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Even mild COVID cases can result in symptoms that persist for 2 years, NJ study finds

A study that tracked 173 St. Joseph's Health COVID patients found that half still had COVID symptoms after a year and 23% had them after 2 years.

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Even mild COVID cases can result in symptoms that persist for 2 years, NJ study finds
Scott Fallon, NorthJersey.com
Thu, July 28, 2022, 5:26 PM

Patients who never needed hospitalization for COVID-19 early in the pandemic were still experiencing at least one persistent symptom a year later, showing that even mild cases can result in long-term health problems, researchers at St. Joseph's Health in Paterson announced Thursday.

In a study that for two years tracked 173 St. Joseph's patients with mild and severe COVID cases, about half — including some who had mild cases — still had shortness of breath, fatigue, body aches or other ailments a year after infection. About 23% of patients were experiencing at least one symptom two years later.

“Our study is the first to show that even patients with only mild COVID-19 infections can still have persistent symptoms after two years,” said Dr. Christopher Millet, one of the researchers.

Although research is ongoing across the globe on long COVID, there is much that scientists and physicians don't know about lingering symptoms in adults and children. Complicating the research is that the original strain has continually mutated into new variants, from delta that hit New Jersey hard late last summer to several omicron subvariants currently circulating the globe and causing cases to spike.

Long COVID has been found most often in those who initially experienced severe illness, but has also been found in more mild cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

There is no test to diagnose long COVID, and health officials caution that patients may have similar symptoms that could come from other health problems. The St. Joseph's study acknowledged it had limitations with a small patient size, the accuracy of patients' memory and the loss of some patients for follow-up questions.

Still, the patients in the study were among the first infected with COVID during the pandemic, in March and April of 2020 when St. Joseph's was one of the hardest hit hospitals catering to densely populated lower Passaic County communities. No vaccines were available during that period and therapeutics had not yet been fine-tuned.

Millet, who had been infected in March 2020 while working at St. Joseph's, experienced symptoms for months. "I had looked for research on this at the time and there was virtually none," he said. "That was the starting point. We had been hit so early that we knew we had a lot of patients that we could go to and collect information on over the years."

Of the 173 patients recruited, 91 had been hospitalized.

The study also focused on minorities, which make up a sizable portion of the communities St. Joseph's serves. About 47% of patients in the study were Hispanic and 28% African American.

Persistent COVID symptoms one year later

At the one-year mark, the most common recurring symptoms among all patients were:

• 25% shortness of breath
• 24% fatigue
• 21% anxiety
• 18% difficulty focusing
• 18% body aches
• 16% headaches

About 50% of those reporting symptoms at the one-year mark were not hospitalized, Millet said in an interview.

While symptoms stopped in most patients by the two-year mark, shortness of breath and fatigue were still the most common ailments. The majority of those still having symptoms in year two were hospitalized. Women were more likely to have persistent symptoms at two years compared to men, the study showed.

Millet hopes the study will be a building block for further research into long COVID.

"There's still so much we don't know about it more than two years into this pandemic," he said. "But we've shown that symptoms can last as long as two years even in patients who had mild symptoms. That alone advances the science. The next question is how are these patients going to cope with symptoms that may be lifelong?"

 

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What should you do if you’re still testing positive for COVID-19 after day 10?

Experts share their advice about isolation, masking and more if you're still testing positive late into a COVID-19 infection.

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Still Testing Positive for COVID-19 After 10 Days? What to Know
Sarah Jacoby - TODAY
Fri, July 29, 2022, 3:13 PM

We're in the midst of yet another wave of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., this one fueled by a subvariant of omicron called BA.5. As COVID-19 continues to spread and new variants pop up, we'll need to keep relying on our go-to public health tools, including at-home rapid antigen tests.

But the results from rapid tests — and how to act on them — can also be confusing, especially if you're still testing positive late in your infection.

Research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates most people who have COVID-19 can expect to see a positive result for five to nine days. But some people continue to get positive test results for even longer than that, and it's especially hard to know what to do in those circumstances.

Learn when to take a COVID-19 rapid test, how to interpret results and what to know about masking and isolating if you’re still testing positive at 10 days and beyond.

When should you take an at-home COVID-19 test?

In the event that you develop any symptoms that might signal COVID-19, you should take a home test immediately, the CDC says.

Those symptoms — congestion, sore throat, cough, fever — might be easily confused with other common illnesses, such as the flu, allergies or the common cold. But because we are still in the midst of a pandemic, it's a good idea to take a test to help rule out COVID-19 first, even if you may just be dealing with seasonal allergies.

If you've been exposed to a close contact who has COVID-19, you should take a test at least five days after your last contact with that person. And if you test negative, consider taking another test one to two days later to help confirm your results, the CDC suggests.

As kids start to head back to school, rapid testing can be a particularly useful tool for keeping families and classmates safe experts told TODAY. Isolating someone who tests positive is really the best way to halt a chain of transmission and keep the virus from spreading.

You can also take a test before attending an indoor gathering, especially if you know you won't be wearing a mask. Taking a rapid test can also help you determine whether to spend time with people who are particularly vulnerable to severe COVID-19 symptoms, like those with certain underlying health conditions.

The government is providing at-home COVID-19 tests to Americans for free. Every household in the U.S. can now order up to eight at-home rapid tests that get shipped directly to your address. The cost of other rapid tests should be covered by health insurance, and tests may be available at community health centers for people who don’t have insurance.

And remember that even a faint line on a home COVID-19 test should be considered positive. If you’re not sure whether or not your test is truly positive, you should check with your doctor, get a PCR test or take a second rapid test the next day (and assume you really do have COVID-19 in the meantime).

What should you do if you test positive for COVID-19?

If you test positive for COVID-19, you should follow instructions from your doctor and the CDC about isolation. And you can end your isolation after just five days if you never developed symptoms but should continue wearing a mask for a total of 10 days, according to the latest guidelines from the CDC.

Or, if you did develop symptoms, you can leave isolation after you've been without a fever for 24 hours (without using fever-reducing medication), provided your other symptoms are resolving as well. That can be as early as after five full days of isolation, the CDC says. Continue to mask around other people for another five days.

The CDC also amended its guidelines to add that, if you have access to a rapid antigen test, you can take the test at the end of day five of your isolation (as long as you've been fever-free for at least 24 hours without fever-reducing medication). If it's negative, you can use that result to feel more confident about leaving isolation at that time, but continue to mask. If it's positive, the CDC says you should continue isolating through day 10.

Regardless of when you end isolation, anyone who tests positive for COVID-19 should take precautions for 10 full days, the CDC says — including masking around others, avoiding travel and limiting contact with people who have a high risk for severe COVID-19.

If it's challenging to figure out what all those guidelines mean for your specific situation, take a look at the CDC's new quarantine and isolation calculator tool.

How long do people normally test positive for COVID-19?

In the most general terms, people will likely test positive on an at-home rapid COVID-19 test for about six to 10 days, Dr. Stephen Kissler, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the department of immunology and infectious diseases, told TODAY.

But with PCR tests, which look for the virus's genetic material, people may test positive for even longer, Dr. Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi, associate professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, explained. "You can still have positivity that may persist for weeks and even months," he explained, noting that positive tests on PCR have been recorded for up to 60 days.

But there are a lot of factors that can affect how long someone may test positive.

Considering that different tests may perform differently “and then you have all these variants, you’re changing the variables of the equation over and over again,” said Paniz-Mondolfi, who also leads the Saliva COVID Test Lab at Mount Sinai. That makes it difficult to predict exactly how many days someone will test positive.

Even with a rapid test, which detects molecules on the virus's surface as opposed to the virus's genetic material, it's not unheard of for people to test positive up to 14 days, especially for those who are unvaccinated, Kissler said. "We see a ton of variation between people in how long they test positive," he explained. "While that average is closer to six to 10 days, there are people who will hang on for longer than that."

Keep in mind that it's possible to get COVID-19 more than once — even three or four times. So if there's a gap of weeks or months in between your positive tests, you might be dealing with a new infection.

The use of at-home COVID-19 antiviral medications, like Paxlovid, may add another wrinkle: Some people are reporting that, after their symptoms resolve with treatment, the symptoms then return in a Paxlovid "rebound," Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia, told TODAY previously. Along with the return of COVID-19 symptoms, it's also possible to get another positive test — even if you tested negative just a few days earlier, the CDC noted.

So, if you're trying to do your due diligence and testing at home frequently during your COVID-19 infection, know that it's possible for you to see positive results for a while.

Can you still be contagious after 10 days?

As long as you continue to test positive on a rapid at-home test, you should still consider yourself potentially contagious, Kissler said. But exactly how contagious you are “will change depending on where you are in the infection,” he explained.

In a recent study published to a preprint server in April, researchers found that 17% of participants had active viral cultures beyond day five. Some had positive viral cultures for as long as 12 days after the onset of their symptoms, suggesting they could still be contagious.

But people tend to be most infectious right at the beginning of their COVID-19 infection. So by the time you reach day eight, nine or 10, “you still have the chance to spread to other people, but it’s probably not as much as you did early in the course of your infection,” Kissler said.

When you get to that point, you can start weighing your options. If it's essential that you start interacting with other people again (due to your job, for example), assess how you can do so as safely as possible.

If you're still testing positive late into your infection, what should you do?

The safest strategy is to continue to isolate until you're no longer testing positive, the experts stressed. But if you must interact with others before testing negative, make sure to wear a high-quality mask, maintain distance from other people when you can, and avoid spending time in enclosed spaces around other people.

But for people for whom that might not be feasible, it’s not unreasonable to gradually leave isolation — even if you’re still testing positive on a rapid test, Kissler said. That's especially true if you're fully vaccinated, any symptoms you developed have resolved, and you continue to take other precautions (especially masking) until you get a negative result.

“You might be able to begin slowly sort of reintegrating while still being mindful of your contact," Kissler said. If you're going to be around other people, he recommended avoiding enclosed spaces with others and wearing a mask (ideally an N95, KN95 or KF94) when coming into contact with other people.

After 10 days, it's likely that "you're good to go, and you're even better to go if you keep practicing containment measures," Paniz-Mondolfi agreed. "Keep wearing your mask. Keep practicing social distancing."

And, of course, if you're concerned about how long you've been testing positive, check in with a health care provider for their guidance on your individual situation, Kissler said.

 

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U.S. rules out summer COVID boosters to focus on fall campaign

U.S. regulators say they are no longer considering authorizing second COVID-19 booster shots for all adults under 50 this summer.

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U.S. rules out summer COVID boosters to focus on fall campaign
MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD - LA Times
Associated Press writer Zeke Miller contributed to this story from Washington
Fri, July 29, 2022, 4:44 PM

U.S. regulators said Friday they are no longer considering authorizing a second COVID-19 booster shot for all adults under 50 this summer, focusing instead on revamped vaccines for the fall that will target the newest coronavirus subvariants.

Pfizer and Moderna expect to have updated versions of their shots available as early as September, the Food and Drug Administration said in a statement. That would set the stage for a fall booster campaign to strengthen protection against the latest versions of Omicron.

The announcement means the U.S. won’t pursue a summer round of boosters of the current vaccines for adults under 50, as some Biden administration officials and outside experts previously suggested. They had argued that another round of booster shots now could help head off rising cases and hospitalizations caused by the highly transmissible Omicron strains.

Currently, all Americans age 5 and over are eligible for a booster shot five months after their initial primary series. Fourth doses of the Pfizer or Moderna shots — a second booster — are recommended for Americans 50 and older and for younger people with serious health issues that make them more vulnerable to COVID-19.

The FDA urged eligible adults who haven’t been boosted to get their extra shot now: “You can still benefit from existing booster options and leave time to receive an updated booster in the fall,” the agency said in a statement.

The White House has also emphasized that getting a fourth dose now won’t affect anyone’s ability to get Omicron-targeted shots once they’re made available — although how long it's been since their last dose will play a role in how soon they’re eligible.

Two Omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, are even more contagious than their predecessors and have pushed new daily cases above 125,000 and hospitalizations to 6,300. Those are the highest levels since February, though deaths have remained low at about 360 per day, thanks to widespread immunity and improved treatments against the virus.

The subvariants are offshoots of the strain that has been responsible for nearly all of the virus spread in the U.S. this year.
All the COVID-19 vaccines given in the U.S. until now have been based on the original version of the virus that began spreading across the country in early 2020.

In June, the FDA told the vaccine makers that any boosters for the fall would have to combine protection against Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 as well as the original coronavirus strain. Both manufacturers have been speeding their production and data gathering to have those so-called bivalent vaccines ready for the fall.

The FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would have to sign off on revamped shots before their launch.

The U.S. has a contract to buy 105 million doses of the Pfizer combination shots once they’re ready, along with 66 million of Moderna’s version. But how soon large amounts would become available isn’t clear.

As for timing, getting a booster too soon after the previous dose means missing out on its full benefit — something policymakers will have to take into consideration when rolling out revamped shots.

The White House has at times been frustrated by the pace of decision-making at the FDA and CDC, most notably last summer, when the regulators took weeks to decide whether to authorize the first booster dose for U.S. adults. Privately, West Wing officials believe the delay cost lives, preventing optimum protection amid the Delta and Omicron surges and feeding doubts about vaccine and booster effectiveness that affected their uptake.

In recent weeks, some of those frustrations have bubbled up again as regulators considered whether to recommend a fourth shot for all adults, not just those at highest risk from the virus. Some in the White House believe that the additional dose would help somewhat with the rapidly spreading BA.5 subvariant and also lift the confidence of anyone worries that protection has waned.

Still, officials across the government have acknowledged the risks of vaccine fatigue among Americans, including tens of millions who still haven’t received their first booster. Government figures show less than half of those eligible for a booster have gotten that third shot.

 

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NKorea claims no new fever cases amid doubts over COVID data

North Korea has reported no new fever cases for the first time since it abruptly admitted to its first domestic COVID-19 outbreak and placed its 26 million people under more draconian restrictions in May.

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NKorea claims no new fever cases amid doubts over COVID data
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday reported no new fever cases for the first time since it abruptly admitted to its first domestic COVID-19 outbreak and placed its 26 million people under more draconian restrictions in May.

There have been widespread outside doubts about the accuracy of North Korean statistics as its reported fatalities are too low and its daily fever cases have been plummeting too fast recently. Some experts say North Korea has likely manipulated the scale of illness and deaths to help leader Kim Jong Un maintain absolute control amid mounting economic difficulties.

The North’s anti-epidemic center said via state media it had found zero fever patients in the latest 24-hour period, maintaining the country’s total caseload of about 4.8 million. Its death count remains at 74, with a mortality rate of 0.0016% that would be the world’s lowest if true.

Despite the claimed zero cases, it is unclear whether and how soon North Korea would formally declare victory over COVID-19 and lift pandemic-related curbs because experts say it could face a viral resurgence later this year like many other countries. North Korea’s state media has recently said it’s intensifying and upgrading its anti-epidemic systems to guard against coronavirus subvariants and other diseases like monkeypox that are occurring in other countries.

“The organizational power and unity unique to the society of (North Korea) is fully displayed in the struggle to bring forward a victory in the emergency anti-epidemic campaign,” the official Korean Central News Agency said Saturday.

North Korea’s claimed zero cases could have symbolic significance in its efforts to establish Kim’s image as a leader who has suppressed the outbreak much faster than other countries. Kim would need such credentials to garner greater public support to surmount economic hardships caused by pandemic-related border closings, U.N. sanctions and his own mismanagement, observers say.

