much slower than vaccinal immunity and the data shows this clearly.

“Conducted a national, matched, test-negative, case–control study in Qatar from December 23, 2021, through February 21, 2022, to evaluate the effectiveness of vaccination with BNT162b2 (Pfizer–BioNTech) or mRNA-1273 (Moderna), natural immunity due to previous infection with variants other than omicron, and hybrid immunity (previous infection and vaccination) against symptomatic omicron infection and against severe, critical, or fatal coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).”

Key Figure 3 (Pfizer (A) and Moderna (B)):

Figure 3 A Pfizer

Prior infection, protection ranges from 65.7% (4-6 months) to 54.9 >12 months out.

2 dose: protection ranges from 40.7% 14 days to 3 months to -3.4 at > 6 months (falls below 0)

3)3 doses: protection ranges from 58.9 to 44.7

Figure 3 B (Moderna)

Prior infection, protection ranges from 75.7% (4-6 months) to 53.5 >12 months out.

2 dose: protection ranges from 41.5% 14 days to 3 months to -10.3 at > 6 months (falls below 0)

3)3 doses: protection ranges from 57.2 to 41.2

6 months post shot for either mRNA vaccine there is negative effectiveness. We see that the booster for both vaccines, raise the protection above 50% yet at >1 month it falls to 44.7 and 41.2 respectively for Pfizer and Moderna. We see on the other hand, that natural exposure immunity is continuous and stays above 50% even at 12 months onwards.

Authors wrote:

“The analysis of the effectiveness of previous infection, two-dose vaccination, and three-dose vaccination as a function of time since the immunologic event (previous infection or vaccination) showed rapidly waning vaccine protection after the second and third doses but slowly waning protection from previous infection (Figure 3).”



Figure 4 (Moderna):



Authors wrote stunningly:

“The protection conferred by hybrid immunity of previous infection and two-dose vaccination was similar to that of previous infection alone, at approximately 50%, which suggests that this protection originated from the previous infection and not from vaccination. This finding is also explained by the short-lived protection of primary-series vaccination against omicron infections.”

Prior pre-print:

Effect of prior infection, vaccination, and hybrid immunity against symptomatic BA.1 and BA.2 Omicron infections and severe COVID-19 in Qatar

BACKGROUND Protection offered by five different forms of immunity, combining natural and vaccine immunity, was investigated against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron symptomatic BA.1 infection, symptomatic BA.2 infection, BA.1 hospitalization and death, and BA.2 hospitalization and death, in Qatar, between...

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Makary wrote: “Natural immunity wins again,” Dr. Martin Adel Makary, a public policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University, wrote on Twitter, referring to the Israeli study.

“Among persons who had been previously infected with SARS-CoV-2, protection against reinfection decreased as the time increased,” the authors concluded, “however, this protection was higher” than protection conferred in the same time interval through two doses of the vaccine.”

link: Vaccination Increases Risk of COVID-19 Infection, But Infection Without Vaccination Gives Immunity: Study By Marina Zhang — rupreparing
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[Heliobas Disciple]

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Geert Vanden Boscche, "Wave of the Variants", the surge in need for rapid antibody testing (SHORT)
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Premiered Jul 12, 2022
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In this talk, hosted by Assaya's Chief Science Officer (CSO) Clas Sivertsen, Geert explains why he predicts that instead of generating herd immunity, C-19 mass vaccination triggers a chain reaction of new pandemics and epidemics with major impact on global health. Geert explains the mechanism of Infection Enhancing Antibodies (IEAs), virulence, trans-infection, and why he thinks that we will see a massive wave of casualties that will ramp up very quickly as new variants are selected for after enormous evolutionary pressure by sub-optimal non-sterilizing monovalent vaccines where the target epitope is no longer in circulation. He explains why it appears to be preventing infection in lung epithelial cells which over time, will cause mass casualties as new variants emerge. Daniel O'Connor from TrialSiteNews refers to a recent study of UK data, which confirms that the signs of Geert's predictions might have already started to present themselves. The panel is joined by Alexandra (Sasha) Latypova, who is a retired Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) founder. She has volunteered her time to study VAERS data, and is advising various individuals and organizations with her expertise.

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

BA.2.75 COVID variant is spreading in the Bay Area. Can it evade immunity?

The omicron coronavirus strain continues to spawn highly infectious subvariants, and the...

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BA.2.75 COVID variant is spreading in the Bay Area. Can it evade immunity?
Kellie Hwang
July 12, 2022 7:11 p.m.

The omicron coronavirus strain continues to spawn highly infectious subvariants, and the latest one gaining ground, known as BA.2.75, has already shown up in the Bay Area.

While BA.5 is currently the dominant subvariant worldwide, BA.2.75 has turned up in at least a dozen countries since it was first detected in May in India, where it is driving a new surge.

Seven cases have been recorded in the U.S. - two in California and one each in Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Texas and Washington.

Both California cases were detected in Bay Area wastewater sampling in mid-June - though since genetic sequencing is limited, experts say it is likely far more widespread.

“We don’t sequence all the samples and there is a lag between when you identify a variant and when someone actually has it first diagnosed,” wrote UCSF infectious disease expert Peter Chin-Hong in an email. “What this means, including the fact that it is in wastewater, suggests that there are likely many more cases in California and in the U.S. in general.”

Here’s what we know so far about the subvariant.

Why is this subvariant concerning?

Research into BA.2.75 is still ongoing, but it appears to have a large number of mutations that could make the subvariant more infectious and evade prior immunity from vaccines and infection. Experts say it shares many of the same mutations as BA.4 and BA.5, but it has at least nine unique mutations on the spike protein.

Those mutations are the main thing that distinguish BA.2.75 from previous variants, Chin-Hong said, with the most concerning ones influencing immune escape and receptor binding.

“Immune escape” means the subvariant is able to get around the front-line antibody defenses learned by the body after vaccination or a previous infection - though other sorts of blood cells retain their ability to combat coronaviruses to prevent serious illness.

“That means it can be another escape artist…like BA.2 and cause another round of reinfections and infections for first timers,” Chin-Hong wrote in an email.

However, he said it’s still unknown if BA.2.75 is more transmissible or will cause more severe disease.

How worried should we be about this subvariant?

While health officials are monitoring BA.2.75 carefully, no evidence so far indicates that it poses any more of a threat than the original omicron variant, experts say.

And though the subvariant may evade prior immunity better, it doesn’t render vaccines ineffective, said Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes, chief of the division of infectious diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, in an interview on Monday with public radio program “The World”

“The antibodies that the vaccines are generating may not be preventing infection, but they're preventing severe disease,” he said.

Additionally, evidence so far has shown that vaccinated people, particularly those with at least one booster dose, have at least a 20-fold lower risk of hospitalizations and deaths from omicron compared to unvaccinated individuals, he said.

“I don’t think people need to be any more concerned about these new variants than they should be about omicron in general,” Kuritzkes said. “It’s important that people continue to take reasonable measures to safeguard themselves despite the changing requirements.”

He said he would continue to wear a mask on airplanes and other public transportation, and in crowded indoor settings.

Will BA.2.75 overtake BA.5?

We don’t know yet how BA.2.75 will stand up against BA.5, and “whether there will be a hostile takeover,” Chin-Hong said.

“It may well be a battle of BA2.75 versus BA.5, but they haven’t been given a chance yet to directly compete,” he said. “For all we know, BA.2.75 may stay mainly local to India like the California (variant) did for us, or lambda and mu did for South America. Only time will tell.”

Where did the nickname ‘centaurus’ come from?

The origin of the nickname “centaurus,” which has popped up in some references to BA.2.75, is not entirely clear and may have started as a joke on social media - but it’s not an official designation by the World Health Organization in the way that other variants (omicron, delta, alpha, etc.) have been named.

At the end of May 2021, the WHO announced a COVID variant naming system using Greek alphabet letters to make it easier to report, and eliminate any stigma associated with where the variants were first detected.

However, subvariants of named variants like omicron, including BA.2.75, aren’t given their own Greek letter designations.

The World Health Organization has classified BA.2.75 in a new category with a rather lengthy name: “variant of concern lineage under Omicron subvariants under monitoring.”

This new designation falls under the established umbrella category of “variants of concern,” which includes the most-concerning strains: those associated with higher transmissibility, more severe disease or greater ability to thwart public health measures including vaccines. Variants of concern are a step up from “variants of interest,” and have included alpha, beta, gamma, delta and omicron.

The WHO says it is singling out certain omicron subvariants because they may need “prioritized attention in monitoring” compared to other circulating strains.

If a particular lineage is shown to have distinct characteristics from the original variant of concern, the WHO says it may consider giving it a separate label.
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[Heliobas Disciple]

Virus experts warn 'Centaurus' BA2.75 variant could replace Omicron

Officially named BA.2.75, the sub-variant is being monitored by the World Health Organisation with experts warning it could be more transmissible than Omicron.

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Virus experts warn the mutated 'Centaurus' BA.2.75 variant has arrived in Australia and could take over from Omicron after ripping through India
By Danyal Hussain For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 21:27 EDT, 11 July 2022 | Updated: 02:27 EDT, 12 July 2022

• The 'Centaurus' sub-variant, officially named BA.2.75, has spread through India
• BA.2.75 has already been detected in Australia, as well as several other countries
• Virologists fear the sub-variant could fuel a new wave of cases around the world
• Sub-variant is able to evade vaccine protection and the WHO is monitoring cases

A new Covid sub-variant nicknamed Centaurus has made its way to Australia after ripping through India as health experts fear a similar situation could be on the way for us.

Officially named BA.2.75, the sub-variant is being monitored by the World Health Organisation with experts warning it could be more transmissible than Omicron.

Centaurus is a mutation of Omicron BA.2, which was the variant that led to a huge number of cases in Australia over the summer.

The WHO has not yet named Centaurus a variant of concern, but virologists fear it could fuel a new wave of cases around the world.

They say the sub-variant is able to evade vaccine protection, with sequencing showing it has already spread to Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Israel, India and the US.

'Centaurus' was first found in India, causing a surge in cases before spreading across the world.

'Surveillance-minded folks – worth keeping a close eye on BA.2.75 – lots of spike mutations, probable second generation variant, apparent rapid growth and wide geographical spread,' virologist Tom Peacock from Imperial College London tweeted.

'None of these individually really flag as that worrying but all appearing together at once is another matter.'

Molecular biologist Ulrich Elling also warned that the sub-variant could evade immunity.

'The number of eight additional mutations in BA.2.75 is remarkable,' he tweeted.

'Delta had eight in spike in total. Three mutations can make a huge difference (BA.5). Thus the 11 mutations distinct between BA.5 and BA.2.75 could allow for yet another wave as BA.5 immunity might not protect.'


Epidemiologist and Professor Catherine Bennett told Daily Mail Australia it was 'too early to tell' how dangerous Centauris could be - but warned more sub-variants being present would weaken immunity in the community.

'It's too early to really tell. At the moment, there are low levels but a trend we saw in Australia was low levels of BA.4 and BA.5 and then they exploded,' she said.

'The more sub-variants we have, the greater the risk of re-infection. Everyone is game. If you recover from one variant but then come across a different one you could get it again.

'Each sub variant is a bit different and each one that comes along weakens our immunity.

'With this sub-variant, it's difficult to tell how bad it could be. We don't know enough about it yet, we need to see how it will compete with other variants.'

WHO chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan also urged for more research so the severity of the virus could be fully understood.

'It's still too early to know if the sub-variant has properties of additional immune invasion or indeed of being more clinically severe,' she said.

'We don't know that, so we have to wait and see.'

Meanwhile, NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant warned of a 'third Covid-19 Omicron wave' and predicted a 'significant rise in cases' - with the peak hitting in July or early August.

'I'm concerned about this picture and I am calling on the community to do a few things to protect yourself and each other,' she said.

'Isolate if you're sick and get tested, wear a mask when indoors and around other people and know if antivirals are recommended from you.'

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler also said that Covid-19 cases are not likely to peak nationally for at least four weeks during this third wave of infections.

'All of the modelling indicates that case numbers and hospitalisations have further to go over probably the next four to six weeks,' he told Melbourne radio 3AW on Tuesday.

'We've seen some data out this morning that suggests that COVID is the largest killer of Australians this year, taking over from coronary disease.'

Meanwhile, Covid-19 reinfections are becoming more common across the country as new sub-variants of the virus circulate.

University of Queensland Associate Professor Paul Griffin said people should not become complacent about the virus, warning those who had been recently infected could be reinfected in a matter of weeks.

'We are seeing reinfections being more common and in short intervals, and that is why we recommend the reinfection period be reduced to four weeks,' he told the Seven Network on Tuesday.

'If you get symptoms again, you need to assume it could be a new infection.'

The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee has recommended the reinfection period be reduced from its current 12 weeks to 28 days, following the rise of cases of the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron variant.

This means people will be required to get tested and isolate if they re-develop symptoms 28 days after recovering from the virus, and could be reported and managed as new cases.

Prof Griffin said the rise in new COVID-19 infections alongside an increase in influenza cases was also concerning.

'This is translating into significant numbers in hospitals, with predictions ... we may exceed the hospitalisations we saw in the first big wave in January,' he said.

'We cannot assume people are protected just because they've had COVID, you need to be up to date with your vaccines and linking with therapies if you are eligible.'

This week, more people became eligible for a fourth vaccine dose - or a second booster shot - as well as antiviral treatments to help offset symptoms.

Australians over 70 who test positive for the virus were from Monday offered access to antivirals on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Access was also expanded to people over 50 with two or more risk factors for severe disease, and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people over 30 with two or more risk factors.

Anyone 18 or over and immunocompromised may also be eligible.

Normally costing more than $1000, the two antiviral treatments are now available for $6.80 for concession card holders and about $40 for everyone else.

 

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I’m beginning to wonder if Covid has evolved into an entirely different, disease.
And I don’t know why I even say that either.

 

[psychgirl]

FDA Grants Emergency Authorization for Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday issued an emergency use authorization for Novavax...

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FDA Grants Emergency Authorization for Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine
By Jack Phillips
July 13, 2022

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday issued an emergency use authorization for Novavax’s protein-based COVID-19 vaccine.

“Authorizing an additional COVID-19 vaccine expands the available vaccine options for the prevention of COVID-19, including the most severe outcomes that can occur such as hospitalization and death,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in a statement.

The agency said the vaccine, under the emergency use authorization, can be given to adults aged 18 and older. The vaccine, which is given in two doses several weeks apart, can become available once the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signs off on the FDA’s authorization.

Califf added that Wednesday’s move gives people “another option that meets the FDA’s rigorous standards for safety, effectiveness and manufacturing quality needed to support emergency-use authorization.”

Novavax uses different technology than the vaccines that are currently available. Pfizer and Moderna both use mRNA technology, whereas the Johnson & Johnson shot uses an adenovirus.

Novavax uses a protein-based vaccine that places parts of the COVID-19 spike protein directly in the body. That technology is commonplace in older vaccines such as the ones for shingles and hepatitis.

But clinical trials that were used to authorize the vaccine were carried out in early 2021, coming months before the Delta and Omicron variants spread across the world, according to the FDA’s statement Wednesday.

