Preservation Action 2022 Congressional Candidate Survey

Posted on August 21, 2022 by mekorganic

Please complete the following short survey by September 15th to inform voters of your positions on federal historic preservation policy and programs ahead of the November elections.

Email  michaelkerrforcongress@yahoo.com

Dear Congressional Candidate,


As Americans head to the polls this November in the 2022 midterm elections, Preservation Action is surveying all 2022 congressional candidates for the U.S House of Representatives and the U.S Senate. Our goal is to inform voters on where their candidates for office stand on the National Historic Preservation Program. Historic preservation enjoys strong bipartisan support and is widely embraced as an important federal policy objective. Across every state and Congressional district, there are dozens of organizations with thousands of members who care about cultural heritage and community revitalization. The collective national reach across our network of state, tribal, and local historic preservation organizations is over 750,000 people. 

If you would like voters to know your positions on historic preservation, please return this survey by September 15, 2022. 

In a grassroots survey of the general public and historic preservation advocates, respondents overwhelmingly indicated preservation to be a priority in their community. Respondents indicated that two of the most important federal policy issues concerning historic preservation were preserving and enhancing the Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit, better known as the Historic Tax Credit (HTC), and robust funding for the Historic Preservation Fund, which supports State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices and several competitive grant programs.

The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), which helped establish our federal historic preservation program, was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 after the destruction of numerous buildings, sites, and neighborhoods in the years following World War II. The NHPA established a series of programs to encourage the preservation of irreplaceable historic resources including the National Register of Historic Places and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. The National Park Service operates as a lead participant in the multi-tiered program with other federal agencies, State Historic Preservation Offices, Tribal Historic Preservation Offices, and Certified Local Governments. These partners advance federal programs such as matching grants, the HTC program, and others.

Preservation Action does not assign grades and does not endorse candidates. Instead, we plan to widely disseminate the results of this survey to our national network of preservation advocates – including state, tribal and local preservation organizations,  as well as individuals – ahead of the November midterm elections.

If you have questions, please contact mail@preservationaction.org. For more information about Preservation Action see www.preservationaction.org. If you are interested in joining the House Historic Preservation Caucus, a bipartisan caucus formed in 2003 by members of Congress who understand the value of America’s historic places, you can contact Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) or Rep. Earl Blumenauer’s (D-OR) office for more information.

Thank you for completing the survey,

Russ Carnahan

President, Preservation Action

Historic Preservation Fund Background:


The Historic Preservation Fund was established in 1976 to help carry out the National Historic Preservation Act. The responsibilities of the HPF are largely handled by State and Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, who administer the federal historic preservation program including, review of federal infrastructure projects, nominations to the National Register of Historic Places, grants to Certified Local Governments, and administering the Historic Tax Credit. In recent years, the HPF has also supported competitive grant programs like African American Civil Rights grant program, the Save America’s Treasures program, the Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization grant program, Tribal Heritage grants, and grants for underrepresented communities. 

The HPF is uniquely funded through a percentage of offshore oil lease revenue, not tax-payer dollars. In FY 2022, Congress appropriated $173 million for the Historic Preservation Fund. The Historic Preservation Enhancement Act (H.R. 6589), introduced earlier this year, would permanently reauthorize the Historic Preservation Fund and fully fund the program at $300 million annually. The current HPF program, which expires at the end of FY2023, is authorized to receive $150 million in funding annually.

Do you support stable and robust funding for the Historic Preservation Fund?*

Yes

No

Unsure

Would you support efforts to permanently reauthorize and enhance the Historic Preservation Fund?*

Yes

No

Unsure

Historic Preservation Fund Comments:

History is important whether it be all forms of events & celebrations; media: books, magazines, documents radio, TV, video, social media; and physical structures, locations or environments!  Without history we will not only not know where we came from, but we won’t know where we are going!  History is our compass and map! That is why I support the Historic Preservation Fund.

Historic Tax Credit Background:


Legislation modernizing the Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit (HTC) was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 as an incentive to catalyze economic development through the rehabilitation and reuse of America’s historic buildings. The credit is the largest federal investment in historic preservation, and it is market driven. The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act retained the 20% credit but altered the program, requiring the credit to be taken over 5 years. The Historic Tax Credit Growth and Opportunity Act (S.2266/H.R 2294) includes several provisions designed to enhance the HTC and make it more accessible.

Past IRS revenue procedures, guidance, as well as recent federal policies have diminished the value of the HTC by up to 20%. This compounded with current inflation challenges and skyrocketing cost of materials, there has been a decline in use of the credit in FY2021.

These changes are aimed at stimulating the economy and making it easier for smaller projects as well as non-profits to take advantage of the credit. The HTC returns more to the Treasury than the cost of the program. A study from the National Park Service concluded that the Historic Tax Credit has generated $39.4 billion in federal tax revenue from $34.3 billion in federal tax credits.

Would you support efforts to update the Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit?*

Yes

No

Unsure

Historic Tax Credit Comments:

I am concerned about how few Senators and Congresspersons are co-signers and the lack of many of the more progressive ones.   As an individual without staff, it is always hard to understand bills fully and to know if there are poison bills in an otherwise good bill.  I support efforts to improve the preservation of historical structures and places in principle.

Historic Preservation Protections Background:


Legislation like the National Historic Preservation Act and National Environmental Policy Act help to ensure that historic and tribal cultural resources are considered as part of the federal project planning process. While neither law mandates a specific outcome, they are designed to provide citizens with the opportunity to provide input into the federal decision-making process. This is especially important as the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is implemented.

Would you support policies that assure the impact to historic and cultural resources continue to be considered in the federal project planning process?

Yes

No

Unsure

Historic Preservation Protections Comments:

Historical importance should always be a consideration in the federal project planning process!

Does historic preservation play an important role in your state/district? How so? Describe any personal connections to historic preservation or historic sites. Is there a specific historic place in your district that is important to you and your constituents?

The Concord Naval Weapon Station and site of the Port Chicago Explosion.  Also, there are many known and potential native American historical sites.

About Preservation Action:

Preservation Action is the only national nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to lobbying for the best preservation policies at the federal level. We seek to make historic preservation a national priority by advocating to all branches of government through a grassroots constituency empowered with information and training.

Preservation Action
2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
#313
Washington, D.C 20006

Additional Resources

National Register of Historic of Historic Places Searchable Database

Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit Projects by State (2002-2020)

Comprehensive Directory of Historic and Cultural Resources Organizations

Candidate Name:  Michael E Kerr

State/District: CA Congressional District 10

Party Affiliation:  Green Party

Campaign Contact:*   MichaelKerrForCongress@yahoo.com

Campaign Website:   http://www.CreatingBetterWorld.org

I understand that Preservation Action will publish and disseminate my responses to the survey analyzed with others for educational purposes ahead of the November general election.

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My 2022 Campaign Questionnaires & Issues

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Specific Issues Index

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My 2022 Campaign Statement on ERA

Posted on August 21, 2022 by mekorganic

I fully support passage of the ERA!  Still, not a U.S. Constitutional Amendment, the Equal Rights Amendment is designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex.

It is outrageous that it has been nearly 100 years since the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first introduced in the U.S. Congress shortly after the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. 

It has been over 50 years since the U.S. House and Senate passed the ERA and it was submitted to the state legislatures for ratification, as provided by Article V of the U.S. Constitution. 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications were secured by 1977 and in recent years the remaining necessary 3 state ratifications were obtained.

Originally, the ERA had wide, bipartisan political support, but many conservatives and Republicans have become hostile to the ERA.

Currently the ERA is surrounded by legal uncertainty about the consequences of the Virginian ratification, due to expired deadlines and five states’ revocations.   

I will actively support a positive resolution of these legal uncertainties to finally have passage of the ERA as a Constitutional Amendment!

Michael E. Kerr

2022 Congressional Candidate CA District 10

Creating Better World with Peace & Justice

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Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

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Specific Issues Index

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Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Posted on August 21, 2022 by mekorganic

My 2022 Campaign Statement on ERA

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Sources & Organizations

Alice Paul Institute

Equal Rights Amendment

ERA Coalition

National Organization of Women

Specific Information

Common Legal Questions – EC

Equal Rights Amendment – National Archives

Equal Rights Amendment -Wikipedia

ERA Amendment – EC

General ERA Talking Points – EC

History of the Equal Rights Amendment – API

History of the ERA – EC

How can you be an ERA Advocate – ERA

Intertwining History of NOW and the ERA – NOW

NOW and the ERA – NOW

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Campaign Website honored by U.S. Library of Congress

Posted on August 14, 2022 by mekorganic

Campaign Website honored by United States Library of Congress

Webcapture [Library of Congress] <webcapture@loc.gov>

To: michaelkerrforcongress@yahoo.com

Fri, Jun 24 at 5:32 AM To Whom It May Concern:

The has selected your website for inclusion in the United States Election 2022 Web Archive, which is part of a larger collection of historically and culturally significant websites that have been designated for preservation. The following URL has been selected: https://www.kerr2020.com/.

The Library of Congress or its agent will engage in the collection of content from your website at regular intervals over time. In order to properly archive the above URL, we may archive other portions of the website and public content that your page links to on third party sites such as Twitter, YouTube, etc. In addition to the aforementioned collection, archived content from your website may be added to other relevant collections in the future. This content will be available to researchers at Library facilities and by special arrangement. It may also become more broadly available through hosting on the Library’s public website, which would be done no sooner than one year after it was collected. For more information on the web archiving process, please read our frequently asked questions.

