These are excerpts of January 2022 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!

.

2022-01-14 Dr. Pierre Kory on ‘Nonsensical’ Mass Vaccination, Censorship of Ethical Medical Practices Dr. Pierre Kory, founder and president of Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance appeared on CHD.TV’s “Doctors and Scientists” where he and host Brian Hooker, Ph.D., unveiled why cost-effective successful therapeutics are being censored.

The two also discussed the importance of early treatment for COVID, and how Dr. Anthony Fauci and Big Pharma suppressed information and science about treatment options. Kory, former chief of critical care service and director of the Trauma and Life Support Center in Madison, Wisconsin, described his frustration with the repression of “good science” on repurposing low-cost medications, such as ivermectin, to treat COVID patients. He also criticized what he called “nonsensical” mass vaccination and the censorship of ethical medical practices. Kory said he and other doctors working on the frontlines during the initial wave of COVID infections were shocked by the unethical “stand-by-and-do-nothing” directives handed down by medical agencies. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-tv-braian-hooker-pierre-kory-mass-vaccination-censorship

2022-01-14 EMA Lists Rare Spinal Condition as Side Effect of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shot A safety panel of the European drug regulator on Friday recommended adding a rare spinal inflammation called transverse myelitis as a side effect of AstraZeneca‘s (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has faced several setbacks, including production delays and probes by regulators following rare cases of severe side effects such as blood clots with low platelets, which led to several countries restricting or stopping its use. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/ema-lists-rare-spinal-condition-side-effect-astrazenecas-covid-19-shot-2022-01-14/

2022-01-14 As Omicron Surges, Effort to Vaccinate Young Children Stalls Two months after Pfizer’s covid vaccine was authorized for children ages 5 to 11, just 27 percent have received at least one shot, according to Jan. 12 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only 18 percent, or 5 million kids, have both doses. The national effort to vaccinate children has stalled even as the omicron variant upends schooling for millions of children and their families amid staffing shortages, shutdowns and heated battles over how to safely operate. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/omicron-surges-effort-vaccinate-young-children-stalls-rcna12173

2022-01-14 Expect Another Omicron Wave in Early Summer, Sage Says Scientists advising the government have predicted there will be a fresh wave of Omicron cases in the early summer as people resume social activities and immunity wanes. But experts on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said they were increasingly confident that the worst-case scenarios for the current wave are very unlikely to occur, with the latest modeling suggesting a peak of fewer than 4,000 hospitalizations each day. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/14/expect-another-covid-omicron-wave-in-early-summer-sage-says

2022-01-14 As Protests Erupt, Some Countries Backtrack on COVID Mandates While Others Double Down As protests grow in EU countries and worldwide against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and so-called “vaccine passports,” some countries appear to be backtracking or at least harboring second thoughts about enforcing such measures, while others are digging in their heels and moving forward with punitive restrictions on the unvaccinated.

Some policymakers point to evidence COVID is here to stay and we need to live with it, since Omicron is similar to the common cold or seasonal flu. Others appear more willing to accept natural immunity in lieu of vaccination.

Austria garnered much attention in November 2021 when it became the first country in the world to impose an all-encompassing vaccine mandate for its entire adult population and minors 14 years old and up. This mandate, set to take effect in February, would be accompanied by fines of up to 3,600 euros per quarter. To that end, Austria recently reportedly began hiring “headhunters” to track down those who continue to remain unvaccinated. The mandate has resulted in frequent large-scale protests against the mandate, as well as a political movement opposing this policy.

Greece was one of the first countries in Europe to implement a vaccine mandate for a portion of its general population when, in December 2021, it imposed such a policy for everyone age 60 and over. The policy is set to take effect Jan. 16, with fines of 100 euros per month levied against anyone who doesn’t comply. Despite this policy, which has received broad and highly sensational media attention in Greece, and despite the burden the policy would place on pensioners in a country where the average pension is just over 700 euros per month, a significant number of individuals 60 and older appear to have opted to remain unvaccinated. In late December 2021, it was reported that 400,000 people in this age group had not received the COVID vaccine. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/protests-worldwide-countries-covid-mandates/

2022-01-14 ‘Poster Child for Greed’: Pfizer Leads Pack in Hiking Drug Prices A report released Thursday by Patients for Affordable Drugs found pharma companies this month alone raised the prices of 554 drugs, and Pfizer led the pack upping the price of more than 120 of its drugs. “Due to sales of its Covid-19 vaccine, which is set to be the best-selling drug of all time, Pfizer shattered profit records in 2021. Projected sales for 2022 are $54.5 billion—more than double the previous record for one-year sales for a prescription drug,” the report notes. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-leads-hiking-drug-prices/

2022-01-14 COVID Shots Could Cause ‘Crippling’ Neurodegenerative Disease in Young People, MIT Scientist Warns Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., senior research scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, told Fox News vaccinating young people for COVID may cause serious neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mit-scientist-stephanie-seneff-neurodegenerative-disease-young-people-covid-shots

2022-01-14 Australia Revokes Djokovic’s Visa Again, Refuses to Acknowledge Natural Immunity The world’s No. 1 ranked tennis player, Novak Djokovic, may not be able to defend his title in the Australian Open after officials today canceled his visa over his failure to comply with the country’s COVID vaccine mandate. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/australia-revokes-djokovic-visa-natural-immunity/

2022-01-14 Myocarditis Tops List of COVID Vaccine Injuries Among 12- to 17-Year-Olds, VAERS Data Show VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,033,994 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 21,745 deaths and 170,446 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and Jan. 7, 2022.

Of the 9,936 U.S. deaths reported as of Jan. 7, 19% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, 24% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination and 61% occurred in people who experienced an onset of symptoms within 48 hours of being vaccinated.

U.S. VAERS data from Dec. 14, 2020, to Jan. 7, 2022, for 5- to 11-year-olds show:

• 6,399 adverse events, including 142 rated as serious and 3 reported deaths.

The most recent death involves a 7-year-old girl (VAERS I.D. 1975356) from Minnesota who died 11 days after receiving her first dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine when she was found unresponsive by her mother. An autopsy is pending.

• 14 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation).
• 22 reports of blood clotting disorders.

U.S. VAERS data from Dec. 14, 2020, to Jan. 7, 2022, for 12- to 17-year-olds show:  

• 26,631 adverse events, including 1,530 rated as serious and 35 reported deaths.

The most recent death involves a 15-year-old girl from Minnesota (VAERS I.D. 1974744), who died 177 days after receiving her second dose of Pfizer from a pulmonary embolus. An autopsy is pending.