Studies from across the world have shown Omicron and the latest sub-variants can evade COVID-19 vaccines. Numerous public officials, including White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci, have contracted the virus in recent months despite having received two booster shots.

Novavax, of Maryland, previously said that its vaccine could appeal to people who have been reluctant to get the Pfizer, Moderna, or J&J vaccines. According to the CDC’s most recent data, about 22 percent of Americans have not received any vaccine.

“This authorization reflects the strength of our COVID-19 vaccine’s efficacy and safety data, and it underscores the critical need to offer another vaccine option for the U.S. population while the pandemic continues,” Novavax Chief Executive Stanley Erck said in a statement after the FDA’s authorization.

Like the Moderna and Pfizer shots, the fact sheets for the Novavax vaccine say that it increases the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, two types of heart-inflammation conditions, according to the FDA.

The agency said that symptoms of heart inflammation started within 10 days following the administration of the vaccine. Individuals who experience shortness of breath, chest pain, and other serious symptoms should seek immediate medical attention, the agency warned.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is slated to meet on July 19, where they will likely discuss the Novavax emergency use authorization. On Monday, the Biden administration announced the United States has obtained 3.2 million doses of the vaccine.

The FDA’s authorization took “longer than we wanted,” Erck told NBC News. “But we’re there and we have gotten the company’s first approval with the FDA for a vaccine in the United States.”

So, and this is a huge, massive IF….IF this vaccine didn’t state that there are heart issues linked to it….this type of vaccine “would” be the kind my DH and I have considered taking.

As a matter of fact I’ve been waiting to hear more about it but here we are, again, with possibly damaging side effects!

DH asked me a few months ago if I’d heard anything more so I’ll share this with him.

I’m not sure if I’m disappointed, or not.
I’m just too frightened of them all.
I’ll wait for Dr GVB to weigh in. Hopefully he will at some point.

 

[MinnesotaSmith]

I’m beginning to wonder if Covid has evolved into an entirely different, disease.
And I don’t know why I even say that either.

It has evolved, by design, into a cross between mental illness and tyranny. That is, it is more a mental and political condition than it is an actual microbial disease, by a large degree.

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

WARNING: Parents, in God’s name, we plead, under no condition do you inject your child with the COVID injection as it will subvert their innate immune system and can kill them: you can kill your child

Alexander: these COVID injections will subvert the innate immune system of children and render them susceptible to the confronted glycosylated pathogen, other viruses, and auto-immune attack, cancers

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WARNING: Parents, in God’s name, we plead, under no condition do you inject your child with the COVID injection as it will subvert their innate immune system and can kill them: you can kill your child
Alexander: these COVID injections will subvert the innate immune system of children and render them susceptible to the confronted glycosylated pathogen, other viruses, and auto-immune attack, cancers
Dr. Paul Alexander
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Dr. Paul Elias Alexander, PhD
We are in the battle of all time, right here and now and the prize is your children. They will stop at nothing, these malfeasants around us, even cause the death of our children with this dangerous gene injection. We are calling out to you parents now, now is your time to stand up and lay your life down too if you must! This is your HOT gates, this is your Thermopylae! This is where you fight and we hold them! This is where we defeat Fauci, Walensky, Albert Bourla of Pfizer, Bancel of Moderna, Francis Collins of NIH, CDC, FDA, NIH, NIAID, PHAC…all of them. We shut them down here and we go back and investigate them and if they did wrong, if it is shown in proper inquiry, we clean them out financially and imprison every one last of them! They, these Horsemen, have caused deaths with their lockdown lunacy and these fraud COVID shots. We imprison all who are shown to have been complicit!

Before discussing the innate immune system and how these COVID injections can damage it in your healthy child, I wish to briefly touch on the present injection landscape in terms of the ineffectiveness and harmfulness of the injection (especially the mRNA gene delivery platform). I will also state that I am not an immunologist or virologist or even a vaccinologist. My training is in epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, clinical epidemiology, medical statistics, research methodology, clinical practice guideline development, and biostatistics.

I have however been heavily worked in COVID given my roles at the World Health Organization (WHO) and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Washington, DC, as well as my role in the Trump administration as a senior COVID pandemic advisor. I am one of the key players in the early treatment of COVID having had the fortune of developing under Dr. Harvey Risch, Dr. Zev Vladimir Zelenko, and Dr. Peter McCullough. I am a disciple of Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche whom I regard as the foremost expert in virology and immunology as well as vaccinology, to include Dr. Mike Yeadon. My training is built on their informing of me and I cannot forget my Canadian brothers Dr. Byram Bridle and Dr. Howard Tenenbaum.

The COVD injection have failed! Mass vaccination using a sub-optimal non-neutralizing vaccine and into a pandemic and across all age-groups is a complete disaster. As you have seen now. It is the mass vaccination that is driving the infectious variants and ensuring the pandemic continues. The non-neutralizing COVID injection is actually facilitating and enhancing infection of the vaccinated (known as antibody-dependent enhancement of infection (ADEI)).

Do not let these illogical, failed , inept, corrupted, incompetent CDC and NIH and PHAC and SAGE officials and Fauci and Walensky frighten you about BA.5 sub-variant. As far as we see, it is infectious, more than prior variants, but not lethal to unvaccinated. It will not be for your healthy unvaccinated child. It is problematic for vaccinated persons as per clinical reports. It is lots of fear porn at present. Leave your healthy child alone. Please revert to our early treatment algorithms.

Also, it is the COVID vaccine itself that is causing these variants to emerge, not the virus. These are criminals who are doing this. You want this to stop? Then these malfeasants at CDC and NIH and Bourla and Bancel and Fauci and Francis Collins must stop these failed non-neutralizing COVID injections.

The injection today induces non-neutralizing vaccinal antibodies (Abs) that do not sterilize the virus (non-neutralization) and as such does not stop infection, replication, or transmission. We can never get to population-level herd immunity with a non-sterilizing injection and the non-neutralizing vaccinal Abs are sub-optimal, placing sub-optimal immune pressure on the infectiousness of the virus (the spike protein). This immune pressure, in the presence of massive viral infectious pressure, drives selection pressure that results in emergence of infectious variants e.g. Omicron. As long as we use a non-sterilizing injection in the midst of a pandemic, that does not neutralize the virus, then we will never get to herd immunity and this pandemic will go on for 100 years.

It is critical to understand that the human immune system must be approached and understood as a rather complicated, beautifully designed, meticulously balanced ecosystem. It is not simply about ‘neutralizing vaccinal antibodies’. This is very misleading. Antibody levels are not a measure of immune protection.

The immune system is composed of 2 main components (some say compartments) which is the mucosal immune system and a systemic immune system.



The mucosal immune system (the snot and slimy substance in your nose and mouth (nasopharynx) and digestive and respiratory tracts) and the systemic immune system both contain an innate and an acquired-adaptive component (or sub-compartments). The truth is we have only focused on the acquired-adaptive component which we refer to as natural immunity but this is not entirely correct. The innate immune system is also the natural immunity and all must be considered as part of the ‘natural immunity’ umbrella. The innate immune system is the 1st line of defense and has no memory and does not need it, alike the Pretorian guards, and works in concert with the acquired-adaptive component (which has a memory component and is regarded as the 2nd line of defense) and which is for a more virus specific response (antigen-specific).

It is a major error to disregard the innate immune system for it is a critical component of a functional immune response. Innate immunity is absolutely critical across your lifetime and especially so in early childhood for it is there that it gets its training, its education for optimal immune responding. Key to the innate immune system is the ‘innate antibodies’ (iABs) and the natural killer cells (NK cells). The latter is very potent and functions to clear out, eliminate virus that has gotten into cells by killing the cells.

Vanden Bossche reminds us that our children, newborns, infants, young children come with these iABs and are born with them. Yes, there is maternal protection but the innate immune system and the iABs are waiting to be trained as the maternal protection wears off in 4-6 months or so. These iABs are at very elevated concentrations in early infancy, childhood and the key aspect is that they decline from there. This it is critical that the iABs get the training it needs in order to protect the child thereafter. These iABs have disappear with time and they are poly-specific, non-specific, and of low affinity to the antigens (target). They come with the capacity to bind neutralize many different viruses.

As part of its training in early childhood, iABs must bind to live viruses (either live viruses in live attenuated replication competent vaccines or virus that is circulating) and in this binding, they help train and educate the innate immune system to be able to recognize viruses, besides the one it is now confronted with. It also is a key step in helping the immune system recognize non-self entities from self. Remember, it must be able to know what is ‘self’ so that it does not attack ‘self’ as this would lead to autoimmune reactivity and serious illness.

The iABs instruct the innate immune system as to what is ‘self’ versus ‘non-self’ and that it must not attack ‘self. If the iABs are blocked or subverted in any manner, from binding to live viruses, then it cannot be trained and cannot properly instruct the innate immune system. The child from that point, is vulnerable to the virus it is confronted with, future viruses e.g. influenza virus, poxvirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) etc., and to auto-immune disease. It is during early childhood that this training is critical and must not be subverted. If breached, if this training does not occur, it is lost forever. The iABs and innate immune system overall become refined and stronger and better with time, as the child grows and is exposed to pathogen. It actually is learning from its experiences and Vanden Bossche argues it has what can be regarded as a potent memory of sorts. It needs to be taxed and tuned up daily. It demands practice. The innate immune system is part of the immunological ecosystem that includes the virus-host immune response ecosystem.

Remember, the COVID injections are based on tricking your cells into production of spike protein that then results in production of vaccinal antibodies. Ideally, these antibodies from vaccine should be neutralizing. If neutralizing, in other words they are not resisted by the virus, then they would bind much more strongly to the COVID virus’s spike protein. This is the key issue with the devastation caused by the CIOVID injections in that even if they are non-neutralizing (as they are now July 2022), the vaccinal antibodies have a much greater affinity for the spike protein binding sites (e.g. receptor binding domain, N-terminal domain) and bind strongly, and as such outcompete the iABs for the binding sites. The vaccinal antibodies bind to the binding sites and subvert the binding by the iABs. The iABs bind loosely.

What is the result of this subversion by the vaccinal antibodies? Well, the iABs then cannot be trained and educated and thus cannot inform and instruct the innate immune system. The child would be vulnerable to the virus it is confronted with as well as future ‘glycosylated’ viruses and microbial pathogen (viruses with sugars/glycans on surfaces etc.) (unable to fight off various infections e.g. COVID, other respiratory infections and even cancers as there could be subversion of the cancer fighting system) and is also vulnerable to autoimmune illness. There is elevated risk of antigenic shifting and thus potentially novel variants emerging. Sufficiently different to present serious immunological challenges. The overall education of the innate immune system is subverted and compromised in the child via vaccinal antibodies and this is long-lasting (this subversion of the vaccinal antibodies over the iABs has to do with molecular patterns on viruses that they share and are same as patterns on parts of the human body).

The subversion of the iABs will continue as long as there is massive infectious pressure as there is now as we are vaccinating into a pandemic, and each time there is boosting which results in boosting of vaccinal antibody titers. Again, administering these COVID injections in childhood can be devastating to your child and your child can be harmed and actually die as a result. The damage to the innate immune system (iABs) is catastrophic and Vanden Bossche argues life-long.

If the child’s innate immune system (via blocking of iABs binding to live viruses) is impaired and not educated in discerning viruses, then the child will not be able to recognize glycosylated viruses that it confronts and will not be able to know if it is ‘self’ versus ‘non-self’. This is critical and can cause devastating illness and immune pathology in children.

In closing, vaccination of your child with these COVID injections can be harmful and be devastating, and can kill your child! None of the players involved in pushing the injection e.g. CDC, NIH, FDA, FAUCI, Walensky, Francis Collins, Bourla of Pfizer and Bancel of Moderna, as well as Jha, have any liability. They are protected, only your child is exposed. No protection if they are harmed. Do not trust any of these people or public health leaders or agencies. Do not inject your child with these COVID injections! I plead! Demand that they show you data, show you evidence whereby your near zero-risk child needs a vaccine that confers no benefit to them and actually skews towards harms. Shift the burden to them to prove this. To this date, they have not. Natural immunity (COVID exposed, infected, and recovered immunity) has always be extensively robust, optimal, superior, long-lasting and much better than the vaccinal immunity. Natural immunity and especially from the innate immune system (iABs and NK cells) can eliminate the virus and sterilize it! The COVID injections CANNOT!

(Some of ) these babies are too young for the vaccine, but maybe catching this from older toddlers who are vaccine eligible? This sounds like exactly what Geert and Dr. Alexander are warning about as unforseen consequences of vaccinating the babies.

CDC: US infants are falling sick with a life-threatening virus that triggers fever, delirium, seizures, and sepsis

At least one newborn died in June after contracting a dangerous form of parechovirus, and the CDC says it is circulating in "multiple states."

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CDC: US infants are falling sick with a life-threatening virus that triggers fever, delirium, seizures, and sepsis
Hilary Brueck
Wed, July 13, 2022, 2:47 PM·2 min read

• The CDC is warning that parechovirus are spreading in "multiple states."
• While older kids typically suffer mild respiratory infections, the viruses can be life-threatening for babies.
• At least one newborn was killed in June.

Federal health officials in the US are warning doctors and parents that a dangerous virus is spreading across the US causing fevers, seizures, confusion and other "sepsis-like" issues that can be life-threatening for young infants.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday that parechovirus is currently circulating in "multiple" US states. So far, the CDC has only collected positive samples of PeV-A3, which is the specific type of parechovirus that is most often associated with severe disease. At least one newborn is dead in Connecticut.

Baby Ronan was less than two weeks old when his mom starting noticing he was becoming "very angry," and "crying a lot," WTNH New Haven reported.

His chest turned red, and then his face too, and at 14 days old he was admitted to the hospital, where he started having seizures. At 34 days old, the child died.

There is no known treatment for parechovirus. Older children who get infected may "only have mild illness," like a cold, while others may remain completely asymptomatic during their infection, and feel nothing at all, the CDC says.

CDC is telling doctors to be alert for signs of parechovirus

The CDC is urging pediatricians across the US to consider that parechovirus may be the culprit when very young patients present with unexplained:

• fever
• sepsis-like syndrome
• seizures
• or meningitis (common symptoms include: high fever, irritability, loss of appetite, and sleepiness)

The federal health agency is urging doctors to test for PeV in infants who may have such signs and symptoms "without another known cause."

US surveillance for parechovirus is spotty: the CDC typically logs fewer than 50 parechovirus cases across the country every year.

In toddlers under 5, common symptoms can include an upper respiratory tract infection, fever, and rash. Most "children are infected by the time they start kindergarten," the CDC says.

Illnesses in toddlers and older kids are typically mild, but there are at least a few reports of children as old as 8 weathering severe infections of parechovirus, with fevers, rash, blurred vision, trouble walking, headaches, and confusion/altered mental status.

Parechovirus are generally most dangerous for babies younger than 3 months old, especially newborns who are younger than one month old, like Ronan was. Spinal fluid which is taken from infants who have a parechovirus often has few to no infection-fighting white blood cells in it.

"It's important in the first months of life to keep your baby away from anyone who is sick," Dr. Thomas Murray from Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital told WNTH.

