These are excerpts of July 2021 articles. For a quick sense of information and faster summary just read the red marked texted.
My primary source is the extremely well researched RFK jr.’s “Children Health Defense” organization. The CHD is suffering some severe censorship on social media because they are exposing government/corporate media inconsistencies, distortions and censored facts about the Covid pandemic!
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2021-07-31 Health Professionals Are Failing the Public in Refusal to Review Covid-19 Evidence, Course Correct There is a severe cognitive dissonance occurring right now and, unfortunately this is occurring the strongest in those who have been most validated & rewarded through compliance to a broken system.
In the past year, I have watched incredibly educated and well intentioned people in my family and community succumb to irrationality and fear in response to the Covid-19 propaganda campaign that has been weaponized against the American public.
2021-07-30 America Has Its Own Virus Secrets Questions about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic are being asked more insistently in Washington. President Biden has directed US intelligence agencies to tell him by the end of August whether the cause was an infected animal or a laboratory leak. He said he had “specific questions for China” and urged Chinese leaders “to participate in a full, transparent, evidence-based international investigation.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused China of “failure to meet its basic responsibilities in terms of sharing information and providing access.” For more than a year, China resolutely ignored the pressure to allow neutral inspectors into its biological laboratory in the provincial capital of Wuhan, where the virus was first detected. Now it is adopting a different public posture. The new Chinese gambit might be called “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/america-has-its-own-virus-secrets/ar-AAMJuE5
2021-07-30 CDC study shows 74% of people infected in Massachusetts Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated About three-fourths of people infected in a Massachusetts Covid-19 outbreak were fully vaccinated, according to new data published Friday by the CDC.
The new data, published in the U.S. agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, also found that fully vaccinated people who get infected carry as much of the virus in their nose as unvaccinated people. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/30/cdc-study-shows-74percent-of-people-infected-in-massachusetts-covid-outbreak-were-fully-vaccinated.html
2021-07-30 FDA, under pressure, plans ‘sprint’ to accelerate review of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for full approval Pfizer’s vaccine is currently cleared under a so-called emergency use authorization, which allows the company to sell the vaccine for as long as Covid-19 is considered a public health emergency.
But with Covid-19 still raging, and its spread now fueled by the Delta variant, lawmakers and prominent health experts have urged the FDA to expedite full approval of Pfizer’s vaccine, saying it would be a powerful tool in convincing the unvaccinated to get their shots and in giving businesses and other entities.
2021-07-30 Pilots May Hold Key to Mobilizing Against Military COVID Vaccine Mandate When the military mandated the anthrax vaccine and military pilots showed they were willing to throw away careers and pensions in order to avoid the vaccine, it got the military’s attention — maybe they can do the same with COVID vaccine mandates?
With the U.S. military announcing plans to mandate the COVID vaccine for all personnel, possibly by Sept. 1, many service members already enduring coercive restrictions for failing to take the “voluntary” vaccine, are concerned about their careers. To date, 23% to 42% of military members, depending on the branch of service, have not taken the vaccine.
The clinical trials for the three COVID vaccines being administered in the U.S. — Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — are not scheduled to be completed until 2022 or 2023, when they would then be eligible for review and full licensing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pilots-key-mobilizing-against-military-covid-vaccine-mandate/
2021-07-30 On Driving SARS-CoV2 Extinct If we are interested in minimizing harm from SARS-CoV2, we need to use prophylaxis to force extinction. How we do this is up for debate, and of course there will be disagreement along the way. Some people, including the authors of a recently published Quillette article, see one and only one way forward: vaccination of every person with access to currently authorized vaccines. Other people, including ourselves, believe that the current vaccines—which are non-sterilizing, cannot quickly reach the entire world, and provide only narrow, short-lived immunity—cannot accomplish the goal, not even in principle. Any viable strategy for extinguishing SARS-CoV-2 in the near term must therefore include effective prophylaxis beyond the current crop of authorized vaccines.
Ordinarily, we are enthusiastic about vaccines and decidedly skeptical about pills. On this issue though, with these vaccines, our position has flipped. There are several reasons for this: the novel and non-sterilizing nature of the vaccines being deployed, the potential for perverse incentives involved in a vaccine only strategy, emerging concerns about vaccine safety, and the logistical reality that vaccines alone cannot, and will not, get the job done.
Those who have followed us have been far ahead in recognizing the potential utility of masks in preventing infection, the recognition that outdoor environments are safe and protective from Covid, the importance of vitamin D and the hazard of D deficiency (for people living at high latitudes, for example), the hazard of enclosed spaces and virally saturated air, the hazard of obesity and other co-morbidities, the narrowness of vaccine-induced immunity compared to the robust immunity generated by infection, the long term danger of Covid even in those with few symptoms, and the possibility that vaccines and relaxed safety standards would together select for viral variants that would increase the risk of breakthrough cases.
We have come under intense fire of late, not only for our logic and science—our motives and ethics have also been impugned. We feel that these critiques are not just uncareful and unjustified, but ominous and ultimately counterproductive to overcoming the immense challenges that we face. We are motivated by a strong desire to minimize human suffering from Covid, as we know are many of our critics. That is defense enough for what we are attempting to do. We disagree with our critics on the interpretation of the available evidence and are making a case that the conventional wisdom is wrong. Not only is that morally defensible, it is morally required. And the degree with which our most prominent critics have transparently stumbled in responding to us is a powerful evidence that what we are told is “settled science” is anything but.
