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Without reading every single post, I “was” wondering if you guys would have something relevant regarding the CDC abrupt end to Covid restrictions. It’s all…..rather strange, isn’t it. I can’t quite put my finger on it. I’m baffled, quite frankly. And not in a good way either.

Agreed. I have a few thoughts but I’m just not sure right now. It has caught me by surprise tbh. New variants and rising death counts....make this highly suspicious.

I have followed Dr. Chris Martinson ever since Covid began. It was his scientific background and logical understanding of what was going on that kept me from getting vaccinated among other things. But he was the primary voice leading me through this pandemic. Now he says that Omnicron is the final stage of the Covid pandemic. That is completely opposite of what Geert has been saying. With this newsletter I know I have cognitive dissonance. The two top guys that I trust are in full disagreement. I side with Geert here and sadly believe Dr. Martinson is missing it. So his reasoning for why the CDC came out with this news is that he believes they think it’s over too. I just don’t believe that they believe that. I’m really surprised at his conclusion here.

So why I think the CDC may be trying to reverse itself. There are an overwhelming number of parents not vaccinating their children and many more are refusing to get booster shots because they see that the news is getting out over vaccine injuries. They have bigger plans ahead and they need to maintain whatever trust they still have with the media and a herd of people that will do whatever they want. They say that there is a current major move against vaccines because of all the injuries and deaths that the vaccines have caused and they would like to move on fearing lawsuits and a total breech of trust. Or they really do believe Omnicron is the final stage of Covid as Martinson believes.

Or it could really mean they see Dr. Phillips’ Deltacron lethal tsunami wave coming and so they are relaxing standards to increase deaths. Very evil if true. But very possible with this evil crew.

The way I am seeing it now is there are 3 possibilities.

1). The science has changed and they are genuinely trying to keep up. Omicron is so mild and is so infectious, it's basically immunized everyone better than the vaccine can. As the science changes, the guidance changes. This has been Fauci's argument all along every time he changes something he had been doing to something new.

2). The CDC is political and elections are coming up. They polling says people are sick of covid, and that Biden and the democrats are losing. They are loosening restrictions so that people have a more favorable view of the party in power ie: the democrats. They don't want their restrictions to be used as a weapon by the MAGA crowd during election season. btw, if this is the correct option, it points to the politicization of the CDC from day one.

3). They realize the vaccines don't work. If they keep up the restrictions as they are now in place, it's going to be too obvious to everyone that the vaccines don't work. If they loosen the restrictions and a more dangerous variant should come in the fall (as predicted by Geert, McMillan, Alexander), they can blame it on loose restrictions and getting back to normal too soon. Better to have people blame them for bowing to public pressure and 'premature hope that we could all go back to normal' (they are basically throwing themselves under the bus) than coming after them and the pharmaceutical companies and the present gov't for a vaccination campaign that failed (plus it's elections season: see point 2).

I don't know which one it is. [ETA: I know which one I don't think it is ;).] I think we have to wait and see how it plays out.

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Poll: Soaring number of Americans say they’re getting back to ‘normal, pre-COVID’ life
Percentage who say they never wear mask has more than doubled since January.
By Just the News staff
Updated: August 13, 2022 - 5:10pm

A rapidly growing number of Americans appear to be mostly done with taking COVID precautions and avoidance measures, a trend that comes as the COVID pandemic wears on and the promise of vaccines to fully end it has long since disappeared.

The University of Annenberg’s Public Policy Center said in poll results this week that while “many Americans know of the potential risks to themselves and their families from infection with Covid-19,” nevertheless “growing numbers say they have returned to living their ‘normal’ pre-pandemic lives.”

Notably, over 40 percent of respondents say they have “already returned to their ‘normal, pre-Covid-19 life’,” a high number made even more striking by the fact that it is “up from 16% in January.”

Similarly, 54 percent of Americans “say they rarely or never wear a mask indoors when with people from outside their household,” a figure which is “more than double the proportion in January.”

Those numbers come during the same week that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new COVID guidelines that did away with roughly two years’ worth of strict distancing and quarantine measures.

The new rules drop directives such as social distancing and isolation after an exposure to COVID; it also downplays “contact tracing,” a measure which officials heavily touted in the early days of the pandemic but which has rarely been used throughout the country since then.
 

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Large German Insurer Reports Staggering Rise in Adverse Effects from COVID-19 Vaccines
THORSTEINN SIGLAUGSSON
Sat 10:31 am +00:00, 13 Aug 2022
According to a response to an official request for information from the German Techniker Krankenkasse insurer, the number of billed cases of vaccine-related adverse effects needing medical treatment skyrocketed in 2021 compared with 2019 and 2020. The request relates to four diagnostic codes:

  • T.88.0: Infection following immunisation
  • T.88.1: Other complications after immunisation
  • U.12.9: Adverse effects after Covid-19 immunisation
  • Y.59.9: Complications due to vaccines or biological substances

In 2019, the total number of confirmed diagnoses was 13,777. In 2020 it was 15,044. In 2021 the total number was 437,593. This is more than thirty-fold the average for those four codes in 2019-2020, a 2,937% increase.

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Number of payouts by the Techniker Krankenkasse related to codes T.88.0, T.88.1, U.12.9 and Y.59.9 by quarter

More precisely, it is the T.88.1 – Other complications after immunization, and U.12.9 – Adverse effects after Covid-19 immunization – that are spiking. The latter code, of course, has no data for the prior years, but is close to 150 thousand incidences in 2021.

Approximately 11 million people are insured by the Techniker Krankenkasse. 473,593 cases of medical treatment resulting from vaccination thus amounts to around one in every 23 people vaccinated, assuming all 11 million are vaccinated. The rate for 2019 and 2020 is one in every 760 people.

The vaccination effort against COVID-19 is unprecedented in its scale and thus a rise in the number of adverse effects is to be expected. But what should be expected? We can try to correct for the difference in scale to compare the COVID-19 vaccination effort with vaccination for other diseases. As the German total numbers are not easy to come by, we approximate this by using worldwide estimates. In 2017, the WHO estimates 2.7 billion vaccine doses were administered worldwide. In 2021, 57.7% of the world’s population had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, which amounts to about 4.55 billion people. From this we can conclude the number of persons vaccinated against COVID-19 last year was about 1.7 times the number otherwise vaccinated against other diseases. Thus, assuming the number of people vaccinated against other diseases stayed the same, the number vaccinated in total against any disease in 2021 was just under three times the earlier number. Correcting for this difference we get a tenfold increase in adverse effects needing medical treatment. This is a rough estimate, but gives us some idea of the actual rate.

Last February, a board member of another German insurance company, BKK Provita, Andreas Schöfbeck, informed the Paul Ehrlich Institute of a tenfold rise in the incidence rate of adverse effects among the company‘s clients, due to the COVID-19 vaccines. Schöfbeck was promptly fired from the company after his disclosure.

The US VAERS database shows a 35-fold increase in reported vaccine-related deaths in 2021 compared with 2019. In 2021, Iceland saw a 160-fold increase in reports of all adverse effects from vaccination compared with 2019. In July of this year, the Icelandic National Health Insurance had received 40 applications for damages resulting from COVID-19 vaccination, approximately one for every 8,000 people vaccinated.

Recent studies of excess mortality and adverse effects indicate the mRNA vaccines especially provide limited if any benefit. Dr. Martin Kulldorff, former professor at Harvard Medical School, member of the Food and Drug Administration’s Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and a former member of the Vaccine Safety Subgroup of the Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices, concluded in an article last July that the benefits for working age people were unclear and that the elderly only “may benefit“ from being vaccinated.

The new German numbers only add to already rising concerns regarding the COVID-19 vaccines. Especially with the now prevalent and much milder Omicron variant, the data indicates that vaccination increases infection and hospitalisation rates rather than reducing them and produces a rise in all-cause mortality. In light of this, continuing to inject younger people is highly irresponsible, if not criminal. And now, a few weeks after Danish health authorities banned the vaccination of children below the age of 18, new Thai research indicates as many as one in three teenagers suffer from heart-related problems following mRNA vaccination.

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Moderna CEO says Covid vaccines will evolve like ‘an iPhone’
By Michelle Toh, CNN Business
Published 7:29 AM EDT, Thu August 11, 2022

Forget taking two to three Covid shots a year. Moderna hopes to roll out a single-dose annual booster to cover the coronavirus, the flu and another common respiratory virus within the next five years.

As Covid-19 continues to mutate, Moderna will need to keep updating the vaccines that turned it into a global household name while trying to make it more convenient for consumers, CEO Stéphane Bancel said in an interview with CNN Business Wednesday.

He estimated a timeline of “three to five years” for the new combined product, and likened the development of the life-saving jab to that of a smartphone.

“You don’t get the amazing camera, amazing everything the first time you get an iPhone, but you get a lot of things,” he said.

“A lot of us buy a new iPhone every September, and you get new apps and you get refreshed apps. And that’s exactly the same idea, which is you’ll get Covid and flu and RSV [respiratory syncytial virus] in your single dose.”

Having recorded breakneck growth during the pandemic, Moderna (MRNA) is now under pressure to identify its next big frontier.

Bancel believes the Covid-19 pandemic that helped the company rack up tens of billions of dollars in revenue and generate business in more than 70 markets globally could end as soon as this year.

That doesn’t mean the virus is going anywhere, he noted.

“I think we are slowly moving — if not already in some countries — to a world where all the tools are available, and everybody can make their own decision based on their risk tolerance,” he explained, adding that he believed more people would choose to “live with the virus,” much like they do with the flu.

The approach, however, will continue to vary greatly, such as among people who are immunocompromised or in countries like Japan, where it was common to wear masks even before the pandemic, he acknowledged.

And “there’s always a 20% probability that we get a very nasty variant that drives very severe disease that has a lot of mutation,” he added.

The next big thing

Still, Moderna is determined not to become a one-hit wonder.

The company has more than 40 products in development, and is planning for life well beyond Covid-19, said Bancel.

In addition to an updated annual booster, it is continuing to develop a personalized cancer vaccine, for which new clinical data will drop later this year. Bancel said the product could go up for approval in roughly two years if all goes well.

The company is also exploring a potential monkeypox jab, which is “still in the lab today,” Bancel said. The World Health Organization declared the global outbreak of the illness a public health emergency of international concern last month.

And Moderna is looking to catch up to competitors overseas.

Earlier this year, it announced a push into 10 Asian and European markets, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Denmark and the Netherlands. The investments will cost “dozens of millions of dollars” and include hundreds of new hires, said Bancel.

He sees that as just one wave of expansion that will eventually take Moderna from directly operating in 12 countries this year to “40 to 60 countries” over the next three years.

The company also recently signed manufacturing agreements in the United Kingdom, South Korea and Australia, and is hoping to set up one or two more plants in Southeast Asia or North Asia.

Bancel said the new facilities would be crucial to helping adapt its products to different strains of illnesses that develop around the world.

As the world first dealt with the onset of Covid-19, Moderna was one of the handful of large manufacturers that rushed to get their vaccines ready, reducing timelines from years to months. Its stock rallied 434% in 2020 and 143% last year.

But now, like peers Pfizer (PFE) and BioNTech (BNTX), the firm’s stock has slumped, dropping more than 30% so far this year and 64% from its all-time high a year ago.

Last week, the company revealed that it took a writedown of nearly $500 million in the second quarter, partly because of a sudden cancellation of orders from Covax, the international vaccination program for lower-income countries.

The reversal led to huge losses for the company, which had bought new machines to fulfill those orders, and more importantly, resulted in Covid vaccines being thrown in the trash, said Bancel.

“We ended up destroying the vaccines,” he said. “It was really heartbreaking.”

The CEO said he wasn’t worried about that kind of slide in demand being repeated in richer countries, in part because governments had already shown commitments to use vaccines later this year to avoid reintroducing economic lockdowns.

But “on the low-income country side, yes, I am worried,” he said.



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If we've all been jabbed and millions have had the virus at least once - why are so many of us being poleaxed by a bout of Covid?
By Ethan Ennals For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 17:01 EDT, 13 August 2022 | Updated: 17:09 EDT, 13 August 2022

It began with a headache and sore throat one morning at the end of June. Then came a heavy chest that made breathing a struggle, while the headache became so bad that 66-year-old Mio Blagojevic describes it as ‘like having an out-of-body experience’.

The property developer from Hertfordshire adds: ‘I’d never felt so ill. It was like I’d been hit by a bus.’

With symptoms like these, this time last year the instant suspicion would have been Covid. But Mio, a keen runner, and his wife Karen had been fully vaccinated and then boosted in January.

Due to the severity of Mio’s symptoms, even the GP they called for advice did not suspect it could be Covid. They prescribed antibiotics, concluding that it was probably a bacterial chest infection.

Just to be sure, Mio took a lateral flow test. It was positive.

Elderly patients have been brushing off Covid-19 in recent weeks but younger fit and healthy people are being struck down with the 'worse flu ever'

He recalls his shock: ‘We’d been quite careful for most of the pandemic, wearing masks and avoiding many big events. But I was pretty confident that, if I did get it, I would be fine because I’d had my jabs. But I couldn’t get out of bed for days and it took almost a month for me to fully recover.’

Mio also suffered a total loss of smell for a month – a symptom that characterised the first Covid waves but which research had suggested didn’t hit people infected with the less severe Omicron variant.

Meanwhile, Karen, who caught the virus at the same time, suffered no more than a headache. The whole episode left Mio shaken – and baffled.

It seems that he isn’t the only one in this predicament. Last week, The Mail on Sunday’s resident GP columnist, Dr Ellie Cannon, wrote that while some of her older patients, previously at risk of falling seriously ill with Covid, had become infected and simply brushed it off, she was seeing an increasing number of fit and healthy people struck down with ‘the worst flu ever’.

Since then she has received a flood of letters and emails from readers who had, like Mio, also been completely and unexpectedly poleaxed by the virus.

Susan Smith, 68, says she caught Covid three weeks ago, and despite having had three jabs she describes the illness as ‘the worst thing I can remember having’.

Her throat was so sore it felt ‘like I had razor blades’ in it. She lost her sense of taste and smell and felt extremely fatigued.

Susan believed a 78-year-old friend gave her the virus after he returned from Spain. However, he barely had any symptoms at all.

This all begs the question: why, more than two years after Covid first appeared, are so many of us suddenly being laid so low?

Alison Peek, a 64-year-old nurse, said her bout of Covid – her first despite working in a nursing home during the pandemic – left her in bed for ten days.

Fully vaccinated and boosted, Alison says: ‘The muscle fatigue I experienced was immense. I have never endured anything like it. It wasn’t just tiredness. It felt like I was wading through quicksand.’

This all begs the question: why, more than two years after Covid first appeared, are so many of us suddenly being laid so low?

Experts agree that the decision to offer all adults a third jab last winter, in response to the arrival of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, was a success. The reintroduction of Covid restrictions were avoided, and despite infections rising to record highs, the number of people hospitalised and dying with the virus stayed extremely low.

In the spring, over-75s were offered a fourth top-up jab. And this autumn, all Britons over the age of 50 will receive another dose in preparation for the winter.

In terms of vaccination, we are among the most protected in the world. However, there is still a lot of Covid around.

While cases are now falling from a peak in mid-July, more than two million Britons have the virus. There are also several new sub-variants driving infections.

Since the spring, two mutated versions of Omicron have been the cause of most cases in the UK. Labelled BA.4 and BA.5, they appear to cause some different symptoms to their predecessor.

According to the King’s College London Zoe symptom tracker app, anosmia – loss of sense of smell – is often reported. Its analysis suggests that more people are experiencing sore throats, as well as a previously uncommon symptom: diarrhoea.

These mutations can also overcome the immunity built up by vaccines and prior infection. It means someone who caught Covid in May could easily catch it again if exposed now.

Experts agree that the decision to offer all adults a third jab last winter, in response to the arrival of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, was a success. The reintroduction of Covid restrictions were avoided, and despite infections rising to record highs, the number of people hospitalised and dying with the virus stayed extremely low.

Scientists say that with so many people infected, it stands to reason that statistically, while most can shrug off the virus thanks to protection provided by the jabs, some will still get hit badly. And a few will end up in hospital, even if they have been vaccinated.

‘Thanks to vaccination, Covid is now essentially acting as two different diseases,’ says Professor Paul Hunter, an infectious diseases expert at the University of East Anglia (UEA).

‘When the virus first arrived, doctors were most concerned about systemic infections – where the virus can get into your lungs and lead to pneumonia.

‘This is what usually kills patients. But we’re not seeing anywhere near as much of this.

‘Instead, most people are experiencing an upper respiratory tract infection, which means it’s their noses and throats affected, and it doesn’t get into their lungs. This is much like any standard cold and flu.’

But Prof Hunter also points out that regular colds and flu do floor otherwise healthy people.

‘It’s perfectly normal to see someone in their mid-20s get flu really badly to the point where they are in bed for a week. Their friend who got the same virus might be absolutely fine.’

He adds: ‘In reality, if you caught flu now you’d be more likely to get seriously ill than you would with Covid. This is because there has been very little flu, meaning few people have any immunity.’

Worryingly, scientists believe we are now due a bad flu season.

Australia – seen as a bellwether, as its winter occurs during our summer months – has suffered its worst flu season for five years.

Last month, the Government announced that everyone over 50 would be offered a flu shot with their Covid booster in September. It will also be available to people with underlying health conditions, pregnant women, healthcare workers and carers, as well as secondary school children.

But putting this aside, is there a way to predict who might get a bad case of Covid?

Experts say the most crucial factor is when people had their last booster.

‘On average, the extra vaccine gives you only three months’ protection from infection,’ says Professor Lawrence Young, a virus expert at the University of Warwick. The good news is that scientists are certain the vaccines we have had will continue to provide most of us with protection against severe illness needing hospital treatment.

Vaccines create antibodies which prevent the virus entering the body, but they also encourage the production of other protective immune cells – including T cells, which attack invaders before they can do too much damage.

Last month, the Government announced that everyone over 50 would be offered a flu shot with their Covid booster in September. It will also be available to people with underlying health conditions, pregnant women, healthcare workers and carers, as well as secondary school children.

‘T cell response still looks really solid,’ says Prof Young. ‘But as your antibodies wane, more virus can get in, so your risk of getting a nasty yet non-threatening infection goes up.’

And since the over-75s had a booster jab in the spring, experts say this age group is, in fact, less likely to get very ill.

Figures published last week by the Office for National Statistics appears to back this up.

According to a survey of UK antibody levels, more than 90 per cent of people over the age of 75 – those who had received a second booster – have a high level of antibodies. However, just 60 per cent of those aged between 65 and 74 had similar levels.

‘If you’re in your 40s, your last jab will have been a lot longer ago than if you’re in your 70s,’ says Prof Hunter.

‘So it stands to reason the risk of the 40-year-old getting laid out badly may actually be higher.’

One 40-year-old who knows this all too well is Kristian Jenson, from London, who caught the virus for the first time last month.

The vintage furniture seller had his third jab in December, and says while he expected to catch Covid eventually, he never expected to become so unwell. He adds: ‘I had the worst headache, I was coughing loads and lost all my sense of smell and taste.

‘I’d had my booster and I’m relatively young and healthy, so I thought I’d be able to brush it off after a couple days. It was so bad I had to take two weeks off work, and I’m still recovering five weeks on.’

Kristian will not receive another Covid jab soon, since only over-50s will be offered one this winter. This makes him nervous as he worries about catching the virus again.

He says: ‘It was really tough physically, but also financially because I had to take time off work, and then there’s childcare as we had to keep our son home. It makes life really tricky when you get this ill.’

Scientists say there are other factors which determine the severity of Covid infection. Multiple studies show that men are more likely to suffer worse symptoms than women, which may in part explain why Mio suffered worse than his wife.

‘Male immune systems tend to react more slowly to viruses,’ says Prof Young.

Experts believe genetics play a role in the infection’s severity.

