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Victory in France: Judges Overturn Macron's Decree to Deny Food to the Unvaccinated (Video)
Amy Mek
August 29, 2021
The embattled French President, who had previously said he would never mandate coronavirus “vaccines,” has not only broken his promises but is now trying to harm citizens who are refusing to be jabbed.
French judges have taken action against President Emmanual Macron’s oppressive and discriminatory coronavirus vaccination requirements. This past week, judges in two different French departments overturned Macron’s decree’s making the health pass compulsory in several shopping centers. Instead, the judges ruled that it prevented access to essential goods to people who do not have them.
Chaos initially ensued after France had tried to discriminate against the unvaccinated. Citizens were terrified and angry that the government would force them to get vaccinated by banning them from buying essential goods from supermarkets. Crowds protested in front of food markets. You can hear the crowd chants in unison in a spontaneous display of solidarity in the following video.
Rumble video on website 5:34 min
On August 24, the Versailles administrative court suspended the decree from the prefect of Yvelines that health passports be presented as a condition for entry into retail business centers.
Rumble video on website 1:38 min
Following the victory in Yvelines, the Strasbourg administrative court also suspended the requirement of a health passport in 14 shopping centers of the Haut-Rhin (Department 68). The court ruled that the decree did not guarantee access to essential goods for all.
The judge ruled that the obligation to present the health passport “carried a serious and obviously illegal attack on the freedom to come and go.” The judge explained that the decree did not allow people who do not have a health pass to buy essential goods in the supermarkets of the shopping centers affected by the measure.
Mass demonstrations have taken place weekly across France following Macron’s announcement on July 12, 2021, of a new law mandating health care workers to be vaccinated. In addition, the left-wing leader warned that “depending on the evolution of the situation,” he would consider compulsory vaccinations for all of the French.
Macron also had extended health passes, which prove you have been vaccinated or received a recent negative Covid test, for citizens taking part in “places of leisure and culture,” along with restaurant and transportation services.
The embattled French President, who had previously said he would never mandate coronavirus “vaccines,” has not only broken his promises but is now trying to harm citizens who are refusing to be jabbed.
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S.Africa scientists monitoring new coronavirus variant
Scientists in South Africa are monitoring a new coronavirus variant with an unusually high mutation rate, and whose frequency has gradually increased in recent months, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said Monday.
S.Africa scientists monitoring new coronavirus variant
August 30, 2021
Scientists in South Africa are monitoring a new coronavirus variant with an unusually high mutation rate, and whose frequency has gradually increased in recent months, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said Monday.
The variant, known as C.1.2., was flagged last week by the KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation and Sequencing Platform in a preprint study that has yet to be peer reviewed.
While the majority of South Africa's coronavirus cases are currently caused by the Delta variant—first detected in India—C.1.2. caught scientists' attention because its mutation is almost twice as fast as observed in other global variants.
Its frequency remains relatively low, however, and it has so far been detected in less than three percent of genomes sequenced since it was first picked up in May—although this has increased from 0.2 to two percent last month.
NICD scientists on Monday said C.1.2. was only "present at very low levels" and that it was too early to predict how it might evolve.
"At this stage we do not have experimental data to confirm how it reacts in terms of sensitivity to antibodies," NICD researcher Penny Moore said during a virtual press briefing.
But "we have considerable confidence that the vaccines that are being rolled out in South Africa will continue to protect us against severe illness and death," she added.
So far C.1.2 has been detected in all nine of South Africa's provinces, as well as in other parts of the world including China, Mauritius, New Zealand and Britain.
It is however not frequent enough to qualify as a "variant of interest" or a "variant of concern" such as the highly transmissible Delta and Beta variants, which emerged in South Africa late last year.
South Africa is the continent's hardest hit country with over 2.7 million COVID cases reported to date, of which at least 81,830 have been fatal.
The Beta variant drove a second wave of infections in December and January, and the country is now grappling with a persistent third Delta-dominated wave predicted to overlap with a looming fourth.
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Unsupervised AI predicts the progression of COVID-19 and survival of patients
Fast and accurate clinical assessment of the disease progression and mortality is vital for the management of COVID-19 patients. Although several predictors have been proposed, they have been limited to subjective assessment, semi-automated schemes, or supervised deep learning approaches. Such...
Unsupervised AI predicts the progression of COVID-19 and survival of patients
by Massachusetts General Hospital
Aug 30 2021
Fast and accurate clinical assessment of the disease progression and mortality is vital for the management of COVID-19 patients. Although several predictors have been proposed, they have been limited to subjective assessment, semi-automated schemes, or supervised deep learning approaches. Such predictors are subjective or require laborious annotation of training cases.
In a multi-center study that was published in Medical Image Analysis, a research team lead by Hiroyuki Yoshida, Ph.D., director of the 3D Imaging Research at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), showed that unsupervised deep learning based on computed tomography can provide a significantly higher prognostic performance than established laboratory tests and existing image-based visual and quantitative survival predictors. The model can predict, for each patient, the time when COVID-19 progresses and thus the time when the patient is admitted to an intensive care unit or when the patient is diseased, something that other image-based prediction models cannot do. The time information calculated by the model also enables stratification of the patients into low- and high-risk groups by a wider margin than what is possible with other predictors.
"Our results show that the prediction performance of the unsupervised AI model was significantly higher and the prediction error significantly lower than those of the previously established reference predictors," says Yoshida. "The use of unsupervised AI as an integral part of the survival prediction model makes it possible to perform prognostic predictions directly from the original CT images of patients at a higher accuracy than what was previously possible in quantitative imaging."
In a companion study that was published recently in Nature, the team had already shown that supervised AI can be used to predict the survival of COVID-19 patients from their chest CT images. However, the new unsupervised AI model breaks new ground by avoiding the technical limitations and the laborious annotation efforts of the previous predictors, because the use of a generative adversarial network makes it possible to train a complete end-to-end survival analysis model directly from the images. "It is a much more precise and highly advanced AI technology," Yoshida explains.
Although the study was limited to COVID-19 patients, the team believes that the model can be generalized to other diseases as well. "Issues such as Long COVID, the Delta variant, or generalization of the model to other diseases manifested in medical images are promising applications of this unsupervised AI model," says Yoshida.
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Marsh, I've been following the Graphene Oxide issue and did some research as to what it's used for. I've been a little to busy to post what I really feel is going on and as I post this, it's 4:23am, but to summarize, it allows for the absorption of several types of medical ink used to floress cancer cells, etc. So, from what I have been able to figure, it's about changing the DNA of every person who takes the jab to allow a permanent ink mark on their body (for the mark of the beast) and also changes us into a living life form that will floress when stimulated with radio waves, etc. for tracking purposes using satellites, G5, G6 etc. You won't be able to hide, because you have nano particles of Graphene Oxide spread thought your cellular structure, via your new DNA reconfigured via the mRNA vaccine. These vaccines are prepping the global humanity for world wide tracking as TPTB build the beast system.
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Energy wave^^^^.... I don’t doubt what you’ve discovered at all but my question is, have you read other reason why, this would be in those shots?
Is any explanation even offered as to the medical benefits or needs for graphene to be in them?
I’m only asking out of honest need to understand without getting too far into the WOO aspects. I’m wanting to share the information but not until I’m satisfied for my own knowledge. It’s all quite frightening.
Thank you!
Is any explanation even offered as to the medical benefits or needs for graphene to be in them?
I’m only asking out of honest need to understand without getting too far into the WOO aspects. I’m wanting to share the information but not until I’m satisfied for my own knowledge. It’s all quite frightening.
Thank you!
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Trudeau did not close Canada's borders and as a result covid 19 came in
Trudeau is in (serious) trouble…
F___ Trudeau! There has never been anger like this before in Canada. Liberals and Trudeau are going to lose badly in national elections September 20. Igno…citizenfreepress.com
Trudeau is in (serious) trouble… [COVID authoritarian-related]
Posted by Kane on August 30, 2021 1:45 pm
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1432016250612355073
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F___ Trudeau! There has never been anger like this before in Canada.
Liberals and Trudeau are going to lose badly in national elections September 20.
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1432058182097113095
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Ignore the text of this tweet. Just watch the disturbing clip.
View: https://youtu.be/PEgiQ0ijt4w
4:56 min
View: https://youtu.be/0GBGRl39O4A
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That's what is called a fact-free statement.
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Two Senior FDA Officials Stepping Down Over Reported Disagreements With White House Over Booster Shots
TUESDAY, AUG 31, 2021 - 02:30 PM
Two of the FDA's senior vaccine officials are leaving their positions as the agency mulls new rules and regulations over booster shots and Covid-19 vaccinations for children, according to Bloomberg and Endpoints News.
Departing the agency are Office of Vaccines Research and Review Director Marion Gruber, Ph.D. and Deputy Director Phillip Krause, M.D. Gruber plans to retire on Oct. 31, while Philips - deputy director for the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, will be leaving in November.
As Endpoints News notes, "A former senior FDA leader told Endpoints that they’re departing because they’re frustrated that CDC and their ACIP committee are involved in decisions that they think should be up to the FDA. The former FDAer also said he’s heard they’re upset with CBER director Peter Marks for not insisting that those decisions should be kept inside FDA. What finally did it for them was the White House getting ahead of FDA on booster shots."
