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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2021-12-05 ‘Wall of Secrecy’ in Pfizer Contracts as Company Accused of Profiteering Ministers have agreed a secrecy clause in any dispute with the drugs manufacturer Pfizer over Britain’s COVID vaccine supply. Large portions of the government’s contracts with the company over the supply of 189m vaccine doses have been redacted and any arbitration proceedings will be kept secret. The revelation comes as Pfizer is accused by a former senior U.S. health official of “war profiteering’’ during the pandemic. Tom Frieden, who was director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under Barack Obama, said: “If you’re just focusing on maximizing your profits and you’re a vaccine manufacturer … you are war profiteering.” Zain Rizvi, research director at Public Citizen, a U.S. consumer advocacy organization which has examined Pfizer’s global vaccine contracts, said: “There is a wall of secrecy surrounding these contracts and it’s unacceptable, particularly in a public health crisis.” https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/05/wall-of-secrecy-in-pfizer-contracts-as-company-accused-of-profiteering
2021-12-05 I Worked at Rikers Island. Mishandling the Vaccine Mandate Could Cost Lives When I worked as a correction officer at Rikers Island, it was understood that you were going to do overtime on your first day back from your day off and on the last day before you were going to be off again. But while overtime did occur, it was understood that there had to be limits, and for good reason: Being a correctional officer requires for you to be vigilant, awake and on your feet for most of the eight hours of a normal shift. This rule book has been thrown out the window for most of the pandemic. NBC reported that correctional officers have been forced to work triple shifts for 24-hours straight, due to a shortage of officers, many of whom were out sick or had died of COVID-19. So it’s dismaying to see Mayor Bill de Blasio throwing fuel on this fire with a vaccine mandate that has already exacerbated the situation. https://www.newsweek.com/i-worked-rikers-island-vaccine-mandate-could-cost-lives-opinion-1656170
2021-12-04 Omicron Has Not Killed Anyone Says WHO as New Variant Cases Rise in U.S The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that as of Friday, there have been no fatalities linked to Omicron but warned it could take several weeks to determine how infectious the new COVID-19 variant is. The WHO’s assurance comes as the new variant first detected in South Africa last week has now been recorded in 38 countries. In the United States, at least 29 cases of Omicron across 11 states have been reported. These are California, Nebraska, New York, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Utah, Pennsylvania and Hawaii, CBS News reported. There was also an infection in New Jersey of a Georgia resident. https://www.newsweek.com/omicron-vaccine-covid-who-coronavirus-cases-1656108?
2021-12-04Federal Appeals Court Lifts Block on San Diego Unified School District’s COVID Vaccine Mandate The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted on Saturday to lift a block that it had placed on San Diego Unified School District’s student coronavirus vaccine mandate. The rare weekend decision, reached by a 2-1 vote, lifts a temporary injunction the court had placed on the mandate about a week ago. Judges had said the injunction would continue as long as the district continued to allow vaccine deferrals for pregnant students. But now that San Diego Unified removed that condition, the block has been removed, too https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2021-12-04/federal-appeals-court-lifts-block-on-san-diego-unified-school-districts-covid-vaccine-mandate
2021-12-04 Ralliers Across Longmont, Boulder Protest Vaccine Passports Saturday More than 200 people marched Saturday through downtown Boulder to protest vaccine passports in indoor settings. The crowd rallied past late-morning brunch-goers eating outside, people waiting in line to get a photo with Santa near the Boulder County Courthouse and weekend shoppers bustling from shop to shop. Boulder County is among Colorado counties with a vaccine verification program that’s optional to business owners. The program allows businesses to opt out of the indoor mask order, if they assure that at least 95% of the people they’re serving have been vaccinated. This requires customers to prove their vaccination status through several options, including with a photo or copy of their COVID-19 vaccination record card. https://www.timescall.com/2021/12/04/ralliers-across-longmont-boulder-protest-vaccine-passports-saturday/
2021-12-04 Dozens of Employees Fired for Refusing COVID Vaccine File Lawsuit Against Rady Children’s Hospital More than three dozen nurses and other employees at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego have sued the medical center alleging they were wrongfully fired for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The plaintiffs, who filed their case in San Diego Superior Court late last month, accused Rady Children’s Hospital of violating their religious freedoms, among other allegations, by issuing blanket terminations rather than judiciously considering applications for religious exemptions. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/story/2021-12-04/dozens-of-employees-fired-for-refusing-covid-19-vaccine-file-lawsuit-against-rady-childrens-hospital
2021-12-04 More Than 40,000 March in Vienna Against Coronavirus Lockdown More than 40,000 people marched through Vienna on Saturday to protest against a lockdown and plans to make vaccinations compulsory to curb the coronavirus pandemic. Faced with a surge in infections, the government last month made Austria the first country in Western Europe to reimpose a lockdown and said it would make vaccinations mandatory from February. “I am here because I am against forced vaccinations. I am for human rights, and the violation of human rights should be stopped,” one protester told Reuters Television. “We are protecting our children,” said another. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/thousands-march-vienna-against-coronavirus-lockdown-2021-12-04/
2021-12-04 Gilead Recalls Vials of Its Remdesivir COVID Drug in U.S. Over Glass Contamination The American biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences has issued a nationwide recall of two lots of its coronavirus treatment drug remdesivir because of the “presence of glass particulates,” the company said Friday. Remdesivir, known also by its brand name Veklury, is normally used for adults and children over 12 requiring hospitalization for COVID-19, and it is normally given by intravenous (IV) infusion once daily for up to 10 days. “An injectable product that contains glass particulates may result in local irritation or swelling in response to the foreign material. If the glass particulate reaches the blood vessels it can travel to various organs and block blood vessels in the heart, lungs or brain which can cause stroke and even lead to death,” the company said in a statement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/04/gilead-coronavirus-remdesivir-recall/
2021-12-04 There’s More to Vax Than Meets the Eye A transcript of an address Giorgio Agamben, a noted Italian philosopher, gave before an Italian parliamentary body as recently as last month.
Giorgio first addresses the proposed Italian Parliamentary Decree that all citizens must now be obliged to carry a “green pass” (the Italian equivalent of our vaccination card) which implies that the government accepts no responsibility for any damage brought about by Big Pharma’s un-fully-tested vaccine.
