Wednesday, November 24, 2021

STAT (which runs pay for print articles) is raising the stature of Trevor Bedford, one of the co-conspirators in the Fauci virus origin coverup

The young Trevor Bedford, PhD, is now being asked to pontificate on COVID, boosters and the next pandemic.  Being Tony's errand boy leads to better things, especially when you work at Bill Gates's own University of Washington in Seattle.

UPDATE:  Trevor assisted Ralph Baric and Peter Daszak in crafting language for parts of the coverup (NAS draft letter to White House) 

https://twitter.com/jhas5/status/1465472752182300675/photo/1

and has reliably issued opinions to support chosen narratives. This perhaps resulted in him receiving a no-strings-attached "Genius" gift from the MacArthur Foundation on September 21, 2021 of $625,000.

Since this is one of Stat's rare articles that is not behind a paywall, I have to ask:  who paid for it?

Virus expert Trevor Bedford on annual Covid boosters and the inevitable next pandemic

https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/24/virus-expert-trevor-bedford-on-annual-covid-boosters-and-the-inevitable-next-pandemic/

By ANDREW JOSEPH

STAT

STAT spoke with virus expert Trevor Bedord about the future of the coronavirus, the coming flu season, and whether we’ll need annual boosters...

From the VA study in Science I wrote about a few days ago--rapidly falling efficacy of the three US vaccines


 

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

The abstract many are talking about--because it provides new evidence of profound and long-lasting inflammation associated with damage caused by mRNA COVID vaccines


Originally publishedCirculation. 2021;144:A10712

    Our group has been using the PULS Cardiac Test (GD Biosciences, Inc, Irvine, CA) a clinically validated measurement of multiple protein biomarkers which generates a score predicting the 5 yr risk (percentage chance) of a new Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). The score is based on changes from the norm of multiple protein biomarkers including IL-16, a proinflammatory cytokine, soluble Fas, an inducer of apoptosis, and Hepatocyte Growth Factor (HGF)which serves as a marker for chemotaxis of T-cells into epithelium and cardiac tissue, among other markers. Elevation above the norm increases the PULS score, while decreases below the norm lowers the PULS score.The score has been measured every 3-6 months in our patient population for 8 years. Recently, with the advent of the mRNA COVID 19 vaccines (vac) by Moderna and Pfizer, dramatic changes in the PULS score became apparent in most patients.This report summarizes those results. A total of 566 pts, aged 28 to 97, M:F ratio 1:1 seen in a preventive cardiology practice had a new PULS test drawn from 2 to 10 weeks following the 2nd COVID shot and was compared to the previous PULS score drawn 3 to 5 months previously pre- shot. Baseline IL-16 increased from 35=/-20 above the norm to 82 =/- 75 above the norm post-vac; sFas increased from 22+/- 15 above the norm to 46=/-24 above the norm post-vac; HGF increased from 42+/-12 above the norm to 86+/-31 above the norm post-vac. These changes resulted in an increase of the PULS score from 11% 5 yr ACS risk to 25% 5 yr ACS risk. At the time of this report, these changes persist for at least 2.5 months post second dose of vac. We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.

    See the comment below.  I am not surprised that attempts were made to immediately kill this little abstract, because it fills in one of the missing pieces about what happens after vaccination, and especially because it provides evidence that what happens does not go away in a few hours or days.  These biomarkers can be followed and the risk the vaccines pose can be better quantified with this type of information.

    As I told a reader, the authors are perfectly clear that these data are from tests normally performed on patients in this clinic.  All the authors did was to collect the results and note that vaccination apparently caused significant elevations in these inflammatory markers, designating increased cardiac risk, and almost certainly causing other adverse conditions to increase... for an extended period.  This is not a clinical trial.  There are no controls, but in a sense, the patients served as their own controls with pre and post vaccination data.  These are not anecdotal data, as more than 500 people were studied.

