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2021-09-30 76% of September COVID Deaths in Vermont Are Vax Breakthroughs
Just eight of the 33 Vermonters who died of COVID-19 in September were unvaccinated, the Vermont Department of Heath said Wednesday.
Health Department spokesperson Ben Truman said most of the vaccine ‘breakthrough’ COVID-19 fatalities were elderly. Because they were among the first vaccinated, Vermont’s elderly “have had more time to potentially become a vaccine breakthrough case,” he said.
Expressed in percentages, 76% of Vermont COVID-19 fatalities were breakthrough cases. As of Tuesday, 88 percent of all eligible Vermonters (age 12 and over) had been vaccinated with at least one shot.
2021-09-28 Naturopathic Doctor Explains What The Jabs Are Doing to the Body Naturopathic Doctor Explains What The Jabs Are Doing to the Body. What she says makes perfect sense and lines up with what Dr. David Bauer of the Francis Crick Institute actually said himself..that we are seeing a 5 to 6 times drop in the neutralizing antibodies (the gold standard of your immune system) and suggesting the need for more ‘boosters’. What does every drug pusher want?..a hooked customer who keeps coming back for more..and more..and more.. https://odysee.com/@kristall.klar:2/Naturopathic-Doctor-Explains-What-The-Jabs-Are-Doing:2
2021-09-27 Pfizer, Moderna Eye Windfall Profits as COVID Booster Rollout Begins One analyst predicted COVID boosters alone will bring in about $26 billion in global sales next year for Pfizer — who splits profits with BioNTech — and around $14 billion for Moderna if the shots are endorsed for nearly all Americans. On Sept. 26, Pfizer CEO and Chairman Albert Bourla predicted life will return to normal within a year, but it’s likely annual COVID vaccinations will be necessary. Bourla’s vision for a “return to normal life” would position Pfizer and Moderna to make billions in profits dispensing endless booster doses. How much the manufacturers stand to gain depends on how big the rollout is. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-moderna-profits-covid-booster-rollout/
2021-09-24 Fear and Ignorance — Not the Virus and Unvaxxed — Are the Real Enemies in This Pandemic Defenders of vaccination insist that indisputable, objective medical facts have determined the approach to the pandemic. Their dogmatic arguments are based on the false assumption that COVID is an enemy to be eradicated, and the vaccine is the singular weapon of choice. Without deeper knowledge of what sustains good health, evaluations of maladies are dominated by tests and statistics, and extremis of illness is assessed by need for hospitalization or risk of death.
Medical science hasn’t begun to understand the power of natural disease immunity. The ability of the endocrine and nervous systems to seamlessly integrate in maximizing vitality, even in the face of increasing challenges, is phenomenal.
The precarious belief that we have reached an apex of understanding the human body has engendered other false assumptions, including that medicine can improve biology with powerful disruptive drugs, including vaccines. There are legitimate concerns about what vaccines can be safely injected into a child or adult in the name of preventing illness. The hazards, particularly with additives and contaminants, have resulted in the recall of some vaccines. The supposedly cutting-edge mRNA vaccine, developed from a growing understanding of the human genome, is designed and described as something that teaches cells how to fight off the virus. Vaccination therapy assumes the human body needs training to best defend itself. Following the logic of this highly questionable notion, in this current conflict the enemy appears to have found ways to camouflage and evolve. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fear-ignorance-real-enemies-covid-pandemic
2021-09-24 NY Hospitals Fear Staff Shortage as Vaccine Deadline Looms Hospitals and nursing homes in New York are bracing for the possibility that a statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers could lead to staff shortages when it takes effect Monday.
Doctors and nurses — and also support staff, like food service workers and cleaners — have been given until Sept. 27 to get at least their first vaccine shot in one of the nation’s most aggressive plans to protect patients. With just days left to go before the deadline, many still hadn’t. That left the prospect of potentially thousands of healthcare workers being forced off the job next week. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-business-kathy-hochul-new-york-ceb924e4704c085b05e3439a72c928f2
2021-09-24 Dr. Peter McCullough on COVID Treatments, and Why CDC, FDA Shouldn’t Make Recommendations
On the premier episode of “Doctors and Scientists” on CHD Live!, Dr. Peter McCullough told viewers the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Food and Drug Administration are supposed to serve doctors and patients — not make treatment recommendations.
On the premier episode of “Doctors and Scientists” on CHD Live!, host Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., interviews Dr. Peter McCullough about the U.S. government’s response to the current public health crisis. McCullough, one of the premier physicians focused on the early treatment of the COVID-19, has published 46 peer-reviewed papers on COVID. “Dr. McCullough is a hero of mine,” said Hooker, Children’s Health Defense chief scientific officer and professor of biology at Simpson University.
The two discussed various treatment options, including ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, both of which are increasingly difficult to get prescriptions for, even though, according to McCullough, doctors are free to prescribe them and pharmacies don’t have the right to refuse to fill a patient’s prescription.
In response to Hooker’s question about why people who seek these prescriptions are maligned, McCullough said, “Fear plays a major role in influencing mass psychology.”