First, we will review some of the evidence for the effectiveness of ivermectin as prophylaxis against SARS-CoV2. Evidence for the prophylactic effectiveness of ivermectin against Covid comes from meta-analysis of RCT’s, health care workers in Argentina, pre-existing chemo-prophylaxis with ivermectin across Africa, and roll-outs of ivermectin in several Indian states. Even the Wall Street Journal has published an op-ed with reference to further evidence of its effectiveness. Is it possible that all of these disparate sources of signal are wrong? Yes it is. But when multiple kinds of evidence converge on a pattern, that means more than when only one kind of research repeatedly finds the same thing. We have nothing to lose by taking this evidence seriously and pursuing a greater understanding of ivermectin. We have a very great deal to lose by failing to do so.
Second, we will look at the safety record of ivermectin. The authors of the Quillette article are questioning the safety of ivermectin, but pushing the story that the Covid vaccines are inherently safe. Given the historical record that is available for each of these treatments their position seems backwards to us. We have an abundance of evidence with respect to the safety of ivermectin, but very little regarding the safety of novel Covid vaccines. This is a simple and unavoidable reality owing to the newness of the Covid vaccine technology, not an inherent flaw in the Covid vaccines themselves.
Third, we will look at the safety of the Covid vaccines. Here are three lines of evidence that suggest that the Covid vaccines are not as harmless as we are being told: a) assessment of deaths in VAERS, b) Bell’s palsy, and c) myocarditis and pericarditis. Furthermore, given news that the CDC won’t be collecting some kinds of data anymore (e.g. “mild infections” of Covid in vaccinated Americans), what else are we missing? There are many indicators of both missing data, and refusals to conduct careful analyses. What all of this means for certain is this: we need better data. In the meantime, we should act with caution and take these signs seriously.
Fourth, we will look into the effectiveness of the Covid vaccines. Vaccines that are sterilizing are not predicted to create the selective pressure that results in increased pathogenicity (once individual immunity is achieved). Nor are vaccines which are limited in scope of use. But the Covid vaccines are not sterilizing, and they are in widespread use. Variants are on the rise. The media would have you believe that this is due to the persistence of unvaccinated individuals in the population. While unvaccinated individuals play a role in this dynamic, they are logically neither necessary nor sufficient. Theoretical predictions, experimental results, and real-world observations of where and when the variants have emerged suggest that, rather, it is the non-sterilizing vaccines and our current approach to vaccination that are responsible for the rise in variants.
Fifth, we will discuss the natural immunity that is obtained from having had Covid itself.
In order to drive SARS-CoV2 to extinction, we need a very high proportion of the population to be protected from the virus, such that it cannot spread. We need herd immunity. As defined by the WHO, herd immunity is achieved when a population is immune “either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection.” Thus, both those vaccinated, and those with natural immunity due to previous infection, contribute to herd immunity.
The CDC insists that everyone, regardless of whether or not they’ve had Covid, should get vaccinated, citing unspecified “experts” as the source of their recommendation.
The correct comparison ought not be “vaccinated vs unvaccinated” but rather “protected from Covid, vs unprotected from Covid.” In the group that ought be considered “protected,” there are, we argue, three distinct groups:
- the vaccinated,
- those who have already had and recovered from Covid, and
- those on other effective prophylaxis, such as ivermectin.
Given this evidence, why are those who have recovered from Covid being strongly encouraged to get vaccinations which have elevated risks and no benefit to them? We posit that it is due to a simplistic, single-minded focus on one and only one solution to the pandemic: mass vaccination. This position permits no nuance, and allows no evidence. It cannot be defended from either an individual health perspective, or a public health perspective. A defensible policy would at least exclude naturally immune people from the recommendation to get vaccinated, and would make use of alternative prophylactic treatments for people beyond the reach of the vaccines.
Sixth, we will discuss the politicization of several aspects of this discussion, Why is there a campaign against the use of ivermectin in the face of a global pandemic?
It is within the realm of possibility that the efficacy of ivermectin as prophylaxis is being shut down not due to science, but to politics.
Whatever the reason, the world seems to have been convinced that a “vaccine only” strategy is the only way through this pandemic, even though no plan that plausibly links the current vaccines to the eradication of SARS-CoV2 has ever been proposed. While we believe that ivermectin is an extremely promising candidate for broadening our approach to Covid, getting hung up on arguments about one drug or another is a distraction. The essential point is that we must vigorously seek all additional tools to fight SARS-CoV2, including ivermectin.
Seventh section, in which we speak to the use of fear and bad math employed by some of our critics.
Covid is a scourge of a disease, sparing no demographic completely. That said, it has long been recognized in both the scientific literature, and the press, that some people are at more risk than others. Old people are particularly susceptible. People with comorbidities are far more likely to get sick and die than those without (Kompaniyets et al 2021). And children, while not immune, have been, thankfully, largely spared.
This disease needs no help to be frightening. So it is concerning to see what seems to be fear-mongering to scare parents into believing that it is a far greater threat to their children than it actually is.
The Quillette article by Berlinski and Deigen, and the Sam Harris podcast with Eric Topol, are riddled throughout with errors, oscillating between strawman arguments and outright misrepresentations. Neither of these critiques—that from Quillette or Making Sense—holds up to either journalistic or scientific scrutiny.
A project called Better Skeptics, which they call a “prototype for collective sense-making.” Their first project is aimed at evaluating the veracity of the four DarkHorse podcasts most relevant to the topics covered here. We applaud the effort to bring better skeptics, and higher quality skepticism, into the world. Clearly, looking to both the Quillette article and Making Sense podcast as examples, from both a scientific and journalistic perspective, we all need better skeptics.
