Beware fake cures: "for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." ~H L Menken
In view of mass spread of Dell variant, Fauci "total vaccination" strategy proved to be a fiasco, unjustified medical experiment on the large part of the USA
population (and pushing it on teenagers looks especially questionable). The goal of "herd immunity" by pushing vaccination is
unachievable as Delta (Indian) mutation successfully infects approximately 30-40% people vaccinated with the first generation vaccines (although vaccine
in most case supposedly prevents developing virus pneumonia). Delta is now dominant stain of in the USA
The necessity of mass vaccination is based on the reliability of the statistic of "infections". But for COVID-19 the statistics of
cases is highly suspect. The number of people who have positive PcR test is not equal to the number of infected people. This
happened because of high number
of false positive due to excessive amplification.
Similarly "excess mortality" stats are subject to political pressure to justify drastic
and pretty much ineffective measures taken in fighting Covid-19 epidemic (lockdown now can be viewed as a huge failure of the USA
medical establishment, unless they pursued in parallel with fighting COVID-19 some hidden from us goals.
For some strange reason flu cases completely disappears
in 2020. The question is why? We simply do not know the number of cases of virus pneumonia death causes by COVID-19. Official figures
provides are biases because hospitals get more money for COVID-19 cases than for other cases. But the fact that the average age of people
who died from COVID does not differ from the average age of people who die during each calendar year raises serious questions. Also
the figures of "excess mortality" question the drastic reaction to COVID-19, unless you assume the that hidden assumption was that
this is accidentally unleashed bioweapon or, at least, accidentally released bioengineered virus.
So the baseline from which we can judge the efficiency of vaccination is weak or missing. And that undermines that idea of
usefulness of mass vaccination, especially extending it to all age groups. For children this is probably a criminal idea. For
healthy people younger then, say, 45 it is very questionable idea. You can't completely avoid mortal risks in your life. Car accidents happen
and if the probability is on the same level that question arise, why you need to rush to test this new unproven treatment?
Serious consequences of vaccination happen, although they are rare. But in this case you voluntarily take addition risk to protect
yourself from a very tiny risk to have serious complications from COVID-19. This is especially questionable in case of children
which are protected category and should not participate in mass medical experiment which COVID-19 vaccination campaign represents:
previously there were no any coronavirus vaccines and for a good reason --- this category of viruses constantly mutates.
Deployment in the USA is very strange: there is no test if people have antibodies tot he COVID-19, because if they have what is the
rational for getting the vaccine. Vaccination of people who already recovered from COVID-19 is a very questionable idea as natural
immunity is the highest level of immunity achievable and no vaccine can approach that.
Now we know that with Delta variant the number of "breakthrious case" -- cases when virus ifects already vaccinated people are
significant and the fact alone make the idea of reaching "herd immunity" a fiasco.
Only for people over 65 the value of vaccine has far greater ground then possible risks. We also need to understadn that
even this catagory people need carefully to weight risks. Risk are not the same for the resident of NYC and residents of some
distant viallage or even a small town 70 miles from Manhattan.
But with the mass vaccination campaign the key question is: are we fighting the last battle.
Coronaviruses mutate and the level of protection of existing vaccines against new variants of the virus is open to review. Spread of
Delta variant which by some statistics can infect around 30-40% of vaccinated people (depending on the period of time passes since
vaccination and the state of thier immune system) is a proof of this simple statement.
Another currently
unconfirmed danger (discovered initially for Pfizer vaccine) is that it might increase your chances of getting degenerative neurological
deceases like Alzheimer, blud clots and myocarditis. For people younger than, say, 30, the main danger is the development of myocarditis.
Pfizer’s
COVID vaccine in teens and myocarditis) Please note that thie changes to get virus pneumonia are negligible and in general
taking vaccine in such cases might increase not decrease the risks they are facing from COVID-19.
There were also several cases in which children died from vaccine or were crippled by
it. As children are protected category use of experimental vaccines on children might violate international conventions and should
generally be strictly prohibited. They can't give informed consent so use of them as experimental subjects might well be a crime.
I think efficiency of current generation of vaccines will drop over time requiring frequent booster shots. And new virus strains
might render the current
vaccine partially or totally useless. Time will tell.
Fauci and other high level medical bureaucrats promoted idea of held immunity and made a huge bet of the mass deployment of
excremental coronavirus vaccines (including completely untested mRNA type of vaccines represented by Pfizer and Moderna vaccines) from this
coronavirus instead of developing effective ways of treatment of the disease. That idea spectacularly backfired with the emergence
of Delta (Indian) variant. Putting all eggs into one basket is never a good idea. And negligence in developing effective way
to treating COVID-19 in a vain hole that vaccines will save the situation in this case was a worse then a blunder, it was a
crime.
First of all, we need to state that there were never successful vaccine against coronaviruses before. And the current
generation of vaccines does not prevent infections with newer mutations such as South African Variant and then Delta (Indian) variant of the virus.
The later is well positioned to became dominant in the USA in the autumn of 2021.
Nevertheless experimental vaccines were pushed on the population like there is no tomorrow and this virus is a new Black Death. Despite the fact that they were
not sufficiently tested, can (and really have) dangerous side effects (increasing cases of killing or severely crippling previously healthy people) and were
designed and tested for the oldest (Wuhan) mutation of the virus.
Especially problematic was push of vaccination into three category of patients:
Children (teenagers). Children are protected category and using for them experimental drug (of in case f Pfizer and
Moderna experimental gene therapy) is as close to criminal action as one can get. Several children were already severely crippled
by the Pfizer vaccine. And not only due of the development of the acute, debilitating myocarditis (Mom
details 12-year-old daughter's extreme reactions to COVID vaccine, says she's now in wheelchair)
Usage of vaccine for pregnant woman. In pregnant women immune system is severely stressed and using vaccine,
especially experimental one,
for them was never a good idea. It can be "the last straw that broke the camel back" and such women can lose an unborn
child or have severe complications themselves. The risk is just too high in this case.
Usage of vaccine for people who already recovered from COVID-19. In no way artificial immunity provided by
vaccine can beat natural immunity the organism acquires fighting and recovering from the disease. The claims that
injecting vaccine into people who already recovered from COVID increases their level of immunity are very questionable.
In a way this arrogant recklessness in nothing new. Generally in the USA practice of applying vaccines was always reckless. For some categories of unvaccinated people (immigrant
applying for green card) they administer several vaccines at once, which is not a good idea.
The idea behind pushing vaccines for those three categories was the idea of "herd immunity". Which was decimated with the
emergence of Delta variant which will probably became dominant in the USA this autumn, displacing "older" mutations.
Preliminarily Israel data (Israel used Pfizer vaccine) suggests that around 30-40% (the estimate was 36%) of vaccinated
individuals can be infected with (and
that means spread) Delta variant. This was the last nail in the coffin of highly questionable (in case of
constantly mutating coronaviruses), but heavily promoted by Fauci and other medical bureaucrats idea of "herd immunity" and,
specifically, the idea of vaccinating categories of people mentioned above (especially vaccination of teenagers, as children
are protected category and medical experiment on them are much more questionable activity than medical experiments on adult people,
who supposedly can give of deny informed consent). The road to hell is always paved with good intentions.
Moreover some data suggests that Delta variant is more dangerous to vaccinated people than unvaccinated
Critique of this finding by Reuters look weak. I think the finding still stands and is an interesting statistics pointing to
the unforeseen danger of vaccination.
Referring to data compiled by Public Health England (PHE) in a technical briefing released on June 18 regarding the SARS-CoV-2
variants (here),
the authors of the blogs make several calculations.
On page 12 of the briefing, it shows that 26 people have died since February 1 after testing positive for the Delta variant of
the virus, having also been fully vaccinated for more than two weeks. In total, 4,087 tested positive more than two weeks after
their second dose. Meanwhile, 35,521 people who were unvaccinated tested positive for the Delta variant and 34 people died.
The authors then divide the number of deaths by the total number of people who tested positive for the Delta variant and found
the rate of death to be 0.000957 for unvaccinated individuals and 0.00636 for those who have been inoculated.
... ... ...
In England, approximately 85% of the adult population have had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 65% are fully inoculated, Dr
Cevik said.
“When most people are vaccinated, most infections and deaths are expected to be among those vaccinated,” she added.
The vaccination program also prioritised “clinically vulnerable” individuals, and thus the majority of those vaccinated will
“disproportionately represent elderly and those with underlying comorbidities, who are already at significant risk of
hospitalisation and death,” Dr Cevik, said.
The posts do not consider the overall higher number of cases due to the Delta variant for those who are unvaccinated compared
to those who are inoculated (here).
Before we discuss vaccines, let's discuss a little bit weakness of Polymerase chain reaction (PcR) as a critical of infection
with COVID-19. Using high number amplifications is pure Lysenkoism. PcR is a chemical reaction harnessed to detect and identify trace
bits of DNA, whether from a virus or bacteria. It have limited value in diagnosing an infection. It has great value for forensic examination
in criminal justice and archaeology. It involves certain number of cycles of amplification of genetic material (this number is
called Cr) and this number of critical for determining the validity of the case. Unfortunately medical charlatans like Fauci ignored
this this metric, creating what is called "casedemic".
And in the USA this metric is not supplied with the result of test, the fact which alone justifies firing all the USA high medical
bureaucrats without pension.
There are at least half-dozen of widespread coronavirus mutation in circulation and effectiveness of existing vaccines against them
is open to review:
D614G mutation. This mutation is believed
to have given SARS-CoV-2 more transmutability. It now dominates the world may be more infectious than the original version.
Coronavirus D614G mutation found in 99.9% of cases at US It is believed the D614G strain emerged first in Europe at the start
of February 2020 and spread quickly.
Alpha. UK variant (B.1.1.7) It is more transmissible than the wild-type SARS-CoV-2 and was detected in November 2020 from a sample taken
in September, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom;
Lineage B.1.1.7 - Wikipedia
On 17 February 2021, Pfizer announced that neutralisation activity was reduced by two thirds for the 501.V2 variant,
whilst refraining from making claims about the efficacy of the vaccine in preventing illness as a result of this variant.[91]
...In February, Moderna reported that the current vaccine produced only one sixth of the antibodies in response to the
South African variant compared with the original virus.
Delta -- a strain of the coronavirus
first identified in Maharashtra, India on 5 October 2020 and officially named B.1.617. Later it was renamed into Delta. It almost certainly is playing a part in
the very sharp spike in the epidemic in India. Has higher infection rate and spread faster. The existing Pfizer and Moderna
vaccines does not stop infection but prevent the development of virus pneumonia in infected person. This strain, which as of June
2020 accounted for only around 20% new infections in the USA became dominant in the USA in July of 2021.
If we are to believe that it can infect 30-40% of vaccinated with Pfizer vaccine people it was essentially
"check and mate" for Fauci and other high level medical bureaucrats 100% vaccination of the USA population strategy and his pushing of mRNA vaccines.
Now what? Looks like it also is approximately 60% (or almost twice) more transmissible than the initial strain of the coronavirus. The Delta variant also
has split into several sub-variants, including one that is widespread in the United Kingdom. As of July 7, 2021 it became
dominant cause of the new infections in the USA accounting for 51.7% of infections, according
to estimates from the CDC. (Delta Is Dominant
Variant in the U.S., C.D.C. Estimates - The New York Times)
Delta Plus also known as B.1.617.2.1 or AY.1.
This new mutation of the Delta variant was first
detected in Europe in
March. Like
the Delta variant, Delta-Plus is extremely infectious but is even more difficult for antibodies to block then Delta variant.
The delta plus variant is a sublineage of the delta variant, with the only difference having an additional mutation, K417N,
in the virus’ spike protein, the protein that allows it to infect healthy cells. This mutation is also found in the beta and
gamma variants, which researchers first identified in South Africa(beta) and Brazil, respectively.
. The Beta variant with this mutation has shown the best among the existing mutation ability to escape the
antibodies conferred by COVID vaccination. Thus like South African variant is
has further advantages in infected already vaccinated people
Delta plus variant of SARS-CoV-2- What do we know so far In
other words, there’s the possibility COVID vaccines will not protect against this mutation effectively creating large enough pool
of infected people which will allow the virus to spread even in vaccinated with the current generation of vaccines population:
...virologist Dr. Jeremy Kamil, from the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, suggested to the BBC that
“Delta plus might have a slight advantage at infecting and spreading between people who were previously infected earlier
during the pandemic or who have weak or incomplete vaccine immunity.” But he also noted that this is not much different from
the delta variant.
Other experts have also raised the third point, about the variant’s potential to reduce the effectiveness of monoclonal
antibody treatments. These include therapies such as the bamlanivimab and etesevimab and REGN-COV2 combination therapies,
which researchers have shown to be beneficial in treating mild to moderate COVID-19 when given early during the course of the
disease.
However, this reduced effectiveness “is not a major difference, as the therapy itself is investigational and few are
eligible for this treatment,” said epidemiologist and vaccine expert Dr. Chandrakant Lahariya in a CNBC interview.
UK researchers found the
Pfizer vaccine prevents hospitalization in 33% infected with Delta patients after a single shot, and 88% after both doses.
In the case of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the efficacy was just 33% after the first dose but went up to 60% after the second dose.
B.1.526 (Iota) is associated with significantly reduced efficacy of some antibody treatments.
B.1.525 (Eta), and P.2 (Zeta) variants may have moderately decreased response to some antibody treatments.
B.1.617.1 (Kappa) and B.1.617.3 may have moderately decreased response to some antibody treatments.
B.1.427 and B.1.429 (Epsilon) are associated with approximately 20% increased transmission. There is significantly
reduced efficacy of some antibody treatments.
Lambda Variant
Confirmed In COVID-19 Patient In Texas Hospital
The Lambda variant, dubbed C.37, was first identified in Peru last year before spreading to multiple countries in South
America. It has been deemed a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization (WHO), which in a recent report (pdf)
indicated that 81 percent of COVID-19 cases sequenced in Peru since April 2021 are associated with Lambda.
Lineage B.1.1.7 (formerly known as Variant of
Concern 202012/01 (VOC 202012/01)) is believed to have emerged in the
United Kingdom in September 2020. Epidemiological markers
suggest that the variant is more transmissible and lethal. Among the variant's several mutations is one in the receptor-binding
domain of the spike protein that changes the asparagine at position 501 to tyrosine (N501Y). This mutation may cause the virus
to bind more tightly to the ACE2 receptor. It is currently spread globally.
The 501.V2 variant, which has the same N501Y mutation,
arose independently in South Africa. It was detected
in patient specimens collected at the beginning of October 2020 and currently spread globally.
The B.1.207 variant appeared in Nigeria. It has a mutation in the spike protein (P681H) that is also found in the VOC 202012/01
variant. P681H is located near the S1/S2 furin cleavage site. There is no evidence that the mutations increase transmissibility
of the variant.[123]
The Lineage B.1.525 first cases were detected in December 2020 in the United Kingdom and
Nigeria. It is currently spread globally.
The Cluster 5 variant emerged among
minks and mink farmers in Denmark. It has a set of mutations
that have not been observed in other variants, including four amino acid changes in the spike protein. The variant moderately
resists neutralizing antibodies. After strict quarantines,
a ban on mink farming, and a mink euthanasia campaign, it is believed to have been eradicated.[124]
Lineage P.1 first detected in
Manaus,
Brazil and already spread globally, the preprint works showed
the variant to be more transmissible and have higher rate of deaths than B.1.1.28 and B.1.195 lineages.
The most distinctive property of Delta variant is high infection rate and the ability to infect already vaccinated individuals.
This is especially true for those who were vaccinated with Pfizer vaccine which is dominant in the USA and several other countries
(Israel) for which Israel officials suggested that 30-40% of vaccinated can be infected and spread the virus. Israel officials
are toying with the idea of booster shorts due to this threat. The key here is the rate of infection of already vaccinated, not the
fact that hospitalizations and death stats decoupled from new cases stats. If the significant percentage of vaccinated can be
infected by Delta (say, over 20%) that could well be the last nail into the coffin of "herd immunity" delusion promoted by
Fauci and other high level medical bureaucrats. There were never herd immunity from coronaviruses as they mutate too quickly
to achieve it. That does not means that vaccination is useless, especially for those who live in big cities and use public
transportation or need to meet customers during each working way. But that makes the idea of "total vaccination" effort including
children over 12 as useless as quarantine efforts before widespread riots. According to
the Indian
Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
it has greter then other mutations (with the exception of Sourth Aftran variant) to infect already vaccinatedpeople (
Delta variant of SARS-COV-2- Delta variant responsible for breakthrough infections- ICMR, Health News, ET HealthWorld)
The Delta
variant of SARS-COV-2 was behind majority of clinical cases of breakthrough infection of Covid-19 but only 9.8% cases
required hospitalisation and fatality was observed in only 0.4% cases, according to a new ICMR study. Breakthrough infection is
if one gets infected even after immunisation.
... ... ...
Two new SARS-CoV-2 variants Delta AY.1 and AY.2 were also identified in these study samples. “Delta AY.1 and AY.2 is
characterized by the presence of K417N mutation in the spike protein region. K417N, E484K, L452R, and E484Q are the mutations
known to disrupt receptor binding domain (RBD) binding capacity and make them more infectious by immune escape mechanisms
against the current vaccines. This indicates improved virus fitness to evade immune responses and survive against the
vaccines,” the study said.
As of July 2021 it became dominant variant of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the USA displacing alpha variant (variant B.1.1.7),
which previously dominated. As of July 19 New York City health officials say the delta variant is now responsible for 69% of COVID cases
citywide but they are still pushing for total vaccination (De
Blasio Says Mask Mandate Not The Solution To Growing COVID Cases, ‘Vaccination Is’):
City Council member Mark Levine, the chair of the health committee, took to Twitter. “It’s time to renew the indoor mask
mandate, including for those who are vax’d,” he wrote.
Mark D. Levine
@MarkLevineNYC
Jul 17
Cases are rising in NYC (up 2x+ in past 2 weeks), driven by delta. Indoor
mask use in NYC is falling—in delis, stores, subways, movie theaters etc.
We need to reverse this trend. It's time to renew
the indoor mask mandate, including for those who are vax'd.
The rule of thumb should be: in indoor settings where there's no
screening for vax/test status, everyone should wear a mask.
This must include vax'd because there's a very small chance they can still receive/transmit, & because we need mask
solidarity. Otherwise it doesn't work.
Remember that indoor masking protects many people who are vulnerable—kids, the immunocompromised, workers.
NYC needs
to act *now* to slow delta because in other places with vax rates comparable to ours, hospitalizations started to rise
(overwhelmingly among unvax'd) a few weeks after rise in cases. e.g. San Francisco...
According to Guardian Delta
variant rapidly gaining ground in US west "Authorities in Los Angeles county said that the
Delta variant was responsible for almost half of genetically sequenced variants, the New York Times reported.
The county’s public health guidance said on
28 June that it “strongly recommends” masking indoors – regardless of vaccination status – due to increased circulation of the Delta
variant."
The B.1.617 genome has 13 mutations which produce alterations in its coding.[10]
Three of them, all of which are in the virus's spike protein
code, are of great concern:
E484Q. The mutation at position 484, a glutamic acid-to-glutaminesubstitution, confers the variant stronger
binding potential to hACE2 (the human
ACE2 receptor), as well as better
ability to evade hosts' immune systems, to B.1.617 in comparison to other variants.[8]
L452R. The mutation at position 452, a leucine-to-arginine
substitution, confers stronger affinity of the spike protein for the
ACE2 receptor and decreased recognition capability of the immune system.[8][11]
These mutations, when taken individually, are not unique to the variant; rather, their simultaneous occurrence is.[8][5]
P681R. This is a mutation at position 681, a proline-to-arginine
substitution, which, according to William A. Haseltine,
may boost cell-level infectivity of the variant "by facilitating cleavage of the S precursor protein to the active S1/S2 configuration".[12]
Goethe once said that "We in reality only know when we doubt a little. With knowledge comes doubt."
If we assume that Covid-19 will eventually become seasonal disease with new strains appearing each year, the rational behind mass
vaccination became more shaky. For example for South African (B.1.351) mutation existing Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
are considerably less efficient (3 and 6 time less efficient)
Lineage B.1.351 - Wikipedia
On 17 February 2021, Pfizer announced that neutralisation activity was reduced by two thirds for the 501.V2 variant,
whilst refraining from making claims about the efficacy of the vaccine in preventing illness as a result of this variant.[91]
...In February, Moderna reported that the current vaccine produced only one sixth of the antibodies in response to the
South African variant compared with the original virus.
Indian (Delta) mutation, which as of June 202 accounts for around 20% new infections in the USA will probably dominant in the USA
in autumn of 2021, was essentially check and mate for Fauci 100% vaccination of the USA population strategy and his pushing of
mRNA vaccines: the existing Pfizer and Moderna vaccines does not stop infection in a vaccinated persons, so they can spread the
virus. It looks like they only prevent the development of virus pneumonia in infected vaccinated person. And even that is
questionable assumption.
Indian (Delta) mutation, which as of June 2020 accounts for around 20% new infections in the USA will probably dominant in the USA
in autumn of 2021, was essentially check and mate for Fauci 100% vaccination of the USA population strategy and his pushing of
mRNA vaccines: the existing Pfizer and Moderna vaccines does not stop infection in a vaccinated person (so he/she can spread the
virus) they only prevent the development of virus pneumonia in infected vaccinated person.
If vaccine does not provide multiyear protection and protection from the all strains of this coronavirus the evaluation of the vaccines should
change and became more conservative. The problem here is not only side effects of vaccination by completely new gene therapy
mechanism, but also that vaccinated people create a reservoir in
which new mutations can develop. Currently there are proven side effect of Phizer and Moderna vaccine on young person -- some of
healthy young persons develop myocarditis and pericaditis after the vaccinations.
Another problem are blood clots. Which can kill a healthy vaccinated person. Occurrences are rare, but around 6K vaccinated
persons died or have irreparable health damage after the vaccination in the USA in June 2021.
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that cause illnesses such as the common cold. Most previously known coronaviruses are seasonal. Some of previous
coronaviruses were very nasty so in this sense COVID-19 does not open some new page, that requires such drastic measures. And
antibodies for previous coronavirus help to fight COVID-19 infection. Also as
Diamond Princess epidemics of COVID-19 proved some people are naturally immune and do not fall ill even in the most adverse
circumstances with the tremendous amount of virus particles exposure.
How vaccines work
Coronaviruses have a spike-like structure on their surface called an S protein. (The spikes create the corona-like, or crown-like,
appearance that gives the viruses their name.) The S protein attaches to the surface of human cells. A vaccine that targets this protein
would prevent it from binding to human cells and stop the virus from reproducing. This is the key idea of coronavirus vaccines.
Challenges in developing a viable COVID-19 vaccine
The fact that it is possible to create a viable vaccine against COVID-19 is not given, due to high rate of mutation of
coronaviruses in general and COVID-19 in particular.
Past research on vaccines for coronaviruses has also identified serious challenges to developing a COVID-19 vaccine, including:
Ensuring vaccine safety. Several vaccines for SARS have been tested in animals. Most of the vaccines improved the
animals' survival but didn't prevent infection. The same effect happen with South African and Indian variant for
humans.
Some vaccines also caused complications, such as lung damage, blood clots, or anaphylactic shock. A COVID-19 vaccine
will need to be thoroughly tested to make sure it's safe for humans. That was not done. So the mass vaccination in the USA
and other countries is a large scale medical experiment. Especially troubling are cases of myocarditis and percarditis in healthy young people, who would fare very well in case of COVID-19 infection even without
vaccines.
Does existing vaccines provide long-term protection? By some (questionable) data after infection with coronaviruses, re-infection with the same
virus — though usually mild and only happening in a fraction of people — is possible after a period of around eight months or
after one year. An effective
COVID-19 vaccine will need to provide people with much longer infection protection and be effective against multiple
strain of the same virus. We do not know if this is the case.
Vaccine needs to be effective and safe for older people. People older than age 50 are at higher risk of severe COVID-19.
But older people usually don't respond to vaccines as well as younger people and they have more serious side
effects. An ideal COVID-19 vaccine should work well
for this age group.
Live vaccines Live vaccines use a weakened (attenuated) form of the germ that causes a disease. This kind of vaccine prompts
an immune response without causing disease. The term attenuated means that the vaccine's ability to cause disease has been reduced.
Live vaccines are used to protect against measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox and chickenpox. As a result, the infrastructure is in
place to develop these kinds of vaccines. However, live virus vaccines often need extensive safety testing. Some live viruses can
be transmitted to a person who isn't immunized. This is a concern for people who have weakened immune systems.
Inactivated vaccines Inactivated vaccines use a killed (inactive) version of the germ that causes a disease. This kind
of vaccine causes an immune response but not infection. Inactivated vaccines are used to prevent the flu, hepatitis A and rabies.
However, inactivated vaccines may not provide protection that's as strong as that produced by live vaccines. This type of vaccine
often requires multiple doses, followed by booster doses, to provide long-term immunity. Producing these types of vaccines might
require the handling of large amounts of the infectious virus.
Genetically engineered vaccines This type of vaccine uses genetically engineered RNA or DNA that has instructions for
making copies of the S protein. Pfizer and Moderna vaccines us synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA). Strictly speaking they are not vaccines,
they are novel delivery mechanism on nucleotide into the human body. These copies prompt an immune response to the virus. With
this approach, no long term immunity is achieved. Coronavirus constantly mutate so the next season you will face a new variation.
Exactly like with flu. And that's a problem. It is unclear whether the S protein "vaccination" remains effective against newer variants.
It is also unclear local effect of producing proteins can't go haywire and cause negative health consequences for people health
The development of vaccines usually take many years as long term consequences are unclear and side effects usually do not
demonstrate itself quickly. The study of their safety often takes decades. This is especially true when the vaccines
involve new technologies that haven't been tested for safety or adapted to allow for mass production. Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
were rushed. One reason is the that government is in bed with Big Pharma forming medical industrial complex. For example, Fauci behaves
more like a Big Pharma lobbyist than an independent medical researchers and the head of a very important national institute which
should protect the health of Americans. He pushed vaccine over any other treatments. Which, in retrospect, might be a huge mistake,
because again the idea of creation of a viable vaccine against rapidly mutating viruses is open for review.
Why does it take so long to establish safety and efficiency of a vaccine? First, a vaccine is tested in animals to see if it works and if it's safe. This testing must follow strict
lab guidelines and generally takes three to six months. The manufacturing of vaccines also must follow quality and safety practices. Next comes testing in humans. Small phase I clinical trials evaluate the safety of the vaccine in humans. During phase II, the formulation
and doses of the vaccine are established to prove the vaccine's effectiveness. Finally, during phase III, the safety and efficacy of
a vaccine need to be demonstrated in a larger group of people.
Again this type of vaccine actually are gene therapies and this is a completely new type of vaccine. Both in case of Moderna and Pfizer vaccines
we are talking about using gene therapy as a vaccination method.
Previous gene therapy was used only for life critical diseases like cancer. So it is natural to be slightly skeptical toward them.
This is especially concerning since the Pfizer vaccine is an mRNA vaccine, an untested type of vaccine which creates new proteins
and can actually integrate into the human genome, according
to a report from the National Library of Medicine. In other words, degenerative brain conditions may appear at any time in your life
after receiving the vaccine.
“The RNA sequence of the vaccine as well as the spike protein target interaction were analyzed for the potential to convert intracellular
RNA binding proteins TAR DNA binding protein (TDP-43) and Fused in Sarcoma (FUS) into their pathologic prion conformations,” explains
the report. TDP-43 is a protein known to cause dementia, ALS and even Alzheimer’s, according to
Alzpedia. Similarly, the FUS protein is known to cause ALS
and Hereditary Essential Tremors, according to the
Human Genome Database.
The experiment done for the report was to determine whether or not these two harmful proteins embed themselves into our DNA, as
an mRNA vaccine is expected to do. The report determined that “the vaccine RNA has specific sequences that may induce TDP-43 and
FUS to fold into their pathologic prion confirmations,” meaning that both proteins have the potential to embed themselves into our
DNA and cause harmful neurological diseases.
The report’s abstract summary concludes that “The enclosed finding as well as additional potential risks leads the author to believe
that regulatory approval of the RNA based vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 was premature and that the vaccine may cause much more harm than
benefit.” The report itself ends with this warning: “The vaccine could be a bioweapon and even more dangerous than the original infection.”
National File actually reached out to the CDC to inquire as to why the Pfizer vaccine is still being distributed despite these
credible allegations. No response was received prior to publication.
Among participants who received the vaccine and those
who got the placebo alike, the reported rate of serious adverse events is
less than 0.5 percent , with no significant differences between
the two groups.
Four cases of Bell’s palsy have been reported in participants who received the vaccine, while none has been reported in those
who got the placebo.
However, those four cases are consistent with the rate of Bell’s palsy in the general population. In other words, there’s no clear
evidence that the Bell’s palsy was caused by the vaccine.
Severe allergic reactions to vaccines are very rare, but they can happen. The FDATrusted Source recommends that people
who have experienced a severe allergic reaction to a previous dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, or to any of its ingredients,
should not receive it.
Reports of lymphadenopathy were imbalanced with 58 more cases in the vaccine group (64) than the placebo group (6); lymphadenopathy
is plausibly related to the vaccine. Lymphadenopathy occurred in the arm and neck region and was reported within 2 to 4 days after
vaccination. The average duration of lymphadenopathy was approximately 10 days.
Bell’s palsy was reported by four vaccine recipients and none of the placebo recipients. The observed frequency of reported
Bell’s palsy in the vaccine group is consistent with the background rate in the general population, and there is no basis upon which
to conclude a causal relationship.
Serious Adverse Events
Serious adverse events were defined as any untoward medical occurrence that resulted in death, was life-threatening, required
inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization, or resulted in persistent disability/incapacity. The proportions
of participants who reported at least 1 serious adverse event were 0.6% in the vaccine group and 0.5% in the placebo group. The most
common serious adverse events in the vaccine group which were numerically higher than in the placebo group were appendicitis (7 in
vaccine vs 2 in placebo), acute myocardial infarction (3 vs 0), and cerebrovascular accident (3 vs 1). Cardiovascular serious adverse
events were balanced between vaccine and placebo groups.
Two serious adverse events were considered by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as possibly related to vaccine:
shoulder injury possibly related to vaccine administration or to the vaccine itself,
lymphadenopathy involving the axilla contralateral to the vaccine injection site.
Otherwise, occurrence of severe adverse events involving system organ classes and specific preferred terms were balanced between
vaccine and placebo groups.
I'm not vaccinated against COVID-19. The decision wasn't a drastic one; I thought of it as a
personal decision that every person should make in consultation with a trusted health
professional, which is what I did. It didn't occur to me that this decision merited
justification to others. But that was before the current climate of social and political
pressure, before the Delta surge, and before unvaccinated people like me started getting blamed
for vaccine-resistant variants. Now I feel that explaining my decision has become
necessary.
In explaining my decision, my hope is not to convince people to change their
minds about whether to vaccinate but rather to help others understand why some may choose
differently.
Let me start by saying that I agree that the COVID-19 vaccine is an important tool in
reducing the severity of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths due to COVID-19. In general, I am
supportive of the availability and accessibility of safe, potentially life saving medications
and preventative measures for anyone at risk of any serious illness. The more options when it
comes to preventing and treating COVID-19, the better! But this does not mean that all options
should necessarily be utilized by all people en masse, and this is how I arrived at my current
decision to opt out of the vaccine.
The reported adverse events and risks of the authorized COVID-19 vaccines are rare, and
most people don't seem to have any serious adverse reactions. But though rare, the risks are
still real . Cardiac issues, blood clotting, stroke, and autoimmune disorders are all
acknowledged adverse events that can occur as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine.
A colleague of my parents reportedly died from complications of the Moderna vaccine, a
friend suffered from deep vein thrombosis, and a teenage nephew of another friend now has
chronic cardiac issues. These are three examples from my immediate network of family and
friends, and I know many others with their own stories. And while it's true that these are
anecdotes and do not represent the majority, they are powerful nonetheless.
Now, we know that age, weight, and other comorbidities play a role in how COVID-19 impacts
the individual, and for someone at serious risk from COVID-19, these rare risks are probably
worth it. But what about for someone who is not at risk from COVID-19? The risk/benefit
analysis for otherwise healthy, young individuals may be a different calculus.
Public health messaging has consistently portrayed the vaccines are safe and effective, and
therefore everyone eligible should get vaccinated. But companies like Moderna and Pfizer are protected from lawsuits
related to their COVID-19 vaccines until 2024.
It's just one of the many facets of the inconsistent public health messaging and moving of
goalposts when it comes to the vaccine and herd immunity, which makes it hard to trust such
guidance. A cocktail of mixed messages on who is at risk from COVID-19 and dubious masking
guidance coupled with a lack of clear messaging on what exactly is the goal and rationale of
these measures and policies adds to the skepticism many of us feel. The focus has now
shifted from deaths and hospitalizations due to COVID-19 to a new hyper-focus on breakthrough
cases, though the majority of them are benign.
But even while the experts push the vaccine, they have undermined it by arguing that
vaccinated individuals spread the virus as effectively as unvaccinated individuals. It begs the
question: If everyone now has to wear a mask because everyone is now back to being suspected
asymptomatic carriers, why get the vaccine at all?
The personal risk/benefit analysis still plays a role and preventing serious illness is
definitely important, but getting the vaccine to protect others (and calling unvaccinated
adults selfish) no longer seems to be relevant if the vaccinated can spread it, too. In
fact, some experts have advised only individuals at high risk of serious illness from COVID-19
to get vaccinated, in order to prevent the evolution of even more vaccine resistant
variants.
Along with the mixed messages is the obvious role that politics has played in COVID-19
policy. There was Kamala
Harris saying she wouldn't trust a vaccine produced by President Trump -- then doing an
about face. There was the way that Democratic politicians and even the CDC itself justifying Black Lives Matter protests
during lockdown while criticizing Trump rallies as "super spreader" events. Most recently
former President Obama hosted a huge, maskless birthday party in the midst of renewed mask
mandates and concern over the spread of infection.
The inconsistent policies and public responses, the repeated "do as I say, not as I do" from
those pushing restrictions, has led many like me to skepticism of any government issued
guidance. And adding bribes, mandates, and censorship to the mix has only served to heighten
that sense of mistrust. Perhaps most unnerving has been seeing experts who question and warn
about adverse reactions to the vaccine being censored or blacklisted.
Why censor the adverse effects? Why not publicize them so we can make informed
decisions?
Still, I didn't arrive at my decision on my own. I am lucky to have a relationship with a
health professional who I feel comfortable asking questions without fear of judgment. I trust
her guidance, having built a history with her and knowing that she has my best interests in
mind. In fact, had she unequivocally recommended the vaccine specifically for me to the best of
her clinical judgment, I would have gotten vaccinated that day.
Unequivocal recommendation, however, was not the message I received in my case as a young,
otherwise healthy individual, who was also pregnant.
Another doctor I consulted with also generally recommends vaccination, but added that in my
case, the concerns are understandable and waiting made sense. He connected me with an
obstetrics clinic that has experience treating COVID-19 in pregnancy in the event I should
require it, since the location where I normally receive medical care does not offer treatment
unless hospitalization is required.
The bottom line for me, and perhaps others who are similarly ambivalent about the COVID-19
vaccine, is that trustworthy information and guidance is key. And those of us opting out of the
vaccine are not doing so out of ignorance or selfishness. We have simply been paying attention
to the mixed messages, the hypocrisy, the changing standards, and the censoring of
counter-evidence. And we have not been convinced that this is something we need to do, for our
own good or that of our communities or country.
The COVID-19 vaccine remains one effective tool among many in the fight against COVID-19.
Clear, transparent information about what the vaccine does, what its risks and limitations are,
and what other options exist especially for prevention and early outpatient treatment are what
is needed to restore trust.
The mandates, bribes, social pressure, censorship, and ever changing policies that don't
present clear scientific rationale need to stop. But at least the doctor/patient relationship
should be prioritized in the meantime, so that we as individuals can make informed decisions
for ourselves, enabling us all to emerge sooner rather than later from this seemingly never
ending health crisis.
Suri Kinzbrunner previously worked as a teacher and preschool director and is
currently homeschooling her 7 children. She studied cognitive neuroscience as an undergraduate
at the George Washington University in Washington D.C. and worked briefly in this field before
becoming a parent. She is especially passionate about issues related to parenting and
education.
According to Reuters ,
three new conditions have been reported by a small number of people after vaccination with jabs
from Pfizer and Moderna. The ailments include Erythema multiforme, a form of allergic skin
reaction; glomerulonephritis, or kidney inflammation; and nephrotic syndrome, a renal disorder
that leads to heavy urinary protein losses. All of the cases are being studied by the EMA to
determine whether the vaccines might be linked to the conditions.
That probably is not true for Delta variant. Israel data suggest that it stops to something
between 60and 70 percents. So approximately one third of vaccinated can be infected with
Delta.
The effectiveness of Pfizer's COVID-19 shot can drop to 83.7% within four to six months
after getting the second dose of its vaccine. This is the latest indication that
vaccine-induced immunity to the virus can wane and some kind of boost may be necessary in the
future.
New research published Wednesday as a preprint indicates that the Pfizer Inc. shot provides
96.2% protection for the first two months, 90.1% effectiveness between the second and fourth
months, and 83.7% of protection for the fourth, fifth, and six months.
"We will need a booster eight to 12 months from the second dose," Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla
said Wednesday, according to a FactSet transcript of the company's second-quarter earnings
call.
The drug maker has been making the case for booster shots, citing limited data from its own
clinical research and real-world data out of Israel, where Pfizer's vaccine is the predominant
shot in circulation.
... ... ...
When speaking to investors this week, company officials attributed waning immunity levels in
Israel to the much earlier vaccination campaign that rolled out in that country. (In fact,
Israel announced Thursday that a third dose will now be available to people who are at least
60.) Pfizer also mentioned that there will be data in a few months coming out of the U.K.,
where doses were sometimes spaced out, that indicates "long-lasting protection."
... ... ...
Pfizer is expected to generate $33.5 billion in COVID-19 vaccine revenue this year, and Wall
Street analysts have already baked boosters into their financial models for Pfizer and BioNTech
SE which developed the vaccine with Pfizer.
"The largest remaining uncertainty is whether this third boost is simply the third dose in a
three-vaccine schedule to achieve lasting, broad protection or is the first of a periodic
(annual) boosted vaccine," SVB Leerink analysts told investors on Thursday.
The fact Delta remains dominant worldwide, and this is a sign Delta Plus might not overtake
it soon. Delta Plus (also known as AY.1) has an extra mutation in the code for its spike protein,
which helps the coronavirus access human cells. India's health ministry said last month that
Delta Plus appeared to spread more easily than Delta and might be able to bind more easily to
lung cells or resist antibody drugs.
In the US, Delta Plus cases peaked in late June at less than 5% of the nation's sequenced
cases, according to Outbreak.info .
Health experts say it's a sign Delta Plus isn't outcompeting other variants.
Public Health England suggested June that there was no evidence Delta Plus' extra mutation
made the virus any more severe or reduced vaccine effectiveness relative to Delta.
While Delta seems to have challenged how well vaccines prevent infection and transmission,
recent CDC data indicates coronavirus shots still reduce the risk of getting COVID-19 several
times, and the risk of hospitalization or death by vaccinated within the last six months by an
order of magnitude, although the protective effect of Pfizer and other vaccines fade with
time.
On Tuesday South Korea announced that it had detected two cases of the Delta Plus variant,
one in a man who had recently returned from the U.S.,
Reuters reports. Some experts believe the Delta Plus variant could be more contagious than
the Delta variant.
The Lambda variant, which originated from Peru last year, has
already been detected in the U.S.
Recent studies indicated that Lambda could be more resistant to the current COVID-19
vaccines, according to
Reuters .
The Centers for Disease
Control Prevention has a COVID-19 case tracker
that shows the percent of the total population vaccinated against COVID-19. The map shows the
percent of the total population fully vaccinated and then compares it with the cases per
100,000 people.
For example, much of the Northeast has a high number of vaccinations and low number of
cases per 100,000 people. So the area is green on the map.
However, the Southeastern U.S. is mainly colored in red due to low vaccinations and a
high number of people infected.
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The CDC advises caution about
traveling to areas with low vaccination rates and a higher number of cases per 100,000
people.
Something very strange has been happening in Missouri: A hospital in the state, Ozarks
Healthcare, had to create a "private setting" for patients afraid of being seen getting
vaccinated against COVID-19. In a video produced by the hospital, the physician Priscilla Frase
says, "Several people come in to get vaccinated who have tried to sort of disguise their
appearance and even went so far as to say, 'Please, please, please don't let anybody know that
I got this vaccine.'" Although they want to protect themselves from the coronavirus and its
variants, these patients are desperate to ensure that their vaccine-skeptical friends and
family never find out what they have done.
The Atlantic Missouri is suffering one of the worst COVID-19 surges in the country. Some
hospitals are rapidly running out of ICU beds. To Americans who rushed to get vaccinated at the
earliest opportunity, some Missourians' desire for secrecy is difficult to understand. It's
also difficult to square with the common narrative that vaccine refusal, at least in
conservative areas of the country, is driven by a lack of respect or empathy from liberals
along the coasts. "Proponents of the vaccine are unwilling or unable to understand the thinking
of vaccine skeptics -- or even admit that skeptics may be thinking at all," lamented a recent
article in the conservative National Review.
Writers across the political spectrum have urged deference and sympathy toward holdouts'
concerns about vaccine side effects and the botched CDC messaging about masking and airborne
transmission early in the pandemic. But these takes can't explain why holdouts who receive
respect, empathy, and information directly from reliable sources remain unmoved -- or why some
people are afraid to tell their loved ones about being vaccinated.
What is going on here? Sociology suggests that pundits and policy makers have been looking
at vaccine refusal all wrong: It's not an individual problem, but a social one. That's why
individual information outreach and individual incentives -- such as Ohio's Vax-a-Million
program, intended to increase vaccine uptake with cash prizes and college scholarships --
haven't worked. Pandemics, by definition, are collective problems. They propagate and kill
because people live in communities. As a result, addressing pandemics requires understanding
interpersonal dynamics -- not just what promotes trust among people, but which behaviors convey
status or lead to ostracism.
Shifting from an individual to a relational perspective helps us understand why people
are seeking vaccination in disguise. They want to save face within the very specific set of
social ties that sociologists call "reference groups" -- the neighborhoods, churches,
workplaces, and friendship networks that help people obtain the income, information,
companionship, mutual aid, and other resources they need to live. The price of access to those
resources is conformity to group norms. That's why nobody strives for the good opinion of
everyone; most people primarily seek the approval of people in their own reference
groups.
An analysis by British academics, published by the UK Government's official scientific
advisory group, says that they believe it is "almost certain" that a SARS-Cov-2 variant will
emerge that "leads to current vaccine failure." SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes
Covid-19.
The analysis has not been peer-reviewed, the early research is theoretical, and does not
provide any proof that such a variant is in circulation now. Documents like it are released "as
pre-print publications that have provided the government with rapid evidence during an
emergency."
The paper is dated July 26, and was published by the British government on Friday.
The scientists write that because eradication of the virus is "unlikely," they have "high
confidence" that variants will continue to emerge. They say it is "almost certain" that there
will be "a gradual or punctuated accumulation of antigenic variation that eventually leads to
current vaccine failure."
They recommend that authorities continue to reduce virus transmission as much as possible to
reduce the chance of a new, vaccine-resistant variant.
They also recommend that research focus on new vaccines that not only prevent hospital
admission and disease, but also "induce high and durable levels of mucosal immunity."
The goal, they say, should be "to reduce infection of and transmission from vaccinated
individuals," and to "reduce the possibility of variant selection in vaccinated individuals."
Research is already underway at several companies that make the Covid-19 vaccines to address
new variants.
The views were expressed in a paper "by group of academics on scenarios for the longer
term evolution of SARS-CoV-2," and discussed and published by the UK's Scientific Advisory
Group for Emergencies (SAGE).
They write that some variants that have emerged over the past few months "show a reduced
susceptibility to vaccine-acquired immunity, though none appears to escape entirely."
But they caution that these variants emerged "before vaccination was widespread," and that
"as vaccines become more widespread, the transmission advantage gained by a virus that can
evade vaccine-acquired immunity will increase."
This is an issue that SAGE has warned about before.
In minutes from its July 7 meeting, SAGE scientists wrote that "the combination of high
prevalence and high levels of vaccination creates the conditions in which an immune escape
variant is most likely to emerge." It said at the time that "the likelihood of this happening
is unknown, but such a variant would present a significant risk both in the UK and
internationally."
Hundreds of staffers at two major hospitals in San Francisco have tested positive for
coronavirus in July, with most of them being breakthrough cases of the highly infectious Delta
variant, The New York
Times reported Saturday evening.
The University of California, San Francisco Medical Center told media outlets that 183 of
its 35,000 staffers tested positive. Of those infected, 84% were fully vaccinated, and just two
vaccinated staff members required hospitalization for their symptoms.
At Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, at least 50 members out of the total 7,500
hospital staff were infected, with 75-80% of them vaccinated. None of those staffers required
hospitalization.
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Day also
told ABC7 News that at least 99% of the cases at UCSF were traced back to community spread,
but that hospital officials are still investigating and conducting contact tracing.
He added that most of the cases presented mild to moderate symptoms, and some were
completely asymptomatic. He said the cases were spread among doctors, nurses, and ancillary
staff.
"We sort of are seeing that across the board," he said. "We have so far not detected any
patient-to-staff or staff-to-patient transmission right now."
The Delta variant has also been known to spread among vaccinated people in breakthrough
cases, prompting the agency this week to recommend that even fully vaccinated people
wear masks indoors in areas with high transmission rates.
The CDC emphasized that getting vaccinated is still highly beneficial and is a crucial
component to combatting the coronavirus - even the Delta variant.
"Getting vaccinated continues to prevent severe illness, hospitalization, and death, even
with Delta," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told media on Tuesday.
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A reversal in federal health guidance calling for fully vaccinated individuals to don masks
in certain indoor areas amid high and substantial viral spread has left some experts
divided.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rolled out the latest guidance on
Tuesday, with agency head Dr. Rochelle Walensky citing "worrisome" new science necessitating
the update.
