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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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2021-11-10 CDC Manipulated Studies In Order to Prop Up Official COVID Narrative Two studies published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — both of questionable quality — allow the agency to claim COVID vaccines are safer and more effective than they really are.

• Recent data from the U.K. Office of National Statistics reveals people who have been double jabbed against COVID-19 are dying from all causes at a rate six times higher than the unvaccinated.
• In the U.S., meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is propping up the official narrative with two manipulated studies — one suggesting the jab reduces all-cause mortality, and another claiming the shot is five times more protective than natural immunity.
• Both studies are of questionable quality and have several problems, including selection of time and date ranges that allow them to pretend that the COVID shots are safer and more effective than they really are.
• According to all-cause mortality statistics, the number of Americans who died between January 2021 and August 2021 is 16% higher than 2018 (the pre-COVID year with the highest all-cause mortality) and 18% higher than the average death rate between 2015 and 2019.

Did COVID-19 raise the death toll despite mass vaccination, or are people dying at increased rates because of the COVID jabs?

• CDC data reveal that while the number of hospitalized patients with natural immunity fell sharply over the summer, when the delta variant took over, the number of vaccinated people being hospitalized soared, from three per month on average during the spring to more than 100 a month in late summer.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-studies-covid-vaccine-narrative/

2021-11-07 Sen. Ron Johnson Holds Expert Panel on COVID and Shocking Vaccine Injuries Ignored by U.S. Health Agencies U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wi) on Nov. 2 held a roundtable with an expert panel of scientists, lawyers, physicians and patient advocates, who discussed the importance of early treatment for COVID, natural immunity, the negative impacts of vaccine mandates, COVID vaccine safety concerns and the lack of transparency from federal health agencies in response to his COVID oversight requests. https://thevaultproject.org/ron-johnson-holds-expert-panel-on-covid-and-shocking-vaccine-injuries/

2021-11-05 We’re Not in a ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated,’ Peter Doshi Explains During COVID Panel Peter Doshi, a senior editor at The BMJ, and Retsef Levi, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told a panel of experts the COVID vaccines’ trial data doesn’t support the narrative that the vaccines are safe and effective.

Doshi said we’re not in a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” If hospitalizations and deaths are almost exclusively occuring in the unvaccinated “why would booster shots be necessary?” Doshi asked. “And why would the statistics be so different in the UK, where most COVID hospitalizations and deaths are among the fully vaccinated?”

Doshi argued the public was lied to in early 2021, when health officials including Dr. Anthony Fauci, claimed COVID vaccine trial data proved the vaccine saved lives. After presenting the trial data for the vaccines authorized for use in the U.S., Doshi pointed out “there were similar numbers in the vaccine and placebo groups.” 

Doshi talked about anti-vaxxers and criticized the official definition of the term. “A person who opposes the use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccination.” “There are entire countries from the United Kingdom to Japan which do not mandate childhood vaccines,” he said. “There are no mandates, and I would wager that perhaps a majority of the world’s population meet this definition of an anti-vaxxer.”

“I argue these products which everyone calls MRNA vaccines are qualitatively different from standard vaccines,” Doshi said. “mRNA products did not meet the definition of vaccine that has been in place for over 15 years, but the definition was expanded such that mRNA products are now vaccines,”

He also criticized the fact that society is vaccinating and mandating the vaccine for large portions of the public despite the raw data on the safety and efficacy of the vaccines not being available yet.

“So while we are told to keep following the science, what we are following is not a scientific process based on open data, we are following a process where the data are secret, and in my view there is something very unscientific about that,” Doshi said.

Former New York Times investigative reporter Alex Berenson broke the news about the bad outcomes for the vaccinated in the Pfizer clinical trial in adults. Twitter banned Berenson for life for posting Pfizer’s own clinical trial data. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/peter-doshi-restev-levi-covid-vaccines-trial-data/

2021-11-05 Vaccine Refusals in Intelligence Agencies Raise GOP Concerns Thousands of intelligence officers could soon face dismissal for failing to comply with the U.S. government’s vaccine mandate, leading some Republican lawmakers to raise concerns about removing employees from agencies critical to national security.

Several intelligence agencies had at least 20% of their workforce unvaccinated as of late October, said U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart, a Utah Republican who is a member of the House Intelligence Committee. Some agencies in the 18-member intelligence community had as much as 40% of their workforce unvaccinated, Stewart said, citing information the administration has provided to the committee but not released publicly. He declined to identify the agencies because full information on vaccination rates was classified. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-national-security-intelligence-agencies-chris-stewart-bfff7fc2f8ee0635dd4ae3411c9047eb

2021-11-05 NYC Reaches Agreement With 4 Labor Unions on Vaccine Mandate; Fire Unions Push Back New York City announced Thursday agreements have been between four of the city’s labor unions regarding the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The unions, DC 37, Teamsters Local 237, Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association Local 831, and SEIU Local 300, who collectively represent approximately 75,000 employees (excluding members employed at DOE or H+H), have signed the agreement on the mandate, which includes exemption requests and leave policies. Firefighters’ unions say they were offered the same pact and have made the city a counterproposal, including a permanent option for weekly coronavirus testing instead of inoculation. https://pix11.com/news/coronavirus/nyc-reaches-agreement-with-4-labor-unions-on-vaccine-mandate/

2021-11-05 Professional Mountain Bike Racer Describes Life-Altering Vaccine Injuries After Second Pfizer COVID Shot Kyle Warner, a 29-year-old professional mountain bike racer, developed pericarditis, POTS and reactive arthritis following his second dose of Pfizer’s COVID shot. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kyle-warner-vaccine-injuries-pfizer-covid-shot/

2021-11-05 Remote Test Proctoring Apps Are a Form of Mass Surveillance During the pandemic, the use of eproctoring technology has soared, with one major company reporting its contract base has increased by an astounding 500%. Although some schools are returning to in-person learning, students continue to face eproctoring requirements that harm personal privacy, mentalhealth, and academic success. Unless the use of remote proctoring apps is halted it will continue to exacerbate racism and discrimination in education and desensitize students to compulsory mass surveillance.