Lastly
What is most important is this: There is a deadly virus circulating. Many have died, and many more probably will. It is in our collective interest to extinguish the virus. We must not allow it to become endemic. We are all in this together. Demonizing others, be they vaccinated or unvaccinated, is not a solution. The current vaccines cannot end the pandemic, and it is time to advance a plan that conceivably can. This has been our motivation from the beginning. We can and should all look to our better angels, and move forward with the dignity and resolve that those angels offer us. https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/on-driving-sars-cov2-extinct
2021-07-30 Broadway Will Require Proof of Vaccination, Masks to Attend Performances https://www.newsweek.com/broadway-will-require-proof-vaccination-masks-attend-performances-1614705
2021-07-30 Coercive ‘Vaccinate or Face Testing’ Plan for Federal Workers Tramples Rights, Violates Nuremberg Code “Coerced medical interventions have been abhorrent to advocates of liberty and human dignity in every age,” said Children’s Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “The fact that these vaccines are shoddily tested, experimental, unapproved and so risky their manufacturers can neither obtain insurance coverage nor indemnify users against grave injuries or death should magnify our ethical revulsion.”
Anyone who is injured by COVID vaccines, and the families of those who die following vaccination, will not receive compensation from the pharmaceutical industry. Both the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 and the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) provide immunity from liability to vaccine makers for deaths and injuries that occur from use of their products. Payouts are exceptionally rare for the CICP, where compensation for COVID vaccine injuries and deaths must be claimed.
As of July 16, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has received reports of 491,218 total adverse events including 11,405 deaths following COVID vaccines. Americans are becoming more vocal about their reasons for refusing to take a COVID shot. Some have already recovered from COVID, which contraindicates receipt of the vaccine.
Reader Comment: Why would you want to miss almost half of the COVID cases by only testing the unvaccinated? Simple, its not about detecting cases or protection, it is about smearing people, creating a divisive workplace. It is egregiously wrong, not only will it hurt morale in organizations, it could lead to violence as you will now have two sectors of the workplace, vaxxed and unvaxxed. Imagine the animosity between the groups. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/biden-plan-federal-workers-covid-vaccine-violates-rights-nuremberg-code/
2021-07-30 Biden Calls on Schools to Host COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics for Kids 12 and Up The president also directed pharmacies participating in the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program to prioritize children 12 and older for vaccinations, and also to work with school districts to host vaccination clinics.
And Biden also said the federal government will reimburse small- and medium-sized businesses that offer paid leave to employees to get their children and family members, as well as themselves, vaccinated. https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/biden-calls-on-schools-to-host-covid-19-vaccination-clinics-for-kids-12-and-up/2021/07
2021-07-30 Biden Makes It Official: Federal Workers Must Get Vaccine or Submit to Regular Testing — Postal Union, Others Push Back Biden’s plan to require all federal employees and contractors to get the COVID vaccine or submit to regular testing, wear masks and socially distance is already getting pushback from those who question the constitutional legality and how mandates would be enforced.
Biden also called on state and local governments to use COVID relief funds to give $100 to people who get vaccinated. In a statement released by the White House, the administration said the new rules were issued because of the Delta variant, and because unvaccinated people present a problem to themselves, their families and co-workers. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/biden-federal-workers-must-get-vaccine-regular-testing/
2021-07-30 States rush to administer COVID-19 vaccine doses before they expire Hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 vaccine doses have been saved from the trash after U.S. regulators extended their expiration date for a second time — part of a nationwide effort to salvage expiring shots to battle the nation’s summer surge in infections. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-expiration-dates-usage/
2021-07-30 ‘This Virus Is A Very Powerful Thing’: Fully Vaccinated Cambridge Man Gets COVID-19 Breakthrough Infection Jeff Davis says his kids were exposed to COVID-19 at summer camp. Then days later, he tested positive, even though he’s fully vaccinated. My fever spiked, my temperature was spiking, all the signs were hitting me. Congestion, sore throat, muscle aches, I was extremely, extremely tired,” he said.
Davis is one of more than 6,300 people in Massachusetts to get a breakthrough case of COVID, representing 0.15 percent of those who are fully vaccinated in the state. As of Friday, 361 have been hospitalized and 91 have died. https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/07/30/covid-19-breakthrough-case-delta-variant-cambridge-man-kids-test-positive/
2021-07-30 Amid Covid Booster Debate, West Virginia to Check Immunity of Vaccinated Nursing Home Residents Starting in August, the state plans to begin measuring the levels of disease-fighting antibodies in the blood of vaccinated nursing home residents, which could help indicate whether they need a booster shot. The process will be voluntary and the data will be shared with federal health agencies evaluating the need for boosters. Covid cases in West Virginia and nationally have more than tripled in the past month. Much of that surge is blamed on the delta variant, a highly contagious form of the virus sweeping the country. In June, about 10% of hospitalized covid patients in West Virginia and 12% of covid deaths were among fully vaccinated people https://khn.org/news/article/amid-covid-booster-debate-west-virginia-to-check-immunity-of-vaccinated-nursing-home-residents/
2021-07-30 CDC Says Vaccinated May Be as Likely to Spread COVID as Unvaxxed, as Reports of Serious Injuries After Vaccines Surge VAERS data released today by the CDC showed a total of 518,770 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 11,940 deaths and 63,102 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and July 23, 2021.