His second point addresses the political problem of the “green pass,” which forces people to get vaccinated if they want to eat, have a social life, work a job, or generally try surviving. The over-all picture he paints is of a society based on control-as-the-accepted norm. He further elaborates his point by drawing parallels with the Soviet and the Italian Fascist models. https://progressiveissuesblog.wordpress.com/2021/12/28/theres-more-to-vax-than-meets-the-eye/
2021-12-04 Omicron Variant Found in More Vaccinated People in U.S. as Resistance Concerns Persist The Omicron variant continues to crop up in vaccinated Americans as concerns about the new strain’s vaccine resistance persist. More than 20 cases linked to the variant across 11 states have been reported in the U.S. as of Saturday morning. Of these, eight are known to have been found in fully vaccinated individuals. While many of these patients had recently traveled to Africa, others had no recent travel history to speak, indicating that community transmission has begun in the U.S., according to CNBC. https://www.newsweek.com/omicron-variant-found-more-vaccinated-people-us-resistance-concerns-persist-1656114
2021-12-03 Data Scientist Tells RFK, Jr.: ‘VAERS Is Telling a Very Frightening Story’ Data scientist and immunology researcher Jessica Rose, Ph.D., about the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and what it tells us about COVID vaccine injuries, especially among children.
“VAERS is telling a very frightening story,” Rose told Kennedy. VAERS data show 618,548 adverse event reports (as of Oct. 29), but that number doesn’t account for under-reporting, explained Rose. (As of Nov. 19, the latest VAERS data show 664,745 adverse events, excluding foreign reports).
“If you consider the under-reporting factor, which I’ve based on the Pfizer phase 3 clinical data — which is probably questionable data anyway — the under-reporting factor is 31,” she said. So to get an accurate count of adverse events, “you need to multiply the VAERS numbers by at least 31,” Rose explained. “It’s really staggering. We’re in the millions.”
Rose said the VAERS data also show there are “children being inappropriately injected with these products.” She told Kennedy reports submitted to VAERS show young children receiving COVID vaccines not yet authorized for their age group. As of Oct. 29, 38% of those children who died following the vaccine were under 2 years old. “So someone has to explain that to me because we are not supposed to be injecting babies,” she said. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-defender-jessica-rose-data-vaccine-adverse-event-reporting-system
2021-12-03 Pfizer Whistleblower Was Directly Involved in COVID Vaccine Clinical Trials, New Documents Prove Newly released documents support whistleblower Brook Jackson’s claims she was directly involved in Pfizer’s COVID vaccine phase 3 clinical trials, but Pfizer contractor, Ventavia Research Group, and media refuse to retract statements to the contrary.
The article, which revealed Jackson’s claims that Ventavia “falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators and was slow to follow up on adverse events” reported by trial participants, raised serious doubts about the data integrity and regulatory oversight of the critical Pfizer trials. Ventavia responded by denying Jackson had worked on the Pfizer trials. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-whistleblower-brook-jackson-covid-vaccine-clinical-trial/
2021-12-03 Vaccine Holdouts in Navy, Marines Hit 19,000 as Deadline Passes to Comply With Mandate As many as 19,000 active-duty Marines and Navy sailors chose not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus by their shared Nov. 28 deadline, a dilemma for military leaders who have threatened to expel personnel refusing to comply with the Biden administration’s mandate. While the Marines’ margin of 5% unvaccinated had been anticipated, it was an unexpected outcome for the Navy, which in announcing its final tally this week acknowledged that officials had uncovered last-minute “discrepancies” with its data-tracking system that revealed a larger pool of unvaccinated sailors than had been projected. These personnel now join more than 8,000 in the Air Force who declined to get vaccinated. Army data shows 4% of its active force — about 19,000 soldiers — have not received any vaccine dose, with the compliance deadline of Dec. 15 now less than two weeks away. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/12/03/vaccine-mandate-navy-marines/
2021-12-03 COVID Vaccines Compulsory for More Than 200 Million People Worldwide Making COVID-19 vaccines compulsory was once an unthinkable prospect. But governments around the world are losing patience with people who have decided not to get inoculated — and some are imposing mandates in efforts to save thousands of lives and avoid disastrous new waves of infection. At least 203.15 million people worldwide are affected by these mandates, according to a calculation by Newsweek based on figures from World Population Review. This figure does not include countries such as the U.S., which have introduced compulsory vaccination for some workers and public officials but not for the rest of the population. The calculation only includes countries that have enacted mandates for their whole adult population. https://www.newsweek.com/covid-vaccine-mandatory-more-200-million-people-world-1655736
2021-12-03 Congressman Introduces Bill to Force FDA to Release Pfizer Documents Within 100 Days, Instead of 55 Years U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) on Thursday introduced legislation to require the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to release, within 100 days, all records of information related to Pfizer COVID vaccines. The FDA had asked to be allowed to take up to 55 years to release the documents. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ralph-norman-fda-pfizer-covid-vaccine-records/
2021-12-03 Joe Manchin Takes Aim at Biden’s Business Vaccine Mandate Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has taken aim at President Joe Biden‘s COVID mandate, saying he supports legislation that would overturn the requirement for employers to ensure staff are vaccinated or tested. Manchin, a key Democratic vote in the evenly divided Senate, made the comments in a statement on Thursday following a deal to prevent a shutdown of the federal government. The senator went on: “But let me be clear, I do not support any government vaccine mandate on private businesses. That’s why I have co-sponsored and will strongly support a bill to overturn the federal government vaccine mandate for private businesses. https://www.newsweek.com/joe-manchin-takes-aim-joe-biden-business-vaccine-mandate-covid-1655711
2021-12-03 Oklahoma Sues Biden Administration Over Pentagon Vaccine Mandate The state of Oklahoma filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Thursday in an attempt to block the enforcement of its vaccine mandate for federal employees. The move comes one day after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin denied Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s (R) request to exempt the state’s National Guard from the mandate. The complaint argues that the mandate is unconstitutional and “ensures that many Oklahoma National Guard members will simply quit instead of getting a vaccine, a situation that will irreparably harm Oklahomans’ safety and security.” The suit is asking the court to block the mandate for all federal employees, not just the National Guard. https://www.axios.com/oklahoma-biden-pentagon-vaccine-mandate-36abc8c0-d540-4af4-8ea9-c834a8d718d0.html
2021-12-03 Oklahoma Sues Biden Administration Over Pentagon Vaccine Mandate
2021-12-03 Biosafety Expert With Close Ties to Wuhan Lab Urged Scientists to ‘Address Rumors’ of Possible Lab Leak, Emails Show Emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know reveal leading biosafety expert James Le Duc encouraged scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to launch an “investigation” into whether the SARS CO-V-2 virus could have originated and escaped from the lab in Wuhan, China. In a Feb. 9, 2020 email to WIV Professor Yuan Zhiming, Le Duc wrote that he thought it was important to “aggressively address these rumors and presumably false accusations quickly and provide definitive, honest information to counter misinformation.”