Remote proctoring software is, essentially, spyware that students are forced to install, typically as a browser plug-in or a computer program. Invasive features like keystroke logging, screen recording, network traffic monitoring, and video and audio recording are common. Many of the programs also collect tons of biometric data through eye-movement tracking and facial recognition. Online other types of data — like passwords or credit card numbers — biometric information cannot be changed. Once it is hacked, there is almost nothing a person can do about it. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/remote-proctoring-apps-tests

2021-11-05 Pfizer COVID Vaccine Fails Risk-Benefit Analysis in Children 5 to 11 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) routinely violate their own standards and the fundamental norms of science when reviewing Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA) and Biologics License Applications from pharmaceutical companies that wish to introduce a new vaccine.

The FDA publishes a 242-page book called Communicating Risk and Benefits: An Evidence-Based User’s Guide. The guide states that absolute risk, relative risk and number needed to treat (NNT) are all necessary for proper decision-making. Yet the recent FDA risk-benefit assessment in connection with the Pfizer EUA application for children 5 to 11 described only relative risks in an older population and ignored absolute risk and NNT altogether.

The pharmaceutical industry hates talking about NNTV, and they hate talking about NNTV even more when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines because the NNTV is so high that this vaccine could not pass any honest risk-benefit analysis.

Pfizer’s 6-month clinical trial in adults showed alarming increases in all-cause mortality in the vaccinated. On that basis, Pfizer’s initial EUA application should have been rejected and the Independent Review Board should have rejected Pfizer’s application to conduct clinical trials in children. In Pfizer’s 6-month clinical trial in adults there was one death from COVID-19-related illness out of about 22,000 participants in the vaccine (“treatment”) group, and two deaths from COVID-19-related illness out of 22,000 in the placebo group (see Table s4).

It would appear that 22,000 shots prevented one death from COVID so one might assume an NNTV of 22,000? Not so fast. When one looks at all-cause mortality, there were 15 deaths in the treatment group and 14 deaths in the placebo group. Efficacy against COVID was declining by 6% every month (see p. 7), so at the 6-month point Pfizer ended the trial and offered the vaccine to everyone in the placebo group.

Once Pfizer’s mRNA shot was available to everyone (what’s called the “open-label period”) three more people from the treatment group and two original placebo recipients who elected to receive the Pfizer mRNA shot died. So in all, there were 20 deaths in the treatment group and 14 deaths in the placebo group. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-pfizer-covid-vaccine-risk-benefit-analysis-nntv-children/

2021-11-05 3 More Reports of Teen Deaths After COVID Vaccines, as Reported Injuries Exceed 850,000 VAERS data released today by the CDC included a total of 856,919 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 18,078 deaths and 131,027 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and Oct. 29, 2021.

Excluding “foreign reports” to VAERS, 634,609 adverse events, including 8,284 deaths and 52,685 serious injuries, were reported in the U.S. between Dec. 14, 2020, and Oct. 29, 2021. Of the 8,284 U.S. deaths reported as of Oct. 29, 10% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, 15% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination and 26% occurred in people who experienced an onset of symptoms within 48 hours of being vaccinated. In the U.S., 418.6 million COVID vaccine doses had been administered as of Oct. 29. This includes: 246 million doses of Pfizer, 157 million doses of Moderna and 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson (J&J). https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-cdc-adverse-events-deaths-covid-vaccines/

2021-11-05 French Government Losing Credibility as Public ‘Wakes Up’ The U.S. does not have a government-sponsored anti-conspiracy commission equivalent to the one in France. However the “Confronting Health Misinformation” guidelines from the U.S. Surgeon General’s advisory on “Building a Healthy Information Environment” encourages educators, journalists, researchers and foundations to address so-called COVID “misinformation.” Following this recommendation, the Rockefeller Foundation launched a $13.5 million funding campaign “to strengthen COVID-19 response efforts in the U.S., Africa, India and Latin America “to counter health mis- and disinformation.”

The Canadian government invested $64 million in COVID “vaccine education campaigns” through the Immunization Partnership Fund to help “combat vaccine hesitancy and misinformation.”

Sojli said the French government is losing credibility as more people “wake up” and realize medical freedom will be achieved only when people notice they are being controlled. “I grew up in a dictatorship,” he said. “I’m from Albania. I was born in a concentration camp … and so I know how these things work,” Sojli said police are on the people’s side for the most part. They look the other way on enforcing masks and other rules and restrictions. Protests have been well-attended and mostly peaceful, he said, however green passes are encouraging discrimination of the unvaccinated. “They are trying to make the vaccine word very ‘in,’” he said. “The propaganda is crazy.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-tv-world-amanda-forbes-leo-sojli-france-pandemic-response-policies/

2021-11-05 City, County Employees Protest COVID Vaccine Mandates About 100 City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County employees are protesting their vaccine mandates, saying they’d rather get fired than vaccinated. The workers are carrying signs and chanting downtown, saying getting the shot should be a matter of individual choice and they believe the mandates are a violation of their rights. https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/11/05/allegheny-county-city-of-pittsburgh-employee-vaccine-mandate-protests/

2021-11-05 California Town Declares Itself a ‘Constitutional Republic’ to Buck COVID Rules A northern California town has declared itself a “constitutional republic” in response to COVID-19 health restrictions imposed by the governor, in the latest sign of strife between the state’s government and its rural and conservative regions. The city council in Oroville, located at the base of the Sierra Nevada foothills about 90 miles from the capital of Sacramento, adopted a resolution this week stating it would oppose state and federal orders it deems to be government overreach. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/05/california-constitutional-republic-covid-restrictions

2021-11-05 Lawsuits Over Workplace Vaccine Rule Focus On States’ Rights More than two dozen Republican-led states filed lawsuits Friday challenging President Joe Biden’s vaccine requirement for private companies, setting up a high-stakes legal showdown pitting federal authority against states’ rights. The lawsuits ask courts to decide whether the administration’s effort to curtail the pandemic represents a federal power grab and usurps the authority of states to set health policy. At least 26 states filed lawsuits challenging the rule. “This mandate is unconstitutional, unlawful, and unwise,” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said in a court filing in the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of 11 states. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-lawsuits-health-a57c936f1e6495a71cc2504a4dbfb813