• 62 reports of anaphylaxis among 12- to 17-year-olds where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment or resulted in death — with 96% of cases
  attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.
• 589 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis with 578 cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.
• 149 reports of blood clotting disorders, with all cases attributed to Pfizer.

U.S. VAERS data from Dec. 14, 2020, to Jan. 7, 2022, for all age groups combined, show:

• 19% of deaths were related to cardiac disorders.
• 55% of those who died were male, 42% were female and the remaining death reports did not include the gender of the deceased.
• The average age of death was 72.6.
• As of Jan. 7, 4,806 pregnant women reported adverse events related to COVID vaccines, including 1,533 reports of miscarriage or premature birth.
• Of the 3,419 cases of Bell’s Palsy reported, 51% were attributed to Pfizer vaccinations, 41% to Moderna and 8% to J&J.
• 836 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), with 41% of cases attributed to Pfizer, 30% to Moderna and 28% to J&J.
• 2,256 reports of anaphylaxis where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment or resulted in death.
• 12,331 reports of blood clotting disorders in the U.S. Of those, 5,457 reports were attributed to Pfizer, 4,398 reports to Moderna and 2,428 reports to J&J.
• 3,688 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis with 2,269 cases attributed to Pfizer, 1,249 cases to Moderna and 158 cases to J&J’s COVID vaccine.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-cdc-myocarditis-tops-list-covid-vaccine-injuries-teens/

2022-01-13 270 Angry Scientists Cite MSM ‘Fact Checks’ in Open Letter Urging Spotify to Censor Joe Rogan Two weeks after Joe Rogan interviewed mRNA inventor Dr. Robert Malone on his Spotify podcast — which boasts 11 million viewers on average — an angry letter brigade of 270 doctors and scientists have written an open letter to Spotify to demand they censor Rogan and implement a COVID-19 “misinformation policy,” so that people, even highly trained virologist-immunologists such as Malone, can’t contradict ‘the science.’ And of course, just three of the signatories are immunologists, roughly 10% are nurses or nurse practitioners, and 33 are some type of ‘assistant’ (professor, nurse, lab, etc.). In short – hardly any of these people are qualified to refute Malone, which is probably why they link to ‘fact checks’ instead of compiling their own response on the merits of what Malone said. https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/270-angry-scientists-cite-msm-fact-checks-open-letter-urging-spotify-censor-joe-rogan

2022-01-13 Bill Gates Says ‘COVID Can Be Treated More Like Seasonal Flu’ After Omicron surge peaks As we enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and case numbers break previous record highs, billionaire Microsoft cofounder-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates sees a potential end in the near future. “Once Omicron goes through a country, then the rest of the year should see far fewer cases,” Gates told University of Edinburgh chair of global public health Devi Sridhar during a Twitter Q&A this week. “So COVID can be treated more like seasonal flu.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/after-omicron-covid-will-be-like-seasonal-flu-bill-gates-2022-1

2022-01-13 Supreme Court Blocks Biden COVID Vaccine Mandate for Businesses, Allows Healthcare Worker Rule The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its sweeping vaccine-or-test requirements for large private companies, but allowed similar requirements to stand for medical facilities that take Medicare or Medicaid payments. The rulings came three days after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s emergency measure started to take effect. That mandate required that workers at businesses with 100 or more employees must get vaccinated or submit a negative COVID test weekly to enter the workplace. It also required unvaccinated workers to wear masks indoors at work. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/13/supreme-court-ruling-biden-covid-vaccine-mandates.html

2022-01-13 Unvaccinated Father Loses Right to See 12-Year-Old Son After Judge Ruling A judge in Canada has suspended a man’s right to see his 12-year-old son because he isn’t vaccinated against COVID. The man had asked to extend his visiting time with his child over the holidays. But the child’s mother, who has custody, opposed the request saying she had recently discovered the father wasn’t vaccinated. Judge Jean-Sébastien Vaillancourt ruled it wouldn’t be in the child’s best interests to have contact with their father considering the surge in COVID cases in the French-speaking province of Quebec. https://www.newsweek.com/unvaccinated-father-loses-visitation-rights-12-year-old-covid-quebec-1669071

2022-01-13 Biden to Send More Military Medics to U.S. Hospitals in COVID Hotspots President Joe Biden on Thursday said he was deploying more military health workers to hospitals in six U.S. states, and would give Americans free masks and more free tests to tackle the fast-spreading Omicron variant around the country. The phased dispatch of 1,000 military health personnel beginning next week comes as U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations hit a record high with Omicron overtaking Delta as the dominant variant of the coronavirus and health facilities facing a staffing crunch. In the first wave of the deployment, teams of military doctors, nurses and other personnel will head to Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio and Rhode Island to support at-capacity emergency rooms and free up overwhelmed hospital staff for non-COVID cases, the White House said. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/more-us-medical-teams-bolster-states-omicron-surges-2022-01-13/

2022-01-13 18-Year-Old Brazilian Model Valentina Boscardin Dies of COVID Valentina Boscardin, a Brazilian model, died due to COVID complications last week aged just 18. She had been fully vaccinated against COVID and was also healthy before falling ill with the virus, according to various Spanish-language news outlets. She reportedly passed away on Sunday. CNN Portugal, as well as Brazilian journalist Felipeh Campos, via his Instagram account, reported that Boscardin had suffered a blood clot during her COVID infection. Newsweek has been unable to verify this. https://www.newsweek.com/valentina-boscardin-model-covid-dies-aged-18-brazil-cases-1668959

2022-01-13 DOH: Breakthrough COVID Cases on the Rise During Omicron Surge   Breakthrough COVID-19 cases are on the rise during the latest surge in Washington state, the Department of Health said Thursday.  The DOH says current reporting shows a 43% increase in the number of breakthrough cases. While the majority experienced mild or no symptoms, at least 3% were hospitalized, a press release said.      https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/doh-breakthrough-covid-19-cases-rise-during-omicron-surge/OPTV4TOFHBCFBFH5XVRTRQD2Z4/

2022-01-13 ‘Time to Admit Failure,’ Leading Immunologist Tells Israel’s Ministry of Health In an open letter to Israel’s Ministry of Health, Professor Ehud Qimron, head of the department of microbiology and immunology at Tel Aviv University, wrote, “When the destructive concepts collapse one by one, there is nothing left but to tell the experts who led the management of the pandemic — we told you so.” In his detailed and critical letter, Qimron charged the government ignored established epidemiological science on infections and natural immunity, denied evidence regarding the failure of vaccination and testing, failed to set up reliable protocols for reporting side effects and engaged in useless lockdowns that “destroyed the education of our children and their future.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/admit-failure-pandemic-israel-ministry-of-health/