A German study, published last year, found that people with the blood type O – the most common group – had a heightened protection against severe Covid compared with the national average. People with the less common blood type A were noticeably more likely to get dangerously sick, though scientists are unsure why.

According to a survey of UK antibody levels, more than 90 per cent of people over the age of 75 – those who had received a second booster – have a high level of antibodies. However, just 60 per cent of those aged between 65 and 74 had similar levels.

Scientists also believe the amount of Covid particles someone is exposed to when they become infected could also determine how sick they get.

‘If you get Covid after spending several hours sitting next to someone with the virus in an office with poor ventilation, you’re probably going to get more sick than someone who picks up the virus after chatting with someone for two minutes,’ says Prof Hunter.

Having had a recent cold reduces the severity of a Covid infection. This is because most colds are also forms of coronavirus – closely related to Covid and similar in structure.

So when the immune system develops cells to fight off a cold, these cells can put up defence to Covid.

An American study, published last week, suggested that people who had suffered a cold as a result of infection with another coronavirus in the previous three months were far less likely to catch Covid.

Regardless of this, experts say we have to expect several more years of regular waves of Covid.

Professor Peter Openshaw, an immunologist at Imperial College London, says: ‘People are still being reinfected because the virus is mutating to evade our immunity.

‘So even though the vast majority of Britons have really high levels of antibodies, they’re still liable to get quite sick with the virus, even if they’re not as likely to end up in hospital.’

The good news, according to Prof Openshaw, is that the virus cannot continue keep evolving at this rate.

‘The virus is essentially evolving under pressure. It’s reacting to the vaccines and the build-up of previous infections, in an effort to survive,’ he says.

‘But eventually, probably in about three years, it will settle down into something more akin to the common cold.’
 

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New Science, Multiple Reports: COVID-19 Vaccine Causes Lung Blockages
BY Jennifer Margulis and Joe Wang
August 10, 2022

A team of doctors has alerted the medical world to the danger of artery blockage from COVID vaccination with a new case report, published on August 5, 2022 in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science.

The case report describes how their patient, 67 years old, started to feel short of breath two days after getting the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19. Then, while doing some yard work, he could not catch his breath, even after resting for half an hour. So he went to the emergency room.

The ER doctors found that this patient’s heart was racing, and that one of his legs had started to swell. His blood pressure was abnormally high. A blood test to assess his troponin levels revealed abnormally high troponin as well. Troponin is a type of protein found in the heart muscles. When the heart muscles are damaged, from a heart attack or other stress on the heart, troponin is released into the blood stream.

A cardiologist was called in, and the patient was admitted to the hospital. Given how bad his test results were, the doctors speculated that he would have had “dismal outcome if urgent treatment had not been initiated.”

In other words, if he had not gone to the ER to receive immediate treatment, he likely would have died.

Pulmonary Embolism Post Vaccination

A CT scan further showed the doctors that the patient had a pulmonary embolism. A pulmonary embolism is a significant blood clot in a major artery leading from the heart to the lungs, cutting off blood flow. His kidneys were also acutely affected by the embolism.

Symptoms of a pulmonary embolism range from shortness of breath, to an abnormally high heart rate (tachycardia), leg swelling (like the patient in this case study had), to sudden death.

This patient was also found to have another clot, a deep vein thrombosis, in his calf. It was this clot that was causing his leg to swell.

Catheter Surgery

The doctors acted quickly to give him blood thinners and prepare him for catheter surgery. They snaked a catheter through his neck into his heart in order to remove the clot.

A few days in the hospital following his surgery, the patient seemed to have fully recovered.

Since this 67-year-old man had no risk factors or previous history of thrombosis, and he had recently had a Pfizer vaccine, the medical team suspected vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia.

Minnesota Dentist Suffers Vaccine-Induced Pulmonary Embolism

As a health care provider, Doug Trebtoske felt he had to set a good example by getting all the recommended COVID-19 vaccines.

Trebtoske, a dentist based in Rochester, Minnesota, told The Epoch Times that, while he did not force his employees to get vaccinated, he “blindly accepted the CDC position on vaccination.”

He was keen on the vaccination because a relative by marriage, who, like Trebtoske, was 68 years old and in good health, died from COVID-19 a month before the vaccines became available.

But after the third Pfizer vaccination, which he received in September 2021, Trebtoske developed a bad cough. He went to urgent care 30 days after this third vaccination because he was experiencing severe rib pain. “The pain was unreal, like someone was sticking a knife in my chest,” he said.

The doctors were not sure what was wrong with him but in early November he was hospitalized with a pulmonary embolism and two broken ribs. He has been hospitalized twice since then, and undergone two rib surgeries.

Trebtoske and his general practitioner both believe that the pulmonary embolism was vaccine induced thrombosis thrombocytopenia from the third dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia

When someone has vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, or VITT, they usually present with blood clots in a vein or an artery (which can cause swelling in one leg, chest pain, or body numbness) as well as with a low platelet count in the blood, according to the American College of Cardiology.

Both thrombosis and thrombocytopenia can be life-threatening.

Dr. Kenji Yamamoto, a cardiovascular surgeon who works at Okamura Memorial Hospital in Shizuoka, Japan, has recorded a significant rise in vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia since COVID-19 vaccination began. Because of the dangers of VITT, Yamamoto believes that the vaccination booster program should be halted.

“The media have so far concealed the adverse events of vaccine administration, such as vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), owing to biased propaganda,” Yamamoto wrote in a letter published in the journal Virology on June 5, 2022.

Post Vaccination Blood Disorders in Previously Healthy Individuals

Soon after the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccines in Europe, hematologists “began observing previously healthy young individuals present with severe, extensive thrombosis,” according to an article in the journal Blood. “Unlike most cases of thrombosis, there was associated thrombocytopenia, and no predisposing thrombotic risk factors.”

These cases were thought to be linked mainly to the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was widely available in Europe but not in the United States.

Over 70 percent of the young people who got VITT, the onset of which was usually between five and 30 days after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, died.

More than a dozen other peer-reviewed scientific articles have also discussed this vaccine side effect, with doctors recommending protocols to diagnose VITT, as well as publishing case reports from Thailand, India, and several other countries.

Five months after the AstraZeneca vaccine was first made available, at least 242 clotting cases and 49 vaccine deaths in younger healthy adults had been reported in the United Kingdom, according to the BBC.

In May 2021, the United Kingdom began recommending that adults between the ages of 18 and 39 be offered an alternative to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

Then, in October 2021, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study of some 220 cases in the United Kingdom of thrombosis that were found to be vaccine-induced.

These patients developed clots mostly in their lungs (the pulmonary arteries) and their legs, as the Pfizer patient had.

Although VITT had been seen most often following administration of the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, other reports have found vaccine-associated thrombosis following Moderna and Pfizer vaccination as well.

For some people, vaccination induces a “prothrombotic state” in which the blood levels of the blood’s clotting cells are disrupted, raising the likelihood of clots forming in the blood vessels.

As the authors of the current case study point out, there were other early warning articles in the scientific literature. A team of six Austrian doctors also published about thrombosis following COVID-19 vaccination in the New England Journal of Medicine, as did a team of Norwegian doctors.

In November 2021, an analysis in the journal Vaccines showed that in just four months in 2021, there were 729,496 adverse events, of which 3,420 were thrombotic; 63 of those affected died: six had had a Moderna vaccine, 25 a Pfizer vaccine, and 32 the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

Denying the Connection

Several doctors at the Mayo Clinic, however, have told Doug Trebtoske, the dentist from Minnesota, that there is no connection between the lung problems he has had and the COVID-19 vaccines. Instead, he said, they diagnosed him with “pulmonary embolism of undetermined origin.”

It’s been nine months since he got his third Pfizer vaccine. Trebtoske is still unwell; he can no longer work. He had to sell his dental practice and he isn’t able to dance anymore. He’s considering yet another major surgery to fix a persistent problem with his ribs that was caused by the pulmonary embolism.

What’s more, he’s tested positive for COVID-19 twice despite having had three vaccines.

If he had to do it again, he’s not sure he would make the same vaccine choices.

“I probably would have been better off not to have gotten the vaccinations, personally,” he said. “I feel my body over-reacts to the vaccine, and that’s why I got the blood clots. My family physician feels the same way.”
 

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New CDC COVID-19 Guidance Is Agency ‘Admitting It Was Wrong’: Epidemiologist
By Zachary Stieber and Jan Jekielek
August 13, 2022

The new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 guidance is the agency acknowledging it was wrong in the past to downplay natural immunity and promote unprecedented policies like asymptomatic testing, a California epidemiologist says.

The new guidance, released on Aug. 11, rescinds and alters a number of key recommendations, including treating unvaccinated and vaccinated people differently for many purposes, explicitly stating that people with previous infection have protection against severe illness, and removing six-foot social distancing advice.

“The CDC is admitting it was wrong here, although they won’t put it in those words,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, told The Epoch Times.

“What they’ll say is that, well, ‘the population is more immunized now, has more natural immunity now, and now is the time—the science has changed.'”

But a large percentage of the U.S. population has had natural immunity, or protection from prior infection, Bhattacharya noted, while over 80 percent of the elderly population had protection from severe disease from COVID-19 vaccines, previous infection, or both, since 2021.

“This is two years too late, but it’s a good step,” Bhattacharya added.

CDC Statement

The CDC, which did not respond to a request for comment, portrayed the change as streamlining previous guidance, with the adjustments stemming from more people being vaccinated and more COVID-19 treatments available.

“We’re in a stronger place today as a nation, with more tools—like vaccination, boosters, and treatments—to protect ourselves, and our communities, from severe illness from COVID-19,” Greta Massetti, the CDC author of the new guidance, said in a statement. “We also have a better understanding of how to protect people from being exposed to the virus, like wearing high-quality masks, testing, and improved ventilation. This guidance acknowledges that the pandemic is not over, but also helps us move to a point where COVID-19 no longer severely disrupts our daily lives.”

Dr. Jerome Adams, the surgeon general during the Trump administration, echoed the line of thinking.

“The fact that @CDCgov is changing guidance shouldn’t be taken as proof that they were necessarily ‘wrong,’ on a particular issue. The virus has changed, our tools and immunity have changed, and our knowledge has changed. So too must our guidance. That’s how science works,” Adams wrote on Twitter.

Vaccination numbers have fallen off in recent months, with little change among adults and little update among children, even after the vaccines were authorized and recommended for kids as young as 6 months old.

No new treatments have been authorized since December 2021, and a number of the treatments have been shown as less effective against newer strains of the virus that causes COVID-19, as have the vaccines and, in some cases, natural immunity.

Nearly half of the 20 papers and briefs cited by the CDC in support of the adjusted guidance were published in 2020 or 2021, while a number of others were released in early 2022.

No Mandates Rescinded Yet

Among the most significant changes in the guidance: a rollback of recommendations for asymptomatic testing for individuals exposed to COVID-19, loosening guidance related to tracing contacts of COVID-19 cases, and ending quarantine recommendations for people exposed to a positive case.

Some rules are stricter for high-risk settings such as nursing homes.

Masking is also recommended for 10 days for people who were exposed to COVID-19, including when a person is at home around others.

Bhattacharya, who co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration in 2020, a document that called for focused protection on the elderly and fewer restrictions on others, said that the guidance is closely aligned with the principles outlined in the declaration.

Based on the new guidance, the CDC should immediately rescind the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for foreign travelers entering The United States, a policy imposed in November 2021, the professor added.

The CDC’s webpage describing the mandate says that the agency “is reviewing this page to align with updated guidance.” The U.S. government has not adjusted or rescinded any of its vaccine mandates since the guidance was changed.
 

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ghdyIRg748
Thailand Myocarditis After Vaccine Study | What can we learn? | A Doctor and Professor Reflects
29 min 47 sec

Aug 13, 2022
Vinay Prasad MD MPH

Link to the full essay: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com...



The substack article about this video:

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What does the Thailand Myocarditis Study Teach Us?
Taking safety signals seriously is imperative; the US CDC & others have failed to do that
Vinay Prasad
18 hr ago

The goal of vaccination programs is to protect people from diseases as safely as possible. Vaccines and diseases are not supposed to have harms that are even in the same ball-park as each other; Vaccines are supposed to be much, much, much safer than the diseases they prevent or diminish. When it comes to an 80 year old who never had COVID19—back in Jan 2021— there is no doubt about it; the benefit of 2 doses of mRNA vaccines is orders of magnitude greater than any known or unknown risk, and should be pursued.

When it comes to young men— both past and present— the story is complicated and nuanced. As early as Feb 2021, we had reports from Israel that young men were experiencing myocarditis— an inflammation of the wall of the heart— after COVID19 vaccine administration. Preliminary figures varied but reports placed it in the 1/3000 to 1/5000 ballpark. Many were hospitalized.

That 1/3-5k ballpark is deeply concerning. Suddenly it was clear that myocarditis was a serious safety concern in this age/sex group that meant, we ought to make a concerted effort to lower harms in this group. Here are some things we could have done (either under the auspices of a randomized trial) or as part of a natural experiment.
  1. Just give 1 dose (it was clear dose 2 had much higher rates of myocarditis) and dose 1 provided the bulk of the protection against hospitalization. We could follow outcomes as part of natural experiments.
  2. Provided exemptions for people who had and recovered from covid or those with + nucleocapsid Ab. It remains unclear how much a 22 year old who had and recovered from COVID benefits from vaccination (with respect to clinical endpoints not Ab titers)
  3. Tested lower doses of the vaccine (Pfizer was 30micrograms/ Moderna 100mcg); we could have administered lower doses, spread the timing of the doses apart (other nations did this, we did it too late) and measured rates of hospitalization; This could have been done as part of a national effort led by CDC (Can you lower myocarditis with a lower dose & preserve most of the efficacy?)
  4. Banned the use of Moderna. It was clear that Moderna was associated with a higher rate of myocarditis, and other nations & Kaiser Portland moved swiftly against it.
  5. Set a higher bar for boosters in young men; as the 3rd dose can cause myocarditis and it is not clear how much this benefits them.
  6. Immediately stopped pushing doses in all adults who have had and recovered from Omicron, pending a new trial in this population.
Instead of taking any of these actions, which we suggested at the time, the public health community downplayed, gaslighted and mislead about the concern. Initially the CDC director said (in what must have been incorrect), “"We have not seen a signal and we've actually looked intentionally for the signal in the over 200 million doses we've given," Some ‘experts’ chose to report rates of myocarditis among all recipients lumping in 20 year old men with 80 year old women.

This is as colossally stupid as combining men and women to report ovarian cancer statistics.

Just as with Vaccine Induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis caused by J&J, which I wrote about at the time, loud physician voices not trained in data-interpretation downplayed the concerns on social media. In the case of VITT, they said it was just like a blood clot in the leg (it isn’t), and in the case of myocarditis they repeated that it was “mostly mild” and had to occur less often than myocarditis post infection. Of course, for a 22 year old man who already had 1 dose of Moderna, it was clear that he had 2 choices going forward (a) breakthrough or (b) breakthrough after the 2nd dose. The latter path certainly has a higher rate of myocarditis than the former.

Many doctors missed the plot: the purpose of talking about myocarditis is not to be critical of vaccines— they are a tremendous good— but to take seriously safety signals so that we can personalize or tailor appropriate vaccine strategies to the right ages to maximize efficacy and minimize harm. That’s Medicine 101.

Enter the new Thailand study. The US FDA has specifically asked Pfizer to prospectively assess the incidence of subclinical myocarditis for young people at time of EUA as part of post market commitments.



In keeping with the FDA’s tradition of being lax, the agency gave Pfizer till 2022 and 2024 to provide these data. That’s pretty shitty for a live problem that affects millions of boys, where the information can be generated in 1 month by a company shoveling billions into its pockets.

What happens next? Does the CDC skip Pfizer and go ahead and run biomarkers on the next 1000 kids who get the vax? pre-and post doses? with and without a control getting vax a month later? How about UK or WHO? Sadly, no one did. We turn to the first, and only prospective evaluation, and it comes from Thailand.

I will get right to the point. The authors ran a bunch of tests on kids (202 boys, 99 girls) aged 13-18 who got the 2nd dose of Pfizer, after getting the first dose without adverse events. The EKG changes in the pre-print are not the story. The story are rates of cardiac biomarkers and how often they are elevated. 3 patients had chest pain and biomarker elevation; 4 patients had no chest pain but elevated cardiac biomarkers. These were all in boys.

7/202 boys had overt or subclinical myocarditis (3.5%) or roughly 2 orders of magnitude more common than prior reports from passive adverse event reporting of myocarditis.



I want to quote a section from cardiologist Dr. Anish Koka, who has written a nice and more detailed post on this paper:
  • I can assure you, and the mostly ER doctor contingent on twitter that brays about “mild myocarditis”, that there are no cardiologists who want to see their child have a cardiac troponin that is 2x normal or 40x normal after administration of some therapeutic. What exactly does one to do with an adolescent with a troponin that is 2x normal that is asymptomatic? Given the theoretical risk of malignant cardiac arrhythmias I would imagine most cardiologists would follow the current guidelines for myocarditis and advise against strenuous cardiac activity for some months. Sudden cardiac death in young athletes is obviously a fearsome complication that is very real and it is likely some proportion of sudden cardiac death is from subclinical myocarditis.
If the study included Moderna, I, like Dr Koka, expect worse results. I don’t know what to expect in men 18-30, but I am worried.

What is the point?

The toothpaste is largely out of the tube for initial vaccine decisions; All we can do is try to move forward making the best medical decisions. The results of this study should be a call to arms. Here are several take-home messages:
  1. The fact the US, CDC, NIAID, FDA, etc etc. have to rely on a Thailand preprint for the first prospective study of cardiac biomarkers is mind-boggling negligence. The US and this CDC have shown that either they are incompetent to take safety signals seriously, or indifferent to safety. They earn Grade F. This study should have been done in the USA, by Pfizer 1 month after EUA was granted. End of story.
  2. We have to rethink the safety/ efficacy of the original series for the few adolescent men who have not had covid and not been vaccinated. Lower doses, longer time between doses, omitting dose 2, must all be tested.
  3. Because #2 comprises so few boys, this mainly has implications going forward for our indefinitely booster plans:
    1. Boosters should not be mandated without robust RCT evidence of benefit to others. (that has never happened)
    2. We must run large RCTs of boosters in this age group and test lower doses— looking for optimal safety/ efficacy before we move forward.
    3. Every time you change the spike protein construct, you might get LESS myocarditis, but you might also get MORE myocarditis. Novavax proves it is not the mRNA but spike that is the issue. Vaccine makers must be tasked to generate clinical data and not mere Ab titer data for approval.
    4. Use of EUA for any further vaccine outside of nursing home patients no longer makes sense, traditional BLA is needed for more doses.
    5. The US CDC should issue an apology for not taking safety signal more seriously, and work to build back trust in vaccines. Already, there is spillover into childhood immunization— a dangerous precedent.
    6. Pre-pandemic, I lamented that doctors who spent a large percentage of their intellectual time debunking cupping or other obviously useless things were not providing much value for science education, and COVID19 vaccine debates vindicate that view. These groups have been absolutely unable to shatter their pre-existing heuristics (vaccine good/ any concern bad) to novel products with fundamental different risk benefit. The real lesson is that careful understanding of EBM remains poorly taught to doctors; instead many think by blind allegiance to political party or relying on simple rules that serve them well in times of peace, but fall apart in times of war.
    7. There has to be a point where we conclude that the benefit of the nTH dose of the vaccine is outweighed by the harm. That is true for all drug products, and that is true here. These findings suggest that may come faster than we think, or may already have passed.
    8. Anyone who had COVID should be exempt from any further vaccine or booster requirement until credible data is generated in these groups— data of net clinical benefit.
Ultimately, I will have more to say on this topic, but awaiting a big project to complete. This study does matter; it is important. It is the first prospective study of biomarkers post vaccine. It came from Thailand. It is concerning. It captures so many failures with drug safety. When we are scared, naturally reason is suppressed. In this case, too many people have been too scared for too long; they took something great— the COVID19 vaccine— and found a way to bungle the policy around it.
 