Though the February 2020 email indicated he downplayed the possibility of a lab leak, only two months later, Le Duc wrote in a separate correspondence to Phillip Russell, former president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, that it was “certainly possible a lab accident was the source of the epidemic and I also agree that we can’t trust the Chinese government.”
In the February 2020 email, Le Duc laid out numerous questions that he thought the WIV should address as part of an investigation into the possibility that the virus was “the result of a release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (main campus or new BSL3/BSL4 facilities).”
Among the questions he posed:
- Where is coronavirus research conducted? What level of biocontainment?
- What are the coronaviruses in your possession that are most closely related to nCoV [novel coronaviruses] based on genetic sequences and are able to replicate in culture?
- Is there an inventory record of each isolate of each coronavirus kept? If so, are there any discrepancies between the record and actual current inventory number?
- How many people have access to the coronavirus stocks and laboratory? Senior investigators? Junior investigators? Technical support staff? Post-docs? Students? Animal handlers? Janitors and other cleaning staff? Building support personnel? Others?
- Is anyone on your team conducting gain of function studies, recombination studies or any other studies that may have resulted in the creation of the nCoV?
- Does a serum bank exist for staff and students working on infectious agents? If yes, could a current serum and the most recent banked serum be serologically tested for antibody to nCoV in an effort to document seroconversion?
- Does the institute have an occupational health clinic where employees and students can go to seek medical care? If so, was there any indication of unusual illness similar to that seen for nCoV among Institute staff?
- Where and when were the first Wuhan (or Hubei Province) residents infected with the nCoV first identified (hospital or clinic name/date of earliest cases)? Do staff members of the Institute reside in the district serviced by this (these) hospital/clinic(s)?
- Do staff members of the Wuhan Institute of Virology frequent the seafood/live market first associated with the nCoV outbreak? Did any staff member visit the market in the weeks prior to it being closed? If so, how many staff frequent the market? How often would they visit the market during the period of interest?
On April 13, 2020, Le Duc forwarded his email to Yuan to David Franz, former commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, saying he had never received a response to his questions. Though the World Health Organization has been conducting its own investigation into the origins of SARS-CoV-2, many of the questions raised by Le Duc remain unanswered. And many scientists around the world fear there may never be a full, thorough and unconflicted investigation of the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
The April 2020 exchange between Le Duc and Russell shows that Russell, a physician, vaccine scientist and retired U.S. Army major general who died in 2021, was concerned that a “coverup” of the virus origins may be underway.
2021-12-03 NYC Teachers Score Another Win in Fight to Obtain Religious Exemptions A Nov. 28 ruling by New York’s 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals means most New York City Department of Education employees denied a religious exemption from the city’s COVID vaccine mandate must be allowed to reapply for an exemption under a new process https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/nyc-teachers-religious-exemptions-covid-vaccine-mandate/
2021-12-03 1 in 44 American Children Has Autism, CDC Reports The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its latest prevalence estimates for autism, finding 1 in 44 or 2.27% of American 8-year-olds have an autism spectrum disorder.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/american-children-autism-cdc-prevalence-estimates/
2021-12-03 5-Year-Old Died 4 Days After Pfizer Shot, CDC VAERS Data Show VAERS data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 927,740 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 19,532 deaths and 146,720 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and Nov. 26, 2021.
Of the 8,986 U.S. deaths reported as of Nov. 26, 20% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, 26% 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 Nov. 26, 2021 for 5- to 11-year-olds show: 2,586 adverse events, including 34 rated as serious and 2 reported deaths. One death occurred in an 11-year-old girl from Georgia vaccinated Sept. 14, prior to the authorization of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine in the 5 to 11 age group. The second death (VAERS I.D. 1890705) occurred in a 5-year-old girl who died four days after receiving her first dose of Pfizer. 1,581 adverse events have been reported in the 5 to 11 age group since Nov. 1.
2021-12-03 Must-See Podcast With mRNA Researcher: A Cautionary Message on COVID Vaccine Safety On a recent episode of the “Aubrey Marcus Podcast,” Aditi Bhargava, Ph.D., mRNA researcher at University of California, San Francisco, and two people injured by COVID vaccines discussed the science behind the vaccines, and their risks. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/aubrey-marcus-aditi-bhargava-covid-vaccine-safety
2021-12-03 Demand a Full Investigation of ‘America’s Doctor,’ Help Expose ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ As a growing number of Americans question Fauci’s handling of the COVID pandemic, and some like Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) call for an official investigation, Kennedy presents a long history of facts that challenge the merits of the moniker “America’s Doctor.”
“Dr. Anthony Fauci referred to children — beautiful, healthy children — as ‘vehicles of spread’ for COVID,” Kennedy said. “But scientists and physicians around the world have confirmed — Fauci is lying. The push to vaccinate children has nothing to do with their health and everything to do with adding billions of dollars to the bank accounts of ruthless, corrupt pharmaceutical companies.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/take-action/demand-full-investigation-the-real-anthony-fauci/
2021-12-03 As Australians Seek Compensation for Vaccine Injuries Under New Plan, Here’s a Look at COVID Vaccine Liability Laws Around the World More than 10,000 Australians so far requested compensation for COVID vaccine injuries under the country’s vaccine injury compensation scheme. What types of compensation programs exist in other countries? https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/australians-compensation-vaccine-injuries-covid-liability-laws/
