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Doctor: Biden likely has highly contagious COVID-19 strain
By CHRIS MEGERIAN
yesterday

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden likely contracted a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly through the United States, and now has body aches and a sore throat since his positive test, according to an update from his doctor on Saturday.

The variant, known as BA.5, is an offshoot of the omicron strain that emerged late last year, and it’s believed to be responsible for the vast majority of coronavirus cases in the country.

Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician, wrote in his latest update on Biden’s condition that Biden’s earlier symptoms, including a runny nose and a cough, have become “less troublesome.” O’Connor’s earlier notes did not mention the sore throat or body aches.

Biden’s vital signs, such as blood pressure and respiratory rate, “remain entirely normal,” and his oxygen saturation levels are “excellent” with “no shortness of breath at all,” the doctor wrote.

O’Connor said the results of the preliminary sequencing that indicated the BA.5 variant do not affect Biden’s treatment plan “in any way.”

Biden tested positive for the virus on Thursday morning. He has been isolating in the White House residence since then. Administration officials have emphasized that his symptoms are mild because he has received four vaccine doses, and he started taking the antiviral drug Paxlovid after becoming infected.
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During a virtual meeting with economic advisers on Friday, Biden was hoarse but insisted, “I feel much better than I sound.”

In his previous update on Biden’s health, O’Connor said the president had an elevated temperature of 99.4 F on Thursday evening, but it returned to normal after taking Tylenol.
 

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COVID hospitalizations, deaths on the rise in latest Florida BA.5 surge
Chris Persaud, Palm Beach Post
Fri, July 22, 2022, 7:25 PM

While Florida’s official COVID-19 caseload has remained flat for more than a month, every other major indicator shows the latest wave of the disease is getting worse.

As the number of new statewide weekly infections logged each week remains around the same level as late May, hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise, as do the share of coronavirus tests with positive results and the concentration of the pathogen found in sewage.

Health officials have documented an average of 10,000 new infections daily in Florida since May 28, data released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show.

But medical staff statewide tended to more than 4,200 COVID-positive patients this week, the most since Feb. 16, according to figures Friday from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department.

Meanwhile, the positivity rate for PCR tests statewide this past week is 24%, the highest since late January, CDC data shows.

Florida’s CDC-reported death toll climbed by 360 people since the state Health Department’s last biweekly COVID report published July 1.

The state has counted more than 300 new fatalities weekly since late June. That number is lower than during the height of the virus’ omicron and delta variant waves, when the death toll spiked by more than 1,000 weekly.

What does Florida sewage study show about state of COVID?

Sewage analysis across Florida shows a muddled picture of the state of COVID.

Water treatment plants in Pinellas and Seminole counties recorded the most viral particles in sewage samples this past week since they started getting them tested in late January, according to Boston-based Biobot Analytics, a laboratory that collects wastewater from agencies across the nation.

A wastewater facility in Palm Beach County on Monday recorded its third-highest number of viral particles in sewage samples.

Biobot found a 40% drop in coronavirus particles from Hillsborough County compared with the week before, when the lab recorded the highest level of particles in the county’s wastewater since it started collecting it in late January.
Concentrations of the pathogen’s genetic material in Miami-Dade County are down about 16% since the latest peak June 15.

How official case counts miss number of COVID infections

With the rise in at-home COVID testing, fewer people are opting for PCR or antigen tests, administered by health professionals, whose test results are the only ones that government agencies collect. The state will not collect results of at-home tests from residents reporting them. This has led to official case counts missing an untold number of infections.

Health officials have collected an average of 40,000 tests daily this month across Florida. That’s about the same level as April — after the original omicron wave — and in early June 2020.

The omicron subvariant BA.5 is fueling the latest COVID surge statewide and nationwide. It has caused just under 80% of cases nationwide, a CDC analysis of a sample of tests shows.

The BA.5 mutation, also called the centaurus variant, can more easily pierce the defenses of vaccinated people than the original omicron strain. But it still infects and kills unvaccinated people more often.

Vaccinated people, including those with boosters, report having sore throats, nasal congestion, aches in their joints, cough, fatigue and a loss of appetite or upset stomach.

Unvaccinated people catching virus 4 times more often

Unvaccinated people caught the virus at least four times more often than boosted people as of mid-June, the latest CDC data collected from health officials across the nation indicate. And they were more than seven times as likely to die, late May data shows.

Vaccination figures statewide have barely budged in months. About 28% of Floridians have gotten boosters, CDC data shows, and about 80% have gotten at least one shot.

The CDC counts more than 17.2 million shots injected into Florida residents’ arms, a tally 1.3 million higher than what state health officials said in their July 15 report. The CDC counts federal personnel and others in Florida while state health officials don’t.

COVID has killed at least 77,022 Floridians. The airborne virus has infected more than 6.7 million since the start of the pandemic, almost one-third of the state population.
 

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Covid boosters for people under 50 on hold amid drive to speed up new vaccine

Laurie McGinley - The Washington Post
Fri, July 22, 2022, 5:19 PM

Booster shots of the coronavirus vaccine for people younger than 50 are on hold as the Biden administration tries to accelerate a fall vaccination campaign using reformulated shots that target the now-dominant omicron subvariants, according to federal health officials.

Officials are hoping vaccine makers - Moderna and Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech - are able to make the updated shots available as soon as early to mid-September instead of later in the fall, said three officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the issue.

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The retooled boosters will contain components from the omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 as well as the original formula, which was based on the version of the virus that spread globally in early 2020. The hope is that the redesigned boosters will be more effective in dealing with an evolving virus.

In late June, FDA advisers recommended including an omicron component in retooled boosters, and the agency directed the manufacturers to do so. The companies indicated they would probably deliver the new shots in October. But since then, officials have urged the firms to move faster in producing the shots. If the new boosters are available by early to mid-September, the officials said, it is unlikely the administration would authorize a second dose of the current boosters for people younger than 50.

A final decision has not been made; officials are waiting for information from the manufacturers on whether there would be an adequate supply of reformulated shots if the fall campaign began earlier than expected. A decision is expected within days.

The FDA said it is evaluating the current situation, including data showing an increase in hospitalizations, and will make decisions on boosters based on all of the available evidence.

Moderna spokesman Chris Ridley said the company is committed to accelerating the supply of its reformulated vaccines "to meet the needs of regulators and public health demands around the world." Pfizer declined to comment on administration vaccine decisions.

Currently, the only groups eligible for a second coronavirus booster are people 50 and older and those 12 and older with impaired immune systems.

Earlier this month, administration officials said they were weighing a plan to allow all adults to receive a second booster to blunt a virus surge fueled by ever-more-contagious omicron subvariants such as BA. 5 that evade some immune protections and have increased the risk of reinfections.

Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus coordinator, and Anthony S. Fauci, the White House chief medical adviser, favored making booster shots more widely available this summer and calling for a quick decision. But Peter Marks, the top FDA vaccine official, had some concerns, officials said.

As the debate dragged into late July, officials have grown increasingly worried that the window is closing to encourage younger adults to receive a second booster shot now and then a reformulated shot later this year.

Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday on Washington Post Live that her agency is talking to the FDA about a second booster for all adults but that it is ultimately the FDA's decision.

"There would have to be action from the FDA to authorize a fourth dose for people under 50," Walensky said. "In the meantime, another thing that we are doing is planning for the fall and understanding what the implications are, and where we are going for the fall, which is just about six weeks away."

Some outside experts endorsed the idea of allowing all adults to get a second dose of the current booster - especially because the protection provided by the first boosters is waning. That would also allow the Biden administration to use vaccine doses that are reaching their expiration dates and would otherwise be discarded.

But other experts warned that a second dose of the current booster would not provide a big benefit and might do some harm. Paul A. Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an outside adviser to the FDA, said recently that repeatedly administering the same vaccine could lead to a phenomenon known as "imprinting," in which an individual's immune system develops a highly targeted response to earlier versions of a virus and fails to adapt as that virus evolves.

The federal government has agreed to purchase 105 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's rebooted vaccine for $3.2 billion. At $30.50 a dose, that is a premium over the initial contracts the government made for the original vaccine in 2020, when the vaccines were $19.50 per dose.

The government is expected to sign a contract with Moderna shortly.
 

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China reports 982 new COVID cases for July 23 vs 817 a day earlier
by Martin Quin Pollard and Yingzhi Yang
Sat, July 23, 2022, 9:35 PM

BEIJING (Reuters) - Mainland China reported 982 new coronavirus cases for July 23, of which 129 were symptomatic and 853 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Sunday.

That compares with 817 new cases a day earlier - 164 symptomatic and 653 asymptomatic infections, which China counts separately.

The bulk of the cases were in the northwestern province of Gansu and the southern region of Guangxi.

In Guangxi for example, which is battling an outbreak in the coastal resort of Beihai, there were 23 new local symptomatic cases, compared with 35 the previous day and 325 new local asymptomatic cases versus 174 the previous day,
government data showed.

The financial hub of Shanghai reported three new local symptomatic cases, compared with two a day earlier, and 21 new local asymptomatic cases versus 16 the previous day, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

China's capital, Beijing, recorded no new local infections, government data showed.

There were no new deaths, keeping the nation's death toll at 5,226. As of Saturday, mainland China had confirmed 228,648 cases with symptoms.
 

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Birx Admits She Knew COVID-19 Vaccines Were Never "Going To Protect Against Infection"
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Jul 23, 2022 - 10:30 PM

A year ago, President Biden told the world during a now infamous CNN townhall that "you're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations."

"This is a simple, basic proposition: If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in an ICU unit, and you’re not going to die,"
Biden added.

Biden, exactly 1 year ago today: "You won't get Covid if you're vaccinated"
Biden (quadruple vaxxed), today: Gets Covid
7/21/2021 CNN Town Hall w/ Biden: pic.twitter.com/RXHNnPzn0D
— Daniel O'Connor (@DSDOConnor) July 21, 2022

Did he knowingly lie to the American people?

As The Epoch Times' Zachary Stieber reports, one of the former U.S. officials who led the COVID-19 response during the Trump administration said July 22 that COVID-19 vaccines were not expected to protect against infection.

I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection. And I think we overplayed the vaccines. And it made people then worry that it’s not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization,” Birx, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator under former President Donald Trump, said during an appearance on Fox News.

Dr. Deborah Birx: "I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection and I think we overplayed the vaccines ..."
Claims vaccines "protect against severe disease and hospitalization" before saying that 50% of those who died via Omicron were older & vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/CTifr3QZzX
— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) July 22, 2022

The Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines were granted emergency use authorization in late 2020 to prevent symptomatic COVID-19, and were promoted by many health officials, including Birx.

“This is one of the most highly-effective vaccines we have in our infectious disease arsenal. And so that’s why I’m very enthusiastic about the vaccine,” Birx said on an ABC podcast at the time

She made no mention of concerns the vaccines might not protect against infection.

Data shows the vaccines did prevent infection from early strains of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19, but that the protection waned over time. The vaccines have proven increasingly unable to shield even shortly after administration, and provide little protection against the Omicron virus variant and its subvariants.

The vaccines continue to protect against severe disease and hospitalization, Birx said on Friday.

“But let’s be very clear—50 percent of the people who died from the Omicron surge were older, vaccinated,” she said.
“So, that’s why I’m saying, even if you’re vaccinated and boosted if you’re unvaccinated, right now, the key is testing and Paxlovid,” she added.

Paxlovid is a COVID-19 pill produced by Pfizer that has had uneven results in clinical trials and studies, but is recommended by U.S. health authorities for both unvaccinated and vaccinated COVID-19 patients to prevent progression to severe disease.

President Joe Biden, who tested positive this week, was prescribed Paxlovid by his doctor.

There are signs the protection from vaccines against severe illness is also dropping quickly as new strains emerge.

That protection was just 51 percent against emergency department or urgent care visits, and dropped to just 12 percent after five months, according to a recent study. Against hospitalization, protection went from 57 percent to 24 percent. A booster increased protection but the shielding quickly dropped to substandard levels.

Fauci

Dr. Anthony Fauci also helped lead the U.S. pandemic response along with Birx and once said that vaccinated people would not get infected.

“What was true two years ago, a year and a half ago, changes because the original ancestral strain did not at all have the transmission capability that we’re dealing with with the omicron sublineages, particularly BA. 5. So the vaccine does protect some people, not 95 percent, from getting infected, from getting symptoms, and getting severe disease. It does a much better job at protecting a high percentage of people from progressing from severe disease,” Fauci said on Fox.

He said that vaccines with updated compilations, which are expected to debut in the fall, are necessary.

We need vaccines that are better. That are better because of the breadth and the durability, because we know that immunity wanes over several months. And that’s the reason why we have boosters,” he said. “But also, we need vaccines that protect against infection.”
 

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Fauci Now Claims To Have 'Open Mind' About COVID Lab-Leak Theory
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Jul 23, 2022 - 09:00 PM

In January, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request revealed that Dr. Anthony Fauci not only initiated efforts to cover up evidence pointing to a Chinese lab as the origin of COVID-19, but that he actively shaped a highly influential academic paper that excluded the possibility of a lab leak.

Fauci’s involvement with the paper wasn’t acknowledged by the authors, as it should have been under prevailing academic standards. Neither was it acknowledged by Fauci himself, who denied having communicated with the authors when asked directly while testifying before Congress - which we now know is a bald-faced lie.

The article, Proximal Origin, was co-authored by five virologists, four of whom participated in a Feb. 1, 2020, teleconference that was hastily convened by Fauci, who serves as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Jeremy Farrar, who heads the UK-based Wellcome Trust, after public reporting of a potential link between the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and the COVID-19 outbreak, according to the Epoch Times.

The initial draft of Proximal Origin was completed on the same day the teleconference, which wasn’t made public, took place. Notably, at least three authors of the paper were privately telling Fauci’s teleconference group both during the call and in subsequent emails that they were 60 to 80 percent sure that COVID-19 had come out of a lab.

(Oh, and at least three virologists involved in the drafting of Proximal Origin have seen substantial increases in funding from the agency since the paper was first published)

Fast forward six months, and the World Health Organization (WHO) finally admitted that the lab leak theory - while maintaining that it's not the most likely scenario - is a possibility that "needs study."

Now, Fauci is suddenly 'open minded' about the theory.

As the Daily Mail reports, Fauci told Fox News' Bret Baier on Friday: "We have an open mind but it looks very much like this was a natural occurrence, but you keep an open mind."

Baier grilled Fauci about a claim he made in April 2020, after being sent a link to a report made by Baier himself, that saw Fauci dismiss the lab leak theory as 'a shiny object that will go away.'
The Fox News anchor said: 'When you read the email from Kristian Andersen who says…"one has to look really closely to see some features (potentially) look engineered."
'And you say this is a shiny object and it will go away. It does not look like you're open minded to it.'
Fauci appeared to try to deflect by flattering Baier, saying: 'Bret, I know youre a good person, I know you a long time.
'If you take a group of emails when people are considering and thinking out loud, and stop there, and don’t look at the weeks of consideration by the same people who wrote the same emails… in published peer review literature, they explain why they thought it was a natural occurrence.' -Daily Mail

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In February 2020, California-based virologist Kristen Anderson (who has since deleted more than 5,000 tweets) speculated that COVID looked to be genetically engineered.

Dear @K_G_Andersen can you please explain what "Inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory" or "some features look engineered" means pic.twitter.com/qhc4k1Noyz
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 2, 2021

And two months later, emails reveal that then-National Institutes of Health Director Dr Francis Collins emailed Fauci a link to a Fox Report claiming 'multiple sources' believed COVID had leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology - writing "Wondering if there is something NIH can do to help put down this very destructive conspiracy, with what seems to be growing momentum."



Last October, a top NIH official admitted that the US-funded so-called "gain-of-function" research in Wuhan, China - and that the US nonprofit which conducted it, EcoHealth Alliance - led by the controversial Peter Daszak, "failed to report" that they had created a chimeric bat coronavirus which could infect humans.

As we noted last September, proof that the US funded of GoF research was blown wide open thanks to materials (here and here) released through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by The Intercept against the National Institutes of Health, revealing that EcoHealth was paid to make chimeric SARS-based Covid that they confirmed could infect human cells.




While evidence of this research has been pointed to in published studies, the FOIA release provides a key piece to the puzzle which sheds new light on what was going on.

