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2023-02-15 The Defender’s Big Pharma Watch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bp-big-pharma-greed-lobbying-us-drug-crisis/

2023-02-15 The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-addiction-suicides-cyberbullies-senate-kids-online/

2023-02-15 European Medicines Agency Expects Annual COVID Vaccination Campaigns, Similar to Flu Shot In Europe, there is a marked decline in new COVID cases, hospitalisations and deaths — the lowest levels observed in the European Union in the past twelve months, he said, citing data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. The EMA is currently in discussions with the World Health Organization and other regulatory agencies about the criteria and process that will lead to the potential update of the vaccines in view of future vaccination campaigns, he added. https://www.foxnews.com/world/european-medicine-agency-expects-annual-covid-vaccination-campaigns-similar-flu-shot

2023-02-15 GOP Subpoenas Tech CEOs as Part of Probe Into Censorship Subpoenas were sent to the chief executives of the five largest tech companies on Wednesday as congressional Republicans moved to investigate what they assert is widespread corporate censorship of conservative voices. Jordan outlined the committee’s objective to “understand how and to what extent the Executive Branch coerced and colluded with companies and their intermediaries to censor speech.” https://apnews.com/article/technology-us-republican-party-tim-cook-business-sundar-pichai-ce0e00d7ddeff8c08a95a7fbf01080f8

2023-02-15 Antibiotics are being inappropriately prescribed for COVID, increasing the threat of antimicrobial resistance – research Antibiotics are drugs designed to treat infections caused by bacteria (for example, skin infections). They don’t work on infections caused by other microbes such as viruses (including COVID and flu) or fungi (for example, thrush). https://theconversation.com/antibiotics-are-being-inappropriately-prescribed-for-covid-increasing-the-threat-of-antimicrobial-resistance-research-199480

2023-02-15 GT Investigates: Big Pharma Greed, Lobbying, Failed Governance and Economic Woes Lead to U.S. Drug Crisis America’s drug abuse problem — a long-existing thorn in the side of U.S. society — has grown more serious in recent years in the country along with an increasing number of young people turning to drugs due to dwindling economic opportunities and the apparent death of the so-called “American Dream,” analysts said.

The drug problem in the U.S. is caused by an interplay among economic interests, lobby groups, as well as social and cultural factors, an expert in international relations at Fudan University told the Global Times. While the U.S. federal and state governments keep making pledges to tackle the drug problem, they have failed to take substantive measures due to the lobbying activities of various interest groups, observers said.

Reports showed that large pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. devote large sums of money to peddle narratives such as “opioids are harmless” and push forward drug legalization as well as the promotion of drug sales and prescription of drugs. The lawmakers who receive money from them actively promote bills that benefit Big Pharma.

2023-02-15 Ask State Legislators to Ban COVID Vaccine Mandates for Students Now is the time to advocate for your right to choose or forgo COVID vaccinations for school attendance and protect your rights for informed consent. Ask your legislators to ban COVID vaccine mandates for daycare and students as 21 states have already done.https://childrenshealthdefense.org/community-forum/ask-state-legislators-to-ban-covid-vaccine-mandates-for-students/?

2023-02-15 “This Week” with Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense president, and Polly Tommey, CHD.TV programming manager Mary and Polly discuss the latest news on COVID-19 vaccines and other issues. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bird-flu-pandemic-dog-kidney-cells-mary-polly/

2023-02-15 New Bill Would Prohibit Federal Funding for Healthcare Facilities That Deny Care to Unvaccinated Patients A new bill in Congress would ban federal funding for institutions that deny care to patients for not having a COVID-19 vaccine, after multiple patients in the United States seeking transplants have been rejected over their vaccination status. https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-bill-would-prohibit-federal-funding-for-health-care-facilities-that-deny-care-to-unvaccinated-patients_5059292.html

2023-02-15 Here’s How the U.S. Government Is Tracking the Unvaccinated The U.S. government has secretly been tracking those who didn’t get the COVID jab, or are only partially jabbed, through a previously unknown surveillance program — International Classification of Diseases code of ICD-10 — designed by the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/government-tracking-unvaccinated-icd-codes-cola/

2023-02-15 Federal Bill Introduced to Drop COVID Vaccine Policies for Foreign Travel U.S. Senator Roger Marshall has helped introduce a bill that would drop policies that require foreign travelers to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccine when they enter the U.S. On Wednesday, Feb. 15, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) says he joined Sens. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) to introduce the Travel Freedom Act which would repeal federal policies that require international travelers to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccine. As a result of these policies, Marshall said the flow of goods between the U.S. and Canada has significantly slowed and foreign visitors are barred from visiting American family members, among other issues. https://www.wibw.com/2023/02/15/federal-bill-introduced-drop-covid-19-vaccine-policies-foreign-travel/

2023-02-15 Here’s How the U.S. Government Is Tracking the Unvaccinated The U.S. government has secretly been tracking those who didn’t get the COVID jab, or are only partially jabbed, through a previously unknown surveillance program — International Classification of Diseases code of ICD-10 — designed by the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/government-tracking-unvaccinated-icd-codes-cola/

2023-02-15 Unvaccinated Teachers, Still Out of Work, File New Lawsuit Against New York City New York City teachers have filed a new lawsuit against the city claiming the state constitution was violated on the basis of freedom of religion rights. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/new-york-city-unvaccinated-teachers-lawsuit/

2023-02-15 CHD TV https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/chdtv_02_15_23?wvpId=6c62af9e-2b37-4717-b78b-122a3f58d525

2023-02-14 North Dakota House Passes Several COVID Vaccine Bills Several bills dealing with COVID-19 vaccinations passed the North Dakota House of Representatives on Tuesday and moved to the Senate.