"In recent days, I have seen new scientific data from sequenced outbreak investigations
showing that the delta variant behaves uniquely differently from past strains of the virus that
cause COVID-19," Walensky told reporters over a call. "Information on the delta variant from
several states and other countries indicate that in rare occasions, some vaccinated people
infected with the delta variant after vaccination may be contagious and spread the virus to
others."
"... If there's any demographic that isn't at risk, it's children. Children were never an issue when it came to COVID. Their caseload was never the majority, the plurality, or even a fraction that you could call 'significant.' ..."
"... If they do contract COVID, it's usually not a bad case. A child's survival rate is a whopping 99.995 percent when it comes to infection. They're virtually bulletproof. ..."
"... Since the start of the pandemic, only 335 kids under the age of 18 have died from COVID. Is one too many? Of course. It's tragic but hardly cause for a national panic. By this logic, we can no longer drive automobiles. Too much death. ..."
"... Schools have also never been a source of super spread. The schools in Irvine, California reopened in September of 2020. A report last March noted at the time, that of the 23,000 students in the Irvine School District, just 17 contracted COVID. How many of the 3,000 employees? Only three. And this was when the vaccine was not readily available. ..."
"... Should people still be careful? Sure, but this isn't a 'Apocalypse Now' mentality. ..."
They have nowhere to go. The liberal media and the experts see another avenue to lock us
down -- and they're going full bore. The Delta variant, which doesn't make you sicker nor is it
more lethal, is a problem for the unvaccinated. But we're not locking down again. No way.
There's a midterm election coming up, so no -- not even Joe Biden is going to back such a move.
It's the same reason why there will be no mandatory vaccination protocol. There's an election
coming up. If this were a national emergency, politics be damned -- everyone gets a shot,
right? They're readily available to everyone who can get them. That should be the mindset. It's
not. Why? Because obviously, it's not a do-or-die situation. If a mandatory vaccination mandate
is being kept in the desk until after an election, it's all politics. We've known this for
months.
And now, they're trying to gaslight us on children and COVID. Fellas, I have bad news. We've
been paying attention. If there's any demographic that isn't at risk, it's children.
Children were never an issue when it came to COVID. Their caseload was never the majority, the
plurality, or even a fraction that you could call 'significant.' This notion that children
are under threat is science fiction and it doesn't help that a hyper-partisan Surgeon General,
Vivek Murthy, who was not shy about wanting to declare gun violence a national health issue, is
peddling this fearmongering.
The science is clear. Children generally do not get it or spread it. If they do contract
COVID, it's usually not a bad case. A child's survival rate is a whopping 99.995 percent when
it comes to infection. They're virtually bulletproof.
Since the start of the pandemic, only 335 kids under the age of 18 have died from COVID.
Is one too many? Of course. It's tragic but hardly cause for a national panic. By this logic,
we can no longer drive automobiles. Too much death.
Schools have also never been a source of super spread. The schools in Irvine, California
reopened in September of 2020. A report last March noted at the time, that of the 23,000
students in the Irvine School District,
just 17 contracted COVID. How many of the 3,000 employees? Only three. And this was when
the vaccine was not readily available.
The vaccines right now are not available for kids under the age of 12. They're not at-risk.
They're not carriers. Should people still be careful? Sure, but this isn't a 'Apocalypse
Now' mentality. Also, the store-bought masks that people, like Fauci, are saying kids
under three should wear don't stop the spread of COVID. Fauci mentioned
that in his emails .
After the virus infects a person itdoes not care whther the person vaccinated or not. The
person spread virus like any other infected person, depending of course on the severity of
symptoms, which supposedly should be lighter n vaccinated people. Is this so difficult to
understand that for vitus any infected person is a lunchpad for infections, vaccinated or
unvaccinated... A lot of pseudoscience is typical for neoliberal MSM.
Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the Delta
variant of COVID-19 is equally contagious whether it's contracted by a vaccinated or
unvaccinated person.
A week after the crowds descended upon Provincetown, Massachusetts, to celebrate the Fourth
of July -- the holiday President Joe Biden hoped would mark the nation's liberation from
COVID-19 -- the manager of the Cape Cod beach town said he was aware of "a handful of positive
COVID cases among folks" who spent time there.
"We are in touch with the Health Department and Outer Cape Health Services and are closely
monitoring the data," Alex Morse told reporters.
The announcement wasn't unusual with roughly half of the country still unvaccinated and
flare-ups of the virus popping up in various states.
But within weeks, health officials seemed to be on to something much bigger. The outbreak
quickly grew to the hundreds and most of them appeared to be vaccinated.
As of Thursday, 882 people were tied to the Provincetown outbreak. Among those living in
Massachusetts, 74% of them were fully immunized, yet officials said the vast majority were also
reporting symptoms. Seven people were reported hospitalized.
The initial findings of the investigation led by the Massachusetts Department of Public
Health, in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, seemed to have huge
implications.
CDC Warns Vaccinated People Can Pass COVID to Others Even if you're vaccinated, you should
wear a mask in places of high transmissibility -- and you could give COVID to someone else.
These eyebrow-raising facts were revealed yesterday by the CDC.
In response, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky joined SiriusXM's Doctor Radio Reports and
opened up to show host Dr. Marc Siegel about the delta variant and evidence that it's something
that fully vaccinated people may pass along to others, and the idea of making COVID-19 vaccines
mandatory.
Their work is funded through a more than $300,000 contract with the city. The Missouri
Department of Health and Senior Services with the University of Missouri is assisting in
analyzing the data, through a
$2 million National Institutes of Health grant .
The team began testing rat feces for the coronavirus to see whether that was the source of
the new spike protein mutations -- but nothing matched their initial finding.
They then surveyed the sewage, using a process called "deep sequencing," for animal DNA.
They found evidence of various mammals, such as cows, pigs and sheep, which likely came from
human food consumption, along with evidence of dogs, cats and rats.
But most of the mutations were found over three different wastewater plants spanning months.
That meant the "animal reservoir" would have to be living in or near the sewershed; largely
constrained to their geographic location; and in big enough numbers to sustain an epidemic for
six months.
The most likely culprits: rats and dogs.
"These novel lineages could be relevant to public health and necessitate further study," the
researchers wrote in the study.
As for the mutations themselves, their origin remains an open question.
The researchers hypothesize that since not all COVID-19 cases were diagnosed and not all
positive samples were sequenced, the "cryptic lineages" could come from "asymptomatic,
vaccinated, immunosuppressed, pediatric, or chronically infected patients who are not being
sampled in clinical settings."
COVID-19 could also linger in different areas of the body, such as the gut, long after it's
been cleared in other areas, like the respiratory tract -- potentially explaining the presence
in wastewater.
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Signs of More Rats
If the new spike protein mutations the researchers discovered points to an outbreak of
coronavirus among city rats, they would not be the first animal to contract the virus.
There have been reports of dogs, cats and even a New York City tiger catching the virus,
according to the CDC .
A
study published Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service found that white-tailed deer populations in New York, Michigan, Illinois and
Pennsylvania had coronavirus antibodies, meaning they had previously contracted the virus,
although they did not show signs of an active infection.
In November,
Denmark culled 17 million minks after the virus jumped from a human handler to the minks,
then back to humans. In Michigan, a taxidermist became infected with coronavirus and, after his
test results were sent to a lab, it was determined that there was a mutation in his sample that
came from an infected mink.
The authors of this study reported that the WT strain of SARS-CoV-2 was best neutralized by
Natural Infection 2020 when compared to CoronaVac and Natural Infection 2021 sera. However, the
Alpha variant was best neutralized by Natural Infection 2021 sera, when compared to CoronaVac
and Natural Infection 2020 sera.
In the case of the Beta variant, this form of SARS-CoV-2 was best neutralized by Natural
Infection 2020 and 2021 sera with higher NAb titer levels. Although the Delta variant was
neutralized well by Natural Infection 2020 and 2021 sera, levels of NAb titers were much lower
when compared with the Alpha and Beta variants.
In summary, the results of the current study indicate that NAb titers elicited by CoronaVac
are much lower when compared to natural infection.
If a vaccinated person experiences any symptoms of COVID-19 listed by the CDC, the public
health agency recommends getting tested and isolating from others until a result is received.
If the test is positive, an infected vaccinated person should isolate at home for 10 days.
According to the CDC's guidelines
for the fully vaccinated, those infected with the delta variant can spread it to
others.
The existence of breakthrough cases doesn't mean that vaccines aren't doing their job,
experts say. In fact, merely coming down with a mild infection rather than a severe one is
often evidence that the vaccine is doing its job in helping your immune system fight the virus.
Since the existing vaccines were developed to combat the alpha variant of SARS-CoV-2, it makes
sense that they're not as effective in combating the delta variant, whose mutations have shown
to some extent to evade the immune response from the vaccines. Yet all the COVID-19 vaccines
are mostly able to stop the infection worsening.
"In a vaccinated person, what will happen is that we already have cells that very
specifically recognize an infected cell, and can aggressively target that infection so that the
virus can no longer replicate," said Dr. Nicole Baumgarth, a professor of Immunology and
Infectious Diseases at University of California–Davis. "Even if we cannot stop the
infection from happening, [the vaccine] stops it very early in its tracks; the less virus
replication you have, the less symptoms you will have, the less disease and it gets easier for
the immune system to mop up the little bit of virus."
Signs of infection, like a fever, develop when the immune system has been activated to fight
it.
"Some of the signs of disease are actually signs that the immune system has been activated,"
Baumgarth said. "That's one response to the body to fight the viruses, to increase the
temperature."
Baumgarth said it is in fact accurate to think of a breakthrough infection as a "booster
shot." However, Baumgarth would not advocate for people to purposely expose themselves to the
virus. Yet a mild breakthrough case does build one's immunity against the virus.
Of course, given the possibility of spreading the virus further, it is best not to get
infected at all.
Last week, Israel's health ministry
released preliminary data suggesting that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine's ability to
protect against a mild coronavirus infection may have decreased precipitously, even though it
remains effective against severe illness and death from COVID-19. The reason for the decrease
in the vaccine's effectiveness may be both because of transient immunity and the virulent
delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, which is more adept at overcoming the vaccine's defenses.
The delta variant is now the dominant strain of SARS-CoV-2 in Israel, where researchers now
estimate that the two-shot Pfizer vaccine is only 39% effective in preventing an infection
within the country. That is about half as effective as the vaccine was two weeks ago, when it
purportedly exhibited
64% effectiveness against coronavirus infection in Israel -- though at that point in time,
the delta variant was less widespread. Upon its public release in late 2020, Pfizer-BioNTech's
mRNA
vaccine was reported to have an efficacy of 95%.
On a positive note, research data shows that the Pfizer vaccine is still effective at
preventing serious illness; at least 88 percent effective in protecting against
hospitalization; and 91 percent effective at preventing severe illness.
The key issue problem is whether Delta can successfully spread in fully vaccinated
population? If the answer is yes, then the current policy is stupid. Another important question
is whether the current generation of vaccines provides any real benefits for people younger then
30?
In short, the article like this looks like another attempt to change the narrative as it
demonstrates abandonment of the previous idea of herd immunity. Suddenly, because of
proliferation of breakthrough infections, it is not longer a goal.
Post-vaccination infections, or breakthroughs,
might occasionally turn symptomatic , but they
aren't shameful or aberrant . They also aren't proof that the shots are failing .
These cases are, on average, gentler and less symptomatic;
faster-resolving, with less virus lingering -- and, it appears, less likely to pass the
pathogen on. The immunity offered by vaccines works in iterations and gradations, not
absolutes. It does not make a person completely impervious to infection. It also does not
evaporate when a few microbes breach a body's barriers. A breakthrough, despite what it might
seem, does not cause our defenses to crumble or even break ; it does not erase the
protection that's already been built. Rather than setting up fragile and penetrable shields,
vaccines reinforce the defenses we already have , so that we can encounter the virus
safely and potentially build further upon that protection.
To understand the anatomy of a breakthrough case, it's helpful to think of the human body as
a castle. Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunologist at the University of Arizona, compares
immunization to reinforcing such a stronghold against assault.
Without vaccination, the castle's defenders have no idea an attack is coming. They might
have stationed a few aggressive guard dogs outside, but these mutts aren't terribly discerning:
They're the system's innate defenders , fast-acting and brutal, but short-lived and woefully imprecise.
They'll sink their teeth into anything they don't recognize, and are easily duped by stealthier
invaders. If only quarrelsome canines stand between the virus and the castle's treasures,
that's a pretty flimsy first line of defense. But it's essentially the situation that many
uninoculated people are in. Other fighters, who operate with more precision and punch -- the
body's adaptive
cells -- will eventually be roused. Without prior warning, though, they'll come out in full
force only after a weeks - long delay , by which time the virus
may have run roughshod over everything it can. At that point, the fight may, quite literally,
be at a fever pitch, fueling worsening symptoms.
Post-vaccination infections, or breakthroughs,
might occasionally turn symptomatic , but they
aren't shameful or aberrant . They also aren't proof that the shots are failing .
These cases are, on average, gentler and less symptomatic;
faster-resolving, with less virus lingering -- and, it appears, less likely to pass the
pathogen on. The immunity offered by vaccines works in iterations and gradations, not
absolutes. It does not make a person completely impervious to infection. It also does not
evaporate when a few microbes breach a body's barriers. A breakthrough, despite what it might
seem, does not cause our defenses to crumble or even break ; it does not erase the
protection that's already been built. Rather than setting up fragile and penetrable shields,
vaccines reinforce the defenses we already have , so that we can encounter the virus
safely and potentially build further upon that protection.
To understand the anatomy of a breakthrough case, it's helpful to think of the human body as
a castle. Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunologist at the University of Arizona, compares
immunization to reinforcing such a stronghold against assault.
Without vaccination, the castle's defenders have no idea an attack is coming. They might
have stationed a few aggressive guard dogs outside, but these mutts aren't terribly discerning:
They're the system's innate defenders , fast-acting and brutal, but short-lived and woefully imprecise.
They'll sink their teeth into anything they don't recognize, and are easily duped by stealthier
invaders. If only quarrelsome canines stand between the virus and the castle's treasures,
that's a pretty flimsy first line of defense. But it's essentially the situation that many
uninoculated people are in. Other fighters, who operate with more precision and punch -- the
body's adaptive
cells -- will eventually be roused. Without prior warning, though, they'll come out in full
force only after a weeks - long delay , by which time the virus
may have run roughshod over everything it can. At that point, the fight may, quite literally,
be at a fever pitch, fueling worsening symptoms.
... ... ...
The choice isn't about getting vaccinated or getting infected. It's about
bolstering our defenses so that we are ready to fight an infection from the best position
possible -- with our defensive wits about us, and well-armored bodies in tow.
Out of unvaccinated Americans surveyed in a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for
Public Affairs Research, 64 percent believe the vaccines are ineffective against variants.
U.S. health officials say the Delta variant has caused 83 percent of new cases in the
country, the AP reported. In comparison to those not confident in the vaccine's protection, 86
percent of vaccinated Americans have some belief in the vaccine's effectiveness in the face of
variants. Out of the unvaccinated Americans surveyed in the poll, 35 percent said they will
probably not get the shots while 45 percent were sure that they never will.
"We always knew some proportion of the population would be difficult to persuade no matter
what the data showed, (and) a lot of people are beyond persuasion," said infectious disease
specialist Dr. Amesh Adalja who works at Johns Hopkins University.
Only 3 percent said they definitely plan to get vaccinated and 16 percent said they probably
will get their doses.
There is clear and mounting evidence that – though rare – breakthrough COVID-19
infections can occur, even in the fully vaccinated. This is particularly true with emerging
variants of concern.
The CDC has been following these data closely. By mid-July 2021, nearly 60% of the U.S.
population age 18 or older had been fully vaccinated. Infections in those who are fully
vaccinated are rare, and serious outcomes from COVID-19 in that population are even rarer
– though they do still occur. However, the CDC stopped tracking nonhospitalized cases of
COVID-19 for people with and without symptoms among fully vaccinated individuals on May 1,
2021.
The risk of infection leading to serious illness and death, however, differs starkly between
vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
... ... ...
One recent preliminary report from Israel is sobering, however. Before the delta variant
became widespread, from January to April 2021 , Israel reported
that the Pfizer vaccine was 97% effective in preventing symptomatic disease. However,
since June 6 ,
with the delta variant circulating more widely, the Pfizer vaccine has been 64% effective in
preventing symptomatic disease, according to preliminary data reported by Israel's Ministry of
Health in early July.
And in another new
report that is not yet peer-reviewed , researchers compared blood serum antibodies from
people vaccinated with Pfizer Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines and found that the
J&J vaccine lent much lower
protection against delta, beta and other variants, compared with the mRNA-based
vaccines.
Despite the power of Covid-19 vaccines in cutting the risk of hospitalization and death from
the disease,
fully vaccinated people can get very sick and die from the virus in rare cases. Those
individuals tend to be older than 65 or have weakened immune systems or other severe medical
conditions, an NBC News survey of health officials nationwide found.
"Throughout the pandemic, people who died of Covid-19 were most likely to be older, and that
continues to be true with breakthrough cases," a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department
of Public Health said in an email.
In Oregon, about 10 percent of the breakthrough infections reported to the state were in
people living in nursing homes or congregate care facilities, and the majority of deaths were
older people.
Shira Doron on All Things Considered | July 19, 2021
COVID-19 cases are trending upwards across the country. In Massachusetts, where vaccination rates are relatively high, cases
are still on the rise" and a cluster in Provincetown among mostly vaccinated individuals caused the town to issue a new mask advisory
Monday. Tufts Medical Center epidemiologist Dr. Shira Doron spoke with Arun Rath on GBH's All Things Considered about where
thing stand in the Commonweath and the nation.
Arun Rath: It probably makes sense to start with today's news out of Provincetown. The town is putting its indoor mask
advisory back in place after more than 100 new COVID cases popped up after the July Fourth holiday. What do you make of that uptick
and the response?
Shira Doron: Well, the outbreak is unexpected. It's not what we've been seeing. There's quite a bit of transmission there
reported between vaccinated individuals. And really, what we've seen so far, has been that, certainly, breakthrough cases occur in
vaccinated individuals" usually they have mild symptoms, which we do believe to be the case here" but usually they don't transmit
to others, so the fact that there are so many cases" 132 reported" that a good proportion of them are vaccinated and that it appears
that there was transmission among them is unusual. And so it makes sense for health authorities there to take some swift and rather
aggressive action, at least for the moment, to try to control the outbreak, and then continue to study what might have happened there,
because there's still so much we don't know.
Rath: Interesting. So that uptick of 100 cases is as unusual as it sounds, that's sort of why the response is what it is.
Doron: Yes, we really haven't seen anything quite like this yet.
Rath: Are you concerned that we will start to see other incidents like this?
Doron: I hope not. I hope that this was, you know, an anomaly that was probably related to the fact that the delta variant
is so very contagious that some people who harbor it have very, very high viral loads in the respiratory tract. The fact that it
was a holiday weekend, very crowded bars and nightclubs, some rain that drove people inside more than usual, and that perhaps all
of those things came together this one time to cause this outbreak...
During a WABC 770 AM radio interview with New York businessman
John Catsimatidis, Paul, a trained ophthalmologist, said that he made his decision based on the
fact that he
already contracted COVID-19 in March 2020.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that individuals
who previously had COVID-19 should still get vaccinated because there is no timetable for
natural immunity.
Paul said that until he feels assured that immunity through vaccination is more effective
than natural immunity, he will skip taking any shots.
"Until they show me evidence that people who have already had the infection are dying in
large numbers, or being hospitalized or getting very sick, I just made my own personal decision
that I'm not getting vaccinated because I've already had the disease and I have natural
immunity," Paul emphasized.
In the interview, Paul said that people who had contracted COVID-19 and recovered did not
need to wear masks.
"We have 11 million people in our country who've already had COVID," he said
on Fox News at the time. "We should tell them to celebrate. We should tell them to throw
away their masks, go to restaurants, live again, because these people are now immune."
Paul told WABC 770 that taking the COVID-19 vaccine is a personal decision and should not be
compulsory.
"In a free country you would think people would honor the idea that each individual would
get to make the medical decision, that it wouldn't be a big brother coming to tell me what I
have to do," he said. "Are they also going to tell me I can't have a cheeseburger for lunch?
Are they going to tell me that I have to eat carrots only and cut my calories?"
He added: "All that would probably be good for me, but I don't think big brother ought to
tell me to do it."
According
to the CDC , 61.1 percent of adults have received at least one vaccination shot and 49.2
percent of the adult population is now fully vaccinated.
Klobuchar's bill would carve out an exception to Section 230, the 1996 law that protects
internet platforms from liability for content that users post, for health misinformation
proliferating during public health emergencies -- like the misinformation that has been running
rampant about vaccines for Covid-19.
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"We need a long term solution" that goes beyond removing accounts spreading falsehoods about
the crisis, Klobuchar said. "This legislation will hold online platforms accountable."
Why it matters: Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been pushing to amend or
revoke the Section 230 statute -- often for opposite
reasons . Many congressional Democrats argue that social media platforms have leaned on
Section 230 legal protections to flout responsibility for false and potentially dangerous
content on their sites, like the medical misinformation that has undermined the uptake of
Covid-19 vaccines.
The Biden administration is struggling
to fight vaccination misinformation , a problem that has contributed to vaccine hesitancy
and a plateau in inoculation rates at a time when the Delta variant is sweeping the country and
the U.S. appears to be backsliding on recovery.
Klobuchar's Health Misinformation Act of 2021, co-sponsored by Sen. Ben Ray Luján
(D-N.M.), is one attempt to address that, and it would extend beyond just the current crisis.
Under the measure, tech platforms would be on the hook for propagating false or misleading
health content during any public health emergency that has been declared as such by the
secretary of Health and Human Services. The secretary, with input from experts and the leaders
of other federal agencies, would be tasked with defining what qualifies as health
misinformation.
What's missing: Republican support. Political polarization around vaccinations
is
intensifying as some Republican lawmakers and conservative activists attack
the vaccines and the administration's strategy for deploying it. In this climate, without
Republican buy-in, Klobuchar's bill faces an uphill battle.
"Researchers estimate that 25 deaths in a population of some 12 million children in
England gives a broad, overall mortality rate of 2 per million children."
Despite the above-cited statistics, 56% of big-D
Democrats supported mandating vaccines for schoolchildren in a July 2021 poll.
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Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer announced on Thursday that 20
percent of new COVID-19 cases identified in Los Angeles County were in vaccinated
individuals.
..."The Delta variant is a game-changer," Ferrer said. With the Delta variant driving
community spread and positive case numbers up in LA County, the percentage of breakthrough
cases in fully-vaccinated people has gone up as well. The daily average case rate was 7.1 per
100,000 people on July 15 and shot up to 12.9 on Thursday.
... about 53 percent of LA County residents are fully vaccinated against coronavirus. About
58 percent of young people between the ages of 18 and 29 are fully vaccinated.
... Vaccinated people are still far more likely to be able to fight off the virus when
exposed. Vaccinated people are also much less likely to advance to serious illness or death,
with 90 percent of nationwide hospitalizations or fatalities occurring in unvaccinated
people.
...
new data shows people infected with the delta strain can carry up to 1,000 times more virus
in their nasal passages than those infected with the original strain.
"I think people are underestimating how bad this is going to get," said Dr. Ashish Jha. "We
are in for a very tough August, probably a very tough September before this really turns
around."
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
told reporters at a briefing Thursday that the delta variant "is one of the most infectious
respiratory viruses we know of, and that I have seen in my 20 year career."
Jha told CNBC's " The News with Shepard
Smith ," that the infection rate could be worse if it were winter, and predicted the delta
spike could peak within two months.
"It might peak in September, but we are far away from the peak, right now we are doing
40,000 cases a day, it's going to go substantially higher before it peaks," Jha said.
The delta variant has spread rapidly through the U.S., accounting for more than 83% of
sequenced cases in the U.S. right now, up from 50% the week of July 3, according to the
CDC.
At delta variant of Covid-19 spreads across many Western and
Southern U.S. states, its high transmission rate could increase them number of immune to the
virus people from about 50% to 85%" even if vaccination rates continue to plateau, Dr. Scott
Gottlieb, a former chief of the Food and Drug Administration, said.
Gottlieb noted that millions of Americans remain vulnerable and now
have a "choice in terms of how [they] acquire immunity."
Both vaccinated and those who have natural immunity still have
increased risk Gottlieb said, pointing to data showing immunity among individuals naturally
infected with Covid-19" and particularly those who are older" declines after about eight
months. It looks like the decline for vaccinated people is even faster and that's why there are
talks about booster shots
He predicted Covid will effectively act as a "second circulating flu
this winter," though he said its prominence "could be a little worse."
In Mexico, an estimated 84% of cases are delta infections, which may be a warning that this
variant may also be endemic in Latin America.
If the virus continues to mutate as fast as did in 2020 and 2021 herd immunity against this
virus might never be achieved.
CRUCIAL QUOTE
"I wouldn't be declaring mission accomplished. I think this is going to be a long fight,"
Gottlieb said Sunday. "You're seeing a decoupling between cases, hospitalizations and deaths
because there's so much immunity in the population""not just through vaccination""but also
through prior infection... But this is likely to become an endemic virus. We're going to have
to deal with it."
KEY BACKGROUND
Since the start of the pandemic, experts have long said Covid-19's threat would largely
wane once herd immunity is reached,
referring to a large-enough proportion of immunity that effectively makes
person-to-person transmission highly unlikely within a community. If the virus cominutes to
mutated in a ways it did in 202 and 2021 this might not happen all and herd immunity against
this virus might never be achived.
If we assume that 80% of population is vaccinated and 30-40% of vaccinated can be infected and spread the virus, that simply means
that like in case of flu and other coronaviruses herd immunity from COVID-19 will never be achieved as in one year the virus sufficiently
mutates to infect significant percentage of previously vaccinated people. The situation with mass vaccination of children looks pretty
absurd, if not criminal
The news is peppered with anecdotal evidence of breakthrough cases. The headlines are terrifying and the personal stories are
tragic:
Boston Globe : "79 fully vaccinated Massachusetts residents have died, 303 hospitalized in very rare COVID "˜breakthrough'
cases, officials say"
The Guardian : "COVID outbreak among vaccinated Vegas hospital workers underscores Delta risks"
NBC : "Illinois Coronavirus Updates: Breakthrough COVID Cases Are 2% of State's Deaths This Year"
So, why do breakthrough cases happen?
We shouldn't think of vaccine protection as binary (yes or no). It's better to think of protection on a spectrum: On one end the
vaccine will protect people in every situation and on the other end it doesn't protect people at all. And each of us land somewhere
in between.
There are many factors that determine where we land:
There's of course the variants. Depending which variant you come in contact with determines your level of protection. mRNA
vaccines' efficacy is now ~88% against Delta. If 100 people got COVID19, Pfizer/Moderna could have prevented 88 of them. 12 people
would have still gotten some form of the disease. On the other hand, if people came in contact with the original strain, 95 (out
of a 100) would have been prevented.
Some of us just don't have immune systems that can build protection. For example, it looks like
certain drugs for
immunocompromised patients reduce and/or prevent protection. Also, older adults are less protected.
Behaviors, too, can predict your place on this spectrum. If a vaccinated person is exposed to a large enough dose of a virus
OR exposed to enough unvaccinated people where transmission is high, the virus can overcome the vaccine and cause infection, even
among the sturdiest of immune defenses.
And then there's just luck. Even if you compare
twins , the level of protection
can differ. Some people will just create fewer or less strong defense mechanisms (antibodies, T cells, and/or memory B cells).
And we don't really know why.
Nonetheless, should the virus make it through, Dr. Ali Ellebody, an immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis,
said it best:
"It becomes a race [against] time. The pathogen rushes to copy itself, and the immune system recruits more defenders. The longer
the tussle drags on, the more likely the disease is to manifest."
It's important to monitor all breakthrough cases.
If we closely monitor them, we can answer some very critical questions like"¦
Are breakthrough cases happening at the rate in which we expect?
Who's most likely to break through?
What is the rate of a mild breakthrough case vs. severe breakthrough case?
Are variants, like Delta, causing more (or more severe) breakthrough cases than other variants?
A study was published describing breakthrough
cases between January 1-April 30. During this time among 101 million fully vaccinated Americans, 10,262 breakthrough infections were
reported to the CDC. Who were they?
63% female
Median age was 58 years (age range was 40""74 years)
10% were hospitalized
2% died. Median age of patients who died was 82 years (age range was 71""89 years)
Genomic sequence data were available for 5% of breakthrough cases
64% were identified as a Variant of Concern (this was before Delta emerged)
Beginning May 1, 2021, though, the CDC transitioned from monitoring all breakthrough infections to investigating only those among
patients who are hospitalized or die. The CDC doesn't have the infrastructure to rigorously investigate all breakthrough cases. They
needed to prioritize their operation, so they decided to focus on cases of highest clinical and public health significance.
The CDC continuously publishes the latest count on their
website . As of July
6, there were 5,186 severe breakthrough cases. This includes 988 deaths (although it's important to notice the footnote stating
that 255 of these were not directly related to COVID19).
... ... ...
From February 1 to June 21, 123,620 Delta cases were sequenced in the UK. Among those, 10,834 cases were among fully vaccinated
( i.e. breakthrough cases) and 71,932 cases among the unvaccinated. While this isn't all of the breakthrough cases, this gives
an even closer estimate to the "true" rate of breakthrough cases due to Delta. But even this is among patients who went to the hospital.
We still don't know the asymptomatic and/or mild breakthrough rate.
It really angers me that the CDC isn't tracking all breakthroughs even if they don't investigate everything, because we are
losing so much information, such as what's going on here.
There have been a couple of Delta breakthrough CLUSTERS in the news lately, so there may be fully vaxxed people who are superspreaders.
I don't think you can attribute these to individual immune system issues.
In this cluster, the sources had a vaccine with lower effectiveness, and they probably stood pretty close together, even though
outdoors. But the other folks had mRNA. All guests were required to be fully vaxxed.
Question: Many of the news reports about breakthrough cases show that groups of friends or couples who are all fully vaccinated
but spent time together somehow *all* ended up as breakthrough cases. With the 88% vaccine efficacy rate, how does that work? For
example, if a husband who is fully vaccinated is infected as a breakthrough case, shouldn't it be highly unprobable mathematically
that his fully vaccinated wife also then contracts it from him?
Thanks for this! Katelyn, you are a gem. As a retired fed health professional, I have kind of an embedded risk vs threat meter
after all those years of working. I am cringing at everyone going back to normal, like the pandemic is over. I over quote Yogi Berra
- it ain't over till it's over.
As a fully vaccinated person, I have continued to mask indoors as my kids are not vaccinated and I do not want to risk spreading
it to them. I am now getting nervous about outdoor interactions i.e school dropoffs, outdoor bday parties, etc. with potentially
unvaccinated individuals. The wedding and Vegas pool party stories have made me a bit nervous. Any thoughts?
I wish I could put an attachment here but in the same vein of all of this, my sister , who is a diehard anti vaxxer sent me a
snip of the Israel Health ministry case reporting from last week which breaks down cases of fully vaccinated and non vaccinated by
age group. The chart shows almost higher percentage of vaccinated individuals with cases and show small case load but overall high
percent . She is running with this information saying this proves that the vaccine makes you more suspepticle to covid and is causing
the current issues. Local, I know you have explained this data reporting misunderstanding before but can you explain again why the
data looks skewed in Israel ? Also check me on my chart
The finding comes as the United States has hit a plateau for COVID-19 vaccinations, even
as the more transmissible delta variant of the virus continues to circulate through the
country.
Per
Yahoo News , the poll result "contradicts all available science and data and underscores
the challenges that the United States will continue to face as it struggles to stop a growing
' pandemic
of the unvaccinated' driven by the hyper-contagious delta variant."
How do people feel about the COVID-19 vaccine?
According to
Yahoo News , the poll found 29% of unvaccinated Americans believe the virus poses a greater
risk than the vaccine. However, 37% feel the vaccine is riskier, while 34% remain unsure.
In total, 93% of unvaccinated people surveyed in the
Yahoo News poll said they would either never get the vaccine or they will wait to see
what happens to others before they do.
Why don't people want to get the vaccination?
The
Yahoo News poll also looked into why people aren't getting vaccinated. It found several
reasons among the survey participants, including:
There isn't easy access to a vaccination site (4%).
People can't get time off from work (3%).
Some already had COVID-19 (9%).
People aren't worried about getting COVID-19 (12%).
The finding comes as the United States has hit a plateau for COVID-19 vaccinations, even
as the more transmissible delta variant of the virus continues to circulate through the
country.
Per
Yahoo News , the poll result "contradicts all available science and data and underscores
the challenges that the United States will continue to face as it struggles to stop a growing
' pandemic
of the unvaccinated' driven by the hyper-contagious delta variant."
How do people feel about the COVID-19 vaccine?
According to
Yahoo News , the poll found 29% of unvaccinated Americans believe the virus poses a greater
risk than the vaccine. However, 37% feel the vaccine is riskier, while 34% remain unsure.
In total, 93% of unvaccinated people surveyed in the
Yahoo News poll said they would either never get the vaccine or they will wait to see
what happens to others before they do.
Why don't people want to get the vaccination?
The
Yahoo News poll also looked into why people aren't getting vaccinated. It found several
reasons among the survey participants, including:
There isn't easy access to a vaccination site (4%).
People can't get time off from work (3%).
Some already had COVID-19 (9%).
People aren't worried about getting COVID-19 (12%).
Others don't trust the COVID-19 vaccine (45%).
... "Like everything in life, this is an ongoing risk assessment," Dr. Inci Yildirim , a Yale
Medicine pediatric infectious diseases specialist and a vaccinologist, told Yale Medicine.
When Dr. Robert Malone who invented the mRNA and DNA vaccine core platform technology
has grave concerns about the lack of transparency of side effects, the censoring of
discussion and the lack of informed consent, one wonders why the conventional media refuses
to share this information and is cooking the data.
Attorney Files Lawsuit Against CDC Based on "Sworn Declaration" from Whistleblower
Claiming 45,000 Deaths Are Reported to VAERS – All Within 3 Days of COVID-19 Shots \
Global Research
Ohio-based Attorney Thomas Renz was one of several speakers this past weekend at a
conference in Anaheim, California, where he announced that with the help of America's Frontline
Doctors , he was filing a federal lawsuit in Alabama based on a "sworn declaration,
under threat of perjury," from an alleged whistleblower who claims to have inside knowledge
of a cover-up of reported deaths filed with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
(VAERS), which is operated by the CDC.
This whistleblower has allegedly claimed, under oath, that there are at least 45,000
reported deaths that have occurred within 3 days of receiving a COVID-19 "vaccine." Renz
states that this report of 45,000 deaths is just from "one system" that reports to
VAERS.
Renz also states that he believes Google, Facebook, and Twitter are "complicit with
causing death" due to their censorship, and he stated "I cannot wait to sue you, over and
over again."
...breakthrough infections among the vaccinated, which is another reason that there are
increasingly louder questions about whether immunity may be waning among some people who have
been vaccinated and
if boosters are needed to combat declining protection.
The booster debate has also been fueled by preliminary data out of Israel that indicates
BioNTech SE and Pfizer Inc.'s shot is
64% effective against delta -- a significant decline from the
95% efficacy rate reported in clinical trials.
"We have the same data as Israel," Sen. Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, said
during Tuesday's Senate HELP committee hearing. "Why aren't we making the same decisions?"
Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, later responded, saying:
"Right now we are doing studies to determine whether or not we will need boosters, to increase
the durability of protection. We don't want people to believe that when you're talking about
boosters that means that the vaccines are not effective. They are highly effective. We're
talking about the durability."
It's still unknown how long immunity to SARS-CoV-2 lasts, whether from a previous infection
or from vaccination. Pfizer recently said it believes immunity from its shot begins to wane
between six and 12 months after vaccination. Some countries, including Israel, Canada and the
U.K., are providing or considering booster shots for certain high-risk patient groups.
Fauci said that the CDC is currently tracking 20 groups of people who have been vaccinated
to better understand whether there is or will be a need for boosters. This includes thousands
of healthcare workers and people from long-term-care facilities and nursing homes.
"We're anticipating that this will wane and not plummet," CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky
said during the hearing. "As we see that waning, that will be our time for action."
Johnson and Johnson vaccine was ineffective against South African mutation. So why Delta, and
especially Delta Plus variant which has the same mutation as South African variant (Beta in new
classification). Thus like South African variant is has further advantages in infected already
vaccinated people
Delta plus variant of SARS-CoV-2- What do we know so far
The Delta
variant of the COVID-19 virus continues to spread. It now
constitutes 83% of the COVID cases in the U.S.
And now, as CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez reported Wednesday, a preliminary study not yet peer
reviewed suggests that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine may
not be as effective against the Delta variant as the other two authorized vaccines.
... The J&J vaccine has been given to more than 13 million people
Those conclusions differ from smaller clinical results released by J&J earlier this
month that said a single dose of their vaccine did protect against Delta, even eight months
after inoculation.
Those differences could be because the new study looked at antibodies in the lab compared to
real world immunity in people, which would include T-cell immunity. Peer review would help
determine that contribution to protection.
To come to this conclusion, scientists from the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic
Immunology and Infectious Disease looked at more than 100 health workers at three centres
across India. Titled "Sars-Cov-2 B.1.617.2
Delta Variant Emergence and Vaccine Breakthrough: Collaborative Study". One of the centres
was Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) in Delhi. It is yet to be peer reviewed.
Researchers of this study found that the Delta variant, which emerged in India, dominates
vaccine-breakthrough infections with higher respiratory viral loads compared to non-Delta
infections.
They also saw that this variant generates greater transmission among the fully vaccinated
healthcare workers. Moreover, the study found that, in vitro, the Delta variant is around
eight-fold less sensitive to vaccine-elicited antibodies compared to the original
virus.
Hence, they came to the conclusion that Delta variant is both more transmissible and
better able to evade the immunity a patient gets from previous infection as compared to
previously circulating coronaviruses.
Mandatory vaccination with experimental vaccines is abhorrent and it should have us all
worried.
Unfortunately majorities in many countries have accepted this in the name of protecting
public health.
This is a very tragic situation and should be given our full attention.
And no, no one should be blackmailed to have these vaccines because they work in a
hospital, or a care home. They have the right to refuse at least as long as these vaccines
are in the experimental phase.
In Greece they are already preparing laws to make vaccination mandatory for doctors,
health workers, teachers and firefighters.
60% of people being admitted to the hospital with Covid-19 in England are fully vaccinated,
Sky News
reported .
According to Sir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific advisor, Covid patients
have received two doses of the Covid vaccine.
"In terms of the number of people in hospital who've been double-vaccinated, we know it's
around 60% of the people being admitted to hospital with COVID," Vallance said.
"We do expect there to be over 1,000 people per day being hospitalized with coronavirus
because of the increase in infections," he added. "But the rates should be lower than they have
been previously because of the protective effects of vaccination."
Update: Now Sir Patrick Vallance is claiming he misspoke during Monday's presser!
"Correcting a statistic I gave at the press conference today, 19 July. About 60% of
hospitalisations from covid are not from double vaccinated people, rather 60% of
hospitalisations from covid are currently from unvaccinated people." Vallance said in a
tweet.
The author totally missed the key point: What are the benefits of mass vaccination campaign
if we can never achieve this mysterious herd immunity. Looks like herd immunity is impossible
with coronaviruses and the virus will become endemic. The first generation of experimental
vaccines proved to be less affective against Delta and probably will be even less effective
against future mutations and as the time from vaccination increases. also using experimental
maccines on the whole US population is not that different from Tesla testing thier limited
self-driveing on the the USA roads. The only difference is there are more victims in vaccines
case.
While Harris rhetoric during campaign was reprehensible, Trump did rushed experimental
vaccines' and this was a very questionable move as the idea of achieving herd immunity now with
Delta variant looks like a fiasco. If we can't achieve herd immunity, why not limit vaccination
to most vulnerable for which risk from vaccination are negligible in comparison with benefits. As
well as inhabitants on big metropolises like NYC, where you use public transport and this
experience additional risks and people over 50 who during their business day are forced to
communicate with a lot of strangers.
Harris had stated that any such effort pushed by then-President Trump was
untrustworthy . This was consistent with the Biden campaign theme that the Trump
administration had been incompetent in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic - a position that
morphed, when President Biden took office, into a claim that the Trump team hadn't even had a
workable plan on vaccine distribution (a claim so patently false that even Anthony Fauci,
director of the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, denied it).
The vice presidential candidates' debate was Harris's highest-profile appearance of the
campaign. She took the opportunity to explain that she would not get a vaccine pushed by Trump.
That is what got the habitually placid Pence's dander up. He turned to Harris and memorably
admonished , "Stop playing politics with people's lives."
This is a vignette worth keeping in the front of our minds as Biden cynically exploits his
bully pulpit against Facebook. The president and his administration are endeavoring to shift
blame to the social media giant for the predictable effects of their own demagoguery.
The propagandist-in-chief inveighed against Facebook on Friday for " killing
people " by spreading misinformation about the efficacy and potentially damaging side
effects of the vaccines. The claim is nearly as shameful as Biden's recent
portrayal of state election-procedure reforms (e.g., curbs on drive-thru voting) as the
reestablishment of Jim Crow and a threat to democracy on a par with "the Civil War."
Biden's attack on Facebook is reprehensible. Though he won't be called on it by the
Democratic media complex, these are outrageous lies comparable to what the president accuses
his predecessor of routinely spewing.
The administration is upset because, after his campaign discredited the vaccine effort,
Biden over-promised what he could deliver once he took charge of it. He claimed that by
Independence Day 70 percent of adult Americans would have received at least one dose of a
vaccine. In fact, the Mayo Clinic put the July
4 count at about 55 percent. (It has inched up to 56 percent in the two weeks since, and just
under half the eligible population has been fully vaccinated.)
Patently, this is not Facebook's fault. Facebook is a social media platform with
billions of users . As a matter of human inevitability, there will be some misinformation
on it. That is the nature of speech in a large, pluralistic, free society. It is to be expected
of a free-communications medium that is nudged by law to be minimalist in regulating the
exchange of information and to avoid content discrimination.
Even so, Facebook has been tireless in informing users about where and when vaccines are
available, and in disseminating exhortations that Americans avail themselves of them. It also
contends that 85 percent of U.S. Facebook users have been or want to be vaccinated.
There is abundant reason to be skeptical about that claim - really, how would Facebook know?
At the same time, it would not be surprising at all if Facebook, as a user community, does in
fact have a higher vaccination rate than the nation as a whole on Biden's watch. After all,
none of Facebook's principals cavalierly undermined the government's vaccine effort for what
they perceived to be a fleeting political advantage. It was Biden officials who did that.
... ... ...
Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute , a contributing editor at
National Review and a Fox News contributor. His latest book is "
Ball of Collusion ." Follow him on Twitter @AndrewCMcCarthy
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No, it's people wising up.
You can still get Covid-flu with the vaccine.
You can still spread the Covid-flu with the vaccine.
You still have to wear a mask if you have the vaccine.
There have been many documented injuries after accepting the vaccine.
There is a 99% chance you'll recover if you're not obese, and not diabetic.
So, what's the advantage to an unproven, unguaranteed non-vaccine? None. So.... Why?
It's not Facebook, or Biden. It's people, finally wising up.
Daniel Kotzin @danielkotzin · May 28 The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that
children in diapers wear masks until they are fully vaccinated. Coincidentally, Yvonne
Maldonado is the Chair of the AAP's Committee on Infectious Diseases AND she runs the trial of
the Pfizer vaccine on 2 to 5-year-olds.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that
children in diapers wear masks until they are fully vaccinated. Coincidentally, Yvonne
Maldonado is the Chair of the AAP's Committee on Infectious Diseases AND she runs the trial of
the Pfizer vaccine on 2 to 5-year-olds.
"This is a dramatic increase, up from 50% [in] the week of 4 July," Rochelle Walensky,
director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said in Senate testimony.
Walensky also said Covid fatalities had risen by nearly 48% over the past week to an average
of 239 a day.
"Each death is tragic and even more heartbreaking when we know that the majority of these
deaths could be prevented with a simple, safe available vaccine," she said.
A cluster of midwestern and southern states have emerged as the new hotspots for
Covid-19.
Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis is inflammation of the
outer lining of the heart. In both cases, the body's immune system causes inflammation in
response to an infection or some other trigger.
There have been more than 1,200 such cases in people who received the Pfizer or Moderna
COVID-19 vaccine, according to the CDC. According to the CDC presentation, men under 30 make up
the bulk of the cases and most cases appear to be mild (79% fully recovered)
The agency said cases in individuals who received two doses were doubled compared to cases in
individuals who only received one dose of the mNRA vaccines
More than 177 million people have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the
United States, and CDC continues to monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines for any health
problems that happen after vaccination.
Since April 2021, there have been more than a thousand reports to the Vaccine Adverse
Event Reporting System (VAERS) of cases of inflammation of the heart -- called myocarditis
and pericarditis -- happening after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (i.e., Pfizer-BioNTech,
Moderna) in the United States.
These reports are rare, given the hundreds of millions of vaccine doses administered, and
have been reported after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, particularly in adolescents and young
adults. View the
latest information .
CDC and its partners are actively monitoring these reports, by reviewing data and medical
records, to learn more about what happened and to understand any relationship to COVID-19
vaccination.
Most patients who received care responded well to treatment and rest and quickly felt
better.
Confirmed cases have occurred:
Mostly in male adolescents and young adults age 16 years or older
More often after getting the second dose than after the first dose of one of these
two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
Typically within several days after COVID-19 vaccination
... ... ...
What Myocarditis/Pericarditis Symptoms Should I Be on the Lookout for
after mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination?
Be on the lookout for any of the following symptoms:
Chest pain
Shortness of breath
Feelings of having a fast-beating, fluttering, or pounding heart
Seek medical care if you think you or your child have any of these symptoms within a week
after COVID-19 vaccination.
60% of people being admitted to the hospital with Covid-19 in England are fully vaccinated,
Sky News
reported .
According to Sir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific advisor, Covid patients
have received two doses of the Covid vaccine.
