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These are excerpts of November 2021 articles. For a quick sense of information and faster summary just read the red marked texted.

My primary source is the extremely well researched RFK jr.’s “Children Health Defense” organization. The CHD is suffering some severe censorship on social media because they are exposing government/corporate media inconsistencies, distortions and censored facts about the Covid pandemic!

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2021-12-10 Most Reported U.S. Omicron Cases Have Hit the Fully Vaccinated — CDC Most of the 43 COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant identified in the United States so far were in people who were fully vaccinated, and a third of them had received a booster dose, according to a U.S. report published on Friday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that of the 43 cases attributed to Omicron variant, 34 people had been fully vaccinated. Fourteen of them had also received a booster, although five of those cases occurred less than 14 days after the additional shot before full protection kicks in. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/most-reported-us-omicron-cases-have-hit-fully-vaccinated-cdc-2021-12-10/

2021-12-10 FDA Now Wants 75 Years to Release Pfizer Vaccine Documents “ … it is dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure.” The documents in question stem from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in August by Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT).

The agency said it can release an initial batch of approximately 12,000 pages by the end of January. Past that date, the FDA said it can process and disclose only 500 pages of documents per month. This would mean the entire cache of documents would not be fully released until 2096. The FDA’s initial timeline would have meant the release of the documents would not be completed until 2076, or 55 years from now. The FDA did not divulge the criteria it will use to select the initial 12,000 pages of documents, or how the agency will prioritize the release of those pages, or of additional pages going forward. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-75-years-release-pfizer-vaccine-documents/

2021-12-10 ACTION ALERT: Protect Americans’ Rights to Medical Freedom H.R. 550, a federal bill passed Nov. 30  by the U.S. House of Representatives, would expand state and local health department vaccine-tracking systems to monitor the vaccination status of American citizens. States would provide the information to the federal government.

The bill, “Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2021,” will be difficult to stop as it already has bipartisan support. It passed the house with the support of 294 U.S. Representatives, including all Democrats and 80 Republicans. The bill is now under consideration by the U.S. Senate where, if passed, it could be implemented in under 12 months.

H.R. 550 it would lead to a monumental invasion of our rights as American citizens. It would set a dangerous precedent and could lead to more vaccine mandates, and more restrictions of services and healthcare for the unvaccinated. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/take-action/action-alert-protect-americans-rights-to-medical-freedom/

2021-12-10 CDC Pushes 3rd Shot for Teens, as Number of Deaths Reported to VAERS After COVID Vaccines Nears 20,000 VAERS data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 946,463 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 19,886 deaths and 150,946 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and Dec. 3, 2021. Of the 9,136 U.S. deaths reported as of Dec. 3, 20% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, 25% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination and 61% occurred in people who experienced an onset of symptoms within 48 hours of being vaccinated. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vaers-3rd-shot-teens-deaths-injuries-covid-vaccines/

2021-12-10 Finance Guru Explains: ‘We’ve Been Lured to Create Our Own Prison’ The “Planet Lockdown Part 2” interview above features finance guru Catherine Austin Fitts, founder of the Solari Report. Fitts has spent decades exposing corruption and fraud, both within the banking industry and government, and corruption and fraud are driving forces in the COVID pandemic as well. She got her start on Wall Street, where she had a successful career for over a decade.

• In 1998, trillions of dollars started to get sucked out of the U.S. government by the central banks. Our retirement funds have been looted and will within just a few years be nonexistent.
• Historically, U.S. intelligence agencies have primarily worked on behalf of the central bankers.
• Central bankers are now putting into place a system that will allow them to extract tax without representation.
• The central bankers, most of whom are technocrats, have created a breakaway society, a parallel society, in which they are above all law and control everything.
• To combat their control system, we must first be able to see it for what it is and realize how it’s being used by us, to our own detriment.

In short, we are actively engineering a future where we, humans, have been largely eliminated from the workplace. Those who remain will be integrated with robotics. “In other words, whether I have a human do that job, or whether I have a robot do that job, I can manage them in the same system if I can have them all hooked up to the cloud and communicating with each other.” Basically, what we’re looking at is transhumanism, and we’re quite literally dehumanizing ourselves. This system will also do away with markets, because what we think of as markets will be micromanaged and optimized through artificial intelligence and software. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/catherine-austin-fitts-central-banks/

2021-12-10 Chief Justice Rejects Request to Block Air Travel Mask Mandate Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday dismissed an emergency request to block the federal mask mandate for air travel amid litigation in the lower courts. Michael Seklecki, a Florida resident, filed a lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration on behalf of himself and his 4-year-old son, and Lucas Wall, from Washington, joined the suit, all citing medical reasons. The government argued in an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that Congress had authorized the policy for safety reasons and noted “the challengers had not pursued an available procedure for obtaining medical exemptions,” per the New York Times. https://www.axios.com/chief-justice-john-roberts-air-travel-mask-mandate-ruling-b3886229-16bf-4141-8ec1-b57cee607624.html

2021-12-10 Minnesota Bar Owner Who Defied Virus Orders Found Guilty The owner of a bar in Albert Lea was found guilty Thursday of six criminal misdemeanor charges and sentenced to 90 days in jail for defying Gov. Tim Walz’s executive orders to close her business last winter. The jury found Lisa Hanson, 57, guilty after deliberating for an hour, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported. Prosecutors had asked that Hanson be fined $500 and jailed for several days, but Judge Joseph Bueltel gave her a 90-day jail sentence and a $1,000 fine, saying he wanted to send a message to people who violate executive orders. Hanson has also been hit with fines totaling over $27,000 from separate legal actions brought after she left the state while facing the charges. Her business, The Interchange, closed in February. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-minnesota-minneapolis-albert-lea-ccb50746e06c5475e43e89aa0e6b154f

2021-12-10 New York to Issue Mask Mandate for Businesses Without Vaccine Requirements New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced Friday that the state will implement an indoor mask mandate for businesses that do not require vaccinations for customers and staff, citing rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Starting Monday, all indoor businesses will have to either validate people’s vaccination status or mandate all people age 2 and older wear a mask. The policy is slated to last until Jan. 15 when the state will “re-evaluate based on current conditions,” the governor said in a release, saying the measures are meant to get “through the holiday season.” Violations could cost businesses a maximum fine of $1,000 per infraction. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/585282-new-york-state-unveils-indoor-mask-mandate-for-businesses-without-vaccine

2021-12-10 Publisher of ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ Challenges Critics to Find Factual Errors in Book, Calls for Open Debate If powerful people challenged by this book claim it contains misinformation, our response is simply this: Tell us where you believe something is incorrect, make your best arguments and offer the best available support for those arguments. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/tony-lyons-the-real-anthony-fauci-challenge-factual-errors-open-debate/