McCullough reminded viewers that the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Food and Drug Administration are government public service agencies that serve doctors and patients. “These agencies don’t treat patients,” McCullough said. “They are supposed to serve us … not make treatment recommendations.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/doctors-scientists-brian-hooker-peter-mccullough-covid-treatments/
2021-09-24 CDC Director Overrules Agency’s Own Vaccine Safety Committee, Sides With FDA to Approve Boosters for ‘High-Risk’ Workers The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention disregarded the advice of the agency’s vaccine advisory committee, clearing the way for healthcare workers, teachers, and residents of long-term care facilities, homeless shelters and prisons to get a third Pfizer COVID shot.
the FDA on Wednesday granted Pfizer extended Emergency Use Authorization for boosters for people 65 and older and those at higher risk of severe disease and death, as well as frontline workers at higher risk of breakthrough infections — even though last week, the agency’s safety panel had rejected, in a 16 – 2 vote, Pfizer’s application for boosters for the general population. In opposing Pfizer’s application, the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee cited a lack of long-term data and said the vaccine’s risks did not outweigh the benefits for the broader population. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-director-dr-rochelle-walensky-overrules-vaccine-safety-committee-boosters/
2021-09-24 Flying the Vaccinated Skies: Where Major Airlines Stand With Employee Mandates There is no requirement for air travelers within the United States to be vaccinated against COVID-19. But depending on which airline you fly, there might be a mandate for employees.
While all major U.S. carriers are trying to get their workforces vaccinated, some are going further than others, with United being the first to mandate vaccinations, in August. Other airlines instead have been offering their employees incentives, mandating testing for the unvaccinated or tacking on an extra insurance charge.
But President Biden’s order this month — which said companies with 100 or more employees must mandate vaccination or weekly testing — will probably change the game. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/flying-the-vaccinated-skies-where-major-airlines-stand-with-employee-mandates/ar-AAOMy73
2021-09-24 Pfizer CEO — Biden’s ‘Good Friend’ — Rallies Employees to Help Keep Drug Prices High Politico obtained a copy of a 3-minute video message from CEO Albert Bourla to Pfizer employees, in which Bourla echoes common — and misleading — pharma industry talking points against Democrats’ plan to let Medicare directly negotiate prescription drug price.
Pfizer and its vaccine partner BioNTech have sold most of their vaccine supply to the U.S. and other wealthy nations as billions of people in low-income countries remain without access to a single dose.
An analysis released last week by the People’s Vaccine Alliance estimated that Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna have “sold more than 90% of their vaccines to rich countries, charging up to 24 times the potential cost of production.” “The COVID vaccine now accounts for more than a third of Pfizer’s overall revenue base,” the analysis found. “Pfizer has sold more than $11 billion in vaccines in the first half of this year. Pfizer is now projecting $33.5 billion in total vaccine sales for 2021, making the vaccine one of the top selling pharma products this year and potentially in the history of the pharmaceutical industry.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-ceo-albert-bourla-keep-drug-prices-high/
2021-09-23 The Emperor Has No Clothes: COVID Math Simply Doesn’t Add Up Eighteen months of COVID-related health data show the numbers promulgated by public health officials and mainstream media vastly overstate the risk of COVID and downplay the risk of vaccines.
Whether one looks at leaders’ willingness to engage in wanton economic destruction, or the rapidity with which billionaires have amassed new wealth or the multisectoral efforts to link and mine people’s intimate data, it is not hard to recognize that something much larger than a health crisis is afoot.
However, even if one restricts oneself to the narrow confines of the health narrative, 18 months of data — emerging in spite of ferocious censorship — have repeatedly illustrated that the official story is full of lies and omissions.
One of the biggest holes in the story is the trail of destruction that the experimental COVID vaccines are leaving in their wake, with hundreds of thousands of reported injuries in the U.S. alone and, according to some statisticians, as many as 150,000 dead Americans.
With this level of damage after just nine months, now is as good a time as any to reexamine “COVID math” and highlight some of the embedded falsehoods that cast serious doubt on official and corporate pronouncements about risks and benefits.
One fact, especially, bears repeating: Through age 19, children and adolescents have a 99.9973% COVID-19 survival rate. This information, which has been a constant throughout the reported pandemic, is reiterated in the most recent analyses by Stanford physician, epidemiologist and statistician John Ioannidis, who has been a steadfast critic of COVID alarmism from the very beginning.
And Ioannidis’s good news does not stop with the 19-and-unders. Until people hit their seventies, all age groups have survival rates well over 99%:
- 0-19: 99.9973%
- 20-29: 99.986%
- 30-39: 99.969%
- 40-49: 99.918%
- 50-59: 99.73%
- 60-69: 99.41%
- 70+: 97.6% (non-institutionalized) 70+: 94.5% (institutionalized and non-institutionalized) https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-health-data-mainstream-media-vaccine-risks
2021-09-23 Judge Denies Mass. State Police Bid for Injunction on Vaccine Mandate A Superior Court judge late Thursday denied the request of the union representing 1,800 members of the State Police to block the implementation of Gov. Charlie Baker’s vaccine mandate until the details can be collectively bargained.
The decision leaves unvaccinated troopers with just days to get their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine or face potential disciplinary action, including the loss of their job, when they are not fully vaccinated by mid-October. Judge Jackie Cowin ruled that the State Police Association of Massachusetts had failed to show that the implementation of the mandate on Oct. 17 would either cause irreparable harm to its members or that a delay would serve the public interest. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/coronavirus/court-denies-mass-state-police-unions-lawsuit-over-vaccine-mandate/2499901/
2021-09-23 Exclusive: Physician ‘Horribly Injured’ After Pfizer Vaccine Pleads With Top U.S. Public Health Officials for Help — and Gets None In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Dr. Danice Hertz said people like her who have been seriously injured by COVID vaccines are being dismissed or ignored, and because health officials won’t research their injuries and potential treatments, they have nowhere to turn.
Danice Hertz, a 64-year-old physician who was “horribly ill” and “incapacitated” after getting Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, claims U.S. health agencies are ignoring thousands of adverse events. Hertz said if she could go back in time, she would not have gotten vaccinated.
Hertz said she has been in contact with numerous health agencies, physicians and researchers — including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Surgeon General and doctors at Harvard and Stanford universities and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles — in an effort to obtain help for the neurological injuries she suffered after getting the vaccine.