"In terms of the number of people in hospital who've been double-vaccinated, we know it's
around 60% of the people being admitted to hospital with COVID," Vallance said.
"We do expect there to be over 1,000 people per day being hospitalized with coronavirus
because of the increase in infections," he added. "But the rates should be lower than they have
been previously because of the protective effects of vaccination."
Update: Now Sir Patrick Vallance is claiming he misspoke during Monday's presser!
"Correcting a statistic I gave at the press conference today, 19 July. About 60% of
hospitalisations from covid are not from double vaccinated people, rather 60% of
hospitalisations from covid are currently from unvaccinated people." Vallance said in a
tweet.
"Masks have value, unquestionably. But masks are not going at the root of the problem
– vaccination is. So, we do not intend a mask mandate. We do intend to double down on
vaccinations. We'll be speaking about it through the week and beyond, new approaches to
vaccination. This is where we make the difference," de Blasio said.
So far, the mayor says 4.8 million New Yorkers have received at least one dose of the
vaccine. The mayor says 4.5 million are full vaccinated.
As the Delta variant of COVID-19 makes its way across the globe, a new report from Israeli
website Ynet has some good news
about the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine -- and some bad.
First, the good news: Data from the Israel Health Ministry find the vaccine holds up well
against the variant when it comes to hospitalizations and serious illness, with an efficacy
rate of 93 percent according to data from June 6 to July 3, when the Delta variant really began
to take hold, Bloomberg reports . That's down from 98.2 percent compared to the variants that came
before, but still very good.
The bad news is the data appear to indicate a significant drop in efficacy when it comes to
the Pfizer vaccine preventing infection overall. Between May 2 and June 5, the vaccine had a
94.3 percent efficacy rate at preventing infection, Bloomberg explains. That rate dropped to 64 percent in the month that
followed.
If the data are correct, it means that even if you're fully vaccinated, you could still
catch and show symptoms of COVID-19. That's always been the case, but the Delta variant makes
it more likely. But the immunization still significantly reduces your chances of landing in the
hospital.
Vaccinated people who have experienced Covid-19 symptoms in the past 10 days, however,
should get tested and isolate themselves from others for 10 days if their test is positive, the
CDC has recommended.
Look like Delta variant is less toxic then previous and led to fewer deaths and
hospitalization, as often happen with later mutations of the virus.
The key here is the rate of infection of already vaccinated, not the fact that
hospitalizations and death stats decoupled from new cases stats. If the significant percentage of
vaccinated can be infected by Delta (say, over 20%) that could well be the last nail into the
coffin of "herd immunity" delusion promoted by Fauci and other high level medical bureaucrats.
There were never herd immunity from coronaviruses as they mutate too quickly to achieve it. That
does not means that vaccination is useless, especially for those who live in big cities and use
public transportation or need to meet customers during each working way. But that makes the idea
of "total vaccination" effort including children over 12 as useless as quarantine efforts before
widespread riots.
Two weeks ago, when markets were merrily melting up without a worry in the world, and
certainly were not paying attention to the recent spike in Delta cases, we showed that unlike
in 2020 when covid hospitalizations and deaths promptly followed - with a slight lag - any move
higher in new covid cases, now that vast swaths of the population have been vaccinated, there
has been a clear decoupling between new cases on one hand, and hospitalizations and fatalities
on the other
... Yet while infections may indeed be rising, Fauci purposefully refused to address the
real elephant in the room: is there a concurrent surge in hospitalizations and/or deaths: after
all, it those that matter - especially if the Delta variant results in a much weaker form of
covid as many have speculated - and not the cases outright.
...
Where we do agree with Kolanovic, however, is where he repeats what we said two weeks ago
with the chart shown at the top of this post, namely that the "Delta variant is a key risk to
the call, but encouragingly the link between the case count and hospitalizations/deaths in the
UK and other countries has weakened meaningfully (Figure 1)." In short cases and
hospitalizations have decoupled... just as we showed they have even if the government's
propaganda spin masters refuse to acknowledge.
As the Delta variant takes hold, some of the first COVID-19 cases among the vaccinated
population are being detected. According to the states data, 74 vaccinated California's have
died, however, the report states it is unknown if the primary cause of death in these cases was
COVID-19 or if there were other alternate causes.
... At Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital one of seven COVID patients was vaccinated.
According to the latest
state data, 20.4 million fully vaccinated individuals, 10,430 post-vaccination cases
(0.051%) have been identified.
Bob Wachter @Bob_Wachter If
you're wondering how bad Delta really is, even in highly vaccinated SF (76% of >age 12 fully
vaxxed) & still w/ a lot of masking (most folks in stores), we're seeing a pretty steep
Covid uptick. Daily cases up 4-fold (10->42; Fig L), hospital pts doubled (9->19;
R)(Thread 1/4) 3:41 PM · Jul 15,
2021 · Twitter Web App 2,064
Retweets 285 Quote Tweets 3,874 LikesBob Wachter @Bob_Wachter · Jul 15 Replying to
@Bob_Wachter Uptick mirrored
@ucsfhospitals : Covid
inpatients (we were at ~3 pts two-wks ago) now 13 (Fig L). Overall test positivity rate was
well below 1%; it's now up to 2.6% (Fig R). Even more worrisome, test positivity rate in
asymptomatic pts was ~0.15%, now up 6-fold to 0.9%. (2/4) 14 93 362 Bob Wachter @Bob_Wachter · Jul 15 I don't have
vaccinated/unvaxxed breakdown for SF & UCSF – I assume most severe cases are in
unvaxxed. But even for vaxxed, w/ more Covid in air expect more breakthru cases. As for me, I'm
back to double-mask in stores. Still indoor dining but might abort if trends continue.(3/4) 88
197 719 Bob Wachter @Bob_Wachter
· Jul 15 The SF # s are still
fairly low, & are cause for caution, not panic. But this kind of uptick in SF (U.S.'s
vaccination leader) shows that Delta is very real – the places w/ much lower vax rates
may well get clobbered. Alas, doesn't seem like there are many persuadables left.(4/4) 67 185
854 Derek Reilly @DerekReilly19
· Jul 15 Replying to
@Bob_Wachter 42 and 19? Come on
Bob seriously. 1 1 8 kenlipartito
@kenlipartito · Jul 15 Really. It's not like
this thing grows exponentially, right? 3 26 Show replies geva kra oz @gevakraoz · Jul 15 Replying to @Bob_Wachter @Meir_Rubin Can't Working
@ArianneM12 · Jul 15 Replying to @Bob_Wachter Was waiting on the post 4th of
July consequences. Hopefully they all live 1 5 Stressedout @TMD666 · Jul 15 Replying to @Bob_Wachter Any advice for @CDCgov ? They missed the window of opportunity.
What can @CDCgov do in addition to
vaccine to bring delta under control? 6 6 Michaela Barnes @mabarnes9 · Jul 15 Replying to
@Bob_Wachter Montgomery County MD
where I live has 81.8% of 12yo and up fully vaccinated per CDC and we're also seeing big %
upticks from very low numbers. 6 10 75 Show replies 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗺
𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗿, 𝗠𝗗 @grahamwalker
· Jul 15 Replying to @Bob_Wachter Same Bob; anecdotally have
started seeing COVID again in the ED when previously hadn't seen any in months, thus far only
in unvaccinated patients. It's baaack, despite us being probably the most vaccinated large city
in the US.
In the last month or so, about 20-25% of the cases in Fayette County have been
breakthroughs. Health leaders say it was expected that vaccinated people could still catch the
virus, but the important thing is they are much less likely to get severely ill as a
result.
... "Some of that is likely because of the Delta variant, but also because people who are
vaccinated are likely not taking as many precautions as they did before," spokesperson Kevin
Hall said. "This could be compared to wearing your seatbelt. It does protect you, they still
don't go 120 miles an hour down the interstate. You need to still take precautions."
Hall said they've also seen a few cases where unvaccinated people bring the virus home and
infect vaccinated family members.
He said even though there isn't a mandate, those safety precautions, like wearing a mask
around crowds, are still encouraged.
Neoliberal MSM now are trying to swipe under the carpet the bankruptcy of the idea or achieving "herd immunity"
via mass vaccination campaign. Which was sent to its grave by Delta variant.
The fact that CDC does not track mild cases does not prevent estimate them from other statistics relying of percentage of
hospitalization cases to total cases and deaths to total cases. If we use death state for the USA (624746 death for 34994151
cases), then for 1063 death of vaccinated people we will have around 60K infected. Of we assume that death of vaccinated is
ten time less probable then for non vaccinated the number will 600K. As such cases are concentrated in a few big cities
they probably ensure the spread of the virus even in totally vaccinated population. Then the question arise: was the gain from
this mass campaign ? And high level medical bureaucrats already failed us with the lockdown and quarantine which did not have
any noticeable effect of epidemic and then made all sacrifices a joke by riots in major cities.
As CDC admits: "The findings in this report are subject to at
least two limitations. First, the number of reported COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases is likely a substantial undercount of all
SARS-CoV-2 infections among fully vaccinated persons. The national surveillance system relies on passive and voluntary reporting,
and data might not be complete or representative. Many persons with vaccine breakthrough infections, especially those who are
asymptomatic or who experience mild illness, might not seek testing. Second, SARS-CoV-2 sequence data are available for only a small
proportion of the reported cases."
Fauci and other high level medical bureaucrats, who put all eggs into vaccination basket made a very risky move. They knew
that there were no successful vaccine against coronaviruses, because they constantly mutated, and still put them whole country into
questionable path of "total immunization"
Notable quotes:
"... The COVID-19 vaccines are extremely effective, but a few vaccinated people have gotten sick. ..."
"... "Breakthrough" infections are typically mild and might be less contagious than other cases. ..."
"... Out of more than 157 million fully vaccinated Americans, only 733 people had died of COVID-19 as of July 6, according to CDC data . At least 3,554 people had been hospitalized and survived. The CDC is no longer tracking mild breakthrough cases. ..."
The COVID-19 vaccines are extremely effective, but a few vaccinated people have
gotten sick.
"Breakthrough" infections are typically mild and might be less contagious than other
cases.
... ... ...
The COVID-19 vaccines have been extremely successful at preventing serious illnesses that
could lead to hospitalizations and deaths. But no vaccine is 100% effective at preventing
infection, Dr. Lisa V. Adams, an associate dean for global health at Dartmouth College, told
Insider.
"We know there are and will be some breakthrough infections in individuals who are
vaccinated - at least until we get to a point where there is very little virus circulating,"
Adams said. "The good news is that their illness should be very mild."
The vaccines
are designed to prevent hospitalizations and deaths
In early July, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention,
said new data indicated that 99.5% of COVID-19 deaths in the US were in unvaccinated
people.
Out of more than 157 million fully vaccinated
Americans, only 733 people had died of COVID-19 as of July 6, according to CDC
data . At least 3,554 people had been hospitalized and survived. The CDC is no longer
tracking mild breakthrough cases.
About 75% of breakthrough infections occurred in people 65 and older. That included cases in
nursing homes ,
whose residents and staff members were among the first Americans to get vaccinated.
Paul Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia, told Insider that even with a smattering of breakthrough infections taken into
account, the vaccines had met the goal of protecting most people from severe illness.
"The goal of these vaccines is to keep you out of the hospital and keep you out of the ICU
and keep you from dying. If you have a mild infection where you're PCR positive and have
essentially an asymptomatic infection, that's fine," Offit said, referring to a type of
COVID-19 test.
'Breakthrough' cases might cause some symptoms, but they're usually mild
Emerging data suggests many breakthrough infections are so mild that they might as well be
asymptomatic.
A
recent analysis of breakthrough infections in the UK indicated that the top symptoms of
Delta-variant COVID-19 were a runny nose and a headache, largely because most people mingling
and exposed to the virus were younger or fully vaccinated.
As of Monday, there were 3,200 new COVID-19 cases in California, and now, medical doctors
are noticing some of the first numbers of COVID vaccine breakthrough cases.
...According to the states data, 74 vaccinated California's have died, however, the report
states it is unknown if the primary cause of death in these cases was COVID-19 or if there were
other alternate causes.
... According to the latest
state data, 20.4 million fully vaccinated individuals, 10,430 post-vaccination cases
(0.051%) have been identified.
That's one in almost 2,000 vaccinated Californians reporting a breakthrough case.
Recently, India has seen a significant rise in new COVID-19 cases predominantly caused by
the delta variant (B.1.617.2) of SARS-CoV-2. Similar to the alpha (B.1.1.7), beta (B.1.351),
and gamma (P.1) variants, the delta variant has gained beneficial mutations in the spike
protein , which make it more infectious and pathogenic than previously circulating
variants.
The delta variant belongs to the B.1.617 lineage that is currently circulating in more than
50 countries. Because of its significant threat to public health, the delta variant has been
designated as the Variant of Concern (VOC) by the World Health Organization.
Studies investigating vaccine efficacy against
emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants have indicated that the delta variant is partially resistant to
vaccine-induced antibodies. A study conducted in the UK has indicated that the Pfizer/BioNTech
COVID-19 vaccines is 88% effective in preventing symptomatic disease caused by the delta
variant.
In the current study, the scientists have described the transmission of delta variants among
family members who were attending a wedding ceremony with 92 guests. The wedding events were
held outside in a large open-air tent, and all guests were fully vaccinated.
Important
observations
The scientists identified a total of six individuals at the wedding ceremony who tested
positive for SARS-CoV-2 and were symptomatic. Of them, one developed severe COVID-19 requiring
monoclonal antibody infusion and one died eventually. Based on encounter timings and viral
sequence similarities, the scientists suggested that two persons traveling from India probably
have transmitted the delta variant to other guests during the wedding events.
Of two guests from India, one was a man without any comorbidities, and one was a woman with
diabetes. They both received the 2 nd dose of Covaxin (BBV152) 10 days before
traveling to the wedding venue. Moreover, they tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 before boarding
the flight.
Soon after developing symptoms including fatigue, cough, and fever, both guests from India
tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection. At day 6 post-wedding, the man without comorbidity
was admitted to a hospital because of worsening symptoms. One month after the wedding, he died
due to COVID-19 related complications.
Four other guests who also tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 had confirmed interactions with
the guests from India. Of 4 guests who were fully immunized with the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna
COVID-19 vaccine, one developed severe COVID-19 that required infusion of monoclonal
antibodies.
Testing of viral variant
Nasopharyngeal
swab samples were collected from all six guests and analyzed by reverse
transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to detect viral variants. All samples tested
positive for the original Wuhan strain of SARS-CoV-2 and negative for the alpha variant. All
positive samples were subsequently sequenced by Swift Normalase Amplicon Panels with multiple
overlapping amplicons to identify the causative variant. The findings revealed that all six
guests were infected with the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 (B.1.617.2).
Study
significance
Six vaccine breakthrough cases identified in the study highlight the notion that
antibodies elicited by Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2, Moderna mRNA-1273, and Covaxin BBV152 may not
be sufficient to provide full protection against the delta variant. Although some people fail
to develop adequate immunity in response to vaccination, none of the patients identified in the
study had a history of vaccine failure.
As mentioned by the scientists, mutations in three antigenic regions of the spike
receptor-binding domain (450–469 IDf, 480–499 IDg, and 522–646 IDh) could
potentially reduce the susceptibility of delta variant to antibody-mediated neutralization.
For the purpose of this surveillance, a vaccine breakthrough infection is defined as the
detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA or antigen in a respiratory specimen collected from a person ≥14
days after they have completed all recommended doses of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA)-authorized COVID-19 vaccine.
Identifying and investigating hospitalized or fatal
vaccine breakthrough cases
As of May 1, 2021, CDC transitioned from monitoring all reported vaccine breakthrough cases
to focus on identifying and investigating only hospitalized or fatal cases due to any cause.
This shift will help maximize the quality of the data collected on cases of greatest clinical
and public health importance.
Previous data on all vaccine breakthrough cases reported to CDC from January–April
2021 are available .
State health departments report vaccine breakthrough cases to CDC. CDC now monitors reported
hospitalized or fatal vaccine breakthrough cases for clustering by patient demographics,
geographic location, time since vaccination, vaccine type, and SARS-CoV-2 lineage. Reported
data include hospitalized or fatal breakthrough cases due to any cause, including causes not
related to COVID-19.
... ... ...
As of July 12, 2021, more than 159 million people in
the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
During the same time, CDC received reports from 48 U.S. states and territories of 5,492
patients with COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infection who were hospitalized or died.
Total number of vaccine breakthrough infections reported to CDC
Hospitalized or fatal vaccine breakthrough cases reported to CDC
Infections and even hospitalizations due to COVID-19 have begun to increase since the Fourth
of July weekend. And it turns out that those vaccinated against the disease aren't completely
immune, as state officials revealed that there have been thousands of breakthrough infections
-- and even dozens of deaths -- among people who have gotten their shots since the rollout
began.
... ... ...
As of July 10, 4,450 vaccinated people in Massachusetts had tested positive for COVID-19
since the rollout began this past winter, according to the state's Department of Public
Health.
That 's just over 0.1 percent -- or one in a thousand -- of the 4,195,844 people in
Massachusetts who were fully vaccinated at the time.
Of that tiny faction, the overwhelming majority of cases weren't severe.
DPH officials say that 303 -- or 6.8 percent -- of the breakthrough infections involved
hospitalization and a total of 79 vaccinated individuals in Massachusetts have died.
... ... ...
Since June 25, the average number of new positive COVID-19 tests in the state has nearly
doubled, from 64 to 122. DPH officials also reported 208 new confirmed COVID-19 cases
Wednesday, the first single-day report over 200
since early June , a time when the state's testing rate was nearly a third higher.
Over the same time period, the state's positivity rate more than doubled from 0.31 percent
to 0.72 percent.
Following a steady decline this spring, hospitalizations have also increased from a low of
80 statewide COVID-19 patients on July 4 to 102 as of Tuesday.
...
According to the CDC, the Delta accounted for 10 percent of new cases in Massachusetts as of
June 22, but that data is now nearly a month old -- and predates the current uptick.
Cassandra Pierre, a Boston Medical Center epidemiologist and Boston University professor,
says the recent uptick in overall cases in "somewhat concerning" given the national rise of the
Delta variant.
"We have some data to show that the delta variant is responsible for more hospitalizations
than the previous dominant variant and while the jury is out on whether it's also more virulent
(capable of causing severe illness) we've begun to see COVID-related death rates rise in some
of the hardest hit states," Pierre told Boston in an email.
... ... ...
While experts have
predicted a mild, seasonal uptick in COVID-19 cases this fall, Pierre says the recent
increase is earlier than anticipated. She noted that the rainy weather over the Fourth of July
weekend may have pushed more gatherings and activities indoors.
DPH guidance says that unvaccinated resident should continue to wear masks when near people
outside their household, especially indoors. While the Delta variant has caused some cities and
organizations to extend that mask guidance to all individuals, regardless of vaccination
status, the still-low case rates have yet to induce such a move in Massachusetts.
... ... ...
State officials say they don't have a breakdown of the recent infections among vaccinated
and unvaccinated individuals, in part because the data on breakthrough cases is reported
separately (while health care providers report all positive tests directly to the state,
breakthrough cases are first reported to the CDC, and then to state officials).
However, earlier data on breakthrough infection
obtained by the Herald through a public records request suggests that there have
been 543 breakthrough cases between June 19 and July 10. That's roughly 30 percent of the 1,809
positive cases reported by the state over the same time period, meaning 70 percent of new cases
were among the minority of residents who were not fully vaccinated.
... over 83 percent of Massachusetts adults have gotten at least one shot
There's quite a bit about COVID-19 and vaccines that we still don't know.
While the vaccines are up to 95 percent effective against COVID-19, there have been
breakthrough cases. That's where those who are vaccinated test positive. The CDC
was monitoring all reported breakthroughs . However, back in May, as more people got
vaccinated, the feds transitioned to focusing on cases where someone went to the hospital or
died. They said that data would have the greatest importance.
"The question is are we getting more cases than we should be seeing as breakthrough cases,"
Dr. Jill Roberts at USF Health said. "That's really hard to determine because there isn't a
good source of data, so there's a lot of people looking at this. They're sequencing this strain
from the people who got breakthrough cases to see if it's really Delta variant or if the thing
has mutated again."
"We're trying to figure out what's going on. Is this really, truly a vaccine failure or is
it expected numbers? And without the data, we can't tell," she added.
Dr. Roberts says she would like to see
more information on variants – like which populations contracted them, if they're
vaccinated, and what they do for living so doctors can have a better idea of infection
control.
As states cut back on their COVID-19 data collection and fail to document
"breakthrough" cases , we are left to guess how often and where people are being infected.
I have said this a few times and now it is becoming real.
Read deeper to let me explain why the phrase "breakthrough" may be a disservice to the
public.
At least 11 employees of Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center tested positive for COVID-19
after attending a party on June 7, according to Southern Nevada Health District emails
obtained through records requests by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation's Documenting COVID-19
project . The emails, which were shared with the Review-Journal, indicate that eight of
the employees had been fully vaccinated in December and January, meaning that the virus had
"broken through" the protection of inoculation.
Two other employees who were infected had received one dose of a double-dose vaccination.
One was unvaccinated. At least 10 of the 11 had the delta variant, a more easily
transmissible strain of the virus.
One question is whether the vaccines had been properly stored. But the hospital that
administered them said there was no problem with storage. Was there something unique about this
party that made transmission more possible?
Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and some states have stopped
gathering as much data as they once did. Again, the Las Vegas Journal-Review:
Beginning May 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped monitoring all
reported vaccine breakthrough cases, focusing instead on those resulting in hospitalization
or death. The state of Nevada and the health district, in turn, stopped reporting totals of
identified cases.
However, in a June 22 email, a health district official told other agency officials there
had been 471 identified breakthrough cases in Clark County, with 53 resulting in
hospitalization and eight in death. In other words, there were nearly 10 times as many
breakthrough cases identified as were publicly disclosed.
Nobody promised that there would be no breakthroughs. As WCVB explains , as with
any vaccine -- especially one protecting against a fast-changing virus -- some fully vaccinated
people will still get sick or become virus carriers. Remember, even in breakthrough cases,
vaccinated patients are far less likely to become seriously ill.
The Atlantic raises the issue of whether using the word "breakthrough" is harmful to the
public's understanding. Because, really, these are expected infections:
The thing to know about the COVID-19 vaccines is that they're flame retardants, not
impenetrable firewalls, when it comes to the coronavirus. Some vaccinated people are still
getting infected, and a small subset of these individuals is still getting sick -- and
this is completely expected .
We're really, really bad at communicating that second point, which is all about
breakthroughs, a concept that has, not entirely accurately, become synonymous with vaccine
failure. It's a problem that goes far beyond semantics: Bungling the messaging around our
shots' astounding success has made it hard to convey the truly minimal risk that the
vaccinated face, and
the enormous gamble taken by those who eschew the jabs .
As of July 6, 2021, more than 157 million people in
the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
During the same time, CDC received reports from 48 U.S. states and territories of 5,186
patients with COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infection who were hospitalized or died.
(CDC)
Keep in mind that the CDC no longer gathers "breakthrough" data unless the person ends up in
the hospital. This means that it misses a lot of cases since we know from the data that most
breakthrough cases do not result in sickness serious enough to send a person to the hospital.
To get an idea of what the data looks like when all "breakthrough" cases are reported,
look at the
January through April data , before the CDC changed its rules. More than 10,000 cases were
reported in that timeframe.
I like the way The Atlantic put all of this in perspective:
The overwhelming majority of the COVID-19 cases we're seeing are among the unvaccinated.
And when the virus does affect the immunized, it seems to accumulate to lower levels, and
spread less enthusiastically to new hosts; it's causing, on average, milder and more
transient symptoms.
But resistance has also formed among conservatives who are skeptical of pronouncements by
public-health experts and politicians, many of whom insisted without evidence that school
closures and economic lockdowns were necessary to contain the virus. Many Democrats, including
Kamala Harris and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, politicized the vaccines last fall to take down
Donald Trump .
Now some of the same people are disparaging the unvaccinated as backwards or crazy, much as
they do people who hold sincere religious beliefs. Many of them, including Anthony Fauci and
Democratic politicians, have little credibility with half the country.
government health bodies in the U.S. and other countries have analyzed rare adverse side
effects. These include myocarditis in young adults from the Pfizer vaccine, and
Guillain-Barré syndrome from the J&J vaccine. Their conclusion is that the benefits
outweigh the potential risks even in sub-populations.
The calculus for school-age children will be different because their Covid risks are so much
lower, and trial data won't identify 1 in 50,000 events. There's no need for K-12 schools to
mandate vaccines
SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago Los Angeles just re-instituted its mask mandate for
everyone, vaccinated or not, indoors in a public building. Las Vegas is considering the same.
SUBSCRIBER 3 hours ago According to the CDC as of today:
68% of those over 18 have received at least one dose.
59% of those over 18 are fully vaccinated.
89% of those over 65 have received at least one dose
79% of those over 65 are fully vaccinated
That sounds like mass vaccination has been achieved, and those who are at the highest risk
have almost all be vaccinated.
Given that, why force those who do not want it or those who have close to 0 risk of adverse
effects from covid to get it?
Per the state of TN, your survival rate for a CONFIRMED Covid case is 99.99% if you are
1-10, 100.00% if you are from 10-20, and 99.97% if you are from 20-30. Why are forcing the
folks to get shots they do not really need?
That is what most of us are objecting to. SUBSCRIBER 3 hours ago But an American 15 year
old's probability of dying in the next year is 0.0005, according to actuarial tables at the
Social Security Administration. Catching COVID increases their chance of death by 60 pct.
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Brian Johnson SUBSCRIBER 3 hours ago
And what is the probability they will catch COVID?
What is the probability of dying from the vaccine?
I am not against vaccines. I am fully vaccinated. In my case the risk reward was pretty
clear cut.
However, when the heart issues from the vaccines came to light, I paused about getting my
children vaccinated. What other side effects are their for children?
All summer I heard about the heart issues with athletes and covid. It was used as a
justification for the Big 10 not playing football.
The severity of the heart issues are pretty close between COVID and the vaccine. The
difference is there is a low chance of my child getting COVID but a 100% chance of vaccine
exposure if they get the shot.
So now, am I not supposed to worry about the heart issues?
BTW, I have a 16 year old who is about to get their license. I can't imagine what that
does to the probability of dying in the next year.
richard cheverton SUBSCRIBER 4 hours ago
First, take a deep breath, sit down with a cuppa tea, relax, and think.
Think about the phrase, "... the benefits outweigh the potential risks..." And reflect
that the so-called risks are not potential, but very real and documented with government
figures. Then assume that you are one of the "rare" cases of some complication; you took the
jab and paid the price for herd immunity. Congratulations!
Then contemplate the mutterings about "boosters," on top of the two required shots. How
come, you might wonder. Then look at spikes in infections in the UK and Israel, which are
highly-vaccinated nations. Why?
Then consider that government has offshored the enforcement of vaccine coercion to private
corporations, none of which have any expertise in virology, or epidemiology, and which are
not licensed to practice medicine.
Think about that.
Brian Johnson SUBSCRIBER 3 hours ago
All six Yankees players who have COVID were vaccinated, and they still need to sit out.
40% of COVID hospitalizations in Israel this week were vaccinated. The Pfizer vaccine is
at 60% effectiveness at preventing COVID in Israel and falling.
The vaccines do help, but they will not end COVID. At best, they will limit the damage to
high risk patients.
If you are at low risk of severe symptoms, why do you need the vaccine? Why are you being
forced to take it to go to school?
Robert Houston SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
The New York Public Health response to Covid was really ugly. The number of ICU beds per
population, ventilators, masks and lack of public health nursing services were critical to
the disaster. The Gov sent the infected elderly from public hospitals to private nursing
homes unprepared for their new public need (they didn't have refrigerated trucks and the
mortuaries would not take the infected dead). A vaccine will not cure these shortages and
their Public Health poor planning.
MARK VANDERMAUSE SUBSCRIBER 49 minutes ago
We all take risks every day, and consciously and not, weigh the benefit to be gained against
the inherent risk of an activity we participate in.
For the great majority of people getting vaccinated makes sense. If you have a conviction to
not get vaccinated you have decided to bear the risks associated with that decision.
William Cnossen SUBSCRIBER 5 hours ago
"Most Americans believe the personal benefits from vaccination outweigh the potential risks."
And for most people that is true. But for children and young adults with no amplifying
problems it may not be. Also if you have already had the disease the vaccine could do more
harm than good. For teacher's unions and government officials to make any blanket requirement
about mandating vaccine use just won't work.
There is a reason that freedom is such a powerful force in this country. Individuals
assessing their own conditions and risk tolerance is always better than one-size-fits-all
government edicts.
Robert Houston SUBSCRIBER 5 hours ago
The current administration has millions of "last year's" vaccines that they can't give away.
Yes, they ordered all of them because they thought that they would need to vaccinate
everybody: Fauci kept moving the goalposts. Unfortunately, (me being Swedish), the "natural
herd immunity" theory was actively censored as "too dangerous." Well, who is right and who is
wrong?
Look at the Covid death rates on the CDC web site. The pandemic in the USA is over. It
looks like we only needed to vaccinate the "high risk groups." Yes, we may need to get the
2021 updated Covid vaccine this fall (all for that). With the objective success in the USA,
forcing vaccinations with the current vaccines makes as much sense as selling lottery tickets
after the prize winner has received the payout.
richard crane SUBSCRIBER 6 hours ago
... it's pretty clear that Fauci et al destroyed their own credibility by lying and
guessing.
Alan Rigg SUBSCRIBER 6 hours ago
We have already had all the "mass vaccination" we have ever needed to have... of high-risk
individuals. Why should people who have a 99.98% chance of surviving coronavirus (which is
people under 50) and people with natural antibodies (as a result of recovering from
coronavirus) pursue vaccination?
Tom Richard SUBSCRIBER 7 hours ago
1. No mention of natural immunity of those who have had the virus. They are a legitimate part
of the percentage necessary for herd immunity and have no need of a vaccine.
2. Healthy children are at vanishingly low risk of Covid, and some risk from myocarditis and
associated side effects of the vaccines. Any mandatory vaccination of children is tantamount
to child abuse.
Jeffrey P SUBSCRIBER 7 hours ago
Tom
You should update yourself. Past infection isn't enough.
Incorrect: As a recent article in Nature points out vaccination after infection results in a
much more robust antibody response and likely longer immunity (which can be less than a yr
after natural infection) and better coverage for infections with variants.
350+ children have died of covid far more that from seasonal flu for which we routinely
vaccinate. Covid itself causes myocardial inflammation and inflammatory disease at a rate
much greater that the vaccine.
Tom Richard SUBSCRIBER 5 hours ago
T cell and B cell response also lasts far longer than the initial antibodies that are
produced in response to the initial infection. Natural immunity could last far longer than
that produced by vaccines. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-00436-4
So now the neoliberal MSM narrative became that people who recovered from COVID-19 need to be
vaccinated as this strengthen their immune response to the new infection. So they are still
pushing "total vaccination of population" agenda, despite obvious fiasco of this agenda after
emergence of Delta variant. This valiant along with South African variant had shown that the
virus remains a threat and can propagate in fully vaccinated population. It is logical to expect
that it will mutate in the direction of of evading the protection provided by the first
generation vaccines and new variants after Delta will be even more efficient in infecting
vaccinated people. Corrupt neoliberal medical establishment does not have the courage to admit
that the virus outplayed them. This is a very questionable assumption indeed.
Most WSJ comments are highly skeptical of the official coverage... How thos medical brass
can't understadn that emergence of Delta variant was the writing on the wall? Why they behaved is
such strange and stupid way? What are their hidden assumption that dictated "there is no tomorrow
without total vaccination" response. Mortality does not justifies such a response and there are a
dozen more dangerious infectional desease in circulation that have higher mortality then
COVID-19. Is this because they suspect that the virus has artificl origin or what?
Also the whole idea of booster shots undermine the idea of "total immunization" and makes
achieving "herd immunity" impossible.
The durability of immune response after Covid-19 infection or vaccination is one of the most
important factors in the trajectory
of the pandemic , health experts say. Exactly how long the immune response might be
protective isn't clear, in part because the earliest known infections and vaccinations stretch
back only some 18 months at most.
The durability of immune response after Covid-19 infection or vaccination is one of the most
important factors in the trajectory
of the pandemic , health experts say. Exactly how long the immune response might be
protective isn't clear, in part because the earliest known infections and vaccinations stretch
back only some 18 months at most.
"We shouldn't get scared when we see the antibody response go down," said Miriam Merad,
director of the Precision Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai.
Some immunologists have also reported other parts of the immune system adapting to recognize
the virus that causes Covid-19, such as Memory B cells that churn out antibodies and T-cells that can
direct an immune response or kill infected cells.
In a May study in the scientific journal Nature, researchers found Covid-19-specific immune
cells in the bone marrow from 15 of 19 patients who had experienced a mild infection as much as
eight months earlier. That indicates that their bodies were forming a lasting immune memory
against the virus, said Ali Ellebedy, an associate professor of pathology and immunology at the
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the senior author on the study.
"Those people have some partial protection remaining for a long time," Dr. Ellebedy
said.
Immunologists and health authorities caution that not everyone generates a robust immune
response following a Covid-19 infection, especially people who are older or have weakened
immune systems
... many people who are immunocompromised fail to elicit a strong immune response even after
full vaccination.
Israel has started giving booster shots to people with weaker immune systems as cases
caused by the Delta variant increase in the country.
... ... ...
Both Pfizer Inc.
and BioNTech SE as
well as Moderna Inc.
have demonstrated that their mRNA vaccines are effective for at least six months. A CDC
official earlier this week said the agency hasn't yet seen evidence of waning immunity among
people vaccinated as far back as December and January.
Covid-19 vaccines strengthen the immune response among people who have been previously
infected, immunologists say. In one cohort of 63 previously infected participants, 41% of whom
were subsequently vaccinated, researchers found that people who had been infected but not
vaccinated generated an immune response up to a year later.
People who were vaccinated after being infected generated more-effective antibody responses
against viral mutations.
"They basically become bulletproof," said Michel Nussenzweig, an immunologist at the
Rockefeller University and senior author on the study. "It's a big difference."
The CDC and many health authorities recommend that people who have previously had Covid-19
still get vaccinated to boost their immune response.
John Pound SUBSCRIBER 55 seconds ago
Man, the non-stop drug pushing in the media is bizarre.
Google T and B cells as regards immunology and sleep easier.
Taiwan suffered less than 15 deaths from covid in 2020 and only 749 total to date from
both covid and the Delta variant despite a population of 24M and relatively lax covid
policies.
Why? Blood serology showed massive cross-immunization from SARS 2003 that swept through
Taiwan 18 years ago.
Mother nature was saving human lives long before Pfizer....
Girish Kotwal SUBSCRIBER 2 minutes ago
I am making a strong case for Covid-19 Immune Response being longer lasting, more robust and
broader in terms of emerging variants, than any of the current first generation vaccines
against COVID alone. I am gathering a ton of evidence not just theoretical prediction to
submit to a top journal for Med. Research. But let me summarize my rationale for making a
bold statement.
1) An average vaccinee has no higher antibody level against the surface glycoprotein of
SARSCoronavirus 2/COVID after the first vaccine dose of Pfizer or Moderna or after the single
dose of J&J.
2) A vaccinee who is not immunocompromised or immunosuppressed elicits an antibody and
cellular response exclusively against a single surface protein of COVID, where as a
previously confirmed +ve person who recovered from COVID and has been subsequently and
consistently negative for COVID genomic RNA as determined by PCR, will have elicited immunity
to all proteins of COVID including the most abundant nucleocapsid protein.
Gregory Gustilo SUBSCRIBER 37 minutes ago
Are none of our health and govt officials going to bring up the possibilities, that, most
likely, after studying and comparing Sars 2 with the other 11 man made virus', it shares the
same unique fingerprint, that maybe, just maybe this is not a mutation at all, but a
completely different man made creation? Asking for a friend. Are we about to be bombarded by
"new" virus', which will create "new" vaccines and an eco system of big Pharma creating a
never ending source of revenue? Asking for a f different friend.
Ken Belcher SUBSCRIBER 5 minutes ago
As it is, marketing has driven the increase in diabetes, and lowered people's opportunities
to acquire immunity to common infections by pushing 'cleaning' products to needlessly
sterilize ones environment.
Even if Covid-19 was man-made, how would that change the rational responses to protect you
and your family from it?
kris thiruvillakkat SUBSCRIBER 46 minutes ago
Speculations, hypothesis, steady streaming by WSJ (and others). Long term? What months,
years? No clinical evidences, only studies; we haven't been on it long enough. Simple known
facts about most (if not all) viruses are known for years. So, in this respect, covid will
not be much different, say, from the flu viruses; it's just another "variant". And, we know
that flu vaccines offer limited immunity (months to a year), as they are mutating (into
different variants, fast- that's how they work). It would help to put this kind of facts in
perspective with covid also. Don't get stressed out or overly hopeful by reading these kinds
of coverage.
Dom Fried SUBSCRIBER 37 minutes ago
It is not a flu. I wish people would stop saying that. The mRNA vaccines are novel. No prior
flu vaccine has been mRNA. Neither the vaccines nor the viruses are the same, so any
conclusions you just drew based on past flu experiences are invalid and pure nonsense.
John C SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
Here is some news for you, T Swan. CA hospitals are now seeing a surge in Delta (or Epsilon,
I'm not sure which) cases in previously-vaccinated people. But Gov Gav CAN'T lockdown again
because he has a recall election this fall. So regardless of the science, Gav can't shut down
again because he knows he will be victim-blamed for the upsurge. He won't "follow the
science" because now it's politically inconvenient for him. But there will have to be new
mask mandates shortly in CA and that alone might create enough of a political whirlwind to
recall the governor.
If COVID will become endemic virus how any professional can talk about herd immunity? For
example, how would you rate the following statement ""The higher infectivity of Delta means the
threshold for herd immunity will be higher." He says while a 70% vaccination rate may have been
enough to reach herd immunity against the initial strain of COVID-19, it "likely isn't high
enough against Delta, as shown by case increases in places like the UK and Israel, which have
high vaccination rates." Former NYC Health
Commissioner- Threshold For Herd Immunity Against COVID-19 Will Be Higher
If 80% of a population is immune to a virus, four out of every five people who encounter
someone with the disease won't get sick (and won't spread the disease any further). In this way,
the spread of infectious diseases is kept under control. Depending how contagious an infection
the threshold need to be higher and generally varies from 50 to 95%. Measles, for example,
spreads so easily that an estimated 95% of a population needs to be vaccinated to achieve herd
immunity. For polio, the threshold is about 80%.
If Delta variant infects 30-40% of vaccinated (who then can spread the virus) and threshold
for immunity for COVID-19 is over 80%, it looks like herd immunity in unachievable with the
current generation of vaccines (not sure about natural immunity) It looks like the situation with
COVID-19 vaccines is similar to the situation with vaccines for flu and the idea of creating
efficient multi-year vaccine against coronavirus is on very shaky ground. Taking into account the
amount and severity of adverse effects any vaccine need years of testing before the distribution
to the general population can be approved. Side effects of the current generation of vaccines are
largely unknown but they already include death, paralysis and myocarditis (for Pfizer) and
neurological disorders (For J*J and AstraZenica vaccines)
We do not know how many people have natural immunity to COVID-19. All we have are cruel
natural experiments on cruise ships, especially famous Diamond Princess epidemic (712 out of 3711
tested positive, 14 dead). This shows that natural immunity can be significant. Quarantine!, a
book written by passenger Gay Courter on her experience on board the quarantined vessel, was
released in November 2020. The HBO documentary The Last Cruise tells the story of the voyage.
This is not the firs mass infection on cruise ships: norovirus was the typical epidemic on cruise
ships for a long time...
There is a difference between protecting with vaccination the most venerable (say people from
65 years old, morbidly obese, and some other categories) and the mass vaccination campaign
unleashed without sufficient testing.
"I wouldn't be declaring mission accomplished. I think this is going to be a long fight,"
Gottlieb said Sunday. "You're seeing a decoupling between cases, hospitalizations and deaths
because there's so much immunity in the population" not just through vaccination" but also
through prior infection... But this is likely to become an endemic virus. We're going to
have to deal with it. "
In recent weeks, Israeli media has become a factory for stories that cut against the
'official' 'scientific' narrative about the COVID-19 vaccines. Most visibly, I srael
has made a deal with Pfizer to start doling out "booster" shots for the most vulnerable
Israelis, despite the FDA's insistence that there's "no evidence" that a booster shot is
necessary.
Now, the Israeli Health Ministry has discovered that the number of patients who had been
infected prior to becoming infected again during the latest Delta-driven wave of the pandemic
were less likely to be reinfected than patients who have only been vaccinated. The finding
directly contradicts research spouted by American experts like Dr. Fauci, along with Pfizer and
Moderna, who have previously insisted that the antibodies created by their jabs are more
powerful than antibodies produced by natural infection (which is one reason even the previously
infected have been asked to get vaccinated).
According to Israel National News , more than
7.7K new cases of the virus have been detected during the most recent wave (beginning back in
May). However, just 72 of the confirmed cases were reported in people who were known to have
been previously infected - that is, less than 1% of the new cases.
Roughly 40% of new cases "" involving more than 3K patients "" were infected despite being
fully vaccinated.
By this count, Israelis who had been vaccinated were 6.72x more likely to get infected after
the shot than after natural infection, with more than 3K of the 5,193,499, or 0.0578%, of
Israelis who were vaccinated getting infected in the latest wave. The disparity has confounded
Health Ministry experts, with some saying the data proves the higher level of immunity provided
by natural infection versus vaccination. However, others remain unconvinced.
Israel's Health Ministry previously estimated that the efficacy of Pfizer's COVID jab
was only 64% against the Delta variant , which helped prompt Pfizer and its partner
BioNTech to develop a new jab designed to protect against variants including Delta and Beta
(the variant first discovered in South Africa).
Lord Baltimore 3 hours ago remove link
"Roughly 40% of new cases "" involving more than 3K patients "" were infected despite
being fully vaccinated."
Which implies that it's not really a vaccine.
Plus Size Model 2 hours ago
It was a privilege worth waiting for hours in line a few months ago! Ha
I'll never forget watching some poor guy on CNN suffer while being taunted by a bunch of
newsmen hyping up the juice. The poor guy looked like he was dying from COVID and the
interviewer claimed that, anecdotally, the vaccines can work miracles. He also claimed that
the vaccine can, anecdotally of course, clear up this guy's symptoms that he's been having
for the past year.
The guy was just wrecked. He could hardly sit up without fainting, couldn't sleep, and
often had to cool his feet off in icewater.
At the end of the vaccine advertisement, the interviewer had the audacity to claim that
he wasn't eligible for the vaccine yet and had to suffer for a few more months.
Sadists!!
GreatUncle 1 hour ago remove link
Those participating in the experiment ... the issue is not necessarily the vaccine i t
is what changes it makes to the rest of your immune system . If you had measles ... has
that immunity been wiped people should be asking because NOBODY KNOWS!
This is why people with a poor disposition to vaccines will get an adverse outcome.
Do the test ... let 10000 people be vaxxed and now write down on the persons vaxxed card
this one gets Guinne & Barrie. Get 100% right and no errors or guesses then I would
consider you a real pro.
But then if you were that good you should be pulling that person out and saying no vaxx
for you ... so in effect those vaxxing are no better than murderers and fast approaching
10K kills.
THAT LOGIC TELLS ME THIS MASS VACCINATION IS MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE.
By definition, the mRNA and DNA devices are experimental gene therapies, not vaccines.
Their issued patents confirm this.
Even according to the manufacturers, these products do NOT induce immunity and do NOT
prevent transmission.
They are, in fact "leaky" prophylactic therapies which simply claim to reduce the
severity of symptoms. There are risks of using such products in the middle of a pandemic,
as set forth by Dr Geert Vanden Bossche.
HowdyDoody 2 hours ago
"Which implies that it's not really a vaccine."
Pfizer/Moderna/AZ are not. The acceptance criteria for a 'successful vaccine' was never
'reduction of symptoms in some cases of the disease.'
LetThemEatRand 3 hours ago
Funny how the "conspiracy theorists" predicted this months ago. I suppose social media
and other big tech will allow people to post comments and videos about this now that mother
Israel said it's true? Or not. Maybe they will ban the Israeli government for spreading
disinformation for a while before they get a call from the ADL.
serotonindumptruck 3 hours ago
The propaganda is now coming fast and hard.
Not only are "vaccine" passports being suggested (and implemented), but now "booster"
shots are being forced down everyone's throats.
Masking these mandates behind Israel only raises my suspicions.
Are Israelis receiving placebos and vitamin shots in lieu of the genocidal kill
shots?
Plus Size Model 3 hours ago
I'm seeing some goofballs / paid agents / bots requesting a drip line like it's
chemotherapy. It's hilarious making them explain their logic. It's even funnier what they
come up with.
Plus Size Model 2 hours ago
Doesn't look like it. They've got the same drama going on there too. This guy claims the
vaccines killed lots more than the virus itself and got "fact checked" by some whatever
website.
With the exception of high risk group (mostly the age cohort > age 70), natural
infection is better protection for everyone against any Covid in terms of the risk/benefit
equation (a/k/a informed consent). The survival rate in this group is 99.95% whereas the
vaccine AE risk is not insignificant. Natural immunity also provides a broader, deeper and
longer-lasting.
But we are still being lied to about :
Naturally immune people still need vaccination. The scientific fact is they don't and
in fact there may be dangers (ADE, or Pathogenic priming) in doing so. Why the
lies?
Herd Immunity can only be achieved through vaccination. The WHO has changed its
definition and M-W dictionary has revised its defintion accordingly. But again the
science does not support this. In fact, the experiences of both Diamond Princess and USS
Theodore Roosevelt both suggest (albeit only anecdotally) that only 20% of the population
will ever become infected. This is consistent with scientific assessments which have
variously estimated that up to 80% may have pre-existing immunity. There is a good
possibility that Herd Immunity had already been reached BEFORE the "vaccine" rollout
started and that the "fall in new cases" was more attributable to the decline in
testing.