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NEW - U.S. CDC appears to have deleted the statement that the "mRNA and the spike protein do not last long in the body" from their website.
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CDC (quietly) removes a massive claim on vaccine safety
and bolsters concerns about mRNA and cancer
el gato malo
15 hr ago

when assessing the filings of anything from companies to pharmaceuticals much of the interesting information is conveyed in the changes. what has been added? what has been taken out?

you catch a company taking text out of a 10-K in some friday night filing and you know they wanted to bury it.
well buckle up, because the CDC just dramatically changed their claims about mRNA vaccine safety and this one is a doozie.

this is the current claim. it can be found HERE.



but if we rewind to late july using the wayback machine, we get THIS. notice anything that used to be in this “facts” assemblage but that has been “disappeared”?

a helpful internet feline has added a red box here to assist you.



this is a BIG deal as a large part of the safety claim around these drugs was initially predicated on the ideas that
  1. they remained localized around the injection site.
  2. they were rapidly cleared by the body and did not stick around to generate lasting effects.
this was all in service of the basic claim that systemic effects from mRNA innoculant injection would be minor and transitory.

point 1 has long been proven to be false and was known (but not disclosed) from animal data that predates EUA and was never even tested in humans pre-approval despite dire need. it was rapidly abandoned.

point 2 has long been shown to be false as well and it appears that even the CDC is no longer willing to make this attestation.

get worried.

this is a very big deal because the spike protein produced by these vaccines is FAR more dangerous in a great many ways than the spike from covid itself and this is even more true today when compared to more moderate variants like omicron.
the vaccines are highly CG enriched and this is a strong reason to presume that having them linger around for long periods will increase the risk of, accelerate, or outright cause cancer, heart damage, and a number of other extreme ill effects.

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CG enrichment in covid vaccine mRNA
the other day, i wrote about the manner in which mRNA vaccines look to be suppressing not only innate immune function, but also the mechanisms by which pathogens and cancers are detected. this piece a…
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lots of folks have been standing on chairs screaming about this for ages. it seems implausible that the CDC has not heard them.

unfortunately, it looks increasingly plausible that the CDC is trying to prevent the data from getting out as they try to step away from their claims of systemic safety.

this newfound rescission finds deeply uneasy consonance with the fact so ably and consistently pointed out by longtime gatopal™ ethical skeptic in so many threads:

the CDC has stopped reporting on cancers (malignant neoplasms) and a variety of heart disorders.

it’s been 71 days since this “went offline” for “system upgrades.”



Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic
Day 7️⃣0️⃣ of the System Upgrade data compromise MMWR Week 30 posting (due 10 Aug) is late... We saw in spades yesterday that an ACAN problem exists in American Citizen health right now, wrt Cancer and Conductive Heart Disorders. I think the CDC knows we have a problem.
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and now, they pull the claim that mRNA and spike proteins from the vaccines (the exact thing that would cause this) are rapidly cleared from the body.

that’s a worrying confluence and starts to feel like an agency whose credibility is already in deep trouble playing “hide the ball.”

this sure seems like the folks that would have the data changing their tune but not telling anyone why.

how is this not suppressing information and staring right at the floorboards where the body is buried?

enquiring gatos would like to know.

the CDC has made claim after claim about these products that has been proven false.

they will stop transmission and be a dead end for the virus. injected material stays local. side effects are minor and transitory. 2 doses is fully vaccinated. the list goes on and on.

sure, mRNA therapeutics have been studied for decades, but we also failed to adopt any.

we did not use them because they were so ineffective and so dangerous.

these products were literally abandoned as oncology treatment because they were too toxic.



this idea that some longstanding body of work that makes them well characterized and safe in humans has been untrue since the beginning and most of it was rank speculation on the basis of NO studies, especially around bio-distribution to organs and duration of residence in them and the rest of the body which is, of course, a big part of cancer, heart, liver, ovary, testes, and auto-immune risk.

the CDC have ignored a clear immune suppression window post dosing, manipulated records to make vaccines look as though they stop covid and/or mitigate severity, and ignored strong, credible data that the vaxxed and boosted are getting covid at multiples the rate of the unvaxxed.

and honestly, as gatopal™ and fellow anthropomorphic animal kbirb outlines here, claims about “does not penetrate/effect cell nucleus” may be yet another domino to fall.

the fact that nearly 2 years after launch this question is not well answered is an appalling outcome that speaks to incredibly dangerous corners being cut.

(to be clear, i’m not convinced i know the answer here, but i am convinced that genuine grounds for debate and research exist.)

KBirb @birb_k
One of these can’t be true: 1) CDC: “mRNA “produces a harmless piece of what is called the spike protein” that “sits on the cell surface”. 2) U of Stockholm Study: “SARS–CoV–2 Spike Impairs DNA Damage Repair and Inhibits V(D)J Recombination In Vitro”. Let’s look at both… 1/
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the CDC keep getting it wrong and in response have:
  1. refused to even assess the VAERS data for risk as required by their own mandate
  2. quietly removed key safety claims from their website
  3. stopped reporting cancer and heart data that seems directly related to that claim
  4. and kept doubling down on the need to vaccinate and claims of safety despite so many other governments and health agencies stepping back from booster claims, admitting they made a mistake ever vaccinating children at all, and banning future jabs for under 18’s.
this is not public health, it’s public manipulation.

and some seriously pointy questions about “just whose side is this agency on?” and “precisely what role are they trying to fulfill these days?” appear more than warranted.

they appear vital.

 

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NEW - U.S. CDC appears to have deleted the statement that the "mRNA and the spike protein do not last long in the body" from their website.
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Facts not aligning with your narrative? Just change your website!
It's all the rage.
Jessica Rose
17 hr ago

This was brought to my attention by our wonderful @jengleruk, @galileoisback, elgatomalo (I just noticed kitty’s wicked article now) and was also archived and can be found on Arkmedic's feed on Telegram.

Thank good golly for the Wayback Machine. Check out these sequential screenshots from July 22, 2022 and July 23, 2022 (the very next day when the cat came back), from the CDC website on the subject of mRNA and spike protein duration in the human body.


Figure 1: Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines

And the very next day. This is the current state of the CDC website when you head to the section on Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines.

Do you understand yet?



Figure 2: Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines

So to be fair, yes, websites can definitely be updated as data and information is updated. However, when the information on said websites are the basis of global mandates with the goal to inject non-effective and not proven-safe experimental gene therapy products into an entire species, Houston, I think we have a serious problem. You can’t just keep dictating in a democratic nation: it doesn’t work that way. YOU work for US.

‘Leaders’ with intention to dictate mandates, any mandates, without recognizing the right of personal choice in the people to whom they serve, are DICTATORS.

Man, you know what? If they love dictatorships so much, why don’t THEY go live in another country under a dictatorship!
Enjoy!

The paper on integration is coming. I am sure of it. This will debunk their unsubstantiated claim that the ingredients
and/or effects of these experimental gene therapy products do not affect or interact with our DNA.

Bullocks.
 

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THE NHS IS IN THE UK


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Just as the CDC pretends to have backed off, the NHS reveals (to just a few) what's really coming at us in the fall: "The biggest vaccination drive in history"
Those who think the worst is over better think again—because it really won't be over til WE end it
Mark Crispin Miller
11 hr ago

As (misleadingly) reported in the Independent yesterday (scroll down), the NHS is going all-out “to boost capacity ahead of what is expected to be a busy winter,” what with the looming “combination of Covid and flu.” The plan is to “create thousands more beds,” and take on thousands of new staffers, (ostensibly) to make the NHS a more efficient guardian of the British people’s health. To that end, they’re hiring scads of call workers (including “mental health professionals”), “extra social prescribing link workers” (whatever those are) and “health and wellbeing coaches,” all to be devoted to a vast improvement in NHS services, so as to keep the British people “safe.”

Thus the Independent gives its readers the impression that the NHS wants more than anything to better its performance for the greater good. The only hint that something else is in the works comes way down in the 13th paragraph, as an innocuous aside:

Planning is also under way for an autumn Covid-19 booster programme as well as the annual flu campaign.

That’s the story crafted for the public. Meanwhile, in its recruitment ads, now circulating only to a select group of call-center employees in the UK, the NHS is telling quite a different story:



And so, contrary to the story in the (so-called) Independent, “planning” is NOT “also under way for an autumn Covid-19 booster program as well as the annual flu [shot] campaign.” “The biggest vaccination drive in history” could hardly be a secondary purpose of such “planning.” So grandiose an effort has to be the NHS’s only aim; although (of course) the NHS alone is obviously not equipped, and certainly does not intend, to undertake the biggest vaccination drive in history—a drive that must, and will, be global, just like the orchestration of the entire COVID crisis, of which this coming drive will be the culmination (or, to quote Bill Gates, the “final solution”).

Nor, finally, is it likely that this biggest vaccination drive in history will be mounted on the now-exhausted pretext of protecting all humanity from COVID-19 (or the flu). What’s it going to be, then? Monkeypox? HIV? COVID-20? Cancer? All of the above? Whatever new threat(s) may be used to justify this final drive could never be as lethal as the psychopaths who planned it, and those entities that will not stop promoting it (even as the CDC pretends to have backed off).




NHS to create thousands more beds and boost 999 staff numbers ahead of winter
August 12, 2022​
The NHS will create thousands more beds and recruit more emergency call handlers as part of plans to boost capacity ahead of what is expected to be a busy winter.
Winter is usually the busiest period for the NHS and health leaders expect the combination of Covid and flu to pile yet more pressure on already stretched services.
NHS England said that to prepare for additional pressures the equivalent of 7,000 more general and acute beds will be created through a mixture of new hospital beds, virtual wards and initiatives to improve patient flow.
It also said the health service will recruit more call handlers across the country so there are at least 4,800 staff working in NHS 111 and 2,500 in 999 call rooms.
NHS England said the additional 999 capacity will help staff meet record demand, with a “live 999 call answer dashboard” and a target to answer calls in an average of 10 seconds.
The package of measures includes an extra £10 million for mental health services throughout the winter to deal with record demand and mental health professionals being deployed in 999 call centres to direct people in crisis towards appropriate services.
GP services will be supported through the recruitment of extra social prescribing link workers and health and wellbeing coaches to support patients with other needs, NHS England added.
Professor Sir Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said the NHS was “taking every step possible” to ensure it was prepared for any additional pressure in winter.
He added: “Winter is always a busy period for the NHS, and this is the first winter where we are likely to see combined pressures from Covid and flu, so it is right that we prepare as early as we can for the additional demand that we know we will face.
“Ahead of the winter, we want to make sure we are doing everything we possibly can to free up capacity so that staff can ensure patients get the care they need – this includes timely discharge, working with social care, and better support in the community with the expansion of virtual wards.
“As ever, it is vital that the public continues to use NHS services in the usual way including using 999 in an emergency and using NHS 111 online for other health issues.”
NHS England also said that the health service will work more closely with social care to make sure patients are able to leave hospital as quickly as possible with the right care and support to stay well in their homes.
Planning is also under way for an autumn Covid-19 booster programme as well as the annual flu campaign.
The package comes the day after the latest NHS performance figures showed accident and emergency departments in England had one of their worst months in July, with record numbers of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted and the lowest proportion of people being seen within four hours….

 

Zoner

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The way I am seeing it now is there are 3 possibilities.

1). The science has changed and they are genuinely trying to keep up. Omicron is so mild and is so infectious, it's basically immunized everyone better than the vaccine can. As the science changes, the guidance changes. This has been Fauci's argument all along every time he changes something he had been doing to something new.

2). The CDC is political and elections are coming up. They polling says people are sick of covid, and that Biden and the democrats are losing. They are loosening restrictions so that people have a more favorable view of the party in power ie: the democrats. They don't want their restrictions to be used as a weapon by the MAGA crowd during election season. btw, if this is the correct option, it points to the politicization of the CDC from day one.

3). They realize the vaccines don't work. If they keep up the restrictions as they are now in place, it's going to be too obvious to everyone that the vaccines don't work. If they loosen the restrictions and a more dangerous variant should come in the fall (as predicted by Geert, McMillan, Alexander), they can blame it on loose restrictions and getting back to normal too soon. Better to have people blame them for bowing to public pressure and 'premature hope that we could all go back to normal' (they are basically throwing themselves under the bus) than coming after them and the pharmaceutical companies and the present gov't for a vaccination campaign that failed (plus it's elections season: see point 2).

I don't know which one it is. [ETA: I know which one I don't think it is ;).] I think we have to wait and see how it plays out.

HD
Yes not #1.
#2 is possible but these new guidelines make the Democrats look foolish the last 2 years and actually hurts their political chances imho.
#3 has potential.

I just think we’re dealing with evil. China runs the CDC, WHO, NIH, FDA. They want to kill as many Americans as they can. I’m trying to understand their new guidelines with this in mind. They even have Dr. Martenson saying the pandemic is over. And Big Pharma can’t be happy that the CDC is saying the unvaccinated are okay. Something is up and I believe it’s more than elections and changing science. They want to hold on to the people’s trust for a reason. Something wicked is coming our way.
 

Heliobas Disciple

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Yes not #1.
#2 is possible but these new guidelines make the Democrats look foolish the last 2 years and actually hurts their political chances imho.
#3 has potential.

I just think we’re dealing with evil. China runs the CDC, WHO, NIH, FDA. They want to kill as many Americans as they can. I’m trying to understand their new guidelines with this in mind. They even have Dr. Martenson saying the pandemic is over. And Big Pharma can’t be happy that the CDC is saying the unvaccinated are okay. Something is up and I believe it’s more than elections and changing science. They want to hold on to the people’s trust for a reason. Something wicked is coming our way.

I considered the 'evil' angle. I do not believe Rochelle Walensky is evil, I think she obeys her masters though. And if they told her to change the rules, she will. I don't chalk up to evil what could be stupidity and blind party allegiance and misplaced ideology - and there's a lot of that going around. Are her masters evil? Could be. I am not discounting that possibility, especially if they are answering to China. But I don't think they changed the rules to kill more people. Here's why: when Geert's variant gets here, the just changed rules wouldn't have stopped what's coming, so they're going to be useless anyway because they're actually not strict enough. They're going to have to come out with a whole new set of much stricter rules if he and McMillan and Alexander are correct. Or not (look how they are doing nothing to curb monkeypox). I'll use this analogy - we're in the eye of the hurricane right now. It may last a month or two months or even three months (I doubt we have that long). Why not let everyone go out in the sun before the eye passes and the storm resumes?

HD
 

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I considered the 'evil' angle. I do not believe Rochelle Walensky is evil, I think she obeys her masters though. And if they told her to change the rules, she will. I don't chalk up to evil what could be stupidity and blind party allegiance and misplaced ideology - and there's a lot of that going around. Are her masters evil? Could be. I am not discounting that possibility, especially if they are answering to China. But I don't think they changed the rules to kill more people. Here's why: when Geert's variant gets here, the just changed rules wouldn't have stopped what's coming, so they're going to be useless anyway because they're actually not strict enough. They're going to have to come out with a whole new set of much stricter rules if he and McMillan and Alexander are correct. Or not (look how they are doing nothing to curb monkeypox). I'll use this analogy - we're in the eye of the hurricane right now. It may last a month or two months or even three months (I doubt we have that long). Why not let everyone go out in the sun before the eye passes and the storm resumes?

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Like I said #3 has potential.
VAERS is on the CDC site listing thousands of deaths and injuries. They know what they’ve been doing and it is outright evil.
 

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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has collaborated with the Government of China and China-based partners for over 30 years, addressing public health priorities that affect the U.S., China, and the world.
 

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Facts not aligning with your narrative? Just change your website!
It's all the rage.
Jessica Rose
17 hr ago

This was brought to my attention by our wonderful @jengleruk, @galileoisback, elgatomalo (I just noticed kitty’s wicked article now) and was also archived and can be found on Arkmedic's feed on Telegram.

Thank good golly for the Wayback Machine. Check out these sequential screenshots from July 22, 2022 and July 23, 2022 (the very next day when the cat came back), from the CDC website on the subject of mRNA and spike protein duration in the human body.


Figure 1: Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines

And the very next day. This is the current state of the CDC website when you head to the section on Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines.

Do you understand yet?



Figure 2: Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines

So to be fair, yes, websites can definitely be updated as data and information is updated. However, when the information on said websites are the basis of global mandates with the goal to inject non-effective and not proven-safe experimental gene therapy products into an entire species, Houston, I think we have a serious problem. You can’t just keep dictating in a democratic nation: it doesn’t work that way. YOU work for US.

‘Leaders’ with intention to dictate mandates, any mandates, without recognizing the right of personal choice in the people to whom they serve, are DICTATORS.

Man, you know what? If they love dictatorships so much, why don’t THEY go live in another country under a dictatorship!
Enjoy!

The paper on integration is coming. I am sure of it. This will debunk their unsubstantiated claim that the ingredients
and/or effects of these experimental gene therapy products do not affect or interact with our DNA.

Bullocks.
Changing their website=evil
 

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I think it's a matter of semantics, how you are defining evil and how I am defining evil. Either way - the road to hell is paved with good intentions so evil intended (and there is some of that to go around) or well intended (and there is some of that to go around too) - there is no escaping the bad deeds that were done to humanity.

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Quiet quitting: Employees suffering pandemic burnout say they've just stopped working as hard​

Paul Davidson, USA TODAY
Sun, August 14, 2022, 6:00 AM


Lisa Souza, an insurance claims adjuster, regularly volunteered to work on weekends and holidays but the strain was compounded during the pandemic as colleagues retired early or stayed home out of health concerns.
Her workload increased significantly, and she was given projects outside her field, such as setting up new software applications.

“I told them, ‘You’re going to stretch me so far I’m just going to end up being a pile of goo,’” says Souza, who is 57 and lives in Fall River, Massachusetts. “It just got to be too much.’”

So in spring of last year, “I said I’m done. I’m not going to volunteer anymore.”

Millions of Americans are taking a similar approach. Burned out after logging excessive hours or duties during COVID-19, they’re resolving to meet their job requirements but not go beyond. No toiling late into the night. No calls on weekends. And no pushing themselves to the brink even during regular business hours.

Their determination to stick to their job descriptions has been made possible by widespread labor shortages that have given workers unprecedented leverage over employers.

“Employees are saying, ‘I’m not going to define myself by traditional markers of career progression and success,’” says Mark Royal, senior client partner for Korn Ferry, a recruiting and human resource consulting firm. “I’m going to put a box around work.”

Many workers “have shifted to doing the bare minimum,” says Annie Rosencrans, U.S. people and cultural director for HiBob, which makes HR software.

What is quiet quitting?​


The mindset even has a trendy new moniker, “quiet quitting,” popularized by TikTok creator Zaid Khan in a video late last month that has drawn millions of views.

"You're not outright quitting your job, but you're quitting the idea of going above and beyond," Khan explained in the video.

While that ethos may be bolstering employees’ mental health, it appears to be hurting the nation’s labor productivity and even contributing to inflation, which hovered just below a 40-year high in July.

Nearly half of white-collar workers said they’re turning down projects more frequently now than before the health crisis and resulting labor shortages, according to a May survey of professionals by Korn Ferry. And 62% said they feel more emboldened to insist on a better work-life balance since the labor crunch began.

Even before the pandemic upended the economy in spring of 2020, a growing number of employees were seeking more flexible hours and remote work options. And more companies were providing them.

COVID burnout fuels quiet quitting​


The health crisis dramatically intensified the trend, HR officials say. Early in the pandemic, workers were pushed to the limit as they filled in for their millions of colleagues who were laid off during business shutdowns and the millions more who stayed home to care for relatives or avoid contagion.

As recently as April, 51% or workers surveyed by the Harris Poll said they continued to feel burned out.

