2022-03-25 National Geographic Asks: Why Is It So Hard to Compensate People for Serious Vaccine Injury? Vaccine injury compensation in the U.S. is broken, according to Tara Haelle, an independent science and health writer. In an article for National Geographic, Haelle outlined some of the flaws in existing programs, and what might be done to fix them. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/why-hard-compensate-people-vaccine-injury/
2022-03-25 Breakthrough Study Finds Microplastics in Human Blood In the first study of its kind, published Thursday in Environment International, researchers found a “quantifiable mass” of plastic particles in the blood samples of 17 of 22 — or 80% — of the study’s volunteer participants. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/microplastics-found-in-human-blood/
2022-03-25 NYC Won’t Rehire Unvaccinated Workers, Mayor Says New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday that his administration would not rehire unvaccinated city workers. Around 1,400 city employees were fired earlier this year for failing to comply with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Adams said, during a news conference at Citi Field, he did not plan to rehire them. “Not at this time,” he said, according to The Wall Street Journal, “We are not reviewing if we are going to bring [them] back.” He also thanked the more than 340,000 city employees who have been vaccinated, recognizing them for “[standing] up and [doing] the right thing.” https://www.foxnews.com/health/new-york-city-wont-rehire-unvaccinated-workers
2022-03-25 664 Reports of Myocarditis in 5- to 17-Year-Olds After COVID Shots, VAERS Data Show VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,195,396 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 26,059 deaths and 211,584 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and March 18, 2022. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/myocarditis-kids-after-covid-vaccine-vaers-data/
2022-03-25 In Lab Study, Pfizer Vaccine Showed Potential to Alter DNA in Human Liver Cells, But Scientists Caution More Research Needed Swedish researchers showed the mRNA from the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine can be reverse-transcribed into DNA in human liver cells in vitro, but more research is needed to determine if this transcribed vaccine-derived DNA can integrate into human genomic DNA. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-vaccine-potential-alter-dna-human-liver-cells/
2022-03-25 Kansas Senate Votes to Allow Doctors to Prescribe Ivermectin, HCQ for COVID The Off-Label Drug Bill, which also requires schools to grant parents’ requests for religious exemptions, still has to pass the House and survive a veto by the state’s Democratic governor. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kansas-senate-votes-allow-doctors-prescribe-ivermectin-hcq-covid/
2022-03-25 Attorney Brent Wisner Tells RFK, Jr.: Drugmakers Knew Zantac Caused Cancer But Sold It Anyway for 40 Years In an interview on ‘RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast,’ award-winning attorney Brent Wisner talked with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about litigation to hold Zantac manufacturers accountable. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/brent-wisner-rfk-jr-drugmakers-knew-zantac-caused-cancer/
2022-03-24 Why Don’t Kids Get COVID Badly? Scientists Are Unraveling One of the Pandemic’s Biggest Mysteries Scientists are still somewhat baffled as to why children are not badly affected by COVID, although studies are slowly shedding light on how, and why, children’s responses to COVID differ from those among adults. “A number of theories have been suggested, including a more effective innate immune response, less risk of immune over-reaction as occurs in severe COVID, fewer underlying co-morbidities and possibly fewer ACE-2 receptors in the upper respiratory epithelium — the receptor to which SARS-CoV-2 [COVID] binds,” Dr. Andrew Freedman, an academic in infectious diseases at the U.K.’s Cardiff University Medical School, told CNBC in emailed comments, adding that nonetheless the phenomenon was not “fully understood.” He noted more research will be required before we have a definitive answer but a body of evidence has already emerged showing that COVID poses a much smaller risk to kids, and why that might be. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/24/why-dont-kids-get-covid-badly-scientists-are-starting-to-understand.html
2022-03-24 HHS Sued by Watchdog for Info on COVID Vaccine Side Effects: ‘Unlawful Stonewall’ Legal watchdog Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Thursday against the Department of Health and Human Services after the department did not provide requested information and communications about COVID-19 vaccine side effects. The lawsuit comes after the Food and Drug Administration was unresponsive to Judicial Watch’s Aug. 30, 2021 FOIA request that asked for all emails “sent to and from members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee regarding adverse events, deaths and/or injuries caused by investigatory vaccines for the prevention or treatment of SARS-CoV-2 and/or COVID-19 currently produced by Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and/or Johnson & Johnson.” The FDA never got back to the group with the requested records by the Oct. 18, 2021 deadline, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday. The government accountability group said that, through their lawsuit, is aiming to “promote transparency, integrity, and accountability in government and fidelity to the rule of law” and provide more information to the American people on any other possible side effects of the vaccine. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judicial-watch-sues-hhs-coronavirus-vaccine
2022-03-24 NYC Employee Unions Bash Mayor Adams’ Plan to Roll Back COVID Vaccine Mandates for Athletes but Not Cops, Teachers It’s a slam dunk for Kyrie Irving — and still a potential pink slip for city workers. The NYPD’s biggest union slammed Mayor Adams’ plan to lift the city’s private-sector vaccine mandate for athletes and performers, charging the city created a double-standard to clear the Brooklyn Nets unvaccinated star for action inside the Barclays Center even as nine police officers who declined to get jabbed were fired.