The CDC now says even those people fully vaccinated for COVID are able to get, and spread, the virus. According to internal documents obtained by The Washington Post, the CDC said it’s time to “Acknowledge the war has changed.” The document outlined unpublished data showing fully vaccinated people might spread the Delta variant at the same rate as unvaccinated people, CNN reported.
It concludes the delta variant is “highly contagious, likely to be more severe” and that “breakthrough infections may be as transmissible as unvaccinated cases.”
“‘In some sense, vaccination is now about personal protection — protecting oneself against severe disease. Herd immunity is not relevant as we are seeing plenty of evidence of repeat and breakthrough infections.’”
Since January, people who got infected after vaccination make up an increasing portion of hospitalizations and in-hospital deaths among COVID patients, according to the CDC documents. That trend coincides with the spread of the Delta variant. The Post also reported today on a CDC study revealing three-fourths of people infected in a Massachusetts COVID outbreak were vaccinated. The report bolsters the hypothesis that vaccinated people can spread the more transmissible variant, and may be a factor in the summer surge of infections. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-cdc-vaccinated-spread-covid-serious-vaccines-injuries-surge/
2021-07-29 Dr. Robert Malone States the Experimental COVID-19 Jabs Make the Virus More Dangerous Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology, has sounded the alarm for months about this dangerous experimental vaccine rollout.
Despite the mainstream media labeling Dr. Malone as an anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist, he is far from that. He has dedicated his life to developing vaccines for humanity and remains pro-vaccine.
But unlike Big Pharma, Fraudci, and other health bureaucrats, Dr. Malone prioritizes safety and efficacy of vaccines over politics and profit.
Dr. Malone recently gave an interview on Steve Bannon’s War Room and noted that we’ve potentially reached the worst case scenario for this experimental vaccine rollout. He warned that we’ve hit a threshold where the vaccine causes the virus to become more infectious than without a vaccine. The term is called antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). https://dailytruthreport.com/watch-dr-robert-malone-states-the-experimental-covid-19-jabs-make-the-virus-more-dangerous/
2021-07-29 Pfizer Projects $33 Billion in COVID Vaccine Revenues, Driven by Boosters and Vaccines for Kids Pfizer hiked its projections for COVID vaccine revenues, telling investors this week it expects booster shots, a vaccine targeting the Delta variant and anticipated authorization of its vaccines for children as young as 6 months will drive revenues higher. The company projected revenue from its COVID vaccine alone will hit $33.5 billion — a 29% jump from the previously estimated $26 billion. Pfizer registered $7.8 billion in COVID vaccine sales in the second quarter, bringing total worldwide sales so far this year to $11.3 billion.
Pfizer based the vaccine’s original price on the need for governments to secure doses and get the virus under control. Pfizer’s COVID vaccine is currently on pace to be the world’s top-selling drug of all time, Axios reported — and now Pfizer is pushing for people to get a third “booster” shot of its vaccine to combat the Delta variant. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-33-billion-covid-vaccine-revenues-boosters-kids/
2021-07-29 COVID in Los Angeles: Over 25% of Cases Are Fully Vaccinated People Los Angeles County said over 25% of new coronavirus cases are among those who have been fully vaccinated, an increase from last month, according to a report Wednesday. “As more people are vaccinated, the number of fully vaccinated people becoming infected will increase and with the Delta variant that’s far more infectious, exposures to infections have also increased,” The station pointed out that from July 1 through July 16, the county diagnosed 13,598 cases, which included the 3,592 fully vaccinated people. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-over-25-percent-los-angeles-cases-fully-vaccinated/
2021-07-29 Republican senators raise questions after receiving unredacted Fauci email about Wuhan lab The email in question gained widespread attention last month because Daszak, a key figure in research linked to the hypothesis that COVID-19 may have escaped from the Wuhan lab, thanked Fauci for downplaying the likelihood of a lab leak. It also gained attention after being released to media outlets under the Freedom of Information Act because the administration redacted a portion of the email using an exemption reserved for information related to “pending law enforcement proceedings.” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/republicans-question-fauci-wuhan-lab-redacted
2021-07-29 FDA Made ‘Dangerous Error’ by Advising Against COVID Antibody Testing Antibody testing is critical for determining COVID vaccine efficacy and necessity, but FDA continues to recommend against the testing for anyone, including people who already had COVID and those who have been vaccinated against the virus.
Because the mRNA vaccines are likely to be susceptible to a significant rate of spoilage, some vaccinated Americans will be either partially or entirely un-immunized against COVID-19 – even though they are fully vaccinated. These individuals would be susceptible to so-called “breakthrough infections,” not because the vaccine is generally ineffective, but because they are actually not immune due to a spoilage of their vaccine dose.