The departures mark the latest setback for the federal agency which still lacks a permanent leader.
FDA’s former acting chief scientist Luciana Borio added on Twitter, “FDA is losing two giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service.”
“These two are the leaders for Biologic (vaccine) review in the US. They have a great team, but these two are the true leaders of CBER. A huge global loss if they both leave,” Former BARDA director Rick Bright wrote, weighing in on the news.
“Dr. Gruber is much more than the Director. She is a global leader. Visionary mastermind behind global clinical regulatory science for flu, Ebola, Mers, Zika, Sars-cov-2, many others.”
In a letter from Marks to staff, he explained:
Janet Woodcock told Endpoints that she wishes Gruber and Krause well and thanks them for their significant service.
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Who’s Really Being Hospitalized?
TUESDAY, AUG 31, 2021 - 11:10 AM
Authored by Jennifer Margulis via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Mainstream media is reporting that severe COVID cases are mainly among unvaccinated people, but who is counted as having COVID, and who is counted as being unvaccinated muddy the waters. (wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock)
“I’m not going to arm wrestle with the administration about where to put you,” Dr. C., a highly skilled gastroenterologist, said gently to my friend who was in bed in a triage room in the ER. “We just want to get you into a bed so we can figure out what’s wrong and get you treated.”
We were at our small town’s hospital. No one was sure why, but my friend had not been able to keep anything more than a handful of raspberries down since a complicated surgery for a chronic health condition three weeks before.
Dehydrated and unable to eat, my friend had been violently vomiting after taking just a sip of water or sucking on an ice chip, and had lost nearly twenty-five pounds.
I was by my husband’s side when he had a gallbladder attack so severe that it left his hands shaking. I’ve had three unmedicated childbirths and attended many more, both as a journalist and a patient advocate. Still, I’ve never seen a human in so much pain.
Diagnosed with a Pancreas Disorder, Admitted as a COVID Patient
After a battery of testing, my friend was diagnosed with pancreatitis. But it was easier for the hospital bureaucracy to register the admission as a COVID case.
Let me explain. This patient had none of the classic symptoms of COVID: No shortness of breath, no fever, no chills, no congestion, no loss of sense of smell or taste, no neurological issues. The only COVID symptoms my friend had were nausea and fatigue, which could also be explained by the surgery. However, nearly three weeks earlier, a COVID test had come back positive.
The mainstream media is reporting that severe COVID cases are mainly among unvaccinated people. An Associated Press headline from June 29 reads: “Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated.” Another, from the same date: “Vast majority of ICU patients with COVID-19 are unvaccinated, ABC News survey finds.”
Is that what’s really going on? It’s certainly not the case in Israel, the first country to fully vaccinate a majority of its citizens against the virus. Now it has one of the highest daily infection rates and the majority of people catching the virus (77 percent to 83 percent, depending on age) are already vaccinated, according to data collected by the Israeli government.
After carefully reviewing the available data, including the safety and efficacy profiles of the mRNA vaccines, my friend had taken a cautious approach. Though a medical doctor who gives vaccines in the office every day, my friend opted to wait and see. According to WebMD, a “huge number” of frontline hospital workers have also chosen not to get the vaccine. Indeed, various news reports, from California to New York, confirm that up to 40 percent of health care workers have decided the risks of the vaccines do not outweigh the benefits.
After admission, I spoke to the nurse on the COVID ward. She was suited up in a plastic yellow disposable gown, teal gloves, and two masks underneath a recirculating personal respiratory system that buzzed so loudly she could barely hear. The nurse told me that she had gotten both vaccines but she was feeling worried: “Two thirds of my patients are fully vaccinated,” she said.
Data Limitations
How can there be such a disconnect between what the COVID ward nurse told me and the mainstream media reports? For one thing, it is very hard to get any kind of accuracy when it comes to actual numbers. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have publicly acknowledged that they do not have accurate data.
As reported by the Associated Press, “The CDC itself has not estimated what percentage of hospitalizations and deaths are in fully vaccinated people, citing limitations in the data.”
At the same time, data collection is done on a state by state basis. In most states, a person is only considered fully vaccinated fourteen days after they have had the full series of the vaccine.
This means that anyone coming into an American hospital who has only had one dose, or who has had both vaccines but had the second one less than two weeks prior, will likely be counted as “unvaccinated.”
So when the South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control released a report about COVID severity on July 23, 2021, they reported higher morbidity and mortality rates in the “not fully vaccinated.” Are these people who have had one vaccine and gotten sick, two vaccines and gotten sick, or no vaccines at all? Without more details, it is impossible to know what is really going on.
“We don’t have accurate numbers,” insists Dr. James Neuenschwander, an expert on vaccine safety based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
But what we do know, Neuenschwander says, is that the vaccines are not as effective as public health officials told us they would be. “This is a product that’s not doing what it’s supposed to do. It’s supposed to stop transmission of this virus and it’s not doing that.”
Overcounting COVID
Then there is the problem of attributing severe illness and deaths from other causes to COVID, like in my friend’s case. Health authorities around the world have been doing this since the beginning of the COVID crisis. For example, a young man in Orange County, Florida who died in a motorcycle crash last summer was originally considered a COVID death by state health officials (after Fox News investigation the classification was changed.) And a middle-aged construction worker fell off a ladder in Croatia and was also counted as a death from COVID (whether having COVID played a role in his death is still unclear.)
To muddy the waters further, even people who test negative for COVID are sometimes counted as COVID deaths.
Consider the case of 26-year-old Matthew Irvin, a father of three from Yamhill County, Oregon. As reported by KGW8 News, Irvin went to the ER with stomach pain, nausea, and diarrhea on July 5, 2020. But instead of admitting him to the hospital, the doctors sent him home.
Five days later, on July 10, 2020, Irvin died. Though his COVID test came back negative two days after his death and his family told reporters and public health officials that no one Irvin had been around had any COVID symptoms, the medical examiner allegedly told the family that an autopsy was not necessary, listing his death as a coronavirus case. It took the Oregon Health Authority two and a half months to correct the mistake.
In an even more striking example of overcounting COVID deaths, a nursing home in New Jersey that only has 90 beds was wrongly reported as having 753 deaths from COVID. According to a spokesman, they had fewer than twenty deaths. In other words, the number of deaths was over-reported by 3,700 percent.
Who’s Suffering from Severe COVID, Vaccinated or Unvaccinated?
In countries with the highest numbers of vaccinated individuals, we are also seeing high numbers of infections. Iceland has one of the most vaccinated populations in the world (over 82 percent) and is reporting that 77 percent of new COVID cases are in fully vaccinated Icelanders, according to Ásthildur Knútsdóttir, Director General of the Ministry of Health.
According to news reports, over 85 percent of the Israeli adult population has been vaccinated. But a July report from Israel’s Ministry of Health found that Pfizer’s vaccine is only 39 percent effective. Though Israeli health officials are telling the public that the cases are more mild in vaccinated individuals, this upsurge in COVID cases and deaths is leading Israel’s prime minister to issue new restrictions.
Dr. Peter McCullough, an academic internist and cardiologist in practice in Dallas, Texas, says that a large number of people in the hospitals right now have, indeed, been fully vaccinated. “Fully vaccinated people are being hospitalized, and … 19 percent of them have died,” McCullough says. “This is not a crisis of the unvaccinated. That’s just a talking point. The vaccinated are participating in this.”
Other physicians are seeing the same thing. “In my practice multiple patients who are fully vaccinated have been admitted to local hospitals,” says Dr. Jeffrey I. Barke, a board-certified primary care physician based in Newport Beach, California. Barke believes part of the problem is exaggeration of the efficacy: “If the vaccine works so well, why are we now pushing a booster?”
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Jim Quinn: "A Critically-Thinking Person Might Look At The Delta Data & Conclude..."
TUESDAY, AUG 31, 2021 - 09:30 AM
Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
It’s amazing how you can lie with statistics when you don’t provide context and/or leave key information out of your false narrative. As of July 4, the entire covid fear narrative was dying out, with cases crashing to new lows and the Big Pharma vaccine profit machine sputtering. That is when those controlling the media narrative began running the stories about the Indian variant and the imminent tragedy. As cases soared over 350,000 per day, the MSM was predicting bodies piling up in the streets.
They failed to give context that India has 1.4 billion people, four times the population of the U.S. On a cases per million basis, India’s surge was still 70% lower than the U.S. peak in January. And then the cases collapsed by 75% in a matter of weeks, with no mass rollout of vaccines. But they did distribute copious amounts of ivermectin. Must just be a coincidence. Everyone knows ivermectin is only for cows and horses, per the “experts” at the FDA.
With the Indian case collapse, the purveyors of fear needed to give the Indian variant a new scary name – Delta Variant. So India, with a 10% vaccination rate has seen a complete collapse in cases. Meanwhile, the UK and Israel, with some of the highest vaccination rates in the world, 64% and 60% respectively, have seen huge surges in Delta cases. It’s almost as if the vaccines have created the Delta surge. You might even conclude the vaccines are a complete and utter failure, with significant numbers of adverse reactions, 5 months of limited efficacy, and unknown long-term health effects.
The U.S. “surge” began shortly after July 4th, with the MSM building the Delta fear narrative day after day. Biden, Fauci, Walensky and the rest of the Big Pharma whores did their daily duty of feeding bullshit to the sheep. They bribed corporations, universities and left wing governors to mandate the jab, since they couldn’t mandate it Federally.