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

It has evolved, by design, into a cross between mental illness and tyranny. That is, it is more a mental and political condition than it is an actual microbial disease, by a large degree.

Agree and disagree.

Yes it is a mental and political condition.

No, that is not more of the issue than the disease itself. IMHO, Covid is a bio weapon created in a lab, continually evolving as planned. Underestimate it at your own peril, because it (and they) are not close to being done with us.

HD

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

So, and this is a huge, massive IF….IF this vaccine didn’t state that there are heart issues linked to it….this type of vaccine “would” be the kind my DH and I have considered taking.

As a matter of fact I’ve been waiting to hear more about it but here we are, again, with possibly damaging side effects!

DH asked me a few months ago if I’d heard anything more so I’ll share this with him.

I’m not sure if I’m disappointed, or not.
I’m just too frightened of them all.
I’ll wait for Dr GVB to weigh in. Hopefully he will at some point.

About 10 posts up from here, post 64,079, (may be a page back for you depending on how you break your pages), is Steve Kirsch's substack article where he weighs in on his opinion of Novavax. He's a no, but others are more in favor, because it's not an MRNA delivery system. I'm also waiting to hear what Geert has to say about it.

HD

 

[psychgirl]

About 10 posts up from here, post 64,079, (may be a page back for you depending on how you break your pages), is Steve Kirsch's substack article where he weighs in on his opinion of Novavax. He's a no, but others are more in favor, because it's not an MRNA delivery system. I'm also waiting to hear what Geert has to say about it.

HD

I’d wait for Geert as well.
DH is interested in the article you posted this morning announcing its approval.
Trying to find that.

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

I’d wait for Geert as well.
DH is interested in the article you posted this morning announcing its approval.
Trying to find that.

When I first heard about novavax I was encouraged (probably more than a year ago by now...time flies, so not sure when it was first discussed) I thought finally a non-mrna/dna vaccine. Then some of the more well known anti-mrna folks said no to this as well. But they seem to be anti-vaxxers in the true sense of the word, ie anti all vaccines (not that that's a bad thing, it just adds some bias into the mix because they're going to be a hard no on everything). Geert has emphasized over and over that he is not an anti-vaxxer and in fact is an advocate for live attenuated vaccines for children (for now, until something better comes along). to me, that makes him more neutral in the discussion so that's why I'm interested to hear what he says. I have a feeling though that because it's still vaccinating into a pandemic, that issue hasn't gone away for him.... I'd also be interested in hearing Dr. Malone, Dr. McCollough, Dr. Cole, Dr, Kory's opinions. Let's hope they talk about it soon!

HD

 

[jward]

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BREAKING: Los Angeles County hits 'high' COVID activity level, starting two-week countdown to return of indoor mask mandate - KABC


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[jward]

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[MinnesotaSmith]

The Unvaxxed Shall Inherit the Earth - Vox Popoli

The long nightmare of the slow and gullible is only beginning as it has become apparent that the adverse effects of the vaxx are varied, lethal, and long-lasting. I went to the nail salon this week, and there was a young women working there who started weeping inconsolably in a corner. I asked...

voxday.net

The Unvaxxed Shall Inherit the Earth

"The long nightmare of the slow and gullible is only beginning as it has become apparent that the adverse effects of the vaxx are varied, lethal, and long-lasting.

I went to the nail salon this week, and there was a young women working there who started weeping inconsolably in a corner. I asked the manager what was wrong. “She just lost her mother” was the reply. She had died in her sleep suddenly though she was perfectly healthy.
This last weekend, I had attended the funeral of an old friend. He was perfectly healthy too, and then he got late-stage pancreatic cancer — and he was gone a few months later. That was the exact same story for another friend. He was healthy as a horse, until he wasn’t — because he too had suddenly developed late-stage pancreatic cancer.

Not to mention a young (and very fit) mother I know who just got a check-up, and was told that she too has suddenly developed aggressive cancer in her early 40s.
The perfectly healthy are getting bad cancers much too frequently now. The perfectly healthy are dying suddenly.
What all of them shared was being vaccinated.

She cites a report by Steve Kirsch, who has commissioned a series of vaccine-related polls, that bears mentioning.

Our latest poll is devastating for the official narrative:
a 6.6% rate of heart injury (>10M Americans)
2.7% are unable to work after being vaccinated (>5M Americans),
6.3% had to be hospitalized (>10M Americans)
you were more likely to die from COVID if you’ve taken the vaccine.
Almost as many (77.4%) households lost someone from the vaccines as from COVID. If you believe that 1M people in the US have died from COVID, then this survey indicates that ~750,000 people died from the vaccine (10.18/13.15*1M) with a 95% confidence of at least 600,000 deaths.

The Vaxxocaust is almost certainly the biggest crime against humanity in history. And unlike other famous historical crimes, such as the Great Leap Forward, the Partition of India, the Holodomor, and the Armenian genocide, it was one that most of its victims could easily have avoided."

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Now, figure in that 1) VAERS is estimated to only cover 1% of fauxine bad events, and 2) that the CDC doesn't count fauxine events until TWO WEEKS after jabbing (so someone who gets a fauxine stab and keels over on the spot counts as a NONVAXED death, pushing that everyone "needs" to get jabbed), and the #s could be 10-100x as high...

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The Global Vaccine Nightmare Has Just Begun

What happens when 3 billion vaccinated people have undiagnosed myocarditis?

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Emerald Robinson’s The Right Way


The Global Vaccine Nightmare Has Just Begun
What happens when 3 billion vaccinated people have undiagnosed myocarditis?

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I went to the nail salon this week, and there was a young women working there who started weeping inconsolably in a corner. I asked the manager what was wrong. “She just lost her mother” was the reply. She had died in her sleep suddenly though she was perfectly healthy.
This last weekend, I had attended the funeral of an old friend. He was perfectly healthy too, and then he got late-stage pancreatic cancer — and he was gone a few months later.


That was the exact same story for another friend. He was healthy as a horse, until he wasn’t — because he too had suddenly developed late-stage pancreatic cancer.
Not to mention a young (and very fit) mother I know who just got a check-up, and was told that she too has suddenly developed aggressive cancer in her early 40s.
The perfectly healthy are getting bad cancers much too frequently now.
The perfectly healthy are dying suddenly.
What all of them shared was being vaccinated.

E-Marie @fiddlestix007
Vaxxed

July 11th 2022
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Steve Kirsch on Substack has conducted a survey (done by a third party) and the results are so disturbing that nobody in the corporate media will touch it.
Ten million Americans have heart injuries.
Ten million Americans had to be hospitalized after taking the vaccines.
Five million Americans can’t work after being vaccinated.
At least 600,000 Americans died after getting vaccinated.


More than 5 billion people have been injected with at least one dose of a COVID vaccine — so if we extrapolate a 6% heart injury/hospitalization rate from the survey, that would mean 300 million people have been effected.

If Dr. Malone is correct and a majority of vaccinated people have undiagnosed myocarditis, that would mean 3 billion people are at serious risk of sudden cardiac death.

You can’t imagine it (and I can’t imagine it ) but if that really happens to even a tenth of 3 billion people in the next few years, then we are talking about a world-altering event.

⚔Patriot of the North⚔ @patriot_north
Wow, take a listen to this pilots story. More are coming out. These are the vaccine injuries cases. #vaccineinjuries #pilot #Covid_19

July 8th 2022
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If you’ve being paying attention on social media — or, most of all, on Substack — then you already know that this man-made disaster was happening on a vast scale because you’ve seen far too many posts of soccer players suddenly collapsing on the field, or young people hooked up to machines at the hospital after getting their first clot shot, just like me.



In fact, mortality rates for young people across Europe are rising dramatically — in yet another sign that the use of the experimental COVID vaccines should be halted immediately.
bad cattitude
all cause mortality effects of covid vaccines in european children and kiwi adults
in europe, many countries are now contra-indicating (or outright barring) covid vaccines for the young and healthy. this graph (with links to sources) from OS may give us a sense as to why…
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6 days ago · 562 likes · 310 comments · el gato malo




Healthy people are now dying so frequently and suddenly from heart failure that the totally corrupt corporate media has invented names like Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (“SADS”) to account for these obviously vaccine-related deaths.
Suddenly, toddlers are now having seizures after getting vaccinated as well.

As for vaccinated women who are pregnant, they are experiencing miscarriages and still births at much higher rates than in the past.



What has the American medical community done about this catastrophe? They have aided and abetted it the entire way.
They have taken the Big Pharma blood money and the Federal government’s blood money — and they have stayed silent while they injected your friends and family with these deadly vaccines and watched them die.
You know it — and I know it.

When their patients asked for ivermectin to treat COVID, they denied them those prescriptions and treated them like deviants for asking — and they strongly recommended they get vaccinated instead.
When injured people had the audacity to complain about their vaccine injuries, our doctors and nurses gaslighted them, or told them to stay silent, or told them they had no clue why they were having problems.
It’s the most shameful episode in the history of American medicine.
Sudden deaths. Infant seizures. Blood clots. Miscarriages. Heart attacks. Skyrocketing mortality rates. Declining birth rates.
You might think that the COVID virus has gone away, but the global vaccine nightmare has just begun."

 

[MinnesotaSmith]

The original report by Steve Kirsch referenced in the bottom of the top post I just made:

Latest survey shows the COVID vaccines are a disaster: ~750,000 dead in US

In US, ~5M people who got the vaccine are now unable to work and ~750,000 are dead. The rate of heart issues is 6.6%, far more than they claimed. No wonder our government isn't doing these surveys!

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Latest survey shows the COVID vaccines are a disaster: ~750,000 dead in US
In US, ~5M people who got the vaccine are now unable to work and ~750,000 are dead. The rate of heart issues is 6.6%, far more than they claimed. No wonder our government isn't doing these surveys!

Steve Kirsch
Jun 25



Update


See the most recent poll results here.
Executive summary


"Our latest poll is devastating for the official narrative:

1. a 6.6% rate of heart injury (>10M Americans)
2. 2.7% are unable to work after being vaccinated (>5M Americans),
3. 6.3% had to be hospitalized (>10M Americans)
4. you were more likely to die from COVID if you’ve taken the vaccine.
5. Almost as many (77.4%) households lost someone from the vaccines as from COVID. If you believe that 1M people in the US have died from COVID, then this survey indicates that ~750,000 people died from the vaccine (10.18/13.15*1M) with a 95% confidence of at least 600,000 deaths.

The error bar computation on each question is here.
We will be re-running this with a 5,000 sample size soon which will have smaller error bars. But the key point is that even if we choose the most conservative data points, the survey results are inconsistent with the “safe and effective” narrative.

For example, the CDC hasn’t found anyone who has died from the mRNA vaccines and our survey shows at least 600,000 people have died. That’s a big gap. Someone isn’t telling you the truth. Why do we get such a high number every time we run our poll to a different audience?

Anyone can run our poll for $500 if you don’t believe us. I predict nobody in mainstream media will touch this because they don’t want to know the truth.

This is a poll that nobody who is pro-vaccine wants you to see.
The poll will be ignored by the mainstream media, even when we rerun it with 8,000 people and get the same results. You can bank on that.
Introduction


We used a professional to draft most of the survey questions and skip logic for our Jun 25 survey.
Here are the key takeaways from the Jun 25 survey. We use “stratified counts” throughout since these are “normalized” based on the US demographics:

1. 380 of the 500 people who took the poll were vaccinated after normalization [Q1]
2. Only 34% of Americans are drinking the Kool-Aid and getting >2 doses [Q1]
3. 2.63% of the households (13.15/500) had someone who died from the COVID virus [Q19]
4. 2.03% [1.7%-2.4%] of the households (10.18[8.6-11.8]/500) reported a death from the vaccine in their household [Q15]. This is stunning because it shows that the vaccine has killed almost as many people as the COVID virus has. The authorities say that COVID has killed over 1M people in the US so this suggests that 774,000 people were killed by the vaccine (10.18[8.6-11.8]/13.15[12.3-14.0]=77.4% [64.2%-90.5%]). How can that be a “safe” vaccine? The 95% confidence intervals say over 600,000 Americans have been killed by the vaccine. Even if this is overestimated by a factor of 10X, this is devastating for the vaccine narrative. There is simply no way to spin this. This is why the “fact checkers” and mainstream media will avoid this survey.
5. 2.7% of the people who took the vaccine (10.43/380) are so injured they are unable to work [Q7A2]. This is a disaster. So this is 2.7% of the 200M vaccinated people ages 18 and older: >5M severely injured people who can’t work. I don’t know how they will spin this as a positive.
6. 16.7% (63.7/380) of the people who took the vaccine consider themselves vaccine injured [Q2]. So that’s >30M vaccine injured. I don’t know how they will spin this as a positive.
7. The survey shows a 6.6% rate of heart injury post-vaccine according to the poll (24.97/380 [Q3]). This is stunning because these are of the people taking the survey reporting their own injury. Nobody could know this better than the survey taker. This is 1,000X higher than the CDC told us. Per Gavi, “The CDC researchers estimated there might be a maximum of 70 cases of myocarditis out of a million second doses given to boys ages 12 to 17.” How could the CDC underestimate this severe adverse event by 3 orders of magnitude?!!? There is something seriously wrong here. Our survey is well within 1 order of magnitude with other rates we’ve been told. This represents 13.3M million people who are seriously injured, probably for life.
8. 9.2% (35/380) of the people who took the vaccine had to seek medical help for their injury. [Q4]. That’s 18M doctor visits.
9. 6.3% (23.83/380) of the people who took the vaccine had to be hospitalized for their vaccine injury [Q5] That’s over 12M hospitalizations.
10. 3.7% (18.83/500) of the households had a person with a heart condition due to the vaccine [Q14]. Since there are 123M households, this is 4.5M new heart conditions. This is a lower estimate than the direct injury above suggesting that people answering this question were answering it for people other than themselves (since otherwise the rate would be higher than the 6.6% direct rate above). So this is another estimate on the number of new heart conditions.
11. If you got a COVID infection, it’s 17% (36.4/30.98) [Q17] more likely that you were vaccinated, suggesting the vaccine could be making things worse.
12. If you died from COVID, it was 72% more likely you died after getting the vaccine (6.81/3.95) [Q22]. We were told the opposite by the government.
13. 46% are planning on getting more vaccines [Q23]. A total of 24.6% of all people are sheep, i.e., even if they are told the vaccine has a good chance of disabling them for life, they will do what the government recommends. These percentages are approximately what is predicted by mass formation theory.
14. Most people (65%) believed that the hospital treatments for COVID may be responsible for killing people that they lost to COVID, not COVID [Q20]

The survey and underlying data


Jun 25 survey

1. Jun 25 Pollfish survey summary
2. Jun 24 Pollfish survey response detail

Here is the skip logic for the Jun 25 survey
Skip logic for June 25 poll
Earlier survey

1. Jun 24 Pollfish survey summary
2. Jun 24 Pollfish survey response detail

Latest survey where we broke out the myocarditis rates

1. Jun 27 Pollfish survey summary
2. Jun 27 Pollfish survey response detail

Error bars on the numbers


See this error bar computation.
I put the numbers in for the number of people who died. It’s a disaster even if you are on the low end of the error bars: at least 600,000 deaths from the vaccines.
Even if we are off by 10X, the vaccines are a disaster.
Methodology


See my earlier article for a description. No change. It was done by a professional polling organization. If you start the first question, you’re counted. You can’t tell anything about the survey from the first question.
The 500 people are chosen at random and designed to represent a cross-section of America.
The poll size is only 500 since these are test runs.
Therefore, the numbers for the final results could be off. I’ve computed the error bars for each question.
But even if all numbers are a factor of 10 lower, this vaccine is still a complete disaster and should be immediately halted.