“We’re coming to the other side of the pandemic and people are saying, ‘I’m exhausted,’” says Cali Williams Yost, CEO of Flex + Strategy Group, which helps companies adopt flexible work arrangements.

While many Americans who have worked at home during COVID prefer the set-up, it also has exacerbated burnout by coaxing them to do tasks or answer emails or calls at all hours.

“A lot of workers are finding it challenging to disconnect because it’s with us all the time,” says Michelle Reisdorf, district president for Robert Half staffing in Chicago. “There’s definitely people setting boundaries: ‘I’m not available for an (online video) call at 12 or I’m only available until 5.’”

Souza, the claims adjuster, says, “The lines were blurred” between her work and personal life after she began working remotely during COVID.

“You don’t want to hate your house," she said.

Because of staffing shortages, her assignment of taking calls from customers in 15 states every other Saturday expanded to all 50 states. She also sometimes answered calls in the evenings and on holidays.

“I felt like I was being taken advantage of,” she says, though she notes she received overtime pay.

Souza drew the line in March of last year, declining to volunteer for extra shifts, and she retired a year later. She now works 10 to 15 hours a week as a contractor for a different insurance company.

“Now, it’s on my terms,” she says. “My job fits into my life.”

Disengagement on the rise​


For others, remote work is fostering a sense of disengagement that may prompt employees to give less than 100%. Nearly four out of five companies said they’re experiencing employee “engagement issues,” according to a March survey by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm.

“People don’t feel very connected to their organizations,” says company Senior Vice President Andrew Challenger.
The “quiet quitting” mentality is at least partly being driven by Generation Z, those born between 1997 and 2012, with many entering the workforce during the pandemic's labor shortages.

They know “they can demand more if their employers want more from them,” says Joe Galvin, chief research officer at Vistage, a CEO coaching and consulting firm for small and midsize businesses.

In June, there were 10.7 million job openings and nearly two vacancies for every unemployed worker, Labor Department figures show. Each month over the past year, more than 4 million workers have quit jobs, typically to take higher-paying positions, an unprecedented pace.

As a result, “Everybody’s thinking, ‘They’re not going to fire me because my warm body is better than nobody,’” Royal of Korn Ferry says

Quiet quitting affects productivity​


Yet decisions by many employees to work less fervently seems to be affecting productivity, or output per labor hour, which fell at a 4.6% annual rate in the April-June period, the second straight quarterly decline. The 2.5% drop from a year earlier was the largest on records dating to 1948, according to the Labor Department.

"I think (quiet quitting) is part of the reason” for the fall, says Barclays economist Jonathan Millar.

About a third of the companies surveyed by Challenger said employee disengagement is causing a drop in productivity. .

Early in the pandemic and during the Great Recession of 2007-09, the dynamic was reversed: Productivity soared as employees picked up the slack for laid-off colleagues because of worries that they otherwise would lose their jobs.
Lower productivity also contributes to inflation by forcing companies to raise prices more sharply to maintain profits since they’re receiving less output for the wages they’re shelling out.

How to fix it​


Experts say companies and employees should remedy “quiet quitting” by addressing burnout. Employers should prioritize tasks so staffers don’t feel overwhelmed and set rules about when emails or instant messages can be answered, Yost and Royal say.

Instead, many firms aren't communicating clearly with their employees.

Such an approach would benefit both businesses and workers because eventually the economy and labor market will head south, flipping the bargaining power back to employers, Challenger says.

“If the labor market turns, those people (who quietly quit) will be at the top of the list” of layoffs, he says.
 

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Australia's PM says former PM Morrison took on secret ministerial roles during COVID​

by Kirsty Needham
Mon, August 15, 2022, 12:22 AM

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has sought legal advice following reports that his predecessor Scott Morrison was secretly appointed to key ministerial roles during the COVID-19 pandemic, duplicating some portfolios.

Although ministers are traditionally sworn in at a ceremony by the governor-general, this did not occur in the case of Morrison's additional roles and Albanese said it appeared key cabinet members were not aware of the appointments.

"This was a centralisation of power by the former Prime Minister," Albanese, who has sought advice from the solicitor-general, Australia's second law officer, told reporters on Monday.

"This isn't some, you know, local footy club," he added. "This is a government of Australia where the people of Australia were kept in the dark as to what the ministerial arrangements were."

Morrison could not immediately be reached for comment.

In an emailed statement, the governor-general's office told Reuters the appointments were valid under the constitution, did not require a swearing-in ceremony, and added that publicising them was a matter for the government of the day.

"It is not uncommon for ministers to be appointed to administer departments other than their portfolio responsibility," the spokesperson for the governor-general's secretary said.

The governor-general followed normal process and acted on the government's advice in appointing Morrison to administer portfolios besides his own department and the cabinet, the spokesperson added.

The Australian newspaper said Morrison was appointed health minister in 2020, alongside Health Minister Greg Hunt, to avoid concentrating power in one person when biosecurity emergency powers were adopted to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

He was later also appointed finance minister, and in 2021 was made administrator of the resources ministry. He later blocked an offshore gas project, the paper said.

David Littleproud, the leader of the Nationals party, the coalition partner of Morrison's Liberal party, told ABC radio the news was "disappointing", and added that the cabinet should be trusted.
 

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Nurses Who Left the Health Care System to Focus on Early Treatment Describe ‘Brutal’ COVID-19 Treatment Protocols

The protocols require 'mind-blowing cognitive dissonance'
By Matt McGregor
August 14, 2022


Nurses who witnessed “brutal” hospital COVID-19 treatment protocols kill patients paint a bleak picture of what is taking place in state and federally funded health care systems.

“They’re horrific, and they’re all in lockstep,” Staci Kay, a nurse practitioner with the North Carolina Physicians for Freedom who left the hospital system to start her own early treatment private practice, told The Epoch Times. “They will not consider protocols outside of what’s given to them by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and the NIH (National Institute of Health). And nobody is asking why.”

Fueled by cognitive dissonance amid an array of red flags, Kay said hospital staff is ignoring blatantly problematic treatments that performed poorly in clinical trials, such as remdesivir, and protocols such as keeping the patient isolated, just to adhere to the federal canon.

“I’ve seen people die with their family watching via iPad on Facetime,” Kay said. “It was brutal.”

As a former nurse in intensive care, Kay said she had seen her share of tragedy, but how she saw COVID patients being treated “had me waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat with chest pains.”

“I hated my job,” Kay said. “I hated going to work. I was stressed in a way I’ve never been before in my entire life.”

Keeping families isolated was especially difficult, she said, because people couldn’t come to say goodbye to their loved ones.

‘We Can Do Better’​

Kay was looking for other options when she found an inpatient protocol designed Dr. Paul Marik, founding member of Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, which purported to have a 94 percent success rate.

However, after Kay pitched it to the head of the pulmonary critical care department, she was dismissed, and the physician boasted that the hospital had a 66 percent survival rate at the time.

“I told him, ‘I feel like we can do better,’ but I was very quickly shut down,” Kay said. “I became very angry because I’m watching people die and I knew we could have been doing better.”

It was as if formerly smart people had become brainwashed, “and then just dumb,” Kay said, lacking the mental wherewithal to discern true from false.

This led Kay to begin treating patients in the outpatient setting to prevent their admission into the hospital system, which is now her full-time job after being fired for not submitting to what she described as illogical testing requirements for those who weren’t vaccinated.

At her telemedicine business, Kay said she’s seeing multiple cases of people suffering from COVID-19 vaccine injuries.
“I saw things on the inpatient side, too, that I suspected were vaccine injuries that went unacknowledged by our physicians,” Kay said. “I saw brain bleeds, seizures out of nowhere, cancer that just spread like wildfire, ischemic strokes, and I saw one person die horrifically from myocarditis.”

On the outpatient side, she said she’s seen conditions resulting from the COVID-19 vaccine such as brain fog, cognitive decline, joint pain, gastrointestinal dysfunctions, and neuropathy, which is numbness and tingling in hands, feet, and extremities.

‘The Old School Becomes The New School’​

Kay’s business, Sophelina Counseling, provides telemedicine, mobile urgent care, and mobile IV therapies. It’s independent of corporate, federal, and state control, which she said is a solution to a health care system paralyzed with oppressive requirements.

“As long as there’s corporate control over medicine, whether it’s Medicare or private insurance companies, you’re always going to have providers who are forced, pressured, and coerced to do things that they wouldn’t normally do,” she said. “Physicians don’t have the treatment they used to have.”

Because of this corporate control, Kay said the list of boxes they must check takes time away from the actual patient.
“Getting away from this corporate structure is going to be a game changer,” she said.

Kay advocated for returning to the “old school” way, which is the direct, primary care model, in which the patient pays a monthly or annual fee to have access to the provider without the interference of a traditional insurance company that requires “too many hoops to jump through, headaches, and checkboxes.”

Kay points to a health care model called GoldCare, designed by Dr. Simone Gold, founder of America’s Frontline Doctors.

Gold, who was sentenced to two months in prison for her alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol, created GoldCare as a private membership association (PMA).

Because much of what insurance companies do revolves around potential lawsuits, to be a member of the PMA, one must sign a clause, agreeing that they won’t sue.

“What that does for us is we don’t have to order unnecessary testing or consults just to cover our back end because that’s most of what corporate medicine does,” she said.

As a result, Kay said, both the patient and the physician are happier because the treatment process hasn’t been weighted down with bloated insurance requirements.

For Kay, this model—an evocation of a simpler time in medical care when doctors were more connected with their patients—is key.

“The old school is going to have to become the new school,” Kay said.

NIH and the CDC did not respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment on COVID-19 treatment protocols.

Boycotting the System​

Having taken salmon, eggs, and honey for payment, a nurse in Washington state who wished to remain anonymous shares Kay’s more traditional vision for the future of health care.

She told The Epoch Times that people “need to boycott their health insurance.”

“I think people who don’t need surgery to save their life should not go to the hospital,” the nurse said. “I think people need to find doctors who are private pay and pay for only what they need to be done.”

The federal government must be removed from the health care equation, she added.

“I especially don’t think any children should be going to these practitioners who are accepting state funding or Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements,” the nurse said

The nurse requested anonymity because—in addition to being unvaccinated—in Washington and Oregon state, she said the government has made it possible for the public to submit anonymous complaints, “devoid of evidence,” against health care workers who promote treatments that deviate from the official protocols.

After the nurse was fired for not complying with the vaccine mandate, she started her own private care business that offers monoclonal antibodies, L-lysine and vitamin C infusions, infrared red light therapy, and nebulizer machines as treatments as needed and when indicated.

‘Widespread Data Suppression’​

With her newly launched business, she performed the early interventions that she said hospitals should be doing, “but refuse to do because they say there’s no evidence for it.”

The nurse works with a growing network of physicians and providers that function as a “total parallel society” existing in the shadows beside the “crooked” health care system, she said.

In the aftermath of the public vaccine campaign in her community, the nurse said she saw an increase in strokes and embolization procedures as doctors engaged in “widespread data suppression,” such as not reporting to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System what she saw as vaccine injuries and deaths and recording non-COVID deaths to be caused by COVID.

Even before the CDC had modified its definition of the unvaccinated, the hospital system was reclassifying patients who had only received one vaccine as unvaccinated, she said.

“The worst part of it was when the pulmonologists decided that unvaccinated patients would get seven days on the ventilator, then they would tell the families that nothing more could be done,” she said. “They would then terminally extubate these patients even when more could have been done.”

The nurse personally witnessed this, she said, with a 33-year-old mother of two children.

“She had been on ivermectin at home and was viewed as an anti-vax conspiracy theorist,” the nurse said.

Before the mother was terminally extubated and her status changed to “comfort care,” the nurse said she argued with hospital administrators for 12 hours.

She had asked the pulmonologist to consider running more tests, she said.

“It had been over a week since the last D-dimer, and this would have indicated whether fibrin in the bloodstream was increasing or decreasing,” the nurse explained. “The usual process with a known pulmonary embolism was to check every three days. There were more anticoagulant drugs and routes of administration that could have been utilized. Intravenous heparin is reversible. If they were willing to withdraw life support, why were they not willing to try something that could clear a circulatory impairment?”

In the end, the hospital won, she said.

“The mother died gasping for air while my hand was on her back,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it. I went to my manager and asked for an audit to be done on our coagulation times and pulmonary embolism treatment protocols. That got me booted from the ICU until I was fired.”

The nurse said she observed administrators repeatedly promoting the safety of the vaccine, though these claims weren’t reflecting what they were seeing with the growing cases of vaccine injuries.

Though there was some staff who saw the truth but ignored it to keep their jobs, there were many whom she observed—just as Kay reported—who exhibited “mind-blowing cognitive dissonance.”

“They received the vaccines themselves, and if they were to ever confront the possibility that they willingly became the hands of a truly evil agenda, I don’t think they could live with themselves,” the nurse said. “I used to consider my co-workers as people with whom I’d trust my life, but after they got that second dose of the vaccine, it was like they had a hive mind bent on hatred. It’s very eerie to say that out loud.”
 

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Cruise Line Makes Major Change in COVID-19 Policy for Unvaccinated Passengers
By Jack Phillips
August 14, 2022

Royal Caribbean confirmed that it will allow all passengers, regardless of vaccination status, on its ships in certain locations.

A spokesperson for the company said that, starting Sept. 5, it will drop its COVID-19 vaccine requirements “as long as testing requirements are met.”

“We are collaborating with local governments throughout the Caribbean to align on vaccination requirements for additional itineraries,” the spokesperson told USA Today.

On its website, Royal Caribbean said that now, “COVID-19 vaccination is not required for sailings departing from home ports in California, Louisiana, or Texas.” The company had required guests aged 12 and older to show proof of vaccination before they could get on ships in North America.

Carnival Changes Requirement​

Similarly, Carnival Cruise Line is easing COVID-19 testing requirements for vaccinated passengers and allowing unvaccinated people to travel without an exemption.

“Carnival is pleased to announce new guidelines effective for cruises departing on Sept. 6, 2022, or later, which will make it easier for more guests to sail with simplified vaccination and testing guidelines, including no testing for vaccinated guests on sailings less than 16 nights and eliminating the exemption request process for unvaccinated guests, who will only need to show a negative test result at embarkation,” Carnival said in a statement.

The cruise company’s announcement said it will no longer require testing for vaccinated passengers who are on board ships for under 16 nights. Unvaccinated passengers will not have to file requests for an exemption, the firm said, adding that the changes will go into effect next month.

All unvaccinated passengers “are welcome to sail and are no longer required to apply for a vaccine exemption, except for cruises in Australia or on voyages 16 nights and longer,” said the statement.

Passengers who are vaccinated, it added, “must continue to provide evidence of their vaccination status prior to embarkation.”
The cruise industry has been repeatedly hammered since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several weeks ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ended its COVID-19 reporting rules for ships, prompting cruise operators to ease guidelines.

“CDC has worked closely with the cruise industry, state, territorial, and local health authorities, and federal and seaport partners to provide a safer and healthier environment for cruise passengers and crew,” the CDC said in July. “Cruise ships have access to guidance and tools to manage their own COVID-19 mitigation programs.”

In the spring of 2020, international media focused intensely on an outbreak on board the Diamond Princess cruise, which was held outside a port in Japan for several weeks. At the same time, some ships that had reported COVID-19 outbreaks were prevented from docking at a number of different ports, including inside the United States.

And despite cruise line-mandated rules that required everyone on board to be vaccinated, there were multiple cases where ships reported that dozens of people on board had contracted COVID-19 this year. That included, for example, a “100 percent vaccinated” Princess Cruises ship that reported a COVID-19 outbreak in March.

The Epoch Times has contacted Royal Caribbean for comment.
 

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California Becomes Battleground for COVID Lawsuits and Legislation Surrounding Minors
New bills could take parental consent away in medical contexts

BY Health 1+1 and Marina Zhang
August 14, 2022

In California, a state that has been continuously passing bills surrounding COVID-19 vaccine policies, attorneys are “chipping away at each part of this puzzle,” aiming to educate and empower people one lawsuit at a time.

Nicole Pearson, the attorney and founder of Facts Law Truth Justice (FLTJ) has been filing and winning lawsuits against vaccine mandates and representing vaccine-injured.

On July 27, Pearson held a press conference and spoke on her client Maribel Duarte’s lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy for vaccinating her 13-year-old son without her consent.

Duarte’s son made the news in December 2021. A vaccine clinic was set up in his school—Barack Obama Global Prep Academy—and he was allegedly bribed with a pizza to get vaccinated at his school without parental consent.

One of the adults at the clinic requested that the son provide a parent-signed consent form, which he did not have. The child was then told to sign his mother’s name and not to tell anyone.

According to a release by Unity Project, the child began to experience breathing and bleeding issues, shortness of breath, chronic fatigue, depression, and anxiety, among other things immediately after the injection and is currently receiving medical treatment.

“This is painful for me, because my son’s health … it’s not good,” Duarte said. “He’s lacking the rest. He doesn’t sleep well. He doesn’t exercise the way he did. He’s not normal to me.”

Pearson is the one leading this case and Duarte’s son is definitely not her only client who has been injured by a COVID-19 vaccine administered without consent.

Laura Sextro, the CEO and co-founder of Unity Project, a health advocacy group in support of Duarte’s case, told The Epoch Times during a phone call that Pearson has in total three legal cases that she’s handling for children who have suffered COVID-19 vaccine injuries from vaccinations without parental consent.

Duarte’s case will be the first one that Pearson files for vaccine injury.

Pearson told The Epoch Times that she is confident about the outcome of the lawsuit, calling it a “clear cut case.”
However, she argued that the lawsuits her firms are fighting to uphold parental rights would matter very little if some of the state’s bills currently under consideration are made into legislation.

“We have a perfect storm if any of these bills pass, you as a parent are sending your children into…public health centers [for public schools], where you don’t even have the ability to access their records, speak to the doctor, or even rest assured that the doctor taking care of them will render individualized care specific to your child,” she said at the press conference.

“Parents in California need to wake up. This [case] is a horrifying warning to the future of California.”

Empowering People With the Law​

Regardless of outcome, Pearson hopes that this lawsuit will educate people and bring hope to vaccine-injured people who feel like they have had no choice in the face of these vaccine mandates.

“I hope it empowers people,” Pearson said. “It’s difficult to use that word ‘empowerment’ with this kind of horrible case.”

The attorney asserts that many vaccine-injured people were not given legal informed consent, meaning they have a potential lawsuit.

“In order to get informed consent, you have to know all the risks, which we didn’t know,” she said.

“You need to know all the benefits, and then you also need to [get vaccinated] because you yourself were scared of the virus for whatever reasons and you yourself want that vaccine in your body to protect yourself from that virus.”

“If you get that vaccine for any other reason…to travel, to go to work, and keep your job…visit your loved one in the hospital, to be on the varsity football team…if you want it for any other reason, that’s not consent, that’s coercion. If you were misinformed, that’s fraud, and if you made the decision, even voluntarily but you didn’t know all the risks, that’s not [legally] informed [consent].”

She encourages vaccinated individuals to examine the circumstances surrounding their “consent” and decide if it was indeed voluntary and informed.

“It is oversimplified…there are a lot of things to consider, but I believe that yes, there would be potential lawsuits there.”
Pearson is representing Duarte to seek damages from the school, sending the message that employers and schools that choose to enforce recommended COVID-19 government policies can be held responsible for negative consequences stemming from those policies.

“They [employers, school districts and boards] are just following ‘orders’ from the government, and the government will not be there to protect them when we win our lawsuit,” Pearson said.

To date, no vaccine injury claim in the United States has been compensated by the federal Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.

She pointed to the lawsuit against California Governor Gavin Newsom filed by Let Them Breathe, a campaign to stop mask mandates in schools.

“[Schools] were left holding the bag…Governor Newsom’s defense and the State of California’s defense was that that [mandating masks in schools] was a recommendation, that wasn’t law…it was a guideline, it was a mandate, and it is not law, and you [enforcers of these policies] are going to have chosen to have not done your research and implemented policies based out of guidance, and you will be the one responsible for that.”

