CORONA Main Coronavirus thread

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
Rita Panahi
@RitaPanahi
27m

‘The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.’

Of course it bloody well did.
View: https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1629932391702892544?s=20


Never forget the quislings who attacked anybody who suggested the virus came from the Wuhan lab including WaPo’s resident “fact-checker” aka Leftist propagandist.
View: https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1629938680713580544?s=20
here's the article.


(fair use applies)


Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says
U.S. agency’s revised assessment is based on new intelligence

By Michael R. Gordon and Warren P. Strobel
Updated Feb. 26, 2023 3:50 pm ET

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.

The shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office.

The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic’s origin. The Energy Department now joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory. Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided.

The Energy Department’s conclusion is the result of new intelligence and is significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research.

The Energy Department made its judgment with “low confidence,” according to people who have read the classified report.

The FBI previously came to the conclusion that the pandemic was likely the result of a lab leak in 2021 with “moderate confidence” and still holds to this view.

The FBI employs a cadre of microbiologists, immunologists and other scientists and is supported by the National Bioforensic Analysis Center, which was established at Fort Detrick, Md., in 2004 to analyze anthrax and other possible biological threats.

U.S. officials declined to give details on the fresh intelligence and analysis that led the Energy Department to change its position. They added that while the Energy Department and the FBI each say an unintended lab leak is most likely, they arrived at those conclusions for different reasons.

The updated document underscores how intelligence officials are still putting together the pieces on how Covid-19 emerged. More than one million Americans have died in the pandemic that began more than three years ago.

The National Intelligence Council, which conducts long-term strategic analysis, and four agencies, which officials declined to identify, still assess with “low confidence” that the virus came about through natural transmission from an infected animal, according to the updated report.

The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency that officials wouldn’t name remain undecided between the lab-leak and natural-transmission theories, the people who have read the classified report said.

Despite the agencies’ differing analyses, the update reaffirmed an existing consensus between them that Covid-19 wasn’t the result of a Chinese biological-weapons program, the people who have read the classified report said.

A senior U.S. intelligence official confirmed that the intelligence community had conducted the update, whose existence hasn’t previously been reported. This official added that it was done in light of new intelligence, further study of academic literature and consultation with experts outside government.

The update, which is less than five pages, wasn’t requested by Congress. But lawmakers, particularly House and Senate Republicans, are pursuing their own investigations into the origins of the pandemic and are pressing the Biden administration and the intelligence community for more information.

Officials didn’t say if an unclassified version of the update would be issued.

U.S. national-security adviser Jake Sullivan declined to confirm or deny the Journal’s reporting in an appearance Sunday on CNN. He said President Biden had repeatedly directed every part of the intelligence community to invest in trying to discern as much as possible about the origins of the pandemic.

“President Biden specifically requested that the national labs, which are part of the Energy Department, be brought into this assessment because he wants to put every tool at use to be able to figure out what happened here,” Mr. Sullivan said.

There are a “variety of views in the intelligence community,” Mr. Sullivan added. “A number of them have said they just don’t have enough information.”

Asked about the Energy Department’s assessment, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R., Alaska) said Sunday on NBC that Congress needed to hold extensive hearings concerning the origins of the pandemic, adding that China has sought to intimidate other countries from questioning whether the virus emerged naturally. “This is a country that has no problem coming out and lying to the world,” he said.

The Covid-19 virus first circulated in Wuhan, China, no later than November 2019, according to the U.S. 2021 intelligence report. The pandemic’s origin has been the subject of vigorous, sometimes partisan debate among academics, intelligence experts and lawmakers.

David Relman, a Stanford University microbiologist who has argued for a dispassionate investigation into the pandemic’s beginnings, welcomed word of the updated findings.

“Kudos to those who are willing to set aside their preconceptions and objectively re-examine what we know and don’t know about Covid origins,” said Dr. Relman, who has served on several federal scientific-advisory boards. “My plea is that we not accept an incomplete answer or give up because of political expediency.”

An Energy Department spokesman declined to discuss details of its assessment but wrote in a statement that the agency “continues to support the thorough, careful, and objective work of our intelligence professionals in investigating the origins of COVID-19, as the President directed.”
The FBI declined to comment.

China, which has placed limits on investigations by the World Health Organization, has disputed that the virus could have leaked from one of its labs and has suggested it emerged outside China.

The Chinese government didn’t respond to requests for comment about whether there has been any change in its views on the origins of Covid-19.

Some scientists argue that the virus probably emerged naturally and leapt from an animal to a human, the same pathway for outbreaks of previously unknown pathogens.

Intelligence analysts who have supported that view give weight to “the precedent of past novel infectious disease outbreaks having zoonotic origins,” the flourishing trade in a diverse set of animals that are susceptible to such infections, and their conclusion that Chinese officials didn’t have foreknowledge of the virus, the 2021 report said.

Yet no confirmed animal source for Covid-19 has been identified. The lack of an animal source, and the fact that Wuhan is the center of China’s extensive coronavirus research, has led some scientists and U.S. officials to argue that a lab leak is the best explanation for the pandemic’s beginning.

U.S. State Department cables written in 2018 and internal Chinese documents show that there were persistent concerns about China’s biosafety procedures, which have been cited by proponents of the lab-leak hypothesis.

Wuhan is home to an array of laboratories, many of which were built or expanded as a result of China’s traumatic experience with the initial severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, epidemic beginning in 2002. They include campuses of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, which produces vaccines.

An outbreak at a seafood market in Wuhan had initially been thought to be the source of the virus, but some scientists and Chinese public-health officials now see it as an example of community spread rather than the place where the first human infection occurred, the 2021 intelligence community report said.

In May 2021, President Biden told the intelligence community to step up its efforts to investigate the origins of Covid-19 and directed that the review draw on work by the U.S.’s national laboratories and other agencies. Congress, he said, would be kept informed of that effort.

The October 2021 report said that there was a consensus that Covid-19 wasn’t the result of a Chinese biological-weapons program. But it didn’t settle the debate over whether it resulted from a lab leak or came from an animal, saying that more information was needed from the Chinese authorities.

The U.S. intelligence community is made up of 18 agencies, including offices at the Energy, State and Treasury departments. Eight of them participated in the Covid-origins review, along with the National Intelligence Council.

Before that report, the Energy Department’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory prepared a study in May 2020 concluding that a lab-leak hypothesis was plausible and deserved further investigation.

The debate over whether Covid-19 might have escaped from a laboratory has been fueled by U.S. intelligence that three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care.

A House Intelligence Committee report concluded last year that this disclosure didn’t strengthen either the lab-leak or the natural-origin theory as the researchers might have become sick with a seasonal flu.
But some former U.S. officials say the sick researchers were involved in coronavirus research.

Lawmakers have sought to find out more about why the FBI assesses a lab leak was likely. In an Aug. 1 letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Sen. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican, requested that the FBI share the records of its investigation and asked if the bureau had briefed Mr. Biden on its findings.

In a Nov. 18 letter, FBI Assistant Director Jill Tyson said the agency couldn’t share those details because of Justice Department policy on preserving “the integrity of ongoing investigations.” She referred the senator to Ms. Haines’s office for information on what briefings were arranged for the president.

Corrections & Amplifications
Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan represents Alaska. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said he represented Alabama. (Corrected on Feb. 26)
 

psychgirl

Has No Life - Lives on TB
here's the article.


(fair use applies)


Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says
U.S. agency’s revised assessment is based on new intelligence

By Michael R. Gordon and Warren P. Strobel
Updated Feb. 26, 2023 3:50 pm ET

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.

The shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office.

The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic’s origin. The Energy Department now joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory. Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided.

The Energy Department’s conclusion is the result of new intelligence and is significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research.

The Energy Department made its judgment with “low confidence,” according to people who have read the classified report.

The FBI previously came to the conclusion that the pandemic was likely the result of a lab leak in 2021 with “moderate confidence” and still holds to this view.

The FBI employs a cadre of microbiologists, immunologists and other scientists and is supported by the National Bioforensic Analysis Center, which was established at Fort Detrick, Md., in 2004 to analyze anthrax and other possible biological threats.

U.S. officials declined to give details on the fresh intelligence and analysis that led the Energy Department to change its position. They added that while the Energy Department and the FBI each say an unintended lab leak is most likely, they arrived at those conclusions for different reasons.

The updated document underscores how intelligence officials are still putting together the pieces on how Covid-19 emerged. More than one million Americans have died in the pandemic that began more than three years ago.

The National Intelligence Council, which conducts long-term strategic analysis, and four agencies, which officials declined to identify, still assess with “low confidence” that the virus came about through natural transmission from an infected animal, according to the updated report.

