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[Zoner]

It's about time. Birx and him finally admit what most of us knew a long time ago. And yet they still promote vaxing and boosters.

Fauci Makes Surprising Concession Regarding COVID-19 Vaccines - Globe Stories Today

White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci conceded Wednesday morning that COVID-19 vaccines don’t protect “overly well” against the virus. Speaking during a Fox News interview, Fauci told host Neil Cavuto that “one of the things that’s clear from the data [is] that … vaccines—because of the...

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[psychgirl]

I’ve just been told in a BS thread…that the new vaccine, Novavax?
IS an mRNA vaccine, just like all the others!!
What’s going on, here?
I can’t link the thread here, but you’ll see it.

 

[Zoner]

HD put this Alexander substack up already, but he has updated it. I'll post the full update below:

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.’”

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!

palexander.substack.com

 

[psychgirl]

Wow.
Heads of, and staff, leaving the CDC. I hope they all come forward, every last one of them, to whistle blow the truth.

 

[Zoner]

HD put this Alexander substack up already, but he has updated it. I'll post the full update below:

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.’”

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!

palexander.substack.com

These people are such cowards speaking anonymously. America and the world needs them to speak up and speak out. But they're afraid. To me, they are just as guilty as those pushing this junk.

“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

 

[Zoner]

Never heard of it before now either.

I’ve never even HEARD of this virus before!
More and more illnesses are popping up.
Unless, it’s just because the media is reporting on them more, that we’re now seeing them?

 

[amarah]

I’ve just been told in a BS thread…that the new vaccine, Novavax?
IS an mRNA vaccine, just like all the others!!
What’s going on, here?
I can’t link the thread here, but you’ll see it.

It's not mrna but delivers the spike protein via a protein (insect)and also uses a new type of adjuvant to stimulate the immune system.I've also read it can cause myocardititis.
Definitely would. not. take.

 

[Zoner]

I’ve just been told in a BS thread…that the new vaccine, Novavax?
IS an mRNA vaccine, just like all the others!!
What’s going on, here?
I can’t link the thread here, but you’ll see it.

Thanks

 

[psychgirl]

These people are such cowards speaking anonymously. America and the world needs them to speak up and speak out. But they're afraid. To me, they are just as guilty as those pushing this junk.

“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Ditto.
It’s all so depressing.

 

[psychgirl]

It's not mrna but delivers the spike protein via a protein (insect)and also uses a new type of adjuvant to stimulate the immune system.I've also read it can cause myocardititis.
Definitely would. not. take.

I was really hoping for a good one, too. The same way I hoped for the J $ J until it showed such bad side effects.
We were going to consider that one too.
Remember that very first woman who died from blood clots after she took the JJ? Then they pulled the roll out of the shot?

That woman, was the best friend, of a coworker’s family that my DH works with.

So, that one was a no go, too. The coworker of DH was so upset. He’s very anti Covid vaxx now.

 

[Zoner]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1548670310987091969

View: https://twitter.com/HighWireTalk/status/1548670310987091969?s=20&t=DrFdT-Zk3btxxCK7DiS-Ew

 

[Zoner]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1547763057895518209

View: https://twitter.com/drjulieponesse/status/1547763057895518209?s=21&t=vcoD356tjtubijGKzOWQGQ

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

I’ve just been told in a BS thread…that the new vaccine, Novavax?
IS an mRNA vaccine, just like all the others!!
What’s going on, here?
I can’t link the thread here, but you’ll see it.

Novovax is NOT an MRNA vaccine. Novovax injects the spike into you, it doesn't inject something (mrna or dna) to have your cell create spike. Not sure what thread you are referring to, will check it out after I post tonight's articles. Sunday's are usually slow news night so there won't be many to post so should get to it soon.

ETA: saw the post in the BS and answered there too but said basically the same thing.

HD

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

BA.5 spurs new calls to fund next-generation COVID-19 vaccines

The rise of the BA.5 variant is spurring new calls for funding for an Operation Warp Speed 2.0 to accelerate development of next-generation COVID-19 vaccines that can better target new variants. The BA.5 subvariant of omicron that now makes up the majority of U.S. COVID-19 cases is sparking...

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BA.5 spurs new calls to fund next-generation COVID-19 vaccines
Peter Sullivan - The Hill
Sun, July 17, 2022, 8:01 AM

The rise of the BA.5 variant is spurring new calls for funding for an Operation Warp Speed 2.0 to accelerate development of next-generation COVID-19 vaccines that can better target new variants.

The BA.5 subvariant of omicron that now makes up the majority of U.S. COVID-19 cases is sparking concern because it has a greater ability to evade the protection of current vaccines than past strains of the virus did.

Pfizer and Moderna are working on updated vaccines that target BA.5 that could be ready this fall, but experts say that by the time they are ready, a new variant very well could have taken hold.

As alternatives to vaccine makers chasing each variant, experts point to research on “pan-coronavirus” vaccines that are “variant-proof,” targeting multiple variants, as well as nasal vaccines that could drastically cut down on transmission of the virus.

There is ongoing research on these next-generation vaccines, but unlike in 2020, when the federal government’s Operation Warp Speed helped speed the development of the original vaccine, there is less funding and assistance this time around.

COVID-19 funding that could help develop and manufacture new vaccines more quickly has been stalled in Congress for months.

“There’s no Operation Warp Speed,” said Eric Topol, professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research. “So it’s moving very slowly. But at least it’s moving.”

Leana Wen, a public health professor at George Washington University, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed this week that the U.S. needs “urgent investment” in next-generation vaccines and “we need an ‘Operation Warp Speed Part 2.’”

“It does not work to keep on playing whack-a-mole” by trying to adapt vaccines to each variant, she said in an interview.

But Topol said the Biden administration is hindered by lack of funding from Congress to step up efforts on the improved vaccines.

“Those who are interested, in the administration, the roadblock for them is they can’t get any funding,” he said.

Administration health officials pointed to funding when asked about next-generation vaccines at a press briefing on Tuesday.

“We need resources to continue that effort and to accelerate that effort,” said Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert. “So although we’re doing a lot and the field looks promising, in order to continue it, we really do need to have a continual flow of resources to do that.”

But COVID-19 funding has been stuck in Congress for months. Republicans have long said they do not see any urgency in approving the money. Democrats, while generally calling for the funding, have been caught up in their own internal divisions, like when a group of House Democrats objected to a way to pay for the new funding in March.

“Of course more funding would accelerate some parts of the development,” Karin Bok, acting deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Vaccine Research Center, said in an interview.

She also cautioned that development of next-generation vaccines like nasal vaccines would take longer than the original vaccines, because less groundwork has been laid over the preceding years.

Experts stress that even for BA.5, the current vaccines still provide important protection against severe disease and hospitalization, and are urging people to get their booster shots now. But there is potential for further improvement in the vaccines as well.

Aside from funding, another obstacle is obtaining copies of the existing COVID-19 vaccines for use in research, said Pamela Bjorkman, a California Institute of Technology professor working on a next-generation vaccine.

“I would say we’ve wasted at least six months,” with various procedural hurdles on that front, she said. “It’s just ridiculous.”
For example, she said at one point when her team was able to get access to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, it then took two or three months to get an import permit to send it from the United Kingdom.

“This is a hot topic,” Bok, of the NIH, said of access to existing vaccine doses for researchers. “The government is working very hard on an agreement with the companies to provide it to us and to all the investigators…that are funded by NIH.”

Asked about providing vaccine doses for researchers and any talks with the administration on that front, a Moderna spokesperson said: “We do provide vaccine in certain investigator-initiated studies where physicians and scientists propose research they have designed and want to conduct with our support,” pointing to a South African study as an example.

More broadly, the White House says it is working on accelerating next-generation vaccine research and will have more announcements soon.

“Let me be very clear: We clearly need a true next-generation vaccine,” White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha told reporters on Tuesday.

“You’ll hear more from us in the days and weeks ahead,” he added. “This is something that we have been working quite assiduously on.”

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

North Korea says it is nearing end of COVID crisis as Asian neighbours fight resurgence

North Korea is on the path to "finally defuse" a crisis stemming from its first acknowledged outbreak of COVID-19, the state news agency said on Monday, while Asian neighbours battle a fresh wave of infections driven by Omicron subvariants. The North says 99.98% of its 4.77 million fever...

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North Korea says it is nearing end of COVID crisis as Asian neighbours fight resurgence
Soo-hyang Choi
Mon, July 18, 2022, 12:23 AM·2 min read

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea is on the path to "finally defuse" a crisis stemming from its first acknowledged outbreak of COVID-19, the state news agency said on Monday, while Asian neighbours battle a fresh wave of infections driven by Omicron subvariants.

The North says 99.98% of its 4.77 million fever patients since late April have fully recovered, but due to an apparent lack of testing, it has not released any figures of those that proved positive.

"The anti-epidemic campaign is improved to finally defuse the crisis completely," KCNA said. It added that the North had reported 310 more people with fever symptoms.

The World Health Organization has cast doubts on North Korea's claims, saying last month it believed the situation was getting worse, not better, amid an absence of independent data.

The North's declaration could be a prelude to restoring trade long hampered by the pandemic, one analyst said.

"Under the current trend, North Korea could announce in less than a month that its COVID crisis is over and that could be a prelude to resuming cross-border trade," said Cheong Seong-chang, director of the Sejong Institute's North Korea studies centre in South Korea.

Analysts say the authoritarian North has used the pandemic to tighten already strict social controls. Pyongyang blamed its outbreak on "alien things" near its border with the South, urging its people to avoid anything that comes from outside.

Daily new cases of fever in North Korea reported by KCNA have been declining since the reclusive country first acknowledged in mid-May that it was battling an outbreak of COVID-19.

Lacking a public vaccination effort, the North said it was running intensive medical checks nationwide, with daily PCR tests on water collected in borderline areas among the measures.

The North also said it has been developing new methods to better detect the virus and its variants, as well as other infectious diseases, such as monkeypox.

North Korea's claim of "anti-epidemic stability" comes as other Asian countries grapple with a new wave of infections. China reported 691 new cases for Saturday with locally transmitted infections at a peak since May 23.

In the neighbouring South, daily COVID infections jumped on Tuesday above 40,000 for the first time in two months, with authorities and experts predicting hundreds of thousands of new cases in coming weeks.

Japan also warned that a new wave of infections appeared to be spreading rapidly, as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called for special care ahead of school summer vacations.

Tokyo's 16,878 new cases on Wednesday were the highest since February, while the nationwide tally rose above 90,000, in a recent surge of infections to levels unseen since early this year.

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

Biden admin stresses vaccines for older Americans as 'most immune evasive' COVID variant spreads

The Biden administration is urging Americans, particularly older people, to stay up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines as “the most immune evasive” variant spreads throughout most of the country, White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said on Sunday. “We're still seeing some protection...

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Biden admin stresses vaccines for older Americans as 'most immune evasive' COVID variant spreads
LALEE IBSSA - ABC NEWS
Sun, July 17, 2022, 11:17 AM

The Biden administration is urging Americans, particularly older people, to stay up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines as “the most immune evasive” variant spreads throughout most of the country, White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said on Sunday.

“We're still seeing some protection against infection but not as much,” Jha told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz. “This is that immune evasive nature of this virus. So if you got your booster let's say last November or December, you don't have as much protection against this virus as you'd like.

Officials are recommending a second booster shot, around four months after the first, for high-risk individuals such as those 50 years or and older.

But with data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing just 48% of Americans have received a first booster, "One of the key messages coming out of this moment is: If you are 50 or over and you have not gotten a shot this year ... it is absolutely critical that you go out and get one now," Jha said.

Jha acknowledged the high transmissibility of the omicron subvariant spreading across most parts of the country, BA.5, and he said officials are seeing “high levels of reinfection.”

The country is reporting more than 124,000 new cases per day, an increase of roughly 16% over the previous week -- the highest daily infection average since mid-February.

“We're seeing people who are not up to date on their vaccines have a lot of breakthrough infections,” Jha said before highlighting the effectiveness of vaccines and treatments. “So this is an area of concern, but we know how to manage this.”

The daily death rate is around 400 people, which is far lower than in previous waves when the death average rose into the thousands per day.

As Americans are facing a risk of infection across much of the country, local and state officials, such as those in L.A.
County, are discussing plans to reinstate mask mandates. "Should other states look at this?" Raddatz asked Jha.

“Local jurisdictions -- cities, counties, states -- should make decisions about mask mandates because communities are different and their patterns of transmission are different,” he said. “The CDC recommendation is that when you're in a high zone, that sort of orange zone, as L.A. County is, people wearing masks indoors is really important and it really will make a difference.”

Jha said the administration has been implementing widely available testing, encouraging people to get vaccinated, and he also urged people to wear masks when at risk, even though there may not be a mandate in place.

Raddatz pressed Jha on how Americans can continue to stay safe in crowded areas where masks aren't widely worn.

“The public health science is very clear: If you're in a crowded indoor space, especially if it's poorly ventilated, wearing a mask reduces your risk of infection and reduces your risk of spreading it to others," Jha said. "So we've got to continue to encourage people to do that.”

Jha also noted that rising cases show “we’re still in the middle of this pandemic” but assured, “We're in a way better place than we were a year and a half ago.”

“But we still have work to do," he said. "We've got to stay on top of this virus. We've got to keep building new generations of vaccines. We've got to make sure we're we have adequate treatments.”