2021-12-10 Fauci Says Omicron-Specific Version of COVID Vaccines May Not Be Necessary Anthony Fauci isn’t convinced COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers are going to need to produce an Omicron-specific version of their vaccines. Rather, the long-time director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases suggested to STAT in an interview Thursday, it’s possible the current vaccines will provide enough protection against the new variant for most vaccinated and boosted individuals. Fauci stressed that he was hypothesizing, based on how the vaccines have held up against other SARS-CoV-2 variants. Studies will need to be done, he insisted. And manufacturers are working on and will test versions of their vaccines based on the mutation-studded Omicron spike protein. https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/10/fauci-says-omicron-specific-version-of-covid-19-vaccines-may-not-be-necessary/

2021-12-10 Natural Immunity More Protective Over Time Than COVID Vaccination: Study Immunity people enjoy after recovering from COVID-19 is better than the protection bestowed from vaccination, according to a new study from Israel. Researchers analyzing data from the county’s health database from August to September found both COVID-19 infections and severe disease were higher among the vaccinated than those who recovered from the illness, also known as people with natural immunity. For instance, the naturally immune had a 10.5 per 100,000 infection rate four to six months following their recovery, versus a 69.2 per 100,000 rate among the vaccinated. https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/natural-immunity-more-protective-over-time-than-covid-19-vaccination-study_4149953.html

2021-12-10 Bill Gates Predicts Our Work Meetings Will Move to Metaverse in 2 to 3 Years Getting work done in the metaverse might happen a lot sooner than we think. Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates predicts most workers will take their virtual meetings within the metaverse in the next two or three years. “There’s still some work to do, but we’re approaching a threshold where the technology begins to truly replicate the experience of being together in the office,” said Gates. The metaverse is a digital realm combining technology such as VR, augmented reality and video where users “live” in a virtual universe. Supporters of the metaverse including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believe the metaverse could supplant the modern internet. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/12/10/bill-gates-metaverse-work-meetings-predictions/6459911001/

2021-12-10 South Korea Reports Its Worst Virus Surge Since Pandemic; 81% Fully Vaccinated New coronavirus infections in South Korea exceeded 7,000 for the third consecutive day on Friday, as the worst surge since the start of the pandemic overwhelmed hospitals and depleted healthcare workforce. Around 41.5 million people, or 81% of the population of over 51 million, have been fully vaccinated, but only 10% have received booster shots. The new rules enforced this week ban private gatherings of seven or more people in the greater capital area and require adults to verify their vaccination status at restaurants and other indoor venues. But Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said such measures haven’t yet showed an effect in slowing transmissions. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-pandemics-seoul-46b4b803df3fa51a29227b784ab14e3e

2021-12-10 Europe’s Medicine Agency Says Omicron Cases Appear Mild, Echoing the U.S. CDC Europe’s medicines agency said on Thursday that reported cases of the Omicron virus variant so far appear mild. It hedged its announcement, saying that more work was being done to figure out how the variant impacts people. Marco Cavaleri, the European Medicines Agency’s head of biological health threats and vaccines strategy, said “Cases appear to be mostly mild, however we need to gather more evidence to determine whether the spectrum of disease severity caused by Omicron is different [to] that of all the variants that have been circulating so far.” He also said that data suggested Omicron is more contagious than the Delta variant, but that more research needs to be done to confirm if this is the case. https://www.businessinsider.com/omicron-cases-appear-mild-europe-medicines-agency-said-echo-cdc-2021-12

2021-12-10 Japan Researchers Use Ostrich Cells to Make Glowing COVID Detection Masks Japanese researchers have developed masks that use ostrich antibodies to detect COVID-19 by glowing under ultraviolet light. The discovery by Yasuhiro Tsukamoto and his team at Kyoto Prefectural University in western Japan could provide for low-cost testing of the virus at home, they said in a press release. In a small study, test subjects wore the masks, and after eight hours, the filters were removed and sprayed with a chemical that glows under ultraviolet light if the virus is present. The filters worn by people infected with COVID-19 glowed around the nose and mouth areas. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/japan-researchers-use-ostrich-cells-make-glowing-covid-19-detection-masks-2021-12-10/

2021-12-09 The Coronavirus Can Infect Body Fat, New Research Suggests — A Clue About Obesity’s Link to Severe COVID More than two-thirds of American adults are obese or overweight, putting them at elevated risk of severe COVID-19 illness and death. Obesity in particular may triple the risk of hospitalization from the disease. But for most of the pandemic, scientists haven’t understood why. While obesity-related conditions such as diabetes and heart disease can independently raise the risk of severe COVID-19, scientists now have evidence that body fat may be a contributing factor. An October study from Stanford University that has not yet been peer-reviewed found that the coronavirus can directly infect fat cells. That process, in turn, may activate a harmful cascade of inflammation that damages other organs, such as the heart or lungs. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-infects-body-fat-obesity-covid-hospitalization-death-19-2021-12

2021-12-09 Senator Ron Johnson Says Mandates ‘Basically’ Put World’s Unvaccinated ‘Into Internment Camps’ Republican Senator Ron Johnson on Tuesday criticized the treatment of people who choose not to get the COVID-19 vaccine and claimed they are being put “basically into internment camps” around the world. The Wisconsin senator made the comparison during an interview on Your Talk Show, a program on the Janesville-based radio station WCLO. “We are demonizing [unvaccinated] people,” Johnson said. Johnson told Newsweek in a statement that “other countries like Austria, Australia, and Germany are arresting their citizens for not wearing masks outside, and ordering lockdowns for those who are not vaccinated. In Australia, an article from The Age writes, ‘the quarantine camp is likely to still have a use for unvaccinated people.’ https://www.newsweek.com/senator-ron-johnson-says-mandates-basically-put-worlds-unvaccinated-internment-camps-1657985

2021-12-09 South Carolina GOP Removes Private COVID Vaccine Ban in Sudden Switch For five hours Thursday, the South Carolina House debated a proposal to prevent private companies in South Carolina from firing employees who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Then, just before members were set to vote, Republican leadership stripped that ban from the bill, leaving it only banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates for state and local government employees, contractors and public school students. The proposal requires employers to honor religious or medical exemptions and said a medical exemption can include a prior positive COVID-19 test, pregnancy or presence of coronavirus antibodies. It also makes businesses pay unemployment benefits to a worker fired for not being vaccinated. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-south-carolina-cfbb337574c37d5ca37d5b741c91fd58

2021-12-09 Anti-Vaccine Doctor Fired for Trying to Treat COVID Patients With Ivermectin A Mississippi doctor said he was fired from his job at a local hospital after trying to treat COVID-19 patients with anti-parasite drug ivermectin. Dr. John Witcher, an emergency room physician, said he was let go from Baptist Memorial Hospital in Yazoo City, Mississippi, for taking three COVID-19 patients off Remdesivir, an antiviral drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat the virus, and instead trying to put them on ivermectin. That violated the hospital’s policy on ivermectin, which is not approved by the FDA for COVID-19. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississippi-doctor-fired-anti-vaccine-parasite-medication-ivermectin/?