The Library hopes that you share its vision of preserving digital content and making it available to current and future generations of researchers. As the internet has become an increasingly important and influential part of our lives, we believe the historical record would be incomplete if websites like yours are not preserved and made a part of it. We encourage you to learn more about the Library’s Web Archiving program and explore our collections to see examples of how we archive websites. If you have any questions, comments, or recommendations concerning the archiving of your website, please email the Library’s Web Archiving Team at webcapture@loc.gov. 

Thank you.

Library of Congress Web Archiving Team

webcapture@loc.gov



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My 2022 Campaign Questionnaires & Issues

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Specific Issues Index

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Cecile Pineda, !Presente! August 11, 2022

Posted on August 14, 2022 by mekorganic

Cecile Pineda, !Presente!

From her family:

“Hello, It is with great sadness that we announce that our Mother, Cecile Leneman (AKA Cecile Pineda) passed away on August 11th 2022. Know that she was surrounded by her family during her last days. Please pass this message to whom ever you think might want to know.


Regards,

David, Michael & Indira Leneman

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Living in the SF Bay Area in her later years, Cecile Pineda left an incredible footprint, both with her writing, her activism and as an artist and former theater director.

She was often in the streets for local and global peace & justice causes.  She participated in weeklong Shut Down Creech drone resistance actions for years, even when her advanced age limited the capacity of her participation.  She was an amazing and accomplished writer and blogger with a deep devotion to many peace & justice causes.  Read her most recent blog, on homelessness HERE. (June 12, 2022)

Wikipedia post here.

Thank you Lisa Savage for this beautiful tribute to Cecile, attached.

We will always remember you Cecile. !Presente!

Toby Blomé

SF Bay Area CODEPINK

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From: Lisa Savage <lsavage3@gmail.com> 
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2022 12:10 PM
To:lsavage3@proton.me
Subject: Cecile Pineda, ¡Presente!

Lisa Savage / Went2theBridge / Sunday, August 14, 2022

Cecile Pineda, ¡Presente!

From her website: “Cecile Pineda was born in New York City, migrating to California in 1961 where she has lived ever since in the San Francisco-Bay Area. She is the author of The Love Queen of the Amazon, written with the assistance of a National Endowment Fiction Fellowship and named Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times; Frieze, and Face which won the Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California; the Sue Kaufman Prize awarded by the American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, and the American Book Award nomination for first fiction.   Other works including Fishlight: A Dream of Childhood, a non-fiction memoir, Bardo99, and Redoubt, both mononovels, as well as her works of non-fiction, Devil’s Tango, Apology to a Whale, and Three Tides are all available from Independent Publishers Group.”

Author, playwright, director, mother, and blogger Cecile Pineda has passed into history 

and I am one of legions who will miss her. Her wit, clarity, and courage to tell us hard truths were valuable, and it was my great honor to be mentored by Cecile in my own blogging career.

In memoriam, I dedicate this blog post to Cecile and as homage I will mimic a couple of the structures she employed in her blog/newsletter: Take Action, and This Week’s Roses Amidst the Thorns. I’m sure that by including these sections in each post, she hoped to offset the despair and cynicism that can overtake those who pay attention to current events.

Cecile’s most recent book 

is not listed in the bio on her website, probably because she was slowing down a bit in recent years (she was about to turn 90).


A memoir, Entry Without Inspection: A Writer’s Life in El Norte (University of Georgia Press, 2020) examined the personal and political influences in the life of a self-identified Chicana author who won numerous awards for her fiction: the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, a gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. She also, as a married mother, took it as her duty to have dinner on the table every night. She was also a director and performer of distinction who chronicled the declining support for theater that explored the bounds of dramatic possibility rather than striving for commercial success. She was also the child of immigrant parents who forged her own identity in the face of some spectacularly bad parenting. And, typical of her ability to locate the personal within the political, she depicted the catastrophic effects of U.S. immigration politices via her father’s experience plus the story of a whistleblower who revealed the death of an immigrant while in ICE detention.

I enjoyed this book very much as I knew Cecile by the time I was reading it, and because her life at the borders of second wave feminism and 20th century immigration policies was illuminating — at least the way she tells it.

Even more influential on my thinking: 

her two previous books, also non-fiction.

Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World (Wings Press, 2015) is categorized as philosophy and attracted some illustrious blurbs when published. I’ll let one from a prominent environmentalist speak for itself:

Cecile Pineda has the nerve to ask the one simple question that eludes our public posturing….It is the one question that could save us: 

What has happened to our mind that we are killing our world? 

What is it, at the root of our culture that sets us against the rest of creation? 

The genius of this book is that the question [itself] supersedes the answers and takes us on explorations where we make our own discoveries. These widening apprehensions not only pierce us with heartache for what we have lost, but invite us to examine the imprisoning structures of the very language we use. 

Cecile Pineda has the rare and enviable capacity to address the big questions without falling into abstractions or sermonizing. It is the artist in her that I trust, and that utters so potent a call to personal and collective liberation.

—Joanna Macy, author of Coming Back to Life

If you’ve asked yourself these questions, this book is for you.

Cecile’s book with the biggest impact for me, personally, was undoubtedly this one. 


Devil’s Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step (Wings Press, 2013) argued a thesis that acted as a tsunami demolishing my lifelong dread of nuclear war. It’s not that I don’t still dread it (and notice it creeping closer with each passing day), it’s that I followed Cecile’s carefully reasoned argument that nuclear holocaust is already here. Constant pollution from radiation leaks, accidents, and deliberate use of ordnance composed with depleted uranium already have global cancer rates and birth defects skyrocketing. Continuing to build nuclear power plants and nuclear weapon systems without any meaningful plans for containing the waste, much less the radiation produced by accidents, is collective suicide. Fukushima was a disaster waiting to happen and another earthquake could replicate it on any of several coasts around the planet. 

I am deeply grateful to Cecile for both educating me and stimulating my ability to hold unwelcome truths in mind without succumbing to despair. 

A selfie with Cecile, Berkeley, spring 2022

Cecile Pineda, ¡Presente!

Take Action

World Beyond War Sign the petition: Don’t get Yanked into war with China!

Roots Action Sign the petition:No to war, hot or cold, with Russia.

Send a Letter to Biden: Sanctions Fuel the Fire In response to the catastrophic fire at Matanzas energy facility in Cuba,an open letter signed by a growing list of prominent figures in the US and internationally, including Cornel West, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Noam Chomsky, and Jeremy Corbyn, calls for lifting sanctions on Cuba.

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Ask your elected officials totake the pledge to promote the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Sum of Us Tell the Japanese government: don’t dump Fukushima nuclear waste water into the ocean!

Our Children’s Trust Demand Biden’s Department of Justice and Attorney General Merrick Garland end their opposition to Juliana! The 21 youth plaintiffs, from across the United States and including 11 Black, Brown, and Indigenous youth, in their landmark youth-led constitutional climate lawsuit Juliana v. United States need your support today! For seven years since the case was filed, young people have suffered from increasingly severe climate harms and we need our nation’s courts to do their duty and protect the rights of our children to a safe climate. 

DontExtraditeAssange.com Sign the new petition. The UK must comply with Article 4 of the US-UK extradition treaty: “Extradition shall not be granted if the offense for which extradition is requested is a political offense.”

Lakota People’s Law Project Please send President Biden an email today, and ask him to cement his legacy as an advocate for Native communities by taking action to protect our children and sovereignty, up to and including an Executive Order.

1CM69 STOP! SpaceX Starlink from Spoiling Outer Space for Humanity, sign the petition. SpaceX was given the green light by the FCC in the USA to launch a network of satellites in to Low Earth Orbit, 60 at time of writing, rising to 12,000 over time. These satellites will forever ruin the view of the heavens for the entire planet.

#DeleteFacebook trended and thousands left  both Meta platforms (FB and Instagram) after learning that the company had turned over private messages between a 17 year old and her mother leading the felony charges for murder as the two procured and the daughter used abortion pills. You can delete your account on these apps, too.

Roses Amidst The Thorns

🌹The U.S. Army has so far recruited only about half the soldiers it hoped for fiscal 2022.

🌹70% of younger voters have lost faith in both the Republican and the Democratic Parties to represent the needs of the people.

🌹Green Party U.S. Senate candidate Matthew Hoh is on the ballot in North Carolina following a successful lawsuit against Democratic Party shenanigans to keep him off.

🌹Christopher Cooper, the Black man who a white woman falsely claimed to police was attacking her in NYC Central Park, will be hosting a new tv show, “Extraordinary Birder.”

🌹More workplaces have filed to form a union this year than in all of 2021 including workers at Starbucks, Amazon, and Trader Joe’s.

🌹Caitlin Johnstone, Australian blogger extraordinaire, examines “the end of illusions” with humor on a daily basis.

