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There are very few Covid related articles today. It's very quiet out there, even the medical pages have no new articles. I'm not sure what to make of it. I'm not cutting back on the articles I'm posting, there just aren't any articles to post....





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White House Asks For Another $20 Billion In COVID Money To Stop Winter Wave
by Tyler Durden
Monday, May 09, 2022 - 09:00 AM

Here we go again.

Just when the world (or rather, the US) was finally coming around to the notion that the COVID pandemic might be over, the White House has offered the latest reminder that this is simply not the case. As COVID cases surge in the US, White House COVID response coordinator Ashish Jha said Sunday morning that the Biden Administration will need to authorize another $20 billion+ in COVID spending to pay for the next round of shots needed to stop another brutal winter wave later this year.

Specifically, Jha called on Congress to approve $22.5 billion, a number that will help the federal government replenish its dwindling vaccine supply. If it doesn't the US "is going to run out of treatments...we're going to run out of testing."

Fortunately, at-home tests are available at most pharmacies in the US these days.

If Congress does not approve the White House’s request for an additional $22.5 billion in COVID emergency aid, Dr. Ashish Jha warns that U.S. is "going to run out of treatments, we’re going to run out of testing.” ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News, Headlines & Videos pic.twitter.com/fm75VyjPtP
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 8, 2022

This would imply that the FDA will approve a fourth shot for all Americans (not just the eligible elderly) by the time the winter rolls around, as the general population's immunity begins to wane.

With enough resources to get more people vaccinated and more therapeutics in place, he said, "I do think we can get through this winter without a lot of suffering and death."

Jha cited the Northeastern US, a region with among the highest vaccination rates, as an example of how vaccines can lower the rate of hospitalizations and deaths.

US COVID deaths in the US are slated to pass 1 million as soon as this week (although as we have explained, it's unclear how many of these deaths were actually caused by COVID, as opposed to another co-occurring illness. It's worth noting that the CDC recently revised its figures for COVID deaths among children).
 

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US Regulators Prepared to Clear COVID-19 Vaccine for Young Children Despite Substandard Efficacy: Lawmaker
By Zachary Stieber
May 9, 2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will not enforce an effectiveness standard when considering whether to authorize one or more COVID-19 vaccines for young children, a top member of Congress said.

Dr. Peter Marks, head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said during a recent briefing that the FDA “would not withhold authorization for a pediatric vaccine solely because it did not reach a 50 percent efficacy threshold at blocking symptomatic infection—a requirement that had been previously listed in FDA guidance,” Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, said in a summary of the briefing released on May 9.

Moderna in April asked the FDA for emergency use authorization for its vaccine for children as young as 6 months old, even though a clinical trial concluded its efficacy in preventing infection was below 50 percent.

In 2020, the FDA suggested it would only authorize COVID-19 vaccines that were 50 percent or more effective. But the agency later provided a loophole for the vaccines for children, saying efficacy “may be inferred” through immunobridging.
The technique features comparing the immune response triggered by a vaccine to the response seen in populations for whom the shot is already cleared.

All three of the vaccines available in the United States have performed much worse against infection over time, particularly since the Omicron variant of the CCP virus emerged in late 2021.

The primary vaccination regimen of the shots provides little protection below the 50 percent threshold for adults, according to the latest data.

Based on that, many experts have expressed concern about authorizing a vaccine for children, a population that is at little risk of contracting severe illness from the virus.

But in the new briefing, Marks said the FDA will likely authorize the vaccines for young children.

“If these vaccines seem to be mirroring efficacy in adults and just seem to be less effective against Omicron like they are for adults, we will probably still authorize,” Marks was quoted as saying by Clyburn. “The goal here is to get some protection in sooner rather than later.”

The FDA, which didn’t respond to a request for comment, is scheduled to consult its expert advisory panel on the matter in June.

Barbara Loe Fisher, president and co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center, said the bar the FDA set was already low.

“The FDA apparently knew from the beginning of the COVID-19 vaccine development process that the vaccines would not provide sterilizing immunity, which is why the bar for proving efficacy was set at a low 50 percent for preventing severe COVID symptoms rather than preventing infection,” she told The Epoch Times in an email.

Noting that most infections in children trigger few or no symptoms, she said that “lowering the bar for proving efficacy even further will compromise the promised benefits of the COVID vaccine for children when weighed against potential risks.”
 

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China Tightens Covid Noose as Shanghai, Beijing Cases Linger
Bloomberg News
May 9, 2022, 8:05 PM EDT Updated on May 10, 2022, 3:03 AM EDT
  • Quiet periods, expanded isolation and home disinfection begins
  • Stricter policies started to squeeze out lingering infections
China is tightening pandemic restrictions in Shanghai and expanding a mass testing sweep in Beijing as officials chase the elusive goal of wiping out Covid-19 cases in the community.

The country reported 3,426 new infections for Monday, the lowest daily tally since March 16. Cases in Shanghai, where the biggest outbreak remains underway, fell to a six week low of 3,014 after peaking at more than 27,000 a day in mid-April. In Beijing, new infections rose to 74, though they have yet to exceed 100-a-day in the current flare-up.

Despite the low numbers, authorities are ramping up curbs. Some Shanghai neighborhoods have announced “quiet periods,” where residents aren’t allowed to go outside and deliveries are curbed, while more people are being shipped off to government-run isolation centers under a new definition of what it means to be a close contact. In Beijing, areas beyond the biggest district Chaoyang are instituting rounds of mass testing with schools in the capital to remain shut.

The moves underscore the lengths officials will go to for a virus strategy that is leaving China isolated and out of step with the rest of the world, where Covid is now widespread. The country is trying to eliminate the last vestiges of Covid in their cities, and the tighter restrictions and stepped-up moves suggest the lockdowns that have confined millions of residents to their homes for more than a month won’t be eased soon.

Authorities expanded the criteria for close contacts in Shanghai, with people living in the same building as a positive Covid case at risk of being removed to government-run isolation facilities if they have regular daily interactions. Previously, people thought only those living in the same apartment or the same floor as positive cases would likely be considered close contacts and put in official quarantine.

A brigade of hundreds of volunteers dressed head-to-toe in protective gear are disinfecting the apartments of those who test positive, as well as the homes of neighbors who share kitchens or bathrooms, to further control the virus, officials said. Meanwhile, the last two subway lines in operation were suspended, according to The Paper.

Across the country, plunging subway travel - down 22% from a week earlier in 11 large cities - and home sales declines of more than 50% compared to a year earlier show the economic turmoil the measures are causing.

Uncertainties persist around Beijing’s virus situation, local health official Pang Xinghuo said at a Monday briefing. All regions in Chaoyang, Shunyi, Fangshan and other neighborhoods that found cases in the past seven days will conduct three rounds of mass Covid tests starting Tuesday, according to information shared at the press conference.

Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan on Monday reiterated the country’s adherence to Covid Zero, saying outbreaks should be stamped out as soon as they are detected, Xinhua reported. She urged the importance of early warning, and stressed the availability of PCR tests within 15 minutes’ walk in big cities.

China’s Covid Zero policy requires all cases and their close contacts to be isolated in government facilities as a way of snuffing out transmission. The strategy was effective at quashing Covid early on in the pandemic, but is being challenged by more transmissible variants like omicron.

The country’s ongoing pursuit of the strategy is leaving it increasingly isolated, with other parts of the world dismantling pandemic curbs and living alongside the virus, making the scenes in China all the more stark.

— With assistance by Peter Vercoe, Daniela Wei, and Claire Che

(Adds subway closings in Shanghai and home sales drops in sixth and seventh paragraphs)
 

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More than 1,000 adults hospitalized with COVID-19 in Florida for 1st time since March
Uptick comes as White House warns that 100 million people could get COVID-19 this fall
Lauren Verno, Consumer investigative reporter
Published: May 9, 2022, 4:34 PM Updated: May 9, 2022, 6:59 PM

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Florida has above 1,000 adults hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 for the first time since March, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data.

HHS reported Monday that there were 1,052 adults hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 in Florida. The last time there were more than 1,000 was March 22 when there were 1,001.

It’s worth noting that the data does not detail whether those patients were hospitalized for COVID-19 or whether they were admitted with COVID-19 but hospitalized for something else.

The slight uptick in COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida comes as the White House warns that 100 million people could get sick with COVID-19 in the fall.

It seems the prediction is part of a bigger pitch to persuade lawmakers to provide more funding for vaccines, testing, and treatment. If more funding is not secured, the White House says, supplies of antivirals and tests could run out by summer -- which, in return, could lead to millions of new infections.

The prediction also comes as the U.S. nears 1 million COVID-19 deaths.

“The main message for everyone is, if you’re staying up to date with your vaccine and boosters for the COVID-19 vaccine, you are going to be just fine,” said Chad Neilsen, UF Health Jacksonville director of infection prevention.

But Neilsen says it’s important to remember COVID-19 has not gone away.

”Jacksonville itself has an almost 9% positivity rate, which is about triple where it was just a couple months ago. We are seeing cases steadily rise, but it’s not driving hospitalizations because there’s so much immunity out there in the public, but that immunity we know will wane, which is why boosters are important,” Neilsen said. “Like the flu vaccine, we could see waves of this, but you won’t be as harshly affected if you’re vaccinated.”

That’s why a wave of new infections come fall is not out of the question but, in the end, only a prediction at this point.

Neilsen says it’s also important to remember this is only a prediction based on the variants currently out there.
 

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Coronavirus in Oregon: Weekly cases climb 30%, again
By Fedor Zarkhin | The Oregonian/OregonLive
Published: May. 09, 2022, 5:37 p.m.

Oregon health officials reported 9,046 new coronavirus cases last week, 31% more than the week prior, indicating the current COVID-19 bump is still on the upswing.

The three Portland metro counties are now in the federal government’s “medium” COVID-19 risk category, which is based on cases and hospitalizations. So are Columbia, Benton, Deschutes and Malheur counties. People at risk of severe illness in those counties should talk with a doctor about whether they should wear a mask or take other steps to protect themselves, according to federal guidance.

Cases have been climbing in Oregon for six consecutive weeks, fueled by the contagious BA.2 subvariant, a return to pre-pandemic activities and the lifting of mask restrictions. But cases remain just a fraction of the weekly records set in January.

Hospitalizations are rising more slowly, with nearly 200 people with COVID-19 occupying hospital beds in Oregon on Monday, up 18% from one week ago. If current trends continue, hospitalizations are expected to peak within about a month at 320 occupied beds, according to the latest Oregon Health & Science University analysis. That’s also far below levels seen in January.

At least one Portland school has felt the impact of growing cases, with the Lincoln High School principal citing “multiple” outbreaks in an email Saturday and asking students to wear masks and get tested.

Nearly 100 students at the school have isolated in the last week, according to the Portland Public Schools COVID-19 dashboard. And that could be an undercount, given students aren’t necessarily informing the school if they test positive with an at-home test, a spokesperson for the district previously said.

Since it began: Oregon has reported 732,382 confirmed or presumed infections and 7,541 deaths

Where the newest cases are by county: Baker (9), Benton (215), Clackamas (1,178), Clatsop (69), Columbia (122), Coos (46), Crook (43), Curry (11), Deschutes (531), Douglas (65), Grant (4), Harney (5), Hood River (33), Jackson (226), Jefferson (27), Josephine (85), Klamath (48), Lake (4), Lane (731), Lincoln (57), Linn (233), Malheur (6), Marion (534), Morrow (9), Multnomah (2,619), Polk (147), Sherman (1), Tillamook (53), Umatilla (66), Union (16), Wallowa (2), Wasco (18), Washington (1,652) and Yamhill (181).

Hospitalizations: 199 people with confirmed coronavirus infections are hospitalized, up 31 since Monday, May 2. That includes 25 people in intensive care, down four since May 2.

Vaccinations: As of May 2, the state has reported fully vaccinating 2,903,408 people (68% of the population), partially vaccinating 289,039 people (6.8%) and boosting 1,618,411 (37.9%).

New deaths: Since May 2, the Oregon Health Authority has reported 36 additional deaths connected to COVID-19.

— Fedor Zarkhin
 

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COVID-19 cases rising across Virginia and Richmond area
by: Tannock Blair
Posted: May 9, 2022 / 01:34 PM EDT Updated: May 9, 2022 / 01:34 PM EDT

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Over the course of the pandemic, Virginia has had an estimated total of 1.7 million cases and over 20,000 deaths.

But unlike the years before it, 2022 brought with it some hope. The omicron spike hit during January but Virginia recovered over February with cases hitting record lows in March.

However, VDH data could be pointing towards another spike on the horizon. At the beginning of April, Virginia COVID-19 cases were at a record low; with less than 700 cases in the 7-day average on April 1.

Over the course of April, COVID-19 cases rose to the highest they have been since February. Virginia’s 7-day average as of today is 2,264 cases; over a 300% increase from the beginning of the month. And that number is increasing every day.

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Data from localities in the greater Richmond area are telling similar stories.

Following the January spike, Chesterfield cases fluctuated at a steady rate — going as low as 29.3 cases in its 7-day average. However, cases began to steadily increase on April 12 and as of today are sitting at 126.4; over a 400% increase.

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(Courtesy of Virginia Department of Health)

The increase in Henrico cases is more troubling. Cases started increasing earlier than in most other districts in Virginia — starting in early April. The 7-day average of cases has jumped from 26 at the beginning of the month to 142.1 cases today; over a 500% increase.

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(Courtesy of Virginia Department of Health)

In spite of these increases in the surrounding counties, Richmond is perhaps only in the early stages of a spike. Similar to Henrico, the district experienced a bump in cases in the first half of April but mostly recovered. However, cases are climbing once again. The 7-day average today was 60.3 cases, up from the low 20s at the beginning of the month; about a 300% increase.

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(Courtesy of Virginia Department of Health)

The increase in COVID cases across Central Virginia is not entirely surprising; last week, 8News reported on the possibility of new variants such as the omicron subvariant, BA.2, making predictions difficult.

At this point and time officials seem reluctant to reintroduce safety measures to prevent further spread of the virus; Virginia’s new health commissioner said in April that he doesn’t envision indoor mask mandates returning anytime soon, for example.

The high vaccination rates for Virginia remain the silver lining in this data; the Commonwealth holds one of the highest rates in the entire country with 73.4% of the state reportedly fully vaccinated. By comparison, the national vaccination rate is 66.3% as of today.
 

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THE VANDEN BOSSCHE WARNING
The HighWire with Del Bigtree
1 hr 55 min
Published May 6, 2022

Acclaimed vaccinologist, Geert Vanden Bossche, sits down for his second groundbreaking interview with Del to explain why the intense pressure mass vaccination is putting on the Covid-19 virus will likely drive it to become catastrophically deadly.
Bump for the importance of the interview. This will let you know what to expect on the other side of the coming storm. If he's right, and so far he's been accurate, hang on.
 