2021-12-09 Vandana Shiva: Great Reset Is ‘a Project of Extermination’ As Shiva previously told The Defender, the Great Reset — or the readjustment of the global economy on behalf of the most powerful companies and institutions — is about “maintaining and empowering a corporate extraction machine and the private ownership of life.” The World Economic Forum (WEF), a think tank representing business interests from around the world, devised The Great Reset. According to WEF founder and executive chairman, Klaus Schwab, the forum is guided by the goal of positioning “private corporations as the trustees of society” to “address social and environmental challenges.” Brand asked Shiva what the end goal of the Great Reset is and what people like Bill Gates are pursuing. “I think the project is a project of extermination,” Shiva said, who believes the project is powered by hubris and greed. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/russell-brand-vandana-shiva-great-reset-bill-gates/

2021-12-09 Amtrak to Congress: Service Cuts Are Coming Over Vaccine Rules An Amtrak executive told Congress on Thursday the railroad doesn’t expect to have enough people to operate all of its trains next month, when a federal coronavirus vaccination mandate takes effect. Amtrak President Stephen Gardner said about 5% of its workforce has yet to get vaccinated less than four weeks before the Jan. 4 deadline. Amtrak last month warned it would send letters to uncompliant workers starting Dec. 8 in preparation for termination Jan. 4. The railroad is expected to publish a revised service schedule next week to reflect the cuts. Gardner said the carrier is still determining what trips will be removed, adding that the railroad wants to give passengers enough time to rebook trips. https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2021/12/09/amtrak-vaccine-mandate-service-cuts/

2021-12-08 Mass Vaccination Was Supposed to Restore ‘Normalcy.’ So Why Are Excess Deaths on the Rise? Throughout the pandemic, public health officials dangled mass injections as the only solution to end the pandemic and save lives from COVID. Now even with mass injections and some receiving two and even three shots, excess deaths are rising.

• In the week ending Nov. 12, the U.K. reported 2,047 more deaths than occurred during the same period between 2015 and 2019 — heart disease and strokes appear to be behind many of the excess deaths.
• In the last 13 weeks alone, about 107,700 seniors died above the normal rate, despite a 98.7% injection rate.
• In Vermont, where the majority are also injected, excess deaths are the highest they’ve been since before the pandemic.
• An investigation using official data from NHS and the U.K.’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that deaths among teenagers increased 47% since they started getting COVID-19 shots.
• Deaths from COVID-19 also went up among 15- to 19-year-olds after the shots were rolled out for this age group.
• Even with mass injections and some receiving two and even three shots in their arm, excess deaths are rising.

Throughout the pandemic, mass injections have been dangled as the way back to normalcy — the only solution to end the pandemic and save lives from COVID-19. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mass-vaccination-excess-covid-deaths/

2021-12-08 Can Your Landlord Evict You for Not Getting a COVID Vaccine? In our opinion, a person cannot be evicted or denied housing based on their vaccine status. Doing so invades the fundamental right of privacy, the right to make medical decisions for their family and ultimately interferes with their medical freedom.

A landlord-tenant relationship is a contractual one, usually governed by local law and the terms of the lease. Landlords and property managers must comply with the implied warranty of habitability for residential tenants. A landlord may exploit the provisions of the lease by asking for proof of vaccination under the pretext of maintaining a safe and habitable environment for all. However, because vaccinated people can become infected with and transmit COVID to others, the “safe and habitable environment” argument should be moot.

this is uncharted territory as there is no robust, national regulatory scheme yet in place. That means it is possible that in the near future, refusing to comply with a landlord’s vaccination requirement may result in eviction proceedings. However, until this issue reaches the footsteps of a higher court, a landlord should restrict enforcement of the contract to collecting rent, maximum elevator capacities, cleaning and sanitizing of common areas, etc., instead of infringing upon tenants’ rights by requiring them to be vaccinated. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/landlord-tenant-eviction-covid-vaccine

2021-12-08 Pfizer CEO Says Fourth COVID Vaccine Doses May Be Needed Sooner Than Expected Due to Omicron Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said on Wednesday that people might need a fourth COVID-19 shot sooner than expected after preliminary research shows the new Omicron variant can undermine protective antibodies generated by the vaccine. Pfizer and BioNTech released results from an initial lab study Wednesday morning that showed a third shot is effective at fighting the Omicron variant, while the initial two-dose vaccination series dropped significantly in its ability to protect against the new strain. However, the two-dose series likely still offers protection against getting severely sick from Omicron, the companies said. “When we see real-world data, it will determine if the Omicron is well covered by the third dose and for how long. And the second point, I think we will need a fourth dose,” Bourla told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/08/omicron-pfizer-ceo-says-we-may-need-fourth-covid-vaccine-doses-sooner-than-expected.html

2021-12-08 RFK, Jr. Testifies Against COVID Vaccine Mandate for Kids in Battle for Health Freedom Down on the Bayou Earlier this week I was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) team where some of us, including CHD Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., testified at the statehouse against Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ proposal to add Pfizer’s COVID vaccine to Louisiana’s childhood vaccine schedule.

Louisiana’s push to mandate COVID vaccines for children is as radical as the plan advanced in California by Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said he will require all California children to get the Pfizer vaccine as soon as it is licensed or forfeit the right to in-person schooling. The Unity Project, for which I serve as chief medical and regulatory officer, is leading the charge in opposing California’s mandate. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/robert-f-kennedy-jr-chd-louisiana-pfizer-covid-vaccine-kids/

2021-12-08 Changing the Definition of ‘Fully Vaccinated’ Is More Than Just Semantics, Experts Argue Who’s “fully vaccinated” against COVID-19 — and who’s not — is starting to get a lot more complicated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says you are only granted the status two weeks after you get a single-dose vaccine or the second dose in a two-dose series. But with the advent of boosters, certain colleges, the NBA, and the state of New Mexico are saying you’re only there with three shots. “For the time being, the official definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ is two,” although that determination could change as we learn more about the Omicron variant, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at a White House briefing last week. https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/08/changing-definition-fully-vaccinated-more-than-semantics/

2021-12-08 An Inhaled COVID Vaccine Makes It to Human Trial A team of scientists from McMaster University, Canada have announced that two new inhalable COVID-19 vaccines have been approved for human clinical trials beginning in 2022. The vaccines will be administered as boosters, given to healthy individuals who had previously received two doses of an approved COVID-19 vaccine.Inhalable nasal spray vaccines have been gaining momentum, especially in the last year, with greater potential to break infectious chains by providing a more accessible means of protection to individuals. The idea is to halt infection at the body’s point of entry, where SARS-CoV-2 viral particles infect cells in the nose before progressing to the lungs and other organs. https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/an-inhaled-covid-19-vaccine-makes-it-to-human-trials/

2021-12-08 Explosion in New Heart Conditions Explained as ‘Post-Pandemic Stress Disorder’ Experts in the UK say that an explosion in new heart illnesses in younger patients can be explained by a new condition called “post-pandemic stress disorder.” “I’ve seen a big increase in thrombotic-related vascular conditions in my practice,” said senior vascular surgeon Tahir Hussain, who works at an NHS hospital in London. “Far younger patients are being admitted and requiring surgical and medical intervention than prior to the pandemic.” Some people expressed skepticism that the sudden increase in heart problems amongst young people is solely due to lockdown stress (the UK hasn’t been under any form of lockdown for almost 6 months). https://summit.news/2021/12/08/explosion-in-new-heart-conditions-explained-as-post-pandemic-stress-disorder/