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Lisa Savage

Read my blog: “Went2theBridge“

Twitter: @naturalguard

Take the Natural Guard pledge

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Photos of Cecile at Creech AFB anti-drone vigils

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Coronavirus Covid-19 Research History – April 11 to April 15, 2022

Posted on July 21, 2022 by mekorganic

2022-04-15 Pfizer Knew Vaccine Injuries Were More Severe in People Under 55, Documents Reveal Documents released April 1 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration show the adverse event rate per dose for Pfizer’s mRNA jab, based on the company’s own studies, is nearly 1 in 800, and the myocarditis rate is 10 in 100,000 — far greater than the 2 in 100,000 rate previously reported. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-vaccine-injuries-more-severe-people-under-55/

2022-04-15 Unvaccinated & Vaccinated COVID Case Rates Nearly Equal, DHS Says + More The Defender’s COVID NewsWatch provides a roundup of the latest headlines related to the SARS CoV-2 virus, including its origins and COVID vaccines. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-unvaccinated-vaccinated-cases-nearly-equal/

2022-04-15 Health Officials Reinstate Mask Mandates, But Where’s the Science? Health officials are reinstating and extending mask mandates, citing a surge in the Omicron BA.2 variant, but data don’t appear to support those decisions. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/health-officials-reinstate-mandates-wheres-science/?

2022-04-15 California Pauses Plans to Require COVID Vaccinations for Schoolchildren + More The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch brings you the latest headlines related to governments’ abuse of power, including attacks on democracy, civil liberties and use of mass surveillance. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-california-pauses-plans-require-covid-vaccinations-schoolchildren/?

2022-04-15 Changing the Climate Change Narrative: ‘What We Do to the World, We Do to Ourselves’ Writer Charles Eisenstein doesn’t subscribe to the dominant climate change narrative, which invokes panic and fear. Instead, he said, “Self and other, humanity and nature are not separate. We may not die if the Amazon dies, but surely something within us dies, something precious, something sacred.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/changing-climate-change-narrative-what-we-do-to-world-do-to-ourselves/

2022-04-15 6 Companies Control 90% of What You Read, Watch and Hear. Here’s Why You Should Care. Ever-mounting media consolidation has narrowed the perspectives the public is privy to. Ownership and funding of these corporations are riddled with conflicts of interest and Big Tech companies are outright censoring and demonetizing independent outlets. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/6-companies-control-90-percent-read-watch-hear-why-care/?

2022-04-15 More Than 1 Million COVID Vaccine Injuries, Nearly 27,000 Deaths Reported to VAERS, CDC Data Show VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,226,314 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 26,976 deaths and 219,865 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and April 8, 2022. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/1-million-covid-vaccine-injuries-27000-deaths-reported-vaers-cdc-data/?

2022-04-14 Pfizer to Ask FDA to Allow 3rd COVID Shot for Healthy 5- to 11-Year-Olds, Based on Study of 140 Kids Pfizer and BioNTech today said they plan to apply for Emergency Use Authorization of a COVID-19 booster dose for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds based on results of a small study that has not been published or analyzed by independent experts. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-ask-fda-3rd-covid-booster-for-healthy-ages-5-to-11/?

2022-04-14 Scientist James Lyons-Weiler Weighs in on Snake Venom Theory Scientist James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D., said at least 10 people asked him about the snake venom proteins in relation to COVID-19. He proposed two possible explanations, one of which he favors over the other. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/scientist-james-lyons-weiler-on-snake-venom-theory/?

2022-04-14 What Proportion of Doctors Are Vaccine Hesitant? Far Higher Than Expected, Survey Says + More The Defender’s COVID NewsWatch provides a roundup of the latest headlines related to the SARS CoV-2 virus, including its origins and COVID vaccines. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-doctors-vaccine-hesitant-far-higher-expected-survey/

2022-04-14 Why You Should Think Twice Before Sharing a COVID Diagnosis + More The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch brings you the latest headlines related to governments’ abuse of power, including attacks on democracy, civil liberties and use of mass surveillance. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-think-twice-before-sharing-covid-diagnosis/

2022-04-13 6 Double Standards Public Health Officials Used to Justify COVID Vaccines From the beginning, the official COVID-19 narrative has been inconsistent, hypocritical and/or contradictory because medical authorities used double standards to create the illusion their narrative was logical and sensible.

  • 1. COVID deaths are ‘presumed,’ but vaccine deaths must be ‘proven’
  • 2. CDC uses VAERS data to investigate myocarditis yet claims VAERS data on vaccine deaths is unreliable
  • 3. CDC pushes ‘relative risk’ for determining vaccine efficacy, but uses ‘absolute risk’ to downplay risk of adverse events
  • 4. FDA requires randomized control studies for early treatment medications — but not for boosters
  • 5. FDA uses immunobridging to justify Pfizer shots for young kids, but rejects antibodies as indicative of immune protection from COVID
  • 6. Causation must be proven for vaccine injuries, but correlation suffices for proving vaccine efficacy

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/6-double-standards-public-health-officials-justify-covid-vaccines/

2022-04-13 Pandemic Propels Global Effort to Study Rare Vaccine Side Effects + More The Defender’s COVID NewsWatch provides a roundup of the latest headlines related to the SARS CoV-2 virus, including its origins and COVID vaccines. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-pandemic-propels-global-effort-vaccine-side-effects/

2022-04-13 Instagram and Snapchat Addiction Allegedly Led to 17-Year-Old Boy’s Suicide + More The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch brings you the latest headlines related to governments’ abuse of power, including attacks on democracy, civil liberties and use of mass surveillance. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-instagram-snapchat-addiction-boy-suicide/?

2022-04-13 ‘This Week’ With Mary + Polly: ‘Extremely Disturbing’ Mask Mandate for Kids Under 5 + More In “This Week” with Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense president, and Polly Tommey, co-producer of “Vaxxed,” Mary and Polly discussed the latest news on COVID vaccines and other issues. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mary-polly-disturbing-mask-mandate-kids-under-5/

2022-04-13 ‘Watch the Water’ Right on Remdesivir, But Snake Venom Theory Is a Stretch While it’s true there is some overlap between the effects of poisonous peptides present in some snake venom and those of SARS-COV2 spike protein, claiming COVID is ultimately derived from snake venom is a poorly substantiated hypothesis. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/watch-the-water-remdesivir-snake-venom-theory/?

2022-04-12 ‘The Kids Are Not All Right’: Private Equity Psychiatric Facilities Prioritize Profits Over Patient Care “More than any other part of the health care services industry, private equity is pouring money into behavioral health,” said Eileen O’Grady, a researcher for the watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Project. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kids-not-all-right-psychiatric-facilities-profits-over-patient-care/

2022-04-12 COVID Vaccines Aren’t Working — And No Amount of Boosting Will Change That We’ve gone from “two mRNA jabs will ensure you won’t carry the virus or get sick or die of COVID” to “you need a booster every four months and you can still contract, transmit, get sick and die of COVID.” At this rate, we’re looking at three injections per year, and the fully-jabbed and boosted are still getting sick with COVID. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccines-arent-working-boosting-change/

2020-04-12 #StopTheTreaty: Act Today to Stop WHO’s Disastrous Power Grab We have less than 24 hours to stop the World Health Organization’s proposed “global accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response,” a plan that would strip nations of the right to determine their own health policies in the event of a pandemic. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/stopthetreaty-act-today-stop-who-disastrous-power-grab/

2020-04-12 ‘The System Is Rigged’: The Anatomy of Big Pharma’s Political Reach With their long, sordid history, pharmaceutical companies incentivize doctors to prescribe their products through financial rewards. Thanks to their astronomical profit margins, the pharmaceuticals and health products industry is able to spend more on lobbying than any other industry in America. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/system-rigged-big-pharma-political-reach/

2022-04-12 Axios-Ipsos Poll: Most Americans Say COVID Is No Longer a Crisis Less than one in 10 Americans now describe COVID-19 as a crisis — with about three in four calling it a manageable problem and one in six saying it’s no problem at all — according to the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index. These sentiments — and the public’s growing desire to be done with mask mandates and other restrictions — raise significant challenges for public health officials in managing new surges and could create real political headwinds ahead of the midterms. https://www.axios.com/2022/04/12/axios-ipsos-poll-most-americans-say-covid-is-no-longer-a-crisis

2022-04-12 How Can Schools Combat the COVID Slide? Bullying Prevention Is the Best Place to Start Thus far, much of the discussion surrounding the pandemic‘s lingering impacts has centered on learning loss, which has resulted in testing declines of as much as six percentile points in reading and 12 percentile points in math in grades three through eight. But the more important story might not be what’s down due to the pandemic but rather what’s up. Because as test scores drop, reports of mental health problems are on the rise — and you can’t address learning loss if students are overwhelmed by challenges outside the classroom. Over the past two years, many schools have reported elevated levels of anxiety, stress and behavioral problems among students. Perhaps most troubling of all is an increase in reports of bullying as more kids take their anger and frustration out on peers and exacerbate a problem that was already reaching epidemic proportions before the pandemic. Just a few years ago, 90% of students in fourth through eighth grades had already reported being bullied or harassed. Of that overwhelming majority, 41% believed it would happen again. https://www.newsweek.com/how-can-schools-combat-covid-19-slide-bullying-prevention-best-place-start-1696985

2022-04-12 How Media Turns Bad Science Into ‘News’ Mainstream media often make the case for vaccinating kids by pointing to studies published in prestigious journals — but without doing any due diligence on the quality or validity of the study they are reporting on. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/media-turns-bad-science-news/

2022-04-12 CDC Under Fire for COVID Response, Launches Internal Review The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday launched a comprehensive agency-wide review and evaluation following criticism of the agency’s response to COVID-19, but political commentators Kim Iversen and Robby Soave expressed doubt the process would bring about change. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-under-fire-covid-response-internal-review/