The mask theater opened again. To hell with the fact that masks have done absolutely nothing to slow or stop the spread of this virus. As they began reporting the case totals again, despite the fact the PCR test was already completely discredited, with the FDA pulling its EUA and taking it off the market as of 12/31, I noticed what they were not reporting – number of tests.
The number of reported cases in the U.S. went up by 750% since July 4.
Coincidentally, the number of tests grew by over 500% since July 4.
Why the tremendous increase in testing?
If you want more cases, just do more mass testing of people showing no signs of illness. This is why the death rate is 65% lower than when cases were at the same level in February.
A critically thinking individual might look at the data and conclude these vaccines are enhancing the virus and creating the variants.
They might also conclude the Delta variant is far less lethal than the original virus.
They might also conclude the unholy alliance between the government, mass media, social media, and Big Pharma have ramped up the fear in order to force vaccinations into the veins of vaxx resisters, instilling vaccine passports, and attempting to install a digital surveillance system to track those who resist and destroy their lives.
A critically thinking person might wonder why such coercive measures are being used to inject an experimental gene therapy into our bodies for a relatively non-lethal virus with a 99.7% survival rate. Especially, when it is now beyond a doubt the jab doesn’t keep you from contracting the virus, spreading the virus, or dying from the virus.
- At best, it is a therapy that may reduce the symptoms for some people.
- At worst, ADE (antibody-dependent enhancement) will begin to rear its ugly head in the Fall.
With cases peaking at 155,000 per day, the desperation of Fauci and his acolytes is visible for all to see.
I submitted my strongly worded religious exemption to my employer this morning. I should know within a week whether they will buy it. If they deny it, the ball will be in their court, because I will never have that shit injected into my body. They can terminate me and I will be unbowed. They cannot force me to contaminate my body. I’m a free man and will not take the knee. I will not comply. Resistance is not futile. I hope enough of my countrymen will join me in choosing freedom over servitude.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
- Samuel Adams
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CDC Advisory Panel Hints It Won't Back Biden's Booster Jab Plan
TUESDAY, AUG 31, 2021 - 08:40 AM
Shares of BioNTech, Moderna and Pfizer will be closely watched on Tuesday after the CDC's advisory panel, the ACIP, remained circumspect about the need for a booster dose of the vaccine in the US, leaving the door open for the agency to scuttle the Biden Administration's push for booster jabs.
While Israel is the world leader in terms of the largest percentage of the population to have received a third "booster" dose, other countries, including Turkey, have started doling them out, too. And despite the WHO's pleas for western nations not to be too greedy with their jabs, the Biden Administration has repeatedly announced that it's working on approvals for booster jabs eight months after the second dose.
Graybosch believes the meeting indicates that an "uptick in third doses may not come as rapidly as investors have been expecting,"
A Jefferies analyst said ACIP appears to be leaning toward a narrow recommendation for high-risk patients, which doesn't bode well for the White House's proposal.
In other news, Singapore's health authorities are reportedly leaning toward allowing patients to receive any vaccine for their third jab, instead of recommending that those who got Moderna jab first time around get the same one this time, too - and vice-versa.
The UK is also looking into mixing its vaccines for booster doses, after results from a recent study showed that patients who received a Pfizer jab after an AstraZeneca jab actually showed higher rates of resistance.
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The Media's Addiction To COVID 'Fear Porn' Is Perpetuating An Ever-Worsening Cycle Of Societal Damage Across The World
TUESDAY, AUG 31, 2021 - 05:00 AM
Authored by Eva Bartlett via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,
Over the past year and a half, hysterical media reporting on matters Covid-19 has reduced some people to a fearful state of unquestioning compliance – including a great number of otherwise critically-thinking journalists.
With screaming headlines in bold and large font such as, ”Will this nightmare ever end?” and “Mutant virus skyrockets…” and ”Fear grows across the country: VIRUS PANIC,” and ”Coronavirus horror: Social media footage shows infected Wuhan residents 'act like zombies’," it is no wonder many people are in a state of panic.
In times when many are suffering mentally and physically under unnecessary and prolonged lockdowns, the incessant fear porn is causing excessive anxiety, which in turn will affect the health & mental well-being of some, if not many.
In government documents from the UK's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) dated from March 2020 advice was given saying:
I'd say the UK media campaigns weren’t so much “targeted” as “blanket” but they certainly did the job, and other Western nations got similar directives. The UK government also became the nation’s biggest advertiser in 2020, make what you will of the potential ramifications that could have on cash-strapped newspapers and their supposed “independence.”
Having myself been deeply focused on exposing war propaganda and other media lies around Syria, Palestine, Venezuela, and elsewhere over the years, my default position has become one of deep cynicism on mass media reporting. Yes, you can find nuggets of truth, or even excellent journalists in mainstream publications, honestly challenging the narratives.
But those are few and far between, generally you find copy-paste propaganda emanating largely from the bowels of the USA and the UK.
A study by Swiss Propaganda Research (SPR) noted, “most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris.”
Those agencies are AP, Reuters, and AFP. SPR notes:
Given all of this, I've come to believe that with regard to media reporting on Covid-19, my cynicism is well-deserved.
Covid-19 reporting has increasingly been utterly absurd, with stories of people dropping dead in the streets, ice rink morgues to cope with the mountains of bodies, footage of an overcrowded New York hospital (that just happened to be of an Italian hospital), claims of animals testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, and more recently reports of people dying post-jab but we are told ”it could have been worse!”
This campaign of fear caused the public to massively overestimate the lethality of Covid-19, which as un-alarmist voices note has a survival rate of over 99 percent.
When months into the outbreak it became apparent that SARS-CoV-2 was far less lethal than first predicted, the media and talking heads moved from talking about “Covid deaths” to “positive cases.”
Although relatively early on a goat and pawpaw tested positive for Covid-19, instead of then scrutinizing the accuracy of the PCR test as a means of “detecting Covid-19,” the media continued to hype the rise in Covid “cases.”
In lockstep, “Covid testing” was increased dramatically using the PCR test (recently revoked by the CDC). This inevitably pumped up the number of “cases,” which mass media have in turn promoted non-stop, this in turn gave ammunition to those enforcing lockdowns and vaccines.
By now hundreds of vocal doctors, nurses, virologists, immunologists, and other professionals actually worth listening to, whose data and experience counter the hype pumped out in media have very quickly disappeared from social media, or otherwise deemed quacks, and are thus largely silenced. This leaves the general public mainly getting their information via hyped-up media.
Alongside this, there have been relentless ad hominem attacks on journalists who pose legitimate questions and uncomfortable truths about the official narratives around Covid-19.
For offering perspectives which contradict the standard narratives around Covid-19, journalists have been deemed conspiracy theorists, pandemic-deniers, right-wingers, selfish… I'm sure I've missed quite a few slurs.
When it comes to matters Covid-19, it is suddenly unacceptable to question “The Science,” question the authorities, or question the same media that sold us WMDs in Iraq and chemical attacks in Syria.
Media are the drivers of Covid hysteria, and it is the daily bombardment of fear porn that confuses average people and enables tyrannical powers to be brought in, largely unchallenged.
As it is the responsibility of journalists to expose lies around wars of aggression, it is also the duty of journalists to do so around Covid-19. For some journalists who have stubbornly refused to hold power to account, instead toeing the line on all things Covid, it appears their fear is of losing an audience and not of a virus.
Whether or not you agree with dissenting voices’ questions and criticisms, we have the right to ask and make them. We do so, knowing that remaining silent in the face of the brutal Covid measures is a guaranteed path to tyranny.
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Moderna vaccine contaminant in Okinawa, Japan likely from needle insertion, health minister says, after 2.6mn Covid jabs suspended
Japan’s health minister has claimed that a needle breaking off pieces of rubber on Covid vaccine vials likely caused the foreign substance found in contaminated Moderna shots, causing Tokyo to suspend 2.6 million jabs.
Moderna vaccine contaminant in Okinawa, Japan likely from needle insertion, health minister says, after 2.6mn Covid jabs suspended
31 Aug, 2021 09:25
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Japan’s health minister has claimed that a needle breaking off pieces of rubber on Covid vaccine vials likely caused the foreign substance found in contaminated Moderna shots, causing Tokyo to suspend 2.6 million jabs.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Norihisa Tamura offered a possible explanation for the contaminating matter found in Moderna vaccines in the prefecture of Okinawa. He said that it was most likely the result of needles being incorrectly inserted into vials, resulting in pieces of rubber entering the vaccine.
The health minister insisted, however, that “whatever the reason [for the foreign matter], we have heard that there is no safety or other issues.” He promised that the authorities “will continue to gather information and report back” on any updates.
His remarks come after authorities in Okinawa said on Sunday that they were temporarily stopping the use of Moderna’s Covid vaccine – Spikevax – after “foreign substances were spotted in some of them.” According to a statement from the Health Ministry, black matter was found in a vial and syringes, while a pink foreign body was found in another jab.
Two men in their 30s died just days after receiving their second doses of Spikevax from a batch of suspended shots, Japan’s Health Ministry confirmed on Saturday. Investigations into the exact cause of the deaths are underway.