"This is a roadmap to the high-risk research that could have led to the current pandemic," said Gary Ruskin, executive director of U.S. Right To Know, a group that has been investigating the origins of Covid-19 (via The Intercept).

We also learned in September that 18 months before the Pandemic, Daszak applied for a grant to release enhanced airborne coronaviruses into the wild in an effort to inoculate them against diseases that could have otherwise jumped to humans, according to The Telegraph, citing leaked grant proposals from 2018.

New documents show that just 18 months before the first Covid-19 cases appeared, researchers had submitted plans to release skin-penetrating nanoparticles containing “novel chimeric spike proteins” of bat coronaviruses into cave bats in Yunnan, China.
They also planned to create chimeric viruses, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily, and requested $14million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) to fund the work.

Daszak hoped to use genetic engineering to cobble "human-specific cleavage sites" onto bat Covid 'which would make it easier for the virus to enter human cells' - and included plans to commingle high-risk natural coronaviruses strains with more infectious, yet less deadly versions. His 'bat team' of researchers included Dr. Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as well as US researchers from the University of North Carolina and the US Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center.

And now Fauci is 'open minded' to the possibility of a lab leak.
 

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EXCLUSIVE: CDC Says It Performed Vaccine Safety Data Mining After Saying It Didn’t
By Zachary Stieber
July 23, 2022

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is saying it has performed vaccine safety data mining and analyses since early 2021, a reversal from a recent letter.

The CDC said in an operating procedures document dated Jan. 29, 2021, that it “will perform” a type of data mining analysis of vaccine safety data called Proportional Reporting Ratio (PRR).

The public health agency also said it would conduct routine surveillance of the data, which is being logged into the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.

The data mining and surveillance were aimed at detecting adverse events occurring at higher-than-expected rates.
But little of what the agency said it would perform has actually been performed, according to a June 16 letter to the Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit.

The group had asked, in a Freedom of Information Act request, for all data generated in connection with the data mining, as well as copies of other data.

In response, CDC records officer Roger Andoh said that staff within the CDC’s Immunization and Safety Office “inform me that no PRRS were conducted by CDC.”

“Furthermore, data mining is outside of th[e] agency’s purview; staff suggest you inquire with the FDA,” or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, he wrote.

The FDA was tasked with conducting a different method of data mining, according to the procedures document.

The CDC also failed to produce other information it said it would be producing, such as weekly tables of all reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines.

Confusion

The reaction to the disclosure was swift. Joshua Guetzkow, a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem who has been applying his training in statistics to examine vaccine safety, said it showed the CDC “lied” about its efforts to monitor the safety database, known as VAERS.

“In their own document on their own website, they state unambiguously what their plans were to monitor VAERS for safety signals. They failed to do that,” Guetzkow, who has been working with Children’s Health Defense, told The Epoch Times via email.

“Another thing: in their FOIA response, they said that data mining is outside the CDC’s purview. Then why did they say they were going to do data mining with PRRs in the SOP briefing document?” he wondered.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who has been attempting to get answers from federal agencies throughout the pandemic, told CDC Director Rochelle Walensky in a letter that the disclosure “raises questions about whether CDC ever collected the information on vaccine safety it originally claimed it would” in the operating procedures document.

The request for information that triggered the CDC’s response was for data from Feb. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2021.

Dr. John Su, of the CDC’s Immunization and Safety Office, heads the CDC’s VAERS team, which authored the operating procedures.

“CDC has been performing PRRs since Feb 2021, and continues to do so to date,” Su told The Epoch Times via email.

Hope That CDC Is ‘More Forthcoming’

In its response to the Freedom of Information Act request, the CDC “was unequivocal: the agency said it hasn’t done PRR and has no responsibility to do so,” Risa Evans, with Children’s Health Defense (CHD), told The Epoch Times in an email.

“Now the CDC states that it has in fact been conducting PRR since February 2021. CHD will certainly follow up with the CDC to obtain those records, and hopefully, the agency will be more forthcoming this time around in light of its legal obligations under FOIA and its stated commitment to ‘openness and accountability,'” she added.

The Epoch Times has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for all PRR analyses the CDC has conducted, as well as other information. The VAERS team told The Epoch Times that the information “will be provided to you,” though a date has not been given.

The FDA, meanwhile, says that it has conducted a different type of analysis, called Empirical Bayesian data mining.
“FDA does perform Empirical Bayesian data mining periodically on data from VAERS as part of its vaccine safety monitoring efforts,” a spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email.

Asked for the results, the spokesperson did not respond.

The Epoch Times has filed a FOIA request with the FDA for the results.

Guetzkow in 2021 performed his own analysis of data from VAERS. That analysis uncovered safety signals for a number of events, including severe allergic shock, Bell’s palsy, heart inflammation, and stroke. Some of the events have been confirmed to be connected, or described as likely connected, to one or more of the COVID-19 vaccines by the CDC and other U.S. authorities.

“CDC and FDA have been actively engaged in vaccine safety surveillance ever since COVID-19 vaccines have been in use.
During the first month of their availability, data on anaphylaxis after [the Pfizer and Moderna] COVID-19 vaccines were published (including in highly visible journals, like the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), indicating an observed incidence comparable to data after other vaccines. VAERS detected what would become known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) after Janssen’s vaccine, leading to a pause in the use of the vaccine mere weeks after its use was initiated. VAERS reviewed reports of myocarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during Summer 2021, providing a highly thorough characterization of such reports,” Martha Sharan, a spokeswoman for the CDC, told The Epoch Times in an email.

“These examples indicate that the vaccine safety surveillance systems in use by CDC and FDA identify potential vaccine safety concerns in a timely and effective manner.”
 

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Good natural immunity data
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Jul 23, 2022
Dr. John Campbell

Evidence omicron is generating natural immunity. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/co... https://assets.publishing.service.gov... Sequenced, 10 July 2022 to 17 July 2022 BA.2 3.4% (0.6% to 8.6%) BA.4 17.2% (12.8%) BA.5 78.7% (77.9%) Others 0.7% Newly designated variant, BA.2.75 Identified as part of horizon scanning on 4 July 2022 BA.2.75 is a sub-lineage of BA.2 8 additional mutations from BA.2 24 cases with BA.2.75 in the UK It has also been identified in multiple other countries in low numbers. Protection of SARS-CoV-2 natural infection against reinfection with the Omicron BA.4 or BA.5 subvariants https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.11... All Qatar’s COVID-19 cases since start of BA.4 / BA.5 wave Study estimates the effectiveness of previous infection in preventing reinfection with Omicron BA.4/BA.5 S-gene target failure proxy for BA.4/BA.5 infections Effectiveness of a previous pre-Omicron infection against symptomatic BA.4/BA.5 reinfection 15.1% against symptomatic reinfection 28.3% against any BA.4/BA.5 reinfection Effectiveness of a previous Omicron infection against symptomatic BA.4/BA.5 reinfection 76.1% against symptomatic reinfection 79.7% against any BA.4/BA.5 reinfection Prior Omicron infection protects against BA.4 and BA.5 https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158... Alex Sigal, virologist, Africa Health Research Institute, Durban The time that has passed since your original infection is much shorter with Omicron, so it’s really not a fair comparison UK Health Security Agency 15% of people in England have never had Covid https://www.theguardian.com/world/202... https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati... About 15% of people in England have never had Covid this minority group still accounts for 55% of infections 45% of cases are now reinfections the lowest it has been since the start of the pandemic, UKHSA estimated more than 10 million people had still never been infected First-time infections More likely to be symptomatic Fewer subsequent infections identified Many people are being reinfected but not noticing So % of reinfections may actually be more than 45% NZ Population 5.1 million Ministry of Health NZ https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-n... Deaths official coded as due to covid = 874 Covid coded as contributing to a death = 475
 

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BA.4, BA.5 Infection Produces Broad Cross-Reactive Neutralizing Antibodies
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BA.4, BA.5 Infection Produces Broad Cross-Reactive Neutralizing Antibodies. These two studies are so important to know in the situation of rising cases that I could not stop from immediately sharing with you.
URL list from Saturday, Jul. 23 2022:
SARS-CoV-2 BA.4 infection triggers more cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies than BA.1 | bioRxiv
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SARS-CoV-2 BA.4 infection triggers more cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies than BA.1
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Researchers discover new key protection against COVID-19 in saliva
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Neutrophil extracellular traps and their histones promote Th17 cell differentiation directly via TLR2 | Nature Communications
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Dry Mouth: Xerostomia: Causes and Treatment
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My Op-Ed on the Insane Paxlovid Distribution Program
The U.S Gov't (Pfizer) is now allowing pharmacists to dispense Paxlovid without consulting a physician. Biden's policy of a toxic jab in every arm and a pricey pill in every mouth needs an overhaul.
Pierre Kory, MD, MPA
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I published another Op-Ed today (with help from a friend), again attacking the relentless ridiculousness of our Federal pandemic policies. This one focused on the recent Paxlovid farce which allows pharmacists to provide one of the most complicated drugs in history to patients without consulting a physician (Paxlovid = peace & love? Pffft.. whatever). The U.S population appears largely moribund in its ability to reclaim independence from what is now the United States of Pharma.

I am doing my part, along with many others, but we need more involved. I particularly applaud all the state legislators across the country (Reps. Melissa Vlasek and Bud Hulsey from New Hampshire and Tennessee respectively, and Senators Nicely and Hensley from Tennessee, and we can’t forget Surgeon General Joe Ladapo and Gov. DeSantis from Florida for making such a public break from corrupted Federal Health Policy). There are also others that are passing bills to either make ivermectin over-the-counter, or protect physicians who dare stray from federal agency directives by using effective repurposed drugs, or who dare to voice opinions that “that go directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information.”

That last sentence was literally the verdict handed down to me by Twitter as they put me in Twitmo for 12 hours yesterday after I called attention to the report of 11 cardiac arrests on Italian beaches in 24 hours… and suggested the vaccines had something to do with it. Silly me for thinking it conclusive that almost a dozen people healthy enough to go swimming at the beach would suddenly arrest in the water or on the sand.. It’s not like it hasn’t been happening all over the UK and world. Swimmers, musicians, athletes, politicians, doctors, all walks of life, out and about, participating in normal activities and then dropping dead suddenly followed by newspaper reports lamenting their loss while taking care to never mention the vaccine. Excuse me for I digress.

Anyway, enjoy, it was published in the Federalist here:

Biden Is Extending The Covid Emergency And Prolonging The War On Doctors
BY: PIERRE KORY
JULY 22, 2022

The Biden administration and Big Pharma are using Covid-19 as an excuse to circumvent your doctor and make decisions about your health.


A recent New York Times/Siena College poll showing 64 percent of Democrats preferring a new standard-bearer in 2024 rocked the White House and the political landscape, but it should not have come as a big surprise. After all, President Joe Biden continues to fall short of the promises that drew many Democrats, including myself, to his candidacy in 2020: his pledge for a new strategy combatting Covid-19.

Consider the Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision allowing pharmacists to play doctor and prescribe Pfizer’s anti-viral treatment Paxlovid, which Biden himself, having contracted Covid-19, is now taking. The agency claims this is meant to increase access to the medicine, which must be taken as soon as symptoms arise. But the drug’s fact sheet is a tangled web of restrictions that will make it impractical for most pharmacies to take the risk. Why is the FDA encouraging this?

The answer is plain to anyone who has been following the plight of independent doctors during the pandemic. Our public health agencies — heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical industry and beholden to Biden’s “vaccine first” approach — are committed to diminishing the medical profession and centralizing authority with bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. They have prosecuted a relentless campaign to reduce physicians to cogs in a health care system that is aggressively transforming all medical professionals from providers to prescribers.

The problems with Paxlovid are no secret. FDA granted Pfizer emergency use authorization for the drug after a single trial with questionable results. The medicine has many contraindications, meaning it can’t be taken by someone who simultaneously would be taking certain anti-depressants, anti-seizure, anti-psychotic, cholesterol, or blood pressure medications. Furthermore, many Americans cannot take Paxlovid, given that nearly half of adults have cardiovascular disease.

The risks are plain to see in FDA’s guidance, which recommends referring the patient to a doctor if “sufficient information is not available to assess renal and hepatic function” or “potential drug interactions.” Numerous contraindications are listed, and caution is advised throughout. The burden is on the patient to furnish medical records to prove that he or she doesn’t have any significant kidney or liver disease, drug sensitivities, or other medications that could cause serious adverse events.

Nevertheless, pharmacies have spent months and millions of dollars lobbying for the right to play doctor and prescribe Paxlovid. The economic motives of such a move are clearly in their favor, as, unlike doctors, they profit directly from dispensing drugs. It’s no surprise the National Community Pharmacists Association celebrated the win as a “course correction.” Its CEO said, “Pharmacists are the drug therapy and drug interaction experts. This move opening up their ability to assess the need for and prescribe Paxlovid will improve patients’ timely access to treatments that will help keep them out of the hospital and alive.”

This may be as absurd a statement by a health organization as I have heard in the pandemic. No pharmacist could ever safely dispense a novel medicine with an unprecedented amount of drug interactions without in-depth knowledge of the severity of the patient’s medical problems or the critical necessity of each of their other medicines. This fact was not lost on the American Medical Association, which temporarily snapped out of its woke-activist-induced coma to offer qualified criticism.

“While the majority of COVID-19 positive patients will benefit from Paxlovid, it is not for everyone, and prescribing it requires knowledge of a patient’s medical history, as well as clinical monitoring for side effects and follow-up care to determine whether a patient is improving—requirements far beyond a pharmacist’s scope and training,” American Medical Association President Jack Resneck Jr. said in a statement.

The tell is right there, though. The AMA is fine with Paxlovid as long as physicians are doing the prescribing. Ceding authority is the problem, which is why the agency previously called the idea “dangerous in practice and precedent” when the Biden administration first proposed it in the Test to Treat initiative.

Covid cases and deaths are down massively from their last peak in January. Most states have lifted restrictions and returned to normal. Yet just days after the FDA made this announcement, the Biden administration again extended the Covid public health emergency — because the president can’t lose the specter of Covid as a political tool.

Vaccination rates have leveled off, and Paxlovid sales bottomed out in April due to a combination of supply problems and sinking demand. Pfizer pushed expectations for the drug sky high, and now it needs to deliver on that promise. The FDA’s move shows how deftly the company has used the pandemic to influence government and public health agencies to serve its shareholders.

The pharmaceutical industry, led by Pfizer and in league with the Biden administration, is waging war against independent doctors who refuse to cede control over patient well-being — and they are winning. If there is any hope for change, it will come in November.

The red wave forming off our political shores is a culmination of many factors. Inflation and gas prices are hitting all-time highs, and just 13 percent of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction. But relying on scare tactics to distract voters back to Biden is a strategy not supported by medical conditions on the ground.

Let’s hope whoever rides into Washington on that red wave will take on this fight with integrity.
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Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)

SARS-CoV-2 Could Use Nanotubes to Infect the Brain
Stressed cells can form hollow actin bridges to neighbors to get help, but the virus may hijack these tiny tunnels for its own purposes, a study suggests.
Natalia Mesa
Jul 21, 2022


SARS-CoV-2 usually infects cells by binding with the angiotensin-2 converting enzyme receptor. But although many cells—including neurons and cells that make up the blood-brain barrier—lack this protein, bits of the virus have been found in the brains of infected people post-mortem. Scientists have wondered how the virus is able to enter such unwelcoming tissues. Now, a study published yesterday (July 20) in Science Advances suggests that the virus may be shuttling itself through tiny tubes that extend from infected host cells.

“It’s a pretty exciting study,” Viabhav Tiwari, a virologist at Midwestern University who wasn’t involved in the research, tells The Scientist. “They are saying that the virus can be transferred and it’s most likely through these bridges. . . . Totally fascinating.”

Tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) are delicate, hairlike structures that sprout from the cell body and pierce through neighboring cell membranes when cells are stressed, including when they’re low on oxygen or during infection. Through the tubes, which are made of the protein actin, cells can send and receive RNA, nutrients, even entire organelles—and, unfortunately, viruses. From previous work, Pasteur Institute cell biologist Chiara Zurzolo knew that some viruses use nanotubes to spread from cell to cell. And given the fact that SARS-CoV-2 was infecting such a broad array of cell types, she thought maybe the coronavirus could similarly exploit TNTs.

“This virus is a beast. It infects everything,” Zurzolo says. “It spreads very fast throughout the brain and we think this is a possible mechanism” of how it does so.