2022-04-11 Exclusive: Son Describes Mother’s Death After Moderna Shot In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Jeffrey Beauchine said his mother, Carol, knew her Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease was related to the Moderna shot. Watching her death was like “something you see out of a movie,” he said. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/exclusive-son-describes-mothers-death-moderna-shot/

2022-04-11 With COVID Mission Over, Pentagon Plans for Next Pandemic One of the key lessons learned was the value of small military teams over mass movements of personnel and facilities in a crisis like the one wrought by COVID-19. In the early days of the pandemic, the Pentagon steamed hospital ships to New York City and Los Angeles and set up massive hospital facilities in convention centers and parking lots, in response to pleas from state government leaders. The idea was to use them to treat non-COVID-19 patients, allowing hospitals to focus on the more acute pandemic cases. But while images of the military ships were powerful, too often many beds went unused. Fewer patients needed non-coronavirus care than expected, and hospitals were still overwhelmed by the pandemic. A more agile approach emerged: having military medical personnel step in for exhausted hospital staff members or work alongside them in additional treatment areas in unused spaces. https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-army-pandemics-30ed7838294b3afcfdf3defa2f4d10c0

2020-04-11 Fauci Admits Defeat: Says COVID Here to Stay, People Need to ‘Calculate Individual Risk’ While President Joe Biden campaigned on a promise to “shut down the virus, not the economy,” Dr. Anthony Fauci — the highest-paid employee in the U.S. government — was taking a much more cautious approach — suggesting that COVID might never go away. And with Washington, DC, now a superspreader party town for the far-less deadly Omicron strain, Fauci has now explicitly thrown in the towel on trying to rid the world of COVID-19 — telling ABC’s “This Week” that the virus is here to stay, and people will just have to decide what level of risk they’re willing to take. “This is not going to be eradicated and it’s not going to be eliminated,” Fauci told host Jonathan Karl. “What’s going to happen is that we’re going to see that each individual is going to have to make their calculation of the amount of risk that they want to take in going to indoor dinners and in going to functions, even within the realm of a green zone map of the country where you see everything looks green but it’s starting to tick up.” “We’re going to have to live with some degree of virus in the community,” Fauci continued, adding that “the best way to mitigate that, Jon, is to get vaccinated.” Yes, a vaccine developed for a completely different strain that wanes in protection just six weeks after the receipt of a fourth dose, according to a recent Israeli study. https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fauci-admits-defeat-says-covid-here-stay-people-need-calculate-individual-risk

2022-04-11 COVID: Suspended B.C. Doctor on Speaking Tour Warns Parents About Vaccinating Their Kids A doctor suspended by the College of Physicians and Surgeons for allegedly disseminating false narratives about COVID-19 is on a speaking tour of the B.C. Kootenays to warn parents about the risks of vaccinating kids. Dr. Stephen Malthouse, a family practitioner on Denman Island, has joined a pair of other dissenting doctors in recent speaking engagements in Nelson, Castlegar and Trail to present data they say indicates the risk to children from COVID-19 is “statistically zero” and that vaccines are the bigger risk for that age group. Malthouse and Drs. Sophia Bayfield and Kevin Sclater spoke over the weekend to what they said were full houses. Their “key message is that the risk to children under the age of 19 for the COVID-19 virus itself is statistically zero. Yet the dangers of the COVID-19 shot for the same age group are significant, including myocarditis, stroke, arrhythmias of the heart and even death.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-doctor-speaking-tour-warns-parents-vaccinating-kids

2022-04-11 100,000+ Documents Reveal Disturbing Details About High-Risk Gain-of-Function Experiments An investigative report by Vanity Fair contributor Katherine Eban, based on more than 100,000 EcoHealth Alliance documents, shows a disturbing reality of “murky grant agreements, flimsy NIH oversight and pursuit of government grants by pitching increasingly risky global research.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/documents-reveal-disturbing-details-gain-of-function-experiments

2022-04-11 Comedians Following ‘the Money Trail,’ Not ‘the Courage Trail,’ JP Sears Tells RFK, Jr. In an appearance on “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast,” comedian JP Sears said any good joke is rooted in truth, but big-name comedians are now “narrative-based” rather than “truth-based.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/comedians-following-money-not-courage-jp-sears-rfk-jr/

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Coronavirus Covid-19 Research History – April 6 to April 10, 2022

Posted on July 21, 2022 by mekorganic

2022-04-10 Your Next COVID Vaccine Will Be Different After deploying four COVID-19 shots in a little more than two years, the nation is absorbing a troubling realization: That’s a pace that’s impossible to sustain. This past week, experts began charting a path to a future that is less perfect – but more practical. It means building a vaccine that targets more than one strain of the virus. It would reduce severe disease and death, but not prevent every infection. If the design is changed, all vaccines will be updated. Manufacturers will likely offer the same vaccine formulation to everyone, rather than a mélange of different products for different people on different schedules. And the goal is to have it ready by next fall when the risk of illness is likely to soar. That’s a very tight deadline. “If we settle down to one shot per year that combines COVID and flu, I think that will be sustainable,” said UC San Francisco infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Chin-Hong. “Nobody will want to get a vaccine every six months,” he said. “So we have to change the strategy.” https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/10/your-next-covid-19-vaccine-will-be-different/

2022-04-10 A 7-Foot-Tall Robot at Dallas Love Field Is Watching for Unmasked Travelers and Curbside Loiterers Yes, those 7-foot-tall machines at Dallas Love Field are watching you. They want to make sure you’re wearing a mask if you’re boarding a flight or not parking too long at the curb if you’re picking up a returning traveler. Love Field is testing two Security Control Observation Towers at the airport, one near baggage claim and another near security checkpoints, to figure out whether robotic assistants can both help customers get around and warn passengers who are breaking rules. The robots can also call airport security and operations in case more help is needed. Airports have been at the forefront of technology, including facial recognition and other biometrics, for years, a trend that worries privacy advocates who say there are few, if any, laws or guidelines about how emerging technology should be used. Amazon took criticism in 2019 after testing its Rekognition technology with police departments before deciding to ban law enforcement from using it two years later. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-7-foot-tall-robot-at-dallas-love-field-is-watching-for-unmasked-travelers-and-curbside-loiterers/ar-AAW0cdz

2022-04-08 Cardiac Disorders Account for 20% of 1.2 Million Injuries Reported After COVID Vaccines, VAERS Data Show VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,217,333 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 26,699 deaths and 217,301 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and April 1, 2022. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cardiac-disorders-injuries-reported-covid-vaccines-vaers-data/

2022-04-08 FDA advisors call for an end to never-ending booster shots as they try to map out a strategy for living with COVID On Wednesday, an independent advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration — the agency entrusted with ensuring the country’s COVID-19 vaccine supply is not only safe but also useful and well-updated — met to discuss the future of COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. Dr. Peter Marks, who directs the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (the arm of the FDA that is in charge of regulating all vaccines) acknowledged the current COVID vaccine strategy of boost-every-few-months with the original vaccine recipe — based on virus sequenced from Wuhan, China in early 2020 —  is not sustainable. Already, successful COVID-19 vaccine makers including Moderna and Pfizer are charting their next moves against the virus, without any direction from the federal government. A more cohesive national strategy for new vaccines is needed, the FDA committee members said. Tailoring vaccines too tightly to circulating variants, which change over the course of weeks and months, is a futile strategy that will lead vaccine makers to “miss the boat,” committee member Dr. Michael Nelson, chief of the asthma, allergy and immunology division at UVA Health, said. https://www.businessinsider.com/fda-us-strategy-for-covid-boosters-new-vaccines-2022-4

2022-04-08 U.S. Firm With Ties to WEF, DOD Implicated in Bioweapons Cover-Up As evidence of a potential bioweapons cover-up begins to emerge, a company called Metabiota, whose founder is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader graduate, is gaining prominence. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/u-s-firm-with-ties-to-wef-dod-implicated-in-bioweapons-cover-up/

2022-04-08 ‘Get Used to It’: Outbreaks Give Taste of Living With Virus The U.S. is getting a first glimpse of what it’s like to experience COVID-19 outbreaks during this new phase of living with the virus, and the roster of the newly infected is studded with stars. Cabinet members, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Broadway actors and the governors of New Jersey and Connecticut have all tested positive. Outbreaks at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University are bringing back mask requirements to those campuses as officials seek out quarantine space. Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, expects the high level of U.S. immunity built up from previous infections and vaccinations will protect the nation from a large surge. “We’re going to have some infections here and there, but it’s not going to shut down the country,” Mokdad said. “Life has to go on. We have to be vaccinated and boosted. We need to protect the vulnerable, but we have to get used to it.” https://apnews.com/article/covid-living-with-virus-outbreaks-26ce89a748b27b3a47730d29a947237a

2022-04-08 COVID-cautious freak out at CNN medical analyst for urging large events to ‘still go on’ CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen said Thursday in a Washington Post column and corresponding Twitter thread that “our new normal” regarding COVID-19 should involve allowing individuals to assess their “own risks” and no longer canceling potential “superspreader” events. Prominent Twitter users, including doctors and liberal journalists, accused Wen of “dangerous,” “repulsive” messaging that is “killing” people in response. The controversy started with her article commenting on the recent Washington, DC, Gridiron Club dinner which led to an outbreak of COVID among D.C. politicians. Rather than admonish people who would dare attend large events like these during a pandemic, Wen, formerly the head of Planned Parenthood, explained that we’ve come to a “new normal” in which people should “be thoughtful about their own risks” and be allowed to make their own decisions. She concluded her Twitter posts, stating, “accepting that #COVID19 infections will be part of our lives doesn’t mean that we are giving up. Rather, it means acknowledging that we finally have the tools to live with it, and that people will make different choices from our own.” https://www.foxnews.com/media/covid-cautious-freak-cnn-medical-analyst-urging-large-events-still-go-on