“In North Korea, public healthcare and politics can’t be separated from each other, and that aspect has been revealed again in its COVID-19 outbreak,” said Ahn Kyung-su, head of DPRKHEALTH.ORG, a website focusing on health issues in North Korea. “Since they began with manipulated data, they’re now putting an end to the outbreak with manipulated data.”

North Korea had been widely expected to claim zero cases as its daily fever caseload has been nosediving in recent days — there were three reported cases on Friday and 11 on Thursday — from a peak of about 400,000 a day in May. The country, which lacks test kits, has identified only a fraction of its 4.8 million fever patients as confirmed COVID-19 cases.

“Realistically speaking, hundreds of thousands of daily fever cases becoming zero in less than three months is something impossible,” said Lee Yo Han, a professor at Ajou University Graduate School of Public Health in South Korea.

Many outside experts earlier worried the North’s outbreak would have devastating consequences because most of its people are believed to be unvaccinated and about 40% are reportedly undernourished. But now, activists and defectors with contacts in North Korea say they haven’t heard about anything like a humanitarian disaster happening in the North. They say the country’s outbreak has also likely peaked.

In an indication of an easing outbreak, North Korea last week held massive no-mask public events in its capital, Pyongyang, where thousands of aged Korean War veterans and others gathered from across the country to celebrate the 69th anniversary of the end of the 1950-53 war. During an anniversary ceremony, Kim hugged and exchanged handshakes with some veterans before he took group photos with other participants. No one wore masks, according to state media photos.

Shin Young-jeon, a professor of preventive medicine at Seoul’s Hanyang University, said North Korea would know that zero cases don’t mean it has no COVID-19 patients because there are likely asymptomatic cases. He said North Korea won’t likely announce it has officially beaten the pandemic anytime soon because of worries about a resurgence.

“North Korea’s state media has already used expressions like it’s winning its anti-virus fight. The only other expression they can use now is declaring the coronavirus has been completely eliminated from its territory,” Shin said. “But if new cases emerge again, North Korea would lose its face.”

The only route for North Korea’s fresh viral spread from abroad is likely China, its main ally which shares a long, porous border with the country, and North Korea would likely find it difficult to announce victory over the pandemic until China does so, Lee said.

The North Korea-China border has been largely shut for more than 2 ½ years, except for a few months when it reopened earlier this year.

Some observers say the North’s elevated pandemic response has provided Kim with a tool to boost his authoritarian rule amid public complaints over long-running restrictions. They say North Korea could report a small number of fever cases again in the coming days.

Foreign experts struggle to assess the true number of fatalities in North Korea. They note the North’s shortage of test kits would also make it virtually impossible for the country to determine whether aged people or others with underlying diseases died of COVID-19 or something else.

Shin, the university professor, stood by his earlier study that predicted North Korea would likely suffer 100,000-150,000 deaths. He said he used South Korean data showing its mortality rate of unvaccinated people for the omicron variant, whose outbreak North Korea admitted in May, was 0.6%.

Other experts say the North’s fatalities would be several thousand at the maximum. They said bigger death tolls must have been detected by North Korea monitoring groups.

 

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Now that NK is reporting its over covid, let's look at their totals. Doing the math, it looks like they had 74 deaths.

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Epidemic Spread and Treatment Results in DPRK
Date: 30/07/2022 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source

Pyongyang, July 30 (KCNA) -- According to information of the state emergency anti-epidemic headquarters, no new fever cases, with 13 recoveries, were reported from 18:00 of July 28 to 18:00 of July 29 throughout the country.

As of 18:00 of July 29 since late April, the total number of fever cases is 4,772,813, of which 4,772,535 (99.994%) have recovered and 204 (0.004%) are under medical treatment. -0-

 

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More infants coming down with diseases they hadn't really seen before now. .. Calling Geert and Dr. Alexander..

Cluster of parechovirus infections found in Tennessee newborns

A cluster of babies in Tennessee were diagnosed with parechovirus and developed brain inflammation. The CDC issued a health alert about the virus earlier this month.

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Cluster of parechovirus infections found in Tennessee newborns
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Thu, July 28, 2022, 2:50 PM

A cluster of 23 infants in Tennessee were diagnosed with a potentially severe childhood virus within a six-week span this spring — an unusually short amount of time for such a large number of cases, doctors reported Thursday.

The infants, ages 5 days to 3 months old, were infected with a type of parechovirus, according to a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This type of virus is not uncommon in children, but in babies younger than 6 months, it can be particularly dangerous, causing fevers, seizures and brain inflammation.

All of the infants developed a complication called parechovirus meningoencephalitis — an inflammation of the brain and brain lining — and were treated at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital in Nashville. All but one were ultimately admitted to the hospital.

The CDC's report comes several weeks after the agency issued a nationwide health alert about an uptick in cases of parechovirus meningoencephalitis. The alert said that a particular strain of the virus, called PeV-A3, was circulating in "multiple states." The strain, the agency said in the alert, is most often associated with severe illness.

Among the cases in Tennessee, 21 of the infants fully recovered, but one was left with lasting seizures. Another appears to have developed hearing loss.

"What was surprising to us, and why we put this report together, is that we saw a higher than usual number of babies with this infection than we’ve seen in prior years," said Dr. Ritu Banerjee, an author of the new report and a professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

Nineteen such cases were diagnosed at the children's hospital over five months in 2018, the first year testing for the virus was available, she said. Only seven cases were diagnosed from 2019 through 2021.

The low numbers in recent years are likely the result of pandemic lockdowns, Banerjee said.

The latest surge of 23 cases occurred during a six-week window, from April 12 to May 24. Six other cases were diagnosed at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital this year, but outside of the narrow time frame included in the report.

It's not entirely clear why doctors saw so many cases this spring; however, Banerjee suspects a relaxation of physical distancing played a huge role.

"Children were back in day care, back in school, going to camp," she said. "Now the virus could circulate among many more vulnerable hosts."

It's another example of an uptick in unusual viral activity amid the Covid pandemic. Last summer, doctors noted an odd summer surge in respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, in kids — a virus that's more commonly seen in winter months.

Most of the 23 babies treated at the Tennessee hospital had become ill at home, and most had older siblings or were exposed to other children. One developed symptoms while still in the neonatal intensive care unit. The virus is spread through respiratory droplets and feces.

Initial symptoms in these cases included fever, fussiness and poor feeding, according to the report. Others also developed unusual sleepiness and congestion. Just one of the 23 developed seizures.

There is no specific treatment for parechovirus, no antiviral and no vaccine to prevent it. Doctors mainly help keep the babies hydrated and fever at bay as the virus works through their systems.

 

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Vaccinated and Boosted People Have Less Protection Against BA.5 Than BA.2 Variant: Study

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Vaccinated and Boosted People Have Less Protection Against BA.5 Than BA.2 Variant: Study
By Zachary Stieber
July 29, 2022

People who have received a COVID-19 vaccine and a booster shot were more likely to end up in a hospital when infected with BA.5 than BA.2, according to a new study.

Researchers in Portugal found that BA.5 cases among the group had 3.4 times higher odds of hospitalization when compared to BA.2 cases.

Both BA.2 and BA.5 are subvariants of Omicron, a SARS-CoV-2 strain. SARS-CoV-2, also known as the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, causes COVID-19.

Those who were boosted did appear to be better off than those who only received a primary vaccination series.

The protection against hospitalization for a primary series was estimated at 62 percent against BA.2 but just 22 percent against BA.5. The protection from a booster was 93 percent against BA.2, but dropped to 77 percent against the newer subvariant, which is dominant in many countries around the world.

The time since vaccination was not measured.

The study also indicated that the protection against mortality was lower for BA. 5 vaccinated and boosted cases, when compared with BA.2 cases.

Any form of vaccination appeared to protect better against both hospitalization and death, regardless of subvariant, according to the study, though researchers did note prior infection status in that portion of the analysis. The group also excluded people who only received one dose of a vaccine.

“Our results suggest that higher immune evasion of BA.5 might explain the surge in cases seen in countries with high BA.5 prevalence. The substantial difference in risk reduction associated with boosted vaccination between BA.5 and BA.2 emphasizes the importance of high vaccination coverage to prevent severe COVID-19 associated outcomes,” Irina Kislaya, an epidemiologist, and the other Portuguese authors wrote in the preprint paper.

Re-Infection

The researchers, funded by the GenomePT project and other organizations, utilized a national database of electronic health records, analyzing 27,702 samples collected between April 25 and June 10, hospital admission data from the Integrated Hospital Information System registry, and death information from the national Death Certificate Information System.

Most people were more likely to be re-infected with BA.5 when compared with BA.2, the researchers found. The only exception was vaccinated and boosted people who had no sign of a previous infection.

The results indicate that both vaccination and prior infection, or natural immunity, performed worse against BA.5 than BA.2, adding to the data pool suggesting BA.5 is more immune-evasive than prior strains and subvariants.

One recent study, from Qatar, found that people with a prior Omicron infection retained strong protection against symptomatic reinfection from either BA.4 or BA.5, but that people who were sickened with a pre-Omicron strain had little shielding against infection with symptoms.

Danish researchers, meanwhile, said in a separate study that a prior Omicron infection was “highly protective” against BA.5, though there were signs that BA.5 infection was linked with an increased risk of hospitalization and that unvaccinated were less likely to get infected than the vaccinated.

 

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Top FDA Officials Concerned About Pressure to Authorize COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters: Emails

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Top FDA Officials Concerned About Pressure to Authorize COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters: Emails
By Zachary Stieber
Updated: July 29, 2022

Top officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were worried about what they saw as pressure being placed on them by vaccine companies and the White House to clear booster shots, according to newly released emails.

Dr. Marion Gruber, the director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR), said that she was “very concerned that companies (such as Pfizer and Janssen) are trying to put pressure on OVRR by way of PR,” or public relations, in one of the missives.

“We need to be given time to consider their data and cannot be pushed by these companies and, for that matter the Administration, who try to impose timeless [sic] that make no sense,” Gruber told Dr. Peter Marks, the director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, in the Aug. 25, 2021, email.

The 126 pages of emails, obtained and released (pdf) by the nonprofit Judicial Watch, show that there was increasing pressure on OVRR from both inside and outside the government to take action on requests for authorization for boosters.

The pressure was triggered in part by a joint statement signed by FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock, longtime National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, and other Biden administration officials.

The group said that the protection from the COVID-19 vaccines were declining over time and that “a booster shot will be needed to maximize vaccine-induced protection and prolong its durability.”

Marks was encouraging Moderna to submit a formal request for booster authorization Michelle Olsen, a Moderna executive, told Sudhakar Agnihothram, who worked under Gruber, via email two days later. Marks urged Moderna to file the request “as soon as possible,” according to the emails.

‘Bite My Tongue’

In a discussion around that time, Marks told staffers that “we wouldn’t be doing rushed reviews anymore,” Dr. Dorian Fink, who also worked under Gruber, wrote to Gruber and others.

“I had to bite my tongue … so as not to ask about the booster doses that the administration promised to everyone by Sept 20!” Fink wrote.

“He keeps on telling me that following this approval, he will sit down with us to hammer out a plan to get on top of the workload because ‘while I was gone he actually did an inventory and determined that our workload is no longer manageable’……at the same time he encourages sponsors to send in submissions and I am sure promises fast turn-around,” Gruber responded.

Johnson & Johnson also repeatedly emailed the FDA, asking for meetings to discuss data in preparation for submitting a booster authorization request. Karin Van Baelen of Moderna said that an executive was meeting with Marks and that Moderna had already made presentations to Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health. Gruber grew frustrated, culminating in the email to Marks.

In another message, Gruber pushed back when Marks messaged Fink to personally review work they were doing analyzing vaccine data, which Marks said was done at the behest of Woodcock.

“I am concerned and disappointed about the apparent lack of confidence and trust that Dr. Woodcock has in the OVRR team and that she has asked you to verify the information that we have provided to you in today’s meeting and in the email sent to you by Doran this afternoon,” Gruber said.

Edits ‘May be Rejected’

The rush to get boosters cleared was prompted by the joint statement from the White House and other Biden administration officials, according to Van Baelen.

“In view of the urgency created by the recent joint announcement by HHS and Medical Experts, we consider it important to be able to address the questions raised related to U.S. citizens who received the Janssen vaccine single dose regimen earlier this year as soon as possible,” she said.

Gruber at one point reached out to international colleagues, lamenting the “crazy controversy and very strong push towards boosting vaccinees that I am seeing here in the U.S., the E.U., and a few other countries.”

“The message appears to be ‘total buy-in in the need for boosters,'” Gruber wrote in another email, asking for edits on a statement the FDA was preparing. “This is not how I am writing the BD, I am trying to take a more neutral approach. This piece sounds as if we already decided to approve this supplement.”

Maureen Hess, a colleague, said that she would make edits but noted that Woodcock signed onto the joint statement, “so our edits may be rejected above us.”

Gruber and Dr. Phil Krause, who deputy director at OVRR, resigned from the FDA because of the disagreements over the need for boosters.

“You had this corporate-government pressure on the civil servants who were over there and they objected so much, at least two of them resigned,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said on EpochTV.

Gruber, Krause, Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson did not respond to requests for comment.

The FDA, Marks, and Woodcock declined to comment.

The FDA’s outside advisory panel challenged the administration’s effort for boosters for all, voting only to recommend authorization of boosters for several subsets of Americans. However, the FDA soon bypassed the panel and authorized boosters for all adults, triggering public pushback from Krause and another former FDA scientist, Luciana Borio.

Second boosters have since been cleared for tens of millions of Americans because of the waning protection provided by the first booster, and there are signals that virtually all Americans will soon be advised to get second boosters.

 

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US Government Reaches New Deal With Moderna for 65 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses

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US Government Reaches New Deal With Moderna for 65 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses
By Zachary Stieber
July 29, 2022

The U.S. government has reached a new deal with Moderna for 65 million additional COVID-19 vaccine doses, the Biden administration announced on July 29.

The deal is valued at $1.7 billion.

Moderna will sell doses of its vaccine that target Omicron subvariants, according to the agencies that announced the agreement. The actual contract has not yet been made public.

Moderna and other vaccine makers have been updating their COVID-19 vaccine formulations because the vaccines are based on the Wuhan strain, which has not been prevalent since 2020. The vaccines have proven increasingly worse at protecting recipients as newer variants emerge.

BA.5, an Omicron subvariant that is currently dominant in the United States, bypasses the protection from vaccination and prior infection better than earlier strains, according to emerging data. Prior infection, or natural immunity, continues to hold up better than vaccination, according to the studies.

U.S. drug regulators in June recommended vaccine makers tweak their formulations to include components of BA.5 and BA.4, another Omicron subvariant. The companies had been focusing on early Omicron strains, which have since largely been displaced.

“Currently available vaccines have helped reduce the most serious outcomes (hospitalization and death) caused by COVID-19, but results from post-authorization observational studies have shown that effectiveness of primary vaccination wanes over time against certain variants, including Omicron. And while initial booster doses have helped restore protection against severe disease and hospitalization associated with omicron, studies have also indicated waning effectiveness of first booster doses over time,” Dr. Peter Marks, a top Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official, said in a recent statement.

“As we move into the fall and winter, it is critical that we have safe and effective vaccine boosters that can provide protection against circulating and emerging variants to prevent the most severe consequences of COVID-19,” he added.
Any updated formulations would need to be cleared by the agency.

“We are pleased to extend our successful collaboration with the U.S. government,” Stéphane Bancel, Moderna’s CEO, said in a statement on Friday. “Moderna’s mRNA platform is enabling us to rapidly create mRNA-1273.222, a bivalent vaccine that specifically targets Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, the most prevalent variants of concern in the U.S. today.”