To test this line of thinking, the researchers cultured Vero E6 cells, which model the cells that line our skin, organs, and blood vessels—and express angiotensin-2 converting enzyme (ACE2). Separately, the team also cultured SH-SY5Y, which model human neuronal cells and lack the ACE2 receptor. As predicted, the coronavirus easily infected the epithelial cells, but not the neurons. But when the scientists cultured infected epithelial cells and the neurons alongside one another, they detected viral proteins within the neurons after just one day. Furthermore, the researchers found that when ACE2 receptors were blocked, the virus was still able to find its way from infected epithelial cells to noninfected ones.

Using a combination of fluorescence confocal microscopy and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM)—a technique that involves flash-freezing samples and bombarding them with electrons, allowing researchers to capture 3D images of minuscule molecules—the scientists observed viral proteins and RNA within TNTs that were bridging cells. The TNTs also contained double-membrane vesicles, which are factories that churn out viral RNA. The researchers considered these findings strong evidence that the TNTs were acting as conduits for viral transmission, likely allowing the virus to bypass the blood-brain barrier and get into the brain.

However, Tiwari points out that while the study did show a potential way that neurons could be infected, the researchers didn’t show evidence that ACE2-positive cells could infect the types of epithelial cells that compose the blood-brain barrier. They also didn’t directly show that blood-brain barrier cells could form TNTs and transfer the virus to neurons.

“Are blood-brain barrier cells capable of inducing these bridges?” he asks. “They didn’t really answer that.”

Avindra Nath, a neurologist at the National Institutes of Health who was not involved in the study, similarly notes that while many cells make TNTs in culture, such structures may not occur in vivo.

“Further studies are necessary to establish if the same mechanism [of TNTs shuttling SARS-CoV-2] operates in the animal or human brain,” says Margolzata Kloc, a biochemist at Houston Methodist Medical Research Institute who was not involved in the study. “This can be very challenging because TNTs are ephemeral structures and catching them in action can be difficult.”

Studying TNTs in humans requires difficult-to-find, high-quality post-mortem tissue, which then needs to be imaged at super-high resolution. And since TNTs are made of just actin, there are very few biomarkers for these tiny structures, making them difficult to study and distinguish from other actin-based protrusions. As a result, TNT-mediated viral infection in vivo just “isn’t well documented,” explains Tiwari. The only in vivo studies involving TNTs Tiwari is aware of have happened in the eye.

Nath also points out that it remains unclear whether viral entry to the brain is actually an important part of COVID-19 pathology. Though the virus is seen in brain tissues, it may not be responsible for the neurological symptoms of COVID-19, since the amounts seen in neurological samples are low compared to what’s seen in lung tissues. “That small amount of virus cannot explain the pathology,” he says.

Still, Zurzolo and colleagues speculate that if SARS-CoV-2 does use nanotubes to make its way to the brain or elsewise, blocking TNT formation may be a way to stop the virus’s early spread and reduce infection severity overall. “We definitely need to stop the spread of virus initially,” Zurzolo says, in order to prevent it from wreaking havoc throughout the body.
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)

Japan: cases surge COVID BA.5 subvariant; see what we mean by not coming back to baseline with successive waves; see Japan's vaccination rate & death curve post case spike; MORE vaccine is not answer
With such elevated vaccine rates you would think Japan would fare well with BA.5? do not lockdown, protect elderly, use Vit D3, use early treatment, nasal-oral wash, rest of society to live normal
Dr. Paul Alexander
3 hr ago

COVID lockdown lunacy policies have failed in the past 2 years, Japan must not do this again; no more of that fraud lockdown lunacy!

Just take care of the vulnerable e.g. elderly in nursing homes, by reasonable strong protections and allow the rest of low risk society to live normal lives; leave them alone, go on with life; none of this was ever needed!!!

We as tax payers globally gave billions to hospitals like how US and Canada and UK etc. did, so these hospitals and CEOs got all that tax money and 2 years to prepare and they asked only for 2 weeks…so no hospital in US, Canada, Japan etc. should be ‘strained’…if this is reported by media, means many hospitals, CEOs, government members, ministers, MPs, congresspersons, senators etc. enriched themselves and stole the PPP COVID prep money from the tax payer. Investigate this, for if any hospital says they under ‘strain’. They got billions and 2 years to re-organize and prepare, They asked for 15 days to flatten the curve, got 2 years.

Again, tax payers in US and Canada and UK and Japan etc. gave billions to the hospitals and their CEOs to prepare and re-organize, for PPE, PPP etc. If anyone, any hospital says they are under strain means they embezzled and stole the money to buy houses and cars and stash it away. I call for investigations of every dollar that these crooks got. This is where the focus has to be, see which buddy and family of hospital CEOs and of government people got PPE, PPP COVID relief money.

Remember prevention: 2 to 3 times per day nasal-oral wash (especially if you were in crowd, packed, no ventilation, and you are high risk) using povidone iodine 10% diluted (3 table spoons in 500 ml boiled or sterile water), or hydrogen peroxide, swish and spit, no swallow, use a Q-tip to clean out nasal passage etc. near 100% effective in killing the COVID virus and other pathogen.

Just calm down, turn off CNN and FOX, both garbage junk reporting, and you stand back and think for yourself. And never, under any circumstance, allow these COVID injections near your low risk children! Fight like hell!





 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)

Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche & Dr. Paul Elias Alexander URGENT call July 22nd 2022: Pediatricians & parents, PLEASE, we beg you, do not vaccinate your child with these COVID vaccines! you will harm them!
The COVID gene injections will damage innate immune system of children, subvert it, they will not be able to eliminate other viruses in the future, nor distinguish 'self' from 'non-self'; autoimmunity
Dr. Paul Alexander
6 hr ago



Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche and Dr. Paul Elias Alexander discuss the potential harms and death from the COVID vaccines if healthy children are vaccinated, if any child is vaccinated with these vaccines. July 22, 2022

Bossche and Alexander: Paediatricians and parents do not vaccinate your children with these COVID vaccines
Bossche and Alexander: Paediatricians and parents do not vaccinate your children with these COVID vaccines
PAlexanderPhD
Published July 22, 2022
35 min 52 sec
 

Zoner

Veteran Member
This is not a they're both Christian type argument. I wish it was that simple. And it definitely should make you nervous, but not because "mommy and daddy are fighting" (ie: authority figures not presenting a unified front) but because of what Malone actually said and what he is positing. Geert is 100+ % right to confront it. In a nutshell, it's only a half a step away from saying "it's the immune compromised for whom the vaccines don't work who are generating mutations" to "it's the unvaccinated who are generating mutations". THINK! both the immune compromised and the unvaccinated have that in common - they don't have vaccine immunities to fight covid. Dwell on that and realize what Malone so casually threw into the dicussion. Geert is right to confront it, thank God for Geert, he may be the only thing standing between the unvaxxed and the pitch forks, and this better be sorted out now, not later.

HD
Well said and distinction noted. TY
 

psychgirl

Has No Life - Lives on TB
(fair use applies)

My Op-Ed on the Insane Paxlovid Distribution Program
The U.S Gov't (Pfizer) is now allowing pharmacists to dispense Paxlovid without consulting a physician. Biden's policy of a toxic jab in every arm and a pricey pill in every mouth needs an overhaul.
Pierre Kory, MD, MPA
14 hr ago

I published another Op-Ed today (with help from a friend), again attacking the relentless ridiculousness of our Federal pandemic policies. This one focused on the recent Paxlovid farce which allows pharmacists to provide one of the most complicated drugs in history to patients without consulting a physician (Paxlovid = peace & love? Pffft.. whatever). The U.S population appears largely moribund in its ability to reclaim independence from what is now the United States of Pharma.

I am doing my part, along with many others, but we need more involved. I particularly applaud all the state legislators across the country (Reps. Melissa Vlasek and Bud Hulsey from New Hampshire and Tennessee respectively, and Senators Nicely and Hensley from Tennessee, and we can’t forget Surgeon General Joe Ladapo and Gov. DeSantis from Florida for making such a public break from corrupted Federal Health Policy). There are also others that are passing bills to either make ivermectin over-the-counter, or protect physicians who dare stray from federal agency directives by using effective repurposed drugs, or who dare to voice opinions that “that go directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information.”

That last sentence was literally the verdict handed down to me by Twitter as they put me in Twitmo for 12 hours yesterday after I called attention to the report of 11 cardiac arrests on Italian beaches in 24 hours… and suggested the vaccines had something to do with it. Silly me for thinking it conclusive that almost a dozen people healthy enough to go swimming at the beach would suddenly arrest in the water or on the sand.. It’s not like it hasn’t been happening all over the UK and world. Swimmers, musicians, athletes, politicians, doctors, all walks of life, out and about, participating in normal activities and then dropping dead suddenly followed by newspaper reports lamenting their loss while taking care to never mention the vaccine. Excuse me for I digress.

Anyway, enjoy, it was published in the Federalist here:

Biden Is Extending The Covid Emergency And Prolonging The War On Doctors
BY: PIERRE KORY
JULY 22, 2022

The Biden administration and Big Pharma are using Covid-19 as an excuse to circumvent your doctor and make decisions about your health.


A recent New York Times/Siena College poll showing 64 percent of Democrats preferring a new standard-bearer in 2024 rocked the White House and the political landscape, but it should not have come as a big surprise. After all, President Joe Biden continues to fall short of the promises that drew many Democrats, including myself, to his candidacy in 2020: his pledge for a new strategy combatting Covid-19.

Consider the Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision allowing pharmacists to play doctor and prescribe Pfizer’s anti-viral treatment Paxlovid, which Biden himself, having contracted Covid-19, is now taking. The agency claims this is meant to increase access to the medicine, which must be taken as soon as symptoms arise. But the drug’s fact sheet is a tangled web of restrictions that will make it impractical for most pharmacies to take the risk. Why is the FDA encouraging this?

The answer is plain to anyone who has been following the plight of independent doctors during the pandemic. Our public health agencies — heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical industry and beholden to Biden’s “vaccine first” approach — are committed to diminishing the medical profession and centralizing authority with bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. They have prosecuted a relentless campaign to reduce physicians to cogs in a health care system that is aggressively transforming all medical professionals from providers to prescribers.

The problems with Paxlovid are no secret. FDA granted Pfizer emergency use authorization for the drug after a single trial with questionable results. The medicine has many contraindications, meaning it can’t be taken by someone who simultaneously would be taking certain anti-depressants, anti-seizure, anti-psychotic, cholesterol, or blood pressure medications. Furthermore, many Americans cannot take Paxlovid, given that nearly half of adults have cardiovascular disease.

The risks are plain to see in FDA’s guidance, which recommends referring the patient to a doctor if “sufficient information is not available to assess renal and hepatic function” or “potential drug interactions.” Numerous contraindications are listed, and caution is advised throughout. The burden is on the patient to furnish medical records to prove that he or she doesn’t have any significant kidney or liver disease, drug sensitivities, or other medications that could cause serious adverse events.

Nevertheless, pharmacies have spent months and millions of dollars lobbying for the right to play doctor and prescribe Paxlovid. The economic motives of such a move are clearly in their favor, as, unlike doctors, they profit directly from dispensing drugs. It’s no surprise the National Community Pharmacists Association celebrated the win as a “course correction.” Its CEO said, “Pharmacists are the drug therapy and drug interaction experts. This move opening up their ability to assess the need for and prescribe Paxlovid will improve patients’ timely access to treatments that will help keep them out of the hospital and alive.”

This may be as absurd a statement by a health organization as I have heard in the pandemic. No pharmacist could ever safely dispense a novel medicine with an unprecedented amount of drug interactions without in-depth knowledge of the severity of the patient’s medical problems or the critical necessity of each of their other medicines. This fact was not lost on the American Medical Association, which temporarily snapped out of its woke-activist-induced coma to offer qualified criticism.

“While the majority of COVID-19 positive patients will benefit from Paxlovid, it is not for everyone, and prescribing it requires knowledge of a patient’s medical history, as well as clinical monitoring for side effects and follow-up care to determine whether a patient is improving—requirements far beyond a pharmacist’s scope and training,” American Medical Association President Jack Resneck Jr. said in a statement.

The tell is right there, though. The AMA is fine with Paxlovid as long as physicians are doing the prescribing. Ceding authority is the problem, which is why the agency previously called the idea “dangerous in practice and precedent” when the Biden administration first proposed it in the Test to Treat initiative.

Covid cases and deaths are down massively from their last peak in January. Most states have lifted restrictions and returned to normal. Yet just days after the FDA made this announcement, the Biden administration again extended the Covid public health emergency — because the president can’t lose the specter of Covid as a political tool.

Vaccination rates have leveled off, and Paxlovid sales bottomed out in April due to a combination of supply problems and sinking demand. Pfizer pushed expectations for the drug sky high, and now it needs to deliver on that promise. The FDA’s move shows how deftly the company has used the pandemic to influence government and public health agencies to serve its shareholders.

The pharmaceutical industry, led by Pfizer and in league with the Biden administration, is waging war against independent doctors who refuse to cede control over patient well-being — and they are winning. If there is any hope for change, it will come in November.

The red wave forming off our political shores is a culmination of many factors. Inflation and gas prices are hitting all-time highs, and just 13 percent of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction. But relying on scare tactics to distract voters back to Biden is a strategy not supported by medical conditions on the ground.

Let’s hope whoever rides into Washington on that red wave will take on this fight with integrity.
.
Very interesting. And timely, for my household. I’ll forward it on to DH for the contraindications (of which he has none, to our knowledge) but also because I’d just mentioned how difficult it is to obtain.

We talked about the drug;, if it were ever needed by either of us and our doctor saying how he’d prescribe it immediately, until I said, “it’s too hard to get anyway”… and DH still is hesitant about its safety.
I am concerned as well.
 

psychgirl

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Well said and distinction noted. TY
I think for me, the nervousness derives from the fact we’ve been reading these experts for so long, that seeing them bicker is worrisome as that could provide ammunition to the vaxx community.
Ammunition in the form of calling them quacks, kooks, and liars.
 

Pinecone

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Thank you everyone for your work in posting articles and your insightful discussion. What a treasure trove of history and information!

It is amazing to see the lies and half truths pushed by the government and those who are supposed to be our best scientists, and the vilification of those who questioned them. This thread would be a fascinating and valuable source for anyone wanting to do a study of government v.s. citizen, the covid history from day one, and how to not run a pandemic.
 

Zoner

Veteran Member
I think for me, the nervousness derives from the fact we’ve been reading these experts for so long, that seeing them bicker is worrisome as that could provide ammunition to the vaxx community.
Ammunition in the form of calling them quacks, kooks, and liars.
I need to go back and listen to that video again before I comment.
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
For the record I am going to post what Robert Malone said on that video with Del. The first part I transcribed is about 20 minutes in to the video when Del plays back the audio of what Geert said in the Texas state capitol, then it's back to the discussion when Malone is sitting with Del, Dr.s Kory and Urso. He talks calmly but fast and it's easy to get lost in what he's saying - read it slowly and you will see what was actually said.

Del plays audio of what Malone said at the Texas State capitol:

"Administration of leaky vaccines is another contributor. Largely unable to block infection, replication and spread of the virus may contribute to the evolution that we're seeing with Omicron. There is evidence, this is key, there is evidence that infection of individuals who are immunologically impaired or compromised, in other words those with immunodeficiencies, I'm not just talking about AIDS. There's a lot of different kinds of immunodeficiencies such as people have, we were talking about organ transplantation and cancer treatments. These people may often become chronically infected with Omicron and these appear according to the science, the latest publications, to be the individuals that are disproportionately driving the development of the escape mutants. So I've been wrong, Geert Vanden Bosche has been wrong, it's not happening necessarily in all of us because we've been vaccinated or have been previously infected. It appears that the evolution is happening in people who are immunocompromised in some way so that they become chronically infected or reinfected with Omicron."​


Del: [snipped until he asks the question ......] but you're saying Geert was wrong in a way, that it's maybe not the vaccinated that are creating these mutations that have pressure but it's more in the immune suppressed? Can you tell me a little more about this because this is sort of breaking information.