2022-01-13 99% of People in France Contaminated With Glyphosate, Study Finds In one of the largest studies on glyphosate contamination in a human population, the world’s most used weedkiller was found in more than 99% of the general public in France, with a total of more than 6,800 urine samples having been tested https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/france-people-contaminated-glyphosate/

2022-01-13 What Did Fauci Know … and When Did He Know It? Two members of Congress this week called for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to produce the transcript of a conference call between Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins during which the two discussed possible origins of COVID-19. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/what-when-did-fauci-know/

2022-01-13 Coming Clean: Why I’m Taking a Stand Against COVID Vaccines Cory Zue, an “MIT-educated, well-meaning, rational (hopefully), Massachusetts-born, Democrat who works in public health” explains why he didn’t get the COVID vaccine, and why it isn’t okay to live in a world in which medical procedures can be forced on people without an impenetrable foundation of evidence to support them.

We also learned a lot about COVID and the vaccines. With COVID, it became clear that the impact of the disease was highly stratified. If you were old and/or sick, COVID was really scary, and if you were young and healthy it was relatively mild. I studied CDC mortality statistics, trying to figure out the chances that I — a 39-year-old who runs 5 miles a day — might die from COVID.

I never got an exact answer but it was clear COVID was far less likely to kill me than a heart attack, and was perhaps on par with getting murdered. (Murdered in the U.S. — my odds of being murdered in South Africa are higher.) I’d never worried about heart attacks and murder before, so it didn’t seem rational to worry about COVID. So I stopped. I then applied the same exercise to my wife — similar to me — and two healthy children — whose odds of dying were orders of magnitudes lower than ours. For kids COVID was as dangerous as the flu — again, something I hadn’t ever worried about except as a mild inconvenience. I concluded our family was already safe enough from the disease and did not feel compelled to vaccinate for our own health. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cory-zue-coming-clean-stand-against-covid-vaccines/

2022-01-13 Schools Shouldn’t Mandate ‘Most Dangerous Vaccines in Human History’ As schools weigh COVID vaccine mandates for children as young as 5 years old, former Pfizer exec warns injections “are toxic by design” and it seems obvious “criminal acts are being committed.”

Ignoring the 99.995% COVID survival rate for those age 17 and under, the 31 pharma-servile “experts” also appeared unconcerned by reams of damning data about COVID-vaccine-related disabilities and fatalities already occurring in the 12–17 age group — unnecessary tragedies being acknowledged that very instant in a panel discussion convened by U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Predictably, adverse event data and urgent frontline healthcare provider testimony began pouring in almost immediately after the FDA-CDC go-ahead, with 5- to 11-year-olds experiencing the same kinds of “terrifying” vaccine reactions as adolescents — including blood clots, strokes and other brain and heart problems previously almost unheard-of in young people. In the lead-up to the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization of experimental COVID jabs for younger children, state politicians and municipal school districts also started to grease the skids to mandate COVID injections for in-person school attendance. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/schools-should-not-mandate-covid-vaccines/

2022-01-13 Supreme Court Strikes Down OSHA Mandate, Says Vaccine Mandates for Healthcare Workers Can Proceed The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine mandate for large businesses, but ruled separately that a mandate for healthcare workers can move forward. The court’s conservative majority said the administration overstepped its authority by imposing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) vaccine-or-test rule on U.S. businesses with at least 100 employees. At the same time, the court allowed to move forward a separate rule mandating COVID vaccines for workers in healthcare facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/supreme-court-osha-vaccine-mandates-healthcare-workers-proceed/?

2022-01-12 Parents Must Be Allowed to Decide on COVID Vaccines for Kids, Physician Tells Maine Lawmakers There are many reasons why preventing COVID vaccine mandates until adequate, sufficient safety studies have been performed is “the right decision for this committee and legislature,” Nass wrote. Those reasons include:

• All available COVID vaccines are experimental products.
• Legally, recipients must be offered the right to refuse.
• Mandates negate the right of refusal.
• Basic safety questions regarding the vaccines have not been resolved, and some will not be answered until 2027.
• The WHO does not recommend broad COVID vaccinations for children.
• Parents should be permitted to make individualized decisions regarding their children’s risks and benefits from COVID vaccines.
• Unfortunately, no one can make a fully informed decision about COVID vaccines until the public has access to complete information on safety and efficacy, which are not now available. This fact alone should negate all mandates.

The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Tracy Quint, a Republican from Hodgdon, Maine, told the committee the bill would protect “the vital right of all Mainers to informed consent” about a vaccine whose long-term effects are unknown. She called it a chance “to change course” on the controversial issue. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/meryl-nass-parents-decide-covid-vaccines-kids/?

2022-01-12 Fauci: Omicron Will Infect ‘Just About Everybody’    Infectious disease expert and White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that “just about everybody” will eventually be infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.  “Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will, ultimately, find just about everybody,” Fauci told the Center for Strategic and International Studies during a “fireside chat.”

“Those who have been vaccinated and vaccinated and boosted would get exposed. Some, maybe a lot of them, will get infected but will very likely, with some exceptions, do reasonably well in the sense of not having hospitalization and death,” he added. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/589344-fauci-omicron-will-infect-just-about-everybody

2022-01-12 Europe’s Drug Regulator Warns Excessive COVID Boosters Could Lead to ‘Problems With Immune Response,’ Joining WHO in Pushback Here’s another influential voice joining the growing pushback against overdoing it on the COVID booster front: the European Medicines Agency (EMA). On Tuesday, EMA vaccine strategy chief Marco Cavaleri said there was still no data supporting the need for a fourth COVID vaccine dose. And even if multiple boosters do prove to be necessary, they would need to be spaced out in the style of annual flu jabs, rather than delivered every several months. He also warned that overly frequent booster doses could potentially lead to “problems with immune response.” Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said this week that it is still unclear whether fourth doses will be needed. Despite the lack of supporting data, Israel has moved to fourth Pfizer/BioNTech doses for over-60s, health workers, and immunocompromised people. Bourla’s counterpart at Moderna, Stéphane Bancel, said last week that additional boosters could become necessary by the coming fall. https://fortune.com/2022/01/12/ema-who-covid-fourth-boosters-pfizer-flu-endemic/