 

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Zerohedge

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

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Watch: As Mask Mandate Looms, LA Hospital Officials Mock COVID "Media Hype"
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Jul 17, 2022 - 02:00 PM

In a press conference dripping with a mix of exasperation and dry-witted sarcasm, two officials at one of the largest hospital systems in Southern California threw a bucket of cold water on media and government efforts to whip the public into a state of fear over the latest Covid-19 uptick.

Their remarks came on the same day that Los Angeles County health director Barbara Ferrer declared the county had moved into a "high" level of Covid transmission. Two consecutive weeks in that status would trigger the reimposition of an indoor mask mandate on the nearly 10 million people who still choose to live there.

The press conference featured Brad Spellberg, the chief medical officer of Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center (LAC + USC), along with epidemiologist Paul Holtom.

Spellberg kicked off the duo's ridicule of Covid fearmongering with an exasperated description of the Covid situation: "It's just the same. It's not changed. It's been the same. It's like...two months of the same."

He backed up his characterization with charts depicting county cases and the hospital's own Covid admission data.

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"The numbers at [LAC+USC] Covid-positive tests have continued to go up, but this isn't because we're seeing a ton of people with symptomatic disease being admitted...we're seeing a lot of people with mild disease in urgent care and [emergency department] who go home and do not get admitted.​

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Of those who are admitted, they're 90% of the time not admitted due to Covid. Only 10% of our Covid-positive admissions are admitted due to Covid. Virtually none of them go to the ICU, and when they do go to the ICU, it is not for pneumonia. They are not intubated." ​

As for the worst kind of Covid-ICU case, Spellberg said, "We haven't seen one of those since February. It's been months." He said today's Covid patients in intensive care are more typically associated with conditions like electrolyte abnormalities or auto-immune attack of the nerves that may or may not be Covid-driven.

LAC+USC full July 14 vid:​

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"Only 10% of our COVID positive admissions are admitted due to COVID. Virtually none of them go to the ICU, and when they do go to the ICU it is not for pneumonia. They are not intubated... we have not seen one of those since February."​

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HT @Campbels12. pic.twitter.com/AThaOxHGn3​

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) July 16, 2022​

"It is just not the same pandemic that it was, despite all the media hype to the contrary...I mean - a lot of people have bad colds is what we're seeing," Spellberg concluded.

Epidemiologist Paul Holtom sarcastically chided Spellberg: "I would really have to work to burst that soothiness bubble...maybe we can turn to the media, which is trying to burst that bubble by talking about a new variant that was was described in India...[and is] 'sweeping' the country and now the United States."



He continued:

"Certainly, if the experience of our hospital is reflective of across the county, which I believe it is, we're just seeing nobody with severe Covid disease. As of this morning, we have no one in the hospital who had pulmonary disease due to Covid. Nobody in the hospital....NOBODY. Nobody who had Covid-19 disease as we would see it in the past. So I guess it is hard to get a little more excited." ​

The epidemiologist noted that Los Angeles County could soon reimpose an indoor mask mandate "based on numbers." However, he said, "certainly, there's no reason from a hospitalization-due-to-covid-push perspective to be worried at his point."

Holtom transitioned away from the Covid portion of the press conference by administering a final dose of humor: "I'm so tired about not being worried about Covid for week after week, the very least we could do is bring up another potential pandemic and get worried about it, because at least that way we have something to be worried about!"

 

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Pandemic Has Affected Australians Eye Health as Lock Downs Increase Screen Time

Most Australians have at least one problem with their eyes, with almost one in three admitting too mu...

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Pandemic Has Affected Australians Eye Health as Lock Downs Increase Screen Time
BY AAP
July 17, 2022

Most Australians have at least one problem with their eyes, with almost one in three admitting too much screen time during the pandemic affected their vision.

While lockdowns across the country slowed the spread of COVID, it more than doubled the amount of time Australians spent with their eyes glued to the small screen.

The 2022 Vision Index shows the majority of respondents admitted spending up to eight hours a day on their devices or watching television.

As a result, the number of people with eye health issues increased.

Dry eyes, itchy eyes, dots in vision and difficulty seeing things far away were the most common eye issues, increasing significantly over the 2020 survey.

Respondents experiencing myopia rose three points to 40 percent prompting predictions that more than 50 percent of the global population will be short-sighted by 2050.

Luke Arundel, optometrist and Chief Clinical Officer at Optometry Australia, said the index had revealed several troubling trends in the wake of pandemic lifestyle changes.

“Almost one-third (31 per cent) said their eye health has been negatively impacted by increased screen time due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Arundel said.

“Increased screen time can have implications for our eyes, with issues such as tired, sore, strained eyes, dry eyes and headaches commonly reported,” he said.

The index also showed that 27 percent of Australians have to squint to see road signs clearly at night, posing an increased risk to the community.

While eye problems are increasing, over one in 10 people have never had their eyes tested, with 29 percent insisting their vision is perfect.

However, more than one in four avoided the optometrist believing it was too expensive, while 15 percent feared the results.

“The data is telling us that a group of Australians, particularly young people, are avoiding the optometrist for all the wrong reasons,” Arundel said.

“Eye exams attract a Medicare rebate, and treatment is always more effective – and less of a personal and financial burden – if we can address problems early. As for being afraid of the results, things may be worse if left unattended,” he said.

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

Increasing access to provincial data on SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in Canada

Roadblocks to accessing data on vaccine effectiveness from provincial health ministries impede researchers' ability to inform a national pandemic response and maintain public trust, according to an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

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Increasing access to provincial data on SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in Canada
by Canadian Medical Association Journal
July 18, 2022

Roadblocks to accessing data on vaccine effectiveness from provincial health ministries impede researchers' ability to inform a national pandemic response and maintain public trust, according to an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Despite recommendations after the SARS outbreak in 2003 to fast-track access to administrative health data to guide pandemic responses, timely access to important data is limited and can limit research abilities.

"Robust COVID-19 clinical data sets, with linkages to patient-level administrative data on vaccination, could be leveraged as clinical trial platforms to prospectively evaluate the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and novel COVID-19 therapies," writes Dr. Andrew McRae, University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine, with coauthors. "Without linkage to provincially held, patient-level vaccination data, the utility of carefully collected national COVID-19 clinical data sets is substantially constrained."

In this analysis, authors highlight how health ministries can release data for research while also protecting patients' privacy. Establishing partnerships between provincial data groups and Health Data Research Network to link data, enable timely data transfer and support research into vaccine effectiveness would be a key step.

"The absence of a coordinated, pan-Canadian, secure research environment for interprovincial data linkage and analysis has been highlighted as a shortcoming in Canadian research infrastructure that has limited the timeliness of Canadian research, both before and during the pandemic," the authors write.

Provincial health ministries hold COVID-19 vaccination data, but have been reluctant to share it with researchers, limiting researchers' ability to conduct Canadian vaccine research.

"Making administrative data available to independent researchers presents an important opportunity to validate the effectiveness data for vaccines and build public trust in Canada's public health and vaccination strategy."

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

New Data from Germany: Births and Even Abortions are Down!

Accidental Pregnancies are an Independent Indicator of Fertility

igorchudov.substack.com

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New Data from Germany: Births and Even Abortions are Down!
Accidental Pregnancies are an Independent Indicator of Fertility
Igor Chudov
8 hr ago

Three weeks ago, I wrote an article about Germany, highlighting a very large and consistent drop in births starting January this year, 9 months after vaccination of young people began, until March.

Igor’s Newsletter​

Dramatic Decline in Births in Germany​

Germany is experiencing a strange decline in births in the first quarter of 2022, totally inconsistent with their experience in recent years. Strange, right? Fortunately, the vaccine-crazy German government already has the answer: it says people had so many children already, that they no longer want any…​

Read more​

22 days ago · 548 likes · 452 comments · Igor Chudov​

Since then, I found more data regarding Germany:

• Arkmedic pointed out that April births are available (read his article!)
• I found data on 2021 ABORTIONS in Germany, also showing an uncharacteristically large decline in abortions (accidental pregnancies). The abortion data is a completely independent confirmation of the declining fertility of Germans.

Births

We have new data for April — births dropped by 12% in 2022, compared to April of 2021.

Before I go further, I have to remind my readers: birth rates are always seasonal! Most parents prefer to make a “spring baby”, which often ends up with them making a “summer baby” because conception takes more time than expected. So, never compare adjacent months as they are guaranteed to have dramatic changes that are simply seasonality-driven, with differences very repeatable over the years. Only compare months of one year with the same months of another year, please.

The data comes from the German Bureau of Statistics. (if this link does not bring you to the exact page, select “population” and drill down to “births”). These are YEAR-ON-YEAR changes. (April to April, for example) I summarized it for you:



You can see that births suddenly started dropping in Dec 2021, (going from +5% yoy in November to 1% in December, down to -10% in January and -13.28% in February. The suddenness and extent of this drop are unprecedented.

The data for April confirmed that the reduction in birth rate over the first three months is not a fluke and is continuing for the fourth month.

Abortions

Many people feel strongly about abortions. I understand. I am asking you to suspend your feelings for a moment and look at abortions like a demographer would.

Remember: abortions result from unplanned pregnancies! Aside from a relatively small amount of abortions happening due to fetal abnormalities, most abortions happen because the pregnancy was unexpected, unwanted, and accidental.

What this means is, absent large changes in the laws of the land, sudden increases or decreases in abortions happen only because of changes in fertility.

Live births may see increases or decreases because of changed desire to have children due to social factors. In the case of abortions, however, the pregnancy is ALMOST ALWAYS unplanned to begin with, so social factors like economic expectations have little to do with most abortions. Those abortions are only indications of fertility and desire to have unprotected sex.

So… abortions in 2021 fell by 5.3%!



How large is this effect? Between 1996 and 2021, abortions fell by an average of 1,452 abortions per year. In the year 2021, abortions fell by 5,352! The recent years prior to 2021 saw little change in abortions. Thus, the decline of 5,352 abortions in the year 2021 likely is due to the changed fertility of young people in Germany and shows a great decline in unplanned, accidental pregnancies. Abortions are never planned, remember!

Please recall that younger Germans in 2021 did not start vaccinations until about May or so. Thus, if vaccinations are the cause of lower fertility, their effect on pregnancies would not be seen until the second half of 2021.

Furthermore, since abortion is done after about a month into the pregnancy, you can add about a month and deal with about 5 months out of 12 in 2021, most affected by vaccinations. Thus, a 5% drop in abortions could roughly mean a 12% decline in fertility starting about July.

This is a rough, back-of-the-envelope calculation that indicates that abortion data largely agrees with the hypothesis that declines in birth rates are caused by vaccination, and not by social conditions.

The abortion story is not, as such, a proof of causation: it is a piece of evidence that agrees with my vaccination hypothesis, and strongly disagrees with the possibility that change in fertility is caused by social factors.

So we see that both abortions, as well as April birth data in Germany, coincide and suggest that vaccinations caused a large drop in fertility among the people of Germany.

See Also

• Jestre just wrote a scary post about Canada birth rates — please take a look! 12% decline (like in Germany)!
• Sweden (dramatic steady decline to -10% this year)
• Taiwan (-28% decline)
• Germany (previous article), North Dakota, UK, and Switzerland. (12-13% declines)

Our astute reader Madeleine Love made this comment:



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[Heliobas Disciple]

Birth rate declines come to Canada.

By now, many of you will have seen Igor Chudov’s excellent reporting on birth rates in various, highly vaccinated countries. For those who have not, he has a whole series of articles on this topic. Here are a few of them, non-inclusive: Germany, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland

jestre.substack.com

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Birth rate declines come to Canada.
Jestre
10 hr ago

By now, many of you will have seen Igor Chudov’s excellent reporting on birth rates in various, highly vaccinated countries. For those who have not, he has a whole series of articles on this topic. Here are a few of them, non-inclusive:

• Germany, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland
• Taiwan
• Sweden
• Hungary

In short, Igor points out that birth rates are declining at an unprecedented rate beginning approximately 9 months after vaccination of young populations. His observation comes at a time when the flood gates have finally opened on things we already knew: vaccination upsets women’s menstrual cycles and damages men’s sperm in a myriad of ways. Of course, the only reason the floodgates have opened is due to the extensive censorship campaign that coincided with the vaccination campaign. Last year, when the first reports of the vaccine bio-accumulating in the ovaries came out, people were ostracized for sounding the alarm.


Dr. Syed’s twitter account was soon after banned for this tweet.

Perhaps most pernicious was the fact that public health authorities pushed the vaccine on pregnant women even harder at this time despite the fact that the vaccine had never been tested on that population. Unfortunately, the information blackout also resulted in us having little in the way of solid data to work with on pregnancy outcomes.

However, the problem may be even more fundamental than that — and further highlights the limitations of randomized control trials: not everything is measured. It turns out that fertility outcomes may have been even more absent in the trials than pregnancy outcomes. Luckily (or sadly), there was one signal that they cannot easily hide: live births.

I suspected that it would be awhile before Canada had similar confirmation on the trend that Igor identified. Statistics Canada releases information on fertility lagged by about a year, but most of their information is provided by provinces, so I did some digging. It turns out that British Columbia releases information on births every month.

For some context, despite ordering about a dozen doses for the entire population in advance, the vaccination campaign in Canada was a mess. The Trudeau government put their poor supply chain management on display in early 2021, and it was not until the spring when most younger populations began to receive vaccinations.



In British Columbia, individuals 18 to 39 really began to get vaccinated in sizeable numbers in May. Prior to that, only individuals with the right set of characteristics were vaccinated in those age groups. Between May 1 and June 1, however, the rollout began with vaccination (first dose) rates rose from 20 to 60%. Thus, if we assume that the vaccine primarily damages fertility (rather than causes an inordinate amount of miscarriages), then we would assume the effects would start to be seen around February 2022.