Hertz told The Defender there are thousands of people like her — who have been injured by COVID vaccines — who are suffering and need help, yet they’re ignored by mainstream media and U.S. health agencies. Meanwhile, COVID vaccine mandates are being rolled out for millions of Americans, with barely any discussion of the risks. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/dr-danice-hertz-injured-pfizer-covid-vaccine
2021-09-23 CNN Health Experts Cling to COVID Restrictions, Call for Extending Masks in Schools, Separating Kids in ‘Pods’ Despite a decreasing national case average and a wide-reaching vaccine mandate in place, CNN medical contributors and guests are not ready to bid farewell to the overreaching COVID-19 regulations that continue to upend daily life in the U.S.
Asked whether it would still be necessary for children to wear facemasks in their classrooms now that they can get the vaccine, the “Uncontrolled Spread” author, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, suggested asymptomatic students be tested twice a week to “cut down the risk of transmission in schools dramatically.” Gottlieb also encouraged schools to keep students in “defined social pods” to prevent them from intermingling with those outside their immediate classrooms. CNN medical contributor Dr. Leana Wen said the country was “nowhere near” ready to start lifting mask regulations in schools. https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-covid-restrictions-masks-schools-testing-gottlieb-leana-wen
2021-09-23 3 East Bay School Districts Go All-In on Student Vaccine Mandates State leaders are now discussing whether a COVID vaccine should be required for all students age 12 and older to attend in-person classes.
State Health Director, Dr. Mark Ghaly, made the comments during a teleconference Thursday afternoon and Gov. Gavin Newsom echoed the idea later that same day saying, “Our health director said this is on the table. It’s being debated and, over the next few days, we’ll come out with some recommendations.” Three districts in the Bay Area have already said they’ll be implementing vaccine mandates for students 12 and older: Oakland Unified, Hayward and Piedmont. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/09/23/3-east-bay-school-districts-go-all-in-on-student-vaccine-mandates/
2021-09-23 Campaign Pushes Back, Threatens to Sue City of Raleigh Over Vaccine Mandate for Employees It has been roughly a week since the City of Raleigh’s new vaccine requirement for its employees kicked in. Employees must be fully vaccinated to be eligible for promotions. However, the people behind a GoFundMe campaign representing city employees say the city is wrong. The fundraiser said there are plans to sue and file a complaint against this “overreach of power and medical discrimination.” https://www.cbs17.com/community/health/coronavirus/campaign-pushes-back-threatens-to-sue-city-of-raleigh-over-vaccine-mandate-for-employees/
2021-09-22 Black Lives Matter of Greater New York Leader Blasts Vaccine Mandates as Racist and Disrespectful Black Lives Matter activists have turned on New York City’s leadership over what they claim are racist COVID-19 vaccine requirements. Mayor Bill De Blasio has aggressively pushed a “vaccine passport” system that bars entry to restaurants, gyms, and other public places without proof of COVID-19 inoculation. But with black residents lagging the overall population in vaccinations, the rules are disproportionately affecting a minority group usually in step with Democratic policies. The schism came to a head on Monday, when Black Lives Matter of Greater New York launched a protest outside a restaurant where enforcement of the policy sparked a melee. Hawk Newsome is a black activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York. Newsome spoke with the Washington Examiner about the difficulties vaccine-hesitant blacks are facing in the era of medical passports. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/vaccine-mandates-outrage-disproportionately-unvaccinated-black-community-new-york-city
2021-09-21 Biden’s Vaccine Mandate — Who’s Fighting Back, and How? Backlash against Biden’s sweeping COVID vaccine mandate has been swift, and experts say the mandate is unlikely to hold up in court.
In his presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised he would not impose vaccine mandates. Sept. 9, Biden issued an executive order mandating all U.S. companies with 100 or more employees to require COVID vaccination or weekly testing, or face federal fines of up to $14,000 per violation.
Biden is also requiring all federal employees and federal contractors to get the shots. Postal workers and members of Congress and their staff just happen to have been made exempt from this requirement.
No exceptions for persons who have already had COVID and recovered, and therefore have antibodies to the virus, have been issued. Several lawsuits are underway by people who have natural immunity and don’t need or benefit from the mandated COVID shots.
The Republican National Committee has announced they will sue the Biden administration for issuing an unconstitutional mandate.
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted full approval to Comirnaty, that product is not yet available. The only Pfizer shot currently available, called BNT162b2, remains under emergency use authorization, and the two differ widely in their legal liabilities. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/biden-covid-vaccine-mandate-fighting-back/
2021-09-21 ‘This Is Evil at the Highest Level,’ Says HHS Whistleblower In a video released Monday by Project Veritas, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services insider, Jodi O’Malley, a registered nurse, shares recorded conversations between herself and colleagues about the government’s failure to acknowledge COVID vaccine risks and lack of efficacy.
O’Malley recorded her HHS colleagues discussing their concerns about the new COVID vaccine. Here are some of the highlights from the video:
- Dr. Maria Gonzales, ER doctor, HHS: “All this is bullshit. Now, [a patient] probably [has] myocarditis due to the [COVID] vaccine. But now, they [government] are not going to blame the vaccine.”
- Dr. Gonzales: “They [government] are not reporting [adverse COVID vaccine side effects] … They want to shove it under the mat.”
- Deanna Paris, registered nurse, HHS: “It’s a shame they [government] are not treating people [with COVID] like they’re supposed to, like they should. I think they want people to die.”
- Jodi O’Malley, HHS insider and registered nurse: The COVID vaccine is “not doing what its purpose was.”
- O’Malley: “I’ve seen dozens of people come in with adverse reactions.”