2021-12-03 Want That Free Coronavirus Test Biden Is Promising? You Gotta Buy It First. The Biden administration promises to make rapid, at-home coronavirus tests free for the tens of millions of Americans. But it’s working through the private insurance industry to do so — and that alone presents big challenges. The way things work right now, Americans buy rapid, at-home tests over-the-counter, meaning insurance doesn’t automatically cover it. But under the administration’s plan, shoppers in most cases would need to seek reimbursement from their insurer or health plan. That may mean sending in their receipts, the administration confirmed. This means shoppers would have to pay for the tests — at least at first https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/03/administration-is-working-through-private-insurance-make-at-home-tests-available/
2021-12-03 National Health Service Forecasts 230,000 Extra Cases of PTSD in England Due to COVID The NHS is forecasting there will be 230,000 new cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in England as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, official figures show. COVID-19 has increased exposure to events that could cause PTSD, an anxiety disorder triggered by very stressful, frightening or distressing events, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists. It says the NHS is already facing the biggest backlog of those waiting for mental health help in its history. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/03/nhs-forecasts-230000-extra-cases-of-ptsd-in-england-due-to-covid
2021-12-03 WHO Chief Scientist Urges People Not to Panic Over Omicron The World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief scientist told the Reuters Next conference on Friday that people should not panic over the emergence of the Omicron coronavirus variant and said it was too early to say if vaccines would need to be reworked. WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, said there was no evidence that existing vaccines needed to be modified to fight Omicron. However, WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a United Nations briefing in Geneva that vaccine makers should prepare for the likelihood of adjusting their products. https://www.reuters.com/world/omicron-marches-biden-prepares-us-grim-winter-2021-12-03/
2021-12-03 COVID Hospitalizations Surge Across U.S., Even in Most-Vaccinated States New COVID hospitalizations are surging across the United States, even in the most-vaccinated states, a day after the president promised that there would be no lockdowns or expanded vaccine mandates planned for the winter break to contain infections. Vermont, the country’s most-vaccinated state, which is 73% fully vaccinated, has seen its average daily hospitalizations climb by 32% over the last two weeks. That figure is now 75 new hospital admissions a day, the data indicates. Rhode Island, which is also 73% vaccinated, has seen average daily hospital admissions increase by 55% over the last 14 days. The number now stands at 152. https://www.newsweek.com/covid-hospitalizations-surge-across-us-even-most-vaccinated-states-1655827
2021-12-02 70 Children Given Expired COVID Vaccines in Prince George’s County Medical workers in Prince George’s County, Maryland, gave dozens of children ages 5-11 expired COVID-19 vaccines after they were mistakenly stored in the refrigerator with usable doses, the county health department says. A provider that wasn’t able to use 300 pediatric Pfizer doses before they expired on Nov. 24 transferred the doses to the clinic at the complex. HealthCare Dynamics International administered all but 70 of the doses before that expiration date, but mistakenly stored the rest in the refrigerator with viable vaccines, the county health department said. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/70-children-given-expired-covid-vaccines-in-prince-georges-county/2899127/
2021-12-02 Key Omicron Findings May Be Known in Days, WHO Scientist Says Some 450 researchers around the world have begun work to isolate the highly mutated variant from patient specimens, grow it in the lab, verify its genomic sequence, and establish methods to test it in blood-plasma samples, said Ana-Maria Henao-Restrepo, who co-leads the WHO’s research and development blueprint for vaccines and innovations during outbreaks and pandemics. The rapid spread in South Africa of the worrisome variant has raised concern that the immune protection generated by vaccination or a previous bout of COVID is insufficient to stop reinfections or stem a fresh wave of cases and hospitalizations. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-03/key-omicron-findings-may-be-known-in-days-who-scientist-says
2021-12-02 As New COVID Variants Emerge, How Can We Ever Achieve a ‘New Normal’? Almost two years into a punishing pandemic, as vaccination rates creep higher and the number of COVID-19 deaths declines in many countries, many people are asking how much longer will it be before we can return to normal. While there have been causes for optimism, this crisis has seen its share of false dawns, not least is the recent emergence of the new Omicron variant, which has revived fears and increased doubt. https://www.newsweek.com/new-covid-variants-emerge-how-can-we-ever-achieve-new-normal-opinion-1655381
2021-12-02 EU Drug Regulator Starts Reviewing New Coronavirus Vaccine The European Union drug regulator said Thursday it has started a rolling review of a new coronavirus vaccine made by French startup Valneva, the first step toward giving the vaccine the green light to be used in the 27-nation EU. Approval by the European Medicines Agency would add another vaccine to the EU’s armory against COVID-19 as the bloc ramps up administering booster shots and some countries are preparing to deliver shots of Pfizer’s vaccine to children ages 5 to 11. Last month, the EU’s executive commission approved a contract with Valneva for member nations to buy almost 27 million doses in 2022. The contract also included the possibility to adapt the vaccine to new variants of the coronavirus and to purchase up to 33 million more doses in 2023. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-europe-european-union-f5dbf1ba07413cbbb83a64608249f23d
2021-12-03 Media Stirs Up Omicron Hysteria, Points Finger at Unvaccinated No sooner had the Omicron hysteria hit the headlines, politicians, aided by a compliant global lockstep media, started identifying scapegoats and telling the world’s population to prepare to roll up their sleeves.
- Lockstep political decision to roll out leaky “vaccines” occurred around the world immediately following the Omicron announcement.
- Circumstances with a new, heavily mutated variant, vastly different population immunity and knowledge about “genetic vaccine” effectiveness, nothing like those 12 months ago when first generation COVID injections were rolled out globally.
- Omicron may be more infective, is likely no more dangerous — but may be more likely to evade injection-induced immunity.
- There is no conclusive evidence that Omicron originated in Africa — which happens to have the lowest injection rate and case rate of COVID-19.
- Mass injection of first gen injections, followed by re-worked Omicron-specific jabs, could cause disastrous consequences, including accelerating development of further variants and antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of disease.