Fact checkers welcome


We’ll happily do an interactive session where we show you all the data and the poll results so you can verify they weren’t tampered with. You can even reach out to Pollfish to verify the survey results are legit. We have nothing to hide.
We’ll give you the data files so you can run the poll yourself.

But nobody’s going to fact check this because it would just draw attention to it. So they will have to ignore this and pretend it didn’t happen. That’s what fact checkers do when the facts don’t support the narrative they are paid to support.

Next step


We’ll adjust some of the questions again and re-run the survey with another 500.
Then we’ll increase the size to 5,000 people to reduce the error bars from around 4% to 1%.
We’ll have the final results soon, but we already know the results are devastating.
Summary


The bottom line is this: the mainstream media, the medical community, public health officials, members of Congress, CDC, the “fact checkers,” or anyone else who is pro-vaccine will never run a poll like this to find out the truth.
They don’t want to know the truth and, more importantly, they don’t want you to know the truth either."

 

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Coffins for Children Ordered in Bulk, 'First Time in Over 30 Years' (Exclusive Interview) - RAIR

A Toronto-area casket manufacturer has seen a dramatic rise in orders for smaller-sized coffins since the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. Children are dying.

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Coffins for Children Ordered in Bulk, 'First Time in Over 30 Years'

Miranda Sellick
July 14, 2022

A Toronto-area casket manufacturer has seen a dramatic rise in orders for smaller-sized coffins since the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. Children are dying.

"Ultimately, everything in life comes down to death.

We are raised to believe that there’s a time for living and a time for dying. The time for dying comes with illness, accidents, and old age. Except it doesn’t anymore.

In an exclusive interview with RAIR Foundation USA, Mick Haddock, a manufacturer of caskets in northern Toronto, says things have changed markedly in the industry in the last nine months. “Small people are passing away,” he says. “It’s noticeable in our industry. For the first time in over 30 years, we are receiving bulk orders for smaller-sized caskets.”



Typically, the casket industry remains pretty stable, and an unusually big casket order usually indicates a traumatic event, but recent sales indicate that this has changed. “Not only are all sales up, but in the past, for every five full-sized caskets we sold, we sold one youth size. Now, for every five, it’s two youth sized.”

According to Haddock, he and his colleagues in the industry thought they would see an uptick in 2020 when we were being told that covid was lethal and killing people indiscriminately, in their many thousands. But that didn’t happen. “It wasn’t until the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 that we saw sales increase. We didn’t see any increase in sales before vaccines were introduced, and people started traveling again,” says Haddock. “And I don’t want to blame it on the travel that’s been killing everybody because, in truth, most of these places around the world are still light on what travelers can do. Even accidental deaths are still limited.”

In fact, in 2020, Haddock saw a 60 percent drop in sales. “It was only once the vaccines were pushed to younger and younger demographics that we started seeing the uptick,” he says. “It was just senior citizens and the very frail at first. Within two months of the approval of the vaccine for the 11- to 15-year-olds, we noticed more demand for smaller units.”
Overall sales have increased by 30 and 40 percent compared to 2019. “It’s staggering how much more there is,” says Haddock. “It started to climb by mid-2021; by 2022, growth was measurable.”

Haddock’s experience mirrors that of British funeral director John O’Looney of Milton Keynes Family Funeral Services, who went public in September 2021 to explain a similar pattern of death. O’Looney remarked that there was no surge in deaths during the initial covid wave, and if anything, fewer deaths. But after the vaccine was introduced in January 2021, O’Looney said that calls soared, going up 300 percent. “I’ve never seen a death rate like it in 15 years,” he said. “Initially, [the deaths were] all exclusively care homes,” O’Looney said. But after the rollout of the mRNA injection, the deaths were no longer exclusively from nursing homes, and the ages of the dead varied significantly.

O’Looney described a woman in her fifties, fit, a runner, and without health issues, who was given a booster and died of liver failure the following week. Haddock confirms that this measurable increase has all happened in Canada in the last six to seven months, “(Initially) it wasn’t at the rate it is now, but by the time we hit the round of boosters was when we started noticing multiple calls a week from the same (casket) distributors. All casket sales are dramatically up,” he says. It’s just that youth-sized sales are up more than any other category.

While Haddock and his colleagues have seen the greatest increase in sales in the mid-sized category, “everyone is at risk with these vaccines,” he says. “It’s hard to deny. What can it be blamed on? What has changed? Why is the death rate exceeding that of before the vaccines?” he ponders.

Children aged six to 12 are robust human beings. “Now, these are the sizes we are selling,” says Haddock. “Children don’t just die. It doesn’t happen. Never in history.”"

 

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High-pressure oxygen shows promise in long COVID; earlier Omicron infection may protect against subvariants

Patients with long COVID may see some improvement after breathing pure oxygen in a high-air-pressure environment, according to data from a small Israeli trial. Researchers randomly assigned 73 patients with post-COVID symptoms lasting at least three months to receive hyperbaric oxygen therapy...

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High-pressure oxygen shows promise in long COVID; earlier Omicron infection may protect against subvariants
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Thu, July 14, 2022, 3:22 PM

(Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review.

High-pressure oxygen treatment may help long COVID

Patients with long COVID may see some improvement after breathing pure oxygen in a high-air-pressure environment, according to data from a small Israeli trial.

Researchers randomly assigned 73 patients with post-COVID symptoms lasting at least three months to receive hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) or a sham treatment. Patients in the HBOT group spent 40 sessions breathing pure oxygen in a chamber in which the air pressure was two-to-three times higher than normal, allowing the lungs to receive more oxygen than they normally would. Shortly after the last treatment, the HBOT group showed "significant improvement" compared to the sham group in thinking skills, energy, sleep, psychiatric symptoms, and pain, according to a report published on Tuesday in Scientific Reports. Symptomatic improvement was associated with magnetic resonance imaging evidence of structural and functional brain healing and improved delivery of oxygen-carrying blood to the brain, the researchers said.

HBOT is often used to treat wounds that are not healing well and has recently been tested as a treatment for traumatic brain injury, but this is the first randomized trial to test it for long COVID. Larger studies are needed to confirm the findings and to identify patients who might benefit, the researchers said.

Earlier Omicron infection may protect against BA.4/BA.5

Young and middle-aged adults who were infected with earlier versions of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus are likely to have "strong" protection against reinfection with the currently dominant Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, researchers say.

That will not be the case if they were infected with a variant that circulated before Omicron, however, according to a study from Qatar. Researchers there found that after taking vaccination status into account, infection with a pre-Omicron version of SARS-CoV-2 appeared to be only 15.1% effective at preventing a symptomatic BA.4/BA.5 reinfection and 28.3% effective at preventing any BA.4/BA.5 reinfection. A previous Omicron infection, however, was 76.1% effective against symptomatic BA.4/BA.5 reinfection and 79.7% effective against any BA.4/BA.5 reinfection. The study did not assess the severity of reinfection. In a report posted on medRxiv on Tuesday ahead of peer review, the researchers point out that the findings may not be applicable in older people, given that in Qatar only 9% of the residents are older than 50.
The study also showed that protection from infections with earlier pre-Omicron variants was weaker against BA.4/BA.5 than it was against BA.1/BA.2, "indicating that these two new variants have greater capacity to escape the immune-system response," said study leader Laith Jamal Abu Raddad of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar.

COVID-19 vaccines linked with longer periods for some women

COVID-19 vaccination may be associated with short-term lengthening of the menstrual cycle for some women, according to a new study.

The findings are drawn from 3,858 female nurses in the United States and Canada who have been filling out questionnaires about their periods twice a year since 2011. As of December 2021, 91% of them had been vaccinated against the coronavirus. Before the pandemic, 15% reported irregular cycles; that rose to 22.7% in 2021, the researchers reported on Wednesday in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Vaccinated women had a 54% higher risk of increased cycle length compared to unvaccinated women, regardless of vaccine type and even after taking pandemic stress and health-related factors into account, the report said. On closer analysis, vaccination was only associated with change to longer cycles in the first six months after vaccination and among women whose cycles were short, long or irregular before vaccination, not among women with normal length, regular cycles.

"A normal menstrual cycle is characterized by tightly regulated inflammatory and immune mediators" that may be temporarily affected by the body's immune response to the vaccines, the researchers said. They call for monitoring of "menstrual cycle health in vaccine clinical trials and increased attention to sex-based differences in vaccine response."

For Reuters Global COVID-19 Tracker graphic, click: COVID-19: the latest global statistics, charts and maps

For Reuters COVID-19 Vaccination Tracker, click: https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/vaccination-rollout-and-access.

 

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Adapted, two-strain vaccines to lift COVID protection - EU official

A European health emergency official on Wednesday said adapted versions of established mRNA COVID-19 vaccines that address two variants in one shot will soon offer people better protection than vaccines that are now available. Moderna and the BioNTech-Pfizer alliance are working on vaccines...

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Adapted, two-strain vaccines to lift COVID protection - EU official
by Ludwig Burger in Frankfurt and Natalie Grover in London
Wed, July 13, 2022, 5:28 AM

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A European health emergency official on Wednesday said adapted versions of established mRNA COVID-19 vaccines that address two variants in one shot will soon offer people better protection than vaccines that are now available.

Moderna and the BioNTech-Pfizer alliance are working on vaccines based on a combination of the original Wuhan virus and an Omicron subvariant. Referred to as bivalent shots, these would be used in an autumn vaccination campaign.

"Whatever bivalent vaccine will be available will be a good one. It will be better than the current vaccines," the director of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority, Pierre Delsaux, told members of the European Parliament in a hearing.

He did not take a side in the ongoing discussion among European regulators and vaccine makers over what subtype of the Omicron such adapted shots should be modelled on.

The European Medicines Agency has not yet expressed a clear preference for the subvariant - BA.1 or BA.4/BA.5 - that these shots should be based on.

BioNTech and Pfizer have also proposed a shot based on one Omicron subvariant only.

 

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BREAKING: Los Angeles County hits 'high' COVID activity level, starting two-week countdown to return of indoor mask mandate - KABC
4:31 PM · Jul 14, 2022·

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Los Angeles Officially Enters CDC’s “High” Covid Community Level & Mask Mandate Countdown Begins

“As of today, we have moved from the medium to the “High” covid community level,” said Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer today. If the county remains …

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Los Angeles Officially Enters CDC’s “High” Covid Community Level & Mask Mandate Countdown Begins
By Tom Tapp
July 14, 2022

“As of today, we have moved from the medium to the “High” covid community level,” said Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer today.

If the county remains in the CDC-designated High level for two consecutive weeks, it will again impose what Ferrer called “a universal mandatory indoor mask-wearing mandate.” Ferrer has warned of the prospect for weeks.

The community level is determined by hospitalization rates. The 7-day rate of 10.5 hospitalizations per 100,000 residents. A rate of 10.0 or higher is a key threshold for moving into the CDC’s highest community level.

Today, L.A. saw its highest number of daily new cases since the original Omicon wave in January. The number of new cases, 8,535, tops the previous post-January high, which was about 8,300 on Saturday. One important difference however is that, while the average 7-day test positivity in the county was just under 8.5% at the end of January, today it is 17%.

Ferrer said that the number of cases is likely to be greatly undercounted, since so many Angelenos now use at-home tests, the results of which are not reported. Anecdotally, she said that providers such as doctors, hospitals and nurses “are telling us [that they are seeing] 40% test positivity rate among patients coming in for care.”

The current dominant BA.5 subvariant is many times more transmissible than the original Omicon that caused the winter wave and thought to be driving the currenet surge.

Ferrer also revealed that a newer, possibly even more transmissible Omicron subvariant, called BA.2.75, has been found in L.A. County.

 

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WHO chief says pandemic 'nowhere near over,' urges masks as cases rise

Urges "tried and tested measures" in face of upswing.

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WHO chief says pandemic 'nowhere near over,' urges masks as cases rise
Urges "tried and tested measures" in face of upswing.

By Just the News staff
Updated: July 14, 2022 - 12:58pm

The head of the World Health Organization this week warned that governments should re-deploy mitigation measures such as mask-wearing in the face of globally rising infection rates of SARS-CoV-2.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a media briefing this week that "cases of COVID-19 continue to rise," a trend which was "putting further pressure on stretched health systems and health workers."

"New waves of the virus demonstrate again that the COVID-19 is nowhere near over," he said. "As the virus pushes at us, we must push back."

Ghebreyesus urged governments to "deploy tried and tested measures like masking, improved ventilation and test and treat protocols," as well as "regularly review and adjust their COVID-19 response plans based on the current epidemiology and also the potential for new variants to appear."

The director also suggested leaders should "work to reverse the reduction in surveillance, testing and sequencing" that have come as cases have declined worldwide.

COVID cases worldwide began creeping upward in early June, rising slowly over that time though still nowhere near the peak of the omicron wave in early 2022.

Deaths attributed to COVID, meanwhile, have largely remained flat over that time, though they began slowly edging upward earlier this month.

 

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Losing the battle? Pentagon COVID-19 vax mandates tottering under legal scrutiny

"It is extremely hard for my clients to understand what the primary motivation is for the DOD to continue to push the mandate and refuse to recognize natural immunity, adverse events associated with the vaccine, and the ongoing loss of highly trained and qualified personnel," said attorney R...

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Losing the battle? Pentagon COVID-19 vax mandates tottering under legal scrutiny
"It is extremely hard for my clients to understand what the primary motivation is for the DOD to continue to push the mandate and refuse to recognize natural immunity, adverse events associated with the vaccine, and the ongoing loss of highly trained and qualified personnel," said attorney R. Davis Younts.
By Natalia Mittelstadt
Updated: July 14, 2022 - 11:47pm

The Pentagon's military-wide COVID-19 vaccine mandate faces an uncertain future amid a series of successful legal challenges to the sweeping order mounted by religious objectors in federal courts and military disciplinary proceedings.

On Thursday, a district court judge in Ohio granted a temporary injunction against the COVID vaccine mandate being enforced on Air Force members seeking religious exemptions. This followed a ruling in March by a district court judge in Texas who granted a preliminary injunction against the Navy for the same reason.

In May, a Navy administrative separation board voted unanimously to retain an officer who refused to comply with the mandate because of his religious beliefs. The board was unconvinced the mandate was lawful and did not view the officer's refusal as misconduct.

The panel agreed with the officer's lawyer, R. Davis Younts, who argued at the board hearing that the mandate for the experimental COVID vaccines was not a lawful order since the military has not made fully FDA-approved versions of the vaccines available to military members.

In June, the Air Force backed away from a court-martial to try a Christian officer who refused the vaccine.