Pfizer Purchase

Before the Moderna agreement, the U.S. government agreed to buy 105 million updated Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses.
That agreement was valued at $3.2 billion.

Both agreements were hammered out with the Department of Defense, which coordinated with the Department of Health and Human Services. They include options that enable the government to buy up to 600 million doses in total, or 300 million from each company, if additional doses are deemed necessary. However, that would require more funding from Congress, Biden administration officials say.

Deliveries of the updated Moderna and Pfizer vaccines could come as early as the fall, pending FDA authorization and backing from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“We must stay vigilant in our fight against COVID-19 and continue to expand Americans’ access to the best vaccines and treatments,” Health Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement. “As we look to the fall and winter, we’re doing just that—ensuring Americans have the tools they need to stay safe and help keep our nation moving forward.”

 

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Health Care Workers Who Sued Over COVID Vaccine Mandate Win $10 Million Settlement

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Health Care Workers Who Sued Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Win $10 Million Settlement
By Zachary Stieber
July 29, 2022

A group of health care workers who sued their hospital over a COVID-19 vaccine mandate are slated to receive $10 million, according to a settlement agreement filed on July 29.

About a dozen workers at the NorthShore University HealthSystem in Illinois lodged the suit in October 2021, arguing that the facility was illegally not granting religious exemptions to the mandate.

After eight months of negotiations, the workers and NorthShore “have agreed to settle this case,” according to a memorandum filed in federal court.

Under the settlement’s terms, NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 into a settlement fund for workers affected by its mandate—specifically, workers who between July 1, 2021, and Jan. 1, 2022, asked for a religious accommodation and were denied and either received a vaccine to avoid termination or were fired or resigned. About 473 workers fit under that category.

NorthShore will also adjust its vaccine mandate “to enhance its accommodation procedures for individuals with approved exemptions for sincerely held religious belief.”

Workers fired because they refused to get vaccinated due to their religious beliefs are eligible to apply for re-employment.

U.S. District Judge John Kness, the Trump appointee overseeing the case, was asked to approve the proposed settlement.
Liberty Counsel, the legal group representing the platiniffs, described the settlement as a first-of-its-kind for an action against a private employer who denied hundreds of requests for religious exemptions to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

“The drastic policy change and substantial monetary relief required by the settlement will bring a strong measure of justice to NorthShore’s employees who were callously forced to choose between their conscience and their jobs,” Horatio Mihet, vice president of legal affairs at the group, said in a statement.

“This settlement should also serve as a strong warning to employers across the nation that they cannot refuse to accommodate those with sincere religious objections to forced vaccination mandates,” he added.

Fund

If the agreement is approved, affected workers could apply for money from the $10 million fund.

Each worker who eventually got a vaccine despite raising religious objections would be eligible for approximately $3,000 while those who were fired or resigned could get up to about $25,000, according to estimates.

The final amounts will depend on how many workers apply for money, among other factors.

In addition, the agreement sets aside $260,000 for the named plaintiffs in the case. Each would be slated to receive about $20,000, on top of the other funds.

Liberty Counsel is also asking for $2 million in attorneys fees, or about 20 percent of the total settlement.


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Health Care Workers Settle COVID Shot Mandate for $10.3 Million
Jul 29, 2022

Today, Liberty Counsel settled the nation’s first classwide lawsuit for health care workers over a COVID shot mandate, for more than $10.3 million. The class action settlement against NorthShore University HealthSystem is on behalf of more than 500 current and former health care workers who were unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate. The agreed upon settlement was filed today in the federal Northern District Court of Illinois.

As a result of the settlement, NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 to compensate these health care employees who were victims of religious discrimination, and who were punished for their religious beliefs against taking an injection associated with aborted fetal cells.

This is a historic, first-of-its-kind class action settlement against a private employer who unlawfully denied hundreds of religious exemption requests to COVID-19 shots.

The settlement must be approved by the federal District Court. Employees of NorthShore who were denied religious exemptions will receive notice of the settlement, and will have an opportunity to comment, object, request to opt out, or submit a claim form for payment out of the settlement fund, all in accordance with deadlines that will be set by the court.

As part of the settlement agreement, NorthShore will also change its unlawful “no religious accommodations” policy to make it consistent with the law, and to provide religious accommodations in every position across its numerous facilities. No position in any NorthShore facility will be considered off limits to unvaccinated employees with approved religious exemptions.

In addition, employees who were terminated because of their religious refusal of the COVID shots will be eligible for rehire if they apply within 90 days of final settlement approval by the court, and they will retain their previous seniority level.

The amount of individual payments from the settlement fund will depend on how many valid and timely claim forms are submitted during the claims process. If the settlement is approved by the court and all or nearly all of the affected employees file valid and timely claims, it is estimated that employees who were terminated or resigned because of their religious refusal of a COVID shot will receive approximately $25,000 each, and employees who were forced to accept a COVID shot against their religious beliefs to keep their jobs will receive approximately $3,000 each.

The 13 health care workers who are lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit will receive an additional approximate payment of $20,000 each for their important role in bringing this lawsuit and representing the class of NorthShore health care workers.

Liberty Counsel will receive 20 percent of the settlement sum, which equals $2,061,500, as payment for the significant attorney’s fees and costs it has required to undertake to sue NorthShore and hold it accountable for its actions. This amount is far less than the typical 33 percent usually requested by attorneys in class action litigation.

In October 2021, Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter to NorthShore on behalf of numerous health care workers who had sincere religious objections to NorthShore’s “Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy.” If NorthShore had agreed then to follow the law and grant religious exemptions, the matter would have been quickly resolved and it would have cost it nothing. But, when NorthShore refused to follow the law, and instead denied all religious exemption and accommodation requests for employees working in its facilities, Liberty Counsel filed a class action lawsuit, along with a motion for a temporary restraining order and injunction.

Liberty Counsel Vice President of Legal Affairs and Chief Litigation Counsel Horatio G. Mihet said, “We are very pleased with the historic, $10 million settlement achieved in our class action lawsuit against NorthShore University HealthSystem. The drastic policy change and substantial monetary relief required by the settlement will bring a strong measure of justice to NorthShore’s employees who were callously forced to choose between their conscience and their jobs. This settlement should also serve as a strong warning to employers across the nation that they cannot refuse to accommodate those with sincere religious objections to forced vaccination mandates.”

Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel said: “This classwide settlement providing compensation and the opportunity to return to work is the first of its kind in the nation involving COVID shot mandates. This settlement should be a wake-up call to every employer that did not accommodate or exempt employees who opposed the COVID shots for religious reasons. Let this case be a warning to employers that violated Title VII. It is especially significant and gratifying that this first classwide COVID settlement protects health care workers. Health care workers are heroes who daily give their lives to protect and treat their patients. They are needed now more than ever.”

 

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CDC Met With Big Tech Officials in Bid to Tackle COVID-19 Misinformation, Emails Show

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CDC Met With Big Tech Officials in Bid to Tackle COVID-19 Misinformation, Emails Show
By Zachary Stieber
July 29, 2022


The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met with executives from Big Tech companies in an effort to cut down on narratives deemed by officials as COVID-19 misinformation, according to newly released emails.

The CDC hosted meetings on May 14 and May 28 in 2021, with slides outlining what the government agency described as false or misleading narratives about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines, according to the emails, which were obtained by America First Legal.

“We would like to establish COVID BOLO meetings on misinformation and invite all platforms to join the meetings. We are aiming for our first one on Friday at noon,” Carol Crawford, a CDC official, wrote to executives at Google, Twitter, and Facebook before the first meeting.

BOLO stands for “Be on the Lookout,” she noted.

At least one of the narratives deemed misinformation was later proven to be accurate—namely, that COVID-19 vaccines affect male fertility.

Others included the vaccines causing people to become magnetic, that vaccinated people can cause issues for people near them, and that vaccinated people were developing blood clots when they traveled by airplane.

In one message to Todd O’Boyle, a senior manager of public policy at Twitter, Crawford sent a list of specific posts discussing some of the rumors.

“Todd, we wanted to point out two issues that we are seeing a great deal of misinfo about—vaccine shedding and microchips. The below are just some example posts,” Crawford wrote.

Boyle had written to Crawford in April, telling her that his team “has asked for examples of problematic content so we can examine so we can examine trends,” adding that “all examples of misinformation are helpful.”

Crawford later reached out to Twitter to alert the company that the CDC was working with the U.S. Census Bureau “to leverage their infrastructure to identify and monitor social media for vaccine misinformation.”

“We would like the opportunity to work with your trust team on a regular basis to discuss what we are seeing. I understand that you did this with Census last year as well. Are you all interested in scheduling something to kick it off and discuss next steps?” she added.

“This sounds great!” Meredith Lightstone, another Twitter official, said.

Facebook and Google

Facebook executives, meanwhile, worked with the CDC on the company’s COVID-19 information page, and reached a deal that enabled the company to put the CDC’s logo on the page. Facebook also donated $15,000 in ad credits, which an agreement said “will be used by CDC’s COVID-19 response to support the agency’s messages on Facebook, and extend the reach of COVID-19-related Facebook content, including messages on vaccines, social distancing, travel, and other priority communication messages.”

The executives informed Crawford and other CDC officials in early 2021 of their efforts to crack down on COVID-19 misinformation, which included an announcement that the company would be working with groups to encourage people to get vaccinated while making it harder to find accounts “that discourage vaccination.”

Crawford at one point asked Google to tweak its search rankings to make it so a specific CDC page ranked higher in the results, and asked Google-owned YouTube to share a CDC video.

She also suggested YouTube staffers had assisted the CDC in a campaign.

“Thank you so much for all the assistance on the college influencers. We appreciate the special help you are providing us as we navigate this new territory,” she wrote.

“These explosive smoking-gun documents, obtained as a result of America First Legal’s litigation against the Biden Administration, conclusively demonstrate that Big Tech has unlawfully colluded with the federal government to silence, censor, and suppress Americans’ free speech and violate their First Amendment rights,” Stephen Miller, a Trump administration official who is now president of the legal group, said in a statement.

“Government is expressly prohibited from censoring competing or dissenting viewpoints or from silencing its political opponents whether it does so directly or whether it uses an outside corporation to achieve its draconian, totalitarian ends. AFL will not rest in the fight against illegal collusion between Big Tech and Big Government to trample on your voices and the Bill of Rights,” he added.

Twitter declined to comment.

The CDC, Google, and Facebook did not respond to requests for comment.

 

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July 27, 2022

“I studied medicine because I wanted to help people, but now I feel like I’m just watching them being killed, and I can’t do very much about it.” – Dr. Ute Kruger

A senior Swedish physician and researcher is sounding the alarm over the link between Covid-19 vaccinations, fast-growing cancers, and inflammatory conditions of the blood vessels in patients who died following Covid-19 mRNA vaccination.

Dr. Ute Kruger is based at the regional hospital in Kalmar, Sweden. In a recent interview with the Norwegian Association of Doctors and Health Workers (given in Swedish and translated by RAIR Foundation USA), Dr. Kruger expressed alarm at the extraordinary rates of aggressive cancers she is now seeing. Dr. Kruger, who has worked in pathology for 25 years and 18 years in breast cancer diagnostics, has studied 8,000 autopsies and is now convinced of the link between vaccination and death, to say nothing of her conviction that many of her medical colleagues continue to deny these links.

“The vaccines against Covid-19 appear to trigger fast-growing cancers, or porocarcinoma (a type of skin cancer) and also inflammatory conditions in the body, so-called auto-immune diseases,” said Dr. Kruger. “Maybe this cancer development is linked to the inflammatory conditions. I’ve talked to other pathologists who are seeing an increased number of tumors that were hardly ever seen before. I mean rare tumors, and that the number of cancer cases has increased in different organs.”

This is certainly true for a retired doctor from Edmonton, Canada. This man in his 80s, previously healthy, has recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer. “I had my third dose late last year,” he says. “I was cancer-free before that. I suspect a link between these events because it seems more than coincidence that my son was given the same diagnosis late last year. This was followed by my daughter, who had a mastectomy recently for breast cancer. So the only person out of the four surviving members of my family not diagnosed with cancer is one of my children who remains unvaccinated.”

In the U.S., Dr. Ryan Cole, an Idaho-based pathologist, confirms Dr. Kruger’s findings. “As a pathologist, I see patterns all day long. After the shots rolled out, I began to see changes in the patterns of disease. I realized early on that there was immune suppression, and the T-cell memory was gone. Then, I’d normally see certain types of cancers, but endometrial cancer, of which I’d normally see two or three a month, I was now seeing two or three a week,” said Dr. Cole in a recent interview with Chris Wark. “The T-cells that normally keep cancer in check were no longer there. There are certain types of cancer that are appearing quicker and more aggressively and at a higher rate in younger ages compared to what I’ve seen in almost three decades of doing this.”

Not only is Dr. Kruger seeing a change in the types of cancers, but she also sees a problem with the autopsy process, which would allow these changes to become apparent. “I see three big problems concerning autopsies,” she says. “The first is incorrect and incomplete information from the clinics. For example, whether the patient was vaccinated or not.”
Dr. Kruger has had several cases where patients were designated unvaccinated on the autopsy referral and were subsequently discovered to have been vaccinated.

“Another problem is that many of my colleagues in pathology do not take it for histological examination,” she says. This means that pathologists are not taking tissue for microscopic analysis, which would determine if there were inflammation issues around the vessels. These inflammation issues could in turn, be the cause of blood clots, leading to death. “The third problem is ignorance regarding the assessment of the microscopic findings,” she says. During Dr. Kruger’s interview, she walks viewers through autopsy images that show inflammation of blood vessels that caused myocarditis, hemorrhage in the lung, and the back, neck, and spine of another patient.

But just as bad is the feeling that Dr. Kruger has that “people do not want to see and interpret the changes in their context. Nobody is listening to what I’m saying, and my colleagues are even questioning my competence.” By way of example, Dr. Kruger tells the story of a colleague who consulted her about an autopsy report. She demonstrated myocarditis and suggested that the death might be linked to Covid-19 vaccination. The colleague deemed this conclusion “way too far-fetched.”

However, the most recent statistics from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) through July 15th indicate that very little is far-fetched, and people are dying in droves: close to 30,000 reports of death. And that’s to say nothing of the 50,647 reports of myo- and pericarditis, a further 55,540 people permanently disabled for other reasons, and 33,009 more with life-threatening adverse reactions. Results through June 18th for the comparable European database register 45,752 deaths. These numbers likely include few, if any, casualties from the aggressive and rare cancers that Dr. Kruger is witnessing because these deaths generally take longer to manifest, and the causal link is more difficult to establish the longer after vaccination that death occurs.

“The changes I’m describing that most likely are related to vaccination against Covid-19 are apparently only a fraction of what is happening in the body,” says Dr. Kruger. “I studied medicine because I wanted to help people, but now I feel like I’m just watching them being killed, and I can’t do very much about it.” Dr. Cole concurs. “Everywhere I travel, I get physicians telling me, ‘I’m seeing what you’re seeing.’ The pattern is there.”