However, if the schools are found faultless and Pearson’s firm loses this lawsuit, it will send the message that parents of vaccine-injured children will be bearing the medical and financial burden.

“If God forbid, your child is disabled, because of one of these vaccines, or medicine, or any other treatment that they receive on campus without you knowing, you will be the one to pay, you will be the one and you’ll have no idea you’re actually purposely cut out of dialogue,” she said.

As Citizens Fight Back With Lawsuits, More Legislation in the Pipeline​

Pearson’s legal firm has used the state’s laws to win many cases against local and district vaccine mandates.
They have used state laws to rule out local policies and pause vaccine mandates in the Piedmont Unified School District (PUSD) and LAUSD to postpone their mandates for students on the same date that was set by the state, which is July 2022.

They also have ongoing lawsuits against the Orange County Board of Superiors in the County of Orange for continuing to declare a public health emergency. The case will have a “major hearing” on Aug. 18 so “many prayers and positive vibrations our way will be appreciated.”

Further, the firm is also representing a lawsuit against Santa Clara University for their COVID-19 booster mandates.
However, a major part of FLTJ and the Unity Project’s work is to raise public awareness against the state’s bills that may overturn their legal efforts.

The Unity Project identify as a “coalition of concerned parents, business leaders, teachers and other professionals throughout California,” and was formed in November 2021 due to concerns against the vaccine mandates the state’s Governor Gavin Newsom was trying to enforce on children at levels of K to 12 using SB 871.

SB 871 required children from levels K to 12 to be immunized against certain diseases to be able to attend schools, both private and public. Eleven diseases were listed, including COVID-19, also allowing “any other disease deemed appropriate by the department.”

Though the bill has since been put on hold due to severe public pushback from more than 100 grassroots communities led by parents, Sextro warned that the bill can be “resurrected” at any time.

In the meantime, new “crafty and sneaky” bills that are “circumventing and usurping parental rights” are under consideration by the California legislature, she said.

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Unity Project and its partners have been especially vocal about Senate bill SB 866, which will allow children from 15 years of age—amended from 12 years due to public pushback—to be able to consent to vaccinations themselves.
The bill has been ordered for its third reading in the assembly in June.

Senate bill SB 1419 is also likely to contribute to the “perfect storm.” The bill will “allow minors where they’re allowed to consent to medical treatment [such as vaccinations if SB 866 passes], to seal their medical records,” said Pearson.

AB 1940 offers school-based health care programs, which will “make our public schools [into] public healthcare centers,” said Pearson. Therefore children will be able to receive vaccinations, and various health check ups in schools.

One of the bills that the Unity Project is the most vocal against is AB 2098, “which will penalize doctors for giving any recommendations contrary to the COVID-19, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and FDA (Food and Drug Administration) narratives.”

Under the AB 2098 bill, doctors can be disciplined and even have their license removed for spreading COVID-19 “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

SB 1479 is another bill that has progressed quite far in the legislative process; the bill will require schools to make plans for COVID-19 testing, and to subjects unvaccinated children to weekly COVID-19 testing.

Pearson said that her firm is prepared to file lawsuits if any of these bills pass.

However, litigation periods for these lawsuits can take several years, and her experience with the judicial process the past two years is that COVID-19 has made it harder for people to go to court and protect their rights, regardless of the case.

“Right now with COVID…it’s already very difficult right now to get into court…the court system is backlogged because of COVID-19 shutdowns and cases do not go to trial and so it takes months to get a hearing. We have to be remote, which is way less powerful…and then they [the respondents] don’t show up because there’s a lot of games.”

“It’s always been a long fight to get to trial, but it’s longer now because of COVID.”“I’m sure it will be even longer when we challenge these lawsuits because my three partners and I are three moms with kids, and we’re up against, for example, with the Los Angeles Unified School District, a $330 million budget. So litigation budgets; they make it very, very difficult for us to do even the most basic of things…but we have to move forward. We have to protect each other.”

Ethics of Vaccinating Children Without Parental Consent​

The recent cases of vaccinating without parental consent illuminate an issue with medical ethics.

Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, chief medical ethics officer of Unity Project, condemned the state’s actions to circumvent parents in the decision for vaccination.

“Parents are the rightful surrogate decision-makers for their own children when it comes to medical informed consent. The state cannot take this right away from parents, who have primary responsibility for the health and welfare of their own children. It is profoundly unjust and unethical for the state to remove this parental right,” he wrote the The Epoch Times in an email.

“Children are not capable of giving informed consent for medical decisions that have potentially serious consequences,” he wrote. He added the exception of extreme cases of parental abuse and neglect, of which there “must be confirmed on a case-by-case basis by a court following a careful fact finding legal process.”

Kheriaty and Sextro have both testified in front of the California assembly against AB 2098 which, if passed, can subject doctors that spread COVID-19 “misinformation” and “disinformation” with the removal of their medical license.

“The text of AB 2098 makes three statements about COVID that are already outdated,” Kheriaty argued, citing studies that show the vaccine has negative efficacy against the Omicron variant, and another study that shows vaccines reduce sperm count.

“If this bill becomes law, doctors will be punished for practicing medicine according to their best judgment. Informed consent, which is the foundation of medical ethics, will be compromised. Forward thinking physicians will simply leave the state rather than practice under these conditions. Most concerningly, all that will result in harm to our patients.”

Discrimination and Blame Tactics to Vaccinate Children​

Sextro told The Epoch Times that schools in California have employed various tactics to vaccinate children by ostracizing the unvaccinated.

“We were talking to attorneys about developing discrimination cases because there were children that were literally being sat on one side of the classroom, while everyone else who was vaccinated got sat on another side of the classroom,” Sextro said.

A school would put yellow stars on children that were not vaccinated, some high schools barred unvaccinated students from attending prom, graduation, sport activities, and “a whole host of shocking behavior” from schools, and teachers “to push the vaccine narrative.”

Sextro mentioned another case in Southern California. The school’s baseball coach passed away from COVID-19. One of the history teachers “sat the kids down and gave them a speech and told them…because most of them didn’t vaccinate soon enough, and because they didn’t mask up properly, that their baseball coach died.”

If some of these “bad bills“ are made into legislation, they will act in concert with schools that are pushing the vaccine narrative to pressure students into getting vaccines, Sextro speculated.

She raised SB 1479, which she speculates is likely to pass.

This bill will require unvaccinated children to get weekly COVID-19 tests; the testing results will also be passed along to a database.

COVID-19 tests have a high risk of yielding false positives, and therefore put unvaccinated children at risk of missing more days from school.

Sextro gave a hypothetical scenario where the bills—if passed—and actions of schools may create a perfect environment to pressure unvaccinated children into getting vaccinated: The child is unvaccinated and has to go through their weekly testing. Given the current climate in Californian schools, it is unlikely that schools will protect the vaccination identity; rather, the students will “be ostracized and be made an example.”

“Then in comes SB 866, which states that children as young as 12 years old…can make their own medical decisions with or without the knowledge or consent of the parents.”

“In addition to that, they’ll be able to elect to seal their own medical records…so God forbid that they suffer some type of adverse reaction—which we know has happened—their parents would have no idea why that has happened.”

Sextro sees SB 866 as an alternative strategy to SB 871 for the state to come to the same end goal of vaccinating children. However she’s concerned that many Californians are unaware of the new bills that are in the legislative process.

She argues that the state is trying to keep these bills under wraps, therefore a major part of Sextro’s work is raising public awareness.

The group has put together a flier that discusses the state’s bills, and volunteers can sign up to help through the website and receive training online.

They can then print out or order fliers through the website for distribution through their communities to raise awareness of the matter.

“Part of the training is about making sure that people understand it’s about public awareness. We do not want people engaging in arguments. We don’t want them spreading anything that’s inaccurate.”

They have also put through digital campaigns called Align Act campaigns.

“It’s really a public awareness [campaign] and the intent is to have them go viral…I’ll give you an example. We actually targeted the head of the teachers union. I think something like 600,000 actions, meaning the head of the teachers union… received [600,000] phone calls, emails, or social media messages from individuals expressing their opposition to vaccine mandates [for children in levels K to 12].”

The group also hosts webinars with health experts on the medical concerns over the COVID-19 vaccine, and monthly podcasts with various experts. “Our most recent [podcast] being Dr. Robert Malone… we spoke with Matt Boudreau who is an expert in homeschooling as an option for parents who don’t want to have their children in an environment where they could be exposed to a whole host of things that are happening now in the school system.”
 

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More Chinese Cities Locked Down Under Strict ‘Zero-COVID’ Measures
By Alex Wu
August 14, 2022

China has put several more of its cities and tens of millions of residents under new lockdowns, including the world’s largest wholesale hub and port cities. Many travelers are now stranded and struggling for food, production orders have been canceled, and businesses are closing because of the Chinese regime’s strict “zero-COVID” measures.

According to Chinese media, since early August, a new wave of COVID-19 has swept through 25 of China’s 31 provinces, spanning from the southernmost Hainan Province to the Xinjiang region and Tibet in the west.

World’s Largest Wholesale Hub Under Full Lockdown​

Yiwu city in the eastern Zhejiang Province, which is the world’s largest wholesale hub, has been under a partial lockdown since early August, when new cases caused by the more infectious Omicron variant of COVID-19 were reported. On Aug. 11, authorities put the city in a three-day full lockdown, using the more than 500 reported cases as justification for the measure.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Chinese regime has concealed the real scale of its outbreaks and has long been suspected as underreporting the number of cases in the country. Meanwhile, the regime uses reported outbreaks to implement strict control measures, such as city-wide lockdowns and mandatory testing.

Under the full lockdown in Yiwu, public places are closed, trains are suspended, and residents are barred from leaving their homes. Businesses have been forced to stop operating; many small and medium-sized enterprises have complained of heavy losses. The “live streaming sales center” Jiangbei Xiazhu stopped shipping goods in early August, and hundreds of foreign businessmen were unable to go to the Yiwu market to purchase goods.

As the “capital of the world’s small commodities,” Yiwu’s products are exported to more than 210 countries and regions.

A new COVID-19 outbreak has been reported in the city of Zhuhai, in south China’s Guangdong Province, which is a production center for electronics in the Pearl River Delta, a major economic area of China.

Since May when China locked down many areas and cities, including financial center Shanghai to “dynamically clear COVID-19,” a large number of orders from foreign countries have been canceled. That led to many private enterprises in the Pearl River Delta announcing they would close their businesses before the end of August, since they could no longer afford to continue, while many factories put workers on unpaid “vacations” ranging from days to several months.

Another South China Sea Port City Under Lockdown​

After Sanya, a port city at the southern point of Hainan Island which is known as “China’s Hawaii,” was put under city-wide lockdown on Aug. 4, leaving more than 80,000 tourists stranded, authorities locked down the provincial capital Haikou on Aug. 8. Haikou is an important industrial port for the South China Sea.

Public transportation has been halted, all residents are required to take PCR tests and aren’t allowed to leave their residential compounds, and all inbound and outbound flights have been canceled.

On Aug. 13, representatives from Hainan Provincial Epidemic Prevention and Control said at a press conference that on Aug. 12, there were 1,426 newly confirmed cases in the island province. From Aug. 1 to Aug. 12, a total of 6,399 confirmed cases were reported.

So far, six cities in Hainan have been locked down.

A resident of Haikou surnamed Liang told The Epoch Times that she and her family went to Sanya for a visit but has been locked down in rental housing since Aug. 2, while all the shops have been closed.

“They suddenly locked it down without giving any notice,” she said.

Liang said that the authorities distributed relief materials but not to the stranded tourists. She said that under the lockdown, she could not buy food and had no way to ask for help.

“We called [the] 12345 [helpline] for help, but no one dealt with it. We called the community office, but they couldn’t do anything.”

New outbreaks have also been reported in other provinces across the country, and more cities and districts are under “static control,” a term created by the Chinese regime to refer to a lockdown.

Tibet and Xinjiang​

New COVID-19 infections have been reported in Tibet since early August, after no cases were reported for 900 days. Some districts in the capital city of Lhasa have been shut down. Shigatse has been under city-wide lockdown since Aug. 8, while Ngari Prefecture has been locked down since Aug. 11.

Zhao Yi (a pseudonym), a businessman who returned to Ngari from Lhasa, was stranded in Shigatse with a group of four on Aug. 7. They stayed at a local friend’s company with eight people who work for the company.

“We are almost run out of rice now, which is the only food we have,” Zhao told The Epoch Times on Aug. 11. “With so many people eating it, there are only half a bag of rice left, and it will be gone in two days.”

Zhao said the group has no way to obtain more food under the lockdown.

Wu Juan (a pseudonym), who had been on a car tour of Tibet with a friend, was stranded in Shigatse on the way to Ngari from Lhasa. She told The Epoch Times that they wanted to leave, but they had to show the results of a PCR test, which is required three times over three consecutive days. However, local authorities aren’t conducting tests, so they can’t leave.

According to authorities in Xinjiang, which is a majority Uyghur Muslim region, the new outbreak in the capital city Urumqi was caused by the Omicron variant. The local government locked down six districts on Aug. 10 for five days. All public transportation has been suspended.

There have been new cases reported in the cities of Yining, Altay, Hami, Turpan, Korla, and Hotan in Xinjiang.

Xiao Lusheng, Gu Xiaohua, and Zhao Fenghua contributed to the report.
 

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A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal
By Jeffrey A. Tucker
August 14, 2022

It was a good but bizarre day when the CDC finally reversed itself fundamentally on its messaging for two-and-a-half years. The source is the MMWR report of August 11, 2022. The title alone shows just how deeply the about-face was buried: Summary of Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19 on Individual Persons, Communities, and Health Care Systems — United States, August 2022.

The authors: “the CDC Emergency Response Team” consisting of “Greta M. Massetti, PhD; Brendan R. Jackson, MD; John T. Brooks, MD; Cria G. Perrine, PhD; Erica Reott, MPH; Aron J. Hall, DVM; Debra Lubar, PhD;; Ian T. Williams, PhD; Matthew D. Ritchey, DPT; Pragna Patel, MD; Leandris C. Liburd, PhD; Barbara E. Mahon, MD.”

It would have been fascinating to be a fly on the wall in the brainstorming sessions that led to this little treatise. The wording was chosen very carefully, not to say anything false outright, much less admit any errors of the past, but to imply that it was only possible to say these things now.

“As SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, continues to circulate globally, high levels of vaccine- and infection-induced immunity and the availability of effective treatments and prevention tools have substantially reduced the risk for medically significant COVID-19 illness (severe acute illness and post–COVID-19 conditions) and associated hospitalization and death. These circumstances now allow public health efforts to minimize the individual and societal health impacts of COVID-19 by focusing on sustainable measures to further reduce medically significant illness as well as to minimize strain on the health care system, while reducing barriers to social, educational, and economic activity.

In English: everyone can pretty much go back to normal. Focus on illness that is medically significant. Stop worrying about positive cases because nothing is going to stop them. Think about the bigger picture of overall social health. End the compulsion. Thank you. It’s only two and a half years late.

What about mass testing?

Forget it: “All persons should seek testing for active infection when they are symptomatic or if they have a known or suspected exposure to someone with COVID-19.”

Oh.

What about the magic of track and trace?

“CDC now recommends case investigation and contact tracing only in health care settings and certain high-risk congregate settings.”

Oh.

What about the unvaccinated who were so demonized throughout the last year?

“CDC’s COVID-19 prevention recommendations no longer differentiate based on a person’s vaccination status because breakthrough infections occur, though they are generally mild, and persons who have had COVID-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection.”

Remember when 40% of the members of the black community in New York City who refused the jab were not allowed into restaurants, bars, libraries, museums, or theaters? Now, no one wants to talk about that.

Also, universities, colleges, the military, and so on – which still have mandates in place – do you hear this? Everything you have done to hate on people, dehumanize people, segregate people, humiliate others as unclean, fire people and destroy lives, now stands in disrepute.

Meanwhile, as of this writing, the blasted US government still will not allow unvaccinated travelers across its borders!

Not one word of the CDC’s turgid treatise was untrue back in the Spring of 2020. There was always “infection-induced immunity,” though Fauci and Co. constantly pretended otherwise. It was always a terrible idea to introduce “barriers to social, educational, and economic activity.” The vaccines never promised in their authorization to stop infection and spread, even though all official statements of the CDC claimed otherwise, repeatedly and often.

You might also wonder how the great reversal treats masking. On this subject, there is no backing off. After all, the Biden administration still has an appeal in process to reverse the court decision that the mask mandate was illegal all along. “At the high COVID-19 Community Level,” the CDC adds, “additional recommendations focus on all persons wearing masks indoors in public and further increasing protection to populations at high risk.”

The problem from the beginning was that there never was an exit strategy from the crazy lockdown/mandate idea. It was never the case that they would magically cause the bug to go away. The excuse that we would lock down in wait for a vaccine never made any sense.

People surely knew early on of the social, economic, and cultural devastation that would ensue. If they did not, they never should have been anywhere near the control switches of public health. Badges and bureaucracies do not terrify a virus destined to spread to the whole planet. And not one person with even the most casual passing knowledge of coronaviruses could have sincerely believed that a vaccine would magically appear to achieve something never before achieved in the whole history of medicine.

When the Great Barrington Declaration appeared on October 4, 2020, it caused a global frenzy of fury not because it said anything new. It was merely a pithy restatement of basic public-health principles, which pretty much instantly became verboten on March 16, 2020, when Fauci/Birx announced their grand scheme.

The GBD generated mania because the existing praxis was based on preposterously unproven claims that demanded that billions of people buy into complete nonsense. Sadly many did simply because it seemed hard to believe that all world regimes but a handful would push such a damaging policy if it was utterly unworkable. When something like that happens – and there never was the hope that it could work – the regime imperative becomes censorship and shaming of dissent. It’s the only way to hold the great lie together.

So finally, nearly two years later the CDC has embraced the Great Barrington Declaration rather than doing a “quick and devastating takedown” as Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci called for the day after its release. No, they had to try out their new theory on the rest of us. It did not work, obviously. For the authors of the GBD, they knew from the time they penned the document that it was a matter of time before they were vindicated. They never doubted it.

Dr. Rajeev Venkayya is widely credited with coming up with the idea of lockdowns while he was working for the Bush administration back in 2005. He had no training at all in public health or epidemiology. He later marveled that it fell to him, a young desk-dwelling White House bureaucrat, to “invent pandemic planning.” Maybe he should have demurred that day that George W. Bush asked him to lead the charge to inaugurate a new war on pathogens.

Somehow his views gained converts, among whom was Bill Gates, the foundation for whom he worked for years. The rest is history.

In April 2020, Venkayya called me to explain why I needed to stop attacking lockdowns. He said that the planners need a chance to make their scheme work.

On the phone, I asked the same question over and over: where does the virus go? The first two times, he did not respond. I pressed and pressed. Finally he said there will be a vaccine.

It’s hard to appreciate just how preposterous that sounded at the time, and I said something along those lines: it would be a medical miracle never before seen to have a shot for a coronavirus that was sterilizing against wild type and all inevitable mutations, and to do it in a reasonable time so that society and economy had not completely fallen apart.

The whole approach was clearly milliennarian at best and utter madness at worst. And here I was, in the thick of global lockdowns, on the phone with the architect of the whole idea, an idea that had reduced billions to servitude, wrecked schools and churches, and sent communities and countries into complete upheaval. I wondered at the time what it would be like to be Dr. Venkayya that day. After all this ended in disaster, would he take responsibility? His LinkedIn profile today says otherwise: he is prepared to “tackle current and future epidemic & pandemic threats as the CEO of Aerium Therapeutics.”