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Bump for the importance of the interview. This will let you know what to expect on the other side of the coming storm. If he's right, and so far he's been accurate, hang on.

I’m over half way through but need a break lol.
This guy is good!!!

He's been right since this whole thing started, but I hope and pray he's wrong this time. Since watching that video I process Covid news through a different lens, I now see how well it fits it into the "geert" theory, step by step as it starts to play out. For instance, this article about Steven Colbert. Not a fan, to put it mildly, so not interested in the story from that angle, this could be a story about anyone and it would get the same reaction after watching Geert - you read it and you think 'oh, no, please don't let it be so'

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Stephen Colbert Catches COVID For Second Time in the Space of 3 Weeks After Thanking Vaccine Efficacy
Talk show host forced to take another break.
10 May, 2022
Paul Joseph Watson

Talk show host Stephen Colbert has caught COVID for the second time in the space of three weeks after previously thanking the efficacy of the vaccine when he contracted the virus last month.

Yes, really.

The Late Show frontman previously caught COVID on April 21 and was forced to cancel that night’s taping before taking a week off.

The show returned on May 2 with new episodes, although production has been paused again following news of Colbert suffering a “recurrence” of COVID-19.

“Stephen is experiencing symptoms consistent with a recurrence of COVID,” tweeted the official The Late Show account. “Out of an abundance of caution for his staff, guests, and audience, he will be isolating for a few additional days,” the tweet added. “The Late Show will not be taping new episodes until further notice.”

WORST. SEQUEL. EVER. https://t.co/a0rfw32xTH
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) May 9, 2022

“WORST. SEQUEL. EVER,” tweeted Colbert himself in response.

When Colbert previously caught COVID last month, despite being fully vaccinated, he thanked the vaccine.

“Yep! I tested positive for Covid, but basically I’m feeling fine- grateful to be vaxxed and boosted,” said Colbert.

Yep! I tested positive for Covid, but basically I’m feeling fine- grateful to be vaxxed and boosted. Thank you for the well wishes. This just proves that I will do anything to avoid interviewing Jason Bateman. https://t.co/Vf5Ws5WVcE
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) April 21, 2022

Fellow talk show hosts James Corden, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel also all recently tested positive for COVID.

Last month we reported on Kamala Harris, who also caught COVID despite being quadruple vaxxed against the virus.

Oh well, maybe the 5th booster shot will do it!
 

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Please please!!!…, just watch the last hour of the entire video, at LEAST!!!

And line up your prophylactics immediately whether they be ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, or anything you can get your hands on that you feel works for you. ASAP.

….when an interviewer addresses the audience by himself at the end of a video ANGRY, frightened….asking for Gods forgiveness and empathy for the arrogance of what has been done to humanity?….

I truly thought Del had tears in his voice.
 

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COVID-19 Vaccine Producer Hid Evidence of Problems: Report
By Zachary Stieber
May 10, 2022

Executives at a company that produced millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses attempted to hide evidence that some of the doses were contaminated, according to a congressional report released on May 10.

Emergent BioSolutions “took repeated steps to conceal its quality failures from the federal government and other third parties by limiting access to Bayview, tampering with drug-substance labels to impede FDA oversight, and strategizing to withhold information from HHS following the cross-contamination event in March 2021,” a report from the House Oversight Committee and the Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis concluded.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), identified deficiencies in the manufacturing process at Emergent’s Baltimore, Maryland facility—known as Bayview—in 2020.

In early 2021, Johnson & Johnson announced that up to 15 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine at the facility became contaminated.

Documents obtained by the committees showed that Emergent rejected requests from Johnson & Johnson to visit the site around that time ahead of a follow-up FDA inspection.

One email from a consultant hired by Emergent indicated that employees removed quality-assurance tags from containers of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine drug substance just before inspectors began their tour and put them back into place after inspectors left. The tags alerted employees that portions of the batches were potentially unable to be used.

Several days later, the consultant said that the tags were removed to “avoid drawing attention” to the potential quality issue.

Internal communications obtained by lawmakers show top executives at Emergent were aware of what happened.
Despite the tag removal, the FDA identified problems during the inspection.

In March 2021, another cross-contamination issue was identified by Johnson & Johnson, but Emergent did not alert AstraZeneca—whose vaccines Emergent was also manufacturing—and HHS for three weeks, according to the new report.

When an HHS agency asked for details, an executive said that no details should be shared with the government until its investigation was over.

“Today’s report shows that Emergent profited from the pandemic while violating the public’s trust. Despite major red flags at its vaccine manufacturing facility, Emergent’s executives swept these problems under the rug and continued to rake in taxpayer dollars,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), chairwoman of the House oversight panel, said in a statement.

Approximately 400 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were destroyed because of the contamination issues.

“These doses were squandered despite repeated warnings from employees, outside consultants, pharmaceutical companies, and FDA regulators that the company’s manufacturing practices were unsafe and that it was unlikely to fulfill the contract recklessly awarded by the Trump administration. Emergent executives prioritized profits over producing vaccines in a responsible manner that complied with FDA requirements,” Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), chairman of the subcommittee, said in a statement.

Emergent was operating on a $628 million contract awarded during the Trump administration. The Biden administration canceled the contract in late 2021.

In a statement issued in response to the new report, Emergent said the report contained nothing new.

The company also said it did not knowingly mislead the FDA, other government agencies, or private partners.

“During the last few years, the FDA and other international regulatory authorities have visited Emergent facilities dozens of times. On several occasions, Emergent invited FDA personnel to visit Bayview to review our progress, assess our capabilities, and provide feedback on our facilities, processes, and systems when no FDA inspection was required. Further to that point, the single contaminated batch was brought to the attention of the FDA by Johnson & Johnson and Emergent,” the company said, adding that it has been in “constant communication” with the FDA and its clients as it tried to manufacture the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines.

“Emergent remains committed to being a trusted partner of the U.S. and allied governments helping to supply medical countermeasures for biological, chemical and nerve agent attacks. We will continue to use our more than 20 years of public health preparedness experience to help inform an all-of-the-above approach to help prepare for the public health challenges to come,” Emergent said.
 

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Company hid problems with COVID vaccines from FDA
May 10, 2022

Evidence of quality control problems was hidden by a company contracted by the U.S. government to produce hundreds of millions of COVID vaccine doses, a new House committee report shows.

It noted that Emergent BioSolutions didn't disclose the issues at its Bayview plant in Baltimore to U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspectors in February 2021, six weeks before the company told federal officials that 15 million doses had been contaminated, The New York Times reported.

Nearly 400 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine made by Emergent had to be destroyed "due to poor quality control," according to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform report, which was based on internal company emails, documents and interviews.

That's much higher than previous estimates. No contaminated doses were released to the public, the Times reported.

"These doses were squandered despite repeated warnings from employees, outside consultants, pharmaceutical companies and FDA regulators that the company's manufacturing practices were unsafe," Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), chair of the House subcommittee on the pandemic, said in a statement.

Emergent has been "open and forthcoming" with the FDA and Congress by providing them with thousands of documents and inviting them to tour its facilities, company spokesman Matt Hartwig said in a statement.

Last May, Emergent executives testified in public before the House subcommittee.

"Emergent remains committed to being a trusted partner of the U.S. and allied governments," Hartwig said.

Documents released by House investigators reveal that some of Emergent's managers weren't sure the company could handle the government's order.

Before FDA officials visited the Baltimore plant in September 2020, a senior quality director at Emergent advised executives it would be critical to convince the agency that the company was making rapid improvements, the Times reported.

"We are not in full compliance yet—BUT—we are making batches NOW," the director wrote.

Last year, the Times reported that in June 2020, a top official with the Trump administration's fast-track vaccine initiative called Operation Warp Speed cautioned that relying on Emergent's Baltimore plant would present "key risks" and that the site would "have to be monitored closely."

In November 2021, the Biden administration terminated Emergent's COVID-19 vaccine production contract.
 

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UK Ends Daily COVID-19 Updates
By Owen Evans
May 10, 2022

The UK government has decided to stop its daily COVID-19 updates, and from now on the figures will only be updated on the official dashboard twice a week.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced this week that the dashboard will only update coronavirus figures every Monday and Thursday from now on.

The agency wrote on Twitter that the way it is reporting on COVID-19 stats is “changing within the UK.”
“From today, the COVID-19 Dashboard will update UK figures every Monday and Thursday. Vaccine data for Wales will be updated in UK figures every Monday,” it wrote.

The volume of COVID-19 tests has declined because free testing for the general public has come to an end, which came into force on April 1 as part of the Living with COVID-19 plan, the government’s strategy to live with and manage the virus. This has affected COVID-19 statistics.

Last week, the BBC reported that the end of April had seen the largest week-on-week drop in the number of infections since 2020 due to the end of free testing. Figures are now an estimate, based on testing thousands of people at random in households across the UK, it said.

At its peak, the UK’s COVID-19 capacity was processing daily results from PCR testing site results and millions of lateral flow tests.

On May 9, Public Health Scotland moved to report data on Mondays and Thursdays. This means UK headline figures are also updated on Mondays and Thursdays. As of April 27, Public Health Wales moved to reporting vaccination data weekly. Data up to Thursday are reported the following Monday.

The results for those countries as well as Northern Ireland are also published in a weekly bulletin via the Office for National Statistics.

Clare Griffiths, head of the UK COVID-19 dashboard, told The Daily Mail: “As we move forward in the pandemic, changes to reporting across the four nations means COVID metrics will be updated on different dates and schedules.”

“Variations in reporting schedules should be considered when looking at reported COVID figures and day-to-day comparisons may therefore be misleading,” she added.

The news follows new government guidance published on Saturday, that from May 12, the domestic NHS COVID Pass will no longer be available and is no longer being enforced.

From July 2021, England opened up earlier than other comparable countries and has been relatively restriction-free since. Masks are no longer legally required in most public spaces.

In February, England scrapped its last remaining COVID-19 rule ie. the need for infected people to isolate.

Instead, guidance-only rules advise people with symptoms of a respiratory infection, including COVID-19, and a high temperature or who feel unwell, to try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people until they feel well enough to resume normal activities.

“Once COVID-19 becomes endemic it should be possible to respond to the virus in a similar way to other existing respiratory illnesses, through sustainable public health measures,” said the guidance document on Living with COVID-19.
 

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One million US deaths
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May 10, 2022
Dr. John Campbell

US, 1 million deaths this week, 100 million cases this fall and winter 1918 / 1919 At least 50 million worldwide 675,000 in the United States (Population 105 million) Mortality was high in Younger than 5 years old 20-40 years old 65 years and older National Center for Health Statistics https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/index.htm More than 1 million deaths Higher death rate than in any other major industrialized country https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrx... Life expectancy, biggest drop since 1918 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/w... Overwhelmingly unvaccinated Mostly old, low income, Black, Hispanic 2020 Heart disease, cancer, Covid Tracking the reach of COVID-19 kin loss with a bereavement multiplier applied to the United States (Pen State) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... 9 million who have lost a close relative Grandparent, parent, sibling, spouse, child US cases / infections Probably start to go down from late May BA.2.12.1 subvariant set to overtake BA.2 Cases may increase in the South over summer Biden administration 100 million infections fall and winter 2022 Waning immunity, vaccines and infections Variant immune escape Loosened restrictions Projections assume omicron and subvariants will continue to dominate community spread No dramatically different strain of the virus Seroprevalence of Infection-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies — United States, September 2021–February 2022 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/w... Convenience sample of blood specimens, for anti-N antibodies As of February 2022 18 to 49 years, 63.7% 50 to 64 years, 49.8% Over 65s, 33.2% Children and adolescents 75% of had serologic evidence of previous infection High infection rate for Omicron, especially among children. Should not be interpreted as protection from future infection Vaccination remains the safest strategy for preventing complications from SARS-CoV-2 infection COVID-19 Results Briefing, United States of America, April 7, 2022 https://www.healthdata.org/sites/defa... 76% of people in the US have been infected at least once as of April 4 Do not suggest a substantial BA.2 surge in the US But if we do, last for 3 weeks There is not sufficient evidence at this time that BA.2 spread warrants a broader push on a fourth booster, except in those at high risk. Pfizer and Moderna Working on new booster shots Combine different variants of the virus
 

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Join us for Part 2 at Peakprosperity.com today! LINK: https://peakprosperity.com/pfizer-fra... The FDA and Pfizer wanted to keep the vaccine trial results hidden for up to 75 years. Now we know why. There are some quite serious anomalies that are begging for answers. One such example is the fact that the lead author on the seminal vaccine paper in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), one Fernando Polack, MD, just happened to be the only investigator in charge of a site in Argentina that purportedly managed to recruit 4501 patients in just 3 weeks! Is this even possible with a full team and the backing of a major contract research organization (CRO)? It’s quite the feat and it needs to be investigated and answers given. Without more transparency some might be left wondering if perhaps there was fraud involved or that perhaps patient records were sloppy because the on-boarding pace was too rapid. Regardless, no such questions should ever be part of the landscape, especially not when it involves a brand new medical intervention platform (mRNA) that was mandated as a condition of continued education and/or employment. Why were these records fought to be effectively sealed? Why wasn’t complete and open transparency a cornerstone of the entire program of mass vaccination in the first place? Such a stunning lack of transparency and the hiding of records… This. Should. Never. Be. The Case. Otherwise there’s no possibility of informed consent. Further, when I dug into the new batch of 80,000 clinical trial records I discovered that the only records (so far) showing the measurement of antibody levels in dose-ranging studies revealed three things. 1 – the grand total number of people tested in the 18-55- and 65–85-year-old age brackets was just 12 in each. 2 – There apparently was a gap without any testing of the immunogenic response of 55–65-year-old age bracket. 3 – there was clear evidence that the antibody levels varied enormously (10x) between patients and for all patients tailed off significantly by 1 month after the second dose. This means that it should have been 100% obvious to all authorities and Pfizer, that the shots weren’t going to last all that long and boosters would be soon needed. Taken all together, this means that Fauci’s continued insistence that the rationale for getting the shots was to “achieve herd immunity so we can get back on with our lives” was completely unscientific and provably and known to be false. I sincerely hope there are hundreds of yet-to-be-revealed records showing lots and lots of additional antibody level testing because otherwise we have to believe that hundreds of millions of people of all different sizes, ages, races, and comorbidity levels were given a 30 microgram dose based off of just 12 data points. Again, it’s not surprising that the FDA wanted to keep such shocking findings hidden for 75 years. They are exceptionally embarrassing from every possible scientific, ethical and public health standpoint. I break it all down here. Want to hear what I really think? Be sure to check out part 2 for exclusive content just for our Peak Prosperity subscribers: https://peakprosperity.com/membership...
 