- O’Malley: “If we [government] are not gathering [COVID vaccine] data and reporting it, then how are we going to say that this is safe and approved for use?”
- O’Malley: I’m not afraid of blowing the whistle “because my faith lies in God and not man … You know, like what kind of person would I be if I knew all of this — this is evil at the highest level. You have the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration], you have the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] CDC, that are both supposed to be protecting us, but they are under the government, and everything that we’ve done so far is unscientific.”
- O’Malley: “At the end of the day, it’s about your health, and you can never get that back — and about your freedom, and about living in a peaceful society, and I’m like, ‘no.’ No. This is the hill that I will die on.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/project-veritas-jodi-omalley-hhs-whistleblower-covid-vaccine/
2021-09-21 Shadowdragon: Inside the Social Media Surveillance Software That Can Watch Your Every Move A Michigan state police contract, obtained by The Intercept, sheds new light on the growing use of little-known surveillance software that helps law enforcement agencies and corporations watch people’s social media and other website activity.
The software, put out by a Wyoming company called ShadowDragon, allows police to suck in data from social media and other internet sources, including Amazon, dating apps, and the dark web, so they can identify persons of interest and map out their networks during investigations. By providing powerful searches of more than 120 different online platforms and a decade’s worth of archives, the company claims to speed up profiling work from months to minutes.
This new revelation about the Michigan contract raises questions about what digital surveillance capabilities other police departments and law enforcement agencies in the U.S. might be quietly acquiring. And it comes at a time when previously known government social media surveillance is under fire from civil rights and liberties advocates like MediaJustice and the American Civil Liberties Union. https://theintercept.com/2021/09/21/surveillance-social-media-police-microsoft-shadowdragon-kaseware/
2021-09-21 More Than 726,000 COVID Vaccine Injuries Reported to VAERS as CDC, FDA Overrule Advisory Committees’ Recommendations on Third Pfizer Shot VAERS data released Friday by the CDC included a total of 726,965 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 15,386 deaths and 99,410 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and Sept. 17, 2021.
Of the 6,981 U.S. deaths reported as of Sept. 17, 12% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, 17% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination and 30% occurred in people who experienced an onset of symptoms within 48 hours of being vaccinated. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-cdc-covid-vaccine-injuries-deaths-fda-third-pfizer-shot/?
2021-09-21 Dr. Peter McCullough on COVID Treatments, and Why CDC, FDA Shouldn’t Make Recommendations On the premier episode of “Doctors and Scientists” on CHD Live!, Dr. Peter McCullough told viewers the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Food and Drug Administration are supposed to serve doctors and patients — not make treatment recommendations.
McCullough, one of the premier physicians focused on the early treatment of the COVID-19, has published 46 peer-reviewed papers on COVID. McCullough reminded viewers that the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Food and Drug Administration are government public service agencies that serve doctors and patients. “These agencies don’t treat patients,” McCullough said. “They are supposed to serve us … not make treatment recommendations.”
McCullough recommended viewers check out these four organizations for information on COVID treatments: the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, America’s Frontline Doctors, Front Line Critical Care Consortium and Truth for Health Foundation. “These are the trustworthy sources for what drugs work, and how to use them,” Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, America’s Frontline Doctors, Front Line Critical Care Consortium and Truth for Health Foundation. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/doctors-scientists-brian-hooker-peter-mccullough-covid-treatments
2021-09-20 Experts Tell FDA Vaccines ‘Harm More People Than They Save,’ But NIH Director Believes Boosters Will Be Approved in Coming Weeks During the Sept. 17 meeting of the FDA advisory panel to recommend whether to approve a third dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, physicians pointed to data they said confirm the risks of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine don’t outweigh the benefits.
The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) recommended the agency approve Pfizer’s application for boosters only for people 65 and older and certain high-risk populations. Two FDA officials and a group of other leading scientists recently asserted that available evidence does not yet support encouraging COVID booster shots for all Americans.
“The left barsoft represents all adverse event reports and the right barsoft represents all death adverse event reports,” Rose said. “There’s an over 1000% increase in the total number of adverse events for 2021, and we are not done with 2021. This is highly anomaly.”
“The onus is on the public health officials at the FDA, the CDC and policymakers to answer to these anomalies and acknowledge the clear risk signals emerging from VAERS data and to confront the issue of COVID injectable products use/risk. In my opinion [the risks] outweigh any potential benefit associated with these products, especially for children.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-vaccines-harm-people-nih-boosters-will-be-approved/
2021-09-20 Nearly 15,000 Deaths, More than 700,000 Injuries Reported to VAERS Since December 2020 Rollout of COVID Vaccines in U.S. VAERS data released Sept. 17 by the CDC showed a total of 701,561 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 14,925 deaths and 91,523 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and Sept. 10, 2021.
Of the 6,756 U.S. deaths reported as of Sept. 10, 12% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, 17% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination and 31% occurred in people who experienced an onset of symptoms within 48 hours of being vaccinated.
See this week’s U.S. data for 12- to 17-year-olds show and from Dec. 14, 2020 to Sept. 10, 2021, for all age groups combined. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-cdc-covid-deaths-vaccine-injuries/
2021-09-20 Politicians Who Shill for Big Pharma ‘Not Fit to Represent the People’ Carrying water for Pharma is not only a moral failure, it is also a political failure — and any politician who puts Pharma profits before the needs of constituents will lose their jobs.
Last week, Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) was one of three Democrats who cast a pivotal no vote in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Rice shamefully voted against giving Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices as part of the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better package.