The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency that officials wouldn’t name remain undecided between the lab-leak and natural-transmission theories, the people who have read the classified report said.

Despite the agencies’ differing analyses, the update reaffirmed an existing consensus between them that Covid-19 wasn’t the result of a Chinese biological-weapons program, the people who have read the classified report said.

A senior U.S. intelligence official confirmed that the intelligence community had conducted the update, whose existence hasn’t previously been reported. This official added that it was done in light of new intelligence, further study of academic literature and consultation with experts outside government.

The update, which is less than five pages, wasn’t requested by Congress. But lawmakers, particularly House and Senate Republicans, are pursuing their own investigations into the origins of the pandemic and are pressing the Biden administration and the intelligence community for more information.

Officials didn’t say if an unclassified version of the update would be issued.

U.S. national-security adviser Jake Sullivan declined to confirm or deny the Journal’s reporting in an appearance Sunday on CNN. He said President Biden had repeatedly directed every part of the intelligence community to invest in trying to discern as much as possible about the origins of the pandemic.

“President Biden specifically requested that the national labs, which are part of the Energy Department, be brought into this assessment because he wants to put every tool at use to be able to figure out what happened here,” Mr. Sullivan said.

There are a “variety of views in the intelligence community,” Mr. Sullivan added. “A number of them have said they just don’t have enough information.”

Asked about the Energy Department’s assessment, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R., Alaska) said Sunday on NBC that Congress needed to hold extensive hearings concerning the origins of the pandemic, adding that China has sought to intimidate other countries from questioning whether the virus emerged naturally. “This is a country that has no problem coming out and lying to the world,” he said.

The Covid-19 virus first circulated in Wuhan, China, no later than November 2019, according to the U.S. 2021 intelligence report. The pandemic’s origin has been the subject of vigorous, sometimes partisan debate among academics, intelligence experts and lawmakers.

David Relman, a Stanford University microbiologist who has argued for a dispassionate investigation into the pandemic’s beginnings, welcomed word of the updated findings.

“Kudos to those who are willing to set aside their preconceptions and objectively re-examine what we know and don’t know about Covid origins,” said Dr. Relman, who has served on several federal scientific-advisory boards. “My plea is that we not accept an incomplete answer or give up because of political expediency.”

An Energy Department spokesman declined to discuss details of its assessment but wrote in a statement that the agency “continues to support the thorough, careful, and objective work of our intelligence professionals in investigating the origins of COVID-19, as the President directed.”
The FBI declined to comment.

China, which has placed limits on investigations by the World Health Organization, has disputed that the virus could have leaked from one of its labs and has suggested it emerged outside China.

The Chinese government didn’t respond to requests for comment about whether there has been any change in its views on the origins of Covid-19.

Some scientists argue that the virus probably emerged naturally and leapt from an animal to a human, the same pathway for outbreaks of previously unknown pathogens.

Intelligence analysts who have supported that view give weight to “the precedent of past novel infectious disease outbreaks having zoonotic origins,” the flourishing trade in a diverse set of animals that are susceptible to such infections, and their conclusion that Chinese officials didn’t have foreknowledge of the virus, the 2021 report said.

Yet no confirmed animal source for Covid-19 has been identified. The lack of an animal source, and the fact that Wuhan is the center of China’s extensive coronavirus research, has led some scientists and U.S. officials to argue that a lab leak is the best explanation for the pandemic’s beginning.

U.S. State Department cables written in 2018 and internal Chinese documents show that there were persistent concerns about China’s biosafety procedures, which have been cited by proponents of the lab-leak hypothesis.

Wuhan is home to an array of laboratories, many of which were built or expanded as a result of China’s traumatic experience with the initial severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, epidemic beginning in 2002. They include campuses of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, which produces vaccines.

An outbreak at a seafood market in Wuhan had initially been thought to be the source of the virus, but some scientists and Chinese public-health officials now see it as an example of community spread rather than the place where the first human infection occurred, the 2021 intelligence community report said.

In May 2021, President Biden told the intelligence community to step up its efforts to investigate the origins of Covid-19 and directed that the review draw on work by the U.S.’s national laboratories and other agencies. Congress, he said, would be kept informed of that effort.

The October 2021 report said that there was a consensus that Covid-19 wasn’t the result of a Chinese biological-weapons program. But it didn’t settle the debate over whether it resulted from a lab leak or came from an animal, saying that more information was needed from the Chinese authorities.

The U.S. intelligence community is made up of 18 agencies, including offices at the Energy, State and Treasury departments. Eight of them participated in the Covid-origins review, along with the National Intelligence Council.

Before that report, the Energy Department’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory prepared a study in May 2020 concluding that a lab-leak hypothesis was plausible and deserved further investigation.

The debate over whether Covid-19 might have escaped from a laboratory has been fueled by U.S. intelligence that three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care.

A House Intelligence Committee report concluded last year that this disclosure didn’t strengthen either the lab-leak or the natural-origin theory as the researchers might have become sick with a seasonal flu.
But some former U.S. officials say the sick researchers were involved in coronavirus research.

Lawmakers have sought to find out more about why the FBI assesses a lab leak was likely. In an Aug. 1 letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Sen. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican, requested that the FBI share the records of its investigation and asked if the bureau had briefed Mr. Biden on its findings.

In a Nov. 18 letter, FBI Assistant Director Jill Tyson said the agency couldn’t share those details because of Justice Department policy on preserving “the integrity of ongoing investigations.” She referred the senator to Ms. Haines’s office for information on what briefings were arranged for the president.

Corrections & Amplifications
Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan represents Alaska. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said he represented Alabama. (Corrected on Feb. 26)
Thank you!
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
This article showed up and I'm posting it to archive on the thread the studies being done and what conventional medicine is still saying. Don't attack the messenger! ps I won't be offended if any dislikes this post, I would if I could.


(fair use applies)


COVID-19 Vaccination Linked to Fewer Heart Attacks, Strokes, and Other Cardiovascular Issues
By The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
February 26, 2023

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have analyzed extensive datasets in the United States and found that individuals who were vaccinated against COVID-19 had fewer cases of heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular issues among people who had been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.
First U.S. study to show lower cardiac risk of cardiac events in patients following SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Analyzing the most extensive datasets in the United States, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have revealed that vaccination against COVID-19 is associated with fewer heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular issues among people who were infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

The research letter, “Impact of Vaccination on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients with COVID-19 Infection,” was published on February 20 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In addition, the research will be presented in a poster session in New Orleans, LA, at the American College of Cardiology’s 72nd Annual Scientific Session Together With World Heart Federation’s World Congress of Cardiology.

It is the first study to examine both full and partial vaccination and the link to major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in the United States, confirming similar analyses performed previously using the Korean COVID-19 registry. Researchers used the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) database, the largest national comprehensive database on COVID-19. Since its inception in 2020, the N3C has continuously collected and harmonized data from electronic health records of institutions across the country. Included in this study were 1,934,294 patients, 217,843 of whom received mRNA vaccine formulations by Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna or viral vector technology by Johnson & Johnson. Cox proportional hazards, a statistical technique, was implemented to assess vaccination association with MACE.

“We sought to clarify the impact of previous vaccination on cardiovascular events among people who develop COVID-19 and found that, particularly among those with comorbidities, such as previous MACE, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, liver disease, and obesity, there is an association with a lower risk of complications. While we cannot attribute causality, it is supportive evidence that vaccination may have beneficial effects on a variety of post-COVID-19 complications,” said senior author Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, MPH, Irene and Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Professor of Medicine at Icahn Mount Sinai, Director of The Charles Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine, and System Chief, Division of Data Driven and Digital Medicine (D3M), Department of Medicine.

“To our surprise, even partial vaccination was associated with lower risk of adverse cardiovascular events,” said first study author Joy Jiang, an MD/PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Nadkarni. “Given the magnitude of SARS-CoV-2 infection worldwide, we hope our findings could help improve vaccination rates, especially in individuals with coexisting conditions.”

Further work will be necessary to elucidate the mechanisms involved from an immunological perspective and clarify the role of SARS-CoV-2 subtypes and reinfections in their relationship to the risk of MACE.

Reference: “Impact of Vaccination on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients With COVID-19 Infection” by Joy Jiang, Lili Chan, Justin Kauffman, Jagat Narula, Alexander W. Charney, Wonsuk Oh, GIrish Nadkarni and on behalf of the N3C Consortium, 10 February 2023, Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.12.006

Additional co-authors are Lili Chan, MD, MS; Justin Kauffman, BS; Jagat Narula, MD, PhD; Alexander W. Charney, MD, PhD; and Wonsuk Oh, PhD, all from Icahn Mount Sinai.