Well, Canadians, it’s happening here, too.


Raw births by Month and Year

In just six months, British Columbia has about 1,000 less births than normal, and except for January, has seen the lowest number of births in the last 6 years in every month. So much for the new baby boom. The numbers further decrease in June to -10.73% less than the median number of births; however, some of that may be due to a delay in data reporting, so we will need to keep an eye on that.


Difference from the median births from 2017 to 2022 — January to June

Much like Igor showed, this trend did not appear in either 2020 or 2021, which weakens the argument that people are simply “choosing” not to have children after the pandemic. I would be interested to see how many more couples are using services like fertility clinics, and so on, as they struggle to have children. If there is a corresponding increase, then it would be hard for critics to argue that the vaccine is not the problem. Though, I suspect getting data like that would be difficult. Perhaps a meaningful instrument like sales of pregnancy tests would be more accessible?
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[Heliobas Disciple]

Children of Men

It is happening and it keeps happening, and the media can try and suppress it as much as they want. This is a “thing”. The German birth data has…

arkmedic.substack.com

(fair use applies)

Children of Men
Dr Ah Kahn Syed
21 hr ago

It is happening and it keeps happening, and the media can try and suppress it as much as they want. This is a “thing”.

The German birth data has just been released updated to April 2022 and continues to show an 11% drop from the average for the last 7 years, and a 13% drop from 2021.

The drop from the previous 7 years is 6.6 sigma. It’s a never event.

A bunch of authors including Jikkyleaks, Igor Chudov and Josh Guetzgow raised the flags on the sudden drop in birth rates only to be censored or “fact checked”.

Well fact check this. A 6.6 sigma event is a 1 in 12.5 billion chance.

But sure, there’s nothing to see here. Move along.

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

Israel's Yinon Bar-On et al.'s NEJM study on the 4th Pfizer dose (2nd booster) and a recent CDC study on the Waning 2-Dose and 3-Dose Effectiveness of mRNA Vaccines in Periods of Delta and Omicron

leaves you to ask "what the hell is Fauci saying when he calls for a 4th shot (2nd booster)? Does this knucklehead inept technocrat not understand immune imprinting using non-neutralizing VAXX"??

palexander.substack.com

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Israel's Yinon Bar-On et al.'s NEJM study on the 4th Pfizer dose (2nd booster) and a recent CDC study on the Waning 2-Dose and 3-Dose Effectiveness of mRNA Vaccines in Periods of Delta and Omicron
leaves you to ask "what the hell is Fauci saying when he calls for a 4th shot (2nd booster)? Does this knucklehead inept technocrat not understand immune imprinting using non-neutralizing VAXX"??
Dr. Paul Alexander
3 hr ago


Dear Dr. Fauci, as you run around in search of your step stool, let me clue you and your incompetent research group at NIAID into something that you SHOULD have known and why you are going to cause significant risk to the population. I will italicize it for you Dr. Fauci so that you may follow, and I will even bold it for you:

The COVID gene injection was built upon and based on the initial Wuhan legacy strain. This strain is long gone and has been long gone a while now. Yet the idiots at NIH and CDC and NIAID who work with you Dr. Fauci, know this and still pretend. Yet these idiots want to give a 4th dose of the very same thing that prior failed.

Because the initial vaccine was based on the Wuhan strain, then vaccinal antibodies (Abs) that are induced will be targeting the Wuhan strain of the virus. This is the doctrine of the ‘Original antigenic sin’ (OAS) and immune FIXATION or imprinting, priming, or prejudicing of the immune response. It becomes ‘fixated’ on the initial prime or exposure. It is elegantly simple. I however call this ‘mortal antigenic sin’ as the prejudice is life-long and cannot be fixed or ‘absolved’ as in original sin. So if the current dominant sub-variant is omicron sub-variant clades BA.4 and mainly now BA.5, then the vaccinal Abs cannot hit it and as such, cannot sterilize (neutralize) the virus. There is immune escape due to the multiple mutations on the spike so much so that we argue that BA.5 is sufficiently different that it is not even omicron or COVID virus. One can argue this. Thus the massive immune ‘rechallenge’ and it may be presenting as an entirely ‘novel’ pathogen. Purists can have a field day on that but back to the point at hand.

If you go and boost with the Wuhan strain vaccine (the one we are using now), then you will be calling up Wuhan vaccinal Abs based on initial fixation or immune imprinting, OAS. The immune system is prejudiced to respond to the initial prime or exposure and recall those Abs, be it via vaccine or natural virus exposure and infection.

Thus, with omicron BA.5 dominating, there will be immune escape. Thus there will be no stoppage of infection, viral replication, or transmission. The current COVID vaccine just cannot work and you the vaccinee, is trapped in a booster treadmill and cannot get off. Very importantly, the recalled vaccinal Abs to Wuhan, because they cannot neutralize the virus (the spike) as are an immunological mismatch, we have found though ‘will still bind’ to the spike antigen binding sites. Remember, the mRNA induced vaccinal Abs cannot neutralize the virus but in binding to the antigen spike, and based on research by Yahi et al, Liu et al. and others, this binding increases infectiousness of the virus to the vaccinated person (s). Yes, the COVID non-neutralizing vaccine is causing the vaccinated person to become infected. There is not only immune imprinting and thus recall of the wrong vaccinal Abs, but also increased infectiousness.

Alarmingly, we have also been trying to warn that in young children, in the unique window of opportunity (time wise) when the innate antibodies are trained and thus function to instruct their innate immune system, if you vaccinate them with these COVID vaccines, you will subvert and prevent the binding of the innate Abs to the viruses etc. In this prevention, the innate Abs in children cannot train and this will leave them susceptible to a range of glycosylated viruses and auto-immune disease and even cancers.

a. An important component of the innate immune system is “innate antibodies” (“natural antibodies”). Children are born with these innate antibodies, which are present in high concentration during early childhood and wane thereafter.​

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b. Innate antibodies are nonspecific---meaning that they are capable of binding to and neutralizing many different viruses.​

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c. By binding to viruses, innate antibodies play a major role in educating the innate immune system to recognize and appropriately attack viruses (and other foreign, “non-self” entities).​

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d. Also, by binding to viruses, innate antibodies teach the innate immune system to distinguish between “non-self” (which it may attack) and “self” (which it should leave alone).​

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e. Interference with the binding of innate antibodies to viruses interferes with the education and function of a person’s innate immune system, leaving the person less able to fight off infection and more prone to autoimmune disease (disease due to immune attack waged against “self”---parts of one’s own body).​

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f. The COVID vaccines are focused primarily on production of antibodies to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 (SC-2, for short) virus, and they primarily rely on these spike-specific “neutralizing antibodies” to fight the virus.​

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g. Compared to innate antibodies, the neutralizing vaccinal antibodies bind much more strongly to the SC-2 virus (even after their neutralizing capacity has markedly diminished) and, thereby, outcompete the innate antibodies for attachment to binding sites on SC-2. That is, the vaccinal antibodies interfere with binding of innate antibodies to the virus. (Innate antibodies, by design, bind only loosely to viruses.)​

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h. This vaccinal interference with the binding of innate antibodies to SC-2 results in impairment of normal education and function of the innate immune system, leaving the vaccinated person less able to fight off infection and more prone to autoimmune disease.​

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i. Why and how does vaccinal interference with the interaction of innate antibodies with the specific SC-2 virus affect the overall education of the innate immune system, regarding response to other viruses and distinction between non-self and self? This is very complex but has to do with shared molecular patterns that many viruses have in common and that are also similar to molecular patterns (“self” patterns) on components of the human body.

Israeli study:

Israel study, author Yinon Bar-On et al.: 4th COVID injection protection from Pfizer against Omicron wanes rapidly; Comparing the rate ratio over time since the fourth dose (Figure 2) suggests that the protection against confirmed infection with the omicron variant reaches a maximum in the fourth week after vaccination...these findings suggest that protection against confirmed infection wanes quickly'.

‘Comparing the rate ratio over time since the fourth dose (Figure 2) suggests that the protection against confirmed infection with the omicron variant reaches a maximum in the fourth week after vaccination, after which the rate ratio decreases to approximately 1.1 by the eighth week; these findings suggest that protection against confirmed infection wanes quickly.’



I caution that these types of studies are plagued by confounding (not adequately adjusted for in this study) such as 1) healthy vaccinee bias in which healthier persons seek vaccine 2) persons who get the 4th dose may be behaviorally different from those that get the 3rd 3) underlying co-existing comorbid illnesses may impact the study groups differentially 4) treatment for medical conditions may exist differentially and were not controlled for and may distort the results


NEJM SOURCE

CDC study:

Ferdinands et al.: Waning 2-Dose and 3-Dose Effectiveness of mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19–Associated Emergency Department and Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalizations Among Adults During Periods of Delta and Omicron Variant Predominance — VISION Network, 10 States, August 2021–January 2022

“During the Omicron-predominant period, VE against COVID-19–associated ED/UC encounters was lower overall compared with that during the Delta-predominant period and waned after the second dose, from 69% within 2 months of vaccination to 37% at ≥5 months after vaccination (p<0.001). Protection increased after a third dose, with VE of 87% among those vaccinated within the past 2 months; however, VE after 3 doses declined to 66% among those vaccinated 4–5 months earlier and 31% among those vaccinated ≥5 months earlier"…in a multistate analysis of 241,204 ED/UC encounters and 93,408 hospitalizations among adults with COVID-19–like illness during August 26, 2021–January 22, 2022, estimates of VE against laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 were lower during the Omicron-predominant than during the Delta-predominant period, after accounting for both number of vaccine doses received and time since vaccination. During both periods, VE after receipt of a third dose was always higher than VE following a second dose; however, VE waned with increasing time since vaccination.”

CDC SOURCE

Fauci: COVID Booster Loses Potency After 4 Months, Fauci Says 'There May Be the Need' for Fourth Dose
“A fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine might be necessary for some Americans. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that the mRNA shot's protection begins to decline after about four months, according to a study released Friday.”

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

I recently heard Dr. Naomi Wolf say that everything is coming from China. All the parts of the Pfizer vaccine, all their pills, everything, even the testing. She believes there are nano particles on the swabs.

Here's Naomi Wolf's substack from tonight about China owning it all. I thought you'd want to read it but it's going to take two posts, it's pretty long.

Facing the Beast
Can We Really Confront the Biggest Crime in Human History?
Dr Naomi Wolf
6 hr ago

I was relaxing in our screened porch in our little cottage in the forest, feeling rather pleased with myself. It had been an arduous week of the usual combat for liberty, but there had been victories.

I was reading a decorating magazine (we all have our vices). The grass was dewy; birds were loud. The morning was glorious.

I was feeling pioneer-ish and independent. I was alone in the house; Brian was traveling. I enjoyed the narrative moment: “Lady in the woods.”

Then I heard a “thump” about eight feet away behind my head. It was an exasperated thump, like a teenager slamming the door to his room. Like, “Really??”

I glanced behind me and saw the enormous ears and forehead of a sizable brown bear, who was ducking insolently, clearly aware of me, to lower himself behind the trash cans.

I sped indoors, locking the door. I grabbed a weapon out of the hall closet. In my haste, I grabbed the weapon that looked like a rifle, instead of the actual rifle, which was in a case. Thus I found myself locked in an upstairs bathroom, cowering, armed with a BB gun.

I sort of knew this bear. Brian had captured on his trail camera about a year ago, what must have been this bear and his brother or sister, when the little ones were just adorable cubs. One of the cubs had nuzzled the trailcam til the mom had batted it away, urging her little ones to follow her deeper into the woods, far from the dangerous things of men. One of the cubs was now this massive creature, that bear-watchers call a “sub-adult.”

I saw, peering fearfully out of the window, that it was no longer cute and fat. It was was thin, but massively muscled, and looked disoriented. It must have been eight feet long.

I paced into the upstairs bedroom and secured the windows. The bear left the garbage cans, and followed me around the corner of the house. I could now see it pacing and sniffing directly opposite the bedroom windows, though on the ground level. There were windows all around the house on that level. Bears had been known to break into homes.

I looked under the bed: hiding there could not save me if the bear made it into the house. I realized I was holding a BB gun, and felt ridiculous. Even if I managed to shoot it, this would do nothing but enrage him. The thin bedroom doors that I had thought so rustic and charming, could be broken down by an angry animal of that size in no time.

My heart pounded as I realized that he was not leaving; he continued pacing and circling, no matter where I went.

I went back into the bathroom, and locked that door with its flimsy lock.

There he was again, outside on that side of the house, as if he was spotting me or as if he could scent me. Surely he could smell my fear.

I cowered behind the bathroom curtain. The bear paused in its ransacking of the trash, stood up again on hind legs, looked right at me — or smelled right at me — and bared its long, sharp yellow teeth.

If I had had sympathy for the hungry teenager abandoned by its mom (or “emancipated” by its mom, as the bear watching sites explain) it evaporated.

I was on the phone with Brian, frozen with fear.

“Make yourself big! Shout at him!” Brian instructed. That was impossible. I could not move. I could hardly breathe.

That would be it, surely, I thought, after he’d exhausted the trash bag. He’d leave now, surely. But no. He came back toward me again like a nightmare, and headed once more to circle the house.

I called the sheriff’s office.

Twice they told me that nothing could be done, and to stay inside. I don’t blame the Columbia County Sheriffs. They have issues to deal with more serious than a former city lady trapped in her house by a hungry bear.

But the bear kept circling right up against the walls of the house. This went on for an hour. Adrenaline poured through my bloodstream. I did wonder if I would die that day.