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Scientists Warn U.S. Health Officials Against “New Normal” Strategies for COVID-19
By University of Illinois Chicago
May 10, 2022

Health experts caution U.S. leaders and health officials against ‘new normal’ strategies for COVID-19, warning that they fail to incorporate important lessons from the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Strategies ignore COVID pandemic’s early lessons around chronic diseases.

Experts are cautioning U.S. leaders and health officials against national strategies for a “new normal” of life with COVID-19.

The warning, published in a Journal of General Internal Medicine viewpoint, contends that discussions of a new normal fail to incorporate key lessons from the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the significant role of noncommunicable chronic diseases in exacerbating COVID-19 and the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on underserved populations and communities of color.

Noncommunicable chronic diseases are those that are not spread from person to person and persist for at least one year, such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. They are the leading cause of death worldwide and represent a global health threat that predates the COVID-19 pandemic — the noncommunicable disease crisis kills more than 15 million Americans prematurely each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Jun Ma, of the University of Illinois Chicago, is a co-author of the viewpoint. She said that together, the COVID-19 pandemic and the chronic disease crisis create what is called a synergistic endemic, or syndemic — overlapping epidemics that interact, increasing the burden of disease and the likelihood of poor outcomes. Recent proposals for a new normal national strategy in the U.S. focus too much on the SARS-CoV-2 virus and too little on the context in which the virus’ impact is most burdensome, she said.

“This is a major missed opportunity to address the multilevel and multifactorial factors that contribute to severe COVID-19 and COVID-19 mortality, not to mention other health conditions,” said Ma, the Beth and George Vitoux Professor of Medicine and director of Vitoux Program on Aging and Prevention at the UIC College of Medicine.

“What we really need is a comprehensive syndemic control strategy because, in truth, the pre-pandemic state of health in the U.S. was not ideal in the first place,” said Ma, who is also associate head of research in the department of medicine.

In support of this argument, Ma and her co-author, James Sallis, of the University of California San Diego, cite data published in medical literature showing how noncommunicable chronic diseases have created high susceptibility to severe and fatal COVID-19 outcomes and contributed to racial and ethnic inequities. For example:
  • Nearly 95% of U.S. adults hospitalized with COVID-19 between March 2020 and March 2021 had an underlying condition.
  • Vaccinated people with breakthrough infections were 44% to 69% more likely to suffer severe outcomes if they had a chronic disease.
  • Noncommunicable diseases and risk behaviors such as smoking, substance abuse and physical inactivity conferred a higher risk for severe COVID-19, according to the CDC based on conclusive evidence.
According to Ma and Sallis, “failure to address NCD control and prevention as a national priority is unacceptable because it contradicts compelling evidence and misses the opportunity to use a whole set of effective intervention approaches that can save lives. The window of opportunity is fleeting, and the consequences of inaction could be devastating by allowing continuation of high vulnerabilities for severe and inequitable outcomes of NCDs and future infectious disease pandemics.”

In their article, the authors also recommend “practical, immediately actionable steps” for incorporating the prevention and control of chronic diseases into existing COVID-19 policies and infrastructure. For example:
  • Health care systems could prioritize screening, including at COVID-19 vaccination and testing locations, for medical and psychological chronic conditions that are highly treatable but often undiagnosed and poorly managed.
  • The national infrastructure mobilized for vaccine promotion and distribution could be leveraged to also disseminate proven lifestyle and behavioral health programs.
  • Campaigns for COVID-19 vaccination and masking could expand messaging to also promote healthy lifestyles and mental well-being.
  • Partnerships between medical systems and community-based organizations and efforts by public and private insurers for the COVID-19 emergency response could be expanded to include behavior change interventions in routine health care delivery and coverage.
Ma said agencies like the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and state and local governments would need to prioritize supportive reimbursement and funding policies for these steps to be realized, but that the benefits would be felt by individuals and communities through more awareness, information and opportunity for managing their health.

“We can help people gain a sense of control of their health,” Ma said.

“Though we all hope the pandemic is waning, variants keep appearing and vaccinations wane as well. Thus, we need to plan now for better responses to a possible next surge as well as future pandemics,” said Sallis, professor at UCSD’s Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Longevity Science.

Ma and Sallis’ Journal of General Internal Medicine article is titled “A National Strategy for COVID Response and Pandemic Preparedness Must Address Noncommunicable Chronic Diseases.”

Reference: “A National Strategy for COVID Response and Pandemic Preparedness Must Address Noncommunicable Chronic Diseases” by Jun Ma MD, PhD and James F. Sallis PhD, 9 May 2022, Journal of General Internal Medicine.

DOI: 10.1007/s11606-022-07552-y
 

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Blocking Spike Captors To Counter the COVID Virus, Independently of Mutations
By University of Louvain
May 10, 2022

Blocking Spike Captors To Counter COVID
It’s a very promising world first! Scientists at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) have managed to identify the key that allows the Covid virus to attack cells. Better still, they have also managed to close the lock to block the virus and prevent its interaction with the cell, in other words, to prevent infection. This discovery, published in the journal Nature Communications, raises a huge hope: that of developing an antiviral, in the form of an aerosol, which would help to eradicate the virus in case of infection or high-risk contact! Credit: University of Louvain (UCLouvain)

Despite the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination campaigns worldwide, the threat posed by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus still exists. To begin with, a new SARS-CoV-2 variant may emerge that is resistant to current vaccines. Second, the long-term efficacy of the vaccines is unknown. Finally, cases of acute infection are still being reported. Despite this, there is currently no effective treatment.

To create an antiviral that prevents infection, researchers must first understand the exact mechanisms (at the molecular level) by which the virus infects a cell. This is the task that David Alsteens’ team at the University of Louvain’s Institute of Biomolecular Sciences and Technologies (UCLouvain) in Belgium has been working on for the past two years. They investigated the interaction between sialic acids (SAs), which are types of sugar residues found on the surface of cells, and the spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2 (using atomic force microscopy) in a study to be published today (May 10, 2022) in the journal Nature Communications. What is the goal? To understand its role in the infection process.

What do we already know? That all cells are decorated with sugar residues. And what function do these sugars serve? To promote cell recognition, which allows viruses to identify their targets more easily. But, also, to facilitate their point of attachment to allow them to enter their host cell and thus initiate their infection.

What did the UCLouvain researchers discover? They identified a variant of these sugars (9-O-acetylated) that interacted more strongly with the S protein than other sugars. In short, they found the set of keys that allows viruses to open the cell door. Why a set of keys? The virus is composed of a series of spike proteins with a suction cup effect that allows them to bind to the cell and ultimately enter. The more keys the virus finds, the better the interaction with the cell and the wider the door will open. Hence the importance of finding out how the virus manages to multiply the entry keys.

This is where the second discovery of the UCLouvain researchers comes in: they decided to catch the virus in its own trap, by preventing it from binding to its host cell. How? By blocking the S protein’s points of attachment and thus suppressing any interaction with the cell surface. As though a padlock had been attached to the lock of the cell’s front door. One of the conditions for this is that the interaction between the virus and the agent blocking it is stronger than the one between the virus and the cell. In this particular case, the scientists demonstrated that multivalent structures (or glycoclusters) with multiple 9-O-acetylated sialic acids on their surface (the famous sugar variant revealed by the UCLouvain team) are able to block both binding and infection by SARS-CoV-2. If the virus doesn’t attach to the cells, it can’t enter and therefore dies (lifetime 1 to 5 hours). This blocking action prevents infection.

Within the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the various vaccines primarily addressed the SARS-CoV-2 mutations but not the virus as a whole. This UCLouvain discovery has the advantage of acting on the virus, independently of the mutations.
What’s next? The UCLouvain team will carry out tests on mice in order to apply this blocking of virus binding sites and observe whether this works on the organism. The results should be available soon, leading to the development of an antiviral based on these sugars, administered by aerosol, in case of infection or high-risk contact.

This discovery is also interesting for the future, to counter other viruses with similar attachment factors.

Reference: “Multivalent 9-O-Acetylated-sialic acid glycoclusters as potent inhibitors for SARS-CoV-2 infection” by Simon J. L. Petitjean, Wenzhang Chen, Melanie Koehler, Ravikumar Jimmidi, Jinsung Yang, Danahe Mohammed, Blinera Juniku, Megan L. Stanifer, Steeve Boulant, Stéphane P. Vincent and David Alsteens, 10 May 2022, Nature Communications.

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30313-8
 

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Diabetes almost doubles risk of death from COVID
by University of Aberdeen
May 10, 2022

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Risk of bias graphs and study data extraction strategy. (A) Review authors' judgements about each risk of bias item per included study. Review authors' judgements about each risk of bias item presented as percentages across all included studies (B). Outcomes addressed by total number of studies and overlap (C), Number of studies used for addressing primary and secondary outcomes (D). Credit: Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism (2022). DOI: 10.1002/edm2.338

People with diabetes were almost twice as likely to die with COVID and almost three times as likely to be critically or severely ill compared to those without diabetes.

However, the study conducted by researchers from the University of Aberdeen, which reviewed data from hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world, also found that good management of the condition can mitigate against the risks.

Specifically, the collaboration with King's College, London, found that while diabetes presents a significant risk of severe illness and death with COVID, good control of blood sugar in these patients can significantly reduce this risk.

The researchers reviewed findings from 158 studies that included more that 270,000 participants from all over the world to determine how COVID affects people living with diabetes.

The pooled results showed that people with diabetes were 1.87 times more likely to die with COVID, 1.59 times more likely to be admitted to ICU, 1.44 times more likely to require ventilation, and 2.88 times more likely to be classed as severe or critical, when compared to patients without diabetes.

This is the first time a study, which has been published in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism looked at the risks of COVID in patients with diabetes while factoring in the patients' location and thereby highlighting potential healthcare resources available as well as possible ethnic differences and other societal factors. Data was gathered from all over the world including China, Korea, U.S., Europe and the Middle East.

The researchers found that patients in China, Korea and the Middle East were at higher risk of death than those from EU countries or the U.S. The researchers suggest this may be due to differences in healthcare systems and affordability of healthcare which may explain the finding that maintaining optimal glycemic control, significantly reduces adverse outcomes in patients with diabetes and COVID.

Stavroula Kastora who worked on the study alongside Professor Mirela Delibegovic and Professor Phyo Myint explains: "We found that following a COVID-19 infection, the risk of death for patients with diabetes was significantly increased in comparison to patients without diabetes.

"Equally, collective data from studies around the globe suggested that patients with diabetes had a significantly higher risk of requiring an intensive care admission and supplementary oxygen or being admitted in a critical condition in comparison to patients without diabetes.

"However, we found that the studies that reported patient data from the EU or U.S. displayed less extreme differences between the patient groups. Ultimately, we have identified a disparity in COVID outcomes between the eastern and western world. We also show that good glycemic control may be a protective factor in view of COVID-19 related deaths.

"In light of the ongoing pandemic, strengthening outpatient diabetes clinics, ensuring consistent follow up of patients with diabetes and optimizing their glycemic control could significantly increase the chances of survival following a COVID infection."
 

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COVID-19 vaccination associated with 15% reduction in stillbirths in pregnant women
by St. George's University of London
May 10, 2022

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Forest plot of studies reporting stillbirth rate. Vertical ticks within the blue boxes and horizontal lines show the mean effect and 95% confidences interval for each study. Black diamond at the bottom shows the cumulative effect with 95% confidence intervals. Credit: Nature Communications (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30052-w

A new research paper, published today in Nature Communications, shows that COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy using mRNA vaccines is associated with a 15% reduction in stillbirths. The paper also shows that vaccination in pregnancy is 90% effective against COVID-19 infection and is safe, with no increased risk in adverse outcomes for women or their babies.

The study, led by researchers from St George's, University of London and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, reviewed 23 studies including 117,552 COVID-19 vaccinated pregnant women, almost exclusively with mRNA vaccines, such as those produced by Pfizer and Moderna.

The research provides much-needed assurance to women of the safety and benefits of COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy. Despite the fact that vaccine uptake in pregnancy in England increased from 23% in August 2021 to 53% in December 2021, nearly half of all pregnant women in the latest data have not yet received this vaccine. One of the reasons that women often give for this hesitancy is concern about the effect of the vaccine on their baby.

Professor of obstetrics and maternal medicine at St George's, University of London and St George's Hospital, Asma Khalil, who is the senior author on the paper, said: "Our findings should help to address vaccine hesitancy in pregnant women. Although many things are returning to normal, there is still a very clear and substantial risk of COVID-19 infection for mothers and their babies, including an increased risk of premature birth and stillbirth. It is essential that as many people as possible receive their vaccines to reduce the risk of complications during pregnancy. This paper shows that COVID-19 vaccination is both safe and effective and we hope that this will help to reassure pregnant people to take up their offer of a vaccine going forwards."

Dr. Edward Morris, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said: "This paper acts as further reassurance that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe in pregnancy. We know women have been hesitant about having the vaccine due to concerns over the effect on their baby. We now have strong evidence to show that the vaccine does not increase the risk of adverse outcomes and is the best way of protecting both women and their babies. We would recommend all pregnant women have the COVID-19 vaccine and the booster vaccine. COVID-19 is still prevalent and if you do get the virus when you're pregnant then you are at higher risk of severe illness."
 

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WHO studies whether COVID has role in child hepatitis mystery
May 11, 2022

The WHO said Tuesday that 348 probable cases of hepatitis of unknown origin had been identified, as studies into the potential role of adenovirus and COVID-19 infection gather pace.

The World Health Organization said the leading hypotheses remain those involving adenovirus.

Cases have been reported in 20 countries, with 70 additional cases from a further 13 countries which are pending classification as tests await completion.

Only six countries are reporting more than five cases, with more than 160 being reported in Britain.

"Over the last week, there's been some important progress with the further investigations and some refinements of the working hypotheses," Philippa Easterbrook, from the WHO's global hepatitis program, told a press conference.

She said Britain had been coordinating a comprehensive set of studies looking at the genetics of the children affected, their immune response, viruses and further epidemiological studies.

The WHO was first informed on April 5 of 10 unexplained hepatitis cases in Scotland, detected in children under the age of 10.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday it was investigating 109 such cases, including five reported deaths.

"At present, the leading hypotheses remain those which involve adenovirus—with also still an important consideration about the role of COVID as well, either as a co-infection or a past infection," Easterbrook said.

Further testing in the past week confirmed that around 70 percent of the cases tested positive for adenovirus, with sub-type 41—normally associated with gastroenteritis—the prevalent sub-type, she added.

Testing has also shown that around 18 percent of cases actively tested positive for COVID-19.

"The big focus over the next week is looking at serological testing for previous exposure and infections with COVID," said Easterbrook.

Honing down on adenovirus

The scientist said that within the week, there should be data from Britain on a case control study comparing whether the detection rate of adenovirus differs from that in other hospitalized children.

"That will really help hone down whether adeno is just an incidental infection that's been detected, or there is a causal or likely causal link," Easterbrook said.