There never was an exit strategy from lockdowns and mandates but they eventually did find an exit nonetheless. It came in the form of a heavily footnoted and opaquely written reversal, published by the main bureaucracy responsible for the disaster. It amounts to a repudiation without saying so. And thus does the great experiment in mass compulsion come to an intellectual end. If only the carnage could be cleaned up by another posting on the CDC’s website.

By the way, the Biden administration has extended the declaration of Covid emergency. And my unvaccinated friends in the UK still can’t board a plane to come for a visit.

All of this gives rise to the great question: what was the point? Maybe it was all a mistake and now it is gone forever but that’s unlikely. The intellectuals who pushed this project on the world have a view of the world that is fundamentally ill-liberal. They differ among themselves on the details but the general approach is technocratic central planning rooted in deep suspicion of basic tenets of freedom.

How many people on the planet have now been acculturated to top-down control, socialized to live in fear, accept whatever comes down from above, never to question an edict, and expect to live in a world of rolling man-made disasters? And was that the point after all, to breed low expectations for life on earth and relinquish the soul’s desire for a full and free life?
 

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How Omicron BA.5 Became a Master of Disguise – What It Means for the Current COVID Surge
By Suresh V. Kuchipudi, Penn State
August 14, 2022

The COVID omicron subvariant known as BA.5 was first detected in South Africa in February 2022 and spread rapidly throughout the world. As of the second week of July 2022, the BA.5 subvariant constituted nearly 80% of COVID-19 variants in the United States.

Soon after researchers in South Africa reported the original version of the omicron variant (B.1.1.529) on November 24, 2021, many scientists – including me – speculated that if omicron’s numerous mutations made it either more transmissible or better at immune evasion than the preceding delta variant, omicron could become the dominant variant around the world.

Indeed, the omicron variant did become dominant early in 2022, and several sublineages, or subvariants, of omicron have since emerged. This includes BA.1, BA.2, BA.4, and BA.5, among others. With the continued appearance of such highly transmissible variants, it is evident that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is effectively using classic techniques that viruses use to escape the immune system. These escape strategies range from changing the shape of key proteins recognized by your immune system’s protective antibodies to camouflaging its genetic material to fool human cells into considering it a part of themselves instead of an invader to attack.

I am a virologist who studies emerging viruses and viruses that jumped from animals to humans, such as SARS-CoV-2. My research group has been tracking the transmission and evolution of SARS-CoV-2, evaluating changes in how well the omicron subvariants evade the immune system and the severity of disease they cause after infection.

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The BA.5 subvariant is better able to evade the body’s immune system than previous subvariants.

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How is virus transmissibility in a population measured?​

The basic reproduction number, R0 – pronounced “R-naught” – measures the transmissibility of a virus in a yet-uninfected population.

Once a proportion of individuals in a population become immune due to prior infection or vaccination, epidemiologists use the term effective reproduction number, called Re or Rt, to measure the transmissibility of the virus. The Re of the omicron variant has been estimated to be 2.5 times higher than the delta variant. This increased transmissibility most likely helped omicron out-compete delta to become the dominant variant.

The larger question, then, is what is driving the evolution of omicron sublineages? The answer to that is a well-known process called natural selection. Natural selection is an evolutionary process where traits that give a species a reproductive advantage continue to be passed down to the next generation, while traits that don’t are phased out through competition. As SARS-CoV-2 continues to circulate, natural selection will favor mutations that give the virus the greatest survival advantage.


What makes omicron and its offshoots so stealthy at spreading?​

Several mechanisms contribute to the increased transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 variants. One is the ability to bind more strongly to the ACE2 receptor, a protein in the body that primarily helps regulate blood pressure but can also help SARS-CoV-2 enter cells. The more recent omicron sublineages have mutations that make them better at escaping antibody protection while retaining their ability to effectively bind to ACE2 receptors. The BA.5 sublineage can evade antibodies from both vaccination and prior infection.

Omicron sublineages BA.4 and BA.5 share several mutations with earlier omicron sublineages, but also have three unique mutations: L452R, F486V and reversion (or the lack of mutation) of R493Q. L452R and F486V in the spike protein help BA.5 escape antibodies. In addition, the L452R mutation helps the virus bind more effectively to the membrane of its host cell, a crucial feature associated with COVID-19 disease severity.


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The BA.5 subvariant is responsible for two-thirds of all current COVID-19 cases in the United States.

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While the other mutation in BA.5, F486V, may help the sublineage escape from certain types of antibodies, it could decrease its ability to bind to ACE2. Strikingly, BA.5 appears to compensate for decreased ACE2 binding strength through another mutation, R493Q reversion, that is thought to restore its lost affinity for ACE2. The ability to successfully escape immunity while maintaining its ability to bind to ACE2 may have potentially contributed to the rapid global spread of BA.5.

In addition to these immune-evading mutations, SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving to suppress its hosts’ – in this case, humans’ – innate immunity. Innate immunity is the body’s first line of defense against invading pathogens, comprised of antiviral proteins that help fight viruses. SARS-CoV-2 has the ability to suppress the activation of some of these key antiviral proteins, meaning it’s able to effectively get past many of the body’s defenses. This explains the spread of infections among vaccinated or previously infected people.

Innate immunity exerts a strong selective pressure on SARS-CoV-2. Delta and omicron, the two most recent and highly successful SARS-CoV-2 variants, share several mutations that could be key in helping the virus breach innate immunity. However, researchers do not yet fully understand what changes in BA.5 might allow it to do so.


What’s next?​

BA.5 will not be the end game. As the virus continues to circulate, this evolutionary trend will likely lead to the emergence of more transmissible variants that are capable of immune escape.

While it is difficult to predict what variants will arrive next, we scientists cannot rule out the possibility that some of these variants could lead to increased disease severity and higher hospitalization rates. As the virus continues to evolve, most people will get COVID-19 multiple times even if they are vaccinatedand boosted. This could be confusing and frustrating for some, and may contribute to vaccine hesitancy. Therefore, it is essential to recognize that vaccines protect you from severe disease and death, not necessarily from getting infected.

Research over the past two and a half years has helped scientists like me learn a lot about this new virus. However, many unanswered questions remain because the virus constantly evolves, and we are left trying to target a constantly moving goal post. While updating vaccines to match circulating variants is an option, it may not be practical in the short term because the virus evolves too rapidly. Vaccines that generate antibodies against a broad range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and a cocktail of broad-ranging treatments, including monoclonal antibodies and antiviral drugs, will be critical in the fight against COVID-19.

Written by Suresh V. Kuchipudi, Professor and Chair of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Penn State.

This article was first published in The Conversation.
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PfizerGate: Official Government Reports prove Hundreds of Thousands of People are dying every single week due to Covid-19 Vaccination​

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You were instructed to stay at home to protect the healthcare system. But while you did so, hospitals essentially had a holiday, and this is backed up by official data. You were told the answer to everyone’s prayers was to get the Covid-19 injection. But now that you have done so, the healthcare system is on the brink of collapse.



Waiting times for ambulances are at an all-time high. The number of emergency calls due to people suffering cardiac arrest is at an all-time high. The number of people dying is at an all-time high, with hundreds of thousands of excess deaths occurring around the world every single week.

And official Government reports prove without a shadow of a doubt that it is all thanks to the Covid-19 vaccines.

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Exhibit A: The Healthcare System is overwhelmed​

Ambulances in England are taking almost an hour to reach patients who have had a suspected stroke or heart attack, more than three times the 18-minute maximum wait, the latest NHS data shows. When people call 999 they can no longer be confident that they will get the emergency care they need.

Why?

The following chart is taken from the UK Health Security Agency’s ‘Ambulance Syndromic Surveillance System – Week 30′ bulletin, and it shows the daily number of 999 calls requesting an ambulance due to suffering cardiac arrest in England vs the expected rate (black dotted line).


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The daily number of calls has been way above average since at least August 2021.

The National Health Service (NHS) has also confirmed in response to a freedom of information request that ambulance call-outs relating to immediate care required for a debilitating condition affecting the heart nearly doubled in the whole of 2021 and are still on the rise further in 2022.

On the 25th April 2022, Duncan Husband sent a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust requesting to know the number of call-outs for patients with heart conditions per year, between 1st January 2017 and the present day.

The NHS responded on the 18th May with a spreadsheet containing the requested information.

The following chart visualised the data made available in the spreadsheet –


ambulance call-ours for high conditions have been higher overall since January 2021, and have been increasing month on month. It was not until April 2021 that we saw a significant increase among people under the age of 30 though, and it again has increased month on month since then.

The following chart shows the overall total call-outs by year for everyone and those aged 0 to 29 –


The average number of annual call-outs between 2017 and 2020 equates to 24,463. Meaning the number of call-outs increased by 48% in 2021. The average number of annual call-outs among under 30’s between 2017 and 2020 equates to 3,940. Meaning the number of call-outs increased by 82% in 2021.

The following chart shows the monthly average number of ambulance call-outs for conditions relating to the heart by year –


There was a significant increase in 2021 among all age groups, and unfortunately, things got even worse in the first few months of 2022.

The question is, why?

Exhibit B: Covid-19 Vaccination can damage the heart, that is a FACT​

Let’s look at the fact that it is now known without any doubt that Covid-19 vaccination can cause serious damage to the heart. Myocarditis and Pericarditis are just two of the handful of adverse events medicine regulators have been forced to admit can occur due to Covid-19 vaccination.

They claim it is rare, but they are lying. The fact their hand has been forced in admitting they can occur means they are much more common than the average person on the street would like to think.

A quietly published study conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Food and Drug Administration actually found that the risk of myocarditis following mRNA COVID vaccination is around 133x greater than the background risk in the population.


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This means Covid vaccination increases the risk of suffering myocarditis by a shocking 13,200%.

Myocarditis is a condition that causes inflammation of the heart muscle and reduces the heart’s ability to pump blood and can cause rapid or abnormal heart rhythms.

Eventually, myocarditis weakens the heart so that the rest of the body doesn’t get enough blood. Clots can then form in the heart, leading to a stroke or heart attack. Other complications of the condition include sudden cardiac death.

There is no mild version of myocarditis, it is extremely serious due to the fact that the heart muscle is incapable of regenerating. Therefore, one the damage is done there is no rewinding the clock.

The following chart shows reports of myocarditis to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System by year –


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Is there any wonder the number of ambulance call-outs in England relating to conditions affecting the heart is at an all-time high?

Exhibit C: Hundreds of thousands of Excess Deaths are being recorded every week​

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes weekly figures on deaths registered in England and Wales. The most recent data shows deaths up to 29th July 2022.

The following chart, created by the ONS, shows the number of deaths per week compared to the five-year average –


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As you can see from the above, from around May 2021 onwards, England and Wales recorded a huge amount of excess deaths that were not attributed to Covid-19 compared to the five-year average. It then appears that excess deaths dropped at the start of 2022.

But appearances can be deceiving, and the only reason they dropped is that the ONS decided to include the 2021 data in the 5-year-average. This makes it all the more concerning that excess deaths have been recorded every week since the end of April 2022 compared to the five-year average (2016 to 2019 + 2021).

The most recent week shows that there were 11,013 deaths in England and Wales, equating to 1,678 excess deaths against the five-year average. Only 810 of those deaths were attributed to Covid-19.


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Most of Europe is also recording a significant amount of excess deaths, as can be seen in the following official chart compiled by Eurostat showing excess mortality across Europe in May 2022 –


The world is experiencing an extremely serious issue where tens to hundreds of thousands more people are dying than what is expected every single week.

But how can we prove these deaths are definitively due to Covid-19 vaccination? The answer lies in comparing the age-standardised mortality rates per 100,00 among the vaccinated and unvaccinated.

Exhibit D: Mortality Rates are lowest among the Unvaccinated in all age-groups​

The following is indisputable evidence that the Covid-19 vaccines are deadly and killing people in the thousands.

The following charts show the monthly age-standardised mortality rates by vaccination status among each age group for Non-Covid-19 deaths in England between January and May 2022, the figures can be found in table 2 of a recently published dataset collated by the UK Government agency, the Office for National Statistics


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In every single month since the beginning of 2022, partly vaccinated and double vaccinated 18-39-year-olds have been more likely to die than unvaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds. Triple vaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds however have had a mortality rate that has worsened by the month following the mass Booster campaign that occurred in the UK in December 2021.


We also see a similar pattern among every single other age group.

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50-59​


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These are age-standardised figures. There is no other conclusion that can be found for the fact mortality rates per 100,000 are the lowest among the unvaccinated other than that the Covid-19 injections are killing people.

But just in case that isn’t enough to finally open your eyes tot his devastating fact, here’s several more pieces of indisputable evidence to back up this fact.

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Exhibit E: 1 in every 246 Vaccinated People died within 60 Days of Covid-19 Vaccination​


The UK Government has revealed that 1 in every 246 people vaccinated against Covid-19 in England has died within 60 days of receiving a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Table 9 of the ONS ‘Deaths by vaccination status, England’ dataset contains figures on ‘Whole period counts of all registered deaths grouped by how many weeks after vaccination the deaths occurred; for deaths involving COVID-19 and deaths not involving COVID-19, deaths occurring between 1 January 2021 and 31 May 2022, England’.

Here’s a chart showing the number of deaths within 60 days of Covid-19 vaccination in England between 1st Jan 2021 and 31st March 2022, according to the Office for National Statistics dataset



Between 1st Jan 21 and 31st May 2022, a total of 14,103 people died with Covid-19 within 60 days of vaccination, and a total of 166,556 people died of any other cause within 60 days of vaccination.

This means that in all, 180,659 people died within 60 days of Covid-19 vaccination between January 2021 and May 2022 in England.

The following table is taken from page 65 of the UK Health Security Agency’s week 27 ‘Weekly national Influenza and COVID-19 surveillance report’, and shows vaccine uptake in England by age –


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According to the UKHA, 44.48 million people have had a single dose, 41.8 million people have had two doses, and 32.9 million people have had three doses as of July 3rd 2022.

Therefore, using simple maths, we find that 1 in every 246 vaccinated people has died within 60 days of Covid-19 Vaccination in England.

44,480,115 (People vaccinated) / 180,659 (deaths) = 246 = 1 death for every 246 people vaccinated

Exhibit F: COVID-19 Vaccines are at least a shocking 7,402% deadlier than all other Vaccines combined​


The UK Medicine Regulator has confirmed that over a period of nineteen months the Covid-19 Vaccines have caused at least 5.5x as many deaths as all other available vaccines combined in the past 21 years. This means, that when compared side by side, the Covid-19 injections are a shocking 7,402% more deadly than every other vaccine available in the UK.

The Medicine and Healthcare product Regulatory Agency (MHRA) confirmed in response to a Freedom of Information request (FOI) that had received a grand total of 404 reported adverse reactions to all available vaccines (excluding the Covid-19 injections) associated with a fatal outcome between the 1st January 2001 and the 25th August 2021 – a time frame of 20 years and 8 months.


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The MHRA also confirmed, separately, in their weekly Yellow Card report summary that they had received a grand total of 2,213 adverse reactions to the Covid-19 injections associated with a fatal outcome between January 2021 and July 2022, a period of 19 months –


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Meaning, there have officially been 5.5x as many deaths in just 19 months due to the Covid-19 vaccines than there have been due to every other available vaccine combined since the year 2001.



Twenty years and 8 months is a period that is 13.7 x longer than the nineteen-month period where the Covid-19 vaccines have been rolled out.

Therefore, the number of deaths reported to all other vaccines combined in the same time frame of nineteen months equates to 29.5 deaths.

This means the Covid-19 injections are proving to be a shocking 7,402% more deadly than every other vaccine available in the UK.




Exhibit G: Athlete Deaths are 1700% higher than expected since the COVID Vaccine roll-out​

The number of athletes who have died since the beginning of 2021 has risen exponentially compared to the yearly number of deaths of athletes officially recorded between 1966 and 2004.

So much so that the monthly average number of deaths between January 2021 and April 2022 is 1,700% higher than the monthly average between 1966 and 2004, and the current trend for 2022 so far shows this could increase to 4,120% if the increased number of deaths continues, with the number of deaths in March 2022 alone 3 times higher than the previous annual average.

According to a scientific study conducted by the ‘Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland which was published in 2006, between the years 1966 and 2004 there were 1,101 sudden deaths among athletes under the age of 35.

Now, thanks to the GoodSciencing.com team, we have a comprehensive list of athletes who have collapsed and/or died since January 2021, a month after the first Covid-19 injection was administered to the general public.

Because it is such as long list we are not including it in this article so that full list can be accessed in full here.

The following chart shows the number of recorded athlete collapses and deaths between January 2021 and April 2022, courtesy of the linked list above –



As you can see there has undoubtedly been a rise from January 2021 onwards, the question is whether this was ordinary and to be expected.

In all between Jan 21 and April 22 a total number of 673 athletes are known to have died. This number could, however, be much higher. So that’s 428 less than the number to have died between 1966 and 2004. The difference here though is that the 1,101 deaths occurred over 39 years, whereas 673 recent deaths have occurred over 16 months.



The yearly average number of deaths between 1966 and 2004 equates to 28. January 2022 saw 3 times as many athlete deaths as this previous annual average, as did March 2022. So this is obviously highly indicative of a problem.

The 2021 total equates to 394 deaths, 14x higher than the 1966 to 2004 annual average. The Jan to April 2022 total, a period of 4 months, equates to 279 deaths, 9.96x higher than the annual average between 1966 and 2004.

However, if we divide the 66 to 04 annual average by 3 to make it equivalent to the 4 months’ worth of deaths so far in 2022, we get 9.3 deaths. So in effect, 2022 so far has seen deaths 10x higher than the expected rate.

The following chart shows the monthly average number of recorded athlete deaths –

The yearly average number of deaths between 1966 and 2004 equates to 28. January 2022 saw 3 times as many athlete deaths as this previous annual average, as did March 2022. So this is obviously highly indicative of a problem.

The 2021 total equates to 394 deaths, 14x higher than the 1966 to 2004 annual average. The Jan to April 2022 total, a period of 4 months, equates to 279 deaths, 9.96x higher than the annual average between 1966 and 2004.

However, if we divide the 66 to 04 annual average by 3 to make it equivalent to the 4 months’ worth of deaths so far in 2022, we get 9.3 deaths. So in effect, 2022 so far has seen deaths 10x higher than the expected rate.

The following chart shows the monthly average number of recorded athlete deaths –



So between 1966 and 2004. the monthly average number of deaths equates to 2.35. But between January 2021 and April 2022, the monthly average equates to 42. This is an increase of 1,696%.

Closing Arguments: The data doesn’t lie​


There is plenty more evidence out there to prove that the Covid-19 injections are killing hundreds of thousands of people every single week. For instance, the UK Government has confirmed fully vaccinated young adults are 92% more likely to die than unvaccinated young adults (see here).

They’ve also confirmed COVID vaccinated children are at least 4423% more likely to die of any cause & 13,633% more likely to die of COVID-19 than unvaccinated children (see here).

But the most damning evidence of all lies in 4 simple facts.

Fact No.1: Medicine Regulators have been forced to admit the Covid-19 vaccine can damage the heart.

Fact No.2: Record-breaking numbers of people are requesting an ambulance due to conditions affecting the heart.

Fact No.3: Hundreds of thousands of excess deaths are being recorded around the world on a weekly basis, but only a small minority can be attributed to Covid-19.

Fact No.4: Age-standardised mortality rates are lowest among the unvaccinated population in every single age group.

These are not baseless claims. They are official Government statistics and they are found in official Government reports.

Therefore, official Government reports prove without a shadow of a doubt that hundreds of thousands of people are dying every single week due to Covid-19 vaccination.
 

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When the biodefense 'experts' at Johns Hopkins warn you off the ACAM-2000 vaccine for monkeypox, you know it is a REALLY bad vaccine
But they still don't tell you the whole story...