The work was supported, in part, by funds from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, grant numbers K23DK124645 and T32DK007757, and by the TL1 Career Development Award, 1TL1TR004420-01.
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)


Woody Harrelson Demonstrates the Pain of Truth
By Jeffrey A. Tucker
February 26, 2023

In the course of an otherwise unmeaningful monologue on Saturday Night Live, Woody Harrelson let go with a remarkable theory of the Covid era. It was supposed to be hilarious but why should it be? In a world in which people were long over this, all the investigations have been done and the condemnations issued, and masses of people are fully cognizant of the underlying reality and all its horrors, his flippant remarks would have been funny.

Instead, the audience sat there in stunned silence. Are they even allowed to laugh? Woody Harrelson, with the intuition of a great comic, quickly moved to the next point and then closed out the opening.

In other words, it’s too soon, as they say. Too soon for laughter. But it’s not too soon for truth.

His words were pretty simple. He tells a fictional story of finding a movie script. In the plot, “the biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes, and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over.” He finishes by saying that such a movie could not be made because it is too implausible.

Woody dropping truth bombs pic.twitter.com/rTPRzUuLeS
— Cliff Maloney (@CliffMaloneyJr) February 26, 2023

Ouch.

What’s strange about his observation is just how close to reality we are discovering that this story truly is. Initially, I was pretty sure that the lockdowns extended from a primitive intellectual error, the belief that respiratory pathogens like cooties could be made non-vexing by simply eliminating human contact. It’s a preposterous supposition and one deeply dangerous to the whole idea of human freedom.

When the masks came along, it struck me as tremendously obvious that their only purpose was to give people a means to believe that they were doing something, plus they provide an effective symbol of a panicked epoch that many people wanted to last as long as possible.

Even in April 2020, when the former head of virology for the Gates Foundation called me and told me very clearly that the whole idea of lockdowns was to wait for the vaccine, I could not process the information. This is because I knew based on my reading that there would be no sterilizing vaccine for a coronavirus. A new technology claiming to stop infection and spread would require many years of testing, maybe ten. We cannot stay locked down that long. Society would be in ruins.

The caller assured me that it was coming much sooner. I found that to be ridiculous, even dangerous. But I still had not made the connection: the purpose of the lockdown was to buy time for the production and distribution of a vaccine. An even darker interpretation of lockdowns would be that influential people need to preserve population-wide immunological naivete in order to demonstrate the value of vaccine technology.

As for media and politicians, the idea that they are bought off by Big Pharma is no longer in dispute. We’ve seen too many running reels of “brought to you by Pfizer” on every form of entertainment, and we’ve seen the receipts.

So Harrelson’s story is not entirely wrong. Indeed, in the guise of comedy, he has come closer to truth than any mainstream venue of entertainment has yet to reveal. And, as it turns out, his views are rather well developed, as we can tell from another interview.

Woody Harrelson criticizes the government and the pharmaceutical industry for blocking affordable, off-patent antivirals like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to profit from COVID-19 vaccines:
"Ivermectin got made into a horse tranquilizer. Hydroxychloroquine got made… https://t.co/DWtygMM0Mx pic.twitter.com/LsMKTrvl2Z
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 26, 2023

There has been a conspiracy of silence and still is. The trauma was so deep and the politicization of the episode so intense that major voices are still silent about it.

Harrelson’s comment likely will not change that. The usual people will emerge to condemn him as a conspiracy theorist and probably claim that he has been listening too much to QAnon, whatever that is, or that he has been hypnotized by some re-pilled influencer. He has certainly made himself a target.

It is much safer never to speak out, never to point out the elephant in the room, never to disturb people’s illusions or upset powerful industrial interests. But he did it anyway. And yes, of course, there is so much more to say about the role of government and the military-style footing on which the whole of society in most parts of the world landed. And the carnage goes far beyond an annoying year or so or staying home. Education, culture, religion, and civil society itself was smashed.

As a Brownstone reader, you are likely ready to embrace the truth whatever it is. But for most of the rest of society in most countries, we still live in the land of taboo. And it is an intense one. The veil of myth that surrounds the great trauma of our lives needs rending at some point. Perhaps it starts just this way: with truth-telling fables in the guise of comedy that fall flat on shocked audiences who prefer to keep up the illusion that all of this happened in the name of public health.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8LX8MQMrag
6 min 58 sec
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)


H5N1 Avian Flu News: Researchers Are Concerned That A Lethal Reassortant Strain Involving SARS-CoV-2 And H5N1 Avian Flu Virus Is Likely To Emerge Soon

Thailand Medical News
February 27, 2023

Forget about the more than 20 sub-lineages of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB variant that is predominant in many geolocations across the world as they are unlikely to drive disease severity except those in the vulnerable groups or about the rather isolated incident of a girl dying from the H5N1 Avian Flu virus in Cambodia, rather researchers are warning us that we should be more concerned about a more transmissible and lethal reassortant variant emerging from animals coinfected with both the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the H5N1 Avian Flu virus.

Already it is well known that many animal species have become reservoirs of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the last 3 years including not just deer, racoons, sea mammals but also rabbits, mice etc.


SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Animals: Reservoirs for Reverse Zoonosis and Models for Study



At the same time, in the last 14 months, we have been witnessing that the H5N1 Avian flu virus has not only been wreaking havoc across the world, causing the deaths of millions of wild birds and also the farmed chickens and now also infecting and causing the deaths of mammals in various countries as reported in many H5N1 Avian Flu News coverages.




Both the SARS-CoV-2 and the H5N1 Avian Flu viruses are RNA viruses and it is not impossible for the to ‘recombine’ in an animal host that is coinfected with both the viruses!

The possibility of either virus during a case of a co-infection of both viruses picking up a snippet of genetic material from the other remains high despite claims that such occurrences are unlikely.

In fact, it was earlier claimed that in the case of the Omicron variant, it was speculated that the SARS-CoV-2 could have picked up a snippet of genetic material from an ordinary cold virus.&l t;br /> BREAKING! Preprint Study Suggest That Omicron Might Be A Recombined Virus Containing Bits Of Genetic Material From The Common-Cold Virus! - Thailand Medical News



With both viruses now in circulation in vast amounts and also infecting millions of animals in various countries, it is likely that already co-infections are becoming a rather rampant and along with such high occurrences, the possibility of a reassortant strain emerging is very likely.

In fact, it would be of litel surprise if such strains are already in existence and are only waiting for the right opportune time to jump into humans while these newly emerged strains start evolving for better viral fitness.

The later part of 2023 is already predicted to be a fun time as there are so many possible scenarios that are predicted to materialize as a result of the stupid ways that the current COVID-19 crisis is being mismanaged. There is first a high possibility that a new more lethal SARS-CoV-2 variant is likely to emerge. Then there is also a scenario of a new SARS-CoV strain emerging from a zoonotic source that will be called SARS-CoV-3. There is also the high possibility that by late 2023 we could be having several virus outbreaks or pandemics simultaneously etc.ie Avian Flu, Measles, Small Pox, Marburg, Ebola etc.

Even if the reassortant strain does not emerge naturally, we can be rest assured that the WEF, Gates, DARPA, Pfizer, Moderna, U.S. NIH, Fauci and Obama will come up with some lab version discreetly to help depopulate the world and also profit from the vaccines.
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)


Final state emergencies winding down 3 years into pandemic
By ADAM BEAM
an hour ago

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s coronavirus emergency officially ends Tuesday, nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the nation’s first statewide stay-at-home order and just days after the state reached the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths related to the virus.

As California’s emergency winds down, such declarations continue in just five other states — including Texas and Illinois — signaling an end to the expanded legal powers of governors to suspend laws in response to the once mysterious disease. President Joe Biden announced last month the federal government will end its own version May 11.

The end of California’s order will have little to no effect on most people as Newsom has already lifted most of the state’s restrictions, like those that required masks, closed beaches and forced many businesses to close. It offers a symbolic marker of the end of a period that once drastically altered the lives of the state’s nearly 40 million residents.

Illinois’ order will end in May alongside the federal order, while the governors of Rhode Island and Delaware recently extended their coronavirus emergency declarations. In New Mexico, public health officials are weighing whether to extend a COVID-19 health emergency beyond its Friday expiration date.

Texas, meanwhile, hasn’t had any major coronavirus restrictions for years, but Republican Gov. Greg Abbott keeps extending his state’s emergency declaration because it gives him the power to stop some of the states’ more liberal cities from imposing their own restrictions, like requiring masks or vaccines. Abbott has said he’ll keep the emergency order — and his expanded powers — in place until the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature passes a law to prevent local governments from imposing virus restrictions on their own.