2021-12-08 FDA Says It Now Needs 75 Years to Fully Release Pfizer COVID Vaccine Data The Food and Drug Administration is asking a judge to give it 75 years to produce data concerning the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine, up 20 years from a previous request. That timeline would take it until at least 2096, Aaron Siri, a lawyer working on the case, said in a blog post. “If you find what you are reading difficult to believe—that is because it is dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure,” Siri said. https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/fda-says-it-now-needs-75-years-to-fully-release-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-data_4145410.html

2021-12-08 New COVID Fears Are Reviving Governments’ Worst Instincts For a while there, it looked like we were on the COVID exit ramp. Now it seems we’re likely to exhaust the Greek alphabet labeling variants that ripple outward from the coronavirus nucleus, keeping us awash in concerns over how to react to each new strain. The Omicron variant has yet to fully introduce itself. Our understanding of its transmissibility and severity remains sketchy at best. But that hasn’t kept it from leading daily newscasts that fill our ears with nervous speculation and fill the minds of global leaders with fresh incentives to shut down people’s lives in response. Europe is buzzing with various lockdown plans, focused mostly on the unvaccinated. Austria has already penned in its unvaccinated citizens. Germany is on track to follow suit, with vaccination mandates to follow. Greece has already announced mandates for anyone 60 or over, beginning next month. https://www.newsweek.com/new-covid-fears-are-reviving-governments-worst-instincts-opinion-1656444

2021-12-08 Los Angeles Unified School District School Board Fires Nearly 500 Unvaccinated Employees The Los Angeles Unified School District school board has voted unanimously to fire nearly 500 workers who did not follow a district mandate to get vaccinated. The district required all workers to get their first dose by the middle of October and be fully vaccinated by Nov. 15., though it did make exemptions for medical or religious reasons. The LA school district is not saying how many of the workers are teachers. They did add that people who decide to get vaccinated will be eligible to be rehired. https://www.ktvu.com/news/lausd-school-board-fires-nearly-500-unvaccinated-employees

2021-12-08 Bill Gates Thinks the ‘Acute Phase’ of COVID Pandemic Will Be Over in 2022, Despite the Emergence of the Omicron Variant Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates said he is hopeful that the critical phase of the COVID-19 pandemic will end in 2022. “It might be foolish to make another prediction, but I think the acute phase of the pandemic will come to a close some time in 2022,” Gates wrote in a review of the year, published on his GatesNotes blog Tuesday. Gates said a lot more information on the Omicron variant — such as how well existing vaccines or previous infection protect against it — will be available soon, as researchers, including those that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation support, work to learn more about it. https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-hopeful-covid-19-phase-end-2022-omicron-variant-2021-12

2021-12-08 Pfizer, Big Pharma Ramp Up Lobbying to Sink Law Aimed at Protecting Whistleblowers Pfizer and other pharmaceutical industry players are stepping up lobbying efforts in hope of defeating the False Claims Amendments Act of 2021, a bill that would strengthen protection for whistleblowers

Pfizer has hired a well-connected lobbyist, Hazen Marshall, and the law firm Williams & Jensen, to lobby against the False Claims Amendments Act of 2021. The legislation, introduced in July, would expand key aspects of the existing False Claims Act  by strengthening the original law’s anti-retaliation provisions, and by installing new safeguards against industry-level blacklisting of whistleblowers seeking employment. Merck, AstraZeneca, Amgen and Genentech also oppose the proposed legislation, according to The Intercept.

The False Claims Act, which dates back to the Civil War, rewards whistleblowers who file anti-fraud lawsuits against contractors on behalf of the government. The law, originally enacted in response to defense contractor fraud during the Civil War, has to date returned $67 billion to the U.S. government. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-big-pharma-lobbying-law-protecting-whistleblowers/

2021-12-07 552 Fully Vaccinated Oregon Residents Died of COVID, Half Received Pfizer Vaccine More than 500 residents in Oregon have now died of COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated against the virus as health officials continue to report over 2,000 new infections daily. Since the beginning of the pandemic, health authorities in Oregon have recorded a total of 552 breakthrough COVID-19 deaths throughout the state. Of the total number of deaths, 273 people had been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. At least 144 received the Moderna vaccine and 78 were given the Johnson & Johnson shots, according to data from the Oregon Health Authority. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-fully-vaccinated-oregon-residents-died-half-received-pfizer-vaccine/

2021-12-07 34,000 L.A. Unified Students Have Not Complied With Vaccine Mandate, Signaling Problems Ahead About 34,000 students have not yet complied with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the Los Angeles Unified School District — and there’s no longer enough time for students who have not gotten their first shot to be fully vaccinated by the Jan. 10 start of the second semester, portending significant disruption to their education as they will be barred from campus. The high number of students who will not be able to meet the full inoculation deadline is likely to force difficult decisions on leaders of the second-largest U.S. school system, which has enacted among the strictest vaccine mandates in the nation. Students who are not fully vaccinated — or exempt — will be forced into the district’s independent study program or will have to leave the Los Angeles public school system. The L.A. school system is one of the few in the nation with a student vaccine mandate — and also among a small number with an employee vaccine mandate. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-07/33-000-l-a-unified-have-not-provided-proof-of-covid-vaccination

2021-12-07 Thousands of Service Members Miss COVID Vaccination Deadlines Thousands of active-duty service members have failed to comply with the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, raising the prospect that they will be forced to leave their positions or the military altogether. The vaccination deadline for active-duty members of the armed services has passed for the Air Force, Navy and the Marine Corps. The Army’s deadline is Dec. 15. Despite the Pentagon’s vaccine mandate, approximately 27,000 members of the Marines, Air Force, Space Force and the Navy are still considered unvaccinated. About 19,000 of the Army’s soldiers have yet to start the protocol with only a week left before that branch’s deadline. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/military-service-members-miss-covid-vaccination-deadlines-rcna7785

2021-12-07 Mom Says Son Vaccinated in Exchange for Pizza at Los Angeles Unified School District Without Her Consent Maribel Duarte says her 13-year-old son, a student at the Barack Obama Global Prep Academy in South Los Angeles, brought home a vaccine card after having accepted the COVID-19 vaccine at school. She says he said yes when someone offered it in exchange for pizza. “The lady that gave him the shot and signed the paper told my son, ‘Please don’t say anything. I don’t want to get in trouble.’” Duarte says she’s not against the vaccine. She’s vaccinated herself, but it’s different with her son. “He has problems with asthma and allergy problems,” Duarte said. Jennifer Kennedy, an attorney who is following closely the two cases against the LAUSD over the vaccine mandate currently making their way through court, said the problem is that kids in California can’t consent to vaccination. “The LAUSD does not have the power to add a vaccine to the California school schedule,” she said. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/mom-says-son-vaccinated-in-exchange-for-pizza-at-lausd-without-her-consent/2773619/