2022-01-12 Minneapolis, St. Paul to Require Vaccine Proof to Get Into Bars, Restaurants Minneapolis and St. Paul will require customers to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to enter restaurants, bars and other entertainment venues, marking some of the most aggressive steps the Twin Cities have taken to curb the spread of the virus. The new restrictions — which will apply to places where food or beverages are sold for on-site, indoor consumption — will go into effect for most businesses Jan. 19, though ticketed events will not be required to comply until Jan. 26. Patrons can provide either proof of vaccination or proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken under medical supervision within the last 72 hours. Proof of booster shots is not required. https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-st-paul-to-require-covid-vaccine-proof-to-get-into-bars-restaurants/600135178/

2022-01-12 Army Has Relieved Six Active-Duty Commanders for Refusing COVID Vaccine The Army has relieved six active-duty commanders, including two battalion commanders, and issued 2,994 general officer written reprimands to soldiers for refusing a COVID vaccine. In a release Wednesday, the Army said the punishments were for refusing the lawful order by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. The Army has not yet initiated separations for soldiers refusing the vaccine but expects further guidance later this month. The Army has not granted any religious exemption requests but has received 2,128 requests. The Navy, Air Force and Marines also have not granted any religious exemption requests so far. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/army-commanders-relieved-covid-19-vaccine/

2022-01-12 DOD Can’t Block Discovery of Evidence in Military Vaccine Mandate Trial, Judge Rules The ruling could lead to the discovery of evidence of wrongdoing by the federal government and military, including records showing the military violated U.S. Department of Defense official policy by requiring the administration of an Emergency Use Authorization vaccine.

However, in his earlier ruling against the preliminary injunction, Judge Winsor rebuffed the DOD’s claim that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, released under EUA is “interchangeable” with the Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine that received full FDA approval. The plaintiffs subsequently filed an amended complaint in which some of the plaintiffs alleged that in fact, they were denied the FDA-approved Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/dod-evidence-military-vaccine-mandate-trial/

2022-01-12 Health Freedom Advocates Protest Chicago Vaccine Mandates: ‘We Gotta Do This for Our Kids’ Health freedom advocates who last week protested Chicago’s vaccine mandates emphasized the diverse political and religious backgrounds of those who participated, and their common interest in protecting the rights of future generations. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/health-freedom-advocates-protest-chicago-vaccine-mandates/

2022-01-12 ‘This Week’ With Mary + Polly: ‘These Are Staggering Numbers’ + More

• There is no evidence so far vaccines are reducing infections from the fast-spreading Omicron variant. “There is now zero rationale for these mandates,” said Mary.
• COVID-19 shots are not vaccines. “A really interesting piece,” said Polly.
• Insurers in Indiana and India report similar rates of non-COVID-related premature deaths. “I’m sure I’m one of many who wonder what kind of diamond mine of data the insurance companies are sitting on,” said educator and statistician Mathew Crawford. “This is a bombshell,” said Mary. “These are staggering numbers.”
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will have eight months — not the 75 years it requested — to release all documents related to the licensing of Pfizer’s Comirnaty COVID vaccine, a federal judge ruled. “It’s outstanding that we don’t have that already,” said Polly.
• Massachusetts joined a list of a dozen other U.S. states introducing digital COVID vaccine cards to make it easier for residents to carry their proof of vaccination on them wherever they go. “It’s very dangerous,” said Mary. “It is very threatening.”
• New COVID variants are likely to keep emerging until the globe has been vaccinated against the virus, experts warn, saying the sharing of vaccines is not just an altruistic act but a pragmatic one.
• A new strain of COVID appears to be a genetic fusion of currently known Omicron and Delta variants, a researcher claims. “People are fed up with this,” said Polly.
• Allowing some health professionals who tested positive for COVID to continue working could put patients in “grave danger,” a leading nurse warned after new California guidance said health workers may return to work if they don’t have symptoms. “This just exposes extraordinary hypocrisy,” said Mary.
• Pope Francis suggested getting vaccinated against the coronavirus was a “moral obligation” and denounced how people had been swayed by “baseless information” to refuse one of the most effective measures to save lives.
• Federal agencies are preparing to take increasingly harsh steps against unvaccinated employees in order to implement President Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate for federal workers. “Continue to stand firm,” said Polly.
• For military troops, out of 21,342 requests received, zero exemptions have been granted, and many have been denied at the final appeal stage. “Clearly it’s a sham,” said Mary. “It’s just unacceptable.”
• Polly and Mary discussed a tweet from Dr. Tom Frieden saying “COVID is adapting to us, we need to adapt to COVID.” “This is extraordinary,” said Mary. “An extraordinary turnaround from where we were a year ago.”
• Cornell students, parents, and faculty fight back against the university’s booster mandate. “A really good letter,” said Polly. “One everyone should read.”
• Pfizer and BioNTech are teaming up to develop an mRNA vaccine for shingles, the companies announced, building off the successes of their joint COVID shot, as vaccine makers rush to invest in the newly proven mRNA technology. “It’s basically a chickenpox vaccine for adults,” said Mary.
• High-level international banking officials and organizations gathered last month for a global “war game” exercise simulating the collapse of the global financial system. The tabletop exercise was reminiscent of “Event 201,” the pandemic simulation exercise that took place just before COVID entered the global scene. “This is really significant,” said Mary. “This is a very important article.”
• In legal documents, Facebook said it cannot be sued for defamation because its “fact checks” are statements of opinion rather than factual assertions, and as such, protected under the First Amendment. “This was the news of the week for me,” said Polly.
• The developer of an implanted microchip linked to a COVID vaccine passport said the mass chipping of humans as a means of verifying compliance is happening “whether we like it or not.” “This is big news,” said Polly.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to “piss off” the unvaccinated by introducing fresh legislation to ban them from public venues.
• Protesters rallied in cities across France, denouncing President Emmanuel Macron’s intent to “piss off” people refusing COVID shots by tightening curbs on their civil liberties. “Be careful how you speak to your people,” said Polly. “Don’t mess with the people.”
• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing ahead with a vaccine mandate for international truckers despite increasing pressure from critics who say it will exacerbate driver shortages and drive up the price of goods imported from the U.S. “This is really going to impact people,” said Mary.
• A judge ruled tennis player Novak Djokovic can remain in Australia to play in the Australian Open despite being unvaccinated.
• More than 4,000 people participated in a peaceful demonstration against vaccine mandates at the capitol building in Albany, New York. “It was very peaceful, a wonderful experience,” said Mary.
• In his book, “Underestimated: An Autism Miracle,” and on his blog, JB Handley tells the miraculous story of his son’s ability to communicate. “It is a fantastic book,” said Mary. “It’s incredibly beautiful.”

