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The soft genocide
« Reply #1901 on: September 07, 2022, 09:46:51 AM »
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/uk-bans-covid-vax-kids-investigation-finds-vaccine-affects-sexual-development-little-boys-video/

There are only so many you can convince to get their genitals mutilated.

Mass sterilization is much more cost effective.

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New Biden appointment a satanist?
« Reply #1902 on: September 08, 2022, 09:59:09 AM »
I bet he and the Podesta brothers will hit it off!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1567861469974331392.html

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Re: Epidemics: Bird Flu, TB, AIDs, Superbugs, Ebola, etc
« Reply #1903 on: September 08, 2022, 01:38:51 PM »
great resume  :roll:

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ET: 98 adverse events for each theoretical save
« Reply #1904 on: September 12, 2022, 03:10:38 PM »
‘Unethical’ and up to 98 Times Worse Than the Disease: Top Scientists Publish Paradigm-Shifting Study About COVID-19 Vaccines
BY JENNIFER MARGULIS AND JOE WANG TIMESEPTEMBER 10, 2022 PRINT

A team of nine experts from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and other top universities has published paradigm-shifting research about the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines and why mandating vaccines for college students is unethical.

This 50-page study, which was published on The Social Science Research Network at the end of August, analyzed CDC and industry-sponsored data on vaccine adverse events, and concluded that mandates for COVID-19 boosters for young people may cause 18 to 98 actual serious adverse events for each COVID-19 infection-related hospitalization theoretically prevented.

The paper is co-authored by Dr. Stefan Baral, an epidemiology professor at Johns Hopkins University; surgeon Martin Adel Makary, M.D., a professor at Johns Hopkins known for his books exposing medical malfeasance, including “Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Heath Care”; and Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist, who is a professor in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, as well as the author of over 350 academic and peer-reviewed articles.

But among this team of high-profile international experts who authored this paper, perhaps the most notable is Salmaan Keshavjee, M.D., Ph.D., current Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery, and professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Keshavjee has also worked extensively with Partners In Health, a Boston-based non-profit co-founded by the late Dr. Paul Farmer, on treating drug-resistant tuberculosis, according to his online biography.

Risking Disenrollment

As the study pointed out, students at universities in America, Canada, and Mexico are being told they must have a third dose of the vaccines against COVID-19 or be disenrolled. Unvaccinated high school students who are just starting college are also being told the COVID-19 vaccines are “mandatory” for attendance.

These mandates are widespread. There are currently 15 states which continue to honor philosophical (personal belief) exemptions, and 44 states and Washington, D.C. allow religious exemptions to vaccines. But even in these states, private universities are telling parents they will not accept state-recognized vaccine exemptions.

Based on personal interviews with some half a dozen families, The Epoch Times has learned that administrators at some colleges and universities are informing students that they have their own university-employed medical teams to scrutinize the medical exemptions submitted by students and signed by private doctors. These doctors, families are being told, will decide whether the health reasons given are medically valid.

5 Ethical Arguments Against Mandated Boosters

Though rarely reported on in the mainstream media, COVID-19 vaccine boosters have been generating a lot of controversy.

While some countries are quietly compensating people for devastating vaccine injuries, and other countries are limiting COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, the United States is now recommending children 12 and older get Pfizer-BioNTech’s Omicron-specific booster, and young adults over the age of 18 get Moderna’s updated shot.

At the same time, public health authorities in Canada are suggesting Canadians will need COVID-19 vaccines every 90 days.

Against a backdrop of confusing and often changing public health recommendations and booster fatigue, the authors of this new paper argue that university booster mandates are unethical. They give five specific reasons for this bold claim:

1) Lack of policymaking transparency. The scientists pointed out that no formal and scientifically rigorous risk-benefit analysis of whether boosters are helpful in preventing severe infections and hospitalizations exists for young adults.

2) Expected harm. A look at the currently available data shows that mandates will result in what the authors call a “net expected harm” to young people. This expected harm will exceed the potential benefit from the boosters.

3) Lack of efficacy. The vaccines have not effectively prevented transmission of COVID-19. Given how poorly they work—the authors call this “modest and transient effectiveness”—the expected harms caused by the boosters likely outweigh any benefits to public health.

4) No recourse for vaccine-injured young adults. Forcing vaccination as a prerequisite to attend college is especially problematic because young people injured by these vaccines will likely not be able to receive compensation for these injuries.

5) Harm to society. Mandates, the authors insisted, ostracize unvaccinated young adults, excluding them from education and university employment opportunities. Coerced vaccination entails “major infringements to free choice of occupation and freedom of association,” the scientists wrote, especially when “mandates are not supported by compelling public health justification.”

The consequences of non-compliance include being unenrolled, losing internet privileges, losing access to the gym and other athletic facilities, and being kicked out of campus housing, among other things. These punitive approaches, according to the authors, have resulted in unnecessary psychosocial stress, reputation damage, loss of income, and fear of being deported, to name just a few.

22,000 to 30,000 Previously Unaffected Young Adults Must be Vaccinated to Prevent Just 1 Hospitalization
The lack of effectiveness of the vaccines is a major concern to these researchers. Based on their analysis of the public data provided to the CDC, they estimated that between 22,000 and 30,000 previously uninfected young adults would need to be boosted with an mRNA vaccine to prevent just a single hospitalization.

However, this estimate does not take into account the protection conferred by a previous infection. So, the authors insisted, “this should be considered a conservative and optimistic assessment of benefit.”

In other words, the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 are essentially useless.

Mandated Booster Shots Cause More Harm Than Good
But the documented lack of efficacy is only part of the problem. The researchers further found that per every one COVID-19 hospitalization prevented in young adults who had not previously been infected with COVID-19, the data show that 18 to 98 “serious adverse events” will be caused by the vaccinations themselves.