The conflicting styles show that, while the emergencies may be ending, the political divide is not — foreshadowing years of competing narratives of the pandemic from two potential presidential candidates in Newsom and Abbott.

Newsom has used his authority to make sure all of California’s local governments had restrictions in place during the pandemic, even threatening to cut funding to some cities that refused to enforce them. While California’s emergency declaration is ending, other local emergencies will remain in place — including in Los Angeles County, home to nearly 10 million people.

The Los Angeles emergency order encourages mask use in some public places like business and trains and for residents who have been exposed to the virus. It will remain in effect for at least another month. Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will debate whether to end the order March 31.

Many public health experts say it makes sense that California’s order is coming to a close.

“Three years ago, if you ... got infected you were rolling the dice about dying,” said Brad Pollock, chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California, Davis. “What’s happened in the three years now is we have vaccines, we have antiviral therapy, we have much more knowledge about how we take care of patients in terms of supportive care. Your risk of dying is a fraction of what it was.”

The Newsom administration’s approach was to issue broad restrictions on what people could do and where they could go. California ended up faring better than other states, but they did worse than some other countries, like Sweden, said Jeffrey Klausner, professor of clinical population and public health sciences at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.

“I think if we had better focused our resources on those most at risk, we probably could have avoided more deaths,” he said.

The pandemic strained California’s health care system, which has yet to fully recover, said Carmela Coyle, president and CEO of the California Hospital Association. She said hospitals remain overwhelmed — not from COVID patients, but from an influx of people returning to the health care system after staying away during the pandemic. She said a majority of California’s hospitals are losing money, prompting fears some could close — just as a community hospital in the state’s Central Valley did in December.

“While the state’s COVID public health emergency is formally concluding, the health care system emergency remains,” Coyle said.

Health care workers have felt the strain, too, working long hours among people infected with a highly contagious and potentially life-threatening disease. The strain has prompted a workforce shortage, with competing proposals to remedy it. The California Hospital Association is asking for a one-time infusion of $1.5 billion to help keep hospitals afloat. Labor unions, meanwhile, are backing a bill that would impose a $25 minimum wage for health care workers.

Meanwhile, local public health departments worry the end of the coronavirus emergency will mean a return to limited funding for their budgets, an issue exposed in the early days of the pandemic when many counties did not have enough people to respond to the crisis. Newsom signed a budget last year that will spend $200 million to help public health departments hire more workers. This year, he’s proposing cutting nearly $50 million in public health workforce training programs, part of his plan to cover a projected budget deficit.

“Public health is dependent on their frontline workforce, and that frontline workforce has to be skilled and trained and educated,” said Michelle Gibbons, president of the County Health Executives Association of California.

Overall, Newsom’s budget proposal would sustain $300 million in public health spending, including $100 million for 404 new positions in the state Department of Public Health, including areas of workforce training and emergency preparedness and response. The money will “modernize state and local public health infrastructure and transition to a resilient public health system,” said H.D. Palmer, spokesperson for the California Department of Finance.
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
After the WSJ report concerning the origins of COVID being from the Wuhan Lab - the MSM must have gotten its marching orders. Look at the these article headlines. I won't post all the articles, I'll post one and the links to the others since they all say the same thing.


(fair use applies)


What the 'lab leak' theory report about COVID's origins does and doesn't mean
MARY KEKATOS - ABC News
Mon, February 27, 2023, 9:18 PM EST

The news that the U.S. Department of Energy now believes with "low confidence" that the COVID-19 pandemic "most likely" was the result of a laboratory leak in China, resulted in a firestorm of debate across the internet.

First reported by The Wall Street Journal and not independently confirmed by ABC News, the DOE, which oversees a system of laboratories in the U.S., changed its stance from undecided -- becoming the second agency, after the FBI, to believe a lab accident resulted in the global health emergency.

Four other U.S. agencies believe the virus was a result of natural transmission and that the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2, jumped from animals to humans at a wet market. Two other agencies are undecided.

"There's just no consensus across the government," John Kirby the National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications told reporters Monday. "The President believes that it is important that we get to the bottom of this."

Without seeing the report that made the DOE reach its conclusion, "it really becomes impossible to speculate," said Dr. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist and chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital, and an ABC News contributor.

"Without it, it's very hard to make any type of judgment on what took place," he said. "And I think, ultimately, all hypotheses remain on the table. While this headline is very attention grabbing, it doesn't really change the game in any significant way."

What we know from the report

The Journal acknowledged that it has not seen the report and relied on the account of people who have read the document.

One of the only details known is that the conclusion was reached with "low confidence."

"The fact is that the Department of Energy changing its position to 'low confidence' means that the amount of evidence in the direction of lab leak or natural spillover is still very limited," Brownstein said.

It also means the DOE is not dismissing the natural transmission theory.

"Academic molecular biologists are of this position, that this was a natural event, just as the other two coronavirus transmissions from wild species to humans were: first SARS, and then MERS," Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist and a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told ABC News.

This is in reference to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which resulted in a global outbreak in 2003 and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which caused an outbreak in 2012. Both are "cousins" of SARS-CoV-2.

"Now, we have these two positions," Schaffner said. "We don't know on what basis this last report came to its conclusion, but I don't think it's going to resolve the issue to the satisfaction of everyone."

What the report doesn't tell us

Because the public hasn't seen the report, it's unclear what evidence caused the DOE to change its mind, where that evidence came from and what the term "lab leak" even means.

Dr. Stuart Ray, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, said when people hear "lab leak," there's a few scenarios they might come up with.

"One is that people imagine that someone in a lab was engineering mutations into a coronavirus genome, and making a bioweapon or something like that, and that it leaked out," he told ABC News. "Others might be thinking that people were collecting specimens from bats or other animals and growing them in the lab and then some of that virus leaked out."

Ray continued, "I can imagine that some people are imagining they were just handling bats and someone in the lab got infected in the lab and then went out. There's a wide range of things that might be meant, but because this report has not been shared, we don't know what they meant by that."

Lab leak and natural transmission?

Experts told ABC News that even if the COVID-19 pandemic did occur as the result of a lab leak, it doesn't mean that natural transmission didn't occur.

In fact, it could mean a hypothetical patient zero was infected at the laboratory before spreading the illness elsewhere.

"You could see them operating in sequence," Schaffner said. "Let's say the lab leak were correct and the virus then began to infect people and some of those persons then went to the wet market."

He continued, "And that wet market then became an amplification location where many, many people were infected, and that then set off the epidemic. That's a possibility."

Why knowing the origins matters

The experts said we may never know the origins of SARS-CoV-2, similarly to how we don't know the origins of other viruses, such as Ebola.

However, knowing the origins can help us determine if biosafety protocols weren't followed so they can be addressed and revised, if necessary.

"I think we want to know that publicly funded research or that all research is done responsibly," Ray said. "And we want to know whether there are dangers associated with this type of research…I think we'd want to know if that is the case. If it turns out that that virology research does pose a risk, then we want to understand those risks and how best to manage them."

Ray also added that research into SARS and MERS helped pharmaceutical companies develop a vaccine, so virology research doesn't necessarily equal dangerous.

Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, told ABC News. He acknowledged there is a scientific and public health benefit to knowing the virus's origins but said the knowledge won't change how the world was disrupted.

"Some people may say that it's important for accountability or reparations of some sort, but, for me, it's already happened, and it shouldn't be an excuse for why we don't need to continue to try to control this as a global community by the tools that we have," he told ABC News.

He also said the real focus should be learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic so we can be better prepared to respond to future epidemics and pandemics.

"You have to be open to the possibility of either situation, but it shouldn't take away from what do we have to do now, which is the continue to make sure that everyone's protected, not only from this, but from future outbreaks and pandemics," Chin-Hong said.



Other articles saying the same thing:

USA Today
U.S. agencies haven't agreed on the origins of COVID-19 virus in wake of controversial report


Yahoo News Senior WH Correspondent
Mystery of COVID-19's origins deepens with new report: What we know


AP News
Coronavirus origins still a mystery 3 years into pandemic
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)


Cardiac Testing at Washington Event Found 53% Myocarditis Rate
Informed Choice WA
February 26, 2023, 09:30 GMT

Advanced Multifunction Cardiogram Test administered at a public event uncovered alarming rate of heart damage lurking beneath the surface.