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-tv-mary-polly-covid-related-premature-deaths/

2022-01-12 Virus Hunter Peter Daszak Wanted to Keep COVID Sequencing Data Hidden From Public EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak opposed the public release of COVID-19-related virus sequence data gathered from China as part of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s PREDICT program, according to emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/peter-daszak-covid-sequencing-data-hidden/

2022-01-12 Dr. Fauci: ‘Universal Coronavirus Vaccines’ Could Help the World Tackle COVID — and the Next Pandemic There’s a new kind of vaccine on the horizon — and it could help target all coronaviruses, not just COVID-19. On Tuesday, White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci testified to Congress about the country’s efforts to develop a pan-coronavirus vaccine, meant to combat both COVID and other similar viruses that could emerge in the coming years. The short-term applications of a vaccine that effectively tackles all forms of COVID could be significant, Fauci said: “We won’t be chasing after the next variant.” Longer term, Fauci said, the development of a universal coronavirus vaccine could help prevent the world’s next pandemic. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/12/dr-fauci-pan-coronavirus-vaccine-could-address-covid-next-pandemic.html

2022-01-12 EU Regulators, WHO Call for End to COVID Boosters, Citing Evidence Strategy Is Failing EU drug regulators, World Health Organization experts and the former chairman of the UK’s COVID task force all cited mounting evidence mRNA COVID boosters aren’t working and the strategy should be dropped.

“Everyone with eyes can see it doesn’t work against Omicron — and if you haven’t gotten a third dose, at this point, why would you? You are getting at most weeks of marginally improved protection for potentially severe side effects. “Instead the WHO is now promising/demanding vaccines based on whatever the dominant Sars-Cov-2 strain is at the moment. That promise is as empty as all the others the health bureaucrats and vaccine companies have made.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/eu-regulators-who-end-covid-boosters/

2022-01-12 German President Calls for Debate Over COVID Vaccine Mandate Germany’s president called Wednesday for a thorough debate over plans for compulsory coronavirus vaccinations for all adults in the country, saying such a drastic measure needs to be fully justified. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has backed calls for a vaccine mandate and lawmakers are expected to begin debating a bill later this month. Polls show a majority of people in Germany back compulsory vaccination against COVID-19, but a vocal minority opposes the idea. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-europe-germany-frank-walter-steinmeier-43dad0b71ccbe5ac387824991320fdc9

2022-01-12 No Vax, Pay Tax, Says Canada’s Quebec as Health System Struggles Quebec, Canada’s second most populous province, is planning to force adults refusing to get COVID-19 vaccinated pay a “health contribution” in a move likely to spur a debate about individual rights and social responsibility. Unvaccinated people put a financial burden on others and the provincial finance ministry is determining a “significant” amount that unvaccinated residents would be required to pay, Premier Francois Legault said, adding that such an amount would not be less than C$100 ($79.50). Governments globally have imposed movement restrictions on the unvaccinated and few have levied fines on the elderly, but a sweeping tax on all unvaccinated adults could be a rare and controversial move. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-quebec-working-plan-get-unvaccinated-residents-pay-up-says-premier-2022-01-11

2022-01-12 China Testing Entire City of 14 Million for COVID a Second Time, Suspends Trains, Buses Tianjin’s population of 14 million will have to be tested for COVID-19 for the second time as nearly 100 new cases were reported on Sunday. Around 12 million tests have already been distributed and 7.8 million of those were returned with samples. All citizens have been ordered to shelter in place as the investigation continues. The outbreak could pose a major problem for one major event. Tianjin is only an hour from Beijing, where the Winter Olympic Games are still scheduled to begin on February 4. With high-speed railways and buses now suspended, it is unclear whether the outbreak could spread to the host city. https://www.newsweek.com/china-testing-entire-city-14-million-covid-second-time-suspends-trains-buses-1668564

2022-01-12 ‘A Protective Bubble’: COVID-Sniffing Dogs Help Scientists — and Metallica — Spot Infection With a sense of smell up to 100,000 times more sensitive than humans’, dogs have been employed in the service of sniffing out everything from contraband to crop molds to cancer. Yet while researchers first began exploring whether canines could be effective agents in the fight against COVID-19 early in the pandemic, only in recent months have conclusive, peer-reviewed studies begun verifying the hypothesis that dogs know COVID when they smell it. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/12/a-protective-bubble-covid-sniffing-dogs-help-scientists-and-metallica-spot-infection

2022-01-12 Mexico Has Refused to Close Its Borders During the COVID Pandemic. Does That Make Sense? As the coronavirus swept the globe, nervous countries imposed bans on flights, cruise ships and border crossings. But from the beginning, Mexico has stayed open. Radically open. New arrivals here aren’t required to show proof of vaccination or a negative coronavirus test, or to quarantine. When the Omicron variant was detected, the United States slapped a temporary ban on visitors from eight African countries. Mexico didn’t stop a single flight. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/12/mexico-coronavirus-pandemic-open-border/

2022-01-12 Lawmakers Blast Biden Pandemic Response, Experts Question Vaccine Mandates Strategy Lawmakers on Tuesday attacked what some called the Biden administration’s “confusing” messaging and disastrous rollout of COVID booster shots. Meanwhile scientists raised questions about the administration’s mandates strategy.

As Dr. Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize laureate in 2008 for discovering the human immunodeficiency virus, wrote in Monday’s Wall Street Journal: “As of Jan. 1, Omicron represented more than 95% of U.S. COVID cases, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Because some of Omicron’s 50 mutations are known to evade antibody protection, because more than 30 of those mutations are to the spike protein used as an immunogen by the existing vaccines, and because there have been mass Omicron outbreaks in heavily vaccinated populations, scientists are highly uncertain the existing vaccines can stop it from spreading.”