Watch Dr. Ute Kruger’s interview with the Norwegian Association of Doctors and Health Workers:

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TWiV 922: TWiV clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
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Jul 30, 2022
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In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses monkeypox infection in humans across 16 countries, pregnancy outcomes after SARS-CoV-2 infection by trimester, vaccination intent and belief, antiviral drug treatment for non-severe disease, the association of smoking with infected hospitalized patients, the association of Paxlovid on negative conversion rates among high-risk patients with COVID-19, safety and efficacy of Molnupiravir, usage of enoxaparin for primary thromboprophylaxis, statin and aspirin as therapy in infected patients, post-COVID-19 conditions among children 90 days after SARS-CoV-2 Infection, and symptoms and risk factors for long COVID in non-hospitalized adults. Show notes at https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-922/

 

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Theophylline nasal irrigation studied in COVID-19-related smell loss

For patients with COVID-19-related olfactory dysfunction (OD), the clinical benefit of theophylline added to saline nasal irrigation (SNI) is inconclusive, according to a study published online July 7 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

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For patients with COVID-19-related olfactory dysfunction (OD), the clinical benefit of theophylline added to saline nasal irrigation (SNI) is inconclusive, according to a study published online July 7 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

Shruti Gupta, M.D., from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and colleagues examined the efficacy and safety of theophylline versus placebo added to SNI for COVID-19-related OD in a phase 2 randomized clinical trial.
Participants with OD persisting for three to 12 months following COVID-19 infection were recruited and randomly assigned to receive saline sinus rinse kits and bottles of identical-appearing capsules with either 400 mg of theophylline (treatment) or 500 mg of lactose powder (control; 26 and 25 patients, respectively).

The researchers found that at the end of treatment, at least slight improvement in the Clinical Global Impression Improvement scale was reported by 59 percent in the theophylline arm compared with 43 percent in the placebo arm. Between baseline and six weeks, the median difference in the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) change was 3.0 and 0.0 for participants in the theophylline and placebo arms, respectively; the change in UPSIT scores was not significantly different between the groups. A change of 4 or more points in UPSIT scores from baseline to six weeks occurred in 50 and 26 percent of participants in the theophylline and placebo arms, respectively.

"Clinically meaningful benefits in olfactory function for patients with chronic COVID-19-related OD are suggested by subjective assessments but are not definitively demonstrated," the authors write.

 

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Pediatricians, Internationally, Please Call for an Immediate Halt to the Global Campaign to Vaccinate Children against COVID | Voice for Science and Solidarity

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Pediatricians, Internationally, Please Call for an Immediate Halt to the Global Campaign to Vaccinate Children against COVID
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July 29, 2022

Please share this letter as widely as possible---with parents, friends, colleagues, and organizations.

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California's Birth Rate Declined 6.4% in June

Following Germany, Hungary, Taiwan, UK, and Sweden

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California's Birth Rate Declined 6.4% in June
Following Germany, Hungary, Taiwan, UK, and Sweden
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This just in: this June of 2022, California live births dropped 6.4% compared to June of 2021. Here’s the chart of year-on-year change in live births, by month. It shows changes in live births for the same months spaced a year ago. For example, change in California live births, comparing June of 2021 to June of 2022, is a drop of -6.4%.



This follows on the heel of birth rate drops in Germany, Taiwan, Switzerland, UK, Sweden, Hungary, and more.
What is going on? Let’s explore.

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

Clearly, 2022 started out as a banner year in California, with January 2022 births increasing 7.88% compared to January of 2021. (remember the 2020 lockdown causing the 2021 drop, from which 2022 rebounded) However, you can see that after that, year-on-year birth rate change started declining, dropping by 14% from +7.88% to -6.4% decline in June. The California chart looks similar to the Germany chart. Both of those showed rapid decline in birth rates:



If you want to examine it, California data is available from two sources: the 1960-2020 monthly series, and provisional 2021-2022 series.

What caused this birth rate drop? We cannot, obviously, definitively answer that since it just began to happen. We can only examine clues, for now, and need to start paying close attention.

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Hungary: Highest Vaccinated Counties Have Worst Birth Rate Drops!​

Interesting news on the birth rate drop front! It turns out that the highest vaccinated counties of Hungary have the worst drop in birth rates in 2022! This is a within-country comparison, comparing Hungarians to Hungarians, for the same time period…​

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Astute readers may ask: since California is a heavily vaccinated state, how come their birth rate reductions in June were lesser in magnitude (6%) than for other similarly heavily vaccinated countries (10+%)? It is a very important question.

The answer may lie in California’s demographics. Whites in California comprise 36% of the population, but only give 28% of births. Hispanics represent 39% of the population, but give 46% of births in California. Thus, the birthrate among Hispanics is about 50% higher than among whites.



It is well known that the vaccine rollout was initially much more successful around whites and Asians, whereas black and Hispanic people were quite hesitant to get vaccinated in the beginning. Take a look at California vaccination rate by ethnicity for Aug 2021. You can see that on Aug 1 2021, whites 18-49 were 60.2% vaccinated, but Latinos of the same age were only 46% vaccinated. The blacks were only 41% vaccinated and they also have higher birth rates than whites. So, the higher-birth-giving ethnicities were much less vaccinated, likely even more so among younger women intending to get pregnant soon. That could explain why California, by Jun 2022, is seeing significant reductions in birth rates that are nevertheless somewhat lower than what we saw in, say, Sweden or Germany.

Please note, also, that strange drops in birth rates 9 months after vaccination campaigns, are extremely concerning, but are not in themselves proof of causality. My Hungary article, analyzing vaccination rate and birth rate changes among 20 counties of Hungary, provides something very close to the proof of causality — but California changes alone, as concerning as they are, are not yet conclusively proving that California is experiencing vaccination-driven decline in birth rate. It is merely a signal that needs to be looked at, in context of similar developments in other countries.

Is this Decline Temporary or Permanent?

We do not know, yet, if massive changes in birth rates will be permanent or temporary. My Hungary article has a section that discusses this. It is possible that the reduction is a mix of temporary and permanent effects. As the population of young people received further vaccine doses later, that could also effect birth rates.

California is not alone!

California is in a great company of North Dakota, Germany, UK, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, and Sweden. Take a look at my previous birth rate articles:

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

Three weeks ago, I wrote an article about Germany, highlighting a very large and consistent drop in births starting January this year, 9 months after vaccination of young people began, until March. Since then, I found more data regarding Germany: Arkmedic pointed out that April births are available…​

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Taiwan: Birth Rate Dropped -27.66% in June 2022!!!​

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article based on the shocking news that Taiwan's birth rate in May 2022 fell by 23.34% compared to May 2021. I explained that in terms of statistics, the change in Taiwan is an unthinkable 26-sigma event of enormous magnitude…​

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Hungary: Highest Vaccinated Counties Have Worst Birth Rate Drops!​

Interesting news on the birth rate drop front! It turns out that the highest vaccinated counties of Hungary have the worst drop in birth rates in 2022! This is a within-country comparison, comparing Hungarians to Hungarians, for the same time period…​

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Sweden's Birth Rate Dropping Precipitously Every Month​

Sweden, a good country that cares about its citizens, publishes up-to-date birth statistics. The statistics are very concerning and show a deepening decline in births this year. It is actually WORSE than it looks on this chart, as I will show later…​

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Dramatic Decline in Births in Germany​

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

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Five physicians - four 50 or younger - have died in the Toronto area in the last two weeks

But don't worry, you can trust the hospitals where they worked! This cluster is definitely not related to the Covid vaccines

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Five physicians - four 50 or younger - have died in the Toronto area in the last two weeks
But don't worry, you can trust the hospitals where they worked! This cluster is definitely not related to the Covid vaccines
Alex Berenson
13 hr ago

When I first started receiving emails that three physicians from a single health system in Canada had died in mid-July, I wondered if an Internet hoax had gone viral.

The odds seemed impossibly long. Doctors generally take good care of themselves.

But the emails that three physicians at Trillium Health Partners had died in a matter of days were real, not a hoax.

And they did not even include two more deaths of Toronto-area physicians since July 15. Those were both apparently cardiac-related deaths, including one of a 27-year-old woman - an extraordinarily rare event.

The count of dead physicians in the Toronto area in last two weeks now stands at five, four of whom were 50 or younger. One died of lung cancer, two of apparent cardiac collapse, and in two cases the cause of death has not been disclosed.


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All these physicians had almost certainly received at least three Covid vaccine jabs. Canada has mandated shots for health-care workers since last year.

Whether any had received a fourth shot is not clear. But on July 13 Ontario dropped any age restrictions on a second booster, so any or all of them could have. Hospitals in Canada - like hospitals everywhere - have heavily pressured employees to get Covid shots and a first booster, though the pressure for a second booster appears to have lifted somewhat.
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All by itself this cluster of deaths doesn’t prove anything.

Clusters of rare events do happen if you define them broadly enough; a series of deaths among physicians in a large metro area, say. Several tickets will likely share the Mega Millions jackpot tonight, even though the odds that any ticket will win are 300 million to 1, essentially zero.

Still, this is a striking run of bad news in a very short period, especially coming just days after the fourth shot became available. More information would be welcome.

Instead, the hospitals are simply insisting the deaths are in no way related to Covid shots. “The rumour circulating on social media is simply not true,” Trillum - where three of the physicians worked - tweeted Wednesday. “Their passings were not related to the COVID-19 vaccine.”

The hospital where the fourth dead physician, Dr. Paul Hannam, offered a similar statement to the Toronto Sun. “North York General Hospital can confirm that the tragic death of Dr. Paul Hannam was not related to COVID-19 or vaccinations of any kind,” it said.

To which the only answer is: How can you be so sure? Hannam was a 50-year-old former Olympic athlete and marathoner who died during a run. Myocarditis and other cardiac complications are known side effects from the mRNA shots. Was an autopsy performed? Did he have any evidence of heart disease?


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Of course, neither North York nor Hannam’s family have any obligation to answer those questions.

But if they’re not willing to, blanket denials that it wasn’t the vaccine sound more desperate than anything else.

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

NY Judge Tosses State Quarantine Camp Law Declaring It Unenforceable

by Jackson Elliott A New York judge overturned a law that allowed the state government to place even healthy citizens in quarantine camps for an indefinite time without review. Legislators never voted to allow the New York Commissioner of Health to put any individual into quarantine for any...

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NY Judge Tosses State Quarantine Camp Law Declaring It Unenforceable
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by Jackson Elliott

A New York judge overturned a law that allowed the state government to place even healthy citizens in quarantine camps for an indefinite time without review.

Legislators never voted to allow the New York Commissioner of Health to put any individual into quarantine for any length of time.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Department of Health ordered the rule’s protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Then, the state renewed Rule 2.13 every 90 days. The commissioner wanted to make the rule permanent, respondents told the court.

The court overturned Rule 2.13, stating that the executive branch had wrongly used legislative authority.

“Involuntary detention is a severe deprivation of individual liberty, far more egregious than other health safety measures, such as requiring mask wearing at certain venues,” the court’s opinion read.

“Involuntary quarantine may have far-reaching consequences such as loss of income [or employment] and isolation from family.”

The court barred state enforcement of Rule 2.13 because the executive branch lacked the authority to introduce it. But the court decision also condemned the rule for its failure to consider individual freedom or due process.

“The commissioner has unfettered discretion to issue a quarantine or isolation for anyone, even if there is no evidence that person is infected or a carrier of the disease. Further, the commissioner sets the terms, duration, and location of the detention, not an independent magistrate,” the court document read.

Previous New York laws about quarantine protected individual rights, it added.

But Rule 2.13 put all power into the hands of the commissioner of health, the document stated.

In the 1953 New York quarantine law, isolation can only happen after a complex process.

First, a doctor must report someone who is currently sick with a contagious disease to government health officers.
Then, the health officers must investigate and report their findings to a magistrate, who can then hold a quarantine hearing.

But Rule 2.13 allowed the commissioner to order quarantining for anyone, anywhere, at any time.

People isolated under the rule only got a judicial review and the right to a lawyer after they were put in quarantine, the court wrote.

“These protections are after-the-fact and would force the detainee to exercise these rights at a time when he or she is already detained, possibly isolated from home and family, and in a situation where it might be difficult to obtain legal counsel in a timely manner,” the court decision read.

The case was the result of a pro bono lawsuit by attorney Bobbie Anne Cox.

“You can’t make laws or rules that don’t have protections built in to protect the citizens,” Cox said.

However, laws like the New York one still exist in other states.

In Florida, the state health officer can order quarantines for any individual that “poses a danger to the public health.”

 

[MinnesotaSmith]

500 Fired Health Care Workers Win Historic Multi-Million Dollar Settlement in COVID Mandate 'Wake-up Call'

Health care workers who were fired for not getting a COVID shot have won a major victory. The Liberty Counsel has announced a "historic" $10.3 million settlement in the nation's first-of-its-kind classwide lawsuit.

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500 Fired Health Care Workers Win Historic Multi-Million Dollar Settlement in COVID Mandate 'Wake-up Call'

07-29-2022​

Steve Warren​

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"Health care workers who were fired for not getting a COVID shot have won a major victory. The Liberty Counsel has announced a "historic" $10.3 million settlement in the nation's first-of-its-kind classwide lawsuit.

The class action settlement against NorthShore University HealthSystem is on behalf of more than 500 current and former health care workers who were unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate, according to the non-profit religious rights law firm.

The settlement was filed Friday in the federal Northern District Court of Illinois. The settlement must be approved by the court.

Liberty Counsel Vice President of Legal Affairs and Chief Litigation Counsel Horatio G. Mihet said, "We are very pleased with the historic, $10 million settlement achieved in our class action lawsuit against NorthShore University HealthSystem. The drastic policy change and substantial monetary relief required by the settlement will bring a strong measure of justice to NorthShore's employees who were callously forced to choose between their conscience and their jobs."

"This settlement should also serve as a strong warning to employers across the nation that they cannot refuse to accommodate those with sincere religious objections to forced vaccination mandates," Mihet said.

As part of the settlement agreement, NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 to compensate hundreds of health care employees.


NorthShore will also change its unlawful "no religious accommodations" policy to make it consistent with the law, and to provide religious accommodations in every position across its numerous facilities. No position in any NorthShore facility will be considered off limits to unvaccinated employees with approved religious exemptions.

In addition, employees who were terminated because of their religious refusal of the COVID shots will be eligible for rehire if they apply within 90 days of final settlement approval by the court, and they will retain their previous seniority level.

Employees of NorthShore who were denied religious exemptions will receive a notice of the settlement and will have an opportunity to comment, object, request to opt-out, or submit a claim form for payment out of the settlement fund, all in accordance with deadlines that will be set by the court.

The number of individual payments from the settlement fund will depend on how many valid and timely claim forms are submitted during the claims process.

According to the Liberty Counsel, if the settlement is approved by the court and all or nearly all of the affected employees file valid and timely claims, it is estimated that employees who were terminated or resigned because of their religious refusal of a COVID shot will receive approximately $25,000 each, and employees who were forced to accept a COVID shot against their religious beliefs to keep their jobs will receive approximately $3,000 each.

Thirteen health care workers who are the lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit will also receive an additional approximate payment of $20,000 each for their role in bringing the lawsuit.
In October 2021, Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter to NorthShore on behalf of numerous health care workers who had sincere religious objections to NorthShore's "Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy."

Liberty says if NorthShore had agreed then to follow the law and grant religious exemptions, the matter would have been quickly resolved and it would have cost it nothing. But when NorthShore refused to comply and instead denied all religious exemption and accommodation requests, Liberty Counsel filed a class action lawsuit, along with a motion for a temporary restraining order and injunction.

Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel said, "This classwide settlement providing compensation and the opportunity to return to work is the first of its kind in the nation involving COVID shot mandates."

"This settlement should be a wake-up call to every employer that did not accommodate or exempt employees who opposed the COVID shots for religious reasons. Let this case be a warning to employers that violated Title VII. It is especially significant and gratifying that this first classwide COVID settlement protects health care workers. Health care workers are heroes who daily give their lives to protect and treat their patients. They are needed now more than ever," Staver said."


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[Heliobas Disciple]

Drug Cartel: Pfizer shatters profit records, continues raising prices on taxpayer-funded, liability-free products

The most expensive “free” shot of all time.