She said that microscopic studies of liver samples and biopsies had shown none of the typical features that might be expected with a liver inflammation due to adenovirus.

Adenoviruses are commonly spread by close personal contact, respiratory droplets and surfaces.

They are generally known to cause respiratory symptoms, conjunctivitis or even digestive disorders.

The WHO refers to the outbreak of severe liver inflammations as acute hepatitis of unknown origin among young children.

Three children in Indonesia have died from the disease.

Some cases have caused liver failure and required transplants.

Many cases reported jaundice, and gastrointestinal symptoms including abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting.

After the discovery of the first 169 cases, the WHO said common viruses that cause acute viral hepatitis (hepatitis viruses A, B, C, D and E) were not detected in any of them.
 

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Israel: Chronic Covid Persists in Guts and Immune CD8 Cells, like AIDS
Delta Variant seen Massively in Wastewater long after Omicron took over!
Igor Chudov
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A new article from Israel discusses Covid variants in Israeli wastewater — and also shows that Israelis have chronic Covid, infecting their immune cells and persisting for lengths of time, similar to AIDS. Hat tip to Geert Vanden Bossche who mentions this article in his great post, where he argues that predicting the future on the basis of wastewater is futile.

I agree with Geert’s point completely. In this article, I wanted to attempt a different take on the Israeli wastewater study and show that highly vaccinated Israel is beset with Chronic Covid, and that people who seem to have recovered from Covid, are still sick and have ongoing active Covid infections that they picked a long time ago.

Here’s the study:



Authors looked at wastewater surveillance data from Israel. This surveillance analyzes wastewater and looks at viruses found in human excrements, coming from thousands of households and mixed together in the municipal wastewater stream. Wastewater surveillance is a great way to look at masses of people, as many persons’ excrements are mixed together and can be analyzed for the presence and amount of viral particles, at the population level.

Authors show that
  • Omicron completely took over and was found in the vast majority of Israel’s positive nasal swabs
  • The Delta variant practically disappeared from nasal swab results
  • Despite that, Delta variant RNA was massively present in Israel’s wastewater long after it disappeared from nasal swabs.
Here’s the wastewater prevalence data.



This is extremely surprising! Why would Delta virions be massively excreted by Israelis, long after Delta practically disappeared from nasal swabs? Why would the amount of Delta virions remain almost a constant, despite continuing disappearance of Delta from Israeli’s national statistics?

There is only one answer to these questions: many Israelis remained infected with Delta and have the virus replicating in their guts long after they supposedly “recovered”. The virus, instead of truly being expelled from the body by a functional immune system, persisted in Israelis. This is the only way the viral RNA would remain in wastewater.
The people, despite appearing long recovered, are not recovered and have ongoing COVID-19 infections.

Viral Persistence in Guts and CD8 Immune Cells

A very important study that we need to know about is called Post-acute COVID-19 is characterized by gut viral antigen persistence in inflammatory bowel diseases.



They looked at patients who had COVID. The authors made two extremely interesting findings. First, they confirmed that Sars-Cov-2 is expressed in guts. But most importantly, they found Sars-Cov-2 RNA in CD8 immune cells!

We report expression of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the gut mucosa ∼7 months after mild acute COVID-19 in 32 of 46 patients with IBD. Viral nucleocapsid protein persisted in 24 of 46 patients in gut epithelium and CD8+ T cells.
Infecting CD8 immune cells makes Sars-Cov-2 similar to HIV, which destroys CD4 cells. The similarity is striking and I reported on it before.

Overall, we see an ominous picture of people persistently infected by an obsolete variant of Sars-Cov-2 (Delta), that is no longer circulating but is still fully present in wastewater.

That was not supposed to happen in Israel, which is highly vaccinated with a “safe and effective” vaccine, that was supposed to stop the virus. Instead of stopping, Israelis now have “Chronic Covid” that seemingly never clears.

Is Israel unique? It is in many cultural ways, but probably not in the way how Covid persists in guts and immune cells. That should make you worried.

Chronic Covid Patients Breed New Variants

Having a part of the population chronically infected with SARS-Cov-2 is a very bad development. This means that Sars-Cov-2 carriers are, in effect, permanent walking virus variant factories, like HIV patients. They would endlessly produce newer, and fitter, variants.

In the past, viral fitness was determined by contagiousness. When a sizable part of the population is chronically infected, fitness may be determined by the virus’s ability to linger in the body and infect immune cells. The variant that stays in the body longest, wins.

Further, having old variants linger creates a ripe condition for the emergence of “recombinant variants”, such as Ba4 or Ba5. These recombinant variants combine features of Delta and Omicron, and likely appeared in chronic Covid patients.

If so, chronic covid will get worse over time, due to CD8 immune cell destruction as well as variant development. Good luck to the people affected.

Further Reading

Igor’s Newsletter
AIDS-Like "Chronic Covid" is Taking Over Europe, Australia and NZ
This article will explain exactly why endless Covid reinfections happen, and the dangerous consequences that they lead to, based on recent scientific advances. What’s happening? When Omicron appeared around December of last year, the powers-to-be in most Western countries found themselves in a situation of mass vaccine failure, where a Covid variant Omic…
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Igor’s Newsletter
Sars-Cov-2 Kills T-Cells, Just Like HIV
Is Sars-Cov-2 airborne HIV? Two days ago, an interesting article came out: This article was not written by a bunch of random scientists, but instead was written by people from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including the infamous batwoman Shi Zheng-Li. Just keep this in mind. It was originally submitted in Sep 2021 and revised in January 2022, so it d…
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2 months ago · 319 likes · 259 comments · Igor Chudov



Igor’s Newsletter
Covid, Vaccine, HIV and VAIDS -- an Explanation
We know that when fact checkers say something, they sometimes are covering something up. But what? This article attempts to organize what I know so that we avoid misspeaking when talking about complicated matters. I usually do not like editing my articles more than a day after publishing, and my edits would only correct typos, calculation errors or add m…
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3 months ago · 252 likes · 294 comments · Igor Chudov



Igor’s Newsletter
UK: Covid Becoming CHRONIC, like AIDS, and Will Take us Down
I would like to discuss very disturbing statistics from the UK, that clearly shows that Covid is becoming a chronic disease, in the same sense as AIDS is a chronic disease. Covid, for many Brits, is an illness that will just not go away. Endless bouts, recurrence, or even never-ending disease, is now the norm and not the exception, and will lead to a ca…
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Wastewater-based epidemiology does not allow to predict the evolutionary dynamics of the Omicron pandemic
By Geert Vanden Bossche
May 10, 2022

I take issue with the conclusions of a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Science of the Total Environment under the title “Managing an evolving pandemic: Cryptic circulation of the Delta variant during the Omicron rise.” (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972202695X?via=ihub)

These authors tend to believe that wastewater-based epidemiology combined with mathematical modeling allows for making predictions in regard of the evolutionary dynamics of this pandemic:

According to the developed model, it can be expected that the Omicron levels will decrease until eliminated, while Delta variant will maintain its cryptic circulation. If this comes to pass, the mentioned cryptic circulation may result in the reemergence of a Delta morbidity wave or in the possible generation of a new threatening variant.”

One should - per definition - always be careful and skeptical about conclusions and predictions proposed by scientists who don’t seem to have an in-depth understanding of the immunology involved!

Variants can only replace previous variants provided they have a higher level of INTRINSIC infectiousness! It’s not because Omicron is highly infectious in vaccinees (i.e., in the vast majority of highly vaccinated population such as the population of Israel) that Omicron will replace Delta in wastewater! It has been published that diminished neutralizing capacity of anti-spike (S) antibodies (Abs)results in disproportionally high binding of non-neutralizing Abs to S-NTD (N-terminal domain of S protein), which explains enhanced susceptibility of vaccinees to breakthrough infection with Omicron but inhibits viral shedding and trans infection of Omicron at distant organs, including the lower respiratory and gastrointestinal tract, thereby reducing the incidence of severe disease in vaccinees (….). So, in other words, Ab-mediated enhancement of infection with Omicron in vaccinees does not translate into enhanced viral shedding from the gastrointestinal tract, which is the primary source of wastewater contamination. On the other hand, diminished shedding in vaccinees is likely compensated by its prolonged duration due to a delay in viral clearance (…). Selective shedding of highly infectious Omicron in vaccinees causes Omicron detection levels in wastewater to rapidly increase to then level off at wastewater detection levels that are higher than those observed for Delta. However, as the amount of Omicron virus shed from the gastrointestinal tract of vaccinees is not determined by the level of Omicron infectiousness in these vaccinated individuals but by the percentage of the population that got vaccinated and because Omicron’s intrinsic infectiousness is similar to that of Delta and,therefore, shed in comparable amounts by the non-vaccinated fraction of the population, it is not surprising to find that – although shed at a somewhat higher concentration in a highly vaccinated population – the Omicron variant is not replacing the Delta variant unless the population were to become vaccinated across all age groups (i.e., including children). Consequently, wastewater-based epidemiology does not supply a real-time image of viral infectivity / transmissibility in highly vaccinated populations as viral infectious behavior in such populations is not primarily determined by the intrinsic infectiousness of the viral variant but by Ab-mediated enhancement of viral infection in vaccinees.

In conclusion, monitoring of Delta and Omicron detection levels in wastewater restricts surveillance of prevalent variants to virus shed from the gastrointestinal tract and thereby ignores antibody-mediated mitigation of shedding. It, therefore, misrepresents differences in viral infectiousness, which is known to be very high for Omicron in a highly vaccinated population due to Ab-dependent enhancement of infection at the level of the upper respiratory tract.

Once again, mathematical modeling may be a challenging and fascinating exercise but is to be considered totally worthless when the immunological assumptions are wrong. It inevitably implies that the essence of the model predictions will also be wrong. There can be no doubt that population-level immune pressure on trans infection-inhibiting Abs is now paving the way for breeding variants that are not only highly infectious but also highly virulent in vaccinees. However, in contrast to what the authors of this publication believe, these new variants will not emerge from previous Delta variants. Delta does not enable highly vaccinated populations(e.g., the Israeli population) to exert immune pressure on viral virulence, simply because it is not fully resistant to potentially neutralizing anti-RBD Abs. So, please forget about any predictions derived from mathematical modeling that – despite lots of complexity – totally ignores the impact of population-level immune pressure on the infectious behavior of the virus. Such predictions are, of course, completely useless when it comes to understanding the evolutionary dynamics and management of a pandemic that has fully changed its natural course as a direct consequence of mass vaccination.
 

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are we pfinding pfizer pfraud? (part 1)
the document trail from the pfizer data dump has a number of worrying signs
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the pfizer data dumps are massive and disordered. they drop 50k pages without regard to completeness or organization.

here, have a huge box of who knows what!

this is a longstanding legal trick. and it works well. it’s the time honored fashion in which big companies bury small legal teams and create a $3 million bill just to sort and read the stuff.

but here’s a fun little wrinkle: this time is not going to be like that.

battalions of interested parties are all over it. the documents are posted and reading and sorting them is crowdsourced. and many hands make for light work. and a lot of very skilled sleuths are at work here.
no law firm in history has ever had an expert team like this. never.

the FDA and pfizer fought tooth and claw NOT to release this.

i have ZERO doubt that they are dumping all the least awful and incriminating things first. keep in mind these folks wanted to take 75 years to disclose this. only a court order pried it loose. but even with this first set of boxes, it’s starting to become apparent why they did not want anyone poking around.

they knew all sorts of things they failed to disclose and many are doing good work on this.

but what if the trial itself was pfraud?

because THAT would be seismic. it would not only severely implicate the FDA and pfizer alike, it would likely invalidate the liability protection granted under EUA and suddenly bourla and his merry band of vaxx aficionados might find themselves accountable. bigly.

and wouldn’t that be interesting?

so if this looks like a plausible possibility, we really ought to dig in like busy little mice and see what all we can winkle out.
fortunately, some busy little mice have already been doing so. and what they found is, well, pfrightening.

obviously, it’s early, we’re just getting going, we have not heard the other side of this story yet nor afforded them the opportunity to offer explanation and/or defense, but as someone who, like jikkyleaks, has been around lots of study enrollment, at first pass this pattern stinks like a red lobster dumpster. in houston. in august.

so let’s look:

pfizer recruited ~44k people into their vaccine study in record time. it was, as far as i know, the fastest clinical trial enrollment of this magnitude in human history. by a lot. they had 270 clinical sites numbered 1001 to 1270.

and several look to have some problems with their alleged patient process.

the biggest site was 1231 in argentina.

Twitter avatar for @Jikkyleaks Jikkyleaks (Fan account) @Jikkyleaks
The biggest recruiter by far is site 1231. In Argentina. Well of course, for a joint German-American drug where else? Site 1231 recruited 4501 patients. That is 10% of the patients AT ONE SITE. ALL 4501 patients were recruited in 3 weeks. WOW!

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4,501 patients in 3 weeks at military central hospital.

that’s a helluva thing.

now, anyone who has ever run a clinical trial is already probably jumping up and down like this:

for those who have not, allow me to explain: this is basically impossible. i don’t care who you are and what your team is.

if this really happened, it would be a wonder of the world and they should publish the process with pride and win 27 different prizes for it. stuff should be named after them.

but i doubt this will end up being the case.

they claim to have enrolled 7 days a week for 3 weeks with zero gaps. each patient requires a 250 page case report form. the lead investigator seems to have been fernando polack.

if, indeed, the best way to get things done is to give them to busy people, then this was a great choice, because from the look of things, fernando is one busy fellah.

and connected up the wazoo to boot.

he also works with vanderbilt, the FDA, and the infant foundation, funded by the gates foundation and the NIH.
and somehow, during this same period, he ran a study on convalescent plasma.

all of this is odd as polack is a pediatrician by training and seems an odd choice to head so much work in adults.



alas, a subsequent systematic review and meta-analysis failed to confirm these findings, noting “very serious imprecision concerns”.

oopsie.

we learn more about polack: (boldface mine)

Fernando has been commercially involved in clinical trials since 2014 when he was the director of Unitrials SA in 2014. This changed its name to Infant Trials SA in 2015.​
iTRIALS SA was formed the following year. His co-directors are biochemist Silvina Andrea Coviello and Fernando’s guitarist son Leandro.​
There are now four iTRIALS subsidiary LLC companies registered in Florida, c/o the offices of Cervetta-Lapham & Associates.​
iTRIALS is a site management organisation (SMO).​
“iTRIALS assists sponsors, CROs [Contract Research Organisations] and investigators in all aspects of clinical trials to help ensure that goals and expectations are timely and successfully met with international quality standards.”
“iTRIALS identifies high volume clinical research sites of extraordinary recruitment potential and high-quality staff.”
iTRIALS shares its offices with another of Fernando’s babies – Fundación INFANT

Meanwhile, on 10 July 2020, without any prior announcement, Fernando Polack and Nicolás Vaquer, CEO of Pfizer in Argentina, called on President Fernandez to tell him that Argentina had been selected by Pfizer to conduct Phase III clinical trials of their Covid Vaccine. Polack had taken part in Zoom calls with Pfizer since May that year.
Infobae reported Fernando proudly saying
“…if you have the scientific privilege of participating in the evaluation of a vaccine, you contribute to potentially better position your country in the waiting line for distribution.”
This placebo-controlled trial was arranged with military precision. Fleets of taxis were booked to ferry volunteers between their homes and the vaccine clinic at Hospital Militar Central in the northeast of the city. Volunteers were each given a tablet with a pre-installed app to record pre-defined symptoms.
About 5,800 volunteers were enrolled, half getting the active vaccine. This is almost 4 times more than the next largest centre in this trial. Amazingly 467 doctors were almost instantly signed up and trained as assistant investigators in the study. Fernando was in command as Pfizer’s Principal Investigator.
The first article about the Pfizer-sponsored multinational ground-breaking study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine on 31 December 2020, with Fernando as first author. Is this the first paper in NEJM with the owner of an SMO as first author?

recruiting, coordinating, and training 467 doctors this quickly is DEEPLY implausible as is having gotten all the patient flow through them including eligibility, inclusion criteria, etc. this would be a marvel at any medical center on earth. in BA, it’s a hat trick of concatenated miracles.

he got the word on 10 july. he was enrolling by the beginning of august, less than 3 weeks later and by 10 august was into the steep part of the ramp. all 4501 were done by end august less than 6 weeks after getting the go to start.

sorry, but i am finding this WAY past anywhere my credulity will stretch.