The scientific basis for the administration’s vaccine mandate policies are now obsolete, according to Montagnier and his co-author, Jed Rubenfeld, a constitutional scholar, since the legal standard can no longer be met. That standard, enunciated by the U.S. Supreme Court in Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905), establishes that the right to refuse medical treatment can be overcome only if society needs to curb the spread of a contagious epidemic. For Omicron, said the authors, “there is as yet no such evidence” the vaccines curb the spread. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/biden-pandemic-response-vaccine-mandates-strategy/

2022-01-12 House Republicans Release Damning Fauci Emails Suggesting Concealed Knowledge of Lab Leak Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have released several emails which suggest Dr. Anthony Fauci may have known that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak, and that it may have been “intentionally genetically manipulated.” “We write to request a transcribed interview of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Excerpts of emails we are making public today (see enclosed Appendix I) reveal that Dr. Fauci was warned of two things: (1) the potential that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute Virology (WIV) and (2) the possibility that the virus was intentionally genetically manipulated. It is imperative we investigate if this information was conveyed to the rest of the government and whether this information would have changed the U.S. response to the pandemic,” reads the letter from Reps. James Comer and Jim Jordan to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/house-republicans-release-damning-fauci-emails-suggesting-concealed-knowledge-lab-leak

2022-01-11 America’s COVID Death Rate Drops to Record Low as Cases Reach Pandemic High The raging Omicron variant has pushed COVID-19 cases to record highs in the U.S., but America’s case fatality rate has dipped to 1.39%, its lowest mark since the first wave of cases struck in March 2020. The U.S. mortality rate hovered around 1.6% from the end of August until mid-December when it started to drop. The case-fatality ratio measures the number of confirmed deaths against the number of confirmed infections. It’s an imperfect measurement, as it doesn’t factor in the true number of cases or deaths, especially in a fluid situation like the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.newsweek.com/americas-covid-death-rate-drops-record-low-cases-reach-pandemic-high-1668256

2022-01-11 Jake Tapper Rails Against ‘Misleading’ CDC COVID Hospitalization Numbers CNN anchor Jake Tapper has criticized as “misleading” the admission by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that it counted COVID patients who had been admitted to hospitals for something else. Tapper was reacting to comments CDC director Rochelle Walensky made on Fox News on Sunday that “up to 40%” of patients had been admitted to hospitals with another medical emergency but had been later detected as having COVID. Tapper said if up to 40% of patients in hospital “don’t necessarily have problematic COVID” and are there if “they bumped their head, and they’re being included as [being] in the hospital with COVID. That number seems kind of misleading.” https://www.newsweek.com/jake-tapper-cnn-cdc-rochelle-walensky-covid-gupta-1667833

2022-01-11 Federal Agencies Must Test Unvaccinated Workers Weekly Starting in February, Biden Administration Says Federal agencies must start testing unvaccinated employees at least weekly for the coronavirus by Feb. 15, the Biden administration said in new guidance issued Tuesday. The testing, which mainly affects those exempted from President Biden’s vaccination mandate for federal workers, would be required during any week in which those employees “work onsite or interact in person with members of the public as part of their job duties,” the guidance says. Employees who do not comply with the mandate generally are first to be counseled, then suspended without pay and then, potentially, fired unless they get the vaccines. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/11/biden-federal-coronavirus-mandate-testing-rules-unvaccinated/

2022-01-11 Hundreds Press Maine Lawmakers to Ban COVID Vaccine Mandates A bill that seeks to bar Maine from imposing any COVID-19 vaccination mandates for five years drew a slew of worried residents pleading with lawmakers to back the measure despite a lack of evidence their fears have merit. The bill, pushed by Republicans and who are outnumbered in the Legislature, says the mandate delay is needed to allow more time for research on potential fertility problems from the vaccines, though the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and other experts say there is no reason to believe there is any risk. https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/01/11/wary-mainers-urge-lawmakers-to-impose-ban-on-covid-19-vaccines/

2022-01-11 FDA Extends Shelf Life for Millions of Expired Coronavirus Test Kits in Florida The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) extended the expiration date for almost a million COVID-19 rapid tests that first expired in a Florida warehouse in September. The FDA was able to extend the expiration date for the tests for three months using the product’s emergency use authorization. The tests had already expired once in September and were extended until late December by the federal government at that time, according to the Miami Herald. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/589310-fda-extends-shelf-life-for-millions-of-expired-coronavirus-test-kits-in

2022-01-11 3,700 TSA Screeners Have Active COVID Infections, a 1,243% Jump Since Thanksgiving The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is reporting 3,694 employees with active COVID-19 infections, according to agency data, roughly 7% of the agency’s screeners. For context, the week before the Omicron variant was first identified in the United States, there were 275 positive COVID-19 cases among the TSA’s ranks. November 22, 2021 was the deadline by which all federal employees must either be vaccinated against COVID-19 or get a religious or medical exemption, per President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate. Over 96% of TSA employees are currently fully vaccinated, a statistic that has likely saved many from serious illness and hospitalization. “The chief objective remains full compliance with the vaccination requirement and a workforce protected against hospitalization and death from COVID-19,” Langston said. https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/01/11/3700-tsa-screeners-have-active-covid-19-infections-a-1243-jump-since-thanksgiving/?sh=3c6f4518312c

2022-01-11 COVID Loses 90% of Ability to Infect Within 20 Minutes in Air — Study Coronavirus loses 90% of its ability to infect us within 20 minutes of becoming airborne — with most of the loss occurring within the first five minutes, the world’s first simulations of how the virus survives in exhaled air suggest. “People have been focused on poorly ventilated spaces and thinking about airborne transmission over metres or across a room. I’m not saying that doesn’t happen, but I think still the greatest risk of exposure is when you’re close to someone,” said Prof Jonathan Reid, director of the University of Bristol’s Aerosol Research Centre and the study’s lead author. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/11/covid-loses-90-of-ability-to-infect-within-five-minutes-in-air-study

2022-01-11 Bill Gates Says Countries Will Report ‘Far Fewer’ Cases of COVID After Omicron Hits Peak Bill Gates predicted Tuesday that after the Omicron wave of COVID outbreaks dies down, countries will see fewer positive cases for the rest of the year, ultimately creating an environment where COVID could be treated like seasonal flu, the billionaire philanthropist said during a live Q&A session on Twitter. A country should record “far fewer” cases of COVID-19 throughout the rest of the year after Omicron “goes through” it, in which case COVID can be “treated more like seasonal flu,” he said. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2022/01/11/bill-gates-says-countries-will-report-far-fewer-cases-of-covid-19-after-omicron-hits-peak/?