2021-11-05 How the OSHA Vaccine and Testing Mandate Might Play Out for Local Businesses Local businesses and legal experts are poring over a 490-page document released Thursday to determine the implications of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandate for large employers. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), meanwhile, said it “needs additional time” to determine whether it would be feasible to implement a similar mandate for smaller businesses with under 100 employees. That isn’t welcome news for small business owners like Erinn Danielle, who runs Simply Erinn’s Unisex Hair Salon in Cambridge and isn’t vaccinated. She doesn’t think she should be forced to require her two employees to get vaccinated or test weekly. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/05/nation/how-osha-vaccine-testing-mandate-might-play-out-local-businesses/

2021-11-04 Biden Says He Didn’t Want to Resort to Sweeping COVID Vaccine Mandates President Joe Biden on Thursday defended the move to issue sweeping vaccine mandates for federal contractors, healthcare workers, and private-sector employees. Biden said in a statement, echoing claims made last week by his COVID-19 advisor, Jeff Zients, “There have been no ‘mass firings’ and worker shortages because of vaccination requirements. Despite what some predicted and falsely assert, vaccination requirements have broad public support.” “While I would have much preferred that requirements not become necessary, too many people remain unvaccinated for us to get out of this pandemic for good,” Biden said. “So I instituted requirements — and they are working.” https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-says-he-didnt-want-to-resort-to-sweeping-covid-vaccine-mandates_4086674.html

2021-11-04 De Blasio to Pay Kids $100 to Get the COVID Vaccine New York City will begin offering $100 to incentivize COVID-19 vaccines for kids ages 5-11. The new policy will apply to New York City-run vaccine sites and comes two days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved Pfizer‘s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use for children 5-11-years-old.

The mayor also said that every public school in the city that serves children in the targeted age range will hold a dedicated vaccination day for those students beginning next week, which will cover about 1,070 sites over the course of the week by hitting roughly 200 schools per day. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de-blasio-paying-kids-100-to-get-the-covid-19-vaccine

2021-11-04 Microbiologist: Why I Won’t Get Second COVID Shot — and Why Enlisting Kids in ‘Clinical Trial’ Is ‘Unfathomable’ I am a microbiologist and a scientist. I am a scientist because I place a higher value on asking questions than on consumption of knowledge. Something struck me as problematic very early on in the COVID-19 narrative when the director-general of the World Health Organization announced that the coronavirus in question was ‘public enemy number one’, an ‘unprecedented threat’ and an ‘enemy against humanity.’ I knew that something was not right, for this was the kind of terminology that had been used at the end of the Second World War, not to describe an infectious agent, but to refer to nuclear weapons and the banality of evil.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/medhet-khattar-covid-shot-kids-clinical-trial/

2021-11-04 OSHA Gives Workers Until Jan. 4 to Comply With Biden’s COVID Vaccine Mandate, Lawmakers Tee Up Lawsuits The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued an emergency temporary standard giving employers with more than 100 employees, which affects 84 million workers, until Jan. 4 to comply with President Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate or employers face fines up to $136,532.

According to The Washington Post, the rule requires weekly testing and mandatory face masks for workers who choose not to get vaccinated. It also requires employers to provide paid time off for workers to get vaccinated or recover from any side effects. However, employees who choose not to get vaccinated must foot the bill for tests, officials said. There is also no exception to the vaccine mandate for those who have natural immunity from previous Sars-CoV-2 infection. The OSHA rule “requires employers to determine the vaccination status of each employee, obtain acceptable proof of vaccination, maintain records of each employee’s vaccination status and maintain a roster of each employee’s vaccination status.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/osha-workers-biden-covid-vaccine-mandate-lawsuits/

2021-11-04 U.S. Rolls Out COVID Vaccine for Young Children, Ending Long Wait for Some Parents The United States on Wednesday started vaccinating children aged 5 to 11 against COVID-19, with roughly 28 million school-age kids now eligible for the shots that provide protection against the illness. Still, it remains unclear how parents will react. Many people who have been vaccinated themselves are more divided over whether or not to vaccinate their own younger children given that severe COVID-19 is much less common for them. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-us-rolls-out-vaccine-young-children

2021-11-03 Full Extent of COVID Vaccine Reactions Won’t Be Known for at Least 10 Years, Physician Says host Dr. Paul Thomas featured two medical professionals who successfully treated COVID patients without a single fatality. The guests — Dr. Jim Meehan, an ophthalmologist with advanced medical training in immunology and interventional endocrinology, and Scott Miller, a physician assistant with Miller Family Pediatrics — focused on this question: How do medical professionals transcend the fear of condemnation to save patients from often deadly mainstream treatments?

Meehan shared his evidence-based scientific analysis of why masks are ineffective, unnecessary and harmful. Meehan also discussed his experience treating COVID patients using available therapies not offered in hospitals, and how his social media posts about COVID treatments were banned. Of the approximately 4,000 COVID patients Meehan treated, none died. Meehan said his patients came to him early enough for treatment. In the hospital, he successfully treated more than 20 patients who were failing hospital COVID protocols, including a 66-year-old man who had taken two rounds of Remdesivir. Meehan said shortly after the COVID vaccine rollout, he began recognizing vaccine adverse effects, including miscarriages, vasculitis, inflammatory pathologies and blood clot formations. Thomas saw a case of myocarditis after vaccines in his pediatric practice.

After Meehan started to see young and college-aged patients with COVID vaccine injuries, he added an emergency declaration to his website. Later he was banned from social media for posting about the danger of spike proteins and how animal studies showed those proteins cross the blood-brain barrier and cause neurological harm. Meehan said his safety warnings against COVID vaccination apply across the board, but especially pregnant women, children and youth. “We must not vaccinate children who are statistically at zero risk of dying from COVID-19,” he said, sharing data from a recent Johns Hopkins University analysis that found of the more than 330 COVID deaths in kids under age 25, data suggested most or nearly all appeared to be in kids with a life-threatening, pre-existing condition. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-tv-against-wind-paul-thomas-jim-meehan-scott-miller-fda-covid

2021-11-03 Air Force Says Nearly 8,500 Miss Deadline for COVID Shots Nearly 8,500 active duty members of the Air Force and Space Force have missed the deadline for getting COVID-19 vaccinations, including 800 who flatly refused and nearly 5,000 with pending requests for a religious exemption, the Air Force said Wednesday. Tuesday was the Air Force deadline for all active duty members to receive vaccinations. The Air Force deadline was the first of all the military services, providing an initial glimpse into how America’s military will handle the mandate. The Air Force said that by Dec. 2 it would complete its review of requests for medical and religious exemptions. Thus far, a total of 1,866 requests for medical or administrative exemptions have been approved. It said zero requests for religious exemptions have been approved. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-b145976254f6deab1ae3130cf8159b00