    Doctors Robert and Jill Malone talked with children in Hawaii about Covid and Covid vaccines

    Why haven't we asked before what do the children think about all this mess? 

    https://vimeo.com/648749188/5333c4b078

    YouTube wants to be sure no information on early treatment contradicts global or local propaganda

    A reader pointed me to YouTube's policy on misinformation.  The YT Ministry of Truth is committed to keeping the narrative straight, no variations allowed.  Recall that Ms. Wojcicky is the ex-wife of Sergei Brin, the Google cofounder, and that Google owns YouTube and this is a Google policy. 

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    Monday, November 22, 2021

    Drugs with reported efficacy for COVID--Meryl Nass, MD. November 16, 2021


    Ivermectin 0.4-0.6 mg/kg daily for 5 days depending on how sick you are and which variant you experience, take with food with fat

    Hydroxychloroquine 200 mg x2 breakfast and lunch day one, then 200 mg 2x daily for 6 more days. Take with or before food

    Doxycycline 100 mg 2x/day with large meal, avoid sun for a week or azithromycin 250 mg 2 on day 1, then 1 daily for 4 more days or a little longer

    Aspirin 325 mg/day helps block blood clotting through its inhibition of platelet activation.  Some people who form clots anyway may benefit from additional blood thinners targeting other clotting mechanisms, such as lovenox.

    Vitamin D--try to achieve a blood level of 60 which should reduce risk for all respiratory illneses and likely other medical conditions

    Vitamin C 1000mg 3 or 4 times daily

    Zinc 30-60 mg daily

    Melatonin 12 mg at bedtime

    For early lung problems within the first week:  inhaled albuterol and dexamethazone, cheapest to buy as vials to use with a nebulizer.  

    Newer approaches that can be added to the old or substituted (but I have not used all of them and there are no published protocols)

    After one week of illness you take steroids (prednisone or methylprepdnisolone or others) orally, about 40-60 mg/day for continuing lung problems and inflammation that occurs throughout the body.

    For mast cell/allergy syndrome, use (OTC) both H1 and H2 blockers.  Recommended are Pepcid 40-80 mg 3 times daily and cyproheptadine (Periactin) 6 mg 3x daily, which also blocks the serotonin response. 

    Anti-androgens also have efficacy.  FLCCC suggests you use both spironolactone and dutasteride or finasteride. 

    Celebrex (celecoxib) plus pepcid is another good combination

    Metformin 500 mg once daily reduces high insulin levels and high blood sugar. https://c19early.com/mf

    N-acetyl cysteine 500 mg per day will help mop up the debris caused by inflammation. OTC and still available, though FDA proposes to take it off OTC status.

    Tricor (fenofibrate) 145 mg per day helps break down infiltrates containing a lot of lipids via emulsification and lets your body heal quicker from cytokine storm.

    Fluconazole--mentioned by Ryan Cole, and beneficial when there is a Candida albicans secondary infection.  I don't have any evidence it works as a direct treatment for coronaviruses.

    Colchicine-- https://c19colchicine.com/

    Fluvoxamine-- https://c19fluvoxamine.com/

    Bromhexine seems to be a good drug, but not available in the US. https://c19bromhexine.com/ May be OTC in countries where available.

    Thursday, November 18, 2021

    My interview with Kevin Barrett and an amazing video from Glen Beck. This is where the 2 ends of the spectrum come together.

    I used the word "simple" in a peculiar way.  What I was getting at was the simplicity (in my mind) with which one could predict whether someone would want a COVID vaccine based on which party they belonged to or who they voted for to be President.  Was it really that simple for pollsters and political pundits to predict important health decisions based on party?

    Kevin reminded me that now everything is being spun through the lens of partisan politics, so maybe I am responding to media spin, rather than reality.

    On further reflection, I think that 24/7 propaganda, even when you are not overtly paying attention, has a subliminal effect on people, causing listeners to believe what is being told, after they have heard the same thing many times, even if they aren't consciously aware of it.  So the choice of vaccination would not be one driven by your party affiliation but rather which media you listen to.

    https://www.unz.com/audio/kbarrett_meryl-nass-updates-us-on-covid-vaccine-research/

    Speaking of media, I was strongly urged to listen to Glen Beck last night (which I did for the first time) and it was very gratifying. Please do this, even if he is very difficult to tolerate, because the material is very important.