When I called back in spite of myself and begged the police for help, they told me to call again only if he managed to break into the house. (Thank you, ‘Defund the Police’ advocates...)

At certain points of extreme stress, I could not even bring myself any longer to look outside to see where the bear was.

What if I looked and couldn’t see him because he was already in the house? I went right into a place that is familiar to
those of us with PTSD - a traumatized place where you freeze, and where you engage in magical thinking.

If I don’t look at the bear he won’t be there. If I don’t meet his gaze he won’t see me or smell me. I am somewhere else. I am not really here.

Reader, after an hour I was saved when brave colleagues of mine, Craig Klein, Reinette Senum and Jamie Arrigo, who had been meeting nearby, drove down our wooded driveway, blowing their car horns. I raced down the steps, never so happy to see people in my life. Reinette laughed at the sight of me racing to open the door, still carrying my useless BB gun.

I think I was coherent, but I was in shock. An officer from the Sheriff’s department arrived at the same time, bless him.

Humans saved me. The aggressor, the wild animal, had been scared away, and not by me. I’d been a wreck, hopeless.

For days, I ruminated about the sharp yellow teeth of that bear, exposed as he raised his snout into the air, sniffing, like a scene from a horrifying fairy tale.

Why do I tell this story?

Because - the bear had been growing more and more comfortable emerging from the woods; he grew more and more comfortable exploring our trash and then he took over territory in exploring our lawn; he was “habituated” ultimately, as bear watchers say; he had ownership of the lawn and was circling the house to mark his territory. He was comfortable at last in stalking the homeowners.

He was here because — I had done nothing to stop him. He was here because I let him slowly take over our home.

My not being able to look directly at the bear did not make me any safer. My denial put me in greater danger.

This all, of course, really happened. But that does not mean it is not also a metaphor.

The same week that this happened, I also finalized my reporting about the Pfizer vaccines, showing — what I knew for months I would eventually find.

The heart of the manufacture and distribution of millions of doses of the MRNA vaccines that are causing such a swath of death and destruction throughout North America and Western Europe, is enmeshed with the plans, methods and manufacturing infrastructure of our existential adversary.

The enemy is within our very bodies.

Since I first started reading the reports produced by the 3000 medical and scientific experts of the WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Research Volunteers team, based on the 55000 Pfizer documents released under court order, I knew I was seeing not just medicine gone wrong, not just a greedy pharmaceutical company and a regulatory agency that was fully corrupted, but rather, or additionally, I was seeing a massive act of war. [DailyClout]

When I saw the eighteen months’ worth of sudden deaths, slow deaths, encephalies, strokes, heart attacks, pericarditis, myocarditis, Guillain Barre, Bell’s palsy, MS, blood clots, lung clots, leg clots, blue-green breast milk, spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, neonatal seizures, neonatal multi-organ system failure, liver damage, kidney damage, suppressed lactation, suppressed sperm count, disrupted menses, all detailed the Pfizer documents; when I saw the fact that 34,000 plus of the 42000 plus adverse events “cases” itemized in the worldwide rollout of the Pfizer injections, were sustained in the US — with the next largest group being sustained in Western Europe - and that the 56 countries around the world that also had Pfizer injections rolled out, amounted for only a bit over 7000 adverse events total — I knew I was seeing not just medicine gone wrong on a massive scale, but rather that I was seeing an act of war.

When I saw the doubling of neonatal deaths in country after country, the rise of 34% above normal in stillbirths and spontaneous abortions for vaccinated versus unvaccinated mothers; when I saw that 3816 vaccinated women in the VAERS database lost their babies — 57% of all the neonatal deaths in all the time that VAERS records had been kept — [https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/ne...eath-risk-for-babies-of-vaccinated-mothers/]; when I saw that of 36 pregnancies followed in the Pfizer documents, 28 of the babies died [https://www.drpaulalexander.com/blo...is-data-hidden-from-sight-for-our-lifetimes]; when I saw the rise of 40 per cent in death rates and the shocking rise in cases of disability in the West [https://journal.rajeshtaylor.com/fu...-insurance-data-since-covid-vaccine-rollout/—] I knew I was not seeing just medicine gone wrong on a massive scale, but that I was witnessing an act of war.

When I saw that you could boost the lethality or the damage caused by the injection by simply changing how dilute the solution is, or simply by reassigning which brand you use - with Moderna (100 mcg) far more damaging than Pfizer (30 mcg) — I knew that I was seeing not just medicine gone wrong on massive scale, but an act of war.

When I saw a study out of Hong Kong in 2021 — a study that, of course, was answerable to the CCP — that revealed that a second dose (a “booster”) into the bloodstreams of mice, resulted in visibly enlarged hearts with white patches that could be seen by the naked eye, as well as cytokine storms and liver damage, I realized that the two-dose regime and then the “boosters” were slow but progressive ways to damage and then destroy the health of Western patients. The study concluded: “Post-vaccination myopericarditis is reported after immunization with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines.”

And yet with this CCP-overseen finding, that by injecting mammals with the MRNA vaccine, their hearts were visibly damaged, the worldwide injection program kept going.



[Intravenous Injection of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA Vaccine Can Induce Acute Myopericarditis in Mouse Model Intravenous Injection of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA Vaccine Can Induce Acute Myopericarditis in Mouse Model, Can Li, Yanxia Chen, Yan Zhao, David Christopher Lung, Zhanhong Ye, Wenchen Song, Fei-Fei Liu, Jian-Piao Cai, Wan-Man Wong, Cyril Chik-Yan Yip, Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan, Kelvin Kai-Wang To, Siddharth Sridhar, Ivan Fan-Ngai Hung, Hin Chu, Kin-Hang Kok, Dong-Yan Jin, Anna Jinxia Zhang, Kwok-Yung Yuen; Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 74, Issue 11, 1 June 2022, Pages 1933–1950, Intravenous Injection of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA Vaccine Can Induce Acute Myopericarditis in Mouse Model]

We were told that Pfizer/BioNTech is a German company. But it is actually a German-Chinese company. Since I first found that Pfizer/BioNTech had an MOU with Fosun Pharmaceuticals, a major CCP-linked pharmaceutical company based in Shanghai, to make the Pfizer/BioNTech MRNA vaccines, I knew that with a bit more digging I would find China at the heart of these acts of war.

BioNTech’s SEC filing shows that the MOU with Fosun Pharmaceuticals includes an equity investment by Fosun in BioNTech. In other words, the CCP is an equity investor in BioNTech: “As part of the strategic alliance with Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd (“Fosun Pharma”; Stock Symbol: 600196.SH, 02196.HK) whereby the two companies will work together on the development of BNT162 in China, Fosun agreed to make an equity investment which was received in mid-April 2020. The issuance of 1,580,777 ordinary shares with the nominal amount of k€ 1,581 was registered within the commercial register (Handelsregister) as of April 23, 2020.” Not only that but: “Ai-Min Hui, President of Global R&D, and Chief Medical Officer of Fosun Pharma said: ”We are closely working with BioNTech and regulatory authorities to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the vaccine candidate, in order to synchronize the development process in China with other countries, and to bring the vaccine to public as soon as possible, if the vaccine succeeds.” [424B3]

Fosun is not separate from the CCP; it is the CCP: Fosun acquired almost half of Sinopharm: “In 2003 Fosun Pharmaceutical acquired 49% stake of Sinopharm Group (Chinese: 国药控股). […] In 2008, a year before the initial public offering of Sinopharm Group, Fosun Pharmaceutical owned the direct parent company of Sinopharm Group, Sinopharm Industrial Investment (Chinese: 国药产业投资) instead; the majority owner of the joint venture was state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm).” 2003年年报 [2003 Annual Report] (PDF). Fosun Industrial. 24 April 2004. Retrieved 5 August 2018– via Shanghai Stock Exchange website. [^ 国药集团复星联合成立首家混合所有制药企. 企业观察报 (in Chinese (China)). 4 August 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2018 – via Sina; ^ 2009年年报 [2009 Annual Report] (PDF). Fosun Pharmaceutical. 25 March 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2018 – via Shanghai Stock Exchange website.; ^ "Connection Transaction" (PDF) (Press release). Shanghai: Fosun International. 20 June 2008.]

Sinopharm, of course, as you see above, of which Fosun owns almost half, is owned in turn directly by the Chinese State and thus reports directly to the CCP.

The initial BioNTech/Fosun MOU seems to imply that all of the BioNTech/Fosun joint ventures’ activity is in China, or in regions aligned with or close to China. But is that now the case? Fosun Pharma did not stay in China.

It came here. Fosun Pharmaceuticals is now also Fosun Pharmaceuticals USA, with branches for R and D and product formulation in Boston, MA and Princeton, NJ: [PCR - Fosun Pharma USA]

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

[continued from post above]

It is producing formulations and products in the US for distribution in the US and around the world. Fosun Pharma has built a “global operation strategy” for the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines, COVID-19 PCR tests and COVID-19 antigen tests:

“Fosun Pharma has built a strong root in China and developed a global operation strategy, with pharmaceutical manufacturing and R&D being the largest and core business segment, […]”

“In 2021, the revenue from new and sub-new products including COMIRNATY® (mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, also known as BNT162b2), […] accounted for over 25% of the revenue in the pharmaceutical manufacturing segment;

Revenue from regions outside Mainland China and countries overseas reached RMB13,599 million, accounting for 34.86% of the total revenue, marking a step forward on globalization.” [Italics mine].

And more: “Continuously strengthening the global operation capability and making further enhancement for globalization, Fosun Pharma has formed a global operating system for R&D, manufacturing and commercialization, and continuously expands overseas markets. [..] Globalization capability is continuously strengthened. The second headquarters in the United States help to build a global business landscape with full coverage of R&D, manufacturing and commercialization.[…]

“By the end of 2021, Fosun Pharma’s overseas commercialization team with over 1,200 employees has built marketing platforms in the United States, Africa and Europe [italics mine] and has achieved direct sales of formulations to the U.S. market. […] The COVID-19 test kit by Fosun Diagnostics has been sold in over ten countries. […] Gland Pharma, a holding subsidiary in India, received approvals from the US FDA for 13 generic drugs in 2021.

“Leveraging the current global manufacturing capability and world-class manufacturing facilities [...] Fosun Pharma has accelerated the acquirement of international GMP certification of domestic production lines, laying a solid foundation for exporting domestic products. In January and March 2022, Fosun Pharmaceutical Industrial obtained the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP)’s license to produce and supply the generic version of Merck’s oral COVID-19 treatment Molnupiravir and Pfizer’s oral COVID-19 treatment Nirmatrelvir, as well as the co-packaged product of Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir of Pfizer [….]. The license includes both ingredients and the finished drug. Through this license, Fosun Pharma devoted itself further to fighting against the pandemic around the world.”

Fosun Pharma USA offers potential partners: “A global reach with a focus on the United States and China markets”. It offers “US Rights” and “Global Rights” as well as “China Rights.” [Innovative Medicine - Fosun Pharma USA]
[Fosun Pharma 2021 Annual Results Announcement Accelerating the Globalization... - Fosun Pharma USA].

The FDA Filing for the Fosun Pharma USA facility says the facility is authorized to “develop specifications,” including for the PCR tests and antigen tests it creates, and that the facility can also have US agents: [Fosun Pharma Usa Inc FDA Filings]

This is crucial. Fosun Pharmaceuticals does not just partner with Pfizer/BioNTech to make the COVID-19 vaccines: they make, as noted, the PCR tests that are the one primary metric that determine the scale of the pandemic in North America and Western Europe and thus the “lockdowns” of whole countries, whole industrial sectors.

A CCP-run company, and CCP-created product, thus, decides — who can go to work or school, who must close his or her shop, who can or cannot travel — in all of Europe and the US: [PCR - Fosun Pharma USA]. A CCP-run company decides the formulation of the PCR and antigen tests that go deep into the nasopharyngeal cavities of Westerners who are forced, week after week, to test and test and test with these products. This is what is on the Fosun Pharma USA’s product pages:







The following products are developed in the Princeton NJ Fosun Pharma USA facility:


So this CCP-owned hybrid entity is here now and it is creating the diagnostic instruments that determine the scale of the pandemic in the West. The CCP can thus dial it up or down.

It also makes: millions of the Pfizer/BioNTech MRNA injections, the Merck COVID-19 pill Molnupiravir, the Pfizer COVID-19 pill Paxlovid — for which Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla just signed a contract with the US government for 10 million doses and $5.29 billion dollars for 2022 [Pfizer boosts Paxlovid manufacturing capacity as Merck's rival COVID pill hits surprise efficacy setback] — all this for the US and for ten other countries including the EU.

These are all formulated and distributed by a company leading directly to Chinese Communist Party.

When Pres. Biden does a deal with Pfizer/BioNTech in the millions of dollars, with our tax money, he is giving a substantial portion of the funds to China. When he spends a billion dollars via omnibus bills for PPE, including millions for PCR and antigen tests, he is writing checks to — China.

This is from Fosun Pharmaceutical USA’s website section “R and D”: look at the last three entries:



Is Fosun a squeaky clean CCP-run Pharma enterprise? In 2018 a whistleblower — and in China that is courageous thing to be — broke a scandal revealing that Fosun Pharmaceuticals had “massively” faked its data and also bribed regulators. Facilities were so chaotic that the US FDA sent the company a stern letter. [Fosun Pharma ‘massively’ fakes API production data and bribes regulators, whistleblower says].