“If the mandate isn’t necessary for famous people, then it’s not necessary for the cops who are protecting our city in the middle of a crime crisis,” fumed Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch in a Thursday statement. “I’m not surprised,” said Lieutenants Benevolent Association head Lou Turco. “It is hypocritical to allow an athlete not to get vaccinated while forcing police officers to get vaccinated to keep their jobs. We’re told the vaccination mandate is necessary because they’re following the science. Where is the science that supports immunity if you’re able to make free throws or throw a baseball 95 miles an hour?” A United Federation of Teachers spokeswoman echoed the police unions’ opposition. “The city should not create exceptions to its vaccination requirements without compelling reason,” the spokeswoman said https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-nypd-union-bashes-vaccine-mandate-plan-20220324-m3ntcpq4kjgjhh3nduukedsqeu-story.html
2022-03-24 Biden Seeks $22.5 Billion for ‘Boosters for All,’ as Some Lawmakers Push Back White House officials Monday said Congress must allocate another $22.5 billion in COVID pandemic relief to avoid imminent cuts to treatment and vaccine availability, but some key Republicans said they want a fuller accounting of the trillions of dollars the administration has already spent on the coronavirus response. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/biden-boosters-for-all-lawmakers-push-back/
2022-03-24 10 Lives Changed Forever by COVID Shots “These are real people with real stories to share, and the more people who see them, the more awareness can grow to provide those who survived with the help and medical care they deserve — while warning others of the potentially deadly consequences of COVID-19 injections.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/people-lives-changed-forever-covid-vaccines/
2022-03-24 95% of Committee Members Advising on U.S. Dietary Guidelines Had Ties to Big Pharma, Big Food Describing their findings as “particularly worrisome,” the authors of a study published Monday in Public Health Nutrition noted that in the U.S., the Dietary Guidelines for Americans form “the foundation for all national nutrition programs,” which amount to nearly $100 billion annually. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/committee-advising-u-s-dietary-guidelines-big-pharma-food/
2022-03-23 Moderna to Seek Authorization for COVID Shots for Kids Despite No Proven Efficacy Against Omicron Moderna Wednesday announced it will soon request Emergency Use Authorization for its pediatric COVID vaccine. The company said the majority of COVID cases observed during its pediatric clinical trials were mild, making it impossible to detect the vaccine’s protective effect against the worst outcomes. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/moderna-authorization-covid-shots-kids-no-proven-efficacy/
2022-03-23 Big Tech Profit Model ‘Fundamentally at Odds’ With Kids’ Well-Being, Advocates Say Calling Big Tech’s profit-maximizing business model “fundamentally at odds with children’s well-being,” a broad coalition of 60 leading advocacy groups urged Congress on Tuesday to enact stronger online protections for young people. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/big-tech-profit-model-kids-well-being/
2022-03-23 A Judge on New York State’s Highest Court Is Unvaccinated and Could Be Removed From the Bench A judge on New York State’s highest court could face removal from the bench for failing to comply with the state’s COVID vaccination mandate, according to court guidelines and state officials. Jenny Rivera, an associate judge on the state Court of Appeals, has participated remotely in the court’s activities since the fall, when the state court system’s vaccination mandate took effect and unvaccinated employees were barred from court facilities.