    His team has pulled the story together from the funding of virus discovery and enhancement in Wuhan to the end of western liberal democracy.  Most of the pieces have been scattered through this blog over the past 20 months, but he put it together in one video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Ib5NjSZ-o




    Only 70% of healthcare workers were fully vaccinated by September 15, according to US government data

     From a paper published in the American Journal of Infection Control, we learn

    "To protect both patients and staff, healthcare personnel (HCP) were among the first groups in the United States recommended to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. We analyzed data reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Unified Hospital Data Surveillance System on COVID-19 vaccination coverage among hospital-based HCP. After vaccine introduction in December 2020, COVID-19 vaccine coverage rose steadily through April 2021, but the rate of uptake has since slowed; as of September 15, 2021, among 3,357,348 HCP in 2,086 hospitals included in this analysis, 70.0% were fully vaccinated. Additional efforts are needed to improve COVID-19 vaccine coverage among HCP."

    https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(21)00673-8/fulltext

    Wednesday, November 17, 2021

    My testimony to New Hampshire's Education Committee on 11/16/21 re: an amendment to a bill that would ban Covid vaccine mandates everywhere in the state

    I'd guess 500 people came out to support this amendment, while I counted 14 sitting in the masked section of the room who spoke against.

    My personal favorite quote came from someone who told the committee, "New Hampshire's motto is "Live Free or Die." If you won't follow it, send it to DeSantis in Florida!"  They said it in a much snappier way.

    My favorite from my testimony, which had to be reduced to 3 minutes at the last moment, was me saying, right before I was cut off, that three major US cities were vaccinating children without parental permission.  The audible gasp in the room was LOUD.

    Here is what I wrote:

    Boris Johnson recently said, QUOTE " [The vaccine] doesn't protect you against catching the disease, and it doesn't protect you from passing it on."

    CDC Director Walensky said QUOTE " The vaccines no longer prevent transmission."

    In a high quality study of all VA beneficiaries just published in Science, by September the J and J vaccine was only 13% effective against infection, the Pfizer 43% and the Moderna 58%. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0620

    In a new University of California study in over 500 vaxxed and unvaxxed people who tested positive for COVID, the amounts of virus in saliva were the same. They could transmit the infection to others, equally. 

    The UK's top vaccine expert, Sir Andrew Pollard, said in August, regarding Covid vaccines, QUOTE:  "Herd immunity is not a possibility." "We need to focus about how do we prevent dying or going to hospital"  

    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/herd-immunity-is-mythical-with-the-covid-delta-variant-experts-say.html

    Please understand this since we cannot achieve herd immunity with our vaccines, the inevitable result is that practically everyone will eventually get the disease.  Vaccines cannot achieve safe schools and workplaces, because the vaccinated can still transmit, even when asymptomatic.

    While public health leaders are hoping that frequent boosters will kick the can down the road, there is no reason to think boosters will prevent transmission, when the initial series didn't. 

    Instead, it is crucial that we immediately focus on preventing severe disease and death-- and early treatment can do this. It saves hospitalizations and lives.  This is great news.  Why doesn't everyone know it?

    Because, had the benefit of existing drugs been acknowledged, there could have been no Emergency Use Authorizations issued for vaccines, remdesivir, or monoclonal antibodies --all of which are multibillion dollar, patented products.  QUOTING FDA: "For FDA to issue an EUA, there must be no adequate, approved, and available alternative to the product." https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/emergency-use-authorization-medical-products-and-related-authorities#euas

    Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were approved, adequate and available--and cheap. Thus they had to be suppressed.

    Many drugs and supplements have efficacy against COVID.  I created a handout of treatments for you.  Please do not allow therapies for Covid to be restricted.  Don't allow doctors and pharmacists to be persecuted for providing these critical medications.