2021-12-07 Beyond Omicron: What’s Next for COVID’s Viral Evolution As the world sped towards a pandemic in early 2020, evolutionary biologist Jesse Bloom gazed into the future of SARS-CoV-2. Like many virus specialists at the time, he predicted that the new pathogen would not be eradicated. Rather, it would become endemic — the fifth coronavirus to permanently establish itself in humans, alongside four ‘seasonal’ coronaviruses that cause relatively mild colds and have been circulating in humans for decades or more. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03619-8

2021-12-07 A Youth Mental Health Crisis Was Already Brewing. The Pandemic Made It Worse, Surgeon General Says. The situation painted across the U.S. surgeon general’s 53-page advisory is dire. Compared with 2019, emergency room visits for suicide attempts rose 51% for adolescent girls in early 2021. Among boys, there was a four percentage point increase. Depression and anxiety doubled during the coronavirus pandemic, with 25% of youths experiencing depressive symptoms and 20% suffering anxiety symptoms, according to the report published Tuesday. “It would be a tragedy if we beat back one public health crisis only to allow another to grow in its place,” U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy wrote in an advisory published on Tuesday. “Mental health challenges in children, adolescents, and young adults are real, and they are widespread. But most importantly, they are treatable, and often preventable.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/07/surgeon-general-youth-mental-health/

2021-12-07 When Will Kids Under 5 Be Able to Get a COVID Vaccine? Almost exactly a year ago, the first COVID-19 vaccines became available in the U.S. Today, they’re approved or authorized for nearly every age group — except young kids. But clinical trials involving children as young as 6 months are underway now, and some may have results by the end of the year. Right now, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is the only one authorized in the U.S. for use in kids under the age of 18. The FDA authorized it for 12- to 15-year-olds in May and for 5- to 11-year-olds in early November. Moderna submitted data from clinical trials involving 12- to 17-year-olds, but in November the FDA said it needed more time to review that data. The company also released statements recently saying that its two-dose mRNA vaccine is safe and effective in 6- to 11-year-olds. And Moderna trials involving kids 6 months and up are ongoing. https://www.today.com/health/health/will-kids-5-able-get-covid-19-vaccine-rcna7761

2021-12-07 Anorexia Cases up 65% Among Children & Teens During COVID: Study Shortly after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, most countries implemented stringent lockdown measures to varying degrees that included school closures, immediate closures of non-essential businesses, and banning public gatherings. The resulting social isolation and lack of structure in daily life profoundly impacted children and teenagers. A new study delves into the latest evidence that shows there was an almost 66% jump per month in anorexia diagnoses among girls between the ages of 9 to 18 years during the first wave of the pandemic. The team of Canada-based researchers further observed that the number of hospitalizations for newly diagnosed anorexia patients nearly tripled compared with pre-pandemic rates. https://www.forbes.com/sites/anuradhavaranasi/2021/12/07/anorexia-cases-among-children–teens-have-risen-during-covid-19-study/?sh=38090ae42956

2021-12-07 Massachusetts Coronavirus Breakthrough Cases Surge 11,321 Last Week, Smashing Record High for the State More than 11,000 fully vaccinated people in the Bay State tested positive for coronavirus last week as part of the post-Thanksgiving surge, a daily average of about 1,617 people as breakthrough infections hit a record high in the state. Sixty-one breakthrough deaths were reported. The count of 11,321 breakthrough cases last week was a 71% spike from the tally of 6,610 breakthrough infections in the prior week. https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/12/07/massachusetts-coronavirus-breakthrough-cases-surge-11321-last-week-smashing-record-high-for-the-state/

2021-12-07 Japan’s COVID Deaths Lowest in 16 Months as Cases Plummet In the world’s oldest nation, less than one person a day is dying from COVID-19. The six confirmed deaths in Japan over the past week is the lowest it’s been in the country since July 2020, before the second wave of pandemic fatalities. The drop in cases and deaths is even more striking considering that Japan’s population is much larger than all the G7 nations except the U.S., and is also older, increasing the risk of death from COVID-19. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/07/national/japan-covid-deaths/

2021-12-07 Urgent Call to Action: Tell OSHA to Permanently End Mandatory COVID Vaccine Rule for Employers The deadline is Jan. 19 for posting a comment asking the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to permanently suspend its Emergency Temporary Standard requiring employers with more than 100 employees to comply with President Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate.

However, a Nov. 12 ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals barred OSHA from enforcing the ETS “pending adequate judicial review” of a motion for permanent injunction. In its 22-page ruling, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals called the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine mandate “fatally flawed” and said OSHA should “take no steps to implement or enforce the mandate until further court order.”

The court said the mandate fails to consider that the ongoing threat of COVID is more dangerous to some employees than others. These vaccines are experimental and potentially dangerous. According to the latest data released by the CDC, between Dec. 14, 2020, and Nov. 26, 2021, 927,740 reports of adverse events — including 19,532 reports of deaths — following COVID vaccines were submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.

CHD believes it is critical that OSHA submit Environmental Impact Statements to the public on the safety, health and economic impact of its ETS. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/action-osha-end-mandatory-covid-vaccine-ruleemployers

2021-12-07 Spain Approves COVID Vaccine for Children in 5 to 11 Age Group Spain’s health ministry gave the go-ahead Tuesday for children between ages 5 and 11 to be vaccinated against COVID-19 amid a rise in coronavirus infections in recent weeks. The rollout is due to begin Dec. 15, two days after the first of 3.2 million child vaccines arrive in Spain. Austria has been inoculating children since the European Union’s drug regulator on Nov. 25 authorized Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for use on that age group. Greece will also begin on Dec. 15 and Italy will start on Dec. 16, among others. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-europe-spain-76a97b3d998b3e6e70640ace0e2b1f7b

2021-12-07 Africa Has 17.46% of World’s Population, Only 3% of World’s COVID Deaths. Scientists Want to Know Why. As health experts look at global statistics, they have been stymied by the low rate of infection and death across the sub-Saharan African continent, compared to industrialized nations that used various lockdown procedures to contain the spread.

• Scientists appear stymied by the low number of infections and deaths in sub-Saharan Africa where the vaccination rate is less than 6%.
• Africa has 17.46% of the world’s population and 3% of the COVID-19 global death toll while countries with better health care have higher death rates, including the Americas with 46% and Europe with 29%.
• Nigeria, with the highest population, has had 3,000 deaths in 200 million people, which is what is recorded in the U.S. every two or three days. Yet, Nigeria has announced an all-out vaccination program to “prepare for the next wave.”
• Factors that may have influenced the low infection and death rate are outdoor living that raises vitamin D levels, a younger population and access to medications and herbs used for other local conditions, but which are also known to reduce the severity of COVID.