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Drug Cartel: Pfizer shatters profit records, continues raising prices on taxpayer-funded, liability-free products
The most expensive “free” shot of all time.
Jordan Schachtel
11 hr ago

It’s the most expensive “free” shot of all time.

Pfizer’s Q2 earnings numbers parallel that of a top 5 global energy company. Of course, the slight difference here is that energy companies actually provide essential services for human flourishing, while Pfizer provides, well, government-backed snake oil.

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This quarter, the drug company posted a total revenue of $27.7 billion, up 46.5% from $18.9 billion the same period of last year.

Net income is up 78% to $9.9 billion this quarter, from $5.5 billion in Q2 of 2021.

While many Americans are struggling to put food on the table, Pfizer’s taxpayer-supplied profits almost doubled year over year.

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Notably, none of Pfizer’s profits come from free market activity.

More than half of all Pfizer sales, and all of its profits, come from its expired mRNA gene therapy injections and Paxlovid. The outfit has fully transformed into a COVID-19 company. Without COVID Mania, the rest of Pfizer’s product line would see the pharma giant without any income this year.

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Moderna and Pfizer's infant and toddler COVID shots were designed for a strain that no longer exists
Designed in January of 2020, Moderna and Pfizer’s COVID shots are long past their variant expiration date, but that hasn’t stopped the mRNA cartel from encourage their use in our most vulnerable populations. Comparable to a continuously deployed flu shot from several years ago, these shots do not seem to work whatsoever, and new data continues to showcase that striking reality…
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a month ago · 51 likes · 2 comments · Jordan Schachtel

Business is booming for the taxpayer-funded, liability-free drug company. Just last month, the Biden Administration signed a deal with Pfizer that hiked the price of more than 50% extra per dose for Pfizer’s next batch of mRNA shots.

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Drug Cartel: Biden Admin agrees to pay Pfizer 56% more for their COVID shots
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a month ago · 163 likes · 63 comments · Jordan Schachtel

It’s a truly stunning outcome for a company that once claimed to have produced the cure for the coronavirus, but has in reality supplied an ineffective gene therapy with a massive side effect profile.

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The data also showed the vaccine was 100% effective against severe #COVID19 as defined by @CDCgov and 95.3% effective against severe COVID-19 as defined by @US_FDA. Very reassuring news. (2/4)
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[Heliobas Disciple]

Far fewer all-cause mortality deaths in the unvaccinated than would be expected.

Healthy vaccinee effect or lack of vaccine?

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Far fewer all-cause mortality deaths in the unvaccinated than would be expected.
Healthy vaccinee effect or lack of vaccine?
NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
11 hr ago

A few days ago I looked at Covid deaths by vaccination status and compared them to the percentage of the population in each vaccination status group. I separated these by age group so as not to encounter Simpson’s paradox and therefore a completely different result to what the data was actually showing.

As promised, today I will take a similar look at all-cause mortality in the various age groups by vaccination status.
All data used is from the Office of National Statistics’ (ONS) dataset - Deaths by vaccination status, England. This provides data on deaths occurring between 1 January 2021 and 31 May 2022.

In May 2022, there was a total of 30,488 all-cause adult deaths in all age groups. Of these 1,011 were in the unvaccinated group. These unvaccinated deaths represent 3.32% of all deaths that month, whilst the unvaccinated adult population is just under 20%.

27,236 deaths occurred in the triple jabbed. This represents 89.33% of all deaths whilst the percentage of the adult population who are triple jabbed is only 64.31%.

On the surface, this doesn’t look great but again, we need to break the data down by age to see what is really going on.
Firstly, the unvaccinated.



In each age category there is a far smaller percentage of people dying from all-causes, relative to the unvaccinated population size. For example, 13.76% of 18-39 year old deaths occurred in the unvaccinated category whilst the actual population size was more than double this at 29.19%.

What about the triple jabbed, is the data as worrying when broken down by age?



Only in the younger age groups. 57.14% of all-cause 18-39 year old deaths occur in the triple jabbed but only 42.48% of that age group are actually boosted. Again, with the 40-49 age group, 69.42% of deaths occur in the boosted, whilst only 60.98% of the population are triple jabbed. However, for the rest of the age groups, percentage of deaths almost exactly match the relative population size.

A possible explanation for this could be that in the younger age groups, more healthy individuals decided not to get a booster compared with the over 50s. That created a more unhealthy boosted population who were more likely to die.

If the vaccine is hypothesised as the reason the percentage of deaths is higher, why do we not see the same thing in the older age groups? The younger age groups were jabbed most recently so maybe that is an explanations, in which case I will need to look at the percentages over time. I will do this in another post.

Next a look at the double jabbed.



In all age groups (apart from 18-39 year olds), for the double jabbed, there is a higher percentage of deaths than the relative population size. Again, does this show unhealthier people decided not to be boosted and therefore left an unhealthier population in the double jabbed category? This is not the case for the 18-39 year age group. There are fewer deaths than the relative population size. Is the reason given above inverted for the younger age groups, in that the unhealthier individuals are more likely to be boosted leaving a healthier two dosed group?

What about the single jabbed?



This time, it is very clear that the people left in the single jabbed group are much unhealthier and therefore die at a higher rate than their relative population size would suggest. The pattern occurs in all groups with the smallest difference in the 18-39 year olds.

To summarise, when looking at all-cause deaths the unvaccinated are dying at a much lower rate than their population size would suggest. Strangely, the same is true for double jabbed 18-39 year olds. The rest of the age groups in the double jabbed and single jabbed categories are dying at higher rates than their population size would predict.

When it comes to the triple jabbed, all age groups over 50 are dying at similar percentages to their population size. However, more triple jabbed under 50s are dying than the percentage of people in that population.

Can these results be explained by the healthy vaccinee effect? I would say, some of them probably can be. Has the vaccine had any effect on all-cause mortality? I don’t think we can answer that by looking at just this one month. I will therefore have to work out vaccination rates in the population over time and have a look at how death rates have changed. I will do this over the next few days and post the results in a new article.
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[Heliobas Disciple]

British Columbia retires vaccine outcomes page, points people towards official disinformation

Welp, the last province has thrown in the towel. British Columbia has stopped tracking outcomes by vaccination status. They point people to a page that claims both that the vaccine provides “good outcomes” against severe COVID-19 and that the booster is even better!

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British Columbia retires vaccine outcomes page, points people towards official disinformation
Jestre
2 hr ago

Welp, the last province has thrown in the towel. British Columbia has stopped tracking outcomes by vaccination status. They point people to a page that claims both that the vaccine provides “good outcomes” against severe COVID-19 and that the booster is even better!





That’s interesting! But I was on the BC CDC website literally the day before it shut down and noticed something quite interesting: 90% of all deaths were in the vaccinated population from May 15th to July 9th.



Now, I am sure the vaccine enthusiasts will argue Simpson’s paradox. BC was on top of that, too, as they provided age-adjusted rates.



Looks fine for hospitalizations and critical care; however, it is a far cry from their claim. For deaths, it also looks alright for the vaccinated… right? But if you look closely at the confidence intervals, they all overlap. They cannot say with confidence that there is a statistically significant difference between being unvaccinated, fully vaccinated, or boosted.

Now, there is reason to be skeptical about the hospitalization and critical care numbers. In British Columbia, those in care homes that are receiving hospital-like care for “severe COVID” are not considered hospitalizations. This has been a problem in the province (and possibly other provinces) since the start of the vaccination campaign.

An argument could be made that people in care homes have worse health in general, which would have the effect of skewing outcomes in this demographic. That may be true — though, the inverse may be true in younger cohorts. Frankly, I do not know what the underlying comorbidities look like in these groups, and if they are different, why is BC adjusting for age in the first case? Why not just admit that no comparison can be made and we have no idea whether the vaccine is effective or not?

In any case, the hospitalization/critical care rates and death rates must be quite confusing for those that do not know that the province does not consider those with “severe COVID” in care homes to be hospitalized. The difference would imply that the vaccinated are less likely to be hospitalized from the virus but more likely to die if they do get hospitalized.

The BC data, for its part, did have one advantage: they calculated their population denominators completely differently than any other province. Instead of using inaccurate population estimates, they extracted the numbers from the 2021 BC Medical Services Plan database. While the numbers are by now a year out of date, there is not the same skew in the elderly populations as in other provinces.

This data is interesting in and of itself as there are about 250,000 more people in the MSP database than are captured in the latest census. If this holds true in other provinces, then vaccination rates may well be overstated by quite a lot in the country even after adjusting for census data.

Better data quality (in terms of population denominators) may be the reason that the age adjusted rate of deaths were not as extreme as in provinces like Alberta or Ontario who had extremely inaccurate numbers.

Anyways, I will be posting an article on the effects that inaccurate denominators can have on age-adjustments in the next couple of days, but wanted to provide this update as provinces seem to have completely their information blackout. This could be good come fall as it may be a policy shift away from COVID hysterics and into reality, but it may also be dangerous as people have set their beliefs on inaccurate information and health authorities seem all too happy to reinforce those beliefs. If the numbers had been favorable for the vaccine, they would still be published and used as a blunt instrument come the fall wave. Instead, they will be forced to rely on myths and old tricks to convince the populace to get their boosters because the vaccine is “safe and effective”.
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[Heliobas Disciple]

It's actually six doctors who recently died in Canada, not five.

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Dr. James E. Olsson @DrJamesOlsson
3:10 PM · Jul 29, 2022

6 Canadian Doctors Dead "Suddenly" Within 2 Weeks...

Name and date of death:

Dr. Paul Hannam, July 16
Dr. Lorne Segall, July 17
Dr. Stephen McKenzie, July 18
Dr. Jakub Sawicki, July 19
Dr. Shariar Jalali Mazlouman, July 23
Dr. Candace Nayman, July 28

-hollywoodlanews

 

[TheSearcher]

I just saw a "Whooping Cough" commercial. "Anybody can get it". Really? REALLY?

 

[Luddite]

I just saw a "Whooping Cough" commercial. "Anybody can get it". Really? REALLY?

The new mothers have been conditioned to believe this for some time. I know a new mother that wouldn't let you near her newborn without affirmation of your current shot regime.

Maybe that much concern is warranted. Maybe not.
Provides a steady income boost from boosters.

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

Anybody could have seen this coming from a mile away. The real question is why he was even prescribed Paxlovid to begin with.... look at what happened with Fauci... a rebound was almost a certainty. The denial of reality is more of an epidemic than covid at this point.

Biden tests positive for COVID-19, returns to isolation

President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 again, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation.

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Biden tests positive for COVID-19, returns to isolation
By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug.

White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a letter that Biden “has experienced no reemergence of symptoms, and continues to feel quite well.” O’Connor said “there is no reason to reinitiate treatment at this time.”

In accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, Biden will reenter isolation for at least five days. He will isolate at the White House until he tests negative. The agency says most rebound cases remain mild and that severe disease during that period has not been reported.

Just as when Biden first tested positive, the White House sought to show he was still working. The president sent out a picture of himself masked and tieless on Twitter, which showed him signing a declaration that added individual assistance for flood survivors in Kentucky.

The president followed up by tweeting out a 12-second video of him on a White House balcony with his dog, Commander.

“I’m feeling fine, everything is good,” said Biden, a pair of aviator sunglasses in his hand. “But Commander and I got a little work to do.”

The president also took time on Saturday to have a FaceTime conversation with people camping outside the U.S. Capitol who are seeking health benefits for military veterans exposed to toxic substances from burn pits during their service, according to White House chief of staff Ron Klain. A bill to provide expanded benefits failed to clear the Senate on Wednesday. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough brought the group pizza and the phone connection to talk with the president.

“Feel better,” a member of the group told Biden in a video of the call posted to Twitter. Later, in a tweet, the president said he had planned to meet with families at the Capitol but that his positive test “got in the way.”

Word of Biden’s positive test came — he had been negative Friday morning — just two hours after the White House announced a presidential visit to Michigan this coming Tuesday to highlight the passage of a bill to promote domestic high-tech manufacturing. Biden had also been scheduled to visit his home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday morning, where first lady Jill Biden has been staying while the president was positive. Both trips have been canceled as Biden has returned to isolation.

Biden, 79, was treated with the anti-viral drug Paxlovid after he first tested positive on July 21. He tested negative for the virus on this past Tuesday and Wednesday. He was then cleared to leave isolation while wearing a mask indoors. His positive tests puts him among the minority of those prescribed the drug to experience a rebound case of the virus.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told reporters on Monday that data “suggests that between 5 and 8 percent of people have rebound” after Paxlovid treatment.

“Acknowledging the potential for so-called ‘rebound’ COVID positivity observed in a small percentage of patients treated with Paxlovid, the President increased his tested cadence, to protect people around him and to assure early detection of any return of viral replication,” O’Connor wrote in his letter.

O’Connor cited negative tests for Biden from Tuesday evening, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning and Friday morning, before Saturday morning’s positive result by antigen testing. “This in fact represents ‘rebound’ positivity,” he wrote.

According to the CDC, those with rebound COVID should isolate for at least five days, ending that if a fever has resolved itself for 24 hours without medication and symptoms have improved. The patient “should wear a mask for a total of 10 days after rebound symptoms started. Some people continue to test positive after day 10 but are considerably less likely to shed infectious virus.”

Both the Food and Drug Administration and Pfizer point out that 1% to 2% of people in Pfizer’s original study on Paxlovid saw their virus levels rebound after 10 days. The rate was about the same among people taking the drug or dummy pills, “so it is unclear at this point that this is related to drug treatment,” according to the FDA.

While Biden was testing negative, he returned to holding in-person indoor events and meetings with staff at the White House and was wearing a mask, in accordance with CDC guidelines. But the president removed his mask indoors when delivering remarks on Thursday and during a meeting with CEOs on the White House complex.

Asked why Biden appeared to be breaching CDC protocols, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “They were socially distanced. They were far enough apart. So we made it safe for them to be together, to be on that stage.”

Regulators are still studying the prevalence and virulence of rebound cases, but the CDC in May warned doctors that it has been reported to occur within two days to eight days after initially testing negative for the virus.

“Limited information currently available from case reports suggests that persons treated with Paxlovid who experience COVID-19 rebound have had mild illness; there are no reports of severe disease,” the agency said at the time.

When Biden was initially released from isolation on Wednesday, O’Connor said the president would “increase his testing cadence” to catch any potential rebound of the virus.

Paxlovid has been proven to significantly reduce severe disease and death among those most vulnerable to COVID-19. U.S. health officials have encouraged those who test positive to consult their doctors or pharmacists to see if they should be prescribed the treatment, despite the rebound risk.

Biden is fully vaccinated, after getting two doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine shortly before taking office, a first booster shot in September and an additional dose March 30.

While patients who have recovered from earlier variants of COVID-19 have tended to have high levels of immunity to future reinfection for 90 days, Jha said that the BA.5 subvariant that infected Biden has proven to be more “immune-evasive.”

“We have seen lots of people get reinfected within 90 days,” he said, adding that officials don’t yet have data on how long those who have recovered from the BA.5 strain have protection from reinfection.

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

Biden is 79, vaccinated, and twice boosted. Here's his risk of severe COVID.

The president is fully vaccinated, twice boosted, and generally in good health, which experts say bodes well for his COVID case.

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Biden is 79, vaccinated, and twice boosted. Here's his risk of severe COVID.
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• President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on July 21 and was "experiencing very mild symptoms," the White House said.
• Days later, Biden tested negative but tested positive again on July 30 with a rebound case.
• Experts say that Biden's fully vaccinated and twice-boosted status bodes well for his chances of avoiding severe illness.

President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again on Saturday. He had previously tested negative multiple times earlier in the week.