So why all the lies and denial of science? Are there other reasons, perhaps, for the
obsession with "vaccinating" everyone, even those who don't need it (the already immune and
children) and pregnant women, where normal medical precaution suggests that it could at
least wait until after delivery?
Kassandra 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link
Unlike some say, it's a real illness. Had it early on, Dec 2019 into Jan 2020. Dry,
brutal cough. Felt like I broke a rib. Fever went to 104.2 after that I can't remember. Too
sick to go to Dr. Sweats to make the sheets wet. I realized if it got any worse, I should
go to ER. Also realized all I had to do was breathe. Lay on my side and had the heating pad
on high on my upside lung area..and concentrated on breathing. And everything tasted like
nothing..cardboard or worse. I'm in my 60s..decent health. But it was no joke. I've
survived a lot of nasty **** including staph pneumonia, twice, as a child. This was worse.
They can't possibly make a vaccine against this. You couldn't pay me any amount of money to
take the vaccine.
CatInTheHat 1 hour ago
The tests were/are a FRAUD..
They were deliberately run at high cycle thresholds (35-42), guaranteeing FALSE
positives.
The American people have beem so dumbed down, that stupid gov slogans like flatten the
curve, social distancing and my personal favorite ASYMPTOMATIC, that convinced a nation of
healthy people that they were sick FOR OVER A YEAR, they no longer recognize truth and
******** out of gov.
THAT is frightening. Honestly stupidity ignorance and flat out NARCISSISM from Dem
voters via this massive hoax they bought into hook line and sinker does NOT bode well for
the future. One wonders what it will take to wake them up. I thought dead and injured
CHILDREN would do it. But NOPE.
What kills me is that these murderers call myocarditis MILD..
If you get onto Telegram and head over to the MRNA DEATH TOLL group you'll see just how
"mild" this is for CHILDREN
rejectnumbskull 1 hour ago
The bitchute video with the doctor was really good. Very important. EVERYBODY should
watch it.
Sluggo315 2 hours ago remove link
Dr. Kurt Vanden Bossche predicted this would occur. He made videos proclaiming that the
world should not be vaccinating during a pandemic because of exactly this reason. I just
did a Google search and his name never even appeared in the predictive function when typing
his name. Why? The vax should be stopped immediately and anyone associated with Phizer,
BioNTech, Moderna, J and J, Gates Foundation, Schwab Foundation should all be put on trial
somewhere for crimes against humanity!! IMO. Will they? Hell no, the media will just say
this is all a big conspiracy...
Multi 1 hour ago
France (Macron) just made mandatory proof of vaccination to ENTER SHOPS and USE PUBLIC
TRANSPORTATION .
ay_arrow
Jim in MN 1 hour ago
Let's also please keep reminding people of the new UK data on children in which less
than one in FOUR MILLION healthy children actually died from this. Compare that to the risk
of a completely new mRNA serum that actually targets an extremely rare and poorly
understood type of immune cell--and one of the only things we do know about these immune
cells is that altering their function plays a major or even key role in autoimmune
disorders.
Millions of kids. Playing Fauci Roulette with life-long debilitating or fatal side
effects.
Just stop all of this. It's madness, or worse.
fackbankz 1 hour ago
All I hear on the news is how 99% of "cases" in the US are in unvaccinated people.
Somebody's lying, and in this case, I definitely trust Israel's numbers.
JD59 2 hours ago (Edited)
The US Gov., big pharma, and the media have been lying to the world the entire time
about this bug.
trailer park boys 1 hour ago
What am I missing here?
"...less than 1% of the new cases were reported in people who were known to have been
previously infected."
"Roughly 40% of new cases "" involving more than 3K patients "" were infected despite
being fully vaccinated."
"By this count, Israelis who had been vaccinated were 6.72x more likely to get infected
after the shot than after natural infection."
The math doesn't add up - or am I reading this wrong?
Lots of politicians, doctors and corporations and esp Big Pharma are benefiting greatly
either financially from this or enabling them to exert more CONTROL on people. It comes
down to:
Money, and,
Power
USGrant 1 hour ago (Edited)
If the population of Israel is 9 E6 and the number of delta cases is 7.7 E3 then there
is to date a 7.7E3/9E6 =.000856 or .0856% chance of coming down with it. It may be more
likely you will choke on a mouthful of steak.
5.1E6 have been jabbed or 5.1E6/9E6 or 56.6% jabbed and then 3.9E6/9E6= 43.4% unjabbed.
So getting delta if unjabbed is 3.08E3/3.9E6=.00079 or .079%. So .0856/.079=1.1 times more
likely to come down with delta if jabbed versus unjabbed. So jabbing confers nothing.
Natural immunity confers a large advantage as a minuscule number of 72 is assigned to those
confirmed to have been originally infected.
Captive 34 minutes ago (Edited)
All we can say is that so far, the number of individuals being infected by the delta
variant who had previous infections is small and the number of those infected who were
previously vaccinated is similar to the background rate of infectivity. Which, like you
concluded, likely means that vaccination imparts little added benefit but natural recovery
is likely protective. Quantifying it... I agree, not possible without knowing precisely how
many in Israel had previous infections.
Bob Lidd 2 hours ago remove link
Until an infectious disease crisis is very real, present, and at an
emergency threshold, it is often largely ignored.
To sustain the funding base beyond the crisis, we need to increase public
understanding of the need for MCMs such as a pan-influenza or
pan-coronavirus vaccine.
A key driver is the media, and the economics follow the hype. We need to use
that hype to our advantage to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they
see profit at the end of process,
Peter Daszak - President of EcoHealth Alliance
2015
Similar results to the 52,000 participant cohort of the Cleveland Clinic recently
published, showing dramatically better response from naturally-developed immunity than from
the vaccinated.
But Professor Sucharit Bhakdi is a kooky conspiracy theorist,
and Fauci is not a politician.
Po0h Bear 1 hour ago
Italian Neurosurgeon Who Operated on Young Covid Vaccine Victim Says "Never Seen
Anything Like This"
Neurosurgeon interviewed by Italian media says brain of 18-year-old girl swelled to
point that skull was opened to relieve pressure. She passed away days later
'I had never seen a brain that was affected by such an extensive and severe
thrombosis.'
New cases among recovered = 72 or .00862% infection rate
'Vaccinated' = 5,193,499
New cases among vaccinated = 'over 3,000' but we'll call it 3,000 or .0578% infection
rate
That leaves 4,628 new cases among the rest of the 'status unknown' population of
3,342,079. 0.139% infection rate.
A few observations, first, 7,700 'cases detected' is itself in total less than one tenth
of one percent of the population. Just saying.
The infection rate among the vaccinated is indeed 6.7 times that of the 'recovered'. The
'status unknown' rate is another 2.4 times that.
OutaTime43 22 minutes ago (Edited)
People in their 30's are dying from Covid (delta). Even those without pre conditions.
So, stop listening to this misinformation targeting conservative readers please. It's
probably being done on purpose.
99% of those right now being hospitalized with Covid 19 are unvaccinated.
green_dog 10 minutes ago
Please, provide a link to data supporting your claim about the deaths in the younger age
group with no co-morbidities.
C0rnelius 11 minutes ago
where is your source that 99% of those hospitalized with delta are unvaccinated? The
first delta case in the US was back in March and deaths have continued to trend down. Covid
is clearly becoming less deadly as it mutates.
Pfizer Outlines Booster Plans While Regulators Signal CautionByRobert Langreth and
Josh Wingrove July 8, 2021, 5:00 PM EDT
Updated on July 8, 2021, 9:56 PM EDT
Early human data shows third shot raises antibody levels
Federal health agencies say no need for boosters at this time
Pfizer Inc. plans to request U.S. emergency authorization
in August for a third booster dose of its Covid-19 vaccine, based on early data showing that it can sharply increase immune protection
against the coronavirus.
At the same time, however, federal health officials signaled that they would take a cautious approach to potential booster shots,
and underlined that the currently available vaccines are effective at keeping people from being sickened by the coronavirus.
Pfizer has received initial data from an early human study showing that a third dose of its existing coronavirus vaccine is safe
and can raise neutralizing antibody levels by 5 to 10 fold compared with the original vaccine, the company's research head, Mikael
Dolsten, said in an interview.
Once more data is in hand, Pfizer plans to ask the FDA to authorize a booster shot that could be given six to eight months after
the original two doses, Dolsten said. The drugmaker is also talking with regulators in other countries and the European Union about
the new results, he said. Pfizer produces the vaccine in partnership with
BioNTech SE .
The largest drug companies are far more interested in enriching themselves and investors than in developing new drugs, according
to a House committee report released Thursday that argues the industry can afford to charge Medicare less for prescriptions.
The
report by the House Oversight and Reform Committee says that contrary to pharmaceutical industry arguments that large profits
fund extensive research and innovation, the major drug companies plow more of their billions in earnings back into their own stocks,
dividends and executive compensation.
And they can do it largely because Congress has imposed few restrictions on their pricing in the United States" including in the
Medicare program, which is not permitted to negotiate drug prices, House Democrats say.
"What we have found is shocking," said Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.). "Drug companies are actively and intentionally
targeting the United States for price increases, often while cutting prices in the rest of the world."
According to the data crunched by the committee, the 14 largest drug manufacturers paid themselves and investors $578 billion
from 2016 to 2020 through dividends and stock buybacks, while investing $56 billion less" $522 billion" on research and development.
On top of that, the report says, some of that R&D money is spent researching ways to suppress competition, such as by filing hundreds
of new, minor patents on older drugs that make it harder to produce generics.
"Despite Big Pharma's lip service about innovation, many drug companies are not actually spending significant portions of their
research-and-development budget to discover innovative new treatments," Maloney told reporters in a conference call. "Instead, these
companies are spending their research-and-development dollars on finding ways to game the system."
"How can Pharma say with a straight face "¦ that lower drug prices for Americans will have to come at the expense of research
and development?" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked on the call.
The release of the report during a congressional recess seemed aimed at least partly at boosting support for the House Democrats'
Lower Drug
Costs Now Act , which, among other things, would allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices, let Americans with private insurance
pay those same rates and limit U.S. prices to an average price other countries pay.
Pelosi said she would like to see the measure, numbered H.R. 3, included in a massive bill that Democrats are preparing under
what is known as the budget reconciliation process. That process allows taxing and spending bills to be packaged together and get
though the Senate on a simple majority vote exempt from a filibuster. Democrats are expected to use the process for a number of key
initiatives, including possible changes in Medicare eligibility and benefits, outlined by President Joe Biden and congressional leaders
and panned by Republicans.
"With the savings on the lower drug prices, we can invest in transformational improvements in American health care," Pelosi said.
"We have an historic opportunity to do so as we craft the reconciliation bill. We'll see how we proceed there."
Some more moderate Democrats have raised concerns about H.R. 3, in part echoing industry assertions that curbing drugmakers' revenues
might cut their ability to innovate. Pelosi can afford to have only a handful of Democrats defect in the House, and all 50 Democrats
in the Senate are needed to pass a reconciliation measure.
Among the starker examples the report highlights, the company Novo Nordisk spent twice as much on executive pay and buying back
its own stock as on R&D over the five years.
The drugmaker Amgen especially cashed in on the 2017 tax cuts pushed through a Republican Congress, spending five times as much
on buybacks as on research, the report says.
According to the report, if the 14 large companies maintain roughly their current practices, they will pay themselves and investors
$1.15 trillion over the next decade, which the committee notes is double the estimated cost of H.R. 3.
The report also singles out internal documents from the pharmaceutical giant AbbVie as an illustration of "research and development"
being aimed at suppressing cheaper competition, in this case by seeking new minor patent enhancements on the rheumatoid arthritis
drug Humira, which costs $77,000 a year.
"An internal presentation emphasized that one objective of the "˜enhancement' strategy was to "˜raise barriers to competitor ability
to replicate,'" the report says, likely delaying lower-priced biosimilar drugs at least until 2023. It also notes that the company
identified about $5.19 billion in R&D for Humira, about 7.4% of the drug's net U.S. revenue.
In another case, the report highlights an internal presentation from Celgene, which makes the $16,744-a-month cancer drug Revlimid
and has since been bought by Bristol Myers Squibb.
The report says Celgene targeted the United States for its profitable price hikes and admitted in a presentation that it was because
of the country's "highly favorable environment with free-market pricing."
In some other cases, the combined $3.2 billion that the 14 companies' top management earned over the five years was conditioned
on U.S. price hikes.
A spokesperson for Novo Nordisk said its buybacks were entirely justified and included them in what he described as the company's
overall long-term investments.
"These investments have led to the discovery of innovative treatments that have made substantial impacts on peoples' lives," said
Michael Bachner, director of communications for Novo Nordisk.
"Given the complex challenges in the health care system, we remain committed to developing solutions in cooperation with policymakers
and other stakeholders," he said. "We will continue to work towards maintaining a sustainable business that will foster innovation
and provide patients with access to needed new therapies."
Frank Benenati, a spokesperson for AbbVie, took issue with the report's emphasis on Humira's R&D costs. He said the report "is
misleading in that it focuses on the R&D spend for one drug, not the total R&D spend, which was approximately $50 billion since 2013."
Other companies did not immediately answer requests for comment, but a spokesperson for the industry's lobbying arm, the Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of America, said the release of the report was political and aimed at backing legislation that PhRMA said
would harm Medicare.
"While we can't speak to specific examples cited in the report, this partisan exercise is clearly designed to garner support for
an extreme bill that will erode Medicare protections and access to treatments for seniors," said PhRMA spokesperson Brian Newell.
"Every year, biopharmaceutical research companies invest tens of billions of dollars in the research and development of new cures
and treatments, as well as our significant investments in time and resources creating treatments and vaccines to combat the global
pandemic."
Despite the report, he said, net prices on drugs are coming down, when rebates to customers are included. He added that the greater
problems are with high deductibles charged by insurers and with profits taken by middlemen such as pharmacy benefit managers.
"We are committed to working with policymakers on commonsense, bipartisan solutions that address the real challenges patients
face," Newell said. "Working together we can make sure medicines are affordable and accessible for everyone."
It's good Nancy Pelosi said those really mean things about drug companies on the call and Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn
Maloney told us she was shocked SHOCKED the committee found that gambling was going on in the casino and that Dems are pushing
this NOW when they now know for sure they can't pass it because President Machin will veto it.
And kudos to article being fair and balanced by quoting the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America without breaking
out into hysterical laughter:
"Despite the report, he said, net prices on drugs are coming down, when rebates to customers are included. He added that the
greater problems are with high deductibles charged by insurers and with profits taken by middlemen such as pharmacy benefit managers.
"
It's all those millionaire pharmacy managers and assorted working class folk that is driving up the cost of drugs.
I also chuckled at Maloney being SHOCKED, shocked I tell you!
We all known we were fronting the money for R and D and paying the highest prices in the world. We also know that Pelosi and the
rest are not going to do anything about it.
When I was a younger Slim and in the employ of the University of Pittsburgh, I noticed the revered status of Salk Hall. It
was considered to be a very special part of the Pitt campus.
On another note, this part of the post really bopped me over the head:
"[W]ould allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices."
Sounds good, but just how hard of a bargain is Medicare going to drive? IMHO, the harder the better, but won't those Medicare
negotiators eventually want to take jobs in the pharmaceutical industrial complex?
On a somewhat related note, I also worked on the University of Arizona campus. While there, I knew the man who shot that famous
photo of the little girl taking the oral vaccine with numerous adults looking on. Photographer was George Kew, and darn if I can
find that photo online.
"How can Pharma say with a straight face "¦ that lower drug prices for Americans will have to come at the expense of research
and development?" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked on the call.
Because they will cut R&D further to maintain their big pay days and perceived status. Not too subtle. That is what they are
saying.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
Throw in the billions that Big Pharma spends on marketing prescription drugs directly to consumers,
legal only in the US and New Zealand (say it ain't so, Jacinda)
and which can lead to worse health outcomes, and
you have a real problem:
"¦ For health care that is mediated by a clinician's order or prescription,
DTC [Direct To Consumer] advertising by manufacturers increases the need for clinicians
to help patients understand product claims, medical need, cost, and nonmedical alternatives.
Evidence that physicians have been either misled or otherwise persuaded to act based on fraudulent pharmaceutical marketing
in recent decades, however, suggests that professionals may need further education or support to serve as the arbiter of deceptive
marketing.3 Moreover, the expectation that clinicians will prioritize the patient's well-being in making care recommendations
breaks down when the clinician is linked with the manufacturer, as is the case with some advertised products that help patients
to find a physician who can prescribe without ever meeting the patient face to face. Scrutiny of such arrangements to ensure
they do not undermine the intent of existing licensure and regulatory regimes that govern prescribing seems warranted.
"¦ Patients' trust in physicians puts them in a position to help mitigate the harms of DTC advertising. However, trust in
physicians and health care institutions may be at stake if medical marketing by practitioners, health care organizations, and
manufacturers of health care products continues to increase unchecked.
Also, the many perks their salespeople use to get doctors to perscribe
the drugs! Conference attendance and travel, meals, vacations and God
knows what else. After all, the bottom line is the companies have to sell
the drugs in order to make the big profits.
Stock-buy-back operations, were illegal until 1982, when Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman John Shad, a former
Wall Street CEO, redefined unlawful "stock manipulation" to exclude stock buybacks. Another joke on us by R Reagan.
https://banyanhill.com/buybacks-destroy-corporations/
If an SEC Chairman can redefine stock buybacks as not unlawful stock manipulation, then another SEC Chairman can un-redefine
stock buybacks back to being unlawful stock manipulation.
Perhaps Congress could make accepting an SEC Chair nominee contingent upon that nominee's willingness to un-redefine stock
buybacks back to being illegal. Perhaps it the confirmed nominee breaks such a promise, Congress can authorize zero funding for
SEC until SEC Chair issues such a ruling.
This report shows that NIH funding contributed to published research associated with every one of the 210 new drugs approved
by the Food and Drug Administration from 2010""2016. Collectively, this research involved >200,000 years of grant funding totaling
more than $100 billion. The analysis shows that >90% of this funding represents basic research related to the biological targets
for drug action rather than the drugs themselves.
Whereas it's a perverse incentive to tax big oil's corporate profits (because they will just invest in capital improvements
for a business that is already operating beyond full capacity "" a business that needs to be restricted to contain CO2 emissions
as well as conserve oil "" it is a very good idea to tax the crap out of pharma's corporate profits because they haven't been
"capitalists" for as long as I can remember. They need to start being actual modern pharmaceutical companies. They should also
be deprived of any government help-at-all-whatsoever until they stop profiteering, and if they do not comply then it's time to
nationalize them too. Good riddance.
This imbalance between C-suite pay and R&D may be new, but Marcia Angell wrote years ago that big pHRMA paid 55% of its gross
for marketing, but only 15% for R&D (in NYRB). Most of that R&D is targeted at extending the patent life of already patented drugs
(think: "Time release viagra").
Mariana Mazzucato's TED talk about government-as-innovator notes that 75% of pharmaceutical innovation comes from government-funded
research.
Stock-buy-back operations, were illegal until 1982, when Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman John Shad, a former
Wall Street CEO, redefined unlawful "stock manipulation" to exclude stock buybacks. Another joke on us by R Reagan.
https://banyanhill.com/buybacks-destroy-corporations/
The Lower Drug Costs Now Act sounds like a very good idea. U.S. consumers have been overcharged for essential medicines for
far too long. And drug manufacturers unfortunately play a big part in this. But drug prices are also high because of an extensive
chain of rebates (aka kickbacks) between drug manufacturers
and insurers. I hope this legislation will address the price manipulating actions of health insurers and Pharmacy Benefit Managers
as well.
I would like any data on spending for marketing. Just from viewing commercial TV I surmise the ad budget is quite large and
perhaps even greater than when Dr. Angell wrote
"Given how transmissible this variant is," Gottlieb told CBS News' This Week it's likely about 85% of the U.S. population
will end up with some level of Covid-19 immunity.
With about 55% of the population at least partly immune due to vaccination and one-third of Americans having been naturally infected,
Gottlieb noted that millions of Americans remain vulnerable and now have a "choice in terms of how [they] acquire immunity."
Even those immune through natural infection are at heightened risk, Gottlieb said, pointing to data showing immunity among individuals
naturally infected with Covid-19""and particularly those who are older""declines after about eight months.
The physician predicted Covid will effectively act as a "second circulating flu this winter," though he said its prominence "could
be a little worse." CRUCIAL QUOTE
"I wouldn't be declaring mission accomplished. I think this is going to be a long fight," Gottlieb said Sunday. "You're seeing
a decoupling between cases, hospitalizations and deaths because there's so much immunity in the population""not just through vaccination""but
also through prior infection... But this is likely to become an endemic virus. We're going to have to deal with it."
In a brief statement issued on Monday, the government said that as of June 6, the vaccine provided 64% protection against infection.
In May -- when the Alpha variant dominated in Israel and the Delta strain had not yet spread widely -- it found that the shot was
95.3% effective against all infections. The government added that the vaccine was now 93% effective in preventing severe disease
and hospitalizations, compared to 97% reported in the medical journal The Lancet in May. The statement cited top line figures, but
did not release underlying data or other details about its analysis. A team at Hebrew University said in a separate statement that
it was too soon to tell how much the
Delta variant was affecting vaccine efficacy.
In another statement Tuesday, Israel's Ministry of Health released some data about illness caused by Covid-19 and offered an expanded
explanation of the vaccine's protectiveness. Despite an apparent decline in the vaccine's ability to prevent all infections during
the spread of the Delta variant, the statement emphasized its continuing benefit in preventing severe cases.
Israel has deployed the Pfizer vaccine to everyone over the age of 12, and its early and quick rollout gave scientists one of
the first real-world snapshots of its efficacy.
The government said the drop in efficacy is likely due to the spread of the Delta variant in Israel. This more infectious strain
of the virus was first identified in India earlier this year and is also known as B.1.617.2.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN more granular data was
needed to determine the exact reason for the drop in efficacy in Israel. While "the Israelis know what they're doing," the data is
sparse, Fauci said, adding that the circumstances of the reported drop in efficacy are unclear.
Still, Dr. Richard Besser, former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told CNN the data from Israel
is worth paying attention to, because Israel started vaccinating before the US and so "if there's going to be a problem, we'll likely
see it there before we see it here in the United States." "I take this as actually encouraging information, that these vaccines are
still highly effective in terms of preventing hospitalizations, severe illness and death," Besser said.
Social media posts have claimed that those who have received a COVID-19 vaccine are more six times more likely to die from being
infected by variants than those who have not been inoculated. While the data was indeed taken from a Public Health England (PHE)
briefing held in June, it was taken out of context.
Several blogs have spread the claim and screenshots of the blogs are being shared on social media.
The headline of a blog post, published on June 23 by DC Clothesline, reads: "Vaccinated people found to be 600% more likely to
die from covid "variants" than unvaccinated people" ( archive.fo/nF2fM ).
"Death rate from variant COVID virus six times higher for vaccinated than unvaccinated, UK health data show," reads a headline
from a similar blog published in Life Site News on June 18 ( archive.fo/yQAi3
).
Examples of the blogs being shared on social media can be found (
here ), (
here ) and (
here ).
Referring to data compiled by Public Health England (PHE) in a technical briefing released on June 18 regarding the SARS-CoV-2
variants (
here ), the authors of the blogs make several calculations.
On page 12 of the briefing, it shows that 26 people have died since February 1 after testing positive for the Delta variant of
the virus, having also been fully vaccinated for more than two weeks. In total, 4,087 tested positive more than two weeks after their
second dose. Meanwhile, 35,521 people who were unvaccinated tested positive for the Delta variant and 34 people died.
The authors then divide the number of deaths by the total number of people who tested positive for the Delta variant and found
the rate of death to be 0.000957 for unvaccinated individuals and 0.00636 for those who have been inoculated.
In late April Axios
reported
that the United States is expected to run out of adults who want to get vaccinated within the next two to four weeks, citing a recent
Kaiser Family Foundation analysis. According to the authors of the
paper , "It appears we are quite close to the tipping point where demand for rather than supply of vaccines is our primary challenge."¦"
When in July 2021 the belief of vaccine protection at least partially went out of windows after Delta variant baceme the dominant
and Pfizer started talking about booster shots the situation turned to worse.
In early 2020, the scientific community went into hyperdrive to develop not one but several vaccines against COVID-19. In the
US, the government and the medical community worked overtime to set up the infrastructure to get doses into arms around the country.
Clinics and volunteers have jumped into action at a community level to make sure, as of this week, that 58% of adults have gotten
at least one shot and over 70% of those older
than 65 are fully vaccinated.
But all this effort is now hitting up against resistance. Or hesitancy. Or barriers to access. States are cutting back on their
vaccine orders from the federal authorities. Daily vaccination rates have dropped
nearly 20% from last week.
Employers are basically bribing people to get their shots. Millions of
people aren't even bothering to show up for their
second doses.
Yesterday,
the FDA confirmed that the Johnson & Johnson jab may be linked to rare side effects
consistent with a neurological condition known as Guillain-Barré. The news was only the
latest revelation of a rare but potentially life-threatening side effect caused by the
vaccines. Both AstraZeneca and J&J have been linked to cerebral blood clots, while the
Pfizer and Moderna jabs (which use a new technology known as mRNA) have been linked to heart
inflammation in a small number of patients.
Unsurprisingly, the media hasn't devoted much attention to covering these defects.
Authorities like the CDC insist that the benefits of the jabs far outweigh the risks, while Dr.
Fauci took to CNBC Tuesday morning to offer reassurances about J&J's new warning label
while suggesting that private companies do more to coerce Americans to get vaccinated.
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Fortunately for the small number of patients who are potentially at risk of developing a
vaccine-induced side effect, the makers of the AstraZeneca and J&J jabs (which both use
adenovirus technology) are working on modifications that could lower - or eliminate - certain
dangerous side effects, according to
WSJ.
Thanks to help from scientists around the world, early stage research has helped to identify
what's causing the blood clots. Fast-developing clues into how the clots form (driven in part
by independent scientists in Europe, the US and Canada) are boosting hopes of identifying the
cause and possibly re-engineering AstraZeneca's shot by next year, according to some of these
people.
Still, it's too early to know whether either shot can be modified, or whether doing so would
make commercial sense, according to WSJ's anonymous sources.
For both AstraZeneca and J&J, eliminating the rare blood-clotting issues and the other
neurological symptoms described above would be major victories for two companies that have lost
their leading positions in the vaccine race. The changes could even help turn the shots into
"moneymakers."
But first scientists say they need to understand whether the problem is one of the
ingredients in the shots, the purification process or something that's embedded in how the
vaccine's work (which would be a bigger problem). Sarah Gilbert, an Oxford vaccinologist and
co-inventor of the vaccine, says her team is focused on figuring out what exactly triggers the
immune response underpinning the clots.
In other news,
Reuters reports that European regulators haven't received key data and other materials from
the creators of Sputnik V, the Russian-developed vaccine that's already being used by a small
number of EU nations, but is seeking approval for use across the EU.
Sources told Reuters that the failures are likely due to the Gamaleya Institute's lack of
experience in dealing with overseas regulators. "They are not used to working with a regulatory
agency like the EMA," the person close to the agency said, referring to Gamaleya and its
scientists.
A J&J spokesman said the company supports "continued research and analysis as we work
with medical experts and global health authorities." AstraZeneca has said it is "actively
working with the regulators and scientific community to understand these extremely rare
blood-clotting events, including information to drive early diagnosis and intervention, and
appropriate treatment."
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...while the Pfizer and Moderna jabs (which use a new technology known as mRNA) have
been linked to heart inflammation in a small number of patients.
It can't be a small number when there are so many people with major heart complications.
I know one that probably will be disabled for life.
Besides what is a small number or rare? Why they don't report the actual numbers?
Greed is King 5 hours ago (Edited)
Repost: Part of an article I posted in another comment on ZH, together with the link for
the full article.
Vaccine adverse reactions to date of this article (late May 2021)
To date, some 822,845 vaccine adverse reactions have been recorded in the United Kingdom
by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), together with 1,180
deaths.
These figures are across all vaccine types, as detailed in the UK Column COVID-19 vaccine
adverse effects analysis overview below. Please note that the UK Column summary data is
a
presentation of the actual data taken from the UK Government MHRA Yellow Card vaccine
adverse effects data itself.
Unlike the deliberately confusing datasets presented by the MHRA, the UK Column dataset
is presented in a clear and easily searchable database. It should be noted that where
minor
discrepancies in data entries occur, these errors exist in the original MHRA data entries
themselves.
According to the BBC`s news tonight, 45,978,017 people in the UK have had their first
jab, combine this figure with the reported 822,845 adverse side effects (above). A little
maths gives us a percentage of 1.78964 people who have reported side effects. That`s
practically 2 in every 100, or 2%.
The reported deaths of 1,180 gives a vaccine fatality percentage of 0.00256.
Yes the deaths from vaccines are rare, but so is the death from the virus, in fact
there`s very little in it fatality wise.
So overall, I don`t think the jab is worth the risk, because, if you have the virus and
recover as the vast majority do, that`s it, you`ve got antibodies, you`re IMMUNE.
If you have the jab, the adverse side effects keep on giving for who knows how long, and
you`re not immune anyway, and you`re going to need booster jabs every 6-12 months.
in_xanadu_did_kubla_khan 5 hours ago
Try telling that to the "scientists" and health care overlords.
Abbie Normal 4 hours ago
This sounds suspiciously like those iphone 6 bending issues. Apple stated that out of
millions of phones, they only received reports of a couple dozen that bent. But when the 6S
came out the next year, Apple proudly announced that they had resolved the bending issue.
Pretty civil of them to fix it for just a couple dozen users out of millions sold.
So we should just wait for the pharms to get it right in V2 of the next jab?
HonestLee 7 hours ago
Overhead in lab -
Rat 1: "Hey, have you gotten your Covid jab yet?"
Rat 2: "Nah, I'm waitin til the human trials are over"
Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land 7 hours ago
I don't understand? Why would they need to work on modifications to reduce deadly
side-effects? That makes no sense, because they told me it was completely safe and
effective. Were they lying then, or lying now?
TacoNasty 7 hours ago
Right? What exactly are they "modifying" to prevent this auto-immune disorder and if
they actually know how to do that safely, why didn't they do it before the vaccine in the
first place?
The lies around this vaccination campaign have gotten so thick and distorted that it
doesn't even sound like they're speaking English, anymore.
And, if these vaccines even work, why do I still have to wear a mask especially when
Morbidly Obese Middle Aged Democrat politican women don't have to?
wizeye 5 hours ago
This is why it take 8-12 years to get a vaccine to the market, even most of them aren't
really safe at all.
But this shot isn't even a vaccine. It is illegally called a vaccine to win public
acceptance, and illegally put on the market, because there ARE safe effective treatments
for covid. The EUA is illegal.
Some New Jersey residents have become infected with COVID-19 even after receiving a first
dose of the two-shot Moderna or Pfizer COVID vaccine, and a tiny number have developed
"breakthrough infections" more than two weeks after their second dose of the vaccine.
The total number of such cases in New Jersey is not known
So it looks like NJ repeats the pattern observed in Israel -- the rise of cases with Delta
variant despite high level of vaccination. . Looks like they try to hide statistics of infections
among vaccinated... With 70% of adult population vaccinated ( NJ COVID Update- 70%
of adult population in state fully vaccinated - ABC7 New York ) NJ is one of the most highly
vaccinated state and Pfizer vaccine is predominant in this state like in Israel.
Japan warns of 'sense of crisis' about China's threat to conquer Taiwan Sen. Cotton
expresses 'real doubts' about US Navy's ability to defeat China in
The Delta variant of COVID-19 is now the predominant strain in New Jersey, according to
Governor Phil Murphy and health officials.
Pause Current Time 2:03 / Duration 2:12 Unmute 0 LQ CaptionsFullscreen Delta variant now
dominant COVID strain in NJ Click to expand The highly contagious strain that originated in
India and is surging around the globe now accounts for 41% of new variant cases in the Garden
State last month, overtaking the Alpha variant that was first documented in the United
Kingdom.
For the week ending June 26, Delta accounted for 70% of identified variant cases.
... ... ...
More than 5.1 million people have been fully vaccinated in New Jersey, Murphy said, which is
about 66% of the eligible population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, compared with about 56% for the country overall.
The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in New Jersey rose the past two weeks from
235 new cases per day on June 26 to 264 on Sunday.
The seven-day rolling average of daily deaths fell, going from nine deaths a day on June 26
to almost five a day on Sunday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Meanwhile, New Jersey's rate of transmission ticked up above 1 -- to 1.01, for the first
time since late January.
Let me follow up briefly on my post from yesterday on
vaccine hesitancy.
Demeaning people is the first step towards ignoring their interests or even persecuting
them. Jason Brennan urges us to ignore the welfare of the unvaxxed by painting a picture of
them as moral terrorists or extortionists. He holds them responsible for their confusion and
fears. He pretends that everyone is well-informed and knows how to evaluate scientific
evidence, and that everyone has loads of time to keep up on the latest covid news. Then he
blames people who fail to get vaccinated for their poor choices.
These are the key facts, as I see the matter:
Many people are not vaccinated, vaccination rates are slowing, rates of hesitancy are
high.
Most unvaccinated people are not hard-core anti-vaxxers. Many are busy or have difficulty
figuring out how or where to get vaccinated. Some are scared of needles. Some just worry
about the safety of the vaccines. Young people are likely to prove difficult to vaccinate,
because they are at very low risk of dying from covid.
Unvaccinated people are a threat to themselves, to people who for medical reasons cannot
be vaccinated (a small group, apparently), and to people who are vaccinated but have
compromised immune systems. They are also (presumably) a very, very small risk to people who
are relatively healthy and vaccinated.
I got covid in December during a visit to the hospital. While I was in the hospital –
with an active diagnosis of covid, being cared for by doctors and nurses whose job it was to
care for people with active covid – I had several nurses who said they would not get
vaccinated, at least not right away. My sense is they were worried about possible side-effects.
They were not malevolent, they were (relatively) well-informed about the risks of covid and of
the vaccines, and they were not as far as I could tell making a political statement. Their
worries were understandable, but their planned choices were (arguably) terribly misguided given
their high exposure at work.
We owe it to the unvaxxed to at least try to persuade them to get vaccinated. This means
spending money: on education, outreach, transportation. It means doing research to figure out
what works. Maybe we should go further and pressure people to get vaxxed or use positive
incentives (money, beer, pot) to get everyone to vax up. The case for using pressure and/or
incentives is strengthened by third party benefits.
The Biden administration needs to orchestrate a vaccination campaign taking into account our
polarized political situation. That's hard. Polarization means that the government cannot
simply require people to get vaxxed; even pressuring them will be controversial. It means that
people need to hear pro-vax messages from people they trust – their doctors, religious
leaders, family members, etc., not from politicians. This makes communication much more
difficult. President Biden can get lots of free press to spread the word on vaccines, but if
vaccination becomes closely associated with him some Republicans may decline to get their
shots.
Brennan's characterization of the situation is uncharitable, inaccurate, and politically
destructive. May 13, 2021 6:51 am
I can see both sides, but neither in a very good light. It is easy for one to make good
decisions when one has all the relevant information, but it is not a realistic expectation for
most of life's important decisions. Everyone is afraid of something and most people are ruled
by their worst fears. Good judgement seems to be a lost art.
Far-right U.S. news outlet The Epoch Times reported on March 6 that 966 people had
died after having the Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccines.
The report said it had drawn the data from VAERS reports between December 14, 2020 and
February 19, 2021.According to the report, 472 people died after receiving a Moderna vaccine,
while 489 died after receiving a Pfizer vaccine. Additionally, five people died after receiving
a jab from an unknown manufacturer.
The report also included data on age group and gender. It showed the largest proportion of
deaths -- 29 percent -- occurred in people ages 80 to 89. It also showed males accounted for 55
percent of deaths to 43 percent of females. It said the deaths had occurred between 0 and 49
days after vaccination, with 94 unknown.
The article has been shared on Twitter , and users have gained hundreds of
retweets and likes from posting a screenshot of the VAERS data reported by The Epoch
Times .
The Facts
There are hundreds of reports of people having died after getting a COVID vaccine, but that
does
not necessarily mean the vaccine was the cause.
Using WONDER, the CDC's VAERS database search tool, Newsweek gathered adverse report
data specifically on deaths following a COVID vaccine from Moderna or Pfizer. It is important
to note that our data contained VAERS reports processed as of February 26.
Newsweek selected only deaths as an adverse event, and selected the COVID vaccine as
the only vaccine in the dataset. We specified Pfizer and Moderna as the vaccine manufacturers.
We also chose our symptom onset interval as "All days," which ranges from 0 to over 120 days.
We did not specify gender or age in the overall results. Our time frame ran from the earliest
possible dates, "before 1990," to ensure every COVID vaccine was included.
Our VAERS result showed 970 people died after being given a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine shot.
Of those deaths, 495 occurred following a Moderna shot, and 475 occurred following a Pfizer
shot. Newsweek contacted Pfizer and Moderna for comment.
Just a few days ago, researchers
warned people that one specific mild COVID-19 vaccine side effect could appear several
days after the first or second dose, rather than immediately: skin issues, including redness
and rashes. These adverse reactions were observed after the Moderna jabs -- especially after
the first dose. They're not a cause of concern, and they tend to disappear on their own within
a few days.
The CDC made a few changes to its coronavirus vaccine guidelines on Friday, adding three new
side effects to the list. Initially,
the agency described six potential adverse reactions. Two are local (pain and swelling),
and four are systemic (fever, chills, tiredness, and headache), as seen below.
The new guidelines
include nine possible coronavirus vaccine side effects. In addition to pain and swelling on the
arm where the shot is administered, people might also experience redness. As for the systemic
reactions, the CDC added muscle pain and nausea to the list. Muscle pain should not be confused
with pain at the site of injection.
These reactions are an indication that the immune system is responding to the perceived
threat -- the vaccine -- and developing immunity. Coronavirus antibodies should begin to appear
about two weeks after the first jab, and maximum protection is obtained about two weeks after
the second injection.
The guidelines also provide helpful tips for dealing with the side effects. "Talk to your
doctor about taking over-the-counter medicine, such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen, aspirin, or
antihistamines, for any pain and discomfort you may experience after getting vaccinated," the
guidelines read. "You can take these medications to relieve post-vaccination side effects if
you have no other medical reasons that prevent you from taking these medications normally."
The CDC also reminds people that it's not recommended to take these medications before
vaccination in an effort to prevent the side effects.
After vaccination, people can use cool, wet cloths over the vaccine area to reduce pain and
discomfort, and use or exercise the arm. Drinking plenty of fluids and dressing lightly can
help with the general side effects that might appear. The CDC advises people to inform their
doctors if these side effects do not go away after a few days. If the redness or tenderness in
the arm gets worse after 24 hours, people should also consider contacting a doctor.
The CDC's info about coronavirus vaccine side effects is available at this link .
The Food and Drug Administration is planning to warn that Johnson & Johnson's
coronavirus vaccine can lead to an increased risk of a rare neurological condition known as
Guillain–Barré syndrome, another setback for a vaccine that has largely been
sidelined in the United States because of manufacturing problems and a temporary safety pause
earlier this year, according to several people familiar with the plans.
Although regulators have found that the chances of developing the condition are low, they
appear to be three to five times higher among recipients of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
than among the general population in the United States, according to people familiar with the
decision.
Federal officials have identified roughly 100 suspected cases of Guillain-Barré
disease among recipients of the Johnson & Johnson shot through a federal monitoring system
that relies on patients and health care providers to report adverse effects of vaccines. The
reports are considered preliminary. Most people who develop the condition recover.
... ... ...
Nearly 13 million people in the United States have received Johnson & Johnson's shot,
but 92 percent of Americans who have been fully vaccinated received shots developed by
Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna. Even though it requires only one dose, Johnson & Johnson's
vaccine has been marginalized by manufacturing delays and a 10-day pause while investigators
studied whether it was linked to a rare but serious blood clotting disorder in women. That
investigation also resulted in a warning added to the fact sheet.
... ... ...
Johnson & Johnson's vaccine has played a minor role in the nation's inoculation campaign
partly because the Baltimore plant that was supposed to supply most of the doses to the United
States has been shut down for three months because of regulatory violations. The factory,
operated by Emergent BioSolutions, a subcontractor, has been forced to throw out the equivalent
of 75 million doses because of suspected contamination, severely delaying deliveries to the
federal government.
... ... ...
The Guillain-Barré cases are expected to be discussed in an upcoming meeting of a
committee of outside experts who advise the C.D.C.
The F.D.A. has also attached a warning to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, but some
health officials described that as less serious than the warnings about Johnson & Johnson.
Last month, the agency warned about an increased risk of inflammation of the heart or the
tissue surrounding it -- diseases known as myocarditis and pericarditis -- particularly among
adolescents and young adults who had received Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna shots. But the C.D.C.
said in most cases, symptoms promptly improved after simple rest or medication.
The Guillian-Barré syndrome is more likely to result in medical intervention,
officials said. It occurs when the immune system damages nerve cells, causing muscle weakness
and occasional paralysis, according to the F.D.A. Several thousand people -- or roughly 10 out
of every one million residents -- develop the condition every year in the United States. Most
fully recover from even the most severe symptoms, but in rare cases patients can suffer
near-total paralysis.
The suspected cases were reported in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, a
30-year-old federal monitoring system. So far, researchers have not identified any particular
demographic pattern, but the many of the reports in the publicly available database indicate
that the patients were hospitalized.
Guillain-Barré syndrome has also been linked to other vaccines. The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention has said that flu vaccines, including the 1976 swine flu
vaccine, led to a small increased risk of contracting the syndrome, although some studies
suggested that people are more likely to develop Guillain-Barré from the flu itself than
from flu vaccines. Earlier this year, the F.D.A. warned that GlaxoSmithKline's shingles
vaccine, Shingrix, could also increase the risk of the disease.
If nothing else, this simply demonstrates that "the science" is no longer the priority for
either Big Pharma, nor the federal government, since Big Pharma is now focused on maximizing
profits from its new cash cow, while the federal government is calibrating everything it says
and does with an eye toward encouraging as many American adults as possible to get
vaccinated.
And if people read that they're going to need a booster shot in a few months anyway, why
would they bother getting vaccinated now?
Anyway, having been stymied in the US, Pfizer is trudging ahead with its "booster shot"
plans by striking a deal to expedite resupply to Israel, which is planning to administer a
third "booster" jab to patients with certain high-risk comorbidities starting Aug. 1.
The
Jerusalem Post reports that the next shipment of Pfizer jabs will arrive on Aug. 1 instead
of in September (Israel also has 200K doses of Moderna on hand, but those can only be used on
adult patients).
Israeli PM Naftali Bennett said Sunday: "We have been working on the issue of vaccines for
several weeks," Bennett said. "This morning, I am pleased to announce that after a series of
discussions with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, we closed a deal last night to move up the next
vaccination delivery to August 1." "There are vaccines for everyone."
Last week, Israel announced it had agreed on a vaccine-exchange deal with South Korea. Under
the terms of the deal, Israel delivered some 700K doses to South Korea, which it will return
when it receives its next vaccine delivery.
And as we noted earlier, immuno-compromised patients will be able to receive their third
shot starting immediately, said Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz.
In the meantime, Israel continues to register a higher number of daily cases. At the
beginning of June, some 10-20 people were found to be new virus carriers every day. Currently,
several hundred are testing positive on a daily basis. The number of active cases (which had
shrunk to 200 recently) has rebounded to 4,000.
Pfizer will meet with top US health officials on Monday to discuss Pfizer's push to receive
federal authorization for its booster shot, according to
the Associated Press.
"Certainly, immunity decreases over time...the question is how much time," one doctor told
CNBC during an interview Monday morning.
Before Delta arrived in Israel, some believed the country had reached "herd immunity". But
as Dr. Scott Gottlieb and others have pointed out, COVID is now endemic in the human
population, and reaching "COVID zero", a standard that Israel is aiming at, simply might not be
possible. Israeli officials have already acknowledged that with the large percentage of
Israeli's vaccinated, deaths and hospitalizations associated with COVID will likely continue to
decline, even if the number of new cases does rise.
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Israel Vaccination Statistics from The
Lancet
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Take away....
The Vaccine" failed to achieve a 1% increase in the survival rate between the vaccinated
and the unvaccinated.
6,400 total deaths since day 1 of Covid19
36 deaths under the age of 45
1,500 deaths were under the age of 70
76.56% of Covid19 deaths in Israel were over the age of 70
18% of deaths were OVER 90 years old!
1,127,965 people age 65+
1,015,620 were fully vaccinated
112,345 were not vaccinated
The medicines safety body said the benefits of Covid vaccines continue to far outweigh any
risks.
But doctors and patients have been advised to be aware of the symptoms of heart
inflammation.
These include chest pain, a feeling of breathlessness and a pounding or fluttering
heartbeat. Anyone with these symptoms should see a doctor.
Two conditions were linked to the vaccines - inflammation of the heart muscle itself, known
as myocarditis, and inflammation of the fluid-filled sac the heart sits in, known as
pericarditis.
The EMA analysis of cases found:
Pfizer-BioNTech - 145 cases of myocarditis and 138 cases of pericarditis out of 177m
doses given
Moderna - 19 case of myocarditis and 19 cases of pericarditis out of 20 million doses
given
Five people died. The review said they were all either elderly or had other health
conditions.
The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has also been
investigating the link.
It reported: "A consistent pattern of cases occurring more frequently in young males and
shortly after the second dose of the vaccines.
"These reports are extremely rare, and the events are typically mild with individuals
usually recovering within a short time with standard treatment and rest," it added.
Most cases are thought to be within 14 days of vaccination.
While the risk is very rare, it is more likely to develop in young people - who are
currently the focus on the vaccination campaign in the UK.
"The chance of these conditions occurring is very low, but you should be aware of the
symptoms so that you can get prompt medical treatment to help recovery and avoid
complications," the EMA said.
The link with heart inflammation was found only in the vaccines that rely on mRNA technology
to train the immune system.
The was no link found for vaccines such as Oxford-AstraZeneca or Janssen, which use a
genetically modified virus.
However, the EMA has advised anyone with a history of capillary leak syndrome should not be
given the Janssen vaccine. This is a rare but serious syndrome in which fluid leaks from blood
vessels in the body.