2022-01-11 ‘Comorbidities’ Meaning Explained as CDC Director’s COVID Comments Go Viral A comment about “comorbidities” in relation to COVID-19 deaths made by Rochelle Walensky, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during a recent interview sparked backlash after a clip of the interview went viral. During an interview Friday with ABC‘s Good Morning America (GMA) show, Walensky said: “The overwhelming number of [COVID-19] death, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities,” during her answer to GMA co-host Cecilia Vega’s question about whether it’s time to “start rethinking how we’re living with this virus.” https://www.newsweek.com/comorbities-meaning-explained-cdc-covid-1667857

2022-01-11 Vaccine Mandate Firings Cascade as Employers Face Toughest Labor Market in Years Private companies and public employers are continuing to lay off unvaccinated employees this month, as vaccine mandates proliferate and many employers struggle to fill open jobs in a recovering economy. The cascading firings come as the U.S. has 10.6 million job openings, according to the Labor Department, which works out to 0.7 job-seekers per open job. That’s a lower ratio than at any point since at least November 2006. Some layoffs are mandatory due to government policies. In October, more than 33,000 healthcare workers in New York state were fired, retired or placed on unpaid leave because they refused to get vaccinated in accordance with the state’s policy. Others were fully at the company’s discretion, like when United Airlines fired more than 230 employees in October, before the details of the Biden administration’s vaccine policies were announced. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/vaccine-mandates-businesses-states-cities-layoffs-economy-job-openings-unemployment

2022-01-11 China Locks Down 3rd City, Raising Affected to 20 Million A third Chinese city has locked down its residents because of a COVID-19 outbreak, raising the number confined to their homes in China to about 20 million people. The lockdown of Anyang, home to 5.5 million people, was announced late Monday after two cases of the Omicron variant were reported. Residents are not allowed to go out and stores have been ordered shut except those selling necessities. Another 13 million people have been locked down in Xi’an for nearly three weeks, and 1.1 million more in Yuzhou for more than a week. The lockdowns are the broadest since the shutting down of Wuhan and most of the rest of Hubei province in early 2020 at the start of the pandemic. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-china-64ca91f0f2315eabea84bb4a9d0801eb

2022-01-11 Olympic Snowboard Champ Chooses Quarantine Over Vaccine Olympic snowboard champion Patrizia Kummer will head to the Beijing Games early to spend three weeks in quarantine because she isn’t vaccinated against the coronavirus, she said Tuesday. Chinese authorities require unvaccinated Olympians to enter quarantine upon arrival if they don’t have a valid medical exemption. Kummer, a Swiss snowboarder who won gold in the parallel giant slalom at the 2014 Sochi Games, is scheduled to arrive this week. The Olympics start on Feb. 4. “After my personal decision not to be vaccinated, quarantine is the logical consequence,” Kummer said in a statement issued by Swiss Ski. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-winter-olympics-sports-health-switzerland-olympic-team-3c95a632a646bb67fc83da8cd5351945

2022-01-11 Over One-Third of Vaccinated Americans Became Infected With COVID After the Jab: Poll Over one-third of Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 now say they became infected with the virus after being fully inoculated, signifying how the highly contagious Omicron variant has driven an increase in breakthrough cases. In a new poll released by Axios/Ispos on Tuesday, 36% of respondents said they either recently tested positive or believe they had COVID after being fully vaccinated. That compares to just 22% of respondents in mid-December, and only 6% from last summer, according to the poll. https://www.newsweek.com/over-one-third-vaccinated-americans-became-infected-covid-after-jab-poll-1668027

2022-01-11 Fauci Thought COVID Lab Leak Theory Was ‘Shiny Object’ That Would Go Away in Time Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, advised against squelching the theory that the coronavirus originated in a lab because he believed the hypothesis would eventually go away. House Republicans are requesting an interview with Fauci regarding the origin of the virus, a contentious topic between GOP members and the nation’s top infectious disease expert. Republican Representatives James Comer and Jim Jordan accused the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of “hiding information” about the pandemic’s origin, and top public health officials have dismissed the lab theory as the least likely scenario. In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, the Republicans said seven questions need to be answered, including what led public health experts to dismiss the lab leak theory. https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-thought-covid-lab-leak-theory-was-shiny-object-that-would-go-away-time-1668053

2022-01-11 Pfizer CEO Says 2 Shots Offer ‘Very Limited Protection, if Any’ Against COVID A two-dose regimen of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine “offers very limited protection, if any” against the Omicron variant, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Monday during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

That’s a far cry from Bourla’s previous claim that the two-dose regimen was “100% effective.” When a third, or booster dose, is administered the vaccine offers only “reasonable protection” against hospitalization and death from Omicron and “less protection against infection,” Bourla said.

This latest admission by Bourla is “critically important for the Supreme Court mandate cases,” said Dr. Meryl Nass, because both the employer and healthcare worker mandates require only the first two vaccinations. “It is hard to see how any mandates could stand up,” said Nass, a practicing physician and member of the Children’s Health Defense scientific advisory committee. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-ceo-covid-shots-limited-protection-covid/

2022-01-11 ‘What About Science?’ Physician Questions One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Treating Patients On a recent episode of CHD.TV’s “Doctors and Scientists,” Dr. Mark Brody addressed the inefficiencies and dangers of western medicine’s one-size-fits-all “standardized treatment of care” and emphasized the importance of an individualized approach to treating patients.

Frustrated with what he described as the deceptive and unethical practices of drug companies, Dr. Mark Brody shifted the focus of his career from psychiatry and western medicine to homeopathy. He discussed what he believes are the deficiencies of modern-day medicine and reflected on the serious issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, including the mismanagement of lockdowns, mitigation protocols and medical treatments that have placed the financial gain of vaccine makers and investors over public health. “What about science?” Brody asked. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-tv-doctors-scientists-brian-hooker-mark-brody-standardized-treatment/

2022-01-11 Free Families From Closed Schools Closed schools harm children. Children are COVID‘s lowest-risk demographic, but our nation’s elementary and high-school students have suffered the most throughout the pandemic thanks to negligent and callous policymakers. COVID-era school closures and abysmal remote learning endanger children academically, emotionally and physically. Closing schools leads to devastating learning loss, significant mental health issues, and higher rates of suicide and obesity. As David Leonhardt wrote in The New York Times, “American children are starting 2022 in crisis.” Even in areas with open schools, parents and students are subjected to complicated and excessive COVID testing and quarantine requirements, which keep students out of classrooms and extracurricular activities. https://www.newsweek.com/free-families-closed-schools-opinion-1667064

2022-01-11 CDC Director: COVID Policies Have Failed and Must Be Abandoned A Jan. 9 tweet from Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, likely reflects her realization that the pipe dream of zero COVID — eradication of the virus — is dead.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Jan. 9 tweeted that we must protect people at highest risk of bad outcomes from COVID. The tweet is a subtle shift from prior messaging, and likely reflects her realization that the pipe dream of zero COVID — eradication of the virus — is dead.