The officer, Master Sergeant Vincent White, was served an "Article 15" non-judicial punishment in April, which is an allegation of violation of a lawful order. When White declined to accept the punishment and requested a trial by court-martial instead, the Air Force rescinded the punishment, but still intends to take his case to an administrative separation board.

At the time, Younts, who also represents White, told Just the News, "It'd be a significant embarrassment and a huge blow to the Air Force to have a judge rule [the mandate] an unlawful order or have a jury find ... that it's not a lawful order."

If the vaccine order was found to be unlawful through a court-martial trial, it "would set a precedent that other military judges would be likely to follow," Younts explained.

According to the Pentagon, nearly 270,000 military members, or 13% of the total force, are not fully vaccinated, which doesn't include those who aren't vaccinated at all. About 20,000 of those not fully vaccinated have been granted temporary or permanent exemptions.

The last deadline for a military branch — the Army National Guard — to have its members fully vaccinated passed at the end of June. About 14,000 Guardsmen said they had no intention of receiving the vaccine, with about half of them seeking exemptions, mostly religious.

Earlier this month, about 40,000 Army National Guardsmen and 22,000 Reservists were cut off from military benefits as they were prohibited from participation in their military duties because they weren't vaccinated. Another 1,148 active-duty soldiers have been removed from the Army for the same reason.

These force disruptions come at a time when the military is struggling to meet its recruitment goals.

Younts warns that the vaccine mandates are harming military readiness.

"There is no question that the loss of tens of thousands of highly trained military members has an impact on the military," he told Just the News on Thursday. "Not just on readiness but also on morale. My initial clients were a large group of Navy SEALs and fighter pilots. Experts like those individuals take years to train and they are extremely difficult to replace.
"I believe that the downturn in recruiting is connected to DOD policies related to the vaccine mandate as well as the discrimination against conservative Christians who have a Biblical view of marriage.

"It is extremely hard for my clients to understand what the primary motivation is for the DOD to continue to push the mandate and refuse to recognize natural immunity, adverse events associated with the vaccine, and the ongoing loss of highly trained and qualified personnel. The continued push feels extremely vindictive and political to my clients.

"It is my hope that federal courts will grant similar injunctions for all branches of the service and that Congress will act to force the military to end a mandate that is not supported by science and is having a devasting impact on military morale and readiness."

Younts is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserves and a Judge Advocate General's Corps lawyer privately representing several military members seeking religious exemptions to the vaccine mandate. His appeal of the rejection of his own religious accommodation request for an exemption was denied, but he believes the Ohio district court judge's injunction will allow him to retire from the military.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) has introduced legislation that would prevent federal funds from being "used to require a member of the National Guard to receive a vaccination against COVID-19." Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced a similar bill in the House last month that applies to the entire military.

The Air Force didn't immediately respond on Thursday evening to a request for comment regarding the Ohio district court judge's temporary injunction of the vaccine mandate.

 

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New York COVID-19 Quarantine Rules Unconstitutional and Illegal: Judge

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New York COVID-19 Quarantine Rules Unconstitutional and Illegal: Judge
By Katabella Roberts
July 14, 2022

A New York Supreme Court judge this month quietly ruled that regulations mandating that people infected with or exposed to highly contagious communicable diseases be quarantined are a violation of state law, declaring them null and void.

The Isolation and Quarantine procedures, known as Rule 2.13, were enacted in February.

Under the rule, “whenever appropriate to control the spread of a highly contagious communicable disease, the State Commissioner of Health may issue and/or may direct the local health authority to issue isolation and/or quarantine orders, consistent with due process of law, to all such persons as the State Commissioner of Health shall determine appropriate.”

Isolations may include those at home, or in residential or temporary housing, subject to what the public health authority issuing the order determines is “appropriate.”

However, the rule notes that “where symptoms or conditions indicate that medical care in a general hospital is expected to be required, the isolation location shall be a general hospital.”

Three Republican state legislators, Sen. George Borrello, assemblyman Chris Tague, and assemblyman Michael Lawler, along with Uniting NYS, filed a lawsuit against Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul, Commissioner of Health Mary Bassett, the state’s health department, and the Public Health and Health Planning Council.

Plaintiffs argued that the Isolation and Quarantine procedures were in violation of the New York State Constitution and a violation of the separation of powers.

“It’s unconstitutional in our eyes, and anything like that should go through the legislature,” Tague told local media. “It should have an opportunity to be debated. To be able to have facts brought forth by health professionals, and leaders within our communities before we just decide to put something into law.”

‘Lip Service’

In a July 8 ruling, Acting Justice of the Supreme Court of Cattaraugus County Ronald D. Ploetz sided with the plaintiffs, stating that the rule merely gives “lip service” to constitutional due process.

“Involuntary detention is a severe deprivation of individual liberty, far more egregious than other health safety measures, such as requiring mask wearing at certain venues. Involuntary quarantine may have far-reaching consequences such as loss of income (or employment) and isolation from family,” Ploetz wrote.

The judge added that there was “no scientific data or expert testimony” to back up the rule.

“Respondents offered no scientific data or expert testimony why Rule 2.13 was a necessary response to combat COVID-19, but instead contend only that it would provide a quick and nimble approach to combating the pandemic,” wrote the judge. “Nevertheless, during oral argument of this matter, at a time when we hope that the worst of the pandemic is behind us, counsel for the Respondents were unable to cite any instance where the procedure set forth in Rule 2.13 was actually utilized.”

However, the judge noted in his ruling that the rule is null and void “until the New York State Legislation acts otherwise,” potentially paving the way for future appeals.

On Tuesday, Hochul told local media that she would be appealing the court’s decision, stating, “We feel very confident that if we appeal this, we will be successful.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office on Wednesday formally appealed the state Supreme Court ruling, according to local reports.

The Epoch Times has contacted James’s office for comment.

The ruling comes as Hochul’s office on Wednesday reported that the seven-day average of COVID-19 cases in New York has risen from 30.53 per 100,000 people to 35.28, while hospitalizations have increased in recent days to 2,397 patients.

However, 57.5 percent of those people who were hospitalized were admitted for reasons that did not include COVID-19.

 

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Canada Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine for Youngest Kids

Health Canada says it has approved the use of Moderna’s COVID-19 shots for children as young as six months old.

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Canada Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine for Youngest Kids
By Isaac Teo
July 14, 2022

Health Canada says it has approved the use of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as six months old.
In a July 14 statement, the federal health regulator announced it has authorized the use of Moderna’s Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months to 5 years of age, making Moderna the first pharmaceutical company permitted to provide their vaccine to Canada’s youngest kids.

The vaccine requires two doses given about four weeks apart.

“Health Canada has authorized a two-dose primary series of 25 micrograms each, with the second dose to be administered 4 weeks after the first dose. This is half the dose authorized for children 6 to 11 years of age and one-quarter of the dose authorized for people over 12 years of age,” said the statement.

The approval also means that nearly two million children in Canada could be eligible for the shots, depending on the availability of the vaccine determined by each province.

Health Canada previously said it received a submission from Pfizer-BioNTech on June 23, requesting authorization of its vaccine for children between six months and four years old. The submission is still under review.

In a virtual briefing following the July 14 announcement, Dr. Supriya Sharma, chief medical advisor at Health Canada says Moderna is also currently studying booster doses for pediatric cohorts.

“Moderna has indicated plans to study a booster dose for children under six years of age targeting the Omicron variant and the original strain of the virus,” she said.

Asked by a reporter if a COVID-19 shot will be developed for kids under 6 months of age, Dr. Marc Berthiaume, director of the bureau of medical sciences at Health Canada, says he isn’t aware of any such plans for the age group.

“At the present time, to my knowledge, there are no studies we’ve been informed of on vaccines for children under six months,” he said.

When asked if it’s worthwhile to have this cohort vaccinated eventually, Berthiaume says there may be a benefit “hypothetically.”

“In the absence of data, I can’t really say if there would be benefits. It would have to be studied. Hypothetically, there could be a benefit, but it might be different. There are all these factors to take into consideration.”

 

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Top Regulator: 'Severe Allergic Reaction' a Side Effect of New COVID-19 Vaccine

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Top Regulator: ‘Severe Allergic Reaction’ a Side Effect of New COVID-19 Vaccine
By Jack Phillips
July 14, 2022

A top government regulator has said that Novavax’s spike protein-based COVID-19 vaccine listed severe allergies as a side effect, as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday issued an emergency use authorization for the shot.

The European Medicines Agency on Thursday said that (pdf) severe allergic reactions could be potential side effects of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine. In the United States, the vaccine’s product label warns against administering the shot to people with a history of allergic reactions to any of its components.

“The product information of Nuvaxovid will be updated with severe allergic reaction and unusual or decreased feeling in the skin as new side effects,” the EMA wrote, adding that “anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction) will be included in the EU product information as a side effect of Nuvaxovid … together with an update of the existing advice for managing risk of anaphylaxis.”

It said that “a few cases” of anaphylaxis have been reported so far in connection to the vaccine. The EMA did not disclose the figure.

“Generally, cases reported spontaneously by a patient or healthcare professional concern suspected side effects, i.e. medical events that have been observed after vaccination,” said the agency, “but which are not necessarily related to or caused by the vaccine.”

The Epoch Times contacted Novavax for comment on the EMA’s disclosure and regarding a Reuters report on the latest warning.

Shares of Novavax fell 22 percent to $54.31 as of 12 p.m. on Thursday, although analysts have said that Novavax shares are generally volatile.

FDA Approval

In petitioning the FDA for an emergency use authorization, Novavax said it would market its vaccine to individuals who did not want to get the Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson shots. Pfizer and Moderna use mRNA technology for their shots, whereas Johnson & Johnson uses an adenovirus.

The FDA said that Novavax presented information from clinical trials that were carried out in early 2021, before the Delta and Omicron COVID-19 waves. Studies from around the world have suggested that Omicron and later sub-variants can easily evade vaccines as top officials, including COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci, have contracted the virus despite having received two booster shots.

“Authorizing an additional COVID-19 vaccine expands the available vaccine options for the prevention of COVID-19, including the most severe outcomes that can occur such as hospitalization and death,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in a statement on Wednesday in authorizing the vaccine.

The agency said the vaccine, under the emergency use authorization, can be given to adults aged 18 years and older. The vaccine, which is given in two doses several weeks apart, can become available once the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signs off on the FDA’s authorization.

Califf added that Wednesday’s move gives people “another option that meets the FDA’s rigorous standards for safety, effectiveness and manufacturing quality needed to support emergency-use authorization.”

COVID-19 is the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

 

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Fatigue is highly common after intensive care for COVID-19

A one-year follow-up study of the first wave of ICU patients in Gothenburg after intensive care for severe COVID-19 showed that fatigue was very common among them. Of the 104 questionnaire respondents, 67 stated that they were fatigued. This was one of the main findings from the study published...

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Fatigue is highly common after intensive care for COVID-19
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July 14, 2022

A one-year follow-up study of the first wave of ICU patients in Gothenburg after intensive care for severe COVID-19 showed that fatigue was very common among them. Of the 104 questionnaire respondents, 67 stated that they were fatigued. This was one of the main findings from the study published in Scientific Reports, which was conducted by researchers at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

The patients involved in the study were those most severely affected by COVID-19 when they sought care. They were mostly male, and the majority required mechanical ventilation during their stay in the intensive care unit (ICU), but for a small number, oxygen treatment sufficed. Of the total of 259 patients admitted to one of Sahlgrenska University Hospital's five ICUs in the period from March to June 2020, 182 met the study inclusion criteria. At one year follow up after ICU care for COVID-19, 104 of the participants gave responses to enough statements in the questionnaire to be categorizable as either "fatigued" or "not fatigued."

The investigators emphasize that their sample size is small. More than half (104 out of 182) of the patients invited to take part in the study responded positively. In terms of both age and duration of care, the non-responders match the group included in the study.

Widespread exhaustion

One year after their admission to intensive care:

• 24 people (corresponding to 22.8 percent) stated that they had never, or only occasionally, had enough energy to cope with life on an everyday basis
• 21 (20 percent) stated that they always or often found it difficult to start activities
• 20 (19 percent) stated that they often or always felt mentally drained or exhausted
• 70 of the 104 (67.3 percent) stated that they experienced physical fatigue.

Sense of fatigue

Two factors were found to be associated with lesser fatigue at one year after ICU admission following COVID-19: shorter ICU stay and advanced age. The study participants' average age was 58.2 years. Twenty-nine patients were aged 65 or over. The researchers were surprised to find that older age proved to be an associated protective factor against fatigue, but since this was an observational study, causal relationship between the two could not be established.

"People of working age may be subject to heavier demands in everyday life, so fatigue might be more palpable for them. Younger individuals might also be inclined to report greater fatigue because they notice a more marked decline in their health after COVID-19 than their older counterparts, who may already have experienced age-related physical deterioration," says Netha Hussain, a doctor at Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

Hussain, who obtained her doctorate at the University of Gothenburg, is the corresponding author of the study.

Vital to follow up

The results are now published in the journal Scientific Reports. The study is expected to have relevance for various agencies that assess work capacity in connection with ill health. The results can serve to support rehabilitation planning for individuals after severe COVID-19.

"For staff in health care, it is important to follow up how things have gone for our patients and investigate whether there are factors that we could have influenced to improve the outcome," says Carina U Persson, Associate Professor in Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Gothenburg and Chief Physical Therapist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, who leads the research and is the study's last author.

More results to come

This study is the first one to be published from the cohort of Gothenburg Recovery and Rehabilitation after COVID-19 and Intensive Care Unit Study (GOT-RECOV-19 ICU), conducted by researchers working at the University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Nottingham University, Professor Avril Drummond.

The study participants have also undergone various physical tests, but the researchers have not analyzed all the data yet. In the research project, there are also plans to follow up all the patients cared for in one of the five ICUs for severe COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic. The aim will be to investigate, using medical records, the prevalence of various complications in these patients. The work will also involve a qualitative part focusing on the patients' experiences of recovery and rehabilitation after severe COVID-19.

 

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Heavily-Mutated Omicron BA.2.75 From India Found In Los Angeles County For First Time

One day after it was revealed that a new highly-mutated Omicron subvariant had arrived in California, Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer announced the first case had been unidentifie…

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Heavily-Mutated Omicron BA.2.75 From India Found In Los Angeles County For First Time
Tom Tapp
Thu, July 14, 2022, 5:25 PM

One day after it was revealed that a new highly-mutated Omicron subvariant had arrived in California, Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer announced the first case had been unidentified in Los Angeles.

BA.2.75 has a large number of mutations when compared to its sister Omicron lineages. Some of those adaptations could allow the virus to bind onto cells more efficiently, said Matthew Binnicker, director of clinical virology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. BA.2.75 was first sequenced in May in India, where it has spread rapidly.

A very early analysis of data from India by Raj Rajnarayanan — who is Assistant Dean of Research, NYITCOM at Arkansas State University — indicates that BA.2.75 may have a growth advantage over BA.5. It is unclear, as yet, whether BA.2.75 makes people sicker than previous variants.

Since it was first identified, the subvariant has been spotted in “about 14 countries,” according to WHO Covid-19 Technical Lead, Maria Van Kerkhove. Those include Australia, Canada, Japan, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the U.S.