A total of 2.6 million shots of Moderna’s Covid vaccine were suspended for use across Japan due to contamination fears. The administration of one million doses was halted over the weekend in Okinawa and Gunma prefecture, near Tokyo, after reports that similar black matter was discovered in vials.
Incidences of spoiled batches coincide with Japan battling a surge of coronavirus cases that has plunged half of the country’s prefectures into a state of emergency.
Tokyo, initially sluggish to roll out Covid shots, has vaccinated almost 54% of its population with a first dose, while just over 43% are fully inoculated, as per statistics from NHK world.
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Steve Lynch is a force of nature… This is a leader…
Steve Lynch is not a candidate for Governor, but the clip is outstanding — “Forget going into the school boards and bringing data, you go into school boards to remove them. They …
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Steve Lynch is a force of nature… This is a leader…
Posted by Kane on August 31, 2021 1:17 pm
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1:20 min
Steve Lynch is not a candidate for Governor, but the clip is outstanding — “Forget going into the school boards and bringing data, you go into school boards to remove them. They don’t follow the law. I’m going in with 20 strong men and I’m gonna give them an option. They can leave or they can be removed.”
7:56 min
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Mother Says Her Parental Rights Were Stripped Because She Hasn’t Taken COVID-19 Vaccine, Judge Reverses Decision
By Ashe Schow
Aug 31, 2021 DailyWire.com
A Chicago mother told various media outlets that her parental rights were stripped by a Cook County judge after he learned she had not yet received the COVID-19 vaccine.
Fox 32 Chicago reported that the mother, Rebecca Firlit, appeared in court via Zoom on August 10 for a child support hearing with her ex-husband. “The two have been divorced for seven years and share custody and parenting time” of their 11-year-old son, Fox reported.
Firlit told the outlet that Cook County Judge James Shapiro suddenly asked during the hearing whether she had received the COVID-19 vaccine. Firlit responded that she had not taken the vaccine since she had previous bad reactions to other vaccines. Shapiro then ordered Firlit to be stripped of her parenting time until she gets the vaccine.
For more than two weeks, Firlit was only able to talk to her son on the phone and over video calls, but she was not able to see him in person.
“I think that it’s wrong. I think that it’s dividing families. And I think it’s not in my son’s best interest to be away from his mother,” Firlit told Fox.
Firlit appealed the order, arguing that Shapiro went beyond his authority as a judge when denying her the right to see her child.
“It had nothing to do with what we were talking about. He was placing his views on me. And taking my son away from me,” Firlit told Fox.
Firlit’s attorney, Annette Fernholz, told the outlet the judge overstepped in this case.
“In this case you have a judge, without any matter before him regarding the parenting time with the child deciding ‘Oh, you’re not vaccinated. You don’t get to see your child until you are vaccinated.’ That kind of exceeds his jurisdiction,” Fernholz said.
“You have to understand the father did not even bring this issue before the court.
So it’s the judge on his own and making this decision that you can’t see your child until you’re vaccinated,” she added.
The father’s attorney, Jeffrey Leving, said he was surprised by the judge’s decision but agreed with it, since there have been children who have died from COVID-19.
Firlit told the outlet that she missed her son.
“I miss my son more than anything. It’s been very difficult. I haven’t seen him since August 10th,” Firlit said. “I think it’s not in my son’s best interest to be away from his mother.”
Firlit appealed, and on Monday, Shapiro reversed his decision, Fox reported.
“Judge Shapiro just issued an order vacating portions of his prior order of August 11th so Rebecca Firlit can see her son again,” Fernholz told the outlet.
The attorney for the mother also said she believed Shapiro reversed his decision because of the media backlash.
“I think there’s been a lot of media outcry,” Fernholz told Fox. “The divorce bar here in Illinois has been responding when they saw it on the news.”
Firlit said that even though the order was released, she worried her ex-husband may use it in the future to get custody.
Michael Bender, an attorney representing Firlit’s son, said there was more to the case than what has been reported. He said Firlit was “volatile” during the child support hearing on August 10.
“He was seeing something that clearly said to him, ‘There is an endangerment to the child right now.’ And we’re gonna act on it,” Bender told Fox.
Firlit says her behavior didn’t cause her to lose her child temporarily.
“It definitely was not a reason to take my child away from me,” she said. “I’m not an endangerment to him. Nothing was filed about that. Nothing that we were in the hearing for had anything to do with it.”
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Dr. Pierre Kory Identifies U.S. Agency Truly at War with Ivermectin and It Is NOT the FDA - The Liberty Daily
If you love the news, check out The Liberty Daily's homepage. Somebody in Washington DC does not like Ivermectin. In fact, many “somebodies” have been engaged in an all-out propaganda and bureaucratic war to keep the people in the dark and to keep doctors too scared to prescribe the life-saving...
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Dr. Pierre Kory Identifies U.S. Agency Truly at War with Ivermectin and It Is NOT the FDA
By J.D. Rucker • Aug. 31, 2021
Somebody in Washington DC does not like Ivermectin. In fact, many “somebodies” have been engaged in an all-out propaganda and bureaucratic war to keep the people in the dark and to keep doctors too scared to prescribe the life-saving treatments, including the highly effective MATH+ Protocol.
Many of us who have been monitoring DC have looked at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as the culprits behind the suppression campaign.
They hold the keys to the castle, so to speak, when it comes to treatments of diseases doctors are allowed to use. They seem to be the most likely candidate to many of us, but one famous doctor has a different thought.
Dr. Pierre Kory took to Twitter this week to explain who he believes is behind the war on Ivermectin:
The question Dr. Kory asked was addressed to NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, who has been adamantly pushing Covid-19 “vaccines” while panning any possible treatments for the coronavirus, including Ivermectin.
My only point of contention with Dr. Kory’s post is that he believes Ivermectin’s effectiveness is so profound that it will eventually be recognized by the NIH and distributed as the primary treatment against Covid-19. His confidence is based on believing the truth will eventually prevail. I’m not so sure. MATH+ has been unambiguously effective for a long time and the powers-that-be have been able to keep it suppressed. Their lies are only getting bolder as the push for universal vaccinations proceeds.
The only way we can make Dr. Kory’s predictions come true is if we continue to hammer the liars and force the truth to the surface. Americans and citizens of the world need to understand that they’re being lied to about the vaccines and that MATH+ Protocols, as well as other treatments that include Ivermectin, are the most effective treatments for the disease.
As long as the people are being conned into thinking Ivermectin is ineffective but the vaccines work, it will be challenging for the truth to come to light. We need to expose the liars and amplify the perspectives of people like Dr. Pierre Kory.
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36:14 min starts at 1:00 min
LIVE: WH C19 Response Team and Public Health Officials | Washington DC | USA |
Streamed live 5 hours ago
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Queensland Parliament locked down after protests outside
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Queensland Parliament locked down after protests outside
By 9News Staff
7:36pm Aug 31, 2021
Unmasked protesters storm Queensland Parliament, forcing a lockdown
https://www.9news.com.au/national/c...ockdown/a1d97292-911a-4a4e-bd34-5c0ad57261a5#
Unmasked protesters staging demonstrations across the country have caused a security scare at Queensland's Parliament House, forcing the building into lockdown.
While the protest remained smaller than those in other states and territories and didn't resort to violence, police were quick to respond, with dozens descending on the parliament precinct.
There were no security threats in Queensland and Parliament went ahead without any issues.
Speaker Curtis Pitt said the lock down was due to fears protesters may enter the precinct.
"We've received advice from Queensland Police of possible protest activity, including attempted intrusion of the precinct," he said.
https://www.9news.com.au/149365dd-e49a-4759-98df-9cf760870cb0 1:19 min
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More than 150 arrested, almost 600 COVID-19 fines issued after wave of anti-lockdown protests
By Sarah Swain Aug 31 2021
Several police officers have suffered "minor' injuries after almost 70 separate coronavirus lockdown protests were held across NSW, with more rallies in Victoria and Queensland.
More than 150 people have been arrested and almost 600 fines were issued after the protests at public buildings, NSW Police said.
"It's very disappointing that people would think this was appropriate behaviour in the current circumstances," NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Mal Lanyon said.
"We are very comfortable with free speech... but when that's with contravention to the public health order, police will not tolerate it.
"The public health order is in place for the safety of all."
Deputy Commissioner Lanyon said the events were organised online.
He said an expected truck blockade in the state, however, didn't happen.
While there were just a handful of people at some locations, one of the biggest crowds turned up at Fairfield Council, which is one of Sydney's hotspots in the city's west.
More crowds of protesters gathered at Lismore and Ballina Council buildings in northern NSW, as well as at Port Macquarie near Newcastle.
Police responded to 79 unauthorised protests, during which three officers received minor injuries following interactions with protestors at Lismore, Murwillumbah and Raymond Terrace.
In total, 153 people were arrested, many of whom were released after officers were able to establish their identity to issue a PIN.
Police stations and other government buildings were also a target for protesters, who were met by a large police presence.
Meanwhile, Queensland parliament was put into lockdown after protests outside.
Hundreds also gathered at the City of Gold Coast Chambers and stood with their backs to the door.
In Melbourne, protesters gathered near the Royal Botanic Gardens.
Police swarmed the area, with a number of officers also patrolling the scene on horseback.
It's understood one man was arrested.
The protests come a few weeks after a rally attended by thousands in Melbourne turned violent.