Upon his first infection on July 21, medical experts at the time told Insider the president's chances of developing severe disease were low. The White House said that Biden was "experiencing very mild symptoms" and had already begun taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug used to combat COVID-19. In a memo, the president's doctor said he had a runny nose, a dry cough, and fatigue.

Biden's doctor had said his oxygen rates were normal and that he'd taken Tylenol overnight after having a temperature of 99.4 degrees. He also noted that the president developed a "loose" cough and a deeper voice.

Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on July 26 and 27, when he announced he was going "back to the Oval" after isolating. But days later, on Saturday, Biden tested positive for again, tweeting: "I've got no symptoms but I am going to isolate for the safety of everyone around me."

"I'm still at work, and will be back on the road soon," he added.

Biden, who is 79 and has some mild pre-existing conditions, is in an age bracket with high mortality rates but his health and vaccinations offer greatly enhanced protection. Experts characterized the chances of the commander-in-chief's health taking a severe turn as "incredibly low," a situation likely to require invoking the 25th Amendment and transferring control of the US's nuclear forces to the vice president while he would undergo treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, as happened to his then-unvaccinated predecessor.

Biden will need to stop taking two of his regular medications, one that lowers cholesterol and one that's a blood thinner for a heart condition called atrial fibrillation, for as long as he's on Paxlovid.

"It's a very standard, common thing that we do when we give people Paxlovid," White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said Thursday during a press briefing. "They both get stopped for the five days that he's on Paxlovid, and then they get restarted. And it's totally fine and pretty normal practice."

Biden's doctor, Kevin O'Connor, noted last week that Biden has already received four COVID-19 shots. Given his vaccination status, O'Connor was bullish on Biden's chances for a swift recovery.

"The President is fully vaccinated and twice-boosted, so I anticipate that he will respond favorably, as most maximally protected patients do," O'Connor wrote.

4th shots are key for older adults

The World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention both recommend that older adults should get an additional (fourth) boost, to better protect them against severe disease with COVID-19.

According to a June study of older adults from Israel, having the second boost provides elders much greater protection from bad coronavirus outcomes.

"Compared with individuals who received 3 doses," the study says, "those who received a fourth dose had a 3.5-fold lower rate of severe disease during a 6-week follow up."

Robust recent data on tens of thousands of Swedes shows, likewise, that a fourth dose can help guard against death from COVID, even "in the oldest and frailest" patients, and "after the emergence of the Omicron variant."

"If you are over the age of 50, and if you've not gotten a vaccine shot in the year 2022, you need to go get one. You need to go get one now," Jha said Thursday.

Biden's 'a healthy and vigorous person with 4 shots'

Dr. Michael Klompas, an infectious disease expert at Harvard Medical School, told Insider that Biden is also generally in good health, which bodes well for his chances of having a mild case. Biden's 2021 health summary presented by O'Connor did not reveal any severe health issues or comorbidities.

"He's old, yes, but he seems to otherwise be pretty vigorous, there's nothing I've heard to say that he's got comorbid illnesses, like bad heart disease, or lung disease, or liver disease, or cancer, or immunocompromised conditions," Klompas said. "I'd say on the basis of that, of being simply old, otherwise a healthy and vigorous person with 4 shots, his risk of a bad outcome's incredibly low."

Dr. Seth Cohen, medical director of infection prevention at the University of Washington Medical Center, echoed Klompas and the booster data. Neither Cohen or Klompas have personally evaluated Biden, or been consulted on his care by White House staff.

Cohen said that Biden's vaccination status decreases his chances of severe illness.

"We also have very, very strong data to show how crucial it is to be fully boosted in terms of preventing severe outcomes from Omicron," Cohen said. "Hopefully, that is giving a lot of people some peace of mind."

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Coast Guard to discharge COVID vaccine mandate objectors without separation hearings

"It is impossible to justify this continued mandate and this action based on the current studies and science," said military defense lawyer R. Davis Younts.

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Coast Guard to discharge COVID vaccine mandate objectors without separation hearings
"It is impossible to justify this continued mandate and this action based on the current studies and science," said military defense lawyer R. Davis Younts.
By Natalia Mittelstadt
Updated: July 30, 2022 - 11:25pm

While federal courts have ordered the Navy and Air Force not to take any adverse actions against military members seeking religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the Coast Guard is seeking to discharge service members refusing the vaccine without allowing them to appear before administrative separation boards to defend their cases.

Federal courts in Texas and Ohio have granted injunctions against the Navy and Air Force vaccine mandates, respectively, for members seeking religious exemptions. Those injunctions, however, do not apply to any other military branches, including the Coast Guard.

While in the other branches an administrative separation board is a right to which members are entitled based on service time, the Coast Guard is seeking to deny that due process protection to otherwise qualified COVID vaccine mandate objectors.

An active-duty Coast Guard rescue swimmer nearing retirement told Just the News that despite an unblemished service record with many awards, he is facing involuntary separation next month after his request for a religious exemption from the vaccine mandate was denied.

Much like the Navy SEALs and other special forces, Coast Guard rescue swimmers are an elite cadre, selected through a highly competitive process and trained under grueling, demanding conditions. Going through rescue swimmer school can take about 10-13 months, and afterwards, members take another eight-week course to become an EMT. Supplemental training is required intermittently throughout their careers, like, for example, helicopter rescue school approximately every four years.

The rescue swimmer's religious accommodation request (RAR) and subsequent appeal were rejected with blanket denials, he told Just the News. He would normally be entitled to a board hearing to defend his case, given that he has served for at least eight years, but the Coast Guard seeks to circumvent the board by claiming convenience of the government as the reason for his discharge.

While discharging members who refuse to get the vaccine, the Coast Guard is simultaneously offering $500 to any member who recruits someone who makes it through boot camp, as the service is struggling with reduced numbers, the rescue swimmer said. Indeed, the rescue swimmers themselves are 80 short of their required minimum as a result of the difficult training and structural issues with the training facility that have slowed the process down, he added.

Despite its manpower squeeze, the Coast Guard is discharging members not compliant with the "unlawful" COVID vaccine mandate, the rescue swimmer told Just the News. The swimmer and his attorney R. Davis Younts argue that the COVID vaccines are experimental and cannot be lawfully ordered since the military has not made fully FDA-approved versions of the vaccines available to its members.

Younts told Just the News the Coast Guard accords his client the right to file a letter to challenge his discharge and ask to be retained, but that it means very little in practice, as the letter goes to the same authority that denied his RAR.

While the swimmer's command could recommend retention based on the needs of the Coast Guard, Younts views that as unlikely given that it hasn't happened in the other services. "Nobody has cared," he said.

The rescue swimmer told Just the News that the Coast Guard discharge would rob him of his pension, in addition to his current pay. Younts added that his client would lose medical care for his family.

"I'm just lost and sick over it," the swimmer said. The whole ordeal has been "very mentally draining," he admitted, adding that while "this job requires mental toughness, which I have a vast quantity of," the vaccine mandate has "really tested my mental fortitude in so many ways."

The rescue swimmer said that he loves serving in the Coast Guard and loves his shipmates, vaccinated or not, and will continued to proudly serve alongside them until his last day, which could come within the next two months. Those in the service who have received the vaccine "feel for" those refusing the shot, "but everyone is handcuffed — there's nothing that they can do," he added.

"They're just following orders," he said. "It just pains me that more leaders can't just stand up and speak on our behalf because they're afraid themselves."

Although litigation against the Coast Guard is pending, it's uncertain how long it will take, said Younts. With no separation board hearings for the Coast Guard objectors, "These guys could be gone before getting to court," he said, since "federal courts don't move quickly, even in emergency situations like this."

On Thursday, Liberty Counsel announced that it has filed an amended complaint in federal court seeking class action relief from the vaccine mandate for Coast Guard members who have been denied religious exemptions.

On Monday, the Coast Guard issued guidance on its mandate to "Commanders, Commanding Officers, and Officers-in-Charge in the field," according to Younts, who provided the document, entitled "Command Toolkit — Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccinations Version 2.0," to Just the News. Noting the guidance had been made public via numerous websites and online chats, he said, "I have verified its authenticity through multiple whistleblowers."

Under the new guidance:

• Coast Guard members must be vaccinated to be deployable.
• Coast Guard members who do not comply with the vaccine mandate "will be processed for separation."
• Non-compliant officers are not eligible for promotion.
• Advancements for enlisted service members are withheld until they're complaint with the vaccine mandate (and they have to compete again for an advancement if not compliant by the advancement deadline).
• Service members within 180 days of separation or retirement can't receive an exemption from the vaccine mandate.
• Coast Guard members who are in Duty Under Instruction Status (DUINS) will have to pay back the service, if they "are administratively separated" for refusing the vaccine.

Younts explained that the last point means any Coast Guard member who received education or training paid for by the service or "received a bonus to extend their contract" for enlistment would have to repay the military branch.

"For example, a Coast Guard Academy cadet or someone who had an ROTC scholarship would have to pay back the cost of their education," he said.

"The latest science and research shows that the vaccinations have waning efficacy while natural immunity may not,"
Younts said. "It is impossible to justify this continued mandate and this action based on the current studies and science.

There is simply no military readiness justification for continuing with a mandate."

While the first page of the "toolkit" says it's a guide, not binding policy, its intent is obvious, said Younts, explaining that the disclaimer is included "to avoid the appearance of telling commanders what to do."

Omitting comment on the new guidance, the Coast Guard told Just the News in a statement:

"The Coast Guard remains committed to protecting our service members, civilian employees, and families; safeguarding our national security capabilities; and supporting the whole-of nation response to the pandemic.

"Vaccination remains central to our efforts to defend against COVID-19 and maintain a mission-ready Coast Guard. All Coast Guard military members who do not fall within an approved exception must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or they will be involuntarily separated from the service."

 

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FDA Rejects Request to Revoke Emergency Authorization of Pfizer's Vaccine for Some Children

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FDA Rejects Request to Revoke Emergency Authorization of Pfizer’s Vaccine for Some Children
By Zachary Stieber
July 30, 2022

U.S. drug regulators have rejected a request to revoke emergency authorization for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds.

“Petitioner has provided no basis to demonstrate that the EUA should be revoked,” Dr. Peter Marks, a top Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official, wrote in a June 17 letter, which was made public on July 21.

He was responding to the Informed Consent Action Network, which in May urged the FDA in a citizen petition to revoke the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the shot, asserting that data has emerged since the EUA was issued in May 2021 shows the benefits of the vaccine do not outweigh the risks.

That data includes research estimating Pfizer’s shot provides just 51 percent protection against the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, after six weeks; a study backed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found the vaccine less effective against severe disease; and another study that effectiveness against Omicron-associated emergency department and urgent care visits was just 45- to 51-percent.

Researchers performing the second study found that the benefit of being vaccinated amounted to spending “an average of one half day less sick in bed,” the action network noted.

The waning effectiveness drove U.S. authorities to clear and recommend booster shots for children as young as 5.
The effects of the boosters, though, also quickly wane, research has indicated.

“This dramatic waning in efficacy of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, the need for more doses, and the extremely limited benefit only further emphasize the necessity of revoking the EUA for children ages 12–15,” petitioners stated.

They noted that the FDA had effectively revoked EUAs for monoclonal antibodies because the treatments didn’t seem to work well against newer SARS-CoV-2 variants.

EUAs have a lower bar than approvals. They’re made possible because the Trump administration declared an emergency over COVID-19, and that declaration has been extended by the Biden administration.

Under an EUA, regulators can authorize a product for diagnosing, treating, or preventing COVID-19 if, based on the available evidence, “it is reasonable to believe that the product may be effective.” EUAs can be revised or revoked if regulators decide certain circumstances have changed, such as new evidence that tilts the earlier determination.

Response

Although children are much less likely to experience severe illness or die with COVID-19 than adults, the emergency declaration remaining in place means that the FDA continues to have the authority to keep the EUA in place for 12- to 15-year-olds, Marks said in his response.

“FDA is not aware of any data that change the conclusion that SARS-CoV-2 can cause a serious or life-threatening disease or condition, including in individuals 12–15 years of age, nor has Petitioner demonstrated that to be the case,” he said.

“Post-authorization data regarding the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine continues to support that the vaccine prevents severe consequences of COVID-19,” Marks said. “Finally, a vaccine does not need to be 100% effective in preventing the target disease to meet the licensure or EUA standard. It is expected that some vaccinated individuals will contract the target disease despite having been vaccinated against it.”

While there are signs that the vaccine is performing worse against newer variants, the known and potential benefits still outweigh the known and potential risks, Marks claimed, pointing to a study from Israel that found the Pfizer vaccine was 43 percent effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and a September 2021 paper that concluded increases in COVID-19 metrics were unrelated to vaccination.

“The Petition does not provide evidence showing otherwise,” Marks said.

The adjustment to the EUA for monoclonal antibodies, he said, were based on data showing they were highly unlikely to be effective against Omicron, and “it is appropriate for FDA” to approach the monoclonals and vaccines differently.

“While there are data suggesting a reduction of protection against COVID-19 after the second dose of the PfizerBioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine in all authorized populations, including individuals 12–15 years of age, as explained above, available data indicate that the vaccine has retained some level of effectiveness against all epidemiologically important SARS-CoV-2 variants that have emerged to date, with higher level effectiveness preserved against more serious outcomes,” he said.

The Informed Consent Action Network told The Epoch Times in an email, “It is not surprising that the FDA would not overturn its own decision to authorize this product, especially after it has been widely promoting its use.”

 

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Social Development of Infants Was Not Affected by COVID-19 Pandemic

Health issues and loss, social isolation, and mental health problems – the COVID-19 pandemic has had a drastic effect on our society. But how have the youngest members of society been coping with these changes? Scientists at the University of Zurich have found that the presence of parents and caregi

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Social Development of Infants Was Not Affected by COVID-19 Pandemic
TOPICS:ChildrenCOVID-19DevelopmentMental HealthUniversity of Zurich
By University of Zurich July 30, 2022

Health issues and loss, social isolation, and mental health problems – the COVID-19 pandemic has had a drastic effect on our society. But how have the youngest members of society been coping with these changes? Scientists at the University of Zurich have found that the presence of parents and caregivers is enough to mitigate the pandemic’s negative effects on the social development of infants.

Our social lives have been profoundly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Almost overnight, people began working from home, keeping their distance, and donning medical masks to cover half of their faces. Small children, adolescents, teenagers, and adults were all impacted by this. However, there hasn’t been much research done into how changes brought on by the pandemic affect young children.

Gaze following is fundamental for social development

Scientists at the University of Zurich (UZH) have now studied whether infants born during the pandemic exhibit different social behavior than same-aged infants before the pandemic. Children’s ability to follow another person’s gaze was the main focus of the study. “This ability is fundamental for engaging in social interactions, building relationships, and developing language skills,” says Stephanie Wermelinger, who researches developmental psychology in infants and children at the Department of Psychology of UZH. If this ability is impaired, it can hamper a person’s ability to interact with society, as is the case for people with autism.

Eighty infants between the age of 12 and 15 months participated in the study. Each was shown different videos in which a person was gazing at one of two objects. By tracking the infants’ eye movements, the scientists recorded how often and how quickly the infants followed the person’s gaze. They then compared their data with eye movement data from 133 children using the same method before the pandemic.

Parents and caregivers soften effects of pandemic

No significant behavioral differences between the children born during and before the pandemic were revealed by the study. Children born during the pandemic followed the person’s gaze just as often and quickly as the children in the pre-pandemic group. Although the pandemic meant that the children saw fewer people overall and interacted with more people who were wearing masks, they don’t seem to be developing any differently to children who didn’t experience any pandemic-related changes.