Keith Speights: Some findings were recently published in Nature magazine that
indicate that the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna vaccines may provide protection for
years.
Many investors are and were hoping for annual recurring revenue from these companies'
vaccines. Brian, how troublesome is this latest data for the prospects for Pfizer, BioNTech,
and Moderna?
Brian Orelli: There's a bit of an extrapolation going on here. The researchers looked at
memory B cells, which tend to provide more long-term protection than, let's say, antibodies.
They looked at those in the lymph nodes and found the cells were there as long as 15 weeks.
Typically, they'd mostly be gone by four to six weeks. So that's the basis of this claim
that it could offer protection for years. If true, that will be a big blow obviously to vaccine
makers, at least for Moderna and BioNTech.
Pfizer would be fine because it's so diversified. It's really hard to make an argument for
the valuations of Moderna and BioNTech right now if these vaccines are one and done over a
couple of years. They really need to have ongoing sales until they can get growth from other
drugs in their pipelines.
Speights: Brian, when I first saw the story, I went to check out to see how the stocks were
performing, and Moderna is up, BioNTech was barely changed, Pfizer barely changed. It seems to
me that investors really aren't making much of this news. Do you think that's the right take at
this point?
Orelli: I think it's still too early to be able to conclude that it's definitely going to
work for years. The other issue is that we're looking at, will those B cells actually protect
against the variants?
If they don't protect against the variants, then it doesn't really matter if you have B
cells in your lymph nodes. If they're not going to protect against the variants then we're
going to have to get a booster shot anyway.
Speights: Right. Obviously, if these vaccines provide immunity for multiple years, these
companies aren't going to make nearly as much money as they expect and a lot of investors
expect. So this is a big story to watch, but like you said, really, really early right now and
too soon to maybe go drawing any conclusions at this point.
The delta variant was estimated by health officials is perhaps twice as contagious as the
original virus and at least 20 percent more contagious than Alpha.. It was first identified in
India a wave of infections there in April and May.
LaCount has lived in Grand Junction, Colo., a city of 64,000, nearly her whole life. As a
hospital pathologist, she knows better than most that her hometown has become one of the
nation's top breeding grounds for the delta variant of COVID-19.
"The delta variant's super scary," LaCount said.
That highly transmissible variant, first detected in India, is now
the dominant COVID-19 strain in the United States. Colorado is among the top
states with the highest proportion of the delta variant, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
Mesa County has the most delta variant cases of any county in Colorado, state health
officials report, making the area a hot spot within a hot spot. A CDC team and the state's
epidemiologist traveled to Grand Junction to investigate how and why cases of the variant were
moving so quickly in Mesa County.
... ... ...
A few yards away from LaCount and her son on the playground, a man fished in a still pond
with his 10-month-old daughter in a backpack. Garrett Whiting, who works in construction, said
he believes COVID is still being "blown out of proportion," especially by the news media.
"They got everybody scared really, really fast," said Whiting, slowly reeling in a sparkly
blue lure from the water. "There's no reason to stop living your life just because you're
scared of something."
Whiting tested positive for COVID about three months earlier. He said he doesn't plan to get
vaccinated, nor does his wife. As for the baby on his back, he said he's not sure whether
they'll have her vaccinated when regulators approve the shot for young children.
Warnings
from around the world
The delta variant is one of four " variants of
concern " circulating in the U.S., according to the CDC, because the delta strain spreads
more easily, might be more resistant to treatment and might be better at infecting vaccinated
people than other variants.
The delta variant has raised alarms around the world. Parts of Australia have
locked down again after health officials said the variant leapfrogged its way from an
American aircrew to a birthday party
where it infected
all unvaccinated guests , and after it also is reported to have jumped between shoppers in
a "
scarily fleeting " moment in which two people walked past each other in a mall.
A rise in delta variant cases delayed the United Kingdom's planned reopening in June. But
public health officials have
concluded after studying about 14,000 cases of the delta variant in that country that full
vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 96% effective against hospitalization. Studies
around the
world have made similar findings. There is also evidence the Moderna and Johnson &
Johnson vaccines
are effective against the variant.
Los Angeles
County recently recommended that residents resume wearing masks indoors regardless of
vaccination status, over concern about the delta variant. The World Health Organization is
also urging vaccinated people to wear masks, though the CDC hasn't changed its guidelines
allowing vaccinated people to gather indoors without masks.
After months of data collection, scientists agree: The delta variant is the most contagious
version of the coronavirus worldwide. It spreads about
225% faster than the original version of the virus, and it's currently dominating the
outbreak in the United States.
A new study,
published online Wednesday, sheds light on why. It finds that the variant grows more
rapidly inside people's respiratory tracts and to much higher levels, researchers at the
Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
On average, people infected with the delta variant had about 1,000 times more copies of the
virus in their respiratory tracts than those infected with the original strain of the
coronavirus, the study reported.
In addition, after someone catches the delta variant, the person likely becomes infectious
sooner. On average, it took about four days for the delta variant to reach detectable levels
inside a person, compared with six days for the original coronavirus variant.
In the study, scientists analyzed COVID-19 patients involved in the first outbreak of the
delta variant in mainland China, which occurred between May 21 and June 18 in Guangzhou, the
capital of Guangdong province. The researchers measured the levels of virus in 62 people
involved in that outbreak and compared them with the levels in 63 patients infected in 2020
with an early version of the virus.
Their findings suggest that people who have contracted the delta variant are likely
spreading the virus earlier in the course of their infection.
And the scientists underscore the importance of quarantining immediately for 14 days after
coming into contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19, as the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention recommends.
Or even better, getting fully vaccinated. Preliminary data shows that in some U.S. states,
99.5% of COVID-19 deaths in the past few months were among people who weren't vaccinated, the
CDC's director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said Thursday at the White House.
"We know that the delta variant ... is currently surging in pockets of the country with low
vaccination rates," Walensky said. "We also know that our authorized vaccines prevent severe
disease, hospitalization and death from the delta variant."
Los Angeles County is reporting a 165 percent spike in coronavirus infections in a single
week amid the rise of the highly contagious delta variant.
The L.A. County Department of Public Health said in
a statement that 839 new coronavirus infections had been reported as of Thursday. The daily
average case rate is at 3.5 per 100,000 people, up from last week's 1.74 cases per 100,000
people.
The agency said that the delta variant of the coronavirus first identified in India has
become the most commonly sequenced variant in the county since the beginning of June, and now
accounts for the majority of variants identified by labs, "consistent with what other parts of
the U.S. are seeing."
...According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the variant now makes up the
majority of new cases in the United States, driving spikes in infections in several states.
...The county said that slightly less than 4 million of its residents are still not
vaccinated, while 4.6 million are fully vaccinated.
... There are currently 296 people hospitalized, of which 24 percent are in intensive
care.
The Alpha version of supposed SARS-CoV-2 was supposedly the most transmissible and
infectious pathogen ever. With a transmission rate of at least 3.8 and reported to be perhaps
as high as 9.
Meaning each infected person infects at least 3.8 other people, and perhaps up to nine.
During the year we were told one infected choir singer passed the infection on to at least 220
people in one church. If Delta is 50-60% more infectious than Alpha, then each person will
infect at least six others. Perhaps dozens.
The problem with that, is Delta is from last year in August. That is when it was first
"identified". A pathogen that infectious would have infected over 8 billion people in less than
five weeks.
The supposed Alpha strain would have infected the entire world by the middle of last June.
After a year, the cases would measure in the trillions if the exponential progression
continued. Obviously there aren't trillions of people on the planet.
What that proves is either SARS-CoV-2 isn't as infectious as claimed, or every single person
on the planet has been exposed multiple times and simply didn't even know.
There is a certain definitive fact. Whatever the government tells you is for sure an
absolute lie. lay_arrow
OliverAnd 7 hours ago
Mutations are usually deleterious; one small percentage will mutate into a strain that
may be more or less pathogenic; the purpose of the mutation is so that the virus becomes
less pathogenic so that it can live symbiotically with its host.
We humans are a hilarious bunch; for example we sleep with whores knowing they are
walking STD labs catching herpes, HPV, gonorrhea, etc increasing our chances of cancer
while decreasing our lives by decades, yet we worry about getting vaccinated. We eat
processed foods, junk food, high sugar and salt foods, smoke, speed, drink, etc taking many
years off our lives yet we worry about a jab. Where are all those people not wanting the
vaccine? They are eating at the fast food chains sleeping with that one who has been around
the block stressed out because they are unable to go shopping with their empty pockets.
Q. The Delta variant (first identified in India) is estimated to be 50-60% more
transmissible than the Alpha variant (first identified in the UK). How effective are the
Western vaccines against the Delta variant?
A. While the Delta variant weighs on the efficacy of vaccines (and especially single doses)
at preventing infections (especially asymptomatic infections), Pfizer and AstraZeneca full
vaccinations remain highly effective at protecting hospitalizations, and Moderna and J&J
lab results look encouraging
A study from Public Health England estimates elevated Delta-specific efficacies at
preventing hospitalizations of 94%/96% after one/two Pfizer doses and 71%/92% after one/two
AstraZeneca doses. Public Health England estimates lower efficacies at preventing symptomatic
disease after two doses for Pfizer of 88% and 60% for AstraZeneca. Similarly, a new study from
Canada also estimates an 87% efficacy of full Pfizer vaccinations to prevent symptomatic
disease. The symptomatic efficacy, however, is lower after one dose and estimated at one-third
for both Pfizer and AstraZeneca in the English study, and 56%/72% for Pfizer/Moderna in the
Canadian study
Yesterday, Israel's Health Ministry reported a 64% effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine in
preventing any infections and a 93% effectiveness in preventing hospitalizations. The 64%
estimate likely corresponds to the effectiveness to prevent both asymptomatic and symptomatic
infections while the studies from England and Canada and clinical trials assess symptomatic
infections. Taken at face value, these headline numbers suggest a reduced ability of the Pfizer
vaccine to stop the transmission of Delta infections relative to previously dominant strains,
although the "additional" infections are more likely to be asymptomatic.
Finally, in vitro studies from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson demonstrate their ability
to neutralize the Delta variant with neutralizing titers that were lower compared to the
ancestral strain but higher than for the Beta variant (first identified in South Africa), where
high efficacy against severe disease was clinically demonstrated.
Q. How effective are the Eastern vaccines against the Delta variant?
A. Although data remain very limited, Chinese and Russian expert commentary and clinical
trial results from India's Bharat Biotech suggest that the Sinopharm, Sputnik V, and Bharat
Biotech vaccines provide solid protection against severe disease.
Q. What about Delta's impact on reinfection risk?
A. Although the data are particularly limited, research and experts suggest that prior
infections continue to provide some protection against Delta, especially against severe
disease.
Q. The UK is experiencing a surge in infections although hospitalizations and especially
fatalities remain relatively low (Exhibit 2). What drives this "decoupling" and will it
continue?
A. This mostly reflects the concentration of new infections among younger individuals but
also a stronger vaccine protection against hospitalizations than against infections (especially
for AstraZeneca). We therefore expect this decoupling to continue.
Q. Are infections and hospitalizations/fatalities also "decoupling" outside of the UK?
A. Most other economies with high vaccination rates and Delta outbreaks are also
experiencing this decoupling, although it is particularly pronounced in the UK. We expect
hospitalizations to remain relatively low in high vaccination countries.
Q. Does the virus still matter for activity in North America and Europe if hospitalizations
stay low?
A. Yes. The virus GDP drag should, however, be much diminished and reflects travel
restrictions, consumer risk aversion, and lingering softness in labor supply
... ... ...
Q. The Delta variant has raised the theoretical bar to achieve herd immunity to probably at
least 85% of the population. Does vaccine hesitancy imply that countries will never approach
such high immunity levels?
A. Not necessarily, and many medical experts believe the coronavirus will eventually turn
from a pandemic to an endemic stage. The Delta variant likely implies higher ultimate
vaccination rates (and immunity rates). In fact, further outbreaks appear to be sharply
boosting demand in several countries, including the US, China, Australia, Israel, and
especially Portugal (Exhibit 13).
EatMyAssLibtards 9 hours ago
How anyone can believe this $hit anymore is a question not even God would have an answer
for
Four chan 6 hours ago
ITS GLOBALIST ******** FOLKS.
MaxmaxExtreme 5 hours ago remove link
Wait until the vaccine pushers hear about booster shots until the day they die, or
rather until it kills them.
The Ingenious Gentleman 7 hours ago
The vaccine is the new god. People who get it seem to positively religious about getting
others to do the same. Almost like they have been programmed.
Nona Yobiznes 5 hours ago
Have you seen the reddit community called ChurchOfCOVID? Worth checking out for some
laughs.
HowdyDoody 3 hours ago
What has happened to Goldman Sacks? They are way behind the curve. Delta is yesterday's
news. Lambda is where the action is.
The World Health Organization is recommending that everyone, even the fully vaccinated,
continue to wear masks because of the highly transmissible variant.
In an alarming new development, the particularly transmissible delta variant of COVID-19 has infected some
fully vaccinated adults in Israel, officials there have reported.
Of more than 100 daily cases amid an outbreak of the delta variant, half were children
younger than 16.
... Spurred by the new information, the Israeli government has now reimposed an indoor mask
mandate and quickly expanded its vaccination program to include children ages 12 to 15.
The World Health Organization
on Friday also warned everyone, even those fully vaccinated, to
"play it safe" and continue to wear a mask and maintain social distancing in light of the
large numbers of people who remain unvaccinated and the emergence of the delta variant, which
it called the "
most transmissible " form of the coronavirus identified to date.
"People cannot feel safe just because they had the two doses. They still need to protect
themselves," Dr. Mariangela Simao, WHO assistant director-general for access to medicines, said
at a news briefing in Geneva. "Vaccine alone won't stop community transmission."
"People need to continue to use masks consistently, be in ventilated spaces, [use] hand
hygiene ... [practice] physical distance, avoid crowding."
Critique of this finding by Reuters look weak. I think the finding still stands and is an
interesting statistics pointing to the unforeseen danger of vaccination.
Referring to data compiled by Public Health England (PHE) in a technical briefing released
on June 18 regarding the SARS-CoV-2 variants (
here ), the authors of the blogs make several calculations.
On page 12 of the briefing, it shows that 26 people have died since February 1 after testing
positive for the Delta variant of the virus, having also been fully vaccinated for more than
two weeks. In total, 4,087 tested positive more than two weeks after their second dose.
Meanwhile, 35,521 people who were unvaccinated tested positive for the Delta variant and 34
people died.
The authors then divide the number of deaths by the total number of people who tested
positive for the Delta variant and found the rate of death to be 0.000957 for unvaccinated
individuals and 0.00636 for those who have been inoculated.
... ... ...
In England, approximately 85% of the adult population have had one dose of a COVID-19
vaccine and 65% are fully inoculated, Dr Cevik said.
"When most people are vaccinated, most infections and deaths are expected to be among those
vaccinated," she added.
The vaccination program also prioritised "clinically vulnerable" individuals, and thus the
majority of those vaccinated will "disproportionately represent elderly and those with
underlying comorbidities, who are already at significant risk of hospitalisation and death," Dr
Cevik, said.
The posts do not consider the overall higher number of cases due to the Delta variant for
those who are unvaccinated compared to those who are inoculated (
here ).
That means that 64% of vaccinated can get Delta variant and spread it. This is the last nail
in the coffin of idiotic (in case of coronaviruses) Fauci idea of "herd immunity" and connected
with this fiasco of (1)vaccination of teenagers (and generally people younger then 30), pregnant
women and people who already recovered from COVID-19 and thus has natural immunity
Please note that COVID vaccines are experimental, unproven drugs (or gene therapy in case of
Pfizer and Moderna) and Fauci and other high level medical bureaucrats should be liable for any
negative consequences of this campaign.
The Israeli Ministry of Health announced that an epidemiological analysis had found that
since June 6 there was a "marked decline in the efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine in preventing
infection (64%) and symptomatic illness (64%)."
"This decline has been observed simultaneously with the spread of the Delta variant in
Israel," t he
ministry said in a statement .
At the same time, "The vaccine maintains an efficacy rate of about 93% in preventing serious
illness and hospitalization cases," the officials emphasized.
... Professor Nadav Davidovitch, who sits on the government's expert advisory committee on
the coronavirus, told the Financial Times
the new finding was based on "preliminary" figures gathered by health authorities. "Delta is a
lot more infectious, but appears to not lead to as much serious illness and death, especially
given that we now have the vaccine," he said.
It included this kind of statement "Thus, we need to accept that around 16 cases will
develop severe adverse reactions from COVID-19 vaccines per 100,000 vaccinations delivered,
and approximately four people will die from the consequences of being vaccinated per 100,000
vaccinations delivered....Adopting the point estimate of NNTV = 16,000 (95% CI,
9000–50,000) to prevent one COVID-19-related death, for every six (95% CI, 2–11)
deaths prevented by vaccinationwe may incur four deaths as a consequence of or associated
with the vaccination.
Simply put: As we prevent three deaths by vaccinating, we incur two deaths."
Another case of Swiss-paid research (as in the time of Tobacco is good?) or do they have a
point? After all, even Cuba, Russia and Iran see the need for vaccinating their
populations.
Israel was one of the first countries to get the Pfizer-BioNTech treatment some time last
year after then-PM Netanyahu pushed Israel to the front of the queue using means both fair
and foul (but perhaps more on the foul side).
The Israel People's Committee, comprised of people with medical, legal and epidemiological
expertise,
released a summary report of the country's experience with mass inoculation of the
Pfizer-BioNTech treatment in April this year. It does not make for very comforting reading so
maybe I'll allow Doctors 4 Covid Ethics to take up the narrative:
... The data collected by the group paint a grim picture:
- The overall mortality in the January-February vaccination period was higher in 2021
than in any other year within the preceding decade. In the age group of 20–29 years,
mortality in this time period exceeded that of the previous year by 32%.
- 288 deaths overall, mostly within the first 10 days after vaccination, were reported
to the group. This number is more than six times greater than the 45 deaths officially
admitted to by the Health ministry.
- The group gives the following estimates for the mortality among the vaccinated:
overall, 1:5,000; age 20–49 years, 1:13,000; age 50–69 years, 1:6,000; age 70+,
1:1,600.
- Across lethal and non-lethal adverse events there was a relatively high rate of
cardiac-related injuries, 26% of which occurred in young people below the age of 40, a high
prevalence of massive vaginal bleeding, neurological, skeletal and skin damage, and events
directly or indirectly related to coagulopathy (myocardial infarction, stroke,
miscarriages, disruption of blood flow to the limbs and pulmonary embolism).
According to the authors, the compilation of the report was severely hampered by
obstruction on the part of government authorities, involving in particular the shutting
down of all monitoring and tracking systems for adverse events ...
dustbunny,
sorry to say but the list of signatories is very impressive.
for the videos i watched of the 1st name in the list, he is not at all anti-vaxx, as he
states plainly in his talks.
Cheers. I understand part of Israel's sweetheart deal with Pfizer involves keeping most
data collected secret and sharing it only with the company so I'm not surprised data is hard
to come by. The instances of 'coagulopathy' are new to me, likely a different mechanism than
the cause of the AZ/J&J problems. The makers of Sputnik V have identified a possible
cause
of the adenovirus
clotting disorder so hopefully they are looking into the mRNA vaccines also.
Summary paragraph
Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 are based on a range ofnovelvaccine platforms, with
adenovirus-based approaches (like ChAdOx1 nCov-19)being one of them.Recently a rare and
novel complication of SARS-CoV-2 targeted adenovirus vaccines has emerged: thrombosis with
thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS). TTS is characterized bylow platelet counts,clot formation
at unusual anatomic sites and platelet-activating PF4-polyanion antibodies reminiscent
ofheparin-induced thrombocytopenia. Here, we employ in vitro and in vivo models to
characterize the possible mechanisms of this platelet-targeted autoimmunity. We show
thatintravenous but not intramuscular injection of ChAdOx1 nCov-19triggers
platelet-adenovirus aggregate formation andplatelet activation. After intravenous
injection, theseaggregates are phagocytosedby macrophagesin the spleenandplatelet remnants
are found in the marginal zone and follicles. This is followed by a pronounced B-cell
response with the emergence of circulating antibodies binding to platelets. Our work
contributes to the understanding of TTS and highlights accidental intravenous injection as
potentialmechanism for post-vaccination TTS. Hence,safe intramuscular injection, with
aspiration prior to injection,could bea potential preventive measurewhen administering
adenovirus-based vaccines.
(emphasis mine.)
This is the very recent research that I mentioned
earlier in the thread but without attribution.
Not sure if the reaction as described in the article is triggered by the protein
impurities that Gamaleya claims to have found in the AstraZeneca vaccine.
mrna vaccines haven't been promoted as experimental... that is indeed what they
are..
Posted by: james | Jul 4 2021 20:56 utc | 41
The idea for mRNA vaccines has been around for about three decades, but until last year
clinical evidence of their efficacy was minimal. I thus was skeptical about the ones
developed for covid but so far it seems that they do work. Still, it remains to be determined
whether they are as good as traditional vaccines.
You are absolutely correct that all new vaccines and drugs are experimental at first
(whether people realize it or not), but the rules are that clinical trials must show safety
and efficacy before these are licensed for use in the general population. Sometimes things
that are useless or even harmful still manage to get pushed through, which is why postmarket
safety surveillance is so important.
It does raise questions that the cheap, non-profit, one-shot J&J, which did not need
special storage, got various problems that may also be related to the production of the
vaccines (one case was publicized, https://time.com/5951709/johnson-johnson-covid-19-vaccine-error/).
All in all, it seems to have caused less critical effects than Pfizer, but its seems Pfizer
was "lucky" on that (grin).
What are the most common side effects from the Pfizer vaccine? It's the only one available
in my country as the Govt only accepts vaccines with 90%+ effectiveness and of the four
vaccines we did deals for (Pfizer, AZ, J&J, Novavax) only Pfizer measures up (haven't
heard about results from Novavax, too far down the queue for Moderna and Sputnik V doesn't
exist apparently as we are a 5 eyes country).
Heard of allergic reactions that can be fatal for the very old or very sick, and heart
inflammation issues. The way the heart issues were reported in the media (in the context of
the trials for 12-16 y.o.) made it seem they only effected the young but apparently a problem
for everyone. Doesn't seem as serious as the AZ/J&J clotting issues as it usually clears
up without treatment? My parents are both over 65 and have had their 1st Pfizer doses, no
side effects so far for Dad and a tetanus shot-style sore arm for Mum that lasted a couple of
days.
A Freedom of Information request to the Australian drugs regulator that approved the
Pfizer vaccine confirms that they have never seen the study data.
A freedom of information request (FOI) request was made by one of our members in
February 2021 to the Australian drugs regulator, the TGA (Therapeutic Good Administration)
to ask what should have been simple questions. The TGA is the Australian equivalent of the
FDA (US), MHRA (UK) and EMA (Europe) and is held in high regard worldwide. Essentially the
FOI questions were:
1/ Did the TGA request the raw data from Pfizer
2/ Did any of the committees approving the vaccine look at the raw data and/or discuss
it
3/ What were the "studies" referred to in the approval document relating to teratogenicity
(risk of harm to a fetus)
The rationale of the request relates to concern over the validity and verifiability of
Pfizer's data given its legal history (and expressed by Peter Doshi in the BMJ in February)
as well as the proven concerns over fraudulent data relating to Covid-19 as seen in the
"Lancetgate" scandal of June 2020.
The document ... is a redacted version of the documents that were sent by the TGA in
response to this request. What they show is that the TGA never saw or requested the patient
data from Pfizer and simply accepted their reporting of their study as true. This means
that when the head of the TGA John Skerritt said that "the safety evidence is pretty
thorough" on the 6th February (here) his words would ring hollow to most Australians who
have assumed, rightly or wrongly, that the TGA had actually looked at the patient data
themselves.
A further concerning aspect of the FOI request is the efforts to which the TGA appeared
to go to suppress the request – initially requesting a 6 months extension in view of
a "voluminous request" which eventually yielded only one document of 14 pages, heavily
redacted. This required an instruction from the Office of the Information Commissioner to
the TGA to answer the request by the 26th May, a deadline that the TGA also failed to
meet.
Eventually the only document that was produced from the FOI request was a heavily
redacted single study (not studies, as claimed in the TGA assessment document) showing that
the only investigation into the effects on the fetus was performed on 44 rats with no long
term data on the offspring. It is impossible to assess this study fully because 98% of the
document was removed in order to protect Pfizer's intellectual property (points 32-44 of
the report)...
... Doctors for Covid Ethics remain concerned that the TGA's failure to validate the
Pfizer data has been replicated at other agencies worldwide (FDA, MHRA and EMA). It is
currently not known whether any of the major agencies has independently verified, or
attempted to verify, Pfizer's data, before proceeding with provisional/emergency
authorisation of Pfizer's mRNA therapy vaccine.
Bet this information about how the TGA applied so-called rigour to checking Pfizer's data
before approving the Pfizer-BioNTech treatment sure gladdens your heart, don't it?
Why there is so much social pressure if the idea of "herd immunity" became a fiasco after
emergence of Delta variant, which like South African variant can infect vaccinated people and
thus can spread in vaccinated population (although not as quickly as in unvaccinated population).
What government medical bureaucrats like Fauci are hiding ?
I am retired in the US so I only see some of the working world through others eyes. What I
am seeing more of is pressure to take the vaccine in US even though the infection numbers are
going down in most states.
I have shared before that I have a cousin, my age, that got one of the mRNA vaccines and
now has some sort of blood cancer. I believe this is related to the mRNA vaccines and that
more cases like my cousin will occur and eventually it will effect an "important" someone who
the MSM can't suppress the connection to the vaccines and the flood gates of related cases
like my cousin will open....can you imagine what the blowback will be??.....the jaded in me
says they are planning on that blowback to keep the chaos/fear/manipulation level
high.....its all China's fault/snark
What is the final straw that will bring the barbarian shit show to a halt? Inquiring minds
want to know. What will finally break through the brainwashing?
... Watching crowds in football stadiums these latest days and reading about athletes
obliged to get vaxxxed to go to the Olympics in Japan further adds to the dismay. Live
experiment for all or house arrest for the rest of life.
The axiom of always taking advantage of a crisis, even if you have to sell the crisis, is
at play here. The facts we are seeing come out support this perspective.
Think about how much money Big Pharma saved by foisting their mRNA research costs off on
the brainwashed public. And if it doesn't work out they have immunity from prosecution....its
all legal as Obama has said about the financial rape by the global private finance
cult.....if it does work out then they have a big new income stream instead of using
out-of-patent therapies.....win-win for the wrong side.
The shit show continues until it doesn't....who is "winning" this week?
The U.K. is among the first governments to set out provisional plans for booster shots,
following advice from specialists who are concerned that possible further Covid-19 outbreaks
over the winter could coincide with
a wave of influenza and put pressure on the country's health system.
The government said the actual rollout would depend on further advice from an expert group
known as the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, based on a host of new data,
including whether protection from the vaccines
weakens after six months .
As of July 2, 2021 out of 4456 total deaths attributed to vaccination (of them 1890 after
vaccination with Pfizer), it looks like there were at least 36 death of people aged less then 30
years after vaccination with Pfizer vaccine (out of 61 total). Around 136 millions were fully
vaccinated,.
Other sources list higher figure (6113)
CDC- 6,113 DEAD Following COVID-19 Injections ("Besides the 6,113 deaths reported, there are
5,172 permanent disabilities, 6,435 life threatening events, and 51,558 emergency room visits."
)so my method of extracting those data from VAERS database might be wrong or not all death are
reported to VAERS.
Another 5 young people were crippled but survived (67 total).
Each year, more than 165 million Americans get the flu shot. There were 85 reported
deaths following influenza vaccination in 2017; 119 deaths in 2018; and 203 deaths in
2019
Between mid-December 2020 and April 23, 2021, at which point between 95 million and 100
million Americans had received their COVID-19 shots, there were 3,544 reported deaths
following COVID vaccination, or about 30 per day
In just four months, the COVID-19 vaccines have killed more people than all available
vaccines combined from mid-1997 until the end of 2013 -- a period of 15.5 years
As of April 23, 2021, VAERS had also received 12,618 reports of serious adverse events.
In total, 118,902 adverse event reports had been filed
In the European Union, the EudraVigilance system had as of April 17, 2021, received
330,218 injury reports after vaccination with one of the four available COVID vaccines,
including 7,766 deaths
In a May 5, 2021, Fox News report, Tucker Carlson asked the question no one is really
allowed to ask: "How many Americans have died after taking the COVID vaccine?"
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Then there's not selling Syria the latest S#00 system to help keep Israel out of Syrian
skies. That tells me he's using Syria for personal / State gain and that is where he's wrong.
That's what makes him just another politician.
I totally get it, there are things that are puzzling to those of us in the audience,
watching the moves from afar.
An advanced S-300 or S-400 system could paint every F-16 as it took off from Israel. This
would be a red line for Israel and would bring in Uncle Shmuel.
Syria (and by extension Russia) has been allowing Israel to overfly her territory and bomb
Hezbollah installations.
It's puzzling – why would you allow a foreign power to bomb your territory, especially
if you have S-300's. The answer must be that Syria and Russia are holding back on purpose for
reasons only known to them. I can speculate, in that they don't want to give away military
capability unless the war goes hot.
Think about the situation now, as opposed to the 90's. Russia's military has been
modernized; Military physical fitness is up by 30% (better nutrition?); Foreign exchange is in
good shape; the economy is modernizing; food production is up – so Russia is no longer
food insecure; oil can be extracted at prices that Saudi cannot compete with; the Artic route
is opening up; national economy is more diversified thanks to the western sanctions; Yamal LNG
will be fueling Asia; Nordstream will be fueling Europe.
and if the mRNA vaccines cause the spike proteins to accumulate in the ovaries of women of
childbearing years and younger, this shared concern might play a role.
It's not the spike protein collecting in ovaries. It is the "lipid shell." The lipid is
going to the ovaries and bone marrow according to the Japanese Study. The same study says the
spike protein is going into blood plasma and traveling all over. I'm wondering if it can cross
the blood brain barrier.
Both actions are bad, so your point remains. But, it is possible the body could deal with
the lipid.
So Fauci push toward "herd immunity" was meaningless from the very beginning. In Israel 50%
(which has 85% of adults fully vaccinated with Phizer vaccine) of infected with Delta were
vaccinated.
Both South African variant and the Delta variant (also known as B.1.617.2) changed the
picture of "herd immunity". Official figure is that Two doses of Pfizer's vaccine are still 88
percent effective at preventing symptomatic Delta infections. You can probably cut this figure by
half to get more realistic estimate based on Israel experience with Pfizer vaccine. Israel has
fully vaccinated about 85 percent of adults
Worryingly, a recent study documented several cases during India's spring surge in which
health-care workers who were fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca's vaccine were infected by Delta
and passed it on.
Now there is talk about that vaccinated people
might need booster shots . Which essentally mean re-vaccination with the newer version of
vaccine.
When breakthrough cases do arise, it's not always clear why. The trio of vaccines now
circulating in the United States were all designed around the original coronavirus variant, and
seem to be a bit less effective against some newer versions of the virus. These troublesome
variants have yet to render any of our current vaccines obsolete. But "the more variants there
are, the more concern you have for breakthrough cases," Saad Omer, a vaccine expert at Yale,
told me. The circumstances of exposure to any version of the coronavirus will also make
a difference. If vaccinated people are spending time with groups of unvaccinated people in
places where the virus is running rampant, that still raises their chance of getting sick.
Large doses of the virus can overwhelm the sturdiest of immune defenses, if given the
chance.
The human side of the equation matters, too. Immunity is not a monolith, and the degree of
defense roused by an infection or a vaccine will differ from person to person, even
between identical twins . Some people might have underlying conditions that hamstring their
immune system's response to vaccination; others might simply, by chance, churn out fewer or
less potent antibodies and T cells that can nip a coronavirus infection in the bud.
The effects of vaccination are best considered along a spectrum, says Ali Ellebedy, an
immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis. An ideal response to vaccination might
create an arsenal of immune molecules and cells that can instantaneously squelch the virus,
leaving no time for symptoms to appear. But sometimes that front line of fighters is relatively
sparse. Should the virus make it through, "it becomes a race [against] time," Ellebedy told me.
The pathogen rushes to copy itself, and the immune system recruits more defenders. The longer
the tussle drags on, the more likely the disease is to manifest.The range of vaccine
responses "isn't a variation of two- to threefold; it's thousands," Ellebedy told me.
"Being vaccinated doesn't mean you are immune. It means you have a better chance of
protection."
For these reasons and more, Viviana Simon, a virologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at
Mount Sinai, in New York, dislikes the term breakthrough case , which evokes a barrier
walling humans off from disease. "It's very misleading," she told me. "It's like the virus
'punches' through our defenses."
Vaccination is actually more like a single variable in a dynamic playing field -- a
layer of protection, like an umbrella, that might guard better in some situations than
others. It could keep a lucky traveler relatively dry in a light drizzle, but in a windy
maelstrom that's whipping heavy droplets every which way, another person might be overwhelmed.
And under many circumstances, vaccines are still best paired with safeguards such as masks and
distancing -- just as rain boots and jackets would help buffer someone in a storm.
In some ways, the shots' staggering success in trials -- where
breakthrough cases were also observed, causing appropriately minimal stir -- may have
papered over the inevitability of post-vaccination infections in more natural settings. "The
vaccines exceeded expectations," Luciana Borio, a former acting chief scientist at the FDA,
told me. Now, as we exit what Borio calls the "honeymoon phase" of our relationship with the
jabs, we need to temper our enthusiasm with the right amount of realism, especially as more
data on the shots' strength and longevity accumulate. Even excellent vaccines aren't foolproof,
and they shouldn't be criticized when they're not. "We can't expect it's going to be perfect,
on day one, always," Borio said.
A team at the CDC is tracking breakthroughs and will soon start reporting case counts, as
well as any patterns related to where, or in whom, these infections are occurring, Martha
Sharan, a CDC spokesperson, told me. Details like those matter. They can help experts figure
out why post-vaccination infections happen, and how they might be stopped. "The reassuring part
is, these cases will not go unnoticed," Omer told me.
Most of the time, vaccines are far more likely to offer some help than none. Serious
disease, hospitalization, and even death
will still occur , as will less well-studied outcomes, such as the long-term symptoms that
often arise from less severe disease. But should post-vaccination infections climb to
unexpectedly high rates, backup plans will quickly kick into gear. Some shot recipients might
get second or third shots to bolster their immune response; others might be administered a
tweaked vaccine recipe to account for a new viral variant.
There's something a touch counterintuitive about breakthrough cases: The more people we
vaccinate, the more such cases there will be, in absolute numbers. But the rate at which they
appear will also decline, as rising levels of population immunity cut the conduits that the
virus needs to travel. People with lackluster responses to vaccines -- as well as those who
can't get their jabs -- will receive protection from the many millions in whom the shots
did work. In a crowd of people holding umbrellas, even those who are empty-handed will
stay more dry.
Katherine J. Wuis a staff writer
atThe Atlantic,where she covers science.
Might be uptick might be statistical noise. The differences are stillsmall... in Israel the
Delta variant is infecting vaccinated people, who represent as many as 50% of new cases
If vaccines don't cover everyone, we need to know why and how we can fix it. Fauci is one
trick pony who made all bets of the success of the vaccines, decpite that fact that there were no
any sucessful coronavirus vaccine developered before COVID-19 epidemic.
Notable quotes:
"... Most Covid-19 patients in the Mercy hospital in Springfield are unvaccinated, though there have been a few cases among people who were vaccinated, Dr. Sistrunk said. ..."
The variant, which is about
40% to 60% more contagious than the previous dominant variant, is sending more people to
hospitals in the northern and southwestern parts of the state, health officials say.
In Springfield, Mo., Mercy Hospital had 90 Covid-19 patients on a recent day, up from 10
seven weeks ago, said William Sistrunk, lead infectious-disease doctor for Mercy, a multistate
hospital system with several facilities in Missouri. Almost all had the Delta variant, and most
were unvaccinated, he said. The hospital's caseload peaked at about 120 in late December.
Officials say the patients being admitted are younger, ages 30 to 60, a change from the last
two waves of infection. "It ramped up a lot faster than it did last fall when we had that
wave," Dr. Sistrunk said. "What's happening in Springfield may be an early warning for other
communities. This variant, we need to take this seriously."
The number of people in the hospital with Covid-19 in Missouri has started to climb in
recent weeks. The latest seven-day average is 864, up from 668 a month prior, according to the
state health department. During the winter surge in Covid-19 cases in 2020 and 2021,
hospitalizations topped 2,700 several times. Missouri has a population of 6.1 million.
... In Missouri, 55% of adults have received at least one vaccination shot, 11 percentage
points below the national rate, according to the CDC. Most Covid-19 patients in the Mercy
hospital in Springfield are unvaccinated, though there have been a few cases among people who
were vaccinated, Dr. Sistrunk said.
For the purpose of this surveillance, a vaccine breakthrough infection is defined as the
detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA or antigen in a respiratory specimen collected from a person ≥14
days after they have completed all recommended doses of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA)-authorized COVID-19 vaccine.
Identifying and investigating hospitalized or fatal
vaccine breakthrough cases
As of May 1, 2021, CDC transitioned from monitoring all reported vaccine breakthrough cases
to focus on identifying and investigating only hospitalized or fatal cases due to any cause.
This shift will help maximize the quality of the data collected on cases of greatest clinical
and public health importance.
Previous data on all vaccine breakthrough cases reported to CDC from January–April
2021 are available .
State health departments report vaccine breakthrough cases to CDC. CDC now monitors reported
hospitalized or fatal vaccine breakthrough cases for clustering by patient demographics,
geographic location, time since vaccination, vaccine type, and SARS-CoV-2 lineage. Reported
data include hospitalized or fatal breakthrough cases due to any cause, including causes not
related to COVID-19.
To the fullest extent possible, respiratory specimens that test positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA
are collected for genomic sequencing to identify the virus lineage that caused the
infection.
Some health departments may continue to report all vaccine breakthrough cases to the
national database and can continue to submit specimens to CDC for sequencing. However, CDC will
focus its monitoring on reported hospitalized and fatal cases.
Developing a data access
and management system for reporting COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases
CDC developed a national COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough REDCap database where designated
state health department investigators can enter, store, and manage data for cases in their
jurisdiction. State health departments have full access to data for cases reported from their
jurisdiction.
Ultimately, CDC will use the National
Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) to identify vaccine breakthrough cases.
Once CDC has confirmed that a state can report vaccination history data to NNDSS, CDC will
identify vaccine breakthrough cases through that system. At that time, the state health
departments can stop reporting cases directly into the REDCap database. After this change, CDC
will upload the available data reported to NNDSS into REDCap database for further review and
confirmation by the state health department.
Hospitalized or fatal COVID-19 vaccine
breakthrough cases reported to CDC as of June 21, 2021
As of June 21, 2021, more than 150 million people in
the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
During the same time, CDC received reports from 47 U.S. states and territories of 4,115
patients with COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infection who were hospitalized or died.
Total number of vaccine breakthrough infections reported to CDC
Hospitalized or fatal vaccine breakthrough cases reported to CDC
4,115
Female
2,001
(49%)
People aged ≥65 years
3,124
(76%)
Asymptomatic infections
750
(18%)
Hospitalizations*
3,907
(95%)
Deaths†
750
(18%)
*1,004 (26%) of 3,907 hospitalizations reported as asymptomatic or not related to
COVID-19.
†142 (19%) of 750 fatal cases reported as asymptomatic or not related to COVID-19.
Previous data on all vaccine breakthrough cases reported to CDC from January–April
2021 are available .
How to interpret
these data
The number of COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infections reported to CDC likely are an
undercount of all SARS-CoV-2 infections among fully vaccinated persons. National surveillance
relies on passive and voluntary reporting, and data might not be complete or representative.
These surveillance data are a snapshot and help identify patterns and look for signals among
vaccine breakthrough cases.
Data on patients with vaccine breakthrough infection who were hospitalized or died will be
updated regularly. Studies are being conducted in multiple U.S. sites that will include
information on all vaccine breakthrough infections regardless of clinical status to supplement
the national surveillance.
COVID-19 vaccines are effective
Vaccine breakthrough cases occur in only a small percentage of vaccinated people. To
date, no unexpected patterns have been identified in the case demographics or vaccine
characteristics among people with reported vaccine breakthrough infections.
COVID-19 vaccines are effective. CDC recommends that everyone 12 years of age and older
get a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as they can.
People who have been fully
vaccinated can resume activities that they did prior to the pandemic.
Looks like two doses of Pfizer vaccine are effective against hospitalization (but not from
infection) from the Delta variant, according to UK data.
Roughly 10 per cent of infections in the US are linked to the variant, but that rate is
doubling every two weeks, the former FDA chief told CBS
News on Sunday .
"That doesn't mean that we're going to see a sharp uptick in infections, but it does mean
that this is going to take over," he said. "And I think the risk is really to the fall that
this could spike a new epidemic heading into the fall."
The more-contagious B 1.161.2 variant – a common development as a virus replicates
through transmission – was first discovered in India and has emerged as a dominant
strain in the UK, responsible for roughly 90 per cent of new infections there.
A star NBA player, the U.S. Open golf champion and a Ugandan Olympic coach have something in
common that is creating a new headache for sports organizers: they tested positive for the
novel coronavirus after being vaccinated.
Throughout the pandemic, athletes have been the most tested population on the planet,
sometimes providing vivid examples of emerging theories""and sometimes helping prove them.
Now these athletes are showing that while vaccines are exceptionally effective in preventing
death and severe illness from the coronavirus and its known variants, some are far from
foolproof in preventing infection altogether.
Most of the athletes with so-called "breakthrough" infections are asymptomatic. The
infections wouldn't have been noticed except for the fact that people who work in sports are
among the last being tested intensely for the virus.
These surprising positive tests are a problem for the hosts of large events. In the case of
the Olympics, they could trigger an outbreak in the surrounding Japanese population or beyond,
to any of the 200 participating nations""in addition to creating chaos in competitions.
The positive tests also complicate the argument made to athletes that vaccination will spare
them from a positive test that bars them from competition. Now sports leaders have to contend
with questions such as: Are people who are vaccinated but testing positive for the virus
contagious? What does this mean for their close contacts? Who, if anyone, should be removed
from the biggest event of their lives?
... ... ...
Breakthrough infections also hit the New York Yankees, professional golfer Jon Rahm and NBA
star Chris Paul. In Rahm's case, he had only recently had his shot. But in the case of the
Yankees, that wasn't the obvious factor. In May, at least nine Yankees" spanning players,
coaches and staff members" tested positive for the virus. All had been vaccinated in March or
April with the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine ,
which has been found to be 66.1% effective at protecting people from developing moderate
and severe cases of Covid-19 at least 28 days after vaccination.
Rahm, the golfer, got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the days leading up to the
Memorial Tournament. As he played his third round, a test he had taken after his second round
came back positive. Rahm found out at the end of his round from the PGA Tour's medical adviser,
on national television""yanking away a near-sure win in the tournament, and a payday of nearly
$1.7 million. Two weeks later, however, he was testing negative and won the U.S. Open.
... ... ...
There have been at least two prominent, apparent breakthrough cases in the NBA. The most
recent involves Paul, the Phoenix Suns' star and the president of the National Basketball
Players Association, who missed the first games of the Western Conference Finals while
sidelined by the league's health and safety protocols. Paul tested positive despite being fully
vaccinated and remained asymptomatic, according to multiple reports.
The more-transmissible delta variant first found in India and now spread widely in the U.K.
is expected to become the dominant strain in the U.S., said Rochelle Walensky, director of the
Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. She added that full vaccination provides good
protection against it.
The Los Angeles
County health agency suggested to residents that they wear masks -- regardless of vaccination
status -- due to the so-called " Delta " COVID-19 variant.
... ... ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has similarly called on people to wear masks due to the
Delta variant, which is believed to have emerged in India. Meanwhile, Hong Kong officials also
announced this week that it will ban travelers from the UK over concerns about the
strain.
Those warnings came after officials in Israel said that half the adults infected in a recent
Delta COVID-19 outbreak fully vaccinated, according to the
Wall Street Journal late last week.
However, some have said that the concerns about the Delta strain are overblown.
"Don't let the fearmongers win," wrote Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on
Tuesday.
"New public England study of delta variant shows 44 deaths out of 53,822 (.08%) in
unvaccinated group."
Separately, pharmaceutical giant Moderna said that its two-dose mRNA COVID-19 vaccine works
against the Delta strain, which will likely be used in future arguments against new masking or
lockdown mandates.
"These new data are encouraging and reinforce our belief that the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine
should remain protective against newly detected variants," CEO Stéphane Bancel said in a
press release issued on Tuesday about the findings.
I agree. If the US scientists are so worried about the possibility the SARS-CoV-2 leaked
from a laboratory, why don't they also ask their government to investigate their own
labs?
And also, the corruption of the medical profession, to which he is now speaking (it's
running as I write this). The interviewer is using the words "medical mafia", citing the
later manifestations we've seen this year. But this interview seems that it will do much to
illustrate the long process of corruption that has happened over the years and decades, and
this is very valuable to learn.
The interviewer is using the words "medical mafia", citing the later manifestations
we've seen this year
Yes, the circuitous depravity they've engaged, the 'offer you can't refuse' has worked
wonders, as the interviewer attests his young peers who've taken the jab only to
regain their 'freedom', like my youngest daughter, 30, against my spoken preference, and my
silent prayers.
"... On Monday, health officials in Los Angeles County followed suit , recommending that "everyone, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks indoors in public places as a precautionary measure." ..."
"... Natural immunity among those already infected has also kept transmission low, she noted, but it is not clear how long natural immunity will last. ..."
But that was before the spread of the Delta
variant . Worried by a global surge in cases, the World Health Organization last week
reiterated its longstanding recommendation that everyone -- including the inoculated -- wear
masks to stem the spread of the virus.
On Monday, health officials in Los Angeles County followed
suit , recommending that "everyone, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks indoors in
public places as a precautionary measure."