Omicron makes it clear, COVID will not go away. Even more, holding society hostage to slow spread is no longer a tenable policy choice. We will have to return to living life and balancing important societal priorities while minimizing the harms of COVID19. Alpha and delta variant thinking won’t help us for Omicron. Omicron has three characteristics different than prior variants. First, it spreads very fast. Second, it is less lethal and third, vaccines do less to stop symptomatic infection. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-director-covid-policies-failed/

2022-01-11 U.S. Secures 600,000 More Doses of GSK-Vir’s COVID Therapy The United States has agreed to buy 600,000 more doses of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) and Vir Biotechnology’s (VIR.O) COVID-19 antibody therapy for an undisclosed sum, as the country bolsters its arsenal of treatments against the Omicron coronavirus variant. The U.S. government in November had signed contracts worth about $1 billion for an unknown number of doses of the treatment, after saying it would control the distribution of sotrovimab in the country. The drug belongs to a class of medicines called monoclonal antibodies which are lab-generated compounds that mimic the body’s natural defences. Tests have indicated sotrovimab works against the fast-spreading Omicron variant. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-buys-600000-more-doses-gsk-virs-antibody-covid-19-treatment-2022-01-11/

2022-01-11 ‘Psychopaths in Suits’ Are Getting Away With Murder. Why? In America today if you poison and kill your wife to make $150,000 in life insurance money, you’ll probably end up in prison — but if you poison and kill hundreds of thousands of people so you can take home a multi-million-dollar paycheck, you get to buy a new yacht.

I don’t know the names of the men who poisoned and killed my father and my brother Stan, who died last Thursday, but I know where they worked and why they did it: just like Ruf, Dennis, Hunsucker and Pettis, they intentionally and knowingly took actions they knew would result in death when they sold asbestos to my dad’s employer and got my brother addicted to tobacco.

The asbestos industry knew as early as the 1890s, and got definite confirmation in the 1940s that their product caused mesothelioma, a particularly brutal lung cancer that killed my father. Even today, their executives are trying to avoid responsibility for it: Johnson & Johnson is playing bankruptcy games to avoid paying for cancers caused by their asbestos-laced talcum powder, and not a single executive is even slightly worried about going to jail for all these dead people. Same deal with the tobacco industry whose top CEOs lied to the faces of members of Congress in 1994 at the same time their industry has been killing over 400,000 Americans a year every year of my lifetime. In just the past weeks, hundreds of Americans have been killed and thousands rendered homeless by climate change-driven weather that men in the fossil fuel industry knew 50 years ago would happen as the result of their selling their products. For money. And then there is the American “health insurance” industry, unlike any other in the world, that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year by destroying their lives with debt (over $1 trillion right now) or forbidding services to them when they’re uninsured and cannot afford them.

Ever since our nation’s founding, capitalism in America has been played in ways that protect stone cold killers. Psychopaths in suits. But it’s gotten particularly bad since Big Tobacco was outed in the 1990s.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/psychopaths-getting-away-with-murder/

2022-01-11 Proof Fauci Lied to Congress? Never-before-seen documents obtained by Project Veritas show military officials rejected dangerous gain-of-function experiments that Dr. Anthony Fauci later funneled, through EcoHealth Alliance, to the Wuhan lab.

• Military documents state that EcoHealth Alliance approached the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in March 2018 seeking funding to conduct gain of function research of bat-borne coronaviruses. The proposal, named Project Defuse, was rejected by DARPA over safety concerns and the notion that it violates the gain of function research moratorium.
• The main report regarding the EcoHealth Alliance proposal leaked on the internet a couple of months ago, it has remained unverified until now. Project Veritas has obtained a separate report to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, written by U.S. Marine Corp Major, Joseph Murphy, a former DARPA Fellow.
• “The proposal does not mention or assess potential risks of Gain of Function (GoF) research,” a direct quote from the DARPA rejection letter.
• Project Veritas reached out to DARPA for comment regarding the hidden documents and spoke with the chief of communications, Jared Adams, who said, “It doesn’t sound normal to me,” when asked about the way the documents were buried.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/proof-fauci-lied-congress/

2022-01-11 Autopsy Confirms 26-Year-Old’s Death From Myocarditis Directly Caused by Pfizer COVID Vaccine Joseph Keating’s mother said her son’s only warning signs were fatigue, muscle soreness and an increased heart rate, yet an autopsy confirmed he died of myocarditis directly caused by Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/joseph-keating-autopsy-death-myocarditis-pfizer-covid-vaccine/

2022-01-11 FDA Could Authorize Novavax COVID Vaccine by February, But Is It ‘Safe and Effective?’ The U.S. Food and Drug Administration could authorize the Novavax vaccine by February. Unlike the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines, Novavax relies on more conventional vaccine technology shown in clinical trials to have fewer side effects, but safety of spike protein still in question. The company has filed for emergency authorization in the U.S. and nine other countries, Novavax CEO Stanley Erck on Monday told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” “I expect in the next 90 days we could have all 10 of them,” Erck said. The vaccine is currently available in 170 countries.

Despite its late entry into the U.S. vaccine market, Novavax could be in high demand. That’s in part because the Novavax vaccine uses an alternative technology to the current mRNA and DNA vaccines authorized for emergency use in the U.S. “Unlike mRNA vaccines, the spike protein is already premade in the Novavax vaccine. It’s a shortcut,” explained Dr. Florescu, who led the clinical trial. “All the synthesis happens outside the body and we just give the end product: the spike protein.” “We have experience with this well-established technology and these vaccines are relatively very stable,”

It is not known, however, if the spike protein delivered by the new vaccine is itself safe.  Byram Bridle, Ph.D. professor of Immunology at the University of Guelph, Ontario, found based on the review of a Pfizer vaccine biodistribution study, that the spike protein as delivered by the mRNA is a dangerous toxin. The Pfizer study showed the spike protein gets into the blood where it circulates for several days post-vaccination and then accumulates in organs and tissues including the spleen, bone marrow, the liver, adrenal glands and in “quite high concentrations” in the ovaries. “We have known for a long time that the spike protein is a pathogenic protein,” Bridle said. “It is a toxin. It can cause damage to our body if it gets into circulation.”

the spike protein is likely to last a shorter time in the human body with the Novavax vaccine than with the currently FDA-authorized vaccines due to its use of a more established technology for the delivery of the protein. However, “since the spike protein has been consistently shown to create clotting issues in the blood,” said Hooker, “there are still concerns that need to be addressed and tracked.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-novavax-covid-vaccine-february/

.

Coronavirus Covid-19 Research History – Index

.

Specific Issues Index

from Creating Better World