(note that the 5800 number varies from the 4501 at site 1231, and i think i may know why. (more on this later))
there are some additional suspicious inklings here: (raised back in march by dr david healy)

The second author was Dr Stephen Thomas of the State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse. In a BMJ podcast, Dr Thomas bills himself as the Lead Principal Investigator. His academic centre enrolled 364 volunteers.
Despite leading this project, Dr Thomas makes it very clear that he was only allowed access to analyses of aggregated data and didn’t know when or if Pfizer would release the raw data. It is not clear how much or how Pfizer paid for SUNY participation in the trial.
Our question is: Who ran the Buenos Aires vaccine trial, and where did the money go?

indeed, these are excellent questions. this site alone comprises over 10% of enrollment (probably more like 13%, more soon) and the whole story around it looks outlandishly implausible. in a locale famous for fraud and non-extradition.
huh.

this might warrant a bit more investigation, no?

especially given the uncertainty on just who ran this and what their conflicts of interest were.
healy speculates:



it’s not at all clear how the money flowed here and having the owner of the SMO running the trial also be the chief investigator in that trial is an astonishing conflict of interest and lacks the rudimentary checks and balances one would normally seek.

it might, for example, lead to some naughty games being played to get the results you want. because, who would know?



and ventavia has had some problems with it’s site for the pfizer trial:

The staff mostly women, dressed in fetching slate gray uniforms, were hired from local fast-food outlets and other settings. Most had no training. Those giving the vaccines should have had a healthcare background but didn’t and some had no training prior to starting – taking courses afterwards to ensure boxes were ticked.

um, yikes?

and whistleblowers had a lot to say.

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and yet they were unaudited.

this finds worrysome confluence with what has always looked to me like a pile of classification games played in the trial itself.

astonishing numbers of “adverse events” were declared “not vaccine related” and the AE’s in the placebo arm looked WAY out of line for saline injections.

and far more people were dropped from the active arm than the placebo. enough that you could have completely hidden a high side effect profile if this was done selectively.

discussed in more detail here:

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pfizer safety and efficacy: 6 month study
pfizer’s “Six Month Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine” study is out. as one would expect from a study funded by the drug designer and written by a pfizer employee, the claims a…
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altogether, this generates a serious pattern that smacks of fraud and manipulation.

it’s certainly enough to demand a full forensic investigation. the fact the the FDA did not audit the BA center that did 10-13% of the entire trial enrollment despite these huge red flags is outlandish.

there’s no way they made a mistake like that.

it was either dereliction so blatant as to seem implausible or a decision not to go looking for fear of what might be found.
this alone should put this whole approval on pause for review.

but the plot thickens.

enter “site 4444.”

(see next companion piece. these were too long to send as a single email)

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are we pfinding pfizer pfraud? (part 2)
this is the companion piece to part one which can be read here: there is another mystery to be piled on top of site 1231, and that is site 4444. and this one is more mysterious, because site 4444 does …
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more on trial site shenanigans and questions about the pfizer vaccine trial
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this is the companion piece to part one which can be read here:

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are we pfinding pfizer pfraud? (part 1)
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there is another mystery to be piled on top of site 1231, and that is site 4444.

and this one is more mysterious, because site 4444 does not appear to exist.

all the sites are listed HERE.

but that one is not. which is curious. especially as all the site numbers stop at 1270. there are no other site numbers above that.

and yet, we then see this:

Jikkyleaks
Well that's a bit of a problem because... There are a lot of entries in the randomisation log for #site4444. 1275 patients to be exact. About 3% of the total. And you know what? All 1275 "patients" were recruited in one week - from 22nd to 27th September 2020.
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all these patients were “enrolled” in one week. and according to certain clever rodents, this was a special week. an important week:



and this looks to have had the potential to be some “important data.”

placebo cases shot up in that last week racking up ~20% of total occurrence in the final 6 days of the 105 day period.
so 20% of bad outcomes in control arm in 5.7% of days, well over triple the baseline rate.

637 patients. out of 22k. 20% of bad outcomes. 2.9% of patients.

there sure are a LOT of coincidences around here.

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many are now saying that this site is actually a second batch of enrollees run through site 1231.

Jessica Rose
UPDATE: site 4444 was assigned siteid 1231 and therefore since site 1231 is in Argentina, we have solved the where. Now, how about the 'how can it be' that in 5 days, including a Sunday (09/27/20), did they recruit 1275 people? This happened a few days before the VRBPAC deadline.
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and steve kirsch seems to agree.

Steve Kirsch
Pfizer fraud? Or just great execution?
Summary The Pfizer documents just released show evidence of clinical trial enrollment at one site that appears to be quite fast. Is it fraud or just really good execution by the site? In speaking with experts, it is quite possible that there is nothing to see here…
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i have not personally confirmed this, but it looks like a lot of people have, so i suspect it’s a pretty good thesis to work from unless someone has another view. (or if someone can show me how to validate this, i’d be grateful)

regardless, we sure do have some 4444’s…

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however one slices it, this is another fertile field for investigation.

and other fields keep emerging:

our intrepid mouse also unearthed this:

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to see such identical results across so many sites is essentially mathematically impossible. the best case here is that it’s some kind of profound data error which, alone, would be a serious problem.

or, maybe it’s just a sign they were making stuff up.

all in all, there are an astonishing number of signs here that the data in the trial used to get an EUA for a vaccine that has been given to nearly a billion people worldwide has severe, unaddressed quality concerns.

is this data trustworthy? was it gathered and documented properly by qualified, dispassionate people? was it really gathered at all? or were large swathes of it created to suit outcomes needs by fiction writers posing as medical staff?

because something here looks badly awry and warrants explication.

it might also start to go a long way toward explaining why the real world performance of these mRNA products instantly diverged so severely from claimed trial results.

it’s not like this would be the first case of completely made up data being used in widely published covid studies.
remember the surgisphere study? that made up its covid data? in 2020?



this got published in 2 major journals, among the most prestigious in the world.

it took twitter 3 fricking days to tear it to shreds and leave it dead and discredited.

i remember, because i was there.

even “science” wound up dunking on them.

“Who's to blame? These three scientists are at the heart of the Surgisphere COVID-19 scandal

Author partnership on coronavirus papers is “completely bizarre” and should have been a red flag, former journal editor say.

and who knows how many others.



they may well have been “stunned” and “called for reviews on how science is conducted” but this all fell on deaf ears.
nothing changed. instead, it got worse.

every standard of care, review, and analysis got thrown out the window, corner cut, or outright ignored during covid. i have never seen anything remotely like it.

remdesivir was cleared for use despite completely missing its prospective clinical end point and remains approved despite having failed in dozens of post use studies. it’s a junk drug that skated by on deeply suspect machinations.

the FDA has abrogated nearly every duty it allegedly held during covid, skipped panels, overruled them, allowed post facto endpoint shifting, and seems to have had zero interest in safety, risks, or validation.

they vilified safe drugs and treatments from ivermectin to vitamin D to budesonide while pushing far more dangerous options with suspect efficacy and serious risk profiles.

it’s been a stunning volte face from when gottleib was running the agency and they were truly the global gold standard. i’ve never seen a regulator devolve at such speed and to describe gottleib’s mid-term out of the blue resignation in april of 2019 to go join the board of pfizer as a watershed seems an understatement. given what happened right after and the evidence that covid19 was likely already circulating by then, the whole thing is more than a little provocative.

but it’s all a sea of circumstantial evidence.

but perhaps it won’t be for long.

these data dumps will keep coming all summer and pieces are going to come together and one way or another, proof is going to emerge.

the analytical ecosystem to read and parse these documents is unlike anything any major corporation has ever faced before.

they cannot bury us with data, we’re going to overwhelm them with capacity to read it.

the documents are all HERE.

already, FDA negligence or outright complicity looks staggering.

and more will come. and more will gather to stitch them together and draw the map of where the bodies are buried.

and then we’re going to dig.

this whole thing has stunk to high hell.

and when anything smells like this, the odds on bet is that it has something rotten in the middle.
it’s just a question of what.

so let’s find out.

and if they want to wager that they can bury team reality and the 20 other tribes of truth seekers, scientists, statisticians, biotechnologists, and bean-counters under so much data that we cannot find it:

challenge accepted.

see you on the playing field.
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Pfizer fraud? Or just great execution?
Check out this Twitter thread from Jikkyleaks. The enrollment described seems too ideal to be true. If this is fraud, Pfizer is liable for all deaths and injuries caused by their vaccine.
Steve Kirsch
May 9



Summary

The Pfizer documents just released show evidence of clinical trial enrollment at one site that appears to be quite fast.

Is it fraud or just really good execution by the site? In speaking with experts, it is quite possible that there is nothing to see here.

It’s a vaccine trial and it was done in the middle of a pandemic. So nearly everyone is a candidate. That fact makes fast recruitment possible.

This article from Sept 10, 2020 shows they have an impressive infrastructure in place.

There is no way to know for sure without more information. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely we’ll get it.

If it is fraud, it means Pfizer is liable for all the deaths and disabilities caused by their drug.

Site 4444

Before looking at the Jikkyleaks tweets, it’s important to note that subjects with IDs starting with 4444 were enrolled at the 1231 site in Argentina. Those patients were recruited later just in time to have the safety data needed for FDA meeting. It is “impressive” they were able to turn on recruitment/enrollment machinery so quickly and right in the nick of time to meet the deadline.

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Figure 1: Enrollment at site 1231. The blue line is the first wave (4,500). The red line is the second wave (1,275). The second wave patients were tagged with 4444 which effectively means “Site 1231, second enrollment wave.” If they had 26 hospitals working 7 days a week to enroll patients, it is possible to achieve these numbers if the execution is perfect. Was the execution perfect? It’s unlikely anyone will give us any details. That should make us suspicious.

The Twitter post

Read the thread before the account is suspended. Or you can just skip down and watch my short video where I explain just how significant this post is.

Jikkyleaks (Fan account) @Jikkyleaks
HOLY CRAP! Two sites stand out from the #pfizerdocuments randomization log as major anomalies.... Site 1231 and Site 4444 You are not going to believe this..... @AaronSiriSG @fynn_fan @ClareCraigPath @profnfenton
Jikkyleaks (Fan account) @Jikkyleaks
What an interesting name... #Site4444 #pfizerdocuments #PfizerDump #pfake @AaronSiriSG @barnes_law @ClareCraigPath @sonia_elijah @JesslovesMJK @joshg99 https://t.co/TnP8WNNLcg

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My video explaining the thread

I just did a 16-minute video on Rumble showing my initial reaction to the Twitter post.
16min 40sec

I found out after I made the video that Site 4444 is the same site as Site 1231 and that Polack is associated with a foundation that coordinates 26 hospitals in Argentina involving 467 doctors who were instantly recruited. This changes the odds in my mind. I checked with experts and they thought it could be done.

Is this fraud? Or just amazing execution?

Dr. Polack is the Scientific Director of the INFANT Foundation in Buenos Aires which coordinates a network of 26 hospitals in Argentina.

So if all 26 hospitals participated fully then that's 57 patients per week per hospital which is possible if the sites have done this before and have a coordination framework for getting all 26 sites up and running at the same time. This means that everyone who was doing something else dropped what they were doing to switch over to the trial all at the same time.

Bottom line: It’s quite possible they pulled it off. See this article from Sept 10, 2020 which shows they have an impressive infrastructure in place.

About Dr. Polack

Polack won the 2010 E. Mead Johnson Award for Excellence in Pediatric Research, awarded by the Society for Pediatric Research.

You can learn a bit about him. Here’s a brief overview:

"Dr. Fernando Polack is a Specialist in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, graduated with Honors from the University of Buenos Aires in 1990. Dr. Polack completed residency training at the French Hospital in Buenos Aires and at William Beaumont Hospital in Michigan followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Polack is the Cesar Milstein Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University and the Scientific Director of the INFANT Foundation in Buenos Aires which coordinates a network of 26 hospitals in Argentina. Dr. Polack has led numerous scientific manuscripts in reputed journals, including N Eng J Med, Nature Med, J Exp Med and PNAS, among others.
His work is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Thrasher Research Fund, the Optimus Foundation and other international organizations."
See this article written by David Healy for more on the guy behind that site who is also the first author in the Pfizer NEJM paper. Here are a few excerpts:

About 5,800 volunteers were enrolled, half getting the active vaccine. This is almost 4 times more than the next largest centre in this trial. Amazingly 467 doctors were almost instantly signed up and trained as assistant investigators in the study. Fernando was in command as Pfizer’s Principal Investigator.
Neither Augusto’s pericardial effusion, nor another volunteer’s penile vein thrombosis, appear to have found their way into the reported side effects of this trial.

You can also watch this video on Polack that was done by “Amazing Polly” St. George on October 4, 2021 (start at 3:20). However, there is no real “smoking gun” in the video or clear evidence of corruption.

The lack of proper adverse event reporting is a problem, even if the enrollment is legit.

Summary

Was there fraud in the Pfizer trial? Without a doubt. The story of Maddie de Garay is a clear case of that. Brook Jackson has evidence of fraud; she has 17 lawyers working for her. If there wasn’t fraud, these lawyers wouldn’t be wasting their time.

This new data on Site 1231/4444 looks suspicious to me. It looks too good to be true. But we can’t make the call without more information. Undoubtedly, the mainstream media will not look into this, Pfizer will remain silent, and Polack will be unreachable for comment.