WENATCHEE, WA, USA, February 26, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Nearly 500 people from Washington, Oregon and Idaho gathered at the Wenatchee Convention Center in Washington State on Saturday, January 28 to hear and share stories of how the unprecedented response to the COVID-19 pandemic impacted their lives. Stories included injuries and deaths from COVID shots and hospital protocols; careers upended and families torn apart by mandates; and numerous harms from closures of schools, businesses and churches.

In addition to giving people a forum to express their loss, the event pointed people toward helpful medical, spiritual, and legal resources.

Heart screening was available and conducted using multifunction cardiogram technology, or MCG, provided by HeartCARE Corp of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and in use since 1995, the MCG represents the most advanced non-invasive cardiac diagnostic method available. Eule Glenn, CEO and co-founder of HeartCARE Corp. explained, "we had the opportunity to perform Multifunction Cardiogram™ screens on a variety of participants and patients. I was surprised to find that over half of those tested (16 of 30 people) had positive markers for myocarditis. Two of these were active duty US Military pilots."

The MCG screening results observed in Wenatchee are consistent with national trends that show rates of myocarditis and death by heart attack have recently skyrocketed compared to pre-pandemic years.

NBA legend John Stockton, co-host of Voices for Medical Freedom podcast, headlined the event and was joined by about two dozen speakers, including other national figures in the medical freedom movement and local citizens who signed up to speak. Included were physicians, nurses, a pharmacist, an attorney, faith leaders, parents, spouses, and grandchildren. Each addressed the event to share their stories and perspectives.

Dr. Richard Amerling, Chief Academic Officer of The Wellness Company, a newly formed private healthcare provider, and Past-President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, spoke remotely of the failures of the centralized corporate health system model he witnessed during the pandemic years.

Todd Callender, Attorney at Law, of Disabled Rights Advocates (https://dradvocates.com) also speaking remotely, summarized his work helping defeat the military COVID vaccine mandates and a program he developed to help private individuals redress their pandemic response harms.

"People came to this event looking for answers, to build community, and to be given a voice because those in government and corporate medicine have refused to listen," said Bill Sullivan, an appointed member of the Chelan-Douglas Board of Health and co-organizer of the Pandemic Response Harms Event, acting in a private capacity. "The honest medical professionals are being silenced by their licensing boards, by media, by the public health apparatus, and by their corporate bosses. If they dare explore any connection between all these strange ailments and the experimental COVID shots, they risk losing their license and their job for purveying what state bureaucrats determine is ‘misinformation’.”

Sullivan’s concern was echoed by several speakers. Repeating a sentiment heard throughout the day, Brian McInnes, a local physician and endurance athlete who was diagnosed with a heart conduction abnormality following COVID vaccination told the crowd, “There are many people like me, as you are hearing, that have experienced adverse health effects after COVID vaccination. And like me, most all of them have had any association of their health problem with the vaccine dismissed.” McInnes went on to say, “My first vaccine dose came from Pfizer Lot Number EK-9231. This lot is ranked number one for all Pfizer batches for adverse reactions, given right here in Wenatchee.” Dr. McInnes continued, “My second vaccine dose came from Pfizer Lot EN-5318. This lot is ranked number four of all lots for adverse reactions. These two vaccine batches alone are associated with a reported 252 deaths and many other illnesses and disabilities. And that’s just the VAERS data which is . . . quite underreported”.

Dr. Amerling spoke at length about how the centralization of modern medicine has interfered with doctors’ ability to act independently in the best interest of their patients. “The hospital protocols were killing patients and are killing patients,” he said of the ubiquitous use of the experimental drug Remdesivir to treat hospitalized COVID patients, “but doctors in these [hospital] systems are forced to give it."

John Stockton, in providing the Keynote presentation, summarized the feelings of many of the people in attendance who have lost confidence in once-trusted institutions.

“When people are wrong all the time, you learn not to listen to them anymore. They say the shots are vaccines; they are not. They say they are safe and effective; they are not. They said Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine were dangerous and ineffective. Also wrong. If your source is wrong all the time – like the CDC, the FDA, the WHO,” Stockton said, “you can’t trust anything they say. . . sometimes technical fouls in a game are so egregious that they need to be thrown out of the game.”

Sullivan hopes this event will inspire similar community-level medical freedom movements organized by regular citizens. “It’s clear that most community leaders are reluctant to engage in conversation of how the failed pandemic response left so many harmed in its wake. Well, if they won’t talk about it, then we will step up and lead the discussion. We’re done with being the silent majority. It’s time to boldly stand up for the truth so that we can finally break the spell of fear and madness gripping our communities for the past three years.”

The Wenatchee COVID-19 Pandemic-Response Harms Conference was organized by the grassroots Truth and Accountability Project Washington and sponsored by InformedChoiceWA.org (ICWA).

Video of the event is available at Pandemic Harms Listening Session - Wenatchee, WA - 28Jan23

TAPWA Conference Organizer
Truth and Accountability Project Washington (TAPWA)
 

Oreally

Right from the start
(fair use applies)


H5N1 Avian Flu News: Researchers Are Concerned That A Lethal Reassortant Strain Involving SARS-CoV-2 And H5N1 Avian Flu Virus Is Likely To Emerge Soon
Thailand Medical News
February 27, 2023

Forget about the more than 20 sub-lineages of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB variant that is predominant in many geolocations across the world as they are unlikely to drive disease severity except those in the vulnerable groups or about the rather isolated incident of a girl dying from the H5N1 Avian Flu virus in Cambodia, rather researchers are warning us that we should be more concerned about a more transmissible and lethal reassortant variant emerging from animals coinfected with both the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the H5N1 Avian Flu virus.

Already it is well known that many animal species have become reservoirs of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the last 3 years including not just deer, racoons, sea mammals but also rabbits, mice etc.


SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Animals: Reservoirs for Reverse Zoonosis and Models for Study



At the same time, in the last 14 months, we have been witnessing that the H5N1 Avian flu virus has not only been wreaking havoc across the world, causing the deaths of millions of wild birds and also the farmed chickens and now also infecting and causing the deaths of mammals in various countries as reported in many H5N1 Avian Flu News coverages.




Both the SARS-CoV-2 and the H5N1 Avian Flu viruses are RNA viruses and it is not impossible for the to ‘recombine’ in an animal host that is coinfected with both the viruses!

The possibility of either virus during a case of a co-infection of both viruses picking up a snippet of genetic material from the other remains high despite claims that such occurrences are unlikely.

In fact, it was earlier claimed that in the case of the Omicron variant, it was speculated that the SARS-CoV-2 could have picked up a snippet of genetic material from an ordinary cold virus.&l t;br /> BREAKING! Preprint Study Suggest That Omicron Might Be A Recombined Virus Containing Bits Of Genetic Material From The Common-Cold Virus! - Thailand Medical News



With both viruses now in circulation in vast amounts and also infecting millions of animals in various countries, it is likely that already co-infections are becoming a rather rampant and along with such high occurrences, the possibility of a reassortant strain emerging is very likely.

In fact, it would be of litel surprise if such strains are already in existence and are only waiting for the right opportune time to jump into humans while these newly emerged strains start evolving for better viral fitness.

The later part of 2023 is already predicted to be a fun time as there are so many possible scenarios that are predicted to materialize as a result of the stupid ways that the current COVID-19 crisis is being mismanaged. There is first a high possibility that a new more lethal SARS-CoV-2 variant is likely to emerge. Then there is also a scenario of a new SARS-CoV strain emerging from a zoonotic source that will be called SARS-CoV-3. There is also the high possibility that by late 2023 we could be having several virus outbreaks or pandemics simultaneously etc.ie Avian Flu, Measles, Small Pox, Marburg, Ebola etc.