“We believe the unchanged social interactions with parents and caregivers at home are enough to mitigate any influence the Covid-19 pandemic might have had on infants,” says author Wermelinger. These contacts could thus be sufficient to provide infants with the social input they need to develop social and emotional skills such as gaze following.

Reference: “How experience shapes infants’ communicative behaviour: Comparing gaze following in infants with and without pandemic experience” by Stephanie Wermelinger, Lea Moersdorf and Moritz M. Daum, 29 June 2022, Infancy.

DOI: 10.1111/infa.12488

 

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Long-lasting loss of smell, taste in 5% of COVID cases: study

Around five percent of people who have had COVID-19 develop long-lasting problems with their sense of smell or taste, a large study said Thursday, potentially contributing to the burden of long COVID.

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Long-lasting loss of smell, taste in 5% of COVID cases: study
July 30, 2022

Around five percent of people who have had COVID-19 develop long-lasting problems with their sense of smell or taste, a large study said Thursday, potentially contributing to the burden of long COVID.

A lost sense of smell has been a hallmark of contracting coronavirus since the early days of the pandemic, but it has not been clear how often symptoms like this occur—or how long they can last.

Seeking to find out, researchers analysed the findings of 18 previous studies involving 3,700 patients.

In a new study published in the BMJ, they found that six months after contracting the virus, four percent of patients had not recovered their sense of smell. Meanwhile two percent had not recovered their sense of taste.

It was unclear if this represented a full or partial recovery, however.

The researchers estimated that loss of smell may persist in 5.6 percent of patients, while 4.4 percent may not fully recover their sense of taste.

One woman told the researchers that she had not recovered her sense of smell more than two years after contracting COVID.

The researchers said that while most patients should recover their sense of smell and taste within the first three months of getting COVID, "a major group of patients might develop long-lasting dysfunction".

"That (may require) timely identification, personalised treatment, and long-term follow-up."

Danny Altmann, an immunologist at Imperial College London not involved in the research, said it was a "strong and important study".

"Studies such as this alert us to the hidden burden out there of people suffering with persistent symptoms, but perhaps not having thought it worth contacting the GP on the assumption there wouldn't be much to be done," he said.

The research also found that women were less likely to recover these senses than men.

The cause of the disparity is not clear, but the researchers suggested women tend to have better senses of smell and taste in the first place, meaning they have more to lose.

The data did not include which COVID variant the patients contracted. Previous research has indicated that more recent Omicron variants are less likely to lead to smell loss.

 

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Joe Biden's Paxlovid Rebound Caused by "Immune Tolerance"

Double Boosted people cannot mount timely immune response

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Joe Biden's Paxlovid Rebound Caused by "Immune Tolerance"
Double Boosted people cannot mount timely immune response
Igor Chudov
5 hr ago

My dog has a Twitter account (I no longer do). And three days ago, he made a prediction:

TotallyCancelled @TotallyCanc3l3d​

I am calling it: in four days, Biden will announce that he is positive again, is having "mild symptoms", will have another course of Paxlovid. He will be thankful to Pfizer for vaccines and Paxlovid​

SARS News Network (SNN) @COVIDnewsfast​

UPDATE: I'm sure you've seen by now but President Biden has successfully produced two negative rapid tests and is officially out of Isolation. This is great news. However, I wanna take a moment to highlight the regiment he received should be available to all Americans.​

July 27th 2022​

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I went boating today and came back to the news that the prediction was correct and Joe Biden is having COVID again!



The article says that Joe is not having symptoms. Well, if true, that is because they caught his rebound via positive test early, as they probably test Joe several times a day. The symptoms will likely return tomorrow or on Monday.

I will skip snarky comments; Joe Biden is a human being, and I feel quite sorry for this old man being sick again with a disease that is so dangerous to old people, after having four doses of “Covid vaccine” and a course of toxic Paxlovid medication.

President Biden @POTUS​

Paxlovid is a game-changer in our fight against BA.5. Doc prescribed it to me when I was COVID positive. The drug reduces risk of hospitalization and death by about 90% — and you can access these pills for free at tens of thousands of local drug stores around the country.​

July 28th 2022​

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The same exact Paxlovid rebound, experienced by Joe Biden, also happened to Dr. Fauci and to thousands of other multiple-vaccinated people.

The article below is about Anthony Fauci’s rebound and is highly relevant to today’s news. Please read it and check out the references, if you want to learn how a slap-dash mix of a novel protease inhibitor and HIV liver function suppressor made billions for Pfizer, despite not working for COVID-vaccinated people.

Igor’s Newsletter​

Dr Fauci's Paxlovid Rebound!​

I am not the first on Substack to write about this, but I want to discuss it since I wrote a few articles on Paxlovid. Dr. Fauci is double boosted. The four doses of safe and effective vaccines, of course, did not prevent him from catching Covid. Facing a Covid infection, he took Paxlovid and sincerely believed that he would be alright…​

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Why is Paxlovid not Working for Fauci and Biden?

Both Dr. Fauci and Joe Biden are elderly men who are in good physical shape, with Anthony Fauci, in addition, being in good mental shape. They both had four COVID vaccine shots.

What made them have Paxlovid rebounds? How do Paxlovid rebounds work? Why did Dr. Fauci’s COVID bout last 26 days instead of 5-6 days, as was the usual case prior to vaccines? The answer can be seen after examining what repeated “COVID vaccinations” do to immune systems, and understanding Paxlovid’s role better.

Paxlovid is not a magic STOP button that kills all active virions of Sars-Cov-2 and ends the illness. It is a protease inhibitor that puts puts on hold a key stage of viral replication called “cleaving”. It can be best described as a SNOOZE button, that pauses viral replication for 5 days, just as the SNOOZE button would pause your alarm clock for 5 minutes.
The 5-day treatment ends, and a few days after that the replication process, paused by Paxlovid, is able to restart.

In early trials, Paxlovid was helpful to unvaccinated patients, whose undamaged immune systems were able to mount an adequate response and suppress any new virions that emerged from infected cells, where replication was paused by Paxlovid. So, Paxlovid appeared to work in unvaccinated people by stopping replication for 5 days, as 5 days was enough to develop a robust response.

However, science has established that boosted people, whose immune systems are damaged by repeat transfections of spike-protein-generating mRNA nanoparticles, have problems with viral clearance and need much more time to clear live, replicating virions. Read below:

Igor’s Newsletter​

Study: Boosted People Slowest to Clear COVID-19​

A new study just came out: It looked at how long “culturable virus” (that is, virus capable of infecting people) is present in Covid patients after the first positive test. The authors literally cultured swabs of patients, on various days past-diagnosis, and counted how many patients, by vaccination status, are still carrying live, replication-competent …​

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So, since boosted people are slow to mount an effective immune response, and have no defenses developed by Day 5 of Paxlovid treatment, their infection essentially restarts again after a five-day pause.

Why the slow immune response? Because of immune tolerance arising from repeated spike protein antigen shots, as seen with allergy shots, where tolerance is the intended effect.

Fauci and Biden received four antigen shots of mRNA, making “Covid spike protein”. If you heard of such repeat antigen shots before the pandemic, it is possibly because you or your loved ones received “allergy shots”. The purpose of allergy shots is very noble: give people repeated shots of allergens like pollen, have people develop “tolerance” to the antigen, and stop allergies from reducing our quality of life. I received allergy shots myself. It helped somewhat.

However, Sars-Cov-2 is NOT pollen! Unlike pollen, which should not cause immune overreaction, a dangerous virus is supposed to cause a robust immune response, high fever, muscle pains, and other symptoms of the immune system giving a strong reaction that ends viral infections quickly.

ABC’s Jan Ashton explains how covid vaccines can cause immune tolerance.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXDH-xKIk0A
2 min 08 sec

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

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

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

If Joe Biden is like Tony Fauci, he will have symptoms and quite a few more days of ongoing and unpleasant illness. I hope that he recovers eventually.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s29Dxh0z31I
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One last snapshot of the BC data

Check out the last screenshot. Yikes!

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One last snapshot of the BC data
Check out the last screenshot. Yikes!
Jestre
12 hr ago

For those interested, here are the final four screenshots I captured before the BC data was “retired”. Notice on the third screenshot, the unvaccinated data was missing and/or redacted. The fourth screenshot may explain why. Sorry that the time periods are different in each graph — the line charts did allow me to select time period, but I honestly was blindsided by the data being there one day and gone the next with no archive available.

 

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Welcome to Gilead

A scientific scandal with huge implications for women's health is brewing and you weren't going to hear about it - until now.

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Welcome to Gilead
A scientific scandal with huge implications for women's health is brewing and you weren't going to hear about it - until now.
Dr Ah Kahn Syed
23 hr ago

TLDR: A paper was published in October showing how the mRNA vaccines could massively impact ovarian and breast cancer risk. Two scientists linked to the NIH and Pharma conspired to remove it from publication - putting a generation of women at risk.​

Some information came to me from a colleague in the last few days that has cemented everything I have come to learn about where science and medicine is going and unless this changes quickly it will end badly for everyone. It involves the discovery late last year that a generation of women exposed to the SARS-CoV2 spike protein could be at significant risk of ovarian & breast cancer - and two bearded PhDs in influential positions went out of their way to make sure that information was buried. Because, who cares about women when you are trying to save the world, right?

The two beardos in question are Eric O Freed of the NIH (National Institutes of Health) - ironically a cancer researcher, and Oliver Shildgen “Head of molecular pathology at the Private University Witten”.

I made a picture of them. Shildgen is the one that looks like Jack-Black-meets-Mr-Potato-Head and Freed the one that looks like the love child of Chuck Norris and Steve Jobs. (Sorry, but it’s true).



Please bear with me because this story will need some explanation. The Handmaid’s tale reference is necessary to understand the significance of any misogynistic malfeasance involved, because if my suspicions are correct the paper that I’m going to discuss shows that women in every developed country are at risk of a tsunami of women’s cancers. It seems, however, that the premature death of a generation of women doesn’t matter to those who, presumably, envisage running the Committee of Gilead in the near future (where dystopia meets reality).

To give you some context of the medical issue at question here is the accomplished and talented Angelina Jolie whose history is relevant. If you weren’t aware Angelina underwent a prophylactic mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer because she has a BRCA gene mutation.

You see, the BRCA gene is really important. It is part of the “homologous recombination DNA repair pathway”. Which is one of the mechanisms that the body uses to stop your cells turning cancerous in response to environmental stress, and which is why women with BRCA mutations are at much higher risk of breast and ovarian cancer than those without.



One of the most important components of this pathway is p53 (or TP53) which is commonly called the “guardian of the genome”. If you want to read more about it this is a nice summary or if you want a reverse-lispy Englishman’s cringey explanation go here. Either way, p53 is the king (ahem - queen) of cancer prevention and without it (or BRCA and its buddies) you’re going to get cancer before most other people. In particular, if you’re a woman with a BRCA-related mutation your chance of getting breast or ovarian cancer before the age of 50 shoots up dramatically.



So, if there was a novel therapeutic that interfered with the body’s cells’ ability to produce p53 and make the BRCA pathway work defending our genome - you would think that would be important, wouldn’t you? Well I guess it depends on who is funding the therapeutic and whether they care two hoots whether you (or your mother, wife or daughter) get cancer.

Well, someone cared. Two people actually. Let me introduce a paper on exactly this subject catchily entitled “SARS–CoV–2 Spike Impairs DNA Damage Repair and Inhibits V(D)J Recombination In Vitro” (otherwise known as the Jiang study after the authors Hui Jiang and Ya-Fang Mei). On the face of it, the study is nothing to do with ovarian cancer or breast cancer, it’s about lymphocytes.



This is the paper - it’s worth archiving.

P53 Brca Jiang Viruses 13 02056
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For the record, VDJ recombination is one of the coolest things in nature. It is the mechanism behind the body’s creation of immunity (or what we used to call immunity before Tony Fauci and the WHO changed the definition). It’s how T- and B- cells magically create new proteins to neutralise nasty bugs.



It also has something really important in common with our ovarian cancer pathway, in that it relies on DNA strand breakage and repair - it’s essential to the process, and it’s the same process seen in p53-dependent ovarian and breast cancer.



So when Jiang and Mei designed an experiment to look at the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 proteins might impact this pathway in lymphocytes they were doing an experiment that was of vital importance to world’s population.

What did they find? Well, unfortunately something really important. That is, of all the proteins produced by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, one of them - the spike protein - obliterated the DNA repair mechanism in lymphocytes. Yeah, that’s really bad. Here is the graph from the paper showing the level of “HR efficiency” (i.e. homologous repair efficiency, i.e. the ability of the cell to repair DNA) seen with the different proteins of the virus. The spike protein was so toxic to this pathway that it knocked 90% of it out. This is an environment that is almost guaranteed to cause cancer.



So does it matter that some good guys in a Swedish university (that are experts in the field and have been producing papers on this stuff for years, by the way) published a paper showing that the nasty Ecohealth77(™) virus (aka SARS2, COVID, Wuhan-1 and a few other choice names) produced proteins that - if they hung around long enough - would stop your cells’ protection mechanism against cancer? Well, no - provided that the stuff (the protein it makes) didn’t hang around long, didn’t get into the nucleus, and didn’t get to the ovaries. Fortunately, if you get infected with said virus and your immune system is working the spike protein should be rapidly neutralised and so you shouldn’t be at risk of these cancers from a “COVID-19” infection.

But… What you really, really don’t want in this scenario is

(1) the spike protein in the vicinity of the nucleus, where the DNA repair happens

(2) the spike protein to be continually produced

(3) a full length spike artificial protein matching the viral spike, because we don’t know which bit of the spike protein is causing this effect.

Well, guess what?

It just so happens that there is a genetic therapy currently in production that

(1) induces spike protein to be produced in and around the cell nucleus

(2) is produced for at least 60 days and almost certainly longer

(3) produces the full length spike exactly matching (amino acid for amino acid1) the full length of the viral spike protein

But, hold on I hear you say. All those clever commentators on my social media feed keep saying that the spike doesn’t get into the nucleus, don’t they? And they debunked the Jiang story on this basis didn’t they?​

Well of course they tried, but they lied. And in fact the Jiang study simply reproduced what Pfizer had already done, proving beyond all doubt that the spike protein gets into the nucleus.

Here is the version of the confocal microscopy study from the Jiang study - blue is the nucleus (the black around is the rest of the cell) and the bright green is the spike protein tagged with a fluorescent marker. As you can see, the spike is completely in the nucleus. There is no doubt. And to reinforce this, the fact that the study showed 90% inhibition of p53 activity means that it had to be active in the nucleus (because that’s where p53 lives).

Yes but those nice government people that lied about all the other stuff said that the spike protein from the vaccine doesn’t get into the nucleus, right? They didn’t lie about that did they? ​

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Well, I hate to let you down here but this next picture is from the TGA’s document referenced above2 from the pre-clinical studies of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. This is the document that the TGA had before they authorised the product. The EMA, MHRA and FDA had the same documents. In the TGA version it’s on page 25 of the “BioNtech BNT162 investigator’s brochure” (which sounds like a holiday brochure from the days we could go on holiday, doesn’t it?).

Here you are. I’ve put a big red arrow on to show you that there is plenty of spike protein in the nucleus of the cell shown. It’s a slam dunk.

But that’s just a one-off right?​

Wrong. Here is the equivalent slide from the TGA “nonclinical evaluation report” 3, showing the spike protein being produced in the ER near the nucleus (as sold in the glossy brochure) but then being located (again) into the nucleus. This picture is a little faint but I suspect that is by design4.