Malone: So this is what the latest literature is showing. And just because it's out in one or two papers doesn't mean it's necessarily true. I mean that's the nature of science. It's this back and forth. But the latest data suggests if you track and it's much like what happens with the evolution of HIV in the AIDS or HIV infected patients, they become chronically infected. what we're seeing is in the immunosuppressed they become chronically infected and those are the people that seem to be generating the escape mutants. Now here's the kicker, ok? The vaccines through this process of immune imprinting the multiplee jabbed are developing a relative immunodeficiency in both B and T responses against Omicron. It is the highly vaccinated that are getting repeatedly infected by Omicron and chronically infected by Omicron. And you as clinicians you're seeing it, you know that's what's happening. the data from all over the world are showing it. And by the way, these are the people, the highly vaccinated, that are infected with Omicron, particularly the latest variants, that are in the hospital and unfortunately are dying at a disproportionately high rate. But these are the folks that are generating the new waves of escape mutants and the madness Del, the madness, is we have now bought, us the United States government, all of us, we've essentially borrowed money to pay Pfizer $3.2 Billion for making a trivalent vaccine with Wuhan, BA4 and BA5 that we're going to deploy without any clinical trials. They haven't even made it yet, we've already bought it. [del makes a comment about Paul Offit] ...it's crazy and again, I could not, if I wanted to, I could not design a vaccine more likely to drive immune imprinting and these problems other than the one that they are specifically going to try to force us all to get vaccinated with right before the election for some reason.
 

Zoner

Veteran Member
For the record I am going to post what Robert Malone said on that video with Del. The first part I transcribed is about 20 minutes in to the video when Del plays back the audio of what Geert said in the Texas state capitol, then it's back to the discussion when Malone is sitting with Del, Dr.s Kory and Urso. He talks calmly but fast and it's easy to get lost in what he's saying - read it slowly and you will see what was actually said.

Del plays audio of what Malone said at the Texas State capitol:

"Administration of leaky vaccines is another contributor. Largely unable to block infection, replication and spread of the virus may contribute to the evolution that we're seeing with Omicron. There is evidence, this is key, there is evidence that infection of individuals who are immunologically impaired or compromised, in other words those with immunodeficiencies, I'm not just talking about AIDS. There's a lot of different kinds of immunodeficiencies such as people have, we were talking about organ transplantation and cancer treatments. These people may often become chronically infected with Omicron and these appear according to the science, the latest publications, to be the individuals that are disproportionately driving the development of the escape mutants. So I've been wrong, Geert Vanden Bosche has been wrong, it's not happening necessarily in all of us because we've been vaccinated or have been previously infected. It appears that the evolution is happening in people who are immunocompromised in some way so that they become chronically infected or reinfected with Omicron."​


Del: [snipped until he asks the question ......] but you're saying Geert was wrong in a way, that it's maybe not the vaccinated that are creating these mutations that have pressure but it's more in the immune suppressed? Can you tell me a little more about this because this is sort of breaking information.


Malone: So this is what the latest literature is showing. And just because it's out in one or two papers doesn't mean it's necessarily true. I mean that's the nature of science. It's this back and forth. But the latest data suggests if you track and it's much like what happens with the evolution of HIV in the AIDS or HIV infected patients, they become chronically infected. what we're seeing is in the immunosuppressed they become chronically infected and those are the people that seem to be generating the escape mutants. Now here's the kicker, ok? The vaccines through this process of immune imprinting the multiplee jabbed are developing a relative immunodeficiency in both B and T responses against Omicron. It is the highly vaccinated that are getting repeatedly infected by Omicron and chronically infected by Omicron. And you as clinicians you're seeing it, you know that's what's happening. the data from all over the world are showing it. And by the way, these are the people, the highly vaccinated, that are infected with Omicron, particularly the latest variants, that are in the hospital and unfortunately are dying at a disproportionately high rate. But these are the folks that are generating the new waves of escape mutants and the madness Del, the madness, is we have now bought, us the United States government, all of us, we've essentially borrowed money to pay Pfizer $3.2 Billion for making a trivalent vaccine with Wuhan, BA4 and BA5 that we're going to deploy without any clinical trials. They haven't even made it yet, we've already bought it. [del makes a comment about Paul Offit] ...it's crazy and again, I could not, if I wanted to, I could not design a vaccine more likely to drive immune imprinting and these problems other than the one that they are specifically going to try to force us all to get vaccinated with right before the election for some reason.
Maybe I’m wrong but from what I’m reading here, Malone uses literature and science to say Geert was wrong. That was a damning statement. Then he finishes by talking out of both sides of his mouth when Del calls him on it.
Evidently Geert said this conversation was public but I’m not sure what he is referring to.
 

Zoner

Veteran Member
For the record I am going to post what Robert Malone said on that video with Del. The first part I transcribed is about 20 minutes in to the video when Del plays back the audio of what Geert said in the Texas state capitol, then it's back to the discussion when Malone is sitting with Del, Dr.s Kory and Urso. He talks calmly but fast and it's easy to get lost in what he's saying - read it slowly and you will see what was actually said.

Del plays audio of what Malone said at the Texas State capitol:

"Administration of leaky vaccines is another contributor. Largely unable to block infection, replication and spread of the virus may contribute to the evolution that we're seeing with Omicron. There is evidence, this is key, there is evidence that infection of individuals who are immunologically impaired or compromised, in other words those with immunodeficiencies, I'm not just talking about AIDS. There's a lot of different kinds of immunodeficiencies such as people have, we were talking about organ transplantation and cancer treatments. These people may often become chronically infected with Omicron and these appear according to the science, the latest publications, to be the individuals that are disproportionately driving the development of the escape mutants. So I've been wrong, Geert Vanden Bosche has been wrong, it's not happening necessarily in all of us because we've been vaccinated or have been previously infected. It appears that the evolution is happening in people who are immunocompromised in some way so that they become chronically infected or reinfected with Omicron."​


Del: [snipped until he asks the question ......] but you're saying Geert was wrong in a way, that it's maybe not the vaccinated that are creating these mutations that have pressure but it's more in the immune suppressed? Can you tell me a little more about this because this is sort of breaking information.


Malone: So this is what the latest literature is showing. And just because it's out in one or two papers doesn't mean it's necessarily true. I mean that's the nature of science. It's this back and forth. But the latest data suggests if you track and it's much like what happens with the evolution of HIV in the AIDS or HIV infected patients, they become chronically infected. what we're seeing is in the immunosuppressed they become chronically infected and those are the people that seem to be generating the escape mutants. Now here's the kicker, ok? The vaccines through this process of immune imprinting the multiplee jabbed are developing a relative immunodeficiency in both B and T responses against Omicron. It is the highly vaccinated that are getting repeatedly infected by Omicron and chronically infected by Omicron. And you as clinicians you're seeing it, you know that's what's happening. the data from all over the world are showing it. And by the way, these are the people, the highly vaccinated, that are infected with Omicron, particularly the latest variants, that are in the hospital and unfortunately are dying at a disproportionately high rate. But these are the folks that are generating the new waves of escape mutants and the madness Del, the madness, is we have now bought, us the United States government, all of us, we've essentially borrowed money to pay Pfizer $3.2 Billion for making a trivalent vaccine with Wuhan, BA4 and BA5 that we're going to deploy without any clinical trials. They haven't even made it yet, we've already bought it. [del makes a comment about Paul Offit] ...it's crazy and again, I could not, if I wanted to, I could not design a vaccine more likely to drive immune imprinting and these problems other than the one that they are specifically going to try to force us all to get vaccinated with right before the election for some reason.
Thanks for taking the time for doing this HD. It’s helpful to all who are trying to make some sense of what is really going on.
 

Heliobas Disciple

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Maybe I’m wrong but from what I’m reading here, Malone uses literature and science to say Geert was wrong. That was a damning statement. Then he finishes by talking out of both sides of his mouth when Del calls him on it.
Evidently Geert said this conversation was public but I’m not sure what he is referring to.

Yep. You're not wrong. It was a damning statement and he did a practical 180 when with the panel and asked to explain by Geert, without actually taking back what he said. Greatest wordsmith around...

I do not think the video with Del is what Geert is referring to, it read to me like he had a subsequent conversation that was public so hopefully someone will post a video of it and it will be public (not on a private subscription only site).


Thanks for taking the time for doing this HD. It’s helpful to all who are trying to make some sense of what is really going on.

I know. I needed to do it for myself too because I was confused listening to him, it was contradictory and in circles and my head was spinning from it all and I thought if I could read it at my own pace and digest it at my own pace maybe I could understand it better. And it cleared it up for me once I had it as words on the screen to read instead of listening to as it quickly went by, so I added it for the thread too;)

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Yep. You're not wrong. It was a damning statement and he did a practical 180 when with the panel and asked to explain by Geert, without actually taking back what he said. Greatest wordsmith around...

I do not think the video with Del is what Geert is referring to, it read to me like he had a subsequent conversation that was public so hopefully someone will post a video of it and it will be public (not on a private subscription only site).




I know. I needed to do it for myself too because I was confused listening to him, it was contradictory and in circles and my head was spinning from it all and I thought if I could read it at my own pace and digest it at my own pace maybe I could understand it better. And it cleared it up for me once I had it as words on the screen to read instead of listening to as it quickly went by, so I added it for the thread too;)

HD
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Heliobas Disciple

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Dr. Malone was interviewed by Dr. Mercola and the video was posted on Saturday the 23rd. (They didn't say when it was recorded, could be a few weeks old). One of the first things Dr. Mercola asked him about was the allegation that he is controlled opposition. There is a pdf of the transcript which I read along with as I watched and made slight corrections to, but mostly this is from them, it's way too long for me to transcribe myself. He addresses everything brought up in the Lee Merritt video btw, plus more so some may find it interesting. This is just a bit longer that 20 minutes of the much longer interview, and will take two posts. I will post a link to the video so if you want to watch it and see what else was discussed you can.

Link to the video interview:
1 hr 43 min 22 sec

Link to the pdf transcript of the video interview:
(fair use applies)


EXCERPT FROM TRANSCRIPT:

Starting at about 14 min 30 seconds into the video:

Dr. Joseph Mercola:
So , I want to address a relatively minor elephant in the room, but nevertheless one, because I regularly scan the comments on my site, and there's not a significant number, but there's a number of people who think you're controlled opposition. Why would they think that? So, I want to put that nasty rumor to rest here and now, but let me just expand on and you can comment. So, the justification for that thought is that you are the developer for the foundation of the mRNA technology, and you've been double-jabbed. So,it just shocks me that anyone that who has critical thinking skills left would even ever come to that conclusion if they ever seriously evaluated your content. So, I know you'll be a lot more articulate and effective at trouncing that notion than I could be. So,if you could:

Dr. Robert Malone:

Well, let me expand on. The storyline here is even stronger than what you say. I have historically worked with people that have been truly deep state intelligence community. I have decades of experience in biodefense. I have been deep in the belly of the beast. I have won literally billions of dollars for my clients in grants and contracts. I have managed hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and contracts in the vaccine space. I sit on, or historically used to – I don't think – they're not inviting me lately. The study section chair or key study section member on many, hundred-plus million dollar contract reviews for typically the NIH (National Institutes of Health) and particularly the NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), but also DoD (Department of Defense). I, historically, been deeply embedded in this whole enterprise. I know it upside down. I've sat in the audience for way too many ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) meetings, often commented. I understand this system. So, I think the concerns that I could be controlled opposition are valid. I think that it's appropriate to acknowledge the basis for those concerns.

Now, the concerns I think are refuted by my behaviors and actions. Let's start with the inventorship. I have many patents. I've contributed to the development of many technologies. My wife and I helped found Inovia, the electroporation or post-electrical field gene delivery company that is promoting its own vaccine technology, which is a DNA-based platform and could well be adapted to RNA-based vaccines. I certainly have those nine initial issued patents and others that relate to virtually any delivery system used to administer polynucleotides to the nasopharynx, to mucosal tissues, to elicit a mucosal immune response, which as you know, is the huge benefit of Omicron natural infection is that it produces a mucosal immune response in the infected individuals, that's highly protective. I have many patents on various cationic lipids, these positively charged fats that are used to deliver the polynucleotides, but I'm also an objective scientist.

And as a consequence of the decades of experience in basic discovery research in this area, we've turned away from this technology because we could never overcome the inflammatory problems, this acute immune response and the recruitment of inflammatory cells into the injected tissues. We ran into this again and again and again, both in mice and then in monkeys, and could never overcome it. We abandoned the technology. Then Kati Karikó called me up in the mid ‘90s and wanted some advice. And I told her about the problems with the RNA and the problems with the inflammatory response and, together with Dr. Drew Weissman, she applied the Pseudouridine discoveries that were just emerging and put Pseudouridine all the way through the RNA, which is both immunosuppressive and increases the half-life of the RNA. So that these RNAs that are now being used are really nothing like the natural RNA. They're synthetic product.

This is the basis for their assertion, that they're the true inventors and I am not, despite all the prior art and multiple patents, is that they made this improvement on the art that was enabling. The Cure Vac technology demonstrates that that's not enabling. That in fact, you can get good immune responses with mRNA that does not include pseudouridine, but I had turned away from the tech. There was better ways to provide an immune response, I believed. Those are still investigational. Talking about eyes wide open, I have intimate understanding of the good, the bad and the ugly of this approach and this technology. And that's always been my position is that of an objective scientist.

Then on the last point on this, I never received substantial revenue of any kind from my inventions. The patents were filed from a company that's now defunct called Vical that had partnered with Merck years ago. Over a billion dollars were spent to advance the technology, Merck and Vical only focused on the DNA and they failed. But as a consequence of the terms of my employment, I received in addition to my technician salary, which was about $20,000 a year, I received one U.S. dollar for all those patents. I've had no patent royalty. So, for me, I have no financial conflict of interest here. It doesn't matter to me one way or the other. What matters is integrity and honesty and truthfulness.

Now, about the two jabs. I knew that I was going to have to travel internationally and that, in the absence of vaccination, that was going to be almost impossible. That has been validated. The fact that I've been able to travel internationally and speak out internationally, initially at the International COVID Summit in Rome has been crucial, both for my own comprehension and insights into the fact that this coordinated campaign that we've all been experiencing, including the propaganda, censorship, et cetera, physicians such as yourself, is a global campaign. And it has used the same exact language and strategies. I don't know if you knew, I'm not so honored as you as to have been identified by the White House as one of the Dirty Dozen, but I was identified by the Italian Press as one of the Dirty Dozen, because I went to the summit in Rome, although they only managed to come up with 10 pictures. So, I guess in Italy, 10 constitutes a dozen. But it has been fascinating in my travels through Europe and down into the Iberian Peninsula to learn from first person accounts, that the same exact strategies that have been deployed in the United States have been deployed all over Europe, Latin America and Africa, to some extent. So, I think it was important that I took that stack, I took the jabs.

In addition to my need for travel, I was suffering from long COVID. I was one of the initial wave of infected with Wuhan-1, because I went to a drug discovery computational conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was infected in the end of February with the original strain as part of that initial outbreak there, at a time when the virus was still believed to not be on the East Coast. And Wuhan-1 hit me hard. I had long COVID and there was a lot of buzz in the press, which has not been substantiated by the literature subsequently, that vaccination would address and mitigate the symptoms of long COVID. So, for those two reasons, I took the jab, need to travel, suffering long COVID. And I thought, as an immunologist, there was some logic to the idea that an additional boost of antigen might rev up my immune response and help quench the long COVID symptoms that I was experiencing. At the time, remember long COVID was another obscure censored community the people that believed they were suffering from this, and we were censored within that community and defamed and denied and gaslighted. Since then, it's become a major focus area and acknowledged by the CDC and the NIH. But at the time, it was another one of those things that many of us were experiencing, but most of the world was denying existed and we were considered crazy. So, I took the jab and it turned out that it actually made things worse, particularly after the second dose, when I developed hypertension with a systolic of up to 230 and pulse pushing 90, fairly frequently, sometimes up to 100. So, I had the cardiac damage. I also had narcolepsy, other central nervous brain fog, restless leg, a number of symptoms that are known to be associated with the vaccine.

And then, out came the, How Bad Is My Batch? website when Jessica Rose and many others analyzed the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) data by lot number. And Jill and I did a search and I found out that my second jab was from one of those highly lethal, high risk lot numbers. And so that's that. We all make mistakes. I think that the fact that what I found in traveling is that having made that mistake of accepting that vaccine, which I acknowledge now, was absolutely not the proper way to approach this. And by the way, I eventually did get my long COVID cured by a physician who has since had her license pulled, Meryl Nass. Because she prescribed ivermectin for me and I had almost immediate relief from symptoms and suddenly a burst in stamina. I was able to out-hike my 20-something second child when we were visiting the West Coast along the Big Sur, which was a huge surprise for me. So, tip of the hat to Meryl Nass, a true truth warrior and another inspirational figure in all of this, I think for all of us. So, that's the brief history on that.