Even if the reassortant strain does not emerge naturally, we can be rest assured that the WEF, Gates, DARPA, Pfizer, Moderna, U.S. NIH, Fauci and Obama will come up with some lab version discreetly to help depopulate the world and also profit from the vaccines.

wow...
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)


Wray: FBI ‘For Quite Some Time’ Determined Lab Incident Is ‘Most Likely’ Origin of COVID
Ian Hanchett
28 Feb 2023

During an interview with the Fox News Channel released on Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray publicly confirmed that the FBI assessed that the COVID virus most likely originated from a lab by stating that the agency has, “for quite some time now, assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”

Wray said ... “[T]he FBI has, for quite some time now, assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”

He continued, “Let me step back for a second, the FBI has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologists, etc. who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses like COVID and the concerns that, in the wrong hands, some bad guys, a hostile nation-state, a terrorist, a criminal, the threats that those could pose. So, here, you’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans, and that’s precisely what that capability was designed for. I should add that our work related to this continues, and there are not a whole lot of details I can share that aren’t classified. I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here…and that’s unfortunate for everybody.”

~~~~~~~~~~

Here's a youtube story on the interview:
2 min 23 sec
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSTDBGE5qN4
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)


China must be ‘more honest’ about Covid origins, U.S. ambassador says

Jennifer Jett and Eric Baculinao and Murphy Zhao - NBC News
Tue, February 28, 2023, 11:23 AM EST

HONG KONG — China must be “more honest” about the origins of Covid-19, the U.S. ambassador to China said Monday in remarks that Beijing criticized as politicizing the issue.

Ambassador Nicholas Burns spoke by video link at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event tensions between Washington and Beijing soar over a range of issues, including potential Chinese military support for Russia's war in Ukraine.

The U.S. Energy Department recently concluded with “low confidence” that the virus “likely” began with a laboratory leak in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where it emerged in late 2019. U.S. intelligence agencies are divided in their assessments of the origins of the pandemic, some concluding that it began with natural transmission from an infected animal, while others are undecided.

It was among the issues to be explored by a new House special committee on China, which held its first hearing Tuesday.

Burns listed issues about which, he said, “most Americans” would want the world’s two largest economies to work together, including climate change, food security and public health.

“If we’re going to do something to strengthen the World Health Organization, then we’re going to have to push China to be more active in it and to, of course, be more honest about what happened three years ago in Wuhan with the origin of the Covid-19 crisis,” he said.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Tuesday that China had “always been open and transparent” about Covid-19 and that the U.S. was politicizing the issue.

“As the U.S. ambassador to China, Mr. Burns should do more to improve China-U.S. relations and do more to promote mutual understanding,” the spokesperson, Mao Ning, said at a regular news briefing.

Mao had earlier criticized the Energy Department assessment, as well, pointing to a 2021 report by a WHO mission to Wuhan that found it “extremely unlikely” that the virus originated in a lab. The U.S. and other countries later criticized the report, saying China had withheld data.

Burns said it was “a very difficult moment” in the U.S.-China relationship, citing the downing of a Chinese surveillance balloon by the U.S. military and Washington’s warnings to Beijing not to provide lethal military assistance to Russia in its war against Ukraine.

“We’re now in this surreal moment where the Chinese — who I think lost the debate over the balloon globally, lost influence and credibility around the world because of what they have done — they’re now blaming this on us,” he said.

“It’s a little bit Orwellian, and it’s a little bit frustrating, because I think everybody knows the truth here.”

China says that the balloon was a civilian unstaffed airship that strayed off course conducting meteorological research and that the U.S. overreacted by shooting it down. It denies Washington’s assertion that it is considering providing Russia with weapons, for which U.S. officials have provided no evidence.
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)


Brazilian President And WEF Member Lula Da Silva Pressures Population Into Total COVID Vaccination
by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023 - 01:10 PM

After three years of covid disinformation from governments and globalist institutions, western countries are finally starting to realize that the pandemic event was not much of a pandemic and that the majority of restrictions and mandates involved in the response had nothing to do with public health or safety. The establishment failed to implement vaccine mandates and passports in the west, but that does not mean they have given up on the agenda in other parts of the world. The nation of Brazil has become a prime target for further medical authoritarianism despite the fading mandate efforts in the US and Europe.

While data disproving the majority of covid claims is becoming widespread in North America, there is a fight brewing in South America to dismiss or censor scientific evidence and enforce vaccine requirements anyway. To recap, the "conspiracy theorists" were right about everything.

The lockdown mandates were useless. The mask mandates were useless. The death rate of covid has been exposed as fraudulent, with up to 70% of covid fatalities misdiagnosed by hospitals. The rumors of covid induced heart failure have been debunked. The claims of a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" have been debunked as the majority of covid deaths today are among the vaccinated. Natural immunity has been shown to be far superior to the vaccines. The US government is now essentially admitting that covid most likely came from the Level 4 virology lab in Wuhan, China - The same lab where Anthony Fauci and the NIH funded gain of function research on coronaviruses.

Don't show any of this evidence to Lula Da Silva, the highly controversial convicted criminal president of Brazil - He says it's all "denialism" designed to convince the Brazilian populace to remain unprotected from covid. Silva has made forced vaccination a centerpiece of his presidency, and his latest efforts smell of globalist policy influence.

Today, Lula launched a Covid vaxx campaign... in 2023!‍
"The vaccine is a guarantee of life. That's why I took my fifth vaccine today. And if there is a sixth, I will take the sixth. If there is a seventh, I will take the seventh."
The problem will hopefully solve itself soon. pic.twitter.com/CU2SExD77f
— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) February 27, 2023

Silva has launched a new covid vaccination initiative in 2023, thee years after the covid outbreak and more than a year after most other nations gave up trying to pressure the citizenry to comply. The oddity of it is rooted in Brazil's existing vaccine rate - According to "official data" Brazil already has an 80% vaccinated population. If this is true, why is Silva still trying to force the other 20% into compliance? In pure public health terms, Brazil has already achieved herd immunity (if the vaccines were actually effective as claimed). It would appear another motive is afoot.

Lula is a long time favorite associate of the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab. Lula has attended the WEF for at least 20 years, and the think-tank gave him a "Global Statesman Award" in 2010. The WEF has stated on numerous occasions that "vaccinating the entire world" using mRNA covid products is their goal.

The WEF member was convicted on corruption charges in 2018 and was supposed to serve a 12 year sentence. However, magically, the Brazilian Supreme Court reversed the prison sentence less than two years later. A coordinated corporate media campaign designed to clean up Silva's image was then enacted so that he could run for president yet again. Silva claimed victory in the 2022 elections, though at least half of Brazil argues that the elections were rigged.

Ever since, Silva has made it his mission to vaccinate the whole of Brazil, using such measures as restricting access to welfare benefits for anyone that does not stay up-to-date on their boosters and parents that refuse to vaccinate their children.

Silva's go-to narrative is to shame Brazilians into submitting to the vaccine by suggesting they are putting their children and relatives at risk. He claims that the vaccine is the "only guarantee of life." All the scientific evidence says otherwise. With covid's official median Infection Fatality Rate at 0.23% (even less when taking false positive deaths into account) covid is a non-issue for 99.8% of the public. But if the goal is to test how far the population can be pushed to accept globalist covid rules, then evidence will not mean much.
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)


Scientists find human antibodies that can block multiple coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-2
by The Scripps Research Institute
March 1, 2023


scientists-find-human.jpg

Detailed structural imagery of public bnAbs and where they bind to SARS-CoV-2 (green helix) and MERS-CoV (orange helix). These bnAbs recognize the S2 region of the viral spike protein, which is relatively conserved and could lead to the development of a broad coronavirus vaccine and related antibody therapies. Credit: The Scripps Research Institute

A team of scientists from Scripps Research and the University of North Carolina (UNC) has found antibodies in the blood of certain COVID-19 donors that can block infection from a broad set of coronaviruses—specifically, in people who have recovered from the virus and were then vaccinated. They found this includes not only the COVID-19-causing SARS-CoV-2, but also SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV.

The scientists' detailed study of the antibodies and their virus binding sites, reported on February 15, 2023, in the journal Immunity, could lead to the development of a broad coronavirus vaccine and related antibody therapeutics. Both could be used against future coronavirus pandemics as well as any future variants of SARS-CoV-2.

"We show here that there are individual human monoclonal antibodies that can be found that protect against all three recent deadly coronaviruses: SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV," says study co-senior author Raiees Andrabi, Ph.D., institute investigator in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research.