2022-04-08 Moderna Recalls Thousands of COVID Vaccine Doses in Europe Moderna Inc. (MRNA.O) said on Friday it was recalling 764,900 doses of its COVID-19 vaccine made by its contract manufacturer Rovi (ROVI.MC) after a vial was found contaminated by a foreign body. No safety issues have been identified, Moderna said about the lots that were distributed in Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden in January. The drugmaker said the contamination was found in just one vial, and it was recalling the whole lot out of “an abundance of caution”. It did not disclose what was found in the vial. Japanese authorities last year suspended the use of some doses of the vaccine, which Moderna later recalled after an investigation found stainless steel contaminants in some vials. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-recalls-thousands-covid-vaccine-doses-2022-04-08/

2022-04-08 Greek Healthcare Workers Launch Hunger Strike: ‘We Don’t Need a Vaccine Passport to Be Free’ As a hunger strike protesting Greece’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers entered its 17th day, one suspended healthcare worker yesterday told a crowd of protesters in Athens, “we don’t need vaccine passports to be free.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/greek-healthcare-workers-launch-hunger-strike-no-vaccine-passport

2022-04-08 Court Reinstates Vaccine Mandate for Federal Workers, But White House Delays Enforcement A federal court on Thursday upheld the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees, but the White House told federal agencies “procedural steps” need to take place before the mandates can be enforced. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/court-reinstates-vaccine-mandate-federal-workers-white-house-delays-enforcement/

2022-04-07 FDA Vaccine Advisors Discuss Waning Efficacy of Boosters, Ignore Pleas by Vaccine-Injured Wednesday’s nine-and-a-half-hour meeting of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee was riddled with technical issues and punctuated by a sobering 60-minute long public hearing, as committee members sought, but failed to answer basic questions. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-vaccine-advisors-waning-efficacy-boosters-vaccine-injured/

2022-04-07 NJ Gym Owners Who Defied COVID Lockdowns Have Their Business License Restored The owners of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey, had their business licenses restored, nearly two years after they made nationwide headlines for defying New Jersey’s COVID lockdowns. Atilis co-owner Ian Smith and co-owner Frank Trumbetti kept Atilis open to the public for the past two years, despite the revoked license, operating off of donations and merchandise sales. Smith claimed that as a result of not complying with lockdown orders, he and Trumbetti received more than 90 citations, along with ten gym members who received citations; 9 criminal charges; that both he and Trumbetti were arrested, as well as one member; that local police changed the locks on the building, backed up their plumbing, and eventually boarded up the gym; that they were fined $15,497.76 every day they remained open, for 5 months; that $173,000 in fundraising for their legal defense was seized by the state; and that they owe more than $300,000 in legal bills. https://www.dailywire.com/news/nj-gym-owners-who-defied-covid-lockdowns-have-their-business-license-restored

2022-04-07 Washington Elite Faced With a Growing Resurgence of COVID Infections On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the latest high-profile Washington dignitary to test positive for COVID-19. Pelosi, 82, is currently asymptomatic, according to a spokesperson for her office. “The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided,” the spokesperson said Thursday. She said Pelosi received her second booster shot last month. Pelosi’s positive test comes amid a flurry of other positive cases among individuals who attended the elite Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington on Saturday. As of midday Thursday, at least 32 guests at Saturday’s dinner have tested positive for COVID-19, Tom DeFrank, the president of the Gridiron Club, told ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/US/washington-elite-faced-growing-resurgence-covid-19-infections/story

2022-04-07 Joe Rogan Blows up on People Who Call for Censorship on Social Media Joe Rogan said nothing drives him more crazy than people who are calling for censorship on social media, arguing that when people insist on removing thoughts they disagreed with that’s “not discourse, that’s propaganda.” During “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast Tuesday, the host spoke with playwright and filmmaker David Mamet, and the two talked about what can be done to stop censorship on sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. The two also discussed how people calling for censoring of things they disagree with are pushing toward an “authoritarian dictatorship.” It starts at the 44:24-minute mark of the show here. The host and Mamet talked about how people celebrated “certain people” getting removed from Twitter — like Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos. Rogan said that even back then he had warned people where this kind of thing would lead. “Do you understand that once they start censoring for what they believe is something that’s objectionable … it’s going to keep going further and further,” Rogan shared. “And they are going to keep moving the goal post.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-thats-propaganda-rogan-censorship-social-media/

2022-04-07 Hospital Refuses Father-to-Son Kidney Transplant Over COVID Jab A 9-year-old boy is being denied a life-saving kidney transplant because his father is not vaccinated against COVID-19. Dane Donaldson was found to be a perfect match for his son Tanner back in early 2018 by the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital before the outbreak of the pandemic. The family decided to wait a little longer before having Tanner undergo the transplant since transplanted kidneys from a live donor only lasted about 20 years. Then COVID-19 hit and put a freeze on the procedure. Now the hospital is refusing to perform the life-saving father-to-son kidney transplant it agreed to do nearly four years ago over the senior Donaldson’s unvaccinated status. In a statement released to The Epoch Times, the Cleveland Clinic cited a 2021 policy it adopted requiring all donors and candidates for organ transplants to be fully vaccinated against the virus. https://www.theepochtimes.com/hospital-refuses-father-to-son-kidney-transplant-over-covid-jab_4384193.html

2022-04-07 Let Thy Smartphone Be Thy Medicine? Google, Amazon Make Big Moves Into Healthcare As Big Tech and major retail firms move into healthcare they bring promises of convenience and innovation they claim will benefit consumers — but the move also raises questions about the ever-growing power and influence of such firms and their real motivation for getting into healthcare. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/smartphone-medicine-google-amazon-healthcare/

2022-04-06 ‘Natural Immunity Works and Pfizer Knows It,’ FDA Document Dump Reveals On The Hill’s “Rising,” journalist and political commentator Kim Iversen shared revelations from the latest batch of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine documents, released April 1 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/natural-immunity-pfizer-fda-document-dump/

2022-04-06 U.S. Virologist Let Wuhan’s ‘Bat Woman’ Revise Congressional Briefing on Pandemic According to documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know, biosafety expert and virologist James Le Duc allowed Wuhan’s top virologist, Shi Zhengli, to make any changes she wanted to his Congressional briefing on the pandemic. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/u-s-virologist-wuhans-bat-woman-revise-congressional-briefing-pandemic/

2022-04-06 Numerous Health Problems More Likely Because of COVID Vaccines Than Coincidence: VAERS Data Analysis Various health problems reported by people after receiving one of the COVID-19 vaccine shots are more likely to have been caused by the vaccines than to be coincidental, according to an analysis of data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). VAERS has been flooded with more than 1 million reports of various health problems and more than 21,000 death reports since the introduction of the vaccines in late 2020. Some experts and public officials have downplayed the significance of the reports, noting that just because a health problem occurs after getting the vaccine doesn’t mean the problem was caused by it. However, a deeper analysis of the data indicates that many of the adverse effects are more than just a coincidence, according to Jessica Rose, a computational biologist who’s been studying the data for at least nine months. “The safety signals being thrown off in VAERS now are off the charts across the board,” Rose told The Epoch Times. https://www.theepochtimes.com/numerous-health-problems-more-likely-due-to-covid-19-vaccines-than-coincidence-vaers-data-analysis_4380017.html?

2022-04-06 Big Oil Using Wartime Profits to Enrich Investors, Report Says “Oil and gas companies are feeding off humanitarian disaster and consumer suffering in order to reward Wall Street,” said Lukas Ross at Friends of the Earth. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/big-oil-wartime-profits-enrich-investors/

2022-04-06 ‘This Week’ With Mary + Polly: Get a Booster or Face Deportation + More In “This Week” with Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense president, and Polly Tommey, co-producer of “Vaxxed,” Mary and Polly discussed the latest news on COVID vaccines and other issues. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mary-polly-booster-face-deportation/

2022-04-06 An Interview With Dr. Vandana Shiva: ‘The Evolved Mind Sees Earth as One Family’ In an interview with The Defender, environmental champion Dr. Vandana Shiva shared her perspective on how the degradation of the planet can be reversed by returning to traditional organic farming practices and compassionate community organization. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vandana-shiva-interview-evolved-mind-earth-as-one-family/

2022-04-06 Exclusive: 34-Year-Old Died After Pfizer Shot, Mother Shares ‘Ridiculous’ Letters From CDC In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Henrietta Simoes said her healthy, 34-year-old son, Victor Simoes, died suddenly two weeks after his first Pfizer COVID-19 shot. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is not investigating the death, responded with two “ridiculous” letters. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/exclusive-34-year-old-died-after-pfizer-shot-mother-shares-letters-cdc/

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Coronavirus Covid-19 Research History – April 1 to April 5, 2022

Posted on July 21, 2022 by mekorganic

2022-04-05 CNN Misleads Parents, Follows Mainstream Script to Push Vaccines for Young Kids Mainstream media is following a tried-and-true script to push vaccine uptake. Now that COVID-19 vaccines are authorized for children ages 5 to 11, we can expect more disingenuous and misleading commentary designed to reinforce the “safe and effective” messaging — this time our children are the targets. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cnn-misleads-parents-push-vaccines-kids/