OK so it gets into the nucleus, but it doesn’t hang around does it? They said it only lasts hours or days and then disintegrates. That’s true isn’t it?​

No. In fact this was shown in a huge study by one of the most respected molecular biology groups in the world at Stanford university in a mammoth paper. They showed that the RNA was still present and active after 60 days. Other researchers have shown activity beyond 28 days and others even longer, so it’s “a thing”. It doesn’t break down in 2 days, that was a lie.



So now we have the mRNA vaccines producing the same full length spike protein, entering the nucleus where Jiang and Mei proved that the protein stops DNA repair (i.e. induces cancer risk) in lymphocytes.

Well, Jiang did make a mistake. And the mistake he made was to admit in the paper that there was a possibility - or probability - that because the vaccine spike was the same as the virus spike, the vaccine had a real risk of causing cancer-inducing changes in DNA. Well, you see, you are not allowed to do that - because that will upset the pharma companies whose advertising funds nearly every major medical journal.



And once this paper was published it started dawning on people (and mice) what the implications were



Which meant that the Medical Establishment™ had to act, because we can’t allow those pesky mice to let it slip that this novel therapy (making the Medical Establishment™ billions of dollars) is going to put every woman that takes it at risk of cancers that are unique to them, can we?

So, within 2 months of the Jiang paper being published, Freed and Schildgen submitted the most ridiculous expression of concern I have ever seen to the journal. The claim was that they weren’t happy with the study design. But the phrasing was totally bizarre, suggesting that the author of the paper had expressed concerns about his own paper. This was false and it was Freed who had raised the concerns - referred to in the 3rd party as “one of the authors” - i.e. of the expression of concern!



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[Heliobas Disciple]

[continued from post above]

So who is Eric Freed? Well he is a big-wig at NIH. Yes the same NIH that funded Moderna - one of the pharma companies producing covid-19 mRNA vaccines. An obvious conflict of interest. Did he declare his conflict of interest in the letter to MDPI? No, of course not. He just needed the paper gone (because, who cares about women, right?)

And Oliver Shildgen (Mr Potato Head)? Well not only is he listed as the “academic editor” on that same paper but he published in the same year a paper whose co-authors had declared disclosures with nearly every major pharma company including Pfizer. And he sure gets around with lots of fingers in government pies….



And of course he didn’t really declare his interest in developing gene therapy vectors (which are the same as the vaccine vectors, you’re just not allowed to call those gene therapy, obviously)



Nor did he declare here that his funding comes from foundations including the Else-Kroener-Fresenius foundation, whose history is interesting to say the least. In case you didn’t know, Fresenius another huge German pharma corporation.



But the weirdest thing about Prof Dr Schildgen is that he was the actual editor of the journal that accepted the Jiang paper - presumably ensuring that in October it met the high standards of scientific merit and probity required - yet in December it didn’t?



Yes, the same guy that supervised the peer review of this paper then, within 2 months, co-authors an expression of concern about the paper that he approved for publication. Clearly, he needs to resign. That is not good enough for an editor who then makes no commentary about his role in the paper’s publication or its retraction.

So, what was the complaint exactly that made this paper so bad that it needed to be retracted? Remember that scientific papers need to declare valid experimental results objectively following which the authors are expected to make their own subjective commentary about the interpretation of the results. If you don’t agree - tough, write a rebuttal. You can’t retract a paper based on your disagreement with the conclusions. Retractions are almost exclusively for fraud. Well here is the full complaint published at MDPI:



Bearing in mind that the highlighted “first author” refers to Eric Freed of the NIH (not Jiang), here is my translation of Freed’s trumped up claims:

(1) I’m not happy that you used a His-tag to show that the spike protein was in the nucleus, because that gives the game away. Yes, I know His-tagging is a totally appropriate method for this experiment but I didn’t like the result so…​

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(2) I’m not happy that you used a totally established and standard GFP reporter system for the same reason, even though I’ve written about its extensive use​

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(3) Although all experimental designs have the possibility of ambiguity in the results, I’m only bothered about this one and haven’t complained about any other paper using the same methods ever​

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(4) I know that you didn’t state the impact of vaccines on this pathway - merely raised theoretical concerns - but I am going to make out that you did and then ask you to retract the article based on claim that you did​

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(5) I realise that you stated that you didn’t use the full length spike protein, and that it was Pfizer and Moderna’s responsibility to do exactly these experiments - but I’m going to make out that the fact that no genotoxicity experiments were performed for these vaccines is actually your problem, not theirs​

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(6) I’m going to frame the whole thing as though your conclusions are not valid and even though conclusions in a scientific paper are solely the domain of the authors of the paper, I’m going to say that your conclusions don’t count and you will have to retract the paper. And I have the NIH behind me so you don’t stand a chance - because, science, you know. ​

Despite this ridiculous and politically motivated attack on the paper, and no suggestion of fraud, Oliver Schildgen said nothing but joined forces with Freed so that it was not-so-obvious that it was the NIH who didn’t like this paper. This is a massive conflict of interests and it is not only unscientific but arguably unethical for one person to have so much clout that they can order a paper retracted on a whim.

So what happens now?

Well, the spike protein circulating in large quantities, in the direct vicinity of the cell nucleus, for elongated periods of time, has the potential to induce cancer in those cells. Which cells are the most likely to be affected? Any that are known to be affected by p53 and BRCA abnormalities: ovary, pancreas, breast, prostate. lymph nodes. These cancers can take years to develop and so it’s possible that we don’t see much of a safety signal for 5 or 10 years, and then Pfizer and Moderna will claim that it was “COVID” or “lockdowns” that caused the deluge of women’s (and some men’s) cancers.

By then of course, we might be living under the “new normal” touted by so many of our world leaders and health chiefs, with people like Freed and Schildgen in charge. Imagine what kind of medical dystopia we look forward to when the very people who we rely on to keep us safe (or at least be honest and transparent in their attempts) instead ordain the suffering of a generation of women.

Not too far from Gilead, really.



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1 The Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines are exact amino acid replicas of the Wuhan-1 SARS-COV-2 spike protein, apart from one dual-proline amino acid change in a part of the protein that isn’t exposed to receptor binding (i.e. makes no functional difference)

2 TGA FOI 2183 document 9

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3 TGA FOI 2389 document 6

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4 Charlatans will use that picture to claim that what you are seeing is “perinuclear staining” i.e. randomly collected protein that is collecting around the outside of the nucleus. This is false because (a) perinuclear staining doesn’t look like that, it creates a ring around the nucleus and (b) transfection methods (e.g. lipid nanoparticles) are intended by design to get your gene product into the cell all the way to the nucleus. There is no way that they can stop it. Anybody telling you otherwise is lying. If you don’t believe me, look up transfection (preferably in an article predating COVID)
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[Heliobas Disciple]

Retractionwatch or Retractionbotch?

Following feedback on yesterday’s blockbuster article a reader forwarded me the Retraction Watch coverage of this retraction - which completely …

arkmedic.substack.com

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Retractionwatch or Retractionbotch?
Dr Ah Kahn Syed
5 hr ago

Following feedback on yesterday’s blockbuster article a reader forwarded me the Retraction Watch coverage of this retraction - which completely misses the point of what happened here.

Retraction Watch pride themselves on identifying fraud in scientific papers yet they knew that this was not a fraudulent paper. The reply from Ya-Fang Mei is copied below and confirms (with evidence) that the His-tag method used was not only an established method but differentiated spike protein from the other proteins in its location in the nucleus.

By supporting Freed and Schildgen in this politically motivated witch-hunt Retraction Watch have massively undermined their probity and have potentially contributed to this oncological catastrophe. It is of little surprise to me, as I have followed their blind-eye-turning since their incredibly weak reporting on the Lancetgate scandal.

If you work at retraction watch and you don’t agree, feel free to post in the comments.

[Below: Ya-Fang Mei’s response as published by Retraction Watch, the text to the right of the confocal picture is a clarification of Mei’s text accompanying this picture]

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

Zerohedge

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

www.zerohedge.com

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CDC Gave Big Tech Platforms Guidance On COVID Censorship
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Jul 30, 2022 - 04:00 PM

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gave censorship 'suggestions' to social media companies and Google in order to censor users who expressed skepticism or criticism of COVID-19 vaccines, according to the Washington Free Beacon, which obtained a trove of internal communications obtained by America First Legal.

The emails, between the CDC, Google, Twitter and Meta staffers - some of whom (as Just the News notes) were former Hill and White House aides - were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, and show extensive cooperation which included thinly veiled threats for failing to more aggressively remove content.

Over the course of at least six months, starting in December 2020, CDC officials regularly communicated with personnel at Twitter, Facebook, and Google over "vaccine misinformation." At various times, CDC officials would flag specific posts by users on social media platforms such as Twitter as "example posts."​

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In one email to a CDC staffer, a Twitter employee said he is "looking forward to setting up regular chats" with the agency. Other emails show the scheduling of meetings with the CDC over how to best police alleged misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. -Free Beacon​

In one April 2021 email between a CDC staffer and Facebook, concern was raised after "algorithms that Facebook and other social media networks are apparently using to screen out posting by sources of vaccine misinformation are also apparently screening out valid public health messaging, including [Wyoming] Health communications."

Another email from March 2021 from a senior CDC staffer states: "we are working on [sic] project with Census to leverage their infrastructure to identify and monitor social media for vaccine misinformation."

What's more, one email chain reveals that a CDC official showed up at Google's 2020 "Trusted Media Summit" conference, which was held for "journalists, fact-checkers, educators, researchers and others who work in the area of fact-checking, verification, media literacy, and otherwise fighting misinformation."

When asked by an organizer if the senior CDC official would allow her remarks on YouTube, she declined, saying she was not authorized to speak publicly.

In the same email chain with a senior CDC official, a Google staffer offers to promote an initiative from the World Health Organization about "addressing the COVID-19 infodemic and strengthen community resilience against misinformation." That same Google staffer offers to introduce the CDC official to a Google colleague who is "working on programs to counter immunization misinfo." -Free Beacon​

Meanwhile, Facebook gave the CDC $15 million in ad credits to use on the company's platforms in April, 2021.

"This gift will be used by CDC's COVID-19 response to support the agency's messages on Facebook, and extend the reach of COVID-19-related Facebook content, including messages on vaccines, social distancing, travel, and other priority communication messages," reads an internal memo.

As the Beacon notes, the level of coordination between government and big tech raises questions over what extent other private companies are working with the federal government in order to censor the public - including payment processors, Uber and other platforms which have banned the unwashed for wrongthink.

The revelations have also caused the New Civil Liberties Alliance to file a Thursday court document seeking to revive their lawsuit against the government on behalf of deplatformed users.

New Civil Liberties Alliance attorney Jenin Younes told Just the News it incorporated "the revelations about the CDC emails" into a filing Thursday seeking to reopen its case against the feds on behalf of deplatformed users.​

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A federal court dismissed that litigation a month before a whistleblower leaked documents suggesting the Department of Homeland Security's since-scrapped Disinformation Governance Board planned to "operationalize" its relationship with social media companies to remove content. NCLA cited those documents in its initial motion to reopen in June. -JTN​

JTN further notes that the document dump is also likely to come into play in a lawsuit by Missouri and Louisiana AGs against the government for alleged collusion with Big Tech to censor content on the origins of COVID-19, as well as Hunter Biden's laptop and vote-by-mail election integrity.

The feds filed a motion to dismiss two weeks ago for lack of legal standing and failure to state a claim. The AGs' responses aren't due until next week.​

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AFL's documents show the CDC shared specific tweets and Facebook and Instagram posts as examples of content to remove, including an interview with a former Pfizer vice president, Michael Yeadon, who advised against taking "top up" vaccines, meaning boosters.​

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The agency inserted its own COVID recommendations into Google's code, received $15 million in Facebook ad credits to promote its messaging, and even notified Facebook that Wyoming's public health messages were getting throttled as misinformation. -JTN​

Recall that just one day after top health officials had a conference call to discuss a Zero Hedge article which highlighted a now-withdrawn paper from researchers in India suggesting "HIV-like insertions" in COVID-19, Twitter banned our account for roughly two months - with the tech giant claiming we doxxed a Chinese scientist (with publicly available information) in another article.

Thanks to a recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for Fauci's emails, we know that the National Institutes of Health was not only aware of the Indian report, but were actively discussing how to handle it.

A January 31, 2020 email from AFP's Issam Ahmed asks NIH immunologist Dr. Barney Graham for comment:

"I was told by a contact you may be willing to give an opinion of this paper that has just gone live. It suggests the new Coronavirus has four inserts similar to HIV-1 and this is not a coincidence," reads the email.



Graham immediately forwards the correspondence to the Office of Communications and Government Relations (OCGR), saying "This is one we don't want to answer without high-level input, but wanted you to know about the rising controversy."



Two days later, Jennifer Routh OCGR replies, telling Graham: "OCGR is going to send a note to the reporter to decline, noting that the paper is not peer-reviewed. Please let us know if you receive similar requests."



That same Sunday morning, Fauci is looped in - with Sir Jeremy Farrar forwarding Zero Hedge's article after mentioning how World Health Organization Director Tedros Adhanom and the organization's cabinet chief were in 'conclave' - ostensibly on how to manage the narrative - noting "If they do prevaricate [bullshit the public], I would appreciate a call with you later tonight or tomorrow to think how we might take forward."

"Do you have a minute for a quick call?" Fauci replies, after having called the Indian paper "really outlandish."

Wow! @zerohedge gets mentioned! @JeremyFarrar pic.twitter.com/OKvo5ekL8G​

— Jess (@uacjess) June 1, 2021[​

Of course, the Indian paper was quickly withdrawn by its authors, and the notion that COVID-19 could have been man-made was rendered radioactive - for a while.

Is it any question how our Twitter (and Google) deplatformings happened, before both companies chose to reverse their decisions?
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[psychgirl]

It's actually six doctors who recently died in Canada, not five.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1553095670206267392

View: https://twitter.com/DrJamesOlsson/status/1553095670206267392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw


Dr. James E. Olsson @DrJamesOlsson
3:10 PM · Jul 29, 2022

6 Canadian Doctors Dead "Suddenly" Within 2 Weeks...

Name and date of death:

Dr. Paul Hannam, July 16
Dr. Lorne Segall, July 17
Dr. Stephen McKenzie, July 18
Dr. Jakub Sawicki, July 19
Dr. Shariar Jalali Mazlouman, July 23
Dr. Candace Nayman, July 28

-hollywoodlanews



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If you browse through this doctor’s thread wow ….I’m amazed Twitter hasn’t pulled his account by now. He literally goes on and on, with the deaths, he reports on each one, he goes on rants about other others, how this is all evil beyond our comprehension….

Seriously!

 

[BUBBAHOTEPT]

It's actually six doctors who recently died in Canada, not five.

Is this not a real heads up? Were all this young healthy doctors all murdered together in a drive by? Man, this not something I’ve seen before….

I just saw a "Whooping Cough" commercial. "Anybody can get it". Really? REALLY?

I have recently seen commercials for the Shingles Shot that I never saw before -and BTW, I’ve been of that age for a few years, so I have been paying attention. Then I see young people, of the aforementioned doctors ages, getting shingles. They have all been vaccinated. I know it is all anecdotal….

 

[TheSearcher]

The new mothers have been conditioned to believe this for some time. I know a new mother that wouldn't let you near her newborn without affirmation of your current shot regime.

Maybe that much concern is warranted. Maybe not.
Provides a steady income boost from boosters.

Oh, I get that, but the commercial I saw made it clear it wasn't just children, it was anyone of any age. They're getting ahead of a wave of people catching all sorts of things they would have just shrugged off before, because of all the poke-compromised immune systems.