The other Scripps Research co-senior authors were Dennis Burton, Ph.D., professor and James and Jessie Minor Chair of the Department of Immunology and Microbiology, and Ian Wilson, Ph.D., Hansen Professor of Structural Biology and chair of the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology. The co-senior authors from UNC were professor Ralph Baric, Ph.D., and assistant professor Lisa Gralinski, Ph.D.

SARS-CoV-2, along with SARS-CoV-1 (the cause of the 2002-04 SARS outbreak) and MERS-CoV (the cause of deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), belong to a broad grouping of coronaviruses known as betacoronaviruses. These viruses mutate at a modestly high rate, creating a significant challenge for the development of vaccines and antibody therapies against them. Thus, in the case of SARS-CoV-2, although existing vaccines have been very helpful in limiting the toll of disease and death from the pandemic, new SARS-CoV-2 variants have emerged that can spread even among vaccine recipients.

Over the past two years, however, the Andrabi/Burton and Wilson laboratories have been finding evidence that SARS-CoV-2 and other betacoronaviruses have a vulnerable site that does not mutate much. This site, which is in the S2 region (or base) of the viral spike protein, is relatively conserved on betacoronaviruses that infect a variety of animal species. By contrast, current SARS-CoV-2 vaccines mainly target the viral spike protein's relatively mutable S1 region, with which the virus binds to host-cell receptors.

The S2 site plays a key role in how betacoronaviruses progress from receptor-binding to the membrane fusion that enables entry into host cells in the respiratory tract. In a study reported last year, the Andrabi/Burton and Wilson laboratories found that some human antibodies can bind to this site on SARS-CoV-2 in a way that apparently disrupts viral fusion and blocks infection. The existence of such a vulnerable site raises the possibility of targeting it to provide both long-lasting and broad protection against betacoronaviruses. Therefore, the researchers, for the new study, made a more comprehensive search for anti-S2 antibodies in blood samples from human volunteers.

These volunteers were individuals who had recovered from COVID-19, had been vaccinated, or had recovered from COVID-19 and then had been vaccinated. Somewhat to the researchers' surprise, they found that antibodies to the vulnerable S2 site were present in the vast majority of volunteers in the latter group—people who had recovered from COVID-19 and then had been vaccinated—but at a much lower frequency in the others. Overall, the researchers identified and characterized 32 of these S2-targeting antibodies.

In lab virus neutralization studies and in virus-challenge studies with mice at UNC, the researchers found that several of these antibodies provide protection of unprecedented breadth— not only against SARS-CoV-2 but also SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV betacoronaviruses.

"In principle, a vaccination strategy that can induce such antibodies is likely to provide broad protection against a diverse spectrum of betacoronaviruses," says Burton.

Structural studies of several of the antibodies when bound to S2 illuminated their common binding sites and modes of binding, providing key information that should aid the development of future vaccines targeting this region.

"Targeted rational vaccine strategies could take advantage of this molecular information of the interactions of these antibodies with the S2 domain to inform the design of pan-betacoronavirus vaccines" says Wilson.

Indeed, the researchers have already applied their findings to the initial design and testing of a potential "pan-betacoronavirus" vaccine candidate, which if successful could be stockpiled to limit future pandemics. The investigators also envision a therapeutic mix of different S2-targeting antibodies, perhaps as a cocktail with antibodies to other spike regions, that could be taken to prevent infection by a novel betacoronavirus or to reduce disease in those already infected.
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)


Revolutionary Testing Method Diagnoses COVID-19 With Near-Perfect Accuracy
By Simons Foundation
March 1, 2023

By monitoring the body’s molecular response to a viral attack, the new method developed by Flatiron Institute researchers and their colleagues can diagnose even asymptomatic patients with 98.4 percent accuracy.

By inspecting the body’s immune response at a molecular level, a research team has developed a new way to test patients for COVID-19. Their method can potentially catch infections a matter of hours after exposure — far earlier than current COVID-19 tests can detect the virus — with near-perfect accuracy. The team describes their innovation, which is still in the early stages of development, in the February 27 issue of the journal Cell Reports Methods.

Most existing COVID-19 tests “rely on the same principle, which is that you have accumulated a detectable amount of viral material, for example, in your nose,” says study lead author Frank Zhang, who worked on the project as a Flatiron research fellow at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Biology (CCB) in New York City. “That poses a challenge when it’s early in the infection time window and you haven’t accumulated a lot of viral material, or you’re asymptomatic.”

The new technique is instead based on how our bodies mount an immune response when invaded by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. When the assault starts, specific genes turn on. Segments of those genes produce mRNA molecules that guide the building of proteins. The particular blend of those mRNA molecules changes the types of proteins produced, including proteins involved in virus-fighting functions. The new method can confidently identify when the body is mounting an immune response to the COVID-19 virus by measuring the relative abundance of the various mRNA molecules. The new study is the first to use such an approach to diagnose an infectious disease.

The researchers tuned their method using blood samples from a 2020 study of U.S. Marine recruits taken before and after the participants caught COVID-19. The researchers’ computational framework identified more than 1,000 disease-associated mRNA-variant ratio changes.

When put to the test using real-world blood samples, the new method yielded an impressive 98.4 percent accuracy rating. That’s especially impressive as the approach works just as well on asymptomatic patients, for whom rapid antigen tests can be less than 60 percent accurate. “It was really surprising that it worked so well,” says Zhang, now an assistant professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “It’s a promising alternative and complementary approach to conventional PCR tests.”

The new approach isn’t ready for prime time yet, Zhang says. He and his colleagues only tested blood samples rather than the nasal samples that are more common and convenient for diagnosing COVID-19. Also, they need to make sure they can distinguish between the body’s reaction to COVID-19 and its response to infections caused by other viruses, such as colds.

The researchers say they’re optimistic, though, as other research groups have already made progress on tests that look solely at which genes turn on. Those same tests could easily add the mRNA analysis developed in the new study, thereby producing even better results, Zhang says. “Anything they can do, we can probably explore and join forces on,” including catching cases within hours of initial exposure.

Reference: “Blood RNA alternative splicing events as diagnostic biomarkers for infectious disease” by Zijun Zhang, Natalie Sauerwald, Antonio Cappuccio, Irene Ramos, Venugopalan D. Nair, German Nudelman, Elena Zaslavsky, Yongchao Ge, Angelo Gaitas, Hui Ren, Joel Brockman, Jennifer Geis, Naveen Ramalingam, David King, Micah T. McClain, Christopher W. Woods, Ricardo Henao, Thomas W. Burke, Ephraim L. Tsalik, Carl W. Goforth, Rhonda A. Lizewski, Stephen E. Lizewski, Dawn L. Weir, Andrew G. Letizia, Stuart C. Sealfon and Olga G. Troyanskaya, 12 January 2023, Cell Reports Methods.
DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100395

Zhang worked on the computational aspects of the project along with CCB research fellow Natalie Sauerwald and CCB deputy director for genomics Olga Troyanskaya. Stuart Sealfon of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City led the work on the study’s biological components, with Standard BioTools in San Francisco developing the testing setup.
 
Nix on the tamiflu. Doesn’t work, dangerous.
Elderberry and IVM better.
 

ktrapper

Veteran Member
Me and husband both had covid twice in 4 months. Was very sick! Now we are both having major health issues. Anyone else experiencing this too? No vax here btw. Pure bloods.
So sorry to hear this. I had it twice with in a year. Very mild for me. I took daily dosing of IVM and nebulized colloidal silver for the lungs. Since the covid I have issues with my bp getting elevated at times. Could be work related stress and or age related. Magnesium supplements and daily ACV( apple cider vinegar) keep it under control but other than that I am ok. I have wondered if Covid had anything to do with it.
 

ktrapper

Veteran Member

independentsentinel
Home Home of News, Politics & Opinion One State Will Make It illegal for Vaccinated Donors to Give Blood
Home of News, Politics & OpinionThe Latest in News & Opinion
One State Will Make It illegal for Vaccinated Donors to Give Blood
By M Dowling - March 2, 2023 55

With 80% of the blood supply coming from vaccinated donors, Montana wants to make it illegal for them to give blood.

There is a scientific reason for it.



Blood donors could be undafe
Vaccinated people carry spike proteins

If you need a blood transfusion at some time, the blood you get will likely contain a significant amount of spike protein from mRNA vaccines.

According to an executive from Vitalant, the largest nonprofit blood bank in the United States, as much as 80% of the blood supply is from vaccinated donors.


Montana’s bill would ban donors who have received the mRNA vaccines from giving blood. House Bill 645 would make it a misdemeanor punishable with a $500 fine to donate or accept blood from vaccinated donors.

Long-Covid Donors are not safe.

Additionally, the bill would ban people diagnosed with “Long covid-19” from giving blood. Long-Covid is “post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 due to chronic 27 SARS-CoV-2 viral infection.” They are actively infected and have been shedding the virus for years now.


Check out the study on this link showing persistent SARS-CoV-2 spike in the blood of people with long-COVID. There are other studies of Long COVID and the problem of post-viral persistence. They suffer from handicapping symptoms. Virus reactivation is one of them.

Preprint study detailing the T cell and antibody response.
An article detailing several studies focusing on the immune dysfunction and inflammation in Long-COVID.
The Safe Blood blood bank for donors and receivers

In two previous articles, we wrote about the search for safe blood. There is a blood bank called safe blood that can help you. The Safe Blood website is here.


Related