Now, let's talk about the third leg on this stool of the logic of me as controlled opposition. There is no question. I have co-published. I used to be a business partner with a CIA (Central Intelligences Agency) agent who was retired from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), where he had had a senior position. I have co-published with a CIA agent who I believe, according to the attack journalist that the New York times sent for me, is no longer with the CIA, but who was in Wuhan in the fourth quarter of 2019, who is arguably our leading expert in gain-of-function research and bio-weaponry, Michael Callahan, who called me from Wuhan on January 4th and told me to get my team spun up to address this novel virus, coronavirus, that was causing an outbreak in China. Very strange timing. And I had a series of interactions with him subsequently until I became completely disillusioned and aware that he was lying to me almost constantly, including about things like whether or not the pathogen was engineered.

So, I think that I can certainly empathize and understand why some might have these concerns. And I've certainly been subjected to plenty of attacks. I think some people weaponize this and use hyperbole to advance their own cause and raise money. But as you know, that's been the experience of both of us and many through this outbreak is there's some that will act in an unscrupulous fashion that's counterproductive to the overall cause of truth and integrity, but it's just the nature of things. I stand by, I don't ask people to accept what I say, I ask people to think for themselves. And I've tried to be truthful, honest, act with integrity, provide access to information, try to help people to think through things by themselves, and I've made a number of predictions and comments and analyses that like you I stand by what I've said.

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Heliobas Disciple

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[continued from post above]

So, even if I was controlled opposition, that's kind of irrelevant. The question is not who I am, the question is, “What is the information? Is it useful to you? Is it helping you to manage your own affairs, make informed choices about vaccinating your children?” And if so, I think that even if I was taking the position of these individuals, even if I was controlled opposition, I suspect that I'm fairly useful controlled opposition for the opp.., for those of us that are in this boat together of seeking truth. And frankly, all of my contacts with the government now are destroyed. The colleagues that I used to communicate with regularly at the FDA will no longer take my call, my former clients at Defense Threat Reduction Agency, I don't have any contacts with them anymore. I've dropped my contract with Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Largely I just became disillusioned with them, particularly after I found out that another branch of DTRA is continuing to support the Wuhan Institute of Virology and disclose that.

I shared a number of fragments of information about what I know that's been going on within DTRA, as well as within NIAID and the NIH. And in doing so, I compromised that part of my career. I've thrown away, for the second time by the way, a big career path that I've developed over decades. The first time was when I spoke out to the press about the Jesse Gelsinger tragedy and the abuse of Jim Wilson in the University of Pennsylvania that caused that unfortunate death, and that pretty much ended my career as a gene therapy researcher academic. And now, I've done it again in the case of these vaccines with these close longstanding working relationships I've developed over decades with the biodefense enterprise. And so, now I find myself in this odd position of being a truth teller heretic and leader of the opposition to what I believe to be egregiously bad conduct on the part of key players in my former industry of clinical research and regulatory affairs and vaccines, biodefense and medical product development. That's my big beef here is my whole career, all the time I've invested, all the training, all the effort, I'm seeing and largely have seen now the de-legitimization of the vaccine enterprise, the de-legitimization of the integrity of the CDC, the FDA, and the whole regulatory pathway that's been developed over generations now, that I've been so deeply trained in, they've destroyed my industry. For what?

So, in sum, I respect the right of others to have their own opinions, and I ask that you judge me fairly. I don't deny that we all get judged, and I also get criticized because I voted, historically, for Democrats. And Steve Bannon has forgiven me, so I guess maybe your listeners can also. I think what's important is that – let me put it this way, Dr. Mercola, and I'm sure you've been a truth warrior for far longer than I have, but the expression I was in a dark room, I backed into the light switch and what I saw was such that I could never unsee it. I think like a lot of us, I get there's a huge laundry list. Bobby is an example. I mean, Bobby now has common cause with Republican attorney generals all of the United States and is increasingly alienated, in many cases, radically alienated from his traditional family's party. I think Mikki Willis is a fantastic example. The gentleman who I think we all, is another one that we should all acknowledge, the vindication of “Plandemic” and the thesis behind “Plandemic,” the series that he put out that had over a billion views, and “Plandemic 3” is about to come out.

Not everything there is right, not everything Judy said was correct, but it was incredibly brave to put out the thesis and highlight the fact that there is this history of planning and machinations, which precede all that we've experienced. And Mikki was basically run out of his former home, was burned and he was run out of the Ojai Valley. Now lives in Austin with his production team, has created his own little paradise now. And now I understand that there's many in the Ojai Valley that regret what they did to him, but the damage is done. Those of us that have been through this are never going back, and I suspect you're one of them.

[end of this part of the discussion - ends at 36 minute mark]
 

Heliobas Disciple

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Here is an article that summarizes the video from Dr. Mercola's site:

(fair use applies)

mRNA Platform Inventor Sifts Through the Lies
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
July 24, 2022

Story at-a-glance
  • Media and health authorities also ignore what Dr. Robert Malone and others have warned about from the start, which is that vaccinating during a pandemic will drive the evolution of resistant strains. This is precisely what we’re now seeing with Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5, which circumvent both natural immunity and COVID jab-induced antibodies
  • The CDC and the FDA are also ignoring the reality of immune imprinting, which is causing COVID-jabbed individuals to contract COVID more frequently, and repeatedly
  • Media are again trying to drum up fear over new COVID strains, despite data clearly showing hospitalization rates remain steady even though the infection rate is rising
  • When RNAs include pseudouridine — as all mRNA COVID shots do — they will last longer and be less inflammatory. However, we’ve now discovered pseudouridine-containing RNA also causes immunosuppression, which we’re seeing in many who have received the jabs
  • Malone’s book, “The Lies My Government Told Me” is now available
By now, many of you will be familiar with Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the core mRNA and DNA vaccine platform technology1 that the various COVID shots are based upon. (To be clear, he’s not the inventor of the COVID shots themselves but rather the foundational platform that underlies them, for which Malone holds several patents.)

Malone rose to prominence after his appearance on the DarkHorse podcast2 in June 2021, where he, Steve Kirsch and DarkHorse host Bret Weinstein, Ph.D., spent three hours dissecting the COVID fraud. Interestingly, Malone and Kirsch were both double-jabbed before realizing there were problems with the shots, but once they did, they boldly stepped into the limelight to warn and inform others.

Malone also appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast3 December 30, 2021, which ended up being the most-viewed podcast of all time with some 50 million views. The transcript of that interview was even entered into the Congressional Record4 January 3, 2022, by Congressman Troy Nehls, R-Texas, after Twitter and YouTube removed it from their platforms.

Malone also helped promote the work of Dr. Matthias Desmet, a clinical psychologist at the University of Gantt in Belgium and author of “The Psychology of Totalitarianism.” Desmet was the first to introduce the concept of “mass formation” to explain how and why people were going along with a narrative that was clearly false and evidently destructive.

Like so many others who have tried to share truth and opinions that differ from the official COVID narrative, myself included, Malone has been viciously attacked by media and relentlessly “fact checked.” Alas, with the passage of time, his wisdom and knowledge are now being validated on a near-daily basis.

“I would say we've been gaslighted, ridiculed, defamed — but I don't think we've been discredited,” he says. “I think we could both hold our heads up high. We've called it amazingly well.
I'm just in the middle of reviewing and building the chapters for the book that has to do with what's gone wrong with the HHS [Health and Human Services] and what we need to fix, which includes a litany of things that have been miscalled by the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention].
The list is enormous. And we continue to see on a daily basis the weaponization of fear porn, the two most recent examples being the monkeypox and the Omicron BA.4 [and] BA.5.”

Immune Imprinting Is Making the Vaxxed Sicker

As noted by Malone, media are again trying to drum up fear porn, despite data clearly showing hospitalization rates remain steady even though the infection rate is rising. They’re also ignoring what Malone and others warned about from the start, which is that vaccinating during a pandemic is a beyond foolish strategy as it is virtually guaranteed to drive the evolution of resistant strains.

This is precisely what we’re now seeing with BA.4 and BA.5, which circumvent both natural immunity and COVID jab-induced antibodies. The CDC and the Food and Drug Administration are also ignoring the reality of immune imprinting, which Malone says is backed by more than 10 high-end, highly visible peer reviewed journals.

“We're literally driving the highly vaccinated to an immune compromised state in which they're more susceptible to infection by Omicron — as a consequence of their prior vaccination — and they are becoming chronically or multiply infected,” Malone says.
“This is precisely the situation that's been shown in peer reviewed literature to be driving the development of the further development of the escape mutants. So, our public policies are completely contrary to the need here. I'm speechless concerning the mismatch between what our government promotes and what the true public health need is.”

Is Malone Controlled Opposition?

In scanning through the comments on my newsletter, I’ve noticed that some people are convinced Malone is controlled opposition. Considering that he’s the developer of the mRNA technology that underlies the jabs, and the fact that he’s been double-jabbed himself, and has worked extensively with the Deep State intelligence community, Malone believes his current actions speak for themselves:

“I have historically worked with people who have been truly Deep State intelligence community. I have decades of experience in biodefense. I have been deep in the belly of the beast. I have won literally billions of dollars for my clients in grants and contracts. I have managed hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and contracts in the vaccine space.
[I’ve been] ... study section chair or key study section member on many hundred-plus million-dollar contract reviews, typically for the NIH [National Institutes of Health] ... but also DOD [Department of Defense]. I historically been deeply embedded in this whole enterprise. I know it upside down.
I understand this system. So, I think the concerns that I could be controlled opposition are valid. I think that it's appropriate to acknowledge the basis for those concerns. Now, [those] concerns, I think, are refuted by my behaviors and actions.
Let's start with the inventions. I have many patents. I've contributed to the development of many technologies. My wife and I helped found Inovia, the post electrical field gene delivery company that is promoting its own vaccine technology, which is a DNA-based platform and could well be adapted to RNA-based vaccines.
I certainly have those nine initial issued patents and others that relate to virtually any delivery system used to administer polynucleotides to the nasal pharynx, to mucosal tissues, to elicit a mucosal immune response ... I have many patents on various [nano] lipids, these positively charged fats that are used to deliver the polynucleotides, but I'm also an objective scientist.
As a consequence of the decades of experience in basic discovery research in this area, we've turned away from this technology because we could never overcome the inflammatory problems, this acute immune response and the recruitment of inflammatory cells into the injected tissues. We ran into this again and again and again, both in mice and then in monkeys, and could never overcome it. We abandoned the technology.”

Malone Explains the Patent Controversy

Malone goes on to explain the origin of the patent controversy — why some claim he didn’t actually invent the mRNA platform the COVID jabs are using, and why the technology was used at all if it had already been abandoned due to excessive hazards:

“Kati Karikó called me up in the mid-‘90s and wanted some advice. I told her about the problems with the RNA and the problems with the inflammatory response and, together with Drew Weissman, she applied the pseudouridine discoveries that were just emerging and put pseudouridine all the way through the RNA, which is both immunosuppressive and increases the half life of the RNA.
So, these RNAs that are now being used are really nothing like the natural RNA. They're synthetic product. The basis for their assertion that they're the true inventors and I am not — despite all the prior art and multiple patents — is that they made this improvement on the art that was enabling.
[However], the CureVac technology demonstrates that's not enabling, that, in fact, you can get good immune responses with mRNA that does not include pseudouridine. But I had turned away from the tech. There were better ways to provide an immune response, I believed. Those are still investigational.
Talking about eyes wide open, I have intimate understanding of the good, the bad and the ugly of this approach and this technology. That's always been my position — that of an objective scientist. Then, on the last point on this, I never received substantial revenue of any kind from my inventions.
The patents were filed from a company that's now called Vical that had partnered with Merck years ago. Over a billion dollars were spent to advance the technology. Merck and Vical only focused on the DNA and they failed.
But as a consequence of the terms of my employment, I received — in addition to my technician salary, which was about $20,000 a year — $1 for all those patents. I've had no patent royalty. So, I have no financial conflict of interest here. It doesn't matter to me one way or the other.
What matters is integrity and honesty and truthfulness ... Let me put it this way ... I was in a dark room, I backed into the light switch, and what I saw was such that I could never unsee it.”

On Malone’s CIA Connections

Malone was also, once upon a time, in business with a former CIA agent named Michael Callahan, who held a senior position in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Callahan was in Wuhan, China, in the fourth quarter of 2019 and called Malone in early January 2020, asking him to get a team together to address a novel virus that had broken out in China.

“I had a series of interactions with him subsequently, until I became completely disillusioned and aware that he was lying to me almost constantly, including about things like whether or not the pathogen was engineered. So, I think I can certainly empathize, and understand why some might have these concerns ...
[But] I don't ask people to accept what I say, I ask people to think for themselves. I've tried to be truthful, honest, act with integrity, provide access to information, try to help people to think through things by themselves, and I've made a number of predictions and comments and analyses and, like you, I stand by what I've said.
So even if I was controlled opposition, that's kind of irrelevant. The question is not who I am; the question is what is the information? Is it useful to you? Is it helping you to manage your own affairs, make conformed choices about vaccinating your children? If so, I think that even if I was controlled opposition, I suspect that I'm fairly useful controlled opposition for those of us that are in this boat together of seeking truth ...
Frankly, all of my contacts with the government now are destroyed. The colleagues that I used to communicate with regularly at the FDA will no longer take my call ... I've dropped my contract with Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Largely I just became disillusioned with them, particularly after I found out that another branch of DTRA is continuing to support the Wuhan Institute of Virology and disclose that.
I shared a number of fragments of information about what I know that's been going on within DTRA, as well as within NIAID [National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] and the NIH. In doing so, I compromised that part of my career. I've thrown away, for the second time by the way, a big career path that I've developed over decades.”

Malone’s COVID Jab Experience

Malone also discusses his reasoning for taking the COVID shots. He needed to travel, and thought the shot might be helpful for his “long-COVID,” which he developed after contracting the infection early on in the pandemic.

Unfortunately, like so many others, he suffered a series of complications, particularly after the second dose, including cardiac damage resulting in hypertension with a frequent systolic pressure of up to 230, narcolepsy, central nervous brain fog, restless leg and several other symptoms now known to be associated with the shot.

When he later looked up his batch number on HowBadIsMyBatch.com,5 he discovered his second dose was from a batch associated with a high rate of complications. “So that's that. We all make mistakes. I acknowledge now [that taking the vaccine] was absolutely not the proper way to approach this,” he says.

Dr. Meryl Nass, who has since lost her medical license for the crime of talking about COVID treatments, was instrumental in actually curing Malone’s long-COVID. She prescribed ivermectin, which gave him near-immediate relief. “So, tip of the hat to Meryl Nass, a true truth warrior and another inspirational figure in all of this,” Malone says.

Pseudouridine-Enhanced RNA Can Cause Immunosuppression

In the interview, Malone delves into some of the mRNA jab quality control problems that have arisen, and whether or not the addition of pseudouridine actually reduces the inflammatory reaction associated with mRNA gene therapy as claimed.

As explained earlier, Karikó — a former Hungarian spy — had sought Malone’s help, and he told her about the problems with the RNA he was finding. Karikó and Weissman — a post-doc of Dr. Anthony Fauci — then went on to experiment with the addition of pseudouridine, which we now know influences things like RNA stability, folding, processing and splicing. It's highly regulated, but that wasn't known at the time.

What was known was that if RNAs include pseudouridine, they will last much longer and be far less inflammatory. Basically, immune responses against cells that have pseudouridine-modified mRNA in them are suppressed. On the basis of that, Karikó and Weissman incorporated pseudouridine throughout the entire mRNA molecule, which were synthesized using the methods Malone developed, and then purified.

When this product was injected, they got a better adaptive immune response and less inflammatory response. This is the science that the COVID shots are based on. However, recent investigations, using needle biopsies, have shown RNA persists in axillar lymph nodes for at least 60 days. They didn’t test any longer than that, so it could be far longer. The levels of spike protein produced was also found to be far higher than expected and lasted for at least 60 days.