Barbara Ferrer, the county's public health director, said the new recommendation was needed
because of upticks in infections, a rise in cases due to the worrisome Delta
variant , and persistently high numbers of unvaccinated residents, particularly children,
Black and Latino residents and essential workers.
Roughly half of Los Angeles County residents are fully
vaccinated , and about 60 percent have had at least one dose. While the number of positive
tests is still below 1 percent in the county, the rate has been inching up, Dr. Ferrer added,
and there has been a rise in the number of reinfections among residents who were infected
before and did not get vaccinated.
To the extent that Los Angeles County has managed to control the pandemic, it has been
because of a multilayered strategy that combined vaccinations with health restrictions aimed at
curbing new infections, Dr. Ferrer said.
Natural immunity among those already infected has also
kept transmission low, she noted, but it is not clear how long natural immunity will last.
"... On Monday, health officials in Los Angeles County followed suit , recommending that "everyone, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks indoors in public places as a precautionary measure." ..."
"... Natural immunity among those already infected has also kept transmission low, she noted, but it is not clear how long natural immunity will last. ..."
But that was before the spread of the Delta
variant . Worried by a global surge in cases, the World Health Organization last week
reiterated its longstanding recommendation that everyone -- including the inoculated -- wear
masks to stem the spread of the virus.
On Monday, health officials in Los Angeles County followed
suit , recommending that "everyone, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks indoors in
public places as a precautionary measure."
Barbara Ferrer, the county's public health director, said the new recommendation was needed
because of upticks in infections, a rise in cases due to the worrisome Delta
variant , and persistently high numbers of unvaccinated residents, particularly children,
Black and Latino residents and essential workers.
Roughly half of Los Angeles County residents are fully
vaccinated , and about 60 percent have had at least one dose. While the number of positive
tests is still below 1 percent in the county, the rate has been inching up, Dr. Ferrer added,
and there has been a rise in the number of reinfections among residents who were infected
before and did not get vaccinated.
To the extent that Los Angeles County has managed to control the pandemic, it has been
because of a multilayered strategy that combined vaccinations with health restrictions aimed at
curbing new infections, Dr. Ferrer said.
Natural immunity among those already infected has also
kept transmission low, she noted, but it is not clear how long natural immunity will last.
As the Delta variant of the coronavirus surges through the U.K., almost half of the
country's recent Covid-19 deaths are of people who have been vaccinated.
.... ... ...
The U.K. is a testing ground for how vaccines are coping. Delta is racing through the
country -- with 146,000 identified cases in the past week, 72% up on the week before. The
country is also a world leader in identifying through testing and genetic sequencing which
versions of the virus are prevalent: By mid-June, 97% of cases were Delta infections. And Delta
is spreading among a population that is among the most highly vaccinated in the world: 85% of
adults have had at least one vaccine shot and 63% have had two.
Data from Public Health England show that there were 117 deaths among 92,000 Delta cases
logged through June 21. Fifty of those -- 46% -- had received two shots of vaccine.
First, vaccines aren't 100% effective. Not everyone who is inoculated will respond in the
same way. Those who are elderly or whose immune systems are faulty, damaged or stressed by some
other illness are less likely to mount a robust response than someone younger and fitter.
Covid-19 vaccines are highly effective but some people will still be vulnerable to the virus
even after receiving their shots.
Second, the risk of dying from Covid-19 increases steeply with age. If a vaccine reduces an
80-year-old's risk of death from Covid-19 by 95%, for instance, that 80-year-old's risk of
death might still be greater than the risk faced by an unvaccinated 20-year-old. Some chronic
illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension and lung disease are also associated with a higher
risk of severe illness and death.
Third, as more of the population gets vaccinated, there are fewer unvaccinated people for
the virus to infect. If the pool of vaccinated people is larger than the pool of unvaccinated
people, then it is possible and even likely that breakthrough infections resulting in death in
the older, vaccinated group would match or exceed deaths in the younger, unvaccinated group.
Consider an imaginary country with 100% of people vaccinated, where the virus can still somehow
spread. All Covid-19 deaths would be in vaccinated individuals.
Of those 50 deaths in fully vaccinated people in England, all were in people aged 50 years
and over, the data show. There have been no deaths recorded in double-vaccinated under 50s.
The data show that, overall, the fatality rate for confirmed cases of Covid-19 has been
lower than it was with the Alpha variant, which was first spotted in the U.K.
... Public Health England, using a variety of statistical analyses, has estimated that
vaccination reduces the risk of hospitalization with the Delta variant in people who have
received two doses by between 91% and 98%, with a central estimate of 96%.
Though vaccines offer substantial protection against severe illness and death, there is
growing evidence from lab studies and real-world data that Delta does have some ability to
bypass vaccines to cause milder infection.
Public Health England says that its analysis of Delta cases in England implies protection
against symptomatic Covid-19 caused by Delta of around 79%. That compares with an 89% reduction
in the risk of symptomatic Covid-19 with Alpha.
In Israel, a senior health official said in late June that in a recent outbreak of 200 or so
Delta cases, about half were in children 15 years old and younger and the other half were in
those aged 16 and above, of whom more than 80% are fully vaccinated.
British data shows Delta is even more adept at evading our immune response after just one
dose of vaccine, highlighting the importance, public health officials say, of getting two
shots. A single dose reduces the risk of symptomatic Covid-19 with Alpha by 49%, according
Public Health England, but only by 35% with Delta.
"... De Garay explained that after receiving the second coronavirus vaccine dose, her daughter started developing severe abdominal and chest pains. Maddie described the severity of the pain to her mother as "it feels like my heart is being ripped out through my neck." ..."
"... The Ohio mother added her daughter experienced additional symptoms that included gastroparesis, nausea, vomiting, erratic blood pressure, heart rate, and memory loss. "She still cannot digest food. She has a tube to get her nutrition," De Garay said to Carlson. "She also couldn't walk at one point, then she could I don't understand why and [physicians] are not looking into why...now she's back in a wheelchair and she can't hold her neck up. Her neck pulls back." ..."
"... De Garay said she had joined a Facebook support group to help people cope with the unexpected events happening from the coronavirus vaccine trial, and she said it was shut down. "It's just not right," she said. ..."
"... Sen. Ron Johnson , R-Wis., has sent letters to the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna seeking answers about adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine following a June 28 press conference with affected individuals. The conference in Milwaukee included stories from five people, including De Garay ..."
"... The Wisconsin senator noted that some adverse reactions were detailed in Pfizer's and Moderna's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA) memorandums following early clinical trials ..."
"... Those reactions included nervous system disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders for the Pfizer EUA memo. The Moderna EUA memo included reactions such as nervous system disorders, vascular disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders, according to Johnson's letter. ..."
"... You missed the whole point! The issue is that the government is not acknowledging and and not reporting these side effects of the vaccine. Instead they are lying about the safety. If you are young, you are much more likely to get sick and injured by the vaccine than COVID. ..."
"... anyone under 25 should not get the vaccine because the percentages are about the same or worse having a negative impact from the vaccine versus the actual virus. ..."
"... With the Covid19 mortality rate among the children why even vaccinate? As a Chemist / Biochemist I learned that there is always unintended consequences. ..."
"... Vaccines may have long term effects that are not known today. ..."
"... The CDC's generic guidelines for getting a vaccine for any reason are very restrictive, first being, the disease you're getting vaccinated against has to pose a real, immediate danger. CV-19 poses virtually no danger whatsoever to kids under 14. Of all the deaths of children 14 and under in the last 18 months only .8% of them had a case of CV-19. That's 367 deaths out of over 46,000. (Data from CDC website) Forcing them to take an experimental vaccine that they absolutely don't need is criminal. As a parent, allowing your child to take the vaccine without spending a few hours doing some research is criminally negligent. This is like some terribly warped Kafka novel but it's real. ..."
Mother Stephanie De Garay joins 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' to discuss how her 12-year-old
daughter volunteered for the Pfizer vaccine trial and is now in a wheelchair.
An Ohio mother is speaking out
about her 12-year-old daughter suffering extreme reactions and nearly dying after volunteering
for the Pfizer coronavirus
vaccine trial.
Stephanie De Garay told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Thursday
that after reaching out to multiple physicians they claimed her daughter, Maddie De Garay,
couldn't have become gravely ill from the vaccine.
"The only diagnosis we've gotten for her is that it's conversion disorder or functional
neurologic symptom disorder, and they are blaming it on anxiety," De Garay told Tucker Carlson.
"Ironically, she did not have anxiety before the vaccine."
De Garay explained that after receiving the second coronavirus vaccine dose, her daughter
started developing severe abdominal and chest pains. Maddie described the severity of the pain
to her mother as "it feels like my heart is being ripped out through my neck."
The Ohio mother added her daughter experienced additional symptoms that included
gastroparesis, nausea, vomiting, erratic blood pressure, heart rate, and memory loss. "She still cannot digest food. She has a tube to get her nutrition," De Garay said to
Carlson. "She also couldn't walk at one point, then she could I don't understand why and
[physicians] are not looking into why...now she's back in a wheelchair and she can't hold her
neck up. Her neck pulls back."
Carlson asked whether any officials from the Biden administration or representatives from
Pfizer company have reached out to the family. "No, they have not," she answered.
"The response with the person that's leading the vaccine trial has been atrocious," she
said. "We wanted to know what symptoms were reported and we couldn't even get an answer on
that. It was just that 'we report to Pfizer and they report to the FDA.' That's all we
got."
After her heartbreaking experience, the Ohio mother said she's still "pro-vaccine, but also
pro-informed consent." De Garay mentioned she's speaking out because she feels like everyone
should be fully aware of this tragic incident and added the situation is being "pushed down and
hidden."
De Garay said she had joined a Facebook support group to help people cope with the
unexpected events happening from the coronavirus vaccine trial, and she said it was shut
down. "It's just not right," she said.
"They need to do research and figure out why this happened, especially to people in the
trial. I thought that was the point of it," De Garay concluded. "They need to come up with
something that's going to treat these people early because all they're going to do is keep
getting worse."
Sen. Ron
Johnson , R-Wis., has sent letters to the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna seeking answers
about adverse reactions to the COVID-19vaccine
following a June 28 press conference with affected individuals. The conference in Milwaukee
included stories from five people, including De Garay.
The Wisconsin senator noted that some adverse reactions were detailed in Pfizer's and
Moderna's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA) memorandums
following early clinical trials.
Those reactions included nervous system disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue
disorders for the Pfizer EUA memo. The Moderna EUA memo included reactions such as nervous
system disorders, vascular disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders,
according to Johnson's letter.
Pfizer and Moderna did not immediately respond to inquiries from Fox News about Johnson's
letters.
J jeff5150357 6 hours ago
My daughter had the same thing happen to
her after getting a flu vaccine 9 years ago. Within days of getting it, she went from being as
healthy as an ox to years of awful, unexplained illness. The short version is they concluded
that she had a severe adverse reaction to the vaccine, but from the delivery chemicals, not the
flu content itself. Formaldehyde was the likely major cause. Now she is getting ready to begin
college and is being required to get the Covid vaccine by her university and the NCAA for
athletics. It is causing her, my wife and I horrible anxiety and we feel like we are being
railroaded into something that could be very dangerous for her. Any discussion or concern
expressed on social media is immediately blocked. I know from years of working in the research
grants office at Yale University that the big pharma industry is powerful and will go to great
lengths to control the narrative. What I don't understand is why mainstream media and social
media are so willing to help them these days!
jeff5150357 4 hours ago
While the college experience is great for a young adult. I would look at getting a degree
online. Her future earnings will be based on her merit, not where she went to school. If
someone was telling me what to do with my personal health, and I was uncomfortable with their
prescription, I would follow my instincts.
LoraJane92649 jeff5150357 5
hours ago
If her flu vax is well documented she should be able to get a waiver. Hopefully you
have an able bodied family physician or medical team to advocate on your behalf.
G gunvald 7 hours ago
You know when you take it that there can be adverse
reactions. So, in that sense, you are informed. Any one of us could be the odd person. That
said, I have a problem with any child getting these vaccines, especially when most people
recover from the disease. It's one thing for me as an elderly person to make the decision to
take it as covid affects the elderly person more and I wanted to avoid that ventilator. Most of
my life has been lived and that's how I evaluated it. This will always come down to putting it
in God's hands.
TheTruthAsItIs gunvald 6 hours ago
You missed the whole point! The
issue is that the government is not acknowledging and and not reporting these side effects of the
vaccine. Instead they are lying about the safety. If you are young, you are much more likely to
get sick and injured by the vaccine than COVID.
D DontDestoryUSA
gunvald 4 hours ago
It's not being informed when you are forced to take a vaccination that they
clearly had trouble with past vaccination sounds like a lawsuit for the university is on the
horizon. With a big pay day
Tony5SFG 7 hours ago
"Ohio
mother said she's still "pro-vaccine, but also pro-informed consent." " And as a pediatrician
for over 40 yrs (retired now) and a 10 year member of my medical school's Institutional Review
Board (which had to approve all human research), THAT is a problem I have been bringing up As
far as requiring all young people, such as entering or in college, to get the vaccine Children
are a protected class and the informed consent for research on them is much more strenuous than
for adults And, requiring young people to take these new vaccines is the equivalent of doing
research on them. The issue of myocarditis is quite troubling. And while it has been seen in
natural infections, I have not yet seen an adequate risk - benefit evaluation regarding risking
natural infection versus vaccination And people say that the myocarditis is not severe, no one
can be sure of the long term effects of a young person getting it. The vaccines that we give
children have been used for decades and the risks/benefits have been well established
D DallasAmEmail Tony5SFG 6 hours ago
A friends daughter who just went through internship as
Physicians assistant based on the percentages in age groups believes anyone under 25 should not
get the vaccine because the percentages are about the same or worse having a negative impact
from the vaccine versus the actual virus. Yes, older age groups the percent having negative
impact from the virus is much greater than the vaccine, so yes older age groups should get the
vaccine. What really is bothersome is when Youtube removes Dr. Robert Malone video who helped
create the mrna vaccine express concern that normal testing has not happened and be cautious
about taking it, especially for the young.
marinesfather601 Tony5SFG 5
hours ago
With the Covid19 mortality rate among the children why even vaccinate? As a Chemist /
Biochemist I learned that there is always unintended consequences.
Hilltopper9 7 hours ago
Vaccines may have long term effects that are not known
today. The same could be said of all the chemicals we apply to our body daily through shampoos,
hair dyes, body lotions, and suntan lotions. Life's a gamble. It's up to each individual to
make the best decisions possible given the facts available.
A akbushrat
Hilltopper9 6 hours ago
The CDC's generic guidelines for getting a vaccine for any reason are
very restrictive, first being, the disease you're getting vaccinated against has to pose a
real, immediate danger. CV-19 poses virtually no danger whatsoever to kids under 14. Of all the
deaths of children 14 and under in the last 18 months only .8% of them had a case of CV-19.
That's 367 deaths out of over 46,000. (Data from CDC website) Forcing them to take an
experimental vaccine that they absolutely don't need is criminal. As a parent, allowing your
child to take the vaccine without spending a few hours doing some research is criminally
negligent. This is like some terribly warped Kafka novel but it's real.
F
Fauxguy930 Hilltopper9 5 hours ago
☢️ N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine is a
nitrosamine that has butyl and 4-hydroxybutyl substituents. In mice, it causes high-grade,
invasive cancers in the urinary bladder, but not in any other tissues. It has a role as a
carcinogenic agent. Ingredient in all shots. How did a carcinogen get FDA approved, oh it was
an emergency.
R RussellRika 6 hours ago
I have a
twelve year old, and not a chance I'd allow her to volunteer for any vaccine trial, and
especially not this one. She very much wanted to get a vaccine, until she started reading about
some of the adverse reactions. Sorry, but I'm a child, the benefit does not outweigh the risk.
MrEd50 6 hours ago
I took the vaccine because I'm 60 years old and work with special ed kids. My 18 year old child
refuses to take it and I support him on this. COVID shouldn't be an issue for most of us.
At an event hosted by a U.S. senator, a mother cried as she recounted how the Pfizer experimental coronavirus vaccine left her
previously healthy, active 12-year-old daughter in a wheelchair.
On Monday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) hosted a
news
conference
to discuss adverse reactions related to COVID-19 vaccines. Stephanie de Garay tearfully explained that her
12-year-old daughter, Maddie, is now wheelchair-bound after volunteering to take the Pfizer vaccine as part of the vaccine trial.
Since receiving the injection, Maddie has been to the emergency room nine times and hospitalized three times for two months.
Maddie and her parents were excited for her to participate in the vaccine trial, as they identify as "pro-vaccine and pro-science."
However, after receiving her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine on January 20, Maddie immediately experienced pain in her arm where
she had been vaccinated. Within the next 24 hours, she developed severe abdominal and chest pain.
Maddie told her mother that she felt "like my heart is being ripped out through my neck" as she experienced painful electrical
shocks down her neck and spine, forcing her to hunch over to walk.
At the instruction of the vaccine trial nurse administrator, Maddie's parents took her to the ER, where her labs were taken and she
was tested for appendicitis, given an IV with medicine, and then sent home. She was diagnosed with "adverse effect of vaccine
initial encounter."
Over the next 2 1/2 months, Maddie's mother said her abdominal, muscle, and nerve pain became unbearable. Maddie suffered from
gastroparesis, nausea and vomiting, erratic blood pressure, memory loss, brain fog, headaches, dizziness, fainting, seizures, verbal
and motor tics, menstrual cycle issues, lost feeling from the waist down, lost bowel and bladder control, and she had a nasogastric
tube placed because she lost the ability to eat.
"Why is she not back to normal? She was totally fine before this," said Stephanie de Garay, Maddie's mother. Maddie had volunteered
for the Pfizer vaccine trial "to help everyone else and they're not helping here. Before Maddie got her final dose of the vaccine,
she was healthy, got straight As, had lots of friends and had a life."
Some doctors attempted to attribute her neurological condition to anxiety and tried to send Maddie to a mental hospital. This caused
her parents to seek aid from other sources. They met others suffering from similar adverse vaccine reactions who connected them with
competent medical professionals.
"All we want is for Maddie to be seen, heard, and believed because she has not been. And we want her to get the care that she
desperately needs, so she can go back to normal," said de Garay.
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it here.
"Maddie and her parents were excited for her to participate in the vaccine trial, as
they identify as "pro-vaccine and pro-science."
If this is true, who in the world would be excited to let their children participate in
a medical experiment, they are the problem and now her child is paying the price
Authorities doe not telling truth: people who already have COVID do not need to be
vaccinated. Also if Delta varient can infect vaccineted in conserable quantities how any resobale
person can maintain this goal of "herg immunity". How it can be achieved if a vaccinated person
can be infected and thus spread the disease both amoung vaccinated cohort and among the
unvaccinated cohort. The fact the vaccinated people are infected with Delta changes the game and
here Senator Paul is wrong.
Pushing vaccination on chidren in such curcumstances changes nothing is became a very
questionable move both from scientific an from ethical perspective.
America's favourite Chinese lab funding coronavirus doomonger doctor Anthony Fauci announced
Tuesday that there are now two Americas, a vaccinated America and an unvaccinated America.
As Senator Rand Paul noted
earlier this week , there is a boat load of misinformation on the matter coming from a
government that is indiscriminately pushing vaccinations:
There are now two Americas. One that's retarded. And one that wants Fauci on a
lamppost.
liberty2 1 hour ago (Edited)
Note that the officials said there's no such thing as "herd immunity" last year. Now
this year they keep saying that we can reach "herd immunity" if we are 70% vaxxed! Terms
are used if it fits their narrative.
Ride_the_kali_yuga 3 hours ago (Edited)
In the Covidian Cult, there is true believers in one side and heretics on the other
side. Vaxxed and unvaxxed.
Divide and rule strategy, as always. Do not undurestimate the ratio of retarded people
among the population, it has been growing like a cancer for decades. It amazes me how
perfectly coordinated those MSM Covidian propaganda events appears worldwide.
In here France, 2 days ago, most MSM have all simultaneously gone full berserk (without
any reason) blaming the reluctant ones. One of them on TV said something like : "if it was
me, i will use police to drag those who refuse these "vaccines" from their home and force
it on them"
This was priceless, this little man has morbid obesity. We now officialy all live on the
twilight zone on steroids. Land whales dictate how people should consider their own health.
This ride seems to never end.
We now have officialy entered the dehumanization phase of the unvaxxed. The sanitary
gulag is not far from here.
NIRP-BTFD 1 hour ago
There are 2 Americas. The 0.01% (the rulers that own everything) and the serfs.
DemandSider 1 hour ago
Exactly, parasite and host. Fauci would be the former, obviously.
Uncomfortable Truths democrats don't have in their tool kit:
1) Flu is still down 98% and would normally account for a large percentage of the covid
deaths.
2) 20% more babies were born in 1946 than in 1945. Deaths are increasing but not that
much. This is accounts for the rest of the covid deaths.
3) Coronavirus' are among the highest mutating virus types and can not be eliminated by
vaccine.
4) If the COVID symptoms arise from SARS-CoV-2 which came from bats and pangolins: then
vaccinating Humans will have zero effect in eliminating the virus.
5) COVID is a set of symptoms not a virus. The virus is called SARS. This is a
relationship like how AIDS is the symptom set that arises out of HIV. To talk about a
vaccine for COVID as a medical professional is malpractice.
6) 50% of the people getting the "delta" variant are previously vaccinated. In clinical
terms that means the vaccine experimental trial has failed.
If you still believe in mandating masks and vaccines then you are a fascist or your IQ
is too low and should give up your right to vote.
Bacon's Rebellion 9 hours ago (Edited) remove link
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The Delta Variant in the UK
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June 25 th , 2021 - Public Health England
Summary:
Higher rates of "cases" for the "unvaccinated" with higher rates of hospitalizations and
DEATHS for the "fully vaccinated" .
Overnight Hospitalization required:
1.11% of the "Fully Vaccinated"
0.89% of the "Unvaccinated"
Deaths:
50 were "Fully Vaccinated" = 0.69% died
38 were "Unvaccinated" = 0.07% died
Death rate was 9.86 times higher for the vaccinated!
IF - 53,822 "Unvaccinated" cases = 38 deaths
Will - 53,822 "Vaccinated" cases = 375 deaths?
Will - the 142,000,000 "Fully Vaccinated" people in the USA suffer 979,800 Delta variant
Deaths?
(Link downloads a PDF | SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern)
1. Flu deaths have been greatly exaggerated in recent years in order to push the flu
vaccine. Just like Covid, they changed the definition of flu to count more deaths, so they
could push the vaccine. Most of them are general respiratory deaths that can be/were
reclassified to Covid.
2. There was a baby boom in 1946 and that was 75 years ago, so we should start seeing an
acceleration from that about now, but there also has been massive population growth since
then, so the effect will be muted.
3. I don't claim to understand virology, but if these things mutate so fast, they likely
get less virulent rather than more. It certainly calls into question the entire vaccine
program.
4. Vaxx the bats... I thought many of them died off from their own virus a few years
ago, but I saw millions of them fly out from under a bridge in Austin a couple years
ago.
6. This is logic beyond the understanding level of the idiot media folks - they would
never be able to ask the question.
Nathan Hale PREMIUM 10 hours ago
It was a fungal infection that was/is killing bats in the US, for the record
Bacon's Rebellion 8 hours ago (Edited) remove link
Imagine the clusterphuek in the court system if these vaccines are connected with
miscarriages...lawyers are salivating...your employer coerced you into vaccination...your
baby died inside you...geesh...how anyone could take that chance!
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An experiment on "millions of people"
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Angela Merkel: All of these vaccines are conditionally approved. In the course of this
conditional approval, we are gaining experience for the first time on what happens if
this vaccine is used on millions of people? ...In the phase of the conditional approval
of such a vaccine is then very closely monitored - that is why everything is monitored so
specifically - what side effects can happen or what cases or what certain things can
occur.
Loads in German - Use Chrome to read in English:
Angela Merkel:
Sigh. 11 hours ago remove link
The Delta Strain is supposedly more fearful and deadly and contagious than the
'original' product, why, exactly?
Where are the studies comparing the relative efficacy and methodology of the vectors?
You recall the diagrams, the sneeze in one aisle of a supermarket, the blue haze covering
three aisles? Is the Delta Strain so contagious it now goes seven aisles?
Instead of the diagram of the beachgoer getting virus'd from the airborne particulates
from someone sneezing on a surfboard, are the viruses now coming in from further offshore,
the oil rig 40 miles out?
Instead of just old people, who are easily infected with everything that comes along,
now we must fear that kids and teens are susceptible? (Perhaps that's because they've worn
masks for so long they aren't getting 'natural' immunological defenses?)
This is just another worldwide scare tactic designed to keep the masks on and the
economy slowed. Look to the "Climate Change" set and the "One World Government" set for
reasons why we're facing these "new" strains.
aegis551 11 hours ago (Edited) remove link
CDC says we have nothing to worry about. Covid will never get here.
CDC says we have the ability to defeat this thing they said would never get here.
CDC says dont worry you dont need to wear masks. Because they wont protect you from the
virus.
CDC says some anti-viral medications may work. CDC corrects itself 24hrs later and says
only a vaccine can save us. Dr Fauci admits he and his family have been taking
hydroxychloroquine since the pandemic began. Even though they dont work.
CDC mandates everyone to wear masks because they will stop the spread.
CDC says we need to lock down for 2 weeks to stop the spread. CDC then mandates
lockdowns in perpetuity.
CDC says, etc, etc...
Why the hell is anyone listening to the CDC?
pods 10 hours ago remove link
Usually for any scam if you look under the cover you will find the hand of
government.
Ex. Pfizer has a vested interest of to keep their shots on the market. Profit motive and
to repay their development costs for their mRNA shots. Clinical trials are not cheap.
Pfizer will use contacts to nudge policy in a direction that benefits them. Doesnt have
to be evil, their job is to make stuff and sell it.
Why is Pfizer (could really be any of them) in this position? Because there was a
government policy to rush a product to market, Operation Warp Speed.
If that policy was never enacted none of these companies would have undertaken the
development of these shots with the resources they did. It would merely be pinheads doing
animal studies still at this point because a typical vaccine takes a decade to develop, and
mRNA has not been proven safe, so it would take longer to prove safety in target
populations, including mutagenic/teratagenic studies.
So really it was a government policy that landed us where we are at now. This is not a
political statement. No left/right BS is intended. Just a deductive theory of how the world
works, at a level above the left/right pigpen.
Brushy 10 hours ago remove link
Rand Paul didnt tweet the most important part of that study;
Delta variant deaths;
117 total deaths
44 unvaccinated
23 single dose
50 fully vaccinated
Thats 73 deaths for those who have been fully or partially vaccinated vs only 44 deaths
for the unvaxxed. Its looking more and more like the "Delta variant" is just code for
vaccine injury.
FrankDrakman 10 hours ago remove link
On the one page of data shown, I calculated the following: (rounded)
Unvaxxed: 35,000/34 deaths ~= 1/1000
One shot < 21 days: 4,000/1 deaths ~= 1/4000
One shot > 21 days: 9,000/10 deaths ~= 1/900
Two shots > 14 days: 4,000/26 deaths = 1/150
The second shot's the killer!
Morse_Code 8 hours ago
The virus is a poor excuse for the "Great Reset" into corporate fascism and to check out
the "Chicken Little" theory of the 'Sky is Falling' social syndrome.
They have already convinced society that white people are bad, men are really women, we
don't need police if they take our guns away and inflation is good, the U.S. is better
because of illegal immigration and that Biden won.
RathdrumGal 10 hours ago
I 100% agree. My career was spent in Critical Care nursing. I have seen people die and I
have seen what torture comes from a fear of death. I am much more afraid of a vancomycin
resistant enterococcus than COVID. Two days ago I was jet boating in Hell's Canyon in 117
degree heat. It was red neck heaven, no one on our boat was masked. We stopped for lunch on
the way home in a college town. So many young healthy looking people wearing masks, with
their young children masked! They can't all be on chemo, and I assume if they are that
afraid of COVID they have been vaccinated. What gives?
The key unanswered question is: what benefits for 12 years old vaccine provides. I do not see
any, while risks are real and unknown. At this point we already know that vaccine cause serious
heart problems in some vaccinated young people (say below 30 yours old)
Twelve year-old Maddie was enrolled in the Pfizer vaccine clinical trial. She's now in a
wheelchair, has an NG tube, and is suffering from severe memory loss, along with many other
issues.
I am SO sorry for this girl. She relied on her parents, their job, to protect their minor
children. They failed.
I am very sorry for what's happened, but lady that is exactly what you get by disregarding your
fellow citizens &
relying on the government for your truth. Its been obvious to all those with open minds, that
this entire pandemic is
a huge scam, the worst scam in human history. The old saying comes to mind, "and if the
government told you to go jump
off the roof, would you?" Sadly leftists answer, "how many times?" Karen
The only way I would I "consider" allowing my child to sign up to be a guinea pig in any
clinical trial is if they had a life threating incurable disease and the trial was specific to
their disease & participation was a "chance" to save their life. I worked in a clinical
trial office, you agree to being the guinea pig when you agree that you will never know if
you're injected with
1. a placebo OR
2. the "drug" its self.
You're also informed in advance of how many visits (minimal # of visits) the trial will require
of you to fully participate as it usually requires regularly scheduled bi weekly or monthly
visits. It's in a office setting & your mandated to keep the doctor informed of everything,
even an emergency, because theres a written script "behind the scenes" of what to do along the
way if "this" or "that" happens. That way you collect better data of adverse reactions. Plus
there are the very important (to the medical side anyway) non disclosure agreements.
I noticed here it seems the family reached out to "emercency" facilities when things started
going wrong.
Are these "trials" being conducted standard procedure or not. MAJOR DANGER
What sort of parent would give their kid an untested, un-needed vaccine? There is NO excuse.
None. Zero. Mother should be in tears. 100% well deserved.
Deplored
" in healthcare" means nothing anymore. I've been in healthcare for 25 years and it blows my
mind how many 500,000$ plus educations lined up for the "vax" AND do not know the simple
definition of a vaccine. I watched 1st hand as practically overnight medicine went from being
science based to political weapon. We used to have to have an evidence based system where
doctors would look at the published studies and make decisions based on the best info
available. That's all gone now. You can't even trust the medical journals anymore that at one
time were the pinnacles of scientific medical discovery. The hospital I've worked in for 25
years is going to mandate the vax as soon as the FDA approves it,which means I'm out. 15% of us
are unvaxed and they have plans to get rid of us. The medical tyranny STARTED w the mandating
of the flu shot years ago for HC workers and now it's covid. It's not going to end ,just wait
til the next shit show released on us. Next time they will have the ballz to say ur locked in
ur home until u comply. Then when u can't pay ur property taxes because u cant leave the house
to work u find out who actually owns ur home. Peetoonya
The US "Healthcare" INDUSTRY ranks 37th in the world. John Hopkins put out a report that the
3rd leading cause of death is going to your doctor and doing what he/she says! I remember in
the 90's they ran off or bought out most of the private practices especially in the rural areas
with malpractice claims if they didn't sell out. But these days you can make up to $50,000 a
year just sending people the bill for your inflicted genocide. Medical Billing Specialist
Salary in the United States https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/medical-billing-specialist-salary
All the cowardly doctors will do as they are told for fear of losing their license. PS The
profession that has the highest rate of suicide is Doctors! I haven't been to a doctor in 21
years. Riseliberty
This is not a vaccine. Do you understand? It is experimental gene therapy. You cannot
compare this with any FDA approved vaccine you've had in the past. Hehe62
Before watching one clip I suggest you watch the entire press conference. ALL of the
participants explained they are pro science and pro vaccine up front.
They have been harmed-most likely permanently by this *vaccine* and as you can see by the
twitter disclaimer they have been silenced, told they are suffering from anxiety versus a
vaccine side effect and our medical community has done NOTHING to follow up on what is going
on.
As an NP who has been thrust into covid from the get go I now daily see covid 19 vaccine
injuries albeit less than those suffered from these victims; depending on how you see it.
Type 1 diabetes in a perfectly healthy 16 year old athletic boy with healthy family members
now requiring insulin for the rest of his life-happened right after 2nd pfizer. Tons of
shingles and herpes viruses, and regular colds that have taken out staff members for 3-4 weeks
versus 2-3 days in the past.
As an NP that started in the military and has all vaccines and vaccinated all my children
and seeing and living in the medical community throughout this I personally will NEVER get
another vaccine the government suggests or requires ever again. I will NEVER go see a
mainstream medical provider ever again unless I'm taken against my will or knowledge.
Sure, tons of people have gotten the vax without issue, but YOU are the phase III clinical
trial for this thing, it has only been about 6 months. Long term effects who knows. I have a
feeling it isn't going to get better. And the fact that these people have been completely
silenced, questioned, and "debunked" by mainstream media and the public as a whole that
suddenly seems to have 100% confidence in their government???? is EXTREMELY concerning. Ron
God bless Maddie and her family. For context, I'd like to know how many children have had
the Pfizer vaccine without serious side effects. We shouldn't fall into the left wing tactics
of using anecdotal emotional cases to distort reality to make a larger point. The fact is that
vaccines have saved millions of lives and prevented millions of crippling side effects from
polio, smallpox, yellow fever, mumps, measles, hepatitis, HPV . Regretfully, some of the
vaccinated have suffered side effects, but the benefit greatly outweighs the risk.
JedWSmith
For perspective, this "vaccine" has caused more deaths than all the other vaccines given
over the last century. Maybe caution is warranted. This little child had an almost ZERO chance
of any complications from the China virus. There's ZERO reason for someone who's had the China
virus and recovered, having natural antibodies, to get the vaccine. The therapeutics work. They
were demonized only because a sitting president, hated by the fake media, big pharma, and the
DC deep state, promoted them. Dillard
Offering up your child for experiments, was it for $$$$$$$?
Remember the Canadian govt with pop up vaccination sites offering children ice cream if they
got the jab, and they did it WITHOUT PARENTS CONSENT? Think about that one. The govt rolls up
and opens a vaccine tent near your home, your child sees FREE ICE CREAM and goes to get free
ice cream and gets injected without your knowledge. That is some real evil there. William
Walker
I'm terribly sorry for the young girl, but I'm inflamed with anger that the stupid parents
put not one, but THREE children through clinical trials giving them the vaccine–all the
while touting the science (oh, the science!) which completely contradicts the claims that young
people are in any way threatened by Covid as a demographic. This is tragic, this is moronic
liberalism, and this is a direct result of the parents swilling all the false idiocy from CNN
and MSNBC without questioning the actual empirical data and science. PALydia
"Trials" are done to determine outcome. The word "trial" is synonymous with the word
"experiment." I.e. you are playing Russian Roulette when you enroll your child in ANY trial.
That IS science. You should NEVER assume something is safe and harmless when it is still in
"trial" phase .never mind these vaccines bypassed animal trials and all previous mRNA vaccines
failed animal trials. My heart breaks for this child but it's criminal for any parent to
subject their child to this. LiberalsRPinworms
Was waiting for the "but we still think you should vaccinate your kids too "
I find it interesting that all these cult members keep saying they're pro science. However,
scientific experiments are based on hypotheses, not already known facts. Why is she upset? Her
kid wanted to provide data to this experiment and did just that. Too bad she wasn't an outlier
considering, if she were, she could probably still eat food on her own. Thanks for your
contribution to the science folks! navi282
I am very sorry about what has happened to Maddie, but the responsibility lies with the
parents who believe in the false religion of "scientism" and have opted into the con-game that
vaccinations are genuine healing methodologies. As an engineer Maddie's mother should have
studied logic and the philosophy of science and then discerned that the politicization of the
medical field in recent years created confirmation bias, poor SPC (statistical process
control), and question-begging fallacies from those who should have known better. Complicity or
Ignorance -- take your pick. Matt Walters
Being pro-science means you base decisions on data. There is not yet a data set for the
short and long-term risks, benefits, and side effects of this vaccine that would allow a
science-based decision to take it or not. Those who are pro science wait for reliable data
before considering taking an experimental vaccine that is not approved by the FDA. constitution
rules
For USA children ages 5 to 18:
Population: ~57,000,000
Covid deaths: 263
Chance: < 1 in 200,000 Para Bellum
I notice a common trend among these child abuser parents .they go online to complain how
their kids were maimed by the experimental mRNA, but then they always have to preface it by
saying "oh but we're pro vaccine and pro science"
Well, I am anti-vaccine and I'm anti-mRNA. Have some conviction you retard. No wonder you
find yourselves in the position you're in.
I sincerely feel bad for your kids. You stole their lives from them and they will never be
the same and while the fallen man part of me wants to say "just deserts", the Catholic part of
me prays the rosary for you and your kids every single night. solome
' .we are pro-vaccine and pro-science'
.these parents make a great case that academia does not necessarily convey common sense it
can convey a buttload of chutzpah ..we know that because Washington DC is full of it excessive
hubris, too and, in turn, they can make decisions that prove disastrous for the future of We
the People Christina
This is a terrible tragedy for this family. I hope this beautiful young girl will eventualy
recover fully. I hope her parents will recover as well.
As for her parents, however, who are obviously very intelligent, did they miss the reams and
reams of scientific studies, white papers, and patent applications available to the public
before they permitted their child to get this not yet approved, experimental gene therapy
injection?
Did they not watch the hours and hours of video interviews and presentations by doctors,
virologists, epidemiologists, etc., who warned, warned, warned us to NOT TAKE IT?
Even after big tech started censoring and scrubbing most of this information off the net and
everywhere else, even before the massive pro-vax propaganda machine cranked up, millions of
people informed themselves about what it really is and thus decided to not be part of the human
trials.
Most of us had our flu shots and regular real vaccines as well, real vaccines are not the
issue, here.
I'm really sorry to tell you this, Mom, but you either ignored the real science or you, too,
were caught up in the propaganda that caused so many people to automatically reject any thing
people on the other side of the debate had to say.
One more red flag when it comes to politics and propaganda: DID YOU NOT QUESTION WHY SO MANY
MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS WHO TRIED TO WARN US HAD THEIR INFORMATION SCRUBBED, CENSORED, LOST THEIR
JOBS, AND RECEIVED DEATH THREATS SIMPLY FOR DOING DUE DILIGENCE AND ENGAGING IN THE ALWAYS
REQUIRED DEBATES AMONG MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS BEFORE APPROVING VACCINES? AND THEN WARNING THE
PUBLIC BEFORE THE POLITIAL CAMPAIGN BEGAN.
This is a very, very sad day in America. It's a very, very sad day for this family.
But maybe other parents will think twice, now, before they sign their children up for
potentailly horrific experiences related to the gene therapy injections. Maria
"Twelve year-old Maddie was enrolled in the Pfizer vaccine clinical trial."
The complete blame belongs on the parents. The tearful mother, an electrical engineer, said
she and her husband were pro-vaccine. If they were so smart, why in the hell would they enroll
their CHILD in a clinical trial for a fast-tracked vaccine, especially when children are not in
a high-risk group, and Covid-19 survival is 99.8 percent? I am furious with these highly
educated people. THEY WERE DUMBER THAN DOORKNOBS TO SACRIFICE THAT GIRL TO THE
GOVERNMENT/PHARMA COMPLEX. Libby ChickenLittle
When I was a 12 year old girl, I didn't even know what a clinical trial was. But then again,
I grew up at time when kids were allowed to be just kids and not political pawns by their
brainwashed parents. Sorry mom – I know comments are going to be harsh – but you
deserve EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. smith. jane smith.
Q. How does a government make a pro-vaccine person turn into an anti-vaccine person?
A. Give them a vaccine that makes them sicker than they were before they got the vaccine,
sicker with the very thing the vaccine was supposed to prevent.
I was told to go get a flu shot by my commander. Being a good USAF airman, I did so. I was
just a kid following orders. Two days later I was in the hospital, so sick with the flu until I
could not take 4 steps without getting so dizzy that I had to stop moving to keep from throwing
up. And it took 5 days before I was able to walk down a hallway without getting dizzy!
That was the last time I ever had a flu shot. Or the flu.
And that was over 35 years ago.
If the vaccine is such a good idea, then why does everybody have to get it in order for it
to work?
How about those who get the vaccine just leave those alone who choose not to get it?
And after what has happened to this lady's kid(s) .
Why the heck is she still PRO‐vaccine ???? 58
I blame the Fauci, Government, and the MSM for brainwashing fear amongst the masses. If you
are repeatedly gaslighted about almost every issue, you begin to believe the lies. You can add
schools also as they indoctrinate instead of teaching critical thinking.
The US Food and Drug Administration added a warning about the risk of myocarditis and
pericarditis to fact sheets for Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines Friday.
The warning notes that reports of adverse events following vaccination -- particularly after
the second dose -- suggest increased risks of both types of heart inflammation.
Earlier this week, vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
heard that the agency had received about 1,200 reports of such heart inflammation after 300
million doses of the two vaccines had been given.
"Patients who had had COVID-19 within the past year and people vaccinated with two doses of
Pfizer retained enough antibodies to be protected against the Indian variant, but three to six
times less antibodies than against the UK variant, Schwartz said. The study shows that "this
variant.. has acquired partial resistance to antibodies," Schwartz said." Pfizer jab
less effective, still protects against Indian strain- study
in people who had been fully vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine,
levels of neutralising antibodies were more than five times lower against the B.1.617.2 variant
when compared to the original strain, upon which current vaccines are based.
Importantly, this antibody response was even lower in people who had only received one dose.
After a single dose of Pfizer-BioNTech, 79% of people had a quantifiable neutralising antibody
response against the original strain, but this fell to 50% for B.1.1.7, 32% for B.1.617.2 and
25% for B.1.351.
While antibody
levels decreased with age against all variants, no correlation was observed for sex or
BMI.
More recently, there has been a Delta outbreak at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary,
with 16 patients and six staff infected. The majority experienced mild symptoms, though one
required treatment in the intensive care unit. Of the 22, 11 had been fully vaccinated, while
seven had one dose; all were given an mRNA vaccine, communications director Kerry Williamson of
Alberta Health Services told Maclean's . (The province did not disclose whether the one
admitted to ICU had been vaccinated.)
An outbreak of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in Israel has spread to some vaccinated people
-- with about half of the adults infected fully inoculated with the Pfizer shot, a health
official said.
An outbreak of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in Israel has spread to some vaccinated people -- with about half of the adults infected
fully inoculated with the Pfizer shot, a health official said.
Ran Balicer, who heads a COVID-19 government advisory committee, said that about 90 percent of new infections in the country were
likely caused by the Delta variant, a highly-contagious strain that first emerged in India,
the
Wall Street Journal reported
.
"The entrance of the Delta variant has changed the transmission dynamics," Balicer said.
Children under the age of 16 -- the majority of whom had not received the vaccine -- were responsible for about half of the new cases,
Balicer said.
But about half of adults infected in the outbreak were considered fully-vaccinated -- meaning that it had been at least two weeks
since they received their final dose of the Pfizer shot, he said.
Balicer added that the so-called breakthrough cases were expected because though Pfizer is highly effective against the virus, it's
not 100 percent protective.
Israelis
wear protectives against COVID-19 at a shopping mall in Jerusalem on June 25, 2021.
EMMANUEL
DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images
The spread of the Delta variant comes as daily cases rose to 200 on Thursday from around 10 a day for most of June, the Wall Street
Journal reported.
Though the outbreak is small by global standards, it has prompted the government to reimpose indoor mask mandates, the newspaper
reported.
Health officials in the US have warned that the Delta variant will soon become the dominate strain of COVID-19.
But evidence has shown that the vaccine will prevent severe cases of the bug, as well as hospitalizations.
"Right now, in the United States, [Delta accounts for] about 10 percent of infections. It's
doubling every two weeks," Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug
Administration, said Sunday on
Face the Nation . "So it's probably going to become the dominant strain here in the
United States. That doesn't mean that we're going to see a sharp uptick in infections, but it
does mean that this is going to take over. And I think the risk is really to the fall -- that
this could spike a new epidemic heading into the fall."
Adding to the worry is new data that suggests Delta may also cause more severe disease -- in
addition to spreading to more people. Early findings out of Scotland suggest infections with
the Delta variant were associated with nearly double the risk of infected persons ending up
hospitalized compared to infections with the Alpha variant. The data was published
Monday as Correspondence in the Lancet . Experts say they'll need more data to confirm that
risk.
The bright side
The good news in all of this is that being fully vaccinated appears to protect against
Delta. At the end of May, researchers at Public Health England posted data (which had not been
peer-reviewed) indicating that two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were 88 percent
effective at preventing a symptomatic infection with the Delta variant . Meanwhile, the
data said, two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine were 60 percent effective. (Notably,
just one shot of either vaccine was not protective, offering only 33 percent efficacy
against symptomatic Delta infections. Experts emphasized the importance of not skipping the
second dose.)
Data out
of Scotland Monday likewise suggested that two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were 79
percent effective against the Delta variant, while two doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine were
again 60 percent effective.
Also on Monday, PHE released another analysis (also not peer-reviewed) that finds that two
doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were
96 percent effective against hospitalization and two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca
vaccine were 92 percent effective against hospitalization.
"So we have the tools to control this and defeat it," Gottlieb noted.
Looming risk
But experts are still concerned. The pace of vaccination has slowed significantly in the US,
and many states -- particularly in the South -- are far behind the goal of getting 70 percent
of adults at least one vaccine. Pockets of low vaccination are fueling fears among experts,
including Gottlieb, that cases could once again spike as Delta continues its spread.
Peter Hotez, director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development,
echoed that concern Tuesday. He told CNN that he is " extremely
worried " about the Delta variant. He emphasized that right now is "crunch time" to get
fully vaccinated -- which takes five to six weeks -- before Delta spreads further.
In a press briefing last week, top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci made a similar
plea, pointing to the rapid spread of the Delta variant in the UK. "
We cannot let that happen in the United States ," he said. This "is such a powerful
argument... to get vaccinated."
This is a fiasco for Fauci "herd immunity" campaign and the US goverment official strategy --
full, if necessary compulsive, vaccination of population with the first generation of vaccines.
It means that people vaccinated with the the first generation vaccines can become infected with
Delta variant and spread the virus much like unvaccinated people.