Across the world, countries have taken different approaches to address the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

By March 2020, Scotland had implemented strict lockdowns and closed schools and other social venues. People were threatened with police fines if they went outside other than to exercise once a day, go to work or buy food. On the other hand, Sweden handled the pandemic differently than most of the globe and was initially vilified for looser restrictions and a lack of severe lockdown measures. In October 2020, TIME called the response a “disaster,” but data have shown that the death rate in Sweden was in line with other years. In other words, excess deaths that may have been attributed to COVID-19 were minimal. Information compiled by CAN films showed the response in Sweden, which has nearly double the population of Scotland, had significantly less impact on the economy and health of their population, as well as nearly half the percentage of excess deaths as did Scotland. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sub-saharan-africa-low-rate-infection-death-covid

2021-12-07 8 Top Pfizer, Moderna Shareholders $10 Billion Richer After Media Hypes Omicron Fears Global Justice Now on Saturday released data showing “just eight top Pfizer and Moderna shareholders” and their CEOs made $10.31 billion since the new COVID variant, Omicron, emerged, but doctor who discovered it says it’s mild, and may even be useful.

Global Justice Now accused Big Pharma of being responsible for the emergence of Omicron by gobbling up profits selling vaccines to wealthy countries, while refusing to share patents and making sure low-income countries get access to COVID vaccines.

But not everyone agrees that failure to vaccinate causes new variants to emerge, or that Omicron is dangerous. Dr. Angelique Coetzee, who is credited with discovering the Omicron variant, said she believes the variant may help lead to herd immunity. ” … If, as some evidence suggests, Omicron turns out to be a fast-spreading virus with mostly mild symptoms for the majority of the people who catch it, that would be a useful step on the road to herd immunity.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-moderna-shareholders-billions-richer-omicron

2021-12-07 Amid Tangle of Corruption, Greece Imposes COVID Vaccine Mandate on People 60 and Older Greece, which has imposed some of the strictest measures anywhere in the world in response to COVID, is set to impose mandatory vaccination for all citizens over the age of 60 and to levy a monthly fine on senior citizens who refuse the vaccine. data indicating 490,000 individuals in Greece over the age of 60 have not been vaccinated.

As of this writing, 64% of Greece’s population has been fully vaccinated — under current rules, that is, which consider those who have received two doses of the Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccines, or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, as ‘fully’ vaccinated. The European Union (EU) recently proposed changing the definition of “fully vaccinated” to refer to those who received a booster dose.

While the government justifies such measures as a necessary means of protecting public health, the measures are being implemented by politicians with an extensive track record of decimating Greece’s public health infrastructure, as well as far-right ties.

Recently, Austria paved the way for mandatory vaccinations, requiring its entire population to get vaccinated by February or face hefty fines or the threat of imprisonment. Now, the EU may be setting the stage for mandatory vaccination throughout the 27-nation bloc, signaling the green light for more governments that may be eager to impose mandatory vaccinations in their nations. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/greece-covid-vaccine-mandate-senior-citizens/

2021-12-07 Media Lambastes Sen. Ron Johnson for Speaking Truth: Yes, Fauci Did ‘Overhype’ Danger of HIV America’s bought, braindead and blinded mainstream media is lambasting Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson for saying Dr. Anthony Fauci “overhyped” the danger of HIV during the 1980s, but the facts support Johnson’s assertions. “[Dr. Fauci] created all kinds of fear, saying it could affect the entire population when it couldn’t,”

Public health is now religion with “appeals to authority” having replaced citation, scientific empiricism and debate as the source of truth. The press treats Dr. Fauci’s pronouncements with an infallibility that would make medieval Popes envious. Subsumed in this orthodoxy, media outlets have been complicit in Dr. Fauci’s disastrous mismanagement of the pandemic — with 4.2% of the world’s population, America under Dr. Fauci’s regimen, racked up 20% of global COVID deaths. The media also covered up Dr. Fauci’s historic atrocities in the same way Boston newspapers covered up the Catholic Church’s pedophile scandals in the 1990s. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/media-sen-ron-johnson-fauci-hiv-danger/

2021-12-07 Booster Shots May Be Needed to Keep Fully Vaccinated Status in Australia in Future A booster dose could be necessary to keep your green COVID-19 vaccination tick in the future, the health department secretary Brendan Murphy says. Booster shots are being rolled out across Australia amid warnings that immunization from the initial vaccinations wanes with time. Murphy said, for now, any third dose would be recorded and those with two doses would retain their tick. “If in the future the data suggests that immunity from the primary course wanes so much that people do really need a third dose, that could change.” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/07/booster-shots-may-be-needed-to-keep-fully-vaccinated-status-in-australia-in-future

2021-12-07 WHO Europe: Jab Young Children to Cut COVID Risk at Christmas European governments should consider mass vaccination programmes for primary school children given the risk of grandparents being infected with COVID over the holiday season, the World Health Organization has said. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in the UK is currently reviewing the safety of a Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine designed for children aged five and above. The government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), responsible for approving vaccine programmes, is also currently examining data as a “matter of urgency” in order to be able to respond quickly should there be regulatory approval. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/07/who-europe-jab-young-children-to-cut-covid-risk-at-christmas

2021-12-07 New Data Shows COVID Drug Works Against All Omicron Mutations British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) said on Tuesday its antibody-based COVID-19 therapy with U.S. partner Vir Biotechnology (VIR.O) is effective against all mutations of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, citing new data from early-stage studies. The data, yet to be published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, shows that the companies’ treatment, sotrovimab, is effective against all 37 identified mutations to date in the spike protein, GSK said in a statement. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/new-data-shows-gsk-vir-drug-works-against-all-omicron-mutations-2021-12-07/

2021-12-07 Scientists Find ‘Stealth’ Version of Omicron That May Be Harder to Track Scientists have identified a “stealth” version of Omicron which cannot be distinguished from other variants using the PCR tests that public health officials deploy to gain a quick picture of its spread around the world, scientists have said. The stealth variant has many mutations in common with standard Omicron, but it lacks a particular genetic change that allows lab-based PCR tests to be used as a rough and ready means of flagging up probable cases. Researchers say it is too early to know whether the new form of Omicron will spread in the same way as the standard Omicron variant, but that the “stealthy” version is genetically distinct and so may well behave differently. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/07/scientists-find-stealth-version-of-omicron-not-identifiable-with-pcr-test-covid-variant

2021-12-06 Omicron Versus Delta: Battle of Coronavirus Mutants Is Critical As the Omicron coronavirus variant spreads in southern Africa and pops up in countries all around the world, scientists are anxiously watching a battle play out that could determine the future of the pandemic. Can the latest competitor to the world-dominating Delta overthrow it? “It’s still early days, but increasingly, data is starting to trickle in, suggesting that Omicron is likely to outcompete Delta in many, if not all, places,” said Dr. Jacob Lemieux, who monitors variants for a research collaboration led by Harvard Medical School. Many critical questions about Omicron remain unanswered, including whether the virus causes milder or more severe illness and how much it might evade immunity from past COVID-19 illness or vaccines. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-southern-africa-pandemics-2a445501cff8d0354fabcf493418365e

2021-12-06 ‘I Was Treated Like a Criminal,’ Says Woman Detained for 14 Days in Australian Quarantine Camp An Australian woman who never tested positive for COVID was detained for 14 days in Howard Springs, an Australian quarantine facility. Australia has some of the longest and strictest COVID lockdown policies and travel restrictions in the world. The country constructed “quarantine camps,” facilities where people who test positive for COVID, or come in contact with someone who tested positive, are confined. According to Freddie Sayers, journalist at UnHerd, Australia has become a “case study for what happens when a country will do anything to keep COVID numbers low.”