2022-04-05 70% of COVID Cases Among CDC Employees in August 2021 Were in Vaccinated Employees Data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that approximately 70% of all COVID cases among CDC employees in August 2021 occurred among “vaccinated” employees. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccinated-cdc-employees-got-covid-data-reveal

2022-04-05 West Virginia Removes Dozens of Deaths From COVID Count West Virginia has removed dozens of deaths from its official COVID-19 count after a review found nearly all of them were not related to the coronavirus, health officials said Tuesday. The Department of Health and Human Resources said Bureau for Public Health epidemiologists completed what it called a reconciliation process for 2021 that looks at all COVID-19 death reports. Of the 3,948 deaths reported in 2021, 122 deaths, or 3%, were determined not to be virus-related. In addition, five duplicate deaths from last year were identified during the reconciliation process and three additional deaths from 2020 were determined not to be from COVID-19 and taken off the state’s dashboard. https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-wv-state-wire-west-virginia-public-health-bb478a54d45dcc56e2858002fe23a77e

2022-04-05 COVID Vaccines Will Soon Be Available for Kids Under 5. Experts Worry Many Parents Won’t See the Need. What’s worse for public health officials staring down a possible new wave of infections from another Omicron subvariant called BA.2 is the fear other parents won’t see a need to get their kids vaccinated when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorizes it for children under age 5, as soon as April. ​​The percentage of fully vaccinated Americans has stagnated at about two-thirds. Just under half of those eligible have gotten a booster dose. Federal regulators authorized a second booster last week for older and immunocompromised people, but it’s unclear how many people will want those either. Children remain the least protected with about 35% of parents of those aged 5 to 11 choosing to vaccinate their kids since they became eligible in November. Children have largely weathered the virus, with about 12 million reported cases and fewer than 1,000 deaths. But 5 million of youth cases have been recorded so far in 2022 alone, boosting the number of hospitalizations. Long-term effects remain unknown. https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-hs-covid-vaccine-coming-for-kids-20220405-awiahzwbnnemrkzsd5gg5uueva-story.html

2022-04=05 ‘Pitchforks Are Coming:’ Iversen Predicts Public Unrest if Inflation Continues Political commentator Kim Iversen warned rising corporate profits combined with higher prices and empty shelves will create a consumer backlash against corporations and fundamentally change the way the people view the government. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pitchforks-coming-iversen-predicts-public-unrest-inflation-continues/

2022-04-05 Pfizer Hired 600+ People to Process Vaccine Injury Reports, Documents Reveal Pfizer hired about 600 additional full-time employees to process adverse event reports during the three months following authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine, with plans to hire 1,800 more by June 2021, newly released documents reveal.

Remarking upon this newly revealed information, Brian Hooker, chief scientific officer of Children’s Health Defense, told The Defender: “The rollout of the Pfizer vaccine has led to an unprecedented number of adverse events reported — 158,000 adverse events in the first two-plus months of the rollout means that the rate of reported AE [adverse events] was approximately 1:1000, with many of the AEs graded as serious. This is based on a denominator of 125,000,000 vaccines distributed. “It is no wonder that an army of 1,800 individuals was needed to process all of the information.”

Hooker noted the total number (1,205,755) of COVID vaccine adverse events reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System between Dec. 14, 2020 and March 25, 2022, now eclipses the total number (930,952) of adverse events reported in the 32-year history of the database. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-hired-600-people-vaccine-injury-reports/

Is Postmaster General Getting Rich Off COVID Test Giveaway? As part of a government program established this year, the U.S. Postal Service is distributing free COVID-19 test kits to the public — an initiative that could add to the personal wealth of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/postmaster-general-rich-covid-test-giveaway

2022-04-04 COVID Vaccines Don’t Prevent Transmission, Severe Illness or Deaths, Data Show All we have to do is look at high-quality epidemiological data to get to the truth — COVID-19 vaccines aren’t preventing COVID or its transmission, and they aren’t preventing severe illness or death. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccines-dont-prevent-transmission-severe-illness-deaths-data/

2022-04-04 As Many as 40% of Those Who Died of COVID Had Diabetes and Experts Hope That Will Lead Policymakers to Address the Disease Somewhere between 30% to 40% of those who died from COVID-19 in the U.S. had diabetes, and health experts are hoping that could lead policymakers to pay more attention to the disease, The New York Times reported. “It’s hard to overstate just how devastating the pandemic has been for Americans with diabetes,” Dr. Giuseppina Imperatore, who oversees diabetes prevention and treatment at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the paper in a story published on Sunday. According to data from the National Institute of Health, diabetes draws less funding than diseases like cancer and heart disease despite impacting 37 million Americans. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes more than doubled in the past 20 years and 96 million Americans have prediabetes. https://www.businessinsider.com/as-many-40-died-of-covid-19-had-diabetes-2022-4

2022-04-04 Boston University COVID Testing Policy Violated Americans With Disabilities Act, CHD Lawsuit Alleges Children’s Health Defense and attorney Robert Meltzer of the Mountain States Law Group are suing Boston University on behalf of a student who was suspended for failing to comply with the school’s COVID-19 testing protocol. The lawsuit alleges the university’s testing regimen failed to accommodate the student’s disability. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/boston-university-covid-testing-policy-violated-americans-disabilities-act-chd-lawsuit/

2022-04-04 We Need to Be Developing Vaccines for the Next Pandemic — Right Now While the COVID-19 vaccines were developed in record time — Moderna’s mRNA shot took just a weekend for its initial design — and extraordinary, innovative studies found effective treatments quickly as well, neither was fast enough to outrun the virus’s exponential growth. COVID-19 will not be the last disease with the potential to grow into a pandemic. To fight the next one, we need to have a game plan to speed up the search for and deployment of vaccines and treatments. Such a plan would launch research and development efforts targeting pathogens with pandemic potential, stand up an infrastructure to accelerate the testing of candidate vaccines and antivirals, and pump funding into both. https://www.vox.com/22937351/next-pandemic-vaccine

2022-04-04 FDA Says COVID Vaccines May Need to Be Updated to Ensure High Level of Effectiveness Against Virus The currently approved COVID-19 vaccines may need an update to ensure a high level of protection as the virus continues to evolve, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA, in a briefing document published ahead of an advisory committee meeting this week, said scientists still don’t entirely understand COVID variants and the effectiveness of the vaccines. For example, mutations to the spike protein, which is used by the virus to invade human cells, have reduced the effectiveness of current vaccines. That’s because today’s COVID shots were developed to target the spike protein in the original strain of the virus that emerged in Wuhan, China in late 2019. The FDA’s advisory committee of outside vaccine experts on Wednesday will discuss how the U.S. can develop a transparent process to make recommendations about changing the composition of the current ones if needed. Pfizer and Moderna are conducting clinical trials on vaccines based on the Omicron variant, the dominant version of the virus worldwide. The effectiveness of Pfizer or Moderna’s two-dose vaccines against mild illness from Omicron dropped from 70% to just 10% 25 weeks after the second shot, according to the U.K. Health Security Agency. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/04/fda-says-covid-vaccines-may-need-to-be-updated-to-ensure-high-level-of-effectiveness-against-virus.html

2022-4-04 How Pandemic Caused Long Delays in Diagnosis, Treatment for Kids With Autism During the early months of the pandemic, many families canceled in-home services, fearing infection. Virtual therapy often didn’t seem to work, especially for nonverbal and younger children. With fewer clients, some providers laid off staff or shut down entirely. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pandemic-delays-diagnosis-treatment-kids-autism/

2022-04-04 Prominent EU Activists Arrested, Harrassed for Opposing COVID Mandates Officials in France and The Netherlands last month arrested and detained two prominent activists involved in initiatives opposing COVID-19-related restrictions and mandatory vaccination policies. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/eu-activists-arrested-harrassed-opposing-covid-mandates

2022-04-04 44% of Teens Felt ‘Sad’ or ‘Hopeless’ During Last Year, CDC Says More than one in three high school students last year experienced poor mental health and 44% reported they felt sad or hopeless during the pandemic, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/teens-sad-hopeless-during-last-year-cdc/

2022-04-01 Mega-Rich Got So Much Richer During Pandemic the English Language Didn’t Have a Word to Describe Them The word “billionaire” didn’t even exist until 1844. Fifty years later, we got “multibillionaire,” and for the next 127 years, that was enough. But in 2020, the rich got so much wealthier, we needed a new word: “centibillionaires.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mega-rich-richer-pandemic

2022-04-01 ‘Not Surprising to See, but Sad’: Experts Alarmed by Large Number of Teens Experiencing Emotional Abuse The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new statistics on high school students’ mental health. Among its findings was an alarmingly high number of U.S. teens reporting emotional abuse at home: more than half. Defined by the survey as being sworn at, insulted or put down by a parent or other adult in their home, 55 percent of the more than 7,700 high school students polled said they had experienced emotional abuse. The survey responses, which were collected in the first half of 2021, asked about experiences in 2020, which included the height of pandemic-related lockdowns. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/not-surprising-see-sad-experts-alarmed-large-number-teens-experiencing-rcna22377