An Israeli receives a coronavirus vaccine in Tel Aviv, Israel, on January 6. Sebastian
Scheiner/AP As many as half of new COVID-19 cases in Israel are vaccinated people, a health
official suggested. The Delta variant, not as easily beaten by vaccines as other variants, is
driving Israel's surge. The figure is likely an estimate, as the health ministry is still
analyzing the cases. As Israel faces a surge in cases driven by the Delta variant, its health
officials suggested that as many as half of new cases were among people who'd been
vaccinated.
Fully vaccinated people who've come into contact with the Delta variant have no immunity and
have to quarantine, Chezy Levy, the director-general of Israel's health ministry, said on
Wednesday, Haaretz reported. Levy told the state broadcaster Kan Bet that about 40% to 50% of
new cases appeared to be people who had been vaccinated, Haaretz reported.
He did not appear to specify a time frame for the new cases. The figure is likely an
estimate, as the ministry is still analyzing the cases. On Monday, Levy said that a third of
the new daily cases were people who had been vaccinated.
This is a fiasco for Fauci "herd immunity" campaign. It means that vaccinated people can
become infected and spread the virus much like unvaccinated people.
Cases of the Delta variant of coronavirus have almost doubled in a week
with 73 people now confirmed to have died after testing positive for the variant, 26 of whom
had had both vaccine doses.
Public Health England (PHE) said that as of Monday, the UK has seen 75,953 confirmed cases
of the Delta variant first identified in India, up 33,630 - or 79% - from the previous
week.
While just 26 people died more than two weeks after their second COVID-19 vaccine dose from
the Delta variant, more than 30.6 million in the UK have had both jabs, according to the
latest
government figures .
PHE said a total of 806 people in England have been admitted to hospital with the Delta
variant as of 14 June, a rise of 423 on the previous week.
So we have real problems with vaccines as Delta mutation puts the end of Fauci and company
fake dream about herd immunity -- it infects vaccinated people, but we can't discuss that the US medical establishment is corrupt,
in bed with Big Pharma and failed us.
This "medical bolshevism" should better be stopped.
Notable quotes:
"... Johnson said Sheryl Ruettgers will detail "severe neurological reactions that still inhibit her ability to live a normal life, including muscle pain, numbness, weakness and paresthesia" that she experienced after getting the COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month. ..."
Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson announced plans to hold a news conference to
discuss adverse reactions related to the COVID-19 vaccine, drawing backlash from health care
experts who view the move as "dangerous" and a way to promote misinformation.
In a statement Friday, Johnson said he plans to give a platform to six people from across
the country who claim to have had negative health reactions after receiving the coronavirus
jab. Johnson said the conference will take place Monday to allow the individuals to tell their
stories and discuss issues that have been "repeatedly ignored" by the medical community,
according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The Republican senator, who has been a vocal critic of vaccine mandates and has previously
advocated for alternative and unproven drug treatments to COVID-19, faced immediate backlash
from critics who feel the event will be a platform for spreading misinformation about the
safety of vaccines.
Dr. Jeff Huebner, a doctor in Madison, Wisconsin, said that Johnson was "promoting dangerous
and unfounded claims" about the vaccine that contradict medical research and analysis.
"As a member of the Wisconsin medical community I'm gravely concerned about the impact his
event and remarks will have on our ability to return to normal and protect Wisconsinites from
COVID-19.," Huebner said in a statement, the Journal Sentinel reported .
Joanna Bisgrove, a Wisconsin primary care doctor, told FOX6 that Johnson's statements and
event are "putting people at risk and already hurting people."
Tony Evers, the state's Democratic governor, added Friday that Johnson was being "reckless
and irresponsible" and said the event was "jeopardizing the health and safety" of the state's
vaccine rollout and economic recovery.
[email protected], you're being reckless and irresponsible. The #COVID19 vaccine is safe and
effective and based on years of science and research. Every time you suggest otherwise,
you're jeopardizing the health and safety of the people of our state and our economic
recovery.
-- Governor Tony Evers (@GovEvers) June 25, 2021
In defense, Johnson said Friday that he is "just asking questions" and isn't against the
vaccine.
"We're all supporters of vaccines. As I've repeatedly said, I'm glad that hundreds of
millions of Americans have been vaccinated, but I don't think authorities can ignore and censor
some of the issues," Johnson said in a tweet responding to Evers. "On Monday, we'll bring light
to stories that deserve to be seen, heard & believed."
Monday's event in Milwaukee will include statements from former Green Bay Packers player Ken
Ruettgers and his wife, Sheryl.
Johnson said Sheryl Ruettgers will detail "severe neurological reactions that still inhibit
her ability to live a normal life, including muscle pain, numbness, weakness and paresthesia"
that she experienced after getting the COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month.
Additional testimonies will be heard from individuals from Ohio, Missouri, Utah, Michigan
and Tennessee.
The medical community has long stressed that the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine far
outweigh the risks of possible side effects. Earlier this week, top U.S. health officials, medical agencies, laboratory and hospital
associations issued a statement reiterating the benefits by stating that getting vaccinated is
the "best way to protect yourself, your loved ones, your community, and to return to a more
normal lifestyle safely and quickly."
Newsweek contacted Johnson for additional comment, but did not hear back in time for
publication.
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The German company BioNTech
partnered with Pfizer to develop and test a coronavirus
vaccine known as BNT162b2 , the generic name tozinameran or the brand name Comirnaty . A
clinical trial demonstrated that the vaccine has an efficacy rate
of
over 90 percent in preventing Covid-19.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is studded with
proteins that it uses to enter human cells. These so-called spike proteins make a tempting
target for potential vaccines
and treatments
.
The vaccine uses messenger RNA, genetic material that our cells read to make proteins. The
molecule" called mRNA for short "" is fragile and would be chopped to pieces by our natural
enzymes if it were injected directly into the body. To protect their vaccine, Pfizer and
BioNTech wrap the mRNA in oily bubbles made of lipid nanoparticles.
Lipid nanoparticles
surrounding mRNA
Because of their fragility, the mRNA molecules will quickly fall apart at room temperature.
Pfizer is building special containers with dry ice, thermal sensors and GPS trackers to ensure
the vaccines can be transported at ""94°F (""70°C) to stay
viable.
Entering a Cell
After injection, the vaccine particles bump into cells and fuse to them, releasing mRNA. The
cell's molecules read its sequence and build spike proteins. The mRNA from the vaccine is
eventually destroyed by the cell, leaving no permanent trace.
VACCINE
PARTICLES
VACCINATED
CELL
Spike
protein
mRNA
Translating mRNA
Three spike
proteins combine
Spike
Cell
nucleus
Spikes
and protein
fragments
Displaying
spike protein
fragments
Protruding
spikes
Some of the spike proteins form spikes that migrate to the surface of the cell and stick out
their tips. The vaccinated cells also break up some of the proteins into fragments, which they
present on their surface. These protruding spikes and spike protein fragments can then be
recognized by the immune system.
Spotting the Intruder
When a vaccinated cell dies, the debris will contain many spike proteins and protein
fragments, which can then be taken up by a type of immune cell called an antigen-presenting
cell.
Debris from
a dead cell
Engulfing
a spike
ANTIGEN-
PRESENTING
CELL
Digesting
the proteins
Presenting a
spike protein
fragment
HELPER
T CELL
The cell presents fragments of the spike protein on its surface. When other cells called
helper T cells detect these fragments, the helper T cells can raise the alarm and help marshal
other immune cells to fight the infection.
Making Antibodies
Other immune cells, called B cells, may bump into the coronavirus spikes on the surface of
vaccinated cells, or free-floating spike protein fragments. A few of the B cells may be able to
lock onto the spike proteins. If these B cells are then activated by helper T cells, they will
start to proliferate and pour out antibodies that target the spike protein.
HELPER
T CELL
Activating
the B cell
Matching
surface proteins
VACCINATED
CELL
B CELL
SECRETED
ANTIBODIES Stopping the Virus
The antibodies can latch onto coronavirus spikes, mark the virus for destruction and prevent
infection by blocking the spikes from attaching to other cells.
ANTIBODIES
VIRUS Killing Infected Cells
The antigen-presenting cells can also activate another type of immune cell called a killer T
cell to seek out and destroy any
coronavirus-infected cells that display the spike protein fragments on their
surfaces.
ANTIGEN-
PRESENTING
CELL
Presenting a
spike protein
fragment
ACTIVATED
KILLER
T CELL
INFECTED
CELL
Beginning
to kill the
infected cell Remembering the Virus
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine requires two injections, given 21 days apart, to prime the
immune system well enough to fight off the coronavirus. But because the vaccine is so new,
researchers don't know how long its protection might last.
First dose
0.3ml
Second dose
21 days later
A preliminary study found that the vaccine seems to offer strong protection about 10
days after the first dose , compared with people taking a placebo:
Cumulative incidence of Covid-19
among clinical trial participants
2.5%
2.0
People taking
a placebo
1.5
1.0
Second
dose
First
dose
People taking the
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
0.5
0
1
2
3
4
8
12
16
Weeks after the first dose
It's possible that in the months after vaccination, the number of antibodies and killer T
cells will drop. But the immune system also contains special cells called memory B cells and
memory T cells that might retain information about the coronavirus for years or even
decades.
Each vial of the vaccine contains 5 doses of 0.3 milliliters. The vaccine must be thawed
before injection and diluted with saline. After dilution the vial must be used within six
hours.
A diluted vial of the vaccine at Royal Free Hospital in London. Jack Hill/Agence France-Presse
Vaccine Timeline
January, 2020 BioNTech begins work on a
vaccine after Dr. Ugur Sahin, one of the company's founders, becomes convinced that the
coronavirus will spread from China into a pandemic.
Dr. Ugur Sahin of BioNTech. BioNTech
March BioNTech and Pfizer agree to collaborate.
May The companies launch a Phase
1/2 trial on two versions of a mRNA vaccine. One version, known as BNT162b2, had fewer side
effects.
The first trial participant being vaccinated in Germany. BioNTech
July 22 The Trump administration awards a
$1.9 billion contract for 100 million doses to be delivered by December, with an option to
acquire 500 million more doses, if the vaccine is authorized by the Food and Drug
Administration.
July 27 The companies launch a Phase 2/3
trial with 30,000 volunteers in the United States and other countries, including Argentina,
Brazil and Germany.
Sept. 12 Pfizer and BioNTech
announce they will seek to expand their U.S. trial to 44,000 participants.
A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Pool photo by Andy Stenning
Nov. 9 Preliminary data indicates the Pfizer vaccine is over 90
percent effective , with no serious side effects. The final data from the trial shows the
efficacy rate is 95 percent.
Dec. 2 Britain gives emergency
authorization to Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine, becoming the first Western country to give
such an approval to a coronavirus vaccine.
Dec. 8 William
Shakespeare , age 81, is among the first people to receive a shot of the vaccine in
Britain, on the first day of vaccinations for at-risk health care workers and people over
80.
Dec. 9 Canada
authorizes the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Dec. 11 The F.D.A. grants Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine the first emergency use
authorization for a coronavirus vaccine in the United States.
Mexico also approves the vaccine for emergency use.
Dec. 21 The European Union
authorizes the vaccine.
Dec. 31 Pfizer expects to produce up to
50 million doses by the end of the year, and up to 1.3 billion doses in 2021. Each
vaccinated person will require two doses.
The comments were made on Sky News by Special Envoy on Covid for the World Health
Organisation (WHO). Dr David Nabarro.
Nabarro suggested that there would be a long list of mutations of the Indian variant which
would in some cases evade the protection offered by vaccines.
"We will go from Delta to Lambda and then on to the other Greek letters, that's inevitable,
and some of these variants will be troublesome," he said.
"I'm basically saying variants are going to go on coming. That's part of life, we need to
pick them up fast, we need to move quickly if we see them in a certain location, we need to
build the management of variants into what we call our Covid-ready strategy, which is going to
be the pattern for the foreseeable future," he added.
According to Nabarro, mask mandates and social distancing need to remain in place for the
foreseeable future "as part of our defence" against COVID , particularly in regions which have
high infection rates.
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Roacheforque 2 hours ago
[For those who already had Covid-19] the variants are a nothing burger according to Dr.
Yeadon, who is censored and cancelled , just like ivermectin and HCQ.
Crimes against humanity.
trailer park boys 1 hour ago
I was going to bring up Dr. Mike Yeadon also. As the former VP and respiratory research
head globally for Pfizer, he has the knowledge to call Bullshiit! on this variant crap. He
was on The Highwire a week or so ago and it is the best hour and a half to clue you in on
the Covid scam that you'll ever see.
https://thehighwire.com/videos/pfizer-vp-the-thing-to-be-terrified-of-is-your-government/
BLOTTO 1 hour ago
' the idea of mutations of SARS-CoV-2 is based only on an interpretation of the fact
that all DNA is constantly changing. Or more generally formulated, the idea of the virus
mutation arises only because one still works with completely outdated, long since disproved
scientific hypotheses.
With this obsolete approach, new mutations of SARS-CoV-2 can be found/invented for all
eternity. This can quickly become a catastrophic self-perpetuating vicious circle, and it
appears that many scientists have already fallen into this.'
Confidential Documents reveal Moderna sent mRNA Coronavirus Vaccine Candidate to
University Researchers weeks before emergence of Covid-19
Tap News / Weaver
U.S. Gov't Sent "mRNA Coronavirus Vaccine Candidates" to University Researchers WEEKS
BEFORE "COVID" Outbreak in China
Virgil Krenshaw PREMIUM 2 hours ago remove link
AKA the plan from the beginning.
Permanent lockdown is one way to keep the people from rising up. Or it might cause them
to rise up. Flip a coin, oligarchs. You feel lucky?
HRH of Aquitaine 2.0 2 hours ago
The twisted part is the dumb people that are followers are the ones getting vaxxed and
wearing a mask. Both of which have serious health implications. Oh well. Not my problem if
the dumb ones, as usual, win the Darwin Award.
williambanzai7 PREMIUM 2 hours ago
Your papers please
Rectify77 PREMIUM 2 hours ago
Total mind control. Fear only works until people realize that the bogeyvirus isn't
really dangerous to the 99.8%. Wake up people!
pods 1 hour ago remove link
This guy [who advocates social distancing] needs to be ventilated. You know how many
people will die from lack of socialization? More than from the boogeyman virus.
These psychopaths need to be removed from society. We've lived and died for a long time
with communicable diseases. We aren't going dystopia cyborg life now.
Nope, "2 ropes to stretch his neck".
hegger 2 hours ago (Edited)
The WHO lost its scientific relevance and whatever psychological authority it had left
when it changed its version of "herd immunity" such that herd immunity could now only be
possible through vaccines. (I'm too lazy to provide a link, but look it up; it
happened.)
The WHO and its scientists have betrayed the light of logos for the short-term dopamine
hits provided by power and money. They are quite literally a net negative to the human
species and, hopefully, history will prepare an appropriately excruciating conclusion of
their miserable lives.
GeezerGeek 1 hour ago
I suspect that the narrowly targeted mRNA jabs do a really poor job of developing herd
immunity. They only potentially address one of the many ways -> our immune systems
normally work. Or so I've read.
But what do I know? I'm not a doctor and it's been decades since I last "played doctor"
with anyone.
SuperareDolo 2 hours ago (Edited)
SARS is only 80% identical to Covid, versus 99.99% identical for these stupid variants.
Survivors of SARS have robust T-cell immunity today, including against Covid, 17 years
after having the disease. Antibodies don't do the heavy lifting against viruses, and
surface antigens like spike protein are often not the principal immune targets. So useless
vaccines might indeed allow endless variants to spread. But all those people who've had the
virus now have the gold standard of immunity, and don't need to give another thought to
it.
KittyAW 2 hours ago remove link
The Earth is inundated w/ viruses, bacteria, fungi & other microorganisms. They are
everywhere; the air, soil, oceans - THIS is the environment in which humans evolved. Those
whose immune systems were inadequate early on, died early on; those whose immune systems
degenerated died later.
In the more recent centuries sanitation & improved diets have enabled very many to
overcome infections who would have died in centuries past. Far more recently tho, many ppl
have ruined their immune systems via life-style practices, among them poor eating habits
leading to obesity. Those who have kept themselves truly healthy - or regained good health
- which always includes a strong immune system, should not be penalized (nor penalized
themselves) bc of the many who have let themselves become immune-wise dysfunctional.
These new "variants" are not much different from the original & the prevention
measures of serious illness are the same. But this WHO "Special Envoy on Covid" is NOT
going to say that. The financial backing from the likes of Bill Gates is all promulgated on
Pushing "Vaccines", even tho they will have little to no diminishing effect on anything but
general health over the next few years as data is likely to show..... But a diminished
population is exactly what certain parties want.
trailer park boys 2 hours ago
Dr. Mike Yeadon has given the most insightful explanation of all the nefarious goings on
this past year plus. As the former VP and respiratory research head globally for Pfizer, he
has the knowledge to call Bullshiit! on this variant crap. He was on The Highwire a week or
so ago and it is the best hour and a half to clue you in on the Covid scam that you'll ever
see.
https://thehighwire.com/videos/pfizer-vp-the-thing-to-be-terrified-of-is-your-government/
YouThePeople 2 hours ago
The WHO...We Won't Get Fooled Again!
Able Ape 2 hours ago (Edited)
I think he's a moron... Him and that midget Fauci make quite a pathetic pair...
Schroedingers Cat 2 hours ago
He's not stupid. He either brainwashed, blackmailed or in all likelihood a greedy
genocidal psychopath who puts his career and income before the future of the entire human
race..
WeNamedTheDogIndiana 1 hour ago
mask mandates and social distancing need to remain in place for the foreseeable future
"as part of our defence" against COVID
Just like getting groped at airports by TSA goons, warrantless surveillance, warrant
applications approved almost 100% of the time by a shadowy court, and renewal of the
Patriot Act....all for our safety. Sure.
liberty2day 2 hours ago
the only ugly face that needs a muzzle is faoxi's
dockw 2 hours ago
Could you reference some studies, like in scientific, that demonstrate Masks are
effective in blocking the Covid? -- which virons are smaller than the material in a mask I
didn't think so.
Here's the Danish study done last year which shows they don't make a difference https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
According to Nabarro, mask mandates and social distancing need to remain in place for
the foreseeable future "as part of our defence" against COVID , particularly in regions
which have high infection rates.
Social distancing seems rather silly. If a person remains the required distance away
from another person this does not mean they may not be breathing the same air. The air does
not abide by social distancing. Air moves. People move. If people move through contaminated
air yet keep the proper social distancing space with other persons yet people are still
passing through contaminated air. Even if there is no one around and a person is perfectly
social distanced from the entire human race thus they can still be breathing in
contaminated air that was previously contaminated by an infected person even a few moments
before. I just don't get the whole folly of social distancing thing.
Further, it's a talking virus that is spread by talking. So if one is perfectly socially
distanced from another and yet talking or one is talking on their cell and the other not
talking... well it still comes down to masks and contaminated air.
People should generally tend to wear masks when venturing out especially as to high
pedestrian traffic areas or high traffic sites such as big box stores or grocers or even
neighborhood small stores that receive a lot or constant foot traffic/patronage.
The shots are "safe and effective," the propagandists proclaim.
That's absolutely true. Until some woefully ignorant, or psychopathic imitation of a human
being injects them into someone.
Anyone with two or more brain cells that get along, and has paid the slightest attention
knows that those under 20 are virtually immune to the virus, and those under 40 are no more at
risk than they are from the common cold, and those under 60 with no other serious co-morbidity
are only at slight risk. There is no logical reason to vaccinate ANYONE under 20. Very little
reason regarding those 20-40, and choose your poison if you are 40-whatever. At 67 I've chosen
to take my chances without participating in a medical experiment.
Regarding safety, they are the most dangerous vaccine ever produced, much less deployed,
even by the woefully inadequate results of under reporting to VAERS. By those results, the
COVID vaccines have already killed about 6,000 Americans. More than all other vaccines combined
for the last 10-30 years, and the year is only half over. Some of those other vaccines were
pulled from the market because of as few as 50 deaths. Why do the COVID vaccines get a pass for
6,000? And that's just deaths. There are abundant other side effects, including mounting
evidence of mental disability, and definite reproductive damage.
VAERS data: "5,888 deaths", "19,597 hospitalizations", "43,891 urgent care", "58,800
office visits", "1,459 anaphylaxis", "1,737 Bell's palsy", "2,190 heart attacks" and "652
miscarriages". CDC says data is "unreliable". You choose who to believe.
WarrenLiz 16 hours ago
Over 15,472 dead from Jab in 27 EU countries, about half of Europe's 50 countries.
The EudraVigilance database reports that through June 19, 2021 there are 15,472 deaths
and 1,509,266 injuries reported following injections of four experimental COVID-19
shots:
The answer to Carlson's question is because.. it's a money grabbing death cult!.
Natural immun system is destroyed... just wait till next flu season or the next virus
they relase and see what death numbers we see!
racing_flowers 17 hours ago
Isn't it curious that the 3 big pharma Corps (think Vacc pushers) and the big 2 MSM
Corps are BOTH controlled by Blackrock Partners Hedge Fund...
Nona Yobiznes 18 hours ago remove link
Them going after the children makes me deeply suspicious. Nobody under 50, unless
they're made of blubber, dies from this. In 2020, there was practically zero excess death
for people younger than 70 years old in Sweden. These are their official statistics. For
the vast majority of people it's basically a flu you get for a couple days and you're over
it. What the **** is all this about? If the vaccine is only really good for preventing
hospitalizations, and doesn't stop you from spreading or from catching variants, what in
the hell are we giving kids vaccines when they are more likely to die from the regular flu?
It's freaky, and it stinks.
Having been caught delivering some fact-base 'science' that does not
jibe with the establishment's message that all kids should be jabbed immediately, The WHO has
rapidly 'adjusted' its science-based recommendations for whether children should get
vaccinated... or not...
Gone is the big headline - "Children should not be vaccinated for the moment."
The new guidance is as follows: (emphasis ours... in case you are confused by their
guidance)
Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults, so unless they
are part of a group at higher risk of severe COVID-19, it is less urgent to vaccinate them
than older people, those with chronic health conditions and health workers.
More evidence is needed on the use of the different COVID-19 vaccines in children to be
able to make general recommendations on vaccinating children against COVID-19.
WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) has concluded that the Pfizer/BionTech
vaccine is suitable for use by people aged 12 years and above. Children aged between 12 and
15 who are at high risk may be offered this vaccine alongside other priority groups for
vaccination.
Vaccine trials for children are ongoing and WHO will update its recommendations when the
evidence or epidemiological situation warrants a change in policy.
So to clarify... children aren't really at risk of this virus so no hurry on the jab... more
evidence is needed on its usefulness in kids... oh but the Pfizer vax is suitable?
So is there evidence or not? Is the vaccine worthwhile for kids? If you have to ask, you
aren't following the science.
Color us not entirely surprised at this farce... but one thing we are sure of, this will
simply be dismissed as a coincidence and WHO had planned on adjusting its guidance the whole
time (it was just waiting to get caught in a disagreement with Fauci and friends).
* * *
As The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity's Adam Dick noted yesterday, in
America, national, state, and local governments are pulling out all the stops to advance giving
experimental coronavirus shots to children down to the age of 12.
Up next, babies and children up to age 11.
The shots are "safe and effective," the propagandists proclaim.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has a different approach. The WHO says do not
vaccinate children, at least not yet.
At its website, the WHO offers this advice regarding giving experimental coronavirus
vaccines, some of which are not even vaccines under the normal meaning of the term, to
children:
Children should not be vaccinated for the moment. There is not yet enough evidence on the
use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be
vaccinated against COVID-19.
Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults.
However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.
Choose accordingly.
Kugelhagel 18 hours ago
Conspiracy theorist = heretic ... they couldn't use that word anymore, because everyone
would understand that this is about silencing the truth.
Ride_the_kali_yuga 17 hours ago
Nice analogy.
JimmyJones 17 hours ago remove link
Yep, women with their periods messed up, their babies allergic to their breast milk,
young people with heart inflammation, people having partial paralyzed limbs. I know there's
more.
We don't even know what 6-12 months has in-store or 1-2 years.
Alice-the-dog 13 hours ago
I'm always on the look out for new conspiracy theories, because my old ones all turned
out to be accurate.
It was a brilliant psyop by the CIA to invent the term to cover up the murder of JFK.
But if one takes a cursory look at it, how is a conspiracy ever to be exposed without a
theory that there is one? If every time someone proposes a theory regarding this or that
possible conspiracy, they are swept into the kook dust bin, how will any conspiracy ever be
exposed? Hence they aren't, unless iron clad evidence of their existence is encompassed by
the theory.
WarrenLiz 15 hours ago
Over 15,472 dead from Jab in 27 EU countries, about half of Europe's 50 countries.
The EudraVigilance database reports that through June 19, 2021 there are 15,472 deaths
and 1,509,266 injuries reported following injections of four experimental COVID-19
shots:
...Too many people are stuck in normalcy bias and are too trusting of the modern elite
class. You don't have to look back very far to see the unspeakable atrocities powerful
people are willing and able to commit.
Ride_the_kali_yuga 17 hours ago (Edited) remove link
My guess was depopulation due to lower EROIE on petroleum. Deathcross of the fossil
energy (oil) available was near to us, maybe we already are behind peak oil. Eolians, solar
panels and EV are an energical leftist joke and will never be an alternative to nuclear/
charchoal power plants and thermic motors.
I was thinking about it for quite some time. Why all this Covidian Cult was necessary
for? What does it produce? Lockdowns was a main response worldwide.
Was it usefull? absolutely not. No more planes in the sky, economic slowdown, a lot less
of enegy used . I guess this sanitary madness was all about cheap energy we can get from
oil. The human population exploded due to the industrial revolution, the machines, their
capacities and -in fine- oil made it possible. If you do not have enough cheap oil and the
EROIE is way to high, then the industrial technology we live in can no longer be.
The Covidian Cult produced what an energy crisis would have made...
The_Dude 16 hours ago
Evil is narcissism run amok...
Rose Marie PREMIUM 15 hours ago
Intelligence without wisdom. Always looking at what, how, when, where, but no interest
in asking why. Running thought processes without examining the meaning.
uncle_duke 18 hours ago remove link
An age of unlimited information, and a population too dumb and lazy to do anything with
it. Reality has become Pythonian.
DAVOS-19 14 hours ago
Not so fast. Remember, they lie, probably also about history.
Now Voyager 14 hours ago
What happens when you stop natural selection and substitute unnatural selection.
Ride_the_kali_yuga 13 hours ago
Yeah, the gene pool is over crowded with genetics defects. See diabetics, i mean
"genetical" ones since a young age. Insuline was a great discovery, it saves a lot of
people at some point. Then without the natural selection they had kids of their own and has
a consequence they spread their genetic defect in the gene pool. Sometimes great inventions
make unintended results.
Diseases are a way for nature to get rid of the olders and the weak. It is not moral,
there is no justice in this, this is just the way nature works. Human tried damn hard to
break nature's law, the thing is, there is consequences playing god.
"Delta is driving surges around the world, and I suspect it's going to be the same here,"
said William Lee, the vice president of science at Helix. Delta is growing more than twice as
fast as gamma, the variant first seen in Brazil, in undervaccinated communities.
Meanwhile, the gamma variant, which appears better at evading vaccines, was found to be more
prevalent in counties with higher inoculation rates.
People who have received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine have fewer antibodies targeting the
Indian COVID-19 variant compared to other strains, new data suggests.
Levels of these antibodies are lower with increasing age and decline over time, the analysis
of blood samples from 250 healthy people also suggests.
This provides even more evidence in support for vaccine boosters for the vulnerable come
autumn, researchers believe.
The data, from the Francis Crick Institute and the National Institute for Health Research
(NIHR) UCLH Biomedical Research Centre, also supports current plans to reduce the dose gap
between the jabs.
It found that after just one dose of the Pfizer jab, recipients were less likely to develop
antibody levels against the Indian variant, also known as Delta, as high as those seen against
the UK variant, now known as Alpha.
...researchers at Emory University performed similar studies with antibodies taken from 15
people who have been vaccinated with either the Pfizer or Moderna shots. In these studies, the
antibodies could still neutralize the B.1.617 variant, but the potency of the antibodies
dropped by about sevenfold on average, the authors reported .
"Despite this reduction, all vaccine blood samples ... still maintained the ability to block
the B.1.617 variant," said immunologist Mehul Suthar
at Emory, who led the study.
Together the data suggests the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will still work well against
B.1.617, just as they do for the variant from South Africa, known as B.1.351. In both cases,
the shots will likely offer high protection from death and severe illness, but they may lose
some ability to stop mild or asymptomatic infections.
European health authorities have more or less confirmed that adenovirus-vector vaccines
produced by AstraZeneca and J&J can, in rare instances, cause potentially deadly cerebral
brain clots in patients with low blood-platelet counts. These findings, which were hinted at
during the late-stage trials for the AstraZeneca vaccine (which saw its US trials halted for a
month over safety issues) have
led to some European governments imposing restrictions on the vaccines.
... ... ...
The FT reports that the CDC
has found a "likely association" between a handful of cases of heart inflammation and the mRNA
COVID-19 vaccines. The reactions were documented in adolescent patients, which might explain
the delay in detection since teenagers have only just become eligible.
There were 323 confirmed cases among people who received the vaccine of certain types of
heart inflammation in the US up to June 11, with 309 people requiring hospital treatment.
Nearly 80% of the people with confirmed cases have fully recovered, according to the CDC's
Vaccine Safety Technical Work Group.
The cases have prompted the agency to start monitoring for new instances of myocarditis and
pericarditis, two different types of heart inflammation, to see if any new cases or potential
links emerge. The demographic group that's most vulnerable so far appears to be men under the
age of 30 (by contrast, the rare side effect for the AstraZeneca jabs mostly impacted young
women). Right now, the cases of heart inflammation have occurred at a rate of 4.4 per million
vaccine doses after the first dose, then rising to 12.6 per million after the second dose,
which is still exceedingly rare.
If an adolescent patient experiences heart inflammation after their first dose, the CDC
recommends deferring the second dose.
"This is an extremely rare side-effect, and only an exceedingly small number of people
will experience it after vaccination," doctors from the US health department, CDC and others
said in a statement following the meeting. "Most cases are mild, and individuals recover
often on their own or with minimal treatment. In addition, we know that myocarditis and
pericarditis are much more common if you get Covid-19 , and the risks to the heart from
Covid-19 infection can be more severe," they added.
In the US and Israel, high vaccination rates have prompted authorities to start vaccinating
younger and younger patients, with Israel now vaccinating patients as young as 12 . Anyone who
objects is quickly reminded of the threat of "variants" like the mutant strain "Delta".
Meanwhile, the developing world is still woefully undersupplied, leaving even the most
vulnerable patients without access.
Stinkbug 1 20 hours ago remove link
He's not being judgmental, just stating the facts as he sees them.
The young men who submit to the shot are cannon fodder for big Pharma. The young men who
went to war for causes that turned out out be lies were also cannon fodder. Part of the
tragedy is that their anger cannot be channeled into healthy change since they are either
disabled or no longer with us.
If you were forced to take this shot, focus your anger on the system, not those who
point out the corruption.
ohm 16 hours ago remove link
Who is being forced to take the shots? Unless they have people holding you down or a
gun at your head, you are not forced.
You are being forced in certain countries like Indonesia and the Philippines. In the
rest of the world your are being coerced. Either way, it is a violation of the Nuremberg
code. Libtards, Fauci, Collins and the rest of the public health authorities prove again
that Mengele was just ahead of his time.
WHO's Swaminathan said that scientists still needed more data on the variant, including its
impact on the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines. How many are getting infected and of those how many
are getting hospitalized and seriously ill?
Some countries, like the U.S. and U.K., have already signaled that they could
roll out Covid-19 booster shots within a year . Now, pressure is building on governments to
mobilize booster shot programs" no easy task given the ongoing uncertainties surrounding the
pandemic, vaccines and variants.
As talk of booster shots grow, here's what we know so far: What?
First of all, there are question marks over whether we actually need a third dose of any
Covid-19 vaccine given that we don't know how long immunity currently lasts.
WATCH NOW VIDEO 01:22 Dr. Scott Gottlieb on whether people will
need Covid booster shots
There are also unknowns regarding whether people should get a booster shot that's the same
as the vaccines they originally had. And also whether the shots need to be tweaked to deal with
variants, much like the flu vaccine, or whether they can remain as they are.
This report claims that people who had been fully vaccinated with two Pfizer doses had
antibodies that were 6 times lower against the B.1.617.2 variant (aka Indian variant, aka Delta
variant). Other reports claim that two doses of the Pfizer vaccine provided about 88% protection.
Analysis from Public Health England released last week showed that two doses of the
Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines are highly effective against
hospitalization from the delta variant.
This is the most transmissible of all the variants that we've seen. But now a mutation of
that variant has emerged, called "delta plus," which could potentially be more transmissible. The
variant appears to cause alarmingly severe symptoms, scientists say. Stomach pain, nausea,
vomiting, loss of appetite, hearing loss, and joint pain are among the symptoms now being seen in
India, according to six doctors treating patients across India, Bloomberg News reports.
The delta plus variant has three worrying characteristics. These are, it said: increased
transmissibility, stronger binding to receptors of lung cells and the potential reduction in
monoclonal antibody response (which could reduce the efficacy of a lifesaving monoclonal antibody
therapy given to some hospitalized Covid patients).
The Delta variant, as it's now called, has swept across the UK, all but replacing the Alpha
variant first identified there late last year.
As of June 19 20.6% of the cases in the USA are Delta. This number has roughly doubled every
two weeks, he added.
Currently, 62.5% of Americans 12 and up have gotten at least one dose of a vaccine, according
to CDC.
June 4, 2021 -- The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine produces lower
levels of antibodies against the Delta variant, known as B.1.617.2 and discovered in India,
according to a new
study published Thursday in The Lancet .
The antibody levels also appear to be lower in older people and decline over time, which
could mean that some vaccinated people will need a booster shot this fall.
"This virus will likely be around for some time to come, so we need to remain agile and
vigilant," Emma Wall, PhD, the lead study author and an infectious diseases specialist at the
Francis Crick Institute in London, said
in a statement .
"The most important thing is to ensure that vaccine
protection remains high enough to keep as many people out of hospital as possible," she said.
"And our results suggest that the best way to do this is to quickly deliver second doses and
provide boosters to those whose immunity
may not be high enough against these new variants."
The research team analyzed antibodies in the blood of 250 healthy people, ages
33-52, up to 3 months after receiving their first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine . The team looked for
"neutralizing antibodies," or the ability of antibodies to block the virus from entering
cells.
The researchers tested five variants: the original strain discovered in China, the dominant
strain in Europe during the first wave in April 2020, the B.1.1.7 variant discovered in the
U.K., the B.1.351 variant first seen in South Africa, and the newest variant of concern, which
is the B.1.617.2 variant discovered in India.
The team compared the concentrations of the neutralizing antibodies among the variants.
They found that people who had been fully vaccinated with two Pfizer doses had antibodies that
were 6 times lower against the B.1.617.2 variant, 5 times lower against the B.1.351 variant,
and 2.6 times lower against the B.1.1.7 variant when compared to the original strain.
The antibody response was even lower in people who had received only one dose. After a
single Pfizer dose, 79% of people had neutralizing antibodies against the original strain,
which fell to 50% for the B.1.1.7 variant, 32% for the B.1.617.2 variant, and 25% for the
B.1.351 variant.
The study group plans to continue its research on neutralizing antibodies and the variants,
including in people who have been vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.
"New variants occur naturally, and those that have an advantage will spread. We now have the
ability to quickly adapt our vaccination strategies to maximize protection where we know people
are most vulnerable," David Bauer, PhD, the senior study author and group leader of the Francis
Crick Institute's RNA Virus Replication Laboratory, said in the statement.
"Keeping track of the evolutionary changes is essential for us to retain control over the
pandemic and return to
normality," he said. "This work "¦ can help us to navigate changes in this new phase of
the pandemic."
On Friday, Italy halted the administration of the killer vaccine for those under the age
of 60. The decision followed the death of a perfectly healthy 18-year-old named Camilla
Canepa, who died last week of blood clotting and a brain hemorrhage after receiving the
vaccine shot on the 25th of May.
I think most of us have come to the conclusion that these deaths are the way it was
suppose to work. That makes this the greatest crime against humanity.....ever
fuckyou 12 hours ago remove link
So I looked at your story about Italy and they stopped the AstraZeneca vaccine, all the
others are still available. So partially correct.
Jim in MN 15 hours ago
Not everyone will die. Many more will just be crippled and need expensive medical care
for decades, while being unable to fight or resist the regime.
Jim in MN 15 hours ago
The immune cells that the mRNA targets are well-known as key factors in autoimmune
disorders when their function is disrupted.
This is Wikipedia-level stuff. People should not be in any way ignorant about this.
The exact genesis and development of the different types and subsets of dendritic cells
and their interrelationship is only marginally understood at the moment, as dendritic cells
are so rare and difficult to isolate that only in recent years they have become subject of
focused research. Distinct surface antigens that characterize dendritic cells have only
become known from 2000 on.
Altered function of dendritic cells is also known to play a major or even key role in
allergy and autoimmune diseases
....
Sparehead 13 hours ago
Nah, just looks at this massively under-reported VAERS death graph.
See, no worries at all. Face diapers, anti-social distancing, and one-way shopping
arrows saved us. Let's just hope there's no "variants" that start dropping the vaxxed like
flies.
Rex Dickerson 15 hours ago
Duh.
Pfizer clinical trial ends April 2023.
Moderna clinical trial ends October 2022.
LeadPipeDreams 15 hours ago
Pfizer human trial ends April 2023.
Moderna human trial ends October 2022.
FIFY
Vaccines typically take 10 - 15 years to prove their safety and efficacy, so even these
human trials are a joke to prove they are "safe and effective".
Esperanza 15 hours ago
Technically, the trials are not trials any more. They have been compromised due to the
control group taking the vaccine.
" Low-certainty evidence found that ivermectin prophylaxis reduced COVID-19 infection by
an average 86% (95% confidence interval 79%""91%).
--
Conclusions:
Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible
using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers
progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is
likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally."
What happens after the concentrations of the vax nanoparticles accumulate in the bone
marrow, which they are doing? Perhaps leukemia? We don't know. But for some, it is more
important to virtual signal that you and your children got the vaccine rather than its
unknown consequences.
Robert Malone, MD, inventor of mRNA vax technology, is dismayed by Pfizer's study for
Japan showing the vax nanoparticles accumulate in the bone marrow, ovaries, spleen, and
lymph nodes.
He says there needs to be monitoring of vaccine recipients for leukemia and lymphomas
because of these concentrations in the bone marrow and lymph nodes. He says these signals
often don't show up for six months to 3-9 years down the road.
Malone says the FDA knew the COVID spike protein was biologically active and could
travel from the injection site and cause adverse events, and that the spike protein is
very dangerous.
He says there should have been 2-3 year trials to monitor for potential autoimmune
consequences of the vaxxes, but of course that didn't happen. He says they also didn't
conduct proper animal studies.
Inventor of mRNA Technology: Vaccine Causes Lipid Nanoparticles to Accumulate in 'High
Concentrations' in Ovaries
On the "Dark Horse Podcast," Dr. Robert Malone, creator of mRNA vaccine technology, said
the COVID vaccine lipid nanoparticles -- which tell the body to produce the spike protein
-- leave the injection site and accumulate in organs and tissues (particularly the ovaries
and bone marrow). O6/17/21
See my comments below on dendritic cells. That's what the mRNA is supposed to target,
and even doing that is messing with immune system mechanisms that scientists don't even
understand in the first place , before they mess with it.
Jim in MN 15 hours ago
While a COVID-19 vaccine will prevent serious illness and death, we still don't know the
extent to which it keeps you from being infected and passing the virus on to others.
Sooooooooo.......all the databases and vaccine requirements to do this and that
are........not based on anything?
Anything.........at all?
That's what I thought. Thanks for clearing that up.
Giant Meteor 15 hours ago
" While a COVID-19 vaccine will prevent serious illness and death, it may also create
serious illness and death!"
Hmmm decisions decisions ..
Volga Boat Man 15 hours ago remove link
Only a flaming moron would allow themselves to take the Zombie Jab when both the
Gruberment AND the Manufacturer claim NO liability for anything that happens as a result,
i.e., dying.
Some facts that have not changed since 2019 outbreak
It's a bioweapon not a naturally occurring virus - gain of function confirmed
It's a gene modifying cell therapy not a vaccine - first time used on humans
It's only approved an emergency authorization; it's not FDA approved
It's unproven read as potentially unsafe since over 5,500 Americans have died after
getting the jab
It's not effective since Pfizer and Moderna claim it's not stopping transmission
Pfizer former VP Dr. Michael Yeadon warns people not to take the jab
TQRock 16 hours ago
Unclear how an experimental "vaccine" authorized for emergency use only could be
proclaimed "safe and effective."
BAG 18 hours ago remove link
The covid-19 EUA should be changed to make the vaccine manufactures liable for damages
to anyone under the age of 50 years old. Then they can tell us how safe it is.
My uncle believes everyone should be vaccinated, while I will never accept the lethal
injection. The difference between us is he watches MSM and reads the daily newspaper, while I
cut the cord seven years ago.
COVID/vaccine is psychological warfare by the globalist elite and banksters against the
people using the propaganda media. The MSM viewership will soon be too low to broadcast as
their viewers are the mind controlled vaccine takers.
There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to
make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Children and
adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults. However, children should
continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.
Simpson 19 hours ago
According to Dr. Michael Yeadon kids are 50 times more likely to die from the shot then
they are from the WuFlu.
Parents who give their kids this toxic ****e deserve a shot right between the eyes.
walküre 19 hours ago
"doing their part"
"nobody is safe, until we're all safe"
Hail Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Gates & Fauci!
walküre 19 hours ago (Edited) remove link
About fking time!
HANDS OFF THE KIDS!
There's going to be blood in the streets if they keep pushing us further and
further!
Our kids are not some cannon fodder for the elite's wars! Only despots and tyrants do
this when they're running out of options. Feeding kids into the lines of fire. We have a
Nuremberg code and a Geneva convention for a REASON!
The vax is garbage!
Absolutely NIL benefit for your health, only benefit to your social credit score.
Go ahead, get vaxxed if you feel like it. Know the risks, and inform yourself what the
ridiculous and negligible advantages are of having the synthetic toxins injected into your
system.
The side effects FAR outweigh the risks of potentially getting sick from whatever it is,
circulating out there. If your body is too weak or your system is responding badly to the
"virus", it will also respond negatively to the injections. When your time has come, your
time has come. Life is meant to be lived. Longevity is a God given privilege or curse, but
it is not a competition.
Samual Vimes 19 hours ago
Let them change genders and compete against girls in peace.
PrivetHedge 14 hours ago remove link
Number of verified covid test methods: Zero
Number of children dead from 'covid': Zero
Number of children damaged by the vaccine: Hundreds, soon to be Millions.
Emergency experimental drugs are never given to children, pregnant women or the old with
health issues. Doesn't happen, full stop.
And yet its happening with the covid gene therapy shots, the official name alone
warrants that it would never be given to kids and the pregnant. One can only assume the
greed of Pharma companies and their lackeys at regulatory agencies knows no bounds, they
know there are issues with the drugs. However they have indemnity from being sued, as such
they want to sell as much as they can before the ignorant masses catch on.
You wonder how these killers can sleep at night.
NoPension 17 hours ago
Trump's out. They sleep like babies.
Person familiar with the situation 17 hours ago
It's NOT about money. People keep making that baseless assumption just because most
everything else is about money in their own little world. The criminals here have printing
presses in every country and create money out of thin air.
Yamaoka Tesshu 9 hours ago (Edited)
"Show me your incentives and I will tell you the outcome". - Charlie Munger
He is Uncle Warren's longtime lieutenant. Look at AIDS. "If we make up a fake disease we
will get a fortune in funding." And they did. They prescribed lethal drugs that killed
people with the express purpose of creating hysteria. Murder for money.
Man on the Silver Mountain 19 hours ago
A demand that kids shouldn't be injected with this experimental shot is almost a
sideways admission the mRNA potion is detrimental to natural immunity, yet there's an
obsessively urgent need to stab adults? In the US I'd suspect the source of this motivation
is politics and a grasping greed for profit.
UselessEater 6 hours ago
NEW: Former Head Scientist at PFIZER Says Covid Threat is 100% FAKE
Prior to forming his own biotech company in 2011, Michael Yeadon was the Vice President
and Chief Scientific Officer for Allergy & Respiratory Research at Pfizer
Pharmaceutical.
He is a top scientist in the world of drugs and vaccines in the treatment of respiratory
diseases such as Covid. In this video he declares that the Covid pandemic is a fraud. He
explains why masks are useless, why distancing is absurd, why PCR tests are meaningless,
why quarantining healthy people is stupid, why variants of virus strains are no threat, and
why Covid vaccines should be rejected.
Yeadon says many of his colleagues privately agree with this appraisal but remain silent
to protect their salaries and research grants. It's all about money.
He concludes that, because of the massive number of deaths that will follow within a few
years of vaccination, there clearly is an agenda to deliberately eliminate billions of
people from the Earth and to enslave those who remain ..... plus much more.
[This scientist is such a good, brave man. He loves humanity. His voice is being
silenced on mainstream media and he is putting out this info to the public despite being
smeared and attacked (though they don't address his facts at all). So:
Pse share this video out to at least 5 other people as he gives simple scientific
explanations for all his statements.
archipusz 19 hours ago (Edited)
Giving this gene therapy called a vaccine to kids is worse than shutting down an economy
based on pcr tests run at 45 cycles.
Tao 4 the Show 11 hours ago remove link
I don't do Facebook or twitter, but someone should do an experiment:
Post something condemning vaccination in children and reference the WHO and link.
Did you know that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines aren't vaccines in the medical and legal
definition of a vaccine? They do not prevent you from getting the infection, nor do they
prevent its spread. They're really experimental gene therapies.
I discussed this troubling fact in a recent
interview with molecular biologist Judy Mikovits , Ph.D. While the Moderna and Pfizer
mRNA shots are labeled as "vaccines," and news agencies and health policy leaders call them
that, the actual patents for Pfizer's and Moderna's injections more truthfully describe
them as "gene therapy," not vaccines.