- We consider some of the possible political and economic drivers behind the new unscientifically backed policy to up the ante on injections.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/media-omicron-hysteria-scapegoats-unvaccinated/
2021-12-02 COVID Cases Are Falling in the Five Least Vaccinated States The five U.S. states that have the lowest percentages of their populations fully vaccinated are seeing a fall in COVID case numbers. According to data from the New York Times, West Virginia, Idaho, Wyoming, Alabama and Mississippi have all seen their average daily cases fall over the last two weeks. Wyoming and Alabama, both of which are 46% fully vaccinated, saw their case numbers drop by 48% and 41%, respectively. Wyoming now has a daily case average of 144, while Alabama has 300. Wyoming has seen its hospitalizations fall in that time by 22%, but Alabama’s has risen by 1%. https://www.newsweek.com/covid-cases-are-falling-five-least-vaccinated-states-1655358
2021-12-02 Zoom’s New Attendance Tool Will Snitch On Attendees Who Are Late to a Meeting Zoom is adding in a new feature that may make it more difficult for you to casually coast your way into a meeting without your boss noticing. The new “Attendance Status” tool, first spotted by TechRadar, allows Zoom hosts and co-hosts to use calendar integration from Google and Microsoft to easily see whether or not invited participants joined the meeting on time. According to Zoom’s support page, meeting participants who have been invited but who have not joined will be siloed into a “Not Joined” section where their names will appear alongside other lazy deplorables. The new meeting monitoring tool may also be used by teachers and professors who have been forced to turn to Zoom to conduct remote classes. The feature may rub some students the wrong way, especially given how they’ve been subjected to historic levels of surveillance and remote monitoring during the pandemic. https://gizmodo.com/zooms-new-attendance-tool-will-snitch-on-attendees-who-1848150339
2021-12-02 Germany Locks Unvaccinated Out of Public Life; Mandate Looms Unvaccinated people across Germany will soon be excluded from nonessential stores, restaurants and sports and cultural venues, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Thursday, and parliament will consider a general vaccine mandate as part of efforts to curb coronavirus infections. She said officials also agreed on a nationwide requirement to wear masks, new limits on private meetings and a goal of 30 million vaccinations by the end of the year — an effort that will be boosted by allowing dentists and pharmacists to administer the shots. Merkel said authorities plan to require staff in hospitals and nursing homes to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and she backed the even more contentious idea of imposing a general vaccine mandate. She said parliament would debate the proposal with input from the country’s national ethics committee. The mandate could take effect as early as February. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-olaf-scholz-pandemics-9cacf1bb85822e55fd3ff92d1f0aa536
2021-12-02 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Suspends Vaccine Mandate Enforcement The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) suspended enforcement of its vaccine mandate for healthcare workers after two court orders earlier this week. A memo issued by the agency, posted by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Twitter Thursday, said that CMS “remains confident” it will prevail in court but is “suspending activities related to the implementation and enforcement of this rule pending future development in the litigation.” https://www.theepochtimes.com/centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid-services-suspends-vaccine-mandate-enforcement_4135950.html
2021-12-02 Unvaccinated Nevada State Workers to Pay Insurance Surcharge Nevada will be the first state to charge state workers enrolled in public employee health insurance plans a surcharge if they aren’t vaccinated. The state Public Employees’ Benefit Program Board voted on Thursday to charge unvaccinated workers up to $55 per month to offset the costs of testing those who haven’t gotten shots are required to undergo in certain workplaces. “This is pandemic has been shouldered on the burden of everyone. And now this particular burden — the testing — should be shouldered on the burden of those who refuse to (be vaccinated),” said DuAne Young, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s policy director. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-nevada-3d44058cfaa8c278ded407840e2ffc3c
2021-12-02 Leaked Doc Reveals Which Messengers Send the Most Data to FBI An internal FBI report reveals how WhatsApp and iMessage happily hand over users’ data to the Feds, sometimes providing the source and destination of messages every 15 minutes. The sensitive Federal Bureau of Investigation paper, unearthed by the transparency group Property of the People, spells out in concise yet shocking detail the Bureau’s ability to secure messaging app content and associated metadata via warrants and subpoenas — and shows that WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage turn over the most information to authorities. It’s a rare insight into the systematic manner in which U.S. authorities can access private information, and can only cast significant doubt on the publicly avowed positions of Apple and Facebook/Meta in respect of user privacy. https://www.rt.com/op-ed/541894-leaked-document-big-tech-privacy/
2012-12-02 HR 550: House Passes Bill to Fund Federal Vaccination Database Even a blind person could see that the only purpose to track vaccinations is to identify the unvaccinated. Technocrats have turned the unvaccinated into an enemy that must be dealt with by physical means. Today that could be fines, quarantines and criminal records. Tomorrow, it could mean mass expulsion and even genocidal purging. Tyranny never retreats on its own; it must be forcefully pushed back and definitively conquered. ⁃ TN Editor
Eighty House Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday to pass the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act, which if passed by the Senate and signed into law would fund a federal vaccination database. According to the bill, also called H.R. 550, the government would provide $400 million in taxpayer dollars to fund “immunization system data modernization and expansion,” a system otherwise defined as “a confidential, population-based, computerized database that records immunization doses administered by any healthcare provider to persons within the geographic area covered by that database.” The text specifically outlines an expansion of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Public Health Department capabilities and the ability for state and local health departments, as well as public and private healthcare providers, to share health data with the federal government. https://www.technocracy.news/hr-550-house-passes-bill-to-fund-federal-vaccination-database/
2021-12-02 California School District Will Let Unvaccinated Students Have In-Person Learning, Defying State Mandate A California school district has announced plans to create in-person learning for unvaccinated students, defying the state’s vaccine mandate for schools, which goes into effect next year. The Alpine Union School District in San Diego County will allow unvaccinated students to continue learning in person and be taught by district teachers at an off-campus location, the superintendent said in a letter to parents last week. The small district’s plans come weeks after California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced that all students and employees at public and private schools will need to be vaccinated, tentatively by next July. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/12/02/california-unvaccinated-students-inperson-learning-alpine/
2021-12-02 Judge Blocks Texas Social Media Censorship Law A federal judge has blocked Texas from enforcing a law that aimed to block social media companies from banning users based on political views. Judge Robert Pitman issued the order Wednesday in favor of two industry associations that sued to block the Texas law. The order underscored that social media platforms are “privately owned platforms” and not “common carriers.” https://thehill.com/policy/technology/583994-judge-blocks-texas-social-media-censorship-law
2021-12-02 Croatia Unveils Heavy Fines for Failure to Apply COVID Certificates Croatia’s government on Thursday proposed heavy fines for heads of public institutions or municipalities who fail to enforce digital certificates for their employees or visitors designed to help curb a renewed surge of COVID-19. Since the certificates were introduced in Croatia, however, the heads of several municipalities have refused to apply them, saying they did not want to create divisions among citizens. “We propose fines amounting to between 30,000 and 50,000 kuna ($7,537.27),” Health Minister Vili Beros told a cabinet session. Parliamentary approval is expected later this month, given the government’s majority. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/croatia-unveils-heavy-fines-failure-apply-covid-certificates-2021-12-02/
2021-12-02 Israel Halts Controversial Tech to Track Omicron Variant Israel said Thursday it was halting the use of a controversial phone tracking technology to trace possible cases of the new coronavirus variant, days after it was authorized as an emergency measure. Earlier this week, the government announced a package of emergency measures to contain the new variant, including travel restrictions and authorizing the country’s internal security agency to use the phone monitoring technology for contact tracing people infected by the Omicron variant. But late Thursday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office said the “cellular monitoring” would expire at midnight and not be extended. The reversal came following days of public criticism of a practice whose use in the past has been criticized by civil liberties groups and challenged in court. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-health-middle-east-israel-29222557065cacda7514b2a3dc39dc21
2021-12-02 Biden Pushes for More COVID Vaccines, Boosters and Testing in Fight Against Delta, Omicron President Biden is hoping this will be the winter of COVID-19 vaccines, booster shots and testing — not lockdowns. With the fast-spreading Omicron variant on its way, Biden is set to kick off a winter campaign for more Americans to get vaccines and booster shots to prevent a punishing new surge of illness and death. Biden previewed his winter plan by saying the winter COVID fight will advance “not with shutdowns or lockdowns but with more widespread vaccinations, boosters, testing, and more.” https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-biden-covid-vaccines-boosters-testing-key-to-reduced-cases-20211202-v3a5js7kkfd5jdvpiikhkbon74-story.html
2021-12-02 Scientists Find Clues to What Triggers Rare Blood Clots in AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine Scientists say they have identified clues to what triggered blood clots in rare cases of people who took AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine. The very rare but sometimes deadly clots led to pauses in the vaccine’s rollout last year in Europe, and had public health experts worried it could fuel hesitancy, even as they stressed that the benefits of the vaccine far outweighed any risks. The blood clot cases reported after some Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine injections have divided regulators over how and whether to administer them, with France, Britain and Canada limiting use of the shot in younger people, while Denmark and Norway stopped administering it altogether.