More than 200 people were arrested and numerous police officers were hurt.
Thousands also turned up at a similar event in Sydney, where almost 50 arrests were made despite NSW Police warning against it.
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Sure .... So all other vials all these years that come out of a vial just fine , no chunks of rubber and other shit never happened until just now ???? Bullshit, who paid him offModerna vaccine contaminant in Okinawa, Japan likely from needle insertion, health minister says, after 2.6mn Covid jabs suspended
Japan’s health minister has claimed that a needle breaking off pieces of rubber on Covid vaccine vials likely caused the foreign substance found in contaminated Moderna shots, causing Tokyo to suspend 2.6 million jabs.www.rt.com
Moderna vaccine contaminant in Okinawa, Japan likely from needle insertion, health minister says, after 2.6mn Covid jabs suspended
31 Aug, 2021 09:25
© Reuters / Mike Segar; (inset) © Wikipedia
Japan’s health minister has claimed that a needle breaking off pieces of rubber on Covid vaccine vials likely caused the foreign substance found in contaminated Moderna shots, causing Tokyo to suspend 2.6 million jabs.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Norihisa Tamura offered a possible explanation for the contaminating matter found in Moderna vaccines in the prefecture of Okinawa. He said that it was most likely the result of needles being incorrectly inserted into vials, resulting in pieces of rubber entering the vaccine.
The health minister insisted, however, that “whatever the reason [for the foreign matter], we have heard that there is no safety or other issues.” He promised that the authorities “will continue to gather information and report back” on any updates.
His remarks come after authorities in Okinawa said on Sunday that they were temporarily stopping the use of Moderna’s Covid vaccine – Spikevax – after “foreign substances were spotted in some of them.” According to a statement from the Health Ministry, black matter was found in a vial and syringes, while a pink foreign body was found in another jab.
Two men in their 30s died just days after receiving their second doses of Spikevax from a batch of suspended shots, Japan’s Health Ministry confirmed on Saturday. Investigations into the exact cause of the deaths are underway.
A total of 2.6 million shots of Moderna’s Covid vaccine were suspended for use across Japan due to contamination fears. The administration of one million doses was halted over the weekend in Okinawa and Gunma prefecture, near Tokyo, after reports that similar black matter was discovered in vials.
Incidences of spoiled batches coincide with Japan battling a surge of coronavirus cases that has plunged half of the country’s prefectures into a state of emergency.
Tokyo, initially sluggish to roll out Covid shots, has vaccinated almost 54% of its population with a first dose, while just over 43% are fully inoculated, as per statistics from NHK world.
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California church that refused to close for COVID gets $800,000 from state, county to settle suit
Los Angeles County had already spent $950,000 on legal fees prior to the settlement.
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California church that refused to close for COVID gets $800,000 from state, county to settle suit
Los Angeles County had already spent $950,000 on legal fees prior to the settlement.
Updated: August 31, 2021 - 4:58pm
The state of California and Los Angeles County are each paying $400,000 to end litigation by Grace Community Church alleging that COVID-19 restrictions on in-person worship infringed on its constitutional right to religious freedom.
The county Board of Supervisors approved its share of the settlement at a Tuesday meeting, bringing the total it has spent on the litigation to $1.35 million, City News Service reports. The settlement money is coming out of its public health budget.
Thomas More Society special counsel Jenna Ellis also announced the "total win" for the megachurch and Pastor John MacArthur on Twitter.
"It has been a hard-fought battle to preserve religious liberty and we hope that this result will encourage Californians, and all Americans, to continue to stand firm that church is essential," she said with her co-counsel Charles LiMandri.
The church announced in August 2020 that it had retained Ellis and LiMandri following a cease-and-desist order that carries a daily fine of $1,000 or arrest if it continues to hold in-person services. It quickly sued the state and county and continued meeting in person after both a temporary legal victory and a court injunction that forbade the church from meeting.
Grace Community Church sought to overturn the injunction earlier this year, citing two U.S. Supreme Court decisions that allowed churches and synagogues to continue holding their indoor services, subject to attendance limits.
MacArthur vigorously disputed claims that his services were causing the spread of COVID-19, in a court declaration filed in April. He said that a "handful" of congregants had been hospitalized or died from COVID-19 but that they were not attending services because of their high-risk medical conditions.
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i tried to search for this twice and nothing came up.
“Important announcement “ from Dr John Campbell, about 15 minutes
Herd immunity will not come
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JhRb5hnTseU
“Important announcement “ from Dr John Campbell, about 15 minutes
Herd immunity will not come
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Here’s Why No One Can Force You to Take Pfizer’s Newly ‘Approved’ Comirnaty Vaccine
On Aug. 23, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its approval (also known as a license) for Pfizer’s Comirnaty COVID vaccine. The FDA documents related to the vaccine’s approval are as difficult to understand as the new brand name is to pronounce. According to the FDA, although...
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Here’s Why No One Can Force You to Take Pfizer’s Newly ‘Approved’ Comirnaty Vaccine
When the FDA announced full approval of Pfizer’s Comirnaty COVID vaccine, the media predicted an avalanche of mandates — but the FDA’s own Fact Sheet for the vaccine states it is “your choice to receive or not receive” the vaccine.
by Meryl Nass, M.D.
August 31, 2021
On Aug. 23, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its approval (also known as a license) for Pfizer’s Comirnaty COVID vaccine. The FDA documents related to the vaccine’s approval are as difficult to understand as the new brand name is to pronounce.
According to the FDA, although Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine is now approved, considerable amounts of the vaccine will remain under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).
Also, the approval of the Comirnaty vaccine was limited to adults over age 16 receiving their first two doses.
Vaccination with the EUA Pfizer-BioNTech or the Comirnaty vaccine in the 12- to 15-year age group, or providing a third booster dose of either, are still considered an unapproved use — however, those uses remain authorized under EUA.
FDA made some clear but cagey statements about the differences between the Comirnaty vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech EUA vaccine.
For example:
“The licensed vaccine has the same formulation as the EUA-authorized vaccine and the products can be used interchangeably to provide the vaccination series without presenting any safety or effectiveness concerns. The products are legally distinct with certain differences that do not impact safety or effectiveness.”
What does that statement mean? What, specifically, are the “certain differences” that make the two vaccines “legally distinct?”
The FDA did not explain this in any of the documents provided last week to the public.
Two important facts about EUA drugs and vaccines
We know there are some important differences between EUA drugs and vaccines, and fully licensed drugs or vaccines.
We also know these two facts about EUA products:
- EUA vaccines are designated as experimental or investigational products under U.S. law. As such, they cannot be mandated. You have the right to refuse, without suffering consequences.
- EUA vaccines have a huge liability shield that protects everyone involved with the product from being sued. If you are injured by an EUA vaccine, the only way to obtain compensation for damages is to apply to the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), which might cover unpaid medical expenses and lost wages only. However, only 3% of claims made have been compensated, and so far the program has approved no claims for COVID vaccine injuries.
Yet this is the only pathway by which an injured party can seek help after receiving an EUA vaccine or drug.
It’s right there in the fact sheet — FDA says it’s ‘your choice’
Legally, in order to mandate a vaccine, the vaccine must be fully approved. However, once a vaccine for use in adults moves from an EUA product to a licensed everyday product, it loses its liability shield.
We believe it is likely the FDA was instructed to find a way to both license the Pfizer vaccine — so mandates would be legally supported — while also retaining the vaccine’s liability shield.
The FDA could not find a way to do this under existing law. So instead, as we reported Aug. 24 in The Defender, the agency chose to create confusion regarding the legal status of the two Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.
In a document we discuss here for the first time — the fact sheet required to be given to recipients of either the Comirnaty or Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine — the FDA acknowledges the facts we have just presented.
But the FDA also has added something new — the final sentence of the fact sheet states:
“This EUA for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine and COMIRNATY will end when the Secretary of HHS determines that the circumstances justifying the EUA no longer exist or when there is a change in the approval status of the product such that an EUA is no longer needed.”
According to this fact sheet, the FDA also has designated the licensed Comirnaty vaccine as an EUA product. By doing so, the FDA has guaranteed the Comirnaty vaccine the same liability shield as the EUA Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
However, that means the Comirnaty vaccine cannot be mandated. The FDA admits this in the fact sheet, where it states:
“WHAT IF I DECIDE NOT TO GET COMIRNATY (COVID-19 VACCINE, mRNA) OR THE PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE?
“Under the EUA, it is your choice to receive or not receive the vaccine. Should you decide not to receive it, it will not change your standard medical care.”
The fact sheet is FDA’s admission, buried in the fine print, that no one can currently be mandated to receive any COVID vaccine in the U.S., as all remain under the EUA.
This fact sheet for vaccine recipients is key to avoid being forced to accept an experimental vaccine.
We suggest you print it out, highlight the relevant passages and present it to anyone who tries to force vaccinations on employees.
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Australia to end 'covid zero' policy: 'Not a sustainable way to live'
Australia is set to end its "covid zero" policy after Prime Minister Scott Morrison determined that the country’s approach is not "sustainable" in the face of the more infectious COVID-19 delta variant.
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Australia to end 'covid zero' policy: 'Not a sustainable way to live'
Around 27% of Australians have been fully vaccinated
By Peter Aitken | Fox News
Australia is set to end its "covid zero" policy after Prime Minister Scott Morrison determined that the country’s approach is not "sustainable" in the face of the more infectious COVID-19 delta variant.