The incorrect May 19 FDA guidance blocking antibody testing was a shocking pronouncement from a medical perspective. Specifically because antibody testing is the gold standard medical test for immunity against EVERY viral and bacterial pathogen known to humankind — SARS-CoV-2 is no exception. The fact that the medical community has not unanimously objected to this dangerous guidance is a testament to the “group-think” governing our medical establishment and compromising American lives every day in many corners of the healthcare sector. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-dangerous-error-advising-against-covid-antibody-testing/
2021-07-28 Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug? Ivermectin is a promising Covid treatment and prophylaxis, but the agency is denigrating it. The Food and Drug Administration claims to follow the science. So why is it attacking ivermectin, a medication it certified in 1996? Earlier this year the agency put out a special warning that “you should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19.” The FDA’s statement included words and phrases such as “serious harm,” “hospitalized,” “dangerous,” “very dangerous,” “seizures,” “coma and even death” and “highly toxic.” Any reader would think the FDA was warning against poison pills. In fact, the drug is FDA-approved as a safe and effective antiparasitic …
Ivermectin is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines. Merck has donated four billion doses to prevent river blindness and other diseases in Africa and other places where parasites are common. A group of 10 doctors who call themselves the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance have said ivermectin is “one of the safest, low-cost, and widely available drugs in the history of medicine.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-ivermectin-covid-19-coronavirus-masks-anti-science-11627482393
2021-07-28 COVID Symptoms May Linger In Some Vaccinated People Who Get Infected, Study Finds The study confirmed what’s already known: That it’s very rare for fully vaccinated people to get infected or sick with COVID-19. But it also found lingering COVID symptoms did develop in a handful of breakthrough cases. Researchers studied 1,497 vaccinated health care workers at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel. Among them, only 39 got infected despite their inoculations. Of those, seven — or about 19% — developed symptoms that lasted at least six weeks, including headaches, muscle pain, loss of taste and smell and fatigue.
Other experts say the findings provide yet more evidence that fully vaccinated people need to remain cautious, and should follow the new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to wear masks indoors in risky situations. https://www.wlrn.org/2021-07-28/breakthrough-infections-may-cause-long-covid-symptoms-small-study-suggests
2021-07-28 CDC says vaccinated people should get tested after being exposed even if they show no symptoms ‘Even vaccinated people who are infected by Delta may carry large amounts of the virus and transmit it to others,’ CDC director says. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that vaccinated people should get tested for Covid-19 if they have been exposed to the virus, even if they haven’t experienced any symptoms.
The revised guidelines for fully vaccinated people comes the same day that the CDC also returned to urging the fully vaccinated to wear masks indoors in some areas of the US that have high levels of transmission as the Delta variant spreads across the country. The CDC has previously said that vaccinated people didn’t need to get tested if they had been close to an infected person unless they had symptoms.
The agency also states that masks should be worn regardless of the level of transmission in your area “if you have a weakened immune system or if, because of your age or an underlying medical condition, you are at increased risk for severe disease, or if a member of your household has a weakened immune system”. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cdc-vaccination-test-exposure-symptoms-b1892434.html
2021-07-28 ‘Recipes for Regulatory Corruption’: How CDC, NIH Pull in Millions From Licensing Deals, Including COVID-Related Technologies Aggregated data for fiscal year 2020 show the NIH and CDC collected a combined $63.4 million in royalty revenues under a business model that allows the NIH to grant technology licenses to the private sector. With 27 different institutes and centers housed under the National Institutes of Health (NIH) umbrella — including the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — NIH is the largest biomedical research agency in the world.
Operating under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIH currently wields a hefty annual budget of nearly $42 billion. Within NIH, the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) plays a “strategic role” in supporting patenting and licensing for inventions that emerge from laboratories at the NIH and also Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In a win-win business model, the NIH routinely grants technology licenses (both exclusive and non-exclusive) to the private sector for use or commercialization of its inventions, with those licenses then driving billions of dollars in royalties back into NIH coffers. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/regulatory-corruption-cdc-nih-millions-licensing-deals-covid-technologies/
2021-07-28 AstraZeneca finds small clot risk after 1st shot of COVID-19 vaccine A study conducted by AstraZeneca regarding its COVID-19 vaccine found a small risk of blood clots following the first dose of the shot, but none after the second jab. Recent data published in the New England Journal of Medicine this month found two doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine were 67% effective against the delta variant, and 74.5% effective against the Alpha variant, the two most dominate strains currently circulating. https://www.foxnews.com/health/astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-small-clot-risk-1st-shot
2021-07-27 ‘Mathematically Impossible’ for Vaccines to Eliminate COVID The latest data suggest the wave of COVID among unvaccinated has peaked and natural herd immunity has set in, while vaccinated individuals are actually becoming more prone to infection.
In the U.K., symptomatic COVID-19 cases among “vaccinated” individuals have risen 40% in one week, reaching an average rate of 15,537 new infections a day being detected. Meanwhile, symptomatic COVID-19 cases among the unvaccinated has declined by 22% and is now at a current daily average of 17,588. This suggests the wave among unvaccinated has peaked and that natural herd immunity has set in, while “vaccinated” individuals are actually becoming more prone to infection.
Data show countries with the highest COVID injection rates are also experiencing the greatest upsurges in cases, while countries with the lowest injection rates have the lowest caseloads. 100 fully injected crew members had tested positive onboard the British Defense aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. The Navy ship has a case rate of 1 in 16 — the highest case rate recorded. This suggests vaccine-induced herd immunity is impossible, as these injections apparently cannot prevent COVID-19 even if 100% of a given population gets them.