House Bill 1200, introduced by Rep. Jeff Hoverson, R-Minot, passed in a 78-13 vote. The bill would ban colleges and universities from requiring or promoting COVID-19 shots for students, specifically exclude COVID-19 vaccines from the state’s school immunization requirements and extend the state’s COVID-19 “vaccine passport” ban for another two years.

House Bill 1207, brought by Rep. Dick Anderson, R-Willow City, passed 86-5. The bill would require Health and Human Services to publish online data of “vaccine adverse events.” The department may use the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System data. Hoverson’s House Bill 1502 passed 87-4. The bill would prohibit hospitals from denying care to a patient based on his or her COVID-19 vaccination status. https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/north-dakota-house-passes-several-covid-19-vaccine-bills/article_7134449e-abb4-11ed-9893-5754d70c22b2.html

2023-02-14 John Campbell: Excluding Dissenting Voices Is ‘Intellectual Fascism’ YouTube sensation John Campbell, Ph.D., and comedian and political commentator Russell Brand discussed the importance of evidence in science, the corruption of the regulatory agencies and the press, and Campbell’s evolving thinking on COVID-19. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/john-campbell-russell-brand-intellectual-fascism-rb/?

2023-02-14 Rumble Wins Injunction Against New York’s Online Censorship Law A judge has blocked a New York law that attempted to regulate “hateful conduct” online. The legislative package, signed into law last summer, was Gov. Kathy Hochul’s attempt to force the moderation of content under nebulous terms such as “hate.” The law was challenged by the free speech video platform Rumble, alongside FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and First Amendment legal scholar Eugene Volokh, primarily on First Amendment grounds. https://reclaimthenet.org/rumble-wins-injunction-against-new-yorks-online-censorship-law

2023-02-14 Fingerprints of Unvaccinated NYC Teachers Sent to FBI, Affidavit Says In the New Yorkers for Religious Liberty Inc. v. The City of New York appeals hearing, challenging the now-rescinded vaccine mandate for city employees, plaintiff’s attorney John Burch said that “flagged” teachers were labeled with “problem codes” that impact their ability to get another job. According to Combier’s affidavit, the DOE assigns “problem codes” to the personnel files of employees that “should not be hired due to unexplained misconduct of some kind.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fingerprints-unvaccinated-nyc-teachers-fbi/

2023-02-14 Governments Target Medical Debt With COVID Relief Funds Millions of Americans mired in medical debt face difficult financial decisions every day — pay the debt or pay for rent, utilities and groceries. Some may even skip necessary healthcare for fear of sinking deeper into debt. To address the problem, an increasing number of municipal, county and state governments are devising plans to spend federal coronavirus pandemic relief funds to eliminate residents’ medical debt and ease those debt burdens. https://apnews.com/article/health-care-costs-boston-toledo-e423c64c1322bc8e4254b7a70b1da50c

2023-02-14 NYC Teachers Who Refused COVID Vaccine Slapped With ‘Scarlet Letter’ in Personnel Files: Lawyer Fired city teachers and other school employees who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine were blacklisted with a “scarlet letter” in their personnel files by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration — hindering their ability to find work elsewhere, says the lawyer repping a slew of them.

The city Department of Education put a special “code” indicating wrongdoing in the files of the terminated workers, most of whom declined to get the vaccine because of religious beliefs, said their lawyer, John Bursch. “Loosely speaking, it is like a scarlet letter,” Bursch told The Post on Tuesday. “The employee’s personnel file shows a [generic] problem code that could just as easily be [for] committing a crime as declining to take a vaccine for religious reasons. In some instances, when plaintiffs tried to obtain employment elsewhere, they were told that they were red-flagged because of the problem code.” https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/nyc-teachers-who-refused-covid-vaccine-slapped-with-scarlet-letter-in-personnel-files-lawyer/

2023-02-14 The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-novak-djokovic-seeking-special-permission-enter-us-despite-mandates/

2023-02-14 The Defender’s COVID NewsWatch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-most-young-people-not-boosted-not-filling-hospital-beds

2023-02-14 Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Oil Driving Spread of Deadly Antibiotic-Resistant ‘Superbugs’ By 2050, as many as 10 million people could die each year as the result of antimicrobial resistance driven by environmental pollution and irresponsible practices by the pharmaceutical, agricultural and other industries. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/deadly-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-cd/