States with sequenced BA.2.75 infections are California — with two cases — and one each in Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin and Washington. The California cases were found in Bay Area wastewater samples from mid-June, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.

 

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsdUO5g5yVg
Omicron BA. 2.75
14 min 49 sec
Jul 14, 2022
Dr. John Campbell

Next up , BA.2.75, Centaurus https://www.who.int/activities/tracki... https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-... https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamh... India, early May, spreading fast (50%) (India has low levels of BA.5) Seems to be displacing previous omicrons Looks like an influenza type model will not work Detected in the Bay area, UK, Australia, Germany, Canada, Netherlands European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2... variant under monitoring 7th July Nine new spike protein mutations Amino acid changes, evade some neutralizing antibodies G446S, RBD (was Glycine now Serine) Individual response will be influenced by immune history BA.1 immunity, may be protective

 

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I repeat, NIH, CDC, FDA, Moderna, and Pfizer high officials met me secretly at HHS 2020 in Washington & on walks on DC mall, telling me they feared for careers & safety; told me do not stop!

Officials met me to say they read what I write & say at HHS to Fauci & NIH & FDA & they agree & in fear of safety to speak out but know the vaccines have no clinical data, don't work, harmful; MAKARY!

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I repeat, NIH, CDC, FDA, Moderna, and Pfizer high officials met me secretly at HHS 2020 in Washington & on walks on DC mall, telling me they feared for careers & safety; told me do not stop!
Officials met me to say they read what I write & say at HHS to Fauci & NIH & FDA & they agree & in fear of safety to speak out but know the vaccines have no clinical data, don't work, harmful; MAKARY!
Dr. Paul Alexander
4 hr ago

It is quite perverse that the legacy media will not interview me on this nor even FOX etc. Very strange indeed. I know why. You can figure it out too!

Doctors be warned, if insider agency officials in CDC etc. are speaking out now going against the narrative and telling us that the agencies are not following the science, you will soon be thrown under the bus! Tell US & Canada & UK governments to stop this failed COVID injection, and none for our children!

They, NIH, CDC, FDA, Moderna, and Pfizer officials confidentially and secretly told me not to stop what I was doing speaking out and writing the FDA for they all knew of my communications warning about the vaccines. They said that they would never give the vaccines from Moderna or Pfizer to their children, ever and how unsafe they knew they would be for kids, and even pregnant women. They told me that pregnant women were at risk from the vaccines and the developing child. They were angered as they did not have the proper safety data (e.g. too short duration follow-up, small sample sizes etc.) and did not understand why their agency heads were going ahead with the vaccines. This was about early Fall 2020.

They were horrified by the terrible clinical data that did not support the vaccines. They felt the FDA was no longer working on behalf of the American people. They even projected that the vaccines would be imperfect and would drive potential mutations etc. They were very scared and met me repeatedly to tell me their fears and how these vaccines must never be given to children. The key complaint was that too many corners were cut in the rush to bring the vaccine. They said that if the public knew what was being done by Pfizer and Moderna they would be outraged and likely get the vaccine development to stop.

They also said that the research and lockdowns and school closures was very clear and they were stunned at what was happening societally for they knew the lockdowns and closures were hurting the population, even killing people. They were horrified at the decisions to continue the lockdowns.

They told me they were thinking of quitting, many were. They were ashamed to be working at FDA and CDC and NIH and were mostly concerned about the poor quality and very sub-optimal data being used to make critical decisions. They told me no one at higher levels e.g. directors were listening to any concerns about the terrible data and safety issues.

I decided to share again.

Update:

I was alerted by some of you whiz stack readers about Makary’s recent piece too. I know Marty and have appeared with him on FOX to talk about natural immunity etc. He is very smart and I have tremendous respect for him though we at times do not agree on everything. But here is his sharing and link:

Makary spills:

‘The calls and text messages are relentless. On the other end are doctors and scientists at the top levels of the NIH, FDA and CDC. They are variously frustrated, exasperated and alarmed about the direction of the agencies to which they have devoted their careers.

“It's like a horror movie I'm being forced to watch and I can't close my eyes,” one senior FDA official lamented. “People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.”

That particular FDA doctor was referring to two recent developments inside the agency. First, how, with no solid clinical data, the agency authorized Covid vaccines for infants and toddlers, including those who already had Covid. And second, the fact that just months before, the FDA bypassed their external experts to authorize booster shots for young children.

That doctor is hardly alone.

At the NIH, doctors and scientists complain to us about low morale and lower staffing: The NIH’s Vaccine Research Center has had many of its senior scientists leave over the last year, including the director, deputy director and chief medical officer. “They have no leadership right now. Suddenly there’s an enormous number of jobs opening up at the highest level positions,” one NIH scientist told us. (The people who spoke to us would only agree to be quoted anonymously, citing fear of professional repercussions.)

The CDC has experienced a similar exodus. “There’s been a large amount of turnover. Morale is low,” one high level official at the CDC told us. “Things have become so political, so what are we there for?” Another CDC scientist told us: “I used to be proud to tell people I work at the CDC. Now I’m embarrassed.”

Why are they embarrassed? In short, bad science.

The longer answer: that the heads of their agencies are using weak or flawed data to make critically important public health decisions. That such decisions are being driven by what’s politically palatable to people in Washington or to the Biden administration. And that they have a myopic focus on one virus instead of overall health.

Nowhere has this problem been clearer—or the stakes higher—than on official public health policy regarding children and Covid.

First, they demanded that young children be masked in schools. On this score, the agencies were wrong. Compelling studies later found schools that masked children had no different rates of transmission. And for social and linguistic development, children need to see the faces of others.

Next came school closures. The agencies were wrong—and catastrophically so. Poor and minority children suffered learning loss with an 11-point drop in math scores alone and a 20% drop in math pass rates. There are dozens of statistics of this kind.

Then they ignored natural immunity. Wrong again. The vast majority of children have already had Covid, but this has made no difference in the blanket mandates for childhood vaccines. And now, by mandating vaccines and boosters for young healthy people, with no strong supporting data, these agencies are only further eroding public trust.

One CDC scientist told us about her shame and frustration about what happened to American children during the pandemic: “CDC failed to balance the risks of Covid with other risks that come from closing schools,” she said. “Learning loss, mental health exacerbations were obvious early on and those worsened as the guidance insisted on keeping schools virtual. CDC guidance worsened racial equity for generations to come. It failed this generation of children.”

An official at the FDA put it this way: “I can’t tell you how many people at the FDA have told me, ‘I don't like any of this, but I just need to make it to my retirement.’”

Right now, internal critics of these agencies are focused on one issue above all: Why did the FDA and the CDC issue strong blanket recommendations for Covid vaccines in children?

Three weeks ago, the CDC vigorously recommended mRNA Covid vaccines for 20 million children under five years of age. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, declared that the mRNA Covid vaccines should be given to everyone six months or older because they are safe and effective.

The trouble is that this sweeping recommendation was based on extremely weak, inconclusive data provided by Pfizer and Moderna.

Start with Pfizer. Using a three-dose vaccine in 992 children between the ages of six months and five years, Pfizer found no statistically significant evidence of vaccine efficacy. In the subgroup of children aged six months to two years, the trial found that the vaccine could result in a 99% lower chance of infection—but that they also could have a 370% increased chance of being infected. In other words, Pfizer reported a range of vaccine efficacy so wide that no conclusion could be inferred. No reputable medical journal would accept such sloppy and incomplete results with such a small sample size. More to the point, these results should have given pause to those who are in charge of public health.

Referring to Pfizer’s vaccine efficacy in healthy young children, one high-level CDC official—whose expertise is in the evaluation of clinical data—joked: “You can inject them with it or squirt it in their face, and you’ll get the same benefit.”
Moderna’s results—they conducted a study on 6,388 children with two doses—were not much better. Against asymptomatic infections, they claimed a very weak vaccine efficacy of just 4% in children aged six months to two years.
They also claimed an efficacy of 23% in children between two and six years old—but neither result was statistically significant. Against symptomatic infections, Moderna’s vaccine did show efficacy that was statistically significant, but the efficacy was low: 50% in children aged six months to two years, and 42% in children between two and six years old.

Then there’s the matter of how long a vaccine gives protection. We know from data in adults that it’s generally a matter of months. But we have no such data for young children.

“It seems criminal that we put out the recommendation to give mRNA Covid vaccines to babies without good data. We really don’t know what the risks are yet. So why push it so hard?” a CDC physician added. A high-level FDA official felt the same way: “The public has no idea how bad this data really is. It would not pass muster for any other authorization.”

And yet, the FDA and the CDC pushed it through. That slap in the face of science may explain why only 2% of parents of children under age five have chosen to get the Covid vaccine, and 40% of parents in rural areas say their pediatricians did not recommend the Covid vaccine for their child.

This isn’t the first time that Covid vaccines recommendations based on scant evidence have been pushed through these agencies.

Most recently, back in May, the lack of clinical evidence for booster shots in young people created a stir at the FDA. The White House promoted it hard even before FDA regulators had seen any data. Once they saw the data, they weren’t impressed. It showed no clear benefit against severe disease for people under 40.

The FDA’s two top vaccine regulators—Dr. Marion Gruber, director of the FDA’s vaccine office, and her deputy director, Dr. Philip Krause—quit the agency last year over political pressure to authorize vaccine boosters in young people. After their departure they wrote scathing commentaries explaining why the data did not support a broad booster authorization, arguing in the Washington Post that “the push for boosters for everyone could actually prolong the pandemic,” citing concerns that boosting based on an outdated variant could be counterproductive.

“It felt like we were a political tool” a CDC scientist told us about the issue. That insider went on to explain that he got vaccinated early but chose not to get boosted based on the data. Ironically, that person was unable to go on a trip with a group of parents because proof of being boosted was required. “I asked for someone to show me the data. They said the policy was based on the CDC recommendation.”

As one NIH scientist told us: “There’s a silence, an unwillingness for agency scientists to say anything. Even though they know that some of what’s being said out of the agency is absurd.”

That was a theme we heard over and over again—people felt like they couldn’t speak freely, even internally within their agencies. “You get labeled based on what you say. If you talk about it you will suffer, I’m convinced,” an FDA staffer told us. Another person at that agency added: “If you speak honestly, you get treated differently.”

And so they remain quiet, speaking to each other in private or in text groups on Signal.

One subject these doctors and scientists feel passionately about but feel they cannot bring up is natural immunity. Why, they wonder, are we insisting on immunizing children who already have some immunity to the disease due to having contracted Covid?

As of February, 75% of children in the U.S. already had natural immunity from prior infection. It could easily be over 90% of children today given how ubiquitous Omicron has been since then. The CDC’s own research shows that natural immunity is better than vaccinated immunity and a recent New England Journal of Medicine study from Israel has questioned the benefits of vaccinating previously infected persons. Many countries have long credited natural immunity towards vaccine mandates. But not the U.S.

In this, the leaders of these American health agencies made the U.S. an international outlier in how it treats children. Sweden never offered vaccination to children under 12. Finland limits Covid vaccines to children under 12 who are at high risk. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has appropriately stated that “some children may benefit” but “previous infection offers as good of protection as the vaccine against reinfection.” Denmark announced on June 22 that its recommendation to vaccinate any children under age 16 was a mistake. “The vaccinations were not predominantly recommended for the child’s sake but to ensure pandemic control,” said Søren Brostrøm, head of the Danish Ministry of Health.

It is statistically impossible for everyone who works inside of our health agencies to have 100% agreement about such a new and knotty subject. The fact that there is no public dissent or debate can only be explained by the fact that they are—or at least feel that they are—being muzzled.

It is an ancient, moral requirement of our profession to speak up when we believe questionable treatments are being proposed. It is also good for the public. Imagine, for example, a world in which those scientists who suggested that masking for children and school lockdowns were worse for public health were not smeared but instead debated?

The official public health response to Covid has undermined the public's belief in public health itself. This is a terrible outcome with potentially disastrous consequences. For one thing, because of these sloppy and politicized policies, we run the risk of parents rejecting routine vaccines for their children—ones we know are safe, effective and life-saving.

The leaders of the CDC, the FDA and the NIH should welcome internal discussion—even dissension—based on the evidence. Silencing physicians is not "following the science." Less absolutism and more humility by the men and women running our public health agencies would go a long way in rebuilding public trust.’

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These COVID injections could have never ever worked; Bhakdi said this day 1 & Steele says it; it cannot work because besides they are dangerous, a shot in arm can't protect against mucosal infection

They just cannot work based on first principles! It cannot activate local oral-nasal mucosal immunity, secretory IgA; IgA molecule, and the shots in the arms cannot work! it was all a lie!

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These COVID injections could have never ever worked; Bhakdi said this day 1 & Steele says it; it cannot work because besides they are dangerous, a shot in arm can't protect against mucosal infection
They just cannot work based on first principles! It cannot activate local oral-nasal mucosal immunity, secretory IgA; IgA molecule, and the shots in the arms cannot work! it was all a lie!
Dr. Paul Alexander
9 hr ago

Every aspect of this COVID injection makes no sense. Today we touch on a very controversial aspect that could cause tremors globally if it is ever found out to be true. Could Bourla and Fauci and Bancel and Francis Collins and all involved at CDC and NIH commit such a fraud on the American people? You damn right they could, as all they have done on lockdowns and these vaccines to date have been failures and frauds.

This COVID vaccine could have never worked. I am yet to be shown how this vaccine worked being delivered in the arm/injection site. IMO, an intranasal vaccine should have been developed that would have delivered antibodies or the like (provoked antibody production) to the nasopharynx (nostrils). To the mucosal layer in the nostrils.

I have written prior that in the US etc. the infection etc. was down, declining December 2020 and January 2021 prior to the COVID vaccine implementation. We were over this pandemic February 2021. So we cannot say these ever worked and then you would ask, then how come there were new waves? Well, we have argued that it is the COVID vaccine itself that is driving the infection and expansion. It was over before the vaccine roll-out.

We know this now with actual research especially that the vaccinal antibodies bind to the spike antigen and promote infection in the vaccinated, thus expanding the pandemic. Wave after wave and infection that does not get back to baseline so no herd immunity. Waves that are coming more rapid and higher and higher successive peaks. No back to baseline.

So we have a good argument the vaccine never worked, that your natural innate and acquired immunity worked to clear out the virus and you recovered and were naturally immune, and the virus was already declining before vaccine roll out February 2021. The vaccine then we argue has actually been driving the pandemic and has placed us where we are today.

I have said very early on that the COVID injection could not provide protection in the upper airways (upper respiratory tract/URT) if the content, the LNP, the mRNA, the spike protein, the resulting neutralizing vaccinal antibodies entered the lymph and systemic circulation. Why? Because the virus lands first in the nasal mucosa (mucosal lining) that lines the nasal cavity (nostrils). It also lands in the oral cavity. This slimy snotty substance/layer lines the entire respiratory tract. The immune response is needed there e.g. secretory IgA (SIgA). The response is not needed in the serum, systemically in the circulation, at least initially.

I stood on great work by Bhakdi and Steele. I stand by it.