    Few people are aware that in a Senate hearing on May 11 Senator Richard Burr asked Dr. Fauci, Dr. Peter Marks of FDA and Dr. Walensky, the CDC Director, what percentage of the employees in their agencies were vaccinated.  None provided a number.  Fauci and Marks guessed that a bit over half were vaccinated. 

    What did thousands of scientists in the NIH, FDA and CDC know that you didn't know?

    • ·  They knew about sky high rates of myocarditis in young men, which had been discussed in the Israeli media in April, but was not disclosed in the US until June. 

    • ·   They knew that deaths after vaccination were extremely high--much higher than reported for any other vaccine, ever.  CDC says that VAERS (its vaccine adverse event reporting system) received over 9,000 reports of US deaths related to Covid vaccines, but claims they are rare. RARE? Record-setting deaths have also been reported in the UK and Europe after COVID vaccinations.

    There have been more deaths reported to VAERS for Covid vaccines in 10 months than were reported for every vaccine used in the US over 30 years Let me repeat that. If you add together every report of a vaccine-associated death that has ever been reported to VAERS for 30 years, for all vaccines, the total is less than the deaths reported for COVID vaccines.  Half the deaths occurred within 48 hours of a vaccination.  And although CDC has not investigated them all, it still claims that QUOTE" A review of available clinical information... has not established a causal link to COVID-19 vaccines." But they haven't linked the deaths to anything else, either.

    https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html

    Let me talk about kids.  CDC estimates that 147 million Americans have already had Covid-- and that at least half of our kids are already immune.  But FDA and CDC have not seen fit to allow Americans to use any available test:  not PCR, not antibody, not T cell nor any combination of tests to prove immunity. Yet FDA accepts antibody tests as evidence of immunity in Covid vaccine clinical trials. Why the double standard?  It seems the reason to deny natural immunity is to force everyone to be vaccinated, whether they need it or not.

    If the vaccines were safe, this policy would be less egregious.  But they aren't safe.  The younger you are, the greater is the risk of myocarditis.  Reported myocarditis rates in 12-17 year old males after vaccination are 100 times higher than for men over 65. One study showed that teenage boys are 3-6 times as likely to be hospitalized for a post-vaccine case of myocarditis as for a case of COVID.

    Myocarditis is a serious side effect, which can cause sudden arrhythmic death.  After 3 months, 25% of kids with myocarditis have still not recovered. No one knows how common this side effect will be in the 5-11 year olds, since it was not reported in Pfizer's trial, which lasted only an average of 17 days after full vaccination for half the child subjects.

    Dr. Eric Rubin, the New England Journal editor, said at FDA's 5-11 year old vaccine advisory meeting, QUOTE "We’re never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it. " FDA knows our children are the guinea pigs, and now you do too.

    Did you know that in Philadelphia, Seattle and San Francisco children as young as 12 are being vaccinated without parental consent or notice?  JAMA Pediatrics published an article last month calling for states to amend the law to allow children to consent for themselves.  Will New Hampshire support this attack on parental authority?

    All pediatric COVID vaccines are used under EUAs.  These remove manufacturer liability from the vaccines, unless willful misconduct can be proved.  Under the PREP Act, a finding of Willful misconduct requires that the manufacturer knew there was a problem with their vaccines, but sold them anyway.

    The unforeseen consequence of the PREP Act is that it gives manufacturers a huge incentive to perform the most minimal testing of their products--because if they did not know there was a problem, they cannot be sued for misconduct. Why are we allowing experimental products that have been inadequately tested, are dangerous in older children, and were produced by a manufacturer who can't be sued, to be injected into our children 

    But these facts have been obscured by a smokescreen of fatuous "safe and effective" claims made by financially conflicted organizations.  Did they tell you that if your child is injured, you are unlikely to collect a penny?  Did they tell you that the compensation program for EUA injuries has not compensated a single Covid drug or vaccine injury--despite a one year statute of limitations?

    Under US law, you have the right to refuse EUAs And you must be informed of all that is known and unknown about risks and benefits But neither of these two requirements are being followed.