Despite the setback, we’re going to win. We’re going to give Medicare negotiating power to lower drug prices for everyone. And Pharma is scared. Pharma is so scared that they’ve launched a massive campaign against giving Medicare negotiating power. Pharma’s lobbying frenzy includes multi-million dollar TV ad buys and spending over $6 million from April to June of this year on lobbying (a 19% increase during the same time last year).
But that’s exactly why we’re going to continue to fight for — and win — lower drug prices. We’re going to win because the American people — and the vast majority of the Democratic caucus and President Biden — are on our side. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/big-pharma-rep-kathleen-rice-medicare-build-back-better/
2021-09-20 COVID Vaccine Prompts Strong Immune Response in Younger Children, Pfizer Says The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been shown to be safe and highly effective in young children aged 5 to 11 years, the companies announced early Monday morning. The news should help ease months of anxiety among parents and teachers about when children, and their close contacts, might be shielded from the coronavirus. The need is urgent: Children now account for more than one in five new cases, and the highly contagious Delta variant has sent more children into hospitals and intensive care units in the past few weeks than at any other time in the pandemic.
Pfizer and BioNTech plan to apply to the Food and Drug Administration by the end of the month for authorization to use the vaccine in these children. If the regulatory review goes as smoothly as it did for older children and adults, millions of elementary school students could be inoculated before Halloween. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/health/covid-children-vaccine-pfizer.html
2021-09-19 Vaccinate Teens Without Parental Consent, City Child Welfare Agency Says The city’s child welfare agency has given the green light to administer COVID-19 vaccines to more than 600 minors living in certain juvenile detention and foster homes, including when their parents say no. The Administration for Children’s Services told partner nonprofit groups earlier this month that they are free to get 16- and 17-year-olds inoculated with the vaccine — “even if a parent cannot be located or affirmatively objects.” ACS is lumping the Pfizer shot under “routine medical care” that many parents have already given blanket consent to, and clearing care providers to proceed with the shots even in the absence of overall consent. https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/9/19/22680170/vaccinate-teens-without-parental-consent-nyc-child-welfare
2021-09-17 Vaccine Passports: Why Bother if Shots Don’t Prevent Infection, Transmission? Since COVID shots don’t prevent infection or spread of the virus, and the vaccinated carry the same viral load when symptomatic as unvaccinated individuals, the argument that vaccine passports will separate “public health threats” from those who are “safe” to be around falls apart. First, more than 15 studies now show the natural immunity you get after recovering from COVID-19 is far superior and longer-lasting than what you get from the COVID shot, and secondly, lawsuits have challenged vaccine requirements that fail to accept natural immunity as an alternative to the COVID injection. Other lawsuits highlighting the illegalities of vaccine mandates have also been filed. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccine-passports-covid-shots-dont-prevent-infection-transmission/
2021-09-17 Vaccine Mandate FLIP-FLOP! Biden, Fauci, Pelosi Opposed Mandates – Jimmy Dore Program Biden, Fauci, Pelosi and Harris all were against mandatory vaccine when Trump was President. Congress and President are exempt from forced vaccines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1WuFuglz0
2021-09-17 URGENT: D.C. Parents, Help Us Protect Children From Being Vaccinated Without Parental Consent Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and Parental Rights Foundation (PRF) on July 12 filed a joint lawsuit challenging the D.C. Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act of 2020 as unconstitutional to stop District of Columbia schools from vaccinating children without their parents’ knowledge or informed consent.
The recently enacted law allows children 11 and older to receive vaccinations at school without the knowledge or consent of a parent. Under the new law, even if the parent previously submitted a written religious exemption statement, school officials may secretly administer vaccines to the child against the parents’ written directive. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/dc-parents-help-protect-children-vaccinated-without-parental-consent/
2021-09-17 U.S. Booster Policy Is in Flux as Studies Add to Dissent Almost a month ago, President Biden announced a plan to make coronavirus booster shots available to most adults in the United States eight months after they received their second dose. But a week before the plan is to roll out, its contours are up in the air amid a chorus of dissent inside and outside the government. The White House has already been forced to delay offering boosters to recipients of the Moderna vaccine, and for now it is planning third shots only for those who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Depending on what two public health agencies decide in the coming days, the administration may have to change course again, perhaps restricting extra shots to older Americans and others who are particularly vulnerable to serious illness. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/us/politics/booster-shots-fda.html
2021-09-17 Political Commentator Kim Iversen Unpacks ‘Alarming and Shocking’ COVID Data From Israel Political talk show host Kim Iversen, who has been closely following COVID vaccine data in multiple countries, walks viewers through the data from Israel suggesting the vaccines are failing.
Iversen reminded viewers that Israel was nearly fully vaccinated by February, after striking a deal with Pfizer to make its citizens “essentially … a giant study group.” “They have very high vaccination rates in the country,” Iversen said. “Kids are still not vaccinated. There are some super ultra-Orthodox holdouts, but otherwise everybody in Israel banded together and they took the Pfizer vaccine — two doses.”
But by summer, Iversen said, Israel health officials determined the vaccine had worn off. “They saw skyrocketing numbers of cases, even after they’d hit this so-called herd immunity threshold of 70%.” At first, Iversen said, it looked as though the vaccines might at least be protecting against more severe symptoms, because for the most part, only the unvaccinated were having to be hospitalized.