‘SafeBlood’ Sets Up Blood Banks for the Unvaccinated
November 25, 2022
In "Columns"
Kim Iversen Left the Hill “Rising” Over Fauci Interview
August 19, 2022
In "Columns"
The Sad Story of Baby Alex, Blood Clots, and Vaccinated Blood
December 16, 2022
In "Home of News, Politics & Opinion"



Previous article
Here Are the Sensitivity Readers Cleansing the Classics
Next article
More Than a Dozen Whistleblowers with Information on Hunter’s Alleged Criminal Activity

We can be reached at sara@independentsentinel.com
FOLLOW US

© 2016 www.independentsentinel.com. All Rights Reserved.
 

Rizzo gal

Senior Member
I was in the hospital and almost died in November. Had urosepsis. I’ve read covid damages the kidneys. I’ve been having issues with falling and balance. Smell and taste is still gone. Husbands having some issues. He goes in hospital March 9 for a bone marrow biopsy. His red, white, platelets, and hemoglobin are all dangerously low. I have to say I’m scared to death. Been with him since I was 17. Been married 49 years. Please keep us in your prayers. Appreciate it.
 
Last edited:

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
I was in the hospital and almost died in November. Had urosepsis. I’ve read covid damages the kidneys. I’ve been having issues with falling and balance. Smell and taste is still gone. Husbands having some issues. He goes in hospital March 9 for a bone marrow biopsy. His red, white, platelets, and hemoglobin are all dangerously low. I have to say I’m scared to death. Been with him since I was 17. Been married 49 years. Please keep us in your prayers. Appreciate it.
I'm so sorry you are both going through this. I am adding both of you to my prayers. Please keep us updated on what he finds out.

There are some antivaxx doctors who work with covid patients using telehealth - have you looked into any of them? I haven't really looked into them so can't make a recommendation but you may be able to find some info on this thread or via google. Maybe they can help you?

HD
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)


COVID call centers and testing sites close in further sign US is moving past the pandemic
MARY KEKATOS - ABC News
Thu, March 2, 2023, 12:32 PM EST

COVID-19 call centers and testing sites are closing across the United States as more Americans look to move on from the pandemic and with the emergency declaration set to end in May.

In Rockland County, New York -- just north of New York City -- the call center closed Tuesday after three years in operation.

The center was launched in early March 2020 after the county's health department became inundated with telephone calls from people asking questions about the virus. According to a press release, the center received 19,163 calls during its operation and provided residents and businesses with information about COVID-19 guidance, testing sites, testing results and how to schedule vaccination appointments.

"I commend our staff for their tireless efforts to assist the community during this global pandemic," said county health commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel in a statement. "As the number of COVID-19-related calls continues to decrease, the health department is able to reallocate personnel to other critical health work."

In nearby Massachusetts, the state's department of public health announced Monday it is shutting down its remaining free PCR testing sites, which were known as "Stop the Spread" sites, at the end of March.

UMass Memorial Health, which runs one of the sites in Worcester -- located in central Massachusetts -- cited "less demand for COVID-19 testing" as the reason behind the health department's decision.

Drive-thru testing sites are also coming to an end. Carilion Clinic, a health system based in Roanoke, Virginia, closed its drive-thru testing sites on Wednesday.

According to a press release, the sites completed more than 340,000 tests over the course of three years and saw staff members often working from 5 a.m. until 11 p.m.

Kim Roe, vice president of family and community medicine, said testing personnel "truly worked tirelessly these past three years; their work was invaluable in keeping our workplace and communities safe."

"A closure is an odd thing to celebrate, but this is a moment to recognize all that was accomplished as we transition into the endemic stage of this virus," her statement continued.

It comes as several COVID data trackers also shut down, including Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center, one of the first to launch in early 2020 and a vital source that filled in information gaps.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services also shut down its data website last month but has kept the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's dashboard running.

According to the CDC, COVID-19 cases have been declining for several weeks. During the week of Feb. 22 -- the latest date for which data is available -- a total of 236,131 cases were recorded in the U.S., a 48.2% decline from the 455,866 cases recorded the week of Jan. 11.

Hospitalizations and deaths, both of which are traditionally lagging indicators, have also been trending downward. Over the same period, weekly deaths have fallen from 4,448 to 2,407, according to CDC data.

The data also shows the seven-day average of hospitalizations declined from 39,837 on Jan. 11 to 22,766 on Feb. 22.
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)


Pfizer Confirms It Ended COVID-19 Vaccine Pregnancy Trial Early
by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Mar 02, 2023 - 06:30 AM

Authored by Zachary Steiber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Pfizer has confirmed it stopped its clinical trial analyzing COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy in pregnant women early.

The company said that enrollment in the study stopped in the fourth quarter of 2021 after health experts, including the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, began recommending the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for pregnant women.

With the declining enrollment, the study had insufficient sample size to assess the primary immunogenicity objective and continuation of this placebo controlled study could no longer be justified due to global recommendations,” Pfizer told journalist Maryanne Demasi.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency both agreed to the proposal to halt the study, according to Pfizer. The regulatory agencies did not respond to requests for comment.

An internal email, disclosed in a court case, previously indicated Pfizer had stopped enrollment early.

“The study enrolment was stopped with incomplete numbers because recruitment was slow and it became unreasonable/inappropriate to randomise pregnant women to placebo given the amount of observational evidence that the vaccine is safe and effective, coupled with increasing number of technical committees supporting immunization of pregnant women,” Jelena Vojicic, vaccines medical lead at Pfizer Canada, wrote in the 2022 email.

The randomized, placebo-controlled study in question was launched in early 2021 after pregnant women were excluded from the phase three trial that led to the authorization of the vaccine in the United States and a number of other countries.

Pfizer and BioNTech said they expected to enroll some 4,000 pregnant women but actually enrolled just 349, according to the trial record. Some of the participants were to receive a vaccine while others would receive a placebo, according to the original protocol. Women were expected to be studied for seven to 10 months.

The trial was listed as completed on Aug. 23, 2022, but no results have been released yet.

Pfizer told Demasi that it still does not have “a complete data set” from the study and did not say when it expected to receive it. Pfizer said it and BioNTech plan to complete an analysis of the trial “and seek publication or presentation as is our standard practice.”

Pfizer officials told CDC advisers in September 2022 that the study was completed.

“We will be generating data from that study despite the difficulties in enrollment … due to the wide recommendations for pregnant women to be vaccinated, but we will generate those data for sure,” Nicholas Kitchen, a senior Pfizer vaccine official, told the panel.

Pfizer did not respond to requests for more information.

Read more here...
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
(fair use applies)


Xylitol Nasal Spray Prevents SARS-CoV-2 Infection; Balmforth et al. studied a xylitol-based nasal spray known to have anti-infective & anti-inflammatory properties and is used in XLEAR nasal sprays
They found significant benefit in this xylitol-based nasal spray in preventing COVID infection; Dr. McCullough has written about this in the past in his substack

Dr. Paul Alexander
3 hr ago

Researchers conducted a randomized control trial looking at the efficacy of a nasal spray against SARS-CoV-2.

The nasal spray (xylitol-based) combined various natural viricidal agents with mechanisms that would work to prevent viral entry.

Researchers found that the nasal spray significantly reduced the infection rate from 34.5% to 13.1% whereby far less patients were symptomatic in the test group (7.6% vs 34.6%; p < 0.0001).

Researchers reported no serious adverse events either trial arm (group) of the study.

SOURCE:


‘a multi-centre, prospective, double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Key eligibility criteria included absence of significant co-morbidity and no previous SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccination. Participants were randomised to either the active agent nasal spray or placebo using computer generated random number tables. The nasal spray was administered 3 times daily over a 45 day course. The primary end point was the percentage of subjects who tested positive for IgGS (anti-spike, immunoglobulin G specific to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2) at day 45.’

‘Researchers have demonstrated that SARS-CoV-2 can enter host cells via an acidic pH-dependant pathway [5], [6], [7]. Facilitation of SARS-CoV-2 entry into host cells is mediated through a structural protein, the spike (S) protein, which interacts with the Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE-2) receptors present on the surface of these host cells [7]. In addition to ACE-2 receptors, key target-cell proteases such as furin [8], [9], [10], TMPRSS2 [5,11] and cathepsin L [12,13] are utilized by the virus and studies have provided further insight into the SARS-CoV-2 entry pathway. This study reports the development of a prophylactic nasal spray targeted to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that is simple to produce and easily affordable.’

Key findings:

‘Results Between 16th April 2021 and 26th July 2021, 556 participants were analysed for the primary endpoint (275 Test; 281 Placebo). The test agent significantly reduced SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to placebo [36 cases (13.1%) Vs 97 cases (34.5%); OR 0.29 (95% CI; 0.18–0.45), p < 0.0001]. Fewer clinical symptoms were also seen in the test group [57 cases (17.6%) vs 112 cases (34.6%); OR 0.40, (95% CI; 0.27–0.59), p < 0.0001]. No harmful effects were associated with taking the test agent.’
 
Top