These events include up to three times as many booster-associated myocarditis in young men than hospitalizations prevented, and as many as 3,234 cases of other side effects so serious that they interfere with normal daily activities.

At a regional hospital in South Carolina, the desk clerk sported a button that read: “I’m Vaccinated Against COVID-19” with a big black check mark on it.

“What about the boosters?” a hospital visitor asked. “It’s starting to seem like we need too many shots.”

“It does seem like a lot,” the clerk agreed. “It’s hard to know what to do.” But she did have some advice for the visitor: “Just keep reading and educating yourself, so you can make an informed decision.”

This new paper is essential reading for anyone trying to decide if they need more vaccines. The authors concluded their study with a call to action. Policymakers must stop mandates for young adults immediately, be sure that those who have already been injured by these vaccines are compensated for the suffering caused by mandates, and openly conduct and share the results of risk-benefit analyses of the vaccines for various age groups.

These measures are necessary, the authors argued, to “begin what will be a long process of rebuilding trust in public health.”

May the Force Be With Brave Scientists
The two co-first authors, Dr. Kevin Bardosh and Allison Krug, both thanked their families for supporting them to “publicly debate Covid-19 vaccine mandates” in the acknowledgments section of the paper.

As we wrote in May, an increasing number of scientists and medical doctors are speaking out about the dubious efficacy and disturbing safety issues surrounding these fast-tracked COVID-19 vaccines. They do so fully aware of the personal and professional risks involved. They deserve our encouragement and support.

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Re: Epidemics: Bird Flu, TB, AIDs, Superbugs, Ebola, etc
« Reply #1905 on: September 13, 2022, 06:24:59 AM »
vaccine should only be given  to those at high risk

elderly (me) or those with conditions .

it does save lives in those groups .


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infectious disease Bill Gates losing sleep
« Reply #1906 on: September 13, 2022, 07:07:55 AM »
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/challenge-maintain-worlds-focus-global-040233019.html

with regards to corona

it would never have been unleashed into the world without that Wuhan lab
so instead of helping

gates et al
caused this with very  risky research


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Re: infectious disease Bill Gates losing sleep
« Reply #1908 on: September 14, 2022, 11:10:32 AM »
quote author=ccp

with regards to corona
it would never have been unleashed into the world without that Wuhan lab
so instead of helping
gates et al
caused this with very  risky research
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That's right.  We never figured out if it was released intentionally on the world or it was released unintentionally.  The difference is genocide or negligence with the exact same consequence as genocide.  Both are criminal acts killing millions and shutting down civilization.  Besides never investigating the Chinese government on this, we never investigated the American involvement.  We (taxpayers) financed a lab that was doing "risky research (understatement!) with lax security.  But Congress doesn't know and Fauci lied to Congress and retires with full pension.

Once again, why isn't there a recorded vote in Congress anytime the federal government of the United States wants to spend money?  Conservatives aren't sufficiently appalled IMHO and liberals actually favor being governed, badly, killed in this case, by technocrats.

Our government's procedures before and reaction after Covid are remarkably the same as that of communist, totalitarian PRC.
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Re: Epidemics: Bird Flu, TB, AIDs, Superbugs, Ebola, etc
« Reply #1909 on: September 14, 2022, 11:32:28 AM »
vaccine should only be given  to those at high risk

elderly (me) or those with conditions .

it does save lives in those groups .


Agreed.

"Excess deaths"
"The number of deaths in 2021 was 21% higher than in 2019."
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

I have 3 funerals for sports friends this week, died in their mid-60s.  Most likely all were recently vaccinated.  No way to know what involvement if any that had - and no one will look into it.

I have no idea, but did gain respect for Aaron Rodgers, Novak Djokavic and people I know who do other things to strengthen their bodies and their immune system. 

We shouldn't have put the entire human race under an unknown genetic modification.

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Re: Epidemics: Bird Flu, TB, AIDs, Superbugs, Ebola, etc
« Reply #1910 on: September 14, 2022, 11:49:24 AM »
The PTB will never allow the truth about the damage and deaths inflicted by their policies to come out.




vaccine should only be given  to those at high risk

elderly (me) or those with conditions .

it does save lives in those groups .


Agreed.

"Excess deaths"
"The number of deaths in 2021 was 21% higher than in 2019."
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

I have 3 funerals for sports friends this week, died in their mid-60s.  Most likely all were recently vaccinated.  No way to know what involvement if any that had - and no one will look into it.

I have no idea, but did gain respect for Aaron Rodgers, Novak Djokavic and people I know who do other things to strengthen their bodies and their immune system. 

We shouldn't have put the entire human race under an unknown genetic modification.

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premiere globalist tries to distract that Corona came from CCP lab
« Reply #1913 on: September 16, 2022, 02:29:28 PM »
https://news.yahoo.com/lancet-report-claiming-covid-could-132931783.html

Partisan Democrat self righteous Jeff Sachs

I posted about him yrs ago
after I listened to him give a commencement speech at Lehigh University in '09.
It was when listening to his  speech the what LEFT was all about :

 one Earth - one nation
 climate change is everything
 no national borders
 Reagan was EVIL
 Carter was GOOD

so now I trust him as far as I can spit

this is obvious BS from him to distract from China .
Typical lib
so full of themselves


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Childhood myocarditis is totally normal!
« Reply #1916 on: September 19, 2022, 08:42:14 AM »


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Remember when Americans were known for being fiercely independent?
« Reply #1918 on: September 21, 2022, 08:31:44 PM »
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/09/21/mrna-shots-are-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/

Now, they'll kill you with the ClotShot, then say "I was told it was safe".