    Since the pandemic, the rule of law has been tossed aside.  I urge you to learn about the law governing use of EUA products, so I have provided you the relevant section of US Code:

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/360bbb-3   

    Let me conclude by saying that given the loose regulatory milieu we are in, Covid vaccines will probably be licensed for everyone soon.  That imprimatur will not brush away their serious problems.  Please prevent mandates of these extremely questionable products.

    I appreciate the opportunity to speak before your committee.

    Monday, November 15, 2021

    Here is one of my talks in Anchorage, Alaska two weeks ago

     In a state with under 800,000 people, in two weeks, a group of very concerned citizens organized a huge event.  1200 bought tickets, and medical doctors Richard Urso, Ryan Cole, Robert Malone and myself, along with local physicians, talked ourselves out at five 3-4 hour events over two and a half days.  I flew up there not knowing what I was supposed to speak about, and I had to make it up as I went along--not my strongest suit.  But my very well spoken colleagues kept things moving, and most of the 1200 stayed for the entire event, all day, held in a rented megachurch with the best audio visual system and technician I have ever seen.  Do not judge the technical aspects, which really were superb, from this video.

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/QCr0fPA3LuHU/ 

    Sunday, November 14, 2021

    We Won't Comply. Welcome to the Revolution

     Hi-Rez and Jimmy Levy do a great music video, mixing their two styles flawlessly.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHxk1Mg5n7I&ab_channel=HiRezTV 

    Saturday, November 13, 2021

    How much does vaccine efficacy drop over 6 months? The VA and CDC duke it out: whose data are better? Whose study was peer-reviewed? Who got published in Science magazine?

    CDC is always finding ways to massage its data or use estimates instead of real numbers to "prove" the veracity of whatever narrative it is currently pushing. In this case it selected 5 VA Medical Centers and came up with numbers that are too good to be true.  But I think CDC did not reckon with the VA system fighting back with the truth.

    Here is the conclusion of CDC's study of (selected) VA data regarding COVID vaccine efficacy over six months:  

    During February 1–August 6, 2021, vaccine effectiveness among U.S. veterans hospitalized at five Veterans Affairs Medical Centers was 87%. mRNA COVID-19 vaccines remain highly effective, including during periods of widespread circulation of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant. Vaccine effectiveness in preventing COVID-19–related hospitalization was 80% among adults aged ≥65 years compared with 95% among adults aged 18–64 years.

    VA scientists pushed ahead and studied the entire VA database of 780,000 vaccinated beneficiaries from February to October, and published it in the US' premier science journal, Science

    Their conclusions, drawn from 6 months of data collected only a tiny bit later than what CDC used, but employing a complete dataset that had not been cherrypicked, were shockingly different than what CDC's braintrust had reported.

    Here is how the VA authors characterized CDC's overall COVID data collection:

    The debate over boosters in the U.S. (24) has laid bare the limitations of its public health infrastructure: national data on vaccine breakthrough are inadequate. The CDC transitioned in May 2021 from monitoring all breakthrough infections to focus on identifying and investigating only hospitalized or fatal cases due to any cause, including causes not related to COVID-19 (25). Some data on vaccinations, infections, and deaths are collected through a patchwork of local health departments (10), but these data are frequently out of date and difficult to aggregate at the national level. Here, we address this gap and examine SARS-CoV-2 infection and deaths by vaccination status in 780,225 Veterans during the period February 1, 2021 to October 1, 2021, encompassing the emergence and dominance of the Delta variant in the U.S.

    And their results?

    "26,114 positive PCR tests occurred in 498,148 fully vaccinated Veterans--over 5% of vaccinated veterans got COVID despite their vaccinations." 

    In March, VE-I (vaccine efficacy against infection) was 86.4%  for Janssen; 89.2%  for Moderna; and 86.9%  for Pfizer-BioNTech.

    But six months later... 

    By September, VE-I had declined to 13.1% for Janssen; 58.0%  for Moderna; and 43.3%  for Pfizer-BioNTech.

    This is consistent with Israel's report in August that Pfizer vaccine efficacy had dropped to 39%.  Israel vaccinated its population more speedily than the US and all other countries. 