It is mathematically impossible for COVID shots to eliminate SARS-CoV-2 infection. The four available COVID shots in the U.S. provide an absolute risk reduction between just 0.7% and 1.3%. Meanwhile, the noninstitutionalized infection fatality ratio across age groups is a mere 0.26%. Since the absolute risk that needs to be overcome is lower than the absolute risk reduction these injections can provide, mass vaccination simply cannot have a favorable impact. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mathematically-impossible-vaccines-eliminate-covid/
2021-07-27 Biden, Harris, and Cuomo Have a History of Spreading Vaccine Misinformation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ilLJbvkus
2021-07-26 Journalists claim alternative Covid-19 news has been ‘censored’ to create ‘one official narrative’ Almost 30 journalists have banded together to object to “censorship” and “fearmongering” about Covid-19 that they say has been put out by the media and tech giants since the pandemic began. The group, who have called themselves Holding the Line: Journalists Against Covid Censorship, have argued that attempts to share concerns counter to the “one official narrative” or “one ‘scientific truth’” have led to reporters being criticised by their managers, freelances being blacklisted, and the public receiving a “distorted view of the truth”. https://progressiveissuesblog.wordpress.com/2022/01/05/2021-07-26-journalists-claim-alternative-covid-19-news-has-been-censored-to-create-one-official-narrative/
2021-07-24 Patents Prove SARS-CoV-2 Is a Manufactured Virus In a January 2021 lecture, Jonathan Latham, Ph.D., introduced the term “the pandemic virus industrial complex,” to describe the academic, military and commercial complexes that are driving the pandemic agenda and obscuring facts that indicate SARS-CoV-2 is a manmade virus.
Much of this research was funded by none other than the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Hundreds of patents show SARS-CoV-2 is a manmade virus that has been tinkered with for decades. Much of the research was funded by the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, and may have been an outgrowth of attempts to develop an HIV vaccine
In 1999, Fauci funded research at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill to create “an infectious replication-defective coronavirus” specifically targeted for human lung epithelium. This appears to be the virus that became known as SARS-CoV
U.S. Patent 7279327 shows we knew the ACE receptor, the ACE2 binding domain, the S-1 spike protein, and other elements of SARS-CoV-2 were engineered and could be synthetically modified using gene sequencing technologies
The CDC holds patents to a SARS coronavirus that is 89% to 99% identical to the sequence identified as SARS-CoV-2, as well as the PCR test to diagnose it
120 patents detail supposed “unique” features of SARS-CoV-2: the polybasic cleavage site, the spike protein and the ACE2 binding, proving it’s not a novel virus at all https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/07/24/patents-prove-sars-cov-2-is-a-manufactured-virus.aspx
2021-07-23 CDC Panel Signals Support for Booster Shots, as Reports of Injuries, Deaths After COVID Vaccines Near 500,000 The data comes directly from reports submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S.
VAERS data released today by the CDC showed a total of 491,218 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 11,405 deaths and 48,385 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and July 16, 2021.
Every Friday, VAERS makes public all vaccine injury reports received as of a specified date, usually about a week prior to the release date. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before a causal relationship can be confirmed. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-panel-support-booster-shots-vaers-reports-injuries-deaths-covid-vaccines/
2021-07-22 Daily COVID Deaths in Sweden Hit Zero, as Other Nations Brace for More Lockdowns Sweden isn’t in the news much these days. There’s a reason for that.
More than 100,000 people flooded streets in France over the weekend and multiple COVID vaccination centers were vandalized as opposition grew to the government’s most recent pandemic strategy. France’s approach is unique, but it’s just one of many countries around the world imposing new restrictions as fears grow over a new variant of COVID-19. Australia’s recent restrictions have placed half the country under strict lockdown—even though a record 82,000 tests had identified just 111 new coronavirus cases—while restaurants in Portugal are struggling to survive amid newly imposed restrictions.
One country not making much news is Sweden. Sweden, of course, was maligned in 2020 for foregoing a strict lockdown. The Guardian called its approach “a catastrophe” in the making, while CBS News said Sweden had become “an example of how not to handle COVID-19.”
Despite these criticisms, Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to the pandemic continues today. In contrast to its European neighbors, Sweden is welcoming tourists. Businesses and schools are open with almost no restrictions. And as far as masks are concerned, not only is there no mandate in place, but Swedish health officials are also not even recommending them. 7-day rolling average for COVID deaths yesterday was zero.
As much of the world remains gripped in fear and nations devise new restrictions to curtail basic freedoms, Sweden remains a vital and shining reminder that there is a better way. https://fee.org/articles/daily-covid-deaths-in-sweden-hit-zero-as-other-nations-brace-for-more-lockdowns/
2021-07-22 COVID-19 survivors may possess wide-ranging resistance to the disease Recovered COVID-19 patients retain broad and effective longer-term immunity to the disease, suggests a recent Emory University study, which is the most comprehensive of its kind so far. The findings have implications for expanding understanding about human immune memory as well as future vaccine development for coronaviruses. The study suggests that patients who survived COVID-19 are likely to also possess protective immunity even against some SARS-CoV-2 variants. “Vaccines that target other parts of the virus rather than just the spike protein may be more helpful in containing infection as SARS-CoV-2 variants overtake the prevailing strains,” says Ahmed. “This could pave the way for us to design vaccines that address multiple coronaviruses.” https://news.emory.edu/stories/2021/07/covid_survivors_resistance/index.html
2021-07-20 Does COVID-19 have a 98 percent survival rate? Health officials estimate more 99% of infected patients survive Health officials have confirmed the survival rate for people with the coronavirus (COVID-19) is high, but that’s no reason to relax safety measures that have been put in place. One of the numbers that has been circulating on social media is that COVID-19 has a 98% or higher survival rate. As of Wednesday, the number of cases in the United States was around 3,512,000 and the number of deaths was around 137,000. That would make the case fatality rate 3.9%, so based on confirmed cases, about 96% of people survive. [MEK Note: of course many people who get Covid are asymtomatic and are often never counted in the number of cases] https://www.clickondetroit.com/health/good-health/2020/07/16/why-high-covid-19-survival-rate-is-no-reason-to-relax-safety-measures/
2021-07-17 ‘Potentially a death sentence’: White House goes off on vaccine fearmongers The pushback is a change of tone and approach from earlier this year, when the White House often chose to ignore its most vocal conservative critics out of a desire not to elevate them. It is a tacit acknowledgment that the July 4 goal of 70 percent vaccination nationwide was overly optimistic, if not naive. And it underscores that two realities are setting in: It’s becoming more difficult to convince vaccine-skeptics to get their shots (of the 10 least vaccinated states, all were won by Donald Trump in 2020) and the anti-vaccine voices, already vocal in the country, are becoming more mainstreamed by Republicans eager to oppose Biden-led initiatives.https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccination-campaign-499278
2021-07-17 In this summer of covid freedom, disease experts warn: ‘The world needs a reality check’ Breakthrough infections among vaccinated people provide another reality check. Thursday night’s prime-time baseball game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox was canceled when six Yankees players — most of them vaccinated — tested positive for the virus. Many breakthrough infections will produce no symptoms. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided in May to track only breakthrough infections leading to hospitalization.