2023-02-14 John Campbell: Excluding Dissenting Voices Is ‘Intellectual Fascism’ YouTube sensation John Campbell, Ph.D., and comedian and political commentator Russell Brand discussed the importance of evidence in science, the corruption of the regulatory agencies and the press, and Campbell’s evolving thinking on COVID-19. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/john-campbell-russell-brand-intellectual-fascism-rb/

2023-02-14 Fingerprints of Unvaccinated NYC Teachers Sent to FBI, Affidavit Says Unvaccinated New York City teachers were reportedly “flagged” with “problem codes” and their fingerprints sent to the FBI, according to an affidavit filed in federal court last week. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fingerprints-unvaccinated-nyc-teachers-fbi/

2023-02-14 From the Peak of Fitness to Wanting to Die — How the COVID Vaccine Ruined One Man’s Life In his mid-40s, Adam Rowland was the fittest he’d ever been, with a promising career working with top professional athletes — until two doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine turned his life into “a living hell.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/adam-rowland-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-injury/

2023-02-13 CHD TV https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/chdtv_02_13_23

2023-02-13 House GOP Demands Info From Fauci, Other Officials on COVID Origins House Republicans are officially relaunching their investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic by calling for testimony and information from Anthony Fauci and other current and former Biden administration officials. The 12-member coronavirus response subcommittee is charged with examining the origins of the pandemic, including federal funding of what’s known as gain-of-function research, or research that enhances a virus’s ability to cause an infection in order to predict pandemics and develop cures.

The examination of gain-of-function research is central to the claim the virus originated from a lab in Wuhan, China, potentially backed by funding from the U.S. government. Last year, Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a report concluding the pandemic began with a virus that escaped from the Wuhan lab. Aside from Fauci’s testimony, the lawmakers are seeking phone records, official calendars and other communications from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) regarding the Wuhan Institute of Virology and any federal grants to EcoHealth Alliance. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3856317-house-gop-demands-info-from-fauci-other-officials-on-covid-19-origins/

2023-02-13 U.S. Government to Buy 1.5 Million More Novavax COVID Vaccine Doses The U.S. government has agreed to buy 1.5 million more doses of Novavax Inc.(NVAX.O) COVID-19 vaccine, the company said on Monday, adding that the modified agreement includes funds for the development of an updated vaccine by fall this year. Sales of the company’s vaccine have been hurt by a global supply glut and waning demand, with Novavax cutting its full-year revenue forecast for the shots twice last year. The protein-based vaccine was expected to convince those skeptical of the new mRNA-based vaccines against the virus from rivals such as Pfizer Inc. (PFE.N) and Moderna (MRNA.O). https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-government-buy-15-mln-more-novavax-covid-vaccine-doses-2023-02-13/

2023-02-13 Pandemic Youth Mental Health Toll Unprecedented, Data Show The pandemic took a harsh toll on U.S. teen girls’ mental health, with almost 60% reporting feelings of persistent sadness or hopelessness, according to a government survey released Monday that bolsters earlier data.

Sexual violence, suicidal thoughts, suicidal behavior and other mental health woes affected many teens regardless of race or ethnicity, but girls and LGBTQ youth fared the worst on most measures, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. More than 17,000 U.S. high school students were surveyed in class in the fall of 2021. In 30 years of collecting similar data, “we’ve never seen this kind of devastating, consistent findings,” said Kathleen Ethier, director of CDC’s adolescent and school health division. “There’s no question young people are telling us they are in crisis. The data really call on us to act.” https://apnews.com/article/education-health-pandemics-teens-cd01cd672539d6a3dbada46bfa47203a

2023-02-13 House Readies First GOP-Led COVID Vaccine Probe Congress is venturing into unknown and potentially explosive territory with the first House GOP-led investigation into COVID-19 vaccines. Why it matters: It’s expected to be a showdown across the spectrum of views on vaccine safety and efficacy, from attempting to undermine public faith in them to trying to bolster confidence. The details: The Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has been given a broad writ to investigate a wide array of topics from the virus’ origins to federal COVID restrictions to the pandemic’s economic impact. https://www.axios.com/2023/02/14/republicans-investigation-covid-vaccine

2023-02-12 CHD TV https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/chdtv_02_11_23?

2023-02-12 NYC Mayor Says COVID Mandates May Need to Return, Blasts People Who Say ‘I Want to Do Whatever I Want’ New York City Mayor Eric Adams, during an interview with Caribbean Power Jam Radio’s “The Reset Show,” defended the rescinding of a COVID vaccine mandate for city workers and that there may be a time when mandates will be in place again. Adams defended his decision to rescind the vaccine mandate because COVID was becoming normalized, adding that when employees said, “I want to do whatever I want,” it was not right.