    The VA found that protection against death was better than protection against infection, but also waned over time. And the VA authors then cited ten other studies whose data were consistent with what the VA found:

    Other U.S. studies (2931), many conducted in large healthcare systems, similarly show declining VE-I as the Delta variant rose to dominance, with notable declines in older adults. For example, two studies conducted in Kaiser Permanente Southern California show VE-I decreased from 95% at 14-60 days to 79% at 151-180 days after vaccination for ages 18-64 years (29), and from 80% at 1 month to 43% at 5 months after vaccination for ages ≥65 years (31). Declines in protection against infection with Delta have been observed in Israel (16), the UK (2021), and Qatar (3233)...

    It is not yet known whether breakthrough infections increase risk of long COVID (otherwise known as post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 or PASC), a constellation of debilitating and lingering symptoms following infection. 

    It seems we ought to know whether the vaccinated COVID patients are at higher risk, lower risk or the same risk of long COVID by now.  But CDC isn't telling. 

    It is remarkable that the VA was allowed to publish these honest data.  Perhaps all those vaccine mandates for federal employees had something to do with it?

    My interview with Kate Dalley, November 12, 2021

     https://soundcloud.com/katedalleyradio/111221-dr-meryl-nass-speaks-out-liability-informed-consent-must-listen

    Government vaccine mandates overreach in ways not so far considered

     1.  Mandates for millions of Americans via OSHA offer the alternative of weekly testing for COVID.  However, all COVID tests in the USA are "emergency use authorized" or EUA products, and are therefore experimental under the law.  Using the same argument I have made before, that Americans legally cannot be compelled to be experimental subjects, I believe they cannot legally be compelled to submit to experimental tests on a weekly basis.

    2.  OSHA mandates also require the employer to collect the vaccination records of all employees and transmit these records to the federal government.  While hospital employees, for example, are required to submit vaccination records to their employer, as a condition of employment, it is difficult to come up with a reason why a night watchman who works outside should be required to do so. Nor should the federal government have these records without permission. The AMA Code of Ethics says,

    Protecting information gathered in association with the care of the patient is a core value in health care.

    The federal government tells Americans:

    You hold the key to your health information and can send or have it sent to anyone you want. Only send your health information to someone you trust. 

    Do you trust the US government with your protected health information? 

    COVID-19 Vaccination of Minors Without Parental Consent/ JAMA Pediatrics

    JAMA Pediatrics published an article last month that should frighten every parent. The lead author is a young lady named Larissa Morgan who got her Bachelor's degree from UPenn in 2013 and she just graduated with the Penn law school class of 2021.  In between, she got a Master's in Bioethics (MBE).  None of the authors are doctors or nurses. And she is not a Member of the British Empire, either.

    The second author is Jason Schwartz, a health policy professor at Yale who has copublished with Art Caplan and loves mandatory vaccinations, especially for schoolkids receiving HPV vaccines.  The third author is a bioethics professor at Penn, Dominic Sisti, who has retreeted Dorit Reiss' tweets, also worked with Art Caplan, and is a proponent of assisted suicide, aka death with dignity, aka eugenics, aka health professionals murdering patients.  

    I used the word murder advisedly, because it is a slippery slope when you give doctors the right to end life as well as try to save it.  Are we sliding down it now with the hospital approach to COVID?  Admit.  Give remdesivir.  Ventilate.  Restrict useful drugs.

    One might look into how the health professionals' culture in Germany evolved to allowing health professionals to feel good about killing the less abled.  

    BTW, anyone can call themself a bioethicist. These days, most of them, and especially Art Caplan, are for-sale mouthpieces and rubber stampers who will give an ethical imprimatur to just about anything.

    In this case, they gave their imprimatur to removing parental authority over vaccinations in children aged 12 and up.  Not just for COVID vaccines; they suggest in their final two paragraphs that children should be allowed to consent for any vaccine.

    The authors slip, and give themselves away in the third to last paragraph, which states that "children and adolescents should not be placed at continued risk due to their parents' hesitancy over COVID-19 vaccines."  