2021-11-03 How the Body Detoxifies Itself + Strategies for Boosting Kids’ Immune Systems Jendza shared advice on how to boost children’s immune systems, including common-sense ideas on food as medicine and cooking tips for children, including picky eaters. She shared the story of her own health crisis, and how she learned to naturally detox by going inward for answers, starting with the toxic products in her home and environment. “The important thing to know about detoxification is that your body detoxifies itself,” Jendza said. “There’s nothing that detoxifies you.” On Honeycutt’s regular food news segment, Carol Grieve of Food Integrity Now said organic food consumption has gone up in the “double digits” during the pandemic and U.S. hospitals are growing their own produce for hospital meals.

Honeycutt is the author of “Unstoppable: Transforming Sickness and Struggle into Triumph,” and founding director of Moms Across America, a nonprofit raising awareness about GMOs and related pesticides in our food, and Moms Across the World, a collaborative effort of moms and supporters around the world. She is committed to educating and empowering mothers and others with actions and solutions to create healthy communities.  https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-tv-empower-zen-honeycutt-mari-marques-immune-system/

2021-11-03 Palmdale Wants to Challenge L.A. County’s COVID Vaccine Mandate The city of Palmdale is looking into how it can challenge an L.A. County mandate requiring residents to show proof of vaccination to enter indoor bars, wineries, nightclubs and lounges, becoming another focal point in the debate over personal freedom and public health. Palmdale City Council members on Oct. 20 voted unanimously to direct the city attorney to report back with options to push against the rules, whether by resolution, ordinance, lawsuit or other measure. “It is an overreach to sit here and demand an invasive medical procedure,” Mayor Steven Hofbauer said during a phone interview Tuesday, calling the notion of a forced health measure “Orwellian.” Hofbauer chose to get vaccinated after contracting the coronavirus early this year. The mayor said he has since suffered from serious vaccine side effects, including the development of pancreatitis and pericarditis. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-03/city-of-palmdale-considers-challenging-la-county-vaccine-mandate

2021-11-03 Montana’s Governor Nixed a Kids’ Vaccine Campaign, so Health Officials Plan Their Own Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration quashed plans for a public service campaign to promote COVID-19 vaccinations for eligible teenagers over the summer, a former state health official said. That has led public health and medical experts to plan their own ad campaigns, in anticipation of the administration not publicly backing shots for kids 5 and up when doses for those children roll out. A state endorsement and ad campaign on television, radio and the internet could encourage and persuade undecided parents to get their kids vaccinated. https://khn.org/news/article/children-covid-vaccination-public-messaging-campaign-montana/

2021-11-03 Senate Republicans to Formally Disapprove, Nullify Biden Vaccine Mandate On Private Employees More than three dozen Senate Republicans are moving to formally disapprove and nullify President Biden’s vaccine mandate on private employees Wednesday under the Congressional Review Act — the official process for Congress to eliminate an executive branch rule. Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana is leading 41 Republican senators on Wednesday to “strike down” Biden’s rule, which mandates employees — at private businesses with 100 workers or more — to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Republicans blasted the mandate, which Biden introduced in September, and the forthcoming formal rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which is expected to be released in the coming days — calling it “unacceptable” and an order that “warrants review by Congress.” https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-republicans-formally-disapprove-nullify-biden-vaccine-mandate-private-employees

2021-11-03 Analysis: Wide Array of Opponents Prepare to Fight Biden Vaccine Mandate The country’s first national COVID-19 vaccine mandate, expected to be unveiled by the Biden administration this week, is likely to unleash a frenzied legal battle that will hinge on a rarely used law and questions over federal power and authority over healthcare. States, companies, trade groups, civil liberty advocates and religious organizations are expected to rush to court with demands to stop the mandate in its tracks. Two dozen Republican state attorneys general have already vowed to use “every legal option” to fight the mandate and 40 Republican lawmakers said on Wednesday they were preparing their own challenge. https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2021-11-03/analysis-wide-array-of-opponents-prepare-to-fight-biden-vaccine-mandate

2021-11-03 Los Angeles County Sheriff Doubles Down On Not Enforcing Vaccine Mandate as He Warns of Mass Exodus of Deputies Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva warned Tuesday of a possible public safety threat due to a “mass exodus” of deputies from the department and blamed the county’s vaccine mandate. Days after the county deadline, Villanueva said he wouldn’t enforce the mandate. On Tuesday, Villanueva said only about 42% of the department’s sworn personnel have been vaccinated and 3,137 deputies are at risk of termination due to the mandate. And, the sheriff said, many unvaccinated deputies are voluntarily leaving the department to escape the vaccination requirement. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/03/us/los-angeles-county-sheriff-vaccine-mandate-mass-exodus-warning/index.html

2021-11-03 Analysis: Country by Country, Scientists Eye Beginning of an End to the COVID Pandemic As the devastating Delta variant surge eases in many regions of the world, scientists are charting when, and where, COVID-19 will transition to an endemic disease in 2022 and beyond, according to Reuters interviews with over a dozen leading disease experts. They expect that the first countries to emerge from the pandemic will have had some combination of high rates of vaccination and natural immunity among people who were infected with the coronavirus, such as the United States, the UK, Portugal and India. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/country-by-country-scientists-eye-beginning-an-end-covid-19-pandemic-2021-11-03/

2021-11-03 Top-Selling Drug in the World — Pfizer COVID Vaccine 2021 Sales on Track to Hit $36 Billion In a call with analysts Tuesday, the same day the Centers for Disease Control Prevention signed off on Emergency Use Authorization of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds, Pfizer boosted its 2021 sales forecast from $33.5 billion to $36 billion. Pfizer said its profit margin on the vaccine, before taxes and after splitting profit with BioNTech, is the “high 20s,” which means vaccine profits could approach $10 billion just for Pfizer this year. In the U.S. and Europe, Pfizer has benefited from having the first vaccine cleared for booster doses and for use in younger adolescents and children. 