Adams announced on Feb. 6 that the city would make COVID vaccines optional for current and prospective city workers, effective Feb. 10. The announcement came as more than 96% of city workers were fully vaccinated against coronavirus. Despite the reversal, the approximately 1,780 former city workers who were terminated for not complying with the COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the past will not automatically get their jobs back but can reapply for positions in their former agencies. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc-mayor-covid-mandates-return-blasts-people-i-want-do-whatever-i-want

2023-02-12 CT Supreme Court Case to Test Limits of Hospital Immunity Cheryl Mills, a Colchester resident with a serious heart condition, had been in Hartford Hospital for five days when she died on the bathroom floor of her room in March 2020. For four days, the 63-year-old had been waiting for the result of a COVID test so she could be cleared to enter the hospital’s special cardiac treatment area. The negative test result came through at 7:40 p.m. on March 24.

Her estate sued the hospital, but an executive order issued by Gov. Ned Lamont at the beginning of the pandemic granted hospitals and nursing homes legal immunity as they worked through the early days of the COVID pandemic. Now, the circumstances of Mills’ case have become the center of a state Supreme Court legal battle over how far that immunity can be extended, and other cases involving Connecticut nursing homes could be affected by the outcome. https://ctmirror.org/2023/02/12/ct-supreme-court-lawsuit-hospital-immunity-wrongful-death-hartford-health/

2023-02-11 Minnesotans Claiming COVID Vaccine Injuries Are Left in Limbo The end of the COVID-19 emergency response in the United States might be a milestone this spring, but for St. Paul’s Suzanna Newell, it will feel like the nation is moving on without her. The 51-year-old mother and former bank executive believes a COVID vaccine reaction caused her disabling health problems, which have sent her across the country in search of treatments. She filed a claim with a federal program that compensates people for rare vaccine-related injuries, but that was 11 months ago.

Newell isn’t alone in her struggle to establish a vaccine connection to her disabilities and receive help with a mountain of medical bills. She learned that as volunteer treasurer of React19, an organization that has raised $700,000 to treat vaccine-related injuries. “The sad reality is if something goes wrong, there is no safety net for you,” said Brianne Dressen, a former Utah school teacher who co-founded React19 and suffered health problems after her COVID vaccination in a clinical trial.

The federal Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) has received 11,196 claims related to COVID, including 8,447 related to vaccines. Only 543 have been resolved. No payouts have been made, though 19 claims have been declared eligible. https://www.startribune.com/minnesotans-claiming-covid-19-vaccine-injuries-are-left-in-limbo/600250940/

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2023-02-10 Australian Researchers Find Protein in Lung That Blocks COVID Infection Australian scientists announced Friday they’ve discovered a protein in the lung that sticks to the COVID-19 virus-like Velcro and forms a natural protective barrier in a person’s body to block infection.

Why it matters: The study, published in the journal PLOS Biology on Friday, “opens up an entirely new area of immunology research” around this receptor protein, LRRC15, and “offers a promising pathway to develop new drugs to prevent viral infection from coronaviruses like COVID-19 or deal with fibrosis in the lungs,” per a statement from the University of Sydney announcing their findings. It could also help explain why some people who contract COVID experience serious illness, while others never get sick.

What they found: The researchers discovered that LRRC15 binds to the virus. The bottom line: “For me, as an immunologist, the fact that there’s this natural immune receptor that we didn’t know about, that’s lining our lungs and blocks and controls virus, that’s crazy interesting,” Neely said. https://www.axios.com/2023/02/10/australian-study-receptor-blocks-covid-infection

2023-02-10 The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-china-spy-balloon-wakes-world-new-era-surveillance/

2023-02-10 The Defender’s Big Pharma Watch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bp-bizarre-americanness-prescription-drug-commercials/

2023-02-10 ‘Tragic’: CDC Adds Original COVID mRNA Vaccine to Childhood Schedule Despite Known Harms The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday added the two-shot primary series mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to its routine immunization schedule for children and adults, formalizing the agency’s vaccine advisory committee’s unanimous recommendation made in October 2022. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-covid-mrna-vaccine-childhood-schedule/

2023-02-10 Most Young People Aren’t Getting Latest COVID Booster, but They’re Not Filling Hospital Beds at Three Large Healthcare Systems As the U.S. mulls over its future COVID-19 vaccination plan, data from three large healthcare systems indicate that even though a small percentage of people under age 65 have gotten the new COVID-19 booster, people this age are not becoming severely ill and overwhelming hospitals. “Even if they’re not getting boosted, young, healthy people are not getting super sick from this,” said Dr. Mangala Narasimhan, a senior vice president at Northwell Health, the largest healthcare provider in New York state. “We’re not seeing it. It’s not happening.”

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed a framework for annual COVID vaccinations for all Americans over the age of 6 months, but at a meeting with its vaccine advisers last month, it did not come up with a concrete plan. Vaccine advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are scheduled to meet on February 24 to discuss the future of the U.S. COVID-19 vaccination program.