    So they are blazing the trail to get around vaccine hesitancy:  go straight to the children. Hear that, Big Bird? Give the kids gift cards, school vaccination clinics, and a dose of peer pressure, and the government will have almost effortlessly usurped Americans' parental rights.

    Best of all, with EUA vaccines, the government won't have to pay for any injuries.  And the government owns all the data, which makes it hard to prove that your child's injury was due to a vaccine, if the government denies it.  The only avenue to obtaining benefits for injuries is the DHHS' Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, which has a one year statute of limitations and has yet to pay out a single claim for a COVID vaccine or drug. The DHHS owns all the adverse event data.

    "Has the CICP made any decisions regarding COVID-19 Claims?

    As of October 1, 2021, the CICP has not compensated any COVID-19 countermeasures claims. Three COVID-19 countermeasures have been denied compensation because the standard of proof for causation was not met and/or a covered injury was not sustained.  One COVID-19 claim has been determined eligible for compensation and is pending a review of eligible expenses."

    Here are some quotes from the JAMA article, in italics, with my comments in parentheses.

    Although COVID-19 illness is generally less severe in younger people, the disease has nonetheless caused substantial morbidity and more than 325 deaths among US children and adolescents, a burden of disease greater than that of many diseases for which vaccines are routinely recommended in this age group. [Yes, but aren't those vaccines a lot safer than COVID vaccines, and don't they prevent you getting the disease and transmitting it?]

    Approximately one-third of confirmed COVID-19 cases in minors have been asymptomatic, creating an opportunity for minors to spread the virus unknowingly. The reduction of asymptomatic transmission is essential to slowing the spread of the virus, and growing evidence suggests that vaccination provides substantial public health benefits by decreasing transmission in addition to its direct, individual benefits.  [In fact, growing evidence shows the vaccines fail to halt transmission.  The vaccinated have equally high viral titers as the unvaccinated and are therefore equally good transmitters, as shown in studies of nasal carriage and a study of household transmission.]  For these reasons, there is an urgent need for increased immunization in younger age groups. Vaccinating minors is critical to protecting them from the virus, [which is an infinitessimal threat to them] reducing transmission—especially to higher-risk populations—and continuing progress toward herd immunity. [Herd immunity cannot be achieved with current vaccines, according to Sir Andrew Pollard, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group and coinventor of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine.]

    Children and adolescents have the capacity to understand and reason about low-risk and high-benefit health care interventions. State laws should therefore authorize minors to consent to COVID-19 vaccination without parental permission.

    Kaiser confirms that in cities such as San Francisco and Philadelphia (where U Penn just happens to be located) health authorities have in fact been vaccinating children aged 12 and up for COVID without parental permission, and despite the fact that California and Pennsylvania require minors to have parental consent.  We have entered a lawless, treacherous time.  Is it time to say NO yet?

    UPDATE November 13, 2021:  The Infants Act (law in British Columbia, Canada) does away with parental consent, but also makes a child's vaccination status a secret to be kept from the parents. Here is what the BC healthlink website says, 

    Although there is no set age for when a child becomes capable, common practice is for parents or guardians of children in grade 6 to give consent for their child to be immunized. However, children in grade 9 and older are given the opportunity to consent for themselves. If a child refuses a vaccine for which their parent or guardian has consented, they must be informed of the risks of not having it...

    Can a parent or guardian provide consent for a child in grade 9?

    Consent forms and immunization information such as HealthLinkBC Files for immunizations given in school will be sent home. Parents or guardians and their children are encouraged to review the information, discuss it, and make a decision about immunization together. This can be used as an opportunity for adolescents to start making decisions about their own health. Children in grade 9 and older will have the opportunity to make their own decision to be immunized whether or not they have a consent form signed by a parent or guardian.

    The immunization records of any child who gives their own consent will not be shared with the parent or guardian, unless the child gives permission.