“COVID-19 vaccines are effective and are a critical tool to help bring the pandemic under control. However, no vaccines are 100% effective at preventing illness in vaccinated people. There will be a small percentage of fully vaccinated people who still get sick, are hospitalized, or die from COVID-19. As with other vaccines, this is expected. As the number of people who are vaccinated goes up, the number of breakthrough cases is also expected to increase,” the CDC said.
Mutations in the virus are inevitable and complicate forecasts of how the pandemic will play out. The world is in the midst of a global experiment in which a single virus is turning into a full Greek alphabet of distinct strains, each with its own suite of mutations.
For people with at least partial immunity, covid-19 could become more like influenza or even a cold, which are caused by viruses that are at least somewhat familiar to our immune systems. Four other coronaviruses are endemic in humans and are responsible for a significant fraction of colds.
This scenario — call it Scenario A — has been the general assumption or hope of many infectious-disease experts since the start of the pandemic. Janis Orlowski, chief health-care officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges, offers one version of Scenario B: “Delta goes on to epsilon which goes on to lambda, and that becomes another ugly virus. . . . The virus mutates to a strain that we are not effectively vaccinated against — and that leads us into another ugly year.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/in-this-summer-of-covid-freedom-disease-experts-warn-the-world-needs-a-reality-check/2021/07/17/895be6e8-e58c-11eb-b722-89ea0dde7771_story.html
2021-07-14 Variant Roulette (Evolution and Immunity Escape) One of the most dreadful propositions of mass vaccination is that large scale vaccination during a pandemic or epidemic promotes the selection of mutations that escape immunity. Generally speaking, most viruses tend to evolve toward greater ability to survive and thrive in a host, but with lessened ability to harm that host. After all, a harmed host is more likely to perish, generally along with all the many living things hitching a ride inside. For these and other reasons, it has been understood by the scientific community that imperfect vaccination can enhance the transmission of viruses (Read et al). This is sometimes referred to as the imperfect vaccine hypothesis or the “leaky” vaccine hypothesis. https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/variant-roulette-evolution-and-immunity
2021-07-08 CHD International Vaccine Adverse Event Tracking System Children’s Health Defense (CHD) has joined with Doctors for Covid Ethics (D4CE) and other organizations around the globe in an effort to encourage, and make it easy, for health care professionals and vaccine recipients to report injuries and adverse reactions to any vaccines, including the new COVID vaccines. CHD and D4CE urge all healthcare professionals who are aware of a vaccine adverse event and anyone who suspects they have suffered any kind of adverse side effect — from any vaccine — to report these injuries. This information is critical in the assessment of vaccine safety. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/known-culprit/vaccines-culprit/chd-international-vaccine-adverse-event-tracking-system/
2021-07-08 Number of Reported COVID Cases Among Fully Vaccinated Continues to Climb Reports of COVID breakthrough cases among fully vaccinated people continue to rise — as of June 28, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports 4,686 breakthrough cases resulting in death and hospitalization.
These are people who died from COVID, from complications of COVID, despite being vaccinated because the vaccine is not 100% [effective] and people with weakened immune systems, people who are a little bit older, and some people for reasons we don’t really understand, might not mount a full immune response to the vaccine,”
The historic scale of the COVID vaccination effort means thousands of people have contracted COVID after vaccination, Nashville Public Radio reported. The experience has become so common the CDC stopped reporting breakthrough cases unless a patient is hospitalized or dies.
According to The Wall Street Journal, almost half of adults in Israel infected in an outbreak of the Delta variant were fully vaccinated with Pfizer’s vaccine. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-number-reported-covid-cases-climb-fully-vaccinated/
2021-07-08 Hundreds Injured by COVID Vaccines Turn to GoFundMe for Help With Expenses As The Defender reported July 1, research compiled by a group in Mesa County, Colorado, showed as of June 25 there were more than 180 GoFundMe accounts seeking help for people who had suffered injuries after receiving a COVID vaccine and were left with large medical bills and other expenses.
Prominent vaccine injury law firm says it can’t help people injured by COVID vaccines because COVID vaccines are not covered under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, forcing many to raise funds for their injuries online.
People facing huge medical bills after being injured by COVID vaccines have few options, beyond what their own health insurance covers. That’s because under federal law, vaccine makers are shielded from liability.