At Montefiore Medical Center, about 300 patients under age 65 were hospitalized for COVID-19. Among those, 32% were unvaccinated, 10% were partially vaccinated, and 58% were fully vaccinated; 82% also had underlying conditions, according to Dr. Inessa Gendlina, an infectious disease expert and assistant professor at Einstein Montefiore Department of Medicine. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/health/bivalent-covid-vaccine-younger-people/index.html

2023-02-10 Antibiotics Can Disrupt Gut Microbiome, Increase Risk for Crohn’s, Colitis A review of more than 6 million medical records found exposure to antibiotics may increase your risk of developing Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, two main types of inflammatory bowel disease. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/antibiotic-resistance-gut-microbiome-crohns-colitis-cola/

2023-02-10 U.S. Government Sold Your Right to Jury Trial — to Insulate Big Pharma From Liability The federal government sold the Seventh Amendment, designed to protect your right to a jury trial, to the largest lobbying force in the country: Big Pharma. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/federal-government-big-pharma-liability/

2023-02-10 FBI Collusion With Twitter ‘Shocking,’ Witnesses Tell Panel at ‘Weaponization’ Hearing The U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Thursday heard testimony from Congress members and ex-FBI agents who criticized government agencies for colluding with media and Big Tech to censor Americans. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/weaponization-federal-government-hearing/

2023-02-09 U.S. Investigating Elon Musk’s Neuralink Over Hazardous Pathogens The U.S. Department of Transportation said on Thursday it is investigating Elon Musk‘s brain-implant company Neuralink over the potentially illegal movement of hazardous pathogens. A Department of Transportation spokesperson told Reuters about the probe after the Physicians Committee of Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an animal-welfare advocacy group, wrote to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg earlier on Thursday to alert it of records it obtained on the matter.

PCRM said it obtained emails and other documents that suggest unsafe packaging and movement of implants removed from the brains of monkeys. These implants may have carried infectious diseases in violation of federal law, PCRM said. “We are conducting an investigation to ensure that Neuralink is in full compliance with federal regulations and keeping their workers and the public safe from potentially dangerous pathogens,” the spokesperson said. https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musks-neuralink-may-have-illegally-transported-pathogens-animal-advocates-2023-02-09/

2023-02-09 The Bizarre Americanness of Prescription Drug Commercials If you are not from the United States (or New Zealand, the only other country that allows drugmakers to market their prescription products directly to consumers), the volume of drug ads on television in America can feel jarring. When Oprah Winfrey’s bombshell interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle aired in March 2021, the British tuned in, and many were gobsmacked at the number of drug commercials they saw. “American medical adverts are some real dystopian shit how you gonna tell me I might die,” one person tweeted. “American healthcare truly is a business,” remarked another.

2023-02-09 ‘Severely Damaged’ and Abandoned: Australian Victims of COVID Vaccine Injuries Feel They Are ‘Not Being Heard’ by Australian Government Thousands of Australians suffering from COVID-19 vaccine injury feel they are “not being heard” or treated fairly by the government. Veteran Liberal MP Russell Broadbent has taken up the case of the thousands of Australians who have experienced an adverse reaction after getting the COVID-19 jab. He’s met with a number of vaccine injury victims in person, in the hopes he can encourage a better response from the government. “Every one of these vaccine injuries was in strong, healthy, well men and women before they took the vaccine,” Mr. Broadbent said.

Former AMA president Kerryn Phelps is one of many Australians speaking out about vaccine injury in an attempt to ignite a conversation about the vaccine program and response. Dr. Phelps penned a lengthy submission to a parliamentary inquiry into long COVID last year, revealing she and her wife had both been injured after receiving Pfizer jabs. Launched in December 2021 by the previous government, the COVID-19 vaccine claims system was designed to compensate Australians who had suffered a “moderate to severe impact” following inoculation. Since the compensation scheme was established there have been more than 3,200 claims with only 3% or just 109 being approved. More than 2,480 are still under review while 383 have been refused and 232 have withdrawn. https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/severely-damaged-and-abandoned-australian-victims-of-covid19-vaccine-injuries-feel-they-are-not-being-heard-by-australian-government/news-story/d8a5dd7972394c43d40426f020daa4d9

2023-02-09 Thousands of Kids Are Missing From School. Where Did They Go? Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn’t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus pandemic. She is among hundreds of thousands of students around the country who disappeared from public schools during the pandemic and didn’t resume their studies elsewhere.

An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 240,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for. These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data. In short, they’re missing. The missing kids identified by AP and Stanford represent far more than a number. The analysis highlights thousands of students who may have dropped out of school or missed out on the basics of reading and school routines in kindergarten and first grade. https://apnews.com/article/us-news-ap-top-news-distance-learning-health-lifestyle-b6c9017f603c00466b9e9908c5f2183a

2023-02-09 ‘People Should Be Made Aware of Link Between COVID Jab and Heart Problems’  “I do think there is some sort of link between heart problems and the jab,” Sarah told the podcast. Sarah said in some cases mRNA vaccines are believed to have caused an issue called “molecular mimicry.” “When you get a jab, sometimes the body basically mistakes the protein,” she said. “It’s trying to fight proteins in the heart or peptides in the heart … It basically causes autoimmunity and starts battling you rather than the virus.” Sarah warns there is an “observational link that shows there’s an increase in heart problems, particularly after the mRNA jabs. People should be aware of it and they should be told about it so they can make up their own minds.” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2023/02/09/planet-normal-people-should-made-aware-link-covid-jab-heart/