She is now one of four state judges who face referral to the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct, according to a person familiar with the process who spoke on background to discuss a personnel matter. The commission could move to admonish Judge Rivera, or remove her from the bench. On Monday, Lucian Chalfen, a spokesman for New York’s Unified Court System, said court administrators told 156 court employees — along with the four judges — that they failed to meet qualifications for employment, and if they do not comply with the vaccination requirements in the next two weeks they would be fired. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/nyregion/jenny-rivera-unvaccinated.html
2022-03-23 Megyn Kelly Interviews RFK, Jr. on Fauci, Vaccines, Big Pharma and the Kennedy Family In a four-hour interview, Megyn Kelly and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. dive deep into Kennedy’s “controversial” opinions on Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and why Kennedy has become “something of a pariah among mainstream media” in the COVID-19 era. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/megyn-kelly-rfk-jr-fauci-vaccines-big-pharma-kennedy-family/
2022-03-22 Repeated COVID Vaccines May Impair Immune System’s Natural Ability to Fight Disease Rob Verkerk Ph.D., founder of Alliance for Natural Health International, explores the links between SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 vaccines, HIV and immune deficiency. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/repeated-covid-vaccines-impair-immune-system/
2022-03-22 Get the Jab or Pay More for Health Insurance? While health insurance companies cannot deny health insurance to someone on the basis of vaccination status, those who don’t get the COVID vaccine could face increased costs — similar to smokers, who also pay a premium for health insurance coverage. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-jab-pay-more-health-insurance/
2022-03-22 Pfizer COVID Vaccine for Kids 5 – 11 Fails FDA Standard for 50% Efficacy Based on a small study, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Pfizer’s COVID vaccine — after just under two months — was 31% effective at preventing “symptomatic and asymptomatic” COVID in 5- to 11-year-olds. But how effective was the vaccine at four or six months? https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-covid-vaccine-kids-fails-fda-standard-efficacy-2/
2022-03-22 New Taxpayer-Funded Ads Push COVID Shots for Young Kids The Biden administration launched a taxpayer-funded advertising campaign featuring leading healthcare professionals urging parents to vaccinate their young children against COVID. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/taxpayer-funded-ads-push-covid-shots-kids/
2022-03-21 DC Removes Tens of Thousands of Deaths ‘Accidentally’ Attributed to COVID The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on March 14 removed tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID-19, including nearly a quarter of deaths it had attributed to children, blaming an algorithm for “accidentally counting deaths that were not COVID-19-related.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-removes-tens-of-thousands-deaths-covid/
2022-03-21 ‘We Have Essentially Turned a Blind Eye to Our Own Children for Decades’ We are deep in the grip of a children’s mental health crisis. That’s one belief that everyone in our deeply divided country seems to share. The headlines have been terrible: “8-Year-Olds in Despair.” “Their Tank is Empty.” “No Way to Grow Up.” Parents are frustrated, terrified — and increasingly angry.
Those with the loudest voices and the biggest platforms all appear to agree: The children’s mental health crisis is a consequence of COVID-era political decisions — the child-sacrificing outcome of too-rigid social distancing, too-lengthy school closures and too much mask-wearing. “The pandemic’s disruptions have led to lost learning, social isolation and widespread mental health problems for children,” the New York Times’s David Leonhardt summed up back in January in a much-quoted newsletter. “Many American children are in crisis — as a result of pandemic restrictions rather than the virus itself.” There is a huge body of research that consistently and unambiguously shows that children’s mental health in the United States was already really bad before the pandemic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/21/childrens-mental-health-crisis-politicization/
2022-03-21 Fact-Checker Claims COVID Deaths Underreported. Here’s Why They’re Wrong. Health Feedback, a “fact-checking” organization, is part of a World Health Organization project called Vaccine Safety Net. It operates under the umbrella of Science Feedback, whose partners and funders include Facebook and the Google News initiative. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fact-checker-covid-deaths-underreported-why-theyre-wrong/