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Re: Epidemics: Bird Flu, TB, AIDs, Superbugs, Ebola, etc
« Reply #1923 on: October 02, 2022, 10:23:36 AM »
"am I unique"

No but uncommon

and alive

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Re: Epidemics: Bird Flu, TB, AIDs, Superbugs, Ebola, etc
« Reply #1924 on: October 02, 2022, 11:14:01 AM »
"am I unique"

No but uncommon

and alive

Until pericarditis/myocarditis or some clot or a new and exciting cancer shows up.


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new outbreak
« Reply #1926 on: October 07, 2022, 01:51:04 PM »
got this in email today :
An outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease due to the Sudan virus was declared in Uganda on September 20,2022.  There are currently no identified cases in the U.S. or Maryland.  The Maryland Department of Health is providing clinical recommendations and resources for healthcare providers for your reference.

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Re: Epidemics: Bird Flu, TB, AIDs, Superbugs, Ebola, etc
« Reply #1927 on: October 10, 2022, 06:55:03 PM »
Has anyone here had COVID lately?  If yes, what were the symptoms?

Doc ccp, what are you seeing?

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Re: Epidemics: Bird Flu, TB, AIDs, Superbugs, Ebola, etc
« Reply #1928 on: October 10, 2022, 11:05:47 PM »
Has anyone here had COVID lately?  If yes, what were the symptoms?

Doc ccp, what are you seeing?

As far as I know, I have never had it.


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Re: Epidemics: Bird Flu, TB, AIDs, Superbugs, Ebola, etc
« Reply #1930 on: October 12, 2022, 07:41:05 AM »
I am holding boosting
 this time

I am reluctant to get new vaccine with zero human data

some of my colleagues posted articles on FDA and CDC explanations on why human data is not needed to begin recommending people. get it after I posted my concern

but I am not buying this time

I got 4 vaccs
 but am not running out to get this latest bivalent one

of note my relative who has diabetes type 1 noticed spikes in her blood sugars after vaccines
she probably recently had corona inf. ( we never checked for sure ) and now her sugars are all over the place
the diabetes specialist said corona infection is very bad for DM 1

so which is worse infection or vaccine

while the med establishment likes to take credit for decrease in deaths from corona being due to people already being infection and vaccine

it is mostly due to the virus circulating now is much less virulent not with regards to contagion
but in regards to severity of illness is causes

just my latest take




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Suddenly, video games causing heart attacks in children
« Reply #1931 on: October 13, 2022, 10:38:56 AM »
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/go-researchers-now-say-video-games-can-cause-heart-attacks-children-get-excited/

Strange how all these heart issues just suddenly manifested in the last few years!


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Some are!
« Reply #1933 on: October 16, 2022, 07:38:04 AM »



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Pandemics: What could go wrong?
« Reply #1936 on: October 18, 2022, 09:47:04 AM »
https://www.foxnews.com/us/boston-university-lethal-covid-strain-lab

Non-existent ethics: There are an awful lot of things going on in bio-medicine that it seems to me we have no business tampering with.  Physical gender change for example, and superbugs.

Can't even atheists have some respect for God's creations?  If not, maybe a cost benefit analysis?

We didn't want Saddam to do this.  We don't want Xi to do it.  Why are we doing it?

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Re: Pandemics: What could go wrong?
« Reply #1937 on: October 18, 2022, 10:33:36 AM »
https://www.foxnews.com/us/boston-university-lethal-covid-strain-lab

Non-existent ethics: There are an awful lot of things going on in bio-medicine that it seems to me we have no business tampering with.  Physical gender change for example, and superbugs.

Can't even atheists have some respect for God's creations?  If not, maybe a cost benefit analysis?

We didn't want Saddam to do this.  We don't want Xi to do it.  Why are we doing it?

Fauci had to go to the ER after he heard about this. His erection lasted more than four hours.



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cardiologist malhotra
« Reply #1940 on: October 19, 2022, 02:37:52 PM »
the "esteemed" cardiologist from India *may well be full of shit* who plays with the data

as I have stated 100 times is rampant these days:

https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/article-by-cardiologist-aseem-malhotra-made-unsupported-claims-about-benefits-risks-covid-19-vaccination/
 

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Re: cardiologist malhotra
« Reply #1941 on: October 19, 2022, 03:13:30 PM »
the "esteemed" cardiologist from India *may well be full of shit* who plays with the data

as I have stated 100 times is rampant these days:

https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/article-by-cardiologist-aseem-malhotra-made-unsupported-claims-about-benefits-risks-covid-19-vaccination/

How did it pass peer review pre-publication?

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Re: Epidemics: Bird Flu, TB, AIDs, Superbugs, Ebola, etc
« Reply #1942 on: October 19, 2022, 04:31:56 PM »
How did it pass peer review pre-publication?

"Journal of Insulin Resistance"

not to my knowledge a top journal ; indeed I never heard of it, but then again there must be hundreds if not thousands of journals I never heard of.

and what does corona vaccines have to do with "insulin  resistance"?



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ET: The Science behind FL recommendation against vaxx for young men
« Reply #1943 on: October 20, 2022, 04:43:26 AM »
Thank you CCP!