The mucosal immune system as one part of the immune system, is the largest component of it. It functions to protect where infection threatens principally and this is the nasal mucosae. COVID virus infects the upper respiratory tract first (and to some extent the digestive tract) and thus the initial immune response must come from there in the URT. The mucosal immune system and the systemic immune system are distinct.

Dr. Steele makes a great case as to why these COVID injections never worked. para “Does the jab in the arm protect you? I have to be emphatic now, and my authority 50 years now on local mucosal immunity…none of those vaccines put into the arms can activate that mucosal immunity…those pushing this know it can’t work as cannot activate mucosal immunity.

None of the current jab in the arms can activate that immunity…it can’t work.”

Steele video: SOURCE

“Most attention has been given to virus-neutralizing antibodies, especially circulating antibodies (13–15). However, these can only be effective in the prevention of infection or disease if they reach the mucosal surfaces where the virus is present, and it should be noted that circulating IgA, even in polymeric form, is not effectively transported into secretions (16).”

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Mucosal Immunity in COVID-19: A Neglected but Critical Aspect of SARS-CoV-2 Infection

 

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The sublime cynicism of the press for "Omicron-specific" Covid vaccines

Since May, public health authorities and media outlets have started pushing a new generation of mRNA Covid booster shots, theoretically reformul…

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The sublime cynicism of the press for "Omicron-specific" Covid vaccines
Alex Berenson
18 hr ago

Since May, public health authorities and media outlets have started pushing a new generation of mRNA Covid booster shots, theoretically reformulated specifically against the Omicron variant.

The new jabs supposedly fix the minor fact that the original mRNA jabs have proven all-but-useless against Omicron - which, at least for now, is the only variant of Sars-Cov-2 left outside labs. (Details, details.)

As has happened so many times in the last two years, the reporting around the Omicron boosters has been weirdly monochromatic. Practically every major news outlet parrots the talking points that Pfizer and Moderna offered when they reported results from their Omicron booster clinical trials: the boosters produce a stronger “immune response” and more “Omicron-specific antibodies” than the original shot.



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Pfizer and Moderna aren’t lying.

Not exactly.

What they’re saying about the Omicron boosters is technically true. It’s also meaningless - as the companies, the public health bureaucrats, and everyone else playing this shell game well know. (Except, maybe, the reporters. Never overestimate their understanding.)

Why?

The mRNA shots work by causing cells to produce the coronavirus spike protein, the part of the virus that attaches to receptors on the surface of our cells. Our immune systems then recognize the spike and make antibodies against it. Those antibodies will defeat the actual Sars-Cov-2 virus when people are exposed to it, preventing vaccinated people from being infected.

Unfortunately, the Omicron variant of Sars-Cov-2 has mutated so that its spike protein has a significantly different structure than the original variant of the virus. Thus the antibodies the first-generation mRNA vaccine causes us to make don’t block it very well, and the shot provides little if any protection against Omicron infection. (Why the virus has mutated in this way is one of the many questions that the vaccine fanatics would prefer no one ask, so put it aside for now.)

Pfizer and Moderna claim they have the answer to this problem - new jabs containing mRNA that will cause cells to make the Omicron spike protein, rather than the original protein. Then - theoretically - our immune systems will respond by making antibodies that will attach more strongly to the Omicron spike, providing new and stronger protection against Omicron.

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Sure enough, when Pfizer and Moderna ran clinical trials comparing their Omicron mRNA boosters to boosters using the original mRNA, they found that the Omicron mRNA boosters produced higher levels of Omicron antibodies.

Yay! Success.

Only not really.

Why?

Remember, the mRNA shots are particularly ill-suited to Omicron. Numerous studies have shown that infection protection provided by the original two dose regimen falls to zero, if not below, within months.

For example, this paper in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the Pfizer shots offered 9 percent protection against Omicron after six months (a little below the 95 percent protection Pfizer reported in its pivotal clinical trial). A booster briefly raises protection, but within a couple of months it is again plunging toward zero.

For Omicron-specific boosters to make a real difference, they would have to rewrite our immune response completely.
Unfortunately, the original mRNA shots appear to dominate the immune response even after people receive an Omicron-specific booster. Even after receiving an Omicron booster, people make far fewer Omicron antibodies than they made to the wild-type spike when they received the original two doses of the vaccine.

It is unclear what the companies or anyone else can do about this problem, which is called immune imprinting or original antigenic sin and appears particularly acute with the mRNA vaccines.

Second, while the mRNA shots initially cause the body to make very high levels of antibodies to the coronavirus, those antibodies wane fast. That’s why the protection from infection that the original shot offered against the original Sars-Cov-2 cratered within a few months - before Omicron even existed.

Pfizer reported that an Omicron-specific shot with 30 micrograms of mRNA, the same amount in the original dose, caused recipients to make only about 2.2 times as many antibodies capable of destroying Omicron as the original mRNA booster did. Given how quickly antibodies wane, that result probably translates into at most a month of extra protection compared to what the original boosters offer.

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In other words, the Omicron-specific boosters do nothing to fix the fundamental problems with the mRNA shots (to say nothing the risk of that we are running with repeated dosing of this potent biotechnology on a schedule much faster than anyone predicted).

No, Omicron boosters are nothing more than a slightly repackaged and updated version of the same crummy product Pfizer and Moderna have sold for 18 months. Consumer product companies do this all the time. Pharmaceutical companies aren’t supposed to, though, and if they tried, the Food and Drug Administration was supposed to stop them.

At least it used to be.

The scientists at the FDA and National Institutes of Health are not complete idiots. (Those at the Centers for Disease Control may well be.) They are well aware of the game the companies are playing here and the reality that Omicron boosters are a tiny improvement at best.

But they also know that demand for mRNA jabs has cratered and that nearly everyone is now aware that the shots do not work against Omicron. If they aren’t going to admit defeat after $100 billion and one billion-plus people injected with mRNA, they need something - anything - that will convince people to take another shot. And they don’t seem ready to admit defeat, not yet.

Thus boosters.

The booster push has already had one crucial benefit, though - it has ended the six-month plunge in the stock prices of Moderna and BioNTech.

Success!

 

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When I first heard about novavax I was encouraged (probably more than a year ago by now...time flies, so not sure when it was first discussed) I thought finally a non-mrna/dna vaccine. Then some of the more well known anti-mrna folks said no to this as well. But they seem to be anti-vaxxers in the true sense of the word, ie anti all vaccines (not that that's a bad thing, it just adds some bias into the mix because they're going to be a hard no on everything). Geert has emphasized over and over that he is not an anti-vaxxer and in fact is an advocate for live attenuated vaccines for children (for now, until something better comes along). to me, that makes him more neutral in the discussion so that's why I'm interested to hear what he says. I have a feeling though that because it's still vaccinating into a pandemic, that issue hasn't gone away for him.... I'd also be interested in hearing Dr. Malone, Dr. McCollough, Dr. Cole, Dr, Kory's opinions. Let's hope they talk about it soon!

HD

About six months ago Dr. McCollough was favorable towards this vaccine but I’m not sure where he is now I’ll look around

 

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I repeat, NIH, CDC, FDA, Moderna, and Pfizer high officials met me secretly at HHS 2020 in Washington & on walks on DC mall, telling me they feared for careers & safety; told me do not stop!

Officials met me to say they read what I write & say at HHS to Fauci & NIH & FDA & they agree & in fear of safety to speak out but know the vaccines have no clinical data, don't work, harmful; MAKARY!

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I repeat, NIH, CDC, FDA, Moderna, and Pfizer high officials met me secretly at HHS 2020 in Washington & on walks on DC mall, telling me they feared for careers & safety; told me do not stop!
Officials met me to say they read what I write & say at HHS to Fauci & NIH & FDA & they agree & in fear of safety to speak out but know the vaccines have no clinical data, don't work, harmful; MAKARY!
Dr. Paul Alexander
4 hr ago

It is quite perverse that the legacy media will not interview me on this nor even FOX etc. Very strange indeed. I know why. You can figure it out too!

Doctors be warned, if insider agency officials in CDC etc. are speaking out now going against the narrative and telling us that the agencies are not following the science, you will soon be thrown under the bus! Tell US & Canada & UK governments to stop this failed COVID injection, and none for our children!

They, NIH, CDC, FDA, Moderna, and Pfizer officials confidentially and secretly told me not to stop what I was doing speaking out and writing the FDA for they all knew of my communications warning about the vaccines. They said that they would never give the vaccines from Moderna or Pfizer to their children, ever and how unsafe they knew they would be for kids, and even pregnant women. They told me that pregnant women were at risk from the vaccines and the developing child. They were angered as they did not have the proper safety data (e.g. too short duration follow-up, small sample sizes etc.) and did not understand why their agency heads were going ahead with the vaccines. This was about early Fall 2020.

They were horrified by the terrible clinical data that did not support the vaccines. They felt the FDA was no longer working on behalf of the American people. They even projected that the vaccines would be imperfect and would drive potential mutations etc. They were very scared and met me repeatedly to tell me their fears and how these vaccines must never be given to children. The key complaint was that too many corners were cut in the rush to bring the vaccine. They said that if the public knew what was being done by Pfizer and Moderna they would be outraged and likely get the vaccine development to stop.

They also said that the research and lockdowns and school closures was very clear and they were stunned at what was happening societally for they knew the lockdowns and closures were hurting the population, even killing people. They were horrified at the decisions to continue the lockdowns.

They told me they were thinking of quitting, many were. They were ashamed to be working at FDA and CDC and NIH and were mostly concerned about the poor quality and very sub-optimal data being used to make critical decisions. They told me no one at higher levels e.g. directors were listening to any concerns about the terrible data and safety issues.

I decided to share again.

Update:

I was alerted by some of you whiz stack readers about Makary’s recent piece too. I know Marty and have appeared with him on FOX to talk about natural immunity etc. He is very smart and I have tremendous respect for him though we at times do not agree on everything. But here is his sharing and link:

Makary spills:

‘The calls and text messages are relentless. On the other end are doctors and scientists at the top levels of the NIH, FDA and CDC. They are variously frustrated, exasperated and alarmed about the direction of the agencies to which they have devoted their careers.

“It's like a horror movie I'm being forced to watch and I can't close my eyes,” one senior FDA official lamented. “People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.”

That particular FDA doctor was referring to two recent developments inside the agency. First, how, with no solid clinical data, the agency authorized Covid vaccines for infants and toddlers, including those who already had Covid. And second, the fact that just months before, the FDA bypassed their external experts to authorize booster shots for young children.

That doctor is hardly alone.

At the NIH, doctors and scientists complain to us about low morale and lower staffing: The NIH’s Vaccine Research Center has had many of its senior scientists leave over the last year, including the director, deputy director and chief medical officer. “They have no leadership right now. Suddenly there’s an enormous number of jobs opening up at the highest level positions,” one NIH scientist told us. (The people who spoke to us would only agree to be quoted anonymously, citing fear of professional repercussions.)

The CDC has experienced a similar exodus. “There’s been a large amount of turnover. Morale is low,” one high level official at the CDC told us. “Things have become so political, so what are we there for?” Another CDC scientist told us: “I used to be proud to tell people I work at the CDC. Now I’m embarrassed.”

Why are they embarrassed? In short, bad science.

The longer answer: that the heads of their agencies are using weak or flawed data to make critically important public health decisions. That such decisions are being driven by what’s politically palatable to people in Washington or to the Biden administration. And that they have a myopic focus on one virus instead of overall health.

Nowhere has this problem been clearer—or the stakes higher—than on official public health policy regarding children and Covid.

First, they demanded that young children be masked in schools. On this score, the agencies were wrong. Compelling studies later found schools that masked children had no different rates of transmission. And for social and linguistic development, children need to see the faces of others.

Next came school closures. The agencies were wrong—and catastrophically so. Poor and minority children suffered learning loss with an 11-point drop in math scores alone and a 20% drop in math pass rates. There are dozens of statistics of this kind.

Then they ignored natural immunity. Wrong again. The vast majority of children have already had Covid, but this has made no difference in the blanket mandates for childhood vaccines. And now, by mandating vaccines and boosters for young healthy people, with no strong supporting data, these agencies are only further eroding public trust.

One CDC scientist told us about her shame and frustration about what happened to American children during the pandemic: “CDC failed to balance the risks of Covid with other risks that come from closing schools,” she said. “Learning loss, mental health exacerbations were obvious early on and those worsened as the guidance insisted on keeping schools virtual. CDC guidance worsened racial equity for generations to come. It failed this generation of children.”

An official at the FDA put it this way: “I can’t tell you how many people at the FDA have told me, ‘I don't like any of this, but I just need to make it to my retirement.’”

Right now, internal critics of these agencies are focused on one issue above all: Why did the FDA and the CDC issue strong blanket recommendations for Covid vaccines in children?

Three weeks ago, the CDC vigorously recommended mRNA Covid vaccines for 20 million children under five years of age. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, declared that the mRNA Covid vaccines should be given to everyone six months or older because they are safe and effective.

The trouble is that this sweeping recommendation was based on extremely weak, inconclusive data provided by Pfizer and Moderna.

Start with Pfizer. Using a three-dose vaccine in 992 children between the ages of six months and five years, Pfizer found no statistically significant evidence of vaccine efficacy. In the subgroup of children aged six months to two years, the trial found that the vaccine could result in a 99% lower chance of infection—but that they also could have a 370% increased chance of being infected. In other words, Pfizer reported a range of vaccine efficacy so wide that no conclusion could be inferred. No reputable medical journal would accept such sloppy and incomplete results with such a small sample size. More to the point, these results should have given pause to those who are in charge of public health.

Referring to Pfizer’s vaccine efficacy in healthy young children, one high-level CDC official—whose expertise is in the evaluation of clinical data—joked: “You can inject them with it or squirt it in their face, and you’ll get the same benefit.”
Moderna’s results—they conducted a study on 6,388 children with two doses—were not much better. Against asymptomatic infections, they claimed a very weak vaccine efficacy of just 4% in children aged six months to two years.
They also claimed an efficacy of 23% in children between two and six years old—but neither result was statistically significant. Against symptomatic infections, Moderna’s vaccine did show efficacy that was statistically significant, but the efficacy was low: 50% in children aged six months to two years, and 42% in children between two and six years old.

Then there’s the matter of how long a vaccine gives protection. We know from data in adults that it’s generally a matter of months. But we have no such data for young children.

“It seems criminal that we put out the recommendation to give mRNA Covid vaccines to babies without good data. We really don’t know what the risks are yet. So why push it so hard?” a CDC physician added. A high-level FDA official felt the same way: “The public has no idea how bad this data really is. It would not pass muster for any other authorization.”

And yet, the FDA and the CDC pushed it through. That slap in the face of science may explain why only 2% of parents of children under age five have chosen to get the Covid vaccine, and 40% of parents in rural areas say their pediatricians did not recommend the Covid vaccine for their child.

This isn’t the first time that Covid vaccines recommendations based on scant evidence have been pushed through these agencies.

Most recently, back in May, the lack of clinical evidence for booster shots in young people created a stir at the FDA. The White House promoted it hard even before FDA regulators had seen any data. Once they saw the data, they weren’t impressed. It showed no clear benefit against severe disease for people under 40.