“So, what we now know is that pseudouridinee can cause RNA to behave in ways that are absolutely not like natural RNA, as I had originally proposed,” Malone says. “The RNA is typically degraded within a couple of hours, so if people were to have adverse events, the inciting molecule would be gone and physicians could elect not to readminister it.
But in the current formulation with the pseudouridine incorporated throughout the entire backbone of the RNA, which is something that never happens in a natural situation, they do suppress the acute inflammatory response, but they also seem to suppress overall adaptive immune responses or immune function.
This may be something that's contributing to the immunosuppression that's observed after dosing with these products. That's unresolved, but there's no question that adverse event exists, that nonspecific immunosuppression.
So, we have now ... lots of evidence that the discovery of Karikó and Weissman had negative aspects to it, which were not well characterized by Pfizer, Moderna, BioNTech, et cetera.”

Malone also reviews other ingredients and quality control issues that can contribute to a “hot,” or more lethal batch, so to learn more, be sure to listen to the interview in its entirety. For example, he reviews the problem of aggregation, the toxicity of PEG, and how fatigue may be related to the fact that spike protein is not merely attached to cell surfaces but actually poison the mitochondria.

He also admits there may be some truth to claims that graphene oxide is being used, although he still hasn’t seen any conclusive proof. “Initially, I thought that was crazy talk, but the unwillingness of the pharmaceutical companies to disclose their ingredients, which is just mind boggling — that's completely contrary to anything I've ever encountered in any teaching I've ever had about regulated products — so, there's something amiss here. There's no question,” he says.

Upcoming Fall Trivalent Jab Will Likely Be More Dangerous

The FDA recently approved a new trivalent COVID jab for fall 2022, which won’t be going through any additional testing, even though it will be a brand-new composition to cover some of the newer strains. I fear this will radically increase side effects, as does Malone.

“The trivalent story goes back to the logic of influenza vaccines ... Reasoning by analogy, apparently, the FDA and the CDC have now concurred that a similar strategy shall be taken for these unlicensed experimental use authorized products that have produced an adverse event signal like no vaccine in history — which they deny — and are clearly not stopping infection replication and spread of the viruses.
What they've decided is they're going to now use the flu model, which will enable them to continue the manufacturing process, which, as we've just discussed, is poorly characterized, not really adequately provided with oversight, and [has poor] lot consistency.
We know from the ‘How Bad Is My Batch’ analysis, the lot consistency is horrid. But that's all apparently OK. And, one antigen is good so let's go to three. The problem is multifaceted.
Typically, when you do this, you maintain approximately the same dose of each antigen, so that would be, in the case of Pfizer, we're going to go from 50 to 150 micrograms of RNA in a jab. Let's hope they don't do that. But even if they only double the dose, then we know that the adverse events are going to go up considerably.”

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‘Mass Psychosis at Its Worst’

Malone also questions the underlying thesis and science of this endeavor. The idea is that by continuing to administer the Wuhan-1 spike and adding BA.4 and BA.5, which evolved to evade antibodies to the Wuhan-1 strain, they’re ignoring the peer reviewed literature, which is extensive, showing that immune imprinting (aka “antigenic sin”) is occurring.

In fact, immune imprinting is part of why flu shots have such poor efficacy. In a nutshell, if you had COVID, or got the jab, your immune system is biased toward the original Wuhan strain, to the exclusion of others. Omicron and later variants have evolved to exploit that bias, which is why jabbed individuals are now getting sick with COVID more often than the unjabbed, and suffer repeated reinfections.

“We have created a situation in which they have to keep getting vaccinated, I guess. That's the logic being promoted by the CDC. We have to keep vaccinating them at frequent intervals because the vaccination is damaging their ability to control infection of these escape [strains].
And now the CDC and the FDA have signed off on the idea of a trivalent vaccine that I couldn't have imagined a better design if I wanted to, to drive this immune imprinting phenomena and make people less able to resist Omicron infection, because it includes Wuhan-1 plus two Omicron strains.
It is exactly the opposite of what's needed. It is Geert Vanden Bossche’s worst nightmare, and they are doing it blindly without even bothering to read the peer reviewed literature that describes this. This is insanity. It is mass psychosis at its worst,” Malone says.
“There is a lot of very deep, complex immunology associated with what we've been doing to people all over the world, and it involves every single facet of this product, the lipids themselves, the formulations, the structure of the RNA and the payload that's being expressed.
Each of them is associated with their own profile of adverse events. That is clearly seen in the early Moderna data ... In the Phase 1 data of their influenza vaccine product using the same tech, at the 100-mcg dose, 80% of the subjects had Grade 2 or Grade 3 adverse events. That's the formulations and the same RNA chemistry but no spike protein. That shows it's not just the spike [that causes adverse events].
This has got to go down in history as one of the most profound failures of regulatory science in the 20th and 21st century, and the craven cowardice of the FDA regulatory authority to address this has, I think, all over the world, led to a recognition that the FDA has been captured by the pharmaceutical industry.
It is profoundly corrupt and has to be completely rebuilt. The damage that's been done to the reputation of the American regulatory process, globally, is profound. As I had suggested, almost two years ago, if they continue on this path they are going to destroy the entire regulatory process, as well as any faith that anyone ever had in the vaccine enterprise. And here we are ...
If there's a silver lining here, I think it's that, for many of us, including myself, who had bought into the system, the experience is so powerful that it is opening eyes everywhere. I'm now completely in the same camp as Bobby Kennedy, in that I believe the entire vaccine enterprise needs to be revisited, and it's unequivocal.
We do not have the data to support the safety and efficacy of the current pediatric vaccine schedule, and all of the components of the pediatric vaccine schedule need to be reassessed for risk benefit ratio. Both as individual products and as combined products.”

More Information

Malone will release his first book, “Lies My Government Told Me” in September 2022, If you want to know what he knows, or fret about how we will ever rectify the wrongs uncovered, you’ll want to read this book. You can also follow Malone’s work on GETTR, maloneinstitute.org, rwmalonemd.com and Substack.

I firmly believe his GETTR account is the must-follow site if you want to keep current on the pandemic nonsense. I read it nearly every day and nearly always find new and important updates there first.

“It's hard to see a way forward that is not rather bleak in the world that's being envisioned by these unelected corporatist powers, these public-private partnerships, that seek to control our lives in every facet and aspect,” Malone says.
“But having focused on this now for many months, in part out of necessity because I had to finish the book, I'm starting to see a path forward, and recent Supreme Court decisions ... are giving me hope.
I think that partnership between attorneys ... organizations that are more constitutionalist in their framing and background, together with people that are knowledgeable about the inner workings of the administrative state and HHS, offers opportunity ...
Also, I think it's reasonable that all of us need to start thinking about intentional communities, about how we can build local sustainable community capabilities ... Those of us that are awake need to really think hard about preparing ourselves, not overreacting, but being a prepper ...
There are forces at play here that this whole public health thing is just a facade, a ruse. I'm completely convinced the reason why so many of these policies make no sense from a public health standpoint is they're not about public health ...
The evidence that a lot of this is being manipulated, hence the fear porn, is overwhelming in my opinion, and I cannot reconcile the abundant examples of public health mismanagement and misalignment between the need and the policies unless I account for the underlying financial agendas, geopolitical power agendas that are in play right now.
And I think that those of us who are still committed to integrity and dignity and community need to circle the wagons and think through how to prepare for a future in which all of these agendas are coming to fruition. They're coming to a head and we better be ready for them.”
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Biden improves ‘significantly,’ throat still sore from COVID
By CHRIS MEGERIAN
yesterday

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden continues to “improve significantly” despite a lingering sore throat from his coronavirus infection, according to an update Sunday from his doctor.

“The president is responding to therapy as expected,” wrote Dr. Kevin O’Connor in his latest note. Biden has been taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug that helps reduce the chance of severe illness.

O’Connor wrote that Biden still has a sore throat, though other symptoms, including a cough, runny nose and body aches, “have diminished considerably.”

Biden tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday morning. O’Connor said Saturday that the president likely became infected with a highly contagious variant, known as BA.5, that is spreading throughout the country, and Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, said Sunday, “It is the BA.5 variant.”

“Thank goodness our vaccines and therapeutics work well against it, which is why I think the president’s doing well,” Jha told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Jha also gave a positive update on the president’s health.

“I checked in with his team late last night. He was feeling well. He had a good day yesterday,” Jha said.

That variant is an offshoot of the omicron strain that emerged late last year. It is believed responsible for the vast majority of coronavirus cases in the country. He has been isolating in the White House residence since then.

Administration officials have emphasized that his symptoms are mild because he has received four vaccine doses, and he started taking the antiviral drug Paxlovid after becoming infected.

The White House has not released any photos or video of Biden since Friday, when the media watched him participate in a virtual meeting with economic advisers.

Jha pledged that the White House would keep giving updates on the president’s condition and whether he might have long-term symptoms.

“We think it’s really important for the American people to know how well their president is doing,” he said.

“Obviously if he has persistent symptoms, obviously if any of them interfere with his ability to carry out his duties, we will disclose that early and often with the American people. But I suspect that this is going to be a course of COVID that we’ve seen in many Americans who have ben fully vaccinated, double boosted, getting treated with those tools in hand,” Jha said. “The president’s been doing well and we’re going to expect that he’s going to continue to do so.”

Biden’s press secretary has said 17 people, including members of the president’s senior staff and at least one member of Congress, were determined to have been in close contact with Biden when he might have been contagious. None has tested positive so far, Jha said on “Fox News Sunday.”
 

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COVID-19 Injections May Damage Young Children’s Innate Immune Systems: Dr. Paul Alexander
By Meiling Lee and Jan Jekielek
July 24, 2022

COVID-19 injections may damage the innate immune system in children from properly developing and functioning, according to epidemiologist and researcher Paul Alexander.

People are born with an innate immune system, which is the body’s first line of defense against the many pathogens they encounter.

Alexander says that while the innate immune system in young children is broadly effective and potent, it is still “antigenically naive,” and it is exposure to germs and foreign substances that helps train their innate immune system to function.

“The children have a window of opportunity to train the innate immune system properly, and principally, they’re trying to train the innate antibodies and the innate NK [natural killer] cells,” Alexander told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. “They get that training, those cells of the innate immune system, get training by the exposure to a pathogen.”

“Why the training of the antibodies is so key is because in that period of time in young childhood, once the innate immune antibodies and the innate immune system can be trained and you allow it to be trained, it functions,” he added.

This training may be disrupted when children are administered the messenger RNA shots based on the initial virus strain.
That is because the vaccine antibodies are highly specific in targeting the spike protein and prevent the innate antibodies from doing their job.

“The vaccinal antibodies would bind to the spike antigen, [and] first block the innate antibodies from its functional capacity, which is binding,” Alexander said.

He also says that proper training helps the immune system differentiate a normal cell from a non-self pathogen. If the immune system is not able to do that, it can lead to autoimmune disease as a result of the immune system attacking the body.

“So it is absolutely critical that the innate immune system, and particularly the innate antibodies very early on in childhood, be allowed this training,” he said.

Strong Innate Immunity

Without being vaccinated, healthy children are able to eliminate and sterilize the virus to prevent infection, replication, and transmission, Alexander says. That is why children, for the most part, do not show any symptoms or have mild symptoms, especially against the Omicron variant that is dominant in the United States and other countries.

“Children come with this innate immune system, it’s their first line of defense … That is critical and that is why young people, normally young children, do so well against pathogen and they survive in the environment, not having a copious number of years of existence, they’ve not had exposure to a bunch of stuff, to pathogen. Yet, they bump up against these things in the environment and they do well,” Alexander said.

Studies have shown that children have a robust innate immune system that can effectively eliminate the virus.

In September 2020, researchers compared blood samples from pediatric (children and youths younger than 24 years old) and adult COVID-19 patients to try to understand why children had milder disease compared to adults. They found that the pediatric group had certain proteins (IFN-gamma and interleukin-17A) that were not present in the adult cohorts. These proteins play important roles in the innate immune response.

The same researchers provided evidence in a different study in April 2021 on why children fared better when infected with the virus, saying that it was because children’s innate immune response stopped the virus in its tracks before it had a chance to spread.

The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight, involved 27 adults and 12 children who tested positive for COVID-19 at Montefiore Medical Center’s emergency department. The authors found that, compared to adults, children had larger quantities of genes associated with immune cells, including several proteins secreted by immune cells.

None of the children in the study required oxygen, whereas seven adults did and four adults died.

Data also show that the immune system in infants is a “vigilant establishment” that is flexible and can respond to many stimulants.

The authors of a 2018 study wrote that “mounting evidence supports the concept that infantile immunity is in fact a highly regulated, but intellect, orchestrated, functional, and dynamic network of competent molecular and cellular components.

“This wakeful immune scheme plays pivotal roles in protecting the growing and developing infants from pathologic conditions (e.g., inflammatory situations) as well as providing adequate and appropriate defense against infections by promoting immature or deviant to highly mature responses,” they added.

The Push for Vaccination

Although children are generally at low risk for severe disease when they contract the virus and have a robust innate immunity to fight it, health authorities say that children as young as 6 months are recommended for the COVID-19 vaccines.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) authorized and recommended the shots for young children last month although the CDC’s own data and several other studies indicated that the vaccinated were more likely to get infected with COVID-19, including Pfizer’s clinical trial in children (pdf).

The FDA also stated in a press release on June 17 that the estimate of the efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine was unreliable “due to the low number of COVID-19 cases that occurred in study participants,” which was based on 10 cases, three in the vaccinated and seven in the unvaccinated.

A screenshot of the Pfizer data submitted to the FDA on how many COVID-19 cases occurred following vaccination in chil
Alexander says that a governmental health authority that makes a recommendation for vaccination based on a small number of events is concerning and says that there is no data to support vaccinating very young children.

“We know from a scientific point of view, a methodological point of view, that that is a red flag for high risk of overestimating the treatment effect,” Alexander said. “We don’t make policy decisions or any kind of decision on two events or three events in a study.”

“There’s so much uncertainty in terms of what is beneficial or not. And we found when you read the submission, you see that at some point, they reported that children who got multiple infections of COVID were vaccinated. That’s a red flag. We also read that the children who got the most severe adverse events were vaccinated,” he added.

The Danish health authority is taking a different course from the CDC, as it put out guidance in June 2022 that children aged 5 to 17 would not be offered primary vaccination, acknowledging that children “only very rarely have a serious course of COVID-19.” The vaccine would only be administered “after specific medical assessment.”

‘Risk-Benefit Analysis Has Changed’

Real-world data from Singapore shows that nearly two dozen children suffered serious adverse events from an mRNA shot.

A new study from Singapore examining the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine against Omicron in over 250,000 children aged 5 to 11 between January to April 2022 found that 288 children were hospitalized and 22 suffered a serious adverse reaction to the vaccine.

A serious adverse reaction, according to the Singaporean Health Sciences Authority (pdf), is if it results in hospitalization or an extended hospital stay, a significant reduction in disability or functioning level, a life-threatening illness or death, birth defects, or a medically important event.

A 2-year-old receives her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination from a nurse while being held by her mother, at
Of the 288 hospitalized children, five were given supplemental oxygen. And of the five on oxygen, four were admitted to the intensive care unit, two were fully vaccinated, two were partially vaccinated, and one was unvaccinated. No deaths were attributed to COVID-19.

“In terms of admission to intensive care, there’s no evidence here that vaccination provides protection, there’s no evidence that vaccination provides protection against oxygenation here,” John Campbell, a retired nurse educator said in a video on July 21.

The authors of the study did not give more information on the adverse events other than mentioning that 22 children (0.005 percent of all doses administered) experienced them.

“The risk of adverse events is roughly more than four times the risk of the child requiring oxygenation or indeed being admitted to intensive care,” Campbell said, adding that “the risk-benefit analysis has changed.”

Prolonging Pandemic

Vaccinologist and virologist Geert Vanden Bossche claimed in early 2021 that the mass vaccination of people during a pandemic would likely drive the propagation of more infectious variants of the original strain of the virus, thus prolonging the pandemic.

“I mean, in their own right [the vaccines] are of course excellent, but to use them in the midst of a pandemic and do mass vaccination. Because then you provide, within a very short period of time, the population with high antibody titers so the virus comes under enormous pressure,” Bossche said in an interview in March 2021.