The lack of transparency should be troubling to everyone. That is the one thing we can say for sure.
 

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high vaxx, high case
it's getting too big to hide
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here’s an interesting little factoid.

based on the NYT data HERE i compared the list of the top 10 US states (excluding territories) by full vaccination % to the list of the top 10 states by cases per day at present (using 7 day moving avg)

strikingly, 8 out of 10 of the most vaxxed on in the top 10 for most cases per capita. (and thus 8 out of 10 of most cases/100k are in most vaxxed)

the top three match the top 3.

in fact, the top 7 match the top 7.

odd, no?



this is getting too big to hide.

when even the wall st journal is starting to sound like they are cribbing from “bad cattitude,” well, people are starting to notice.



vermont just saw hospitalizations among over 70’s exceed the winter peak and make an all time high. (this data is real time and subject to updating, so it’s not clear whether the downtick of the last couple days is real or data delay.)



regardless, this is not what you want to see and this is wildly out of season. that population is 100% vaxxed per VT statistics. pretty hard to blame that one on the unvaxxed.



this segment is seeing sharply rising hospital rates in all of the northeast and in hawaii during a seasonal period when they should be showing declines.

and people are starting to notice.

and the claims that this is the unvaxxed look increasingly threadbare.

and more and more are seeing through it.

i know so many vaxxed people who have had 2 and 3 rounds of covid and who get covid double dips where they think they are recovered and then get a second round of symptoms.

this sort of thing is all over the internet.



i know a lot of unvaxxed people too. and they are not having this issue. i don’t know any. now, maybe i just have an unusually healthy group of friends and acquaintances (possible) but the variance is pretty striking.

it’s noticable.

i suspect others are noticing the same.

if so, the questions are about to get pointy.

and the answers are coming up short.
 

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For some reason this video just now didn't show up when I searched "Geert Vanden Bossche" on Rumble. It also didn't come up when I did a search for "Syed Haider". I had seen it earlier today but couldn't find it again without much difficulty. So here it is, another video Geert did last week. I haven't watched it yet but because it's so tricky to find, I'm posting now while I found it again.

Geert Vanden Bossche Warns the Vaccinated of Immune Escape Variants
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Published May 9, 2022
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Vaccine expert Geert Van Den Bossche, who has worked for GAVI and the Gates Foundation, has been a vocal critic of vaccinating into a pandemic, warning consistently of creating a pandemic of variants and has tried to warn governments around the world of the tragic missteps they have taken with their pandemic programs. He has especially warned against the danger of injecting our children.

In his latest work he is warning of the two step immune evasion of the virus. The first step was increased infectivity, which has occurred, the second step will be increased virulence and he estimates this will take place in the coming months and will only affect those who have been primed by the injections.

See the warning here:

Geert Vanden Bossche Predictions on evolution Covid 19 pandemic [UPDATE May 2022] | Voice for Science and Solidarity

Find me online at: Dr. Syed Haider and Dr. Syed Haider where you can register for free medical chat with my team if you have any questions on medical matters and also request pandemic prescriptions.
 

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The Global Covid Summit, comprising over 17,000 physicians and scientists, holds a press conference highlighting the Summit’s declaration to “Restore Scientific Integrity.”

Speakers include Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Ryan Cole, Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, Dr. Lynn Fynn, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, Dr. Richard Urso and more.
 

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Los Angeles postpones its public school vaccine mandate until summer 2023
The administration of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) postponed a statewide school vaccine mandate last month.
By Sophie Mann
Updated: May 11, 2022 - 3:05pm

The Los Angeles Unified School District has postponed its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students ages 12 and older from taking effect until next year.

The move follows the city's Board of Education voting Tuesday night to delay the previously mandated start until at least July 1, 2023.

"Today’s vote shows that we are a science-based school district, and the health and safety protocols we adopt are influenced by the expert advice of our medical partners and public health officials," said district Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho in a statement.

Last year, California announced all schoolchildren would need to receive the coronavirus vaccine. At the time, Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, estimated that the requirement would go into effect ahead of the 2022-2023 school year, which means this summer.

Last month, however, the state government put a hold on the mandate until at least summer 2023 because school officials worried they would not be able to implement the mandate in time. The Los Angeles school district is now on track with the rest of the state in its delay.

"Due to the high vaccination rates among students 12 and older, low transmission rates in our schools and our nation-leading safety measures, we have preserved in-person learning in the safest possible environment," said Carvalho, acknowledging that students do best when learning in an environment with their peers.
 

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The Inhumanity of Compulsory Virus Control
By Paul Elias Alexander
May 11, 2022

In the last week, some of the top spokespeople for lockdowns, and all that is associated with that policy of pathogenic control, have come out to defend them plus threatening more now that we are seeing seasonal increases in cases.
It’s almost as if they have learned nothing.

They certainly haven’t admitted error – Bill Gates will never do that – despite all the carnage all around us. It includes not only destroyed businesses and educational losses but also inflation, goods shortages, weakened financial markets, broken supply chains, social and political conflict, and countless broken lives.

All of this traces to lockdowns, a policy advocated and enforced by specific people, mostly powerful and highly paid intellectuals, and amplified by the media.

They say that no one could have known. Not so. Drs. Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, Gupta, Atlas, Tenenbaum, Risch, McCullough, Urso, Dara, Wolf, Oskoui, Ladapo and other contrarians such as Jeffrey Tucker, Ivor Cummings, and Paul Joseph Watson, and many other writers at Brownstone, were right on the devastation and failures of COVID lockdowns.

We wrote nearly two years now clamoring against the devastation that would come from societal lockdowns and school closures. We wrote extensively on the ineffectiveness of masks (references 1, 2, 3, 4) and the accrued harms, especially for children, yet were ridiculed and dismissed by the media and the medical establishment. We reported on the catastrophic effects of COVID lockdowns on children, yet were dismissed and canceled.

We felt that it was lockdown lunacy when we could have used an age-risk stratified ‘focused’ protection approach (Great Barrington Declaration), with strong protections of the vulnerable high-risk in our societies first, while allowing the rest of the lower-risk healthy and well in society (younger persons) to live largely normal lives with unfettered tampering by governments. We even added the need for vitamin D supplementation, body weight control, and the use of early outpatient treatment, but were scoffed at and dismissed as heretics. We were ridiculed, slandered, and smeared, despite evidence of the vicious societal costs from lockdowns and the near 500 studies and pieces of evidence that show the failures and harms from lockdowns and school closures.

It was stupefying to us skeptics and contrarians as to why governments, whose primary roles are to protect their citizens, were taking such draconian and punitive actions despite the compelling evidence (that was available and accumulated one month after the pandemic onset) that the restrictive policies were misdirected and very harmful; causing palpable harm to human welfare on so many levels. It was tantamount to insanity what governments did to their populations and largely based on no scientific footing.

In this, we lost our civil liberties and essential rights, all based on spurious ‘science’ or worse, opinion, and this erosion of fundamental freedoms and democracy was being championed by government leaders who were disregarding the Constitutional (USA) and Charter (Canada) limits to their right to make and enact policy.

These unconstitutional and unprecedented restrictions have taken a staggering toll on our health and well-being and also targeted the very precepts of democracy; particularly given the fact that this viral pandemic was no different in overall impact on society than many previous pandemics.

There was simply no defensible rationale to treat this pandemic any differently. Societies lost three things during COVID: 1) lives due to the virus itself, principally among the high-risk aged vulnerable, 2) devastatingly, lives due to the lockdown and school closure policies as collateral damage, and 3) our liberties, freedoms, and rights.

Our dignity and humanity are abused when governments take our rights via emergency powers. We must fight this in the courts, peacefully, civilly, and legally, but fight we must to re-establish our rights and liberties.

There was no reason to lock down, constrain and harm ordinarily healthy, well, and younger or working-age members of the population irreparably; the very people who would be expected to and would have extricated us from this factitious nightmare and helped us survive the damages caused by possibly the greatest self-inflicted public health fiasco ever promulgated on societies.

There was no good reason, no sound science, no justification to have continued the illogical lockdown lunacy and school closure policy that did far greater harm than good. Why when we saw the failure of lockdowns did we harden them? Never in human history have we done this and employed such overtly oppressive restrictions with no basis.

A fundamental tenet of public health medicine is that those with actual disease or who are at great risk of contracting disease are quarantined, not people with low disease risk; not the well. This was ignored by an embarrassingly large number of health experts upon whom our politicians relied for advice.

These experts seemed academically sloppy and cognitively limited, unable to read the science or understand the data that was clear. We should have used a more ‘targeted’ (population-specific age and risk) approach in relation to the implementation of public health measures as opposed to the inelegant and shotgun tactics forced upon us that was so very devastating.

Optimally, the key elements for modern public health include refraining from causing societal disruption (or at most, minimally) and to ensure freedom is maintained in the advent of pathogen emergence while concurrently protecting overall health and well-being. We did none of that. We locked down the well and healthy and still failed to protect the high-risk vulnerable, all the while decimating our peoples societally and destroying economies.

What updated evidence do we have about the failure of lockdowns? Sweden has shown us that we were correct in our fight against the lockdown lunatics at CDC, NIH, and the Trump and Biden administrations. Sweden incurred far fewer deaths per capita than most of Europe even when they refused to enforce strict lockdown policies.

The harms and deaths from the lockdowns belong to Fauci and Birx. It was their lockdowns that POTUS Trump enacted, misguided as he was. He trusted their counsel and guidance, and they betrayed him and Americans for they were not acting on the prevailing science. Children committed suicide across America as a result.

I know, we had data coming up from the States but the media refused to make the exact suicides in children known to the public as it would have shown the benevolence and compassion and urgency in Trump’s calls to Fauci and Birx and the CDC and unions to open schools (and society). Children starved as for many of our children (especially minority children), the only daily meal was their lunch in the school setting.

The laptop, café latte, Zoom class of people did not wonder about that? As they Uber-ed out and remote worked? As they walked their dogs and caught up on some reading? As they tended to their gardens? We have been raising clarion calls for two years now and as we witness the recent lockdown lunacy on display in Shanghai and Beijing, China, we are left wondering, why? Why, when the evidence from Sweden confirmed our greatest fears and supports our prophetic warnings. Why does this portend to things to come in the US this fall?

More specifically, a literature review and meta-analysis on the impacts of lockdowns by Herby et al. found that “lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average. SIPOs were also ineffective, only reducing COVID-19 mortality by 2.9% on average. Specific NPI studies also find no broad-based evidence of noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality.”

They further reported that lockdowns have had near zero public health effects, and “they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”

Sweden specifically, got it almost right and showed the world that lockdowns did absolutely nothing to save lives, but rather caused catastrophic pain and deaths. We have found no evidence anywhere in this world, for the last two years, that any lockdown worked to curb transmission or deaths.

Sweden, which was slandered and attacked by COVID ‘experts’ and governments globally in the early stages of the pandemic for not imposing mandatory lockdown, ended up experiencing fewer deaths per capita than much of Europe. “In 2020 and 2021, the country had an average excess death rate of 56 per 100,000 – compared to 109 in the UK, 111 in Spain, 116 in Germany and 133 in Italy.”

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The body of evidence shows that COVID-19 lockdowns, shelter-in-place policies, masks, school closures, and mask mandates have failed disastrously in their purpose of curbing transmission or reducing deaths. These restrictive policies were highly ineffective and devastating failures, causing immense harm especially to the poorer and vulnerable within societies.

Nearly all governments attempted compulsory measures to control the virus, but no government attained success. The research indicates that mask mandates, lockdowns, school closures, and vaccine mandates have had no discernible impact of virus trajectories. The experiment ranks among the worst failures of public health and public policy in history.

Perhaps Bendavid captured it best in research that was seminal and reported “in the framework of this analysis, there is no evidence that more restrictive nonpharmaceutical interventions (‘lockdowns’) contributed substantially to bending the curve of new cases in England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, or the United States in early 2020.”
The reality is that we did not need this robust research to tell us this. Chin and Ioannidis et al. echoed similarly in their findings, reporting that “inferences on effects of NPIs are non-robust and highly sensitive to model specification. Claimed benefits of lockdown appear grossly exaggerated.”

We have known this for a very long time now but lockdown lunatic governments continued to double down and harden and extend lockdowns, punishing their peoples as we are seeing in China today, and causing misery upon people with ramifications that will likely take decades or more to repair.

Despite the demand for more and for the retention of all powers, we must never allow our governments to have such emergency powers. Never again do we allow these lockdowners to cause so much harm and deaths by their unsound and specious actions. We must ensure we have proper legal public inquiries of all the health officials and government persons whose policies were enacted.

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Dr. Paul Alexander is an epidemiologist focusing on clinical epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, and research methodology. He has a master's in epidemiology from University of Toronto, and a master's degree from Oxford University. He earned his PhD from McMaster's Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact. He has some background training in Bioterrorism/Biowarfare from John's Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland. Paul is a former WHO Consultant and Senior Advisor to US Department of HHS in 2020 for the COVID-19 response.
 

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Acting NIH Director Admits Appearance of Conflict of Interest in Secret Royalty Payments to Fauci, Scientists
By Mark Tapscott
May 11, 2022

Undisclosed royalty payments estimated at $350 million from pharmaceutical and other firms to Dr. Anthony Fauci and hundreds of National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists do present “an appearance of a conflict of interest,” according to the agency’s acting director.

Dr. Lawrence Tabak, who took over as NIH director following the December 2021 resignation of the agency’s long-time leader, Dr. Francis Collins, told a House Appropriations Committee subcommittee that federal law allows the royalty payments, but he conceded that they don’t look ethical.

“Right now, I think the NIH has a credibility problem and this only feeds into this, and I’m only just learning about this,” Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) told Tabak. “People in my district say, ‘Well, so-and-so has a financial interest,’ or they don’t like ivermectin because they aren’t benefitting from that royalty.

“You may have very sound scientific reasons for recommending a medicine or not, but the idea that people get a financial benefit from certain research that’s been done and grants that were awarded, that is, to me, the height of the appearance of a conflict of interest.”

In response, Tabak said NIH doesn’t endorse particular medicines.

“We support the science that validates whether an invention is or is not efficacious, we don’t say this is good or this is bad. … I certainly can understand that it might seem as a conflict of interest,” he said.

Moolenaar seemed taken aback by Tabak’s response and, while pointing to Fauci, who was also testifying, said that “truthfully, I would say you’ve had leaders of NIH saying certain medicines are not good.”

Tabak said such statements by NIH are based on clinical trials that are supported by the agency.

Moolenaar then asked Tabak, “But if the agency is awarding who is the beneficiary of the grant, who is doing the trial, and there is somehow finances involved, that there is a financial benefit that could be accrued if someone’s patent or invention is considered validated, do you not see that as a conflict or at least the appearance of a conflict of interest?”