Meryl Nass
Aug 13

When the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, which lives off the fear of pandemics and biowarfare, publishes an Op-Ed calling a TIME-OUT for the use of ACAM-2000 for monkeypox, you know this is a very bad, terrible vaccine. They are scared it will be the coup de grace that ends the vaccine enterprise as we know it. And they are scared it could end their cozy sinecure as biodefense experts as well, after the COVID and its vaccine disaster brought about by ‘experts’.

All the facts are not correct in the article below, though I cannot imagine why these biowarfare experts would make such obvious mistakes. Maybe because CDC has also been very cagey about how much of these vaccines we have, one author used to work at CDC, and CDC butters JHU's bread.

The USG bought 300 million doses of ACAM2000 after 9/11, and more since. The WaPo did an investigation in 2021 and revealed that once the anthrax vaccine manufacturer, Emergent BioSolutions bought the vaccine from Sanofi, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Emergency Response, Robert Kadlec, ordered double the number of doses, and more than doubled the per-dose price. Knowing it caused myocarditis. And Kadlec got an MD once upon a time. Now the USG is looking for an excuse to offload some of this dangerous product.

Emergent only bought the vaccine after Kadlec got nominated for the job. Emergent specializes in buying terrible drugs and vaccines, then selling them to the US government at enormous markups. This has been its business model since the company was formed 24 years ago. It also specializes in capitalizing on misery. It bought Narcan a few years ago. Right before the states were incentivized to buy huge stocks of it and give it away for free. My governor brags about carrying it in the trunk of her car to homeless shelters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...c2b010-84dd-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html

After Robert Kadlec was confirmed as President Trump’s top official for public health preparedness in 2017, he began pressing to increase government stocks of a smallpox vaccine. His office ultimately made a deal to buy up to $2.8 billion of the vaccine from a company that once paid Kadlec as a consultant, a connection he did not disclose on a Senate questionnaire when he was nominated.
Under the agreement struck last year with Emergent BioSolutions, Kadlec’s office at the Department of Health and Human Services is paying more than double the price per dose it had previously paid for the drug. Because Emergent is the only licensed maker of the vaccine, Kadlec’s office arrived at the price through negotiations with the company rather than through bidding.

The Johns Hopkins authors are cagey about the supposed shortage of Jynneos vaccine, the only smallpox vaccine that is also licensed for monkeypox. As I have previously explained, the US government owns 16 million doses, sitting frozen in bulk storage in Denmark, purchased for a potential smallpox epidemic. Many more doses than this (20 million more?) were purchased since 2003 and have expired...but the USG has used expired vaccine before in an emergency. If this monkeypox outbreak was a smallpox outbreak, how long do you think it would take before those doses got defrosted and bottled?

The USG also expects delivery in 2022 and 2023 of 7 million more doses.

The supposed shortage is a scam. And it now appears the scam is intended not only to turn a licensed vaccine (Jynneos) into a diluted EUA product, but also to push out some of the ACAM-2000 vaccine, which in my opinion is fit for only one thing: incineration and license revocation.

Below is the full JHU article:

FDA needs to fully review ACAM2000 before allowing its widespread use as a monkeypox vaccine
FDA needs to fully review ACAM2000 before allowing its widespread use as a monkeypox vaccine
By Caitlin Rivers and Tom Inglesby.
Aug. 11, 2022
As the United States grapples with monkeypox, which has been declared a public health emergency, one of the key strategies that will be used to control its spread is vaccinating high-risk individuals.
Demand for monkeypox vaccine far exceeds the supply.
When the outbreak began, the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile held a small supply of Jynneos, a vaccine licensed for monkeypox. The federal Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response has allocated more than 1 million doses of Jynneos to state and local jurisdictions, yet full coverage of those at highest risk would require an estimated 3.2 million doses. Bavarian Nordic, the company that makes Jynneos, isn’t expected to be able to manufacture additional doses in the near term.
As the Washington Post has reported, the shortfall has increased external pressure on the Biden administration to turn to another vaccine, ACAM2000, to close the gap.
The Food and Drug Administration licensed ACAM2000 in 2007 to immunize people at high risk of smallpox infection. There is moderate evidence the vaccine will also work against monkeypox, which is closely related to smallpox.
More than 100 million doses of ACAM2000 were added to the Strategic National Stockpile in the years after the Sept. 11 and anthrax attacks as a hedge against the return of smallpox. Unlike Jynneos, which is not capable of replicating in the human body, ACAM2000 contains live, replication-competent vaccinia virus. Vaccinia is a pox family virus related to smallpox that cannot cause smallpox and leads to milder disease.
If the vaccination site is not cared for properly for the two to six weeks it takes to heal, the vaccinia virus can spread to other parts of the body, including the eyes and genitals.
It is not just the vaccine recipient who is at risk after ACAM2000 inoculation. Household members and others who come into close contact with the recipient are also at risk of developing vaccinia infection. This has special relevance to the current outbreak.
Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men are currently at highest risk of monkeypox infection. They are also disproportionately affected by HIV, which can compromise the immune system if not properly treated. Although it seems unlikely that people living with HIV would be offered ACAM2000 because of the risk of adverse events, vaccinia transmission from a vaccinated person to someone with a compromised immune system is a serious risk. Other risks of ACAM2000 include myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) or pericarditis (inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart), which occur in about 1 in every 175 recipients. Generalized or widespread vaccinia infection can also occur. Although the heart conditions and vaccinia infection are uncommon, they are potentially deadly.
These risks make sense in the context of smallpox, which is more transmissible and more deadly than monkeypox. ACAM2000 is highly effective in preventing smallpox infection and, if smallpox were to reemerge, the protection would far outweigh the risks of ACAM2000 vaccination. For monkeypox, though, the balance of risks and benefits is less favorable.
If demand for vaccines to fight monkeypox grows beyond the supply of Jynneos, officials may begin to turn to ACAM2000. The recent decision to stretch the supply of Jynneos by allowing the use of lower doses may decrease pressure to use ACAM2000 in the near term, but if the epidemic continues to grow, calls for ACAM2000 use may intensify.
Health departments can now order this vaccine from the Strategic National Stockpile to use in the monkeypox response through an existing Expanded Access Investigational New Drug application, and at least one jurisdiction has already requested this product for potential use against monkeypox.
Although swift and decisive action is imperative to contain the current outbreak, the risks of ACAM2000 require a more deliberative approach. Before making the vaccine more widely available, the FDA should review the available evidence on its safety and effectiveness for preventing monkeypox and present those findings to the Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC). If the FDA and VRBPAC experts recommend the use of ACAM2000, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) should meet to consider its appropriate use.
Evaluation by these two committees is the standard process for licensing vaccines and recommending them for use in clinical practice. Both committees are staffed by independent experts and the proceedings are open for public viewing and comment. Although it is not required in this instance, leveraging those resources would lend transparency and credibility to a difficult and complex decision.
The monkeypox epidemic is a serious and fast-moving crisis that shows no signs of coming under control. Public health officials should consider all options for protecting people at risk while ending domestic transmission. However, we believe that the risks of ACAM2000 are too serious in this setting to deploy the vaccine without the usual expert review governing the use of new vaccines. Existing review processes at VRBPAC and ACIP can be adapted to ensure that the risks and benefits of ACAM2000 are carefully considered before it is made available to members of the public.
Caitlin Rivers is a senior scholar and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and served as the founding associate director of the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tom Inglesby is an infectious disease physician, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and a former senior adviser to the Biden administration’s White House Covid-19 Response Team.
 

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Pfizer CEO tests positive for COVID-19, has mild symptoms
Associated Press
yesterday

The top executive at Pfizer, a leading producer of COVID-19 vaccines, has tested positive for the virus and says he is experiencing very mild symptoms.

Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla said Monday that he started taking Pfizer’s Paxlovid pill treatment and is isolating while he recovers.

Bourla has received four shots of Comirnaty, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the New York drugmaker along with BioNTech. He said in a brief statement issued by the company that he is confident of a quick recovery.

More than 128 million people in the United States have become fully vaccinated with Pfizer’s two-shot vaccine since it entered the market more than a year ago and almost 61 million have received an initial booster shot, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Scientists say the vaccine still offers solid protection against hospitalization and serious illness. But the evolving virus has made it tougher for vaccines to prevent all forms of illness from developing.

Pfizer and another vaccine maker, Moderna, are updating their shots to provide protection against newer versions of the virus for a fall booster campaign.

Paxlovid also has shown in research to be extremely effective at warding off serious illness if it is administered shortly after symptoms start.

Comirnaty and Paxlovid are the top-selling COVID-19 vaccine and treatment on the market. Combined, they brought in nearly $17 billion in sales for Pfizer during the recently completed second quarter.
 

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Defense secretary Austin positive for COVID for second time
yesterday

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Monday he has tested positive for COVID-19, is experiencing mild symptoms and will quarantine at home. It’s the second time Austin has gotten the coronavirus.

In a statement, Austin, 69, said his is fully vaccinated and has received two boosters. He said he’ll quarantine for the next five days in accordance with CDC guidelines and “will retain all authorities and plan to maintain my normal work schedule virtually from home.”

Austin said his last in-person contact with President Joe Biden was on July 29.

In January, Austin also contracted COVID and had received a booster in October.

“Now, as in January, my doctor told me that my fully vaccinated status, including two booster shots, is why my symptoms are less severe than would otherwise be the case,” Austin said. “I will continue to consult closely with my doctor in the coming days.”

He added, “Vaccinations continue to both slow the spread of COVID-19 and to make its health effects less severe. Vaccination remains a medical requirement for our workforce, and I continue to encourage everyone to get fully vaccinated and boosted.”
 

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NC governor signs order officially ending COVID-19 emergency
By GARY D. ROBERTSON
yesterday

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s state of emergency giving extraordinary powers to state government to address the COVID-19 pandemic is ending Monday as Gov. Roy Cooper officially concluded it nearly 2 1/2 years after he entered his first order.

The Democratic governor announced last month that he would lift the emergency order Monday, citing provisions in the latest state budget bill he signed that would allow health care providers and regulators to keep responding robustly to the virus. His termination order said the emergency ends late Monday night.

The executive orders issued during the emergency “protected public health and helped us save lives and livelihoods,” Cooper said in a news release. “North Carolina is emerging even stronger than before and my administration will continue to work to protect the health and safety of our people.”

Cooper’s initial emergency order, issued on March 10, 2020, and subsequent orders based on that declaration, led to public school closings, mask requirements, and restrictions on commerce and restaurants.
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As the pandemic’s intensity waned, nearly all of the restrictive statewide mandates were lifted by last summer, but the emergency order remained in place. Cooper said early this year that the order was necessary in part to help get coronavirus vaccinations to the public and assist health care providers should cases surge.

Business owners, churches and others chafing under the 2020 restrictions that Cooper issued went to court to try to end restrictions.

Cooper won most of those legal battles and vetoed several measures in 2020 and 2021 from Republican legislators seeking to end specific restrictions or limit the governor’s power to issue long-term emergency orders. Some GOP lawmakers continued to complain into this year about why the governor wouldn’t end the emergency as conditions improved.

But a two-year budget that Cooper agreed to accept last fall contains language requiring governors starting this January to receive support from a majority of Council of State members to expand an emergency declaration beyond 30 days. The General Assembly would have to act for one to go beyond 60 days.

Among the provisions that Cooper’s health department successfully sought this year that led to Monday’s action is one giving the state health director authority through the end of 2023 to issue standing orders for COVID-19 vaccinations, tests or other treatments. Health regulators also now have authority to waive certain provider rules or increase bed capacity at hospitals, adult care homes and elsewhere during an emergency.

“COVID-19 is still with us, and North Carolinians now have multiple ways to manage the virus, so it doesn’t manage us,” state Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley said.

State health officials have counted more than 25,700 COVID-19 deaths in North Carolina since March 2020, according to Kinsley’s department. The state had about 1,350 COVID-19 hospital admissions earlier this month, while about 77% of the state’s adult population has received at least one vaccine dose, the agency said.
 

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British regulator 1st to OK Moderna’s updated COVID booster

By MARIA CHENG
yesterday

LONDON (AP) — British drug regulators have become the first in the world to authorize an updated version of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine that includes protection against the omicron variant, which the government said would be offered to people aged 50 and over starting in the fall.

In a statement on Monday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it had given the green light to Moderna’s combination “bivalent” vaccine, which will be used as an adult booster shot.

Each dose of the booster shot will target both the original COVID-19 virus that was first detected in 2020 and the omicron BA.1 variant that was first picked up in November. British regulators said the side effects were similar to those seen for Moderna’s original booster shot and were typically “mild and self-resolving.”

“What this (combination) vaccine gives us is a sharpened tool in our armoury to help protect us against this disease as the virus continues to evolve,” said Dr June Raine, the head of Britain’s health care and medicines regulator.

British health secretary Steve Barclay said the new shot will be part of the country’s booster program roll-out from September, based on advice from the government’s vaccine experts.
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“This safe and effective vaccine will broaden immunity and potentially improve protections against some variants as we learn to live with this virus,” Barclay said.

Such an approach, combining protection against several strains of the same disease is used with flu shots, which are adjusted each year depending on the variants that are circulating and can protect against four influenza strains.

Stephane Bancel, Moderna’s Chief Executive, said in a statement that it was the first regulatory authorization for a vaccine aiming to fight the omicron variant, predicting the booster would have an “important role” to play in protecting people against COVID-19 in the winter.

On Friday, Germany’s health minister said the European Medicines Agency might clear tweaked COVID-19 boosters next month.

In June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told vaccine makers that any booster shots tweaked for the fall would have to include protection against the newest omicron variants, meaning BA.4 and BA.5, not the BA.1 subvariant included in Moderna’s latest shot.

Last month, the FDA said it was no longer considering authorizing a second COVID-19 booster for all adults but would instead focus on revamped vaccines for the autumn that target the newest viral subvariants.

Both Moderna and Pfizer are currently brewing updated versions of their vaccine to include BA.5 in addition to the original COVID-19 virus.

According to the World Health Organization, the latest global surge of COVID-19 has been driven by omicron subvariant BA.5, which is responsible about 70% of the virus samples shared with the world’s largest public virus database. The subvariant BA.5 is even more infectious than the original version of omicron and has some genetic differences that earlier vaccines might not address.

Scientists have warned that the continued genetic evolution of COVID-19 means drugmakers will likely be one step behind the virus in their efforts to tailor their vaccines.

“The virus is unlikely to stand still and Omicron-targeted immunity, might push the virus down other evolutionary paths,” warned Jonathan Ball, a professor of virology at Britain’s University of Nottingham. Still, he said the new Moderna vaccine would likely still be protective against severe disease.

Other experts said it was still unknown how effective the new combination vaccine would be.

Beate Kampmann, director of the Vaccine Centre at London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the shot would most likely only offer “partial protection” against the latest omicron variants including BA.5 since it was developed based on earlier versions of COVID-19.

“How much difference such (combination) vaccines can actually make remains to be seen,” she said, noting that the shots have not yet been widely tested in different populations.

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UK's autumn COVID vaccination campaign buoyed by Omicron booster nod
Natalie Grover
Mon, August 15, 2022, 1:19 PM

LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom's COVID booster campaign is set to kick off this September, after the country became the first in the world to approve an Omicron-adapted shot.

Around 26 million people in Britain are estimated to be eligible for an autumn COVID-19 booster, having had at least two COVID vaccine doses already, a UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) spokesperson said.

The preference is to deploy what is known as a bivalent vaccine that targets both the original virus and the Omicron variant through the autumn campaign, but that will depend on the UK health regulator (MHRA) approving such shots and the state of vaccine supplies.

The UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised boosters should be given to over-50s, individuals in clinical risk groups, frontline workers and care-home staff ahead of the winter, when respiratory viruses are typically at their peak.

On Monday, the MHRA gave Moderna's bivalent shot conditional approval.

The endorsement of the vaccine is based on data that showed it produced a marginally better immune response against some Omicron variants, versus the original novel coronavirus - although whether that translates into stronger protection against serious disease is unclear.

Contracts with Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech - the partnership behind the other mRNA vaccine that has been tailored to also target Omicron - dictate that supply will switch to bivalent shots upon MHRA approval.

A UKHSA spokesperson declined to provide details on how much supply the country has of the Moderna bivalent shot.

"Where feasible, it would be preferable for a single type of booster vaccine to be offered throughout the duration of the autumn programme for simplicity of deployment," the JCVI said in a statement on Monday.

At the same time, the JCVI also advised that the original Moderna vaccine, the original Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and the Novavax shot - for certain patients - can be used in the autumn booster campaign.

"It is important that everyone who is eligible takes up a booster this autumn, whichever vaccine is on offer," Wei Shen Lim, chair of COVID-19 immunisation on the JCVI, said in a statement.

LOST MOMENTUM

While the original COVID-19 vaccines continue to provide good protection against hospitalisation and death, vaccines have become less effective as the virus has evolved.

Britain was the first to approve COVID vaccinations in 2020, but has since lost momentum and is now in such a vulnerable position "any booster programme is to be warmly welcomed," Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College, London, told Reuters.

The debate about the nuances of which booster is tricky - the bivalent booster may offer some additional benefit against the BA.5 variant now dominant in Britain, although this may not be substantial, Altmann said.

"Still, the benefit coming into a difficult winter will be palpable if we can really encourage large-scale uptake," he said.

In the week ending Aug. 5, more than 800 deaths were registered within 28 days of a positive COVID test in England, data England Summary | Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK published by the government showed.

Billions of people worldwide have yet to receive a single dose of any COVID vaccine, said Julia Kosgei, Policy Advisor to the People's Vaccine Alliance.

"While countries like the UK buy updated vaccines for their fourth doses, people in low and middle-income countries are fighting today's variants with yesterday's vaccines."
 

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New Jersey Governor Ends Key COVID-19 Mandate for Unvaccinated Teachers, State
By Jack Phillips
August 15, 2022

The governor of New Jersey ended a COVID-19 testing requirement for unvaccinated school workers and many other public employees on Aug. 15, according to his office.

Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order (pdf) that lifts the mandate requiring all school districts and contractors to make sure their workers have either received the COVID-19 vaccine or get regular testing, coming days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) relaxed its COVID-19 guidance that differentiated unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals.

“Today’s executive order follows guidance from public health officials at the CDC regarding responsible steps states can take as we continue to adjust to the endemic reality of COVID-19,” Murphy, a Democrat, said in a statement. He noted that he encourages people to “stay up-to-date on their vaccination and take other precautions.”

The move comes just a few weeks before the school year begins in most municipalities. The change goes into effect for school workers immediately, and will apply to state contractors on Sept. 1, according to the governor’s office.

New Jersey state health care and prison workers will still be required to be vaccinated and have at least one booster dose, however. School districts can individually mandate that workers or contractors be vaccinated or require routine testing, as Murphy’s Aug. 15 order only applies to such policies at the statewide level.

In a sweeping reversal of guidance last week, the CDC no longer recommends the six-foot social distancing policy and quarantining for people who test positive for COVID-19 but have no symptoms, and also removed recommendations to mandate testing for staff and students at schools nationwide.

In addition, people who are unvaccinated no longer need to quarantine after exposure to the virus, according to the agency, which is the same recommendation for people who are fully vaccinated.

As COVID-19 vaccine mandates went into effect across New Jersey last year, numerous protests took place across the state.

“I’m here because, whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, you should be very frightened that the government can allow a forced medical procedure done to your body. Whether it be a vaccine or another drug, we need to push back on this right now. … This is medical tyranny,” one resident told The Epoch Times last year during a protest.

Murphy was reelected last year in New Jersey—a reliably Democratic-leaning state—by narrowly defeating former state Rep. Jack Ciattarelli, a Republican who had proposed ending the state’s vaccine mandates.
 

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How Masking Contributes to Long COVID
BY Carla Peeters
August 15, 2022

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A lingering disorder that can last for months or years is affecting an increasing proportion of the workforce. The symptoms that contribute to Long COVID could be a result of pandemic measures and masking in particular. Increased exposure to microplastics, nanoparticles, chemicals in masks, and nasopharyngeal tests parallel many of the symptoms that define Long COVID.