Australia has maintained a strict policy of restrictions and lockdowns to stamp out any outbreak, but the government over the weekend laid out a new plan that marks a sharp change in policy.
The government will drop most restrictions once 80% of adults are vaccinated, which the government believes could happen by the end of the year, The Economist reported. Any further action would occur only after hospitals reached a point at which they could no longer cope with new cases, but will otherwise handle what they can.
The delta variant provided a new challenge for a nation that The Washington Post once labeled a "pandemic success story." The nation responded to the variant by instituting what it called "circuit breakers": any detected cases would result in a lockdown to stop the spread "at the beginning."
However, Morrison on Aug. 23 said the current course of action was "not a sustainable way to live in this country."
"Once you get to 70% of your eligible population being vaccinated, and 80% ... the plan sets out we have to move forward," Morrison said in a video address.
"Because if not at 70% and 80%, then when? Then when? This cannot go on forever, this is not a sustainable way to live in this country."
So far, the vaccination campaign remains sluggish, especially in comparison to Europe and the United States: Only a little over 27% of the country is fully vaccinated, with just under half the population with at least one dose of a vaccine, according to numbers from Our World in Data.
In the meantime, the government continues to enact lockdowns when necessary. More than half of the country remains in weeks-long lockdowns as officials struggle with rising numbers, stressing the need for vaccinations, according to Reuters.
Morrison’s planned direction, then, could serve as the boost the country needs to convince the population to receive the shot if they have not already.
Australia recorded 1,126 new cases on Saturday, with 1,035 in New South Wales, where Sydney is located.
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Two Senior FDA Officials Stepping Down Over Reported Disagreements With White House Over Booster Shots
TUESDAY, AUG 31, 2021 - 02:30 PM
Two of the FDA's senior vaccine officials are leaving their positions as the agency mulls new rules and regulations over booster shots and Covid-19 vaccinations for children, according to Bloomberg and Endpoints News.
Departing the agency are Office of Vaccines Research and Review Director Marion Gruber, Ph.D. and Deputy Director Phillip Krause, M.D. Gruber plans to retire on Oct. 31, while Philips - deputy director for the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, will be leaving in November.
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As Endpoints News notes, "A former senior FDA leader told Endpoints that they’re departing because they’re frustrated that CDC and their ACIP committee are involved in decisions that they think should be up to the FDA. The former FDAer also said he’s heard they’re upset with CBER director Peter Marks for not insisting that those decisions should be kept inside FDA. What finally did it for them was the White House getting ahead of FDA on booster shots."
The departures mark the latest setback for the federal agency which still lacks a permanent leader.
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FDA’s former acting chief scientist Luciana Borio added on Twitter, “FDA is losing two giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service.”
“These two are the leaders for Biologic (vaccine) review in the US. They have a great team, but these two are the true leaders of CBER. A huge global loss if they both leave,” Former BARDA director Rick Bright wrote, weighing in on the news.
“Dr. Gruber is much more than the Director. She is a global leader. Visionary mastermind behind global clinical regulatory science for flu, Ebola, Mers, Zika, Sars-cov-2, many others.”
In a letter from Marks to staff, he explained:
Janet Woodcock told Endpoints that she wishes Gruber and Krause well and thanks them for their significant service.
Here's the article from Endpoints News referred to in Zerohedge's piece:
In a major blow to vaccine efforts, senior FDA leaders stepping down
Two of the FDA's most senior vaccine leaders are exiting from their positions, raising fresh questions about the Biden administration and the way that it's sidelined the FDA. Marion Gruber, director of the FDA's Office of Vaccines Research & Review and 32-year veteran of the agency, will leave...
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BREAKING: In a major blow to vaccine efforts, senior FDA leaders stepping down
Zachary Brennan
August 31, 2021 10:34 AM EDTUpdated 11:11 AM
Two of the FDA’s most senior vaccine leaders are exiting from their positions, raising fresh questions about the Biden administration and the way that it’s sidelined the FDA.
Marion Gruber, director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review and 32-year veteran of the agency, will leave at the end of October, and OVRR deputy director Phil Krause, who’s been at FDA for more than a decade, will leave in November. The news, first reported by BioCentury, is a massive blow to confidence in the agency’s ability to regulate vaccines.
The bombshell announcement comes at a particularly crucial moment, as boosters and children’s shots are being weighed by the regulator. The departures also come as the administration has recently jumped ahead of the FDA’s reviews of booster shots, announcing that they might be available by the week of Sept. 20.
A former senior FDA leader told Endpoints that they’re departing because they’re frustrated that CDC and their ACIP committee are involved in decisions that they think should be up to the FDA. The former FDAer also said he’s heard they’re upset with CBER director Peter Marks for not insisting that those decisions should be kept inside FDA. What finally did it for them was the White House getting ahead of FDA on booster shots.
FDA’s former acting chief scientist Luciana Borio added on Twitter, “FDA is losing two giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service.”
“These two are the leaders for Biologic (vaccine) review in the US. They have a great team, but these two are the true leaders of CBER. A huge global loss if they both leave,” Former BARDA director Rick Bright wrote, weighing in on the news. “Dr. Gruber is much more than the Director. She is a global leader. Visionary mastermind behind global clinical regulatory science for flu, Ebola, Mers, Zika, Sars-cov-2, many others.”
In a letter from Marks to staff, he explained:
Janet Woodcock told Endpoints that she wishes Gruber and Krause well and thanks them for their significant service.
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Don't know if this has been posted, but here's a vid with Dr. McCullough regarding treatments and sources of physician access -
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RT: 6:12
Highlights of interview with Dr. Peter McCullough on covid vaccine dangerous
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RT: 6:12
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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Fourth Case Of Contaminated Moderna Vaccine Reported In Japan
WEDNESDAY, SEP 01, 2021 - 09:50 AM
Yet another contaminated Moderna Covid-19 vaccine has been reported in Japan - the fourth in less than a week, according to Reuters, which reports that 'several black particles' were found in a Moderna vaccine vial in Kanagawa prefecture.
The remainder of the lot has been placed on hold.
Last week Japan suspended the use of 1.63 million Moderna doses after being notified of a contaminant which 'could be metal' and reacts to magnets.
Moderna and Spanish pharma company Rovi, which bottles the vaccines, says the cause could be a manufacturing issue.
On Wednesday, Japan's health ministry said that the vial sent to Kanagawa was from a different lot than the previous contamination reports, but has said that 'rubber stopper material' appears to have gone into it during the manufacturing process (which would contradict last week's report that the material 'reacts to magnets').
Medical staff are being encouraged to perform visual inspections of vials for foreign materials or discoloration before use.
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Australian woman is losing hope in Freedom!
Life is becoming unbearable as she is moved to tears. But there is hope… Silent protest in Brisbane…
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Australian woman is losing hope in Freedom!
Posted by Kane on September 1, 2021 2:09 pm
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1432658892115386370
2:20 min
Life is becoming unbearable as she is moved to tears.
But there is hope…
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1432662075902410758
.24 min
Silent protest in Brisbane…
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1432653942073270273
.59 min
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‘We have seen a 25% increase in deaths of people who are FULLY Vaccinated’…
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice ‘We have seen a 25% increase in deaths of people who are fully vaccinated over the last 8 weeks’
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‘We have seen a 25% increase in deaths of people who are FULLY Vaccinated’…[W. Virginia]
Posted by Kane on September 1, 2021 6:42 am
Video on website 1:10 min
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice
‘We have seen a 25% increase in deaths of people who are fully vaccinated over the last 8 weeks’
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Red Cross Vaccine Alert — You Gotta Hear This
Anyone who has received their Vaccine can not donate convalescent plasma to other Covid patients. The Vaccine wipes out natural Covid antibodies making the convalescent plasma ineffec…
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Anyone who has received their Vaccine can not donate convalescent plasma to other Covid patients.
The Vaccine wipes out natural Covid antibodies making the convalescent plasma ineffective for treatment.
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CDC Director's Guidance for Labor Day Weekend: All Americans Should Wear Masks Indoors, Unvaccinated People Should Not Travel (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky urged ALL Americans, regardless of vaccination status, to wear masks indoors over Labor Day weekend.
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CDC Director’s Guidance for Labor Day Weekend: All Americans Should Wear Masks Indoors, Unvaccinated People Should Not Travel (VIDEO)
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Published September 1, 2021 at 5:43pm
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky urged ALL Americans, regardless of vaccination status, to wear masks indoors over Labor Day weekend.
Walensky also said unvaccinated people should not travel over the holiday weekend.
“We have actually articulated that people who are fully vaccinated and who are wearing masks can travel,” said Director Walensky.
“Given where we are with disease transmission right now, we would say that people need to take their own — these risks into their own consideration as they think about traveling,” Walensky said during a White House Covid briefing Tuesday. “First and foremost, if you are unvaccinated, we would recommend not traveling.”
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Covid vaccines do not prevent transmission of Covid-19.
The CDC on Monday came out and said Covid vaccines are less effective at preventing hospitalizations, particularly for people over 75.
The drop in vaccine effectiveness is being blamed on the Delta variant.
And what about natural immunity?