By “sponsoring” television newscasts and information programs, Pfizer may be intending to do more than merely increase vaccination rates: They may wish to influence news coverage by these media, skewing such coverage in their favor in any number of ways. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-covid-vaccine-sales-billions/

2021-11-03 FDNY ‘Sickout’ Intensifies Drama Over Vaccine Mandate Battles have erupted between officials and first responders as COVID-19 vaccine mandates go into effect and unions representing workers ramp up their resistance to the requirements. In New York City, an irregular number of more than 2,000 firefighters took medical leave in a “sickout” over the past week as the vaccination deadline passed. In response, these first responders have faced accusations from officials that those misusing sick leave are neglecting their oath and endangering the safety of city residents. Worries have emerged that the move could be utilized beyond New York City and across the U.S. in a potential new phase of the pandemic. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/579745-fdny-sickout-intensifies-drama-over-vaccine-mandate

2021-11-03 Unvaccinated? Don’t Count On Leaving Your Family Death Benefits These days, workers who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 may face financial repercussions, from higher health insurance premiums to loss of their jobs. Now, the financial fallout might follow workers beyond the grave. If they die of COVID and weren’t vaccinated, their families may not get death benefits they would otherwise have received. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority no longer pays a $500,000 death benefit to the families of subway, bus and commuter rail workers who die of COVID if the workers were unvaccinated at the time of death. https://khn.org/news/article/unvaccinated-workers-death-benefits/

2021-11-03 CHD Launches New eBook: ‘COVID-19 Treatment and Vaccine Decisions From a Pediatric Perspective’ Children’s Health Defense launched a new eBook to help parents evaluate the risks and benefits of COVID vaccines without having to rely solely on information disseminated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Food and Drug Administration and mainstream media. In this new eBook, written from the perspective of pediatricians working on the front lines of healthcare, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) deconstructs the fear-based media coverage to underscore children’s very low risk of serious coronavirus illness and help parents make well-informed decisions. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-ebook-covid-treatment-vaccine-decisions-pediatric/

2021-11-03 Are the Unvaxxed More Dangerous Than a Fire? Kim Iversen Asks On the latest episode of The Hill’s “Rising,” journalist and political commentator Kim Iversen weighed the supposed benefits of the COVID vaccine against the risks of losing thousands of essential workers. Iversen argued we’re seeing a major disruption to major essential industries “because the government wants people to collectively take medicine.”

“They’re telling us it’s more dangerous to have unvaccinated essential workers in our communities than it is to have no workers at all when you need them,” she said. Iversen said she believes the government should be required to present data which shows the massive health benefits to vaccination before requiring anything. “If the government is going to force anything onto anyone, let alone disrupt our essential services, shouldn’t there be a massive burden of proof they need to present to us, showing why they feel it’s necessary to take such authoritarian actions?” she asked.

Iversen said the government’s reasoning for mandates is “if everyone is vaccinated we can end the pandemic,” the “vaccine stops or slows the spread” and “if people around you are vaccinated, you are safer.” “But where is the proof that this is even true?” she asked. “Numerous studies have shown vaccines alone are not effective at stopping the spread and the vaccine makers themselves have never even claimed that’s what the vaccines do.”

She cited an Imperial College study published last week which showed that “within a household, vaccinated individuals have a 25% chance of contracting the Delta variant while unvaccinated individuals have a 38% chance.” “Is a theoretical third in reduction enough to mandate a vaccine?” Iversen asked. She then pointed to an Oxford study which showed “the vaccine’s ability to limit transmission wanes within 12 weeks after the second dose.” “So essentially, fully vaccinated people are not any different from unvaccinated people in three months time,” she said. “Collapsing our essential services for a theoretical reduction of a third for a 3-month period of time is not enough [to mandate vaccination] for me.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kim-iverson-covid-vaccine-fire-essential-workers/

2021-11-03 New Survey Shows Why Some Parents Are Against COVID Vaccine for Kids The survey was put out by QuoteWizard by LendingTree, LLC, which showed nationwide, 60% of people surveyed say concerns over side effects will keep them from vaccinating their children.

In Connecticut, the survey showed 65 percent are concerned about side effects, and 28 percent say they aren’t sure if children need the vaccine. The survey went on to show that 37 percent are waiting to see if the vaccine is safe. It also said 43 percent of those surveyed don’t trust the government, and 11 percent don’t believe in vaccinations. To see a full breakdown of the results, click here. https://www.wfsb.com/news/new-survey-shows-why-some-parents-are-against-covid-vaccine-for-kids/article_c433b622-3cb4-11ec-a551-278670d28329.html

2021-11-03 Vaccine or Test: Biden Advances Sweeping New Mandates for Private Sector It’s likely to become President Joe Biden’s most hotly contested COVID policy yet: a sweeping nationwide safety standard for the American workplace that demands large businesses require their employees to either get the vaccine or test regularly. The temporary emergency rule would apply to every U.S. private business that employs 100 workers or more — from grocery clerks to meatpacking plant employees — impacting some 80 million Americans. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/vaccine-test-biden-advances-sweeping-mandates-private-sector/story?id=80946163

2021-11-03 Vaccine-Injured Speak Out, Feel Abandoned by Government Who Told Them COVID Shot Was Safe During an event hosted Tuesday by U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), people whose lives were ruined by COVID vaccines said they feel abandoned by a government that told them it was their patriotic duty to get the shot. None of the major mainstream media outlets picked up the event, but Children’s Health Defense hosted Johnson’s live panel discussion on CHD.TV. Flint said it is time for the government to stop silencing vaccine injuries like his, and it is unconscionable for these agencies not to help.

​​Lt. Col. Theresa Long, a U.S. Army surgeon, said she believes the COVID vaccine is a greater threat to a soldier’s health and military readiness than the virus itself. “Over 200,000 service members have rejected the vaccine yet the military is pressing forward without regard to the damage to the morale and readiness to process these soldiers out,” Long explained she tried to get senior leadership within the military to inform military members of the risks of vaccines, as required by informed consent. She said in one day, she had to ground three out of three pilots due to COVID vaccine injuries. When she told her command, her patients were canceled, her charts were pulled for review and Long was told she would not be seeing acute patients anymore — just healthy pilots who needed physicals. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ron-johnson-people-injured-covid-vaccine/

2021-11-02 Pretending We Can Vaccinate Our Way Out of This Pandemic Is Dangerous — Especially for Kids Are we setting up our populations — and dangerously, our children — for disaster, with imperfect and sub-optimal immune priming caused by vaccines that do not stop infection or transmission? Would the doctrine of the “Original Antigenic Sin” (OAS) play a heavy role in the existing COVID vaccine strategy — due to the sub-optimal, non-sterilizing, imperfect COVID-19 vaccine? Experts agree we should never have tried to vaccinate our way out of a pandemic while in a pandemic.