Surveys among thousands of people suggest 7 percent to 30 percent of people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus experienced one or more symptoms for a period longer than 12 weeks. Some people who got COVID-19 early in the pandemic still haven’t recovered.

The syndrome Long COVID is complex as symptoms may fluctuate and people go through different stages. Symptoms have been protracted by patients at ICU and those with organ damage, but also occurred in people with only a mild infection. A list of sixty-two different symptoms define the syndrome of Long COVID. Fatigue, brain fog, breathlessness, anxiety, depression, and a loss of smell and taste are among the most frequently found symptoms.

Most scientists and medical doctors—including media—link Long COVID symptoms to the SARS-CoV-2 infection. This would be the first Coronavirus in history causing long-lasting chronic symptoms in a high percentage of the workforce. People with Long COVID can experience social isolation and stigma because of their inability to perform. The rise of Long COVID has created millions of new people with disabilities.

The root cause of the disease is still mysterious. In several case studies and an excellent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that investigated many diagnostic parameters in people with and without Long COVID, no biological change could explain a link to Long COVID. Some scientists relate the symptoms of Long COVID to other complex diseases of multidisciplinary origin like Alzheimer’s disease, Lyme disease, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or hyperventilation syndrome.

Many countries have started special clinics and funded research especially for studying lingering effects. A one-size-fits-all successful treatment has not been found yet. Thousands or maybe over a hundred million are frustrated at the lack of treatment available. Doctors and scientists prefer a holistic approach, but medical and social services are often understaffed.

Desperate patients with Long COVID symptoms are traveling abroad to private clinics for blood apheresis and the prescription of anti-coagulation drugs, though treatments are still experimental and evidence on effectiveness is still lacking. For some patients these treatments have been successful, for others not.

COVID-19 vaccination has been a hot topic in speeches of politicians and advertising in the media as a motivation for preventing Long COVID. However, a large study among 13 million people published in Nature Medicine could only demonstrate a small effect.

A study published in the Italian Journal of Pediatrics demonstrated that physical symptoms were restored much faster as compared to mental symptoms, suggesting Long COVID could be related to pandemic measures rather than a viral infection. The risks for Long COVID symptoms have shown to be increased for people with existing chronic diseases, increasing age, and lower income, women being more susceptible than men.

Fear, social isolation, depression, and worries for education and decreased income are thought to be related to the symptoms of Long COVID in children with and without a positive PCR test. As the emergency of the pandemic continues a worrying spike in chronic diseases, suicide, and excess mortality are noticed at the global level. This indicates the deprivation of a resilient immune system with an increased susceptibility for lingering symptoms of Long COVID.

Symptoms of Long COVID Link to MIES​

At this point there has been limited attention for a possible relation of Long COVID and exposure to chemicals in masks, nasopharyngeal tests, and disinfectants. In a meta-analysis by an interdisciplinary team of German physicians, a potential risk of Mask Induced Exhaustion Syndrome (MIES) has been found. The most frequently observed symptoms (fatigue, headaches, dizziness, lack of concentration) as described for MIES overlap with important symptoms for Long COVID syndrome.

The lack of smell and taste during COVID-19 seems to be different as compared to symptoms during the flu. A lack of taste and smell are frequently observed after chemotherapy in cancer treatments and has been linked to malnutrition, inflammation, and depression. Also, brain fog is a symptom occurring after chemotherapy. It seems likely that harmful effects by long-term mask-wearing and frequent nasopharyngeal testing with increased exposure to chemicals (not naturally found products) can accelerate symptoms and contribute to Long COVID.

Up to now, the safety of long-term and frequent wearing of masks and taking nasal swab samples in a delicate area in the nose, often by hardly experienced persons, have been poorly investigated. Severe nose bleedings (epistaxis), cerebrospinal fluid leakage, vomiting, dizziness, and fainting have been reported. Most frequently used masks and nasopharyngeal tests are derived from China with less strict controls and measures for the presence of hazardous materials.

In several countries masks and nasopharyngeal tests delivered by governments were taken from the market. Microplastics, nanoparticles (graphene oxide, titanium dioxide, silver, ethylene oxide, coloring compounds, fluorocarbon (PFAS) and heavy metals have been found in masks and nasopharyngeal tests. Unfortunately, not all masks and tests used during the pandemic are controlled. A report from the Dutch Public Health institute (RIVM) released in November 2021 stated “the safety of masks cannot be guaranteed.”

The short- and long-term impact of frequent exposure on the physiology and physical and mental functioning of the human body is unknown. Harmful effects for children, who are less able to detoxify, could result in a compromised immune and nervous system resulting in repeated and rare infections with more chronic diseases during aging and less healthy future generations.

Microplastics and nanoparticles withdraw proteins, vitamins, and minerals forming bio-corona (microclots), accumulating in important organs (blood, liver, gut, lung tissue), and disturb important physiological and immunological processes.

The liver, lungs, and gut are important organs in energy metabolism, detoxification and surveillance by the innate immune system. Disrupting a delicate gut-liver-brain axis can relate to fatigue and exhaustion.

Seeking More Answers for a Long COVID Mystery​

The Belgium Public Health Institute, Sciensano, found titanium dioxide in 24 types of masks. A recent publication in Gut showed that exposure to titanium dioxide could exacerbate inflammation of the colon (Colitis Ulcerosa) weakening the innate immune system. Furthermore, titanium dioxide can enter directly into the brain and cause oxidative stress in glial cells (or mast cells), cells with an important role in the proper functioning of the innate immune system and nervous system. Maternal exposure to titanium dioxide during pregnancy may result in impaired memory in the infant. Long-term exposure and high concentrations could even cause DNA damage. Unfortunately, masks with titanium dioxide are still available on the market.

Mental problems, anxiety and depression, have been linked to a change in the microbiome. Researchers from Stanford University observed in patients with gut inflammation (Crohn’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome, Colitis Ulcerosa) a link to missing gut microbes as compared to healthy persons. A significantly increased risk of a new onset of psychiatric illness is concentrated in the early post-acute phase of a COVID-19 infection.

A team of Japanese scientists discovered the presence of pathogens (bacteria and fungi) on the inner and outer side of various masks. In case of a disrupted growth of pathogenic bacteria and fungi the body is exposed to a higher concentration of (myco)toxins that often leads to feeling fatigue and sickness.

Overgrowth of facultative anaerobe bacteria (bacteria needing less oxygen) for example methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has been related to mask acne and mask mouth. Staphylococcus aureus may cause pneumonia, sepsis, and blood poisoning. Many of the exotoxins and secreted enzymes secreted by these bacteria suppress the T cell repertoire of the immune system. The excreted products can also cause aggregation of phagocytes, decreasing phagocytosis resulting in an impaired innate and adaptive immune system.

A long-term albeit small change in the O2/CO2 gases in the inhaled air may influence an unfavorable change in the microbiome on the skin, mouth, nose, lungs and gut. Both oxygen and carbon dioxide are the primary gaseous substrate and product respectively, of oxidative metabolism in each cell. Variations in the levels of these gases outside the physiological range can lead to pathological conditions including respiratory and heart problems, permanent injury, immune suppression, increased aging, and altered gene expression for fertility and death. Carbon dioxide poisoning is recognized as an often-forgotten cause of intoxication in the emergency department. Several studies found an increased level of carbon dioxide when wearing masks. This phenomenon was more pronounced during sports.

The laboratory of a South Africa scientist has found significant microclot formation in Long COVID patients and acute COVID patients. Acute COVID-19 is not only a lung disease but affects the vascular and coagulation system.

Unfortunately, inflammatory molecules are missed in normal blood tests as they are entrapped in the fibrinolytic resistant microclots. The presence of the microclots and hyperactivated platelets perpetuates coagulation and vascular pathology, resulting in cells not getting enough oxygen. Oxygen deprivation damages every single organ. Many COVID patients have low oxygen in the blood and are treated with oxygen therapy.

Oxygen deprivation at the cellular level is also described for bio-corona that are formed in the human body when exposed to graphene-oxide and microplastics. Graphene-oxide and microplastics are found in masks and nasopharyngeal swabs and may enter the human body via airways, eyes, or food.

Two and a half years into the pandemic the immune system is disrupted by O2 deprivation and exposure to microplastics, nanoparticles, and other toxic chemicals. This leads to an unfavorable change in the microbiome, brain damage, inflammation, and the formation of microclots. Microclots could be amyloids formed by excreted bacterial products and/or bio-corona, formed by nanoparticle and microplastics. The microclots cannot naturally break down by fibrinolysis and accelerates O2 deprivation in capillaries and at the cellular level.

Wearing Masks and Nasopharyngeal Swabs Could Lead to (Sudden) Death​

The results of Foegen’s observational study published in Medicine strongly suggest that mask mandates caused 50 percent more deaths compared to no mask mandates. Dr. Foegen theorized that hyper-condensed droplets caught by masks are reinhaled and introduced deeper into the respiratory tract responsible for higher viral loads and an increased mortality rate (The Foegen effect). Exposure to microplastics may result in lung fibrosis.

Also, a peer-reviewed study published in April 2022 on mask usage across Europe noted a moderate positive correlation between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe.

Not Harm, Supporting Lives Is the Purpose of Life​

The policy of politicians and advisory experts promoting a reintroduction of pandemic measures is a high risk for a disastrous effect for a now chemically poisoned population with a weakened immune system.

In many countries in the world excessive mortality and sickness is observed. Each of the measures including COVID-19 vaccination might have their own contribution to the weakened immune system.

The observed microclots in patients with Long COVID and acute COVID, independent of COVID-19 vaccination, is indicating that any measure that may cause oxygen deprivation or inflammation is a risk for sudden death, and more severe infectious and chronic diseases (liver, heart problems. and neurodegenerative diseases). At this moment it is not known which concentration of microclots and oxygen deprivation may result in severe symptoms or even death.

Above all, after two and a half years into the pandemic, neglecting the basic principles of Public Health, the pandemic measures do not show benefits in reduction of COVID-19 infection and COVID-19 deaths. The policy of mask-wearing and frequent testing is ineffective, expensive, and causes harm to humanity and the environment. Therefore, mask-wearing and frequent testing should be halted immediately worldwide.

The priority need is a political will and governmental funding to focus on strengthening the immune system, preventing malnutrition and famine for all. Moreover, millions of individuals suffering from Long COVID, or side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have the right for personal and financial support. Otherwise many people may become disabled as a result of poor management of this crisis.

From the Brownstone Institute

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
 

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Scientists identify how SARS-CoV-2 spreads in the Middle East
by The Scripps Research Institute
August 15, 2022


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A) Reported daily cases in Jordan (bar graph, left axis) and time-varying effective reproduction number (ribbon, right axis). B) Number of sequences generated in this study from Jordan (bar graph, left axis) and weekly rolling mean sampling fraction for Jordan (line, right axis). C) Timeline of non-pharmaceutical interventions in Jordan (see Methods for definitions). D) Geographic distribution of sequences generated in the current study, relative to population density of Jordan and its major sampled cities. E) Overall sampling fraction for all Middle Eastern countries and number of publicly available SARS-CoV-2 sequences on GISAID for Middle Eastern countries. Credit: Edyth Parker et al, Nature Communications (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32536-1

Understanding the global transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is critical for rapidly containing and handling the virus, especially as new variants and mutations of concern emerge. Certain regions in the world, including the Middle East and Northern Africa region, have been notoriously understudied and under-sampled. For the first time, Scripps Research scientists and collaborators unveil how the virus spreads in this region to better understand the unique ways that infectious disease threats arise and evolve in the Middle East.

The findings, published on August 15, 2022 in Nature Communications, showed that the strong regional connectivity of the Middle East drove both introduction risk and export risk of the virus—events that mainly stemmed from land-based travel while air travel restrictions were in place. The discoveries highlight the importance of improved pandemic surveillance infrastructure across the entire globe, especially given that transmission dynamics have been obscured by uneven sampling.

"Before the study, it wasn't entirely clear what was driving transmission dynamics in the Middle East, or how these relationships were changing over time in response to measures such as border closures and lockdowns," says Kristian Andersen, Ph.D., a co-author of the study and a professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research. "Our findings illuminate these drivers, and more importantly, the policies that will be helpful in mitigating the virus in this specific part of the world."

The study focused on Jordan, due to its central geography and tight sociopolitical, cultural and economic ties with other countries in the Middle East. From March to September 2020, Jordan banned all non-essential air travel in an effort to mitigate the viral spread, while also implementing a two-week-long quarantine for those who did enter the country.

Working hand-in-hand with Issa Abu-Dayyeh, Ph.D., senior author of the study and head of immunology and research at Biolab Diagnostic Laboratories in Jordan, the researchers integrated genomic, epidemiological and travel data to reveal the key drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from March 2020 to May 2021. They found that regional connectivity was a considerable driver of viral transmission, given that 85% of incoming air passengers from March to early September 2020 were from other countries in the Middle East.

Land-based travel was also a big culprit for introducing new strains of the virus into the country, especially from freight transport. While private land-based travel was limited, incoming truck volume recovered to pre-pandemic levels from July 2020 onwards—suggesting this is where viral introduction stemmed from. Similarly, they also discovered that land travel drove Jordan's exportation of the virus to other surrounding countries.

However, once travel restrictions were lifted in September 2020, viral introductions were then attributed mainly to air travel once again, as evidenced by non-Middle Eastern air travel increasing from 15 to 25% of total volume.

"Our findings underscore that travel restrictions centered solely around air travel are not enough to effectively curb the virus. Strategies to slow viral spread should also manage risk from land-based travel—including commercial transport—especially in a region as interconnected as the Middle East," says Abu-Dayyeh.

While the results were largely in line with the researchers' initial hypotheses, the findings did emphasize a stark point: the need for improved surveillance infrastructure across the world, which would help maintain public health efforts and mitigate outbreaks quickly.

"Without robust efforts across all major global regions, we all become that much more vulnerable to the spread of the virus," says Edyth Parker, Ph.D., first author of the study and a postdoctoral associate in the Andersen lab.

Parker notes that with the world being so vulnerably connected as it is today, an equitable surveillance system is necessary to closely monitor and catch new variants as they arise. She urges that maintaining a local testing capacity is critical for following not only the virus, but other public health threats as well.

"If a certain area is dependent on another for tracking transmission dynamics, that severely limits how quickly—and as a result, how well—we can perform our public health efforts," Parker adds.

Through the collaboration, Biolab Diagnostic Laboratories is now independently driving SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in Jordan and the broader Middle East. The researchers will continue examining regional variants and immune dynamics there, as well as continue bolstering their public health response to track additional infectious diseases that pose serious threats to the world.
 

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Why some people suffer more from COVID-19 than others
by Stefanie Seltmann, Berlin Institute of Health in der Charité (BIH)
August 15, 2022

A large number of people are currently contracting COVID-19. Fortunately, most of them are experiencing only mild symptoms, largely thanks to the high vaccination rate. However, in some individuals the disease takes a much more severe trajectory, and our understanding about the underlying reasons is still insufficient. The human genome may hold a key to why COVID-19 is more serious for some people than others. A team of scientists from the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) together with colleagues from the United Kingdom and Canada have found genes and proteins that contribute to a higher risk of severe COVID-19. Their findings have now been published in the journal Nature Communications.

Doctors and scientists around the world are still in the dark as to why some people become severely ill when infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease), while others experience only mild symptoms. A team of scientists at the BIH's Digital Health Center has identified genes that—in addition known risk factors such as age and sex—predispose people to experience a more serious infection.

"It has been observed relatively early on that susceptibility to infection depends on a person's blood group, for example, which is inherited," explains Maik Pietzner, the study's lead author. "So it was clear that the course of the disease is at least in part determined by genetics."

Scientists at the BIH were given access to genetic data that researchers had collected from COVID-19 patients worldwide, which also included disease severity. "At the time, there were some 17 genomic regions observed to be associated with a higher risk of severe COVID-19," Pietzner explains, "but the causal genes and underlying mechanism remained unknown for many."

The Computational Medicine Group at BIH had previously developed a "proteogenomic" approach to link protein-encoding regions of DNA to diseases via the protein product. They applied this method to COVID-19 and came across eight particularly interesting proteins in this new study.

"One of these was a protein responsible for an individual's blood group," Claudia Langenberg, head of the Computational Medicine Group, explains. "We were aware that this gene was associated with the risk of infection, so it was like a proof of concept. The protein ELF5, meanwhile, seemed like it could be much more relevant. We found that COVID-19 patients carrying a variant in the gene that encodes ELF5 were more much more likely to be hospitalized and ventilated, in some cases even died—so we took a closer look."

The team turned to their colleagues from the Intelligent Imaging Group, led by Christian Conrad, because of their expertise in single-cell analyses. Lorenz Chua, a doctoral student in the group, focused on finding out which cells displayed a particular abundance of the ELF5 protein: "We found that ELF5 is present in all surface cells of the skin and mucous membranes, but is produced in particularly large quantities in the lungs. Since this is where the virus causes most of its damage, this seemed very plausible."

But Conrad puts a damper on any hopes that the scientists may have identified a new target molecule for drug development: "ELF5 is what is known as a transcription factor, and controls how frequently or infrequently other genes are switched on and off throughout the body," he explains. "Unfortunately, it is difficult to imagine interfering with this protein in any way, as that would undoubtedly cause many undesirable side effects."

However, the scientists did identify another interesting candidate among the eight suspects: the protein G-CSF, which serves as a growth factor for blood cells. They found that COVID-19 patients who genetically produce more G-CSF tend to experience a milder disease course. Synthetic G-CSF has been available as a drug for a long time, so its use as a treatment for COVID-19 patients could be conceivable.

Translation of such genetic discoveries into clinical application is not an easy or rapid process. The work—only possible through the support of many scientists and clinicans of the BIH and Charité, and open access results from studies around the world—highlights how open science and an international team effort can uncover how the smallest changes in our genetic make-up alter the course of disease, COVID-19 in this example.

"We started with global data from 100,000 participants and ended up looking at single molecules in individual cells. We believe that collaborations that allow us to rapidly move from the bigger picture and studying large populations to in depth molecular follow-up can help to better understand the clinical consequences of this virus and teach us important lessons for future pandemics," Pietzner concludes.
 

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Risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection during the omicron surge in patients on dialysis
by American Society of Nephrology
August 15, 2022

In a recent study published in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, a third COVID-19 mRNA vaccine dose in adults with kidney failure who were on dialysis enhanced patients' protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection during the omicron-dominant period. A patient's response to vaccination or prior infection—as measured by circulating anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels—was also an important predictor for subsequent risk of infection.

In the study of randomly-selected patients receiving dialysis in the United States, a team led by Shuchi Anand, MD, MS, Pablo Garcia, MD, MS, and Maria Montez Rath, Ph.D. (Stanford University School of Medicine) followed patients' monthly anti–SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels and ascertained COVID-19 infection during the omicron- dominant period of December 25, 2021 to January 31, 2022 using electronic health records.

Among 3,576 patients receiving dialysis, 901 (25%) received a third mRNA vaccine dose as of December 1, 2022, and early antibody responses to third doses were robust. During the omicron-dominant period, SARS-CoV-2 infection was documented in 340 (7%) patients. Risk for infection was doubled among patients without vaccination and nearly 1.5-fold higher with 1–2 doses compared with 3 doses. Irrespective of vaccine doses, risk for infection was at least 2-fold higher among patients with low circulating levels of anti–SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.

"The COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, and it is clear that COVID-19 will become an endemic infection—that is, an infection that circulates at regular intervals in our community. In such a situation, it is critical to devise strategies that protect the most medically vulnerable persons with appropriate vaccine doses or additional preventive measures (such as monoclonal antibodies), and early treatments," said Dr. Anand. "Measuring a person's circulating antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 virus may help us identify the highest risk persons eligible for enhanced protection among patients on dialysis, and other immunocompromised or frail populations."
 
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