Picked up this article and pasted it in an MS Word docx. Interestingly you can't find it
by Google search - Censored
Bank_sters 13 hours ago remove link
Ok so Fauci and the cdc telling colleges and schools to push for experimental poison to
be given as a condition for young people to return to school. Now the myocarditis,
reproductive health, blood clotting cases are EXPLODING.
TheABaum 13 hours ago remove link
There are school districts demanding vaccination as a condition to return to live
instruction.
Hello Wilkes Barre, PA
One of the worst in the state.
Sparehead 15 hours ago remove link
Children are not lab rats and CANNOT make their own decisions about potentially
life-altering treatments for various reasons. Children are at essentially ZERO risk unless
they get jabbed.
ToSoft4Truth 15 hours ago
The parents did it.
Sparehead 15 hours ago
That not really the point, and there's many places that are allowing children to get
jabbed without parent consent, even in the US.
Things that go bump PREMIUM 14 hours ago remove link
I've read that they are planning to go into schools in the fall and make sure all the
kids get their shots. Parental consent is not required.
almost 16 hours ago
WHO ~ World Health Organization sounds like The Ministry of Love in George Orwell's
novel 1984
It's more like World Death organization nowadays
Enraged 17 hours ago remove link
A 13-year old boy died three days after the 2nd Pfizer injection. The autopsy results
show an enlarged heart and there was some fluid surrounding it. He had no health problems
and was on no medications.
📌📌📌📌For the 9,999th time. TRIALS FOR 'CRIMES AGAINST
HUMANITY' please.
The Nuremberg Code 1947 Permissible Medical Experiments
The great weight of the evidence before us to effect that certain types of medical
experiments on human beings, when kept within reasonably well-defined bounds, conform to
the ethics of the medical profession generally. The protagonists of the practice of human
experimentation justify their views on the basis that such experiments yield results for
the good of society that are unprocurable by other methods or means of study. All agree,
however, that certain basic principles must be observed in order to satisfy moral, ethical
and legal concepts:
1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that
the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to
be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force,
fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and
should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter
involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter
element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental
subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the
experiment ; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and
hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may
possibly come from his participation in the experiment.
2. The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon
each individual who initiates, directs, or engages in the experiment . It is a personal
duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.
3. The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society,
unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random and unnecessary in
nature.
4. The experiment should be so designed and based on the results of animal
experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the disease or other problem
under study that the anticipated results justify the performance of the experiment.
5. The e xperiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and
mental suffering and injury.
6. No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that
death or disabling injury will occur; except, perhaps, in those experiments where the
experimental physicians also serve as subjects.
7. The degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that determined by the
humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by the experiment.
8. Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the
experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability or death.
9. The experiment should be conducted only by scientifically qualified persons. The
highest degree of skill and care should be required through all stages of the experiment of
those who conduct or engage in the experiment.
10. During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring
the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where continuation
of the experiment seems to him to be impossible.
11. During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be prepared to
terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe, in the exercise
of the good faith, superior skill and careful judgment required of him, that a continuation
of the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental
subject.
Lou Saynis 12 hours ago
I'd like to see the people responsible for gain of function research, that led to
KNOWINGLY creating a dangerous infectious agent, be publicly held responsible . If they are
not and the masterminds of this doomsday device are allowed to vanish behind a veil of
bureaucracy... then it will result in all global powers engaging in an arms race similar to
nuclear weapons in the 20th century.
The difference is, a significant degree of action is required to fire off a nuke where a
virus can be accidentally or intentionally released with a much larger blast radius and
much more difficult to identify the source. There must be consequences for Covid19.
The reason the vaccine is a different subject is that a large portion of the civilized
world have already been inoculated. The consequences of that will be apparent in all of our
lifetimes and it's too early to start blaming people for it's known faults.
CheapBastard 15 hours ago (Edited)
13-Year-Old Dying Days After COVID Vaccine
13-year old nephew died three days after receiving a second dose of Pfizer's coronavirus
vaccine.
Things that go bump PREMIUM 14 hours ago remove link
Vaccine companies are always shielded from lawsuits. If your kid dies or is disabled
from the MMR (it does happen), you have to apply to the government for compensation. The
risks are well know and considered acceptable for public health. If your kid is among the
unlucky ones, well, you must bear that burden and thank you for your service to the cause
of public health.
realitybiter 16 hours ago remove link
I'm no lawyer, but I do know that the law protects Big Pharma. The law does not protect
anyone else who has demanded that anyone get the vaccine in order for them to conduct their
lives. -Go to school, go to work,etc. This is a Nuremberg violation:
The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the
person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be
able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force,
fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and
should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter
involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.
Sue them into oblivion.
Start with the BLUE STATE GOVERNORS
"hang em high"
Gunston_Nutbush_Hall 16 hours ago (Edited)
You do realize our founders had no check and balance against the National/State
Government(s) performing eugenic medical/science theory fraud experimentation upon the
people, under criminal false pretenses for private profit and control, except one.
There is no Court or law enforcement/cops coming to halt these crimes against
Americans/humanity.
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no
resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is
paramount to all positive forms of government , and which against the usurpations of the
national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against
those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted
with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of
which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures
for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without
system, without resource; except in their courage and despair. The usurpers, clothed with
the forms of legal authority, can too often crush the opposition in embryo- Alexander
Hamilton; The Federalist Papers : No. 28
Incontrovertible "data" was available and known to the WHO/NIH/CDC/NIAID that children
under 14 have a negligible risk of death or serious injury from Covid19 in March 2020. The
risks have actually diminished since then. Given these facts, the original recommendation
to vaccinate the entire population, including the young, amounts to medical malpractice. If
your clueless family doctor or pediatrician is recommending this experimental "vaccine" for
your children, find another medical provider. The politicized agenda driven WHO is playing
both sides, as usual, rather than following the science and common, reasonable, tried and
trusted practices. Remember: The Government can't even get 40 percent of the workers at the
CDC/NIH/FDA to take their "jab" despite enormous pressure. Keep this uppermost in your mind
and decision making.
A Doctor Reacts to Bills Receiver Cole Beasley's Refusal to Get the Covid Vaccine
Cole Beasley , wide receiver with the Buffalo Bills, caused a stir on Friday when he
shared a statement on Twitter in which he asserted that he would not be getting the Covid
vaccine. "Hi, I 'm Cole Beasley and I 'm not vaccinated!," he wrote. "I will be outside
doing what I do. I'll be out in the public. If your scared of me then steer clear, or get
vaccinated. Point. Blank. Period. I may die of covid, but I'd rather die actually
living."
"I 'm not going to take meds for a leg that isn't broken, " he continued. "I'd rather
take my chances with Covid and build up my immunity that way. Eat better. Drink water.
Exercise and do what I think is necessary to be a healthy individual. That is MY CHOICE
based on MY experiences and what I think is best ... If I 'm forced into retirement, so be
it."
check the picture of Cole Beasley the MSN link is using .. nice framing job there,
propaganda ministry of truth apparatschicks.
put "Dr" Mike Hansen on the list of accused for the Nuremberg trials
"There's really only one valid medical reason why someone shouldn't get the vaccine,"
he added. "If someone has a severe allergy history when it comes to getting a vaccine,
that could be a legit medical reason."
While Beasley has made a personal choice, Hansen explains that when it comes to the
vaccine, the decisions we make about our own health affect outcomes for others.
"What's going to happen is you're going to have other variants of the coronavirus,
like the Delta variant which originated in India and is all across the globe and is in
the United States," he said. "Not only does it spread easier, it's thought to be more
infectious, more dangerous. Over time that has the potential to overcome those who are
vaccinated. It could be that the vaccines work for a little while, but because we don't
reach that herd immunity, that virus never goes away. The other aspect of not getting
herd immunity is, those who can't get the vaccine, like children, then you're making them
more prone to the virus."
His scientific statement is utter garbage. The "virus" isn't likely to effect more
unvaxxed, because of a higher rate of vaxxed. That's the "new normal" logic and it's failed
like so many other arguments they're making.
The vax doesn't provide herd immunity. PERIOD. At best, if the "spike protein" theory is
correct, it will provide marginally better chances to beat the severe symptoms. That's a
big IF. Double vaxxed are now dying in larger numbers, months after they completed the
experiment. That was predictable.
Guys like Mike Hanson need to be paid a visit. At minimum, a proper dead horse's head on
this guy's pillow. If he doesn't stop, he needs to be taken out into the woods.
I'm not joking. Real men need to start doing real God's work.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional
Freedoms represents Dr. Francis Christian, Clinical Professor of General Surgery at the
University of Saskatchewan and a practising surgeon in Saskatoon .
Dr. Christian was called into a meeting today, suspended from all teaching responsibilities
effective immediately, and fired from his position with the University of Saskatchewan as of
September 2021.
There is a recording of Dr.
Christian's meeting today between Dr. Christian and Dr. Preston Smith, the Dean of Medicine
at the University of Saskatchewan, College of Medicine, Dr. Susan Shaw, the Chief Medical
Officer of the Saskatchewan Health Authority, and Dr. Brian Ulmer, Head of the Department of
Surgery at the Saskatchewan College of Medicine.
In addition, the Justice Centre will represent Dr. Christian in his defence of a complaint
that was made against him and an investigation by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Saskatchewan. The complaint objects to Dr. Christian having advocated for the informed consent
of Covid vaccines for children.
Dr. Christian has been a surgeon for more than 20 years and began working in Saskatoon in
2007. He was appointed Director of the Surgical Humanities Program and Director of Quality and
Patient Safety in 2018 and co-founded the Surgical Humanities Program. Dr. Christian is also
the Editor of the Journal of The Surgical Humanities.
On June 17, Dr. Christian
released a statement to over 200 doctors which contained his concerns regarding giving the
Covid shots to children. In it he noted that he is pro-vaccine, and that he did not represent
any group, the Saskatchewan Health Authority, or the University of Saskatchewan.
"I speak to you directly as a physician, a surgeon, and a fellow human being."
Dr. Christian noted that the principle of informed consent was sacrosanct and noted that a
patient should always be "fully aware of the risks of the medical intervention, the benefits of
the intervention, and if any alternatives exist to the intervention."
"This should apply particularly to a new vaccine that has never before been tried in
humans"¦ before the vaccine is rolled out to children, both children and parents must
know the risks of m-RNA vaccines," he wrote.
Dr. Christian expressed concern that he had not come across "a single vaccinated child or
parent who has been adequately informed" about Covid vaccines for children.
Among his points, he stated that:
The m-RNA vaccine, is a new, experimental vaccine never used by humans before.
The m-RNA vaccines have not been fully authorized by Health Canada or the US CDC, and
are in fact under "interim authorization" in Canada and "emergency use authorization" in
the US. He noted that "full vaccine approval takes several years and multiple safety
considerations "" this has not happened."
That in order to qualify for "emergency use authorization" there must be an emergency.
While he said there is a strong case for vaccinating the elderly, the vulnerable and health
care workers, he said, "Covid does not pose a threat to our kids. The risk of them dying of
Covid is less than 0.003% "" this is even less than the risk of them dying of the flu.
There is no emergency in children."
Children do not readily transmit the Covid virus to adults.
M-RNA vaccines have been "associated with several thousand deaths" in the Vaccine
Adverse Reporting System in the US. "These appear to be unusual, compared to the total
number of vaccines administered." He called it a "strong signal that should not be
ignored."
He noted that vaccines have already caused "serious medical problems for kids"
worldwide, including "a real and significantly increased risk" of myocarditis, inflammation
of the heart. Dr. Christian notes the
German national vaccine agency and the UK vaccine agency are not recommending the
vaccine for healthy children and teenagers.
The Saskatchewan Health Authority/College of Medicine wrote a letter to Dr. Christian on
June 21, 2021, alleging that they had "received information that you are engaging in activities
designed to discourage and prevent children and adolescents from receiving Covid-19 vaccination
contrary to the recommendations and pandemic-response efforts of Saskatchewan and Canadian
public health authorities."
Dr. Christian's concerns regarding underage Covid vaccinations are not isolated to him. The
US Centre for Disease Control had an "emergency meeting" today to discuss the growing cases of
myocarditis (heart inflammation) in younger males after receiving the Covid-19 vaccines.
The CDC released
new data today that the risk of myocarditis after the Pfizer vaccine is at least 10 times
the expected rate in 12 "" 17 year old males and females. The German government has issued
public guidance against vaccinating those under the age of 18.
The World Health Organization posted an update to its website on Monday, June 21, which
contained the statement in respect of advice for Covid-19 vaccination that " Children should not be
vaccinated for the moment ." Within 24 hours, this guidance was withdrawn and new
guidance was posted which stated that "Covid vaccines are safe for those over 18 years of
age."
Dr. Christian says there is a large, growing "network of ethical, moral physicians and
scientists" who are urging caution in recommending vaccines for all children without informed
consent. He said, physicians must "always put their patients and humanity first."
Dr. Byram Bridle, a prominent immunologist at the University of Guelph with a sub-speciality
in vaccinology, recently participated in a Press Conference on Parliament Hill on CPAC organized by MP
Derek Sloan, where he discussed the censorship of scientists and physicians. Dr. Bridle
expressed his safety concerns with vaccinating children with experimental MRNA vaccines.
Justice Centre Litigation Director Jay Cameron also has concern over the growing censorship
of medical professionals when it comes to questioning the government narrative on Covid.
"We are seeing a clear pattern of highly competent and skilled medical doctors in very
esteemed positions being taken down and censored or even fired, for practicing proper science
and medicine," says Mr. Cameron.
The Justice Centre
represented Dr. Chris Milburn in Nova Scotia, who faced professional disciplinary
proceedings last year after a group of activists took exception to an opinion column he wrote
in a local paper. The Justice Centre provided
submissions to the College on Dr. Milburn's behalf, defending the right of physicians to
express their opinions on matters of policy in the public square and arguing that everyone is
entitled to freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, as guaranteed by the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms "" including doctors. The Justice Centre noted that attempting
to have a doctor professionally disciplined for his opinions and commentary on matters of
public interest amounts to bullying and intimidation for speaking out against the
government.
Last week, Dr. Milburn also faced punishment for speaking out with his concerns about public
health policies, as he was removed from his
position as the Head of Emergency for the eastern zone with the Nova Scotia Health
Authority. In an unusual twist, a petition has been started to have Dr. Milburn replace Dr.
Strang as the province's Chief Medical Officer.
"Censoring and punishing scientists and doctors for freely voicing their concerns is
arrogant, oppressive and profoundly unscientific", states Mr. Cameron.
"Both the western world and the idea of scientific inquiry itself is built to a large extent
on the principles of freedom of thought and speech. Medicine and patient safety can only
regress when dogma and an elitist orthodoxy, such as that imposed by the Saskatchewan College
of Medicine, punishes doctors for voicing concerns," Mr. Cameron concludes.
Mr. Apotheosis 4 hours ago
These mother f'ers are seriously evil. To the bone evil.
high5mail 3 hours ago
I'm Canadian and the sooner they throw Trudeau and Manitoba's Pallister out of office
won't be too soon.
It is effen ridiculous what this country turned into. Makes California appear to be a
free place compared to here and that is saying something.
I am jealous of people living in Florida, Texas and South Dakota. They don't know how
lucky they are that some people in power there are not only intelligent but have
cajones...
No_Pretzel_Logic 2 hours ago
The Davos crowd is clutching most of the Western countries by the short hairs.
Yank....how does that feel, plebe?
Delta Variant Outbreak in Israel Infects Some Vaccinated Adults
Government reimposes indoor mask requirement in light of preliminary findings
The government of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett moved to reimpose some coronavirus restrictions on
Friday.
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TEL AVIV -- About half of adults infected in an outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in Israel were fully
inoculated with the
Pfizer
Inc.
vaccine,
prompting the government to reimpose an indoor mask requirement and other measures to contain the highly
transmissible strain.
Preliminary findings by Israeli health officials suggest about 90% of new infections were likely caused by the Delta
variant, according to Ran Balicer, who leads an expert advisory panel on Covid-19 for the government. Children under
16, most of whom haven't been vaccinated, accounted for about half of those infected, he said.
The government this week expanded its vaccination campaign to include all 12- to 15-year-olds after a jump in
infections among schoolchildren in a town in central Israel. It has since quickly spread geographically and to
other groups of the population.
Israel is now reassessing its Covid-19 regulations after moving to open up its society and economy following
multiple lockdowns last year.
"The entrance of the Delta variant has changed the transmission dynamics," said Prof. Balicer, who is also the
chief innovation officer for Israel's largest health-management organization, Clalit.
The Delta variant,
which
first emerged in India in late 2020
and is also known as B.1.617.2, has now been detected in more than 70
countries.
In
the U.S.
, public-health experts expect it to soon become the dominant strain.
These so-called breakthrough cases -- defined as positive Covid-19 test results received at least two weeks after
patients receive their final vaccine dose -- are broadly expected as the Pfizer vaccine is highly effective but not
100% foolproof, according to Mr. Balicer.
Israeli health officials are optimistic that even if the variant does spread, evidence from countries such as the
U.K. indicate the vaccine will prevent a large increase in severe illness and hospitalizations that plagued the
country's health system in previous outbreaks. Israel has only recorded five severe cases in the past 10 days,
Prof. Balicer said, but whether more will emerge is too early to tell.
The number of cases in Israel is relatively low by global standards. New cases of Covid-19 rose to over 200 on
Thursday from around 10 a day for most of June.
Those exempt from the mask requirement included children under seven, people with disabilities that prevent them
from wearing a mask or two workers who work regularly together. The government had canceled the indoor mask
requirement 10 days ago and dropped most other preventive measures after running one of the world's fastest
vaccination campaigns. About 80% of Israelis of age 16 and above have received two doses of the vaccine that was
developed by Pfizer and German partner
BioNTech
SE
.
The Israeli government earlier this week recommended that all 12- to 15-year-olds be vaccinated to protect
against the Delta variant.
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NIR ALON/ZUMA PRESS
Israel was an early
test
case for the effectiveness
of the vaccine after outbreaks last year at one point gave it one of the world's
highest per-capita infection rates. Since the start of the pandemic, 840,522 of the country's 9.3 millions
citizens have been infected, of which 6,429 died.
Israeli health officials said the highly contagious strain had likely entered the country through its main
international airport, near Tel Aviv, where a system meant to vet every new arrival through testing was overloaded
in recent days amid a surge in foreign travel.
On Wednesday, the government delayed allowing foreign nationals to enter into the country for tourism from July 1
to Aug. 1 and reimposed a mask requirement inside airports.
"Our goal at the moment, first and foremost, is to safeguard the citizens of Israel from the Delta variant that is
running amok in the world," Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Wednesday.
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Corrections & Amplifications
About half of adults infected in an outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in Israel were fully inoculated with
the Pfizer vaccine, according to a clarification by Prof. Balicer of an earlier statement. An earlier version of
this article incorrectly said about half of people infected in the outbreak were fully inoculated. (Corrected on
June 25)
An independent panel of experts advised the CDC and FDA to add a warning to the Pfizer and
Moderna vaccines after over 300 cases of Myocarditis have been reported and linked to the
shots. Plus, there is no evidence for the need of booster shots to defend against the virus,
NBC's Erika Edwards has the story.
"... Noorchashm also called on Pfizer and Modern to institute "clear recommendations to clinicians that they delay immunization in anyone recently recovering from COVID, as well as any known symptomatic or asymptomatic carriers -- and to actively screen as many patients with high cardiovascular risk as is reasonably possible, in order to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2, prior to vaccinating them." ..."
"... 'It's a colossal error to vaccinate people who have had prior infections, and this is totally avoidable harm we are causing. Why are we rushing to vaccinate people who we know are immune and don't stand to gain any benefit? If I do anything medically unnecessary to someone as a doctor, I'm opening them up to potential harm. If you've had a recent infection and you have viral antigens in your tissues, you can literally and immunologically cause tissue damage." ..."
"... "We know that natural SARS CoV-2 virus can affect the heart. It can cause blood clots that can lead to heart attacks and strokes and myocarditis. The virus can trigger an immune response or inflammation to the heart. Anywhere the virus goes the immune system will target that tissue and cause problems. If you've had a prior infection and you have antigens in the tissues where the virus goes, like the heart, and you activate the immune response [with a vaccine], you're going to activate damage." ..."
In an interview with The Defender, Marie Follmer said no one warned her that her 19-year-old son -- a healthy, elite athlete
who had recovered from COVID -- shouldn't get the Pfizer vaccine because it would put him at greater risk of developing myocarditis.
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Greyson Follmer, an Ohio State University (OSU) student, was an elite athlete and member of the university's chapter of the Reserve
Officers' Training Corps (ROTC).
But, according to his mother, the 19-year-old from Ohio is looking at a very different future now, after he developed severe
heart complications following his second dose of Pfizer's COVID vaccine.
In an exclusive interview with The Defender , Marie
Follmer said nobody warned her about the potential for increased risks of COVID vaccine-related adverse events for people like her
son, who already had COVID and had acquired
natural immunity.
Greyson has played sports since he was 4 years old. He was an athlete who played in the state soccer championship in high school
and then went on to OSU and started college during the COVID pandemic. He also joined ROTC his freshman year and was very active
-- running several miles every day with heavy packs on his back.
Greyson was perfectly healthy and had no underlying conditions except for asthma -- which didn't affect his athletic abilities
-- and food allergies.
Like most students early on in the year, Greyson and his friends got COVID.
Though most had no symptoms, Greyson experienced mild flu symptoms -- though they were nothing like his post-vaccine symptoms,
Follmer explained.
The university required students who had COVID to quarantine. It also required them to get a heart MRI before they could return
to school. Follmer thought that was strange, but she made sure her son got one.
When the cardiac MRI came back it showed Greyson's heart was enlarged with slight inflammation. The cardiologist thought it could
be related to being an elite athlete, and signed a release for Greyson to return to school.
"He wasn't 100%, but he was recovering. He was able to go skiing, return to ROTC and went on spring break," Follmer said.
Follmer and her husband got vaccinated first with
Moderna . When a friend of Follmer secured appointments for the kids to be vaccinated, she drove to OSU, picked up Greyson and
told him he was going to get vaccinated.
Greyson received his first dose of
Pfizer
on April 16, and a second dose on May 7. After the first dose Greyson experienced minor symptoms, but his mother didn't connect them
to the COVID vaccine.
It was after his second dose that things really changed, Follmer said.
'My son feels like he's having a heart attack 24/7," Follmer said. "He now has high blood pressure, severe chest pains, back pain,
elevated kidney levels, hypothyroidism, inflamed lymph nodes in different areas of his body, and he can't work or exercise."
Follmer said Greyson feels like he's dying and has to sleep all the time. He likely won't be able to go back to ROTC and doesn't
know if he will be able to return to school in August. Greyson experienced broken feet from soccer and said nothing compares to the
chest pain he feels now.
'A perfectly healthy kid has gone downhill," his mom said.
Doctors initially attributed the heart problems Greyson experienced in May, after the vaccine, to the COVID he had in September
2020. Believing he was a "long-hauler," they referred her son to the Ohio COVID Clinic.
According to the
Harvard
Gazette , "COVID long-haulers" is a term used to describe those who continue to feel symptoms of COVID long after the expected
recovery time. Patients tend to be younger, and in some cases, initially experienced only mild symptoms.
On June 15, Greyson was taken by emergency medicine services to Ohio Health
. Follmer said she knew her son's symptoms were connected to the Pfizer vaccine, but nobody knew how to help him.
Greyson has seen numerous doctors and specialists. His family has spent more than $12,000 in one month. Lab work is covered by
insurance but his other treatments are not. Greyson is doing stem cell treatments, taking Ivermectin and numerous supplements to
support his condition.
Doctors project it will take him two years to fully recover, though there's no research or information on how to treat
myocarditis
brought on by a COVID vaccine.
In the meantime, Greyson can't mow the grass, work or go to school. He walks around holding his chest and is in counseling to
cope with the effects this has had on his life, his mother said.
Follmer said she's not an
anti-vaccine
person, especially because she has a young daughter who could get sick. None of her children had ever had reactions to vaccines.
Follmer's 11-year-old daughter is immunocompromised. Even though all of her children had been exposed to COVID, she thought she
was protecting her daughter by having her son vaccinated.
Follmer explained:
'I think what's frustrating to me right now is that nobody told me that if you have an enlarged heart or heart inflammation, don't
get the shot. Not one person ever told us this. I never would have thought in a million years my kid would get sick.
'I was ready to give my daughter the vaccine -- she is going to be 12 in August and has one lung and a reconstructive airway.
There is no way on this planet I would give her the vaccine now. Greyson's twin brother will also not be getting the vaccine after
seeing what his brother has gone through."
Follmer said no one told her about reporting her son's
adverse reaction to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Vaccine
Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). "If I hadn't put it on Facebook and someone hadn't told me to put it in VAERS, I would
have never known to do it."
Follmer said she has since reported her son's
adverse reaction to VAERS (ID1395886), but no one has followed up on her son's case nor has the report been added to the system.
She also tried calling the CDC to see if someone there could help them.
'I just want him better. That's the bottom line," Follmer said. I just want everyone to know -- don't be naive like I was and
think that this can't happen to your kids."
Cardiothoracic surgeon warns against vaccinating people who've already had COVID
Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, a surgeon , immunologist
and patient safety advocate, wrote
several letters to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shortly after the agency granted Pfizer and Moderna
Emergency Use Authorization for their COVID vaccines.
In his letters, Noorchashm urged the FDA to require pre-screening for SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins in order to reduce COVID vaccine
injuries and deaths.
Noorchashm also
called on Pfizer and Modern to institute "clear recommendations to clinicians that they delay immunization in anyone recently
recovering from COVID, as well as any known symptomatic or asymptomatic carriers -- and to actively screen as many patients with
high cardiovascular risk as is reasonably possible, in order to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2, prior to vaccinating them."
According
to Noorchashm , it is scientifically established that once a person is naturally infected by a virus, antigens from that virus
persist in the body for a long time after viral replication has stopped and clinical signs of infection have resolved.
When a vaccine reactivates an immune response in a recently infected person, the tissues harboring the persisting viral antigen
are targeted, inflamed and damaged by the immune response.
"In the case of SARS-CoV-2, we know the virus naturally infects the heart, the inner lining of blood vessels, the lungs and the
brain,"
explained Noorchashm . "So these are likely to be some of the critical organs that will contain persistent viral antigens in
the recently infected. Following reactivation of the immune system by a vaccine, these tissues can be expected to be targeted and
damaged."
In an interview with The Defender , Noorchashm said
Greyson's case reminded him of
Everest Romney -- the all-American basketball player who was hospitalized after his second dose of Pfizer for blood clots in
his brain.
According to Noorchasm, both Romney and Greyson had acquired natural immunity because they'd been infected with COVID, and they
likely did not stand to
gain any benefit from a COVID vaccine.
Noorchashm explained:
'It's a colossal error to vaccinate people who have had prior infections, and this is totally avoidable harm we are causing. Why
are we rushing to vaccinate people who we know are immune and don't stand to gain any benefit? If I do anything medically unnecessary
to someone as a doctor, I'm opening them up to potential harm. If you've had a recent infection and you have viral antigens in your
tissues, you can literally and immunologically cause tissue damage."
Medical necessity is on the ground floor of everything doctors do in regards to safety, Noorchasm said. "If you want to be a safe
hospital, doctor, practitioner or health agency you would not do anything that's not necessary to people or fundamentally not beneficial.
There's only a probability of harm if there's no medical necessity," he said.
When asked specifically about myocarditis, Noorchashm said this is the original prediction and prognostication he made to the
FDA.
Noorchashm said:
"We know that natural SARS CoV-2 virus can affect the heart. It can cause blood clots that can lead to heart attacks and strokes
and myocarditis. The virus can trigger an immune response or inflammation to the heart. Anywhere the virus goes the immune system
will target that tissue and cause problems. If you've had a prior infection and you have antigens in the tissues where the virus
goes, like the heart, and you activate the immune response [with a vaccine], you're going to activate damage."
Noorchashm, who is pro-vaccine, said shots need to be spread out for people who are not immune and want to be vaccinated, and
the FDA and CDC should think carefully about limiting the shot to one dose, especially in young people, or increasing the duration
between first and second doses.
In his
letter to the FDA , Noorchashm recommended actively screening as many patients with high cardiovascular risk as is reasonably
possible, in order to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2, prior to vaccinating them.
"If someone has a known history of COVID, there should not be any rush to get them vaccinated," Noorchashm said. "That should
be our national policy.
If you've either had COVID, or you have laboratory evidence of immunity, you shouldn't rush into getting vaccinated ."
On Covid, Israel, which used Pfizer vaccines, and had only last week removed indoor mask
mandates, has now reinstituted them, and is asking its citizens not to go abroad over concerns
the Delta variant is surging
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) safety panel said there is a "likely
association" of mild heart inflammation in adolescents and young adults after they were
vaccinated with an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.
The
initial cases of myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis, inflammation
of the membrane surrounding the heart, reported on the federal government's tracking system
were generally mild, especially compared to traditional myocarditis, scientists said.
Most cases have been mild, with symptoms like fatigue, chest pain and disturbances in heart
rhythm that quickly clear up within a day or so. CDC scientists said they will need to follow
up with patients in the months ahead in order to get a complete picture of the impact.
"Clinical presentation of myocarditis cases following vaccination has been distinct,
occurring most often within one week after dose two, with chest pain as the most common
presentation," said Grace Lee, chairwoman of the CDC's vaccine safety committee.
Officials said they are tracking about 1,200 initial reports of the rare heart inflammation
following doses of mRNA coronavirus vaccines have been filed with the federal government's
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), though they have not yet been definitively
linked to the vaccines.
Most reports came from people in their late teens and early 20s, and many more occurred
after the second dose than the first.
...There were more cases in males than females, and the cases essentially disappeared in
older age groups.
The agency said there have been 267 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis reported after
receiving one dose of the mRNA vaccines and 827 reported cases after two doses through June
11.
But the reports are preliminary, and do not mean the health issues have been linked to the
vaccine. The database is meant as a repository of all events observed after vaccination.
There were 323 confirmed reports of myocarditis and pericarditis for people under the age of
29, which is the group CDC is investigating. Among those confirmed, 218 people have fully
recovered. Nine people were hospitalized, with two in intensive care as of June 11, according
to the CDC.
There have been about 300 million vaccine doses administered nationwide.
Scientists have emphasized this occurrence is rate - for both mRNA vaccines combined, there
were 12.6 heart inflammation cases per million doses.
The highest confirmed rate of myocarditis and pericarditis was about 20 cases per 1 million
doses with Moderna's vaccine, compared to 8 cases per million for Pfizer's.
Officials emphasized that the benefits of vaccines outweigh the risks, and noted that for
every million doses of mRNA vaccine given, there are far more COVID-19 cases and
hospitalizations prevented compared to the number of potential myocarditis cases.
@Peripatetic Itch pregnant the first time, my obgyn hands me a list of common foods and
drinks to avoid, and now the government wants to inject an experimental drug into me? No
thanks. You don't even need to go to conspiracies and shadowy research for that one. I have
to avoid caffeine, but untested drug is OK?
I don't even want the J&J one (when I'm done with babymaking) even though it seems
closer to a traditional vaccine. I read it was something already existing from efforts to
develop an HIV shot, but they seem to have a recurring issues with contamination where they
manufacture it. Too many diversity hires, maybe.
On the other hand, the MSM seems to downplay the mRNA complications and overplay the
J&J ones, which is curious.
J&J also creates spike proteins, it just does it with a viral vector instead of mRNA.
Sputnik and Sinovac are traditional vaccines if you can get them.
Does WHO try to fearmonger the importance of vaccination using Delta (Indian) mutation as the
"eminent threat". While that real problem is that vaccines are much less effective against this
train (although probably not to the extent South African mutation wiped out the credibility of
the first generation vaccines from the USA, especially Moderna and Johnson & Johnson (
Moderna Developing Vaccine Booster Shot for Virus Strain Identified in South Africa - WSJ
"Moderna said its vaccine induced production of neutralizing antibodies against the strain first
identified in the U.K., known as B.1.1.7, at levels comparable to prior variants. Yet
neutralization decreased sharply in the case of the strain in South Africa, known as
B.1.351,"
A weak protection against the South Africa variant suggests the flow of "total vaccination"
propaganda and clear deficiencies of several first generation vaccines.
As the mutant COVID-19 strain known as "Delta" picks up steam across Europe and the US, one
of the WHO's leading doctors has just expressed concern about recent research published in the
Lancet showing that the first generation of COVID-19 vaccines aren't as effective at protecting
against "Delta".
Answering a question from a reporter during the organization's regular Monday briefing in
Geneva, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove said that there is data "showing a reduction in neutralization"
for the Delta variant, but not as much as the "Beta" variant - better known as the mutant
strain that was first discovered in South Africa.
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Johnny Walker 1 minute ago
"Asking the CDC to look into vaccine safety is like asking the fox to guard the chicken
coop."-- Dr Rimland Ph.D.
Unbelievabubble 40 seconds ago
Less WHO doctor, more WITCH doctor.
Mike Rotsch 2 minutes ago
It's kinda like a never-ending Henry Kissinger interview. On one hand, we're told that
he's some kind of a genius and master of political science. On the other hand, he has
absolutely nothing but a lifetime of consistent and predictable failure to show for it.
As scientists start to assess the impact that COVID-19 has had on patients and the American
medical system more broadly,
Bloomberg reports that hospitals across the US have seen a surge in patients receiving
single- and double-lung transplants.
Transplants are necessary for only the most serious COVID-19 cases. In these patients -
pretty much always patients with comorbidities - COVID-19 ravages the lung tissue, leaving
nodules in the lungs incapable of absorbing oxygen from the air and transmitting it to the
blood stream. For many patients, the grueling procedure may be the only solution after
experiencing the worst lung damage caused by the virus - when the body fails to properly
respond to, and heal from, the hyper-inflammatory response provoked by COVID-19.
... ... ...
Fortunately, COVID-19 vaccines supposedly offer "100% protection" against "severe" COVID-19
symptoms. Though patients with comorbiditis may still be at risk as variants like the "delta"
strain continue to spread.
DanishViking 7 hours ago (Edited)
Fear mongering article sourced from Bloomberg (surprised?), pushing the jab
narrative
ohm 4 hours ago
If your dumb enough to believe the vaccines are 95% or 100% effective against anything,
I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Although the RRR considers only participants who could benefit from the vaccine, the
absolute risk reduction (ARR), which is the difference between attack rates with and
without a vaccine, considers the whole population. ARRs tend to be ignored because they
give a much less impressive effect size than RRRs: 1·3% for the
AstraZeneca–Oxford, 1·2% for the Moderna–NIH, 1·2% for the
J&J, 0·93% for the Gamaleya, and 0·84% for the Pfizer–BioNTech
vaccines.
Agreed, watch Dr. (cardiologist) Peter McCullough testifying to the Texas Senate.
Essentially he said 85% didn't have to die if treated early and properly. Lung damage would
have been avoided as well. I would add massive (30-50 grams, initially and repeated daily
until symptoms alleviated) doses of IV vitamin C to the protocol. IV C has been used
successfully for more than 70 years on Polio and other viruses. Look up Dr. Klenner.
As I have described before for
Forbes
,
your myocardium is a term for your heart muscles because "myo"¯ stands for "muscle"¯ and "cardium"¯ stands for "heart."¯ Your
pericardium is the thin membranous sac that surrounds your heart. The suffix "-itis"¯ stands for being "inflamed."¯ Therefore,
myocarditis means that your heart muscles are inflamed. Pericarditis means that your sac is inflamed, the sac around your heart that
is.
Typically, you don't want any parts of your heart to be inflamed, unless it is just some kind of metaphor for love. Inflammation can
interfere with your heart's ability to pump blood to the rest of your body and lead to abnormal heart rhythms as well. While milder
cases can resolve without longer-lasting problems, such conditions could lead to more severe, long-lasting, and even
life-threatening consequences. So myocarditis or pericarditis shouldn't be like a mild case of indigestion. You shouldn't say during
a date, "oh, it's nothing. Just my myocarditis acting up. What do you want to do after we've finished this pile of oysters?"¯
In June 10 presentation to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee
, Tom Shimabukuro, MD, MPH Deputy
Director of the CDC's Immunization Safety Office, summarized reports of these conditions from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting
System (VAERS) as of the end of May. Maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the VAERS allows anyone to
enter a report of a problem after getting a vaccine, any vaccine. Note that this vaccine safety system accepts all reports from
anyone. So in theory, you could report that you became a pink unicorn after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. That's why all reports
ultimately need to be reviewed and vetted by medical experts before being taken seriously. For example, you'd have to prove that you
are indeed a pink unicorn and that there isn't some other obvious reason for your transformation.
As of May 31, 2021, the VAERS had 789 reported cases of myocarditis or pericarditis in people after they've received doses of either
the Pfizer/BioNTech or the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. Most (573) of these reports were from after the second dose. The median times
to first noticing symptoms was three days after the first dose and two doses after the second dose, meaning that half of the time
symptoms started within a few days of vaccination. Although there were reports of symptoms starting as far as 33 days after the
first dose and 80 days after the second dose.
Over half (475) of the 789 reported cases have been among those 30 years and younger. However, so far, only 226 of the 475 cases
have met the CDC working case definition, meaning that they indeed seemed to be legitimate cases of myocarditis or pericarditis
after the vaccination event. Most (81%) of these cases have had a documented full recovery. The rest either have ongoing symptoms or
currently lack follow-up information to determine what's happened.
Of course, this still doesn't mean that all 226 cases were caused by the vaccines. But the 226 is higher than the number of cases
that you'd expect among this age group if you just account for other possible causes of myocarditis and pericarditis. As Paul A.
Offit, MD,
the
Director of the Vaccine Education Center and a Professor at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
, explained in the following
video, a number of different viruses can cause myocarditis and many of these tend to circulate during the Spring:
In fact, as mentioned earlier, one of the viruses that could cause myocarditis or pericarditis is the Covid-19 coronavirus.
As
described by a recent publication in
JAMA
Cardiology
, a study used cardiac testing to screen competitive athletes in the Big 10 conference who had Covid-19 for any
evidence of myocarditis. When just checking for symptoms and not using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 0.31% ended up
being diagnosed with myocarditis. Adding cardiac MRIs bumped this number up to 2.3%, meaning that many athletes had myocarditis
without having noticeable symptoms.
So keep these numbers in mind when looking at the myocarditis cases after vaccination against Covid-19. A total of 226 cases after
vaccination would still make such events very rare and lower than the numbers that might be expected after a Covid-19 coronavirus
infection. After all, over 4.85 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and over 4.03 million doses of the Moderna vaccine had
already been administered by May 29. Using your abacus and finger and toes to make the appropriate calculates would yield rates of
about 2.8 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis per one million first doses administered and 16.1 cases per million second doses
administered. Again this is like beef cooked at 120 to 130Āŗ F, still quite rare.
Still, though, this situation merits further investigation. Again, myocarditis or pericaditis are not just "dust yourself off and
walk it off"¯ conditions. If you have symptoms of either condition such as chest pain, rapid or abnormal heart rhythms, shortness of
breath, or swelling of your legs, ankles and feet, contact your doctor as soon as possible. Of course, these should be unexplained
symptoms. So momentary heart palpitations after seeing BTS or a bowl of mac-n-cheese may not count.
For the upcoming ACIP meeting
, you do have the opportunity to submit written comments by June 18, 2021, or submit a request to
make an oral comment at the meeting no later than 11:59 p.m., EST, on June 16, 2021
.
Of
course, just because you submit a request doesn't mean that you be allotted the up to three minutes to speak at the meeting. The CDC
will have to determine how many of the requests are legitimate versus the "how do I order a hamburger"¯ or "keys seem to stick to my
head after vaccination, what are you going to do about it"¯ comments that are unverifiable and not related to the topic at hand. Of
the requests that seem to fall within the scope of the meeting, CDC will conduct a lottery to determine who will be able to speak.
After all, time will be limited.
At this point, just because the CDC is investigating these cases doesn't mean that you should not get vaccinated. Again myocarditis
and pericarditis have been rare occurrences. No one has established cause and effect yet. It remains to be seen whether there were
other possible reasons behind the myocarditis and pericarditis cases.
Nevertheless, once again, the CDC and FDA must take all potential serious adverse events seriously. Otherwise, the risk is losing
the public's trust.
The Pfizer and BioNTech
SE shot is 96% effective against hospitalization after two doses, while the AstraZeneca and
University of Oxford Covid inoculation is 92% effective, according to an analysis announced
Monday by Public Health England. Those results are comparable with the protection offered
against the alpha variant, which first emerged in Britain, the data show.
...
Findings in May showed the effectiveness of both vaccines against symptomatic disease from
the delta variant was 33% three weeks after the first dose.
That study found the Pfizer shot was 88% effective two weeks after the second dose, and
that two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were 60% effective.
Japanese research showed that the Pfizer lipid nano-particle package, presumably with its
mRNA cargo intact, did NOT remain in situ in the deltoid muscle, but within hours had spread
via the circulation to most of the body, including bone marrow, and, most markedly, the
ovaries.
My understanding is that Sputnik is an adenovirus vector vaccine, not really a
"traditional" vaccine. The Chinese vaccine is a traditional attenuated virus vaccine and
there is a SANOFI protein fragment vaccine in Phase III trials, which I think also uses a
proven technology. While I think that Sputnik is better than the messenger RNA genetic
treatments, which creep me out, I still prefer to wait for more traditional vaccines to be
approved, if I have to be vaccinated at all.
But why design a biological weapon that works best against the elderly and already
infirm?
It is an adenovirus viral vector vaccine – a "neutered" adenovirus is used as a
vector to inject DNA coding for viral proteins in the cells and make them produce/present
them to the immune system. In fact it's somewhat similar to what Pfizer or Moderna do with
lipidic nanoparticules as vector and mRNA as "source code" for protein synthesis.
This vaccine technology is fairly recent and IIRC only used in four CODID-19 (Suptnik V,
AstraZenecca, J&J and one of the Chinese vaccines – maybe two) and two Ebola
vaccines.
If you want "traditional", you should look into the sub-unit – for the moment it's
Russian EpiVacCorona and CoviVac – or inactivated virus based vaccines, IIRC chinese
only for the moment.
The primary goal of the response to SARS-Cov-2 was to have everyone in the World forced to
have a vaccine on a regular basis. The lies reached mountainous proportions.
I am no more interested in Russia's vaccine than anyone else's. Perhaps it will prove to
be somewhat safer, although it also directs the patients cells to produce the spike protein.
Perhaps it is not as likely to go everywhere, including the circulatory system, which may
make it safer.
But, I see no reason for vaccines for anyone under 70, and for those over 70 and everyone
else there are effective treatments, like HCQ and Ivermectin the ban on these will probably
end someday, just like the ban on discussing the origins of SARS-Cov-2.
@Ultrafart the Brave he
"spike protein", they actually inject it directly, encapsulated in said adenovirus envelope.
You may be misunderstanding how adenovirus vector vaccines work. You are right that these
vaccines do not instruct human cells to synthesize the protein (as mRNA vaccines do) but they
are not delivering the protein directly, what they do is to carry the gene that synthesizes the
protein, the gene is carried in the genetic make up of the adenovirus. The foreign gene is
inserted into the adenovirus. Usually a crucial gene for replication of the adenovirus is
replaced (gene swapping) with the foreign gene that synthesizes the protein of interest
rendering the adenovirus impotent.
Covid-19 also causes pericarditis in a small number of the people infected.
The problem with the data is that we have no ways of knowing how many of those people had been
exposed to coronavirus in the weeks before getting the vaccine, or were people who had the
long-term covid-19 problem.
Here is a case of someone for whom pericarditis was the only symptom of infection.
Definitely false, at least for COVID, can't comment about the vaccine but I strongly suspect
it doesn't apply there. There are multiple cases of people who were perfectly healthy that
ended up with severe pulmonary fibrosis, requiring a lung transplant, solely because of COVID.
If the patient wasn't otherwise healthy before getting COVID, odds are super high that they
wouldn't have even been eligible for transplant anyways as they likely would not even survive
the surgery.
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Anecdotes aren't scientific proof of anything. There are super-healthy firefighters and
special ops soldiers falling dead of coronary and lung disease all the time. I had a family
member like that, died at the age of 30 due to an unknown and underlying heart condition,
super-fit, was just sitting in the sun one afternoon and dropped dead. You don't need an
underlying heart condition...
Any serious disturbance of the immune system homeostasis may result with a secondary
streptococcal infection of the heart muscle - i.e. inflammation of the heart muscle.
I.e. Myocarditis.
I've had that twice.
Once due to influenza resulting in a high fever, as a teenager.
The night of the fever I could barely catch my breath to speak and in the morning mom had to
take me by the hand to the local health center which was literally down the road from us.
I can't speak to the vaccine review process, but this is completely false for the drug
review process. I would in the drug research sphere (I'm in IT, but I have been in it for over
20 years so I know how it works) and you are 100% incorrect. Phase 1 trials are conducted on
healthy people. These are usually first in man studies looking for any side effects from the
drug, so they want healthy people who are not on other medication. It then goes on to phase 2
trials, which are designed to see if the drug works. So if it is a high blood pressure drug, it
is given to people with high blood pressure to see if the drug actually works and does what
they want it to. These people are often on other medications. There is not a requirement they
not be on other medications unless they know of negative interactions or the other drugs also
may do something similar to the drug they are testing (which means the results could be
skewed). Then the drug goes onto phase 3 trials which compare the drug to other drugs used for
the same thing to see if the new drug performs better.
So as you can see, no, drugs are not "only ever tested on otherwise healthy people who
aren't taking other medications or have other pre-existing health conditions". It is true they
cannot test the interaction witha ll other drugs or conditions, since that would be practically
impossible, but the idea that drugs are not tested on people with any other conditions is
completely wrong.
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Actually, no. But for rare side-effects, there is only "phase 4" testing, i.e. you vaccinate
the target population and check what happens. The numbers from the article are too low to be
found in any systematic test, simple statistics already gives you that. Nobody can run a drug
test on about 10M people and that is what you would need here. Re:Did they cut
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