The COVID-19 vaccines being administered in the U.S. only reduce symptoms, thus allowing the host to stay alive (an evolutionary future it did not have) while remaining capable of transmitting. Evidence shows vaccinated persons are indeed susceptible to infection, and as alarmingly, carry as high a viral load as the unvaccinated. Moreover, vaccinated persons are likely to spread the virus to other members of their household.

Are we about to rob our children of their most precious gift — a robust, durable, potent natural innate immunity with these imperfect leaky vaccines — an immunity that has always protected them and helps reduce the infectious pressure and helps contribute to population herd immunity? With vaccines that have been shown to be harmful? https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/children-immune-priming-covid-vaccines-infection-transmission/

2021-11-02 New York Health Workers Ask Supreme Court to Block State’s Vaccine Mandate Healthcare workers in New York have gone to the Supreme Court to challenge the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing it violates their religious liberty rights. This challenge is nearly identical to a recent case brought by healthcare workers in Maine. Last week, the court allowed Maine’s mandate to go forward over the objection of three justices. The latest dispute is brought by a nurse, Diana Bono, who lost her job because she has religious objections to the mandate, as well as two others who say they face the “imminent loss” of their employment and a group called We The Patriots USA Inc. They are suing the state, arguing that while the mandate allows an exemption for those with medical objections, there is no exemption for people with religious objections. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/02/politics/new-york-vaccine-mandate-supreme-court/index.html

2021-11-02 U.S. CDC Director Backs COVID Vaccine for Children Ages 5 to 11 The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday backed broad use of Pfizer‘s (PFE.N) and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11, clearing the way for shots to go into young arms as soon as Wednesday. The announcement comes hours after the advisers to the U.S. CDC unanimously supported the move, saying the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks. Much of their discussion stemmed from rare cases of heart inflammation that have been linked to the vaccine, particularly in young men. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-us-rolls-out-vaccine-young-children

2021-11-02 Dr. Paul Thomas: CDC Protects Vaccine Program, Not Kids’ Health The two discussed a new book on how Thomas story lost his medical license after publishing a controversial study on the health of his vaccinated patients versus those not vaccinated. The book — “The War On Informed Consent: The Persecution of Dr. Paul Thomas by the Oregon Medical Board” —  was written by Jeremy R. Hammond and released in August. Hooker and Thomas discussed how with COVID, history is repeating itself, as the CDC is using the same tactics to prevent doctors from treating patients with COVID as they used to prevent Thomas from treating his young patients.

“Anyone who walks through the door of a hospital gets swabbed for COVID. If it’s positive — cha-ching! — they just made a whole bunch of money. Now, if they can intubate that patient, the amount of money they get skyrockets.”

The 2020 study found unvaccinated children are healthier than vaccinated children. Conducted among 3,300 patients in Thomas’ practice, it became one of the largest vaccinated versus unvaccinated studies of a specific population ever published in a peer-reviewed journal. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-tv-doctors-scientists-brian-hooker-paul-thomas-war-on-informed-consent

2021-11-02 From Boeing to Mercedes, a U.S. Worker Rebellion Swells Over Vaccine Mandates In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc (TXT.N) and Spirit AeroSystems (SPR.N) remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, risking their jobs in defiance of a federal mandate, according to a union official. “We’re going to lose a lot of employees over this,” said Cornell Adams, head of the local Machinists union district. Many workers did not object to the vaccines as such, he said, but were staunchly opposed to what they see as government meddling in personal health decisions. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-u-s-worker-rebellion-swells-over-vaccine-mandates/

2021-11-02 Researcher Blows Whistle on Data Integrity Issues in Pfizer’s Vaccine Trial A regional director with Ventavia Research Group told The BMJ Pfizer falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal COVID Vaccine phase 3 trial.

Staff who conducted quality control checks were overwhelmed by the volume of problems they were finding. After repeatedly notifying Ventavia of these problems, the regional director, Brook Jackson, emailed a complaint to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Ventavia fired her later the same day. Jackson has provided The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings and emails.

When it comes to the FDA and clinical trials, Elizabeth Woeckner, president of Citizens for Responsible Care and Research Incorporated (CIRCARE), says the agency’s oversight capacity is severely under-resourced. If the FDA receives a complaint about a clinical trial, she says the agency rarely has the staff available to show up and inspect. And sometimes oversight occurs too late. In one example CIRCARE and the U.S. consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen, along with dozens of public health experts, filed a detailed complaint in July 2018 with the FDA about a clinical trial that failed to comply with regulations for the protection of human participants. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/brook-jackson-ventavia-research-group-pfizer-covid-vaccine-trial-data/

2021-11-02 Biden calls authorization of vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 a “turning point” in Covid-19 battle President Biden is calling the CDC’s authorization of Pfizer’s vaccine for children age 5-11 “a turning point in our battle against COVID-19.” “It will allow parents to end months of anxious worrying about their kids, and reduce the extent to which children spread the virus to others. It is a major step forward for our nation in our fight to defeat the virus,” Biden wrote in a statement Tuesday night after the CDC’s decision. https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/cdc-covid-vaccine-kids-02-11-21/index.html

2021-11-02 Lawsuit Argues Augusta University Would Lose Substantial Revenue, Employees From Federal Vaccine Mandate Augusta University is among the state universities represented in a lawsuit opposing President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, arguing that the requirement violates federal law. According to the lawsuit, if the mandate goes into effect, AU would stand to lose $17.1 million in federal contracts and their 200 affiliated employees. According to the lawsuit, Augusta University, Georgia State University and the University of Georgia have a combined total of approximately 2,600 federal contracts and subcontracts. It argues that the federal mask mandate makes an unreasonable requirement that anyone who had even fleeting contact with one of those federal contract workers would have to be at least partially vaccinated by Dec. 8. The lawsuit argues that the tally could be over 10,000 employees. https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/news/2021/11/02/federal-lawsuit-argues-augusta-university-hurt-covid-vaccine-mandate/6243558001/