“That wouldn’t matter if you can eradicate the fire, if you can prevent infection, but these vaccines don’t prevent infection, they protect against disease.”

The vaccines initially provided over 90 percent protection against symptomatic infection, but after the emergence of Omicron, they became less than 50 percent effective against infection after a short period of time, even after booster doses.

Alexander states that with the continued administration of mRNA vaccines that produce non-neutralizing antibodies that can’t eliminate the virus and stop transmission, the pandemic will not end.

“In other words, if you keep vaccinating with these vaccines, you can never ever stop this pandemic. This pandemic can go on for 100 years, it will never end. And what we’re seeing is, it’s infectious variant after infectious variant, more infectious, each iteration that is coming is more infectious. So it’s a terrible situation,” he said.

For the pandemic to end, Alexander explains that herd immunity must be reached, and “to get to herd immunity, you need to cut the chain of transmission.”

The FDA, the CDC, Pfizer, and Moderna did not reply to The Epoch Times’ request for comment.[/S]
 

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Do COVID-19 vaccines prevent death in children? - Singapore update
12 min 17 sec

Streamed live 13 hours ago
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The most comprehensive review of childhood vaccination status occurred between January and April 2022.

Here is an update on the outcomes.

Tan, Sharon, et al. "Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Vaccine against Omicron in Children 5 to 11 Years." Available at SSRN 4052133 (2022).

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VSS Scientific Updates During Pandemic Times #30
By Geert Vanden Bossche
July 24, 2022

1. WHO Declares Monkeypox Outbreak a Global Health Emergency
“The rare designation means the WHO now views the outbreak as a significant enough threat to global health that a coordinated international response is needed to prevent the virus from spreading further and potentially escalating into a pandemic.”

WHO declares rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency


2. WHO: COVID Triples Across Europe, Hospitalizations Double
“In a statement on Tuesday, WHO’s Europe director, Dr. Hans Kluge, described COVID-19 as “a nasty and potentially deadly illness” that people should not underestimate. He said super-infectious relatives of the omicron variant were driving new waves of disease across the continent and that repeat infections could potentially lead to long COVID.”

WHO: COVID triples across Europe, hospitalizations double


3. Protection of SARS-CoV-2 Natural Infection Against Reinfection with the Omicron BA.4 or BA.5 Subvariants
“Effectiveness of a previous pre-Omicron infection against symptomatic BA.4/BA.5 reinfection was 15.1% (95% CI: -47.1-50.9%), and against any BA.4/BA.5 reinfection irrespective of symptoms was 28.3% (95% CI: 11.4-41.9%). Effectiveness of a previous Omicron infection against symptomatic BA.4/BA.5 reinfection was 76.1%(95% CI: 54.9-87.3%), and against any BA.4/BA.5 reinfection was 79.7% (95% CI:74.3-83.9%).”

Protection of SARS-CoV-2 natural infection against reinfection with the Omicron BA.4 or BA.5 subvariants


4. Bacterial and Fungal Isolation from Face Masks Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
“A longer mask usage significantly increased the fungal colony numbers but not the bacterial colony numbers. Although most identified microbes were non-pathogenic in humans; Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Cladosporium, we found several pathogenic microbes; Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus saprophyticus, Aspergillus, and Microsporum.”

Bacterial and fungal isolation from face masks under the COVID-19 pandemic - Scientific Reports


5. Neutralization Escape bySARS-CoV-2 Omicron Subvariants BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5
“These data show that the BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 subvariants substantially escape neutralizing antibodies induced by both vaccination and infection. Moreover, neutralizing antibody titers against the BA.4 or BA.5 subvariant and (to a lesser extent) against the BA.2.12.1 subvariant were lower than titers against the BA.1 and BA.2 subvariants, which suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 omicronvariant has continued to evolve with increasing neutralization escape.”

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2206576

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6. Avian Flu Continues to Wreak Devastation on Seabirds
“Dozens of coastal sites in the UK closed to the public as H5N1 continues to sweep through wild bird populations across the world.”

‘The scale is hard to grasp’: avian flu wreaks devastation on seabirds


7. New York County Confirms Case of Polio
"This is indicative of a transmission chain from an individual who received the oral poliovaccine (OPV), which is no longer authorized or administered in the U.S., where only the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) has been given since 2000," the department wrote. "This suggests that the virus may have originated in a location outside of the U.S. where OPV is administered, since revertant strains cannot emerge from inactivated vaccines."

New York county confirms case of polio
 

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Epidemiologic ramifications and global health consequences of the C- 19 mass vaccination experiment

Intra-pandemic vaccination of toddlers with non-replicating antibody-based vaccines targeted at ASLVI1- or ASLVD2-enabling glycosylated viruses prevents education of innate immune effector cells (NK cells)

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Boosters Now PROMOTE Covid Deaths in Europe
Ba.5 turned out to be the "Boosted People Variant" after all
Igor Chudov
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This article will show that since June 1, 2022, when Ba.5 variant took over the entire Europe, boosters are PROMOTING Covid deaths. Unlike before, boosters do not “prevent severe outcomes”. In fact, starting this summer, boosters make severe outcomes MORE likely. This is shown by using linear regression-based analysis, looking at death rates versus booster rates by country, for various periods of time, but for the same countries.

A couple of months ago I wrote an article about Ba.5 being a variant that disproportionally affects boosted people.

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The article compared the experience of highly-boosted Portugal and almost-unboosted South Africa and showed that outcomes of the Ba.5 wave in both countries were very different, favoring the less-vaccinated South Africa. The article attracted great interest from many people and I even ended up on the amazing Del Bigtree’s HighWire show, which was an incredible experience for me.

Since then, the Ba.5 wave crested over in most European countries, so I decided to revisit this topic more systematically to see how my prediction panned out. I decided to look at European countries where booster data is available.

I downloaded the entire dataset from “Our World in Data”, which is 57 megabytes of CSV data, and saved it as an SQL database. This way, I can make many custom queries against it. I am no longer limited to reading tea leaves in visual graphs and can deal with larger data sets involving multiple countries.

The data looks like this:



Boosters and COVID Deaths

Promoters of Covid boosters say that “boosters reduce COVID deaths”. Let’s leave aside the objection that boosters may increase overall mortality, and look at only Covid-related deaths.

I specifically decided to look at European countries because I am hoping that Covid booster and death data collection in those countries is roughly on the same level. Limiting myself to European countries allows me to compare “apples with apples”, as far as population, boosters and deaths are concerned. Note that this article looks at deaths only and does not look at Covid “cases” in any way.

The countries are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.

My database allows me to gather and analyze data to answer the following:

Given the beginning and ending dates (given a certain period of time), what is the relationship between booster rates at the beginning of the period, and COVID deaths per million during the period?

The periods that I selected (and I could select any other periods, this is just what I decided), are:
  • Jan 1 - Mar 31 (three months)
  • Mar 1-May 30 (three months)
  • Jun 1 - Jul 23 (almost two months)
For each period, for every country, I collect:
  • Booster rate per 100 people for the beginning of the period
  • Cumulative Covid deaths per million for the beginning of the period
  • Cumulative Covid deaths per million for the end of the period
  • This allows me to calculate total Covid deaths per million for the period, by subtracting the two previous values
The data looks like this. You can verify it by looking at Our World in Data’s “boosters per 100” chart, and “deaths per million” chart.



There are three such tables, one for each of the three above periods (Jan-Mar, Mar-May, Jun-Jul). I analyzed each table with linear regression, to see the impact of boosters on deaths. The three periods show distinctly different outcomes:

January-March 2022

Analyzing the above table with linear regression shows that during this period, boosters were associated with a reduction in reported Covid deaths and this reduction was significant.



So, boosters were preventing Covid deaths during Jan-March of 2022. (again, we do NOT look at their effects on overall mortality, only on Covid mortality)

March-May 2022

The data for March-May 2022 is here:



The regression is here:



You can see that linear regression analysis shows no protection and the P value of 0.69 means that there is no significant effect from boosters during March-May of 2022. There is no more protective effect seen, but not yet any negative effect either.

Jun-July 2022 — The BAD NEWS

The data for June-July 2022 is here (again, you can verify it by looking at our world in data charts)



I also applied a linear regression to see what it means. Big surprise here!



Now, for June-July, we see that more boosters mean MORE deaths and that the association between booster rates and Covid deaths is highly statistically significant!

This is the Best “Apples-to-Apples” Comparison

Let’s summarize. We looked at the same set of countries in Europe during three different periods of time. During the first period, booster rates were associated with statistically significant reductions in Covid deaths. During the second period, booster rates had no effect on Covid death rates. And during the last, third period, booster rates CONTRIBUTED to greater deaths!

The fact that all three periods involved the same countries (except a couple who did not report booster rates during the first period), means that this outcome is NOT due to population-wide age or other demographic differences. The difference between outcomes in these periods is due to the passage of time, and changes in the interaction of boosted immune systems with the evolving virus.

Note that my data shows something much worse than “boosters stopping to work”. Instead of merely becoming useless, like in the second period, boosters became harmful and promoted deaths in the third period.

Immune Tolerance due to Boosters

Why is this happening? Boosters and vaccines worsening Covid outcomes is really a topic for another article to explore possible answers.

There are certainly MANY REASONS why boosters do not work anymore. Let me touch upon just one such reason. Remember that other reasons are also important!

Here’s an ABC news segment where a “Covid health expert” surprisingly says something sensible. The news segment is about the 4th dose but applies to the third dose just as well.

Jan Ashton describes the “immune phenomenon known as tolerance”. What “tolerance” means is that repeated antigen injections end up working like allergy shots, increasing tolerance to the antigen, which is in this case spike protein.

Tolerance towards allergens, like tree pollen, is a good thing. (I had allergy shots myself). However, tolerance toward a replicating virus that damages our cardiovascular system and immune system, is a bad thing! Tolerance also turns affected people into walking Covid superspreaders.

Instead of seeing the viral antigen as a sign to start a battle against the virus, the immune system says “oh well, another spike protein injection” and ignores it. That allows the virus to multiply unchecked and cause immense damage by killing various cells and hurting our cardiovascular systems and more. The infected person feels less fever and less disturbance than they would feel from a robust immune reaction, so the illness feels “milder”, but this is actually a bad thing because the virus multiplies unopposed.

Our “independent Substack expert” Brian Mowrey wrote an excellent article explaining what “tolerance” means and how it works. He explains how immune tolerance works via IgG4 mechanism and why it is bad.


Tolerance takes time to take effect due to the slow production of IgG4, so it does not happen right after a booster dose injection. Once tolerance takes effect, the virus is no longer seen as an “enemy”, to the same extent as it should be seen.

Tolerance ultimately makes deaths “from Covid” look like deaths “with Covid”. If a spike-tolerant boosted person dies from a heart attack that happens due to overexpression of the virus, it may seem unrelated. But it is NOT unrelated.

Tolerance is a part of the reason why quadruple boosted Dr. Fauci had a 26-day Covid bout:


… and is also why boosted people remain contagious for much longer than unvaccinated people:


Again, there are other reasons why repeated mRNA injections undermine the immune system and our reactions to pathogens. I do not want to overload my article.

The main takeaway is that boosters now mean increased deaths. I expect this to get worse and worse over time, due to reinfections taking people down gradually, and the virus taking advantage of the useless booster antibodies. Significant increases in total mortality are likely to happen.

Good luck
 

Heliobas Disciple

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When Even the Experts Are Lying to Themselves, the World Is Screwed
The 21st Century Salonnière
Jul 17


“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him.” -Dostoyevsky

This is a story about infectious disease, but listen: it could be a story about anything. This could be a story about Roe v. Wade or gender dysphoria or something you care passionately about. When even the experts are lying to themselves, the world is screwed.

As we drift further into our social media algorithms — our outrage and our learned helplessness — as we sink deeper into the cultural belief that “My facts are better than your facts” — as we fail even to distinguish among wishes, opinions, facts, and things we read online — indeed, as we seem to have forgotten how to evaluate information and discuss it with people who disagree with us — we have moved beyond personal ignorance into a collective state of ignorance that threatens humankind.

Early in the pandemic, I relied on the biweekly covid meetings at work to let me know what was happening. Can you remember back to how much we didn’t know? We didn’t know whether to undress in the garage when we came home to loved ones (or whether to come home at all). We didn’t know whether to wash our groceries or disinfect our mail.

Every two weeks, some of the top experts in the world — in infectious disease, in public health, in viruses, in vaccine development — would tell us what was happening locally, regionally, nationally, worldwide. I relied on them as my best source of truth.

Why? Because to a large extent, their information transcended politics, and it was presented with some depth and consistency. Science is what these folks do — and these were top subject-matter experts who were keeping an eye on developments and tasked with explaining it to the rest of us.

In a world where none of us knows everything, we have to rely on experts to figure out new situations and give us good information.

Experts, especially scientists, usually have no problem saying “We don’t know X yet, but here’s our best understanding” — and then next week they might tell you something completely different because they have new information. Ironically, that gives them their credibility.

For example, in mid-2020, no one knew whether it was easy to transmit the virus outdoors. Among the public, a lot of people wished gathering outdoors was OK. Team Republican yelled a lot about “no worse than a cold” and “my freedoms” — Team Democrat yelled a lot about “racism is more dangerous than covid” — and both sides ignored the fact that our hospitals were full and we didn’t know much about how the virus was transmitted.

To some extent, we all engaged in our own motivated reasoning — our own version of lying to ourselves, in which “I’ll believe what I want to believe is true; I’ll believe the same things that people similar to me believe” — and it was only the scientists, the experts, who were saying “Yeah, we really don’t know that yet.”

The point is: When true experts say they don’t know something, or they change their story from week to week, or they ask questions, no one accuses them of lying or promoting an agenda, because they’re typically not. These days, they’re almost the only people who aren’t lying or promoting an agenda. Or are they?

Et Tu, Experts?

As grateful as I was for the knowledge of the experts week after week, and as much as I trusted what they had to say, it bothered me that no one in our meetings ever spoke about “Where did this virus come from, and how do we prevent something like this from happening again?” That’s really an important question to answer, and the answers should be guiding our future policy.

I’m no virus expert, but just being a critical thinker and someone who reads medical journals regularly and evaluates the evidence presented there, when the Lancet letter was published in February 2020 proclaiming a sure natural origin for this virus (in absence of any evidence), and Nature Medicine pronounced in March 2020 that the virus had a zoonotic origin (in absence of any evidence), I knew they were saying things they couldn’t possibly know to be true. That was disorienting. The Lancet is lying? Nature is lying?

No one could have known those things yet, and no evidence was presented. Pronouncing them as certainties was highly suspicious, even to someone like me who’s not a subject matter expert. Typically, if you follow medical research, you’ll notice that the experts proclaim very few things as certain, but when they do, you’d best believe there’s a smoking bat, infected with the virus, in the market — and in this case, there was not.*

On the other hand, the presence of the coronavirus research lab in Wuhan (and many other related discoveries and observations) was dismissed, ignored, or branded as xenophobia or racism, persistently.

Suppose an expert believed, in good faith, that the lab in Wuhan had nothing to do with the virus. The rational approach would be to mention the possibility the lab was involved, and then to clearly explain the evidence that made that possibility unlikely. Scientists are not in the business of dismissing or ignoring the possibilities. The evidence needs to speak for itself. Possibilities are discarded only after the evidence has spoken — not before.

The official story remained “natural origin,” though, even as anyone who was paying attention noticed a bigger and bigger accumulation of evidence implicating the lab: the master’s thesis about the miners who got sick with a virus that was collected and brought to Wuhan and is closely related to SARS-2; the inexplicably deleted database of viruses from Wuhan; the large order of bat cages, for a facility that supposedly doesn’t keep bats; the grant proposal in which researchers were planning to add a furin cleavage site to coronaviruses (something that was unknown to happen in nature, in those particular viruses, but is present in SARS-2); the leaked emails in which some of the people who publicly promoted a natural origin were thought to believe it came from a lab; and on and on.

No need to rehash it all here: Entire books have been written about this. I’ve written about it a couple times too, here and here.

What was the difference between the people who were behind the zoonosis hypothesis and the lab leak hypothesis? People who were pushing the natural origin had their entire careers at stake. If gain-of-function research stops, their funding stops. Their entire careers stop. So…they had every reason to lie to themselves that the origin wasn’t all that important, anyway.