The FDA’s two top vaccine regulators—Dr. Marion Gruber, director of the FDA’s vaccine office, and her deputy director, Dr. Philip Krause—quit the agency last year over political pressure to authorize vaccine boosters in young people. After their departure they wrote scathing commentaries explaining why the data did not support a broad booster authorization, arguing in the Washington Post that “the push for boosters for everyone could actually prolong the pandemic,” citing concerns that boosting based on an outdated variant could be counterproductive.

“It felt like we were a political tool” a CDC scientist told us about the issue. That insider went on to explain that he got vaccinated early but chose not to get boosted based on the data. Ironically, that person was unable to go on a trip with a group of parents because proof of being boosted was required. “I asked for someone to show me the data. They said the policy was based on the CDC recommendation.”

As one NIH scientist told us: “There’s a silence, an unwillingness for agency scientists to say anything. Even though they know that some of what’s being said out of the agency is absurd.”

That was a theme we heard over and over again—people felt like they couldn’t speak freely, even internally within their agencies. “You get labeled based on what you say. If you talk about it you will suffer, I’m convinced,” an FDA staffer told us. Another person at that agency added: “If you speak honestly, you get treated differently.”

And so they remain quiet, speaking to each other in private or in text groups on Signal.

One subject these doctors and scientists feel passionately about but feel they cannot bring up is natural immunity. Why, they wonder, are we insisting on immunizing children who already have some immunity to the disease due to having contracted Covid?

As of February, 75% of children in the U.S. already had natural immunity from prior infection. It could easily be over 90% of children today given how ubiquitous Omicron has been since then. The CDC’s own research shows that natural immunity is better than vaccinated immunity and a recent New England Journal of Medicine study from Israel has questioned the benefits of vaccinating previously infected persons. Many countries have long credited natural immunity towards vaccine mandates. But not the U.S.

In this, the leaders of these American health agencies made the U.S. an international outlier in how it treats children. Sweden never offered vaccination to children under 12. Finland limits Covid vaccines to children under 12 who are at high risk. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has appropriately stated that “some children may benefit” but “previous infection offers as good of protection as the vaccine against reinfection.” Denmark announced on June 22 that its recommendation to vaccinate any children under age 16 was a mistake. “The vaccinations were not predominantly recommended for the child’s sake but to ensure pandemic control,” said Søren Brostrøm, head of the Danish Ministry of Health.

It is statistically impossible for everyone who works inside of our health agencies to have 100% agreement about such a new and knotty subject. The fact that there is no public dissent or debate can only be explained by the fact that they are—or at least feel that they are—being muzzled.

It is an ancient, moral requirement of our profession to speak up when we believe questionable treatments are being proposed. It is also good for the public. Imagine, for example, a world in which those scientists who suggested that masking for children and school lockdowns were worse for public health were not smeared but instead debated?

The official public health response to Covid has undermined the public's belief in public health itself. This is a terrible outcome with potentially disastrous consequences. For one thing, because of these sloppy and politicized policies, we run the risk of parents rejecting routine vaccines for their children—ones we know are safe, effective and life-saving.

The leaders of the CDC, the FDA and the NIH should welcome internal discussion—even dissension—based on the evidence. Silencing physicians is not "following the science." Less absolutism and more humility by the men and women running our public health agencies would go a long way in rebuilding public trust.’

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I get Alexander‘s sub stack by email and I could post every one of these articles here because they are so stunning. How do you keep from posting them all? This one is especially alarming although we’ve known this is true all along. Sadly the majority of Americans in the world are not hearing the voices of those they need to hear the most.

 

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Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine—A Possibly Safer Choice but Likely Obsolete - Dr. McCollough

June 14, 2022 • 58 min
The technology differs from Pfizer and Moderna’s shots, which were the first ones using messenger RNA technology to receive FDA approval and have resulted in catastrophic rates of injury, disability, and death. In the Novavax clinical trial experience, there were no hospitalizations or deaths due to COVID-19...

Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine—A Possibly Safer Choice but Likely Obsolete - THE MCCULLOUGH REPORT | iHeart

The technology differs from Pfizer and Moderna’s shots, which were the first ones using messenger RNA technology to receive FDA approval and have resulted in catastrophic rates of injury, disability, and death. In the Novavax clinical trial experience, there were no hospitalizations or deaths...

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FDA to approve Novavax but some critics speak out.

Dr. Malone posted this on his telegram channel.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) still needs to sign off on the Novavax vaccine before pharmacies and other healthcare providers can start administering shots.

The Biden administration on Monday announced a deal with Novavax to purchase 3.2 million doses of the vaccine.

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FDA Authorizes ‘Traditional’ Novavax COVID Vaccine, But Critics Question Safety Claims - Globe Stories Today

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for adults 18 and over. The EUA is for the two-dose primary series targeting the original Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 virus — limiting the vaccine’s use, as about two-thirds of...

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Should you get the Novavax vaccine?

Absolutely not! Here are my top 5 reasons why you shouldn't.

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I get Alexander‘s sub stack by email and I could post every one of these articles here because they are so stunning. How do you keep from posting them all? This one is especially alarming although we’ve known this is true all along. Sadly the majority of Americans in the world are not hearing the voices of those they need to hear the most.

I pick the ones I think are most important. I wonder if posting pages of posts a night is too much for someone who wants to quickly check into the thread and they may just close it up and miss the important ones which to me means my time posting all of it was actually counterproductive. So I'm trying something new - posting fewer posts, but more important ones, so that if someone checks the thread they don't get bored and actually see all the ones posted. This saves me time and it may work better to not have reader's eyes glaze over, especially with the longer more scientific substacks which take a while to format. If you see something I haven't posted, please do post it if you think it's important!

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COVID-19 has become 'too clever for us' and can 'break past' our protection, WHO official says

"Even though we don't like it we have to go on respecting this virus," David Nabarro told Sky News, urging people to stay up to date on vaccinations.

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COVID-19 has become 'too clever for us' and can 'break past' our protection, WHO official says
Jake Epstein
Fri, July 15, 2022, 10:14 AM

• A WHO official said COVID-19 has become "too clever for us" and can evade protection.
• David Nabarro told Sky News that people should still take precautions against the virus.
• Daily new COVID-19 cases around the world have steadily climbed since early June.

COVID-19 has become "too clever for us" and can break through protection, a World Health Organization official said, warning that precautions still matter to fight the virus.
WHO special envoy David Nabarro told Sky News on Thursday that the reason for a surge in new COVID-19 cases globally is because the virus "changed yet again, and it's become too clever for us."

"This virus is capable of constantly evolving and changing," he told the outlet. "It can break past our immune defenses, and that's why the numbers are going up."
Nabarro told Sky that taking precautions against the virus, like ensuring people are up to date on their COVID-19 vaccination shots, is still important to keep others safe.

"My advice to everyone is please, this virus hasn't gone away, it's not killing so many people, but it is really unpleasant, especially if you get long COVID," he said. "Even though we don't like it, we have to go on respecting this virus."

According to data from the WHO, global daily new COVID-19 cases have slowly climbed since early June — driven mainly by Europe. Data from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center shows that for the week ending on July 10, there were over 6.25 million global COVID-19 cases.

The increase in June marked the end of a months-long slide after cases peaked in January when the original Omicron variant ran rampant. Global deaths, meanwhile, climbed to over 12,000 for the week ending on July 10 — though still a figure significantly lower than in previous years of the pandemic.

The US has also seen a steady rise in cases and is averaging over 124,000 a day, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Driving the surge in cases is the Omicron variant BA.5, which can evade defenses against previous virus variants, Insider's Hilary Brueck previously reported.

People infected in prior COVID-19 waves "really don't have a lot of good protection" against BA.5, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday.

Fauci added: "Variants will continue to emerge if the virus circulates globally and in this county. We should not let it disrupt our lives, but we cannot deny that it is a reality that we need to deal with."

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This was said by 'conspiracy theory' 'must be cancelled' doctors all along. They are finally getting the validation they should've gotten when they warned about this. (Dr. Tenpenney, Dr. Northrup, Dr. Madej, etc). Now they deserve an apology. And if they knew it, how come the MSM talking head doctors didn't? Was it on a secret code ring?/sarcasm...

Changes to periods after Covid vaccines may be common, survey suggests

In a survey, 42% of people with regular menstrual cycles said they bled more heavily post-vaccination. Many non-menstruating people experienced unexpected bleeding.

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Changes to periods after Covid vaccines may be common, survey suggests
Sarah Sloat
Fri, July 15, 2022, 2:00 PM

When adults gained access to Covid vaccines last year, most knew to expect headaches, fatigue and soreness as side effects.

But some researchers think it’s time to add another common one to the list: temporary menstrual changes.

An analysis published Friday in the journal Science Advances found that 42% of people with regular menstrual cycles said they bled more heavily than usual after vaccination. Meanwhile, 44% reported no change and around 14% reported a lighter period. Among nonmenstruating people — those post-menopause or who use certain long-term contraceptives, for example — the study suggests many experienced breakthrough or unexpected bleeding after their Covid shots.

The survey included over 39,000 people 18 to 80 years old who were fully vaccinated and had not contracted Covid. The study authors cautioned, though, that the percentages do not necessarily represent the rate of menstrual changes in the general population, since people who observed a difference were more likely to participate. The survey’s aim was simply to provide evidence for future studies, not to establish cause and effect.

Still, other recent research also found that the Covid vaccine is associated with a small change in menstrual cycle length.

The new survey started in April 2021, around the time people began to report unexpected bleeding and heavier flow post-vaccine. However, these anecdotes were at the time met with the rebuttal that there was no data linking menstrual changes to vaccination.

That was both true and indicative of a larger problem. Individuals who took part in Covid vaccine trials were not asked if they experienced menstrual changes.

“Before the vaccinations came out, I would say our knowledge on the subject of the connection between immunization and menstrual changes, in general, was nil,” said Candace Tingen, a program director with the gynecologic health and disease branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Tingen was not involved in the recent survey.

Overall, few studies assess the direct effect of vaccination on the menstrual cycle, and most pharmaceutical trials have not included questions about changes to menstruation.

Tingen views this as a mistake. Perhaps, she said, if Covid-19 vaccine trials had asked about menstruation, people would not have been surprised — or frightened — by this unexpected side effect.

“It was really this lack of information that I think caused confusion, fear and perhaps vaccine hesitancy,” she said.

Study co-author Katherine M.N. Lee said that overall, menstruation is understudied when it’s not relevant to pregnancy.

“It gets ignored because of the structure of science,” Lee, an assistant professor at Tulane University, said. “There are very few senior people in science and medicine who are not white men. It’s just not something they are thinking about as part of their lived experience.”

Lee and her colleagues were inspired to ask people about their menstruation cycles after being vaccinated after seeing both friends and strangers online wonder why they experienced an unexpected change.

The survey group included more than 3,500 people who identify as gender diverse. Approximately 84% of participants were white, and none were between the ages of 45 and 55 because the researchers didn’t want to include changes associated with perimenopause, when the body begins the transition to menopause.

The respondents were vaccinated with Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax.

The group included people who do not usually menstruate because they are post-menopausal, use long-acting reversible contraceptives or hormonal contraceptives, or are undergoing gender-affirming treatment that stops menstruation. A majority of these respondents experienced breakthrough bleeding after the vaccine.

Among the 238 postmenopausal people in the study who were not on hormonal treatments and had not bled for at least 12 months before their vaccination, 66% reported breakthrough bleeding.

The survey found that in general, people who experienced a heavier flow after their shots were more likely to be nonwhite and older; to use hormonal contraception; to have a diagnosed reproductive condition; to have also experienced fever or fatigue as side effects; or to have been pregnant in the past.

As part of the survey, the team also included free response sections where participants could share their experiences.

“A large number of people reported the feeling that ‘I’m so angry that I didn’t know this ahead of time, but I’m glad I still got it,’” said Kathryn Clancy, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois and the study's other co-author. “They wouldn’t have changed their decision to get the vaccine, but they felt betrayed by the fact that no one told them to expect it.”

It’s not yet understood why menstrual changes happen after vaccination. Tingen said the answer will likely stem from the overlap between the immune system and endocrine system, which plays a role in reproduction. (There are immune cells in the uterus that help during the process of menstruation, for example.)

“Diet, sleep and stress can all affect the menstrual cycle,” Tingen said. “It is perhaps not surprising that a large immune reaction might throw menstruation off temporarily, in a minor way.”

Covid itself has been shown to disrupt menstruation more significantly than vaccines. This may be because of an ongoing immune reaction and the lifestyle changes that come with being sick. People with long Covid are especially affected, Tingen said, and more research on the reason is needed.

Menstrual changes as a vaccine side effect are on par with others like muscle pain: While uncomfortable, they do not change how safe or effective the shots are. But Clancy said unexplained side effects cause people to feel fearful — and in some cases spread vaccine hesitancy.

Some people skeptical of vaccines have falsely conflated the possibility of short-term menstrual changes with long-term harm to fertility, messaging that Lee described as an “active disinformation campaign.”

Clancy said she’s received messages from parents who’ve heard about menstruation changes and are concerned that vaccinating their child will cause early puberty, even though there is no evidence for this.

Period-related surprises post-vaccine posed particular challenges for trans men and genderqueer people, according to the study, since some had to navigate public or workplace bathrooms after experiencing unexpected menstruation.

“Unexpected bleeding runs the risk of psychological distress for those who experience gender dysphoria with menstruation and physical harm for people for whom managing menstruation in public is dangerous,” the authors wrote.

Clancy, Lee and their colleagues hope their work inspires further research, encourages clinicians to talk to patients about the link between vaccination and menstrual changes, and validates people who have felt ignored or alone in their experiences.

“If you want to improve trust in government, trust in pharmaceutical companies, trust in medicine, trust in vaccines, then you have to take the time to do the work, so people know what to expect going into it,” Clancy said. “That effort makes people more likely to get their second shot or booster.”

 

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Beijing Residents Forced to Wear Regime-Issued Electronic Bracelets if You Traveled Out of the City - Will Track Your Location and Monitor Temperature

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Beijing Residents Forced to Wear Regime-Issued Electronic Bracelets if You Traveled Out of the City – Will Track Your Location and Monitor Temperature
By Jim Hoft
Published July 15, 2022 at 11:37am

Via Jenifer Zeng — Residents of Beijing, China are required to wear an electronic bracelet after returning to Beijing from other cities.

That way their movements can be monitored by the regime.

The bracelet can also monitor your body temperature 24/7, as well as your locations and movements.

That is like what the regime did in America.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used phone location data to track millions Americans in 2021.
The CDC monitored curfew zones, churches, schools, neighbor-to-neighbor visits and trips to pharmacies through SafeGraph, a controversial data broker.

The CDC purchased the phone data and used Covid-19 as an excuse to buy the data more quickly and in larger quantities according to documents exclusively obtained by Motherboard through a FOIA request.

The CDC used the data to determine whether Americans were complying with Covid lockdown orders.

In America.

Maybe this is next.

You must wear it all the time except when you recharge the battery or have a shower.​

The purpose? To fight the #COVID #COVID19 #CCPVirus, according to the #CCP.​

— Jennifer Zeng 曾錚 (@jenniferatntd) July 15, 2022​