BioNTech’s SEC filing reports as 100 per cent achieved, a tech transfer to — China. Not to a “Chinese company” or a “Chinese individual” but to the country of — China:


[SEC Filing | BioNTech

Further, the SEC filing explains that it will effect the “technology transfer with China” after marketing approval has been granted. I don’t know what “Technology transfer” or “tech transfer” means in this SEC filing; SEC filing experts who have reviewed it for me have suggested that this can mean IP, manufacturing methodologies, formulas, data, or all four. But surely it is significant that the company BioNTech has declared as 100 % complete or in process, a “Tech transfer” to CHINA. It is not “sharing” the tech or “licensing” the tech — it is transferring the tech. That means that in some capacity, China will be or is in charge of some aspect of BioNTech’s technology, however that is defined here.



So take all of the above, and map it against the 150,000 plus adverse events in the Pfizer documents, the deadly harms to reproduction, the Western baby die-off, the babies in seizures; map it against the population drop, the rise in disabilities, map it against the rigid, cruel vaccine mandates aimed at Western defense forces (Canada’s, and Australia’s and all of Western Europe’s, as well as at the most powerful military in the world, that of the United States) — map it against the vaccine mandates aimed at our police, our health care workers, our firefighters, our pilots, our first responders, our kids, our babies — all this done by a White House captive, via Hunter Biden’s laptop, to the CCP. Add to all of this the evidence of birth rates declining, especially in the West, by 12-20 per cent:

Igor’s Newsletter​

New Data from Germany: Births and Even Abortions are Down!​

DEAR READERS: I lost my Twitter account due to censorship. They want the global birth declines hidden! Please share this article widely to defeat the censors. Thank you :-) Three weeks ago, I wrote an article about Germany, highlighting a very large and consistent drop in births starting January this year, 9 months after vaccination of young people began…​

Read more​

2 hours ago · 175 likes · 114 comments · Igor Chudov​

How better to cripple the world’s other superpower than by destroying our American front lines and our American next generation, with tainted, murderous vaccines, flowed easily enough into the West via (not even that many) shell companies and cutouts? How easy to do the same to Western Europe, to Canada and Australia, as a whole?

Take all of the above and consider that the virus originated in China; and now all of the testing apparatuses, as well as millions of the vaccines, the catastrophically damaging or lethal “solutions” to the virus, also all originate from the same folks; the same leadership cadre who brought the world forced abortions, citizens welded into their homes, Uighur concentration camps, and organ harvesting.

I made the case in my new book The Bodies of Others that a transnational group of bad actors - including the WEF, The WHO, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, tech companies and the CCP — used the pandemic to crush humanity and in particular to destroy the West.

With the provenance of the vaccines and tests, you can see yet another mechanism, yet another core methodology of this warfare.

Mapping these points of evidence, I think you may start to see what I see.

This all means, of course, that we are staring into the abyss right now.

Traumatized or not, we all need to snap out of denial.

We let our adversary come too close to us. Into our very bloodstreams.

We need to save each other.

We need to turn and face the ravening beast.
.

 

[MinnesotaSmith]

 

[Zoner]

[continued from post above]

It is producing formulations and products in the US for distribution in the US and around the world. Fosun Pharma has built a “global operation strategy” for the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines, COVID-19 PCR tests and COVID-19 antigen tests:

“Fosun Pharma has built a strong root in China and developed a global operation strategy, with pharmaceutical manufacturing and R&D being the largest and core business segment, […]”

“In 2021, the revenue from new and sub-new products including COMIRNATY® (mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, also known as BNT162b2), […] accounted for over 25% of the revenue in the pharmaceutical manufacturing segment;

Revenue from regions outside Mainland China and countries overseas reached RMB13,599 million, accounting for 34.86% of the total revenue, marking a step forward on globalization.” [Italics mine].

And more: “Continuously strengthening the global operation capability and making further enhancement for globalization, Fosun Pharma has formed a global operating system for R&D, manufacturing and commercialization, and continuously expands overseas markets. [..] Globalization capability is continuously strengthened. The second headquarters in the United States help to build a global business landscape with full coverage of R&D, manufacturing and commercialization.[…]

“By the end of 2021, Fosun Pharma’s overseas commercialization team with over 1,200 employees has built marketing platforms in the United States, Africa and Europe [italics mine] and has achieved direct sales of formulations to the U.S. market. […] The COVID-19 test kit by Fosun Diagnostics has been sold in over ten countries. […] Gland Pharma, a holding subsidiary in India, received approvals from the US FDA for 13 generic drugs in 2021.

“Leveraging the current global manufacturing capability and world-class manufacturing facilities [...] Fosun Pharma has accelerated the acquirement of international GMP certification of domestic production lines, laying a solid foundation for exporting domestic products. In January and March 2022, Fosun Pharmaceutical Industrial obtained the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP)’s license to produce and supply the generic version of Merck’s oral COVID-19 treatment Molnupiravir and Pfizer’s oral COVID-19 treatment Nirmatrelvir, as well as the co-packaged product of Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir of Pfizer [….]. The license includes both ingredients and the finished drug. Through this license, Fosun Pharma devoted itself further to fighting against the pandemic around the world.”

Fosun Pharma USA offers potential partners: “A global reach with a focus on the United States and China markets”. It offers “US Rights” and “Global Rights” as well as “China Rights.” [Innovative Medicine - Fosun Pharma USA]
[Fosun Pharma 2021 Annual Results Announcement Accelerating the Globalization... - Fosun Pharma USA].

The FDA Filing for the Fosun Pharma USA facility says the facility is authorized to “develop specifications,” including for the PCR tests and antigen tests it creates, and that the facility can also have US agents: [Fosun Pharma Usa Inc FDA Filings]

This is crucial. Fosun Pharmaceuticals does not just partner with Pfizer/BioNTech to make the COVID-19 vaccines: they make, as noted, the PCR tests that are the one primary metric that determine the scale of the pandemic in North America and Western Europe and thus the “lockdowns” of whole countries, whole industrial sectors.

A CCP-run company, and CCP-created product, thus, decides — who can go to work or school, who must close his or her shop, who can or cannot travel — in all of Europe and the US: [PCR - Fosun Pharma USA]. A CCP-run company decides the formulation of the PCR and antigen tests that go deep into the nasopharyngeal cavities of Westerners who are forced, week after week, to test and test and test with these products. This is what is on the Fosun Pharma USA’s product pages:







The following products are developed in the Princeton NJ Fosun Pharma USA facility:


So this CCP-owned hybrid entity is here now and it is creating the diagnostic instruments that determine the scale of the pandemic in the West. The CCP can thus dial it up or down.

It also makes: millions of the Pfizer/BioNTech MRNA injections, the Merck COVID-19 pill Molnupiravir, the Pfizer COVID-19 pill Paxlovid — for which Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla just signed a contract with the US government for 10 million doses and $5.29 billion dollars for 2022 [Pfizer boosts Paxlovid manufacturing capacity as Merck's rival COVID pill hits surprise efficacy setback] — all this for the US and for ten other countries including the EU.

These are all formulated and distributed by a company leading directly to Chinese Communist Party.

When Pres. Biden does a deal with Pfizer/BioNTech in the millions of dollars, with our tax money, he is giving a substantial portion of the funds to China. When he spends a billion dollars via omnibus bills for PPE, including millions for PCR and antigen tests, he is writing checks to — China.

This is from Fosun Pharmaceutical USA’s website section “R and D”: look at the last three entries:



Is Fosun a squeaky clean CCP-run Pharma enterprise? In 2018 a whistleblower — and in China that is courageous thing to be — broke a scandal revealing that Fosun Pharmaceuticals had “massively” faked its data and also bribed regulators. Facilities were so chaotic that the US FDA sent the company a stern letter. [Fosun Pharma ‘massively’ fakes API production data and bribes regulators, whistleblower says].

BioNTech’s SEC filing reports as 100 per cent achieved, a tech transfer to — China. Not to a “Chinese company” or a “Chinese individual” but to the country of — China:


[SEC Filing | BioNTech

Further, the SEC filing explains that it will effect the “technology transfer with China” after marketing approval has been granted. I don’t know what “Technology transfer” or “tech transfer” means in this SEC filing; SEC filing experts who have reviewed it for me have suggested that this can mean IP, manufacturing methodologies, formulas, data, or all four. But surely it is significant that the company BioNTech has declared as 100 % complete or in process, a “Tech transfer” to CHINA. It is not “sharing” the tech or “licensing” the tech — it is transferring the tech. That means that in some capacity, China will be or is in charge of some aspect of BioNTech’s technology, however that is defined here.



So take all of the above, and map it against the 150,000 plus adverse events in the Pfizer documents, the deadly harms to reproduction, the Western baby die-off, the babies in seizures; map it against the population drop, the rise in disabilities, map it against the rigid, cruel vaccine mandates aimed at Western defense forces (Canada’s, and Australia’s and all of Western Europe’s, as well as at the most powerful military in the world, that of the United States) — map it against the vaccine mandates aimed at our police, our health care workers, our firefighters, our pilots, our first responders, our kids, our babies — all this done by a White House captive, via Hunter Biden’s laptop, to the CCP. Add to all of this the evidence of birth rates declining, especially in the West, by 12-20 per cent:

Igor’s Newsletter​

New Data from Germany: Births and Even Abortions are Down!​

DEAR READERS: I lost my Twitter account due to censorship. They want the global birth declines hidden! Please share this article widely to defeat the censors. Thank you :-) Three weeks ago, I wrote an article about Germany, highlighting a very large and consistent drop in births starting January this year, 9 months after vaccination of young people began…​

Read more​

2 hours ago · 175 likes · 114 comments · Igor Chudov​

How better to cripple the world’s other superpower than by destroying our American front lines and our American next generation, with tainted, murderous vaccines, flowed easily enough into the West via (not even that many) shell companies and cutouts? How easy to do the same to Western Europe, to Canada and Australia, as a whole?

Take all of the above and consider that the virus originated in China; and now all of the testing apparatuses, as well as millions of the vaccines, the catastrophically damaging or lethal “solutions” to the virus, also all originate from the same folks; the same leadership cadre who brought the world forced abortions, citizens welded into their homes, Uighur concentration camps, and organ harvesting.

I made the case in my new book The Bodies of Others that a transnational group of bad actors - including the WEF, The WHO, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, tech companies and the CCP — used the pandemic to crush humanity and in particular to destroy the West.

With the provenance of the vaccines and tests, you can see yet another mechanism, yet another core methodology of this warfare.

Mapping these points of evidence, I think you may start to see what I see.

This all means, of course, that we are staring into the abyss right now.

Traumatized or not, we all need to snap out of denial.

We let our adversary come too close to us. Into our very bloodstreams.

We need to save each other.

We need to turn and face the ravening beast.
.

Thanks HD

The Third World war has started and we’ve been invaded and our leaders are on the side of the enemy. All that’s left in my humble opinion is hope in God and prayer.

 

[MinnesotaSmith]

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[Zoner]

I think this article sums it up and an important read.

Evil, insane vision, inept, corrupted, fraud, illogical, deranged with their lockdown lunacy; What Birx & Fauci did to Trump conspiring against him (from inside WHITE HOUSE) was DELUSIONAL MADNESS!

As Trump, Atlas, & myself fought with CDC & unions & NIH to open society, they conspired to keep it locked down, schools closed, regardless of the harms & deaths! Their policies KILLED our children!

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Evil, insane vision, inept, corrupted, fraud, illogical, deranged with their lockdown lunacy; What Birx & Fauci did to Trump conspiring against him (from inside WHITE HOUSE) was DELUSIONAL MADNESS!

As Trump, Atlas, & myself fought with CDC & unions & NIH to open society, they conspired to keep it locked down, schools closed, regardless of the harms & deaths! Their policies KILLED our children!

Dr. Paul Alexander
19 hr ago



Every single aspect of this COVID pandemic, was a pure flat lie! Everything, culminating in an ineffective non-sterilizing vaccine (infectious variant driving) that is very harmful, especially to our children!

Yes, lockdowns, it was a solution that was in constant want and search of data and evidence and Fauci and Birx had none, ZERO! A ‘lockdown’ contrived by Fauci and Birx (ugh), in search of a future emergency that would be posed as an authentic pandemic, which it was NOT! The aim was to slay a POTUS electorally! And they did it! These two, with others, sat a top of a deliberately manufactured pathogen, deliberately released, fake fraud lockdown lunacy (lockdown forever) that had no basis other than societal destruction, and a gene injection designed to fail! Yes, it was never needed and was always going to fail and they knew it! Using a fake, fraud, over-cycled PCR test (highly false positive, unreported cycle count threshold) as the basis!

All, to destroy his presidency and IMO, he allowed it! No doubt there are aspects we do not know, I agree. But we are reasonably smart people and even if not exact, we are near the target of what happened here. We know at the very least, the madness that was done to us!

A ‘lockdown’ in search of an emergency, like how Tamiflu was in search of a virus (and got influenza), like how Remdesivir (failed Ebola drug) was in search of a virus (and got COVID) and like how the COVID gene injections were in search of a virus (and got COVID)…
yes, a reason so that they could hurt POTUS trump, and Birx and Fauci never ever had the underlying evidence to justify it, the lockdowns. The lockdowns, the fraud over-cycled RT-PCR test…all of it! So they just made it up, they made up sh*t daily, all of it, like so much they did in COVID, like the 6 feet social distancing rule. Redfield told me point blank, we made it up, yes, the 6 feet social distance rule was made up, no science to underpin this. Made up!