A new study out of Israel suggests Covid-19 convalescent individuals, or those who have natural immunity, have better protection against the Delta variant than people who are fully vaccinated.
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BREAKING: In a major blow to vaccine efforts, senior FDA leaders stepping down
Zachary Brennan
August 31, 2021 10:34 AM EDTUpdated 11:11 AM
Two of the FDA’s most senior vaccine leaders are exiting from their positions, raising fresh questions about the Biden administration and the way that it’s sidelined the FDA.
Marion Gruber, director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review and 32-year veteran of the agency, will leave at the end of October, and OVRR deputy director Phil Krause, who’s been at FDA for more than a decade, will leave in November. The news, first reported by BioCentury, is a massive blow to confidence in the agency’s ability to regulate vaccines.
The bombshell announcement comes at a particularly crucial moment, as boosters and children’s shots are being weighed by the regulator. The departures also come as the administration has recently jumped ahead of the FDA’s reviews of booster shots, announcing that they might be available by the week of Sept. 20.
A former senior FDA leader told Endpoints that they’re departing because they’re frustrated that CDC and their ACIP committee are involved in decisions that they think should be up to the FDA. The former FDAer also said he’s heard they’re upset with CBER director Peter Marks for not insisting that those decisions should be kept inside FDA. What finally did it for them was the White House getting ahead of FDA on booster shots.
FDA’s former acting chief scientist Luciana Borio added on Twitter, “FDA is losing two giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service.”
“These two are the leaders for Biologic (vaccine) review in the US. They have a great team, but these two are the true leaders of CBER. A huge global loss if they both leave,” Former BARDA director Rick Bright wrote, weighing in on the news. “Dr. Gruber is much more than the Director. She is a global leader. Visionary mastermind behind global clinical regulatory science for flu, Ebola, Mers, Zika, Sars-cov-2, many others.”
In a letter from Marks to staff, he explained:
Janet Woodcock told Endpoints that she wishes Gruber and Krause well and thanks them for their significant service.
(fair use applies)In a major blow to vaccine efforts, senior FDA leaders stepping down
Two of the FDA's most senior vaccine leaders are exiting from their positions, raising fresh questions about the Biden administration and the way that it's sidelined the FDA. Marion Gruber, director of the FDA's Office of Vaccines Research & Review and 32-year veteran of the agency, will leave...
Biden's top-down booster plan sparks anger at FDA
Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock sent a memo Tuesday evening to vaccine regulators, reiterating her support as frustration over the process spreads within their ranks.
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Biden's top-down booster plan sparks anger at FDA
Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock sent a memo Tuesday evening to vaccine regulators, reiterating her support as frustration over the process spreads within their ranks.
By SARAH OWERMOHLE
08/31/2021 06:04 PM EDT
The Biden administration’s decisions over when to administer coronavirus vaccine boosters are triggering turmoil within the Food and Drug Administration, frustrating regulators and sparking fear that political pressures will once again override the agency’s expertise.
FDA officials are scrambling to collect and analyze data that clearly demonstrate the boosters' benefits before the administration’s Sept. 20 deadline for rolling them out to most adults. Many outside experts, and some within the agency, see uncomfortable similarities between the Biden team's top-down booster plan and former President Donald Trump's attempts to goad FDA into accelerating its initial authorization process for Covid-19 vaccines and push through unproven virus treatments.
On Tuesday, two top FDA vaccine regulators resigned — a decision that one former official said was rooted in anger over the agency’s lack of autonomy in the booster planning so far. A current health official said the pair, Marion Gruber and Philip Krause, left over differences with FDA’s top vaccine official Peter Marks. Now the agency is facing a potential mutiny among its staff and outside vaccine advisers, several of whom feel cut out of key decisions and who view the plan to offer boosters to all adults as premature and unnecessary.
POLITICO spoke to 11 current and former health officials and people familiar with the matter who described growing exasperation with the administration's disjointed process for implementing its booster plan. Those sources said there is little coordination between federal health agencies, even as two top FDA officials try to guide the rollout.
“We understand the importance of additional vaccine doses for control of this pandemic and will move as rapidly as possible to evaluate all submissions. Responding to this pandemic requires an all of government approach,” an FDA spokesperson told POLITICO. “FDA has and will continue to make regulatory decisions. And the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee] will continue to make clinical recommendations.”
Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock sent a memo Tuesday evening to vaccine regulators, reiterating her support as frustration over the process spreads within their ranks. "The issues are complex and the days are long, but please know the work you all have done to date and will continue to do in the days, weeks and months ahead, will hopefully one day allow us to fully put Covid-19 behind us and better prepare us for future challenges," Woodcock wrote.
President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 czar Jeff Zients backed up FDA as the regulatory “gold standard” in a Tuesday press briefing shortly after the departure news. “[The booster] decision was made by and announced by the nation’s leading public health officials… and as our medical experts laid out having reviewed all the available data, it is in their clinical judgment that it’s time to prepare Americans for a booster shot,” he said. “We announced our approach to stay ahead of the virus and to be transparent on latest data."
The tensions between FDA's regulators and top Biden administration officials — including Woodcock, who has publicly endorsed the booster plan — come as the agency begins to tackle its most difficult decisions yet on Covid-19 shots. Many center around making them available to children under 12, whose bodies react differently to the virus and vaccines to prevent it. FDA will have to decide whether the rising number of cases in kids warrants making shots available to them on an emergency basis, before the lengthier approval process, which is more likely to detect any rare side effects.
But for now, much of the discord within the agency centers on the administration's decision to push ahead with boosters before FDA's top scientists had a chance to weigh in.
It was “the administration's booster plan; it wasn't the FDA's booster plan,” said Paul Offit, a University of Pennsylvania infectious disease expert who sits on FDA’s vaccine advisory committee. “The administration has kind of backed themselves up against the wall a little bit here.”
Woodcock and Marks were instrumental in crafting an Aug. 18 statement from HHS officials on the Sept. 20 booster timeline, said one senior official. That person said that the timeline was informed in part by Woodcock and Marks’ estimation of when they would get key data from vaccine makers, but also could shift based on new data, echoing the joint statement.
Another senior health official with direct knowledge of the situation said that political appointees within the White House largely steered the mid-August booster announcement.
The tension within the administration plus open skepticism from outside experts has fueled finger-pointing and divisions among health agencies. Career scientists in particular have been confused and surprised by the process, multiple people involved in the talks said.
Biden added to the confusion and controversy last weekend when he suggested that boosters could be administered just five months after the initial regimen, rather than the eight his administration had just proposed. Those remarks, coming after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, fueled worries that an administration that had pledged to "follow the science" was letting politics dictate outcomes.
But others familiar with the administration's thinking said that Biden and his top health aides, including Zients and chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci, had to lay the groundwork for booster shots so the public would be ready for what they saw as the unavoidable reality of additional vaccinations.
“If the White House didn’t lead, what would happen?” said a person familiar with the discussions behind the scenes.
Yet, the confusion over the plan continues to build. While Pfizer completed its initial booster application on Aug. 27, it is unclear when Moderna and Johnson & Johnson might join its ranks, or when FDA will approve Pfizer’s submission. Pfizer also has data coming in mid-October tracking booster doses administered between 4.8 and eight months after the original regimen.
Biden’s five-month remark was “an innocent question” by the president after hearing from Bennett that Israel has forged ahead on broad booster dosing, a person familiar with the discussion said. In reality, the timeframe for additional doses comes down to the FDA and the companies submitting data — and likely will turn out to be a range of several months for getting a third dose rather than a specific window, they added.
Biden health officials are still confident that they will “have enough information and enough data” by Sept. 20 to make that call, the person familiar said. Several pointed to Israel’s booster data and a “clear” benefit to additional doses, as one health official said.
But the abrupt departure of two top officials from FDA’s vaccine department, the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, has shaken many current and former officials who say it resonates at a critical moment in vaccine regulation. "Supporting the career staff at CBER is extremely important right now, they have a tremendous amount of experience," Bush-era FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan told POLITICO.
While third doses are still only authorized for immunocompromised people, including organ-transplant patients, others who don't fit into that category have plunged ahead with additional vaccinations under the mistaken notion that FDA has already given the greenlight. Nearly one million booster doses have already been administered in the U.S. according to the latest CDC data.
“Many, many, many” providers in southern states with coronavirus case surges are dosing health care workers and patients with boosters absent an FDA approval because of confusion over Biden booster remarks, said Helen Talbot, an infectious-disease specialist at Vanderbilt University and member of CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the panel that recommends how vaccines are used.
“This highlights, critically, the need for any vaccine recommendations to go through the normal avenues and not come out from outside,” she said during a Monday meeting of the panel. “It is very frightening to me that healthcare providers, trying to do the best job that they can, are taking guidance from HHS and White House, and now have put themselves at risk.”
Former Trump administration officials are also privately fuming over Biden's approach to boosters after being pilloried for pressuring the agency on drug and vaccine decisions. During the pandemic's first year, then-President Donald Trump repeatedly accused FDA of slowing key vaccine decisions to hurt him politically and called for FDA authorization of the unproven treatment hydroxychloroquine.
“It’s unprecedented,” that the Biden administration would announce a specific booster rollout date before regulators had weighed in, said one Trump official. That person argued that while the former president criticized the FDA, he did not say that a regulatory move would happen on or by a particular date. Trump did say vaccines were likely before Election Day, and while aides downplayed his promises, the effect was chilling for vaccine confidence.