Presumably the science here is stronger!
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The Science Behind Florida’s Recent Recommendation Against mRNA COVID Vaccines for Men 18–39
HEALTH SCIENCE
Dr. Yuhong Dong
DR. YUHONG DONG
Oct 17 2022
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IN-BRIEF

Florida is the first state to recommend against mRNA COVID vaccination of children and men up to age 39, but it joins the UK, Sweden, and Denmark in some regards.
The Florida Department of Health conducted a self-controlled case series (SCCS) with a 25-week observation period, similar to an analysis done in the UK. The Florida study found an elevated risk of cardiac death among men ages 18 to 39 in the 28 days following mRNA COVID vaccination.
Medical literature shows myocarditis after COVID vaccination can be both immediate and severe, with rates as high as 1 in 1,862, for males ages 18–24.
There are several hypotheses about how the spike protein can cause this cardiac damage, particularly in young male populations. A worldwide registry of cases would help shed light on risk factors.
Worry about post-vaccination symptoms can create a negative feedback loop. Instead, try some of these management tips:
To manage anxiety, try taking a deep breath in (count to 4), hold for 4 counts, and slowly exhale for 8 counts. If you have a blood pressure cuff at home, try using biofeedback to watch your blood pressure come down using the same techniques. You will regain confidence in your body’s ability to regulate stress by asking the parasympathetic nervous system to turn off the alarms set off by the sympathetic nervous system.
While the recent guidance from Florida is rather shocking to some in the United States, it is reassuring to see that critical thinking is alive and well. Medicine is not stagnant, nor one-size-fits-all.
Florida surgeon general Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, announced on Oct. 7, 2022 that the state now recommends against mRNA COVID-19 vaccination of males ages 18 to 39 years given the results of a recent study which found an 84 percent increase in the risk of cardiac death among young adult males within 28 days of mRNA COVID-19 vaccination.

This follows guidance issued in March 2022 recommending against mRNA COVID-19 vaccination of healthy children and adolescents younger than 18. As such, Florida is the only U.S. state to recommend against mRNA vaccination of healthy children and adults, but it joins the U.K., Sweden, and Denmark in removing the recommendation to vaccinate healthy children younger than 11 years (UK) or 18 years (Sweden) and even 50 years (Denmark).

Dr. Ladapo encourages Floridians “to discuss all the potential benefits and risks of receiving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines with their health care provider.” People in Florida can opt to get their child vaccinated based upon their individual risk tolerance, and this guidance does not preclude families from seeking vaccination through pharmacies and physician offices if desired.

Why?
The Florida Department of Health conducted a self-controlled case series (SCCS) to evaluate the risk of all-cause death and cardiac death after vaccination. The SCCS is an established method employed frequently to assess vaccine-related adverse events. The advantage of this method is that matched controls are not necessary because each case serves as its own control. The study period includes an exposure (vaccination) and follows the case through to the outcome being assessed (death).

The study excluded patients with a known COVID infection, so the findings do not directly compare the relative risk of vaccination versus disease, one of the drawbacks of this study.

However, the question the authors sought to answer is motivated by the fact that at least 67 percent of young adults now have infection-acquired immunity. Compared to the pre-Omicron era when fewer people had already recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection, the landscape of immunity is now different. Most people have immunity through either vaccination, infection, or both.

This makes it hard to detect an overall benefit of vaccination in people who are already low-risk, and likely immune, against the backdrop of a vaccine-associated cardiac risk. In fact, the Florida guidance states as much: “With a high level of global immunity to COVID-19, the benefit of vaccination is likely outweighed by this abnormally high risk of cardiac-related death among men in this age group.”

Males over 60 years of age had a 10 percent increased risk of cardiac-related death within 28 days of mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, and non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were not found to have these increased risks among any population. This study also looked at cardiac mortality among women, but the trends were not statistically significant.

A similar study was conducted in the U.K. and released as a preprint, using nearly identical methods, such as the code on the death certificate (ICD-10 I30-I52) but did not find an elevated risk of cardiac death in young people following mRNA vaccination. The U.K. study did, however, find a risk of cardiac death among the unvaccinated in the risk period after infection. The Florida study restricted its analysis to the vaccinated.

Some other differences in study design are worth noting. First, the Florida study included all fully vaccinated (two doses for an mRNA vaccine) individuals but excluded those with booster doses, whereas the U.K. study included those who were boosted. Second, the U.K. study included ages 12 to 29 whereas the Florida study included ages 18 to 39. Third, the comparison periods were weeks 6 to 12 post-vaccination for the U.K. study and weeks 5–25 post-vaccination for the Florida study. Fourth, the data capture window for the U.K. study was through February 2022, whereas the Florida study closed data capture on June 1, 2022 to allow for a 25-week observation period.

Finally, the baseline and risk periods differed as well. In the U.K. study, the risk period was the 6 weeks after vaccination while in the Florida study, the risk period was the 28 days after vaccination. The shorter risk period in the Florida study should help exclude cardiac issues related to MIS-A (the inflammatory condition which can follow a SARS-CoV-2 infection by 4–6 weeks).

It is uncertain whether the U.K. investigators made an adjustment for the high proportion of incidental infections among those admitted to the hospital. For instance, a cardiac death related to a drug overdose might be coded as a SARS-CoV-2 cardiac death when infection may not have been the underlying cause of death. In these cases, SARS-CoV-2 is considered “incidental” to the death. For instance, on Oct. 11, 2022, the Massachusetts Department of Health COVID-19 dashboard reported that of the 856 COVID-positive hospitalized patients, 293 (34 percent) were hospitalized primarily for COVID-19 (66 percent were incidental).

Both studies are subject to limitations, such as missing data on deaths not registered within the follow-up period. In addition, the U.K. vaccine program used predominantly Pfizer (58 percent) and adenovirus vector (Astra-Zeneca 35 percent) vaccines with very little Moderna (6 percent) administered according to the NHS (as of 28 September 2022).