    Friday, November 12, 2021

    Oklahoma Guard goes rogue, rejects COVID vaccine mandate after sudden change of command, Governor calls mandate "irresponsible"

    A nice shot across the bow.  With such a peculiar Presidency (demented, but issuing grandiose orders, and flaunting the rule of law, while being incapable of reaching across the aisle) it will be interesting to see how else Republican states may respond.

    https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2021/11/12/oklahoma-guard-goes-rogue-rejects-covid-vaccine-mandate-after-sudden-change-of-command/

    I was told that 26 states have joined actions against federal mandates, including Iowa, whose governor is a Democrat in a swing state.

    And in case you didn't hear it already, the court today rejected the government's pleading in the OSHA mandate case, and the injunction stands.


    Thursday, November 11, 2021

    Short video telling you everything you need to know for an informed vaccine decision. 7 minutes 50 seconds

    Dr. Scot Youngblood spoke to the San Diego county Board of Supervisors on November 7, using the CDC and Pfizer data to show the vaccine provides no net benefit.  I wish I could be as thorough and succinct!

    https://rumble.com/vouyfd-dr-scot-a-youngblood-md-speaking-to-the-san-diego-county-board-of-superviso.html

    76% of September Covid-19 deaths in Vermont are vax breakthroughs. Texas claims it is only 2.5%

    The Texas department of health claims that only 2.5% of COVID deaths are occurring in the vaccinated.  This gets a big headline in the WaPo.  But in Vermont, it is the opposite.  Who can we believe?

    According to MedPage Today, a generally reliable mainstream source, "In mid-October, the CDC started publishing cases and deaths by vaccination status on its COVID Data Tracker for the first time. But the information was only current as of September 4 -- and the page hasn't been updated since...Yet some states report their data on breakthrough cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in real-time, or at least on a more regular basis."

    When asked to clarify their reasoning, CDC did not respond."

    Vermont Chronicle   SEPTEMBER 30, 2021  96 COMMENTS )

    by Guy Page

    Just eight of the 33 Vermonters who died of  Covid-19 in September were unvaccinated, the Vermont Department of Heath said Wednesday. 

    Health Department spokesperson Ben Truman said most of the vaccine  ‘breakthrough’ Covid-19 fatalities were elderly. Because they were among the first vaccinated, Vermont’s elderly “have had more time to potentially become a vaccine breakthrough case,” he said. 

    Expressed in percentages, 76% of Vermont Covid-19 fatalities were breakthrough cases. As of Tuesday, 88 percent of all eligible Vermonters (age 12 and over) had been vaccinated with at least one shot.

    At Tuesday’s press conference, the Department of Health September mortality statistics did not show a vaccinated/unvaccinated breakdown. Despite recent emphatic references by Gov. Phil Scott and Health Department Commissioner Mark Levine to a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” the per capita rate of vaccinated breakthrough deaths has risen in recent weeks. 

    Vermont Daily Chronicle asked Health Department spokesman Ben Truman Tuesday for a vaxxed/unvaxxed breakdown of the 33 September deaths. The full text of his email appears below:

    “Eight of the 33 deaths in September were not vaccinated.

     “If I may, it’s important to consider this data in the specific context of the populations and overall vaccination rates.

     “For example, there were a total of 33 deaths (as of 9/24) among fully vaccinated people since January. This is a fraction of a percent of the vaccinated population – now nearly 450,000 people age 12 and older.  This is an indicator that vaccines are working to protect the vast majority of Vermonters from the worst outcomes. 

    “Age is an important predictor of disease severity, and we have been seeing that the Delta variant is taking a tragic and disproportionate toll on our older population.

    “In addition to being more likely to have severe illness and consequences like hospitalizations and deaths, older Vermonters were among the very first to be vaccinated, and therefore, have had more time to potentially become a vaccine breakthrough case, with these more severe outcomes.”

    Truman also pointed to a September 29 Covid dashboard slide showing “the extent to which the overall vaccinated population in Vermont is older than the unvaccinated population.”

    However, other public health experts say the changing nature of the Covid virus also may be a factor. The CDC has noted that virtually all Covid-19 fatalities this month succumb after contracting the Delta variant. Critics of CDC vaccine policy say the current vaccine is less effective against the Delta variant.