In a new study published Wednesday in the Science Advances journal, researchers, including some at Cardiff University and Arizona State University, say they havefound that a protein in the blood, “platelet factor 4,” can bind to a key element of the AstraZeneca vaccine, potentially triggering a reaction, with antibodies attacking the protein. However, questions remain over whether the binding is a direct cause of the blood clots. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/02/scientists-trigger-blood-clots-astrazeneca-vaccine/
2021-12-02 Any Omicron Restrictions Will Deepen Prejudice Against Unvaccinated People We’re not back into lockdown, of course, or anything even vaguely resembling it yet. Instead we are tumbling once again down the rabbit hole of uncertainty, into that wearily familiar world where every plan feels made to be potentially broken. The current wave of COVID-19 surging in Europe has seen a growing backlash emerging against unvaccinated people, the most obvious scapegoats for the fact that the virus still hasn’t gone away, and this is increasingly seeping into policy. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/02/omicron-restrictions-prejudice-against-unvaccinated-people-virus
2021-12-02 Dutch Say 14 Air Passengers From South Africa With Omicron Were Vaccinated Dutch health authorities on Thursday said most of the 62 people who tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving on two flights from South Africa last week had been vaccinated, lending weight to a call for pre-flight testing regardless of vaccination status. In addition, all 14 passengers who were later found to have been infected with the Omicron variant were vaccinated, health officials said on Thursday. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-covid-19-quarantine-ends-most-safrica-passengers-authorities-2021-12-02/
2021-12-02 GlaxoSmithKline Says Tests Indicate Antibody Drug Works Against Omicron Laboratory analysis of the antibody-based COVID-19 therapy GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) (GSK) is developing with U.S. partner Vir (VIR.O) has indicated the drug is effective against the new Omicron variant, the British drugmaker said on Thursday. A GSK statement said that lab tests and a study on hamsters have demonstrated the sotrovimab antibody cocktail works against viruses that were bio-engineered to carry a number of hallmark mutations of the Omicron variant. The two companies have been engineering so-called pseudoviruses that feature major coronavirus mutations across all suspicious variants that have emerged so far, and have run lab tests on their vulnerability to sotrovimab treatment. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/gsk-says-tests-show-antibody-drug-works-against-omicron-2021-12-02/
2021-12-02 South Africa Sees Rise in COVID Reinfections From Omicron, Mild Symptoms — Scientist South Africa is seeing an increase in COVID-19 reinfections due to the Omicron variant but symptoms for reinfected patients and those infected after vaccination appear to be mild, a scientist studying the outbreak of the new strain said. “Previous infection used to protect against Delta but now with Omicron that doesn’t seem to be the case,” said Anne von Gottberg, microbiologist at South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases. Von Gottberg said the travel bans imposed by many countries on passengers from South Africa were having a negative impact on the logistics of scientific research into Omicron. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/safrica-sees-rise-covid-reinfections-omicron-mild-symptoms-scientist-2021-12-02/
2021-12-01 Ignore the Latest Nonsense About ‘Variants.’ Stay Focused on Dangers of COVID Shots. As public health officials stir up fear about the latest new COVID variant, experts warn vaccines are maiming and killing young people in alarming numbers. Just in time for the end-of-year holidays, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials and their bought media agents trotted out a new round of Gothic horror stories about a purported COVID “variant.”
Their apparent hope is that the synchronized hullabaloo about “variants” will distract the public from the true nightmare that is unfolding: a record-setting uptick in all-cause mortality that jives suspiciously not only with the timing of the COVID vaccination rollout but with the top adverse events — heart failure, heart disease, circulatory conditions and strokes — associated with the experimental COVID shots.
Media reports acknowledge the rising tide of “extra non-COVID deaths” and “seriously ill people” swarming emergency departments, even stating that patients are “showing up much sicker than [ER staff have] ever seen” and are younger than expected. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-covid-variant-vaccines-young-people/
2021-12-01 New Data on the Link Between COVID Vaccines and Myopericarditis COVID-19 vaccines may be associated with a heightened risk of myopericarditis among men, according to a new analysis published in the American Journal of Cardiology. “A number of case reports and series have recently been published describing patients who experienced myocarditis after receiving the COVID-19 vaccination,” wrote first author Rosemary Farahmand, MD, of Harvard Medical School, and colleagues. Hoping to gain a better understanding of these relationships, Farahmand et al. tracked data from more than 268,000 adults who received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in the state of Massachusetts from August 2020 to May 2021. The study’s control group was made up of 235,000 of the same patients — from 2018 and 2019, well before they had received any doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-new-data-link-between-vaccines-myopericarditis/
2021-12-01 Most Americans Believe COVID Leaked From Wuhan Lab, Support ‘Reparations’ for Cover-Up, Poll Finds A new poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly believed that the coronavirus pandemic stemmed from a lab leak in Wuhan, China, and that the Chinese government subsequently lied about it. “When asked about the theory that the coronavirus was developed by scientists working at a lab in Wuhan and accidentally leaked, and that the Chinese government then lied about it, nearly three quarters (72%) of Americans believe it is likely, with 42% saying it is very likely,” a report by The Ronald Reagan Institute said, discussing the poll results. Another pandemic-related question had to do with public trust of health officials. Nearly half did not say they had faith in them. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/poll-americans-believe-covid-19-leaked-wuhan-lab
2021-12-01 World Agrees to Negotiate a Global ‘Pandemic Treaty’ to Fight the Next Outbreak Less than a week after the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus was reported to the World Health Organization, global leaders on Wednesday agreed to start negotiations to create an international agreement to prevent and deal with future pandemics — which some have dubbed a “pandemic treaty.”“I welcome the decision you have adopted today, to establish an intergovernmental negotiating body to draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/01/who-coronavirus-pandemic-agreement-treaty/
2021-12-01 COVID Has ‘Radically Altered’ Mobility The U.N. migration agency says the coronavirus pandemic appears to have accelerated “hostile rhetoric” against migrants in the world and “radically altered” mobility, projecting in a new report that travel and other COVID-19-fighting restrictions could dampen migration worldwide as long as they remain. “The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered immobility worldwide to an extent unseen in recent history, slowing the pace of human mobility and migration,” said Ugochi Daniels, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) deputy director-general for operations, at a meeting of its member states. “The pandemic is estimated to have negatively impacted the total growth of international migrants by 2 million.” https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-immigration-business-lifestyle-health-a569517379e770a146b1741391c2d970