The United States, in contrast, relied heavily on mRNA (97 percent, including 59 percent Pfizer and 38 percent Moderna); the adenovirus-vectored vaccine (Janssen) accounted for only 3 percent of doses administered according to Statista (as of September 2022). Such a dramatic difference in mRNA vaccination usage may be a factor to consider when comparing study outcomes.

Finally, the U.K. National Health Service recommended an extended dosing interval for the primary series (12 weeks) which is thought to reduce the risk of myocarditis, and did not begin offering vaccination to adolescents until September 2021, whereas the United States began recommending vaccination in May 2021, thus potentially limiting the observation period for capturing rare events in the U.K.

Taking these methodological factors into consideration, epidemiologist Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD, says “It’s important to keep in mind that, although the Florida study found an 84 percent increase in relative incidence of cardiovascular deaths in males 18–39 post mRNA vaccine, the total number of excess cases was in the single digits, so we are not talking about a large number of deaths (though of course all deaths are a tragedy, especially of young people). It is far from conclusive whether or not these deaths were attributable to the vaccine due to the uncertainties outlined well in the analysis.” Dr. Høeg provides additional perspective on how this study fits with the current literature on cardiac risk following COVID-19 mRNA vaccination in a recent commentary.

Dr. Høeg has collaborated on several vaccine-associated myocarditis research projects, including serving as senior author, along with Allison Krug, MPH and Josh Stevenson, on a stratified risk-benefit analysis of mRNA vaccination in adolescents ages 12–17.

“The confidence interval on the (Florida cardiac mortality) estimate was also wide and the lower end was very close to 1,” she explains, “so we may just be talking about a couple of deaths that created this signal. We also don’t have information on whether or not there were excess deaths after the 28 day ‘risk period’ due to the design of the study. The signal of increased cardiac death risk post-mRNA vaccine should be taken seriously, particularly because of what we know about the risk of post-vaccination myocarditis, but this study should only be used in the context of other studies and other lines of evidence.”

One should also note that the Florida study did not include booster doses nor adolescents younger than 18 years. When looking at vaccine-associated myocarditis (heart inflammation) we note that excess risk is associated with the primary series in younger adolescent males, a concern which prompted Florida’s March 2022 guidance against vaccinating healthy children and adolescents younger than 18 years.

The CDC has reported 200.3 per million post-booster myocarditis risk in males ages 16 to 17 (or 1 in 5000, VSD data, slide 25), higher than ages 18-29 (47.6 to 70.3 per million, slide 34). A potentially useful follow-on study might consider expanding the Florida age groups down to 12 years as the U.K. did and include boosters as exposures in addition to primary series doses.

Clinical Evidence Supports This Guidance
The data thus far on cardiac outcomes following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination are compelling for myocarditis among males younger than 40 years, both with the primary series and booster. Rates of myopericarditis after the second mRNA COVID-19 vaccination dose are 1 in 2650 among males 12–17 and 1 in 1862 among males ages 18–24. After the booster among males ages 18–39, the rate is 1 in 7000.

Although media reports of myopericarditis frequently describe cases as “mild” with rapid recovery, the published literature—including from the CDC—demonstrate otherwise. A 22-year-old Korean man developed chest pain 5 days after the first dose of BNT162b2 (Pfizer) vaccination and died of autopsy-confirmed myocarditis in 7 hours. Even among those hospitalized then discharged, the long-term prognosis of myocarditis with respect to sudden cardiac death or all-cause mortality is not yet known. Several follow-up case series and survey studies have found concerning rates of persistent inflammation on cardiac MRI in approximately 70-80 percent of cases 3–8 months later.

In a recent CDC VAERS study published in The Lancet, 93 percent of myocarditis cases were hospitalized, one in four were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and one was put on the most invasive life-saving equipment available (ECMO).

Cardiologist Anish Koka, MD, reviewed the CDC paper and finds the conclusions all but reassuring. “The current study should dispel the ludicrous notion that clinical myocarditis—a disease entity that comes to light when you have chest pain because cells in your heart are dying—is mild.”

By a minimum of 90 days (median 143 days) after initial hospitalization, a third of patients were not fully recovered, 31 percent had activity restrictions, and 26 percent were still on cardiac medications (beta blockers and colchicine, predominantly).

Cardiologist Sanjay Verma, MD, FACC, concurs in a recent commentary on CDC’s findings. “It is important to note that on follow-up, 50 percent of children still had symptoms, a staggering 60 percent were lost to follow-up or were excluded from analysis, and 80 percent had no prior underlying health concerns.”

Basic Research Evidence and Hypotheses Regarding Cardiac Damage
Why are both disease and vaccination a risk? And why might vaccination be a particular risk in the younger population?

The spike protein gains entry to the cell via a transmembrane protein (TMPRSS2) and the ACE2 receptor, which is expressed in the airways, the gut, heart, liver, blood vessels, and kidneys.

Research during the past two years has elucidated several hypotheses related to the direct and indirect impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein on the heart and microvasculature. An exaggerated immune response may also play a role in cardiac injury. This affinity of the spike protein for ACE2 also explains why SARS-CoV-2 can have broad systemic effects if the immune system is not able to stop it in its tracks quickly.

Infection-related cardiac injury
Direct cardiac damage and abnormal cardiac rhythms can occur with even a mild SARS-CoV-2 infection. Two studies of heart rhythm found evidence of cell-to-cell spread via spike protein-mediated fusion (syncytia) in the heart, allowing the virus to spread surreptitiously from cell to cell.

Following the death of a young 3-month postpartum, 35-year-old Hispanic woman after a week of mild fever, evaluation of the myocardium found evidence of cardiomyocytes with SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein in linearly arrayed t-tubules. The investigators hypothesized that the woman’s sudden cardiac death was caused by immune cells carrying SARS-CoV-2 to the myocardium. Intercellular connections created by the spike glycoprotein created membrane fusions which then triggered abnormal electrophysiological activity and a fatal arrhythmia.