2023-02-09 The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-humans-need-charge-powerful-ai-getting-out-control/

2023-02-09 The Defender’s COVID NewsWatch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-people-made-aware-link-jab-heart-problems/

2023-02-09 How the Powerful Use Crises to Concentrate Wealth, Manipulate the Masses Comedian and political commentator Russell Brand explored how health or energy emergencies that create crises for regular people are opportunities — or ‘crisitunities’ — for the powerful to concentrate their wealth and manipulate the masses. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/power-crises-wealth-manipulation-rb/

2023-02-09 380+ Scientists: NIH-Funded Experiments on Monkeys ‘Cruel’ and ‘Unethical’ Primatologist Jane Goodall joined more than 380 scientists who on Wednesday urged the National Institutes of Health to review and end funding for “cruel experiments” on macaque monkeys, some of which involve implanting electrodes in the animals’ brains. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/nih-monkey-experiments-cd/

2023-02-09 Biden’s ‘Cancer Moonshot’ Aims for a Cure — What About Tackling the Cause? In his state of the union address Tuesday night, President Biden outlined ambitious goals to “turn more cancers from death sentences to treatable diseases,” but he didn’t mention reining in the virtually unchecked flood of environmental chemical contaminants that scientists say cause cancer. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/biden-cancer-moonshot-environmental-contaminants/

2023-02-09 Scientist Tells RFK, Jr.: ‘Militaristic’ Medicine Linked to Excess Deaths, Especially Among Poor and Disabled COVID-19 countermeasures — such as lockdowns and social distancing — were key contributors to the rise in excess deaths since the onset of the pandemic, according to Denis Rancourt, Ph.D., all-cause mortality researcher and lead scientist for 23 years at the University of Ottawa in Canada. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/denis-rancourt-militaristic-medicine-excess-deaths-rfk-jr-podcast/

2023-02-09 House Republicans Grill Top U.S. Health Officials Over ‘Mishandling’ of COVID Response In the first of what is expected to be multiple hearings on the Biden administration’s response to COVID-19, Republicans on Wednesday peppered top U.S. health officials with questions about masking and social distancing, vaccine mandates, vaccine safety and the National Institutes of Health funding of gain-of-function research. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/health-officials-hearing-covid-response/

2023-02-08 Big Changes Are Coming to U.S. Healthcare as Pandemic Emergencies Expire Americans received unprecedented access to healthcare during the pandemic, including hassle-free public insurance and free tests, treatments and vaccines for COVID-19. Now, they need to prepare for most of that to unwind, experts say. The change most Americans will notice is an end to free COVID care, starting with testing, experts said. Depending on their insurance status, people will have to pay some or part of the cost of both at-home tests as well as the more comprehensive and accurate COVID tests conducted at doctors’ offices and hospitals. Eventually, people will also have to start forking over money for COVID vaccines and treatments like Paxlovid. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-02-08/big-changes-are-coming-to-u-s-health-care-as-pandemic-emergencies-expire

2023-02-08 Nancy Mace Reveals Health Problems After COVID Jab While Criticizing Twitter Censorship Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said she experienced health complications from a COVID vaccine during a Wednesday hearing about alleged Twitter censorship. The social media giant stifled the voices of medical experts who raised doubts about the prevailing narrative of the pandemic, Mace argued as she shared details about her own health.

In particular, 45-year-old Mace said she suffered side effects from a COVID vaccine jab, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has encouraged people to get to protect themselves from severe illness. Mace said she developed asthma, tremors in her left hand and occasional heart problems that doctors cannot explain. ​​“I find it extremely alarming Twitter’s unfettered censorship spread into medical fields and affected millions of Americans by suppressing expert opinions from doctors and censoring those who disagree with the CDC,” Mace said. https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-mace-reveals-health-problems-after-covid-jab-while-criticizing-twitter-censorship

2023-02-08 U.S. House Votes to End Foreign Air Traveler COVID Vaccine Requirement The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to end a requirement that most foreign air travelers be vaccinated against COVID-19, one of the few remaining pandemic travel restrictions still in place. The vote was 227 to 201 with seven Democrats joining Republicans. No Republicans voted against the bill. The U.S. Travel Association said “the need for this requirement has long since passed, and we appreciate the bipartisan action by the U.S. House to end this outdated policy … The U.S. is the only country that has maintained this policy.” https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-votes-end-foreign-air-traveler-covid-vaccine-requirement-2023-02-08/