2021-12-01 How HIV Research Paved the Way for the COVID mRNA Vaccines Every Dec. 1, the world commemorates those who have died from an AIDS-related illness. Known as World AIDS Day, it serves as a reminder that there has been an ongoing pandemic for the past 40 years, pre-dating COVID. The COVID vaccines were sequenced, developed and approved in the U.S. in record time, but that would not have been possible without decades of work by HIV researchers. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/01/how-hiv-research-paved-the-way-for-the-covid-mrna-vaccines.html
2021-12-01 Southern Africa Is Not a Hotbed of Variants — It’s Just Very Good at Sequencing and Spotting Them Last week, scientists in South Africa put the world on notice. Omicron is here. The variant, B.1.1.529, was identified first on Nov. 11, among foreign diplomats who had traveled to Botswana. Then, it was found again by a team of scientists in South Africa on Nov. 14, and they alerted world health leaders. The reality is that southern Africa is a top international powerhouse of COVID-19 surveillance in large part because the continent stood up innovative systems for tracking viral diseases and genetic mutations well before the coronavirus hit, tracing and surveilling diseases including HIV, Ebola, and tuberculosis. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-southern-africa-detected-omicron-variant-so-quickly-2021-11
2021-12-01 1,500 Unhoused LA Residents Died on the Streets During Pandemic, Report Reveals Nearly 1,500 unhoused people are estimated to have died on the streets of Los Angeles during the pandemic, according to a new report that raises alarms about authorities’ handling of a worsening humanitarian crisis. Ananya Roy, director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, which produced the report, said the young age of death was particularly disturbing. “When people are passing away outdoors and on the sidewalks, that is a failure of the state,” said Chloe Rosenstock, co-author of the report and an organizer with Street Watch LA, an advocacy group for the unhoused. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/01/1500-unhoused-la-residents-died-on-the-streets-during-pandemic-report-reveals
2021-12-01 Omicron Variant Identified in U.S.: First Case of COVID Linked to New Variant Found in California The first U.S. case of COVID-19 linked to the new Omicron variant has been identified in California in a traveler who returned from South Africa on Nov. 22, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. The patient, who was fully vaccinated, tested positive on Nov. 29, officials said. The individual has mild symptoms that are improving and is in self-quarantine. Genetic sequencing was performed by the University of California at San Francisco and confirmed by the CDC. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-new-data-link-between-vaccines-myopericarditis/
2021-12-01 Massachusetts Coronavirus Breakthrough Cases Spike 6,610 During Thanksgiving Week More than 6,600 fully vaccinated people in the Bay State tested positive for coronavirus during the week of Thanksgiving, a daily average of about 944 people as breakthrough infections continue to surge. The count of 6,610 breakthrough cases last week was a bit down from the tally of 6,917 breakthrough infections in the prior week. Testing during Thanksgiving week was significantly lower. https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/11/30/massachusetts-coronavirus-breakthrough-cases-spike-6610-during-thanksgiving-week/
2021-12-01 ‘This Week’ With Mary + Polly: Officials Sound Alarm Over ‘Super-Mutant’ COVID Variant Omicron + More
- Americans should be prepared to fight the spread of the COVID variant Omicron, but it is too soon to say what actions are needed, including possible mandates or lockdowns, top U.S. infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci said
- A large number of mutations are present in the Omicron variant, many of them new. Several of them affect the spike protein which was the primary target of the vaccine at the time of discovery. “I found this really fascinating,” said Polly. “It’s troubling.”
- The UK confirmed two cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant.
- Fauci said the new, “severe” Omicron variant will “inevitably” arrive in the U.S., although it has yet to be detected.
- Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said he has a “very high level of confidence” the company’s COVID treatment pill is effective against the Omicron variant. “Clearly this is coordinated media,” said Mary. “It’s quite unbelievable.”
- New York City reinstated its mask advisory but has not identified any cases of Omicron so far, according to outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio and Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi.
- President Joe Biden called the Omicron a cause for concern but “not a cause for panic” and said he was not considering any widespreadU.S. lockdown. He did urge people to get vaccinated. “This is basically a made-up story,” said Mary. “This variant has been around for a year.”
- The World Health Organization (WHO) said it believes Omicron poses a “very high” risk to the globe because it may be more transmissible than other strains of the virus. “Not making much sense here,” said Polly.
- Genomic testing has confirmed two more overseas travelers, who recently arrived in Australia, have been infected with Omicron.
- Barry Schoub, chair of South Africa’s ministerial advisory committee on COVID vaccines, said the mutation of the Omicron variant could be down to “reservoirs” of the virus lurking in the unvaccinated and immunosuppressed.
- Greece made the COVID vaccine mandatory for all people over age 60. “This is a new escalation,” said Mary. “This is absolutely wrong.”
- Japan confirmed its first case of the new Omicron variant, a Namibian diplomat who recently arrived from his country, officials said.
- According to an article on The Defender, while the WHO is warning Omicron can spread more quickly than other variants, based on science, that doesn’t mean the variant is more lethal than Delta or others — in fact, it’s probably more mild. “You really need to go and read this,” said Polly.
- In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Amy Bolin said in order to be approved for a double-lung transplant, her husband had to be fully vaccinated for COVID even though he’d had the virus and recovered. After his second Moderna shot, he developed a pulmonary embolism and heart condition and died before he could get new lungs. “This is terribly sad,” said Polly.
- The WHO is convening a special session of its governing body, the World Health Assembly, to start talks on a new global treaty covering pandemics. Representatives of WHO’s 194 member states will meet virtually for three days to consider new international rules for handling future outbreaks. “This is not brand new,” said Mary. “It’s absolutely typical.”
- On the latest episode of The Hill’s “Rising,” journalist and political commentator Kim Iversen discussed Austria’s strict vaccine mandate, and how the government gave people the “illusion of choice” before cracking down on unvaccinated.
- German public transport controllers will start to check passengers’ proof of vaccination.
- All essential, nonresident travelers crossing U.S. land borders, such as truck drivers, government and emergency response officials, will be required to be fully vaccinated beginning on Jan. 22.
- The federal government will not suspend or terminate employees for violating its COVID vaccine mandate until January, the Biden Administration said. The vaccination rate for federal workers hovers at 92% — well above the national average. “This is putting a pretty face on the fact that they failed,” said Mary.