“But then as time went on … the hospitals started to fill up with fully vaccinated people,” Iversen said, “and they saw more and more cases among the fully vaccinated, and more and more of them becoming very severe to the point where the majority of their cases in the hospitals and in the ICU and those dying were fully vaccinated people.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kim-iversen-covid-vaccine-data-israel/
2021-09-17 Biden Accuses Republican Governors of Risking Lives as 24 States Threaten Legal Action President Biden accused some Republican governors on Thursday of “the worst kind of politics” by using their powers to push back against vaccination and testing requirements. “The governors of Florida and Texas are doing everything they can to undermine the lifesaving requirements that I proposed,” he said in remarks from the White House about his economic plans. Meanwhile, Republican attorneys general from 24 states including South Carolina, Missouri and Florida threatened to “seek every available legal option” against the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate plans. In an open letter published Thursday, they called the vaccine requirements for millions of federal employees, contractors and nearly two-thirds of the private sector workforce, “disastrous and counterproductive,” adding that such a move would be a “threat to individual liberty” and could overburden companies. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-19-live-updates-biden-accuses-republican-governors-of-risking-lives-as-24-states-threaten-legal-action/ar-AAOxp5o?
2021-09-17 What Happened to Variant-Specific COVID Vaccines? — Are Vaccines Tailored to Beta or Delta Still Even Necessary? With the FDA poised to weigh in on the data supporting boosters for COVID-19 vaccines — for the Pfizer-BioNTech shot (Comirnaty), at least — questions have been raised as to whether there’s still a need for variant-specific vaccines.
Earlier this year, some vaccine makers announced that they were developing variant-specific or multivalent vaccines. But as current versions of vaccines seem to provide lasting protection against severe illness, it’s not clear whether the other versions still have a role to play. “Unless there is clear evidence of loss of protection, updating the vaccines every time a new variant takes over the population might not be the best strategy,” Ramon Lorenzo Redondo, PhD, a molecular virologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, told Bloomberg. https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/94556
2021-09-17 Cleveland Browns Launch Facial Recognition Ticket Entry: Here’s How It Works The Cleveland Browns have launched a new free option for fans to enter games at FirstEnergy Stadium using facial recognition technology. So how does it work? “Fans can enroll and link their ticketing account to a selfie and come to the stadium and enter in with just their face,” says Brandon Covert, VP of Information and Technology for the Cleveland Browns. https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/nfl/browns/cleveland-browns-facial-recognition-ticket-entry-firstenergy-stadium/95-cd03edf8-098a-4182-af47-f5e700891722
2021-09-17 BREAKING: FDA Panel Overwhelmingly Rejects Pfizer Booster for Healthy People16 and Older The 16 – 2 vote against recommending a third shot of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for people 16 and older came after a sharp debate in which many of the panel’s independent experts, including infectious disease doctors and statisticians, challenged whether the data justified a broad rollout of extra shots when the vaccines appear to still offer robust protection against severe COVID-19 disease and hospitalization. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-panel-rejects-pfizer-booster-16-older/
2021-09-16 Experts Accuse CDC of ‘Cherry-Picking’ Data on Vaccine Immunity to Support Political Narrative
Mounting evidence shows natural immunity to COVID trumps vaccine immunity, but experts say the CDC is ignoring the long-standing science of natural immunity and manipulating data to support “what they’ve already decided.”
The CDC’s guidance on COVID is inconsistent with its vaccine recommendations for other contagious viruses, like chickenpox. The CDC’s current guidance for chickenpox, for example, does not encourage those who have contracted it to vaccinate themselves against the virus. The conflicting guidance “absolutely illogical,” and accused the agency of “ignoring natural immunity.”
When the COVID vaccine rollout began in mid-December 2020, more than a quarter of Americans — 91 million — had been infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to CDC estimates. As of this May, that proportion had risen to more than a third of the population, including 44% of adults between the ages of 18 and 59. However, the CDC instructed everyone, regardless of previous infection, to get fully vaccinated as soon as they were eligible. By June, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey found 57% of those previously infected got vaccinated.
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked whether people who have tested positive for the virus should still get a vaccine. Gupta cited recent data from Israel suggesting people who recovered from COVID had better protection and a lower risk of contracting the Delta variant, compared to those with Pfizer-BioNTech’s two-dose vaccine-induced immunity. “I don’t have a really firm answer for you on that,” Fauci said. “That’s something we’re going to have to discuss regarding the durability of the response.”
Numerous studies, however, have shown people who recovered from COVID have robust, durable and long-lasting immunity. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/natural-immunity-cdc-vaccine-political-narrative/
2021-09-16 125 Indiana U. Health Employees Terminated After COVID Vaccine Mandate Indiana University Health announced Thursday that 125 employees have been terminated after choosing not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. A spokesperson provided the following statement: “Indiana University Health has put the safety and well-being of patients and team members first by requiring employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 1. After a two-week unpaid suspension period ending Sept. 14, a total of 125 employees, the equivalent of 61 full time employees, chose not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and have left the organization.” The hospital system has about 36,000 employees. https://fox59.com/news/coronavirus/125-employees-leave-iu-health-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/
2021-09-16 Moderna President: ‘We Don’t Really Know’ if Additional COVID Shots Will Be Necessary Amid the growing controversy over whether the U.S. is in need of booster or additional vaccine doses to protect against COVID-19, Moderna (MRNA) president Stephen Hoge admits much remains unknown. “We don’t really know” if a third shot will be the final or if more are needed, Hoge told Yahoo Finance. In addition, who would benefit most from an additional shot is still a question. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/moderna-we-dont-really-know-if-a-third-covid-19-shot-is-necessary-135143605.html
2021-09-16 Oregon Senators File Formal Grand Jury Petition Calling for Investigation into CDC’s Willful Misconduct to Hyperinflate COVID-19 Data Following Federal Law Violations Oregon State Senators Kim Thatcher and Dennis Linthicum jointly filed a formal petition for a federal grand jury investigation into both the CDC and FDA on August 16th in the city of Medford, Oregon, Jackson County. The official letter included eight exhibits and 20 references for evidentiary materials showing a clear need to formally investigate the agencies for willful misconduct.