2022-03-21 Pfizer CEO Pushes Yearly COVID Shots. Not So Fast, Experts Say When Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said March 13 that all Americans would need a second booster shot, it struck many COVID experts as a self-serving remark without scientific merit. It also set off spasms of doubt over the country’s objectives in its fight against the coronavirus. The decision on how often and widely to vaccinate against COVID-19 is part science, part policy, and part politics. Ultimately it depends on the goals of vaccination at a time when it’s becoming clear that neither vaccines nor other measures can entirely stop the viral spread. The vaccines’ protection against COVID infection generally wanes within several months in all age groups. But experts disagree on whether frequent boosters, especially for younger people, can do anything about that. Two or three vaccinations protect most people from serious disease — but do relatively little to prevent infection, which is generally mild or asymptomatic, after three or four months. https://khn.org/news/article/pfizer-ceo-albert-bourla-yearly-covid-shots/
2022-03-21 Producer of ‘Kiss the Ground’ Tells RFK, Jr: Regeneration Is Our Path Forward In an interview on “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast” with John Roulac, founder of Nutiva, a natural products company, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Roulac connected the dots between corporate influence over agricultural policies and Big Pharma’s dominance over medical standards and practices. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-tv-rfk-jr-podcast-john-roulac-kiss-the-ground-regeneration
2022-03-21 Judge Rules 11-Year-Olds Can’t Get Vaccines Without Parents’ Consent The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on March 18 granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting the mayor of the District of Columbia, the D.C. Department of Health and D.C. public schools from enforcing a law allowing children 11 and older to be vaccinated without parental consent. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/judge-rules-eleven-year-olds-vaccines-parents-consent/
2022-03-21 4th COVID Shot Offers Little Protection Against Infection, Israeli Study Shows Researchers at Sheba Medical Center conducted a small study that found the efficacy of a fourth dose of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines resulted in only marginal protection from SARS-CoV-2 infection. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/4th-covid-shot-little-protection-infection-israeli-study/
2022-03-21 Five important Lawsuits CHD is excited to share the news that a U.S. federal district judge has issued an order prohibiting enforcement of the District of Columbia’s Minor Consent for Vaccinations Act which allowed children as young as 11 to receive vaccines without the knowledge or consent of their parents. This returns the age of consent for vaccination back to 18. This is an important win for the children, their families, and for freedom.
In the opinion issued on Friday, March 18, the court found the parents likely to succeed on the merits in their arguments that the D.C. Act is unconstitutional for two reasons. First, the D.C. Act is preempted by federal law because it directly contradicts the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. The D.C. Act also violates the right to free exercise of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution. This ruling may set a precedent for other cases and the protection of religious rights.
The Plaintiffs overcame a high legal hurdle that “threatened injury must be certainly impending” as established by the U.S. Supreme Court precedent Clapper v. Amnesty Int’l., in part by the use of a drawing entitled “Peer Pressure,” drawn by one of the plaintiff’s children. The drawing depicts the dilemma children face at school when they do not want to get the COVID vaccine or have been advised by their parents not to take the shot.
Your support has allowed us to pursue critical legal initiatives that we believe hold the most promise to maintain our Constitutional rights as citizens of this country. While the judge’s ruling in this case is a victory, CHD has many other legal cases that need your continued support. CHD has over 40 cases in progress. Here are just a few of them:
- CHD v. FDA CHD has two separate cases against the FDA: one in Tennessee for its “bait and switch” licensing of Pfizers’s Comirnaty vaccine when only Emergency Use Authorization vaccines are available, and one in Texas regarding FDA’s authorization of COVID shots for kids ages 5-11.
- Merck Gardasil Injury Cases CHD is currently supporting 14 cases filed on behalf of young men and women who suffered severe adverse events following Gardasil vaccination. One young woman’s case, Robi v. Merck, is now in discovery.
- CHD v. Facebook, Zuckerberg & Fact Checkers CHD alleges that Facebook, Zuckerberg and their fact checkers colluded with the government to censor CHD and engaged in financial malfeasance. The case is on appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Mercola et al v. Warren Dr. Mercola and Mr. Cummins, authors of a book about COVID-19, with a forward by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., sue Senator Elizabeth Warren, who publicly urged Amazon to deplatform the book for alleged “misinformation” in federal district court in Washington. We expect a hearing soon. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/press-release/childrens-health-defense-wins-federal-district-court-injunction-on-district-of-columbias-minor-consent-for-vaccinations-act/?
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