- On Nov. 2, members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory committee voted 14-0 to recommend Pfizer’s pediatric COVID shot for children 5-11 years old. Were their decisions driven by science and conscience — or their ties to drugmakers? This article on The Defender dives in. “This is a very important article,” said Polly. “This is a fantastic article,” said Mary.
- In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Dr. Paul Marik said patients are dying “unnecessarily and unlawfully” because the hospital where he is director of the ICU prioritizes expensive drugs like Remdesivir while banning more effective and less costly treatments. “This is also a really important article,” said Mary. “This is a crucial battle.”
- As cases of corporate violence increase, company executives escape fines, admissions and often are promoted or let go with huge multi-million-dollar severance payments.
- Censorship is being coordinated on a global level. The International Grand Committee on Disinformation consists of “an international array of legislators, policy advisers and other experts” who work together “to forge international alliances that bring shared, effective strategies into the battle against online disinformation.”
- A Missouri court ruled COVID restrictions and mandates imposed by public health officials are illegal.
- Thousands of American service members are facing disciplinary action — up to dismissal — if they are not fully vaccinated against COVID by the upcoming deadline. “It’s actually tragic,” said Polly. “The bullying is severe for our service members.”
- New York City educators who were denied a religious exemption to vaccination were back in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in the cases Kane v. De Blasio and Keil v. The City of New York to argue the policy adopted by the city to determine religious exemptions blatantly violates the Constitution and discriminates against minority faiths. “This is a really important case,” said Mary. “This is a partial victory.”
- University of Washington researchers found one dose of the HPV vaccine might be all that is needed to prevent the virus that causes many cervical cancer cases. “This is really interesting,” said Mary. “It may well have to do with side effects.” Watch Vaxxed II to learn more about the devastating side effects of the HPV vaccine.
- At least 600 Google employees have signed a manifesto calling on co-workers to resist a company vaccine mandate and for management to implement a new one that is “inclusive of all Googlers,” telling them to “oppose the mandate as a matter of principle,”
- Join people around the world in support of Australia and go to the Australian embassy on Dec. 4 at 12 p.m. for the SOS event by Reignite Democracy Australia. The group requests you ask for no more lockdowns, mandated vaccinations or international travel restrictions.
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s book — “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health” — released Nov. 16, is #1 on Amazon. Order your book today.
- Apply to our new fellowship program! CHD is accepting applications for full-time or part-time fellowships across many of its program areas, including legal, science, 5G, online news, social media, CHD.TV and advocacy.
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2021-12-01 Iversen: Omicron Hype ‘Makes No Sense’ Is the panic surrounding the Omicron variant overblown? That’s the question journalist and political commentator Kim Iversen asked on the latest episode of The Hill’s “Rising.” Iversen noted how after news outlets reported on the new variant, the stock market fell, countries closed down their borders and travel bans were placed on South African countries.
“Doctors treating Omicron patients in South Africa [are] saying the variant presents with such mild symptoms that the hype makes no sense,” said Iversen. South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla accused countries that enacted travel bans and closed borders of “knee jerk reactions.” The chairwoman of the African Medical Association, which is currently monitoring patients who have the Omicron variant, said the variant “presents very mild disease … with no prominent symptoms” other than a “slight cough.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kim-iversen-omicron-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-south-africa/
2021-12-01 Biden COVID Vaccine Mandates Suffer Two More Legal Setbacks A federal judge in Louisiana on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction halting President Biden’s national vaccine mandate for healthcare workers nationwide, and separately, a U.S. district judge in Kentucky issued a preliminary injunction blocking Biden’s mandate for federal contractors in three states. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/biden-covid-vaccine-mandates-legal-setbacks/
2021-12-01 They Were High-Performing Athletes … Until COVID Vaccines Destroyed Their Health A world record-holder in static breath-hold freediving, a veteran triathlete, a professional tennis player, a professional mountain biker — they were all high-performing athletes until COVID vaccines ruined their health, and their careers.
- Florian Dagoury is a world record holder in static breath-hold freediving; he held his breath for an astonishing 10 minutes and 30 seconds.
- After receiving his second dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 injection, he experienced increased heart rate and a reduction in his breath-holding capacity.
- A cardiologist diagnosed him with myocarditis and pericarditis, both recognized adverse effects linked to the shots.
- In another instance, 34-year-old Jeremy Chardy, a professional tennis player ranked 73rd in the world, suspended his season due to a severe adverse reaction to the COVID-19 shot.
- Veteran triathlete Antoine Méchin, 32, is also facing the potential end to his career after receiving Moderna COVID-19 injections and developing a pulmonary embolism.
- While health officials remain silent about COVID-19 injection reactions, the growing number of reports of adverse reactions cannot be silenced forever.
Pfizer COVID-19 shot increases myocarditis risk threefold Myocarditis and pericarditis cause symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath and a fluttering or pounding heart. Cases have occurred most often after mRNA COVID-19 injections (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna), particularly in male adolescents and young adults, according to the CDC. Further, myocarditis occurs more often after the second injection, usually within a week. A large study from Israel revealed that the Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA jab is associated with a threefold increased risk of myocarditis, leading to the condition at a rate of one to five events per 100,000 persons. Other elevated risks were also identified following the COVID jab, including lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes), appendicitis and herpes zoster infection. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/high-performing-athletes-covid-vaccine-injuries/
2021-12-01 FDA Panel Recommends Merck COVID Pill, Despite ‘More Questions Than Answers’ A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Tuesday voted narrowly to recommend Emergency Use Authorization of Merck’s five-day pill to treat COVID, despite the panel expressing a host of concerns about the drug’s safety and efficacy. The drug, molnupiravir, sold under the brand name Lagevrio and developed with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, is an antiviral medication that inhibits the replication of certain RNA viruses, including SARS CoV-2.
Dr. David Hardy, who voted to recommend the drug, said there’s a “need for something like this” but admitted the “efficacy of this product is not overwhelmingly good.” Lindsey Baden, the committee’s chairman, made similar statements calling it “an incredibly difficult decision” with “more questions than answers.” Dr. Sankar Swaminathan, who voted against recommendation, said more research was needed on how the drug will affect human DNA and the potential for it to cause birth defects. “The risk of widespread effects on potential birth defects, especially delayed effects on the male, have not been adequately studied,” Swaminathan said. Dr. James Hildreth expressed concerns with mutant variants escaping, telling the panel: “Even if the probability is very low, 1 in 10,000 or 100,000, that this drug would induce an escape mutant from which the vaccines we have do not cover, that could be catastrophic for the whole world actually.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-vote-lagevrio-merck-covid-treatment-pill/
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