2023-02-08 Australia to Expand Rollout of Fifth COVID Vaccine Shot Australia will roll out a fifth dose of COVID-19 vaccine later this month to all citizens aged 18 and above who have not contracted coronavirus or been vaccinated in the past six months, Health Minister Mark Butler said on Wednesday. The decision expands eligibility for the booster shot to include about 14 million people, more than half the country’s population, who will be offered Omicron variant-specific vaccines from Feb. 20, Butler said. Only severely immuno-compromised people had been recommended to take a fifth dose until now, the advice being to receive the booster three months after their fourth shot. But there has been a slow uptake of booster shots, with official data showing around 72% having had a third dose and only 44% their fourth one. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/australia-expand-rollout-fifth-covid-vaccine-shot-2023-02-08/

2023-02-08 House Republicans Take Their First Swat at Biden’s COVID Response Congressional Republicans took their first crack at Biden administration officials over their response to the COVID pandemic during a hearing Wednesday as part of a wider push to use their new power in Washington to probe everything from the actions of the FBI to the business dealings of the president’s son. The hearing is expected to be the first of many by House Republicans around the pandemic response as well as the origins of the COVID virus. A separate committee also plans to investigate how hundreds of billions of dollars in COVID relief funds were lost to fraud during both the Trump and Biden administrations.

The committee members questioned Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky, Food and Drug Administration commissioner Robert Califf and Lawrence A. Tabak, the senior official performing the duties of the director of the National Institutes of Health.

Members are also pursuing investigations into the origins of the virus. A letter sent to the National Institutes of Health earlier this month asked for a range of documents related to the monitoring of biosafety and research practices at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where Republicans have speculated the virus may originate. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., accused the NIH of stonewalling Congress in its efforts to uncover the origins of the virus during the hearing Wednesday. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-take-first-swat-bidens-covid-response-rcna69706

2023-02-08 Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Safety Science – Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth (2022) reveals that the entire childhood schedule is based on scientific fraud. The authors demonstrate—citing over 1,200 sources, including clinical trials, regulatory-agency documents, peer-reviewed studies, and vaccine package inserts—that the “science” of vaccine safety is not science at all but a betrayal of the scientific method. They reveal how we have been deceived—most importantly, how parents have been deceived.  https://ca.childrenshealthdefense.org/medical/turtles-all-the-way-down/  

2023-02-08 The Defender’s Big Pharma Watch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bp-baby-formula-companies-exploit-parents-fears-boost-sales/

2023-02-08 The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-suppressing-debate-covid-policies-mistrust-public-health/

2023-02-08 “This Week” with Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense president, and Polly Tommey Mary and Polly discuss the latest news on COVID-19 vaccines and other issues. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/transhumanist-agenda-heart-attacks-mary-polly/?

2023-02-08 Federal Lawmakers Scrap Plans to Regulate Medical Tests Following ‘Intensive’ Lobbying A number of tests used by patients to make major healthcare decisions have once again escaped regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, following intensive lobbying on behalf of test-makers, professional associations and academic medical centers. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/federal-regulation-medical-tests-lobbying/

2023-02-08 Why Americans Pay Twice as Much for Healthcare Yet Get Worse Care Americans pay twice as much for healthcare yet get the worst care of any developed Western nation because the industry’s conglomerate of monopolies results in higher costs while discouraging innovation and efficiency optimization. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/american-healthcare-costs-cola/

2023-02-08 The 15-Minute City: A Climate Solution? Or Just an ‘Excuse for More Control’? Proponents of the “15-minute city” say it will reduce emissions and improve residents’ quality of life, but critics say the concept, supported by the World Economic Forum, is discriminatory and will lead to “climate lockdowns.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/15-minute-city-climate-solution-control/

2023-02-08 CHD TV https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/chdtv_02_08_23?

2023-02-07 Suppressing Debate on COVID Policies Leads to Mistrust in Public Health Think about what may have happened if an American scientist or official had given the same advice publicly. Hearing those recommendations, our medical influencers might have gone nuclear. A high public official in totalitarian China basically said things that conceivably could get a U.S. speaker censored or canceled by the American scientific establishment.

It is discouraging to witness the extreme tactics the medical community has used to keep its members in line during the pandemic. Public intimidation, harassment, personal attacks, retraction of scientific papers after publication and career sabotage have been carried out with an eye toward bringing any dissenters in line, making sure they self-censor and refrain from expressing their views on controversial subjects such as the origin of COVID-19. Reader beware: It’s as much what you don’t read as what you do. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-suppressing-debate-covid-policies-mistrust-public-health/

2023-02-07 The Defender’s Big Pharma Watch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bp-experimental-vaccine-first-fight-fungi/

2023-02-07 The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-presidents-gain-power-emergencies-covid-hit/

2023-02-07 Higher Infant Mortality Rates Linked to Higher Number of Vaccine Doses, New Study Confirms A new peer-reviewed study found a positive statistical correlation between infant mortality rates and the number of vaccine doses received by babies — confirming findings made by the same researchers a decade ago. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/infant-mortality-vaccine-doses/?