To further explore these arrhythmias, another study used pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes to detect specific abnormalities related to the formation of spike-mediated syncytia. The infected cells produced multinucleated giant cells (syncytia) with increased cellular capacitance (the ability to store an electrical charge). The syncytia also showed CA2+ handling abnormalities, including sparks and large “tsunami”-like waves.

In another SCCS study among the U.K. population, Pantone, et al., found an increased risk of arrhythmias following SARS-CoV-2 infection, particularly among people ages 40 and older. This study also evaluated the risk of arrhythmias following vaccination, stratified by age <40 years or 40+ years. In short, the relative risks of cardiac rhythm abnormalities associated with infection increased with age, while those for vaccination decreased with age (Supplemental table 3a).

The spike protein may also affect the microvasculature by causing disruptions to the pericytes (cells involved in contracting blood vessels). In an in vitro study, exposure to the spike protein caused signaling and functional alterations which suggest that the spike protein may prompt pericyte dysfunction and contribute to microvascular injury.

Infection can also cause indirect cardiac injury through an exaggerated cytokine response  resulting in an autoimmune attack on the heart. In a laboratory study which treated cardiomyocytes (heart muscle cells) with spike protein, the cardiomyocytes did not demonstrate increased apoptosis (cell death). Instead, the investigators found “significantly suppressed viability” when the cardiomyocytes were exposed to peripheral blood mononuclear cells (lymphocytes, including T cells, B cells and natural killer (NK) cells) pre-conditioned with exposure to spike protein. In other words—they tried seeing if the cardiomyocytes died upon exposure to spike protein directly, or if they died following exposure to cytokines primed by contact with the spike protein. The investigators concluded that SARS-CoV-2 infection may cause heart injury indirectly through over-activated cytokines.

Vaccination-associated cardiac injury
Other research to elucidate the pathway by which mRNA COVID-19 vaccination might increase the risk of myopericarditis among young males focuses on the role of catecholamines.

While this hypothesis requires further investigation, a scoping review of the literature found concluded that “The epidemiological, autopsy, molecular, and physiological findings unanimously and strongly suggest a hypercatecholaminergic state is the critical trigger of the rare cases of myocarditis due to components from SARS-CoV-2, potentially increasing sudden deaths among elite male athletes.”

This elevated catecholaminergic state is potentiated by mRNA spike protein produced in the adrenal medulla chromaffin cells (responsible for catecholamine production). This leads to enhanced noradrenaline activity which is associated with a higher resting catecholamine production in male athletes and increased sensitivity in the presence of androgens.

In other words, the increased risk of myocarditis among young males strongly suggests an androgenic (male sex hormone) link coupled with the established effects of spike protein on the cardiac myocytes. Taken together, this intriguing hypothesis suggests that, in addition to age and sex, androgen expression and athletic activity may predispose the occurrence of myopericarditis following mRNA vaccination.

Another theory was explored in a study of antibody-mediated heart inflammation conducted by German doctors among a group of 61 patients, 40 of whom were found to have biopsy-confirmed myocarditis following SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination. Young age (<21 years) seemed to be correlated with presence of anti–IL1-RA antibodies: 9 of 12 patients (75 percent) under 21 had the antibodies compared with 3 of 28 patients (11 percent) 21 years or older.

These antibodies were not found in patients lacking evidence of myocarditis. Presence of these antibodies seemed to be associated with early onset of symptoms, generally after dose two of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, and a milder course of myocarditis compared to those who were lacking the antibodies.

Why might age be a factor?
Systemic adverse events (reactogenicity) following vaccination include fever, muscle aches, headache and other systemic effects which disrupt daily activities. Due to the waning vigor of the immune system with age (called immune senescence), reactogenicity has been found to be higher among younger adults (<50 years).

Mixing products from different manufacturers (heterologous dosing) also increases reactogenicity, ostensibly because the difference in antigens between manufacturers stimulates the immune system. Systemic adverse events also appear to be twice as likely if the person had SARS-CoV-2 previously because the ancestral vaccine antigen is not only different than the most recent viral exposure, the vaccine is serving as a booster on top of immunity derived from infection.

Another study conducted among healthcare workers found that prior SARS-CoV-2 infection tripled the risk of a systemic reaction disrupting work or daily activities after the first dose. These considerations underscore the importance of carefully weighing risks and benefits of vaccination according to age, history of infection, and underlying health status.

Although the precise mechanism of cardiac injury following infection and vaccination is not fully understood, the following trends are generally supported by the literature: 1) cardiac damage following infection tends to increase with age; 2) cardiac damage following vaccination tends to be higher among those younger than 40 years, and males in particular; 3) younger age increases the likelihood of systemic adverse effects disrupting work and daily activities.

Other Contributory Factors to Sudden Death
Several other lines of research are exploring factors which may contribute to sudden death, such as foreign materials and fibrous clot formation following vaccination. The pandemic has contributed to global cooperation in health research at an unprecedented level, opening doors to collaboration on research related to vaccine safety as well.

To this end, an important contribution to understanding the etiology of myopericarditis and cardiac mortality would be to establish a registry of cases worldwide. Such a registry would facilitate research regarding potential risk factors beyond age and sex.

For instance, if androgens are important to catecholamine expression, what role might T-boosting (testosterone replacement therapy) among young male athletes and bodybuilders play in vaccine-associated myopericarditis or sudden cardiac death? Does exertion exacerbate cardiac injury and arrhythmias? What about genetic markers, such as HLA haplotype?