2021-11-02 Teen Screen Time Doubled During Pandemic Lockdowns — Higher Stress, Mental Health Drove up Viewing Adolescents had more than a mean of 8 hours of screen time in the early pandemic period, almost doubling pre-pandemic totals, researchers found. A large national sample of 5,412 adolescents found that mean screen time rose to 7.7 hours/day from pre-pandemic estimates of 3.8 hours/day at baseline, reported Jason Nagata, MD, of University of California San Francisco, and colleagues. They noted that the stay-at-home orders, online learning, and social distancing requirements have contributed to adolescents’ increased use of digital media, but that “this has not yet been explored using U.S. data.” https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/95379

2021-11-02 Judge Denies Order to Groups Fighting LAUSD Student Vaccine Mandate A judge has denied a temporary restraining order sought by two nonprofit groups representing parents of nearly 1,500 Los Angeles Unified School District students who oppose the LAUSD’s student COVID-19 vaccine mandate on grounds such decisions should be left to the state Department of Public Health. The judge said the groups can still seek relief later through a preliminary injunction. https://thelosangelesmail.com/local/judge-denies-order-to-groups-fighting-lausd-student-vaccine-mandate/

2021-11-02 Prominent Scientists Go Public: ‘Fauci Fooled America’ In an op-ed published Monday in Newsweek, two scientists accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of bungling the government’s response to COVID by getting “major epidemiology and public health questions wrong.” Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School, and Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine wrote: “Reality and scientific studies have now caught up with him.

“The evidence is in. Governors, journalists, scientists, university presidents, hospital administrators and business leaders can continue to follow Dr. Anthony Fauci or open their eyes. After 700,000-plus COVID deaths and the devastating effects of lockdowns, it is time to return to basic principles of public health.” The authors ticked off a list of “key issues” Fauci got wrong, including failure to recognize natural immunity, protecting the elderly, school closures, masks and contact tracing.

The authors argued contact tracing “was a hopeless waste of valuable public health resources that did not stop the disease,” and that Fauci failed at protecting the vulnerable. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/martin-kulldorff-jay-bhattacharya-fauci-fooled-america/

2021-11-02 CDC Advisors Unanimously Endorse Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine for Kids 5-11 Despite Expert Concerns Over Clinical Data The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine advisory panel today unanimously recommended Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for children 5 to 11, despite concerns raised during the meeting about Pfizer’s clinical data, the fact that children who previously acquired natural immunity to COVID were included in clinical trials and evidence showing COVID poses little risk to children. If Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC’s director signs off on the decision, children ages 5 through 11 could start receiving COVID vaccines as early as tonight.

During the meeting, the CDC said 745 children under 18 have died of COVID since the beginning of the pandemic — although the COVID-19 team admitted 79% were confirmed to be hospitalized for COVID, while the rest were hospital admissions for other causes. “The chance that a child will have severe COVID, require hospitalization or develop a long-term complication like MIS-C [multisystem inflammatory syndrome] remains low, but still the risk is too high and too devastating to our children, and far higher than for many other diseases for which we vaccinate children,” Walensky said. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-advisors-endorse-pfizers-covid-vaccine-kids-5-11/?

2021-11-02 Nearly 90 NYPD Officers Forced to Go on Leave Over Vaccine Mandate Nearly 90 officers with the New York Police Department (NYPD) are being forced to go on leave for not complying with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, Commissioner Dermot Shea said Tuesday. Shea told NY1 on Tuesday that 89 officers are on leave without pay for not complying with the mandate. The number is a notable increase from Monday, when Shea told reporters that only 34 officers out of the roughly 35,000-strong workforce were placed on no-pay status for not complying with the mandate. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/579596-nearly-90-nypd-officers-forced-to-go-on-leave-over-vaccine-mandate

2021-11-02 The Austrian Army Dogs Join Growing Global Pack of COVID-Sniffers Austria’s army has successfully trained two dogs to sniff out COVID-19, it said on Tuesday, adding to a mass of evidence that dogs can be deployed to identify carriers of the virus. Trials across the world from Thailand to Britain have found dogs can use their powerful sense of smell to detect the coronavirus with a high degree of accuracy, suggesting they could be regularly deployed as an additional line of safety at large events and border entry points. Airports in Finland and Chile began deploying dogs to screen arrivals for COVID-19 last year. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/austrian-army-dogs-join-growing-global-pack-covid-sniffers-2021-11-02/

2021-11-02 More Than 2,000 New York City Firefighters Out Sick as Vaccine Mandate Takes Effect Roughly 2,300 members of the New York City Fire Department claimed they were sick and didn’t show up to work on Monday as the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for municipal workers went into effect. All city workers were required to have received at least one dose of the vaccine by October 29. City leaders suspect many of those who didn’t roll up their sleeves feigned illness to avoid being disciplined for failing to comply with the health requirement. Roughly 9,000 municipal workers were put on unpaid leave Monday for failing to meet the deadline and comply with the COVID-19 mandate, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-mandate-firefighters-fdny-call-sick-new-york/

2021-11-02 ‘Brought to You by Pfizer’: Pharma Giant Spends More on Ads, News Sponsorships, Than Research By “sponsoring” mainstream television newscasts and information programs, Pfizer hopes to increase vaccination rates, but critics suggest another motivation — skewing news coverage in their favor. Dore quipped, “How much critical coverage do you think they’re going to give Pfizer? Pfizer’s literally paying their bills.” As recently highlighted by the Wall Street Journal, Pfizer — and other pharmaceutical companies — have not restricted their sponsorship campaign to news show segments and paid tweets. For instance, a recent skit delivered by late-night network television comedian Jimmy Kimmel about COVID mRNA vaccines was sponsored by Moderna. While much is made about the need to “follow the science,” it has been pointed out even before COVID came onto the scene that Big Pharma spends much more generously on its own advertising, as compared to research and development expenditures. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-vaccination-ads-news-sponsorships-research/