2023-02-07 NYC Ends Vaccine Mandate for City Workers on Eve of Court Hearing on Lawsuits Challenging City’s Rejection of Religious Exemptions Beginning Feb. 10, COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be mandatory for New York City employees, according to an announcement made on the eve of tomorrow’s scheduled hearing in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on multiple lawsuits challenging the city’s rejection of religious exemptions to the mandate. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/nyc-covid-vaccine-mandate-city-workers-religious-exemptions/?

2023-02-07 Would a ‘Climate Emergency’ Open the Same Door to Authoritarian Governance as the ‘COVID Emergency?’ There are better ways to address climate change than insisting federal lawmakers declare a national “climate emergency” — including building a left-right coalition that can work together to build resilience to the environmental challenges of the 21st century while preserving democracy, civil liberties and human rights. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/climate-emergency-authoritarian-governance-covid/?

2023-02-06 Drug Companies Face COVID Cliff in 2023 as Sales Set to Plummet Pharmaceutical companies that made billions from the pandemic over the past two years selling vaccines and treatments are now up against a steep COVID cliff and investor pressure to spend their windfalls wisely.

Western drugmakers including Pfizer Inc. (PFE.N), BioNTech SE (22UAy.DE), Moderna Inc. (MRNA.O), Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD.O), AstraZeneca Plc (AZN.L) and Merck & Co (MRK.N) are estimated to have brought in about $100 billion in revenue from COVID vaccines and treatments in 2022. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/drug-companies-face-covid-cliff-2023-sales-set-plummet-2023-02-06/

2023-02-06 The Defender’s Big Pharma Watch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bp-cancer-vaccines-already-reality/

2023-02-06 Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-congress-expose-largest-censorship-system-us-history/?

2023-02-06 Lawyers for U.S., Navy Seals battle over revoked Covid-19 vaccine mandate A lawyer representing Navy Seals who do not want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 told a federal appeals court Monday that their lawsuit over a now-withdrawn vaccine mandate isn’t moot even though Congress passed legislation last December ordering the policy canceled. During arguments before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, attorney Heather Hacker said the service members still face the possibility of discipline over their refusal to get vaccinated and the government has not ruled out taking vaccination status into account when doling out future assignments.

Even though the mandate has been repealed, the Navy will continue to use vaccination status as a requirement for the class members to be able to fulfill their job duties,” Hacker said during the 40-minute argument. “It’s even worse now because the Navy will not even consider the plaintiffs’ requests for religious accommodation anymore.” The appeals court issued no immediate rulings on Monday. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/06/navy-seals-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-00081437

2023-02-06 Presidents Gain Too Much Power When Emergencies Like COVID Hit President Biden’s decision on Jan. 30 to formally end the COVID-19 national emergency this spring, unilaterally relinquishing exceptional powers the executive branch has claimed for three years, is a milestone worth celebrating. The time has come — indeed, the time is overdue — to go back to the regular order of implementing sweeping new programs and policies. That requires, with what should be rare exceptions, agreement of the executive and legislative branches.

The administration has dubiously used the continuing “emergency” to engineer roughly $400 billion in student loan forgiveness by executive fiat, even four months after Mr. Biden himself said on “60 Minutes” that the pandemic was “over.” The Supreme Court previously stopped the White House from using the emergency declaration to put a moratorium on evictions and to mandate that large employers require their workers to be vaccinated.

2023-02-06 Did Virus Hunter Peter Daszak Lie About Shutting Down Controversial Coronavirus Research? EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak, a longtime collaborator of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, planned to continue work on a grant that was revoked by the National Institutes of Health, even though publicly he said otherwise, an email obtained by U.S. Right to Know shows. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/peter-daszak-controversial-coronavirus-research-rtk/?

2023-02-06 Human Rights, Freedoms Will No Longer Exist, Warns Author of ‘The New Abnormal’ In his book, “The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State,” Dr. Aaron Kheriaty details how the COVID-19 pandemic paved the way for the implementation of a totalitarian one-world government, where human rights and freedoms will no longer exist. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/aaron-kheriaty-new-abnormal-human-rights-freedoms-cola/

2023-02-06 ‘The Weaponization of Loneliness’ — and How to Fight Back To rebuild civil society, we must follow the lead of people who are speaking truth and develop parallel institutions that can take the place of corrupted institutions, according to former CIA analyst Stella Morabito, author of “The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/stella-morabito-the-weaponization-of-loneliness/

2023-02-06 Pharma’s Gatekeeper: How the PREP Act Protects Everyone Except Those Injured by Vaccines Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness, or PREP Act, it’s nearly impossible to get compensation for a COVID-19 vaccine injury because everyone from the vaccine maker to the vaccine administrator is immune from liability. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/prep-act-covid-vaccine-injury-liability/

2023-02-06 RFK, Jr. to Kim Iversen: ‘Nobody Ever Complied Their Way Out of Totalitarianism’ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and journalist Kim Iversen discussed resistance during the pandemic, strategies for rebuilding democracy and the power of fear — and of new technologies — to control dissent. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kim-iversen-robert-kennedy-jr-totalitarianism/?

2023-02-01 CHD TV https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/chdtv_02_06_23?

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