Hodgson told Sayers police tracked down everyone who came in contact with a friend of hers who tested positive for COVID. They captured Hodgson’s license plate using traffic cameras, and sent two undercover officers to her door. Police didn’t give Hodgson the option to test for COVID, but instead forced her into the camp under the threat of a $5,000 fine. She ultimately tested negative three times, but was still detained for the 14-day period. “You feel like you’re in prison and you feel like you’ve done something wrong, it’s totally inhumane,” Hodgson told Sayers. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/hayley-hodgson-australian-quarantine-camp-freddie-sayers/

2021-12-06 Zero COVID Deaths Among Healthy German Kids Ages 5 to 11, Study Shows A new study from Germany showed extremely few deaths among healthy children overall — including zero deaths among children 5 to 11 — suggesting some studies are designed to distort the risk to kids.

Here is what we find for healthy kids with COVID-19:

• For healthy kids, the risk of going to the hospital is 51 per 100,000.
• For healthy kids, the risk of going to the ICU is 8 per 100,000.
• For healthy kids, the risk of death is 3 per 1,000,000 with no deaths reported in kids older than 5.
• Kids 5 to 11 have a lower risk than kids <5 and adolescents 12 to 17.
• Kids 5 to 11 have a risk of going to the ICU of 2 in 100,000; 0 died.
• Among kids who died of COVID-19, 38% were already on palliative/ hospice care.
• MIS-C/ PIMS was less common with Delta.

Because these risks were so low, we must demand robust evidence and large trials to show that the potential benefits of vaccination outweigh potential harms. The benefits (at best) are going to be very small — what is lower than 3 per million? — so even rare safety signals can tip the scale. We wanted large randomized trials.  Our plea may have affected the UK which is not vaccinating kids 5 to 11 (due to uncertainty), and may have helped the FDA expand the sample size of the trial. Then Gruber and Kraus at FDA resigned and the EUA was granted. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/zero-covid-deaths-healthy-german-kids/

2021-12-06 Nearly 70 Vaccinated Hospital Workers Test Positive for COVID After Christmas Meal More than 50 hospital workers in Spain have tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a Christmas meal, according to local media reports. More than 170 health workers from the Intensive Care Unit of the Regional University Hospital of Málaga — located in the south of the country — attended the meal, with at least 68 people later testing positive for COVID-19, local media outlet Sur reported Monday, although health authorities had only confirmed 22 of these cases on Sunday. All of the professionals had been fully vaccinated — including with booster shots. Most of the workers who tested positive are asymptomatic although in a few cases they have reported mild symptoms. https://www.newsweek.com/nearly-70-hospital-workers-test-positive-covid-after-christmas-meal-malaga-spain-1656401

2021-12-06 COVID Vaccine Rollout for Children Aged 5 to 11 in the EU The European Union rollout of the Pfizer (PFE.N) and BioNTech (22UAy.DE) COVID-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds should begin Dec. 13, as countries are expanding their vaccination programmes to include young children amid concerns over the infections surge in the continent and the new Omicron variant. read more  The following is a list of European Union countries with details of the vaccine rollout for children and country-specific regulations: In Austria some provinces have been vaccinating children aged 5-11 years with a lower dose of the adult vaccine even before the EU recommendation. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/covid-19-vaccine-rollout-children-aged-5-11-eu-2021-12-10/

2021-12-06 People Across the World Protest Undemocratic Restrictions Imposed on Australians On Dec. 4, hundreds of thousands of people across the globe protested in support of Australia’s SOS Call for help as the country struggles with increased lockdowns, forced vaccination and quarantine facilities. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/world-protest-australia-sos-covid-lockdowns-vaccination-quarantine-facilities

2021-12-06 Cruise Ship With 17 Breakthrough COVID Infections Sets Sail Again With New Passengers A cruise ship that carried at least 17 passengers and crew members with breakthrough COVID-19 infections when it docked in New Orleans has set sail again with new passengers. Nine crew members and eight passengers were infected when the Norwegian Breakaway arrived on Sunday, a Louisiana Department of Health spokeswoman said Monday. None had any symptoms and only fully vaccinated people are allowed on board, Norwegian Cruise Line said. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-health-business-travel-ae2e4596c2b7141942487fe2b4972974

2021-12-06 Woman Wins Court Battle Over Treating Her Husband’s COVID With Ivermectin. That Was Just the Beginning A court order that permitted Keith Smith, on a ventilator in a medically induced coma from COVID-19, to be treated with the controversial drug ivermectin, was issued late Friday afternoon. The order, in response to Darla Smith’s petition to compel the hospital to administer the drug to her husband of 24 years, was, to some, kind of confusing, and that led to two days of lawyers negotiating its implementation, frustrating Darla’s attempts to have her husband receive the drug. The court order touched off a weekend of back and forth between the lawyers involved, Darla Smith and the hospital’s administration, ending Sunday night when Keith Smith, 52, received his first dose of ivermectin. https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2021/12/06/court-orders-hospital-allow-ivermectin-treatment-york-covid-case/8889300002/

2021-12-06 ‘Damning’ Ivermectin Tape Exposes Pressure by Big Pharma to Suppress Ivermectin, RFK, Jr.’s New Book Reveals A stark example came in the response last week to a report from the U.S. that many patients who received the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines show signs of increased risk of a heart attack.

Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a National Health Service consultant, told GB News that a cardiology researcher colleague in the UK found similar results but was not prepared to publish for fear of the repercussions. “They aren’t going to publish their findings, they are concerned about losing research money,” Malhotra said. Later he told LBC Radio that he had been contacted by several others, raising more concerns about the findings.

One was an eminent consultant cardiologist, fit and well and with no previous history of heart problems. “He informed me that within 10 days of receiving a second dose of the Pfizer shot, he had a heart attack — a clot in his left anterior descending artery, the most important artery in the heart. Fortunately, he survived and is doing OK now.” Malhotra added that his own father, a general practitioner, died from a heart attack in July.