In March 2020, according to a paper published in the journal Science, Public Health Policy, and The Law, the CDC abruptly changed how death certificates were recorded for only one type of death—COVID-19—and circumvented multiple federal laws to do so. This hyperinflation of death certificate reporting kicked off an avalanche of data degradation and destructive public health policies.
Americans deserve to know the integrity of the data relied upon by agencies pushing national health policy and reshaping the fabric of American life. The CDC and FDA are issuing guidance asserted with the authority of federal law that is influencing officials at all levels of government to mandate something created by an industry that holds no liability for risk in selling its experimental and novel vaccine products. Americans are being told that these products are the only viable pathway back to a free and open society. https://standforhealthfreedom.com/press-release/or-senators-grand-jury-petition/
2021-09-16 Fauci Flip-Flop on Vaccine Mandate Hammered in New RNC Ad The Republican National Committee (RNC) is releasing a new video hammering President Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci for his flip-flops on vaccine mandates. The ad, first obtained by Fox News, features several clips highlighting Fauci’s previous statements casting doubt on federal coronavirus vaccine mandates.
“There’s no secret that I feel that we should not have central [vaccine] mandates from the federal government,” Fauci said just last month while encouraging businesses to “seriously consider the idea of mandating vaccination in the enterprise for which they are responsible whether that’s a university or a place of business.” https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fauci-vaccine-mandate-flip-flop-rnc-ad
2021-09-16 She Didn’t Give Me Any Other Option.’ Religious Exemption Requests Spark Vaccine Mandate Debates As more employers and businesses require COVID vaccinations, we’re finding religious exemptions are becoming a contentious issue for some.
I feel like because I’m being withheld from my education because I didn’t want a medical procedure done,” said Angelina Payette. Payette is one of only 12 students who were accepted into the St. John radiology class. She says she was kicked out by the instructor because she’s not vaccinated.
Wayne State says of the 24,000 faculty and students, 1,374 requested waivers, mostly for religious, not medical reasons — and 95-percent of the waivers were granted.
Pope Francis said yesterday, “humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines.” The ACLU also does not oppose vaccination mandates.
University of Michigan Medicine also requires vaccinations for 30,000 employees, their deadline was August 30 and they’re still calculating how many exemption requests have been filed. However union contract between the Michigan Nurses Association and Michigan Medicine does not mandate COVID vaccines for Michigan Medicine nurses. https://www.wxyz.com/news/she-didnt-give-me-any-other-option-religious-exemption-requests-spark-vaccine-mandate-debates
2021-09-16 Biden’s Push to Combat COVID Disapproved by Over Half of Americans: Poll Roughly half of all Americans disapprove of the push by President Biden to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for up to 100 million American workers, according to a new national poll. And nearly half of those questioned in a Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday say the president’s actions to combat the surge this summer in coronavirus pandemic cases due to the highly infectious delta variant go too far. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/americans-divided-biden-covid-poll
2021-09-16 How Politicians Make Millions Off Our Corrupt Political System Big Tech and Big Pharma give campaign money to politicians who in turn receive non-public information about the corporations which they use to enrich their personal stock portfolios. The lawmakers then have influence over legislation that affects the companies in which they’re personally invested.
- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s wealth has increased from $41 million to nearly $115 million since 2004.
- At issue isn’t the fact that politicians are multimillionaires — rather, as noted on a recent Twitter thread by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, it’s how they made their millions.
- In the last two years, nearly 75% of Pelosi’s stock trades have involved Big Tech stocks, totaling over $33 million in trading.
- The trading has occurred as major legislation was proposed, controlled by the Committees Pelosi oversees, that could reshape the future of the industry.
- Pelosi’s five most-traded stocks in the last two years — Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Google — were those that stood to be most affected by pending legislation.
- The system is corrupt, with most politicians not fighting for the public but, rather, looking out for their own self-interest and wealth accumulation. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/politicians-pelosi-make-millions-corrupt-political-system/
2021-09-16 Parents Seek COVID-19 Vaccine Trials for Their Children Ahead of Official Authorization Many parents across the U.S. are racing to put their children in COVID-19 vaccine trials to try to protect them from the virus sooner rather than later. The shots haven’t been proven to work safely for youngsters, and child volunteers in later-stage trials may get a placebo, rather than the vaccine. Yet parents said they were willing to take the chance and submit their children to the trials’ blood draws, COVID-19 tests and appointments to safeguard them, as well as their family and classmates. https://www.foxnews.com/health/parents-seek-vaccine-trials-children
2021-09-16 Pediatrician Discusses Timeline for COVID-19 Vaccine Approval for Children Under 12 The Food and Drug Administration said studies for the Pfizer vaccine in children ages 5 to 12 are ready for review. Dr. Pia Fenimore, a Lancaster County pediatrician, said the fact that studies are ready for review means the vaccine could be ready sooner than expected – possibly in mid- to late October. “A lot of people were willing to volunteer their child for these studies, so we were able to get the numbers of children in these studies faster than we thought we would,” she said. https://www.wgal.com/article/pediatrician-discusses-timeline-for-covid-19-vaccine-approval-for-kids-under-12/37623972#
2021-09-16 Children’s Health-Related Behaviors Negatively Impacted by COVID Pandemic Researchers from the Department of Exercise Science have illuminated additional ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted children’s health.
A recent study by members of the Arnold Childhood Obesity Initiative research group has already revealed accelerated increases in children’s BMI and weight gain since the pandemic began. Now the team has published findings from a study on the impacts of the pandemic on children’s health-related behaviors (e.g., physical activity, diet, screen time, sedentary behavior, sleep).