Yes, it was a ‘lockdown’ solution that was in constant want and search of data and evidence and Fauci and Birx had none, ZERO! These two (and some others) lied to Trump, deceived him, misled him, and failed him! He failed by not going with his initial gut and they got the upper hand, a blank ‘COVID response cheque’. He gave them full ‘lockdown lunacy’ control to go ahead and destroy his name and his presidency by ensuring that their COVID policies would fail! And did they fail! He allowed them to destroy his presidency! He failed to take the appropriate actions to remove all of these malfeasants. This is the reality and the lesson to be learnt.

‘Fifteen days to flatten the curve’ they said! What a bunch of fraudsters! Birx and Fauci knew what they had planned was lockdowns ‘FOREVER’’, a pure erosion of our rights, liberties, freedoms. They were going to ‘inch’ you there and lie to you (noble lies) to get you there! And actual malfeasance and deception. They stone cold lied! You just did not know it then! It was a matter of trust and they showed us why these technocrat freaks should have never ever been trusted. They killed us in return for our trust! Now they are coming after our babies and children with these dangerous failed COVID gene injections lead by FDA, CDC, NIH, and NIAID, with the malevolents in lead namely Bourla, Bancel, Francis Collins, Fauci, and Walensky.

They know it now with the injection makers Moderna and Pfizer, they know that it is the injection, yes, the so called ‘vaccine’, that is causing infectious variants (not the virus) and that the pandemic will continue for 100 more years if this non-sterilizing injection is not stopped immediately! Yes, it is ‘the vaccine, stupid’! They know what happens (natural selection ‘selection pressure’) if there is sub-optimal non-neutralizing immune pressure on a target antigen. They know they are dooming the US population with this failed dangerous COVID injection. Yet they won’t stop!
These malevolents caused extensive and overwhelming human catastrophe and we must investigate them all, every last policy decision and every one of these people, no matter how high up, and if it is shown they did wrong, we take every penny they have$, and put them in jail if warranted! Jail them!

Birx and Fauci, two of the most ruthless devastating inept and corrupted technocrats to touch the government and be allowed near the White House; every single COVID lockdown lunatic policies by Birx was wrong and based on no science, total bullshit idiocy. Made up sh*t. Daily! On all of her craven lockdown lunatic policies and this fraud of a COVID vaccine. This ‘slow kill’ bioweapon, IMO this is what it is, poisoned pills!

They knew the statement of ‘equal risk’ if exposed regardless of age and risk, and asymptomatic spread was a 100% lie! Fauci and Birx knew this but foisted it upon us. Made up, no science to support this! They knew at that time (due to the COVID injection not yet driving massive natural selection infectious variants) that recurrent infection was a lie!
I can only describe what was done to Trump and his presidency and largely because of

1) his misunderstanding of the science (yes, he lacked the technical knowledge and it was clear in the decision (that he approved) to turn a 15 year vaccine development process into 5 months, so they (Francis Collins, Bourla of Pfizer, Bancel of Moderna, and Fauci, aka the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) had an easy time misleading and bullshitting him, to our grave peril),

2) the inept corrupted and inept COVID Task Force members (not all) that was at best a daily clown car show,

3) the bullshit deception by Azar at HHS including his devastating approval of liability protection to all the malfeasants and vaccine makers etc., when this was an experimental, untried gene delivery platform, prior shown to be unsafe and dangerous

4) his wrongful reliance on COVID advisors and people in his orbit he thought were advising him accurately and benevolently for the best for Americans, and

5) the hatred of America (and determination to destroy it) by high level technocrats and bureaucrats within the US aka the deepstate), as near criminal IMO, criminal negligence and utter deception by all involved. I especially include medical doctors and academic and research scientists and with the evidence-based medicine world and medical journals, who went along and helped contrive and drive and mainstream the ‘natural immunity inferiority’ lies and the ‘effectiveness and safety lies’ of this clearly ineffective and unsafe COVID gene injection. They collectively lied and deceived us all, and they benefitted.

Fauci and Birx and others, worked with the CDC & NIH’s Francis Collins and WHO (CDC, NIH, & FDA) to take down a sitting POTUS Trump; they took down a sitting POTUS; he just did not know how much they were hollowing out his presidency with their lockdowns; why? he had inept, clueless, moronic hanger-ons around him, yes, ‘the call was coming form inside the house’…one moment these idiots were handing out lawn signs, the next day, working in the administration, kind of like Biden…they destroyed Trump with their lockdown lunacy. They knew what they were doing, the key was to make Trump’s response look inept, unhinged, ungovernable, unmanageable, failing, yet it was their COVID lockdown lunacy that Trump approved and they enacted. It is their COVID policies that harmed the nation.

Fauci & Birx, with CDC, FDA, NIH officials, and WHO at the highest levels, and China, conspired to take out our POTUS Trump; and they did it; he failed, he failed and this is on him, to fire them day 1 and punish them all, using his Justice system; he failed, and this is a fact, and we are here today, ****ed because of the lock downs and school closures initiated under him, that caused our kids to kill themselves, we were unable to bury our dead due to lockdown lunacy, nothing, we are here because of the lockdown lunacy Trump failed to quash, and then his failure to stop this OWS vaccine development insane ineffective and harmful injection…he failed.

He Trump, was not a scientist and really wanted to help and fix this, but they screwed him, Fauci and Birx and others, we know who they are, they destroyed his 4th year. He could have never succeeded. I still support him but cannot understand why today he will not call out the lockdowns and school closures as the failures they were and the devastating failed COVID injections. They have killed and will killed many Americans, our precious military and police and nurses and front line. Our people. The decision to bring these injections is unforgivable and he must stand up to say NO for the children, to protect them.

We have to stand our ground now and say ‘NEVER’ for our kids! There was never and is no science, no evidence, none, to warrant giving our near statistical zero risk children (for severe outcome or death if infected with COVID), an injection that confers no benefit to them, and is shown to be very harmful. This injection will subvert and damage their developing potent innate immune system (innate antibodies and NK cells) that will leave them in a catastrophic risk situation life long, especially to auto-immune disease. These COVID injections will kill many American children, Canadian children etc.

I only write and share a sliver, a taste for all will come to the forefront in time, but I wanted to make my view on Birx’s insane new book, known. It borders on fiction and vacuousness and inanity. It is pure drivel, make believe, and tripe. It is clear she was deceptive and malfeasant to the US and the population and still lives in la la land! Nothing she says can be backed by any science, and she and they all know it! Her role with Fauci was to damage and take down a sitting POTUS, and look around, they did it! They destroyed Trump’s glorious successful presidency (up to January 2020), from within, and caused him re-election. The election fraud debate is separate and I am not going there in this piece. They did it as Trojan Horses, bearing gifts of ‘helping us’, ‘oh, listen to us, we will help fix this, we are the smart ones’, yet they only delivered death and destruction, these most inept, most stupid corrupted, moronic people and how they got their hands on so much power to hurt us this way, I blame Trump! He failed to fire these idiots day 1! Trump failed! I have no other way of saying it! I still am a huge MAGA, make America great forever!

We knew mid April that COVID was amenable to risk stratification and baseline risk was prognostic on severity and death. We knew COVID operated with a strict age-risk steep gradient. We knew about the benefits and need to take a focused protection approach and not impose policies across all age groups that had no risk. We knew of early treatment (re Zelenko et al.) and that all lockdown polices were doomed to fail and hurt economically, societally, and personally. We knew, they knew, school closures would cause the deaths of children, NOT the virus. As blunt as I may be, it was known by Fauci and Birx but they were power drink and with CDC and NIH had a POTUS to slay electorally…had to make him seem incapable and the nation ungovernable under him.

Failed, dangerous disease models and thinking, no capacity or technical skills in public health or epidemiology whatsoever! I refer here to Fauci and Birx. Two failed corrupted fraudsters! Fraud public health officials. Who hurt the US population. Every single statement they made re COVID was contrived, political, biased, lacked any scientific basis, specious, illogical and irrational. Pure junk science, pseudo-science and still that is being too generous! Flat wrong on all! Paper thin so called ‘experts’. Like the new addition to the Biden COVID clown car show, Dr. Ashish ‘snake oil salesman’ Jha.

I was there. HHS. Senior Pandemic advisor! It was madness! I sat in many calls Fauci and Task Force members made to the office I was connected to, and I could hear. Across time there were Fauci’s threats he and his camp would leak to the press we were muzzling him and the science. That is what Trump faced daily, an insane corrupted media with Task Force conspirators threatening to get Press to leak the WH was muzzling them. Daily. I heard things that would fascinate, anger, enrage you! That the pandemic response alike how it is purely failed and bogus and political under Biden, was not a public health response, but also a political response under Trump. Trump tried, I have to say, he tried hard. The people in the Task Force IMO save Giroir, worked against Trump and hurt his presidency. The public health alphabet agencies worked against Trump. They all did! Result, today we have police and military who are vaccine injured, and they do not know it, YET! It is coming.

Yes, I dealt with them too based on the office I was assigned to, similarly as I grew to know scientists and officials at CDC, NIH, FDA, Moderna, and Pfizer as to the vaccine development who came to me secretly to share their grave concerns about the lack of safety of the COVID vaccines and the entire OWS vaccine development process. No doubt, they feared for their lives and careers and income. Note, my office was on the 6th floor of HHS, and Moderna’s office was on the 7th and so was the nerve center of Operation Warp Speed (OWS).

But Trump is at fault, as he allowed Fauci and Birx to take control of the lockdown lunacy and this hurt the people terribly, and caused deaths. Fauci and Birx lockdown lunacy killed Americans. No benefit, just deaths. We looked at the science completely, and found no instance, in the entire world, in the US, not one, where any lockdown, school closures, busines closures, or mask mandate worked. Every single one failed! Approximately 500 studies show the failures of lockdowns etc. and an iterating review on failures of COVID surgical masks and white cloth and man made masks. Lockdown failures, Mask failures.

Trump, for his legacy, and to tell the public the truth, has to fix this with a proper accounting and discussion! His decisions caused harm and he has to come clean and explain why, as much as I still have great respect for all he did and did consider him the greatest at his prime. Greatest. I think he is truly a good human being. Lover of land, flag, culture, military, police, all the great patriot qualities. I thought was going down as the greatest POTUS ever! January 2020 and to come. His failures however were cataclysmic, as he failed to constrain Fauci and Birx and it was a catastrophic failure, all at once the greatest POTUS, yet at the same time, now sits on top of two of the greatest public health disasters ever. In history! And somehow he still does not understand this!

These 2 (Birx and Fauci) were the greatest hucksters and failures in HIV/AIDS yet lauded; all they did with others, I grew to know many, is get agencies set up and donor funding in their corrupted pockets…these beasts got billions in corrupted agencies (for them and buddies, HIV research was a piggy bank slush fund, a putrid hot mess, many of these freaks got rich on HIV and many in the Gay community died, pimped out) not to help HIV infected people, no, to enrich themselves. These researcher types live a different ‘donor money’ ‘government money’ life, high life. Wines and cheeses. Wining and dining on your tax dollars$ and purely inept.

Never ever accomplishing anything of substance. It was always a fraud and fake, the WHO and UNAIDS, all of it, US PEPFAR etc. all of it, I know, I know and worked with many…this was a ponzi ‘get rich scheme’’ for them. This entire research arena is nothing about research. It is about taking your tax payer money, these bitches created a way to enrich themselves and live nice. They drink and be merry on your dime! Decades now. In your face! All a game of deceit! Because ‘you’ TRUST they are doing good by you! They are not, never were!

The lockdown by global nations was because of the US’s initial lockdown March 16th 2020, and so the rest of the world followed. They had no choice and many, I argue the majority never ever wanted to lockdown. Some told me. People told be secretly e.g. state department type folk from nations, that they feared the US would black list them, stop exports etc. and cut money transfers (western union etc.). To the ability I had to share my opinion, I told them in health departments who spoke to me that Trump would not do that…yet in my mind I knew he was powerless to the deep state.

 

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Novovax is NOT an MRNA vaccine. Novovax injects the spike into you, it doesn't inject something (mrna or dna) to have your cell create spike. Not sure what thread you are referring to, will check it out after I post tonight's articles. Sunday's are usually slow news night so there won't be many to post so should get to it soon.

ETA: saw the post in the BS and answered there too but said basically the same thing.

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Thank you! I saw your comment and appreciate the clarification.
I knew I wasn’t crazy with what I’d read, hoping to find out if that vaccine is “ok” or not.
But I’m not taking anything as 100% fact just yet.
Like DH said, he “trusts none of it right now”

 

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China's Tianjin halts some businesses in fresh COVID curbs

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -A handful of COVID-19 infections have forced the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin to shut many entertainment venues and some kindergartens and tutoring agencies, the latest big city to fight nascent clusters. Tianjin, with a population with over 12 million and...

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China's Tianjin halts some businesses in fresh COVID curbs
by Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo and Shanghai Newsroom
Mon, July 18, 2022, 9:27 PM

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -A handful of COVID-19 infections have forced the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin to shut many entertainment venues and some kindergartens and tutoring agencies, the latest big city to fight nascent clusters.

Tianjin, with a population with over 12 million and home to factories linked to Boeing and Volkswagen, reported 11 domestically transmitted infections for Monday after around a week of zero cases, official data showed on Tuesday.

Tianjin Port Co Ltd, which manages the port's cargo loading and unloading businesses, is operating normally, a representative said on Tuesday.

Caseloads for Tianjin and the rest of China have been low in the global context for over two years, but China has maintained a "dynamic zero COVID" policy of containing outbreaks as soon as they emerge, even though its strict measures in response to the highly transmissible Omicron variant have disrupted local businesses and clouded the outlook for the world's second-largest economy.