By contrast, Biden came into office promising that scientists would lead these decisions and messaging, not the White House — a pledge driven in large part by the politicization of vaccines and other public health measures leading up to the election.
But the president may be regretting that pledge after witnessing the slow pace with data crunching by CDC, the public health agency marshaling vast amounts of information on vaccine performance, including the likelihood of breakthrough infections, another former Trump official said.
While the agency has released five studies in recent weeks — some showing fading immunity among health care workers and more breakthroughs than previously recorded — other Biden officials say they are waiting anxiously for a collection of state data that many expect will provide more definitive evidence that breakthrough infections are much higher than previously thought.
The CDC has worked with a small group of state health departments over the past two months to collect data on breakthrough cases, including mild infections. Multiple participating state health departments said they submitted their data weeks ago, but two senior CDC officials told POLITICO they are still gathering and analyzing the information.
The concerns over CDC's pace could color the coming decisions about vaccinating young children against Covid-19. As the agency that collects data on infections and hospitalization in kids, CDC is positioned to give FDA the clearest picture of how quickly it should move to make vaccines available to children under 12.
Biden officials are well-aware of the looming dilemma, said a person familiar with discussions, and are “going to try and put pressure on them to expeditiously get data.”
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Judge in controversial child support case recuses himself
The Cook County judge who barred a mother from seeing her son because she wasn’t vaccinated against COVID-19 and then reversed his decision weeks later recused himself from her case Tuesday.
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Judge in controversial child support case recuses himself
The Cook County judge who barred a mother from seeing her son because she wasn’t vaccinated against COVID-19 and then reversed his decision weeks later recused himself from her case Tuesday.
By Bob Chiarito | Special to the Sun-Times Aug 31, 2021, 7:45pm CDT
The Cook County judge who barred a mother from seeing her son because she wasn’t vaccinated against COVID-19 and then reversed his decision weeks later recused himself from her case Tuesday.
In a statement distributed by a court spokesman, Cook County Judge James Shapiro said “Although I believe I can be fair and impartial, the Canons of Judicial Ethics speak to the perception of fairness and impartiality as well as fairness and impartiality itself. Public perception may be that I can’t be fair and impartial. Therefore, I am going to recuse myself from further proceedings in this case.”
The case Shapiro was referring to is the child support case between Rebecca Firlit and her ex-husband, Matthew Duiven.
During an Aug. 10 hearing about child support, Shapiro asked Firlit if she was vaccinated against COVID-19. After she responded that she wasn’t for a medical reason, Shapiro issued an order banning her from seeing her son until she was vaccinated.
Firlit told the Chicago Sun-Times that she “had adverse reactions to vaccines in the past and was advised not to get vaccinated by my doctor. It poses a risk.”
Shapiro was sharply criticized by court-watchers as well as Firlit’s attorney, Annette Fernholz, who said in her client’s case, the judge was “very much exceeding his judicial authority.”
On Monday, Shapiro issued a new order without elaboration that revoked his order that kept Firlit from seeing her son. He did not respond to a request to comment.
The Chicago Sun-Times also learned that in at least two different child support hearings in July, Shapiro asked other parents about their vaccination status and admitted to ordering some parents and children to be vaccinated.
Reached Monday after Shapiro changed his order, Firlit said: “I’m extremely happy, I’m going to see my son right now.” But she added, “I know that they are going to say that I’m an endangerment to my son. This isn’t over for me.”
Jeffery Leving, attorney for Duiven, called the judge’s reversal “unfortunate.”
“I am working on an emergency motion right now to fight it,” Leving said Monday.
Now, the case will have to continue with a new judge. Mary Wisniewski, director of communications for Chief Judge Tim Evans of Cook County Circuit Court, did not have the next court date in the case available.
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Innovative New Candidate Vaccine Shows Efficacy Against COVID-19
More than a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, several vaccines have been authorized thanks to unprecedented worldwide research efforts. These first-generation vaccines bring great hope and are a mainstay in fighting the virus. However, questions persist regarding the duration of the im
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Innovative New Candidate Vaccine Shows Efficacy Against COVID-19
By INSERM September 1, 2021
More than a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, several vaccines have been authorized thanks to unprecedented worldwide research efforts. These first-generation vaccines bring great hope and are a mainstay in fighting the virus. However, questions persist regarding the duration of the immune response or the need for a booster. Also, controlling the pandemic means vaccinating billions of people. Yet manufacturing sufficient doses to protect the entire world population represents a considerable challenge. That is why vaccine research is still ongoing in order to develop additional candidate vaccines and to continue to meet these various challenges.
Researchers from the Vaccine Research Institute (VRI) (Inserm/Université Paris-Est Créteil), CEA and Université Paris-Saclay are working on the development of a vaccine comprised of a monoclonal antibody that targets immune cells circulating throughout the body: dendritic cells. These cells play a key role in stimulating the immune system through their ability to induce a robust and long-lasting antibody and cellular response, as demonstrated by the team in other models of infection. The monoclonal antibody is fused to a SARS-CoV-2 protein, which stimulates the dendritic cells.
In addition, this dendritic cell targeting vaccine technology is currently in phase I of a clinical trial evaluating the safety and immunogenicity of a preventive HIV vaccine.
Restimulate the production of neutralizing antibodies
In their study published in Nature Communications, the scientists began by studying the ability of their candidate vaccine to induce anti-COVID-19 “booster” responses in models using convalescent animals (having contracted SARS-CoV-2 six months earlier) .
They show that this vaccine is well tolerated and effective, inducing a strong increase in neutralizing antibodies. Faced with a new exposure to the virus, convalescent and vaccinated animals present an undetectable viral load or clear the virus in a shorter time (within three days) compared to unvaccinated convalescent animals or control animals free from any previous infection. A dose of this vaccine therefore provides better protection against reinfection than natural immunity. In addition, the vaccinated animals were protected from lung complications following infection.
Finally, the researchers have already adapted the candidate vaccine so that it is effective against the new variants identified in recent months. In the laboratory, the antibodies induced by the vaccine are capable of neutralizing very effectively the alpha variant (B.1.1.7) and also of neutralizing significantly the beta variant (B.1.351). Thus, the vaccine developed from the initial strain circulating in early 2020 is capable of inducing an antibody response that also neutralizes the new variants tested.
In conclusion, this study shows that a single administration of the candidate vaccine, with no adjuvant, restimulates the production of neutralizing antibodies capable of controlling the virus during reinfection. This provides better protection against reinfection than natural immunity. This vaccine could therefore supplement the arsenal of existing COVID vaccines. The results presented in this study suggest that it could be particularly useful for people recovering or already vaccinated whose immune response has started to decline, in order to strengthen their immunity. Due to the good knowledge of subunit vaccine safety, this vaccine could also be useful for vulnerable people or for immunizing children.
Clinical trials are planned for 2022 with convalescent patients or people who have already received a first-generation vaccine. They will also be carried out in individuals who have never been exposed to either vaccination or the virus.
Reference: “Targeting SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain to cells expressing CD40 improves protection to infection in convalescent macaques” by Romain Marlin, Veronique Godot, Sylvain Cardinaud, Mathilde Galhaut, Severin Coleon, Sandra Zurawski, Nathalie Dereuddre-Bosquet, Mariangela Cavarelli, Anne-Sophie Gallouët, Pauline Maisonnasse, Léa Dupaty, Craig Fenwick, Thibaut Naninck, Julien Lemaitre, Mario Gomez-Pacheco, Nidhal Kahlaoui, Vanessa Contreras, Francis Relouzat, Raphaël Ho Tsong Fang, Zhiqing Wang, Jerome Ellis III, Catherine Chapon, Mireille Centlivre, Aurelie Wiedemann, Christine Lacabaratz, Mathieu Surenaud, Inga Szurgot, Peter Liljeström, Delphine Planas, Timothée Bruel, Olivier Schwartz, Sylvie van der Werf, Giuseppe Pantaleo, Mélanie Prague, Rodolphe Thiébaut, Gerard Zurawski, Yves Lévy and Roger Le Grand, 1 September 2021, Nature Communications.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25382-0
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Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response
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Covid-19 news: WHO monitoring ‘mu’ variant in Colombia and Ecuador
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson,Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool
1 September 2021
Mu variant identified in Colombia may be more resistant to vaccines
A new coronavirus variant, named mu, has been designated a variant of interest by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Mu, or B.1.621, was first identified in Colombia and cases have been recorded in South America and Europe. The WHO’s weekly bulletin on the pandemic said the variant has mutations indicating “potential properties of immune escape”, meaning current vaccines would be less effective against it, but that more studies would be needed to examine this further.
“Since its first identification in Colombia in January 2021, there have been a few sporadic reports of cases of the mu variant and some larger outbreaks have been reported from other countries in South America and in Europe,” the bulletin said. “Although the global prevalence of the mu variant among sequenced cases has declined and is currently below 0.1%, the prevalence in Colombia (39%) and Ecuador (13%) has consistently increased.”
There are currently four coronavirus variants of concern, as deemed by the WHO, with the alpha variant seen in 193 countries, beta in 141, gamma in 91 and delta in 170 countries, while mu is the fifth variant of interest.