2021-11-01 Women Remain Most at Risk of Brain Vein Clots After J&J Vaccine Incidence of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) remained a rare occurrence after the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 adenovirus vector vaccine began being administered, researchers said. Those at highest risk of CVST after receiving the Johnson & Johnson product in early 2021 were women ages 30 to 39 (26.52 per 100,000 person-years) and women ages 40 to 49 (29.48 per 100,000 person-years) — with women in general having a 5.1-fold higher risk after vaccination than they did before the COVID pandemic (13.01 vs 2.53 per 100,000 person-years, P<0.001). https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/95380

2021-11-01 17 Pharma Henchmen Who Voted to Experiment on Your Kids — and How to Shun Them The 17 members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee who voted 17-0 in favor of authorizing Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11 all have deep ties to pharma. This article highlights the conflicts of interest and financial entanglements with vaccine companies that enabled this rogues’ gallery’s immoral vote to expose 28 million U.S. children to the risk of injury and death. These conflicts are ably documented by groups such as the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), in databases such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Open Payments and in the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) eBook, “Conflicts of Interest Undermine Children’s Health.” What this information strongly suggests is that VRBPAC’s members — soi-disant (so-called) authorities in their respective fields — are thoroughly beholden to pharmaceutical, military, philanthropic and academic paymasters, with stock options, grants, patents and prestige clearly ranking well ahead of children’s safety. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-pfizer-covid-kids-pharma/

2021-11-01 The Corps’ COVID Vaccination Deadline Is Coming. Marines Who Refuse Will Be Booted The Corps will kick out every Marine who refuses the COVID-19 vaccine and fails to receive an approved exemption by the Nov. 28 deadline, a new administrative message said. Barring an approved administrative, medical or religious accommodation, or a pending appeal, Marines who fail to meet the deadline will be processed for administrative separation, the MARADMIN said. General court-martial convening authorities will “retain authority to take any additional adverse administrative or disciplinary action” deemed appropriate. https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021/11/01/the-corps-covid-19-vaccination-deadline-is-soon-marines-who-refuse-will-be-booted/

2021-11-01 Nursing Home Residents Overlooked in Scramble for COVID Antibody Treatments Of the dozens of patients Dr. Jim Yates has treated for COVID-19 at his long-term care center in rural Alabama, this one made him especially nervous. The 60-year-old man, who had been fully vaccinated, was diagnosed with a breakthrough infection in late September. At the first sign of the man’s symptoms, Yates had placed an order with the Alabama Department of Public Health for monoclonal antibodies, the lab-made proteins that mimic the body’s ability to fight the virus. But six days passed before the vials arrived, nearly missing the window in which the therapy works best to prevent hospitalization and death. https://khn.org/news/article/nursing-home-residents-overlooked-in-scramble-for-covid-antibody-treatments/

2021-11-01 MaineHealth Network to Help Study Long-Term COVID Effects Maine’s largest health network said Monday it will receive $1.5 million from the federal government to take part in a nationwide study about long-term effects of COVID-19. The effort is called the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery, or RECOVER, Initiative. It’s designed to learn why some people suffer prolonged symptoms or develop new or returning symptoms after the end of the acute phase of infection. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-maine-9ac04b1a40fb34fb21f5ae45c9315dd7

2021-11-01 CDC’s Committee Member Dr. Chen Should Be Removed Immediately Due to Conflict of Interest Dr. Wilbur H. Chen, whose conflicts of interest include accepting $437,250 from vaccine makers, should be removed immediately from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Dr. Wilbur H. Chen is a professor of Medicine at the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He is also a member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) — a key federal regulatory committee that reviews vaccine safety. And, it turns out, Chen accepts large sums of money from two vaccine makers whose products are subject to regulatory review by the ACIP. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-wilbur-chen-open-payments-emergent-biosolutions-glaxosmithkline/

2021-11-01 America Has Lost the Plot on COVID We know how this ends: The coronavirus becomes endemic, and we live with it forever. But what we don’t know — and what the U.S. seems to have no coherent plan for — is how we are supposed to get there. We’ve avoided the hard questions whose answers will determine what life looks like in the next weeks, months, and years: How do we manage the transition to endemicity? When are restrictions lifted? And what long-term measures do we keep, if any, when we reach endemicity? https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/11/what-americas-covid-goal-now/620572/

2021-11-01 Millions of Kids’ Covid Vaccines Shipped Ahead of CDC Clearance An estimated 15 million doses of kids’ vaccines will arrive at thousands of sites across the U.S. over the next week as the White House prepares for widespread inoculations if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signs off. The Food and Drug Administration’s Friday authorization of the Pfizer Inc.–BioNTech SE vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11 was a “critical operational milestone” that allowed doses to start shipping, said Jeff Zients, who is President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 response coordinator. A CDC advisory committee is meeting Tuesday and Wednesday to weigh whether to allow the shots. If it does, the CDC director has the final say on whether shots should be given to children. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-01/millions-of-kids-covid-vaccines-shipped-ahead-of-cdc-clearance

2021-11-01 Sen. Johnson Holds Expert Panel on COVID Vaccine Injuries, Federal Vaccine Mandates On Tuesday, Nov. 2, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson held a panel discussion with doctors and medical researchers who have treated COVID-19 vaccine injuries and are researching the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. The senator discussed the importance of early treatment for COVID, Americans’ health care freedom and natural immunity. Johnson covered the impacts of mandates on the American workforce and the economy, and the lack of transparency from federal health agencies in response to his COVID-19 oversight requests. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/nov-2-sen-ron-johnson-cdh-covid-vaccine-injuries-federal-mandates/

2021-11-01 Authors of Great Barrington Declaration Got It Right — Lockdowns Were a Disaster, Especially for Young People In a segment of The Hill’s “Rising,” Kim Iversen discussed the controversial Great Barrington Declaration, suggesting the authors’ predictions were spot on — lockdowns proved to be a disaster with devastating consequences for younger people who often are at little to no risk of severe COVID. The NPR article reads: “Even in parts of the country where COVID-19 isn’t overwhelming the health system, patients are showing up to the ER sicker than they were before the pandemic, their diseases more advanced and in need of more complicated care … Months of treatment delays have exacerbated chronic conditions and worsened symptoms. Doctors and nurses say the severity of illness ranges widely and includes abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions and suicide attempts, among others.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kim-iversen-great-barrington-declaration-lockdowns-young-people/

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