As much as I appreciated those practical briefings from the experts at work, and as much as I valued their expertise and their ability to explain things, it was also the case that I was disappointed that the very important topic of the origin of the virus was avoided.

In a functioning society, the evidence for the lab origin would be discussed openly, the gain-of-function research programs (bioweapons research, essentially) would be discussed openly, and the people of the world would collectively decide whether we want these programs to exist.

But we don’t have a functioning society. We have a society in which the experts lie, apparently even to themselves: They think they know better than us. Their careers are more important to them than the danger their research poses to everyone else. Their research funding is worth more to them than the lives of the many millions of people who have already died.

In our society, we pretend it’s not happening. By pretending this virus just originated naturally and them’s the breaks (“Sorry, 6.4 million dead people”), we ensure that mysterious viruses with no good explanation behind them will continue to appear. So now we’ve got monkeypox too.

It’s Like Deja Vu All Over Again

What do we know about monkeypox? It’s a DNA virus, and it mutates very slowly. Typically in the US, you might see a couple cases a year, usually linked to travel to certain parts of Africa, and it typically doesn’t spread effectively person-to-person.

What else do we know about monkeypox? We know that the FDA approved a monkeypox vaccine in 2019 and their press release said it “will be …part of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), the nation’s largest supply of potentially life-saving pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for use in a public health emergency.”

Why did we need a monkeypox vaccine in our SNS for a disease that causes two cases a year? What kind of “public health emergency” might our leaders have been anticipating in 2019?

Back in 1998, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article dismissing the capability of monkeypox (in its natural form) to pose a broad threat, but now we’ve got a vaccine stockpiled — and three years after that, we’ve got a highly mutated form of monkeypox, which does seem to transmit easily person-to-person, and which does seem to pose a threat.

Is this just coincidence? Or was the monkeypox vaccine developed in response to fears of a weaponized form of the monkeypox virus? And now that seems to be what we’ve got, right? We’re not seeing what looks like a naturally evolved virus that changed in the expected timeframe. No. We’re seeing a virus which in the opinion of Richard Neher, a computational evolutionary biologist at the University of Basel, has about 50 years’ worth of mutations from its closest ancestor of 4 years ago.

How does a virus gain 50 years’ worth of function in the span of 4 years? One answer is gain-of-function research. Bioweapons research.

How does a virus that is very difficult to transmit person-to-person suddenly gain that function? One answer is gain-of-function research. Bioweapons research.

How does a highly mutated virus appear seemingly out of nowhere? How does it suddenly infect people worldwide, when we’ve never seen any “intermediate versions” out in the world — versions with 10 mutations, 20 mutations, 30 mutations? (This is one of the same questions I asked about the omicron variant of SARS-2. The scientific community still hasn’t provided a compelling answer that doesn’t fall apart on closer inspection.) One answer is that monkeypox was manipulated under controlled conditions in a lab, specifically to create a weaponized virus that transmits better person-to-person, and then it got out of the lab somehow. It was contained and now it’s not. That’s one way you see a highly mutated virus without the normal intermediate forms.

Notice what I’m not saying. I’m not saying I know that this monkeypox virus was created in a lab as part of bioweapons research, got out (accidentally or intentionally), and our government knew this was a possibility because it approved and stockpiled a vaccine in 2019 for an extremely rare virus, which, in all its natural forms, was known to be extremely unlikely to cause widespread human-to-human outbreaks. Nope.

But I ask you for an alternative hypothesis that explains the facts just as well or better, because I’m interested in hearing it. These facts are weird, these facts are unexpected, and weird unexpected facts require possible explanations: they need to be adequately accounted for —which brings me to yesterday’s covid meeting.

In yesterday’s covid meeting, there was a guest speaker who was going to update us on the monkeypox situation locally. Great. I figured an amazing research university’s “Monkeypox Guy” would have some interesting things to say.

Indeed he did — sort of. He talked about local cases. He talked about what we know about transmission and who’s currently at highest risk. He talked about the availability of the stockpiled vaccines and how and when they were being deployed. He talked about what we know so far about the immunity (if any) conferred by the smallpox vaccine.

Our Monkeypox Guy talked like a regular expert. In many ways, with monkeypox we’re back to a situation reminiscent of the early days of SARS-2, where there’s a lot we don’t know, but our expert spoke clearly about what he did know.

Except when he glossed over “where it came from.”

Suddenly our clear and convincing expert was just talking in vague and incoherent phrases about “evolution” and “changing weather patterns.” Changing weather patterns did not bring this newly highly transmissible virus to Europe and North America. Changing weather patterns did not cause 50 years of evolution in 4 years and then suddenly cause a 50-years’-worth mutated virus to appear out of nowhere with no intermediates anywhere in sight. You’ve got to do better than that.

He didn’t mention how mutated it was, nor did he offer an explanation.

He didn’t mention how unexpected it was that it transmits very effectively person-to-person.

He didn’t speak to the coincidence that we’ve got a million vaccines stockpiled and ready to go.

Look. I didn’t expect him to have all the answers yesterday. Really, I didn’t. Who in the world might be expected to have these answers? Very few people, and I doubt they’re talking, just as the people in the Wuhan lab aren’t talking.

But I expect him, as the Monkeypox Guy at an institution world-renowned for medical research, to mention these as some of the most interesting and important questions related to this outbreak.

If a dummy like me knows that the mutations and the new patterns of transmission are highly relevant, why didn’t our Monkeypox Guy mention those things?

If a dummy like me is asking the obvious question about why we had a vaccine approved and stockpiled 3 years ago for a disease that’s never caused us significant trouble (and according to that 1998 NEJM article mentioned above, never would), why didn’t our Monkeypox Guy speak to that?

Anyone who does any science at all — and I appeal to you to confirm this in the comments — knows that you might not know the answers, but if you’re any good at all, you’re able to identify interesting and important questions.

These are interesting and important questions, and they were completely ignored in our work meeting.

Having seen this happen in response to two different disease outbreaks now, my best guess is that people are so afraid of torpedoing their own careers that they won’t even raise the questions. My best guess is that people are trying to convince themselves that their silence, their failure to ask these questions, is not really all that consequential.

But I think they’re very wrong. They’re lying to themselves. It is consequential. If no one is going to ask the obvious questions, we’re going to see more and more “mystery viruses” leaking out and causing havoc. Is this how our species ends? Are we resigned to waiting for “the big one” to wipe us out so the octopuses can rule the earth? Where are the experts willing to put their careers on the line to speak honestly and try to stop this research?

*By contrast, it took nearly a year to publish the origin of the original SARS in Science, — even though the infected civets were readily found. There was no rush to shut down questions about their origin. And despite an extensive search to find “the smoking bat” for SARS-2, none has been found.
 

Heliobas Disciple

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It's the virus, stupid.
Eric Topol
13 hr ago

When the vaccines were first introduced in December 2020, the virus they were designed against was altogether different from what it is today. SARS-CoV-2 had little substantive functional evolution from late 2019 until we saw the Alpha variant in the first months of 2021. It was, in retrospect, an easy target with a fraction of the immune escape and transmissibility that we are dealing with now. Had the virus not subsequently evolved so profoundly, its containment would have been straightforward and we wouldn’t be talking about a pandemic right now in the present tense. Breakthrough and reinfections wouldn’t be commonplace. Population-level (“herd”) immunity would have been possible. The 95% efficacy of the mRNA vaccines against symptomatic infections, hospitalizations and deaths, exhibited waning in latter half of 2021, during the Delta wave, but was fully restored with a 3rd shot. Reinfections were less than 1%. We were prevailing over the virus.



But then came Omicron and a s-storm of subvariants that has followed, culminating in the present one—BA.5—with the highest fitness, growth advantage, and immune evasion since the pandemic began. That has been accompanied by the most reinfections seen to date, and, in places like Japan, with excellent vaccination uptake but relatively low levels of prior infection, a monstrous wave of infections that already exceeds Omicron BA.1. During their BA.5 waves, New Zealand currently has the highest deaths per capita in the world (exceeding its BA.1 wave), Australia’s fatalities have risen sharply, as has Israel’s.



Hospitalizations have risen substantially in many countries throughout Europe and the Asian-Pacific during the BA.5 wave, as seen in this graph from Australia (via Ian McKay)



And here in Europe, which, fortunately, is starting to turnaround in the UK and some other countries.



Why are so many infections and reinfections, and a rise in hospitalizations and deaths (albeit not to the extreme levels as Omicron BA.1 in most places or anywhere close) happening with immunity walls (from vaccination, boosters, infections, and their combinations) that have been built to a varying extent around the world?

Let’s review the multiple lines of defense of our immune system (as virologist Jeremy Kamil aptly put it in the NY Times, “this is not our immune systems’ first rodeo”). Here is an over-simplified version of the multi-layered immune response to the virus with our innate, humoral and cellular lines of defense.



As the virus evolved, it has progressively pierced through the first 2 lines of defense, as recently shown with innate immunity interferons inhibited by Omicron, and particularly with BA.5, and the impaired neutralizing antibody response to BA.5 from prior vaccinations/boosters or infections.



While these are not “all or none” phenomenon, the 3rd line of defense is the backup and although it takes more time for T cells to kick in, that is the layer apparently providing a solid, maintained protection from death, far less affected by the variant escape efforts.

Indeed, in 2021 more than 20 million deaths were prevented by vaccines as shown below and vaccines are substantially adding to that life-saving capacity in 2022.



But cellular immunity isn’t the fast immediate response we need, and neutralizing antibodies at high levels appears to be an important part of maintaining a very high protection from death. That appears to be why multiple studies show enhanced reduction of death with a 4th shot (second booster) in people age 50 or higher (an age cutoff used to partition risk of fatality). A 4th shot in this group from US data through the BA.2.12.1 wave had a 96% reduction of death, whereas a 3rd shot was 87% protective, a ~4-fold difference




But let me emphasize: the culprit in all of this isn’t our vaccines, which are now providing little to no protection against infections and transmission. They are damn leaky, which only arose from the emergence of Omicron and has gotten progressively worse as we moved to BA.5 . It’s the virus. That’s why we’ve started to see a crack in protection vs. severe disease from vaccines with boosters, as I previously reviewed (boiling frog metaphor). It’s that we have not gotten ahead of the immune escape properties of virus with a bolstered mucosal immunity strategy—local IgA, neutralizing antibodies in the upper airway—via nasal or oral vaccines to solidify our 2nd layer of defense. Or inhaled interferons to jack up our first line of defense. Or developing a variant-proof vaccine.

As anyone who follows me on twitter knows I have been very critical of the CDC, White House, and FDA for their management of the pandemic.



But to pin the deaths on the current administration, such as below, solely on the basis of poor management, is off-base. It’s primarily that the virus had been morphing to far more challenging versions. Poor management and full reliance on the original vaccine success (“vaccine only strategy”) are certainly contributing factors.



As Akiko Iwasaki and I wrote last week, it is imperative that we launch a new, major initiative, as we called it Operation Nasal Vaccine, to get ahead of the virus and promote respiratory mucosal immunity.

To summarize a few key points:

  1. There is little to no respiratory mucosal immunity from mRNA vaccines in people vs Omicron
  2. Nasal vaccines in animal models induce very high levels of neutralizing antibodies vs Omicron


  3. There are 12 nasal vaccines in clinical trials and 4 are late-stage, Phase 3 but there is no government plan for manufacturing, distribution or regulatory review as there was for the original vaccines.
  4. While only 1 nasal spray vaccine is currently available (FluMist for influenza) we have already had marked success on a comparative basis against SAR-CoV-2 for vaccine efficacy and an oral antiviral pill (Paxlovid vs Tamiflu). Furthermore, the biology of the SARS-CoV-2 virus makes it a more favorable target than influenza
Next week the White House is having a next-generation summit meeting to ponder plans for a nasal and universal, variant-proof vaccines. We’ve had enough of pondering……we need action. Let’s hope we finally get the vital support we need to build on our early and momentous success against the virus. It’s still evolving and we are getting further and further behind. We can do this.
 

Heliobas Disciple

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Novavax vaccine contains 1 mcg of insect (the fall armyworm) and baculovirus proteins and a bit of their DNA too, which is injected into you with each dose
And that's before we consider the Matrix-M novel adjuvant it contains
Meryl Nass
13 hr ago

You see, the vaccine’s spike protein is grown by genetically engineering baculoviruses to produce spike, and then infecting insect cells with the baculovirus to turn the whole thing into a spike protein factory.

At the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting that I live-blogged last week, it was revealed that the Novavax vaccine was being rolled out because it could be marketed as a “more traditional” vaccine, since it was not made from mRNA. Novavax was to be directed to the unvaccinated, although only 10% of the unvaccinated, it was anticipated, would accept it.

The fact that no fetal cells were used in its development was claimed to be a marketing plus. However, thanks to a reader, it turns out that a human fetal cell line, (HEK) 293F, was used in the testing of the vaccine, as described in an article in Science.

NOTHING about this vaccine is traditional.

First, the Novavax company does not own a manufacturing plant, so the vaccine being distributed in the US is made at the Serum Institute of India.

Second, the adjuvant, Matrix-M (a nonspecific, potent immune stimulant) has never been used before. It is made from the Quillaja saponaria tree. There is another adjuvant that is only used in one (highly reactogenic) US vaccine, Shingrix, which is an extract from this tree. This GSK adjuvant, named ASO1B, contains QS-21, a single extract in the Shingrix vaccine.

The problem is that we don’t know what extracts from the tree are included in Matrix-M. The information is proprietary!
The Matrix-M adjuvant uses two unspecified “fractions” from the Q. saponaria tree, and there exist no data on its safety. (Matrix-M does not contain QS-21, although the company sometimes implies it does, to distract from its novelty.) These two fractions, combined with phospholipids and cholesterol, form the 40 nanometer particles of Matrix M.



While the tree extracts are potent immune stimulants, all those characterized also have significant toxicity.

Third, in addition to getting 5 mcg of spike protein in every dose, you will receive 1 mcg of residual amounts of baculovirus and Sf9 cell proteins (≤ 0.96 mcg), and baculovirus and cellular [from the fall armyworm] DNA (≤ 0.00016 mcg), according to the FDA.

So, you are getting an additional 20% protein of insect and baculovirus origin in addition to the 5 mcg of spike protein, in each of your two doses.


The fall armyworm

In other words, the Novavax vaccine is not sufficiently purified. And no one can tell you how the insect and viral protein and DNA contaminants will affect you.

Anyone who tells you that the Novavax vaccine is a traditional protein vaccine is a scoundrel. This vaccine is another "bait and switch" being rolled out solely to entice the unvaccinated, because it is not made of mRNA.

* But it still gives you a big dose of the spike poison.

There is a single other vaccine in the US that uses the fall armyworm-baculovirus platform to produce viral proteins. It is one of about a dozen available flu shots, whose brand name is Flublok. It too contains worm and viral DNA and protein.
See item 11 in its label.

Fourth, the regulators admit they have no idea if the vaccine works nor how dangerous it is. See below, which is a screenshot I took from the ACIP advisory committee meeting on Novavax.

It makes clear that the regulators don’t know how much myocarditis the Novavax causes, nor whether it works against current variants.

But they still want you injected. See the last line: it will be important to figure out if it works or is safe after authorization. Your tax dollars at work. But the vaccine is "free."

Will you be fooled again?

 

Zoner

Veteran Member
Thanks HD for the posts on Dr. Malone. I didn’t know it’s been a long-standing thing to consider him controlled opposition. I can understand why. After reading everything you’ve posted I’m leaning toward him not being controlled opposition. I think after what happened to him he wants others to know the truth about these vaccines. But I could be wrong.

i remember how I was duped by Bill Barr thinking he was the greatest thing that ever happened to the Trump administration when in essence he was controlled opposition for the deep state Bushies.
So fool me once and all that ....

So I want to believe him because that’s the way I’m wired. But once trust is broken it’s hard for me to trust that person again. So here’s my problem.
If he is truly aligned with the small group that is trying to expose big Pharma and big government and the dangers of the vaccines then the last thing you should have ever done was say Geert was wrong even if you think it. You protect the small group at all costs. Geert is the top dog in that small group and you undermine his credibility??? It doesn’t make sense to me.

The only way he can regain my trust is by directly coming out and saying he made a big mistake publicly. Other than that...reality is about to hit everyone in the face soon anyway. If the vaccinated start getting sick and start dying...there will be big trouble in River City. But sadly it will be too late...
 
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