After conceding that there’s an appearance of a conflict of interest, Tabak suggested to Moolenaar that “maybe this is the sort of thing that we can work together on so that we can explain to you the firewalls that we do have because they are substantial and significant.”

Moolenaar’s reference to Fauci was in regard to him telling The Associated Press in a 2005 article that first brought the NIH royalties issues into the headlines that he had donated his royalties to charity.

But the issue faded from the headlines after 2005, and it’s only now getting renewed attention as a result of revelations first reported on May 9 by The Epoch Times that documents obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by a nonprofit government watchdog show an estimated $350 million in undisclosed royalty payments from pharmaceutical and other private firms to top NIH executives, as well as to hundreds of the agency’s health scientists and researchers.

The $350 million in royalty payments were made between 2010 and 2020, according to Open the Books, the nonprofit that took the NIH to court when it refused to acknowledge the group’s FOIA request for documents.

Collins received 14 payments, Fauci received 23 payments, and his deputy, Clifford Lane, received eight payments, according to Open the Books.

Adam Andrzejewski, founder and president of Open the Books, told The Epoch Times on May 11 that NIH continues to withhold important information about the royalty payments, including the names of particular payers and the specific amounts paid to individuals at NIH.

“With tens of billions of dollars in grant-making at NIH and tens of millions of royalty dollars from third-party payers flowing back into the agency each year, NIH needs to come clean with the American people and open the books. We need to be able to follow the money,” Andrzejewski said.

“We believe transparency will revolutionize U.S. public policy. There is no better example of this than the third-party (think pharmaceutical companies) payments to NIH scientists. Every single outside payment to a government scientist could be a conflict of interest.”

The Moolenaar–Tabak exchange took place during a hearing on the Biden administration’s 2023 budget request.

Rep. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.), who’s also a surgeon, told The Epoch Times that “it’s no secret that the agency needs reform. Their many issues were exacerbated and highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing the public with transparent access to how the NIH is spending taxpayer dollars and reaching their decisions is a basic responsibility, and they must be held accountable. Now more than ever, we must commit to reforming our federal health agencies and restoring America’s trust in public health.”
 

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EU Set to Drop Mask Mandate for Air Travel Next Week
By Lorenz Duchamps
May 11, 2022

The European Union will no longer require the wearing of masks at airports or onboard flights beginning on May 16, as the continent looks to ease CCP virus restrictions on passengers and crew members, authorities announced on May 11.

“From next week, face masks will no longer need to be mandatory in air travel in all cases, broadly aligning with the changing requirements of national authorities across Europe for public transport,” said Patrick Ky, executive director of the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

In a joint statement, EASA and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) noted that rules regarding masks may continue to vary by airline beyond that date if they fly to or from destinations where the rules are different.

ECDC Director Andrea Ammon said cabin crews should remain cautious and inform passengers of any required measures in a timely manner, as rules can still vary in departure and destination locations.

“The importance of these measures should continue to be effectively communicated to passengers for their safety, and ECDC will continue to work with our colleagues at EASA to regularly assess and amend the recommendations as necessary,” Ammon said.

The mask mandate on planes and at airports in the EU has been in place for about two years and has led to conflicts between passengers and airlines across the continent.

Ky said travelers should respect the choices of others around them and behave responsibly, saying that if a passenger is “coughing and sneezing,” that person “should strongly consider wearing a face mask for the reassurance of those seated nearby.”

The two agencies said the health protocol update is a big step forward in the normalization of air travel across Europe, and it takes into account the latest developments in the COVID-19 pandemic, such as a growing number of European countries lifting CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus restrictions, naturally acquired immunity, and vaccination levels.

“While mandatory mask-wearing in all situations is no longer recommended, it is important to be mindful that together with physical distancing and good hand hygiene, it is one of the best methods of reducing transmission,” Ammon said, noting that aircrew should avoid imposing distancing requirements on passengers because they “will very likely lead to a bottleneck … especially if they are not required at national or regional level in other similar settings.”

The change comes about a month after a Florida judge struck down a similar mandate in the United States, saying that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s mask rule exceeded the agency’s statutory authority because its implementation violated administrative law.

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‘Like a Prison’: Shanghai Residents See No End in Sight 6 Weeks Into COVID-19 Lockdown
By Dorothy Li
May 11, 2022 Updated: May 12, 2022

Shanghai has entered its seventh week of lockdown, and measures have only become harsher, with officials being pressured to eliminate every COVID-19 infection within communities as per the regime’s “zero-COVID” standard, leaving millions with little hope in sight.

In some parts of the city, if an apartment building has a positive case, all its residents are forcefully shipped off to quarantine facilities. Meanwhile, infected people have had to hand over their house keys so health workers can disinfect their homes.

Some Shanghai residents have reported that their neighborhoods have announced a “quiet period,” where no one is allowed to leave home and deliveries are halted, though there’s been no official announcement.

Such strict policies have been additional blows to those of the city’s 25 million residents who have been relying on deliveries to obtain food and other daily necessities while they’re confined inside their homes.

The tightened curbs came after Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping addressed the Shanghai outbreak for the first time. Speaking at the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee meeting on May 5, Xi vowed to win what he called a “battle defending greater Shanghai” while issuing warnings to anyone who questioned the zero-COVID policy, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

Following the meeting in Beijing, Shanghai’s Party chief Li Qiang on May 6 ordered officials to “issue military orders at all levels, and take more resolute and powerful actions to overcome the great war and great tests,” according to an official statement.

‘One Person Tests Positive, Whole Building Quarantined’

According to neighborhood community notices circulating online, residents were being sent to centralized quarantine facilities if someone in the building tests positive. Over the weekend, many shared on Twitter-like Weibo that they were forcefully taken away for quarantine. On May 10, the hashtag “one person tests positive, whole building quarantined” garnered 1 million views.

When asked about the claim at a briefing on the same day, city officials said the definition of a close contact within a sealed-off building includes residents who live above or below the floor where a person tested positive. Previously, people who shared the apartment or lived on the same level as positive cases were considered close contacts. The widened criteria mean that more people in the same building are now at risk of being sent to the isolation center, even though officials called on avoiding the “one-size-fits-all” approach.

In a widely shared video, police in hazmat suits argue with residents, who were told they needed to be quarantined after a neighbor tested positive.

“This is so that we can thoroughly remove any positive cases,” one of the officers can be heard saying.

“It’s not that you can do whatever you want—unless you’re in America. This is China,” another police officer says. “Stop asking me why. There is no why. We have to adhere to national guidelines and epidemic control policies.”

In another viral video from Douyin, a Chinese version of Tiktok, some hazmat suit-clad neighborhood personnel patrolling an empty street can be heard saying: “Residents, please don’t go out. If one person becomes positive, all in the building will be taken away.”

The Epoch Times couldn’t verify the authenticity of the videos.

‘Quiet Period’

Several residential communities have ordered people not to leave home or receive deliveries, as part of a “quiet period.”
One residential community in Shanghai’s Pudong district ordered people not to step out of their homes or receive essential deliveries such as food and medicine, according to a resident who shared the notice with The Epoch Times.

People were asked to cancel food orders if the packages were scheduled to be delivered before May 10, according to a statement issued by the Laoshan Sancun neighborhood community. The Epoch Times couldn’t reach the community despite repeated calls.

Another Pudong resident surnamed Hu told The Epoch Times on May 9 that other neighborhood committees were issuing similar orders. People in Hu’s residential compound were supposed to be released on May 11 after recording no new infections for two weeks. But the new “quiet period” means they’ll be confined in their homes for another three or four days, he said.

At the weekend, residents in at least four of Shanghai’s 16 districts received similar notices, with many previously allowed to walk inside their residential compounds, according to Reuters.

‘No Hope’

Shanghai city official Jin Chen confirmed at a press conference on May 10 that health workers needed to disinfect the homes of people who had tested positive. The official reminded residents to inform health workers about items that needed special protection.

Concerns have been rising after recordings emerged on social media that show neighborhood staff in Shanghai demanding that residents hand over keys to their homes to let health workers disinfect.

A resident surnamed Chen told The Epoch Times that people in Beicai town were asked to hand over their keys as they were sent to quarantine.

He said health workers then went in and sprayed disinfectant on the floor, furniture, and beds, and they threw all the cold and frozen food on the floor as they disinfected the refrigerator.

“People are furious when they come home after two weeks’ quarantine: Food is moldy and smelly … and flies are everywhere,” he said.

The extreme measures have fueled public angst and raised questions about their legality.

Professor Tong Zhiwei, who teaches law at the East China University of Political Science and Law, wrote in an essay widely circulated on Weibo on May 7 that such acts were illegal and should stop.

“No organizations in Shanghai have the right to forcefully require residents to hand over the keys and enter their homes for ‘disinfection,’” Tong wrote. “Any practice of using coercive means to force residents to be sent to shelters for isolation is illegal.”

Liu Dali, a lawyer from one of China’s largest law firms, wrote a similar letter to authorities.

Copies of both letters have been censored from the Chinese internet. Posts from Tong’s social media account on the Weibo site were blocked as of May 8.

The heavy-handed control has left some seeing no hope of being free anytime soon, as the authorities aim to snuff out transmission of the fast-moving Omicron variant. On May 9, Shanghai recorded 3,014 cases, down from 3,947 a day earlier, though residents have repeatedly said the official figures are underreported, given the regime’s practice of covering up information it deems harmful to its image.

On May 10, the last two subway lines suspended operation, according to state-backed news outlet The Paper.
A Pudong resident surnamed Wang said there are always one or two positive cases after mandatory testing of all inhabitants of the 33 apartment buildings in his community.

“All the residents are complaining. It seems like there’s no hope of easing restrictions. We could be sealed in until the last day of the year,” Wang told The Epoch Times on May 9. “People are desperate.”

“It’s like a prison,” said Coco Wang, a Shanghai resident living under the new restrictions. “We’re not afraid of the virus. We’re afraid of this policy.”

Luo Ya, Yi Ru, Lin Cenxin, and Reuters contributed to the report.
 

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Update 161: COVID-19 Repeated Infections: The Why and What You Can Do
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Roger Seheult, MD of MedCram examines why some are infected with COVID-19 multiple times, and what you can do to assist your immune system. See all Dr. Seheult's videos at: https://www.medcram.com (This video was recorded on May 11, 2022) Roger Seheult, MD is the co-founder and lead professor at https://www.medcram.com He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine and an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine. LINKS / REFERENCES: The hyper-transmissible BA.2.12.1 is now 43% of new cases in the US (Eric Topol) | https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/... Our conversation about BA.2.12.1, boosters, and the potential unknown variants that lie ahead (Eric Topol) | https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/... Pre-activated antiviral innate immunity in the upper airways controls early SARS-CoV-2 infection in children (Nature Biotechnology) | https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158... Hydrothermotherapy in prevention and treatment of mild to moderate cases of COVID-19 (Medical Hypotheses) | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33303... Hydrotherapy at Home (Health Education Resources) | https://hydrotherapyathome.com Hydrotherapy for COVID-19 (HYDRO4COVID) | https://www.hydro4covid.com All coronavirus updates are at MedCram.com (including more discussion on delta variant covid, COVID Delta, COVID children, natural immunity COVID 19, and more). MedCram Update 46: https://youtu.be/EFRwnhfWXxo MedCram Update 47: https://youtu.be/H1LHgyfPPQ8 MedCram Update 132: https://youtu.be/9OZZ6_M4OB0
 
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Common steroids after 'long COVID' recovery may cut risk of death by up to 51%
by Frontiers
May 12, 2022

Evidence continues to gather that "long COVID," that is, continued negative health impacts months after apparent recovery from severe COVID-19, is an important risk for some patients. For example, researchers from the University of Florida Gainesville showed last December that hospitalized patients who seemingly recovered from severe COVID-19 run more than double the risk of dying within the next year, compared to people who experienced only mild or moderate symptoms and who had not been hospitalized, or who never caught the illness.

Now, a team including some of the same authors shows, for the first time, that among patients hospitalized for COVID-19 who seemingly recovered, severe systemic inflammation during their hospitalization is a risk factor for death within one year. This may seem paradoxical, as inflammation is a natural part of the body's immune response, which has evolved to fight infection. But in some illnesses, including COVID-19, this response may overshoot, causing further harm.

"COVID-19 is known to create inflammation, particularly during the first, acute episode. Our study is the first to examine the relationship between inflammation during hospitalization for COVID-19 and mortality after the patient has 'recovered,'" said first author Prof. Arch G. Mainous III, vice chair for research in the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine at the University of Florida Gainesville.

"Here we show that the stronger the inflammation during the initial hospitalization, the greater the probability that the patient will die within 12 months after seemingly 'recovering' from COVID-19."

Mainous and colleagues studied the de-identified electronic health records of 1,207 adults hospitalized in 2020 or 2021 after testing positive for COVID-19 within the University of Florida health system, and who had been followed up for at least one year after discharge. As a proxy for the severity of systemic inflammation during hospitalization, they used a common and validated measure, the concentration in blood of the molecule C-reactive protein (CRP), secreted by the liver in response to a signal by active immune cells.

Inflammation in many parts of the body

As expected, the blood concentration of CRP during hospitalization was strongly correlated with the severity of COVID-19: 59.4 mg/L for hospitalized patients who didn't require supplemental oxygen, 126.9 mg/L for those who needed extra oxygen through non-invasive, non-mechanical ventilation, and 201.2 mg/L for the most severe cases, who required ventilation through a ventilator or through extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

COVID-19 patients with the highest CRP concentration measured during their hospital stay had a 61% greater hazard—corrected for other risk factors—of dying of any cause within one year of discharge from the hospital than patients with the lowest CRP concentration. These results are published in Frontiers in Medicine.

Mainous said, "Many infectious diseases are accompanied by an increase in inflammation. Most times the inflammation is focused or specific to where the infection is. COVID-19 is different because it creates inflammation in many places besides the airways, for example in the heart, brain, and kidneys. High degrees of inflammation can lead to tissue damage."

Importantly, the authors showed that the elevated hazard of death from any cause associated with severe inflammation was lowered again by 51% if the patient was prescribed anti-inflammatory steroids after their hospitalization.

These results mean that the severity of inflammation during hospitalization for COVID-19 can predict the risk of subsequent serious health problems, including death, from long COVID. They also imply that current recommendations for best practice may need to be changed, to include more widespread prescription of orally taken steroids to COVID-19 patients upon their discharge.

COVID-19: A chronic disease?

COVID-19 should be seen as a potentially chronic disease, propose the authors.

"When someone has a cold or even pneumonia, we usually think of the illness being over once the patient recovers. This is different from a chronic disease, like congestive heart failure or diabetes, which continue to affect patients after an acute episode. We may similarly need to start thinking of COVID-19 as having ongoing effects in many parts of the body after patients have recovered from the initial episode," said Mainous.