Tianjin officials said late on Monday that various indoor entertainment venues, such as chess and card parlours and bars, in two districts with a total of over 2 million residents were ordered to close, without specifying a date for their reopening.
One of the districts said it also ordered a three-day closure at kindergartens and tutoring agencies.

Nomura analysts said in a note on Monday that an estimated 264.1 million people in 41 cities in China are affected by full or partial lockdowns or other control measures, up from 247.5 million in 31 cities last week.

Including Tianjin's cases, mainland China reported 699 new domestically transmitted infections for July 18, of which 199 were symptomatic and 500 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday.

The majority of Monday's new cases were found in the northwestern province of Gansu and the southern region of Guangxi.

In Gansu's provincial capital of Lanzhou, a district with over 100,000 residents entered a lockdown from Monday, during which each household can leave their residential compound only once each day to get groceries. A lockdown for four other major districts with around 3 million people started last week and has been extended to July 24.

In Guangxi, the coastal city of Beihai, currently clocking over 700 local cases, has become the latest tourism city hit by travel restrictions.

Beihai has told hotels and travel agencies to fully refund trips and stays booked by those who were eventually unable to come, reversing a pre-outbreak boom in demand.

It is also rushing to take care of over 2,000 tourists stuck in the city, some of whom had come in close contact with infections or visited areas affected by the virus and couldn't leave without going through quarantine. Tourists who are able to leave have to show negative test results within the previous 48 hours.

The financial hub Shanghai, which reported 23 new local cases for Monday, began mass testing on Tuesday in many of its 16 districts, after a similar testing drive last week.

There were no new deaths, leaving the nation's fatalities at 5,226.

As of Monday, mainland China had confirmed 227,830 cases with symptoms, including both local cases and infected international travellers.

 

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CDC ends its COVID program for cruise ships saying they can 'manage their own COVID-19 mitigation'

The agency announced the change on Monday.

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CDC ends its COVID program for cruise ships saying they can 'manage their own COVID-19 mitigation'
Nathan Diller, USA TODAY
Mon, July 18, 2022, 5:57 PM·

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended its COVID-19 Program for Cruise Ships on Monday.

"CDC has worked closely with the cruise industry, state, territorial, and local health authorities, and federal and seaport partners to provide a safer and healthier environment for cruise passengers and crew," the agency's website reads. "Cruise ships have access to guidance and tools to manage their own COVID-19 mitigation programs."

The CDC added that "while cruising poses some risk of COVID-19 transmission, CDC will continue to publish guidance to help cruise ships continue to provide a safer and healthier environment for crew, passengers, and communities going forward."

USA TODAY reached out to the agency for comment.

The agency transitioned to a voluntary program for COVID-19 mitigation cruise ships earlier this year, which offered recommendations on safety measures like testing and vaccination. Cruise lines that opted into the program agreed to follow those recommendations.

The CDC said on its website that it will keep giving testing recommendations for cruise ship operators, and that vessels will keep reporting cases to the agency. The change comes as capacity and occupancy levels on ships have ramped back up, more than two years after the pandemic shut the industry down.

Cruise Lines International Association, the industry's largest trade organization, welcomed the end of the program "in favor of a set of guidelines for public health operations on cruise ships," spokesperson Anne Madison told USA TODAY in an emailed statement.

"We look forward to reviewing the details, which we understand will be posted on the CDC website in the coming days," she continued. "This is an important step forward in the CDC aligning the guidelines for cruise with those it has established for other travel, hospitality, and entertainment sectors."

 

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COVID Rises Across U.S. Amid Muted Warnings and Murky Data

CHICAGO — COVID-19 is surging around the United States again in what experts consider the most transmissible variant of the pandemic yet. But something is different this time: The public health authorities are holding back. In Chicago, where the county’s COVID warning level was raised to “high”...

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Julie Bosman - NYTimes
Mon, July 18, 2022, 8:11 AM


CHICAGO — COVID-19 is surging around the United States again in what experts consider the most transmissible variant of the pandemic yet.

But something is different this time: The public health authorities are holding back.

In Chicago, where the county’s COVID warning level was raised to “high” last week, the city’s top doctor said there was no reason for residents to let the virus control their lives. The state health director in Louisiana likened a new rise in COVID cases there to a downpour — “a surge within a surge” — but characterized the situation as concerning but not alarming.

And the public health officer in King County, Washington, Dr. Jeffrey Duchin, said on Thursday that officials were discussing reissuing a mask mandate but would prefer that the public mask up voluntarily. “We’re not going to be able to have infinite series of mandates forcing people to do this, that and the other,” he said.

The latest surge, driven by a spike of BA.5 subvariant cases in this country since May, has sent infections rising in at least 40 states, particularly in the Great Plains, West and South. Hospitalizations have climbed by 20% in the last two weeks, leaving more than 40,000 people in American hospitals with the coronavirus on an average day.

More than two years after the pandemic began, though, public health officials are sounding only quiet warnings amid a picture that they hope has been changed by vaccines, treatments and rising immunity. Deaths are rising, but only modestly so far in this new wave. And state and local public health officials say they also must now factor in a reality that is obvious along the streets from Seattle to New York City: Most Americans are meeting a new COVID wave with a collective shrug, shunning masks, joining crowds indoors and moving on from the endless barrage of virus warnings of months past.

“I feel strongly that you can’t just kind of cry wolf all the time,” said Dr. Allison Arwady, the commissioner of the Chicago health department, who said she will wait to see whether hospitals become strained before considering another citywide mask mandate. “I want to save the requirements around masks or updating vaccine requirements for when there’s a significant change.”

Complicating the country’s understanding of this BA.5 wave is a dearth of data. Not since the earliest months of the pandemic has there been so little precise information about the number of actual infections in the United States. As public testing sites have closed and at-home testing — if people test at all — has grown common, the publicly reported data has become scarce and spotty.

Still, experts say, the outlines of a new wave are undeniable.

“You don’t have to count every raindrop to know it’s raining,” said Dr. Joseph Kanter, Louisiana’s state health officer and medical director. “And it’s pouring right now.”

In that state, the health department analyzes a wide range of data to track the spread of the virus, including case counts, samples from a growing network of wastewater testing sites, test positivity rate and hospitalization metrics.

The BA.5 subvariant, which was first detected in South Africa in January and spread to a number of European countries, was responsible for 1% of cases in the United States in mid-May but now represents at least two-thirds of new cases in the country.

Anita Kurian, an assistant director for the health department in San Antonio, said cases have been rising in the area for six weeks in a row. But some measures, like the low number of deaths so far, suggest that the nation is entering a newer and less lethal stage of the pandemic where vaccines and treatments have significantly improved chances of survival, she said.
“We are nowhere at the level where we were with the previous surges,” she said.

So far, the current wave’s toll of hospitalizations and deaths pales in comparison to previous spikes. During the peak of the omicron surge in early 2022, close to 159,000 people were hospitalized on any given day.

Experts caution that predicting the months ahead is difficult, particularly given the high transmissibility of BA.5. Words of caution from national health leaders have slowly increased in intensity in recent weeks.

Still, even as federal health authorities reiterated calls for people to test for COVID before attending large indoor gatherings or visiting especially vulnerable, immunocompromised people, they are striking a delicate balance, telling Americans that while they do not need to upend their lives, they must pay attention to the COVID threat.

“We should not let it disrupt our lives,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser on the virus, said at a White House news briefing in which he added that new variants could continue to emerge. “But we cannot deny that it is a reality that we need to deal with.”

As health officials in many places have avoided issuing new virus restrictions during the latest surge, California has stood out as an exception. There, public health authorities have issued stark warnings and moved toward reimposing restrictions.

The warnings have been spurred by worrisome data, experts said. Walgreens said that more than half of the COVID tests administered at its California stores have returned with positive results. Surveys of wastewater in the Bay Area suggest this surge could be the biggest yet.

And the number of weekly deaths in Los Angeles County from the coronavirus has doubled from around 50 a month ago to 100 last week. The deaths are still below the levels of the winter omicron surge, when more than 400 were dying weekly in the county.

Officials in Los Angeles say they plan to reinstate a countywide indoor mask mandate as early as the end of this month. Barbara Ferrer, the public health director in the county, said that even a slight increase in masking would help slow transmission of the virus.

“I’m like everyone else: I hate wearing that mask. But more than that, I hate the idea that I might accidentally transmit to somebody else,” Ferrer said. “That’s my biggest fear — that we’re so anxious to be done with this virus that we’re getting complacent.”

Charles Chiu, an infectious disease specialist and virologist at the University of California, San Francisco, said data emerging from patients suggests that BA.5 does not cause more severe disease in patients than other omicron variants.
But he said he is concerned that the variant is so infectious and so able to evade the protections of vaccination and prior infection that it could be unstoppable.

“It looks as if we are unable to control it,” he said.

Chiu said he was sympathetic to the plight of government officials seeking to mitigate the spread of the virus. They are up against a public that chafes at renewed directives, even in parts of the country where people were previously most willing to go along. In places where COVID mitigation measures are mandatory, like on New York subways, adherence to masking rules is increasingly spotty.

“Public health officers have an impossible task here,” Chiu said.

In New York City, rates of positive tests, cases and hospitalizations are all rising. But health officials have resisted reissuing mask mandates, and many residents have said they were not worried, counting on vaccines, immunity from prior infections and antivirals for protection from severe illness. The city no longer has a contact tracing system in place or requires proof of vaccination to enter restaurants.

In Louisiana, officials have watched hospitalizations of people with COVID rise in the state, but they say those numbers are still far lower than in previous surges when more than 2,000 residents were at times hospitalized.

“I feel much more empowered that we have the ability to protect ourselves,” Kanter said.

During the height of the delta wave in Louisiana in 2021, about 20% of hospitalized COVID patients were on ventilators, according to Kanter, the state health officer and medical director. That figure fell to 10% during the state’s initial omicron surge and now is below 5%.

For people who are most at risk of severe illness from COVID, a sense that public health warnings have diminished was little comfort, and in fact, made them worry more than ever about getting infected.

Neyda Bonilla, 48, of Mission, Texas, was diagnosed in April with breast cancer. With case counts rising in South Texas, she now fears that an infection as she undergoes chemotherapy could prove catastrophic for her health.

She has received all of the vaccines and boosters available to her, she said, and now wears a surgical mask in public and rarely leaves the house, except to work as an administrator at an ambulance company.

“I hope that people open their eyes,” she said. “We should have never taken our masks off. This is not over.”

Yet even in some cities whose residents have taken precautions against COVID throughout the pandemic, the latest surge has not caused widespread alarm.

In Berkeley, California, Jeff Shepler, the general manager of the Spanish Table, a specialty shop selling Iberian wine and food, said that he goes to Giants games across the Bay in San Francisco, recently attended a Pearl Jam concert at the Oakland Coliseum and does not hesitate to shake hands.

“It got exhausting for me to wear a mask all day, every day,” he said. “I’m at the point in my life where I’ve got the vaccine and I’ve had COVID. I figure I’m fairly safe.”

 

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Australia provisionally approves Moderna's COVID shot for children under 5

The move comes as Australia battles a major virus outbreak fueled by the highly transmissible new Omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, with hospital admissions surpassing record levels in several states. Last week, Argentina and Canada also approved Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged six...

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by Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru
Tue, July 19, 2022, 12:35 AM

(Reuters) - Moderna Inc said late on Monday Australia's drug regulator Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has provisionally approved its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax, for use in children aged six months to five years.

So far, the shot was provisionally approved in the country for individuals aged six years and older and as a booster dose for those aged 18 years and older, TGA said in a separate statement.

The move comes as Australia battles a major virus outbreak fueled by the highly transmissible new Omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, with hospital admissions surpassing record levels in several states.

Authorities in the country expect millions of new infections and are urging people to wear masks indoors, although they have ruled out any tough curbs to contain the spread.

Last week, Argentina and Canada also approved Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged six months to five years.

 

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Coronavirus cases are soaring in L.A. County, but this wave is different

Many who become infected are not falling seriously ill. While hospitalizations are rising, patients are generally less sick, and intensive care units are less crowded than in previous surges.

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Rong-Gong Lin II, Luke Money, Emily Alpert Reyes - LA Times
Mon, July 18, 2022, 10:26 PM

Super-contagious Omicron subvariants that can reinfect people within weeks are fueling a new wave of the pandemic across California.

Hospitalizations are rising, and Los Angeles County is moving toward an indoor mask mandate, perhaps by the end of the month.

But this wave is different from previous ones.

Many who become infected are not falling seriously ill. While hospitalizations are rising, patients are generally less sick, and intensive care units are less crowded than in previous waves.

Experts cite the availability of vaccines and treatments, as well as changes with the virus itself, for the improvements.

But it doesn't mean COVID-19 has become a toothless tiger. Deaths in L.A. County have increased significantly over the past month.

This double-edged reality — where the risk of severe illness for every case may be lower, yet there are considerable numbers of deaths — is causing confusion as the pandemic stretches into its third summer.

The latest kerfuffle stems from the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, the largest of four county-run public hospitals. During an internal town hall Wednesday, which was posted online, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brad Spellberg noted that while coronavirus-positive cases have risen, "this isn't because we're seeing a ton of people with symptomatic disease getting admitted."

Spellberg said around 90% of the hospital's coronavirus-positive patients were admitted for other issues.

"Virtually none of them go to the ICU — and when they do go to the ICU, it is not for pneumonia. They are not intubated," he said, citing other issues such as electrolyte abnormalities.

"It is just not the same pandemic as it was, despite all the media hype to the contrary. ... A lot of people have bad colds, is what we're seeing."

Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Holtom chimed in that, as of Wednesday, "we have no one in the hospital who had pulmonary disease due to COVID."