“Compared to pre-pandemic measures, children’s physical activity, sleep timing, screen time, and diet have significantly worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Bridget Armstrong, assistant professor of exercise science and lead researcher on the study published in Pediatric Obesity. “While any one of these behavioral changes might be concerning, their confluence for such an extended period of time may have significant health impacts, including dramatic increases in childhood obesity.” https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-children-health-related-behaviors-negatively-impacted.html
2021-09-16 Pandemic Caused Many Women to Abandon Plans for More Children Nearly half of mothers report they halted plans to have additional children because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online Sept. 15 in JAMA Network Open. Linda G. Kahn, Ph.D., from the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, and colleagues assessed changes in pregnancy intention following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis included 1,179 participants in the New York University Children’s Health and Environment Study who were currently pregnant or recently postpartum. https://consumer.healthday.com/pandemic-caused-many-women-to-abandon-plans-for-more-kids-2655027914.html
2021-09-16 The Case Against Vaccine Passports was alerted to what was coming at the end of July. Under the headline “The time for debating vaccines passports is over,” Globe and Mail health columnist André Picard wrote that “it would be irresponsible, not to mention politically and economically self-defeating, to not try limiting the intermingling of vaccinated and unvaccinated populations.”
Two words struck me as particularly eerie: “intermingling,” and “population.” At that point, I had decided against vaccination on various grounds. The most compelling was concern for my heart. I had had some heart troubles at the end of 2020, and I knew that the new vaccines occasionally produced heart inflammation — a frequent enough side effect that Health Canada requires a caution on the labels of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Now, evidently, my decision had consigned me to a threatening “population” requiring segregation and exclusion.
There are still holdouts. Most U.S. states have rejected or actively banned any passport system. But among my neighbors and even some old friends, there seems to be a solid consensus that any resistance to compulsory vaccination is a mark of selfishness, or much worse—of “anti-science” thinking, or conspiracy theory, or even outright denialism. Conversation is difficult under these circumstances, and has become so polarized and full of pitfalls that it has become much easier to call people names than to conduct a courteous discussion.
Vaccines have normally taken up to seven years to develop and fully test. The COVID vaccines currently on offer were developed and tested within a year. Most of the studies justifying the “emergency use authorization” they initially received were not released to the public or even to other scientists.
These vaccines, moreover, employ a new and previously untried technology. It seems, therefore, both fair and factual to call them experimental vaccines, even if the word has taken on a polemical edge in the current fraught environment. It also seems fair to insist, as some do, that these are not vaccines at all in the accepted sense. Vaccines, as the term has previously been understood, employ a killed or attenuated form of the disease to stimulate an immune reaction. These new agents involve a genetic intervention better described as “gene therapy” rather than vaccination.
How has it been possible to convince a majority of the safety of an experimental vaccine, whose long-term effects cannot, by definition, be known? https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/09/the-case-against-vaccine-passports
2021-09-16 Babies Could Be Given Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine in the U.S. This Winter Pfizer’s COVID vaccine could be rolled out to babies as young as six months in the U.S. this winter, under plans being drawn up by the pharmaceutical giant. In a move likely to cause international controversy, the company intends to apply for authorization to immunize American infants within the next two months. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9993523/American-BABIES-given-low-dose-Pfizers-jab-winter.html
2021-09-16 ‘This Week’ With Mary + Polly: Biden Pivots to ‘War on Unvaccinated’ + More This week, Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) president, and Polly Tommey, co-producer of “Vaxxed,” cover the latest COVID headlines, including President Biden’s plan to boost vaccination numbers by introducing vaccine mandates for all federal contractors, healthcare workers and businesses with more than 100 employees, and the response from Children’s Health Defense to Biden’s deeply disturbing “Declaration of War Against the Unvaccinated.” Also on tap this week is news of Biden’s new measures for federal employees, including COVID vaccinations and tests, and the president’s reaction to how republican governors have been responding to vaccine mandates. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mary-polly-biden-pivots-war-on-unvaccinated/
2021-09-16 FDA Scientists Skeptical Over Need for Boosters, Citing Lack of Verified Data Ahead of Friday Advisory Meeting In a 23-page report released Wednesday, FDA officials said, based on their analysis of data submitted by Pfizer and BioNTech, they could not yet take a stance on whether to recommend COVID boosters for the general public.
Pfizer “basically hasn’t bothered to test its booster at all in the people who are actually at risk.” In fact, it only conducted a single “phase 1” trial that covered 12 people over age 65. “The main Phase 2/3 booster trial (beware efforts to cover multiple “phases” of drug research at once), included no one over 55,” Berenson said. “No one. As in none.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-scientists-pfizer-covid-boosters-lack-data/
2021-09-16 Louisiana Nurses Refusing to Get the COVID Vaccine Louisiana’s largest hospital systems are requiring their employees to be fully vaccinated, but a minority of nursing staff say they are still considering leaving their jobs instead of getting the jab, citing concerns over personal liberty, lack of long-term studies, and discredited conspiracy theories … “I will not take it and if I get fired, so be it,” said Pam, an LPN employed at an Oschner family medicine clinic in Hammond, Louisiana. “I’m completely against it. If they can take this freedom away from us, what else can they take away from us? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/16/nurses-coronavirus-vaccine-louisiana
2021-09-16 Myocarditis VAERS Analysis Sparks Social Media Uproar Researchers are getting pushback over a medRxiv preprint that relied heavily on Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data to characterize myocarditis risk with the COVID-19 vaccine in adolescents, particularly young boys.
The report by Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD, of the University of California Davis, and colleagues found that rates of “cardiac adverse events” after the second dose were higher than previous CDC estimates, at 162 per million among boys ages 12 to 15 and 94 per million among boys ages 16 to 17. (Rates were much lower for girls, at about 13 per million for each age group.) https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/94530
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