A leading UK cancer specialist told me years ago how he was blackmailed by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) into staying silent over a fraudulent study the fund had sponsored. Published in the Lancet, the study purported to show that patients treated holistically through the Bristol Cancer Help Centre did worse than those who had only orthodox treatment. It was junk science, aimed at discrediting the charity whose work had gained prominence — and funds — after being championed by Prince Charles. The specialist was outraged when he had a preview of the study, and told the ICRF that he intended to challenge its findings at an upcoming press conference. Shortly afterward a top official rang him to say that if he did so, his unit would lose its entire ICRF grant — which meant it would have to close. He consulted the dean of his medical school and agreed not to go. He had worried ever since over whether he made the right decision. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ivermectin-big-pharma-rfk-jr-the-real-anthony-fauci/

2021-12-06 Digital Vaccine Passes Will Soon Be in More Than 30 States — Here’s How That Will Make Travel a Lot Easier Travelers are being asked more often to show proof of vaccination at different points along a trip, whether that is to board an international flight, dine at a particular restaurant, visit a certain museum or attend a concert or play. This trend cannot be dismissed as merely a coastal phenomenon. Bindle, a health verification app that helps venues verify attendees’ vaccine status, has hundreds of clients spanning more than 30 states, from blue strongholds like California and New York to red leaners like Texas, Florida, Arkansas, Missouri and Georgia. While the United States does not have and will never have a federal vaccine pass, a growing number of states are recognizing the need to provide their residents with access to a digital proof of vaccine that can be easily verified. https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2021/12/06/digital-vaccine-passes-united-states/?sh=4503a4c62146

2021-12-06 Patients Waiting for Life-Saving Organ Transplant to Be Denied Treatment Unless Vaccinated In Queensland, Australia, patients will have to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in order to receive vital organ transplants. Queensland Health confirmed that a patient seeking to receive a kidney, lung or heart transplant must have “a minimum requirement of two doses of an approved COVID-19 vaccine,” 7News reported Monday. The policy will be reviewed in February. https://www.newsweek.com/patients-waiting-life-saving-organ-transplant-denied-treatment-unless-vaccinated-1656413

2021-12-06 Unvaccinated Italians Face New Restrictions as Holidays Near Italy is making life more uncomfortable for unvaccinated people this holiday season, excluding them from indoor restaurants, theaters and museums starting Monday to reduce the spread of coronavirus and encourage vaccine skeptics to get their shots. Italian police have been empowered to check whether diners in restaurants or bars have a “super” green health pass certifying that they are either vaccinated or have recently recovered from the virus. Smart phone applications that verify people’s health pass status have been updated to prevent entry to concerts, movies or performances to those who have merely tested negative in recent days. The measures run through Jan. 15. In the capital, Rome, dozens of police were out at transportation hubs checking both green passes and personal identification, finding a cooperative mood among commuters. Still, a 50-year-old Roman became the first to receive a 400-euro ($450) fine after getting off the bus at the northern Flaminio station without the “basic” health pass, said Stefano Napoli, deputy chief of Rome’s municipal police force. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-nyc-indoor-vaccine-mandate-expanded-kids/

2021-12-06 COVID Is Fueling a Pandemic of Violence Against Women and Girls The emergence of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 with its many mutations has rightly sparked global concern. Another COVID-related issue that should also spark concern, but continues to fly under the radar, is the endemic violence directed toward women and girls around the world that has been heightened by responses to the pandemic.

On a recent visit to a tribal village in South India, I met with children, elders, and teachers, who told me how their lives have been affected by COVID-19. The implementation of crucial, but often blunt, public health measures such as stay-at-home policies and the disruption of key services like schools and health facilities have significantly eroded social well-being, isolation, income, and educational attainment. They have also increased violence against many women and girls. The stories I heard are echoed in towns and villages across the world, and the repercussions will be felt for years to come. https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/06/covid-19-policies-fuel-violence-against-women-girls/

2021-12-06 In Its War on COVID, China Calls on ‘Little Inoculated Warriors’ As the rest of the world struggles to vaccinate adults in the face of a threat from a new coronavirus variant, China has embarked on an ambitious campaign that it says will give the country better protection against COVID-19: full inoculation of 160 million of its youngest citizens by the end of the year. The campaign — powered in part with red flower stickers, balloons and boxes of toys for children who step up to become what nurses call “little inoculated warriors” — has gotten off to a fast start. In the first two weeks of the effort, which began in late October, 84 million boys and girls between the ages of 3 and 11, about half of the eligible population, received the first of two shots, according to the most recent government data. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/business/china-covid-vaccine-children.html

2021-12-06 Pandemic Stress Weighs Heavily on Gen Z, Survey Says Isolation. Anxiety. Uncertainty. The stresses of the coronavirus pandemic have taken a toll on Americans of all ages, but a new poll finds that teens and young adults have faced some of the heaviest struggles as they come of age during a time of extreme turmoil. Overall, more than a third of Americans ages 13 to 56 cite the pandemic as a major source of stress, and many say it has made certain parts of their lives harder. But when it comes to education, friendships and dating, the disruption has had a pronounced impact among Generation Z, according to a new survey from MTV Entertainment Group and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-lifestyle-anxiety-generations-d79bee29d08f68b85c5b537ebf5004ed

2021-12-06 Vaccine Requirement for Kids to Enter NYC Restaurants Among Strict New COVID Restrictions New York City will require proof of coronavirus vaccination for children ages 5 to 11 to enter restaurants, gyms, theaters and other places. Beginning Dec. 14, children between 5 and 11 will have to receive their first shot to be able to eat in restaurants, use indoor fitness areas and for indoor entertainment spaces such as movie theaters, museums, arcades and other places. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the mandate on Monday morning, citing the new Omicron variant and ongoing Delta surge as reasons to take a new step to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. The mayor also announced a “first-in-the-nation” vaccine mandate for all private-sector workers that goes into effect Dec. 27. https://www.newsweek.com/vaccine-requirement-kids-enter-nyc-restaurants-among-strict-new-covid-restrictions-1656333

2021-12-06 Senate Set to Vote on Bill Barring Biden Vaccine Mandate, Likely to Pass With Manchin Support The Senate is set to vote this week on a resolution to nullify President Biden’s vaccine mandate for private companies, as Republicans and at least one Democrat push back on the administration’s rule requiring vaccines or inconvenient testing rules for workers at large businesses. All 50 Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., backed a challenge to the vaccine mandate last month under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). That law allows Congress to officially disapprove of an executive branch regulation via a resolution passed through each chamber. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said last week he also supports the Braun resolution. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-vaccine-mandate-vote-republicans-manchin

2021-12-06 120 Teens Hospitalized, 3 Dead Following Pfizer Vaccine Rollout for 15- to 17-Year-Olds in Vietnam The Vietnamese province of Thanh Hoa suspended a batch of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine after more than 120 teens were hospitalized after being vaccinated. According to news reports, three Vietnamese teens have died after getting the Pfizer vaccine. According to the province’s Center for Disease Control (CDC), the teens were hospitalized for symptoms ranging from nausea and high fevers to breathing difficulties — with 17 children exhibiting severe reactions.

Last week, four workers in Thanh Hoa’s Kim Viet shoe factory died after receiving the Vero Cell COVID vaccine, authorized in May by the World Health Organization for emergency use. The deaths were attributed to an “overreaction to the vaccine.”

Drugmakers Pfizer and Merck on Nov. 24 agreed to give licenses to firms in Vietnam to produce COVID treatment pills — paxlovid (Pfizer) and molnupiravir (Merck). Vietnam is one of 95 low- and middle-income countries allowed to produce the pills through a voluntary licensing agreement with the Medicines Patent Pool, an international public health group backed by the United Nations https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/teens-hospitalized-dead-pfizer-vaccine-vietnam

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