Holtom noted the possibility of a mask mandate but said "there's no reason, from a hospitalization-due-to-COVID perspective, to be worried at this point."

As video from the town hall spread online, some highlighted the pair's remarks to repudiate the concept of a masking order — or to argue that dangers associated with the current coronavirus wave are overstated or unfounded.

But in a statement to The Times on Monday, the L.A. County Department of Health Services, which has oversight of County-USC, said the pandemic "remains a very serious public health threat that we must continue to fight with every tool available, including vaccines, masking, social distancing, and treatment.

"To use our weekly internal town hall to suggest such measures are unnecessary is fundamentally contrary to our position as a medical center," the statement continued.

While it's true that many coronavirus-positive patients are not presenting with serious symptoms that require admission to the ICU, the Department of Health Services credited that trend in part to the high level of vaccination coverage in L.A. County.

"While we are not currently experiencing an increase in ICU admissions at [County-USC], we are seeing a significant increase in the number of infections among our patients, staff and the communities we serve," officials wrote in the statement. "Rising rates of infection are extremely concerning, as the more people who become infected, the greater the probability that ICU admissions for COVID-19 will rise in the future."

While not as severely as in previous surges, hospitalizations have swelled. In L.A. County, 1,252 coronavirus-positive patients were hospitalized as of Friday — up 55% since the start of the month.
At the end of June, roughly 20% of coronavirus-positive patients at L.A. County's four public hospitals were being treated for COVID-19 illness.

At all hospitals, public and private, in L.A. County, about 42% of coronavirus-positive patients are being seen for COVID-19 illness. Statewide, the share is about 50%.

On Thursday, L.A., the nation's most populous county, reported 10.5 new coronavirus-positive hospitalizations for every 100,000 residents, up from 8.4 the previous week.

The move above 10 per capita pushed L.A. County into the high COVID-19 community level as defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health officials have long said that should the county reach that threshold, they would prepare to institute a mask mandate in indoor public settings. Such an order could go into effect July 29 for those age 2 and up, unless conditions improve.

COVID-19 deaths across L.A. County have increased significantly in the last month, from about 50 a week to between 88 and 100. That's the first significant increase since the end of the winter Omicron wave. During the peak of that surge, weekly deaths topped 500.

There are a number of other indicators to explain why the L.A. County Department of Public Health and institutions across Southern California are concerned about rising levels of infection, which are resulting in large numbers of workers out sick, sometimes for weeks.

The growing number of cases at County-USC, for instance, has put strain on hospital staffing, Chief Executive Jorge Orozco said during last week's town hall.

"We have a significant number of employees who are testing positive," he said, adding that those employees may not be very ill, but they need to isolate. "It causes significant challenges in terms of coverage, in terms of providing appropriate care."

Last week, L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said that while vaccinations, boosters and anti-COVID drugs are making it less likely that large numbers of people will need intensive care or ventilators, there are still some who need such resources.

"Somewhere between 5% and 10% of folks that are hospitalized with COVID are still ending up in the ICU, and some of them are needing ventilators. So there still is some serious illness associated with COVID," she said. "But nothing like what we were seeing during the Omicron surge."

Still, she said, "we also have a lot of unknown with BA.5 and anything else that comes our way. What's going on in our hospitals could change."

Ferrer said emergency departments, urgent care centers and community clinics are telling her department "that they're feeling very strapped. They have staffing shortages, because lots of their staff are sick with COVID and out, and they also have lots of their patients that, while they don't need to go to the hospital, they do need medical care, and that creates some stress."

Two months ago, 5% of emergency room visits countywide were coronavirus-related; now, it's 10%.

Clusters of cases at work sites "are disruptive and hazardous," Ferrer said during a recent briefing. "Worksite outbreaks create worrisome risk for vulnerable employees, and they often contribute to additional spread of the virus across households and communities where our workers live."

Countywide, 371 workplaces reported clusters of coronavirus cases in a recent seven-day period. In early May, there were 100.

The county is also seeing an impact on nursing homes. Outbreak investigations were underway at 41 nursing homes in L.A. County over the past week, five times more than in early May.

“Back in May, about 5% of all deaths occurred among nursing home residents," Ferrer said. "Sadly, this number rose to 12% in June.”

In 2022 so far, L.A. County has reported 4,390 deaths from COVID-19. There were nearly 12,000 COVID-associated deaths in 2020 and 14,500 in 2021.

By contrast, in the pre-pandemic era, about 1,500 residents in the county each year died from the flu, more than 2,000 from accidental drug overdoses and nearly 900 from motor vehicle accidents.

Coronavirus infection also presents the risk of long COVID, in which the risk of death due to complications of the heart, gastrointestinal or neurologic systems can persist for years.

Some question the wisdom of a renewed masking order — or what sort of compliance L.A. County could hope to expect. Maria Salinas, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, and Jessica Lall, president and CEO of the Central City Assn., a downtown business group, sent a letter to Ferrer last week expressing concerns.

Requiring masks, they wrote, "puts employees in the increasingly challenging position of enforcing a mandate that many customers no longer wish to — or are unwilling to — comply with."

"L.A.’s restaurants, retail stores, museums, amusement parks, sports centers and so many other establishments are working every day to recover from the pandemic, all while facing workforce shortages, supply chain challenges and more," they wrote. "Businesses should not be expected to enforce a mask mandate in addition to these ongoing constraints. Businesses cannot shoulder this burden of compliance alone as they have been required to do so in the past."

If L.A. County does mandate indoor public masking, and no other counties follow suit, "residents and visitors may choose to take their spending power to businesses in other parts of Southern California, which would only harm our local economy," they wrote.

Ferrer noted that "we've always benefited in L.A. County from most people actually going ahead and complying with what we say are sensible precautions." Health officials, she added, will spend the time leading up to a new masking order "working with our businesses so that they're clear about their need to both supply those masks for all of their employees, make sure that their employees are masked appropriately indoors and to do their best to message to their customers.

"We need an additional layer of protection, and this is the additional layer," she added. "So our hope is that folks will go ahead and make every effort to come into compliance."

 

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High blood thickness ups death risk; few problems with flu-COVID shots together

The findings indicate that measurement of blood viscosity, or blood thickness, should be a regular part of these patients' medical work-up, the researchers said. High blood viscosity impairs flow to small vessels and increases the risk of blood clots, the researchers noted in the study...

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High blood thickness ups death risk; few problems with flu-COVID shots together
Nancy Lapid
Mon, July 18, 2022, 4:52 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.

Blood thickness linked with death risk in severe COVID-19

Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 whose blood flows less freely than normal are at higher risk of death from complications, a U.S. study showed. The findings indicate that measurement of blood viscosity, or blood thickness, should be a regular part of these patients' medical work-up, the researchers said.

High blood viscosity impairs flow to small vessels and increases the risk of blood clots, the researchers noted in the study published on Monday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109722051105. Data on 5,621 COVID-19 patients treated at six New York City-area hospitals between February 2020 and November 2021 showed that patients with high viscosity had death rates 38% to 60% higher than those with low blood viscosity. The inflammation associated with COVID-19 likely contributes to high viscosity, which in turn can lead to damage to blood vessel linings and clogging of arteries, according to the researchers.

"This study demonstrates the importance of checking for blood viscosity in COVID-19 patients early in hospital admission, which is easily obtained through routine lab work," Dr. Robert Rosenson of the Mount Sinai Health System said in a statement. His team called for further studies to see whether measures to reduce blood viscosity, such as treatment with blood thinning drugs, would be helpful.

Few excess effects of COVID-19 booster, flu shot together

People who get a flu shot at the same time as a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine booster are only slightly more likely to report side effects than people who get the booster by itself, U.S. researchers found. Earlier studies found that giving flu shots and COVID-19 vaccines at the same time did not make either one less effective and may be more convenient. As reported on Friday in the journal JAMA Network Open Reactogenicity of Simultaneous COVID-19 mRNA Booster and Influenza Vaccination in the US, researchers tracked 981,099 American teens and adults who got vaccine boosters with or without flu shots in September or October 2021. In the following week, reports by study participants of a "systemic" reaction such as fatigue, headache or body aches were 8% higher for those who simultaneously received the flu shot and the Pfizer-BioNTech booster and 11% higher for those who got the flu shot and a Moderna booster, compared to the risk in people who received only an mRNA vaccine booster. Based on the results, "clinicians can confidently inform patients that concurrent administration of the COVID-19 booster and seasonal influenza vaccine is both safe and associated with only a slight increase in adverse events compared with the COVID-19 booster alone," a separate team of researchers wrote in an accompanying editorial Reactogenicity and Concomitant Administration of the COVID-19 Booster and Influenza Vaccine.

Kids with vaccine allergies safely receive Pfizer shots [MY COMMENT: WTF ]

The Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine can be safely given to children even after a suspected allergic reaction to the first dose or a suspected allergy to vaccine ingredients polyethylene glycol (PEG) or polysorbate, according to immunologists.

Other allergists previously reported that second doses can be given to adults with suspected reactions to the first dose.

Study results involving a small number of children were published on Wednesday in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice DEFINE_ME. At a specialized vaccine clinic, nine children were evaluated after having an allergic reaction to the first dose of the vaccine, including three who experienced potentially life-threatening anaphylaxis. All nine children - including one who was premedicated - eventually received the second dose "with minimal or no symptoms," the researchers said. Another three children with histories of potential PEG/polysorbate reactions opted to receive the vaccine at the clinic and tolerated both doses without allergic symptoms.

"Any child who experiences potential anaphylaxis following vaccination should absolutely be evaluated," study leader Dr. Joel Brooks of Children's National Hospital in Washington said in a news release. "The benefits and risks must be weighed carefully when it comes to a second dose. However, we have demonstrated that for this study, most of the initial allergic reactions did not meet the criteria of anaphylaxis and our participants were able to tolerate a second dose of the vaccine."

 

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Yesterday I posted an article that said the epidemic is over in NK so I thought I'd check their numbers and give an update. It does appear they have reached herd immunity. It should be interesting to see if they have any outbreaks going forward, I would think not if herd immunity has been achieved.

No mention of how many total deaths they had. But doing the math it looks like they had 70 deaths. Not bad at all. Of course they were most likely dealing with an Omicron variant so a low death count is to be expected.

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Epidemic Spread and Treatment Results in DPRK
Date: 19/07/2022 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source

Pyongyang, July 19 (KCNA) -- According to information of the state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters, more than 250 fever cases, with over 380 recoveries, were reported from 18:00 of July 17 to 18:00 of July 18 throughout the country.

As of 18:00 of July 18 since late April, the total number of fever cases is over 4,771,860, of which more than 4,771,200 (99.986%) have recovered and at least 590 (0.012%) are under medical treatment. -0-

 

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Ex-Trump Adviser Birx Says COVID-19 ‘Came Out of the Box Ready to Infect’

Former top White House COVID-19 adviser Deborah Birx said Sunday that COVID-19 “came out of the box r...

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Ex-Trump Adviser Birx Says COVID-19 ‘Came Out of the Box Ready to Infect'
By Jack Phillips
July 18, 2022

Former top White House COVID-19 adviser Deborah Birx said Sunday that COVID-19 “came out of the box ready to infect” when it was first detected in Wuhan, China, in 2019.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Birx said that COVID-19 “was already more infectious than flu when it first arrived,” saying that most viruses take months or years to become highly transmissible among humans.

Birx, who had worked under former President Donald Trump, told the paper that either COVID-19 was “an abnormal thing of nature” or that Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were “working on coronavirus vaccines.”

Researchers could have contracted the virus before spreading it to others or it escaped from the lab, she said.

Lab Leak

“It happens, labs aren’t perfect, people aren’t perfect, we make mistakes and there can be contamination,” Birx said, noting that individuals with COVID-19 can be asymptomatic. “Someone working in the lab with one of the strains could’ve caught it and not known they had it,” she said.

An aerial view shows the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei Province on
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could have reduced deaths if officials told health leaders that the virus can spread asymptomatically, she said.

“China was implying that they were containing it, but asymptomatic spread cannot be contained without testing,” Birx told the publication. “I think the world lost several months of preparation because we were thinking there wasn’t that level of human-to-human spread when there clearly was.”

While some news outlets and so-called fact-checking websites labeled the lab leak hypothesis as a conspiracy theory, top U.S. officials conceded later in 2021 that it’s within the realm of possibility. A report released by the 17-agency Intelligence Community in 2021 shows that some federal officials believe the virus emerged from the Wuhan laboratory, according to the White House in a May 26 news release.

Chinese officials, meanwhile, have claimed the virus was first found in December 2019, emerging from a wet market in Wuhan about 10 miles from the lab’s location. It was later revealed by the National Institutes of Health that it provided funding to researchers who were carrying out research on bat coronaviruses.

“As of today, the U.S. Intelligence Community has ‘coalesced around two likely scenarios’ but has not reached a definitive conclusion on this question,” President Joe Biden said at the time. “Here is their current position: ‘while two elements in the IC leans toward the former scenario and one leans more toward the latter—each with low or moderate confidence—the majority of elements do not believe there is sufficient information to assess one to be more likely than the other.’”

During a House hearing in May 2021, Biden administration COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci was asked about whether the virus was natural. He responded, “I am not convinced about that. I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we continue to find out to the best of our ability what happened.”

In March 2021, former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield told CNN that he believes the virus emerged from the Wuhan facility.

“It’s not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to infect a laboratory worker,” Redfield said. “Normally, when a pathogen goes from a zoonot to human,” he added, “it takes a while for it to figure out how to become more and more efficient in human to human transmission.”