2022-04-01 Class-Action Lawsuit Challenges Firing of 66 Unvaccinated Workers at Akron Children’s Hospital Akron Children’s Hospital is “confident” that its firing of dozens of unvaccinated employees will withstand a federal class-action lawsuit. And the attorney making a First Amendment issue of the matter is already preparing for an appeal. The lawsuit names two lead plaintiffs: certified surgical technologist Brian Tessane and help desk worker Richard Brimer. Tessane worked five years at Akron Children’s Hospital and Tessane for two years before each was let go in late January, about two weeks after missing the hospital’s deadline for all staff members to get their initial COVID-19 vaccine shot. The plaintiffs, according to the lawsuit, were denied “reasonable accommodations” due to their Christian faith. Mendenhall said his clients were ultimately forced “to choose between violating their sincerely held religious beliefs or losing their jobs.” https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2022/04/01/class-action-lawsuit-filed-akron-childrens-hospital-vaccine-mandate-highland-tavern-fired-employees/7221494001/

2022-04-01 Fauci Flashback: ‘The Most Potent Vaccination Is Getting Infected Yourself’ Throughout the pandemic, a large contingency of doctors, researchers and non-mainstream media outlets have been pounding the table over natural immunity as an alternative to vaccination to protect against COVID-19, with the obvious conclusion that vaccine passports are moot if a large percentage of the population has a higher degree of protection than even the vaccinated because they’ve already had the disease. And as time has gone on, ‘the science’ has validated this theory — with even Bill Gates admitting recently that “the virus itself, particularly the variant called Omicron, is a type of vaccine.” Yet, the official U.S. government response — led by Dr. Anthony Fauci and echoed worldwide — has excluded virtually all mention of natural immunity as a relevant mitigation against COVID-19, which would of course render vaccination, booster shots and vaccine passports moot for tens of millions of Americans. And so, with Fauci pretending like he’s never heard of natural immunity for the past two years, here’s a flashback to the ‘good doctor’ explaining that “The most potent vaccination is getting infected yourself.” https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fauci-flashback-most-potent-vaccination-getting-infected-yourself

2022-04-01 17-Year-Old Died ‘Suddenly in Sleep’ 6 Months After 2nd Pfizer Shot VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,205,755 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 26,396 deaths and 214,521 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and March 25, 2022. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/17-year-old-died-6-months-after-2nd-pfizer-shot/

2022-04-01 FDA Weighing Moderna Vax for Kids 6 and Under, But Experts Say Trials Inadequate Moderna plans to seek authorization for its pediatric COVID-19 vaccine for kids 6 and under, but experts say the vaccine maker’s trials for the young age group raise too many questions. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-moderna-vax-kids-experts-trials-inadequate/

2022-04-01 Bruce Willis Diagnosis Shines Light on Aphasia News Wednesday that actor Bruce Willis was diagnosed with aphasia, requiring him to “step away” from his career, cast a spotlight on the incurable neurological disorder, which has also been linked to COVID-19 and COVID vaccines. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bruce-willis-diagnosis-aphasia/

2022-04-01 Transhumanism, Biofascism Are Tools of the ‘Technological Elite,’ Author Tells RFK, Jr. In an interview on “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast,” T.J. Coles, Ph.D., author of ‘Biofascism: The Tech-Pharma Complex and the End of Democracy,’ talked with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about transhumanism, the billionaire class and the World Economic Forum. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-podcast-transhumanism-biofascism-technological-elite/

2022-04-01 Is ‘New World Order’ Coming? If So, Which One? On The Hill’s “Rising,” Kim Iversen asked whether the “New World Order” was just a right-wing conspiracy or a concept now “loosely falling out of the mouths of global leaders everywhere.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/new-world-order-coming/

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2022-07-18 DC Download

Posted on July 20, 2022 by mekorganic

Congress is two weeks away from the month-long August recess. House appropriators this week are advancing numerous fiscal year 2023 appropriations bills. At the same time, the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6th Attack on the Capitol is holding its 8th public hearing set to focus on former President Trump’s dereliction of duty that day. On the other side of the Capitol, Senators continue to move towards both a possible reconciliation bill and a bill to bolster chip manufacturing in the U.S.

Table of Contents:

  • Progressive Playbook 
  • House
  • Senate
  • Issues to Watch
  • Key Dates
  • What We’re Reading

Progressive Playbook

CLIMATE AND CLEAN, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

Whether we are Black or White, Latino or Asian, newcomer or Indigenous, we all want our families to grow up healthy, happy and safe for generations to come. But for too long, fossil fuel CEOs and corrupt politicians have divided and distracted us with lies while they pollute our air and poison our water. They exploit their workers, while dumping toxins into Black, brown and low-income neighborhoods. By coming together, we can heal the damage done to all of our communities, and power our future with locally produced renewable energy that creates millions of good union jobs in the process.

FAST FACTS

House 

House Floor

The House will vote on ten suspension bills from the Committees on Natural Resources and Foreign Affairs. Suspension bills require a ⅔ majority to pass. For a list of all suspension bills being considered, click here. 

The House will also consider the following bills, subject to rules:

H.R. 8294 – Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2023 (Rep. DeLauro – Appropriations): The bill combines six annual spending bills into one “minibus” appropriations bill, with a total topline figure of around $560 billion. The minibus would provide the large increases sought by President Joe Biden in his budget request, which proposed a 14% overall increase for nondefense programs. 

H.R. 8373 – Right to Contraception Act (Rep. Manning – Energy and Commerce): The bill would make law the right for people to obtain contraceptives and for health care providers to provide contraceptives. The bill would also protect a range of contraceptive methods, devices, and medications used to prevent pregnancy, including but not limited to oral contraceptives, emergency contraceptives, and intrauterine devices.

House Committee Highlights

A full list of this week’s hearings and markups can be found here. Notable hearings and markups include: 

Tuesday Hearings

Supporting Underserved Communities in Emergency Management (Homeland Security)

Understanding and Addressing Long COVID and Its Health and Economic Consequences (Coronavirus Crisis)

Implementing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Transportation & Infrastructure)

Assessing the U.S. Economic Policy Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine (Foreign Affairs)

Digital Dragnets: Examining the Government’s Access to Your Personal Data (Judiciary)

The History and Continued Contributions of Tribal Colleges and Universities (Education & Labor)

Roe Reversal: The Impacts of Taking Away the Constitutional Right to an Abortion (Energy & Commerce)

Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough: How Mass Shootings Harm Communities, Local Economies, and Economic Growth (Financial Services)

Wednesday Hearings

The Changing Election Security Landscape: Threats to Election Officials and Infrastructure (Homeland Security)

Markup of H.R. 2814, the “Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act”; H.R. 1808, the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2021” (Judiciary)

Housing in America: Oversight of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (Financial Services)

Examining the Powerful Impact of Investments in Early Childhood for Children, Families, and Our Nation’s Economy (Budget)

Thursday Hearings

On the January 6th Investigation (Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol)

Senate

Senate Floor

H.R. 4521 – United States Innovation and Competition Act (Rep. Johnson): The Senate this week is expected to consider a procedural vote on a China competition bill that would include $52 billion in incentives and an investment-tax credit to attract chip companies to the US, along with money for training and wireless technology. The package is expected to be narrower than initially envisioned, as Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has pledged to stonewall more comprehensive legislation while Senate Democrats pursue a reconciliation bill.

Nominations

The Senate this week has teed up votes on the following nominees:

  • Nina Nin-Yuen Wang to be United States District Judge for the District of Colorado
  • Nancy L. Maldonado to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois

Senate Committee Highlights

A full list of this week’s Senate committee hearings, including confirmation hearings, can be found here. Notable committee hearings include:

Tuesday Hearings

Addressing Weapons of Mass Destruction and Health Security Threats to the Homeland (Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs)

Opportunities and Challenges in Addressing Homelessness (Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs)

Fairness in Financial Services: Racism and Discrimination in Banking (Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs)

Wednesday Hearings

After the Highland Park Attack: Protecting Our Communities from Mass Shootings (Judiciary)

The Role of Tax Incentives in Affordable Housing (Finance)

Global Food Security Crisis and The U.S. Response (Foreign Relations)

The Economic Toll of Gun Violence: How Our Nation Bears the Costs (Joint Economic Committee)

Issues to Watch

Reconciliation Talks

Last week, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced that he would not presently support a reconciliation bill that contains the climate, energy, or tax provisions sought by President Biden, citing the June inflation figures. Instead, he is willing to support a bill that allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices and extends Obamacare subsidies for two years. While the timeline remains unclear, the Senate might be able to move forward with a bill as early as next week once the legislative text to lower prescription drug prices is approved by the Senate Parliamentarian. If this happens, the bill would undergo a week-long “vote-a-rama,” where Senators will attempt to amend the bill before a final Senate vote. The House, which is expected to break on July 29 for the August recess, will then have to pass the same bill. The reconciliation instructions are set to expire at the end of this fiscal year, making September 30 the hard deadline for any reconciliation bill. 

January 6th Committee Public Hearings

The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol is continuing their public hearings this week. On Thursday, the Committee is expected to focus on the timeline from when the attack on the Capitol began to when former President Donald Trump told his supporters to leave the complex. This hearing will be the eighth in the series so far, but the Committee will continue its investigation until the release of their report expected this fall. 

House Unionization 

Staffers from eight different congressional offices are expected to file petitions with the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights to form unions today. This follows the successful passage of H. Res. 1096 in May, which grants congressional staff the right to organize and bargain collectively with protections. It is important to note that only House staffers will have the ability to unionize with protections from retaliation. The Senate would have to pass their own resolution allowing Senate staff the same protection. 