"Once we recognize the importance of 'long COVID' after seeming 'recovery,' we need to focus on treatments to prevent later problems, such as strokes, brain dysfunction, and especially premature death."
 

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Two years after infection, half of people hospitalized with COVID-19 have at least one symptom, follow-up study suggests
by Lancet
May 11, 2022

Two years after infection with COVID-19, half of patients who were admitted to hospitals still have at least one symptom, according to the longest follow-up study to date, published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. The study followed 1,192 participants in China infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the first phase of the pandemic in 2020.

While physical and mental health generally improved over time, the analysis suggests that COVID-19 patients still tend to have poorer health and quality of life than the general population. This is especially the case for participants with long COVID, who typically still have at least one symptom, including fatigue, shortness of breath, and sleep difficulties two years after initially falling ill.

The long-term health impacts of COVID-19 have remained largely unknown, as the longest follow-up studies to date have spanned around one year. The lack of pre-COVID-19 health status baselines and comparisons with the general population in most studies have also made it difficult to determine how well patients with COVID-19 have recovered.

Lead author Professor Bin Cao, of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, China, says, "Our findings indicate that for a certain proportion of hospitalized COVID-19 survivors, while they may have cleared the initial infection, more than two years is needed to recover fully from COVID-19. Ongoing follow-up of COVID-19 survivors, particularly those with symptoms of long COVID, is essential to understand the longer course of the illness, as is further exploration of the benefits of rehabilitation programs for recovery. There is a clear need to provide continued support to a significant proportion of people who've had COVID-19, and to understand how vaccines, emerging treatments, and variants affect long-term health outcomes."

The authors of the new study sought to analyze the long-term health outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 survivors, as well as specific health impacts of long COVID. They evaluated the health of 1,192 participants with acute COVID-19 treated at Jin Yin-tan Hospital in Wuhan, China, between January 7 and May 29, 2020, at six months, 12 months, and two years.

Assessments involved a six-minute walking test, laboratory tests, and questionnaires on symptoms, mental health, health-related quality of life, whether they had returned to work, and health care use after discharge. The negative effects of long COVID on quality of life, exercise capacity, mental health, and health-care use were determined by comparing participants with and without long COVID symptoms. Health outcomes at two years were determined using an age-, sex-, and comorbidities-matched control group of people in the general population with no history of COVID-19 infection.

The median age of participants at discharge was 57 years, and 54% (n = 641) were men. Six months after initially falling ill, 68% (777/1,149) of participants reported at least one long COVID symptom. By two years after infection, reports of symptoms had fallen to 55% (650/1,190). Fatigue or muscle weakness were the symptoms most often reported and fell from 52% (593/1,151) at six months to 30% (357/1,190) at two years. Regardless of the severity of their initial illness, 89% (438/494) of participants had returned to their original work at two years.

Two years after initially falling ill, patients with COVID-19 are generally in poorer health than the general population, with 31% (351/1,127) reporting fatigue or muscle weakness and 31% (354/1,127) reporting sleep difficulties. The proportion of non-COVID-19 participants reporting these symptoms was 5% (55/1,127) and 14% (153/1,127), respectively. COVID-19 patients were also more likely to report a number of other symptoms including joint pain, palpitations, dizziness, and headaches. In quality of life questionnaires, COVID-19 patients also more often reported pain or discomfort (23% [254/1,127]) and anxiety or depression (12% [131/1,127]) than non-COVID-19 participants (5% [57/1,127] and 5% [61/1,127], respectively).

Around half of study participants (650/1,190) had symptoms of long COVID at two years, and reported lower quality of life than those without long COVID. In mental health questionnaires, 35% (228/650) reported pain or discomfort and 19% (123/650) reported anxiety or depression. The proportion of COVID-19 patients without long COVID reporting these symptoms was 10% (55/540) and 4% (19/540) at two years, respectively. Long COVID participants also more often reported problems with their mobility (5% [33/650]) or activity levels (4% [24/540]) than those without long COVID (1% [8/540] and 2% [10/540], respectively).

Mental health assessments of long COVID participants found 13% (83/650) displayed symptoms of anxiety and 11% (70/649) displayed symptoms of depression, while for non-long COVID participants the proportions were 3% (15/536) and 1% (5/540), respectively. Long COVID participants more often used health care services after being discharged, with 26% (169/648) reporting an outpatient clinic visit compared to 11% (57/538) of non-long COVID participants. At 17% (107/648), hospitalization among long COVID participants was higher than the 10% (52/538) reported by participants without long COVID.

The authors acknowledge limitations to their study. Without a control group of hospital survivors unrelated to COVID-19 infection, it is hard to determine whether observed abnormalities are specific to COVID-19. While the moderate response rate may introduce selection bias, most baseline characteristics were balanced between COVID-19 survivors who were included in the analysis and those who were not. The slightly increased proportion of participants included in the analysis who received oxygen leads to the possibility that those who did not participate in the study had fewer symptoms than those who did. This may result in an overestimate of the prevalence of long COVID symptoms. Being a single-center study from early in the pandemic, the findings may not directly extend to the long-term health outcomes of patients infected with later variants. Like most COVID-19 follow-up studies, there is also the potential for information bias when analyzing self-reported health outcomes. Some outcome measures, including work status and health care use after discharge, were not recorded at all visits, meaning only partial analysis of long-term impacts on these outcomes was possible.
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SARS-CoV-2 hijacks antiviral human proteins to enter human cells
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May 11, 2022

The investigators found that all 5 SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern—Alpha through Delta, and Omicron—"remain strongly dependent on antiviral transmembrane proteins, especially IFITM2," to replicate efficiently and to produce infectious progeny viruses, said Frank Kirchhoff, Ph.D., professor of virology, Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany.

"In addition, we show that an antibody against IFITM2 can protect human lung cells from SARS-CoV-2 infection," said Kirchhoff. "Our results suggest that IFITM2 may represent a highly unexpected target for a host-directed therapeutic approach. Targeting cellular factors in the host, rather than viral factors, reduces the risk of emergence of viral resistance."

The research aimed to find cellular factors that influence SARS-CoV-2 infection and to gain insight into innate immune defense mechanisms, as well as determinants of viral spread and pathogenesis. (Innate immunity is the body's first line of defense—detecting invaders such as viruses, bacteria, parasites and toxins, and then activating antiviral factors and immune cells to attack and destroy these invaders.)

The researchers performed SARS-CoV-2 infection studies in a human epithelial lung cancer cell line expressing normal and experimentally reduced levels of IFITM proteins, then measured viral replication by quantifying viral RNA and infectious virus production. In addition, the team treated human lung cells with antibodies targeting IFITM2 or the viral ACE2 receptor [the major factor used by SARS-CoV-2 to gain entry into the cell] and found that both measures inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The team identified IFITM proteins as important interferon-inducible enhancers of SARS-CoV-2 infection that are expressed by all relevant target cells analyzed. "This has important implications for our understanding of the spread and pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2. Additionally, our results provide insight into how SARS-CoV-2 avoids, or in this case, even exploits innate cellular defense mechanisms," said Kirchhoff.

As an expert on HIV, Kirchhoff's original approach was to determine whether cellular factors that restrict HIV might be active against SARS-CoV-2. "The eureka moment was when we realized that artificial overexpression of IFITMs inhibits SARS-CoV-2 as expected but—in striking and totally unexpected contrast—endogenous IFITMs in human lung cells were essential for efficient viral entry and replication," he said.
 

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CG enrichment in covid vaccine mRNA
why the vaccines may have VERY different systemic effects vs covid virus
el gato malo
15 hr ago

the other day, i wrote about the manner in which mRNA vaccines look to be suppressing not only innate immune function, but also the mechanisms by which pathogens and cancers are detected.


this piece also discussed the pseudo uridine passkey by which these drugs can permeate your whole body unmolested and the long period in which they generate synthetic spike proteins. these spike proteins are, themselves, a serious pathogen and they look to be produced for in excess of 60 days post injection.

this alone would be cause for concern, but such concerns may be significantly amplified by another issue: the elicited S proteins are NOT the same genetic sequences as live virus.

they are highly CG enriched and that has great potential for danger.

let’s start HERE:



CG content (guanine-cytosine content) is the percentage of nitrogenous bases in a DNA or RNA molecule that are either guanine (G) or cytosine (C).

actual virus is 36%. pfizer is 53%. moderna is 61%. those are, respectively, 47% and 69% more CG content than live virus.
this much higher level of CG has serious implications as such genes express more efficiently and as all preferred mammalian codons carry a G or C in the third position, you can get lots of inadvertently active areas.

this gets a bit abstruse, so perhaps a metaphor is in order:

imagine you’re playing boggle in a language with 4 letters (where all meaningful words (in this case, all preferred mammalian codons) have 3 letters and end in either a C or a G) obviously, the number of words you make when you shake the dice will change if you add more C’s and G’s to the set.

each of these “words” codes for an amino acid or a providing signals to protein synthesis.

so, add more C’s and G’s, and any given string is going to code for more aminos/proteins, often in unpredictable fashion and combination. this has all manner of effects including alterations in regulatory and structural roles. it’s a bit of a biological pandora’s box and can cause immune malfunction and even diseases like crohns and cystic fibrosis.

you can up expression of genes by several or even by hundreds of times by enriching CG.

this was NOT tested for in the trials.

it should have been. this is why you would want to spend several years studying this before sending it out for widespread use.

this was known, but ignored.

The altered codon assignments within the mRNA template dramatically increase the quantity of polypeptides and/or proteins produced [85]. Synonymous codon placement also results in a change in the multifunctional regulatory and structural roles of resulting proteins [86]. For this reason, codon optimization has been cautioned against due to its consequent changes causing perturbation in the secondary conformation of protein products with potentially devastating effects on their resulting immunogenicity, efficacy and function [87,88]. Notably, various human diseases are the result of synonymous nucleotide polymorphisms [89].

this is basically telling you not to play this particular game of boggle because you have no idea what’s going to happen (but it’s almost certainly not going to be good.)

a nasty ringer is the emergence of the GGGG quadruplex (made easier by adding more G’s) which can cause neurological disease and bind to prions.

this may actually be quite a lot worse in that it appears that you do not even need a full quadruplex for this to happen. duplexes will do if the protein can fold in such a way as to generate what is effectively a quadruplex binding site and thus based on THIS study, all of these sites can play this role: (i) d(TGGGGT), (ii) r(GGAGGAGGAGGA) and (iii) d(GGAGGAGGAGGA) can serve as a quad.

this appears to facilitate the transition of PrPc into its pathologic isoform.

that’s bad.

eyes are likely badly glazed again, so let’s unpack:

PRPc is cellular prion protein common in mammals. its pathologic isoform is the actively harmful form of this protein (PRPsc) that causes actual prion diseases. an isoform is simply another form of a protein generated by alternative splicing. this allows a single gene or gene family to code for multiple proteins. (isoforms)



many times, these similar proteins have similar or identical functions.

sometimes, they don’t.

PrPsc is one of those times.

the pathologic isoforms of prion proteins are, to put it mildly, very bad news. a prion is a protein that can trigger other proteins to misfold. this not only alters its function, it transmits this error to normally folded proteins of the same type. so it spreads. and once it starts, there is really no stopping it. this is the source of a nasty list of neurodegenerative diseases you very badly do not want such as creutzfeldt–jakob disease and fatal familial insomnia that more or less all amount to “brain swelling until you invariably die.” there is no getting better from these. (mad cow was also a prion).

salting the boggle set with more G’s makes if far more likely you’re going to start setting off this process and a fair few others besides: from the innate immune suppression study: (pG4 is a GGGG quadruplex)



OK. get ready for more eye glazing:

As described elsewhere, during the cellular translation of vaccine mRNAs, an increased assembly of a number of RNA binding protein helicases, such as eIF4A bound to eIF4G, will occur [74]. The presence of increased pG4s in synthetic mRNAs can potentially amplify binding of RNA binding proteins and miRNAs. This form of molecular crowding of protein components (helicases) with great affinity for G4 binding [100] will decrease the number of RNA binding proteins binding G4s normally available for miRNA regulation. This loss of RNA binding proteins as well as miRNA availability for regulation by binding to G4s can dramatically alter the translational regulation of miRNAs present in cells and thereby disrupt essential regulation of oncogene expression. An example is the p16-dependent regulation of the p53 tumor suppressor protein [100,107].
cliff notes:

more G quadruplexes, through a complex interaction with micro-RNA will favor expression of oncogenes. these are mutated genes that, as the prefix indicates, cause cancer.

combine that with the suppression of toll like receptors (TLR) 7 and 8 and inhibition of BRCA 1 and 2 gene activity through IRF 7 and 9 inhibition (discussed in the prior substack linked above) and you are wide open for cancer growth at just the time you have unleashed all sorts of cancer promoting potential.

you’ve turned off the smoke detectors and the sprinklers just as you began playing with fire and kerosene.



there have been A LOT of worrying anecdotes:



and this starts to find LOTS of unpleasant confluence with results coming out of VAERS:
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and with some work by longtime gatopal™ ethical skeptic:

(a malignant neoplasm is a cancerous tumor)

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who states:

Cancers are at an 8.4 sigma high as of MMWR Week 16 of 2022. This equates to a 7.7% breakout, even higher than we saw last month wrt the Wonder-MCOD death comparative categories for 2021/22 vs 2021/20 (~4 - 5% higher)

this appears to be well in excess of what would be either covid pull through (accelerated death among the weakened) or the result of missed early detection. alone, one might be tempted to ascribe it to a lack of care and screening over 2 years but as a mosaic of data with the rest and with a solid reason to suspect a causal pathway, this gets increasingly unpleasant in its implications.

is this mRNA vaccine-cancer link proven beyond doubt? no.

is it suggestive enough to warrant A LOT of serious work? yes, i think so.


not having done this pre-release is a massive, monstrous lapse. the safety work here seems slipshod, incomplete, and short-term. none of these are things you look for in a product about to go into a billion people.

but it fits the pattern of all basic standards having gone out the window in the last 36 months or so.

maybe i and a number of other researchers are off base. (and, frankly, i’m at the ragged edge of my genetics and immunology here and perhaps past it, so please chime in if i’m screwing something up, it’s far from implausible)

i flat out hope i’m misreading this because this would be a staggeringly horrific outcome that makes herd level antigenic fixation look like a sunny day at the seashore.

mRNA is a problematic modality. it failed in multiple therapeutic applications due to awful side effects. it had never been used in humans before.

and now we’re running what amounts to a massive global trial that has not even worked out toxicity and dose ranging around adverse events.

VAERS has exploded and we’re so far past outcomes that would have had any other vaccine in history off the market that you’d need the hubble telescope to see back that far.

that such seriously pointy questions were not addressed prior to these drugs becoming the fastest uptake of a pharma product in human history beggars belief.

but they need to be asked and the answers found, and the sooner the better.

and you know what cats are like around pointy questions.
 
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