Suggestions for Those Struggling with Anxiety
Those who were anxious about vaccination may be particularly worried about post-vaccination side effects. This can create an unfortunate negative feedback loop, inducing more stress, anxiety, and even a panic attack. The symptoms associated with panic—chest pain, tightness, shortness of breath, and heart palpitations—can be difficult for a patient to tease apart from cardiac concerns.

The following general advice about managing anxiety in no way serves as medical guidance following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination adverse events. It is important to seek care immediately if you have any adverse reactions following vaccination of any kind.

To manage anxiety, try drawing a deep breath in (count to 4 while inhaling), hold your breath for 4 counts, and slowly exhale for 8 counts. If you have a blood pressure cuff at home, try using this method to bring your blood pressure down. You will regain confidence in your body’s ability to regulate stress by asking the parasympathetic nervous system to turn off the alarms set off by the sympathetic nervous system.

Muscle aches, headache, and other complaints (such as fever) can be treated with over-the-counter pain relief. These symptoms affect at least 1 in 3 people who receive an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, and are more common among those younger than 50 years, those who received different brands (heterologous dosing), or have previously been infected with SARS-CoV-2 (most of us at this point).

Get enough rest, eat well, avoid caffeine, and do something enjoyable and distracting (humor is important!).

Remember that your own brain can produce some of the most powerful neurotransmitters on the planet. Getting together with loved ones or friends and having a good laugh releases oxytocin. Eating dinner with a glass of wine releases dopamine (so does exercise or doing something challenging that requires focus). If playing a strategy game helps you unwind, do that. Listen to a podcast, or perhaps if you are learning a second language, try listening to a podcast in your target language. Simple activities like mowing the lawn, weeding, walking the dog, doing a crossword puzzle or playing Wordle can be meditative, too.

Perspective
The value of mRNA COVID-19 vaccination is in reducing death among those at highest risk, especially those with immunocompromising conditions or the most elderly. Strategic boosting of those at highest risk is the way forward, according to Paul Offit, M.D., Director of the Vaccine Education Center and professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In a recent discussion on This Week in Virology he advocates focusing on the elderly, those living in long term care facilities and those with immunocompromising conditions. A study conducted in Sweden supports this approach:  a booster dose provided 40 percent to 70 percent reductions in all-cause mortality among the most frail during the Omicron wave.

While the recent guidance from Florida is rather shocking to some in the United States, it is reassuring to see that critical thinking is alive and well in policy formation. It is uncomfortable to reconsider past policy in the light of new evidence, but this is what medicine is all about—it is not a stagnant, formulaic practice. The pandemic has taught us that rigid, binary thinking and one-size-fits-all policy sometimes causes unintended harms. It is time to move past a rigid, narrow focus on eliminating COVID-19, conduct properly powered clinical trials, make person-level trial data available for independent research on adverse events, and open risk-benefit analyses to public scrutiny before public health policy decisions are made.

Not all high-tech are wise to deploy.
Not all viruses need a vaccine.
Not all vaccines are good or protective.
Not everyone needs a vaccine.
References
https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221007-guidance-mrna-covid19-vaccines-doc.pdf

http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_archive/press-release-assets/g2-jtr_QWBT4hJpqr_20220308-1923.pdf

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/top-causes-of-death-in-us-during-covid-19-pandemic_4646957.html

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/are-recombinant-covid-vaccines-related-to-these-deaths_4445732.html

Cardiac death studies:

Florida study: 20221007-guidance-mrna-covid19-vaccines-analysis.pdf (floridahealthcovid19.gov)
UK Study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.22.22272775v1.full.pdf
Clinical Evidence:

Follow-up cardiac magnetic resonance in children with vaccine-associated myocarditis – PubMed (nih.gov)
Clinically Suspected Myocarditis Temporally Related to COVID-19 Vaccination in Adolescents and Young Adults: Suspected Myocarditis After COVID-19 Vaccination – PubMed (nih.gov)
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance techniques and findings in children with myocarditis: a multicenter retrospective study – PMC (nih.gov)
Outcomes at least 90 days since onset of myocarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in adolescents and young adults in the USA: a follow-up surveillance study (thelancet.com)
Persistent Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in a Cohort of Adolescents with Post-Coronavirus Disease 2019 mRNA Vaccine Myopericarditis – The Journal of Pediatrics (jpeds.com)
The latest CDC paper on vaccine myocarditis is NOT reassuring (substack.com)
“Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” | by Sanjay Verma, MD FACC | Sep, 2022 | Medium
IL-1RA Antibodies in Myocarditis after SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination (nejm.org)
Basic Research Evidence:

SARS-CoV-2 direct cardiac damage through spike- mediated cardiomyocyte fusion
B-AB18-03 SARS-COV-2 DIRECT CARDIAC DAMAGE THROUGH SPIKE-MEDIATED CARDIOMYOCYTE FUSION MAY CONTRIBUTE TO INCREASED ARRHYTHMIC RISK IN COVID-19 – Heart Rhythm
Risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, and cardiac arrhythmias associated with COVID-19 vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 infection
https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41591-021-01630-0/MediaObjects/41591_2021_1630_MOESM1_ESM.pdf
The SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein disrupts human cardiac pericytes function through CD147 receptor-mediated signalling: a potential non-infective mechanism of COVID-19 microvascular disease – PMC
The S Protein of SARS-CoV-2 Injures Cardiomyocytes Indirectly through the Release of Cytokines Instead of Direct Action – PMC
Catecholamines Are the Key Trigger of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis: A Compelling Hypothesis Supported by Epidemiological, Anatomopathological, Molecular, and Physiological Findings
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc2205667?articleTools=true&fbclid=IwAR3WoaKiB0nH8x4-mxBLPJPBp04ZPp9dulcntNid6mx2WSzPCOB7u74RA9g
Real-world data shows increased reactogenicity in adults after heterologous compared to homologous prime-boost COVID-19 vaccination, March−June 2021, England – PMC
Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccine Type and Adverse Effects Following Vaccination
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00194-2/fulltext
Dr. Yuhong Dong
Dr. Yuhong Dong
MD, PHD
Dr. Yuhong Dong, a medical doctor who also holds a doctorate in infectious diseases, is the chief scientific officer and co-founder of a Swiss biotech company and former senior medical scientific expert for antiviral drug development at Novartis Pharma in Switzerland.
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Re: Epidemics: Bird Flu, TB, AIDs, Superbugs, Ebola, etc
« Reply #1946 on: October 22, 2022, 07:58:45 AM »
From the article, this point in particular:

"Adding the mRNA shots to the official vaccine schedule will make permanent the liability shield their makers enjoy under the current emergency use authorization (EUA). Pfizer and Moderna are now off-the-hook for any responsibility, unless fraud over the vaxxes is proven in a court of law."


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Re: Epidemics: Bird Flu, TB, AIDs, Superbugs, Ebola, etc
« Reply #1947 on: October 22, 2022, 11:28:28 AM »
"Presumably the science here is stronger!"

yes. thank you.

good information

better analysis more objective of the "data"

good example as the often difficulty in interpreting the "data"

sometimes it is a never ending cycle

study done - leads to more questions then answers - conclusion -  >. we need more studies !

Like Bill O'Reilly stated last night - he (and I got 4 shots) but we both are not (for now) getting the 5th bivalent shot


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Republican report -> corona from the Wuhan lab
« Reply #1948 on: October 29, 2022, 07:26:26 AM »
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/deborah-birx-covid-wuhan/2022/10/28/id/1093921/

of course the tie-less wonder boy
Jake Tapper

had Fauci come on immediately to bash the report and any Republican they could think of at the same time

Fauci:

reviewed to evolutionary viral papers in high grade peer review journals and they both conclude the covid 19 did not start in lab

me:

fauci is a lying little shit

of course it was a leak from the lab ......

jake the snake of course does NOT ask :

"so why did the Chinese cover it up and destroy or hide the evidence "

Just because Fauci and some evolutionary virologists can claim it did not lead from a lab
 does not mean it did not leak from a lab that does that research , gain of function research , with CCP military ties, reports that lab workers got sick
the outbreak spread from Wuhan
and then to to world, that Fauci funded some research at same lab, that he is on record of saying gain of function research is worth the risk ( thanks douche bag)

and he himself has been covering for the Chinese from day one (and himself)

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Second Study says
« Reply #1949 on: October 31, 2022, 11:55:51 AM »
Another new study - yes, a SECOND one - says the "Omicron-specific" mRNA Covid boosters are worthless
ALEX BERENSON
OCT 31
 



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For the second time in a week, top scientists have reported that “Omicron specific” Covid mRNA boosters are a $5 billion taxpayer-financed marketing gimmick.

The new shots work no better than the original mRNA shots to produce antibodies specifically targeting the Omicron variant.

And the Omicron shots are even WORSE than the original boosters in producing T-cells that target Omicron, according to the researchers, part of a group led by Dr. Dan Barouch, a highly respected virologist. This finding is of particular concern because T-cells, the second line of the immune system, keep infections from becoming too severe.



Boosters using the original mRNA formulation have been largely phased out, because - as public health bureaucrats now admit - they stop working against Omicron infection within weeks. In fact, real-world data from many countries suggest they increase the risk of infection within months.

The “Omicron-specific” boosters were supposed to solve that problem. Regulators approved them in August, despite a lack of any clinical trial evidence they reduced coronavirus infections or serious cases of Covid in people. The Federal government agreed to pay Pfizer and Moderna $5 billion for 171 million doses of them.

But both Dr. Barouch’s study and another last week from Dr. David Ho, another top virologist, found that Omicron-specific boosters work no better than the original boosters against Omicron. Both studies showed the antibodies our immune systems produce after the Omicron shot are more effective against the original and now essentially extinct version of Sars-Cov-2 than against Omicron variants.

This phenomenon is called “original antigenic sin” or “immune imprinting,” and can occur after any vaccination - or infection. But the mRNA shots appear particularly likely to cause it, probably because they stimulate such high levels of anti-spike antibodies when they are first given.

The findings help explain why so many people, including Centers for Disease Control director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, have recently tested positive shortly after being boosted.

But Dr. Barouch’s group went further than Dr. Ho’s, examining T-cells as well. It found the same problem; following both the Omicron and the old booster, T-cells focused much more on the original Sars-Cov-2 than Omicron variants.

T-cells are a crucial second line of immune defense, helping the body keep infections from becoming too severe. Because Omicron is not very dangerous to most people, so a weak T-cell response does not matter much against it. But if a future Sars-Cov-2 variant is more dangerous, the relative lack of a T-cell response could put vaccinated people may be at serious risk.

(Bivalent is a fancy word for “Omicron-specific.” Except the Omicron-specific booster isn’t Omicron-specific at all, which is why T-cells targeting Omicron hardly rise at all following the bivalent booster, while they more than double after the original booster.)


As the researchers concluded:

Our findings suggest that immune imprinting by prior antigenic exposure may pose a greater challenge than currently appreciated for inducing robust immunity to SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Such a polite way to say, we gave a billion-plus people mRNA shots that probably opened them to future Sars-Cov-2 infections forever.

No worries! Lessons learned and all that.