Key Dates

July 16 – 24: Latino Conservation Week

July 28: What Can Labor Do to Build on this Unusually Promising Moment?

July 30 – Sept. 5: House is out of session

August 8 – Sept. 5: Senate is out of session

August 12: House Remote Voting expires

What We’re Reading

West Virginia v. EPA: The Supreme Court’s Decision and Paths for Future Climate Regulation (CPCC)

10 Things SCOTUS Can Do Right Now to Begin to Rebuild America’s Trust (Fix the Court)

The growing housing supply shortage has created a housing affordability crisis (Economic Policy Institute)

FY23 Appropriations Explainer (CPCC)

Democrats Are Headed for a Disaster With Unfilled Judicial Vacancies (Slate)

Three Ways the American Rescue Plan Changed Economic Policymaking (Roosevelt Institute)

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Coronavirus Covid-19 Research History – March 26 to March 31, 2022

Posted on July 19, 2022 by mekorganic

2022-03-30 COVID ‘Most Likely’ Escaped From Wuhan Lab, State Dept. Memo Reveals State Department officials considered a lab accident to be the most likely cause of the COVID pandemic and worried that international virologists may help with a coverup, according to a 2020 memo obtained by U.S. Right to Know https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-escaped-wuhan-lab

2022-03-30 WSJ Misleads Public on Ivermectin, Ignores Latest Revelations About ‘Hidden Author’ Who Undermined Its Efficacy The Wall Street Journal this month published an article citing a flawed, unpublished study concluding ivermectin didn’t reduce COVID-19 hospitalizations. Meanwhile, the paper ignored news earlier this month that a documentary producer discovered the individual likely responsible for tanking a key, systematic review showing how ivermectin could have saved millions of lives. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/wsj-misleads-public-ivermectin/

2022-03-30 Chinese City Orders All Indoor Pets Belonging to COVID Patients in One Neighborhood to Be Killed A Chinese city ordered all indoor pets belonging to COVID-19 patients in one neighborhood to be killed. The Anci District of Langfang city, in northern China, on Wednesday ordered the “complete culling of indoor animals” of coronavirus patients, the state-run China News Service reported. The work had stopped by 5 p.m. local time Wednesday, the China News Service reported, citing a staff member for the Langfang Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It is not clear how many animals were killed. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that pets can get COVID-19 from humans but that the risk of pets spreading the disease to people was “low.” Hebei province, where Langfang is located, recorded hundreds of new daily COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, China’s CDC reported. https://www.businessinsider.com/china-langfang-district-says-kill-covid-patients-pets-2022-3

2022-03-30 New York Times — a Bastion of Censorship and Corruption — Warns ‘America Has a Free Speech Problem’ The New York Times editorial board recently opined that Americans are losing “the right to speak their minds and voice their opinions,” yet this same newspaper refused to review, or even publish an advertisement for, RFK, Jr.’s runaway bestseller, “The Real Anthony Fauci.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/new-york-times-censorship-corruption-america-free-speech/

2022-03-30 Army Lieutenant Faces Court-Martial for Refusing COVID Test, Mask 1st Lt. Mark Bashaw is charged under Article 92: Failure to Obey an Order, for his failure to take a medical test, wear a mask and leave the workplace for telework. His case will be heard April 28 – 29 at the Army Public Health Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/army-lieutenant-mark-bashaw-court-martial-covid-test-mask,

2022-03-29 Why Didn’t Pfizer, Moderna Have to Meet All FDA Criteria for EUA Products? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sets the criteria vaccine makers are supposed to meet in order to obtain Emergency Use Authorization for their products. So why didn’t Pfizer and Moderna have to meet all of those criteria? https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-moderna-fda-criteria-eua-vaccine/

2022-03-29 DuckDuckGo Embraces Censorship, Destroys Brand DuckDuckGo, a search engine that formerly ensured users their privacy and produced relatively unbiased search results, on March 9 announced it was changing its policies to clampdown on “disinformation” campaigns stemming from Russia. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/duckduckgo-censorship-destroys-brand/

2022-03-29 Vaccine Passports Just One Way BlackRock, Vanguard Are Profiting From Pandemic, Reporter Tells RFK, Jr. In an appearance on “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast,” Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., a reporter for The Defender, explained how the two global asset giants pushing for vaccine passports also stand to profit greatly from orchestrating them. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-podcast-vaccine-passport-blackrock-vanguard-profiting-pandemic/

2022-03-29 FDA Authorizes Fourth Pfizer and Moderna COVID Vaccine Doses for 50 and Older The Food and Drug Administration has authorized fourth Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccine doses for everyone age 50 and older, amid uncertainty over whether an even more contagious version of Omicron will cause another wave of infection in the U.S. as it has in Europe and China. The FDA also said it authorized a second Pfizer booster shot for people age 12 and older who have compromised immune systems, and a second Moderna booster for adults ages 18 and older with compromised immune systems. The new boosters are administered at least fourth months after the last shot. The FDA made the decision without a meeting of its vaccine advisory committee, a rare move the agency has made more frequently over the course of the pandemic to expand the uses of already-approved COVID vaccines. Dr. Paul Offit, a committee member, criticized the drug regulator for moving forward without holding an open meeting where the American public can hear experts weigh the data and make a recommendation to the FDA about the best path forward. “It’s just sort of fait accompli,” Offit said of the FDA authorization. “So is this the way it works? We talk endlessly about how  we follow the science — it doesn’t seem to work out that way.” https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/29/fda-authorizes-fourth-pfizer-covid-vaccine-dose-for-people-age-50-and-older-.html

2022-03-29 Surgeon General, HHS Violated First Amendment by Directing Twitter to Censor COVID ‘Misinformation,’ Lawsuit Alleges A civil rights group is suing the U.S. surgeon general and the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on behalf of three men who allege the government violated the First Amendment by directing Twitter to censor them for spreading COVID “misinformation.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/violated-first-amendment-twitter-censor-covid-misinformation/

2022-03-29 Researchers Seek Real-World Data From 2.5 Million People for Global COVID Vaccine Safety Study In an interview with The Defender, Aditi Bhargava, Ph.D., the principal investigator of the PROVES study, outlined her concerns about how most studies of the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines have been flawed, and how she hopes to use real-world data to construct a more accurate picture of the success or failure of the unprecedented global vaccine campaign. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccine-safety-study/

2022-03-29 Heart Damage Found in Teens Months After Second Pfizer Shot, Study Shows A new peer-reviewed study shows more than two-thirds of adolescents with COVID-19 vaccine-related myopericarditis had persistent heart abnormalities months after their initial diagnosis, raising concerns for potential long-term effects and contradicting claims by health officials that the condition is “mild.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/heart-damage-teens-after-second-pfizer-shot/

2022-03-28 Biden Proposes $81.7 Billion in Spending to Prepare for Future Pandemics President Biden’s budget proposal released Monday calls for $81.7 billion over five years to prepare for future pandemics, in what would be a major investment in boosting the country’s readiness for future threats. However, the president’s budget is only a proposal, and any new funding for pandemic preparedness would require congressional approval. The president’s budget calls for $40 billion for the development and manufacturing of vaccines, treatments and tests aimed at future threats. Another $28 billion would go to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for surveillance, lab capacity and the public health workforce. The National Institutes of Health would get $12.1 billion for research on vaccines and other measures, while the Food and Drug Administration would get $1.6 billion for its labs and information technology. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/600002-biden-budget-proposes-817b-to-prepare-for-future-pandemics/

2022-03-28 WHO Examining Potential Hearing Problems Linked to COVID Vaccines The World Health Organization is examining rare reports of hearing loss and other auditory issues following COVID-19 vaccinations. People who reported tinnitus ranged in ages from 19 to 91, and nearly three-quarters were women. The reports came from 27 countries, including Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. More than a third were reported among those working in the healthcare industry. There is no known cause for tinnitus, and so far, there is no proof that the vaccines may cause any hearing problems, according to the WHO, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and companies that manufacture the vaccines. A spokesperson from Pfizer later told NBC News that the company found “no causal association” between its COVID vaccine and reports of tinnitus. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/examining-potential-hearing-problems-linked-covid-vaccines-rcna21911

2022-03-28 Too Many Parents Find Out About Dangers of Vaccines After Child Is Harmed, Medical Journalist Says Medical journalist and director of ThinkTwice Global Vaccine Institute, Neil Z. Miller, joined host Brian Hooker, Ph.D., on CHD.TV’s “Doctors and Scientists” to discuss the importance of health freedom, and the dangers of vaccines and censorship. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-tv-hooker-dangers-of-vaccines-after-child-harmed/

2022-03-28Exclusive Interview: Woman Dies From Rare Brain Disorder After Second Pfizer Shot, Husband Says We’re ‘Guinea Pigs’ In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Richard Sprague said his wife, Jennifer, developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease after the Pfizer COVID-19 shot and died within five months of the second dose. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/exclusive-interview-woman-dies-rare-brain-disorder-after-pfizer-shot/

2022-03-28 How Politics Corrupted Evidence-Based Medicine — And How to Fix It Evidence-based medicine is supposed to provide a more rigorous foundation for medicine, one based on science and the scientific method. But unfortunately, as we’ve seen over the last two years, politics has corrupted the process. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/politics-corrupted-evidence-based-medicine/

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