In 2005, Congress passed the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP), which authorizes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue a declaration providing immunity from tort liability for claims of loss caused by medical countermeasures (e.g., vaccines, drugs, products) against diseases or other threats of public health emergencies.
On Feb. 4, 2020, HHS invoked the PREP Act when it declared COVID-19 to be a public health emergency. On Jan. 21, HHS amended the act, extending the liability shield to include additional categories of qualified persons authorized to prescribe, dispense and administer COVID-19 vaccines authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
In exchange for immunity for vaccine makers, under the PREP Act, the federal government pledged compensation for adverse reactions to COVID treatments and vaccines through a program called the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), run by HHS. As The Defender reported July 1, as of June 1, CICP reported 869 pending cases but offered no further information.
Under the CICP program, attorney fees are not covered. There is no court, judge or right to appeal. Since the CICP program’s inception in 2010, only 29 claims have been paid, with an average payout of around $200,000. The other 452 claims (91.4%) were denied. Ten claims won approval but were deemed ineligible for compensation. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/hundreds-injured-covid-vaccines-gofundme-expenses/
2021-07-08 Millions of Kids Impoverished, Deprived of Education During Pandemic. Some May Never Recover. After more than a year of isolation, widespread financial insecurity and the loss of an unprecedented amount of classroom time, experts say many of the youngest Americans have fallen behind socially, academically and emotionally in ways that could harm their physical and mental health for years or even decades. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/millions-kids-impoverished-deprived-education-pandemic/
2021-07-08 CNN Political Analyst Says It’s Time to Make Vaccinations and Vaccine Passports Mandatory + More The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch brings you the latest headlines related to governments’ abuse of power, including attacks on democracy, civil liberties and use of mass surveillance. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-cnn-time-vaccinations-passports-mandatory/
2021-07-08 Watch 1-Hour Version of Censored Interview With Inventor of mRNA Vaccine Technology In June, Dr. Bret Weinstein interviewed Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology, and Steve Kirsch, philanthropist and tech entrepreneur who has become a respected force in the quest to give voice to people who have been harmed by COVID vaccines.
The 3.5 hour “DarkHorse Podcast” interview was censored on YouTube and other major social media platforms. Five days after the DarkHorse podcast was published, Malone’s scientific accomplishments and contributions were scrubbed from Wikipedia. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/censored-dark-horse-podcast-bret-weinstein-robert-malone-inventor-mrna-vaccine-technology/
2021-07-08 Nearly 4,000 women report menstrual problems including heavy bleeding and delayed periods after getting their Covid vaccine – but watchdog insists there’s no proof jabs are to blame https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9708213/Nearly-4-000-women-report-period-problems-getting-Covid-vaccine.html
2021-07-07 Was Vanden Bossche Wrong About Mass Vaccination and COVID Variants? Or Is This the Calm Before the Storm? Central to these was the notion that mass vaccination with the current crop of highly-specific, spike protein-targeted, experimental vaccines, might place an extreme form of selection pressure on the evolving virus. This could in turn accelerate the generation of ‘variants of concern’ or even produce a ‘super-variant’ that is both more dangerous and vaccine resistant. Dr. Vanden Bossche’s cry was that all of this could lead to a scenario that might make what we’ve seen to-date look like a walk in the park. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rob-verkerk-geert-vanden-bossche-global-mass-covid-vaccination-lethal-variants-speaking-naturally/
2021-07-06 Why Some Vaccinated People Are Dying of COVID + More As the Delta variant of the coronavirus surges through the U.K., almost half of the country’s recent COVID-19 deaths are of people who have been vaccinated. But doctors and scientists aren’t sounding the alarm about the apparently high proportion of deaths among the vaccinated population.
First, vaccines aren’t 100% effective. Not everyone who is inoculated will respond in the same way. Those who are elderly or whose immune systems are faulty, damaged or stressed by some other illness are less likely to mount a robust response than someone younger and fitter. Second, the risk of dying from COVID-19 increases steeply with age. Some chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension and lung disease are also associated with a higher risk of severe illness and death. for instance, that 80-year-old’s risk of death might still be greater than the risk faced by an unvaccinated 20-year-old. Third, as more of the population gets vaccinated, there are fewer unvaccinated people for the virus to infect. If the pool of vaccinated people is larger than the pool of unvaccinated people, then it is possible and even likely that breakthrough infections resulting in death in the older, vaccinated group would match or exceed deaths in the younger, unvaccinated group. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-why-vaccinated-dying/
2021-07-04 More “man-made” SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak malarky I covered these two issues last year — that the virus was natural but leaked from a lab, and that the virus was manmade. Since then a flurry of new claims have popped up. Sources are below. My video “Did SARS-Cov-2 start in a Chinese lab?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab-r0… RaTG13 could not be a proximal source of the Wuhan virus: https://virological.org/t/tackling-ru… Example of a similar furin cleavage site in nature: “A Novel Bat Coronavirus Closely Related to SARSCoV-2 Contains Natural Insertions at the S1/S2 Cleavage Site of the Spike Protein” https://www.cell.com/current-biology/… How the furin cleavage site can evolve: “A palindromic RNA sequence as a common breakpoint contributor to copy-choice recombination in SARS-COV-2” Nature article critiquing claim about the furin cleavage site being unique: https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158… “RaTG13 is too divergent to be this ancestral virus,” David Robertson, the head of viral genomics and bioinformatics at the University of Glasgow: https://www.factcheck.org/2021/06/sci… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX1EqRuVeU0&t=0s
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